Xinshun 1730

Chapter 524 Suspect Object

Those who shoot are all good players, and those who feed the least gunpowder are all of the emperor's pro-military level.Even though the musket in his hand had no rifling, at such a short distance, he still knocked down ten Dutchmen in an instant.

Huang Ban, who was following Niu Er, saw that Niu Er and the others were so proficient that they pulled out the cleaning stick and bit the gunpowder bag like they were eating with chopsticks. of.

The Dutch who were ambushed were terrified. Fortunately, the officer was not dead, so they subconsciously gathered around the officer and fought back indiscriminately towards the woods.

The Dutch officers never expected that they would be attacked by those timid Chinese so close to Batavia.

Shouting to tell the soldiers not to shoot, not seeing the enemy shoot indiscriminately, and it takes nearly a minute to reload, isn't this waiting for death?
However, the soldiers in these colonies did not have such a strong discipline. After shooting wildly, they reloaded on the side of the road in a panic.

Immediately afterwards, gunshots rang out again in the woods.

A group of people rushed out with muskets with bayonets inserted in them. The Dutch officer took out the short gun at his waist and wanted to fight back, but there were obviously good players on the other side, and a bang shot preemptively hit him in the arm.

Huang Ban witnessed all of this, and also saw the means these people have when raising their hands. These people are definitely not pirates. Pirates don't have such means, and they are even more puzzled.

Soon, the soldiers in Bali threw their weapons and surrendered, and there was a sound of knocking pots behind them, and a group of Chinese with butcher's knives, spears, and bamboo guns rushed out together.

The Dutch never expected to be attacked in such a place, nor did they expect that the opponent would keep having flintlock guns, and they could shoot so accurately.

It was like marching in the city, and after being attacked, he didn't stop shooting randomly, and he collapsed after the second round of shooting.

Not many were actually beaten to death, or died on the spot.But those who were seriously injured, these years, coupled with the hot climate of Batavia, most likely died.

After raising their hands to surrender, some Chinese raised bamboo poles, and the Chinese who were born as butchers took out the method of tying pigs, and directly tied the captured Dutch tightly.

The rest of the Balinese soldiers were not tied up. Niu Er walked over, found someone who could speak the local language, and said to the Balinese soldiers, "Go away, we're going to fight the Dutch this time. The Dutch I also bullied you, how brave was Surabadi back then? Are you willing to be a scapegoat for the Dutch?"

The Balinese soldiers nodded repeatedly, but they thought in their hearts that we didn't live well at first. We served as soldiers for the Dutch and received military pay every month. Could it be that we went back to the princes and worked hard to death?Which one is not a slave sold here by the princes?It is better to be a soldier than a slave.

Niu Er didn't expect anything from these people at all, he just wanted to alienate the Dutch's internal strength, at least to make the Dutch distrust the native soldiers.

He took out a letter from his pocket and handed it to a soldier, saying, "When you go back, give this to the governor. Let's go!"

Gathered up the battlefield, and after collecting the weapons, told the soldiers to leave, pulled off the clothes of the dead Dutchman, and hung them on the tree with ropes.

After watching the soldiers leave, he asked someone to carry away the Dutch captives who were tied up like pigs, and called Huang Ban, Lian Huaiguan and others to say: "The Dutch will come again, there is no danger to defend here. Instead of evacuating directly, they encouraged everyone to take advantage of the night and set fire outside the city, making a gesture of threatening Bacheng."

"In the middle of the night, the Dutch didn't know how many people there were, so they didn't dare to leave the city rashly. Let the loose brothers retreat to the south first in the middle of the night."

"The Dutch must think that we are bluffing, but they also know that we have guns to fight. They are worried that we will become a prairie fire, and they will send people to chase them. But they are afraid that there will be changes in the city... and they will not come out with all their strength. It is estimated that there are more than a hundred people. , if there is another ambush, the Dutch will be unable to fight for the time being."

"At that time, when we put out the slogans of 'Equalization of land without taxation' and 'No payment of tribute', the Dutch will be shocked, worried that the situation will start a prairie fire, and they will definitely transfer troops from East Java."

"When East Java is empty, there is a lot of room for maneuver whether to go south to the volcano or east to Semarang. What do you think?"

