Chapter 494 Zhang Maolu Is in Trouble Again! [Today's 4th Update]

Wushi has been running back and forth in Jiangnan Province to fight against floods. Zhang Maolu is enjoying a self-guided tour of seven countries in South Asia. He has already visited Vietnam, Laos, Cambodia and Thailand, and is now on a plane from Malaysia to Indonesia.

According to the scheduled plan, after playing in Indonesia, I went to the Philippines for a tour. This trip was successfully completed. After such a tour, Zhang Maolu felt that his mood was much better. Although many places in Southeast Asia The capital has been affected by the financial crisis to varying degrees, but the society is relatively stable. However, the prices of daily consumer goods are higher, while hotel and travel expenses have been reduced a lot.

After the plane landed in Jakarta, Zhang Maolu and his bodyguards and a group of more than ten people checked into the Marriott Hotel, planning to take a rest before embarking on a sightseeing trip.

Standing on the terrace of a hotel more than 30 stories high and looking down, Zhang Maolu found that the scenery in Indonesia was pretty good, but from an architectural point of view, there was a huge gap between the rich and the poor. On one side was a magnificent high-end residential area, on the other It is a shanty town that can be blown down by the wind at any time. The contrast is really strong.

However, in the middle of the night, Zhang Maolu, who was sleeping, was woken up by the hotel and told them that anti-Chinese riots might break out during the day tomorrow. The hotel reminded them not to go out to avoid being implicated.

"How could this happen?" Zhang Maolu asked in surprise.

The hotel said that they are an American-owned company with their own sources of information. They are informing everyone to be careful in an attitude of being responsible to their guests. As for the guests' freedom of choice, they still respect it.

After Zhang Maolu took the words, he didn't take it seriously, thinking that the situation in Indonesia was probably more chaotic. However, after sleeping for a while, he felt a little uneasy, so he got up.

Zhang Maolu is a little older, so he has heard about some things.

As early as the Huangchao period in the Eastern Han Dynasty, many Chinese came to Palim State on the Indonesian island of Sumatra to cultivate. During the Tang and Song Dynasties, many people fled to Southeast Asia due to political reasons. At the turn of the Song and Yuan Dynasties, many Song Dynasty survivors fled overseas. For example, Zheng Sixiao, the Song Dynasty elder, fled to Java, Indonesia. During the Ming and Qing Dynasties, Prince Fu and Prince Tang of the Ming Dynasty crossed the sea to Java.

After Kangxi regained the bay. Some soldiers of the Zheng Keshuang regime who were unwilling to surrender to the Qing Dynasty also took ships from Taiwan to Java.

After the Ming Dynasty. Due to the sprouting of capitalism in China's coastal areas, the development of foreign trade. Land annexation is becoming increasingly serious. There has been a serious socialization phenomenon. Farmers and craftsmen in bankrupt areas crossed the sea to make a living. after. There are also Chinese people for various reasons. Migrated from China one after another. The main components of them are businessmen, fishermen, students studying in Indonesia, etc. These people are mainly men. After arriving in Indonesia. Some people intermarried with local people. Taking root.

After the Dutch East India Company captured Jakarta.

Hundreds of businesses are in need of labor. They took a fancy to the hard-working Chinese people. Therefore, every effort is made to recruit Chinese immigrants. They even resorted to banditry by any means necessary. Send armed ships to China's coast to plunder people.

before the arrival of Western colonists. There is no land dispute between the Chinese and Indonesian residents. It can even be said that they live in harmony. But later the Dutch colonists selected a few upper-class Chinese and upper-class aborigines to serve as their agents. Carrying out economic plunder. But it gave many Chinese who were engaged in small business and hawking a bad name.

The Dutch colonial rulers shifted their anti-Dutch sentiments to the Chinese. Continuously sow discord between the aborigines and the Chinese in order to reap the benefits of the fishermen. therefore. Chinese-Indonesians have become the scapegoats for the ongoing struggle between group interests in Indonesia's political situation.

Sixties. After a long period of planning and preparation. President Sukarno issued severe decrees. Announced strict restrictions on Chinese commercial activities and banned all Chinese commercial activities below the county level. Force the Chinese to end their business as small traders. And had to leave areas below the county level. This set off the most serious anti-Chinese wave since independence.

After Indonesia entered the Suharto era, in order to get rid of its economic difficulties, although it relaxed business restrictions for Chinese people economically, it implemented a series of more stringent forced assimilation policies against Chinese people politically, killing the rights and interests of Chinese people as Indonesian citizens in other fields. , stifling their equal citizenship rights.

For example, Chinese are prohibited from participating in politics and the military, Chinese schools are closed, Chinese are restricted from entering universities, and the use of Chinese is strictly prohibited. Chinese are required to give up their Chinese names, change their names to Indonesian, and put a mark on their Chinese resident cards, etc. They blatantly violated the United Nations' declarations and conventions on human rights, seriously violated the basic human rights of Chinese Americans, and further pitted the Chinese ethnic group against other ethnic groups.

