Xinshun 1730

Chapter 749

Knowing that all the princes and nobles of Nanyang in front of him have evil intentions, Liu Yu can only resist his disgust and make false claims with them.

A banquet was held to entertain them in the former Governor's Mansion, and it was not interesting to eat.You can neither eat pork nor drink alcohol, and you must be passable on the surface.

After the Hongxi massacre in history, with the Dutch involvement in the European war, the failure of the expedition to Travancore in India, and the withdrawal of the Chinese uprising to Central Java to persist in the struggle, it was around this time that the entire Nanyang Set off a wave of large-scale anti-Dutch uprising.

It even appeared that the Banten Sunnis besieged Batavia and crossed the sea to attack Lampung; and then the Wahabis spread to Java and launched riots in Cirebon and Madura.

In such a muddy quagmire, if Dashun wanted to control it, he had to establish a good relationship with these sultans and kings for the time being.

But what is certain is that this good relationship will not last long.

Regardless of whether Liu Yu instructed Niu Er to carry out land reform in West Java; it must control the number of religions and mosques.This will cause great conflicts between Dashun and the local nobles and religious priests.

Just like the mosques in Cirebon and Batavia, even if they cannot be demolished, they cannot continue to increase.

It's not the same here as Ceylon.Ceylon's primitive Buddhism, although it is indeed very aggressive, is still acceptable.

Religious issues in Nanyang are extremely complicated. Confucianism is only suitable for the standard small-scale farming system. Under the material conditions of Nanyang, it is absolutely powerless.

Dashun also forbids Catholicism, and certainly does not support Protestantism, which is like-minded.If you want to gain a foothold, you may have to support Buddhism.

It is even possible to try the Western Regions model, to cultivate a Buddhist powerhouse similar to Junggar in Nanyang, and Dashun will instigate and secretly support it, so as to maintain a relatively balanced situation.

Liu Yu still wants to choose one of these small countries to fight against religious stains.

The Spaniards have experience with this. After all, they have experienced the Restoration Movement for a hundred years, so Luzon was Latinized and there are a large number of Catholics.But Dashun cannot use Catholicism here, and there is really no long-term effective solution to Nanyang for a while.

Therefore, what can be done for the time being can only be "can't afford to provoke and hide".

Don't even think about ruling Nanyang in an all-round way, just enclose the land in a few places so that the number of Chinese can reach the vast majority.

For these small countries, try to maintain a relatively good relationship with them, instigate wars between them, and maintain a scene of endless civil strife.

The place Liu Yu really wants to circle is West Java.

Places like Malacca and Bangka are too small to be considered cities, but the places are still small.

Only in West Java, the land is very fertile and there are a lot of volcanic ashes. With the help of the Chinese in Batavia, if we can complete the land reform, land reform, and a large number of immigrants, it can be regarded as having a piece of land in Nanyang.

Therefore, in today's banquet, the most important guests in Liu Yu's eyes are the two groups of people from the Banten Sultanate and the Matalan Sultanate.

One is within a hundred miles of Batavia.

Another theoretically controls Central Java.

Liu Yu's attitude towards these two sultanates is also different.

After introducing the people from various countries at the banquet, Liu Yu approached Niu Er privately, pointed to these people quietly, and whispered: "Within five years, the Wandan Kingdom will be destroyed. Blue Sultanate, although their sultan knew the meaning of paying tribute, and tried to eliminate the possibility of the Celestial Dynasty interfering with the internal struggles after the death of the old sultan...but you must know it in your heart, if you have an opportunity, you must not miss it. One point Two, divide one into three, the more intense the internal fighting, the better."

"Banten is too close to Coconut City, and it also controls the Sunda Strait. It has been hooking up with the British in Bengkulu on the opposite side. How can you allow others to snore on the side of the couch? Since the land reform in West Java is going to happen, Banten has to directly Erase."

"Matalan is to the east. Anyway, we have firmly controlled the Brian'an area. There is no need to destroy the country. We just need to participate in its internal struggle and let them compete to sign more traitorous treaties."

"Destroy Banten first, and end the worries of the Coconut City; then split Matalam and completely control West Java. In addition to the land reform, if you can accomplish it, it will be a great achievement, and it will be of great use. You are in Burian An Rijiu, you know something about Wan Danying, right?"

Niu Er thought about the difficulty of these three things, pondered for a while, nodded and said: "Wandan is very close, I know it very well. In the Guiyi Army, there are also many slaves who escaped from Wandan."

"It is not only necessary to reform the land, but also to eliminate Banten. I think it is easy."

After speaking, he stretched out his hand and made a gesture of wiping his neck.

"Release the slaves. Kill all the priests and nobles who occupy the land, leaving no one behind. Redistribute the land. The country is governed by religious law, and the missionary elders occupy villages as fiefs, and more slaves are used."

"The Dutch are short of manpower, and as long as Banten can provide slaves, labor, and tribute spices, they are not willing to touch them. But once we come here, the court has won Nanyang, and there will be many people who go to Nanyang to make a living; Since Hou said that he wanted to change the land system, he didn’t need to use the Dutch method, so he might as well wipe out the priests and nobles.”

