1850 American Gold Tycoon.

Populism is a very dangerous thing.

Especially in this era when most people do not have the ability to think rationally.

Once the atrocities committed by the Dutch-Indian colonial government against the Chinese in Borneo were announced, the people of California, especially the Chinese community, instantly exploded.

The headlines of the massacre of Chinese in Borneo by the Royal Dutch East India Army on the front pages of major newspapers and the photos of the massacre of local Chinese, Chinese Americans, and the burning of Chinese huts are so dazzling.

Collins, an old media person in California, is indeed an experienced media person, and even the stunning photos in the photos are carefully selected.

Photographs of Royal Dutch East India Army soldiers with bayonet-mounted rifles and Dutch officers brandishing sabers.It was an actor Collins scouted on the street.

The old, weak, women and children of the Chinese under the knife of the Royal Dutch East India Army were also actors selected by Collins from the Chinese immigrants waiting to be resettled in the temporary resettlement sites with a remuneration of 30 cents a day, including food and housing.

Even the huts are new huts that have just been erected.

Collins' photographs are successful, and they inspire empathy among Californians.

However, there are also very few sharp-eyed and knowledgeable Chinese who feel strange: How do these red-haired ghosts of the Dutch East India Company equip the American Springfield m1842 rifles?

However, these small problems are harmless. Many Chinese people do not know what the Dutch-Indian government is, let alone let them distinguish the authenticity of the photos.

Although many Chinese don't know what the Dutch East India Company is, they know what the Dutch are.

Many Dutch immigrants and Scottish immigrants have often been greeted cordially recently. Either their windows were smashed, or they were inexplicably surrounded by a group of Chinese and other ethnic groups walking on the street.

The Dutch and Scottish immigrants soon learned that their red hair was to blame.

Because the Chinese call Dutch people red-haired ghosts, and red hair is how they distinguish Dutch from other white people.

Dutch immigrants and Scottish immigrants who knew the reason rushed to the barber shop and asked the owner to dye their red hair into other colors, or even cut off the red hair altogether.

As a result, the business of the barber shop became prosperous for a while, and the smiles of the shopkeepers were brighter than the blooming chrysanthemums.

Some clothing store owners who saw business opportunities even sold clothes and hats with the words "I am American, not Dutch" in both Chinese and English. These clothes and hats were quickly swept away by immigrants with obvious Dutch characteristics. And the light.

Even the teachers of the language schools that teach Chinese are stalked by white people with obvious Dutch characteristics as soon as they leave the school, asking them how to quickly explain to the Chinese whether they are Dutch or not.

Even Jeremiah, the director of St. Francis Shipyard, couldn't help complaining to Liang Yao, because of his Dutch identity, he often caused unwarranted disasters recently.

In fact, Jeremiah’s ancestors immigrated to New Amsterdam, which is now New York, as early as the middle of the 18th century. After several generations of mixed blood, they have no relationship with the Netherlands. They are typical Americans.

But explaining these things to the irrational populace is futile. …

On the last day of 1853, the Huaxia Chamber of Commerce announced the suspension of all trade activities with the Dutch East India Company.

Just a week later, the California state government also passed a bill declaring an embargo against the Dutch and Indian authorities until the Royal Dutch East India Army withdrew from the island of Borneo.

The next day, the California Consortium announced that the Port of San Francisco, the Port of Los Angeles, Pearl Harbor in Hawaii, Nagasaki Port in Japan, and Xiangshan Port in China operated by the California Consortium will suspend all Dutch East India Company operations from the time they receive the news from the headquarters. , and any service provided by any merchant vessel flying the Dutch flag.

"It's still the unity of the Paoze in California. If the Paoze on Borneo Island can have half the unity of the Paoze in California, how can we let the red-haired ghosts bully us so much that we can't even keep a foothold."

Seeing this scene, Liu Shanbang couldn't help but sigh with emotion.

"California Paoze is united because there are people like Mr. Liang in California, but we don't have someone like Mr. Liang in Borneo." Wang Jia also sighed.

"In Borneo, we are the ones who look at the faces of foreigners. Here, it is the foreigners who look at our faces."

