Xinshun 1730

Chapter 723
This logic can be regarded as the standard logic of many middle- and upper-class Chinese who go to sea: because of the resistance of the Chinese at the bottom, we have been treated unfairly and jealousy.

This is the reality.

The same is true in history.

After the Red Creek massacre in Batavia, many wealthy Chinese businessmen who managed to escape did not resent the Dutch, and took the initiative to offend the Dutch, thinking that the cause was caused by the unemployed Chinese riots.Some people even think that this is just the governor's personal reason, "If the Dutch king knows, he will not tolerate it", but the Dutch governor certainly has a certain responsibility, mainly because of the riots caused by the Chinese at the bottom.

However, even what Fu Guang said was not entirely wrong, at least it was absolutely true that the Chinese in the city did not support the Chinese insurgents in the mountains.

Because the Chinese in the city can afford the poll tax, they also rely on Batavia's special transit port status to make a living.

Moreover, the Chinese living in the city know that the Dutch are invincible by force.In addition, if those poor ghosts gain power, I am afraid that most of the big businessmen, taxpayers, loan lenders, contractors of sugar factories, and those who help the Dutch collect spices will all be robbed of their property by those outside the city.

Even after the Hongxi tragedy in history, when the Dutch internally accused Lian Fu Guangan and found a scapegoat internally to prevent affecting trade with China, they also admitted this in writing.

[That is: they (Chinese living in the city) understand the strength of the company better than those Chinese outside the city, and can make a more correct estimate. 】

[Putting us (the Dutch) out, reforming the administration, will never do their trade and commerce any favors.So it is impossible for them (Chinese in the city) to have the same anti-company ideas as their compatriots outside the city. 】

This kind of thinking is also considered normal.

Those who are a little bit more clear-headed, if they look farther, think that even if the imperial court goes to Nanyang, is it a good thing?
As soon as Batavia's status as a transit port disappears, and as soon as Batavia's status as the VOC capital disappears, it will be bad news for the people in the capital.

And the vast majority of people's business is in contact with the East India Company.Whether it was selling opium to China, or acting as a middleman in Java to buy cash crops that companies wanted, the Dutch needed to be here in order to prosper.

The reality is very real, without those imaginary beautiful filters.Including the Lanfang Republic, which is regarded as the totem of overseas Chinese in later generations, they also sold opium to the mainland. When they paid taxes to the Dutch in 1823, they also used opium to offset part of the tax.Of course, according to some logic, it can also be considered that selling opium to the foolish people in the colonies under the rule of the Manchu Tartars is really a hero!But how you look at it has nothing to do with the facts.

In short, the fact is that the Wushan Party outside the city and the slave labor in the sugar factory could no longer survive. They revolted and captured a barracks in the Netherlands with kitchen knives and bamboo sticks. They finally withdrew to Central Java to struggle for survival, and most of them survived; When the people in the city were massacred in history, they basically died without any resistance. Many participants in the massacre recalled that the Chinese in the city obeyed the company's words very obediently. When they attacked outside the city, they closed their doors They didn’t come out until they were killed; and some wealthy Chinese businessmen who escaped by chance also took the initiative to find problems from the Chinese, and believed that the Netherlands mainly knew that such things would not be allowed to happen.

At this time, Lian Fuguang's logic is as follows: If the Chinese outside the city riot, because they are all Chinese, the Chinese inside the city may also be implicated.If something goes wrong and the Dutch kill people, these people are looking for you people who rioted in the sugar factory to claim their lives.

If this is said to ordinary people, they may think it makes sense.

It seems that this is the case.

Maybe, some kind-hearted and soft-hearted people will blame themselves.

When Wang Wu heard this, he couldn't help laughing and said, "You're a fool. Valknir didn't even dare to kill the slave workers in the sugar factory outside the city. He tried to move it? Scared him to death."

"You really know how to put gold on your face, and you're good at mediating, Mao Mao. It's obvious that the imperial court's gunboat came to Batavia, and he didn't dare to kill Valknir even more."

