The Qing Dynasty is about to end

Chapter 581 You want to massacre the Chinese, but we only want a Javanese paradise! (Seeking monthly votes at the beginning of the month)

On the night five days after the conspiracy between the Governor-General of the Dutch East Indies, Pahud, and the Governor-General of the British Straits Settlements, Brandel, the meeting hall of the True Covenant Cathedral in Singapore was illuminated by six whale oil lamps as bright as day.

The gilded statue of Hong Xiuquan stood in the center of the shrine in the meeting hall, holding the "True Covenant" in his left hand and the scabbard in his right hand was empty - the Heavenly King Sword was now held in the palm of Archbishop Wei Jun.

This Heavenly King Sword symbolizes the power of conquest held by the Archbishop. It can only be drawn out by the Archbishop in public when the parish or believers are facing a catastrophe!
Drawing out the Heavenly King Sword means that the True Covenant Faction is about to start a war!
Wei Jun had been waiting for this day for two full years - without the order from the True Covenant headquarters, he had no right to take the initiative to draw his sword and start a war.

But if someone takes the initiative to go to war with the True Covenant Archdiocese of Nanyang, haha, that would be exactly what we want!
Liu Lichuan, the True Jesuit Archbishop of Java who came from Java, spread out a map of the South Seas on the long table. The Java Island outlined in red was eye-catching!

The leader of the Xiaodaohui, who launched an uprising in Shanghai and became famous as "Luo Xueyan", was sent to Java Island as a bishop two years ago. Although he and Wei Jun were not from the same faction - he was from the Tiandihui in Guangdong, and was considered to be in the same faction as Su Sanniang and Luo Dagang. Although Su Sanniang followed Luo Yaoguo's advice and asked Liu Lichuan to be patient, he was more anxious to launch an uprising in Nanyang than Wei Jun.

Their brothers in the Tiandihui had fought against the foreigners in Southeast Asia for more than a hundred years, and had also been suppressed for more than a hundred years! In the Hongxi Massacre more than 110 years ago, almost all those who were massacred were brothers and sisters of the Tiandihui!

The Chinese on the island of Java were so scared of being killed after the Red River Massacre that they not only saw the Dutch foreigners being submissive, but also the poor and lazy natives could bully the Chinese and the brothers of the Tiandihui at will.

Faced with such a situation, the Tiandihui was of course helpless - the only means the Tiandihui could use were to draw lots for death and to start group fights. However, drawing lots for death and assassination had limited effects, and group fights were not effective because there were too few Chinese people on Java Island, and because each branch of the Tiandihui was independent and could not muster many people.

This situation of Chinese being bullied and not daring to resist was not improved until the True Jesuits built a church on Java. However, compared with Borneo and Malaya where the True Jesuits were strong, the True Jesuits and Chinese on Java were still at a disadvantage. The reason why the True Jesuits were always at a disadvantage on Java was that, in addition to the fact that the Chinese were not in a dominant position in terms of numbers, the Dutch on Java had always supported the indigenous people to suppress the Chinese.

The most aggressive Chinese group, the True Yue Sect, was guarded against strictly for fear that they might launch an uprising on the island of Java and create a "second Taiping Heavenly Kingdom".

During this period, as the power of the True Yue faction on Java Island continued to expand, it seemed that it had broken through the Dutch red line. The collusion between the Dutch and the Javanese natives became closer and closer, and the rumors of the "Second Red River" became more and more intense.
So two days ago, Liu Lichuan brought his two most important bishops, Bishop Li Yuqi of Surabaya and Bishop Xi Jiuqian of Semarang, and secretly arrived in Singapore on a cargo ship of the Nanyang Company - arriving in Singapore at the same time as Pahud!

In addition to Liu Lichuan, Li Yuqi and Xi Jiuqian who came from Java Island, the former Beidian general, Zhang Zipeng, now the captain of the guard of the Archbishop of Nanyang, as well as Wei Changhui's trusted military advisor, Liu Shaoting, the general manager of the Nanyang Trading Company, and the Lan Fang general manager and commander of the Lan Fang Army, these three generals of the Nanyang Archbishopric who commanded elite troops and gunboats, also arrived at the conference hall of the cathedral tonight, waiting anxiously for Wei Jun to give the order to start a war.

"Bring it up!" Wei Jun's Hakka Mandarin pierced the silence, with irrepressible joy in his voice.

The door of the conference room creaked open, and two guards escorted a pale-faced European. The man's suit and bow tie were askew, and the gold pocket watch chain on his chest was still dangling - Thomas Clemens, the second secretary of the Governor's Office of the Straits Settlements, was kidnapped by a real Yorkist spy in a brothel in Chinatown this evening. A piece of his gold-rimmed glasses was broken, and the bruise on his right cheek was oozing blood. It was obvious that he had been reasoned with in a friendly manner.

Zhang Zipeng pulled out his revolver and pointed it at Clemens' head: "Speak!"

Clemens's throat rolled: "According to the verbal agreement reached between the Governor-General of the Dutch East Indies, Pahud, and the Governor-General of the Straits Settlements, Brandel, after June 10, the Straits Fleet will block the route from Singapore and East Marathon to Java Island in the name of anti-piracy, and the natives of Java Island will enter the Chinese settlements in Semarang, Surabaya and Batavia after June 10."

