Xinshun 1730

Chapter 748 Batavia's New Deal ([-])

Two and a half months after Batavia was renamed Yecheng, the guests invited by Liu Yu finally arrived.

Dashun's fleet circled around Nanyang and friendly announced the end of the Dutch rule to various local small countries.

So all countries sent high-ranking nobles to Batavia, which was renamed Coconut City, to attend the banquet.

Most of the people who came were real cronies of kings, sultans, rajas and the like.

There are colonists ruling by the side, unity is impossible to unite, infighting is the top priority.Now that Dashun has replaced the Netherlands, the first thing these kings, sultans, and rajas have to consider is to get in touch with the new ruler first.

This is forced by introversion. If you don’t make good friends, those who intend to stage a coup to overthrow you will make good friends, and they will offer more conditions than you to betray the country.

It is very common in Nanyang to prefer to be with Youbang and not to be with domestic slaves.

70 years ago, when the anti-Dutch uprising broke out, the Sultan of the Sultanate of Mataram borrowed the help of his teachers and immediately signed a tax-free treaty with the Dutch, ceding Semarang, Berangan and other places.I just want to completely wipe out the rebel army mobilized at the bottom.The nobles attached to the Dutch are still nobles, but if the mud legs win, they will lose everything.

Now there is a new foreign force, and this new force is much stronger than the Dutch.In this case, it is quite similar to the prisoner's dilemma. If you don't sell your country, what if someone else sells it first?

Things happen so much that it has already become a habit.Besides, although the people of various countries were squeezed by the Dutch colonial monopoly trade, the life of the nobles was actually okay.

Not to mention the exchange of spices for money, the nobles made a lot of money; let alone the many brutal systems of the Dutch, which also made many nobles rich.

Such as the robbery system.Indigenous princes and princes sent people to arrest twelve or thirteen-year-old children, and after they were caught, they were raised in Sulawesi like pigs.When they were able to work at the age of fifteen or sixteen, and all the pig farmers became numb, they learned absolute obedience and did not dare to resist, so they were sold directly as slaves.

As for why adults are not arrested directly, because adults can run away, and they are not foreign slaves who came to America from Africa and are not familiar with the local area, so no one will be caught if they run away.

The Chinese are mainly slave laborers, mainly with the help of the residence permit and hard labor system, acquiescing to the Chinese traffickers to sell people.There are not many Chinese slaves, and the vast majority of Chinese slaves are debt slaves.

With regard to the mess left by the Dutch, after reading Valkner's introduction, Liu Yu also kept thinking about the idea of ​​simply killing them all.

These people came here, on the one hand, to establish a good relationship with the new "colonists"; on the other hand, they also asked to test whether Dashun's policies would affect their continued prosperity.

The Dutch are gone, and the Dutch system has collapsed.

The Dutch have been here for more than 100 years, and the entire Southeast Asian system revolves around the East India Company.Slave trading, spice trade, normal trade, tribute system, protectorate, refuge, whoever the Dutch support will succeed to the throne... all these things need Dashun to solve after the Dutch leave.

However, Liu Yu couldn't solve these problems at all at this time.For the time being, call these people first, mainly let them go to Malacca, this is called "Zhigan Qiwu, You Miao Naifu".

Suppress them first, let's talk about the future.

But to say that Dashun ruled Nanyang, one has to consider Dashun's political correctness.There are some things that Dashun really can’t do like the Dutch.

The Dutch don't care, they are neither a monarchy nor a republic, and everything is based on interests. It is no problem to support whoever you like to support, and whoever you like to support rebellion.

But Dashun can't do that.

Nanyang still has to maintain the form of tribute, even if this tribute is different from the previous form of tribute, but some of the most basic things cannot be changed.

Just like the classic scene where Wang Situ scolded Marquis Wu.

Later generations felt that what Wang Situ said seemed to make sense, and Marquis Wu was clearly acting against the sky.

However, at this time, and for generations before this time, Wuhou's words were fatal.

