New Shun 1730

Bangga is sandwiched in the middle of the three planned towns in Nanyang and produces tin mines. Liu Yu does not want to fall into the hands of the Catholic Church.

It's not that Liu Yu has great prejudices, but because if the miners rebelled under the banner of Catholicism, if the imperial court went to Nanyang, they would definitely choose to launch a "Shimabara counterinsurgency" and kill them all.

Even though the court knew very well that the Catholic Church on Bangka Island was just a cover, similar to Taiping Dao, White Lotus Sect, and Mingjiao, it was just an organizational form, and the core was still the rebellion of the miners.

But the imperial court will definitely kill them all.

The strike of weavers in Bangka and Suzhou is different. The strike of weavers in Suzhou is called a break. It is a strike of skilled workers and can be solved by compromise. Not everyone can spin silk.

Once Bangga rebels and kills everyone, just replace them with a new group of people, without any scruples.

But with such a good opportunity, the court really couldn't come up with anything that could replace God or Islam in Banga and organize the lower classes who had left the clan.

I have never heard of anyone rebelling under the banner of Confucianism. It has almost no penetration into the grassroots in Nanyang. The only thing that can be done is to send people to organize an uprising like the one in Batavia.

But the situation in Bonga is different from Batavia. It's too easy to rebel here. This is not Dutch territory. Liu Yu really wants to get Bonga now. Twenty officers can send a batch of guns and he can succeed. .

But if we take action now, it will definitely arouse the vigilance of the Netherlands, and the entire Ceylon Military Town and the subsequent Shangdang plan to join Zhao will be ruined.

But if he doesn't take action now, Liu Yu feels that with this situation, the cheap slave laborers and Catholics trafficked from Macau will take the leadership of the uprising.

Once the Catholic Church took the leadership of the uprising, the nature of the matter changed.

If the imperial court killed all the miners in Bangga, it would mean that the imperial court went to Nanyang and had to rely on the Chinese gentry in Nanyang, let alone win over the bottom.

And if it cannot win over the bottom class, the imperial court will not be able to stand in Nanyang.

The court has no shortage of officials, no shortage of tax collectors, and no shortage of people who make money from mining. If you kill a few and arrest a few, you can easily find a bunch of people who are willing to come.

What is lacking is a large number of lower-class Chinese "rebels" who support the imperial court, are capable of serving as soldiers, capable of fighting, capable of settling down, and capable of working.

If the Catholic Church takes the leadership of the Bangga Uprising, it will undoubtedly die, and the court will not show mercy.

There was no alcohol or pork in this meal, so it tasted tasteless. Now that I think about this again, I always feel that this meal is like drinking the blood of thousands of miners and eating the meat of tens of thousands of miners in advance, and I can't help but lose my appetite.

Putting down his chopsticks, Liu Yu asked the mine owner who just said that he wanted to cure the unruly people, and said: "As the saying goes, snakes have snake heads and rats have rat kings. Since you said there are many unruly people here, you want to be among those miners? It is also quite prestigious.”

"If such people stay here, you will probably find it troublesome. You don't dare to kill them. If you don't get impatient, if you dare to touch these prestigious people, the other miners might fight with you. Right?"

The mine owner was overjoyed when he heard this, and said repeatedly: "My lord, that's great! That's great, my lord. I think you are leading the army, so you must have seen many such unruly people. That's right. I don't dare to kill, unless I'm in a hurry." It’s really hard to touch them. If you touch them, the miners will definitely cause chaos.”

Liu Yu smiled and said: "That's easy. The army specializes in dealing with all kinds of people who are disobedient, and they like to hire such unruly and courageous people. The imperial court has never gone to Nanyang, but now it is comforting Nanyang. Your attitude is commendable, and it can be considered I, the propaganda envoy, will do you a favor. You guys can make a list of the thorns in your respective mines, and I will take my own people to catch them in the army and teach them a lesson. "

Immediately, more than a dozen mine owners thanked them repeatedly. They just thought that the yamen door opened to the south, so if you don't have money, don't come in. This court is still facing us after all.

Whose mine doesn’t have a few reputable and unscrupulous people? Either they have extremely high prestige, or they have some means, or they are able to convince others. This kind of person is extremely difficult to deal with. You can only find ways to kill them, but you cannot kill them with open fire.

