Chapter 399 – The Application of the Qing Law

“Oh, Alan, although you were in India before, you also have constructive suggestions for Malaya.” As soon as Malaya Commissioner Gerard Edward heard the other party introduce himself, he directly took the initiative to extend his hand to express friendship.

Of course it was not all directed at Allen Wilson, to be precise it was to sell General Mountbatten a face. This is to start from the beginning, as we all know, General Mountbatten is the commander-in-chief of the Allied Forces in Southeast Asia during the war!

After the surrender of Japan, Mountbatten also surrendered in Singapore, in Allen Wilson’s first return to Europe, Mountbatten was the highest military officer in military control of British Malaya, until the return to the Mediterranean Fleet to serve before the British Malaya are in a state of military control.

Before Gerard Edward, there was a governor of British Malaya before Mountbatten was removed from military control. But when it was Gerard Edward’s turn to arrive, the Governor of British Malaya was withdrawn and in his place Gerard Edward became High Commissioner here.

There are now constant demonstrations of resistance here, and the nearby Dutch East Indies in particular are not restive. Although not nominally a military administration, the British troops stationed here have a great deal of power, and the local British troops were all once under General Mountbatten’s command.

With this kind of relationship, it would not be Allen Wilson’s turn to take the initiative to protect his family and lift General Mountbatten out.

Allen Wilson did not think that he came to the heart of Malaya, but in this capacity over, although hanging a governor’s name, but the heart is clearer than anyone else, London is not important to Newfoundland, otherwise it would not have put the appointment of the consul of Boston in the front.

“Allen, you are going to Newfoundland Governor?” Gerard Edward, upon hearing of Allen Wilson’s appointment, though equally surprised, immediately said, “That is a very difficult place, and it is not an easy thing to accomplish.”

“I know, that’s why I wanted to look around for a boost before going.” Alan Wilson held his forehead and laughed bitterly, “The lack of manpower in Newfoundland is very serious, and even if there is no reason for the war, it can’t be called manpower rich. That’s what I came to Malaya for, to form a labor force to develop it.”

If one wanted to generalize more accurately, it could also be called the Newfoundland Production and Construction Corps, which presumably served a similar function.

Gerard Edward pondered for a moment and solemnly reminded, “Alan, it’s the local whites that live there, if you bring a large number of Chinese laborers into the area, it’s likely to inspire a rebellious mentality among the local residents. If a colony is unstable, any development can’t be talked about, take Malaya for example, if it wasn’t for the tens of thousands of British troops watching over it, things would have become very troublesome.”

“I’m certainly not going to let the Chinese workers settle there, it’s just going to be a short-term development. Let them come back when Newfoundland is over the hump.” Allen Wilson flatly denied that he would never make such a mistake of principle.

Allen Wilson has a clear understanding of this kind of behavior, if in his previous life his hometown only had more than 100,000 residents, all of a sudden came in 10,000 black people to settle, would he be willing to do so? Of course not.

Therefore, if the conditions are set for 10,000 Chinese workers to live in Newfoundland, Newfoundland will become independent immediately even if it has good feelings towards Britain.

So this recruitment of workers to Newfoundland is by definition a mass exodus of workers abroad, which is not the home of the Chinese. It is natural for the Chinese to come back when they are used up.

This attitude will not change because of what he is, and if he gets it wrong, he may appear in the history books with a negative image.

“Didn’t the POWs build 100,000 apartments in Malaya? How about picking a few residences and leaving them to me. It’s empty anyway.” Alan Wilson opened his mouth to explain, “I’m not asking for nothing, when these Chinese workers make money from the development of Newfoundland, they will pay to buy these apartments and won’t let the local colonial government suffer.”

Alan Wilson was prepared to promise property as a condition of this overseas labor trip, but of course if it wasn’t enough, it could be paid in installments, and anyway, these apartments that were built were also built by prisoners of war from the Japanese Confederate Army, which didn’t cost much in principle.

Moreover, the apartments were built to be sold, and to whom they were sold was not sold. Anyway, the POWs had not yet been repatriated, so the big deal was that they were under construction. It would be a shame to put back such obedient and hard-working POWs.

Alan Wilson is also for the good of these Japanese, now Japan’s days are not easy, the Korean War has not broken out, the current Japan is still in a state of starvation, on the Japanese mainland resources, is not as good as the British Malaya colony it.

“It is not impossible.” Gerard Edward frowned, in principle this is not a problem, the apartments were built originally to be sold, picking a few settlements to stay and sell to those in need, what’s the problem? “I’m just afraid you won’t be able to gather enough men.”

