1635 Han style rises again

Chapter 631 The expansion of the situation
June 1649, 6, Hanzhou, Jianye City, Qi Palace.

After Qi Dajiang briefly introduced the battle process of the previous few months, he sat on the chair, watched his nose and nose, and waited quietly for Qi Tian to send a message.

Although the two are brothers, as Qi Tian has been in power for a long time and his power has become stronger, Qi Dajiang has naturally treated him as his own king more often.

After the battle of Timor Island came to an end, the next step is to take advantage of the rise of the southeast monsoon, Qi will start to organize a large number of ships to go to Ming Dynasty to collect immigrants and continue to enrich the domestic population.In addition, he needs the staff to make detailed planning and strategic guidance for the next phase of the war strategy against the Netherlands.

"The Dutch sent a peace negotiating representative a while ago, ready to negotiate with us on a temporary truce." Qi Tian was silent for a while, and then said softly: "However, more than ten days ago, they learned that we carried out a massacre in Kupang After that, they were very angry. For this reason, they broke off the negotiations and returned to Batavia. They also declared that they would retaliate against each other."

"I didn't massacre the city in Kupang." Qi Dajiang shook his head and said: "We beheaded more than 200 officials and soldiers of the East India Company, but it was to avenge the Han people who died unjustly. The Dutch there, at the end of March , in the name of guarding against our Qi spies, slaughtered all the Han people in the city, including women, children and children."

"It's okay to kill people, but there must be some cover up." Qi Tian said: "After all, they have surrendered the city and stopped resisting. If you can hold a trial meeting to convict these people who deserve to be killed in public, I am afraid that in the future It looks better on the surface."

"...Chen, it was negligence this time." Qi Dajiang bowed his head and said.

"Forget it!" Qi Tian reassured: "In this era, the weak prey on the strong, the strong take all, and the weak don't suffer. The Dutch people are cruel and wanted to slaughter our Han people. We should teach them a lesson."

I still remember the Red Creek Massacre in Batavia on October 1740, 10. The massacre lasted for 9 days. Nearly 7 Chinese were killed in the city, and only 150 escaped by chance. Six or seven hundred rooms, the property loss is beyond estimation.

However, the Manchu Qing Dynasty, which was in the "prosperous age of Kangxi and Qianlong" at that time, believed that the overseas Chinese were "sinners of the imperial court, not as worthless as worthless, and suffered such a catastrophe. The crime was their own responsibility and had nothing to do with the imperial court." In the end, they did not commit atrocities against the Dutch colonists. Condemn and hold accountable.In this way, the Dutch colonists who were a little terrified afterwards felt relieved and called luck (the Dutch colonists had arrested Governor Valgenier in response to the Qing Dynasty's blame and revenge, and then he died in prison not long afterward).

"Your Majesty, will the Dutch retaliate against the Han people in Batavia?" Qi Dajiang asked with some concern: "You need to know that over the past few decades, at least four to five thousand Han people have gathered there. To the Dutch tortured and killed."

"If they dare to massacre the Han people, then the goal of this war will be completely changed." Qi Tian said coldly: "It will be endless, and it will enter an all-out war. They are a colonial company and have the ability to bear the consequences ?"

"Then what should we do next?" Qi Dajiang asked.

"Your navy fought very well in the early stage, and the results achieved exceeded all of our expectations." Qi Tian said: "The staff estimates that the Dutch will not be able to mobilize armed merchant ships and form another mobile fleet until at least July and August. The fleet fought against our country of Qi. However, we did not expect that after two battles and annihilating more than [-] warships of the Dutch, they would be able to easily surrender. In addition to the Kupang incident, under the raging public opinion, they may still Will continue to fight us."

"However, the annual immigration work is the most urgent matter for our country, and it cannot be delayed. Therefore, the staff decided to leave eight professional warships and two battleships to form a raiding fleet to rob and kill the merchant ships of the Dutch East India Company. Hit their trade lanes and keep bleeding them."

"Based on destroying the business channels of the Dutch and weakening their economic strength as they did ten years ago?"

