1890 King of Southeast Asia

After Charles left, Liu Yiming was looking at the report again. These documents gave him a headache.

After the martial law was lifted, all kinds of messy problems came out. Now it is not applicable to colonial law, and new regulations have not yet appeared, so law enforcement depends on their own moral standards.

Not only that, with the victory of Nanhua, especially after the government revealed that it would support industrial development, many people wanted to follow Liu Yiming's preferences. Many factories left by the Dutch, or more accurately, processing plants, and many equipment in the Surabaya Industrial Zone were sold to the Chinese.

However, the number of workers was not enough, the market was not clear, and multiple problems hit the determination of the Chinese to open factories. This kind of thing needs to be handled well.

Among these things, immigrants did the best.

Liu Yiming has built five administrative villages. Reserve instructors and soldiers or officers with decent ideological and tactical abilities were selected from the army.

Five administrative villages were used as pilot work, and a total of ten soldiers were selected to serve as principal and deputy positions. Liu Yiming plans to use this model as a basis in the future. Now he will pilot and find problems.

In the midst of the hustle and bustle, on December 25th, all the Dutch evacuated, and the Nanhua army entered the city. After Nanhua controlled Batavia, Liu Yiming ordered to slowly return the prisoners, among which, the first one was to hand over 1,000 Dutch. The rest were delivered in batches.

The reason was also easy to find. Nanhua’s transportation capacity was insufficient. As for the Dutch merchant ships? Sorry, Dutch merchant ships could not dock before the trade agreement was signed.

Rent merchant ships from other countries? The "Surabaya Treaty" stipulated that this was returned to the Dutch, either transported to Europe by Nanhua merchant ships, or waited for the trade treaty to be signed, and the Dutch would pick it up themselves.

Liu Yiming's goal was to extend the preparation time as much as possible, so he prepared to pay this batch of prisoners in one year, and at the same time he was preparing to borrow money.

Liu Yiming was going to borrow 5 million pounds from Britain to pay for military purchases and industrial orders, using Nanhua's spoils of war and palm oil as collateral.

This would effectively extend the Dutch offensive time, at least until the warships returned home. Of course, the Dutch will not sit idly by, so this batch of warships will not be purchased directly in the name of Nanhua, and it will go through many middlemen.

"Yiming!" Liu Yiming was thinking and did not notice that Chen Jiangtao came in.

"Uncle Chen, what's wrong?" Liu Yiming came back to his senses and asked.

"I want to discuss with you about the capital." Chen Jiangtao said.

"Uncle Chen, what new ideas do you have? You tell me." Liu Yiming asked his secretary to make a cup of tea and brought it to Chen Jiangtao.

"Everyone thinks that it is better to choose Batavia as the capital. The city is bigger, the construction is more comprehensive, and the transportation is more convenient." Chen Jiangtao said carefully.

Liu Yiming had discussed it with them before, but they liked Surabaya before, because their roots are in Surabaya, and so is Liu Yiming, but Liu Yiming's roots are in the army. Without the army, he is just a junior!

"This is for everyone to decide, but there are still three days before the founding ceremony. I'm afraid it's too late to change it now." Liu Yiming said with a frown.

"Hey! I'm just saying that Batavia is better than Surabaya in terms of construction. Don't lose face when the time comes. We only have this one chance to establish a country, so we should make it grand." Chen Jiangtao said.

"Uncle Chen, you are wrong. We will do it more than once. After the founding of the country, it's like determining the National Day. There will be celebrations on National Day in the future. We should make it happy this time. After all, the founding of the country can be more complete. In this way, the celebration will still be held in Surabaya. If we want to move the capital later, we can move the capital later." Liu Yiming said.

"Infrastructure is built. We are short of manpower and cannot do large-scale construction in a short time. There will be some in the future. There are only three big cities in the whole Java Island, Surabaya, Semarang, and Batavia. We will decide later. In addition, I think if you are worried about this, it is better to find a way to change the name. Change the name of Batavia. It's the Chinese era, and it's still called by this name. It's weird." Liu Yiming successfully changed the subject.

"Well, what do you think is a good name?" Chen Jiangtao asked. He had thought about this question, but no one brought it up, so he was too embarrassed to say it.

"First, it should be able to show the legitimacy of the Chinese. Second, it should have some historical background." Liu Yiming thought about it, but couldn't think of anything, so he finally said.

"Legitimacy?" Chen Jiangtao was also confused. Where did the legitimacy come from!

"I can't think of it for a moment, but there is an Old Port Xuanwei Division. I went to check it out. It seems to be in Sumatra. Java was a country of natives in the past, called Java." Chen Jiangtao frowned and said.

"The Old Port Xuanwei Division is in Palembang, near the northern part of Sumatra, but it doesn't matter. You can find someone to carve a monument and bury it under Batavia, and the legitimacy will be there." Liu Yiming said.

Chen Jiangtao was shocked. Is it such a joke?

Liu Yiming knows how to read people's faces. Besides, Chen Jiangtao's expression is written on his face.

"It's okay. Whoever wants to check can check it. Anyway, we believe it and promote it this way. As for whether others believe it or not? Anyway, I believe it. If the natives don't believe it, then kill them all. The rest will naturally believe it." Liu Yiming said indifferently.

