Xinshun 1730

Chapter 372 It is a habit to pretend that the outside world does not exist
The simple Li Yan still can't understand the darkness of the game.

Dashun wants Nanyang, Batavia, Banda, and Ceylon, all of which need Chinese.Occupation without population is meaningless.

Dashun immigrated by himself, not to mention spending money, the mortality rate in the tropics is 50.00%, and there are cries of forced immigrants to Taiwan. The ballad of urging Junmo to go to Taiwan is sung all over southern Fujian, how about Nanyang?
The people can be forced to go to Nanyang "actively and freely" until they can't survive, but the official immigration can only be an auxiliary, and the UK has done a good job in this regard.

With Dashun's tragic grassroots control and bureaucratic inertia, large-scale official actions will inevitably become a disaster.

Just as Mantou worried, the UK can control newspapers and public opinion to that extent, whether it is grass-roots control or administrative means, Dashun is far behind.Administration is itself a science.

The population that the Dashun court can really control is actually only a few million, and the rest is actually out of control and control.

Of course, it is impossible to allow the Dutch to send back all the Chinese in Batavia at this time.

The immigrants who started in the Ming Dynasty were packed and sent back, not to mention that they had nothing to do when they came back and had to rebel, and Dashun didn’t have official land for them... Even if the accumulation of Nanyang population for hundreds of years was destroyed, Absolutely impossible to accept.

Let the Dutch spend money to send people to Ceylon and Banda, forced immigration these days, or in the tropics, at least one-third of them must die.

Liu Yu knew this, and Qi Guogong also knew it, but Li Yan didn't understand it at all. The young man thought that immigration should be sent there.

If they are sent to Ceylon and Ambon, the hatred will be carried by the Netherlands, and the immigrants' money will be spent by the Netherlands.

This is a win-win situation for Dashun and the Netherlands.

Dashun is winning.

The Netherlands is the lesser of two evils to win.

Netherlands should be acceptable.

Putting aside all kinds of fog, it can be very clear to understand Batavia's affairs purely from the perspective of capitalism.

The Dutch East India Company was, first and foremost, a company.

The purpose of the company is to make profits, and the first goal is to give back to shareholders. This can also understand why the Netherlands does not allow non-corporate Dutch people to trade freely in Batavia, the Netherlands, and the Netherlands does not welcome non-corporate Dutch people in the Netherlands. Settlement of Batavia in the Netherlands.

The plight of the Chinese in Batavia also stems from this.

At the beginning, the sugar industry was very profitable, so the board of directors of the company decided to vigorously expand the sugar industry. There were indeed subsidies and loan support. 90.00% of the sugar industry was also run by Chinese.

Javanese locals...not to mention whether they have the technology to grow sugar cane, the village community has not yet been disintegrated, and they still have land. In a tropical environment where they will not starve to death after a little work, who would cut sugar cane if there is less money?
The Chinese want less money, and there is no land here in Nanyang. The technology is good, the wages are low, and the efficiency is high. Naturally, they should hire Chinese as much as possible.

The Dutch know that the Chinese plantation owners are secretly buying and selling Chinese slave labor, but they pretend not to know, and cooperate with the Chinese plantation owners to lower wages: either they accept the low wages of the indentured slaves, or the senior Chinese report that the Chinese slave workers do not have a residence permit. Sentenced to hard labor for the Dutch without accepting the minimum wage.

The board of directors was not smart enough to make a wrong judgment, which led to the expansion of the sugar industry too much.

However, until now, Europe, the original largest customer, has eaten Caribbean sugar; the second largest customer, Safi Persia, has exploded; and the third largest customer, Japan, has locked down the country.

The result is predictable.

The board of directors made a wrong judgment on over-expansion and did not deploy the transformation in advance, but the consequences of this cannot be borne by the board of directors, but must be passed on to the employees.

The first choice is naturally to fire workers.

If it is a place with a diversified and prosperous economy, after dismissal, the hired workers can either be peddlers or find other jobs to make a living, and the society can still maintain stability.

But if the pillar industry in the entire region suddenly collapses, after the dismissal, the hired workers will not have a penny, and they will not be able to find other jobs. Naturally, there are only two choices.

Or, be An An and starve to death obediently.

Or, join the Chinese Wushan Party in Batavia, eat his mother, drink his mother, beat his chin and claim to be king, and have a good time.

In fact, the East India Company also had two options.

Or, before the employees were hired, they contributed a lot to the company, and after they were fired, they were paid a sum of money to ensure that they would not starve to death, and then slowly transformed.

Or, kill.If you die, don't you need to eat?
The choice of the East India Company determines the choice of the local Chinese, not the other way around.

However, as Dashun began to gradually change, the emergence of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs gave the Dutch East India Company another choice.

Throw these hired workers back to Dashun: I will take the profits, and you will take care of the relief.

As far as the Dashun court is concerned, the Dutch's move against the general is still lethal.

First tell Dashun: I want to repatriate.

Dashun agreed, and they packed it up and threw it to Dashun. The local area completed the reduction and transformation of the sugar industry, and threw these Chinese who had escaped from eight mountains, one water and one field back to Fujian, which had already been saturated with population.

Dashun disagreed, and when the massacre happened, Dashun would have to bear the blame for "disregarding the people".

But when Liu Yu arrived in Tianjin with a battleship and four cruisers, things had another answer.

Killing, this option, under the muzzle of the battleship Dashun, can already be excluded by the East India Company.

The warship went to Batavia to express its consolation. The Chinese who were originally scattered in the sand would definitely know who they were "not" within the range of the gunboat.

Then they can only pinch their noses, spend a little money, and arrange for these hired workers to go to Ceylon and Ambon for "re-employment".

