Xinshun 1730

Chapter 280 Forbearance is better than resistance now

"Even a strong man, you have never thought about these issues. How can you dare to follow the story of the previous dynasty? But you have the heart to protect the people. If the Dutch really do expel our Chinese people in the future, If you make meritorious deeds, I can show you the son of heaven and make you an official. It is also a beautiful thing in life to confer a wife and son. What do you think?"

"The Holy Majesty also pays more attention to the affairs of Bacheng. This time you are here, just as I am going to Beijing. I can take you with me, and I may be able to meet His Majesty in person."

This time, I took out the ceremonial guards that have been useless for a long time, just hoping that Lian Huai will watch and see, being an official in the imperial court is "how majestic" and a matter of honoring the ancestors.

Seeing the majesty of Liu Yu's guard of honor with his own eyes, and thinking about the plot of "meeting the emperor" that can only appear in drama books, Lian Huaiguan was a little dazed for a while.

Liu Yu wants to take him to see the emperor, which shows that the court attaches great importance to it, and even Huai Guan is happy.

But what did this official do?If you are a low-level official, it is really not as comfortable as being the lord of a city in the local area.

Seeing that Lian Huaiguan was still hesitating, Liu Yu felt that it was still necessary for Lian Huaiguan to think clearly that relying on their own strength was not enough to shake the rule of the Dutch.

In Lian Huaiguan's eyes, there was only Batavia, and he could only see one Batavia. There were not many Dutch people who knew Batavia.

However, it is courageous to think so, but it is dangerous to do it.

In the Hongxi tragedy in history, not to mention the failure to capture the city of Batavia, it failed halfway because the Dutch recruited local indigenous cavalry.

If you want to gain a firm foothold in Batavia, you must consider not only the Dutch, but also the local aborigines.Without a regular army of 5000 people, it is impossible to completely take over the rule of the Dutch.

The reason why he wanted to bring Lian Huaiguan into the capital was to solicit, and to deceive both sides.

One end let Lian Huaiguan concentrate on it, and the other end also told the emperor that Batavia was easy to fight, and the local people were waiting for Master Wang to eat pots of pulp.

Such a decision was made because Liu Yu believed that the attack on Batavia did not require a local Chinese leader, but only poor local hired labor.

There may or may not be a Chinese leader like Lian Huaiguan.

If it was necessary and significant, Liu Yu's attitude would have already been complimented by "Corporal Courtesy".

To solve the problem of the survival of the local Chinese, there must be reforms, and it will definitely touch the interests of the local gentry. Liu Yu didn't expect that this connection would be mixed with the local gentry.

He may indeed have conflicts with Kapitan and Lei Zhenlan, but what about Jiapitan and the local gentry other than the six Lei Zhenlans?
Of course, there are some advantages to having such a local snake.You can send people to Batavia in advance, let Lian Huaiguan get an identity, collect intelligence and train soldiers in Batavia.

But it was limited to this, Liu Yu didn't want Lian Huaiguan to intervene in more complicated things.

"Even the strong man, you are very brave, but I have to discourage you first. The Dutch are not so easy to fight. Even if you drive away the Dutch in Batavia, it will not last long."

"Since you want to do great things, you need to think about this clearly. Otherwise, I'm afraid that the local people of the Celestial Dynasty will bleed in vain, and their deaths will be meaningless."

"Without the court, you can't take down Batavia. If you really want to do something for the people of the Celestial Dynasty in Bacheng, you have to obey the orders of the court. Otherwise, it will not only be useless, but harmful."

"Let me ask you, how many people in the local area can line up to meet the enemy and shoot anti-cannons? If the Dutch warships come to attack, how will they deal with the enemy? If the Javanese are ordered by the Dutch to attack, what will happen? "

"This matter needs to be discussed in the long run. Don't rely on the courage of the moment. I know that you have a conscience, which is commendable, but if you really want to do this, you can't make up your own mind. If you make up your own mind, I'm afraid It ruined the lives of tens of thousands of people of the Celestial Dynasty in Bacheng."

