Xinshun 1730

Chapter 528 Traditional Arts
Once the two powder kegs are combined, Valknir knows how powerful it is.

He is very clear about the company's policies, but he also knows that if the company does not do this, the shareholders will not get any money and the company will go bankrupt.

Now that the two powder kegs tended to close together, he had to be cautious, and he had to be careful.

It takes a spark to ignite a powder keg.

So he carefully read the letter brought back by the soldiers yesterday, as well as the uprising program spread by the insurgents outside the city, and his uneasiness became even stronger.

The program of the Chinese rebels outside the city is not only aimed at the Chinese, but to incite all the lower classes oppressed by the Netherlands.

This is like a spark enough to ignite a gunpowder keg. Once it reaches Bandung, it will set the sky on fire.

If this uprising was only led by the Chinese, and the programmatic documents were only aimed at the unfair treatment of the Chinese, Valkner would not have cared too much at all.

It's just that if the Chinese resist, it's too easy to solve.

The East India Company's policy of divide and rule and middlemen has been very successful.

The property owners, the propertyless, those with residence permits, those without residence permits, taxpayers, taxpayers, slave laborers, and sugar factory owners are not of one mind at all, and it is impossible to unite as one, and they can easily resolve.

Moreover, the East India Company has always deliberately used rich Chinese businessmen as middlemen to attract hatred.

For example, tax packages, such as package rents in kind, etc., have made many people extremely hate those high-ranking Chinese who are domineering.

Many things, the company does not directly come forward, but outsources.The characteristic of the tax package is that how much you charge depends on your ability. No one takes the money to auction off the tax package right to serve the people.

The East India Company did this intentionally: directly governing, once it resists, it resists the Netherlands; outsources it, and has its own wealthy Chinese businessmen to attract hatred.

Moreover, the Chinese have money but do not have guns, and they are not even allowed to serve as soldiers. Once something happens, they can rely on this deliberately created contradiction to guide the oppressed to fight among themselves.

If it was just an uprising by the Chinese, Valkner was sure that it would not be possible to succeed, and it would not pose too much of a threat at all.

On the contrary, it is entirely possible to use the previous policy of deliberate divide and rule to let the Chinese, Javanese, upper Chinese, lower Chinese, and lower Java fight first.

But this time, no matter from the letters, programs, or the current direction of transfer, it can be seen that the organizer of this uprising is a man with means and has a deep insight into the weak areas and key contradictions under the East India Company's rule in Java.

At that time... move to a place where forced commercial serfdom has been promoted, raise your arms and shout, hack and kill those local middlemen and aboriginal nobles who are domineering and hooking up with the Dutch on weekdays, and set off a big uprising at the bottom, which is troublesome But it's big.

If the feudal aristocrats of Java turned against the Netherlands, Valknir needn't worry.

Historical experience told him that the anti-Dutch actions of the feudal nobles would definitely fail.

On the one hand, the bottom will not work for the feudal lords; on the other hand, the feudal lords will oppose the Dutch, and there will definitely be those who stand on the side of the Dutch and take the opportunity to overthrow their political opponents.

If it's purely Java's lower-level anti-charge, Valknir doesn't have to worry about it.

The Chinese will stand high as nothing to do with themselves, and the local aboriginal nobles will stand on the side of the Netherlands and suppress the bottom together.

If it's a purely Chinese bottom-level anti-Dutch, Valkner still doesn't have to worry.

The hatred planted by divide and rule will make the Javanese, high-level Chinese and Dutch stand together to suppress it.

But this is the only one that has a clear program; it is a bit scary to incite bottom-level slave labor, slaves, village serfs under the oppression of the forced plantation system, and the middle-class Chinese who have been treated unfairly.

Once the rebels gain a firm foothold in Bandung, they can not only receive arms aid smuggled by the British from the south, but also rely on the Sultanate of Mataram. The two sides can temporarily cooperate from the standpoint of anti-Dutch .

More importantly, the forced plantation system has been an important profit growth point for the East India Company in Java, and it plans to spread it to the whole of Java in the future.

Already facing the financial crisis of sluggish sugar trade and Japan's trade being cut off by Dashun, if it spreads to the Bandung area where the forced planting system has been established... the company may be in deficit this year.

Thinking of this, Valkner called Lian Fuguang and the others over again.

He knew that China had undergone a dynasty change a hundred years ago, and that the founder of the new dynasty was a traitor. He wanted to ask clearly how the low-level rebels in China have always done it.

"I heard that the ancestor of the great emperor of China was also a low-born peasant who eventually became the emperor as a rebel. I know that China has always lacked the most basic respect for nobles and blood, but as low-level rebels, they are generally How do you get people to support you?"

Although the Netherlands also rebelled against Spain, the leaders of the rebellion were nobles.Valknir is still not familiar with such things as people rebelling.

Lian Fuguang has never rebelled, but as a Chinese, he still knows these basic things.

This is a traditional art skill, even in novels and story books, you can still say a few words.

Even though he didn't know why the governor was interested in this, Lian Fuguang told Valkenir what he knew.

"My lord, the rebels at the bottom usually encourage some people who can't survive to rebel first. After the rebellion, they usually choose to attack the rich and divide their land, property and food. They don't know the respect for private property at all. "

"They promised that they would distribute the land to everyone in the future. The Celestial Dynasty has always had a tradition of equalizing the land. And during the rebellion, in order to confuse people, just like the ancestors of the current Emperor Dashun, the slogan they shouted was equalizing the land. No food."

