Chapter 1249: Notorious

For example, in the previous life, Pakistan's Gwadar Port, Myanmar's Kyaukphyu Port, Cambodia's Funan Canal, etc. were all designed to ensure energy security, national defense strategic security, smooth trade, etc.

This is actually a helpless choice. After all, if Singapore is in the hands of East Africa, then East Africa obviously does not have to settle for Phuket.

This time General Coletz personally led the Fourth Fleet under the East African Indian Ocean Fleet to Phuket Island, which shows how much East Africa attaches importance to Phuket Island.

The Fourth Fleet is a main squadron under the East African Indian Ocean Fleet. It is very powerful and equipped with four battleships. Its home port is Lamu Port, and Lamu is a northern military port on the east coast of East Africa that has been actively constructed in the last century.

However, with East Africa’s planning for the Phuket Naval Base, the home port of the Fourth Fleet will be moved to Phuket Port on Phuket Island in the future.

The Indian Ocean Fleet attaches great importance to Phuket. Among the three major fleets in East Africa, although the Indian Ocean Fleet is the strongest, it lacks overseas bases. In the past few decades, a new naval base in the Beibu Gulf has been added. However, the Beibu Gulf territory lacks excellent ports, so it can only dock some secondary main ships.

The Persian Gulf is not without excellent ports, but they have long been occupied by the British, such as the British Bahrain Naval Base.

On the one hand, Phuket has an excellent seaport, and on the other hand, it is located in the eastern Indian Ocean area that the Indian Ocean Fleet has never set foot in, so it is naturally very valued by the Indian Ocean Fleet.

On the other hand, the Pacific Fleet in East Africa, which is the weakest, has the most seaports and islands among the three fleets. It covers most of the Pacific area, and East Africa has the most colonies in the Pacific, especially after inheriting Germany's colonies. A bunch of archipelagos and islands were incorporated into East Africa.

This time the Kra Isthmus Territory was established, the Pacific Fleet also got a share of the pie. It has planned to establish a base in Songkhla on the east coast of the Kra Isthmus Territory to monitor the entire Gulf of Siam.

However, the Pacific Fleet does not pay too much attention to Songkhla. After all, the Gulf of Siam is not far from the Pontianak Port in Lanfang Overseas Province, where the Pacific Fleet's home port is.

Songkhla Port was also one of the naval bases of the Royal Family of Siam in the previous life. The main problem of the Pacific Fleet was not the lack of bases, but the lack of ships and funds. Therefore, it is understandable that the Pacific Fleet is not interested in Songkhla.

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Pattani.

When the negotiations between the East African and Siamese governments were leaked, it caused an uproar in the Pattani region.

Every village and town in Pattani is discussing the current situation, and it can be said that everyone is in danger.

"Have you heard? Bangkok sold us to the East Africans, and Pattani will become an East African colony in the future."

"Damn it, if that's the case, we have to be careful. After all, the cruelty and terror of East Africans are already famous in the Southeast Asia region."

"I remember that after East Kalimantan fell into the hands of East Africa, East Africa carried out a bloodbath against the Arab religious forces there. If we are occupied by East Africans, I am afraid that we may follow the footsteps of the East Kalimantans."

"More than that, when East Africa occupied Pontianak and other places, it also engaged in large-scale massacres. Now there is not even a single indigenous person in Pontianak."

"There is also Mindanao, where Arab believers were also massacred. There is a clear prejudice against Arabism in East Africa."

There is no room for panic among the people in the Pattani area. After all, the Pattani area is a typical area where Arab religions are distributed. And based on East Africa’s attitude towards Arab religions, it is obviously not good news for the Siamese government to sell them to East Africa.

"Did Bangkok just abandon us? They shouldn't easily abandon Pattani to East Africa!" someone asked.

"What do you know? Looking at the history of the Siamese people over the years, it is a history of humiliation. No matter whether the French or the British come, the Siamese government surrenders the fastest. Even the king of Cambodia can give up the fertile land. We at Peking University It’s completely reasonable to be betrayed.”

