New Shun 1730

Lian Fuguang felt that the Dutch would believe him.

Therefore, I hypnotize myself in my heart, saying that doing this is not entirely selfish. I am not a villain, but on the contrary, I am a gentleman.

Although he was not born in the Central Plains, he grew up in a Chinese family. He can clearly distinguish between a good person and a villain. It's not that I want to be a humble gentleman, but that as a business person, I am most afraid of doing immoral things, causing Buddha to fail to bless me, Mazu to cause strong winds, Xu Zhenjun to cause a heavy rain, and so on.

The Dutch would not think that he had any motive for colluding with outsiders, and he also had two Dutch lawyer friends who were very close to him.

If something goes wrong and comes to trial in the future, the Dutch are very legal. As long as your lawyer friends speak for you, you won't have any problems.

He was already a Kapitan, and the Dutch also trusted him. At this time, he reported to the Dutch. In addition to protecting the interests of the Chinese in the city, he also had some considerations for himself, but he also felt that his brother should not think that he was a villain.

Lian Fuguang looked at his younger brother with a bit of hatred and thought, you have food, clothing and property, why are you so close to those people outside?

I wanted to persuade him a few more words, but my brother's expression was full of disdain, with a look of ridicule on his face, so I could only sigh and said: "Since you are close to Lian Huaiguan, you might as well pass a message for me."

"They can't defeat the Dutch. Isn't it ridiculous to try to get on the train with a mantis? It will harm everyone. If he is really a man, or if he has ruined his family's wealth, he will have to pay the poll tax to those who do not have a residence permit. "

"If you can't pay, just take those people and jump into the sea to die. That's all. Why bother the people in the city? When the time comes, the people in the city will die because of their resistance. Is it their sin?"

To this day, he still doesn't know what Lian Huai Guan is doing there, but he only knows that Lian Huai Guan is quite prestigious among those poor ghosts.

Those people in the sugar factory dared to beat up the Dutch who went to arrest people. Without his instructions, they probably would not have dared.

But I'm afraid that if these people get hot-headed and want to resist the unfair treatment of the Dutch, or even consider expelling the Dutch, then there will be big trouble.

He has already reported to the Governor and hopes that the Governor will send troops as soon as possible to suppress the signs of "rebellion".

When Lian Jieguang heard his brother asking him to say this, he chuckled and turned around to leave.

Lian Fuguang looked at his younger brother's back and thought to himself, although you think I am a villain, I am your brother after all. If you really participate in those rebellious activities, I, as your brother, will still protect you. When I was with the Governor, I was still a bit thin-faced.

Jieguang, Jieguang, I reported it to save you and the Chinese people in the city. Why can't you understand?

He silently paid respects to his brothers in his heart, looked back at the head that had been hanging on the flagpole for twenty years, recalled the original execution scene, and sadly waved his hand, signaling the servant to drive away and go to the lawyer friend.

When I arrived, I said hello skillfully in Dutch, and then got down to business.

"Mr. Klass, the ownership of the sugar factory that happened does belong to me. However, I have contracted it out, and I have no knowledge of what happened there. This is the contract, and it has the seal of the Batavia City Council. ”

"I hope the Governor can understand that if those criminals outside the city without residence permits riot, we will also suffer losses."

"I suggest that the Governor can immediately send troops to suppress them. Capture their leaders and torture them severely. We have an old saying that to capture thieves, capture the king first. To capture criminals, capture their leaders first."

"If you are caught, Batavia's laws allow you to be tortured, right?"

William Krass is a qualified lawyer and nodded: "The Netherlands is a law-abiding country, you can rest assured about this."

"According to the proclamation of 1591 it is stated as follows:"

"One: In order to induce the defendant to confess, the following torture instruments can be used..."

"Second: If the person being tortured does not confess, or only gives a partial confession, the degree of torture can be increased. The torture instruments that can be used include..."

"Third: If you still don't confess after being tortured, you can take the following measures:"

"1: If a person does not confess under torture, he can be tortured again, and the degree of torture will be more serious than the previous two times."

"2: If the person is tortured and does not confess, or if the judge decides that the person still does not confess under torture, the person may be deemed acquitted. However, whether the person is tortured again or acquitted is decided by the judge."

"3: If a confession is not obtained under torture, it may be converted into an 'ordinary lawsuit' and handled as a civil case."

"So, according to the law, whether to plead guilty after torture and whether to continue torture still depends on the attitude of the judge."

After finishing speaking, Klaas smiled and said: "No one can withstand the harshest punishment. He will definitely confess. The Netherlands is a law-abiding person, and only if he confesses can he be sentenced."

Lian Fuguang smiled and said: "Wonderful, wonderful. Once their leader is captured, they can be stabilized. Those rioters will disperse after losing their leader. This is good for Batavia. This is also my responsibility as Kapitan.”

"The judge will definitely know the truth and choose to continue the torture until a confession is obtained."

After saying that, the two of them laughed in unison.

However, Lian Fuguang would not know the tragedy of his fate in history, precisely because he said, "You will know everything clearly and choose to continue torture until you get a confession."

As well as the myth that "the Netherlands is law-abiding" that he believed in, and the 1591 Inquisition Act that he applauded at this time.

He did not get the Dutch forgiveness because he reported in advance that Lian Huaiguan, one of the leaders of the uprising, was not a good person.

In order to shirk responsibility and put the blame for the massacre on each other - not because the massacre was guilty, but because the massacre seriously affected the trade of the East India Company - the two governors-general used Lian Fuguang to make a fuss.

