The arrogance started from Chinatown

Chapter 712: Riots in the Malay Peninsula

San Francisco, U.S.

"Can this thing move by itself?" Aaron was circling around a steel frame.

It's just a steel frame with a seat mounted on the chassis and a bunch of iron pipes that form the outline of the car.

"How else do you think those ships are running?" Rong Jiacai said with a smile.

The two were surrounded by people from the laboratory and a number of his men.

"We successfully made this thing run the first two times... The boss called this thing a car! I think it would be more appropriate to call it a steel carriage..." said a researcher in the laboratory.

This was not the first time they had tested the car, and the first time the engine jammed after running just over a hundred meters.

The second time, after driving more than 500 meters, the tester discovered that he had forgotten to install the brakes. He tried to apply the brakes with his foot, but the welding points of the chassis had problems again and the car flipped directly into the ditch, sending the tester to the hospital.

This is the third test within a month.

Aaron turned his head and looked at the researcher, saying word by word: "The boss said to call it a car, so let's call it a car!"

The researcher's smile froze, and he apologized; "Yes! I'm sorry, I didn't mean it!"

"You must remember your identities. Do whatever the boss says!" Aaron looked at the others again, and after he finished speaking, he sat back in the driver's seat with great interest.

"How did you make this thing?"

"You need to shake this handle to start the engine, and adjust the gears here. If the speed is too fast... first step on the brake, and then slowly release it..."

Another experimenter taught Aaron step by step, and then said:
"Sir, let me show you!"

After getting into the car, the experimenter quickly cranked the handle to start the engine, adjusted the carburetor, adjusted the gear speed, and then slowly released the brake. White smoke continued to come out of the chimney on the iron frame, and the car slowly drove out.

"It can actually run!" Aaron exclaimed in amazement as he watched the car moving forward on the smooth dirt road.

"Get me one of this too!" Aaron couldn't wait to get one to show off in San Francisco.

The car test went smoothly this time, and the car circled in the distance and then turned back.

"How is this thing better than a carriage?"

Aaron asked the scholar.

"We don't need horses anymore! The horses pulling the carts need to rest, but this thing can keep driving, and it's faster than a horse-drawn carriage!" said the scholar.

Chen Zhengwei attached great importance to this matter, so he understood the entire research and experimental process and was also familiar with the potential of the car.

"And this thing can be made bigger, just like the ships in the harbor, there are small ships and big ships, as long as the steam engine is powerful enough, they can be moved! If the carriage is too big, even horses can't pull it!"

"That sounds good. I want a big one." Aaron's mind was full of getting one to show off in San Francisco.

The bigger the better.

The more majestic, the better.

After the car stopped, Aaron excitedly pulled the tester out, sat in and let others teach him how to control it.

It took a moment to figure it out, and then a few minutes to crash the car into a fence on the side and then get stuck in the grass outside the fence.

Aaron climbed out of the car somewhat angrily and smacked his lips: "It's quite interesting! More interesting than riding in a horse-drawn carriage!"

"It's just too hard! Damn, my butt hurts from the bumps!"

"Just replace the pad with a softer one. Although the wheels are covered with a layer of rubber, they are still too hard. The boss said we need to inflate them!" said someone from the laboratory.

Everyone else in the lab had a beaming smile on their face; the test finally went smoothly.

Next, we need to continue testing to find out some of the faults and make improvements.

After watching the car test, A'long and Rong Jiacai took a carriage back and asked in the carriage: "Where has Brother Wei been recently?"

"Vietnam!"

……

"Why did that guy go to Vietnam again? Is he planning to cause trouble along the way?" Earl Granville said unhappily in the Foreign Secretary's office.

He was very upset with the guy who was causing trouble everywhere with the warships sold to him by Britain.

In his opinion, the reason why Chen Zhengwei can cause trouble everywhere now is all thanks to the retired warships sold to him by the UK.

The previous foreign secretary's tolerance of him has affected British interests.

And Malaysia has been prepared for a long time.

But human hearts are not so easy to control, and they might suddenly explode because of a small thing.

He hopes that the explosion will happen when Chen Zhengwei is in Malaysia.

