Xinshun 1730

Chapter 573 Bangga's Big Trouble
On the wharf, the ritual officer was reading the imperial edict "to comfort the people of the Nanyang Celestial Dynasty", and the gentry who came to welcome them all shouted long live.

But in addition to the welcome on the face, there is also some worry and dissatisfaction in the heart that the imperial court has extended its claws to Nanyang.

They are very worried that the imperial court will go to Nanyang in the future and bring Bangka into the official camp.

Although Dashun banned the money-saving artisan household system, there is no large number of officially controlled handicraftsmen like the Song, Mongolian and Yuan Dynasties, and it may be contracted to wealthy merchants.

However, this is an unstable factor after all.

These tycoons in Bangka and Xuanweisi in the old port are still the local tyrants, but this tin mine is so valuable, if it is really bought by domestic people, how can they compare?

In terms of relationship, they have no connection with the imperial court.

In terms of wealth, compared with the rich merchants inside the big tree and the nobles who rely on the land to intervene in foreign trade, they are even small ants.

The wealthy businessmen in Banga don't mean to hate Dashun specifically, but hate any form of state organization.

They don't like Dashun, the Dutch East India Company, or the British East India Company.

They love anarchy.

Or just like the current situation, it seems that it is under the control of the local chiefs, and the ownership of the tin mines also belongs to the sultan of Palembang.

But the local chiefs and sultans are a bunch of rubbish, the Dutch don't end up, each company is an independent kingdom, and they can do whatever they want.

But seeing the warships of the imperial court, it is not easy to show this kind of disgust on the surface, just keep saying some scene words.

The court officials who followed Liu Yulai were quite satisfied with the kind attitude of the survivors of the Nanyang Celestial Dynasty.

But this kind of scene made Liu Yu a little tired.

The imperial court asked him to come to Nanyang to comfort the Chinese.

However, the Chinese in Nanyang are collectively referred to as Chinese, but when they are subdivided, there are mine contractors, small businesses, usury lenders, plantations like sugar factories, and some who worked hard for a year from free labor to slave labor of.

They are all Chinese, but some people have a life-and-death relationship with each other.

Consolation who?
Who is the basis for the imperial court to rule Nanyang in the future?

The basis of Dashun imperial power's rule in Dashun's native land is very clear.

At least, Li Gan, the emperor, was very clear-headed: small farmers, self-cultivators, government soldiers, good family sons, in a word, conservative and stable farmers.

This is why Li Gan would rather spend more money to allow veterans to reclaim Yongye fields, and firmly opposes throwing veterans into handicraft factories in Gyeonggi and Songjiang in order to save money.

But in Bangka, or Nanyang, this kind of ruling foundation does not exist.

The land ownership system in Java is still the village serf system, and there are still a small number of small farmers and self-cultivators, and most of them are not Chinese.

Who will the imperial court rely on for its ruling foundation after going to Nanyang in the future?This is a problem that the imperial court urgently needs to solve. This is an unprecedented situation, and the answer cannot be found from the history books-sugar factories, plantations, and mines. Form a bunch of self-cultivating farmers——Under the system of the handicraft factory system that must ensure the cooperation of multiple people, what should the court do?
In this regard, the corresponding strategy of the dynasties of the past dynasties is to treat the symptoms and the root cause: large-scale handicraft factories are not allowed, and private mining is not encouraged. Isn't this no problem?At puberty, I have lust, which is different from the previous childhood. If I cut it directly, wouldn’t it just end?

The imperial court has a wealth of experience in childhood, but I have no experience in adolescence, so I am afraid of the unknown, so I will rule forever.

If it's business as usual, it's not a big problem.

However, Dashun didn't want to keep things as usual, and spent money and effort to go to Nanyang for the money of gold and silver trade, and controlling several special trade products was the best solution for the court to get money, which meant that it was impossible to keep things as usual.

Everything can't go on as usual, the word "Xuanwei" is a bit difficult.

Liu Yu cannot be said to have a good understanding of the specific situation in Nanyang, but he can infer the situation in Nanyang from the perspective of class, as well as the previous intelligence collection of Batavia, regardless of the perspective of Chinese and non-Chinese. Thirty-five points.