Niu Erxin said, as long as the imperial court takes care of it, it will be within a few months, and there will be news soon.

If the imperial court doesn't care about it, but throws me here, and the group of bird people in the imperial court makes some troubles again, then we can only rely on ourselves.

At that time, going south to the volcano is a dead end, and they can also go east with them, at worst, they will become kings themselves.

Since Ying Sobo is concerned about the affairs of Nanyang, even if the government opposes it, he will support him in private. If he goes south to the volcano and does not rely on the sea, even if Ying Sobo wants to support him, he will be powerless. Check the strength of the Dutch, open the situation in the east, and wait for Yingsab to send people to support some guns.

The Dutch are unpopular, Niu Erxin said that I also learned the method of colonial rule in Jinghai Palace, the method of the Netherlands can be regarded as tyranny even in the colonial rule.

Since I have people's hearts, just give me some guns and give me a year to train my troops. I don't want to compare with the Qingzhou Army, but it is enough to be worse.With the skills that someone learned in Jinghai Palace, it is not difficult to rebel and become king in a land of hundreds of miles.

He hadn't realized that some of the subtly taught skills in the official school of Jinghai Palace were very suitable for rebellion and claiming the king.It's just that I have studied in Jinghai Palace for too long, and those things are hidden under the normal magic tools. The usual way of thinking has been shaped, and I just feel suitable.

This is the worst possible scenario.People like myself have squatted here for several years. If the court changes their minds and abandons them, they can only find ways to do something big by themselves.

Huang Ban and others are just reckless heroes, and the skills of fighting need to be learned slowly. At this time, how do they know the methods of "mobilization" and "striking from east to west".

Hearing Niu Er's method for a while, he was immediately shocked and praised: "Brother Niu Er's method is good. I wanted to go east, but I pretended to go south first. I wanted to go to Semarang, but I pretended to be in Badawi. Ah. This Batavia must not be lost, and the Dutch had to send people to defend the city, so they had no extra troops to encircle and suppress us, so they had to send troops from East Java."

"The typhoon is about to come. Once the troops are transferred, it will not be easy to turn back. At that time, we will go all the way east, take down Cirebon and Semarang, contact the local chiefs, and unite against the Netherlands, and great things will be achieved. "

Niu Er just smiled, thinking it's better not to do this, I still have a family in the Heavenly Dynasty, if I can go back, I will go back.But even if I go back, I can't sneak back in a wimpy way. By then, Yingsaobo will definitely scold me for being a wimp, and I have to do some big things.

At this time, stabilize Huang Ban and others first, try to delay the time first, it is best for the court to come forward quickly.

Now that several waves of forces on the opposite side agreed with this idea, they began to gather those Chinese who worked in sugar factories and sugar cane gardens, as well as Javanese who worked together as slave labor.

Slogans such as free head tax on equal land, exemption from tribute, and opposition to Dutch mandatory pricing and monopoly trade were widely spread.

According to the things taught by Jinghai palace officials and students, one must first have a plan and know what to strive for.Of course, when teaching, it was taught with Dashun’s history of the founding of the country. In name, it was to “demonstrate the righteousness of the dynasty’s victory in the country, the Emperor Taizu Shuntian should be free of grain per capita, and the Emperor Taizong judged the situation and knew that the great danger of the world was in the east. The captives want to protect the world, and the ruler of this dynasty wins the world. The upper hand should be Han Gao's beheading the white snake, and the lower hand should be the Ming ancestor who rises from Linhao. Righteousness is righteousness..."

No one can fault it.

But at this time, after more than ten years of immersion in these things based on history, when the situation comes, it is easy to grasp, and it is extremely smooth to use.

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In the city of Batavia, the soldiers who fled back handed over the letter to the governor, and repeated the situation of their attack.

However, when it is repeated, it is inevitable to be distorted.

"Those Chinese have very good weapons. They are all high-quality flintlock guns, and they all wear bayonets. They have many gunners, at least hundreds of them. And they shoot very accurately. A single volley will collapse the team."

"Thousands of Chinese rushed out from a distance with all kinds of weapons and surrounded us. One of the leaders was tall and tall, with not only a rifle in his hand, but also a short gun around his waist..."

