Xinshun 1730

Chapter 736 Opportunity

When the Chinese with residence permits in Batavia first saw the vague and illusory country in the north as "us".

Outside the city, the Batavian governor of the Dutch East India Company, Valkenier, is suffering the largest field defeat in the history of the East India Company in Southeast Asia.

The 1600 Dutch soldiers who were about to withdraw to Batavia for shelter, as well as some local native mercenaries and servants, suffered field attacks from the Guiyi Army and a part of the Dashun Marine Corps.

400 were killed, the rest were wounded, surrendered or fled.

The death of these 400 people announced the demise of the last field mobile army of the Dutch East India Company in Southeast Asia.

It also means that Dashun, which has seized the command of the sea, slowly gnawed down the remaining Dutch fortresses in Southeast Asia before the monsoon came in May 1747, and could announce the replacement of the overlord of the entire Southeast Asia region.

And this has to be the case of a small probability event that the Dutch actually want to continue fighting.Not a single Dutch reinforcement here, at least in May '47.

Moreover, the level of the British navy is much higher than that of the Dutch at this time, but the British crossed the sea to fight China and the United States, and before they even reached the shore, they lost scurvy and reduced their personnel by one-third. 5000.

Therefore, the Dutch reinforcements can only exist in theory.

For nearly two and a half years, the Dutch, who had lost their last field mobile corps and command of the sea, had effectively announced the disintegration of their rule of Southeast Asia.

Although, only 400 people died.It looks like the scale of the battle is small.

Although, in theory, the VOC in Asia, from Persia to Japan, has a total of 6000 to [-] troops, including mercenaries and servants, there must be tens of thousands of people.

However, these figures are strategically meaningless.

In Europe, the decline of the Netherlands was marked by the end of the War of the Quadruple Alliance. The Netherlands refused to participate in the peace conference and officially gave up its status as a world power.

In Southeast Asia, the sign of the decline of the Netherlands was not this field battle in which four hundred people were killed.

Five or six years ago, when the Netherlands did not dare to use simple and crude means to solve the "excess" population in Batavia, it had actually declared that the Dutch rule was crumbling.

Today's battle is just a slight push to this rotten wall.

The defeated Valknir did not hesitate, and chose to surrender decently when the infantry from Dashun approached.

In the camp on the Dashun side, Valkner met his acquaintance Liu Yu.

After Valkner saw Liu Yu in the camp near the artillery position, he felt that his defeat was not wronged at all.

This has nothing to do with fighting, and Valkneer is not very clear about the battles between Liu Yu and the Junggar tribe, the Raksha people, and even Japan. After all, he has never seen it with his own eyes.

It was because Liu Yu had prepared a dazzling appearance for Dashun in Europe a few years ago.At the moment of appearance, there are too many elements of coup d'état, palace fighting and conspiracy.

In Valknier's view, the company's failure in Southeast Asia was due to conspiracy.

Now that it's all over, and I saw Liu Yu again here, so do you still need to think about the emigration to Ceylon back then?It must be part of the whole conspiracy.

It is reasonable to think that the company was defeated by such a conspirator.At least, in his opinion, it was a conspiracy.

Rather than the process of commercial capital being subordinate to industrial capital from Liu Yu's perspective, the main reason for the hollowing out of the Netherlands is the excessive spread of Dutch commercial capital.

If it does not belong to Dashun today, it will belong to others tomorrow.

The perspectives of the two people looking at the problem are fundamentally different, but there is no need for the two people to "talk too much without speculation".

Valknier does not want to discuss the reasons for the company's failure and the core of the decline of the Netherlands. He only cares about what he should do after the company collapses.
He wants to talk about his own personal destiny.

And when it comes to this, two people don't need to interact with the three views.

After seeing Liu Yu, Valkner took the initiative to mention: "Master Marquis, can I have a private talk with you?"

There are many people around Liu Yu who understand Dutch. Hearing what Valkner said, they stared at Valkner vigilantly, worrying about doing something that would be unfavorable to Liu Yu.

Liu Yu said with a smile: "According to the rules of the Celestial Dynasty, or unspoken rules, in fact, generally speaking, the suggestion that the leading general and the enemy's chief general should have secret talks in private is not accepted."

"Jiang Boyue's and Zhong Shiji's old affairs, melon fields and plums, are indeed not good."

"However, Nanyang is not Sichuan, where the road to Shu is difficult. As long as the imperial navy is still there, Nanyang is more stable than Shandong and Henan. It doesn't hurt to talk about it."

Once the unspoken rules are said deliberately, it loses the taste of conspiracy and mystery.

Of course Valkneer didn't know about Jiang Boyue's old affairs with Zhong Shiji, Liu Yu said this just for those who can understand.

Smiling and waving to the people next to him, the adjutant moved two empty gunpowder kegs, served tea, and stepped aside.

Liu Yu doesn't have much hatred for Valknir at this time.

In history, he had indeed been involved in the Hongxi tragedy, but now such a hungry wolf has been trained into a stray dog ​​by him.

It took a few years to turn this unscrupulous big crab into a timid bastard when I first came here. This kind of pleasure is much more refreshing than chopping it off with a knife.

People who dare not kill people, immigrants who dare not throw them into the sea, and even become the governor-general are born with the idea that it would be better to go back.