Xi Jiuqian, a former Tiandihui leader from Nanyang and now the Bishop of Semarang, suddenly stood up and grabbed a tea bowl and threw it at Batavia on the map: "What a 'entry'! The butcher's knife on the Red River in 1740 will be used to cut down the women and children in Semarang this time, right?"

"Arch Bishop," Luo Xinhua looked at Wei Jun, "This white-skinned ghost is the witness. We can take action now. Let's strike first and gain the upper hand over them!"

When Clemens, who was standing by, heard the word "witness", cold sweat broke out on his body. He had fallen into a wolf's den this time and might even have to go to Tianjing to meet the devil!
"It's time to start!" Wei Jun waved his hand and ordered Clemens to be taken out and kept in prison. The blade of the Heavenly King Sword in his other hand swept through Surabaya and Semarang, and finally nailed him in Batavia. His voice suddenly rose, and his Hakka accent was full of murderous intent: "The Dutch and Javanese natives want to give us a righteous cause, so we gladly accepted it - this time, they want to massacre the Chinese, and we want to establish a Javanese paradise. Come on, pass the order!"

Four secretaries of the True Covenant faction had been waiting outside the door. When they heard Wei Jun's call, they immediately rushed in with their brushes and special "token books".

Wei Jun took out three archbishop tokens engraved with coiled dragons: "The three dioceses of Batavia, Semarang and Surabaya will enter a wartime state from now on. The red flag will be raised in front of the cathedral. Believers from all over Java Island will immediately gather in the Chinese districts of Batavia, Semarang and Surabaya. The Chinese districts in the three places will build barricades, form militias, deploy nitrate grenades, and prepare for war with all their strength!" "Understood!"

Liu Lichuan, Li Yuqi and Xi Jiuqian took the tokens and trembled with excitement.

"Zipeng, Shaoting!" Wei Jun called out the names of two more people. "Last time, when the Army Department sent picric acid shells to King Shi Yi, they also secretly sent us a portion." He handed a gold-plated token to Zhang Zipeng, "Zipeng, take out this batch of shells and give them to Shaoting! Shaoting, these shells are all used by 32-pound smoothbore cannons, and your steam-armed merchant ship can use them just right."

"Order!"

Zhang Zipeng and Liu Shaoting also took the token.

"Xinhua!" Wei Jun finally turned his gaze to Luo Xinhua, "Are the brothers of the Lan Fang Army ready?"

"Archbishop," Luo Xinhua said with a fist, "The two thousand brothers of the Lan Fang Army are ready to board the ship and go to war at any time!"

"Okay! We'll set off in five days." Wei Jun's eyes flashed with a fiery light, and his gaze swept over the high-level leaders of the Nanyang Zhenyue sect in the conference hall. "The Java Kingdom will be established by us!"

On the rooftop terrace of the Raffles Hotel in Singapore, Sir John Bonham was smoking a cigar. When Moore pushed open the carved iron door, he heard Bai Siwen talking to Bonham in English: "It seems that the Dutch devils are coming to Hongxi River for the second time. Sir John Bonham, let's make a bet. Who do you think will win this time?"

"Of course I'm a true Contractor. I bet a hundred pounds that Java is going to change!" Bonham flicked off his cigarette ash and looked back at Moore and Friedrich who had just returned - they went to investigate the industrial and commercial situation in Singapore. "Moore, Friedrich, if you want to witness history - or, in other words, a carefully planned riot - there is a ship called the 'Royal Albatross' heading for Batavia tomorrow."

Friedrich was a little curious: "As the Queen's envoy, you seem to be looking forward to this conflict?"

"Looking forward to it?" Wen Xian laughed. "Have you forgotten why Prince Albert sent us to the East? Those Western gentlemen need to see evidence that can prove the Yellow Peril, although the fire in Sevastopol has already proved everything!"

Moore nodded. "An uprising in the East. I would also like to see what color flag they are flying?"

Bai Siwen said: "Their flag is red, I saw it with my own eyes"

The tricolor flag of the Dutch East India Company drooped in the hot wind. Several Chinese sampans were moored at the dock. Tax collectors in blue shirts were using bayonets to cut open rice bags, and white rice mixed with saltpeter was scattered all over the ground. The Dutch masters, native mercenaries and Chinese merchants transporting saltpeter were fighting with each other at the dock, and the situation became chaotic.

Standing on the deck of the Royal Albatross, Moore turned his gaze to the Chinese community in the distance which had already begun preparing for war.

A Zhen Yue church in the style of a Chinese temple came into his sight. A Zhen Yue red flag was flying above the church. Dozens of Zhen Yue priests were piling sandbags at the church entrance to build fortifications. On the pillars of the Western-style Nanyang Trading Company building, the company's employees painted slogans such as "Equally Divide the Land" and "Unite Native and Hakka Workers" with red paint. On the white wall of a Zhen Yue school, slogans such as "Long Live the Javanese Kingdom Where Everyone Has Food and Clothes" and "Down with Feudal Colonial Oppression" were painted.
"This is really not the Paris of 1848," Friedrich took out his pocket watch, on the cover of which was engraved the date of the 1848 Revolution, "but their style is really similar to that of the European revolutionaries."

Moore smiled and said, “This shows that the principles of revolution in the East and the West are exactly the same.”

He took out a notebook and pen and wrote down the following words: "When the production method cannot meet the distribution demand, violence becomes the final currency. This is the same everywhere!"

(End of this chapter)