Chapter 400: The Lord Lieutenant

“But the climate of Newfoundland, can the Chinese laborers over here adapt to it?” Gerard Edward brought up another difficult point, Malaya is near the equator, while Newfoundland is near the North Pole, although it can’t be compared to Alaska, it’s still a huge test for the people who grew up here.

“That’s why it says to recruit Chinese, not local Chinese.” Alan Wilson listened and then replied, “The convergence of the local Chinese and Malaya must be stopped immediately by finding a way to stop it, preferably the kind of relationship between the PMLN and the NCP. It will be convenient for us to establish influence!”

As for Gerard Edward’s question about latitude, Alan Wilson remembers as if in his last life, the widespread internet saying is that the south is wet and cold than the north is dry and cold blah blah blah blah, and if the saying holds true it is not a problem.

Even if the wet and cold can not smooth out the temperature difference of fifty degrees, he has no way out, on the current situation, Northeast Asia is too dangerous, he went to be able to come back safely are not good to say, in case of a reappearance in such a way, “the imperialist secret agent Allen Wilson, was killed by my heroic soldiers …… embodied the Chinese nation ……”

Prove my talent, Allen Wilson is certainly willing to pay a certain sacrifice, but this sacrifice is a little too big.

After a few days, Allen Wilson took the initiative to serve in the corps, meet his listed criteria for the first meeting with the representatives of the Chinese workers, these people are not very old, at most only thirty years old, came to Malaya before or as a soldier.

“Introduce yourselves, you can call me Ai Zhongtang, that’s my Chinese name, though I’ve never been to China.” After Alan Wilson came in, he nodded his head at the dozen or so representatives in front of him and introduced himself, “I am the Governor of British Newfoundland, according to your Chinese custom, you can also call me Lord Zhongtang. Without further ado, let’s all introduce ourselves so that we can continue to talk.”

Su Yang, Tian Qianqiu …… came to introduce themselves one by one, when he heard Tian Qianqiu’s name, Allen Wilson raised his eyebrows, this seems to be the name of a famous historical person, the Han Dynasty minister who called out the injustice of the Witchcraft Rebellion for the Han Dynasty’s Emperor Wu’s crown prince?

Waiting for these representatives to finish introducing themselves one by one, Allen Wilson signaled them to sit down before continuing, “I wonder what you all think about this recruitment and why you came over.”

“I’ve heard that joining the recruitment is exempt from field tax and you can also get a house, I wonder if it’s true.” As soon as the words fell Su Yang couldn’t wait to speak.

Alan Wilson nodded his head and said, “That’s right, you don’t have to pay taxes on the fields you cultivate during your work period. After the work period is over in returning to Malaya, you will also get a house, this is what I talked to Commissioner Gerard and he also recognized it.”

“I want to know about the local environment!” Tian Qianqiu asked about the workplace.

“Mr. Tian is still pragmatic, it should be similar to your North China region.” Alan Wilson lied very dryly and without any psychological burden, the climate of Newfoundland was definitely not on the level of North China.

But in order to let these people go with himself, he also had to come to a little goodwill lies, but not completely in the lie, excluding the winter, the rest of the season’s temperature and the North China is about the same, but the winter is slightly longer so billion points.

Because no one knows more Chinese than I do, both sides are communicating with no trouble at all, Allen Wilson first of all no racial discrimination, after all, he was Chinese in his last life, in how also will not discriminate to their own body.

And also and these Chinese representatives get along well, even willing to sign the contract in advance, with the Malayan Commissioner Gerard Edward’s fate guarantee.

Fortunately, Gerard Edward is not here, otherwise it must be and this Newfoundland Governor theory theory, “Why don’t you use your own name guarantee?”

Not for any other reason, the key is that the county official is better than the current governor, Gerard Edward is the commissioner of Malaya, speaking surely has more credibility than him, the governor who does not know where.

“I wonder what people think of the Malays?” Alan Wilson brought the subject to ethnicity, for no particular reason, wanting to ask about the intuitive views of these new immigrants.

“We don’t understand them.” Tian Qianqiu hesitated for a moment, but still said the intuitive view in his mind.

Good! Heart secretly sighed a good, Alan Wilson agreed, “In fact, I also do not understand them, but it seems that I am not a minority, in fact, we have room for cooperation, you are all Chinese, in principle, is not the local ethnicity, is the British Malayan colonial government to take into account the objective conditions, decided to let you in.”

As for the original intention of letting in, Alan Wilson certainly can’t say it explicitly with these people, but what he had in mind was to change the proportion of native Chinese, so that the native Chinese would become a minority.

After all, after living in a place for a few generations, it is likely that they will not be able to distinguish between enemy and self. It’s not like assimilation is exclusive to any ethnic group; the dominant ethnic group in any place assimilates outsiders to some degree.

