Chapter 679 Good night, Miss Ping (first update, please subscribe)
Jealousy is a human nature.
Almost everyone will be jealous, jealous of other people's money, jealous of other people's beauty, jealous of others...
People can always find reasons and reasons for jealousy.
For Chen Zhenlu, to a large extent, he is jealous of Mindanao. Everyone is from the Tang Dynasty.
But the Tang people there are different from them. In Mindanao, those Tang people are superior people.
And what about them, the Tang people in Malaya? It is simply not worth mentioning, and even basic rights cannot be guaranteed.
For this reason, in the past two years, he has been looking forward to Nanyang's intervention in Malaya just like they intervened in Mindanao.
So he has been waiting patiently.
But now his patience was running out.
What kind of patience is that?
This kind of patience is multi-faceted, not only for the Malays, but also for the British, and of course for Nanyang.
Because his patience was exhausted, he arrived in Chang'an by plane in late October. Chen Zhenlu, who held a Federation of Malay passport, of course had to pass through the customs through the foreigners' channel.
Although he entered the country as a foreigner, because he was from Tang Dynasty, he could naturally get a 30-day visa on arrival. However, when he needed to fill in the entry registration form, he encountered some problems.
When I handed over my passport and entry registration form at the customs window, the customs officer looked at the passport and entry registration form and asked.
"Are you from Tang Dynasty?"
Chen Zhenlu was stunned, nodded and replied in Minnan dialect.
“Yes.”
“Then why not write Chinese characters.”
Looking at the entry registration form filled out in English, the customs official asked.
"I, I don't know Chinese."
Chen Zhenlu said a little embarrassed.
“Can’t speak Chinese?”
Then, the visa was...rejected.
“What!”
For a moment, Chen Zhenlu was dumbfounded, and the MCA members who came with him were also dumbfounded.
Fortunately, they were not forcibly deported. After being refused a visa, while Chen Zhenlu was waiting in the hall, the entourage immediately contacted the overseas Chinese affairs department in Nanyang. While Chen Zhenlu and others were waiting anxiously, at the official residence in Chang'an, Li Yi'an was listening to Li Guoren's report.
"Chen Zhenlu was born in a wealthy Tang businessman family in Malacca. His mother is Malay and he is considered a native of the Tang Dynasty in Baba. He is different from some of the few second-generation Tang people. Although he can speak Hokkien and simple Mandarin, He doesn't understand Chinese at all, but he is familiar with the English version of traditional Chinese cultural classics. He graduated from Raffles College in Singapore and was admitted to Cambridge. Later, with the support of his father-in-law, he engaged in the rubber business. He started 22 years ago. He served as a member of the Straits Settlements Executive Council and was promoted to an executive member of the Straits Settlements Executive Council in 1933. He has been committed to fighting for equal rights for overseas Chinese and advocated that Malays and Chinese residents living in Malaya should have the same rights as Europeans. The same equal rights..."
When introducing this person's situation, Li Guoren occasionally turned his attention to your Excellency. Speaking of it, they were almost the same, and they were all considered to be the elites of the Tang Dynasty in the colony.
"During the Japanese occupation of Malay, Chen Zhenlu went into exile in India. He announced the establishment of the "Overseas Tang People's Association" in Bombay. After the war, he returned to Malay and actively participated in political activities, hoping to establish a group representing the Tang people, but The Tang people's indifference to politics and the reasons for horse labor made it difficult to realize this wish. It was not until the two-year political crisis that the opportunity came when the colonial authorities expelled and suppressed the Tang people. Chen Zhenlu's MCA was able to maximize its efforts. Maintain the interests of the Tang people.”
After listening to Li Guoren's report, Li Yian nodded slightly and said.
"Guilds always have more or less positive effects. For now, it is indeed more in our interests to support them, but they..." Li Yian said with a cold smile.
“They are too weak!”
What does it mean to hate iron but not become steel?
In Li Yi'an's eyes, almost all Tang people in Southeast Asia are like this - they don't care about politics at all. Even if they try a little harder, no matter what the result is, he can accept it.
Just like Siam, after realizing that the supporter was red, Li Yian still chose to accept it. No matter it was left or right, as long as the meat can rot in his own pot, it would be a good thing.
Besides, the one on the left is more powerful than the one on the right. Just like Phanom Rong in Siam, he was very powerful when liquidating certain people. Although it also caused many Tang people to flee to Nanyang, but Generally speaking, the meat does not reach the mouth of outsiders.
But the Tang people in other places... generally have no political ambitions, and this is even more obvious in the Malays. What a good condition back then - most of the Malays defected to the Japanese, and only the Tang people resisted. When the British regained Malaya, the Tang people were the vanguard. The original Tang people had the opportunity to seize power, but...the armed Tang organizations had to overthrow the British colonial rule and strive for the national liberation of Malaya.
At the same time, the vast majority of Tang people have no interest in politics at all. It should be said that they have always believed that they are Tang people and will return to Tangshan sooner or later. As a result, the Malays gained an advantage.
It is precisely because of this that Li Yi'an, who has been paying attention to the situation in Malaya, feels annoyed in his heart.
As a member of the Commonwealth and the son-in-law of the British Empire, he could have intervened originally, but the problem was that others did not even give him the opportunity to intervene until the one that was not conducive to the Tang people severely restricted immigrants from obtaining citizenship rights and They regretted it only after the Federation Constitution, which granted special privileges to the Malays, was passed two years ago.
"Two years ago, when the so-called "United States Constitution" was passed, I thought they would protest and express their opinions, but what happened? Although they regretted it, they accepted it. In this case, Then let them suffer for a while longer!"
Li Yian said coldly.
"God will help those who help themselves, and God will abandon those who abandon themselves. I won't see him for the time being. Send them to Zamboanga and Surabaya to visit. Wait until they understand. If they don't understand, choose other options. Options.”
Having said that, Li Yian leaned in front of the case again.
Now his things have become more complicated. A few days ago, Margaret took her children to London by plane.
And what about him?
Here we are waiting for a result. That day is approaching day by day, and everyone who knows is waiting for the final result.
However, only a handful of people in Nanyang know that that day is coming!
"Your Excellency, my suggestion is to go to Zamboanga first. Surabaya... is just a city."
"Yes,"
Li Yi'an nodded without comment, Li Yian said.
"There is no way, the population is there, the population of the Tang Dynasty is too small, and the local indigenous people are tens of millions! What can we do? Can we kill them all? It's not like two hundred years ago, in the entire Southeast Asia, there were only Malaya has the greatest potential, but the premise is that they need to help themselves! Without a sense of ownership, even if we help them now, sooner or later, we will lose the world.”
Li Yian's hand holding the pen paused and said,
"It's different from Zamboanga. In Zamboanga, we have time to teach them and we have time to change everything according to our consciousness. But in Malay, we don't have that opportunity, so they have to rely on themselves for some things! Okay. Now, go to the airport and meet him. Whether the overseas Chinese affairs officer or the diplomatic officer will receive him next time depends on his fate!”
Almost at the same time as Li Guoren left the office, someone in front of Li Yian’s desk appeared. The red phone rang. After picking up the phone, the voice coming from the other side was very simple.
"Miss Ping has arrived at her destination."
Li Yian answered the phone and said "hmm".
"Okay, good night."
Putting down the phone, Li Yian murmured to himself.
"Almost, they should be fighting on the peninsula in these two days. Unexpectedly, everything happened so coincidentally."
But now, all this is no longer important, what is important is Yes, in a few days, Nanyang will enter the world stage with a brand new attitude!
(End of this chapter)