"I don't think they should be exiled or anything, and don't follow the Dutch way of buying out the kingdom's rule and giving them an annuity. Just kill them all."

This method is extremely rough, but Liu Yu quite agrees and thinks it is very effective.

Banten has very little room for maneuver. As long as the army presses up, the fleet blocks the Sunda Strait, and the slaves are mobilized, one counts as one, and none escapes.

Unlike the Sultanate of Mataram, which has mountainous areas and a lot of room for maneuver, it will not be able to kill it for a while.

Calculated according to the ratio, it is not difficult to kill about 5000 people on a large scale.

Seeing that Liu Yu supported his idea of ​​killing them all, Niu Er said, "Jinghou, it is not difficult to kill people. But I also need manpower. The Guiyi Army is going to Ceylon, and the Java garrison must be resolved as soon as possible. Five years, how about training?" It also takes a year."

"In addition to soldiers, we also need some small officials. Enough small officials can complete the land reform in West Java."

"You don't need many soldiers, two thousand is enough."

"But for a small official, at least three hundred are needed to fully control West Java, not just a few cities such as Yecheng."

Liu Yu was very satisfied with this request. It seemed that Niu Er knew how to do this kind of thing through his experience in the Boliang'an area.

If it was before, it would be quite difficult to ask for three hundred small officials at the first opening.

But now, it's easy.

Liu Yu buried a huge hole for the court, that is, the students of the first department of Xinxue Practical Studies.

Since he was in Weihai, he has set up a group of new schools in Wendeng in the name of training the navy.

And later, as the emperor prepared to go to Nanyang, many new schools were built in some places that allowed the New Deal to be tried.

These students are of course literate.

However, according to Dashun's mainstream ideology, they are uneducated.

They know very little about scriptures, and what they learn is geometry, arithmetic, navigation and physics.

They are not eligible to take the imperial examination.

But to say they are illiterate?It doesn't seem right either.It's just that they are not mainstream cultural people in Dashun.

After so many years, a large number of low-level naval officers have come out of new schools.There are still many people with a larger base who cannot be admitted to new schools, and who cannot find a job in a trading company.

These people are neither officials nor alternate officials, and they really failed the imperial examination.

This is a huge powder keg, and as the number of people increases, it may explode one day.

For the time being, Niu Er needs a large number of literate officials, and they still know how to calculate and calculate accounts instead of just scriptures. These people are the right candidates.

The emperor is not going to let Nanyang be under the jurisdiction of the six governments, so those troubles can just be skipped.

When he was engaged in practical studies, the emperor promised Confucianism that those who study practical studies will not take up the places in your imperial examinations.

This can be regarded as a kind of compromise between the monarchy and the teaching power, and it also avoided a lot of verbal battles.

The large number of low-level officials in Nanyang can be selected from the practical graduates who have been arranged long ago and have been over-educated in advance.

Although the conditions in Nanyang are difficult, there must still be many people willing to come.

Normal landlord families did not go to study practical studies that could not be taken in the imperial examination.

Those who came from a maritime family and were sent to study practical studies naturally had no worries about future work.

And those practical students who were neither landlords nor maritime merchants, and who were trained by Liu Yu with money, were asked to come to Nanyang to work for five or six taels of silver a month. Why would they refuse to come?
300 people, even if the monthly salary is five taels of silver, it is only 60 taels a year. 300 people are no more than 2 taels.

If the land reform in West Java can be completed, the coffee and cotton grown by the common people, plus the land tax of 2, will be sold to more than ten times the [-] taels of silver.

If education had not been carried out in advance and so many "literate but uneducated" marginalized people had not been trained in advance, things in Nanyang would have been difficult.

But thinking about it the other way around, without this new type of school, Dashun's navy would not be able to develop to this scale.

The emperor hasn't seen the danger yet, Liu Yu is also under the guise of "in order to expand the navy and reform the military".

If Niu Er really succeeds here, maybe he can continue to expand the scale of the practical school, because this will let the emperor see the benefits.

Thinking of this, Liu Yu said: "You don't have to worry about the issue of soldiers and small officials. I will solve it myself. All you have to do is report the number to me and issue a military order. The soldiers and personnel you want, I'll get it for you. I just want results."

"When I go to Malacca in a few days, I won't come back. I'll be the shopkeeper. What you do is up to you. The Privy Council will send people here to investigate. Just let it go."

"Murder and execution are all up to you. I can protect you. No one will interfere with you in the court. I will blame you for slaughtering the people and provoking border quarrels."

"Murder and execution are fine, but you either don't do it, or you do it and you do it."

Liu Yu's eyes became fierce, Niu Er looked at the group of people in the Wandan Sultanate in the distance, clenched his fists, and said to you, don't worry, I can gain a firm foothold in the Brian'an area. The only thing to do is to kill the person who deserves to be killed.

Already ready to kill, Niu Er thought to himself, since he said five years, he must hurry up.Today's meal is to see which small countries should be killed and which ones should be treated as dogs?
(End of this chapter)