After listening to the soldier's retelling, Valkenier unfolded the letter. The letter was written entirely in Dutch, and it was beautifully written. It was obvious that the writer had a high level of education.

The contents of the letter made Valkner very worried.

This letter looks like a negotiating letter, or the program of the insurgents.

If the letter only emphasizes the problem of the Chinese, that's okay, we can divide and conquer.

However, the contents of the letter emphasized the tyranny of the Netherlands in Java, and the analysis was so penetrating that even Valkenier nodded frequently when he read it.

In order to monopolize the trade, reduce the number of cloves and increase the price, it led to the massacre of tens of thousands of people in Banda Island and the felling of clove trees.

Then the Dutch forced to pay tribute to Java, then to the collection of poll tax, the governor was rampant with corruption, the company employees extorted bribes, forced planting, monopoly trade and so on.

The latter is the programmatic document proposed by the uprising, including the reform of the land system, the abolition of the poll tax, the abolition of the Batavia land system law, the abolition of tribute, the abolition of trade monopoly and private trade restrictions, the reform of the village community land system, and the opposition to the tax system. and many more.

As far as the program is concerned, it seems that it is not just about fighting for the interests of the Chinese. It does not spread the ethnicity and blood. It may be that even if it is said, the Chinese in the city will not stand with the insurgents. On the contrary, those who are oppressed The slave laborers and village serfs and slaves were more motivated to participate in the uprising.

After reading the letter and contacting the retelling by the soldiers, Valkner almost immediately confirmed that there were "foreign forces" involved behind this group of uprisings.

But it was almost the first time to rule out the possibility that Dashun was playing tricks behind his back.

For Dashun, if he wanted to go to Nanyang, he didn't have to go to such trouble, and it was impossible to put forward such a plan. He knew that Dashun's court would never say such a thing.

Moreover, from the perspective of the Netherlands, if Dashun wants to go to Nanyang, it will definitely continue the Dutch way of rule: just let the Chinese be the first class, and the rest will pay tribute, control trade, seize Slaves, etc., will all come in one continuous line.

It's hard for people to imagine things they haven't seen or done.Valkenier also couldn't imagine Dashun's methods of colonization, and it was even impossible to understand what the tributary system was.

Thinking about others by oneself, wouldn't Dashun increase the difficulty of his colonial rule by shouting these slogans?
It is hard for Valkniva to imagine how to make money without arresting slaves, slave labor, forced planting, massacre and burning to reduce production?

Those insurgents actually had excellent muskets and were well-trained... In addition to the fact that free trade was allowed among these conditions, Valkenier naturally thought of those European counterparts, who were most eager for freedom in Southeast Asia. In terms of trade... Even Britain, which closed its doors and promulgated the "Navigation Regulations" to completely monopolize trade, definitely supports free trade in Southeast Asia, because they have not yet monopolized Southeast Asia.

France, England, Spain, Portugal... are all possible, and they would all be happy to see the collapse of Dutch rule in Southeast Asia.Anyway, they can't get it, as long as they mess up.When things get messy, their smuggling boats can buy spices everywhere, bypassing Dutch inspections.

And Dashun is the most impossible.Or don't care at all.

If you want to manage it, Dashun is the only one capable of driving them away at this time. To drive them out is to maintain the colonial rule. How could they support such a program?

Moreover, Dashun definitely has no interest in whether there is free trade in Southeast Asia.

Free trade or monopoly privilege, does that matter?Whether it’s free trade or monopoly, don’t we just obediently come to Songjiang, Fujian, Guangdong to buy tea, silk, cloth, porcelain, and rhubarb?
It is very likely that Britain, France, Portugal and the West.

For a moment, Valkner thought of the British.

Yingxi is at war!Could it be...the British want to capture the Philippines, thereby weakening the Dutch rule in Southeast Asia, so as to prepare for ruling Southeast Asia after defeating Spain to occupy the Philippines?That's why I borrowed the hands of the Chinese to mess up Java?

If so, very likely.

Once the Philippines is conquered and there is a foothold in Southeast Asia, I definitely hope that the Netherlands will be unable to rule, so as to support the locals to rebel against the Netherlands... The British did similar things 100 years ago, and a group of them were killed by the Dutch and withdrew from Southeast Asia. Is it repeating the old trick?

(End of this chapter)