The Han culture is spreading strongly in Southeast Asia

Chapter 210: Favorable Expansion and Year-End Bonus
Pattani, Palace of the Republic Parliament.

Countless white sun flags with red edges and blue backgrounds fluttered in the wind. This flag, which once represented the Ming royal family, seemed to have become the symbol of Mo Zibu at this time.

The difference is that the three long tails that originally trailed behind the flag are gone, and the flag has become much larger.

In this era when logistics supply is becoming increasingly important and coordination between military branches is becoming increasingly complex, the role of flags has been correspondingly magnified.

Mo Zibu even began to consider using the red-edged, blue-bottomed, white-sun flag as the navy's flag, while the army would use the black-edged, red-bottomed, white-sun flag, and use this as a model to complete the setting of flags at all levels.

But the workload is huge and he cannot complete it independently.

He had to wait until Lin Tong returned with a large number of academic officers to assist him in building a real staff officer corps before he could further carry out modernization reforms.

"Your Majesty, all the republican members are here, and the elders of the Zhaogong Court are waiting outside the door." Seeing that time was almost up, Pei Changwu walked in and reminded.

At the Palace of the Republican Parliament, Chinese leaders from all over the country had already arrived. They all wore a beautiful goldfish bag hanging around their waists.

This is also a Tang Dynasty ornament restored (imagined) by Mo Zibu. The elders of the Zhaogong Court wore purple, and the members of the Republican Court wore red.

This is a symbol of their status. Everyone with a goldfish bag hanging around their waist walks with pride.

Mozibu's republican parliamentary policy achieved great success throughout the Andai region.

Fame and fortune are things that human beings can never do without.

After a large number of Hakka and Minnan people went to Southeast Asia, the Andai area suddenly became lively. They started to manage this place together with the Chinese who were already in the Andai area.

An important indicator to distinguish their abilities and status is whether they are members of parliament.

This kind of feeling, although not actually having much power, but being able to participate in the decision-making of major issues, fascinated the Han Chinese who went to Southeast Asia and were suppressed by the Manchu nobles on the mainland.

An ignorant person who thinks he is a member of the Qing Dynasty's Council of Princes and Ministers will immediately be ridiculed, and a bunch of people will come out to explain to him what public harmony is.

At the same time, the "Didi Beating" function of the Hongmen Kunlun Mountain Hall founded by Mo Zibu has actually been implemented, but on a very small scale.

How small was the scale? It was just sending a few hundred soldiers to beat up hundreds or thousands of indigenous kings. There were even records of requesting twenty swordsmen to help.

Without exception, these actions will be discussed in the Republican Parliament, and once passed, they will be implemented immediately.

When Mo Zibu did not mobilize a large army to fight, the army basically took action.

When the army is fighting outside, it will be presided over by the chief elder of the parliament, Wei Rikun, the sworn brother of my King Mo, who will draw guards from various Chinese vassals to carry out the operations.

This small-scale deployment is more in line with the current needs of the Chinese. They have begun to encroach southward, to the point where the indigenous vassals of all sizes who split from the Johor Sultanate are finding it difficult to resist.

It can be said that without Mo Zibu's intervention, the Republican Parliament and Didi's beatings operated very smoothly, which also shows how great the demand in this regard is among the Chinese in Southeast Asia.

In the Palace of the Republican Parliament, the hall was arranged with seating in the Chinese style. Mo Zibu sat in the main seat in the middle, and on his left and right sat the six elders of the Zhaogong Court.

The lord of Song City Wu Rang, the lord of Gaotoulang Zhuang Chunde, Princess Tao Ye Xianyang, the lord of Jeddah Ye Fengchang, the envoy of Pattani Wei Rikun, and the envoy of Dancheng Huang Zhen.

The so-called Dancheng is the new name given to the Tanasarin area by Mo Zibu. Mo Zibu plans to let Huang Zhen guard Toungoo and rename the narrow Tanasarin area of Toungoo and Myeik to Dancheng Prefecture.

At the same time, it can also be seen that since Mo Zibu never had a king title, or even a shogunate, the administrative divisions and official system under him were indeed very chaotic and could not be sustained for a long time, as Pei Jiannan said.

Vassals could only be called lords, while appointed garrisons were called envoys, garrison commanders, etc. This urgently needed to be changed.

Under the six elders are eighty-seven republican senators.

The largest of them already govern thousands of Chinese and tens of thousands of indigenous people, so they naturally lead the surrounding parliamentarians to become the leading faction among the parliamentarians and are eligible to run for Speaker.

