Xinshun 1730

Chapter 282 Relax
Let Lian Huaiguan come forward to rent several sugar factories and sugarcane plantations, conduct some secret basic training there, and gather together some of the most rebellious backbones in Batavia.

Organization is the most important thing.The civilians who are not organized together are a mess, but the army assembled by the civilians is enough to fight ten against one in equal numbers.

In Nanyang, the court can only end by itself, and it is impossible to rely on Dashun's maritime merchants.

The difference in capital alone is eight blocks away from the Dutch East India Company. How did you manage it?And judging from the current situation, after going there, the richest people are more willing to choose to be taxpayers for the Dutch, and they have a hand in squeezing their compatriots.

Organize a group of people, and the rest can't be seen, then we can only think of other ways.

If the Dutch do it in advance, as long as they don't slaughter, these people in Lianhuaiguan Sugar Factory will have to endure it, even if the rest of them will be sent to Ceylon.

"After buying the sugar factory, if the Dutch really want to check the poll tax, I will pay the poll tax. Of course, I can't be an honest person. Ten people should pay the poll tax for three people. Otherwise, if you pay too much, you will let the The Dutch believe that the Chinese can still be squeezed, and you have paid so much for these sugar factories, if the remaining sugar factory employees pay all the money, wouldn’t they be rich?”

"I'm not familiar with Batavia, and I don't know the way of bribery and gift giving. I think you know it well."

Lian Huaiguan nodded hastily, he was very clear about Batavia's way of offering bribes and giving gifts.As long as he has money, he knows who to give it to.

Moreover, under the governor system, there is no governor who is not greedy for money.The power has a time limit and becomes invalid upon expiration. Who doesn't want to spend a sum of money back to the Netherlands?
He doesn't need to pay the money, he just acts as a middleman, so he understands his position in it.

His position is not irreplaceable, and many people can replace what he can do.

Liu Yu put on a guard of honor to deter him, led him to watch the barracks for peace of mind, and took him to the capital to give honor, but to really maintain the interests of cooperation, he decided to give Lian Huaiguan a part of Songjiang's stock.It doesn't need to be too much, but it's enough for this guy who doesn't even have Lei Zhenlan's assets in Batavia to seriously devote himself to this great cause: for his own benefit.

There is no rush for this, we will talk about it after returning from the capital.

Asking someone to take Lian Huaiguan down to rest first, Liu Yu summarized the situation in Batavia that Lian Huaiguan told.He didn't pay too much attention to too many details, but sorted out the current situation of Batavia on a macro level.

Basically, as he expected, the Dutch national power and commercial capitalist policy made the Dutch rule in Batavia precarious.

It can basically be seen together with the "cash outflow problem of the East India Company" that he judged from the change of the East India Company's policy towards Batavia.

It can be said that the success of the Amsterdam Stock Exchange and the failure of the Amsterdam Stock Exchange.

The small Netherlands is too deeply bound to securities stocks and commercial shipping. As long as Malacca is cut off and trade in Southeast Asia is hit, it will inevitably set off a huge wave that shakes the entire Netherlands in Amsterdam on the other side of the world.

The cost of relying on violence to maintain a monopoly is too high, and the high labor costs brought about by the fragile handicraft industry and finance in the Netherlands make it impossible to follow the dumping model.

Dutchman, this time it's dead.

However, in order to defeat the enemy with one blow, we must wait until the war of Austrian succession begins and France and the Netherlands declare war. Only in this way can we completely disintegrate the Dutch colonial system, which can also be regarded as a little contribution to the French "ally" who bears the heavy responsibility of bloodletting Britain. .

This time Lian Huaiguan followed him to Beijing, mainly to give the emperor a reassurance shot, telling the emperor that the Dutch are really fragile.

Maybe the emperor couldn't understand the essential logic, but Lian Huaiguan's subjective impression of Batavia was just the confidence the emperor needed.

Returning to the capital this time was not because he wanted to go back on his own initiative, but because there were many major events destined to happen in the capital this year, and the emperor ordered him to go back.

Qi Guogong's envoys came back by taking a detour to Luocha. The Kuaima report received a few days ago knew that it had caused an uproar in the capital.

This year is the first time that rice from the two prefectures of Songjiang and Suzhou has been transported by sea, which is related to the court's choice of sea and river transportation in the future.

