New Shun 1730

Anyway, Shi Shiyong felt that he would never accept it, and would rather do it vigorously.

If he succeeded, he would establish his own regime, and if he failed, he would die.

To do hard labor? Nonsense.

I am afraid that these people would not be able to get anything from the emperor, let alone the king of heaven.

In this case, Niu Er took away the most rebellious group of people first, and did not let this group of people take those who were still hesitant and watching with him. This can be regarded as faithfully implementing the court's strategy.

At that time, those who are still waiting should accept the conditions of the court's guarantee and go to Ceylon and other places to work obediently.

In the future, when the court goes to Southeast Asia, these people who pull the levers to start the rebellion can either be incorporated into the garrison corps in Southeast Asia or be disbanded and split up.

Those leaders can be given official titles and thrown into the capital to retire. It's an old routine of recruiting people.

And now one of the leaders is a spy of the court, so there is no problem in recruiting people.

It can not only ensure that there is no problem in recruiting, but also ensure that they will only surrender to the court and not to the Netherlands.

Now the spies here hope to continue to provide a batch of weapons. As long as the people of the court still seize the leadership of the uprising, this batch of weapons can be given.

"I don't quite understand what you said. Although I know more about the outside world than those who only read the books of sages, Duke Qi also talked to me before coming. But I only know a general idea about the British and Dutch. Just tell me, and I will write it down."

"After you finish speaking, I will repeat it in words that I can understand, and you can see if what I said is right. If it is right, I will pass the news back when I go back. The Privy Council and the court will solve it."

Shi Shiyong understood the general idea, but was worried that he had conveyed the wrong meaning, so he asked cautiously again.

The spy lurking in Batavia nodded and said, "The Privy Council has said this before, so it's easy to talk about. Ying Sa Bo said that as long as there is money, the British East India Company will sell anything. There are many people in the south of the Celestial Empire who do business with Britain. Find a trustworthy person to act as a broker and establish a connection. We will send someone to negotiate."

"Let the British sell a batch of guns and cannons. As long as they send them to Java, we will have a way to get them. We also have people active in Cirebon and other places. They decide the location, as long as they send them ashore without the Dutch, we will have a way to take them away. . "

"The Dutch can only control Batavia, and it can be said that the government's orders do not leave the city."

"In the future, if the court goes to Southeast Asia and goes to war with the Netherlands, we will cooperate internally and externally. If the court is really willing, it will send another 20 or 30 officers, preferably a few who can use cannons, that will be enough. Once the guns and cannons arrive, it will take at most one year to raise a team. Not to mention conquering Batavia, it will be no problem to cede land and become a vassal state."

Although Shi Shiyong did not know much about the outside world, this question was not complicated, and he immediately understood it.

"You mean, the court will use its connections to get in touch with you, and the people here will follow me back and buy goods directly from the British, and let the British deliver them to the place where the rebellion broke out. Right?"

"Yes. That's what I mean."

Shi Shiyong thought this was very simple, but he didn't realize there was a problem here, that is, this group of people thought that the skills they learned could not only fight, but also train soldiers and govern the people. Although governing the people might not be good, they could still form a team to split up. After all, they don't ask for good results, but just ask for others to be as bad as them.

Especially the group of people who came out of Weihai, they thought this was normal, and they didn't think there was anything wrong with it.

This matter was also simple in Shi Shiyong's view. If the court really wanted to do it, the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, the Privy Council and the trade company would personally go out and get in touch with the British East India Company. It wouldn't be too simple.

A few hundred guns and two or three cannons, even if the British asked for a lot, it would only cost tens of thousands of taels of silver. A gun was sold at a higher price, four or five pounds, which was only fourteen or fifteen taels of silver.

This ten thousand taels of silver thrown into the navy would not even make a splash, but thrown here, it can accomplish a lot.

"The Privy Council gave you some advice before, which means that the Privy Council thinks this is feasible? Then the Privy Council didn't prepare in advance?"

The man shook his head and said, "It's impossible to prepare in advance. After all, the situation changes rapidly. At the beginning, we thought about suppressing everyone's anger. But when we came here, we found that this anger can't be suppressed at all. Besides, there is no food to eat. Going to hard labor will also kill you. Starting a rebellion will also kill you. We can only pull these people away first."

"However, the Privy Council believes that the British are happy. On the one hand, it will be easy to deal with as long as they pay money, and on the other hand, the British will be happy to see Java in chaos."

Shi Shiyong didn't understand the twists and turns, but he believed that the Privy Council would definitely not make a mistake. This matter was led by Liu Yu. Although Liu Yu had just been promoted to the deputy envoy of the Privy Council when he came, he had never participated in the military affairs of the Privy Council in a real position before.

He trusted Liu Yu very much, especially in this kind of foreign affairs. This was a habitual trust after many years in Japan and witnessing Japan's rapid defeat this time.

Since even this was calculated, it would be easy to deal with.

The situation is now very good for the court.

The group of people with the strongest backbones were taken away. Even if this group of people did not rebel now, they would definitely not be willing to go to Ceylon. They would rebel sooner or later.

The rest could still endure and felt that it was better to live than to die. Even if these people were unwilling, if the court could send people to monitor the Netherlands, they could accept to work elsewhere and believe that the court would make decisions for them.

Among those who have residence permits in the city, some are like Kapitan and are just country squires. They are just a repeat of the situation in the late Ming Dynasty. Whoever wins will follow.

There is another group of small traders and ordinary citizens. If the imperial court really sets up a state capital here in the future, or sets up a military town like the four towns in Anxi, it will not be possible without these small traders.

The smallest part was determined to follow Holland. But the Dutch didn't even allow them to serve as soldiers. It was considered that they wanted to be loyal to the Netherlands but had no way to do it, so there was no need to consider it.