Liu Yu continued to sing praises and flattery, and he accepted it calmly without any hesitation, and asked again: "The imperial court sent me to Nanyang this time because I heard so much about the cunning and cruel Dutch people, and how many overseas Chinese people were bullied by them. Therefore, I came here to express my condolences and also to inspect."

"Did you just say that the Dutch are pretty good?"

The mine owners were indeed worried that the imperial court would go to Southeast Asia or start a war with the Netherlands. Seeing Liu Yu's question, they hurriedly said: "Sir, we don't know about other places. But as far as Bangga is concerned, the Dutch are fair. The business is fair and quite good." It has the legacy of the ancient country of gentlemen.”

What they said...from their point of view, was not entirely a lie.

Historically, it was not until Britain and the Netherlands firmly controlled Nanyang and began to fully control Nanyang that these people realized how sad it was to "not have a strong motherland behind them."

In terms of money, can it beat the East India Company? Even if you can fight for money, can you fight against the 200,000 Indian soldiers of the East India Company? The thugs he raised were fine enough to bully the miners, but how dare he fight against the armed forces of the East India Company? Wouldn't squeezing you to death be like squeezing an ant to death?

During the war, the British briefly occupied Pahanga and banned the private contracting of mines with a single order. Who dared to resist?

When the Dutch's ruling ability strengthened in the future, they realized that Westerners were not good birds. They hoped that the court could restore the old appearance for the sake of being of the same race.

But now, "having a powerful court next to you" is a very scary thing.

Because the British East India Company can only gather three to five thousand soldiers even in India, and it is even a role that can't make any noise in Southeast Asia; the Netherlands can only control Batavia and some cities on the northern coast, can control smuggling and piracy, and can curb the British from coming here to trade, but it can't even control the Chinese issuing their own currency.

This kind of anarchic place is the most favorite of merchants and capitalists.

Some people may imagine that as long as the court goes to Southeast Asia, the local Chinese will all win food and follow them.

But this is not reality.

It's just imagination.

The Dutch don't have complete control over Banga now, not because the Dutch are good people, but because the Dutch don't even understand the surrounding areas of Batavia and are unable to completely control Banga.

The head tax that made the Chinese in Batavia miserable was not collected from them.

The economic control of the Chinese in Batavia did not reach them.

On the contrary, the Dutch East India Company came to buy tin every year and was their big customer. Sometimes pirates came to harass, but they were driven away by the ships of the Dutch East India Company.

Now the Dutch do not have the ability to completely control Bangka, and the Netherlands is also an important export destination for Bangka tin blocks. Local miners naturally have to say a few good words for the Netherlands, fearing that the court will go to war with the Netherlands and affect their business.

Thinking deeper, the Netherlands is now unable to control the entire Nanyang.

But Dashun is different from the Netherlands. Guangzhou to Nanyang and Amsterdam to Batavia are completely different in terms of space.

If the Dutch are really driven away, the court will come. What if they set their eyes on the tin mines in Bangka?

The reputation of the court... in the minds of businessmen, it has never been very good.

Extorting bribes, forcing filial piety, giving shares to officials... these are not mentioned.

If the miners really go to complain to an honest official, they may really take care of it.

The mine owner thought, if he met an official like Bao Qingtian or Hai Gangfeng in the play, wouldn't he slam the case and investigate the case immediately after hearing about the miners' experience?

What if he met an insatiable greedy official who heard that the tin mine here was profitable, wouldn't he immediately ask for a bribe, first a 30% stake, then winter charcoal and summer ice?

The country is the product of irreconcilable class contradictions, and the word "reconciliation" is the most important.

The main contradiction of the feudal dynasty was the contradiction over land, and the court naturally knew how to reconcile it; but how to reconcile the new contradictions in the new era? Even if Bao Qingtian and Hai Gangfeng were resurrected, they would not know how to "reconcile" the bourgeoisie and the proletariat for a while. The better the official, the less likely he is to know how to reconcile. If he fails to reconcile well, it is easy to suppress the buds.

Putting himself in other people's shoes, Liu Yu felt that if he were a mine owner in this industry and had an independent company here, he would certainly not look forward to the court coming. How could he compare to the freedom of the current no-man's land?