The game here is too dark, involving the lives and deaths of tens of thousands of people, so there is no need to explain it clearly to Li Yan.

But from the perspective of the whole matter, Liu Yu still used the perspective of a capitalist company to talk about it. The reason why he didn't talk about it purely from the perspective of a nation is because there is one problem that cannot be avoided.

Dashun won Nanyang, but still could not reverse the fact that there was a surplus of sucrose, and the Chinese hired workers still demanded to work.It's not that once Dashun occupies Batavia, those Chinese hired workers will be able to live a good life.

On the contrary, once the status of the transit port disappears, not only the sugar industry will end, but the rest of Batavia's people who rely on the transit trade for a living will also have a hard time.

Now the sugar industry in Batavia is a mine that is about to explode. Is it in the hands of the Dutch?Or is it fried in Dashun's hands?
In the hands of Dashun, the ending is that the middle and upper class of the local Chinese all miss the Dutch rule.

Fried in the hands of the Netherlands, the end result is that the local Chinese, the upper, middle and lower classes, will eat the pot of pulp to welcome the teacher of the emperor.

The difference here is huge.

Li Yan can understand these things, and it is the angle that Liu Yu wants Li Yan to see things.

The only thing not mentioned is that if the Dutch emigrate to Ceylon and Ambon, at the current death rate, at least 8000 people will die, which is still very conservative.

Just a few words can determine the life and death of nearly ten thousand compatriots. After all, it is a bit too dark. It is better to pretend that immigration has nothing to do with life or death.

Qi Guogong is also an old man. Seeing that Liu Yu avoided talking about moving to Ceylon and Ambon, people would definitely die.

At this time, Li Yan was thinking about this matter from the perspective of Liu Yu's interpretation, but murmured: "Everyone seeks benefits and avoids disadvantages, so they enshrined the Marquis Mansion and shaved their hair on the list, but the people of the Nanyang Celestial Dynasty today may not Yixin, but also to use such means... hey."

"It is based on the Song Confucian saying: benefit and righteousness. Whether a benevolent government is benevolent or not is manifested by whether the people benefit. Benefits are actually the externalization of benevolence and righteousness. Where does the benefit of the people of Nanyang lie?"

Liu Yu said with a smile: "Seventh Prince, as long as the navy can force Persia and India to buy Nanyang sugar in the future, it will be a benevolent government for the people of Nanyang. The so-called benevolence within and bully outside."

This completely distorts the meaning of inside and outside.The inner sage and the outer king mean that the heart is holy and the behavior is king, but it can be misinterpreted by Liu Yu as benevolence to the people of the country and domineering to foreigners.

Although Qi Guogong is not a great Confucianist, he also understands that Liu Yu is misinterpreting internal and external meanings, he can't help but smile, thinking that your kid can really sing crooked scriptures.

In this matter, he also supported Liu Yu's idea. He neither wanted the Dutch to massacre the local Chinese, nor did he want the Dutch to really send these people back to Fujian.

It's just that there are still doubts about Liu Yu's idea of ​​"comforting and intimidating".

"Seventh Prince, Shouchang, I think this matter is urgent and should not be delayed. If the Dutch say to repatriate Fujian, we will directly refuse, and when they spread the word in Nanyang, it will chill the hearts of the local Chinese people. The consolation is false, and the publicity is false. Consolation is the condition, and it is true to sit on the ground and raise the price. I am afraid that the Dutch will be aware of our intention to conquer the Japanese, and know that our dynasty cannot go to war with the two countries on the same day, so that the Netherlands will take the lead in negotiating."

Liu Yu said with a smile: "The country is on a business trip. The key to this matter is that the Dutch are a company, and they don't want to be killed. Their fundamental interest is Nanyang. "

"The Dutch have been trading in China for a long time. At the beginning of the change in this dynasty, they still think that the policy of this dynasty is still the previous policy."

"If you know it and don't care about it, you are being unkind; if you pretend you don't know, you are not being unkind."

"It's not unkind, it's not benevolent, but at least it's not unkind."

"Once we do go and say it, there's no chance of 'we pretend we don't know'. That's what the Dutch don't want to see."

"According to their past experience, what the Celestial Dynasty wants is only face. As long as they can pretend not to know, the Celestial Dynasty will not care about external affairs."

"But if there is no chance to pretend not to know, the Celestial Dynasty will always take action for the sake of face and righteousness, even if it is a formality. The Dutch don't want to fight."

"So, the first opportunity is not in the Netherlands, but in our hands. As long as we first say that we are going to give relief and send officials to see if the local situation and rumors are true, the Dutch will have to back down."

"In their eyes, the Celestial Dynasty has always been like this. If you can pretend not to know, try to pretend you don't know. But once you can't pretend, you will always ask for an explanation."

Speaking of this, Liu Yu got up, bowed to Duke Qi and said, "It's just that if we want to do this well, we need Duke Qi to be a coward when it happened in Lu Song, and the Seventh Prince and I to be a passionate young man. "

"The Seventh Prince and I were so angry that we rushed into the negotiating office to scold the Netherlands, insisting on consolation. The Duke of Qi is so old-fashioned to seek the country, he just 'begged' the Dutch to save face and not make a fuss, pretending not to know and let them deal with it." Yes."

"The Seventh Prince and I became radicals in anger, and the Dutch did not dare to slaughter them, but it was impossible to let them continue to grow sugar cane in Batavia, so they could only choose to move to other places. Go to Ceylon Xiucheng, or go to Ann Wenzhong coffee spice."

"Qi Guogong only said that he didn't want to start a dispute thousands of miles away from Nanyang, as long as he wanted to have the face of the Celestial Dynasty, and he didn't allow the Dutch to mention the matter of repatriation to Fujian, as long as it never happened."

(End of this chapter)