Chapter 437 Population Policy

  January to October 1885

As a result of the shift to a more radical immigration policy, more and more Chinese immigrants have poured into Australia, Shangri-La and Borneo. The total number is 1.37 million, a sharp increase of 157% compared with the same period of the previous year, which is the largest number of immigrants in history. Of the year.

  Expected to the end of the year

   will exceed the 1.5 million immigration plan, and the final figure will be fixed between 1.55 million and 1.6 million, realizing an explosive population growth.

  The influx of a large number of immigrants has strongly promoted social and economic development.

This gave the huge Queensland economy a good momentum to accelerate its development again. If the vast territory under Li Fushou’s control is regarded as a country (including Australia, Shangri-La, and Borneo), then in 1885, it has surpassed the rapid economic development. The United States ranks first in the world.

  There are several main reasons for achieving such good results.

  The first one is also an immigrant country. In recent years, the number of immigrants imported into the United States from Europe has reached between 1.2 million and 1.5 million per year, which is relatively small compared to the population of more than 60 million in the United States.

  Australia has a smaller population and has a greater impact.

The second is that Australia is currently in the stage of industrial development, especially wool textiles and woolen deep processing enterprises are booming, absorbing a large number of labor employment, Qinglong City as the core copper processing enterprises have sprung up, Koi Iron Mine is put into operation, and northern Queensland The large-scale development, the large-scale development of the Qingshui River Basin, has solved the strong demand for labor in the immigration boom, which has promoted the prosperity of the economy.

The third is that Queensland is a gold-rich region, coupled with the huge reserves of Koi Mining Bureau, the amount of gold entering the bank reserves every year is staggering, so it has the ability to issue more currency in circulation to develop the economy, promote trade and circulation, and make The entire social and economic development has taken a step forward.

  In this year

Considering that the United Shipping Company developed into a monopolistic cartel enterprise in the 19th century, the number of its various ocean freighters and passenger ships reached 231, ranking among the top shipping companies in the world. The operating system became increasingly rigid and inefficient, and there was an overwhelming number of people. Bureaucracy.

  Li Fushou decisively split it into three.

After the split, the sign of the 19th Century United Shipping Company remains. Its ocean-going freighters are mainly engaged in ocean trade from Australia to Europe. They also operate terminals, warehousing, hotels, freight yards and land transportation. They are mainly medium and large ocean-going freighters, with a total of 107 An ocean freighter and a few cruise ships.

  The newly established Pacific Shipping Company is mainly engaged in ocean trade from Australia to the Americas, taking care of passenger and freight business in South America and the East Indies. It also operates terminal storage hotels and freight yards. It owns 75 ocean freighters and passenger ships.

  The newly established Pan-Asian Shipping Company is mainly engaged in passenger transportation from the Far East to Australia, Shangri-La Island and Borneo, regional transportation between the three places, cruise passenger transportation from Australia to Europe and the United States, and cargo business concurrently.

  This is a huge shipping demand market, mainly for the annual demand of 1.5~1.6 million immigrants and the demand of 100,000-scale population movement. The annual turnover reaches tens of millions of pounds. It is a sufficiently fertile market.

After the spin-off of the original Big Mac shipping company, it still ranks among the top three in Australia. Among them, the 19th century United Shipping Company is still able to rank among the world's top ten shipping companies, but the ranking slipped from the original third to the top three. Seven.

  Although the three shipping companies have their own focus and more advantageous areas, they can still enter each other’s advantageous routes to participate in competition, introduce market competition mechanisms to break the monopoly, and re-energize the enterprises. I have to say that this is a good move.

  Development till now

Australia’s most prosperous and developed shipping industry is an area that Li Fushou has never intervened. Ocean shipping, offshore shipping and inland shipping have flourished. There have been hundreds of shipping companies, large and small, which have strongly promoted Australia. The development of shipbuilding and related industries.

  In addition to the main business of the above three Big Mac shipping companies, the transportation between the cities and towns in Australia, the offshore routes and inland water transportation between Shangri-La Island and Borneo, are developing in full swing and very prosperous.

  A large amount of private capital poured into this field, giving birth to hundreds of small and medium shipping companies.