They were also afraid that the court would go to war with the Netherlands, so they would take the initiative to speak well of the Netherlands.

The butt determines the head, this is true.

Liu Yu didn't mind them speaking well of the Netherlands now, thinking that the emperor was now eyeing Nanyang, for the spices and trade in Nanyang, and to eliminate the risk of changing the canal to sea transportation, and to cure the thousand-year cancer of seizing the Huai River since the Song Dynasty...

Don't say that the Netherlands has the legacy of ancient gentlemen, even if the Dutch king is the reincarnation of King Wen of Zhou, the emperor must fight Nanyang.

Liu Yu bowed to the north and followed the words of the mine owners: "People often say that seeing is believing, hearing is false. It seems that the many rumors about Nanyang are not true? I have to take a closer look. I must not let some people's words deceive the emperor."

The mine owners hurriedly said: "Your Excellency has worked hard, and you really need to take a closer look. Hearing is false. Sometimes some cunning and unruly people also do many illegal things, but bite back. This is also possible."

"Well... I will be able to see everything clearly. In this case, after the banquet, you can discuss it among yourselves and report the unruly leaders of the mines. I will send someone to meet them. If you are really brave, you can find a way out in the army."

After the banquet, the officers who followed Liu Yu maintained the proper etiquette. After leaving, they cursed that the meal was boring.

Liu Yu rested in the best house in the port. The owner of the house gave it up to Liu Yu to live in.

The mine owner was quite efficient. When he came to see Liu Yu the next morning, he sent a list of "troublemakers" from various mines.

Liu Yu glanced at it casually, asked whose mine was the closest, and took out the note that said "Cai Shiwu, from Lufeng, is good at fighting and has probably killed people. He fled to Southeast Asia to escape the punishment of the court's laws and has always been undisciplined." He smiled and said, "That's him. Come on! Assemble the team."

Soon, a company of marines assembled, Liu Yu asked for a horse, and led the team into the mine.

As soon as he arrived at the mine, he saw a group of dark miners waiting here. They probably got the news long ago and didn't have to work today.

Although Liu Yu didn't play a ceremonial guard, the mine owner and the company manager still ordered them to kneel down and welcome the imperial envoy.

The dusty miners didn't know what was going on, but they had seen the opera before. When they heard the title of the imperial envoy, they knelt on the ground in fear. They didn't dare to speak, but kept kowtowing.

After everyone finished kowtowing, Liu Yu squinted his eyes and scanned the miners, and asked, "Who is Cai Shiwu?"

No one stood up, but the mine owner next to him quietly pointed at Liu Yu. Liu Yu looked at him and saw that he was a strong man, not tall, but very strong.

With a wave of his hand, several soldiers rushed over and dragged Cai Shiwu out.

Liu Yu did this deliberately to see the miners' reactions. Sure enough, as soon as Cai Shiwu was dragged out, the miners immediately started to make noise.

Some thought that the imperial envoy was probably a good person, and shouted: "Sir, it's unfair!"

Some of the more stupid ones shouted directly: "Why are you arresting people?"

Seeing the miners' reaction, Liu Yu was also sure that this man was indeed the big brother among the miners, and immediately shouted: "Be alert!"

The Marines who had actually been on the battlefield and set fire to Kyoto, Japan, immediately lined up. The solemn murderous aura and black bayonets immediately suppressed the noise of these miners.

Two people carried Cai Shiwu to Liu Yu's side. Liu Yu did not get off the horse, but pointed at him with a whip and asked: "Are you Cai Shiwu?"

Cai Shiwu glanced at the mine owner next to him and spat on the ground, knowing that the mine owner wanted to kill him.

So he shouted in a somewhat difficult-to-understand official language: "I will not change my name, I am Cai Shiwu. If you want to kill me, then kill me. If I beg for mercy, you are the one who raised me."

"Hey! Interesting." Liu Yu on the horse could not help laughing. Those Marine Corps officers who always admired Liu Yu wanted to beat Cai Shiwu and shouted: "Go to hell, who are you? How dare you talk to the Whale Marquis like that?"

Liu Yu waved his hand and pointed to a house in the distance and said: "Take him there. I want to talk to him. Guard the door and don't let outsiders in."