Xinshun 1730

Chapter 532 The Comprehension Ability of Batavia "Sultan"
Anyway, Shi Shiyong felt that he would never accept it, and would rather do it vigorously.

If you succeed, you will stand on your own, and if you fail, you will die.

To do hard labor and servitude?nonsense.

I'm afraid these people don't say that the emperor is the guarantor, even if the emperor Laozi comes, it will not be easy to use.

That being the case, Niu Er pulled away the most resistant group of people first, and did not let this group of people bring those who were still hesitating to join them, which can be regarded as faithfully implementing the court's strategy.

At that time, those who are still on the sidelines should accept the conditions of the imperial court as guarantees, and obediently go to Ceylon and other places to work.

In the future, when the imperial court goes to Nanyang, those who make troubles will either be incorporated into the Nanyang garrison regiment, or they can be broken up and split up.

Those leaders were appointed officials one by one and thrown to the capital for retirement.The old routine of recruiting security.

And now one of the leaders is a secret agent of the imperial court, so there is absolutely no problem in recruiting security.

It can not only guarantee that there is no problem in recruiting security, but also guarantee that it will only surrender to the court and not to the Netherlands.

Now the secret work here hopes to continue to provide a batch of weapons. As long as the people in the court seize the leadership of the uprising, this batch of weapons can be given.

"I don't quite understand what you said. Although I know more about the outside world than those who only read the books of sages, Qi Guogong also talked to me before coming here. But I only know about the things about England and the Netherlands. A rough idea. You just say it, and I'll write it down."

"After you finish speaking, I will repeat it in words that I can understand. You can see if what I said is correct. If it is correct, I will send the news back when I go back. The Privy Council and the court will resolve it."

Shi Shiyong understood the general idea, but he was worried that what he meant was wrong, so he asked cautiously.

The secret agent lurking in Batavia nodded and said: "The Privy Council has said this before, but it's easy to say. Eagle Sabo said that as long as there is money, the British East India Company will sell everything. The south of the sky is doing business with Britain. There are quite a few people, so find someone you trust to be a broker and get on the line. We will send someone here to talk."

"Let the British sell a batch of guns. As long as they are sent to Java, we will have a way to get them. We also have people in Cirebon and other places. The location is determined by them. As long as we bypass the Dutch and send them ashore, we will have a way to get them." Walk."

"The Dutch can also manage Batavia. It can be said that government orders do not leave the city."

"In the future, if the imperial court goes to Nanyang to start a war against Holland, we will cooperate internally and externally. If the imperial court is really interested, it will be enough to send another twenty or thirty officers, preferably a few more who can play with guns. Once the guns arrive, at most one In less than a year, they will be able to pull up a team, not to mention conquering Batavia, ceding land and becoming a feudal town, there is absolutely no problem."

Although Shi Shiyong didn't know much about the outside world, this question was not complicated, and he understood it immediately.

"You mean, the imperial court entrusted the relationship to be on the line, and the people on your side will follow me back, directly buy the goods from the British, let the British deliver them to the place, and you will ship them to the place where the incident occurred. Right?"

"Yes. That's what it means."

Shi Shiyong thought it was very simple, but he didn't realize that there was a problem in it, that is, this group of people felt that the skills they had learned could not only fight wars, train soldiers, but also govern the people, although governing the people may not be good. However, it is still possible to pull up a team and engage in separatist regimes. After all, we don’t want to do well, we just want to be as bad as others.

Especially the group of people who came from Weihai felt that this was nothing more than normal, and they didn't think there was any problem with it.

In Shi Shiyong's eyes, this matter is also simple. The imperial court really wants to do it. The Ministry of Foreign Affairs, the Privy Council and the trading company will end it in person, and pull the line of the British East India Company. It should not be too simple.

Hundreds of guns, two or three cannons, even if the British lions open their mouths, it is only a matter of ten thousand taels of silver.A gun is more expensive, four or five pounds, which is only fourteen five taels of silver.