He was full of swear words and unspeakable vulgarity, which made Lian Fuguang a little uncomfortable.But thinking that this person can do business with the British East India Company alone, he is also a strong man, at least qualified to be on an equal footing with himself, so he can't show his displeasure.

He only said: "In any case, with your broken guns, is it possible that you really want to follow the mantis? Do you know where the Dutch country is? How big is the Dutch country? Do you know how many warships and armored soldiers this Dutch country has?"

"You don't know, let me tell you. This Dutch country is tens of thousands of miles away in the west of the ocean. It is not just a small Batavia. It has thousands of warships and hundreds of thousands of armored soldiers. Even the Western powers will see it. Trembling. Back then, the blue-flag country’s ship was detained by the Dutch, and they only said they suspected pirates pretending to be fake, but so what? Didn’t they stop the ship honestly for inspection? You only think that the blue-flag country is a small country? The Banner State also fought several big battles with the Raksha State, but only the Raksha State lost its helmet and armor."

"Even if you occupy Cirebon, what can you do?"

"To put it bluntly, follow the Dutch, have meat to eat, and business to do. Follow you?"

"Now that you are here, and my younger brother is here, I might as well say something. You guys, if you can't win, why bother?"

"Don't talk big, even the imperial court in the north said that the average land would be exempt from grain, but if you win the world, don't you pay taxes and grains? We collect taxes and collect poll taxes. It's hard for you to make things happen. no tax?"

"Neither can we not collect taxes, but we can't do business, and we don't have ships, and we can't do maritime trade. How do you ask us to support you? How can we be of one mind with you?"

"My younger brother lost his mind and went crazy. He listened too much to storytelling about Yue Wumu, Prime Minister Wen, and the Heroes of the Water Margin, and his brain is broken. Among the thousands of you, there is no one who is not bad-minded. Time-conscious?"

Speaking of this, Lian Fuguang glanced at his brother again, then at Wang Wu and the others sitting in front of him, gritted his teeth and said, "If you surrender to the governor, I will mediate and keep you safe. How about it?"

He didn't notice that his younger brother Lian Jieguang's face twitched when he said the words "the court in the north", and he didn't notice the fright in his younger brother Lian Jieguang's eyes.

Lian Fuguang felt that it was his last attempt to save his younger brother. If he could surrender, with his status as Kapitan and some lawyer friends in the Netherlands, he would always take good care of his younger brother, not to mention taking care of others.

As long as he is not exiled to the Cape of South Africa, as long as he is in Nanyang, whether it is Ambon, Java, or Sulawesi, he has a relationship with him and can keep his brother safe.But if he is exiled to Cape, there is no other way. I don’t know anyone there, but my lawyer friend should try to get to Ambon or Sulawesi.

As soon as the voice fell, there was silence in the room, and no one answered for a while.

He thought Wang Wu and the others were moved.

But I don't know that the people in the room have all kinds of strange thoughts at this time, and they are all different, but there is no such thing as a heartbeat.

Lian Jieguang thought: Brother, brother, what are you talking about?Do you dare to criticize the affairs of the imperial court?He also talked about equalizing the land and exempting grain, just hoping that the adult will think you are ignorant and don't pursue the crime.You are the Jiapidan of Batavia, and you are considered a rebellious official. How dare you say this at this juncture?
The people around Wang Wu thought, this man's mind is broken and he can't be saved.When Jing Hou knew that our rebels were going to single-handedly attack the withdrawn army from the Netherlands, he sent us here overnight. He only thought that you were Jiapidan in the city, and first encouraged the Chinese to revolt, so as to prevent the Dutch from being besieged and desperate and massacred.If it wasn't for these Chinese people in the city, I would have slapped you in the face long ago, what, bah.

Wang Wu was relatively indifferent. He complained when he accepted the task before rushing to Batavia overnight.

He felt that the Chinese in the city were just fools.

As for Lei Zhenlan, Jiapitan and the like, he can also understand that the Dutch rule Nanyang, so someone must come forward to deal with the Dutch on the side of the Chinese.

But the problem is that they still have another layer of identity, that is, they are taxpayers.

In the past few years, Wang Wu has dealt with the British more than once. He has also been to India and traveled to Bengkulu, so he still has some vision.

