Nanyang Storm 1864

Chapter 439 Increased to 379.9 million territories

Just as the Chu army was showing off its might in Jambi, after a few days, the Sultan of Aceh, far to the northeast, finally could no longer bear it and stood up to angrily accuse the Chu army of brutality and tyranny, treating the lives of indigenous people as worthless, killing people at will, and being the public enemy of all the countries in Southeast Asia.

This righteous statement really boosted the morale of the local indigenous people and was exactly what the Chu State wanted.

I was about to beat you up, but you stuck your head out. Where can you find such a good thing?
The Chu rulers and ministers predicted the fate of Sultan Mahmud Shah II of Aceh, because he was ambitious, reckless and unwise, but always believed that he was great and was the chosen one to be a great ruler.

In the original history

In 1874, Mahmud Shah II's capital Aceh was conquered by the Dutch and he fled to the mountains and died of illness. He was the last sultan who died in a very tragic way.

However, due to the military intervention of the Chu State, the Kingdom of Aceh, which was destroyed in 1874, did not repeat the same mistake. It is still alive and well today and can proudly point fingers at the actions of the Chu State in the capital of Aceh.

This time, he has made a great enemy for himself.

In view of the extremely hostile slander of the Sultan of Aceh against the State of Chu, the State of Chu officially declared war on the Kingdom of Aceh on September 1880, 9, and quickly sent three large armies of the Devil's Second Division, the Fourth Division and the Fifth Division to land on the Island of Sumatra, respectively from Tanjung Kap, Padang District, West Sumatra Province, Tanjung Balai District, North Sumatra and South Aceh District, igniting the flames of a full-scale expansionist colonial war.

The Chu army captured cities and strongholds along the way, suppressing all resistance with unprecedentedly cruel means of war.

All the villages and towns that were occupied were killed first. Anyone holding a weapon, anyone who was unruly, or anyone who stood disrespectfully, regardless of gender, age or status, would be shot dead.

The survivors had to kneel to greet the occupying forces. When Chinese officers and soldiers passed by, they had to stand with their hands hanging down, kneel on the side of the road and bow their heads to greet them. They were not allowed to look up to show their obedience.

This sounds extremely harsh, but it is the only way to destroy the indigenous people's belief in resistance.

The road was like a gust of wind and wildfire, sweeping through towns and villages across Sumatra. There were flames everywhere, wailing everywhere, and countless casualties.

after many years
The Chu State did not have detailed statistics on this, but only roughly mentioned that in the war to conquer Sumatra, about 1.2 rebels and their families were eliminated, stabilizing the local situation.

In fact, according to research by scholars from Britain, France, the United States and other countries, the Chu State inflicted heavy casualties on the local indigenous people during its occupation and complete colonization of Sumatra.

Some say it is more than 40, another says it is more than 75, and another says it is more than one million. The estimates vary greatly, and there is no authoritative statement.

But no matter what, more than 1.2 rebels were definitely killed.

This one and only

The entire indigenous kingdom on the island of Sumatra collapsed, and the ethnic population was severely damaged. In addition, a large number of young indigenous women were trafficked after the war, with the number reaching 400,000 to 500,000, and the vast majority were sold to Chinese immigrant families.

In addition, hundreds of thousands of indigenous male prisoners of war were sent to more than 100 mines across the Chu State to perform hard labor. The originally prosperous towns on the island were deserted and became deserted for a short time.

The Aceh Kingdom, which once had a long history, has since become history, and even its indigenous people are difficult to find.

Only one month later

The Chu State's Devil's Second Expeditionary Division and the Sixth Expeditionary Division defeated the tens of thousands of troops assembled by the Sultanate from two directions respectively, and rushed into the city of Aceh almost in no particular order, wielding their butcher knives and launching a bloody suppression.

The last Sultan of Aceh, Mahmud Shah II, lived for a few more years, but he could not escape the tragic fate of the destruction of his kingdom. He and his royal family died in the raging war.

He didn't even leave any descendants, so he died completely.

A moment of boasting led to the ultimate destruction of the kingdom, which frightened the surrounding indigenous kingdoms so much that their hair stood on end.

Faced with the terrifying and powerful Chu State, these indigenous kingdoms were so frightened that they could not sleep at night and asked for asylum from Britain one after another. This was an unexpected surprise for the British Channel Governor's Office.

The expansionist colonial war launched by the Chu State came to an end on November 1880, 11, with the final capture and destruction of the Aceh Sultanate royal family. By the way, several small indigenous kingdoms were destroyed as if they were stepping on ants.

Then the Chu State announced
The occupied 3/5 of Sumatra Island, about 25.2 square kilometers of territory, was incorporated into the Chu territory. The Chu territory thus increased from 354 million square kilometers to 379.9 million square kilometers. This does not include the African lands occupied by the Congo River Company and the East African Company.

From beginning to end, the British Straits Settlements Governor-General's Office was very slow to respond, with neither diplomatic intervention nor opposition, and just watched everything happen.

At this time in London, the seriously ill former Prime Minister Earl Benjamin Disraeli was so angry that he vomited blood and almost died.

He said angrily on his sickbed:

"The Conservative cabinet worked hard for six years, firmly suppressing Chu's desire for colonial expansion. However, all these efforts were ruined by the damned Gordon government. He is a sinner of the British Empire."