But Chen Zhengwei was still wandering around. After leaving Hong Kong, he first went to Macau and then to Vietnam.

It almost affected their plans.

"Those monkeys in the Malay Peninsula, keep an eye on them! We must wait until he arrives in the Malay Peninsula before launching our plan!"

"I'll have someone pay attention!" the director in charge of Asian affairs nodded.

……

Meanwhile, on the Malay Peninsula, the city of Larut (Taiping) was the capital of the Perak Sultanate.

It is also the center of the Perak Sultanate's tin mining industry.

Chinese make up half of the population here.

At this time, dozens of young people were standing around a small building in Taiping, and a room inside the building was filled with smoke.

A dozen people sat around a long table.

"Gan Laoer, I heard that you guys are very busy recently?" An old man wearing silk clothes and smoking opium asked with a smile.

A man in a short coat slammed the table and cursed, "Damn it, those people from Ghee Hin have been restless recently. We have fought several times in Kamunting! They even dare to threaten our people. Do they really think we are afraid of them?"

"They have overreached their hands. It's time to teach them a lesson! I've disliked them for a long time. Gan Laoer, if anything happens, just let me know. We are all brothers from the same sect. I will definitely support you!" said another man.

Haishan’s main business is the mines of the Perak Sultanate and the miners therein.

The man behind them is the local wealthy businessman Zheng Jinggui, who not only owns several mines in the Perak Sultanate, but also has a high position in the colonial government.

Therefore, Haishan’s main business is to abduct people and sell them to mines, manage miners, and take a commission from the miners’ income. In addition to these, there are businesses such as opium, casinos, and usury.

Therefore, Yixing extended his hand into the mining area, and the two sides immediately came into conflict.

While several people were discussing, Ye Yalai, who was sitting at the head of the table, knocked on the table, and everyone immediately quieted down.

"As soon as Yixing reaches out his hand, he will beat them back. But we'll talk about this later! I'm looking for you today because of something else!"

Everyone looked over immediately, knowing that serious business was about to begin.

"Afa, Laojiu, stop smoking!" Ye Ya looked at the two leaders who were smoking opium, and the two men put down their opium as well.

"Luohan, you speak!"

A bald man said, "Recently, a batch of our goods was robbed and several people died. I have been investigating for several days and it should be those natives who did it!"

"How much goods?" someone asked immediately.

"Goods worth thirty thousand dollars!" said Luohan.

"Damn, they even dare to steal our goods? Don't they want to live?" Someone immediately slammed the table and cursed, with his eyes flashing.

Thirty thousand dollars for the goods is no small amount.

We must find this batch of goods at all costs. "Which native did it? You can't even handle this matter?"

"It's the group in the south of the city! I took some people there, but their attitude is very tough!"

"Those in the south of the city?" Someone immediately frowned.

"What happened to those in the south of the city?" someone asked.

"It is said that they are related to the Sultan of the Perak Sultanate... What does it mean that they suddenly robbed our goods? Luohan, are you sure it was them who did it?"

"It must be them!" Luohan said immediately.

"No matter who is behind him, if he dares to steal our goods, we will not let him go!" someone said, slamming the table.

"That's what I want to say!" Ye Yalai said. "But there's something wrong with those natives recently! I always feel like they want to do something!"

"What can they do? The Perak Sultanate is nominally theirs, but in reality it belongs to the British!" someone said immediately.

"That's what I said, but I always feel something is wrong recently, so I asked you to discuss it together. You can all ask around recently."

"As for Yixing's matter, don't get into conflict with them for now."

Ye Ah Loy has recently noticed from information from various sources that there are problems with the indigenous people.

"Laojiu, you accompany Luohan to find those natives in the south of the city. You must get those goods back! And we have to settle accounts with them for killing several of our people!"

After the meeting, Lao Jiu and Luohan called their men, and hundreds of people from both sides headed to the south of the city.

At the same time, in the south of the city, several Malays were sitting on the roadside and whispering while looking at a tinware shop run by a Chinese in the distance.

"Those Chinese robbed our mines and our land. Since they came, our lives have become increasingly difficult!"

"Originally those mines belonged to us!"

“Now those mines are full of Chinese!”