Since Suharto came to power, there have been more than a dozen anti-Chinese incidents, large and small. Since the foundation of Suharto's regime had not been shaken, each anti-Chinese incident was only controlled as a political means and did not expand further to shake his regime. After the goal was achieved, it subsided, and then the Chinese were used to revitalize the economy. If this happens again, the same approach will continue. Repeatedly, tried and tested. exist

During the more than 30 years in power, the majority of Chinese people have become accustomed to this, and they feel that the citizens' rights and interests have been stifled, and there is already a political crisis related to their own life and death.

From last year to this year, under the manipulation of Western financial tycoons such as Soros, the financial storm that swept across Asia broke out. The Indonesian government has been hit unprecedentedly. The number of people living in extreme poverty in Indonesia has increased to 80 million this year, accounting for 40% of the total population. The people live in poverty and class contradictions are unprecedentedly fierce. The people are extremely dissatisfied with this, and the long-accumulated anger is about to erupt. There will undoubtedly be strikes, demonstrations and riots, which will seriously threaten the rule of the Suharto regime.

In this case, the Suharto regime considered directing volcanic lava to the Chinese, the part of Indonesian society with the least political power. The Chinese are the exhaust valve of the Suharto regime. For many years, whenever the public grievances are boiling and about to explode the society, this exhaust valve will be activated, so that the political and economic rule of the Suharto family can avoid the impact and continue to exist.

This is the darkest, most secretive and indispensable link in Suharto's ruling structure, and its significance is the same as Hitler's massacre of Jews. Only by transforming class contradictions into national contradictions, class anger into racial hatred, and promoting the Chinese as so-called non-Islamic residents and hateful pagans, can an exploitative and oppressive social structure be maintained.

In this sense, racism is actually an indispensable component of any class ruling regime. Even the United States, which particularly loves to flaunt democracy, uses racial discrimination against blacks as a valve for its social stability. The Ku Klux Klan and the extreme anti-Chinese forces in Indonesia are actually the same thing. The mainstream of the ruling group usually looks down on them, but they deeply understand the importance of the existence of extreme right-wing forces.

In fact, as early as April this year, the Indonesian media began to point the finger at the Chinese, attacking the Chinese for being rich and unkind, refusing to assimilate, and explicitly or implicitly implying that the Chinese should be responsible for the collapse of the Indonesian economy.

Zhang Maolu seemed to remember that Lao Fan Wubing once said that Indonesia's Suharto was not a good thing, and that he treated the Chinese either by exploiting or persecuting them, so he felt that what the hotel said was true? So he simply called Fan Wubing, explained the situation here to him, and asked him what he should do?

When Fan Wubing received the call, he was sleeping. It took him a long time to react. He counted on his fingers and found that it was now more than the time when the anti-Chinese riots in Indonesia occurred in history, but he didn't know what caused it.

Fan Wubing was relatively clear about the cause of this riot. On the one hand, the Suharto family wanted to divert the huge pressure and public dissatisfaction brought to Indonesian society by the financial crisis. On the other hand, Suharto's son-in-law, Lieutenant General Prabowo, commander of the Indonesian Army Strategic Reserve Force and former commander of the special forces, tried to create a chaos for personal interests, making it impossible for the commander-in-chief of the armed forces, Wiranto, to restore the security of the capital. In this way, Prabowo could force Suharto to declare martial law, and then he would come forward to control the situation. At the same time, it would embarrass Suharto's political opponent, Habibie, who was about to succeed him.

After careful planning, Prabowo first came forward to buy off ruffians, gangsters, underworld organizations, ** groups and extremist forces to prepare for the activities. The mob was trained to set fire, rob and rape Chinese women, and promised to get 20,000 Indonesian rupiah, which is about two US dollars, for each Chinese woman raped.

During the riot, witnesses and victims said that they saw a large number of military vehicles rushing to Jakarta, and a group of young men with flat heads and strong physiques came down from them, commanding the mob to attack Chinese residents and instigating them to set fire, rob, rape, abuse and kill Chinese women.

After the mob entered the role, this group of people quickly disappeared without a trace. From this, it can be clearly seen that the culprit behind the riot against the Chinese was Prabowo and his backer Suharto. But Suharto announced his resignation soon after, and Prabowo's plan fell through.

However, although these people are of Chinese descent, they have nothing to do with the Chinese in terms of nationality and law. Therefore, the government can only strongly condemn the Indonesian government that created this incident from a humanitarian perspective, but there is no reason to stand up for them.

Fan Wubing should not intervene in this matter from his current position, but when he thought of the tragic scenes in his memory, he felt that he could not sit idly by, otherwise his conscience would not be at peace for a day. But if he intervened, what name should he use?

He thought again and again, sighed and said, "Don't leave the hotel for the time being, I will send a helicopter to pick you up."

The fourth update is delivered today, a little late, but it is finally completed. (To be continued, if you want to know what happened next, please log in to mm, more chapters, support the author, support genuine reading!)