Chapter 1175 Landing in Samarinda
Once East Africa has established a foothold overseas, it will be difficult for the guardians of the old order, such as Britain and France, to get East Africa to spit out markets and raw material suppliers.
Moreover, at that time, East Africa also had the United States as a fellow sufferer who could share the pressure from Britain and France. After all, the actions of the United States were not much smaller than those of East Africa.
It is foreseeable that no matter how the war in Europe goes, whether it is a victory for Britain and France or a victory for Germany and Austria, Europe's international status as a political sector will be greatly reduced after the war.
And this is something that the Allies and the Entente cannot stop now. After all, only the final victor of the European war will have the opportunity to sit at the same table and negotiate with the United States in East Africa in the future.
As for Russia, it is destined to be a loser. The Russian Revolution is bound to break out, and the future Russian government will naturally not be able to enjoy the dividends of the victorious country.
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East Kalimantan.
April 1915.
The new conqueror of East Kalimantan, East officially started the eradication of local indigenous forces. The term East Kalimantan is actually East Africa, which refers to the location of the Lanfang Overseas Province in East Africa, which actually includes Kalimantan. The eastern part of Dan Island, and parts of the southern and central parts.
Samarinda.
At this time, Samarinda was just an undeveloped bay, with only a small fishing village with a population of dozens of people scattered here, and the 7th Infantry Regiment of the East African Guards Division landed here.
"This is Samarinda. Why should we use this as the landing place for our regiment? It is simply more deserted than the East Africa described by our fathers." Clavell, commander of the 7th Infantry Regiment, complained.
As an East African, Clavell is a new generation, and he is familiar with the arduous pioneering journey described by his parents in the past. However, when Clavell was born, East Africa had already developed on a considerable scale, but after arriving in Samarinda, behind the bay marked on the map, Clavell finally realized what his parents felt when they first arrived in East Africa.
"Not to mention compared with the mainland, even compared with Pontianak, it seems primitive and backward. But now is not the time to complain. The arrival of us East Africans originally had the mission of transforming the local area. After all, East Africa was not developed in the past. It's probably not much different from East Kalimantan," said regimental staff officer Ariel.
Pontianak is the capital of Lan Fong Overseas Province. Although there is a certain gap between it and East Africa, it is considered a relatively prosperous city in the entire Southeast Asia.
As for the comparison between East Kalimantan and East Africa during the undeveloped period, in fact, the conditions in East Africa during the colonial era were much better than those in East Kalimantan.
Under Ariel's persuasion, Clavell did not worry about the desolation of his landing site. Now that the matter was settled, it was better to solve the basic survival problems first.
He pointed to the small fishing village ahead and said: "That should be the only stronghold of human life nearby. Call all the people in the village over here!"
Soon, under the pressure of the 7th Infantry's superior numbers and the growing authority of the Dutch, the entire population of the village was brought before Clavel.
"Captain Clavell, all the men, women, and children in this village are here, a total of thirty-seven people. This village can be regarded as a large family. It rarely communicates with the outside world. But according to them, there are many places along the coastline. There is a relatively large tribe 20 kilometers northwest, and their village was moved from that place," the translator from Lanfang Overseas Province said to Clavell.
East Africa has been in Southeast Asia for so long, so it naturally has a lot of people who can speak indigenous people or Malay. And Lanfang Overseas Province is a center for East Africa's trade with Southeast Asia, so translators are very easy to find.
Clavell looked at the non-threatening villagers in front of him and asked the translator: "What is the total population around here?"
The translator shook his head and said: "Of course they don't know this. After all, their lives are basically self-sufficient and they don't communicate much with the outside world."
"However, the Dutch government has done a rough census and found that the total population of East Kalimantan is only a few hundred thousand, so it is impossible to pose a threat to us."
In this regard, Clavell nodded and said: "This is natural. In fact, the strength of our regiment alone is enough to suppress the entire East Kalimantan, not to mention the more than 10,000 armed forces who came to East Kalimantan this time. "
This time East Africa mobilized troops from across the country and formed a mixed division to East Kalimantan. It can be said that it gave the local indigenous forces enough face.
As Clavell said, his own regiment alone is enough to subvert all indigenous armies, but East Africa's colonization of the region is never careless, especially in an environment like East Kalimantan.
Ariel said: "We cannot do the development of Samarinda ourselves, so in the next few days, we will gather local people together."
"We will start with the tribe these villagers mentioned. Since it is a tribe, they obviously have more opportunities to deal with surrounding forces. Then we will disperse the troops and concentrate the resources of the entire region into Samarinda to establish the city. Prototype.”
Ariel is not worried about the risk of dispersing his troops. After all, most of East Kalimantan now poses no threat to East African soldiers. The entire population and kingdom of East Kalimantan are mainly concentrated in the north, and Samarinda is a Look, this is where birds don’t poop.
Therefore, if you want to support subsequent colonial activities, you must capture labor forces in the surrounding areas, and the 7th Infantry Regiment only needs to send a small force to do this.
Clavell said to one of his company commanders: "Anton, take a company to whichever tribe you want, and move them all here, including their people and supplies. If there are any resisters, shoot them to death."
Although Clavell's regiment has East African ships that regularly provide supplies, if they want to gather the local indigenous people and form towns or even cities, the food required cannot be spent by East Africa. After all, this is colonization, not poverty alleviation for the indigenous people.
East Africa's colonial activities in Southeast Asia were, after all, different from those in Africa. In Africa, black natives are too recognizable, so it is impossible for East Africa to absorb black people and become its own people.
The ethnic groups in Nanyang can only be said to be barely acceptable. Of course, it is different if they are religious elements and resistance elements with national identity.
There are many Green Christians and Hindus on East Kalimantan, and those who are unwilling to accept East African transformation will be sent to hell by the East Africans.
That is to say, the indigenous people in the Samarinda area are too backward and are not even civilized. If they were in the northern area where civilization was more concentrated, they would have been killed by other East African troops and their blood would flow like rivers.
The civilization around Samarinda is so backward that even the Dutch have not established order here. After all, there are so few people and they are scattered so widely. Setting up a tax collection agency is a loss-making business. I am afraid that the tax revenue for one year is not enough for employee expenses.
Of course, things will be different after the East Africans come. East Africa wants to completely control the entire East Kalimantan, and it is impossible to allow anyone to escape the rule of East Africa. Since the population is dispersed, then concentrate it.
The East African government was not afraid of indigenous resistance, but was afraid that they would hide in the mountains and forests. At that time, just investigating would take a lot of effort.
For example, it is very difficult to investigate the indigenous Africans in the Congo rainforest in East Africa. So far, a large number of areas have not been explored by the East African government. No one knows how many black people there are. It may not only be black people, but also the San people.
Of course, the indigenous people who can survive in the hinterland of the Congo rainforest are ruthless people and cannot grow and develop. Therefore, the current screening method for the indigenous population in the Congo rainforest, Southwest Africa and other areas in East Africa is mainly to find out one batch at a time.
Although the environment in the hinterland of East Kalimantan is not as harsh as the Congolese rainforest, it is not much better. At least the East African army will not enter rashly.
When the immigrant population is arranged in the future and East Kalimantan is developed, one day we will be able to completely control it.