The wind blows from the South Sea

Chapter 129 Crack
After leaving the Governor's Palace after the meeting, Lieutenant General Koch got into the carriage in a good mood, and his adjutant Colonel Claudia followed closely and also got into the carriage.

He tapped the front wall of the carriage lightly with his cane, and the carriage quickly moved forward lightly.

Colonel Claudia turned to look at the general, and when he saw the satisfied look on Lieutenant General Koch's face, he said carefully;
"Your Excellency General, it seems that you have not been questioned at the Governor's Palace. News has come from our channels that some homeless people and down-and-out sailors collected in Saigon will arrive at the end of the month."

His words had a hidden meaning, referring to the group of white mercenaries that the Governor-General valued very much, and there were many shady private transactions in them.

If anyone is happiest about launching a war, it is naturally the senior officers of the Royal Army represented by Lieutenant General Koch.

Without war and without large allocations, how could these generals make a fortune?
Lieutenant General Koch knew what the adjutant meant. He waved his hand indifferently and said with a contemptuous expression;
"Don't worry, dear Mr. Claudia, we will eliminate those rampant Easterners with or without those expensive mercenary teams.

This has never been a problem. The question is how to maximize benefits?

How lonely is it for the Royal Army to have no real rival?
When everyone is happily making money in a peaceful environment, no one considers the value of the Royal Army's existence, and it is always ignored intentionally or unintentionally.

The greatest use of those eastern rebels is to remind the senior officials in the Governor's Mansion;
Please don't treat the Royal Army like a bitch. Be attentive and always ask for help when needed. Discard them like worn-out shoes when they are no longer needed, and your hands will feel dirty even if you touch them.

Those Eastern armies have value, and all we have to do is prolong this pleasant march for a longer time, one year, two years or more.

Colonel Claudia nodded as if he had realized something, with a look of admiration on his face.

"I think I understand, General."

Why is war a gold-eating beast?
Of course, because war makes it easy for generals to make huge sums of money, much of the costly logistical materials sent to the front line are indiscriminate, or even not even ten.

Your Excellency, the General, is based on the interests of the Royal Army. As a member of it, of course he is sitting on the side of the Royal Army and spends his time thinking.

Why is this happening?

There were so many tricks, and Colonel Claudia knew them all. He looked at Lieutenant General Koch with a questioning look, and saw him nodding with satisfaction.

The Royal Dutch Army did not hire a group of experienced mercenaries with high salaries, but vagrants and unemployed sailors from Malacca and Saigon without even a shred of war skills.

Since the generals eat meat, then subordinates like Colonel Claudia should drink some soup.

The only thing worthy of praise is their white faces.

Spending a lot of money to hire white soldiers was a lucrative business.

In fact, it is not difficult to understand. As the saying goes, the generals of the army must drink the blood of their soldiers. This is a common practice in almost all countries in the world.

So, Mr. Colonel knew what was going on.

This is absolutely unimaginable in peacetime, so it is in the interest of every middle- and high-level officer in the royal army to ignite the flames of war and drag the counter-insurgency war into a quagmire and become protracted.

And a large military budget will fall into the pockets of the generals. Because of the luxurious upper-class balls and all-night banquets, they will be used for a life of extravagance and enjoyment, and will be used to build a stepping stone for the local nobles of the Kingdom of the Netherlands.

Even if it is calculated as two thousand guilders per person per year, how much does it cost for two thousand people?
This starts from 400 million Dutch guilders, and coupled with higher priority logistics supplies, war material losses, etc., the budget can easily exceed tens of millions of Dutch guilders.

To put it bluntly, any white colonial official who dares to touch these shady stories will soon die, and the truth will never be found out.

This alone can make millions of guilders in profit.

Who will oversee the military?

At that time, as long as we tacitly let go of the defense line and let the enemy come in and set fire, everything will be uncheckable.

Spending 1/10 of the price to hire some white homeless people to play drums in the war. If that doesn't work, let the indigenous servants stand in front and act as cannon fodder. There is too much room for maneuver.

It is not in the interest of our Royal Army to eliminate those champions as quickly as possible, please remember that easy victories are never cherished. "

He couldn't get involved in the big business of mercenaries, but Colonel Claudia also had other ways to get hundreds of thousands of guilders just for fun.

Anyway, if you are not greedy, there are not many good opportunities like this.

The generals and colonels sitting in the carriage were all thinking about how to cut a piece of meat from this big business. As for how to eliminate the enemy? That will be left behind.

If it really can't be eliminated, then let's fight a protracted war.

There is no idiom in Dutch that means to be self-respecting, but no one is stupid, and the similar principle is the same.