First put down such a big hat, and then carefully explained the situation in Batavia to Liu Yu according to Liu Yu's macroscopic understanding.

After talking for most of the afternoon, Lian Huaiguan realized that the Batavia he saw was just a surface.The real Batavia is the collective name of the surrounding Malacca, Ambon Island, Japanese Commercial Hall, Guangdong Commercial Hall, Banciga, Semarang...etc. Now, if you have the arm, it is the entire Dutch East India Company to fight against, not a small Batavia.

The temporary perspective, which was half intimidating and half warning, made Lian Huaiguan break out in cold sweat. Liu Yu, who had already agreed with Liu Yu's statement, knew that what he had thought before was probably simple.

In Liu Yu's view, the current Batavia matter requires not courage or encouragement, but waiting and forbearance.

The inevitable development of the trade situation and the industrial structure of the Batavian Chinese all made this incident of Chinese exclusion inevitable.

However, because of Liu Yu's existence, it was impossible for the Dashun court to ignore it like a fool, and the whole matter was within a controllable range.

It would be just right if the Dutch didn't begin to reject the Chinese until after Dashun's navy was ready.

At that time, the inside should cooperate with the outside and succeed in one fell swoop.

If the Dutch start their hands when Dashun's navy is not ready...

It's not uncontrollable either.

At the very least, the imperial court could warn them that the Dutch would not dare to massacre a few warships to visit Batavia and close commercial establishments to cut off trade.

Anyway, the solution of the Dutch is basically to transport it to Ceylon and India.Because the Chinese in Batavia are very good skilled workers who grow sugar cane and squeeze sugar, they are most likely to be transported to Ceylon or India to do the same work.

Sooner or later, it will expand to India, and it needs a foothold with a certain population base.Be ruthless, relying on the Dutch to help Huaxia complete the first wave of immigration to India is not impossible.

Let the Dutch bear the burden of notoriety, and the court should not let the Dutch interfere too much. In the future, when Malacca is captured in a war against the Netherlands, they can go to Ceylon by the way. It is not a bad thing to use the local Chinese who were immigrated by the Dutch.

Hearing what Lian Huaiguan meant, the new governor of Bacheng had to check the local Chinese population and pay the head tax. This was a dangerous signal.

But the whole strategy cannot be changed. Japan’s national power is stronger than the Netherlands’ power in Southeast Asia—otherwise, the Dutch would have had gunboat diplomacy and free trade.

We must first be strong and then weak. Before Japan has time to react, we must first solve Japan, close the Netherlands' trade with Japan, create friction, and defeat the Netherlands.

This order cannot be wrong, otherwise it is likely to be noticed by Japan.

Moreover, it will take at least three years for Weihai's navy to be [-]% sure of solving the Japan and Nanyang issues.

What Liu Yu was worried about was that something happened in Nanyang during this period.

If the local Chinese resist on a large scale, the local Chinese may be massacred, and if Dashun is not prepared, then the sacrifice will be in vain.

To resist, one must take the lead.This Lian Huai Guan, judging from the fact that he was able to run to Weihai, should be a key figure in the lead.

If it were true that Batavia wanted to exclude Chinese and even massacre before Liu Yu was ready, he could only take the court's "diplomatic channel" to warn the Dutch not to engage in massacres and force the Dutch to really pay to go to Xi'an. Lan immigrants.

When it is difficult for the local Chinese to survive, he can also help some.

With 3 or [-] people, and maintaining the minimum survival, he can still support them.

The big deal is to find a middleman to rent most of the sugar cane gardens and sugar factories, and bear it here to prepare.It's only 10,000+ taels of silver, and he can still afford it if he digs out his family.

Or, before he was ready, he gave the local poll tax first.It will be taken back from the Dutch in the future.

In short, it is absolutely impossible to attack Nanyang before the Japanese issue is resolved.Even if it is to spend money on the poll tax to delay the Dutch for two years, they have to endure it.

(End of this chapter)