"Our southern part of Pattani was once sold to the British by Bangkok. Now it is obviously not a big problem for East Africans to occupy the whole of Pattani."

Part of the Pattani area was divided by the British before World War I, and the time was only a few years ago in 1909, less than eight years ago. Therefore, the people of Pattani in Siam naturally have no regard for the Siamese government. trust.

"We should go to the Governor's Palace and ask, hoping that the Siamese government can give us a satisfactory answer."

At this time, the Arab people in Pattani, who had been the most opposed to Siamese rule, finally remembered the goodness of the Siamese government. After all, Siamese rule had always been relatively peaceful. Of course, this was only in comparison with other countries.

For example, the Siamese government's previous anti-Chinese campaign did not result in large-scale killings, but at most some minor conflicts. To be fair, the Siamese government was not wrong in prohibiting the spread and penetration of Far Eastern Empire culture from its own national standpoint.

In fact, any country, especially a country like Siam with a certain history and cultural heritage, naturally hopes that its own country and national culture will be carried forward.

Therefore, the Arab believers in the Pattani area are actually relatively lucky. If they had faced the religious elements in the West that are extremely hostile to Arab believers, they would have been slaughtered long ago.

Unfortunately, East Africa is obviously also a member of Western "civilization". East Africa's attitude towards Arab believers in Southeast Asia is not even as good as East Africa's attitude towards local black people. After all, East Africa rarely carries out large-scale purposeful massacres in its own country. Black Aboriginal.

But this is not the real "truth". There are actually deeper reasons why East Africa treats Arab believers in Southeast Asia so cruelly.

After all, it is certainly okay to say that East Africa is prejudiced against Arabism, but prejudice does not mean hatred.

At least the Ottoman Empire, Oman, Persia, and some Arab religious forces in Central Asia in East Africa and the Middle East have relatively good relations.

The real reason that led East Africa to ruthlessly attack the Southeast Asian Arab religion and raise the butcher's knife was actually to "free up" space.

The concept of "Rhine people" has emerged in East Africa in recent years. After all, it would be a bit nondescript for East Africa to forcibly integrate into German or other civilizations, so cultivating its own people will obviously make East Africa more at ease.

The land in Southeast Asia is obviously not the "terrain" claimed by East Africans. The Arab religion has extensive influence here.

Therefore, in order to take away the land from the hands of these Arabs and avoid future troubles, it is naturally the best choice to learn from the United States' attitude towards Indians.

Of course, the fact that East Africa is doing this to the Arab religion in Southeast Asia has a lot to do with the international environment. After all, as pagans, the Western world can be said to have a history of hatred with Arab countries for thousands of years.

This means that East Africa's brutal attack on these Arab religions can minimize negative public opinion, which is quite similar to the Western world's indulgence of Jews in previous generations.

After all, in the Age of Discovery, many European navigators were funded by the church, and many priests even volunteered to go overseas to preach. In the process, it was easy to conflict with their old rivals, the Arabs. For example, the Philippines has now become a Christian area. If the Spaniards had not been ruthless No one would believe it.

While the East African navy was rushing to Siam to take over the Kra Isthmus territory and Phuket.

The Kra Isthmus territory fell into complete turmoil. The Siamese government and Siamese people moved to the north in large numbers, while qualified Arabs also fled to the British colonies in the south due to trust relations.

For example, many people in Pattani choose to seek refuge with relatives in the Pattani area of ​​the UK in the south.

The root cause of this large-scale exodus of people from the Kra Isthmus territory was the massacre in East Kalimantan in East Africa in recent years.

After all, East Kalimantan borders the British colonies, which caused many people to flee to British colonies such as Sarawak and Brunei. It was the escape of this group of people that spread East Africa's notorious reputation to the entire Southeast Asian region and even the Middle East. India and other areas where Arabic religion is distributed outside the territory.