Chapter 595 Joint Guarantee

“As for formal negotiations to jointly resolve the current issue, at this stage, we still can’t treat the MCA Guild as air.” Alan Wilson carried his hands behind his back and said in front of Su Yang, “But I believe that if this matter is successfully settled, you and Mr. Tian should be on par with the traditional leaders of the Mahua Guild. When the time comes, I’ll pull you guys together, and in the future, the Chinese will be the ones you talk to. Don’t rush to replace them just yet.”

“I know that three million signatures will definitely need the help of the Mahua Guild.” Su Yang nodded hesitated for a moment couldn’t help but say, “But isn’t this number too much, it’s a bit difficult.”

“This is already stuck at the line, the total Chinese population is 5.9 million.” Alan Wilson firmly shook his head and said, “You must get the petition signatures of three million people, I will use an airplane to transport to London to request His Majesty the King to grant amnesty to the 30,000 inmates of the prison, in fact, it is not difficult for you to think about it, are the people who stormed the POW camps really only 30,000 people? The call of the two of you can only gather up a few thousand people at best, the rest are all followers, it’s impossible to count the number of people.”

“Even if thirty thousand people were caught, the fish that slipped through the net are still the majority, I see that quite a few of the people in the sit-in petition are the criminals that weren’t caught. To petition so fervently is to let things pass quickly, with the idea of letting themselves off the hook. Do I count that as reasonable doubt?”

“Uh?” Su Yang opened his mouth, this was indeed a reasonable doubt, “I’m just afraid that the Ma Hua Guild will also find it difficult.”

“Isn’t that just right, in the future, defending the interests of the Chinese will depend on you Chinese workers who have been to Newfoundland. It’s just right to let the MCA go aside.” Alan Wilson laughed out loud at this, “As long as I put my bottom line low enough, whatever outcome occurs will be earned.”

At this point in time, British Malaya was as confrontational as the extraordinarily intense Fourth Battle, which it was not.

London thought the situation in Kuala Lumpur was touch and go, but right there in Kuala Lumpur Alan Wilson was eating and drinking every day.

Everyone thought it would be a test for the British Empire’s colonial rule in Malaya. But Allen Wilson didn’t think so.

The Japanese thought that Allen Wilson would take the matter seriously for the sake of his own face, but the face of a colonial official was never worth anything. If colonial officials loved to save face, they would not have chosen to come and work overseas.

Colonial officials came to work overseas for money, when they were willing to go to British India it was like that, and now they are coming to British Malaya it is also like that, as for the face that are pennies not worth something.

The so-called winds of the wind, after Allen Wilson through Su Yang, said willing to have a formal dialog. The sit-in petition that had been going on for close to a month instantly disappeared.

This matter then entered the second stage, to conduct sincere negotiations to see what conditions each other could offer. Allen Wilson set March 1 as the date for the negotiations.

March 1 wasn’t special, except that he had been living in the Executive Office for a bit too long and wanted to spend a few days sleeping with his arms around the Great British Treasure first.

“You scared me, it’s worrying with so many people surrounding the Administration Office.” Hugging the man, a face that could be described as exquisite pressed against Alan Wilson’s chest, Vivien Leigh told of her worries.

“With the British soldiers guarding it, nothing will happen.” Alan Wilson reached out and stroked the woman’s hair, softly reassuring, “The situation is manageable, and compared to these outnumbered petitioners, we still have the advantage after all. That should not be doubted.”

“You’re just like that, always thinking it’s okay.” Vivien Leigh whined in a small voice, one arm just wrapped around Alan Wilson’s body and wouldn’t let go, “I don’t want David to lose his father at such a young age, you can’t do that in the future.”

Fei Wen Li slightly raised her head, Allen Wilson just lowered his head and kissed his red lips, with a bad smile, “Vivian is so concerned about me, right? In fact, I have been vaguely worried in my heart, can’t go to your heart.”

“Stop it, we’re all like this.” The flesh under the spread squirmed for a while, as if reminding Alan Wilson of the current fact, “Can’t you feel my love for you?”

“I have to feel it more truly, and today I decided to challenge my soft spot.” Alan Wilson, with a bad smile, decided to take back the loss of almost a month of being blocked doors on this night.

The days of being the Commissioner of British Malaya were very hard and risky though. But as a good colonial commissioner, Allen Wilson still endured it all.

March 1, when the leaders of the MCA Chen Zhenlu, Lin Lianyu, and Su Yang, who has been running for it, arrived at the Malayan Commissioner’s Administrative Office, they met Allen Wilson, who was slightly haggard.

This time the formal negotiations, is the current British Malaya colony the most noteworthy thing, every move involves the hearts of millions of people, if smooth everything is good to say, if the talks fall apart, it is tens of thousands of heads fall to the ground.