Looking at the overall situation, in fact, from the most economical point of view, the court can actually not care about the life and death of those tough guys who started the rebellion.

But although Shi Shiyong was on the side of the imperial court, he was still a human being, not a tool of a cold and ruthless emperor, and had his own tendencies.

"Do you think the people who started the incident can sustain it?"

"Don't worry. Many years ago, there was a man named Surabadi who worked with the Dutch for 23 years, and there are still remnants of his troops operating in the mountains. He only served as a soldier in the Dutch army for a few years, and the brothers were He has gone through a military academy and served as a staff officer. Uncle Yingsao once said that the situation here is complicated. There are the Dutch, the sultanate, the feudal lords under the sultanate, those who are anti-Dutch, those who are united with the Dutch, those who are on the fence, and those who are on the sidelines. , as long as we figure out who we want to unite with, who we want to oppose, what we want to do, and what goals we want to achieve, the team will grow bigger.”

"There is no shortage of salt here, there are volcanic mountains, fruits, and rice fields. It may be impossible to capture Batavia, but there is no problem in separatist power. As long as the separatist power is reduced, the Dutch can only hold their noses and admit it. The Dutch are not trustworthy. They probably pretended to admit it but quietly mobilized their troops. But after all, it doesn’t take long for the court to come. But I don’t know what the court means by this visit.”

Once Shi Shiyong heard that these people's theory of rebelling and forming a feudal town was mature, he no longer worried, and explained what the court asked him to do this time.

"Excellent!"

Listen carefully to that one and praise it.

"In this way, the Dutch need to devote their energy to counting the population, and they also have to worry about chaos in more places, and the pursuit of those brothers who are in trouble will be lighter. But in this way, next year the Dutch can have more However, one year is not enough, as long as the court sends guns and a group of officers. Therefore, the court needs to cooperate in this matter and immediately ask the Dutch to do a population census and send troops everywhere. Count and suppress.”

Shi Shiyong also knew that what the group of people in the uprising needed most was a breather. He could trust the abilities of this group of people. They must have learned military training. As long as the firearms arrived, in a year's time, the Dutch would want them again. Encirclement and suppression are not that easy.

Moreover, looking at the situation of the imperial court, it will end in three to five years at most. As long as it can persist for three to five years, the situation will be great.

"Okay, I've written it down. Two things in total."

"Find a broker to go through the British channel, buy guns and send them over, and send a group of officers over; here we will oppress the Dutch, count the heads as soon as possible, distract the Dutch's energy, and buy some time for the men in revolt. No more Problem?"

Hosaku shook his head and said: "No. In a few days, I will bring him quietly and follow the master back. I will go and buy goods with the British and find an opportunity to send them over."

The two parties agreed to separate the combined tokens again, and under the cover of night, carefully crafted the manor they left.

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Inside the Governor's Palace.

Valkenir was also listening to people from the China Trade Commission retelling this trip to the capital and Dashun's policies.

When he heard that Emperor Dashun wanted to pay the poll tax for these people from his own funds, Valkenir gritted his teeth in envy.

"China is indeed rich. Their emperor's treasury may not be comparable to that of the Ottoman Sultan. Tens of thousands or hundreds of thousands of silver coins can be taken out as easily as a company giving a bag of tea to a veteran with a broken leg in Rotterdam..."

Valkenir didn't feel any strange about this move that might seem strange to the traditional dynasty.

After the disaster in the Netherlands that year, it almost collapsed.

Fortunately, Louis XIV of France took advantage of the victory and issued the "Edict of Fontainebleau", declaring France to be a Catholic country and protesting against the law, causing a large number of Protestants to flee.

The Netherlands also recruited a large number of Protestants at that time, relying on their technical skills and handicrafts to survive the period after the Year of Disaster.

Also catching up with Spain's fanaticism and Portugal's fanaticism, a large number of Protestants, Jews, and Basques fled.

These people have skills, abilities, and wealth. Some were engaged in handicrafts, and some boarded ships as pirates supported by the Netherlands. The Netherlands gave them great support and citizenship.

Prussia even issued the Potsdam Edict, taking this opportunity to compete with the Netherlands for "talents" and attract talents to settle there.

Including but not limited to tax exemption for building houses, not collecting taxes according to the size of windows, exempting people from tax, allowing prayers in French, etc.

Although the move on Dashun's side is inconsistent or even opposite, its core seems to be understandable from a religious perspective.

Perhaps in the eyes of the great emperor of China, the emperor was the guardian of Confucian believers, so just as the Netherlands and Prussia wanted to protect their Protestant believers, this pagan emperor also wanted to protect their believers.

This can also be easily understood. Dashun went to war with Japan for Ryukyu. Valkenir felt that the emperor of the Celestial Dynasty might be both a secular emperor and a Confucian pope.

With this understanding, it would be perfectly normal to pay a "pagan tax" for church members.

In fact, Valkenir also knew that although the Dutch East India Company was a Protestant, its approach to dealing with the Chinese in Batavia was more like that of a sultan.

There was no difference between collecting taxes on pagans, not allowing pagans to serve in the military, and the tax farming system. He, the governor of Batavia, was actually more like a Batavian sultan, except for a group of converted and naturalized Chinese, the Janissary Corps. In fact, even the "Janissary Corps" Valkenir thought that the Chinese were the best soldiers, and that naturalized people were definitely more pious and more brutal, but he, the "Sultan" of Batavia, had a "Seventeen-member Caliphate Council" above him and did not agree.

However, Valkenir was a little worried that when there was a Crusade, would the Confucian scholars and officials come to a "Renyi Army to the South" to rescue their "fellow believers" once and for all? After all, in theory, in the Confucian Six Arts, the scholars and officials were both feudal warriors and preachers.