Chapter 166 Indigenous people want to push their noses on their faces

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2 months later.

The first batch of more than 5,000 people finally came to Singapore.

Uniformly arranged accommodation and meals, and at the same time began to arrange work for everyone step by step.

In this way, the first group of people felt a lot more at ease, and Li Er did not lie to them.

Next, there will be a second and third batch of people coming over.

In a flash, another half year has passed.

It was now the end of 1895.

Get ready for 1896!

Singapore.

Lee’s TT factory.

By evening.

Workers leave work.

A honeycomb of Chinese workers all came out of the factory one after another.

“The salary is paid today, can I find a place to have a drink tonight?” said Zhao Tiezhu, Sun Xiaoqiang’s companion.

“Just drink, but I’ll go to the post office first to send some money home.” Sun Xiaoqiang laughed.

He has been here for more than half a year.

Worked for three months.

Not to mention food and housing every month, the monthly salary is also ten pounds!

This is something he never dared to imagine before!

Although he is just a raw material hauler at the TT factory.

rather hard.

But as a rural person, he can still bear the pain.

It can be said that most of the Chinese who come here are more able to bear hardships and stand hard work.

“Haha, I plan to send money too!”

Li Lin’s company has also set up a mailing company to send money home to these fellow villagers.

Not even sending money.

All you need to do is hand the money to the mailing company, count it, send a telegram to Yangcheng, and ask the mailing company there to write a letter to the family members who sent the money, and let them come to collect the money.

There is no need to actually send the money back, otherwise it would be too much trouble.

The two walked and chatted.

“Why are these local people looking at us strangely and full of hostility!” As Sun Xiaoqiang walked, he noticed that the local people on the street were not very friendly to them.

“Hey! We have tens of thousands of people to work here, and almost all of Li’s factories for a few days are recruiting us fellow villagers to work. I even heard that many of Li’s factories in the past few days have fired the original local people. , to keep the jobs to our own people, doesn’t this make a lot of local people lose their jobs?”

“In addition, I heard from some villagers over the wharf that we outsiders have had a lot of conflicts with the locals, so they must be looking at us with hostility, let’s go, let’s go quickly. This area is for the locals.” Zhao Tiezhu said in a low voice.

Li Lin’s TT factory is located in the area where the locals are.

No way, there are too many factories in the area where Chinese people live, so we can only open some factories in other areas.

The management here in Singapore is very strange.

The British attach great importance to the commercial and trade activities of Singapore, so they list the merchants as the highest social class, followed by artisans, and the third class is farmers.

Different ethnic groups such as Europeans, Chinese, Hardy, Indigenous (Aboriginal), Bugis and Alabau are placed in different areas to live. Considering that foreign residents may have disputes due to different dialect groups, the British administrators further separated them according to different dialect groups to achieve the purpose of divide and rule.

In fact, it is to prevent more intense conflicts between various ethnic groups.

Several major ethnic groups here are in great conflict!

In particular, the locals are very hostile to foreigners.

And those outsiders are also hostile to each other.

So the relationship is very complicated.

Coincidentally, several of Li Lin’s new TT factories were opened in other areas.

For example, the factory where Zhao Tiezhu and the others are located is located in an area where the locals are.

Just as they passed a small alley.

Suddenly, more than a dozen people rushed out from the front and back of the alley, and surrounded the two of them.

“Barabara (they just paid their wages today and robbed them of their money! a tall local who seemed to be the leader said viciously.

They hated this group of foreign Chinese people very much.

He previously worked in a factory of the Lee Group.

But he was fired six months ago, because he wanted to give up his post to these Chinese people.

He was outraged.

One of his sisters has a relative, too.

Now, Li’s Group does not recruit other workers other than Huaxia people at all.

There are dozens of Li’s Group factories in Singapore.

It is the largest group of companies in the country.

This leaves them with no work to do now. Do they have to go to the wharf to work as laborers? Or go to work as a coolie on a plantation?

They don’t want to!

But it is currently powerless.

But they found a way to make money.

That is to steal the money of these Chinese people!

snort!

They are the local snakes.

Immediately, a group of people rushed up.

“What do you want?” Sun Xiaoqiang’s expressions suddenly changed.

However, the other party did not listen to them at all, and the two sides did not understand the language.

In the end, Sun Xiaoqiang and Zhao Tiezhu both shouted, “Robbery! Robbery!”

This shout really caught the attention of some off-duty Chinese people not far away.

After all, there are seven or eight hundred Huaxia people working in the factory here.

It was off-duty time again, so it immediately attracted attention.

“Go, go over there and see what’s going on!”

At the same time, those locals had already grabbed the wages that Zhao Tiezhu and the others had just received.

“Robbery! They rob money!”

Immediately, more than 20 Huaxia workers surrounded each other with more than 20 people.

“Why are you robbing money?” Zhao Dagang, his fellow villager, glared angrily.

“Dilabula.” The leader of the local people opposite said a word.

What he means is: we didn’t rob our money, it was you Chinese who wanted to rob us of our money and were defeated by us.

Anyway, in a word, black becomes white.

Both sides have language barriers.

Immediately, the locals were the local snakes and began to shake people.

Immediately, hundreds of locals rushed over and surrounded Zhao Dagang and others.

The conflict between the two sides has gone a step further!

“Just how many of you? Hurry up and send someone to call someone! Nima’s!” Zhao Dagang was also not afraid~www.readmtl.com~ suddenly shouted.

Immediately, many fellow villagers who passed by after get off work rushed over.

Suddenly, thousands of people confronted each other like this.

I don’t know who will do it first, and the two sides started fighting directly.

Immediately, the melee began.

In the end, the people who maintained the law and order came over, and they stopped the two sides and arrested the main people from both sides!

At the Governor’s Mansion, they had opinions on Li Lin.

In addition, the British are more friendly to the local people, and they are more indifferent to the Chinese people.

Therefore, the locals were released directly, and Zhao Dagang and others were locked up.

Soon, the news spread to Qinglongmen on the other side of Xinjiapo.