The people with the smallest territory were a few She people who were called Xidong Manke at that time.

The smallest of them was a group of four brothers from the same family who occupied an indigenous tribe. There were only four Chinese people, and there were more than 200 indigenous men, women, and children under them.

This is truly audacious! The territory they occupied is located on the border between Terengganu and Pahang, and not far away there is an indigenous tribe of several thousand people.

So in order to encourage them, Mo Zibu specially approved the eldest of the four brothers to enter the Republican Parliament as a member.

This can also be considered as a guarantee, so that they can quickly apply for Didi to beat people.

After everyone was seated, Mo Zibu looked at the much emptier hall of the Parliament Palace. Without the elders and parliamentarians from Lower Burma, the number of people had been reduced by more than one-third.

This is the price that must be paid.

Mo Zibu composed himself, stood up and looked at the six elders and eighty-seven council members.

“When I first arrived in Andai, I discussed the future with Elder Wu Rang and made a vow to share power and wealth with all the Chinese who came to Southeast Asia.

We don't differentiate between Fujianese, Cantonese, Chaozhouese, Western Guangdongese, Hakka, etc.

Even the Hakka people who were called Xidong barbarians by the Qing Dynasty, or the Li Liao people in western Guangdong and Guangxi.

As long as he speaks Tang language, writes Tang characters, and is of the same mind as us, he is Chinese."

"Today, I have fulfilled this wish to a small extent!"

"Your Majesty is so benevolent!" All the elders and council members simultaneously knocked on a small bronze tripod on the table and praised loudly.

This thing is a small object specially designed to express emotions.

Mo Zibu stood up and said, “But you all should also realize that Andai’s land is long and narrow, and there is not enough fertile soil.

It may be enough for us to survive today, but tomorrow our compatriots in Tangshan will continue to move south, and even after our descendants have multiplied, it is obviously unbearable for us to survive in this small place.

Therefore, I, the king, have been summoned by my father and brothers, and I also want to wash away the shame of being oppressed by the Nguyen family. I am preparing to return to Ha Tien, seize Gia Dinh, and build a peaceful and happy land for us Chinese people from Tangshan.

Gentlemen, are you willing to join us in this great event?"

In fact, before the meeting, everyone had received the news, which was naturally spread by Mo Zibu, and he also discussed it with the six elders and major councilors.

These people also know that the territory was won by someone else, and they reward you and protect you, but that is not for you to oppose him. If you don't understand this, you won't be able to serve as a member of parliament next term.

So, as soon as Mo Zibu finished speaking, everyone struck the tripod together and cheered in unison.

Lin Decai, the head of the Lin family in Wulong Village, Dongshan County, Zhangzhou, who had just arrived in Southeast Asia and had reclaimed 40,000 mu of fertile land south of Taogong City and established seven sugarcane plantations, subdued more than 3,000 natives, stood up and shouted:

"Your Majesty is benevolent and has blessed us Tang people. You are truly a benevolent ruler throughout history. You are willing to take us with you when you return to Jiading. This is to support us. My Lin family is willing to conscript 60 able-bodied men to follow Your Majesty."

There are more than 230 Lin family members who went to Southeast Asia. Sixty of them were drafted at once, which is definitely a great contribution.

The rest of the people also started to clamor, especially the Hakka people who were the largest in number, who felt that Lin Decai had gotten there first, and they all came out to sign up enthusiastically.

So, right there in the parliament, Mo Zibu authorized Chen Guangyao and Wu Shixiu to start mobilization and conscription registration.

This is also the biggest reason why Mo Zibu established the Republican Parliament and delegated power to the people below.

These Hakkas were indebted to Mo Zibo, but they had only been in Southeast Asia for about a year, and some even less than a year, so the gratitude was not yet solid.

King Mo is not like the Xin family who can build a tower of grace and engage in mind control, so the best way is to delegate power and give enough benefits.

Anyway, the Andai area is not the core interest area in the future. It is definitely a good deal to delegate power to it and develop a small feudal system in exchange for the Hakka and Minnan people to fight for him wholeheartedly.

He planned to recruit five Hakka regiments and two Minnan regiments in the Andai area, totaling seven regiments with 7,000 people. At the same time, Mo Zibu's Hexian regiment and Yicong regiment would be split and supplemented.

At least 30% of the soldiers in the Ha Tien Regiment and 20% of the soldiers in the Yi Cong Tuan will be promoted to officers at all levels in order to quickly enable the seven newly recruited regiments to form combat effectiveness.

