Xinshun 1730

Chapter 698 Batavia's Decision

This kind of colonial thinking, which is completely different from that of the Dutch East India Company, is just a model of Dashun in the Nanyang region.

After passing through Nanyang, when we visit India in the future, we will naturally not adopt this form.

For the emperor, the temptation of India mentioned by Liu Yu is to collect land taxes to fill the treasury and internal funds.If you want to collect land tax, it is impossible to follow the Ceylon model.

As for the Nanyang region, it can completely follow the Ceylon model, because for the emperor, Nanyang's interests lie in trade, not in tax collection.It is also unlikely to receive taxes, which is too difficult.It is still better to occupy a few strongholds, control trade, and let the remaining small countries take their course.

After the signing of this explicit treaty, Rajsingh also signed a verbal secret agreement with Dashun's envoys.

Dashun supports Rajsinghe's throne and royal power, and does not recognize heirs that Rajsinghe does not recognize; Rajsinghe will send his cronies to the capital of Dashun to pay tribute to the emperor in exchange for Dashun's respect for Rajsinghe. Family support.

Only in the form of tribute, it has to be different from North Korea and other countries.

When you arrive in the capital of Dashun, you should kneel and worship.

But if Rajsingh is gone, when a new heir succeeds, Dashun can't send an angel over like North Korea or Ryukyu, and let the heir kneel on the ground to accept the canonization of the celestial dynasty, which is considered a formal succession.

Although Du Feng did not rashly agree to this point, fearing that he would bear unexplainable responsibilities in the future, he played a trick.

He felt that Rajsingh was still young, his heir had not yet been determined, and he would not die for the time being.Let's just wait until the future. Maybe when he is about to die, Da Shun will already have a firm foothold in South India. Even if Da Shun wants to be polite, he is afraid that he will not dare to be so rude.

This kind of small thinking is actually very dangerous. If it is not done well, a big incident will happen in the future, and people in the court will criticize it.But Du Feng is a wild boy in the mountains and forests, he has never experienced in the court at all, and often thinks he is very smart, but he has never experienced the battles in the court, after all, he is too far behind.

After several contracts were signed, Du Feng breathed a sigh of relief, feeling that things here are stable.

Several conditions of the treaty met the bottom line given by Liu Yu, and Du Feng himself was quite satisfied.He didn't want to spend his precious troops on Ceylon, a small place that couldn't achieve the merits of being a Marquis.If there are too many troops involved here, it will be difficult to do many things in the future.

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Unlike Ceylon, which mainly persuades surrender, it is different from fighting if it can't be fought.

To the east of Malacca, a war aimed at killing chickens to scare monkeys is unfolding with a huge array never seen before in the Southeast Asian countries.

In many cases, there is actually no need to fight so fiercely, but the degree of fierceness is unprecedented in Nanyang.

This should be regarded as a typical example of killing a chicken with a butcher's knife.With a fleet of eight armed merchant ships in total, Dashun created a standard battleship fleet to fight.

Just after 1745 in the Christian calendar, the governor of Batavia, Valkenier, began to feel anxious.

The Chinese rebel army in the Bandung Volcano area captured the fortress of Cirebon with lightning speed.

The 400 defenders stationed in Cirebon had to surrender after fierce resistance.

At this point, the entire East-West artery of Java Island was completely cut off by the sugar factory rebels.This is the worst news for the Batavian colonial government.

Valknir summoned Batavia's military and council members and asked them what to do.

How to do it is still unclear, but at the beginning of the meeting, everyone unanimously cursed at the British.

Four years ago, the navy of the East India Company attacked the state of Travancore and was defeated by Travancore.The company has been blocking news about this matter, and does not want the Southeast Asian countries to know.

Once the myth of Holland's invincibility is broken, its rule in Southeast Asia will be in jeopardy.

The top management of Batavia is very clear that the current company is a giant with mud feet, a tiger whose teeth have been pulled out, and a lion whose claws have been cut off.

Once the myth that the Dutch are invincible is broken, those native chiefs who have long been dissatisfied will have a heart of resistance.

The point is, how can this Travancore state defeat the company's fleet?
It's no secret that the British East India Company made the move. Without the support of the British East India Company, Travancore, a native state, would not have been able to defeat the VOC fleet in naval battles.

The two countries are in Europe and are allies.The Prince of Orange is also the son-in-law of the King of England.The two countries fought shoulder to shoulder in this war over the Austrian succession.

But in Asia, the East India Companies of the two countries stabbed each other.And it was unilateral, the Netherlands was stabbed, because the Dutch East India Company is really powerless to counter-stab the British.

In the past few years, Batavia's finances have been quite tight due to the immigration of Ceylon.Without money, nothing can be done.

But there is really no way not to spend this money.

Kill and dare not kill.Dashun has to be coaxed, otherwise Dashun's fleet will come, and the teacher will ask the crime, what should we do?It has affected the trade with China, and all the senior leaders of Batavia have to do it again.

