Xinshun 1730

Chapter 538 Thanks to the Dutch

"Mr. Special Envoy, I also think this matter needs to be resolved as soon as possible. It's just...the local Chinese don't trust us very much, so you need to come forward."

Shi Shi said with all his heart, you also know that you don't practice benevolent government, and the people don't trust you.This time, the imperial court knew it well, and it took the imperial court's reputation and the last bit of prestige among the Nanyang Chinese to be the guarantor.

The Chinese who Valknier said did not trust them were, of course, most of the Chinese outside the city.

The Chinese in the city are under the control of Jiapitan and Lei Zhenlan.Around Batavia, it can be said that government orders do not go out of the city, but the city can speak easily.

The Dutch have the ability to control the Chinese in the city, but the problem is that the Chinese in the city do not need to migrate.It's not that they can't pay the poll tax, nor do they make a living by working in sugar mills and spice plantations.

The Chinese outside the city can only rely on officials from Dashun to persuade them.Valkner can only hope that these Chinese who went to Nanyang still retain the basic trust they had in the court officials when they were in Fujian a few years ago.

The two sides discussed it and decided that Batavia would send troops to maintain order, and Shi Shiyong also brought soldiers from the imperial court to help maintain order.

Gather the Chinese outside the city, read out the policy of the imperial court, and count the head count as soon as possible.Read the policy of the Netherlands, guarantee that the Netherlands will not throw them halfway into the sea and drown, and also guarantee that the Netherlands will give them a small piece of land in the future-the emperor personally guarantees it.

Once the statistics come out, the Netherlands will formulate a detailed immigration plan.The real imperial envoy from Dashun arrived, reviewed the documents, signed the contract, paid the poll tax according to the number of heads, and sent someone to supervise the implementation, and the matter was considered resolved.

While they were discussing, a Dutchman hurried in with an anxious expression on his face.

Whispered in the governor's ear in Dutch: "My lord, something has happened. The company that went out of the city to pursue the rebels was ambushed at the West Sadan River. The pursuing company was lured by the cunning rebels and chose to cross the river to pursue , which caused the infantry to lose touch with the artillery behind them and be attacked by the rebels."

"The rebels captured Bogor and captured more than 20 company employees who took a summer vacation in Bogor. Relying on Sara Volcano and Gede Volcano, they moved around and attacked local villages everywhere. There are already several relatives of the president escaped and reported their misdeeds to us."

"Kill the president of the village community, and divide their property and food..."

Having received such a shocking news, Valkneer calmly nodded to Shi Shiyong, and apologized slightly: "Mr. Special Envoy, I have some private matters within the company, please allow me to leave for a while. "

His expression calmly suppressed the shock in his heart. As soon as he left the meeting room and made sure that the people inside could not hear his conversation, he couldn't help cursing: "How could this be? Has anyone come back alive?"

"Yes, Governor, someone has come back alive. He is already waiting outside the door, and I will call him here."

Not long after, several distraught Dutch soldiers were brought before the governor and recounted their pursuit.

At first, the pursuit went smoothly.

The rebellious Chinese didn't dare to fight at all, they just kept retreating, and occasionally sent people to shoot along the way to slow down their pursuit, but they quickly slipped away like rabbits.

According to the news from the villages along the way, the pursuing Dutch company chased all the way to the upper tributary of the West Sadan River.

It was blocked at the river bank, but the company had a cannon. With the shelling, the Chinese rebels on the other side of the river were soon defeated and fled in panic.

The officer ordered to cross the river to pursue, but the cannons could not participate in the pursuit, so they crossed the river behind.As a result, the chasing company in front lost touch with the cannon, and the Chinese rebels who were ambushed snatched the cannon.

The infantry who pursued were attacked by the Chinese ambushing in the woods and had to form a phalanx to defend themselves.

But those Chinese rebels not only knew how to use cannons, but also shot quite accurately, blasting away the formation of the Dutch infantry, and using some horses to attack... Among the rebels, besides the Chinese, there were also some former Bugis slaves who could ride horses .

Valknir replayed the entire ambush in his mind, further confirming his judgment.Among this group of Chinese rebels, there are some well-trained mercenaries.

