Xinshun 1730

Chapter 707 Naval Battle ([-])

The hidden truth behind this question is vulgar.Besides money, it's money, it's money.

There is neither enthusiasm nor emotion.

Do you want to say that there is anyone in the navy who has invested in the army and wants to create hegemony for China in this world of great struggle?

there must be.

But if you know the concept of Huaxia and how to write Baye, you will definitely not be able to become a sailor.

France has Colbert’s reserve crew registration system; Dashun selects twelve or thirteen-year-old children from the victims and trains part of the trading company; Britain directly recruits strong men on the street, catches street sneakers, and dispatches them to the marine gendarmes on board Lobster soldiers are slaves.

Homesteaders are an excellent source of soldiers for the army at this time, but definitely not the best source of sailors.

Liu Yu deliberately said it to Li Yan, and repeatedly reminded him, also in order to win a policy ally in the DPRK and China in the future.

If you don't take the initiative to attack, the navy is a waste of money. Liu Yu guessed that once the Nanyang issue is resolved, there will be a big debate between the DPRK and China on whether to abolish the navy.

The enemies outside are easy to talk about.

For internal opponents, it hurts the most to stab people.

It's not that Li Yan doesn't understand this truth, but his position is really a bit embarrassing.He did not participate in the construction of the Navy from scratch; now the Navy Department has been established in Dashun, and civilian officials are in charge of the Navy Department.

He, the governor of the navy, is a leader of the army to put it bluntly.

Whether to build a ship or not, and how much money the navy can get, he feels that he seems to be powerless.If you can really get a lot of money from the DPRK, China and the navy, the officers will be happy and the sailors will be happy, and your prestige will certainly increase.

But in his current embarrassing position, Liu Yu faintly felt that Liu Yu didn't feel back pain when he was standing and talking.Xindao Jinghou, you built the navy with one hand, and the treatment of the sailors was subsidized by the marquis with some means. Everyone in the navy knew that the shipbuilding plan was written by the Privy Council to the emperor.You don't have to fight bravely, you have prestige in the army and you can hold it down, but what about me?

To put it simply, the sailor has three guns pinned to his waist, but where does the money come from?How can I get money by myself?Let’s not talk about this, just talk about the rules set before, capture the enemy warship, and give 20.00% of the income to the crew and officers. It’s hard to say whether those people in the court can give money happily.

"What Jing Hou said is very true, but... I can only say that I will do my best. I don't know what advice Jing Hou has on this?"

Liu Yu replied four words lightly.

"Strive for reason."

Li Yan sighed: "These four words, the difficulty lies in the 'reason'. What is reasonable? What is unreasonable? What is right? What is wrong? It's not that Jinghou doesn't know, in this so-called Jinghou In terms of 'Three Views', we and the people in the court are not on the same road at all. According to you and me, if you go to Nanyang alone, you will get millions of dollars, which is definitely right; To put it bluntly, getting millions of dollars is wrong in itself, or it has no value at all, what you think is a very important bargaining chip, in the eyes of others, it is a piece of weightless air, how can you argue with reason?"

"The reasoning on both sides is different. My reasoning is to go south; his reasoning is to go north. How do you argue?"

Subtle influence, the most important thing is the three views.Kang Buxio kept saying that Liu Yu was neither a Westerner nor a Dashun native, and it was because of these three views.Many later generations of Liu Yu took it for granted, but Dashun at this time did not make sense at all.

Li Yan has been greatly influenced by Liu Yu, although he has not summed it up in his heart, he has vaguely noticed this incompatibility gap.

Liu Yu smiled and said: "Your Highness, Your Highness, you are now the Governor of the Navy. This is your problem, and it depends on your ability. If you want to wear the crown, you must bear its weight."

"As the commander-in-chief of the navy, His Highness may not know how to fight, and has the Privy Council and the General Staff to help him; he may not dare to fight hand-to-hand, and has sailors to fight bravely. But if there is no money, or even the abolition of the navy and the reduction of the navy's treatment, His Highness will Admiral of the navy, how can he gain the morale of the army?"

After all, he pointed to the battle that was still going on in the distance. The balance of victory had already tilted towards Dashun. With accurate timing and tactical assault, if nothing else happened, at least five Dutch warships would have to be captured.

"The first test Your Highness will face is to ask the court for a reward after the Nanyang battle is over. 20.00% of the value of a warship. After the Nanyang battle is over, at least 10 taels of cash must be prepared."

"Otherwise, Your Highness will just wait and see. The next time you fight, the sailor will tell you that whoever jumps bravely to fight is a fool."

"This is the treatment I promised the sailors a long time ago. Your Highness may not increase it, but it must not decrease it."

"The sailors endured huge casualties, endured a prison-like life at sea, and even lined up to find the sheep raised on the ship to vent the fire. It's really not for loyalty to the king and patriotism. They are villains, not gentlemen, don't use gentlemen Morality to restrain them. If a villain says profit, then give profit."

There are some things that Li Yan really doesn't know.Just like he had imagined the brutality of naval battles before, but he didn't expect it to reach this level; he also imagined the madness of sailors being imprisoned, but he really didn't expect that the bottom sailors would line up to fuck goats.