In addition, some workshops in Songjiang have already started production, and emerging industries such as glass are all subject to additional consumption tax, which is a large amount of income. At the same time, it involves a very serious "salt tax" problem: before the salt was never They are just daily necessities. Now the soda production process in the middle of the glass industry needs to consume a lot of salt. How to calculate the tax of these salts has become a problem that must be solved.

There is also the leased land on the North Korean side; Russia will send a higher-ranking special envoy of the duke to negotiate the western border issue; there are too many silver coins in customs places such as Su Minyue and the proposal to mint silver coins... All these good or bad news , each one is telling that the celestial dynasty of Dashun is slowly opening the Kyushu barrier and beginning to integrate into the outside world.

This time Liu Yu wanted to go back, to go back in a good manner, and there were still many things to do.The matter of Lian Huai Guan is just an addition, to make the emperor's final decision.

If you want to be tougher when discussing the imperial court's policies, there will be no problems with shipping this time.

Soon, Liu Yu called Chen Qinghai and Du Feng, and assigned them new tasks.

This time the rice was transported by sea, although the Heishuiyang route was quite mature, and there were no pirates along the way, but just in case, Liu Yu decided to send a warship to escort the first sea shipment.

In addition, under his suggestion, Songjiang's new tax bank will also be transported by warships and directly dock at Dagu Port.

He wanted to make sure that nothing would go wrong, even if he had made sufficient preparations and even had a marine insurance company organized by the royal family, if something happened halfway, there would still be big problems.

In order to ensure nothing goes wrong, Songjiang has also made sufficient preparations.

A large amount of Nanyang rice has been hoarded. Anyway, this year Japan will ban the trade of private rice shipments. A large amount of Nanyang rice is hoarded in Songjiang to prevent the loss of shipping and become an excuse for the Canal faction to oppose shipping.

Those who have invested in sea-transported rice know the truth of long-flowing water, so the company has made a decision: spend a certain amount of money this year, and ship a few percent more rice to offset the possible shipping risks and ensure ten percent of the rice shipped to Beijing.

Not for anything else, just for the benefit of being able to carry one-tenth of the duty-free goods for this rice shipment.

If it is really possible to abolish the water and transform the sea, the profits of millions of water workers will be transferred to the coast of Jiangsu. For such long-term benefits, it is worthwhile to invest more this year.

When Chen Qinghai and Du Feng heard what Liu Yu said about such a task, they all showed a relaxed look on their faces.

They have traveled this route many times, and everyone loves their warship deeply, and they are not afraid of possible pirates at all.

Besides, I have never seen pirates in these years. These warships are all made of money. How can pirates have so much money?
"This time I'm going to Songjiang, the whole fleet will be dispatched together, Qinghai will be the forehand, and Du Feng will be the second officer. One is for training, and the other is to let some interested people know what to do, so don't make any mistakes."

"These caring people are both domestic and foreign. Maybe Westerners know that we are building a navy, but the French, including the French, don't know what the level of our navy is."

"So this time you all have to go to Songjiang together. It just so happens that now is the season for Western ships to come to Songjiang for trade, let them see and see."

After explaining the purpose of this voyage, Chen Qinghai wondered: "Didn't your lord always develop the navy in secret, keeping a low profile? If potential enemies find out about this, they will be on guard. If our battleship is built and launched, then It’s not too late to be so ostentatious.”

These excellent naval officers listened to Liu Yu explaining the situation in the age of great voyages and world trade all day long. Although Liu Yu never publicly said that the imperial court would attack Japan and Nanyang, those few who were close to Liu Yu, I know everything in my heart.

The navy is so expensive, if it is not for war, it is not worth raising such a navy.

Besides, how can you make meritorious deeds without fighting?How can you be promoted if you don't make meritorious deeds?

Facing Chen Qinghai's doubts, Liu Yu laughed heartily and relaxed.

It is no longer the time to hide everything when I first came to Weihai a few years ago. Now that the overall situation has been set, there is nothing that can be changed.

He knelt and licked Japan for trade before, in order to build up the navy's airs and education before the imperial court invested money, and gather a group that was beneficial to Japan's war.

The Navy is a technical service that requires investment many years in advance.By the time the imperial court decided to invest money, it had reached the final step: shipbuilding, so that those captains who were squatting on land studying mathematics could have a real warship.

Even if Japan wakes up suddenly, even if it has money, shade-dried oak, teak, and cypress cannot be created with bare hands; captains and officers who can bombard and sail cannot be grown overnight.

As for the Netherlands...not to mention whether they can perceive that this navy is directed at them, nor to mention the financial and operating difficulties that the East India Company is currently facing.