Throwing these ten thousand taels of silver into the navy will not even make a splash, but if you throw it here, you can do a lot.

"The Privy Council gave you advice before, that is to say, the Privy Council thinks this is feasible? Didn't the Privy Council prepare in advance?"

The man shook his head and said: "There is no way to prepare in advance. After all, the situation is changing rapidly. At first we wanted to suppress everyone's anger. But when we came, we realized that this anger cannot be suppressed at all. Besides, there is no food to eat. Go to If you work hard, you will die if you work hard, and if you get into trouble, you will die, so we can only drag this group of people away first."

"However, the Privy Council has determined that the British are happy. On the one hand, it will be easy to do as long as they give money, and on the other hand, the British will be happy to see chaos in Java."

Shi Shiyong doesn't understand the twists and turns inside, but he believes that the Privy Council will definitely not make a mistake, and this matter is led by Liu Yu. Although Liu Yu was promoted to the Deputy Envoy of the Privy Council when he came, he has never had a real job before. involved in the Privy Council military.

He has a lot of trust in Liu Yu, especially in this kind of foreign affairs. This is a habitual trust that has been born in Japan for many years and after witnessing Japan's rapid defeat this time.

Now that even this has been calculated, it will be easy to handle.

The current situation is very good for the court.

The group of people with the strongest backbones were taken away. Even if this group of people did not have trouble now, they would definitely not want to go to Ceylon, and they would have trouble sooner or later.

The rest can bear it, and feel that death is worse than life. Even if these people are reluctant, if the court can send people to monitor the Netherlands, they can also accept to work elsewhere, and they can also believe that the court will make decisions for them.

Those who have a residence permit in the city, some of them are like Jiapidan, are just squires, but it is just a repeat of the situation in the late Ming Dynasty, whoever wins will go with him.

Another group of small businessmen and small citizens, if the imperial court really sets up a state capital here in the future, or sets up a military town like the four towns of Xi'an, it will not be possible without these small businessmen.

The smallest part is determined to follow Holland.But the Dutch didn't even allow him to be a soldier, so it was considered that they had no way to be loyal to the Netherlands, so there was no need to think about it.

From the perspective of the overall situation, in fact, from the perspective of saving money, the imperial court may not care about the life and death of those tough guys who rioted.

But although Shi Shiyong was on the side of the imperial court, he was still an individual, not a tool of the cold and ruthless emperor, and had his own tendency to favor.

"Do you think the rioters can survive?"

"Don't worry. Many years ago, there was a man named Surabadi who worked with the Dutch for 23 years, and the rest of them are still active in the mountains. He only served in the Dutch army for a few years. He went to a military academy and worked as a staff officer. Ying Sabo said that the situation here is complicated. There are Dutch people, the Sultanate, the feudal lord under the Sultanate, those who oppose the Dutch, those who unite with the Dutch, those who sit on the wall, and those who wait and see. , As long as you figure out who to unite with, who to oppose, what to do, and what to achieve, the team will grow bigger."

"There is no shortage of salt, volcanic mountains, fruits, and rice fields. It may be impossible to capture Batavia, but there is no problem in separatist rule. As long as the separatist regime becomes ten percent, the Dutch can only hold their noses and admit it." Yes. The Dutch are untrustworthy, most of them pretended to recognize it, but quietly dispatched troops. But after all, the court doesn’t need too long. But, I don’t know what the court means when your lord comes this time?”

When Shi Shiyong heard that the theory of these people's rebellion and becoming a feudal town was mature, he stopped worrying and told him what the court asked him to do this time.

"Fantastic!"

Listen to that carefully, and praise it.

"In this way, the Dutch will have to devote their energy to counting the population, and they will also have to worry about more chaos in places, so it will be easier to hunt down those brothers who rioted. But in this way, the Dutch will have more opportunities next year. A lot of energy to encircle and suppress. However, one year is enough, as long as the court sends guns and a group of officers. Therefore, this matter also needs the cooperation of the court. Immediately ask the Dutch to count the population and send troops to various places Check it out and suppress it."