He has come into contact with too many officers, and occasionally meets sailors, but it is a kind of overlooking and pity from a superior. Compared with Liu Yu, who built the navy from scratch, the biggest difference is that Look at the mentality of a sailor.

Liu Yu's mentality is that these sailors are working for money, and they are all scum when measured by the standards of a gentleman.

They are sneaky and abducted; at least [-]% of them have internal diseases; they are crazy at sea, goats beyond species, and even have bold ideas about fish mouths; they don’t care about loyalty to the emperor at all; if they are not paid Finally, the group of soldiers who are still obedient when they owe their salary, they will directly kill the officers and hijack the ship to be happy pirates.

However, they are the basis for the outward expansion of the empire. Without them, Dashun would not have Nanyang and India.They are not good people, but they propped up the expansion of the empire.

Liu Yu not only failed to curb the mentality of these sailors, but has been silently encouraging them.Besides, it can't be contained at all, life at sea is like this, and it is no different from being in prison.

Li Yan silently thought about Liu Yu's advice, and thought of a metaphor Liu Yu made before: an excellent professional manager, the property is not his own, but he has to consider everything from the perspective of the management, and save as much as he can. Squeeze if you can.

But it seems inappropriate to use it in the army. It is impossible to save money for the army. From the perspective of the court, of course it is best not to issue additional rewards. The treatment of sailors is already quite high in the eyes of some people. In addition to military pay, there are supporting retirement systems, a one-third salary system for registered seamen, retirement annuities, captive subsidies, and so on.

As Liu Yu said, as the governor of the navy, he may not be able to fight, but he must support the navy.The real difficulty is not on the battlefield.

Li Yan looked at the scattered corpses on the opposite deck, thinking about the essence of what Liu Yu said about why these sailors fought, and seemed to really understand something, but he didn't seem to fully understand it.

This is actually in conflict with his education.

Whether it is loyalty to the emperor or Liu Yu's so-called "who I am and who I am not", the situation of these sailors is different.

…………

Aboard the St. Michael.

The battle on the deck was over, and Dashun's sailors had poured into the cabin.

The commander of the Dutch fleet and the general counselor of Batavia of the East India Company, Van Grass, heard the shouts of killing from above, and knew that the desperate hand-to-hand combat also failed.

Cannons are not as good as people, guns are not as good as people, and even the number of sailors who participated in the war is not as good as people.Under such circumstances, more than a hundred years of naval tradition and so-called courage did not achieve the effect of reversing the outcome.

In desperation, the distraught Glass came to the door of the gunpowder magazine.He had to ignite the gunpowder first, and die with the ship, and with the Chinese sailors on the ship who made him suffer the defeat, he died at the bottom of the sea.

If it is a war with Britain and France, Grasse will choose to surrender.

But the opponent is Chinese, and he is afraid of surrender.

Because he knew very well how the Dutch treated the Chinese in Batavia, and he was afraid that the same fate would happen to him.

For example, they were forced to do hard labor for a lifetime and died on the construction site.

For example, the body was quartered by five horses, and the body was inserted on a cross.

For example, he once discussed with the Governor that there should be a massacre of Batavia's "surplus population" to facilitate industrial transformation.

What I have done, I always worry that the same fate will happen to me.

Subconsciously, the Dutch do not regard people in Southeast Asia and China as the same people as them.

For example, the so-called massacre on Ambon Island. After they captured the British, they were tried and convicted, and then hanged.Later, Cromwell asked them to pay hundreds of thousands of Dutch guilders for this incident.

But when they were in the Zhoushan Islands, in Penghu, in Taiwan, and even in Batavia, no matter whether they looked at the Chinese or the people from Southeast Asia, they thought they were just a group of uncivilized monkeys.People who kill animals do not need to go through trial, and there is no need to consider future compensation at all.

This kind of subconscious arrogance, once it came to the day of backlash, made Grass think of a terrible tragedy: he felt that the Chinese would treat the captured Dutch the same way the Dutch treated the Chinese.Because he thought of killing all the Chinese sugar workers in Batavia to deal with the sugar crisis.

The Chinese do not believe in Christianity, and they are "barbaric" and unreasonable. This saying has always been spread among the Dutch community in Southeast Asia.

When they were in Penghu, after they surrendered, they were actually executed.

The Dutch were astonished.

Because they naturally ignored the fact that they plundered and massacred hundreds of people in the Zhoushan Islands, and sent hundreds of people to Batavia to be sold as slaves in Batavia. When the Dutch put to death, the Dutch would be amazed: How barbaric, to execute those who surrendered?

This kind of subconsciously ignoring some evil deeds and thinking that the other party is barbaric, the Dutch do too much.When failure befell them at this time, Glass subconsciously felt that his fate would be extremely miserable.One's imagination is limited by one's own experience.

In order to avoid this miserable fate, which is worse than death, and to vent his resentment against the shameless Chinese who fought without declaring war, he prepared to light the powder magazine.

(End of this chapter)