一七八六年,英國的商業冒險家們以每年六千元的代價,從吉打蘇丹買得了馬來亞半島的跳板——檳榔嶼。到了一九○九年,英國政府已經完全攫取了馬來亞,把這塊地方變成大橡膠園主和倫敦銀行家們的黄金泉源。半個世紀來,英國的殖民者如吸血鬼般地吮吸着馬來亞的人民。他們利用當地和外來居民的廉價勞動力開發了馬來亞,使得馬來亞成爲橡膠和錫的重要出産地。 In 1786, British business adventurers bought Penang, the springboard of Malaya Peninsula, from Kedah, at an annual cost of 6,000 yuan. By 1909, the British government had completely seized Malaya and turned this place into a golden fountainhead for large rubber owners and London bankers. For half a century, British colonialists sucked the people of Malaya vampirely. They used the cheap labor of local and foreign residents to develop Malaya, making Malaya an important producer of rubber and tin.