In the Tingtao Garden on January 1854, 1, Liang Yao was mobilizing and deploying his armed forces based on the information collected from the Royal Dutch East India Army.

"According to the information we have collected, the troops of the Dutch and Indian authorities are composed of indigenous soldiers recruited by European Dutch volunteers.

Of course, in addition to European volunteers and indigenous recruits, their troops also recruited more than [-] foreign mercenaries of multiple nationalities and other nationalities.

However, the officer corps of the Dutch and Indian authorities are all composed of Dutch. "Elvis, the head of the Arizona Infantry, introduced to everyone.

"It must be emphasized that they were not fully professional soldiers. The Royal Dutch East Indies Army was not a military institution, but a military police service. They performed both a police role and a military function in the Dutch East Indies.

According to my assessment, the cohesion of this army composed of officers composed of Dutch and Dutch expatriates, non-commissioned officers composed of European mercenaries, and soldiers composed of Europeans and local indigenous people is very problematic.

Its combat effectiveness is even lower than that of the newly established Beaver Regiment. "

Kruger, head of the Beaver regiment, added.

Fillmore gave Liang Yao the establishment of four and a half regiments. At the end of 1853, the soldiers of the California Infantry Regiment were overpaid, and the current establishment and equipment tactics did not match.

Liang Yao organized his officer corps to start reforming his armed force, the Western Brigade.

After the reform, one-third of the non-commissioned officers and half of the soldiers of the California Infantry Regiment retired and became mercenaries of the Umbrella Company.

The military reform of the California Infantry left gaps in non-commissioned officers and soldiers from the original militia.

The head of the California Infantry Regiment is concurrently held by Liang Yao.

Due to the reasonable salary, the Arizona Infantry Regiment has not changed much, but to adapt to the new military system, one regiment, four battalions, one battalion and three companies, the original ten infantry companies have been expanded to twelve infantry companies.

Colonel Elvis remained in command of the Arizona Infantry.

The Beaver Regiment, also known as the Oregon Infantry, was formed by recruiting California citizens with military experience from members of the original California militia who had not been drawn to the California militia. …

At the same time, the Beaver Regiment is the only infantry regiment among the three infantry regiments that has no actual combat experience and record, and is recognized as the weakest infantry regiment of the Western Brigade.

The leader of the Beaver Regiment is the former instructor and the current American Army Colonel Kruger.

Three infantry regiments were not the entire armed force of the Western Brigade.

In addition to the three regular infantry regiments, after military reform, Liang Yao also has a cavalry battalion, an artillery battalion, and an engineer battalion.

Kruger said that the Royal Dutch East India Army's combat effectiveness is not as good as that of the Beaver Regiment, which is somewhat contemptuous of the Royal Dutch East India Army.

The Royal Dutch East India Army was a colonial army established on September 1814 by Royal Decree of the Netherlands, which also served as a police force.

The composition of the Royal Dutch East India Army was very similar to the colonial army formed by the British East India Company in India.The basic structure is white officers from the mother country plus local indigenous soldiers.

The big difference is that the officers of the colonial army of the British East India Company are basically British, while the Netherlands, which has a population of only [-] million, cannot do this.

In addition to accepting Dutch and Dutch expatriates, the Royal Dutch East India Army also mainly accepted Flemish (Flemish region of Belgium, located in the northern coastal area of ​​Belgium), Germans, Swiss and French.Preference will be given to candidates who are proficient in Dutch or German.

Walloons (the Walloon region of Belgium, in the interior of southern Belgium), Arabs, and nationals of the United Kingdom and the United States were prohibited from serving in the Royal Dutch East India Army.

The largest number of indigenous soldiers in the Dutch Royal East India Army was mainly composed of Javanese, Ambon and Manado, of which Javanese were the main ones.

When Liang Yao went to Borneo, apart from the armed forces of the Lanfang Company on Borneo who had defected to the Dutch and Indian colonial authorities, his biggest enemy was the Dutch Royal East India Army of the Dutch and Indian colonial authorities.

The Royal Netherlands East Indies Army is not part of the Royal Netherlands Army, but a separate army formed specifically for service in the Netherlands East Indies.