In spite of his deeds, this person cooperated with Liu Yu's plan to emigrate to Ceylon, and he can also be regarded as a great contributor to Dashun's future strategy in India and the capture of raw material production areas and markets.

Valkner first congratulated Liu Yu.

"Master Marquis, your country has achieved a huge victory this time. In the short term, the company will not send reinforcements. From 1596 to the present, we have lost the command of the sea in Southeast Asia for the first time. From Colombo in Ceylon to Morocco Ambon Castle in the Luka Islands, your country has enough time to take it slowly."

"The French, your country's allies in Europe, are very good at attacking the bastion system of our Seven Provinces Republic. I think your country must be very good at it."

"I have to admit that I was excited and proud when I took office as Governor of Batavia. But I never thought at that time that I would be the last Batavia Governor of the company."

"Many years later, when people write "History of the Dutch East India Company", my name will definitely be mentioned by historians."

"Including... the policy of immigration to Ceylon, failure to resolve the sugar crisis, and failure to report the threat of China in Southeast Asia in a timely manner... The Dutch of future generations will definitely remember my name."

Liu Yu thought in his heart that you ran away with me to claim credit?
The fucking relative overproduction crisis is something you can solve?Who are you and can you solve this shadow that haunts the capitalist system for a lifetime?
Even if you tell the board of directors that Southeast Asia is facing the threat of China, what can the board of directors do?The latest battleship in the province of Amsterdam, I have to call it uncle in terms of age, so what if I tell you?
I have been preparing to go to Nanyang since I caught Bering, a graduate of your Amsterdam Naval Academy, for almost 20 years.Really can't beat me before?
It's just thinking about how to end the war.

Lao Tzu is now the deputy envoy of the Privy Council, not the leading general of Lengtou. How to fight the war should not be my consideration at all, but how to end the war should be considered more.

Come here to claim credit, you are worthy of being a governor, and your official speaking skills are not weak.

But he didn't reach out to hit the smiling face, and after Valkneer seemed to pour bitter water on his praise, Liu Yu said with a smile: "You are indeed credited with immigrating to Ceylon, of course, for the Celestial Dynasty."

"But to be honest, the imperial court refused to repatriate them back to Fujian, and I sent a fleet to Nanyang to prevent you from massacring them. Is there any other way besides emigrating to Ceylon?"

"I want you to immigrate them to Cape Town, but you can't move them, can you? If you can convince the board of directors to immigrate [-] Chinese to Cape Town, even if you can live [-], wait When I return to the court, I can play Your Majesty and give you a good hope."

These words seem to be ironic, but in fact what Liu Yu said is really true.Not to mention [-] dead and [-] left, even if there are [-] left, it is not a problem to be named a Marquis in Dashun according to the level of the surrendered "vassal princes".

Valkenir smiled helplessly, feeling that Liu Yu was mocking him, and said for a while, "In any case, I am afraid that people in future generations will not be able to understand the reason why they have to immigrate to Ceylon. As you said, you can't kill, The Tang people also launched an uprising, under the crisis of surplus sugar industry, is there any other way besides immigrating to Ceylon?"

"However, will people in later generations notice this? They will only remember that it was I who presided over the plan to move the Chinese to Ceylon."

"Your country passed through Malacca before and went to India to support the fleet of the French East India Company. In fact, it was not a war with Britain, but Ceylon, right?"

Counting the days, Colombo has probably been captured at this time. Liu Yu did not hide anything, nodded with a smile, and said, "But even if I tell you clearly, what can you do? Hit Travancore The VOC that can lose is no longer the VOC that defeated Spain and Portugal and played against England and France."

"Your era is over. The days of Amsterdam as the financial center of Europe may also be over. Your ancestors were also richer, and of course they are not bad now. Company executives, the status of the entire seven provinces can be ranked in the top [-] Man. What do you think of the fate of Amsterdam?"

Valkner agrees with this statement.Of course, his ancestors were richer and had been the mayor of Amsterdam, and he must have been a big businessman, otherwise he would have no chance of becoming a senior executive of the East India Company.

It can basically be said that the status of the seven provinces can be ranked in the top fifty.

The loss of the East India Company by the East India Company would cause a far greater financial turmoil than the events of the South Sea Company and the Mississippi Company.

However, Valknir didn't quite understand it.

Liu Yu is very aware of the consequences of doing so, and also understands the financier's choice.

However, in my impression, Liu Yu has a very bad impression of Britain, and seems to have the intention of finding fault with Britain. The George Anson incident in Lingdingyang is a notable example.

Dashun's ally is France again.

Once Amsterdam's financial center status collapses, financial capital is parasitic, and another parasite will be used.Looking at the whole of Europe, the best parasite must be the United Kingdom.

Now that Liu Yu understands the situation in the European financial market, he also understands some things about the Amsterdam Stock Exchange, and he also hates the UK.

Then... the consequences of doing this... Valknir thought to himself, could the Marquis in front of him not be able to think of things that he could think of?
How do you see the fate of Amsterdam?Valkneer thought to himself, Amsterdam has nothing to do with me, I am more concerned about the future trade policy of Dashun, which is closely related to my personal fate.

(End of this chapter)