  Take Qingdao Town as an example;

Its freight routes to Qinglong City and Longmen Town are popular routes. This is because Linyi Town, which is rich in coal around Qingdao, transports high-quality raw coal to Qinglong Town on a large scale, and at the same time transports high-quality coal to Longmen Iron and Steel Plant, forming stable and profitable profits. Considerable transportation lines, and several small and medium shipping companies operate here.

  Qingdao Town faces the Brisbane River, and the passenger routes of the Red River Valley are also popular routes. There are frequent passenger flows between the three places. For this reason, a passenger ferry route dedicated to transporting passengers has been opened.

If there are popular routes, there are bound to be unpopular routes. Qingdao Town continues north to Darwin via Burns, and routes south to Sydney and Melbourne are unpopular routes. The former is due to the scarcity of cargo and passengers, and the latter is due to the north and south. The relationship is frozen.

On unpopular routes, people and goods are generally mixed to meet basic travel needs. As for comfort, there is no need to force it. There is definitely no special passenger ship that has good conditions and there are few flights. There is only one ship in ten and a half months. .

  Qingdao Town has also opened air routes between Tianshu City and Sanmarinda, exporting high-quality coal, food additives and chemical fertilizers, importing grain, tobacco, spices, bamboo and wood products and various local specialties, enriching inter-regional trade relations.

  All these are trade channels formed spontaneously in society, which not only drove the rapid development of Qingdao Town, but also revitalized the entire inter-regional economy.

The expansion of    territories has also brought about the expansion of the market.

  After the international coalition intervened, the situation quickly stabilized. With the release of a series of powerful measures, the society and the people became stable and the people returned to a normal and peaceful life.

Offshore routes from Songjiang City, Beilun City, Brisbane City, Red River Valley City, Qingdao Town, Tianshu City, Samarinda City and Semuda have been opened one after another, connecting East Wanlu with cities in the Queensland Territory connect together.

  Frequent exchanges of materials and personnel, and increasingly close economic ties.

  The management from Queensland went deep into the urban and rural areas. After obtaining first-hand detailed information, they began to carry out highly targeted work of reorganizing villages and towns to strengthen the management and control of the loose society in the past and put it on an orderly development track.

  There have also been noises, insults, and resistance, and then he was quickly and severely suppressed.

  There is no time to waste preaching. Lan Fangguo must quickly resume industrial and agricultural production. This is the current top priority.

  According to the policy;

Regardless of whether Lan Fangguo is of Chinese descent or local indigenous people, as long as they are landless farmers, they can get no more than 2 acres of land and live together with the newly moved Chinese immigrants in the same village and dozens of villages. It was merged into a town and managed by administrative officials dispatched by Queensland. All rules and regulations followed the Queensland system, and the original was completely abolished.

  The original affiliated indigenous tribes have been disbanded, the Chinese villages have been disbanded, and the new villages have been mixed with Chinese immigrants from the mainland. This will further strengthen the process of ethnic integration and promote society to enter the entire Chinese ethnic structure.

  Many retired soldiers from the army settled in Lanfang, and their merits can also be honored here. These soldiers who once shed their blood for Queensland became the backbone of the village and replaced the original tribal elders as the spokespersons of the village.

The young students who graduated from the Young Eagle School are full of enthusiasm. They enter the villages and towns to serve as police officers, civil affairs assistants, grass-roots tax officials or elementary school teachers, rural cadres, and assist more experienced grassroots colonization managers to form a strict social management system. The land is firmly in control.

  Indigenous tribes of this era don’t have much national consciousness. As long as they live in a village for a long time, they will definitely be able to understand greetings and simple communication will be fine.

  When the child goes to a Chinese language school, the Han nationality is registered in the household register and gives himself a Chinese name, then he becomes an authentic Han.

Celebrate the Spring Festival as the most solemn holiday, miss relatives far away during the Mid-Autumn Festival, pay homage to our ancestors during the Ching Ming Festival, learn to cook and stir-fried pork intestines, stir-fry chicken, freely fill two mouthfuls of old white dried rice, and make dumplings during the Dragon Boat Festival, local indigenous people Everything will be OK after a generation.