"Occupying Sumatra has made the rise of the Chu State unstoppable. This is a major failure in Britain's global strategy, and it will be difficult to recover from it." "Allowing the King of Chu's ambition to succeed is an absolutely unforgivable and colossal mistake."

"A huge rift has emerged between the UK and its Dutch partners. This can no longer be made up by traditional friendship. We have lost a loyal ally on the European continent. This is a huge loss."

However, this statement was met with a retort from the Gordon government, which believed that the former prime minister's words were just empty talk and were meant to embolden the Boers in South Africa.

This view was shared by many British people, who were still angry about their defeat in the First Anglo-Boer War.

"The Boers could strike hard at the British without fear of retaliation. In London, the Dutch still had friends who would fight for their interests, such as Benjamin Disraeli, who always hoped that Britain would be more generous."

"It's absurd that this former prime minister applauded the Boers' attack on the British, yet felt sorry for the Dutch's loss of interests in East Asia and hoped that Britain would step in to protect them."

"Finally, let me make it clear that the Boers are just damned Dutch peasants, a bunch of bastards who put their own interests above those of the British."

The upper class in London was engaged in a war of words, and not many people supported Prime Minister Benjamin Disraeli. Ordinary British people were very emotional and lacked a far-reaching strategic vision.

They were furious with the Dutch performance in the Anglo-Boer War. Because they hated the Boers, they also disliked the Dutch and were even less willing to come forward to defend the interests of the Dutch.

It seems that it would not be a bad idea to be severely punished by the Chu people.

King Zheng Guohui of Chu knew that he had taken advantage of the situation, so he took several measures to greatly satisfy the British, and the overall public opinion tended to support Chu's colonial expansion.

The Chu State quickly signed an agreement with the British Strait Governor-General's Office for unimpeded use of ports on the island of Sumatra, stipulating that British merchants would enjoy preferential tax treatment for British citizens and various trade facilitation measures in towns throughout the island of Sumatra.

Only the British can enjoy this high treatment. The French, Germans, Americans and Dutch cannot. They all have to pay taxes according to the provisions of the signed bilateral treaties.

This made the arrogant British feel respected. Compared with the Dutch who imposed heavy taxes on British merchants without hesitation in Palembang, Chu's approach was too friendly and sensible.

Britain originally had no idea about the territory of Sumatra. Its own colonies were already large, vast, and fertile enough, and there was no need to add another island.

Former Prime Minister Benjamin Disraeli always suppressed Chu's impulse for colonial expansion based on Britain's global strategic considerations and did not want local countries to become too powerful and difficult to control.

With the change to the current Liberal Party Gordon government, the desire for control in this regard has greatly weakened, and it is more focused on the internal affairs of British colonies and protectorates. It can only be said that the policy orientation is different.

The regional situation thus brought about has undergone earth-shaking changes.

The State of Chu was like the Monkey King under the Five Finger Mountain. When it saw the opportunity, it overturned the Five Finger Mountain with its buttocks and began to make great strides in the Nanyang region.

According to the excited words of King Zheng Guohui of Chu:

"The Chu Kingdom's Royal Fleet lacks a stable and reliable home port in the Indian Ocean. Aceh, located at the northeastern end of the Strait of Malacca, is a perfect fit. It will become a reliable forward base for the Chu Kingdom's Pacific Fleet and a solid step into the Indian Ocean, leading the Kingdom into the new century."

The Chu State's military expansion and colonization process on the island of Sumatra was very rapid, taking only a month and a half from start to finish, but it took more than ten years of painstaking planning.

From intelligence to military geographical surveys, from infiltration to military preparations, the Chu State did every step very carefully and thoroughly, which enabled it to secure victory in one fell swoop like an autumn wind sweeping away fallen leaves.

People often marvel at the powerful combat capability of the Chu Royal Army on the surface, but ignore the arduous and complicated preparation and planning process behind it, which is the more important aspect.

Having obtained three-fifths of the territory of Sumatra Island, the Chu State and its ministers were now very satisfied. The entire island was divided into two, occupied by Chu and the Netherlands respectively.

In time
The State of Chu was very confident that it could squeeze out the Dutch and monopolize the world's sixth largest island.

The confidence of the Chu State came from its almost endless resources of Chinese immigrants. Compared with the pitiful number of white immigrant descendants in the Netherlands, the Chu State directly flooded it with a tide of Chinese immigrants and continued to infiltrate the Dutch-occupied area in the southeast.

The Dutch white colonists could not stop them, nor did they dare to go too far, giving the Chu State an excuse to get angry.

Today, the Chu State has shifted its immigration focus to Sumatra Island. Every month, the number of new Chinese immigrants to the island reaches 70 to , which means the population reaches more than a year.

In just two or three years, the majority of the population on the entire island of Sumatra will be replaced, and the Dutch whites will not be able to stop this trend, and may eventually lose even their own territory.

The Governor-General of the Dutch East Indies foresaw such serious consequences, but did not take effective measures to deal with it.

After all
There are too few descendants of Dutch white immigrants, with only an increase of 20,000 to 30,000 people in a hundred years. At this rate, even another thousand years would not be enough.

(End of this chapter)