The basis of Batavia's prosperity is the local power in Batavia, which kidnapped the Dutch East India Company and forced them to transship goods in Batavia.

Not to mention the obstacles to direct trade with China before, even the cinnamon from Ceylon has to be shipped in Colombo or Jaffna. Against the wind, it will first go to Batavia, and then be repackaged in Batavia and shipped back to Europe.

When the imperial court went to Nanyang, Batavia's status would inevitably decline.Not to mention that the Nanyang Protectorate selected by the imperial court is in Malacca, what is Batavia in the eyes of the imperial court?Why should the cinnamon gemstones from Ceylon be shipped back to Batavia first?
In addition, if the imperial court continues to sell tea, porcelain, and silk to Europe in the future, the ships will just pass through Malacca. Is it necessary to make a detour and come to Batavia first?

That being the case, in the future, the Chinese in Batavia will feel that life is not as good as it was in the Netherlands, and I am afraid that it is hard to calm down.

Life is not as good as when the Dutch ruled, which is almost a certainty for some.Lost the status of a transit port, let alone those who run small restaurants, small hotels, brothels, casinos, and vegetable sellers. In the past, 1 people came a year, but now [-] people come a year. Not affected?
Do people think so much?It only feels that life is not as good as when the Dutch ruled.

Even if there are only a small number of those who are hard-pressed, is the court going to do something to win the hearts of the Chinese in Batavia?

At the very least, the tax package system must be abolished, right?

The imperial court basically doesn’t use the tax system very much, and the imperial court actually doesn’t like to let the tax contractors earn the difference in the middle – without the tax contractors, they lose money, even if they cry and say that they don’t make money at all, they subsidize it A lot of money, that can't be trusted.

Furthermore, there are many people who are contractors for sugar factories.

Those uprising slave laborers of the Guiyi Army, of course, hated the red-haired ghosts, but they often took "you don't have a residence permit, if you don't work hard, I will report you to Bacheng and let you go to the Dutch to serve hard labor until you die" Do you want to deal with people who use words to oppress Chinese slave labor?

Even if the 2000-member Guiyi Army expands to [-] in the future, aren’t the Chinese in Ceylon also slave laborers back then?
If this is not dealt with, and even continue to let them contract sugar factories and become masters, what do these Guiyi soldiers think?
According to Wang Wu's thinking, since the Dutch captives could be captured and they were taken as hostages, the Dutch were not allowed to massacre, so why did they ask Jiapidan to present this certificate, and make meritorious service anyway?
If the Dutch really wanted to kill, it would be a good thing to let the people know how vicious the Dutch are.

Even in the future, because the imperial court does not need Batavia to transfer, Batavia will gradually decline, and the people will remember that although Bacheng has declined under the rule of the Celestial Dynasty, at least there has been no massacre.

But Liu Yu told him that people's memory is not that long.Even if he did kill him, at most 20 years, the hatred will be basically forgotten, and it is useless.

The grass on the wall is actually quite good.

As long as the wind on your side is strong enough, the grass on the wall will never bend to the other side.

Today in Nanyang, the east wind prevails over the west wind, and the grass on the wall is still credible.

Blast knows that the strong grass country is chaotic and loyal, and it is not necessary for everyone to be strong grass on weekdays.

Moreover, regarding the Nanyang incident, the Celestial Dynasty is also responsible for not going to Nanyang 300 years earlier.If you go to sea to make a living, you have to live, don't you?

As for why Jiabidan and others are required to do meritorious service anyway, it is also to silence the mouths of some people in the court: they think that if they go to Nanyang and abandon themselves as kings, they will forget about the Celestial Dynasty over time, and even collude with Yidi Yunyun.

If Jiabidan and Lei Zhenlan can do meritorious service anyway, they can say in the court: China is China, and barbarians are barbarians.Wherever there are Chinese, as soon as the heavenly soldiers arrive, the people will win the food scene from...

It's also good for the imperial court to feel at ease and encourage them to go abroad.

Besides...

Wang Wu remembered that Liu Yu said a few words.

"Settling accounts after autumn. What's the rush?"

(End of this chapter)