Xinshun 1730

Chapter 519

The person who despises Lian Huai Guan is called Huang Ban.Among the Chinese outside the city, he can be regarded as a Chao Baozheng-like character, with loyalty and means, and most Chinese have admirers.

As for Lian Huaiguan, because he also has property in the city, he looks like a black Saburo.He has business dealings with Chinese Jiapitan, Lei Zhenlan, etc., and also has a lot of contact with the Dutch. He can eat both black and white. If there is any difficulty, he will help those poor brothers.

The relationship between the two was good before, but at this time, is it now an uprising to seize power, establish itself as a king, and follow the story of Hunjianglong in the aftermath of the Water Margin?Or do you expect the imperial court to be a pawn of the imperial court, and to be a "pioneer in conquering Liao" in the future?
There was a divergence in the route, and no matter how good the previous friendship was, it was finally necessary to clarify who they were going with.

The Chinese outside the city really can't survive.

Want money?No, as long as you have money, you will not leave your hometown, believe in the words "go to Nanyang to make a living", get on the boat, and "work in a sugar factory to pay back the boat ticket" when you arrive.

If you want an identity, if the sugar factory wants to make money, it is impossible to use an official identity.Two silver coins a year, which is equivalent to paying wages, must be sent out—of course, there is no need to send them to your hands. The Jiapidan and Lei Zhenlan in the city contracted the poll tax and handed it directly to They are just fine.

Want to go to town to beg?Without a residence permit, as long as they are caught, they will be imprisoned and serve hard labor.

There is no workhouse in the Netherlands that makes life worse than death, but hard labor is almost the same.

Huang Ban is a good man, and he respects Lian Huai Guan on weekdays, thinking that he is also a man who dares to do great things.But Huang Ban really didn't expect that at this juncture, Lian Huaiguan would be discouraged and pin his hopes on the sage king and minister of the court.

This is Batavia, not Dashun after all.Even in Dashun, there are quite a few people at the bottom who scold the emperor.

Hai'erjun who was with Lian Huaiguan, or the people on the line of the Privy Council, listened to what Huang Ban said, "the surname Zhu and the surname Li are the same", but they didn't think too much. The characters in the world are talking casually, but if you really want to talk about it, in "Journey to the West" there is still a dare to pull the emperor off his horse.

They are people in the public circle, so they naturally look down on the methods of the quack, and they will not take the words of the quack people seriously.

However, no matter whether it is on the line of the Emperor's Boyer Army, the line of the Privy Council, or the line arranged by the naval staff, they all agree to start an incident at this time.

The imperial court and the Privy Council, as well as the navy, have their own considerations.

But Huang Ban and a group of brothers under his command couldn't think about it from the court's point of view.

From the point of view of the imperial court, Li Zicheng should not have rebelled back then, but obediently starved to death for the sake of the overall situation, and let the imperial court concentrate its forces to fight the Eastern Captives.

Since the founding emperor of the year did not consider the court, how could it be possible for the people to consider the overall situation?
Lian Huaiguan knew Huang Ban's temper well, so he could only apologize at this time and said with a smile: "Bang brother, if you use the aggressive method, brother, I will bear it. But if you really think that brother, I am cowardly, then we have to talk about it." Got it. Brother, you don’t know what kind of person I am, do you?”

Just now Huang Ban was both angry and provocative, knowing that there should be no split at this time, seeing that Lian Huaiguan gave him a step, he had no choice but to say: "Brother Huaiguan, let me tell you that the imperial court is unreliable. What can I do? Today's imperial court is no longer the imperial court where the Emperor Taizu equalized the land and exempted grain."

"If the imperial court really came to beat the Dutch for our Nanyang brothers, my brothers and I would come with the imperial court and be righteous men without saying a word."

"But can the court come to fight the Dutch? If not, what can the court do?"

"Besides, although you and I have some wealth, but so many brothers have nothing to eat now, how long can you and I last with this little wealth?"

"The sugar factory can't continue this year. If you sell sugar to the Dutch, you will lose money for every catty. The Dutch are very strict and can't sell it to others. The brothers are just looking for a way to survive, otherwise they will die sooner or later. "

"Even if what the Dutch say is true, and they are really sent to Ambon, Ceylon, or Cape Town, isn't that also hard labor in those places? How many years can you live if you serve the Dutch in hard labor? Damn, Qin Shihuang built the Great Wall, and Emperor Sui Yang dug canals, neither of them were so ruthless."

The Chinese in Batavia are well aware of what it means to serve the Dutch in hard labor.

Living for five years is a big profit, and three years is a big fortune.

Even if what the Dutch said is true, it doesn’t mean that the ship is halfway running and throwing people into the sea to save money, it is really going to be transported there, but it is the difference between dying now and dying in three to five years .

This is one of the reasons why the sugar factory in Batavia was able to make money before: if you dare to make trouble and ask for money, you can go to Batavia to report that you don’t have a residence permit, and you will be arrested for hard labor. work.In a sugar factory or a sugarcane garden, although there is no watermelon to eat, at least a piece of sugarcane can still be eaten secretly, right?

Most Chinese can endure it, and no one is addicted to rebellion until they can't survive.

But now, it is really impossible to live.

Everyone helps each other, these big brothers in the lead still have some property, but how long can they last?

How could the Dutch not retaliate when they beat up the Dutch who came to arrest them before?Could it be time to hand over the beating brother?To the Dutch?
If you betray your brother, then who are the big brothers, who will be convinced in the future?
It is beneficial for the eldest brother to take it, but the accident is the top for the brother?Such a big brother will not last long.

