Xinshun 1730

Chapter 722
Liu Yu stretched out his finger, pointed at the Guiyi army that was gathering, and said, "You have guns. The Dutch are like birds, and the local chieftains can't hold their heads up. What do you say you are afraid of?"

"Whoever is disobedient, the little aristocrat of the chiefdom is unwilling to give up his power, and he will be dealt with and dealt with."

"In the Celestial Dynasty, it's hard to handle. It's like the Wuqiao mutiny in the previous dynasty. There are people in the court behind it. Maybe they folded themselves in."

"In the Celestial Dynasty, if a wealthy gentry in any place leads a bastard behind his back and a turtle, he may be entrusted to the court through his relationship."

"In Java, what do you say you are afraid of? Which one of you can't afford to offend? Which local chieftain noble can find a relationship with the court?"

"The reform of the government is even more difficult. If you are in Java, if your hands are tied, wouldn't it be ridiculed?"

"The Dutch are able to abolish virgin marriage and dismantle the caste system in Ceylon. Is it possible that we are not as good as the Dutch?"

The encouragement that was a bit deceptive, the purpose was not to explain the truth, but to let Niu Er and others understand their attitude.

To be an official in Dashun, in fact, there are only nine words: not only books, not facts, only superiors.

Who is it?
Sometimes, it may not be the emperor, because most officials have no access to the emperor.

After expressing his attitude clearly, Niu Er naturally knew it in his heart.

Looking at the Guiyi Army that has assembled in front of me, I thought to myself, why am I afraid of these local chiefs?If I really lose, I can organize the rebel army, and at worst, go back to the volcano and reunite.

What I'm afraid of is that something will happen, which is not in line with the court's wishes.

Or, be read by ginseng.

I'm just a small fish and shrimp, but I can't guarantee that someone will make an issue of me, but in fact they are targeting you.At that time, it will be bad because I have something bad.

But now that the Marquis of Whale has said so, there is nothing more to say.You are not afraid of making big troubles, and you are not afraid of someone taking the opportunity to trouble you, so what am I afraid of?

Thinking of this, Niu Er said: "Marquis Jing underestimated me. I'm actually not afraid of these things, but of not being able to grasp the upper hand. Whether it's the nobles of the local chiefdom or the taxpayers in Batavia... ..."

"To put it bluntly, it's like Jiapidan in Batavia, who has millions of dollars in wealth. In the Celestial Dynasty, he may not be as relevant as a landlord of a hundred acres of land in the south of the Yangtze River."

"The home of farming and studying with [-] mu of land in the south of the Yangtze River may be the family of the high officials in the court. But the land tyrants like Batavia, even if they can afford to buy ten thousand mu of land, it is not appropriate to use it."

"Since Jing Hou said so, I have a clue in my heart."

Speaking of this, Niu Er asked again: "By the way, Marquis Whale. What should we do with the taxpayers in Batavia, Lei Zhenlan, and Jiapidan?"

Liu Yu smiled and said, "Look at their performance."

"Performance?"

Niu Er was puzzled for a while, thinking what kind of performance those people could do, at most they were just a group of fools.It might not even be as good as grass on the wall. Many of them are determined to side with the red-haired ghost, right?
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Batavia.

Several special guests were welcomed in the luxurious residence of Batavia Capitan Lian Fuguang on Rowa Malacca Street near the Portuguese Catholic Church.

It was his compatriot brother Lian Jieguang who led these special guests to meet the Chinese Jiapitan Lian Fuguang.

The younger brother who persuaded his elder brother to support the Chinese uprising outside the city did not know exactly what he was doing in the past few years.

Although he knew that it must have something to do with the rebels entrenched in the Brian'an area, but considering the feelings of his compatriots, and considering that his younger brother would be implicated if he colluded with the rebels, Lian Fuguang only warned his younger brother a few times in private, and did not Did not report to the governor.

Basically, the family relationship of a real brother is maintained.By not reporting on him, it was considered a way of showing face to my own brother.

The governor went out of the city to suppress the bandits, and those rebels entrenched in the Bo Liangan area actually captured Cirebon, which made Lian Fuguang very disturbed.

His brother-in-law is the daughter-in-law of the Guo Anguan family in Kapitan, Semarang. His daughter-in-law's natal Lin family is Lei Zhenlan from Cirebon, and his daughter-in-law is a stable Chinese Kapitan Guo Mao.

The news obtained from these dense relationship networks has basically been bad news in recent years.

Europe is at war, and business in Southeast Asia is not easy to do; slave labor from sugar factories has migrated to Ceylon, and it seems that the relationship between China and the Netherlands has become a little stiff, and there are fewer ships coming and going; From time to time they attack cities like Cirebon and kidnap merchants who go into rural areas to collect spices.

Life is hard everywhere.

Just as Liu Yu said in Dashun, if you do something, it's easy to lead the bastard to the turtle; it's the same in Java.Those who can mix with Jiabidan, Lei Zhenlan, and Wu Zhimi may be related to each other by marriage, and they are real local snakes.

It is not surprising that this kind of land snake family can produce a Lian Jieguang who sympathizes with the sugar factory slave workers.

Lian Fuguang felt that his younger brother owed him a lot. If he hadn't reported it, his own brother would have been dismembered by now, and his head was hung on a wooden pole next to the church for seabirds to eat.Batavia's dismemberment of Dutch "traitor" Peter Elberfeld, which he witnessed in his childhood, is still a lingering shadow in Lian Fuguang's heart after so many years.