Just like what he has been saying in the court, don't beg for a sword, don't cut your feet to fit your shoes, and don't wait for a rabbit.

The current situation in Nanyang is very complicated. It is not a certain period of time in later generations. All Nanyang Chinese are looking forward to the situation where the imperial army will come.

In history, all the Chinese in Nanyang were looking forward to the arrival of the imperial army. The reason for this situation is that the paws of imperialism such as Britain and the Netherlands have completely pinched Nanyang and firmly controlled it.

Only when the upper-class Chinese were beaten would they pin their hopes on a community, and the imperial court was the realistic image of this community.

Now, the situation is very different.

Britain has not even won India, and the Netherlands can only control the spice producing areas and cities such as Batavia. The French were just driven away by the Siams many years ago.

chaos.

There is no one power that can control the entire Nanyang.

Lack of control, and being at a trade hub, this is the favorite place of the "germinations", lacking real restraint and control.

Dashun?How many birds in Dashun?Is it different after coming here and still need to be restrained?Then why do you like the imperial court to go to Nanyang?

So seeing the scene of the rich gentry on the pier welcoming them, Liu Yu knew it well.

Nanyang is still Nanyang.

But Nanyang at this time is not Nanyang at that time.

If you think about it a little bit, you will know that the Chinese who went to Nanyang, especially the Chinese outside the places under the strict control of the Netherlands such as Batavia, are not liked by any imperial court.

The consistent practice of the imperial court has made the Chinese people here have many doubts.

After the grand welcome, these suspicious managers and contractors hoped to invite people from the imperial court to dinner in order to find out something and test the attitude of the imperial court.

In name, it is to catch up with the wind and wash away the dust, but it is not easy to help their faces.

However, all the officials at the banquet were not very happy. There was no wine or pork at the banquet.

Although not all the contractors here are not allowed to drink and eat pork, but some of the people attending the banquet cannot eat or drink. The ownership of the mine here is still in the hands of the Sultan of Palembang, and some people actually took root here in the previous dynasty. Chinese who have been localized.

The rest of the court officials are fine, they do as the Romans do.

The group of officers who followed Liu Yu couldn't help cursing inwardly, no wine for dinner?What about eating a bird?The voyage is difficult, and it is easy to land once, but the meal is not enjoyable. This meal is not interesting.

A few leaders of the local gentry came forward to replace the wine with tea, and said respectfully: "My lords have worked hard all the way. The humble place is barren, and I prepare some dishes. Please don't be disgusted."

"We have both ancestors who left their hometown to make a living, and some who came here to mine tin mines a few years ago. If we didn't abandon ourselves to become kings, don't we know that our homeland is hard to leave?"

"The ancients said, Yue Niao Nanzhi, Humayi Beifeng. If we didn't want to make a living, who would leave our hometown, far away from the tombs of our ancestors, and come to this hot place?"

When it comes to affection, this person has already started to cry, and everyone who listens is moved.

After talking about the pain of homesickness, I finally came to the topic.

"Your Excellency came to Nanyang this time to express his condolences. We sincerely thank the imperial court. The Netherlands also buys a lot of tin from here. The price is fair. Although they are barbarians, they are quite law-abiding and the sales are fair."

"On the contrary, there are more unscrupulous people who do not do their jobs properly and have bad intentions. They do many illegal things, and even the Netherlands has a lot of prejudice against us and the people of the Celestial Dynasty."

"Exactly, a stinky fish has stirred up a pot of fish. My lord's consolation to Nanyang this time should be admonishing this kind of person."

"If these unruly people are from the Celestial Dynasty, they will do more sneaky things, and even have more intentions to cause trouble."

"These people are in Nanyang, and many people in Nanyang and Western countries hate us and the people of the Celestial Dynasty. It's just that the Netherlands is afraid of the majesty of the Celestial Dynasty and dare not deal with it lightly. There is even such a chaos in Java. These people have greatly damaged the Celestial Dynasty. Majesty, adults should investigate carefully."

The few officials who came with Liu Yu nodded their heads repeatedly. Although they came with Liu Yu, they were not in the same system.