至于荷兰皇家东印度军队的战绩，多是和印度尼西亚群岛土着取得的，比如1821年到1845年的帕德里战争、1825年到1830年的爪哇战争、1849 年镇压巴厘岛居民对殖民统治的战争。

Although these wars against the local aborigines were finally won by the Royal Dutch East Indian Army, they did not fight well. Kruger even believed that with the absolute advantage in equipment, he could fight well with the local uncivilized aborigines. Once, the Royal Dutch East India Army was also talented.

"I agree with Colonel Kruger's point of view. At the beginning of the formation of the Royal Dutch East India Army, European soldiers and indigenous soldiers were divided in half at the grassroots level. With European soldiers in the formation, the Royal Dutch East India Army can still maintain a certain combat effectiveness.

But since 1835, because the Dutch East India Company could not recruit enough European soldiers in Europe, the ratio of European soldiers to indigenous soldiers has changed from the original 1:1 to 1:3, and it may be higher.

Therefore, I also think that the combat effectiveness of the Royal Dutch East India Army is declining, and I am skeptical about their combat effectiveness. "...

Elvis agreed with Kruger that the Royal Dutch East India Army was inferior to the Western Brigade.

The Western Brigade is an army that is spent on money and bullets. Except for the Beaver Regiment, they all have corresponding combat experience.

If the Dutch Royal East India Army, which is composed of Europeans and natives, can't even fight back and forth with the natives, it is really unreasonable.

"Strategically, we must despise the enemy strategically, and we must pay attention to the enemy tactically. No matter what, the Royal Dutch East India Army has more than 8000 European officers and soldiers, and more than 2 indigenous soldiers. We are still at a disadvantage in terms of strength." Liang Yao said.

In this military operation, Liang Yao was more nervous than he was during the expedition to Japan.

After all, the soldiers of the Japanese vassals and the army of the Tokugawa shogunate are still medieval troops in essence, and there is a generation gap with his army.

However, there is no obvious generation difference between the Royal Dutch East India Army and the Western Brigade, and Liang Yao is not dominant in sea power, and Liang Yao is not sure of victory.

It is better not to underestimate the opponent before fighting.

"I think we still have a certain technological advantage on land. Didn't Wang Jia and Liu Shanbang say that they still have [-] adult men who can be armed to fight?" Fremont stepped forward and interjected.

"On the contrary, there is a huge disparity between our sea power and the sea power of the Dutch and Indian authorities. In order to control the war to a certain scale, the American navy will not come forward. I heard that you have a good relationship with the navy commander of the Qing Dynasty. Can you pull him over? Come here to help out? We can give money."

"Ask Hong Mingxiang to help out?" Liang Yao shook his head.

"Not to mention whether Hong Mingxiang dares to send troops to help us privately, even if he has the courage to earn this money and dare to send troops to help us, the Guangdong Navy only has six loach-class warships and some old-fashioned Chinese sailboats. Nothing to do."

"Considering the issue of economic benefits, the Dutch East India Company does not have many serious warships, and the sailing warships in service are all sailing warships from the last century or even the last century! Armed merchant ships are the Dutch East India Company's maritime warships. major force.

We still have at least four warships that are iron-clad and equipped with Sacramento guns, refit some merchant ships, tow a dozen Loach-class ships, and mobilize some civilian armed merchant ships. There is still a great chance of winning. "

Sven, who had just returned from Sven Island, rubbed his hands and said excitedly.

Sven has long wanted to fight a serious naval battle. Although there were naval battles between the United States and Japan during the expedition to Japan, that kind of naval battle with completely asymmetrical strength is no different from naval shooting in Sven's opinion. Real naval battles.

"A dozen loach-class ships? All the anti-smuggling bureaus have changed jobs and don't have to go to work, right? The anti-smuggling bureau will not work, and your global shipping company will pay for us next year?"

Hearing Sven's suggestion to bring more than a dozen Loach-class ships to Southeast Asia to fight naval battles, Deng Wenyu immediately jumped out to object.

"The Dagang Company and other resistance companies still have seven or eight ships that can be used, but the ships are smaller than your big ships. However, we know some local pirates. They have a long history of enmity with the Dutch East India Company. This is something that can be won at sea. Power." Liu Shanbang said.