But the younger brother didn't take his affection very much, on the contrary, he called him cowardly and useless before.In fact, the two brothers have not communicated much in the past few years, because they were despised by their younger brothers for a long time when they reported the incident of Lian Huaiguan, the leader of the Chinese Wushan Party, and the two had a big fight.

As an older brother, if his younger brother didn't take the initiative to apologize, he really couldn't bear to talk to his younger brother.

Now that his younger brother took the initiative to bring someone to look for him, Lian Fuguang was so surprised that he glanced at those people and knew that the person on the other side had a lot of background.

All of them were tanned, but extremely robust.Even Fu Guang is a Batavia Chinese Jiapitan. He has seen a lot of people who traveled to Nanyang, and he has a wealth of experience. Just by looking at the temperament of these people, you can tell that they are not ordinary people.

Before his younger brother could say anything, he asked his confidantes to drive away the servants, secure the gate and prevent others from entering.

"Are you from the mountains?"

Lian Fuguang took the initiative to ask, although this sentence seemed to be nonsense.The characters my younger brother befriended were in this sensitive period when the governor took people to attack Cirebon, so it was easy to guess the background of the other side.

The leader nodded and said, "You can just call me Wang Wu. The weapons in the mountains were all transported by me. I was also doing the business with the British East India Company. Master Jiapidan is also in business. , counting as a peer. When the sugar factory was in trouble, the Huaiguan brothers made some cloth to distinguish the enemy from the enemy, and Mr. Jiapidan sold it."

Lian Fuguang was stunned. He had reported Lian Huaiguan back then. Lian Huaiguan was not a good bird. He was the leader of the unemployed Chinese Wushan Party in the city. How resentful.

Lian Huaiguan was different from him. Although he was also in business, he was a chivalrous person, and he couldn't piss in the same pot as himself who dealt with the colonial government.

At the beginning of the sugar factory uprising, Lian Huaiguan also followed into the mountain. It seems that the rebels in the mountain were annihilated later. Huang Ban who went up the mountain with Lian Huaiguan died, but Lian Huaiguan was still alive.

Now that this person mentioned Lian Huai Guan, how could Lian Fuguang not be nervous?Although Lian Huaiguan would probably not do anything to him because of his younger brother's face, but what this man said made Lian Fuguang feel uneasy.

Back then he did have some business dealings with Lian Huaiguan, but it was really just a pure business.But the man said that he had provided the cloth for the uprising at the sugar factory that day. If the Dutch knew about it, things would be troublesome.

And this man named Wang Wu in front of him is no ordinary person.This is a person who can deal directly with the British East India Company and transport arms. In addition to being bold and careful, this kind of person may also have extremely high means.

Why did my younger brother bring these people here today?
Could it be... Could it be that the rebels in the volcano area, who couldn't live on, came here to fight the autumn wind?

"So it's the five brothers Wang? It's a pleasure to meet you. It must be something to do when you come to the humble house today. If you have something to do, you might as well just say that this is Batavia, and the Governor's Palace of the Netherlands is here. There are still people on the street. Dutch soldiers are on patrol, so let's cut a long story short and don't be polite."

When he said this, he actually warned Wang Wu: This is not a mountain, but Batavia.

My own residence is just near the church, and there are Dutch soldiers on the street.If you really want to make a fuss, you all have to fold here.

Not thinking about it, Wang Wu smiled and said, "I've come to Batavia so many times. I always come and leave whenever I want. I don't care about these Dutch people on the street. "

After all, the musket at the waist appeared inadvertently.

Lian Fuguang glanced at his younger brother next to him suspiciously, feeling very dissatisfied.

I thought to myself that I am also your own brother, so that I did not report to the governor that you hooked up with those number one traitors. Is this how you treat your brother?

Bring these malicious people into your home?
Once this incident is over today, the brotherhood between the two of us will be here.My brother's benevolence is exhausted.

While talking, Wang Wu on the opposite side pulled up a chair and sat down on his own.

Lian Fuguang's younger brother, Lian Jieguang, naturally stood beside Wang Wu, obviously respecting this man in front of him, at least more than his elder brother.

Even Fu Guang didn't want to show his timidity, instead he would be looked down upon by others, so he sat on the chair and said with a sneer, "You are all very capable, I know you are not afraid of anything. But I might as well advise you, you should be traitors. The Tang people in the city do not support you."

"Those poor people who can't pay the poll tax can't survive because they have no ability. People in the city think that the rule of the Dutch is okay, but if they change their appearance, it may be even more unfavorable for doing business."

"You are struggling in Java, and the life of the Chinese people in the city is not easy. Not to mention the difficulty of doing business, the Dutch also have a lot of suspicion of the Chinese people in the city, all because of you."

"If it weren't for the governor to see clearly, if I hadn't tried my best to let the governor know that everyone in the city felt that if there was a real change, not only would it not be better than it is now, but it would be chaotic, and small business and small business would not be good. Do it. Not to mention big business, big business.”

"If I hadn't tried my best to mediate, I don't know what kind of suspicion the Tang people in the city would be. When the time comes, kill them. Do you think it was because of the trouble you caused in the sugar factory? If it wasn't for the governor to see clearly, if it wasn't I handed over the message, if there is a massacre in the city, it will be all because of you."

"At that time, I am afraid that thousands of innocent souls will come to seek your lives!"

(End of this chapter)