We must know that Sinhala has been fighting with Westerners since the Portuguese era. After fighting for 200 years, the artillery is still not good.

Whether you are well-trained does not depend on whether you can shoot, but whether you can line up and shoot at each other, and whether you can aim the cannon accurately.

The Chinese do not have the right to perform military service in Batavia. These rebellious Chinese not only use guns, but also cannons, and even use rivers to separate the infantry from the artillery. This is by no means a simple group of rebels By.

The Bugis are one of the few people in Southeast Asia who know how to play cavalry. The sugar factories in Batavia also have a lot of horses. Many Bugis were captured as slaves in nearby sugar factories or spice plantations after failing to fight the Dutch. For those who work, it is not surprising that some of the rebels can ride horses.

But these people not only know how to use cannons, but also use cannons to blast out the formation and pursue cavalry?This is very abnormal.

Just like the uprising in the northern Tian Dynasty and the late Ming Dynasty, it was able to fight because there were many veterans of the Northwest Frontier Army, and these people were the core strength.

And this "rebellion" obviously has some core forces in it, and these core forces are definitely high-quality mercenaries who have received professional military training.

With the arrival of Emperor Dashun's special envoy to Batavia this time, Dashun's last suspicion was eliminated.

Judging from the soldiers guarding the emperor's special envoy, Dashun's soldiers were trained at a very high level, definitely not inferior to any army in Europe.

With such an army and such a short delivery distance, there is no need for Dashun to support the rebel army, and it is even less likely that he will choose to pay and agree to allow the Netherlands to move the Chinese to farther places, where Dashun's military power should not be able to deliver Go to Ceylon.

Several soldiers who had escaped also reported to Valknir a piece of news that in his opinion was "as expected".

"Your Excellency, in fact, we heard their flutes. The tune is very familiar, very similar to... [March of Prince Freelance], of course, it may also be [March of the Grenadiers], we are not sure .”

The Prince of Vrieslands March is, of course, the military music of the Netherlands.The problem is that it is impossible for the Netherlands to support the rebels who have been targeting the Netherlands.

And if it wasn't Prince Freelance's marching song, it could only be the British grenadier song, and the two sides humming together are basically indistinguishable.

The musket used by Dashun, Valknir can be sure that it is of French origin, and it is different from Brown Beth at a glance.

The Sinhalese on the Ceylon side also have brown bess, which was captured by the Dutch, so they can recognize it at a glance.

The muskets are British, and even the military music is British. Valknier cursed a few British bastards in hatred, knowing that the last thing he wanted to see had happened.

Things, may have gotten out of hand.

Counting on the deployment of troops from the Netherlands, even if the news is sent now, it will take at least January next year to send the news to the company headquarters in order to avoid the hurricane period in the Indian Ocean.

At least two years have passed since the company headquarters sent troops again.This is simply unbearable.

For the current plan, we can only quickly solve the problem of Chinese in Java, making this group of Chinese rebels a rootless tree, unable to continue to absorb Chinese.

By the way, Chinese soldiers will be armed in Ceylon, and Dutch soldiers in Ceylon will be mobilized to Java to strengthen their forces for encirclement and suppression.

But in any case, it is impossible to immediately mobilize all Batavia's troops to encircle and suppress the Chinese rebels, because the special envoy of the Chinese emperor and his [-] well-trained infantry are still in Batavia.Can't we mobilize all Batavia's forces to go out to encircle and suppress the city, but let the Imperial Guards of the Chinese Emperor take over Batavia?
Valknir couldn't help rubbing his swollen and painful temples, thinking that the situation had gotten out of control.Sure enough, this group of people moved in the direction they were most worried about—breaking the village society, killing the president, liberating the serfs, and abolishing the compulsory planting law.

Even if the soldiers encircle and suppress, relying on the volcanoes in the south, it will take at least another 20 years.The company has just started to improve, and the Brian'an system, which is gradually making profits, is about to end!
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On the top of the towering Gede Volcano, under the rare cool climate in the equatorial region, Zhang Sanbiao sat on a volcanic rock, humming the song "Snow Lotus" that was sung by the army before.