Li Yuanzhang and Zhu Zicheng can say these words, but you, Wang Situ, cannot.You are a filial and honest official, and as a Hanchen, no matter how reasonable your words are, your background determines that everything you do is wrong under the current ideology and political correctness.

Dashun has its own ideological system.This ideological system is related to the entire concept of "Tianxia".

The emperor knew that he had a lot of benefits, so he couldn't support the rebels of a certain vassal.Because the etiquette itself is the most important interest for the royal family.

Although Dashun compares himself to Li Tang all the time and also has the same surname Li, he is really different from Li Tang.At the very least, Dashun is far behind Li Tang in the words of brotherly respect, father kindness and son filial piety.

Moreover, the so-called "Zhu Wen exterminated Li Tang, and the Li family came to avenge the Zhu family" were originally rumors circulated in the market, not official things.The officials only acquiesced in the spread of these words, but no official has ever said that this is the case.

The reason for the righteousness of the country is that the emperor does not cultivate morality and protects the morality of the world.

Under such circumstances, the problems of many small countries in Southeast Asia are not easy to deal with.

It is impossible for Dashun to support such things as the son wants to oppose Lao Tzu, the younger brother wants to kill the older brother to become the caliphate, and enforce the law of succession.

Just like the North Korea issue back then, the king of Joseon was said to have died from his younger brother’s ginseng soup, so that some nobles raised their troops for a coup, Dashun could only support the king of Joseon, even if those who supported the mutiny seemed to have more interests for Dashun, no.

One of the reasons why the Netherlands cannot be the overlord is that the Netherlands does not have its own consistent ideology, nor does it have a complete set of concepts of the Celestial Dynasty.

Even if the Netherlands insists on free trade from the very beginning and vows to change the world's trading system, then he is qualified to be a dynasty.But the Netherlands is mercenary. If free trade is beneficial today, they will talk about free trade;

It is doomed that the Netherlands can only be a powerful country for a while, not a celestial dynasty.

Dashun went to Nanyang, not Liu Yu, nor Li Yan went to Nanyang, but Dashun went to Nanyang. There is a whole set of ideology and political correctness in it, which must at least be passable on the surface.

The son opposed his father, and the younger brother rebelled against his elder brother, and it was indeed difficult for Dashun.

Don't care about anything, is that called Xia Nanyang?How about lying to yourself?
No matter, even if the son betrays the country and sells more, and the younger brother sells the country better, then he can only support the father and brother.

The Li family does not represent the interests of all Chinese, and the interests of all Chinese are also nonsense.The taxpayers in Batavia and the slave laborers in the sugar factory in Batavia are both Chinese. Do they have the same interests?

The Li family represents, after all, the interests of the Li family.Etiquette is just a tool to maintain his family rule.But this tool is still very useful at this time, and there will never be a situation where the emperor himself opposes the etiquette.

In this regard, the emperor is tolerant enough to Nanyang.Just like Batavia's "Three Chapters of the Covenant", many things are tailored to local conditions. There is a very common thing in it, which is the issue of inheritance rights.

Dashun's inheritance law must conform to Dashun's ideology.

Batavia's line of succession is based on the will first.

To give a simple example, a wealthy businessman in Batavia died, and he made a will, saying that he gave all his property to his concubine and the son born to him, which is valid in Batavia.But in Dashun, whoever dares to judge this will as valid will have his official career come to an end.

Today, many of Batavia's policies have continued in the past, which can be regarded as extrajudicial grace of the emperor.If it really caused a bunch of tributary states in the Nanyang area, a coup d'état today, a son rebelling against Lao Tzu tomorrow, and a younger brother killing his elder brother in the future, it is absolutely impossible for the Dashun court to support such a thing.

However, just like the Matalan Sultanate, it is the political entity closest to Coconut City in Java.Now the two sons of Sultan Omangurat IX of the Matalan Sultanate have found Liu Yu and privately said, "My father is dying. I hope the Chinese government can support me as Sultan. It is best to do it in one step. Directly let me be the caliph of Southeast Asia, and if we look for blood, our family can find the branch of holy descendants."