"Let's think about what to call it first."

Chen Jiangtao left and thought about what to call it. He couldn't make a fool of himself, and he couldn't achieve a low level. So he thought while walking, thinking while eating, and looking up ancient books everywhere. Unfortunately, there are not many Javanese ancient books...

After sending Chen Jiangtao away, Liu Yiming fell into busyness again: "Miscalculated, this is what they should do!"

………………

On December 26, the first merchant ship belonging to Nanhua sailed from the northeast and entered the port of Batavia. This was the first Nanhua ship to enter this port. It was flying the flag of the sun, moon and stars. Without the guidance of the barge, it carefully docked.

The barge was driven away by the Dutch. Zhao Dabao was a complete army. Although he was not a landlubber, he did not know the function of the barge. Fortunately, the hydrological data was not taken away or damaged after Wang Yang reminded him many times.

This ship came to pull the wounded, and at the same time delivered supplies, excess supplies, including sugar, various meats, fruits, fresh vegetables, and new clothes! Unfortunately, it was not a military uniform, which had not been made yet.

After pulling the wounded, the merchant ship rushed to Surabaya without stopping. This batch of wounded was to participate in the founding ceremony, and also took the locals in Batavia who could speak well to go to Surabaya together.

The loss of Batavia's status as the capital made the Batavians somewhat unbelievable, because Batavia was the first city in Java and also the first city in Southeast Asia, more prosperous than Singapore today.

When they arrived in Surabaya, this group of people began to visit relatives and friends, and at the same time cried about the atrocities of the Dutch.

Before the Dutch left, they took away all the looted wealth, including the wealth of the Chinese who had just been looted, including millions of pounds in cash, various jewelry, and cultural relics. They did not move, but all 18 merchant ships were taken away.

Liu Yiming immediately stopped the trade negotiations with the Dutch, and then sent a new representative, Wang Xu, as a negotiator to question the matter and how to deal with it.

At the same time, the second batch of Dutch people who were preparing to be released were also stopped, and the Dutch were informed that food, clothing, housing and transportation were all calculated by money, and they would not release people without money.

What can the Dutch do? Fight back? Batavia did not fight back when it was in their hands, how to fight back now?

The worst thing was that a treasure ship carrying gold, silver and jewels disappeared on the route from Sumatra back to Europe.

The Dutch sent ships everywhere to search, but could not find any useful information, as if the ship had disappeared.

In response, Charles and a warship of the British Empire Navy said, "Ah, yes, yes, it disappeared. Maybe God missed them!"

The negotiations were deadlocked, and Liu Yiming was not annoyed. The longer it dragged on, the better. As for the food, clothing, housing and transportation of tens of thousands of people, Liu Yiming said that they should sprinkle some water. In Java, the least valuable thing is rice. Give them some brown rice and let them cook it themselves.

December 28, Surabaya.

Liu Yiming stood on the viewing platform by the road, and the recorder was preparing to record.

Below is an open and flat road, and in the distance is the prototype of a square, that is, a flat ground. Because the original square in Sishui is very small and can't accommodate a few people, after a few days of emergency construction, a new piece of land was leveled. It's better to be simple than to have thousands of people squeezed in for a ceremony.

In the middle of the square are the wounded, on both sides are the families of soldiers, next to them are government officials and Chinese representatives from various cities, and at the edge, there are some natives.

Reporters are scattered among them, and there are also reporters next to Liu Yiming, who are responsible for taking pictures and photography.

Time passed by little by little, the whole audience was solemn, and there were still faint cries from the stands. Liu Yiming was also a little nervous.

Some were crying with joy, some were emotional, and some lost their relatives and friends in the process of seeking independence.

At eight o'clock, the sun was already high in the eastern sky.

"The Republic of South China was established today!" Liu Yiming said to the loudspeaker.

The microphone converts the sound into electric current, and through the wires, the severely distorted sound comes out from dozens of loud speakers.

Tens of thousands of people cheered like a tsunami. People cheered, jumped, and hugged their relatives or strangers to express their excitement.

"Since 1740 AD, the Chinese have finally won the heroic and tenacious struggle! The establishment of the Republic of South China means that the days when the Dutch only needed a few rifles and cannons to wantonly slaughter and plunder the Chinese are gone forever." Liu Yiming read the manuscript, and the audience was still cheering without stopping.

Humans are group animals. Once a hundred people gather together and start doing the same thing, even if it is meaningless, it will be difficult to stop.

"The celebration officially begins!" Liu Yiming saw that everyone was cheering for a long time and couldn't stop, so he simply threw the manuscript and shouted.

And this scene happened to be filmed. Several years later, this tape was collected by the South China National History Museum and designated as a national treasure.

At the same time, the first step of the celebration, the military parade, officially began!

[Author's side note]: Happy Mid-Autumn Festival, brothers. I wanted to stay on the new book list for a few more days, so I didn't wish you all a happy Mid-Autumn Festival in the main text.

The school gave out a mooncake and an apple. This year's mooncake is pretty good. Have you eaten the mooncake?