If you don't kill them, there will be a strong Chinese-dominated rebel army in the Bandung area, and these unemployed people will join the rebel army as soon as they turn around.

Although the treatment of these immigrant Chinese slave labor is very bad, no matter how bad it is, immigration still costs money.

Dashun still has supervisors in Ceylon, and the death rate must be controlled below 50.00%, otherwise Dashun will definitely cause trouble.

Transporting people, boarding and lodging, these all cost money.

In the past few years, Batavia's finances have been really poor.Immigration has also led to outrage among mid-level corporate employees throughout Batavia.

Historically, after the Hongxi tragedy, the middle-level people made a fortune.The manors and properties of several rich Chinese were all divided up.

Now, they dare not grab.

Originally, the middle management could still get some money by accepting bribes. For example, the Chinese slave labor needed by the sugar factory could turn a blind eye and not check the residence permit issue.

But now, the middle-level income is gone; the company’s headquarters are constantly stepping up trade with China, and the status of the transit port is struggling to maintain. Under the multi-party game, the goods from Ceylon must first go back to Batavia and then go to the Netherlands. It is to accommodate local interests; the depression of the sugar industry and the demise of the transit trade have driven the depression of the commercial service industry.

On the one hand, the British stabbed knives in Ceylon, India, and even Java.

On the one hand, the middle-level employees are extremely dissatisfied. Since the immigration policy was opened, there have been more than a dozen letters from the employees that Valkneer knows to complain to the headquarters about him as the governor.

On the one hand, Da Shunxiang stared at the company's Chinese policy like a bastard.

And, the uprising in the Bandung area was encircled and suppressed twice, and the troops were lost.It is understandable that those rebels have muskets and artillery, the British gave them.

However, during the second siege, these rebels didn't even lay an ambush, but directly set up a battle formation, beating the drums, forming an array, and shooting salvos at close range, directly smashing the company's army.

There are guns and cannons, and they are not terrible.

The Sinhalese on Ceylon also had guns, but they were still vulnerable; the Nanyang chiefs also had a lot of muskets in their hands, but they were still easily defeated by the Dutch.

It is possible to form a field battle, which is very scary.

After the second siege failed, Valkenier took the opportunity to shift the responsibility to the incompetence of the garrison commander, because the garrison commander always wanted to be the governor, and he was in competition with Valkenier, and he wrote letters to him from time to time. The board of directors complained.

Then in 1743, a treaty was signed with the rebels in the Bandung area, acknowledging the control of these rebels over the surrounding areas.

Secretly, they wanted to dispatch troops and generals, preparing for another wave of encirclement and suppression.There, it is too close to Batavia, and if it cannot be extinguished, the chiefs of Java may soon unite with them to rebel.

This wave of delaying tactics, Valknir thinks it is a good one.

However, I never thought that it was not their company that took the initiative to tear up the treaty, but the Chinese rebels.

The field battle was enough to shock the upper echelons of Batavia, and now they actually attacked the bastion directly, and it was a very standard attacking bastion tactic, causing the defenders to collapse and surrender within seven days.

In this regard, Valkner faced Batavia's high-level executives and put forward his thoughts with a very cautious expression.

"Gentlemen, this is not the time to scold those shameless British people. We must take back Cirebon, at all costs."

"We've shown that we may not be able to control mountains."

“But if we don’t control even the coastal cities, that will be the beginning of a collapse of corporate dominance in Southeast Asia. It’s a domino set and there will be a cascade of reactions.”

"The company must at least prove that we still have absolute dominance on the coast."

"Fortunately, after the immigration incident, the law and order situation in Batavia has improved. A large number of members of the Wushan Party have been sent to Ceylon. The Chinese in the city are good citizens who pay the poll tax. They are weak and timid. I don’t dare to do any bad deeds with my bottles and jars and property.”

"We can leave a small number of troops to defend Batavia, mobilize the army and fleet of Bekasi, Semarang, Madura, conscript ships, let these people realize that the company's force is still not something they can challenge in the coastal areas of."

Valknier's idea is still correct. The Dutch's encirclement and suppression of the volcanic area failed, although the ruling prestige of some companies was shaken.

However, the various chieftains and small countries still need to do business.Although the Dutch can't attack the mountainous areas, but conversely, the Dutch are not very interested in the mountainous areas, and they have not extended their hands to the mountainous areas.

However, if the coastal areas cannot be defended, then the problem will be serious.

Those small countries have long coveted the cities in the coastal areas.Once the coastal cities are captured, why do they have to do business with the Dutch?Wouldn't it be nice to sell at a higher price to the Portuguese, the British, or even the French?

The news that Cirebon was captured this time cannot be concealed.It can be said that countless pairs of eyes on the entire Java Island are staring at the actions of the Dutch, wondering whether the Dutch can't even defend the coastal areas.

(End of this chapter)