  The Chinese civilization of the upper kingdom of heaven has unparalleled advancement in the Nanyang region and is highly respected. There are rules for standing up, sitting and lying down, respecting the old and loving the young, respecting the teacher and respecting the way, and orderly inheritance from the young to the young. That is not even a little messy.

  With such an advanced cultural invasion, the indigenous tribes in Nanyang have no resistance at all and can only surrender with their hands obediently.

  Queensland's move to force mixed living has further accelerated this assimilation process.

Policy;

  All schools in Lanfangguo can only teach the Chinese accent, and minors in English, mathematics, history and geography. All local languages ​​are not allowed to be taught in schools. This also includes indigenous languages. This is consistent with the policies of various parts of Queensland.

  The same is true for newspapers, magazines, books, and textbooks. They must be printed in Zhengyin. Queensland adopts an attitude of encouraging cultural transmission. The procedures for setting up private newspapers and bookstores are very simple, but the consequences of violation of the regulations are extremely serious.

  All publishing houses, bookstores, and private publishing houses that violate this policy will be arrested upon discovery and sent to the mine to perform hard labor for more than 20 years.

  Everyone knows what this means.

  A series of policies were quickly promoted by taking advantage of the gaps in the aftermath of the war. Understanding must be implemented, and if not understanding must be implemented, any behavior that confronts the policy will be suppressed and thrown directly into the forced labor camp.

  After dealing with a group of leading troublemakers, the rest of the people immediately became honest, and obediently followed the instructions. If you need to relocate, you can’t actually move.

  Because the government's free distribution of land may be 100 miles away, unless you don't want the free distribution of land, it is inevitable to move out of the original village.

  Lan Fangguo, a large number of upper-middle-class Chinese families were uprooted. These families were originally big-and-middle landlords or big businessmen. Nowadays, large tracts of fertile land have become a land of no owners, which can just be taken out and redistributed.

  According to the consistent urine nature of Queenslanders, veterans who shed blood for Queensland can always get the best fields. Meritorious fields can easily reach dozens of acres, and the tax burden is low, and they will soon grow into a new class of landlords.

  This is also the emerging class that most firmly supports the rule of the Earl of Queensland. On the one hand, it is conducive to fulfilling military merits, and on the other hand, it is conducive to strengthening grassroots control and the best of both worlds.

Since the first ship of Chinese immigrants from the Far East arrived in East Wanlu, in nearly a year, Lanfang has poured in more than 160,000 Chinese immigrants, doubling the number of people with authentic Chinese blood, and increasing in one fell swoop. To more than 330,000 people.

  This is 1:2 with the indigenous population of the old village, and the number of Chinese is about half of the indigenous population.

  This situation will soon change. With the rapid influx of Chinese immigrants from the Far East, the proportion of Lanfang’s population will quickly reverse, coupled with the deepening of the assimilation process.

  Thirty years later, there will be no more indigenous and Chinese in this land. Everyone is the same descendant of Yan and Huang.

  The changes that took place in Lan Fangguo, the Dutch looked anxious in their eyes, but they could only watch helplessly.

  Java Island, Batavia (Jakarta)

  In the deep environment of Sheng's Manor, the Governor of the Dutch East Indies, Earl Hoffman, is here as a guest. The ladies in European-style lady skirts are sitting in the Chinese-style pavilion, drinking afternoon tea leisurely.

  Several pretty maidservants stood behind and waited on them, with white towels, fruits and copper basins full of clear water on the trays, respectfully waiting for the call.

Count Hoffman looked across the Chinese window lattice for a while, then turned around and walked to sit down on the Eight Immortals chair on the red sandalwood floor. He watched Sheng Yeyun send the two elder brothers away, and then walked back and sat down. The room Only two people remained silent.

  A moment of silence

  Sheng Yeyun asked cautiously; "Your Excellency, is the reception poor?"

  "No, no, my wife and I had a great time here. We had a good lunch. I like the sweet and sour chicken nuggets. It suits my appetite very well. Everything here looks very good."

  "Then you..."

  Sheng Yeyun passed a trace of his face, but he still asked this sentence.

  The governor doesn’t like people who are too smart. When he wants to say, you think of it first. What is the meaning of this kind of chat?