“Isn’t Malaya’s law against the Chinese the Qing law? Directly issue a proclamation saying that they will levy corvée and draw one out of five dings, the Chinese will surely understand what it means and sift through the first batch. The rest I’ll sift through again!” Alan Wilson could not find 10,000 people one by one by himself, must let the Malayan colonial government sift through it first.

The number of people should not be a problem, Xiangjiang from the return of British rule in 1945 to the border is a state of undefended, instead of the refugees into the territory of Xiangjiang thrown into Malaya, every year there are tens of thousands of refugees across the border, now almost three years.

This is still far from the peak, the three wars have not yet been fought, the more the front is to the south, the number of people will only increase.

When asking the local Malays what they thought of the integration of the Chinese, Gerard Edward said, “Of course it’s unsatisfactory, it was quite a row at first, but since the Dutch bombarded Jakarta with battleships and killed thousands, it has died down a bit, and with a lot of people being exiled to the Andaman Islands on the charge of being pro-Soviet, attitudes seem to have changed in the last year. ”

“Based on the lessons of British India, we must maintain the balance between the two major communities. Save ourselves the consequences of a tail spin like the Congress Party.” Alan Wilson was on the verge of laughing his big teeth out, “If the country were to develop a nuclear bomb, the test site would be placed in Malaya, inviting the dignitaries of the two major ethnic groups to observe it in person.”

The two chatted a little more about the situation in Xiangjiang, Allen Wilson said that Xiangjiang is a window, it is not worth investing energy, used to Malaya as a pipeline to transport nutrients can be, the booger big place is not helpful to the United Kingdom.

Britain’s rule of Xiangjiang is a typical case of making the best use of what you have, typified by an overheated financial market and high property prices.

In the era before the economy developed, British-owned consortia, by virtue of their monopoly and privileges, had absolute dominance in the financial and real estate public utilities sectors, and along with the rise of the economy was the situational expansion of British capital.

The British companies also monopolized the land business with the qualification of colonial land rights owners, and sold them at a high price to obtain abundant land income, which could not be done in the British mainland in any case.

The most profitable industries within a booming economy were finance and real estate, and so both became the best way for British capital to expand, while the stock market went into irrational exuberance.

But this overheating of the financial sector was an equal opportunity for no one, and in the long run it was natural for the Chinese to accumulate enough capital to challenge the position of British-owned companies. Of course, by the 1990s, thirty percent of the stock market in Hong Kong, a total of more than 1,000 companies are still British-owned.

Alan Wilson insisted that Hong Kong was not important, and that Malaya was the place to focus on. Gerard Edward also deeply agreed, after all, he was the High Commissioner of Malaya, and he still understood where to eat.

“By the way, the people I want for recruitment are Chinese, not the local Chinese in Malaya.” Alan Wilson added with a tap on his head, “I still trust the Chinese more than the Chinese who already somewhat consider themselves as local Malayans. What the British Empire needs is to assist in colonizing Malaya, not the Chinese who are in cahoots with the Malays, the former can be drawn in, and the latter, once the hat of the pro-Soviet elements is snapped, can be shot directly. If they like to stand with the Malays, give them the treatment of the Malays, they are not afraid of death, we are afraid of wasting bullets?”

“Good, I’ll make a formal announcement tomorrow.” Gerard Edward, still thinking about Alan Wilson’s words, instinctively agreed.

The next day, the British Malaya Commissioner’s Office formally issued a proclamation, invoking the provisions of the Qing law on the levy of corvée service, the men who met the criteria to report to the colonial institutions, three days late reprimand, ten days late fine. British troops in various places carried out auxiliary work!

“If I had had more time, I would never have brought out the Great Qing Law to frighten them.” Alan Wilson holding half a cigarette, looking at the telegraphic reports sent to Gerald Edward from all over the world, “Don’t look at them as opposing it now, they really have a house and an accumulation, and they have more savings than the average person, so it may not be that they are the ones who will oppose the repeal of the Great Ching Law when the time comes.”

“Is it because of the ability to marry several wives?” Gerard Edward said smilingly, “It should be for that reason.”

“Alas, don’t say that, there is only one wife, there can be many mistresses.” Alan Wilson corrected unhurriedly, then sighed, “Excellent traditions should indeed be carried forward, how about we bind the Great Ching Laws to the Malay teachings? If there is too much opposition repeal it at the same time, of course, the difficulty of this may be a bit higher.”

Alan Wilson thought, this is a really good idea, so that both laws can’t be repealed.

He can’t personally pick Chinese workers one by one, naturally he needs the Malayan colonial organization to do some screening, the rest of the people he will try his best to keep the gate, in the second round of screening, Alan Wilson came up with a condition, age, character and occupation, it is best to have served as a soldier, and those who meet the conditions can be selected to be the management personnel.