Xinshun 1730

Chapter 580 Same Dutch, Different Attitude
"Keep someone?"

The mine owner was puzzled and felt a little guilty, so he said, "What do you mean, my lord? As your lord said, this place is no longer the Old Port Xuanweisi. Now this place belongs to the Lanwuli Kingdom, this... this lord puts it here. It seems inappropriate to send officials, right? In this way, it seems that the heavens have the intention of invading the south, but it is not appropriate to shock the countries. It is not up to me to decide this matter, and we need to ask the leader of Lan Wuli Kingdom. "

Liu Yu said: "I believe in gods and Buddhas the most. I just want to do more good deeds and accumulate merits in my life. I keep two people, and they are not members of the imperial court. I just keep two people here to serve as doctors. Apply medicine, do more good deeds, and accumulate my merits.”

"Just do whatever you want, I don't care, everything is as usual, after all, you also have difficulties, how can I only listen to one side of the story? I just do good things, you know, I go to sea all day, this is not doing good things. Doing good things Jide, my heart is not at ease."

Hearing Liu Yu say that this is not an official person, and that they "do whatever they want", these mine owners quickly agreed: "If that's the case, you can do whatever you want. I'm a bit powerful waiting here, so I can protect you Your servant will be fine here."

As long as the government doesn't want to take care of this place, as long as the system of the mine doesn't change, it's fine to do some good deeds.

And it sounds like the truth, it is indeed normal to go out to sea all day to do some good deeds to accumulate some merit for yourself.

Liu Yu casually took out a jade sign and threw it over: "My people don't live here with you, they just walk around the island at will. But your tricks are bright, if anything happens, see this sign, As if you saw me."

"Don't worry, my lord, I will definitely. I will definitely take care of it later."

"That's good. Back off."

Waving these mine owners to leave, Liu Yu called the adopted orphans who had been with him all these years, and now they are all young men in their twenties.

Some of the orphans who were educated in the Weihai Free School stayed in various workshops to learn to be technicians, some of the best learners were to be used as seeds for the future of the Academy of Sciences, and some were thrown into the old revolutionary district of Paris early on. The rest were followed by these years. Liu Yu's confidantes who learned some messy knowledge.

It may not be the smartest, but it must be the marginalized person of this era who is most incompatible with the outside world.What I study is not such things as arithmetic geometry, but some methodologies, world views, and organizational techniques summed up over the years of being an official.

It is impossible for these people to become officials in the imperial court, and Liu Yu, the deputy envoy of the Privy Council, cannot open a mansion and have his own officials. These orphans are growing up now, and it is time for them to experience themselves.

"As the saying goes, what you learn on paper is superficial, and you never know that you have to practice it. Now that you are all grown up, you have learned from me for so long. Today can be regarded as an exam."

"You all learn the same thing. A lottery will be drawn later, and whoever wins the draw will stay in Banga for a few years."

"I'll give you some money. You live here for a few years, and make friends with those miners and common people. Or hire a doctor, follow you deep into the mining area, and practice medicine for free; or be Song Sanlang in a hurry, who is in urgent need of money Just to help out a little... I don't need to say more about these things, you all know it after all."

The orphans were not in a hurry to draw lots, and asked, "Sir, since it is an assessment, what does it mean to be qualified?"

"One article and one military. Writer, when I come back a few years later, I will see a detailed investigation report. It includes how tin mines are produced, the lives of miners, which months of the year ships come, the proportion of Christians, Muslims, and Buddhists, Everyone's attitude towards the Celestial Empire, the demands of the miners, what business the local gentry do besides selling mines, etc..."

"Warrior, after I come back, if I ask you to raise your arms, let's see how many people you can pull together and trust you to go with you."

After finishing speaking, he took out a lot, and the orphans drew one each. The shortest one lit up the lot, smiled and said to the others: "Brothers, it seems that I am the first to take the exam."

Then he bowed to Liu Yu and said, "Don't worry, sir, I will do my best."