As for the source of troops for the Hexian Group, they will have to wait for Agang and his men to bring them from Hexian to replenish them.

The Boxers were supplemented by the Dutch Major Marco.

Ever since this major almost had his instep broken by a golden Buddha that fell out of his pocket, he has been wholeheartedly following me, King Mo.

The same was true for the soldiers under his command. Don't think that just because the Dutch East Indies made over a million pounds in profit every year in Batavia, the life of the Dutch soldiers in the colony must have been easy.

That’s not the case at all!

There are two reasons for this situation. First, the Dutch East India Company issued a large number of stocks in the Netherlands.

This thing can indeed quickly obtain funds to expand production, but it is not without hidden concerns.

The biggest side effect is the Dutch East India Company, which must ensure that its annual profits and dividends increase steadily, or at least not decline too sharply, and it is acceptable to maintain small fluctuations in a wave-like manner.

Because if you can't maintain stability, it will cause turmoil in the stock market, which is something the Dutch top layer who hold a large number of company stocks cannot tolerate.

However, due to the increase in the amount of spices mined and the increase in sources, the price has been gradually declining, and the profit has actually been declining every year.

This forced the Dutch East India Company to increase revenue and cut costs in many areas, and reducing the salaries of soldiers and minor staff was one of them.

Another reason is that the Dutch East India Company had formed path dependence and they bet all their profits on spices.

Therefore, in later generations, on all the islands of Indonesia, they continued to build fortresses, increase garrisons, and attack the indigenous people to ensure their monopoly on Southeast Asian spices, which was undoubtedly another huge expense.

Other reasons such as corruption among middle and high-level officials and British coveting are not fatal.

Therefore, after experiencing the great wealth and glory of cooperating with Mozibu, when Mozibu announced that he would recruit Dutch soldiers again, deserters still appeared even though the Governor of Batavia tried his best to stop him.

So, the old acquaintance, Secretary Holdyk, came again, and of course, he was also captured by Mo Zibu.

He originally came to persuade Mo Zibu, but as soon as he arrived in Pattani, he sold all of Governor Petrus's underwear.

Then, with the help of two insiders, Secretary Holdyk and Major Marco, Mozibu again proposed to borrow money from the Batavia authorities.

A total of one million livres, about 41,600 pounds sterling, and 145,000 taels of silver were borrowed, to be paid in five years at an annual interest rate of 15%, and half of it could be lent in the form of arms.

He also provided 60,000 livres in cash to hire 600 Dutch soldiers.

As soon as this condition was put forward, Governor Petrus, who was scratching his head anxiously over the company's year-end financial report, had no time to think about it and agreed immediately.

Because even though he is the governor, he is just a senior employee. Even though he knows that agreeing to Mo Zibu's request is undermining the company's foundation, he doesn't care about that.

If he doesn't handle this year-end financial report well, he might be thrown into a remote place like Suriname to be the governor next year.

That place is much more dangerous than Batavia. There are hardly any people there. It's just a few logging camps. There isn't even the most basic hospital or the most basic phlebotomist.

If you go there, you will most likely die from malaria or from poisonous snakes and crocodiles.

Moreover, his year-end bonus of at least 30,000 livres, equivalent to 1,250 pounds and 4,350 taels of silver, was gone.

Screw your company's interests! Governor Petrus gritted his teeth and decided to keep his position and this year's year-end bonus first.

Anyway, those idiots far away in Amsterdam won’t realize how dangerous this is. They only care about financial reports and dividends.

Mo Zibu chuckled and said, "I'm not afraid of using money. I'll first buy off your army, and then your navy."

When the time is right, they will cooperate with the French and kick the Netherlands off its position as a European power before the Fourth Anglo-Dutch War.

By then, the French wanted the profits from the spice trade, and Mozibu took over the fertile land of Java, with its vast tracts of fertile farmland.

Win, everyone can win, even Governor Petrus can win, the loser is naturally the United Provinces Republic.

　Thanks to Tian Ruoshui, the book friend, for the reward. Thank you so much. This is the fourth and third alliance leader book friend that Lao Hu has received after Jiuye Tianzi and Jiang Xuanjing.

　　As for adding more chapters, Lao Hu is not very good at writing and I am a part-time worker, so I can hardly pay back my debts, but I will grit my teeth and write at least 5,000 words for this alliance leader chapter this week.

　　Thanks again.

　　
　
(End of this chapter)