Shi Shiyong also knew that what the group of people who are rioting now lack most is a breathing time. He can trust the skills of this group of people. He must have learned military training. Siege is not so easy.

Moreover, judging from the situation of the imperial court, it will end in three to five years at most. As long as it can persist for three to five years, the situation will be very good.

"Okay, I've made a note. There are two things."

"Look for a broker to go through the channel of the British, buy guns and send them over, and then send a group of officers over; oppress the Dutch, count the heads as soon as possible, distract the Dutch's energy, and buy some time for the rioting men. No more Problem?"

Xi Zuo shook his head and said, "No more. In a few days, I will quietly bring him back, follow the adults back, and go to buy goods with the British, and find a chance to send them over."

The two sides agreed to separate the combined tokens again, and took advantage of the cover of night to carefully craft the manor to leave.

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Inside the Governor's Palace.

Valkner is also listening to the people from the China Trade Commission, recounting this trip to the capital and Dashun's policies.

Valknir gritted his teeth enviously when he heard that Emperor Dashun wanted to pay these people poll tax from his own money.

"China is really rich, and their emperor's treasury may not be comparable to that of the Ottoman Sultan. Tens of thousands, 10,000+ silver coins, it is as easy as a company giving a bag of tea to a veteran with a broken leg in Rotterdam..."

Valknir didn't feel any strangeness about this move that might seem a bit strange to the traditional dynasty.

After the disaster in the Netherlands that year, it was almost on the brink of collapse.

Fortunately, Louis XIV of France promulgated the "Edict of Fontainebleau" taking advantage of his great victory, declaring that France is a Catholic country and Protestantism is illegal, causing a large number of Protestants to run away.

The Netherlands also recruited a large number of Protestants at that time. Relying on their technical skills and handicrafts, they survived the period after the disaster.

It also caught up with Spain's fanaticism and Portugal's fanaticism, and a large number of Protestants, Jews, and Basques ran away one after another.

These people have technology, ability, and wealth.Some pirates engaged in handicraft industry and some boarded the ship as the support of the Netherlands. The Netherlands gave them great support and citizenship.

Even Prussia issued the Edict of Potsdam, taking this opportunity to compete with the Netherlands for "talent" and attract talents to settle down.

Including but not limited to tax exemption for building houses, not collecting taxes according to the size of windows, exempting from personal tax, allowing prayers in French, etc.

Although the move on Dashun's side is inconsistent or even opposite, its core seems to be understandable from a religious point of view.

Perhaps in the eyes of the Great Emperor of China, the Son of Heaven was the guardian of the Confucianists, so just as the Netherlands and Prussia wanted to protect the Protestant believers, this pagan emperor also wanted to protect their believers.

This can also be easily understood. Dashun went to war with Japan for the sake of Ryukyu. Valkner felt that the emperor of the Celestial Dynasty might be both a secular emperor and a Confucian pope.

With such an understanding, it would be quite normal to buy "pagan tax" for believers.

In fact, Valkenier also knew that although the Dutch East India Company believed in Protestantism, the way it dealt with the Chinese in Batavia was more like a sultan.

There is a small tax on infidels, infidels are not allowed to serve in the army, taxation system... There is no difference.He, the governor of Batavia, is actually more like a Batavia sultan, and he is short of the Yenicheri Legion composed of a group of converted and naturalized Chinese.In fact, even the "Jenicherry Legion" Valknir thought about it, the Chinese are the best soldiers, and the naturalized ones are definitely more pious and cruel, but he, the Batavian "Sultan", has a A "17-member caliphate", disagrees.

However, Valkner was a little worried. When there was a Crusade, would the Confucian scholar-bureaucrats come to a "Southern Expedition of the Army of Benevolence and Righteousness" to rescue their "brothers" once and for all?After all, theoretically, according to the Six Arts of Confucianism, scholar-bureaucrats are both feudal warriors and missionaries.

(End of this chapter)