Liu Yu stretched out his hand, shook hands with the orphan as if treating an adult, and said, "I will leave someone who can fight with you. Remember, you still have to follow the rivers and lakes in the Water Margin story, and be a trustworthy urgent and righteous man." My eldest brother is."

"Don't worry, sir, I'll save it." He stretched out his hands and took the jade badge representing his identity. Yu took the fleet around like this, and the local gentry could not afford to offend people with imperial status.

Liu Yu hoped that these people would exercise first, and follow the old-fashioned Jianghu routines to take root here first.

Dashun lacks liberal arts students, and these people have taken root here, which can be regarded as the first-hand investigation materials of Nanyang, and it is an investigation report with the same three views and methods as Liu Yu.

Although it may be young and naive, and the writing is not exhaustive, it is definitely more meaningful than the writings written by officials in Dashun in this era, and it can better grasp the main contradictions of mine owners, miners, and purely commercial trade areas, and it is clearer. context.

The officials of Dashun are not stupid at all, they are very smart, but what they lack is this kind of perspective to observe the world.

After a few more words of advice, he called a trusted guard, and asked a guard with a big arm and a round waist to follow the orphan to protect his safety.

After thinking about it, I felt it was funny, but the smile was difficult for others to understand. I thought that if you shaved your monk's head, it would be interesting for the guard to change his Japanese name to Ninagawa Shinemon.

"There are a lot of Muslims here, especially in the old port. You named it Avanti. The guard only said that he was Tumark. But remember, when I come back from Europa and go to Nanyang, if there is If you have the ability, you will become a bearded man."

"Afanti" knew what it meant to be a curly bearded man, and said with a smile, "Understood, sir. If sir, when he goes to Nanyang again, there is no need for a hero like a curly bearded man? Even Song Gongming, It can work too."

Having said that, I also understand in my heart that this matter cannot be rushed.If he was really forced to use the jade badge, his test scores would not be satisfactory.A jade card is used, regardless of whether it is the Old Port Propaganda Department, who on the official level dares to touch it?

If you dare to kill the tokens of the imperial envoys of the Celestial Dynasty, it is much more sinful than hiding a piece of armor or raising dead soldiers.

Originally, since the old Hong Kong Xuanwei Department was abolished, the face of the Celestial Dynasty has been useless.But now the Dashun Nanyang fleet escorted Liu Yu to show off his power all the way, and there was a tendency to repeat the Sanbao eunuch's voyage to the West again, and the face of the Celestial Dynasty was restored.

I took five catties of gold, some Mexican silver coins, and a few short guns from Liu Yu, and I went there myself.

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Outside Bangka Island, the Dutch formed a fleet of warships that could be pieced together, and were rushing towards Bangka.

In name, after getting the news, he escorted the Imperial Envoy of the Celestial Dynasty and the Nanyang Propaganda Envoy.

In fact, he was worried that Liu Yu would take over Java directly because of some old affairs.

Especially after hearing that Liu Yu also brought a battleship, Batavia was quite nervous.Now in the whole of Southeast Asia, there are only two battleships in total.

A British 60-gun battleship Centurion sailed into the vicinity of Luzon after being repaired at Kowloon Naval Port.

One is the Tianyuan 74-gun battleship that Dashun escorted Liu Yu to Nanyang. As the flagship of the Nanyang Fleet, it will follow the imperial envoy to comfort the Nanyang Chinese until it is sent to Ceylon to say goodbye.

Although the Dutch are extremely confident and think that they have rich experience in naval warfare.

However, no matter how rich the experience in naval warfare is, no captain dares to stand up and say that he is sure to rely on a 30-gun cruiser-class heavy armed merchant ship to single out a 74-gun battleship.

Valkner really couldn't figure out Liu Yu, and he always suspected that Liu Yu beat the Dutch sailors in order to use the blood of the Batavian Chinese in exchange for a war between China and the Netherlands in order to support the bandits.

Therefore, this time it really cost a lot of money to piece together all the warships that the company could piece together in Southeast Asia, worrying that Liu Yu would "go alone".