For example, why did the Javanese indigenous people's uprising that broke out in 1825 take five years to be finally put out?

Under the tight blockade of the Dutch colonists, the native Javanese people did not even have decent guns. How could they withstand the massive attack of the colonial army? And lasted for five years. It’s incredible to think about it.

News from the Anzhu area shows
Tens of thousands of Nanyang troops launched a massive attack on the hinterland of Central Java where indigenous people were densely populated. In just over three weeks, they successively captured and eliminated more than a dozen important towns and occupied large areas.

As for whether to capture Anzhu City, there is currently no first-hand news from the front line.

Under the merciless attack of the Nanyang Army, it is estimated that the indigenous rebel forces will not last long. This is the normal state. The combat effectiveness of the two sides is not at the same level.

While the Nanyang Army could resolve the battle in less than a month, it took the white colonial army five years and huge financial expenditures to completely quell the rebellion.

Only those who are careful can understand the difference.

Colonel Claudia understood that many of the 3722 white soldiers recruited over two months were fake soldiers, and no more than % of them were actually recruited.

The rest, of course, was taken up by the generals.

Anyway, the senior officials of the Governor's Mansion will not nod one by one, nor will they always supervise in the military camp. Some things can be understood by themselves.

The colonial system of more than two hundred years has long been eroded by inefficient administration and ubiquitous corruption. The upper-level colonial officials have the idea of ​​​​taking a handful and leaving, and will not consider long-term construction of colonies.

The middle and lower class colonial officials also had their own ideas, which led to a serious lag in colonial construction.

The ports, roads, and bridges have not been repaired for hundreds of years. They are covered in ashes on sunny days and covered in mud on rainy days. No one cares at all.

In the areas occupied by the Nanyang Army, the situation was quite different.

A large number of roads and bridges in East Java continue to be expanded and built, investments continue to be made in ports and farmland water conservancy facilities, and the urban and rural landscape continues to improve year after year.

Roads have become smoother and farmland water conservancy facilities have improved, followed by an increase in agricultural output.

Such a virtuous cycle can allow a large amount of agricultural products from inland areas to be imported into cities. Sold overseas through merchant ships, this increases the income of ordinary farmers and improves farmers' living conditions.

The Nanyang Army is organizing a large number of conquered indigenous labor forces into hard labor camps, and is beginning to carry out large-scale reconstruction and widening of ancient roads in Central Java, and to build new bridges.

The rainy season will end in late February, ushering in an eight-month dry season.

Seizing this favorable time for construction will definitely change the backward traffic situation in Central Java and give it a new look from top to bottom.

The governance directions of the two are fundamentally different.

The Dutch Governor-General was not completely unaware of the Nanyang Army's relevant actions, but most of them scorned them and instead used demonizing propaganda to slander them, without any intention of learning from or being inspired by them.

The biggest problem that worries them now is that the original binary colonial governance structure has encountered challenges.

Originally, the city relied on Chinese tax collectors to play their role and participate in the process of urban public security governance. They can be said to be powerful accomplices of the white Dutch colonists.

The rebellion of the Easterners changed everything.

The Governor's Office re-examined the Chinese with strong doubts, and felt from the bottom of their hearts that they could not be trusted, even those traditional Chinese families that had served colonial rule for hundreds of years.

In the eyes of high-level white colonists, these Chinese families were all suspected of betrayers, despicable thieves, and informants with no bottom line.

What troubles them is

Most of the commercial activities in the traditional East Indies colonies were in the hands of the Chinese class, and their monopoly position was difficult to replace.

As for those ignorant native monkeys, they are even less qualified to play the role of tax collectors.

Therefore, after the "Batavia Port Riots", the Governor's Office curbed its suppression of the Chinese community, and with a serious precautionary mentality, it still used the Chinese to play the role of tax collectors.

But in terms of urban security, the colonial governor-general appointed more white officials in the hope of playing a check-and-balance role.

This further aggravates the confusion. The important role played by traditional Chinese in the dual governance structure, from the highest "Kapitan" to "Ma Yao", "Lei Zhenlan", "Zhuge Jiao", "Tashi" " and other positions, gradually formed a relatively complete Chinese governance model.

Today's brutal overthrow, without corresponding efficient mechanisms to replace it, has caused considerable chaos in both cities and villages.

In the villages, towns and densely populated areas of West Java, not only are white colonists highly concentrated, but the proportion of the local Chinese population is also quite high and the total population is large, far exceeding that of Central Java and East Java.

Suspicion and distrust have formed a deep rift between the Governor's Palace and traditional Chinese families, which will be difficult to eliminate in a short time.

(End of this chapter)