69novels Chapter 837
Chapter 837
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“Hmm? Did the Foot Basin people really say that?”
After arriving at the Foot Basin, although Chukir received a very grand welcome, he felt the arrogance of the Foot Basin people.
“”Mr. Prime Minister, the Foot Basin people asked us to hand over the Dutch East Indies to them, saying that this is an important sea route to cut off external aid to the Celestial Empire, and they must occupy it!”
Sure enough!
Chukir knew that things were not so simple this time, and the Foot Basin people’s ambitions seemed really big!
The Dutch East Indies belonged to the Windmill Kingdom, not to the British Empire.
However, after the Windmill Kingdom was defeated by the British Empire, the Windmill Kingdom became the younger brother of the British Empire, and the overseas colonies of the Windmill Kingdom were actually protected by the British Empire.
The Dutch East Indies are apparently a colony of the Windmill Kingdom, but in fact they are also under the control of the British Empire.
As long as they want, they can send troops to Java Island, land in Batavia, and control the Dutch East Indies at any time.
They can even close the Suez Canal and cut off the connection between the Windmill Kingdom’s overseas colonies and their homeland!
In short, if they want, they have ten thousand ways to turn this place into their own colony.
But they didn’t do that. Because the island resources here are not rich, and there are primitive jungles everywhere, it is very difficult to develop and the benefits are very low. In the eyes of the British, it is not worth the loss.
The only island with a large population and good development is Java.
Because there is a volcano on this island, a large amount of volcanic ash was deposited after the volcanic eruption, making the soil here fertile and very suitable for farming.
Therefore, a large number of people gathered here, making the population density of Java very high, but the area of Java is not large, so it seems very crowded.
The British are not short of food.
Whether it is the Maple Leaf Country in North America, Australia in Oceania, or India in South Asia, these places can provide them with a lot of food.
So for this seemingly very poor colony of the Windmill Country, they naturally look down on it.
After the Eagle Sauce occupied the Philippine Island Country, such as If the British Empire controlled the Dutch East Indies of the Windmill Kingdom, it would inevitably be adjacent to the colonies of the Eagle Sauce. At that time, given the grievances between the two countries, they might accidentally start a fight. Therefore, the British Empire did not expand rashly!
In fact, after the second half of the 19th century, the pace of expansion of the British Empire basically stopped.
Not only did they give up on annexing the colony of the Dutch East Indies, they also gave up on the colony of Viet Nam in the north, which ended up benefiting the Gauls.
After the Crimean War, the Gauls began to land in Indochina, gradually occupied it, established their own colonies, and divided Indochina with the British Empire!
After the Crimean War, the British Empire understood the truth: Although the British Empire was powerful, if they were asked to fight a European power alone, they would still have a chance. Some difficulties, when it comes to a martial country like the Russian Bear, the Crimea has been fought for several years, and both sides have suffered heavy casualties. Although the Russian Bear was defeated, no, no compensation, no apology, they can only do nothing to the Russian Bear!
Moreover, the victory in the Crimean War is not their sole credit, this must also be counted as the credit of many countries that helped, including Gaul!
Therefore, the British Empire felt that it was necessary to have a powerful ally like Gaul around, so they were almost half-hearted about Gaul’s expansion in Indochina, and just gave it to the Gauls!
In the eyes of the British Empire, if these colonies are distributed to their friendly countries, there is actually not much difference from keeping them in their hands. Anyway, they already have enough colonies, and there is no point in having more. After all, the richest land in the world is under their control!
However, this only applies to their allies in Europe, but not to the people of the foot basin!
Although the Sun Never Sets had supported the Foot Basin people in the past, it was only for the purpose of using them, hoping to use their power to contain the Bear People. The Sun Never Sets people never looked at the Foot Basin in their hearts.
So when it comes to dividing colonies, they have never considered the Foot Basin at all.
At this time, the Foot Basin asked for the sovereignty of the Dutch East Indies, which made the Sun Never Sets extremely vigilant. Although it was not their own colony, once the Foot Basin took it, their hands would naturally reach into Southeast Asia!
Judging from the greedy nature of the Foot Basin people, once they took over the Dutch East Indies, they would definitely continue to expand around.
They would either go north to take over the Philippine Islands, a colony of Eagle Sauce, or go south to attack Malaya controlled by the Sun Never Sets!
Or they might cross the sea to attack the Indochina Peninsula opposite, and then find a channel from the south to attack the southwest of the Celestial Empire!
The possibility of these options is very high, and no one can predict what the Foot Basin people are going to do!
However, this is definitely not good news for the Sun Never Sets!
“Do they have any other requests besides this one?”
Before coming, Chukir had actually prepared to make sacrifices.
After all, if he asked the foot basin people for help, he would not be able to impress them without showing them something practical!
However, considering that he was helping the Eagle Sauce this time, if there was going to be a big loss, it would be the Eagle Sauce that had to make the big loss. Why did the foot basin turn the tables on himself?
“They also wanted to station troops in the Strait of Malacca and proposed to send troops into Siam!”
These two requests made Chukir’s brows furrowed completely!
After losing the Suez Canal, the only key waterway currently controlled by the British Empire is the Strait of Malacca!
This is the eastern gate that protects them and an important barrier in the east. The foot basin directly asked for garrisoning here. This is definitely a weasel paying New Year’s greetings to the chicken, with no good intentions! The
British Empire will never agree to this request, even if the other party is their closest ally, he will never agree to the other party’s request!
As for sending troops into Siam, Chukir could not accept this.
Because of Siam’s good attitude of cooperation, it was not annexed by other countries when other countries colonized Southeast Asia, and it still retained its sovereignty, but it became a follower of the British Empire! Because the other party’s attitude was very good, the British Empire did not directly send troops to occupy here, allowing Siam to survive!