"Not only will the land be divided equally, but all taxes will be exempted. For those wealthy households, they will generally be killed, and their food and property will be distributed to those who cannot survive, and they will be encouraged to follow them to rebel. "

"Often there may be only a few thousand people at the beginning, but within a few months, tens of thousands or even more people will participate in the rebellion."

"For example, if this place is conquered, whoever is the most hated and envied by others and who owns the most land will be killed. Half of his grain will be collected as military rations, and the other half will be distributed to the local poor. The most desired land is equally divided."

Lian Fuguang just introduced the rebellion routes of the past dynasties in a normal way, basically changing the soup without changing the medicine.

He didn't know a lot, after all, he didn't experience it personally, it was just hearsay.

But it was these hearsay that made Valknir even more worried... This kind of rebellious route was what he was most afraid of.

The situation in Java is different from that of the Chinese Empire. The tradable private system of land is still in its infancy, and it is still the traditional village communal land system.

However, these things are not changed.

In the Bandung area, the Dutch did not have much military strength, and they mainly relied on local people for management, and those managers were considered half serf owners.

They received dividends from the company's low-priced acquisitions, and lived a pretty good life, with money and food.

The local people are more oppressed.

According to what Lian Fuguang said about the traditional arts of China in the past dynasties, it is too easy to gain a firm foothold in the Bandung area.

Even, there is no need to change the routine.

Invaded the village community, executed the village chief, announced the abolition of all forced planting systems, the abolition of land rent in kind, and all servile forced labor.

Moreover, Bandung is not Batavia, and the local middlemen are not Chinese, but local aborigines.

The rebels don't have to worry, the local aborigines will hate the Chinese because of factors such as high-level Chinese paying taxes.On the contrary, they will work with these uprising slave laborers to kill the village chiefs who dare not speak out.

Now this group of Chinese rebels can ambush a Dutch team of 30 people. It is easy to capture a village at this level.

After entering the village, kill those who do evil things on weekdays, and if the wealth is divided, more people will definitely join the team.

As for the fighting power of the local aboriginal nobles, Valknir is too clear about it, and they are vulnerable to a single blow.

While worrying about this matter, another more bad news came from outside the city.

A damaged brown bass rifle and pamphlets in English were recovered from the sugar factory where the "rebels" were sheltering.

The contents of these English pamphlets are all the radical views of the Cromwell period.

"Declaration of the Oppressed Poor in England", "Code of New Justice", etc., you can know what is in it just by looking at the beginning.

I also investigated the buying time of those sugar factories, which happened to be the time when the Jenkins ear incident was instigated in the UK.

In his heart, he lacked trust in the British, and he also had judgments in his heart. In addition to this brown Bess rifle with conclusive evidence, which was accidentally loaded with lead bullets and then gunpowder, which caused it to be scrapped, Valknier has already outlined a Complete logic chain.

The British had long been preparing to go to war against Spain, so they incited domestic public opinion and detonated the Jenkins ear incident.

In order to establish a foothold in Southeast Asia after capturing Manila in the future, it is necessary to mess up the rule of the Netherlands.

In order for the Holland to massacre the Chinese and draw Dashun's revenge, the Chinese mercenaries deliberately trained to incite the Chinese to revolt, instead of sending people to lead the Javanese natives to revolt.

Every step in this is vicious calculations and traps. One wrong step will destroy the company, and the British can achieve their sinister purpose of dismembering the Dutch East India Company on the premise of maintaining their allies.

After working in the company for so many years, Valknier knows a truth: whoever makes the most profit is the mastermind behind the scenes.

As for Dashun, he couldn't see what benefits Dashun could gain: If Dashun wanted Batavia, he could go to war directly, why bother?

Moreover, Batavia is a significant transit point for the Netherlands; but for Dashun, it is not even as good as a chicken rib.

Spices are in Ambon and Banda; the passage to India is in Malacca, what does Dashun want Batavia for?Turn porcelain raw silk by yourself, and play around in circles?
Moreover, the rebels moved south with the intention of occupying the Bandung area, apparently also to receive British aid on the southern coast.

On the northern front line, the Dutch checked very strictly, and there were cruisers along the way.

In the south, there are no cities.

The British now have only the last military base in Southeast Asia, which is Bengkulu on the south side of the strait.

A few years ago, in order to commemorate the famous general Churchill who made great contributions in the War of Spanish Succession, the newly built castle in Bengkulu was named Marlboro Castle. , or the Duke of Marlborough, according to the difference between free translation and transliteration.

And Bengkulu is only separated from the coast south of Bandung by the Sunda Strait.

Thinking down the line of thought he had figured out, it became more and more reasonable. After all, that was the only stronghold of the British here, and it was also the only way for the insurgents to receive foreign aid.

A group of mercenaries who have obviously received formal military training, a group of people who understand political science and have a deep rebellious tradition of national habits, if they receive British arms assistance, it will be a disaster for the East India Company.

There are rebellious traditional arts on the Chinese side.

In the UK, there is a traditional art of being a shit stick.

The traditional arts of the two powerful countries are all under the weight of the Dutch East India Company, which is really a blessing.

It is even possible that these people going south are to receive British arms.We can't wait any longer, and we must defeat a few of these military personnel before they have a firm foothold and have not trained an army.

Fortunately, they have just revolted now, and most of them don't even have weapons. As long as they send out a troop to quickly pursue them, they should be able to defeat them soon.As long as the core military personnel are defeated, the rest will disperse.

"An order to let the warships in the port set sail immediately, go to the south of the strait, and strictly check all suspicious ships, especially the British ships."

"Let the soldiers of a company assemble immediately, ready to pursue, and do not give them a chance to breathe. The follow-up troops are equipped, prepare rations, and then follow up."

(End of this chapter)