The Malay leader offended the British colonizers and was exiled to a small African island

Mondo History Updated on 2024-01-28

Madden Museum (pictured Daring Promise).

I didn't see the history of the Perang Larut War at the Perak Museum in Taiping, but I did see it in Matang, 10 kilometres west of Taiping's city centre. Take bus 77 in the city center and it will be there in less than half an hour.

When I heard that I was from Teochew, he told me: "I am from Teochew, but I can only speak Hokkien." "Later, my sister at the hotel told me that people like him, who were born in the British colonial era, generally speak their native dialect, English and Malay, and may not speak Mandarin (Mandarin).

The bus stops in front of the Madden Museum, where the Victorian-style two-storey building was originally the private residence of Ngah Ibrahim, the chief of the Taiping region, and was built in the mid-19th century. When you enter the museum, you will see a model of an elephant with three Malays pointing in front of you.

The elephant Ralu discovers tin ore (Fig. Dauntless).

The scramble for tin ore led to a Chinese gang warThe elephant's name is Larut. In 1848, an elephant from Jaafar, Yaibrahim's father, discovered tin ore in what is now the Taiping region. Lonchafa therefore named the area Lalu and received permission from the Sultan of Perak to mine tin here.

In fact, Lonchafa became the lord of the Larlu region, amassing a great deal of wealth by mining tin and tin mining with the British. After his death in 1857, Lonchafa died, and his son Jaibrahim succeeded his father as the new lord of the Laru region.

Jaibrahim (center) At this time, China was defeated in the Opium Wars and the Treaty of Nanking was signed, allowing the British to recruit Chinese laborers in China to go abroad. The Malays were not as advanced in mining technology as the Chinese, so the British in Lunchafa and Penang in the Straits Settlements began to bring large numbers of Chinese to Lalu to mine tin.

In 1869, the Suez Canal was opened, and the distance from Asia to Europe was greatly shortened, and the price of tin was also **. It is precisely because of the huge economic interests of tin mines that the Chinese people from the southeast coast flocked to the tin mines, forming a Chinese society centered on tin mines. The Chinese faction Lin Xi, the two largest factions areZengcheng Hakka people mainly Haishan faction, and toThe Yixing faction dominated by the Hakka people in Huizhou

The museum exhibits the history of the Lalu War (pictured Daring Fearless).

The Chinese are deeply involved in Perak politics. At the Perak court, Sultan Abdullah supported the Ngai Hing faction, while Sultan Ismail supported the Haishan faction. The conflict between the two factions began in 1861 and then re-erupted soon after each subsidence, which became known as the "Larva War".

Eventually, the British, believing that the Chinese factional struggle and the struggle for the throne had seriously affected the tin mines**, abandoned the original policy of non-intervention and sent Tristram Speedy to lead the Indian Sikhs to quell the chaos. The British reached out to local politics and signed the book in 1874Treaty of Pangkor, which will colonize Perak. Exile in Seychelles, AfricaPerak was the first Malay state to be successfully colonized by the British, but their initial rule in Perak was not all smooth sailing. The Treaty of Pangkor stipulates that matters in Perak other than religion and culture are to be administered by the British-appointed Resident. As a result of the treaty, Abdullah officially became the 26th Sultan of Perak, and the dispute over the throne of Perak was resolved. However, the worst thing was that the treaty deprived the Malay nobility of the right to taxshook the economic interests of the Malay aristocracy

The first Chief of Staff, James Birch, was killed a year after taking office. ** It is the Malay nobles Mahara Lela and Sagor. The British immediately sent troops to suppress them, captured the two men and sentenced them to death, believing that Yaibrahim and Sultan Abdullah of Perak were the masterminds. Before Abdullah's throne could be secured, he was dragged to court by the British.

Eventually, the British put the two ** in the distant African Seychelles, on a small island in the Indian Ocean. All of Yaibrahim's property was confiscated and his residence was requisitioned as the office building of the Perak Deputy Chief of Staff, in which a court court and prison were set up.

Abdullah and Jaibrahim were on the island thinking that they would be forgiven by the British and one day return to their homeland of Perak. Abdullah heard a local song, "La Rosalie", and liked it so much that he chose it as Perak's national anthem. In 1957, Malaysia became an independent state, and the song became after re-writing the lyricsMalaysia's national anthem, "Negaraku".

Return to Malaysia

Sixteen years later, Abdullah was allowed by the British to return to the Perak Palace. However, Jaibrahim was not so lucky and never returned to his hometown. Although he was later allowed to leave Seychelles, the British let him stay in Singapore. In 1895, he died and was buried in Singapore.

After independence, Malaysia defined the assassination of Pak Chi as an important event in the Malays' rebellion against colonial rule, and named Mahara Jalira and Shakh as national heroes.

In 2006, Malaysia's body was brought back from Singapore and buried in a grand ceremony next to his former home, now the Matang Museum. The villa of the former Perak Deputy Chief of Staff Secretary Spitdy has also been converted into a memorial to Yaibrahim.

How did Yaibrahim not expect that he would only want to dominate one side, but today he has become a national hero of Malaysia, because when he was alive, there was no such country as "Malaysia".

Villa Spitty (pictured Dreadnought).

The villa was converted into a memorial to Jaibrahim (pictured Daring Fear).

The tomb of Jaibra (pictured Dauntless).

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