"No, the staff plan is more radical than it was ten years ago." Qi Tian showed a strange look on his face, "We plan to send the raiding fleet directly to the Strait of Malacca to cut off their East Indies, India, and Europe. connect."
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During this period, if you want to talk about which country is the richest, no country dares to boast of being rich and prosperous when the Dutch are silent.In the first half of the 17th century, relying on strong commercial capital, a huge merchant fleet and chartered trading companies, it almost monopolized the world's trade and captured vast overseas colonies. The Netherlands became the most powerful country at that time.

It is extremely inappropriate for some people to simply attribute the mysterious enrichment of the Netherlands to piracy.When Spain ruled the sea, the pirates who were active in the Caribbean to rob its merchant ships included not only the Dutch, but also the English and French.If these two morally defiant nations have not been able to take a chance in this dirty business, why should we think the Dutch can?
The inter-provincial republics, whose growth in power was entirely based on the sea, made full use of the favorable factors formed by the vast maritime system and trading genius of the Dutch nation.

In fact, the Dutch are not only shrewd but also cost-conscious, and everything they do is oriented towards clear interests.They almost took over the main trading cities of Spain, and their colonies and business stations spread all over the oceans to the east, India, Malacca, Ceylon, Java, the Spice Islands, the west coast of Africa, and the northeast of Brazil.

And the colonial layout (or commercial layout) that made all this is just two Dutch joint-stock companies, the West India Company and the East India Company.

However, compared with the West India Company, which has a stronger military organization, the East India Company, a society that is jointly expanded by businessmen, adventurers and the government, has the same nature as a government, establishing colonies, forming an army, and establishing local governments. , mint currency, get permission to sign treaties with foreign nations, and declare war on other nations and local powers.

After the "Kubang Massacre" made by Hanzhou spread to Batavia, it immediately caused a great shock in the East India Company. It is said that as many as 230 employees and soldiers of the East India Company surrendered and were killed by Hanzhou. brutal killing of people.This barbaric act completely destroyed the hopes of some pacifists who planned to make peace with Hanzhou.

You know, in 1623, in the Ambon massacre created by the Dutch, only ten Englishmen, ten Japanese and one Portuguese were executed. Grudge.

Although only a small number of the more than 230 employees and soldiers of the East India Company killed by the Hanzhou people were nationals of the United Provinces, they still aroused the anger of the Batavian colonial government.I originally thought that Hanzhou was a civilized country, following the minimum principles of war, and treating defeated and surrendered colonial officials and soldiers with the most basic humanitarian treatment.But they committed massacres that only occur in barbaric countries, which is too unacceptable.

"So, Major General Coppet, I authorize you to conscript and transfer all ships that can fight, and once again form a special attack fleet. We also need to recruit more volunteers to join our army. We will launch an attack on the mainland of Hanzhou Attack, let them pay the heaviest price for the Kupang massacre!" Governor of Batavia Cornelis Van der Lin looked seriously at Navy Commander Rear Admiral Gris Kopet.

"Obey, Governor!" Major General Gris Kopet solemnly promised: "I will reorganize a fleet in the shortest possible time. I will personally lead this fleet to attack the mainland of Hanzhou and defeat them. their defenses, captured their towns, captured their citizens, and seized all their wealth. Get some justice for those people in Kupang who were brutally murdered by Hanzhou.”

"Very good." Governor Delin nodded and said: "It is reported that Hanzhou will organize ships to go to Ming Dynasty one after another in the next month or so to carry out the annual immigration work. I believe that at that time, they were in this area, Even in the mainland of Hanzhou, the number of warships deployed will decrease sharply. This is our chance, a chance to avenge the innocent people who died."

"Master Governor, do we need to implement some retaliatory measures against the Chinese in Batavia City?" Batavia Mayor Sylvie Highmore hesitated for a moment before asking.

"...Not for the time being." Governor Delin thought for a while, shook his head and said: "Although these Chinese are of the same origin and race as the Hanzhou people, they are not citizens under the jurisdiction of Hanzhou after all. As gentlemen in the civilized world, we, Hatred should not be allowed to occupy our hearts."

Hearing this, Sylvie Highmore couldn't help but breathe a sigh of relief. If he really carried out revenge against the Chinese in the city, although he would get a psychological thrill of revenge, economically, the gains would outweigh the losses.The entire Batavia, whether it is commercial trade, or the maintenance of the plantation economy, and the supply of agricultural products, is inseparable from those shrewd and hardworking Chinese.

(End of this chapter)