Even if their god sent a revelation to let them know everything, based on the current level of communication, this year's news will not reach Amsterdam until next year, and then it will not be transmitted back to Batavia in the third year. It is estimated that Weihai's first 74 guns will be at that time Battleships are built.

The Dutch are very good in Europe and have a strong fleet, but they can't come to Nanyang, and it's useless to have more.

Now that Liu Yu is confident, he just took advantage of this incident to interfere with what Lian Huaiguan reported: the possible exclusion of Chinese in Batavia.

To start a war against the Netherlands, you don't need to wait for a tragic reality to seek justice, nor do you have to wait until the Dutch kill people.

The initiative is in your own hands, and you can fight whenever you want.

Full of confidence.

"I used to always say that the construction of a navy is not a one-day effort. What is a navy built? Tell me, is our navy built now?"

When such a question was suddenly raised by the two confidants, the two were stunned for a while, and Liu Yu said: "A navy is not just a fleet."

"It's about Jinghai Palace's official school taking in students every year. More and more people apply for the exam, and new graduates start to flow in. There are more reserve sailors working on new-style soft-sail sailing boats."

"There are a large number of craftsmen who can build ships. If a ship is damaged, it can be repaired as long as it returns to the port. There are complete logging, sawing and dry material workshops. Looking at it now, Dashun's navy is considered to be completed, but the inventory is poor. The inventory problem , Isn’t it just money? When it’s really urgent, the court will dig out the money.”

"So now I'm more courageous, and I don't need to hide it. Because I can say that Dashun finally has a navy."

This is not the same as the "real navy" understood by Du Feng and Chen Qinghai. According to their thinking, a real navy should be a fleet that can block out the sun.

But Liu Yu thought from the very beginning that such a navy was a one-off, and it could not be regarded as a navy, but only a fleet.

Just like France, with a warship of [-] tons, one-tenth of the stock of the Anglo-Dutch fleet, it will become the second largest navy in the world within a few years.

France, the second largest navy in the world, is not at sea or in port, but in the military academy, the Academy of Sciences, Canadian timber, and the sailor registration and service system.

Weihai now has more or less a foundation, and this is the beginning of the navy in Liu Yu's eyes.

"This time I arrived in Songjiang. When returning to the voyage, Qinghai led the team back. Du Feng also went to Guangdong to escort some people there. His Majesty allocated a sum of money and allowed me to build a naval port near Guangzhou. To be able to repair ships, and build some forts. This is not your job, you just need to send people to it.”

"When you arrive in Songjiang, go to the trading company and ask them to borrow a few boats. Go to Guangdong and Fujian to recruit a group of sailors and marines. Guangdong will charge less, and Fujian will recruit more. I will also write down the specific number of people. Yes, you just do it."

Hearing this, both of them became excited.This couldn't be more obvious. It is going to attack Nanyang, so a large number of people from Guangdong and Fujian have to be recruited to serve as soldiers.

The climate in the south is too hot, and the existing navy and marines in Weihai cannot adapt to the local climate at all.Moreover, the Nanyang Chinese are mostly Fujian and Cantonese, and the language barrier is also a huge problem.

The emperor allowed Liu Yu to build a military port in the seaport near Guangzhou, which shows his interest in Nanyang.If there is a fight, the ship cannot be sent back to Weihai for repairs. It is necessary to find a nearby port that can repair the ship.

The two looked at each other, both seeing excitement in each other's eyes.It's finally time to fight.

The naval officers don't fight wars, and apart from practicing sailing, they are learning mathematics all day long. They are extremely idle, and they also make a lot of bets in private.

There are eastward factions and southward factions, and the two sides bet on each other. In the end, the first battle of the navy will be to go east to Japan, or to go south to the west, or to fight both?

Du Feng and Chen Qinghai both bet a lot of money on the bet of "fighting the Japanese country first and then going to Nanyang". Now it seems that they are obviously betting right.

If the ambition is not in Nanyang, this port should be built in Taiwan, not Guangzhou.If it wasn't for the war against the Wa country, it would be impossible to build a city in Ezo early and hang around and hoard food.

Everyone in the navy, although they bet on going east or going south, everyone in their hearts is looking forward to going to Nanyang.After all, it was the army that played the leading role in the war against Japan; and the navy could finally play the leading role in the South China Sea.The land army in Nanyang can be dealt with by the marines in Weihai; the army in Japan cannot be won by the marines.

(End of this chapter)