Coincidentally the communities that believe in the religion of peace, the ability to assimilate is also particularly high, Allen Wilson if bluntly, the pacifists this ability to assimilate is far more than the Han Chinese.

If you don’t believe me, just start from the emergence of the Peace Religion in the Park 600 years ago, calculate the expansion rate of the Peace Religion in the agricultural era, and compare it with the expansion rate of the Confucian culture in the agricultural era, and it’s obvious that you can make a comparison. Whether from population or land, the Peace Cult is that dominant party.

Not to mention other places, but British Malaya at the foot of Allen Wilson, where the dominant faith is the Peace Religion.

The influence of Chinese culture in Southeast Asia is limited to half of Vietnam, which can’t even be compared to Hinduism, let alone the much more influential religion of peace.

He’s pretty sure that in a place with no foundation, the Chinese would lose to the Pacifists in terms of assimilation.

From the British point of view, the native Chinese are no longer credible, these new Chinese immigrants, have not yet appeared to think of themselves as natives of Malaya, so Alan Wilson’s idea of opening up immigration is essentially trying to make the new Chinese immigrants mainstream, so that the native Chinese, who feel that the loss of malice is at peace with the Malays, will step aside.

This was then supplemented with education from a young age to ensure that these Chinese did not repeat the mistakes of the original native Chinese.

“If I were to run British Malaya. The Chinese will definitely be given a fair deal, including a complete Chinese language education.” Alan Wilson talks about the fighting friendship between Britain and China in the midst of the two world wars, not that he wants to mention it that way, but apart from the two wars there doesn’t seem to be any time when they are on a common ground.

Don’t think that all his current assurances seem to be deserved and that post-independence Malaysia will never be able to do it.

Learning Chinese and speaking it in Malaysia is not an easy and laborious task. This is because firstly, the government will not subsidize Chinese schools for a single cent; secondly, diplomas from Chinese schools are not recognized in Malaysia even though they are recognized in other countries around the world.

Those students who study in Chinese schools are not eligible to study in local national public universities in Malaysia.

Therefore, these public universities in Malaysia are more or less “racially discriminatory”, 75% of the annual admission quotas for new students are allocated to Malays, and it is almost impossible for students graduated from Chinese schools to study in local public universities, so students graduated from Chinese schools can only study in foreign colleges and universities or local private universities.

Even though the reality is so cruel, Malaysian Chinese are insisting that their children study in Chinese schools, learn Chinese and speak their own dialect. In terms of education, the national universities, in general, have a racial quota system with Malay interests as the main focus, with a high percentage of the Malay ethnic group being admitted, allocating specialized fields such as medicine, engineering, law, pharmacy and biotechnology to the Malays.

Chinese students, even with good grades, are not always successful in getting into their desired universities and most of the government’s scholarships for overseas studies are awarded to Malays; when it comes to home ownership, Malays have low-priced guaranteed housing to buy, while the Chinese do not.

If this is the situation of the Chinese after Malaysia’s independence, Alan Wilson thought it would be better not to be independent, at least not independent Chinese and Malays are equal, after independence there would not be many people of the British gone, replaced by a more populous Malay.

Because the official language than these Chinese representatives are clear, Alan Wilson eventually succeeded in deceiving the feelings of these representatives, of course, verbal promises including, but not limited to, education guarantees, housing guarantees, property protection guarantees.

Even took the initiative to mention, today such a great day, want to kill a few Japanese prisoners of war to help the fun?

“Being able to meet Lord Lt. Governor today, and having received these assurances, we feel much more at ease in our hearts.” An hour later, Allen Wilson was surrounded by a dozen or so great lords and came out from the middle of the commissioner’s office in a happy atmosphere.

“It’s still early today, why don’t we find a place where we can still talk while eating.” Allen Wilson, entering the country, said he would like a drink. “I tell you, when we arrive at the place, I as the governor will definitely guarantee your legitimate rights and interests, we will eat and live together, enjoy the blessings and suffer the difficulties together, this is not a problem.”

“With these words from Lord Zhongtang, what is there for us to be uneasy about.” Tian Qianqiu and Su Yang slapped their chests together, “The sentence that Lord Zhongtang said that you can’t be poorer than poorer education really spoke to my heart. Nu if Malaya’s governor should be so good, I see that your prime minister does not have much vision, you should be the governor in Malaya.”

“But don’t be ridiculous!” Alan Wilson waved his hand to remind caution, and then with a swing of his posture said, “I hope that someday it will benefit the masses of British Malaya.”

A group of people hooked shoulders out of the commissioner’s office, just fell into the eyes of the British Malaya Commissioner Gerard Edward, although he should be happy about this, but how always feel that something is not right?