In fact, the original tune is Edelweiss, which was hummed when they passed the Altai Mountains. Most of the old people who are not from the Qingzhou Army don’t know this song, but the veterans who fought in the Western Regions will ask their brothers when they hear it. Which company were you in?
Gerd doesn't have snowdrops, but there are edelweiss, such as the one under his feet at this time.

But Zhang Sanbiao really doesn't know what edelweiss is, but when he pacified the Western Regions, he really saw the snow lotus in the Altai Mountains.

On the top of the mountain, several military officers with technical backgrounds are measuring the height with a tablet, and some officers are digging the edelweiss flowers on the top of Gede Mountain, preparing to dry them and give Liu Yu a gift, or draw the appearance of these things with a pen, and describe them growth environment.

Naval officers all know that Liu Yu likes this kind of weird things, and they will pay more attention to what they like. It is also very easy to distinguish whether these technical officers are from the Army Department or a symbol of the Navy Department.

On the top of the mountain where you can almost touch the clouds with your hands, Niu Er, who is now convinced by everyone and recommended as the leader of the uprising, is looking at the sea to the south of the volcano in high spirits.

The hot wind blowing from the sea was cold at such a high altitude. The climate here made these officers who were not used to the climate of Batavia find a sense of wind blowing in Weihai.

A beautiful ambush, the rebel army now has more than 200 guns, and a small-caliber cannon. Although the guns are still too few, at least it gives him the confidence to gain a foothold here.

Yesterday, several villages under the volcano were wiped out, and with the skills of the group of people at the founding of Dashun, they even seized, killed and divided things, and the naval officers from Weihai, such as Niu Er, had to sigh...【Thank you so much Changes brought about by the Dutch].

Before the Dutch came, the villages here were still primitive villages, with public land, small country, few people, old and dead, and no differentiation of private ownership.

The Dutch came, bringing currency, exchange, the Roman-Dutch legal system, private ownership, and the disintegration of primitive villages and class divisions.

Therefore, the means of "equalizing the land and exempting taxes" and "walking the way for the sky" that could be played in Dashun 2000 years ago can finally be used here.

Otherwise, it's really useless.

The original village community did not need this set of things at all. Fortunately, the Dutch led to the disintegration of the original village community, resulting in class divisions, and the Roman law of private ownership gradually replaced the local customary law. Opportunities for the presidents to bully men and women, force planting, and receive dividends.

The Dutch do not want to reform, but only want to use the original system similar to the original Russian village community to collude with the upper class and grab profits.

But the upper class knew the benefits of wealth, silver coins, transactions, private ownership of land, and inheritance of descendants. Decades and hundreds of years ago, the original system of public land in the village community was destroyed, and they began to hoard their own private land, lend money, and force villagers to work. .

When we were in Weihai, we talked about these things.Although it's just a taste, these things are deeply imprinted in their minds. Subconsciously, they already believe that the world works like this.

For a moment, Niu Er felt that he could understand why Lao Dan thought the era of "small country with few people" was so beautiful. It must be that Lao Dan witnessed the disintegration of the village community in that era.

This moment is exactly like that moment, only 2000 years later.

Putting down the binoculars, I stopped looking at the sea to the south, thinking that if I had turned east, there would be no way out.

Although there are many Chinese in the eastern coastal area, as long as the imperial navy does not end, the place with the most Chinese is the most suitable place for the Dutch to deploy troops and suppress.It couldn't hold up there.

Even if it fails and retreats to the mountains, it will not last long in the east without the Dutch dismantling the old villages.

At most, the tenth tax is mixed, and the locals will not support outsiders like them. Of course, they may not object to it. Whoever comes is tenth tax, and the difference is not big.Surabadi headed east back then, and finally became king, so what?Or a dead end.

If you really want to do great things, you can only stay here, which is closer to Batavia and where the old system was dismantled by the Netherlands.

My husband was born between heaven and earth, so I have to do some great things. In the future, when the imperial court goes to Nanyang, once the war breaks out, before the imperial army arrives, I will take Batavia down by myself!

Looking up at the clouds in the sky that are close at hand, I am full of pride in my heart.

(End of this chapter)