"And many of the shops on this street are theirs! They've bought all the land!"

"Sooner or later, we will kill them and take back what they stole from us!"

"Otherwise our lives will only become more and more difficult!"

"When you kill, don't kill the woman in that family. The women in his family are beautiful!" a young man suddenly said.

Several people looked at each other, pushed and hit each other, and laughed and cursed.

They were just grumbling.

However, this voice has recently spread among indigenous groups.

Many people feel that their lives are so difficult because the Chinese have taken away their mines, land and jobs.

As long as they drive those Chinese away, their lives will be better.

If they refuse to leave, kill them.

These young men have heard this kind of talk more than once, and they agree with it deeply.

So when we were chatting, we said it naturally, and no one thought there was anything wrong with it.

These natives have completely transferred their hatred onto the Chinese.

Similar situations have been brewing in many states on the west coast, and are becoming more and more serious. Even Penang, which is directly governed by the British, has such problems.

All it takes is a spark to ignite.

This Mars came faster than anyone expected, and immediately turned into a raging fire as soon as it landed.

In the afternoon, Luohan and Laojiu brought people to the south of the city to find the natives and asked them to hand over the goods.

The leaders of the natives naturally refused to admit it. When the two sides were confronting each other, one of the natives suddenly said, "You stole so many things from us, we are just taking them back!"

"It's you! You admitted it yourself!" Hearing this, Lao Jiu shouted, "You even dared to steal our goods. Beat them!"

The two sides immediately started fighting, and soon the fight turned into a physical fight.

Some people simply took out axes, or picked up carrying poles, sticks, and pickaxes from the roadside to use as weapons. Soon, people on both sides fell down.

There were many people coming from Haishan, but these natives were few in number, so they soon fell into a disadvantage.

However, some of these natives saw that the situation was not good and quickly ran away, shouting as they ran: "Those Chinese are here to beat people and rob things, go and help!"

Some natives immediately picked up their weapons and rushed over. The number of natives increased from dozens to two or three hundred, and there was a trend of increasing.

Seeing this, Lao Jiu and Luo Han made some threats and fled with their men.

There were hundreds of people when they came, and more than twenty of them stayed here. Some of them had their heads smashed by pickaxes, with their brains all over the ground.

This feud is getting bigger.

Many of the natives were killed or injured, and their eyes turned red. Some of them shouted loudly in the crowd:

"Kill them and take back our stuff!"

This shout spread from one person to ten people, and from ten to a hundred people. A large number of natives gathered together and rushed towards the area where the Chinese were.

Many of them had red eyes and rushed into Chinese shops to smash and rob.

The Chinese owner and clerk in the store were beaten to death on the spot when they tried to stop them.

Some people left the shop carrying valuable tinware, and more natives came in after seeing this scene.

More and more indigenous people are joining.

The whole city suddenly fell into chaos.

Especially after dark, a large number of indigenous people who were slow to realize the situation, filled with greed and hatred, rushed towards the Chinese community with torches in their hands.

At the same time, the Chinese community, especially those in Haishan, also gathered together to fight with the indigenous people.

However, faced with an increasing number of natives, many of the Haishan people were killed directly, and the rest retreated step by step.

Seeing more and more torches in the distance in the darkness, and more and more shouts and screams, some members of Haishan began to flee.

"No, we can't stop them. Those native monkeys are crazy!" Lao Jiu wiped the blood off his face and cursed.

"Boss, we can't stop them. Luohan's men have escaped!"

"Fuck!" When Lao Jiu heard this, he immediately started cursing.

Seeing that the natives were increasing in number, Lao Jiu gritted his teeth and said, "We will also be killed if we stay here. Let's go!"

"Boss, where are we going?"

"Let's get out of town first and go find Boss Zheng! They might be there too!"

……

Except for some of the natives who chased Haishan and fought, the rest rushed into the Chinese community to loot, and there were constant shrill screams.

From time to time, Chinese people were killed in their own houses and their bodies were thrown into the streets.

This further aroused the animal nature in the hearts of the natives.

Afterwards, some houses were looted and set on fire, burning the corpses or living people inside and all the traces they left behind.

The flames began to light up half the city.

(End of this chapter)