Lian Huaiguan couldn't tell what he was suffering at this time, even if the court came forward to solve it, it would be a matter of later.But now, there is an urgent task to be solved, which is the problem of food for these Chinese outside the city.

"Well, if I sell the property, it can last for a while. I'll find someone to talk to the people in the city, and ask them to talk to the Dutch, or give them a helping hand and pay a little money."

As soon as he said this, Huang Ban and a group of men under Huang Ban laughed.

"Those people in the city are reliable? Brother Huaiguan still count on them?"

They are not the same kind of people as the high-ranking Chinese in the city.

The high-ranking Chinese in the city can chat and laugh happily with the Dutch, have legitimate properties, or pay taxes, or contract franchises, and they can still afford the small tax of the two silver coins.

Many of the Chinese outside the city are a group of slave labor. In history, after the Ostend tea incident, the Netherlands established a trade committee with China and directly traded with the Manchus in Guangdong. The dominant position of Batavia’s transit port gradually disappeared. Some ship owners The earning business to go to Batavia is to transport Fujian indentured slaves, or they have to go empty.

Inside and outside the city, the minds of the two sides are completely different, and they can't use their energy to go to one place.

From the perspective of the Chinese in the city, they can be divided into two categories.

The first category is Kapitan, Lei Zhenlan, sugar factory contractors, wealthy businessmen, taxpayers, and moneylenders.

Nor did they want the Chinese outside the city to revolt.

One thing is that the classes of the two sides are different, they are not the same people at all, and the joys and sorrows are not connected.

The second is that the Chinese in the city are operators, and the riots outside the city will also affect their industries.

Three things they have been trying to assimilate into the ruling class of the Netherlands, a stable Dutch colonial government helps their industry and profits grow.

The fourth is to worry about the Chinese uprising outside the city, and they will be implicated, causing the Dutch, who covet their gold and silver, to take the opportunity to exile them and swallow up the gold and silver.

The second category is the small craftsmen.

For example, chefs, restaurant owners, small businesses, shopkeepers, craftsmen who grind scissors, kitchen knives, and pots, etc.

They are completely sitting on the fence.

If the uprising succeeds, or if the Dutch are forced to accept the terms and the poll tax is abolished, that would of course be a good thing.

They also have to pay poll tax. If those people outside the city can die and shed some blood, they can follow suit, which is of course a good thing.

If the uprising fails, as they think, the Dutch will not embarrass them.

Because in addition to Batavia's large-scale maritime trade and company monopoly, it can be said that these Chinese have supported the prosperity of Batavia as a city.

Without them, not only would the company lose hundreds of thousands of silver coins in taxes every year, but Batavia would also be paralyzed.

And because of the Dutch colonial policy, the hatred of these small craftsmen for the Dutch is actually under the Chinese taxpayers above them.

After all, the Dutch are generally out of reach, and the Chinese have their own circle.However, the rice market, fish market, casino, opera, small business, drinks, etc., are all contracted by high-level Chinese. Basic necessities, food, housing, transportation, and even shit are all taxed.

It can be regarded as the buying and selling system in the Song Dynasty. At the auction at the beginning of the year, such as the rice market, it costs 1000 dong to buy it. First, the money is handed over to the colonial government. How much tax you can collect this year depends on your own ability.Taxpayers... are capable of sweeping the ground.

For the Chinese outside the city, these small handicraft workers are in an indifferent attitude.I feel sympathetic in my heart, but I would hesitate to ask them to follow along; if the poor brothers ran to hide, I could help; Not too dare.

Even if the group of people outside the city invaded Batavia, it would be the Dutch and high-ranking Chinese who would suffer.Even "equalization of land for free of grain", "allocation of land", and "confiscation of sugar factories" have nothing to do with these small handicraftsmen...

Because, they simply don't.

It's like selling wontons. He doesn't believe that the Chinese slave laborers outside the city have successfully revolted and can snatch his wonton stall?

At most, it’s just eating a bowl of wontons without giving money.Jiapidan didn't bother to eat wontons, but if he really ate wontons, he wouldn't dare to ask for it even if he offered money, it wouldn't make much difference.

Because of the different classes and different minds inside and outside the city, it is difficult to unite them with a community that is different from the class narrative at this time.

There were many people outside the city, with strength and courage, who dared to sacrifice, dared to shed blood, and dared to pull the emperor off the horse even if they were cut to pieces.

But, no money, no relationships.

No money and no relationships.There will be no guns, cannons, or gunpowder.

People in the city are rich, have contacts and connections, and can get guns and cannons.

But it does not support the uprising at all.

When the uprising broke out in history, the slave labor outside the city had already started an armed struggle. Half of the people in the city were sitting on the fence, and half of them still believed that the Dutch would treat them fairly. After all, the Dutch "speaks of the law."

As a result, the fighting outside the city was in full swing. The Chinese U-shirt party and trouserless men outside the city fought with the Dutch, Indonesian mercenaries, and chief cavalry; The weapons in the village, even the knives, were handed over, until the Dutch butcher's knife fell on their unarmed heads.

And those high-ranking Chinese who were not slaughtered, or the four Lei Zhenlan who reported in advance, hated the insurgents outside the city to the extreme, thinking that their riots implicated themselves.By the way, Lei Zhenlan and Jiapitan were still fighting each other before the uprising broke out. Lei Zhenlan bypassed Jiapitan and went directly to the governor to make a small report, in order to become Jiapitan in the future.

Freezing three feet is not a day's cold.Now that Lian Huaiguan actually said that Jiapitan, Lei Zhenlan and the Dutch should collude with the Dutch to resolve this matter like a petition, Huang Ban and others couldn't help but laugh.

(End of this chapter)