“Please sit down! All know each other, no need to introduce yourself.” Alan Wilson, who had been playing with the national treasures lately that involved some energy, let out a long yawn and reached out for a few leaders of Chinese descent to sit down.

This was followed by a long moment of coldness, as Alan Wilson had nothing to say and was still savoring the special hospitality that Vivien Leigh had given granted him.

“Our purpose, Lord Lt. Governor, is to see the release of those in custody, this number is too many after all.” Lin Lianyu spoke first, “That is tens of thousands of lives after all, beheading all of them would be tens of thousands of broken families, and that is not in keeping with the gentlemanly manners of the British Empire.”

“Gentlemanly manners? It’s not like it’s native!” Alan Wilson’s eyes widened a little and corrected, “We in Britain have always followed the customs of the country and have great respect for the local customs, that’s why for the Chinese the Great Qing Law was implemented. Although the executioner may be a bit tougher, I believe the Malays are very willing to serve.”

“Lord Zhongtang, in fact, why do we need to give Japan an explanation, the Chinese are the backbone of Malaya. We are perfectly capable of living in harmony.” Chen Zhenlu’s words were straight to the point, “Tens of thousands of people’s heads fell to the ground, after what happened in the POW camps, you could indeed do that, but if you really did that, it would not be beneficial to Britain, tens of thousands of broken families would allow some unknown forces to take advantage of the situation and destabilize the place.”

Alan Wilson stared at Chen Zhenlu, the entry point of these words is obviously much higher, a little bit of the leader of the MCA Guild.

“I could care less about Japan, after all, it’s just a colony that isn’t recognized as a colony. Rather, there was nothing to worry about. But after this incident happened, it made me see a very bad trend, if I don’t deal with it seriously, what if there comes a day when the Chinese are really dissatisfied with the colonial government?”

Alan Wilson scanned the top Malayan Chinese and turned his words around, “Today it’s against the Japanese, but there’s no guarantee that one day their heads won’t be clear and they’ll be rushing at the British, and I have a reasonable doubt about all of this. What do you think?”

The atmosphere was again frozen for a while, several people looked at each other, this suspicion was indeed not excessive.

At this time Su Yang stepped forward to alleviate the embarrassment, like a rash man he opened his mouth and said, “Lord Zhongtang, in fact, what is wanted is nothing more than a guarantee, we are perfectly capable of giving a guarantee, the main Lord Zhongtang put it forward, we’ll see if we can do it.”

“Commissioner Gerard really made a mistake bringing in the Chinese, if he had known this would happen, he probably would have thought the same.” Alan Wilson raised an eyebrow, “According to my previous idea, the repatriation of the Chinese would have started immediately after all the criminals were killed. But I’m not a cruel person after all, since you guys want guarantees, then fine, I’ll say a few conditions.”

“I want a joint guarantee from three million Chinese, and at the same time a guarantee that they will not oppose British colonial rule. If you can do that, I will release the thirty thousand people inside the prison.”

“If you can’t do it, I’ll not only kill the criminals inside the prison, but I’ll also start repatriating the Chinese. Correcting the mistakes of the previous commissioner.” Alan Wilson paused when he said this, “Isn’t it reasonable? Even the request for repatriation is not too much to ask, the natives here are Malays, you Chinese are outsiders just like the British.”

Reasonable is actually not too much, but who wants to be repatriated, the Chinese who already have a stable life in Malaya?

“A joint signed allegiance of three million people?” Chen Zhenlu to a mouthful of cool air, lost his voice, “Isn’t it too difficult.”

“There are also handprints to be pressed, you can’t just sign.” Alan Wilson said in a kindly tone, “Give you a month’s time to get together this number of people, I would be willing to Fanhu London trip, begging everywhere in the hope that the king issued a pardon, if you can not do it, the people still have to be beheaded, and the Chinese also have to start repatriation. The time has come to test your unity, don’t always talk about how cohesive your people are, prove it with this incident than how many times you say it.”

Anyway, Alan Wilson felt that using three million people to vouch for thirty thousand lives was actually not too much. It might even be possible to overshoot the mark.

As for any other alternatives proposed by the MCA, Allen Wilson shook his head no to all of them. Other than co-signing allegiance to the British Empire, he wouldn’t recognize any conditions, “I’m just asking you to be loyal to the Crown, is that so difficult?”

In the following days, several people began to center around this issue, to discuss with Allen Wilson, and finally understood that there was only this one solution.

On this day, the British Malaya Administrative Office announced to the public the results of the negotiations, the Chinese must come up with a joint guarantee of three million people, as well as the same number of people’s declaration of allegiance, and only then, Allen Wilson would return to London and apply for a pardon for the criminals who had caused bloodshed because of the previous storming of the POW camps.

“You have only thirty days.” As soon as this news was announced, the entire Malayan Chinese community was immediately thrown into a tight collection of joint names.