Chapter 1161 Poisoned Bait

Chapter 1161 Poisoned Bait

This kind of troublesome and thorny problem naturally has to be handed over to the parliament to solve. This is Prime Minister Kuyper's ultimate way of passing the buck. Of course, when it comes to territorial transactions, the Dutch Parliament cannot be avoided.

Moreover, the power of the Dutch Parliament is quite large. As a pro-German Prime Minister Kuyper even had the idea of ​​joining the Allies before the war, but this dangerous idea was stopped by the Dutch Parliament, which eventually led to the Dutch Prime Minister being pro-German, but the Netherlands maintained a neutral position, which can be regarded as a blessing in disguise.

And after the final discussion of the Dutch Parliament, it is natural... to agree to the East African transaction. After the parliament nodded, it was basically confirmed, even if the queen and the prime minister opposed it.

As a small country, the mentality of the Dutch is completely different from that of other countries, especially the powers such as Britain, France, and Germany. Even in the most powerful era of the Netherlands, compared with the current powers, the mentality is not too inflated.

Of course, this time the Dutch Parliament was able to agree to conduct territorial transactions with East Africa mainly for two reasons. One is that the Netherlands is afraid that East Africa will turn against it, and the other is that the interests of the Netherlands have not suffered much loss.

East Africa is a world power after all. If it turns against the Netherlands, it will make the Dutch parliamentarians feel very dangerous, so it is better to buy East Africa.

The Netherlands is a country with a strong business atmosphere. Most Dutch people only look at practical interests. After the evaluation of the Dutch Parliament, this territorial transaction not only did not lose, but also made a lot of money.

Of course, this mainly refers to economic interests. If it is considered from the perspective of territory, sovereignty, etc., the Netherlands will lose a lot, but for the Dutch, they themselves value economic interests more. This is the characteristic of a mercantilist country.

And this characteristic of the Netherlands even made the Japanese shogunate rule era not shut out the Netherlands. In Japan, the Dutch did not preach or interfere in Japan's internal affairs, and did business wholeheartedly.

The Dutch did what the Japanese government asked them to do and did not go against the Japanese government.

It was for this reason that Japan did not drive away the Dutch during the closed-door period. On the contrary, Spain, Portugal, Britain and other countries not only wanted to make money from Japan, but also wanted to take the opportunity to interfere in Japanese politics, which was unacceptable to the Japanese ruling class.

So the Netherlands is a country that knows the current situation. Of course, this may also be because the Netherlands is a small country and does not have the capital to learn from other powers.

This time, the attitude of the Dutch Parliament towards East Africa fully reflects the "do what you can". Since it cannot be stopped, it is better to collude with East Africa.

September 30, 1914.

The East African government formally reached a confirmation of all transaction terms with the Dutch government, and East Kalimantan officially became part of the East African colony.

As a price, the East African government paid the Netherlands 60 million Rhine guilders for land purchase in exchange for nearly 300,000 square kilometers of land in East Kalimantan, and the East African government promised to guarantee that most of the interests of Dutch citizens in East Kalimantan remain unchanged, and the two governments will jointly invest in the development of East Kalimantan, and local tax revenues will be divided according to the investment ratio, and it will last for 20 years.

The Dutch government is quite satisfied with this result. The purchase cost paid by East Africa alone is far from comparable to the actual income of East Kalimantan today, not to mention that the income of the colony has seriously declined now.

Moreover, under the promise of the East African government, the Dutch basically guaranteed most of their original interests, which will allow East Kalimantan to continue to generate income for the Netherlands in the next 20 years, and there is no need to pay additional fees to maintain the military expenses of the East Kalimantan colony.

On the contrary, East Africa obtained administrative and military powers in East Kalimantan, and most of Kalimantan Island fell into the hands of East Africa, leaving only the British forces in the north.

However, East Kalimantan did not completely settle because of the transaction between East Africa and the Netherlands. Dealing with the Netherlands is only one aspect. There are still many indigenous countries and tribes in East Kalimantan.