Historically, after the Hongxi massacre in Batavia, the view of the wealthy businessmen who fled was that "the Netherlands is not very evil, but the governor is bad, and what happened in Batavia is intolerable to the king of the Netherlands."

However, the view of some officials is that "the local Chinese are asking prices all over the sky, making waves, and relying on their financial strength to make trouble."Because a version passed to the court was that the Dutch hired Chinese to serve as soldiers in Ceylon, saying that they wanted to be military households and distribute land, but the rebellion was caused by insufficient distribution in the end.

People can only use what they know to apply what they don't know.

Many officials of the Celestial Dynasty are not stupid, but simply do not know the outside situation, so they can come up with the idea of ​​"dividing land for military households" in Ceylon.

Officials certainly don't like "troublemakers" who make trouble.

Liu Yu just smiled at this, he doesn't know much about Banga's situation, so it's hard to say anything at this time.

But in the original history, Bangka was an important place for "Chinese piglets". The villagers deceived the villagers. In history, the Chinese poor in Zhanjiang, Hailufeng and other places were deceived one by one to Macau, and then transported from Macau to Bangka for mining.

In today's situation, Macau's trade monopoly has been abolished, and it has embarked on the road of population trading more than a hundred years earlier.

What is the situation in Banga? Liu Yuhao said that he has been stationed in Wendeng for so long and has done social surveys on the nearby gold mines.

He still knows what kind of mine and how to make money, and that is Wendeng and Shandong, which are orderly, legal, and under the control of the court.

Looking at the history of later generations alone, the death rate of Chinese slave labor in Bangka is much higher than that of North American black slaves, and the death rate of Indians mining in South America under Spanish rule is similar.

This has nothing to do with morality, not that Protestant Puritan slave owners are good.

It is only because the black slaves were transported from Africa so far, and the death rate on the way was high, so it was quite expensive; while the Indians in South America, the Tamil slaves in Ceylon, and the Chinese slave labor in Southeast Asia were cheap.

Protestant, Catholic, Chinese, South American, Tamil, Chinese can be included.

Nowadays, the average price of an adult male black slave is 50 pounds, 150 taels of silver. The key slave is still legal property. If he dies, it is equivalent to losing 150 taels of silver.
150 taels of silver is really a lot.

Yale made a fortune by selling tea and donated 2000 taels of silver to the university, which was enough for the university to be named after him.

But hired labor is different. It takes a lot of effort to drag it down. Anyway, there are some, which are very cheap, and they are not legal private property.

Nowadays, there are so many Catholics in Macau, who have no land and no job, and Dashun is only allowed to enter but not to leave, and does not believe in any form of "false conversion", which makes the cost of labor plummet.

After laughing at the "treacherous people", thinking about the changes in Macau, Liu Yu thought that Banga would still be a big trouble in the future.

Glancing at the respectful local snakehead, he suddenly asked, "I see no wine or pork on the table. I think there are quite a few people who believe in Islam. You open mines here, but you also ask those who come here to work. How religious? Catholics too?"

The local snake also knew about Dashun's ban on religion, and thought it was a question from the imperial court, so he hurriedly said, "Your Excellency, I'm just joking. I'm waiting to see what kind of religion they are? As long as someone is willing to work, we will. As for whether they are Catholic or not." Disciples, I really don’t know.”

"And we usually live in the old port, not in Bangka. Bangka has its own foreman to take care of it. We contribute capital and workers contribute."

"After all, this job recruitment is not about taking the imperial examinations. It is also necessary to ask about the origin and origin of the father and grandparents."

Liu Yu let out an oh, thinking this is interesting.

The Catholic Church has a strong ability to organize at the grassroots level. Most of you mine owners do not eat pork. Now that the imperial court bans religion, a large number of Macau Catholics who are unemployed to make a living go to sea to work...

Those who went to Nanyang to work had already separated from the clan and the order and organization of the imperial court the moment they boarded the ship.

In a strange place, it is like a mass of loose sand, and there are a bunch of Catholics who may come from Macau to find work, and they are oppressing the mines seriously... I don’t know if the miners can take off if they organize people with the help of the religious shell. , anyway, Catholicism is definitely going to take off in Bangka.

(End of this chapter)