   "Dear Sheng, I am worrying about what happened in Lan Fangguo." Governor Hoffman said this, his brows became Chuan, and he continued to say in a bad mood;

"We took a huge risk to launch the invasion, but we did not expect to make wedding dresses for the Queenslanders. We cleared all the upper-middle class forces in Lanfang, but we did not expect to remove all obstacles for them and successfully took over Lanfang. The reign of, oh **** it, it all sucks!"

  "Your Excellency, can I take the liberty to ask, does the Governor's Mansion plan to fully include Lan Fangguo?"

"Uh...There are such arguments, but considering the powerful Manchu empire in the north and our aggressive Queenslanders in the east, the suggestion to invade Lanfang country is undoubtedly unwise. It was officially rejected."

  Earl Hoffman’s tone contained melancholy.

  Sheng Yeyun understands the Dutch psychology of sour grapes. He can’t get it and don’t want others to get it. Watching Lan Fangguo's development is more and more kind and unwilling, always thinking...

  The thing I could get, but now it’s taken by someone else.

So he smiled and said, "Since there is no plan to occupy Lanfang country, then we have no way of beating everything that happened in Lanfang country. In fact, we have done everything we can to make Lanfang country, which would have become Queenslanders' lackeys. The upper-middle class Chinese families were uprooted and turned into a dish of loose sand.

  From any angle, this is a perfect military operation.

  However, Queensland relies on the support of Britain, France, Germany and other countries to enter the Lanfang country in the name of the joint occupation army to control power. This is no longer what we can influence.

  There are always justices in the Kingdom of the Netherlands, who cannot be blamed on the failure of the Government House.

   Make a simple analogy;

  We have pulled out the wooden thorns behind and treated the wound cleanly, but the new wooden thorns have grown on the tree and become more dangerous and deadly than before. This is not our fault. "

   "It makes sense, my dear Mr. Kapitan."

After some enlightenment, Earl Hoffman was in a much better mood, and said with a rare smile on his face; "To be honest, I don’t want to provoke the madman, Earl of Queensland, this is a ruthless person who doesn’t even give to the Prince Edward. In the West End of London, I dare to use swords and guns. In fact, I already want to abandon the provinces of West Kalimantan and North Kalimantan in Borneo, and completely distance ourselves from this lunatic."

  This way...

Sheng Yeyun groaned and did not speak. He could see that Lord Hoffman was telling the truth. Perhaps this might be an important move by the Governor-General of the Dutch East Indies to show good wishes to Queensland. The gains and losses among them.

  In the Borneo Dutch Territory

It was originally divided into five Kalimantan provinces: East, South, Central, West and North. Among them, East Kalimantan and Central Kalimantan are the richest provinces, while Samarinda is the capital of Borneo and Central Kalimantan. It is the most populous area, with many white Dutch plantations and great influence.

Now the eastern and southern Kalimantan provinces have fallen into enemy hands, and most of the central Kalimantan province has fallen into enemy hands. It already occupies four-fifths of the entire Borneo Dutch colony, and more than 90% of the plantation economic output .

  The remaining West Kalimantan Province has only two coastal towns. North Kalimantan Province is a completely geographical concept. It is located in the center of Borneo's hinterland and is a completely undeveloped tropical jungle area.

  Here is a geographical misunderstanding to be corrected. North Kalimantan Province is not located in the northern part of Borneo, but in the central part of Borneo.

  The so-called North Kalimantan province is only relative to the Dutch colonies, and the actual geographical location is sandwiched between the Dutch and British colonies.

  In the northern part of Borneo is the Malaya region to which the British Straits Settlements belong. It extends east to East Timor, and northwest to the border with Lanfang. All are under the jurisdiction of the British Straits Settlements and cover the entire northern coastal area of ​​Borneo.

   Therefore, it is undoubtedly very cost-effective to discard the existing Borneo Dutch colony in exchange for lasting peace.

  The Kingdom of the Netherlands has a small land with few people, and it is simply unable to develop such a large area of ​​land in the East Indies. Only Java Island is enough for them to develop for 500 years. Borneo was robbed anyway, so there is no loss.

  (End of this chapter)