These countries do not act completely in accordance with the will of the Dutch government. Instead, they have great autonomy. They only pay a protection fee to the Netherlands every year to obtain the protection of the Dutch, rather than being puppets of the Dutch.

Therefore, if East Africa wants to settle East Kalimantan, it also needs to strike against the indigenous forces in the eastern part of the island. The local indigenous people are mainly divided into two waves, one is Malays, and the other is the real natives of Kalimantan Island.

From the Kutai Sultanate mentioned earlier, we can see that there are still a group of foreign rulers who were originally Green believers. In fact, there are also complex forces such as Hinduism in East Kalimantan, but Hinduism also cannot compete with Green believers and has declined several centuries ago.

These non-native religious forces were actually non-Western colonizers at the time. They are not good birds and are also within the key attack range of East Africa.

Rhine City.

When the good news of the acquisition of East Kalimantan came, the East African government naturally cheered. The outbreak of World War I can be said to be an accelerator of East Africa's national destiny.

Up to now, East Africa's overseas expansion has achieved amazing results. Hundreds of thousands of square kilometers of land have been received at any time. No one can remain indifferent.

Of course, Ernst is still relatively calm. He is of course very excited about the acquisition of East Kalimantan, but from the beginning, Ernst's design for East Kalimantan was a poisoned bait.

Of course, Ernst would not say it clearly now, but pretended to be nonchalant and said to everyone: "Acquiring East Kalimantan is a good thing for our country, but it is also not easy to stabilize the rule in East Kalimantan. It’s an easy thing. Now that European countries have no time to worry about it, we should deal with all the unstable factors in East Kalimantan.”

"The first step is to wipe out the state power in East Kalimantan. Now that Britain is trapped in Europe, we have to attack the local indigenous people. They cannot get external support. This can save a lot of trouble."

"The second point is to start orderly immigration activities in East Kalimantan, while at the same time cracking down on the original pagans and giving them a German education. Those who follow me will prosper, and those who go against me will perish. Those who are not willing to accept the transformation of East Africa There is no need for indigenous people to exist.”

The Green Religion has always been regarded as a scourge by Ernst, mainly because once it is contaminated, it is difficult to get rid of this trouble. In the past, the Green Religion countries were very powerful in the Southeast Asian region, the most typical of which is Indonesia, and others such as Bangladesh, Malaysia, etc. No need to say more.

The "terror policy" that Ernst wants to implement in East Kalimantan is actually to copy what the Indonesian government did in the previous life. Only in this way can it eradicate the root causes and turn the East Kalimantan region into a stable base for East Africa's radiating influence in the future. one.

Anyway, if you have too many debts, you don’t have to worry about it. If you have too many lice, you don’t need to itch. Ernst has done this kind of terrible bad things and accepted them calmly. Ernst did not want to leave these troubles to future generations to solve. Facts have proved that future generations want to When it comes to solving it, it’s already difficult.

Just like Europe in its previous life, the United States caused a lot of social problems by absorbing a large number of refugees or immigrants from different cultures.

With Ernst's instructions, it is clear that a bloody storm will follow in East Kalimantan.

In fact, this is far from the end of the disaster in East Kalimantan. East Kalimantan is Ernst's bait. After the situation in East Kalimantan is calmed down, Ernst will direct his own companies to develop East Kalimantan with great fanfare. region’s oil resources.

If the history does not deviate too much, this will definitely distort the mouth of an island country in East Asia in the future. In this way, East Africa can use the power of the island country to disrupt the local deployment of Britain, France, the Netherlands, the United States, Australia, etc. East Africa finally enters the scene and plows the Nanyang area thoroughly, so that Nanyang can truly become East Africa's Nanyang.

This will further turn the Indian Ocean into East Africa's inland sea, and the South Ocean is an important fulcrum of East Africa's Indian Ocean policy. Especially if key nodes such as the Strait of Malacca are not controlled, East Africa will not truly control the Indian Ocean.