Lian Fuguang's lawyer friend was useless, because the judge could decide whether to continue to torture until he confessed or to acquit him.

The judge trusted by Lian Fuguang convicted Lian Fuguang in this way: Lian Jieguang was indeed one of the leaders of the uprising. The judge asked Lian Fuguang why he and Lian Jieguang had a good relationship?

Lian Fuguang said, because he is my brother, we are born of the same mother.

The judge said: As far as your nation that worships gods and covets money is concerned, the relationship between brothers should not be harmonious. Any nation that worships idols must not have a good relationship between brothers as compared to a nation that does not worship idols and only believes in God. Therefore, the reason that you have a good relationship because he is your brother is not valid, proving that you must have a connection with Lian Jieguang.

But it seems that this reason is too embarrassing to be announced. In addition, many Chinese in Batavia were massacred at that time, and the Dutch found that they could not do anything. They had to let Lian Fuguang come forward to open various shops and return those who had escaped.

In the end, the Dutch tried for three or four years, but they really couldn't find Lian Fuguang's crime of colluding with the "rebels". In addition, during the War of Austrian Succession, the British and Spanish hijacked ships in the West Indies, which led to a shortage of sugarcane in Europe. A large number of Chinese were urgently needed to clean up the blood and plant sugarcane. So they had to not sentence Lian Fuguang to the most horrifying punishment of dismembering the body and digging out the lungs in his memory.

Many signs indicate that he had informed on the "rebels" in advance, but he was still sentenced to exile to Ambon. He was originally exiled to Cape Town, but his wife's family spent money to change to Ambon, and his property must have been divided among the governors.

The reason for the final verdict was: He was sentenced to exile to Ambon, not because Lian Fuguang did anything in this "rebellion", but because he did nothing.

This is a classic verdict of "wearing a hat will get you beaten, and not wearing a hat will get you beaten again."

In fact, the Dutch are a very good "teacher."

They told the Chinese in Southeast Asia, especially those who are rich and stable, and even those who are Lei Zhenlan and Kapitan, that sitting on the fence or doing nothing is not okay. Since you will be sentenced even if you do nothing, then you should get together and do it next time when something happens!

But obviously, Lei Zhenlan and Kapitan did not learn their lesson. When the grassroots started a rebellion, they would still make the same choice as Lian Fuguang at this time, and then repeat the cycle.

Even when sentencing Lian Fuguang at that time, they asked another Chinese, Lei Zhenlan and Chen Zhongshe, whether he believed that Lian Fuguang was unaware?

The answer of Lei Zhenlan and Chen Zhongshe was like a dream back to Fengbo Pavilion: Although Lian Fuguang rented out the sugar factory, he probably knew the situation of the sugar factory.

At this time, Lian Fuguang may never have the opportunity to know what his fate would have been.

I don't know that the governor is now hesitant and has not killed people directly, and even has to "talk about the law and evidence to potential rebel leaders" because Dashun won the war in Japan, and Liu Yu took sailors to fight with Dutch sailors before the war, showing an aggressive attitude. The governor of Batavia was scared and was afraid that Dashun would find a reason to go to war. He was even more afraid that Dashun would cooperate with Britain to get rid of the Dutch East India Company... Any governor of Batavia had to remember the old incident of the Dutch massacre of British people on Ambon Island during the Anglo-Dutch Alliance, and always beware of British revenge.

I don't know that his former friend named Lian Huaiguan, who he hated in his heart and felt that the group of poor people would ruin them who lived in the city with residence permits, had accepted the "recruitment" of the Dashun court.

Outside the city, in a sugar factory in the north.

Several brothers around Lian Huaiguan quietly looked at the people standing next to Lian Huaiguan. These people are from the Central Plains, and have been here for a few years. They say they are here to make a living.

As people who are here, it is obvious that these people are not good people. But they are very tight-lipped, and no one knows what these people are here for, let alone that they are similar to the children's army of the Jinyiwei of the previous dynasty.

Now, except for the people from the court, the people gathered in the sugar factory are all good men in the Nanyang underworld. Although Lian Huaiguan has some reputation, there are also a few people in this group who are as famous as him.

Now some people are cursing at Lian Huaiguan, saying that Lian Huaiguan is a coward.

Because Lian Huaiguan was "recruited", the court meant not to start a rebellion first, and the court would come forward to solve it.

But obviously, several prestigious men in the crowd have no respect for the word "court" and think it is shit.

"Brother Huaiguan, you want to rely on the imperial court? It's better to hope that it rains heavily and floods the Netherlands! What kind of shit is in the imperial court? To put it bluntly, if I hadn't been forced by the imperial officials and gentry, and the officials and gentry had not protected me, would I have come to Southeast Asia?"

"If those bastards in the imperial court could get things done, it would be the sun rising from the west. Luzon was massacred several times back then, and do you think the imperial court farted? The Lis and Zhus are all the same."

"The Dutch are too hard, and sugar has not been sold in the past few years. All sugar factories are laying off workers. Brothers can't survive."

"Go back to Fujian, there's nothing there, what's the point of going back? There's nowhere to go and nothing left, so why not do it! Conquer Batavia and live a good life. Even if you die, it's better to die gloriously before you die, than to wait to be caught by the Dutch and forced to do hard labor and die of exhaustion!"

"Wait to die! What if you want to die? If you're scared, we can do it ourselves!"