To say that according to Liu Yu's thinking, the bear who should divide the meat, both sides support, and then say "don't fight, don't fight, half of the family", and the one horse beats the Blue Sultanate into two.

However, the Sultanate of Mataran is too close to China, so I know Dashun’s stuff very well. I have never eaten pork but I have seen pigs run, and I have experienced tribute before. Although it was a long time ago, I still have experience.

The old sultan, Amangurat IX, directly submitted a letter to Liu Yu and Li Yan, and used this to represent the emperor, saying that his eldest son was smart and benevolent, and hoped that the emperor could confer the eldest son as the prince.

This made things difficult for Liu Yu.

For this kind of thing, it is impossible not to transfer this request to the emperor.Moreover, this request was not a problem according to Dashun's political correctness.Isn't it natural for the eldest son to inherit?
If the old sultan didn't know much about the Celestial Dynasty, or if the emperor hoped that the Celestial Dynasty would support his youngest son's succession, the Celestial Dynasty would have a reason to intervene: you don't want the eldest son to inherit, aren't you looking for trouble? ?
But now, based on the experience of dealing with China hundreds of years ago, and the understanding of Chinese culture by many Chinese taxpayers in China, they directly made such a statement: the eldest son, hoping to be canonized by the Chinese Dynasty, this is nothing to say about the Chinese Dynasty can be said.

Or, you can be canonized, pretending to be a celestial dynasty, and don't care if a rebellion breaks out in the future.Just like Ryukyu back then, it was controlled by the Japanese for so long, and they didn't fart a single fart, pretending not to know.

Or, if you are canonized, and there will be a rebellion in the country in the future, will your Celestial Dynasty be responsible for your canonization?If you don't care about it, the whole Nanyang will see it, and cooperating with the canonization of the Celestial Dynasty is bullshit, so who can take it seriously?

Dashun went to Nanyang, not that Dashun first had Nanyang under the "Nanyang Monopoly Company".There is no political correctness in the company, as long as it makes money.

But Dashun was the first to use the power of the imperial court to go to Nanyang, and Nanyang, as the natural back garden of the Celestial Dynasty, must carry out a lot of control.

The problem is that the tributary system is outdated.

This is not to say that the tributary system is not good, but that before the Portuguese broke into Nanyang, the Chinese Empire was the largest consumer market, none of them.

However, with the influx of Western Europeans, China was no longer the largest consumer market, which caused the entire tributary system in Southeast Asia to collapse.

Southeast Asia is not North Korea, not Vietnam.

The king of Southeast Asia is either called the Sultan, or the Caliph, or the Raja, and he is not in the Confucian system.

Their own ideology and religious beliefs are different. If the Celestial Dynasty cannot even be the largest consumer market, it is really not qualified to be a Celestial Dynasty.

Now that Dashun has come to Nanyang, the question of force is really simple.For this Dutchman, in Liu Yu's words, if you give him eight battleships, even if you give him a thousand soldiers, after getting the division of sea control, he will eat them all in two years.

But in the case of Nanyang, military issues are not a problem at all.

Take the "stealing system" as an example. Do the native princes who take children as slaves support the rule of the Dutch?
Of course support.

The children were caught and beaten for two years, until they dared not resist and learned to obey, they could be sold for silver coins.

Now it's Dashun, and it's easy and not difficult to beat the Dutch.

However, does Dashun want slaves?

Not to mention Dashun's side, slavery is an absolute political error, and in this regard, Dashun and even Ming can be proud of the world.

Let’s just say that there are a lot of landless peasants in Dashun’s own country who have nothing to do, so they might as well come to Nanyang to work as hired labor.

Then Dashun doesn't want slavery. Do these princes and nobles who are beneficiaries of the system of robbery support Dashun?

Dashun doesn’t want slaves, so I’m a native prince, and my main income is to catch children of my own ethnicity and raise pigs as slaves. Now that you’ve driven away the Dutch, you don’t want slaves anymore. What about those of us who sell children?Why can I support you?

(End of this chapter)