After the battleship flying the VOC flag approached Banga, Liu Yu issued an order that absolutely violated the naval regulations, requiring all ships to lower their sails and stop at a port without the cover of their own artillery.

The Dutch fleet commander felt even more disturbed when he saw the Dashun fleet docking at the port.

The ship that returned to Batavia to report the news brought back the news that the Dashun Navy and the British Expeditionary Fleet were playing the eagle and chicken game in Lingdingyang. Army".

Now this well-trained fleet has lowered its sails against the norm, and I don't know what the meaning is.

The abnormal behavior made the fleet commander have to be cautious, and sent someone to the port of Banga with the most formal etiquette, and handed over the invitation.

"Honorable Lord Marquis, the governor of Batavia is ready to welcome you. Our fleet will escort you all the way to Batavia, where banquets and fine wine are ready."

"Your country's scientific expedition fleet is also resting in Batavia. The sailors got drunk and smashed up on the shore. It is inconvenient for us to deal with it. Please hand it over to you for disposal."

Full of sincerity, but also full of caution, for fear that Liu Yu would find fault.

One-third of the face here is on the naval fleet of Dashun, one-third is on the tea, silk and porcelain made by tens of thousands of handicraftsmen in Dashun, and the last third is on Bada On the face of the Chinese uprising army in Via.

As for the emperor's crown, in the eyes of the Dutch, it doesn't have much face, far less face than the tea farmers in Fujian.

The Dutch envoy handed over the document respectfully, and after Liu Yu had read it, he delivered several packs of medicinal powder.

"This is Jinjinashuang. Considering that the Marquis's fleet is coming to the hot Southeast Asia for the first time, the sailors may be threatened by malaria. The Governor ordered me to bring medicine to the Marquis."

After waving his hand to ask someone to accept Jinji Nashuang, Liu Yu got up slowly and asked, "Do the Batavia people know about this?"

"Yes, Lord Marquis, we have notified them. They will come to greet Your Excellency the Imperial Envoy according to the etiquette of the Celestial Dynasty. Moreover, the Garden Mansion of Kapitanlian has also taken some rest. After you arrive in Batavia, You can rest there, which is more in line with Chinese aesthetics and style."

The envoy said this, and added: "Originally, the governor thought that you came from the north, and the climate here is hot, and you may not be used to living here. He wanted to arrange you to spend the summer in Brian'an, where the climate is cool, but recently some bandits have entrenched you. Nearby...Of course, you should know that they are a group of lawless bandits, and last time they robbed the horses and guns of the envoys of your country to persuade them to surrender, and they spoke rudely to the great emperor of your country."

Under the threat of battleships, the Dutch were extraordinarily well-behaved. It was completely hard to imagine that this was the Dutch who had robbed Zhoushan and Penghu.

So well-behaved, but what he got in exchange was Liu Yu's fault.

"The last time the official ship of our dynasty went to Gothenburg and handed over the Swedish captives of the Junggar tribe, it was treated as a pirate in Batavia and detained for a long time. This time, did you see the flag of our dynasty clearly? Recognize it ?”

Hearing that Liu Yu was finding fault again, the emissary was not angry, and replied with a smile: "Lord Marquis, it was definitely a misunderstanding last time. You must know that Southeast Asia is a place where pirates breed. Pirates have to conduct inspections carefully. There are often ships pretending to be official ships of various countries, and it is reasonable for us to be careful. This is also beneficial to your country’s trade exports.”

Only then did Liu Yu snort pretentiously, signaling to board the ship and prepare to set sail for Batavia.After sailing into a fleet and sailing into the open sea, the Dutch fleet fired salutes in salute, and Dashun also returned the salute. There was a distance between the two sides and they headed for Batavia.

At the same time, after confirming that the Dutch fleet escorted Liu Yu away, a small boat immediately set sail for Bengkulu, preparing to transport the British munitions in Bengkulu to the Chinese insurgents in Java as soon as possible.

(End of this chapter)