New Shun 1730

When the Chinese with residence permits in Batavia first regarded the vague and seemingly unreal country in the north as "us".

Outside the city, the Governor of Batavia of the Dutch East India Company, Walkner, was suffering the biggest field defeat in the history of the East India Company in Southeast Asia.

The 1,600 Dutch soldiers who were about to retreat to Batavia for shelter, as well as some local indigenous mercenaries and vassal troops, suffered a field attack by the Guiyi Army and some Dashun Marines.

400 people were killed, and the rest were either injured, surrendered, or fled.

The death of these 400 people announced the demise of the last field mobile army of the Dutch East India Company in Southeast Asia.

It also means that Dashun, which has seized the control of the sea, can slowly gnaw down the remaining Dutch fortresses in Southeast Asia before the monsoon arrives in May 1747, and then announce that the overlord of the entire Southeast Asia region has changed.

And this is the case of a small probability event that the Dutch actually want to continue fighting. At least in May 47, there would not be a single Dutch reinforcement here.

Moreover, the British navy was much higher than the Dutch at that time, but when the British crossed the sea to fight China and the United States, they would lose one-third of their troops to scurvy before reaching the shore. Only 1,500 of the 5,000 people who could fight would crawl ashore.

So the Dutch reinforcements could only exist in theory.

In nearly two and a half years, the Dutch, who had lost their last field mobile army and sea control, had actually announced the collapse of their rule over Southeast Asia.

Although, only 400 people died. It seems that the scale of the battle was small.

Although, in theory, the VOC in Asia, from Persia to Japan, had a total of 5,000 to 6,000 troops, including mercenaries and vassal troops, there would be about 10,000 people.

However, these numbers are strategically meaningless.

In Europe, the sign of the decline of the Netherlands was the end of the War of the Quadruple Alliance. The Netherlands refused to participate in the peace conference and formally gave up its status as a world power.

In Southeast Asia, the sign of the decline of the Netherlands was not this field battle where 400 people were killed.

Five or six years ago, when the Netherlands did not dare to use simple and crude means to solve the "surplus" population in Batavia, it actually announced that the Dutch rule was shaky.

Today's battle is just a gentle push on this rotten wall.

The defeated Valknir did not hesitate at all. When the infantry of Dashun approached, he chose to surrender decently.

In the camp of Dashun, Valknir met an acquaintance Liu Yu.

After Valknir saw Liu Yu in the camp near the artillery position, he felt that his defeat was not unfair at all.

This has nothing to do with fighting. Valknir is not very clear about how Liu Yu fought against the Junggar tribe, the Rakshasa people and even Japan. After all, he has not seen it with his own eyes.

It is because Liu Yu prepared a dazzling appearance for Dashun in Europe in the past few years. The moment of appearance showed too many elements of coup, palace fighting and conspiracy.

In Valknir's view, the company's failure in Southeast Asia was due to conspiracy.

Now that it has come to this, and Liu Yu is seen here again, then is there any need to think about the immigration to Ceylon? It must be part of the whole conspiracy.

It is reasonable to think that the company failed in the hands of such a conspirator. At least, in his opinion, it is a conspiracy.

Rather than the process of commercial capital being subordinate to industrial capital from Liu Yu's perspective, and the excessive spread of Dutch commercial capital that hollowed out the Netherlands, the main reason is.

If it does not belong to Dashun today, it will belong to someone else tomorrow.

The two people have completely different perspectives on the problem, but the two people do not need to reach the point of "talking about nothing".

Valkniel does not want to discuss the reasons for the company's failure and the core of the Netherlands' decline. He only cares about what he should do after the company collapses?

He wants to talk about his personal destiny.

And to talk about this, the two people do not need to interact with each other.

After meeting Liu Yu, Valkniel took the initiative to mention: "Mr. Marquis, can I talk to you alone?"

There are many people around Liu Yu who understand Dutch. After hearing Valkniel's words, they stared at Valkniel vigilantly, worried that he would do something unfavorable to Liu Yu.

Liu Yu smiled and said, "According to the rules of the Celestial Empire, or the unspoken rules, in general, we do not accept suggestions for the generals to have private talks with the enemy's main generals."

"The old story of Jiang Boyue and Zhong Shiji is indeed not good."

"However, Nanyang is not Sichuan, where the road to Shu is difficult. As long as the imperial navy is still there, Nanyang is more stable than Shandong and Henan. There is no harm in talking."

Once the unspoken rules are deliberately said, they lose the taste of conspiracy and mystery.

Valknir certainly didn't know about the old story of Jiang Boyue and Zhong Shiji. Liu Yu said this just for those who could understand.

Smiling and waving to the people next to him, the adjutant brought two empty gunpowder barrels, brought tea, and stepped aside.

At this time, Liu Yu did not have much hatred for Valknir.

In history, he did commit the Hongxi Massacre, but now such a hungry wolf has been trained into a castrated dog by him.

In a few years, this big crab that was rampant when it first came here has been turned into a timid turtle. This kind of pleasure is much better than chopping it off with a knife.

He dared not kill people, dared not throw immigrants into the sea, and even the governor wanted to go home.

In terms of deeds and not heart, this person cooperated with Liu Yu's plan to immigrate to Ceylon, and can be regarded as a great contributor to Dashun's future expansion into India and the seizure of raw material production areas and markets.

Valknier first congratulated Liu Yu.

"Mr. Marquis, your country has won a great victory this time. The company will not send reinforcements in the short term. This is the first time we have lost control of the sea in Southeast Asia since 1596. From Colombo in Ceylon to Ambon Castle in the Moluccas, your country has enough time to slowly capture it."

"Your country's European ally, the French, is very good at attacking the bastion system of our Republic of Seven Provinces. I think your country must be very good at it too."

"I have to admit that when I took office as the Governor of Batavia, I was excited and proud. But I never thought at that time that I would be the company's last Governor of Batavia."

"Many years later, when people write the History of the Dutch East India Company, my name will definitely be mentioned by historians."

"Including... the immigration policy to Ceylon, the failure to solve the sugar crisis, and the failure to report the threat from China to Southeast Asia in a timely manner... The Dutch in later generations will definitely remember my name."

Liu Yu thought to himself, are you here to seek credit?

Is the fucking relative overproduction crisis something you can solve? Who are you to solve this shadow that has haunted the capitalist system for a lifetime?

Even if you tell the board of directors about the threat from China in Southeast Asia, what can the board of directors do? The newest battleship in the province of Amsterdam, I have to call you uncle in terms of age, that's it, what can it do if you tell me?

I have been preparing to go to Southeast Asia since I captured Bering, a graduate of your Amsterdam Naval School, and I have been preparing for nearly 20 years. Do you really think I couldn't win before?

I was just considering how to end the war.

I am now the deputy envoy of the Privy Council, not a stupid general. How to fight a war is not something I should consider at all. I should consider more about how to end the war.

You come to me to seek credit. You are worthy of being a governor. Your official speaking skills are not weak.

But don't hit a smiling person. After Valknir seemed to be praising him like he was complaining, Liu Yu smiled and said, "You have indeed made contributions to the immigration to Ceylon, of course, for the Celestial Empire."

"But to be honest, the court refused to repatriate them to Fujian, and I sent a fleet to Southeast Asia to prevent you from slaughtering them. Is there any other way except to immigrate to Ceylon?"

"I would like you to immigrate them to Cape Town, but you can't afford it, right? If you really think you can convince the board of directors to immigrate 60,000 Chinese to Cape Town, even if only 20,000 can survive, when I return to the court, I can report to His Majesty and confer you the title of Marquis of Good Hope."

This seems to be sarcastic, but in fact what Liu Yu said is really sincere. Not to mention that only 20,000 are left after the death of 60,000, even if only 10,000 are left, it is not a problem to confer a marquisate on the Dashun side according to the level of "vassal lords" who surrendered.

Valkniel gave a helpless smile, thinking that Liu Yu was mocking him. After a while, he said, "Anyway, I'm afraid that people in later generations will not understand why we have to immigrate to Ceylon. As you said, we can't kill them. The Tang people also launched an uprising. In the face of the oversupply crisis in the sugar industry, is there any other way except to immigrate to Ceylon?"

"But will people in later generations notice this? They will only remember that it was me who presided over the plan to move the Tang people to Ceylon."

"When your country crossed Malacca and went to India to support the fleet of the French East India Company, it was not actually to go to war with Britain, but to capture Ceylon, right? ”

According to the date, Colombo has probably been captured by now. Liu Yu did not hide it, nodded with a smile, and said: "But even if I tell you openly, what can you do? The VOC that can lose to Travancore is no longer the VOC that once overwhelmed Spain and Portugal and fought against Britain and France. "

"Your era is over. The days of Amsterdam as the financial center of Europe may also be over. Your ancestors were also rich, and of course they are not bad now. They are company executives and their status in the entire seven provinces can be ranked in the top 50. What do you think of the fate of Amsterdam? "

Valkniel agreed with this statement. His ancestors were certainly rich and served as mayors of Amsterdam. They must have been big businessmen, otherwise they would have no chance to become senior executives of the East India Company.

It is basically true that the status of the seven provinces can be ranked in the top 50.

The East India Company lost the East India, which would trigger a financial turmoil far greater than the South China Company incident and the Mississippi Company incident.

However, Valkniel did not quite understand.

Liu Yu knew the consequences of doing so very well, and he also understood the choice of financiers.

However, Liu Yu had a very bad impression of Britain, and seemed to be looking for trouble with Britain. The George Anson incident in Lingdingyang was a notable example.

Dashun's ally was France again.

Once Amsterdam's status as a financial center collapsed, financial capital was parasitic, and it would be a parasite. Looking at the whole of Europe, the best parasite must be Britain.

Since Liu Yu understood the situation of the European financial market, knew some things about the Amsterdam Stock Exchange, and hated Britain.

Then... the consequences of doing this... Valknier thought, if I could think of it, would the Marquis in front of me not think of it?

What do you think of the fate of Amsterdam? Valknier thought, Amsterdam has nothing to do with me anymore. What I care more about is the future trade policy of Dashun, which is closely related to my personal destiny.