New Shun 1730

"Mr. Envoy, I also think this matter needs to be resolved as soon as possible. It's just that... the local Chinese don't trust us very much, so we still need you to come forward."

Shi Shi said attentively, you also know that you can't govern with virtue, and the people don't trust you. This time the court also knows that this is to use the court's credibility and the last bit of prestige among the Chinese in Southeast Asia to act as a guarantor.

The Chinese that Valkner said don't trust them are of course most of the Chinese outside the city.

The Chinese in the city are under the control of Kapitan and Lei Zhenlan. Around Batavia, it can be said that the government orders do not leave the city, but the words in the city are still effective.

The Dutch have the ability to control the Chinese in the city, but the problem is that the Chinese in the city do not need to migrate. It's not that they can't pay the head tax, nor do they make a living by working in sugar factories and spice plantations.

The Chinese outside the city can only be persuaded by the officials of Dashun. Valkner can only hope that these Chinese who go to Southeast Asia still retain the basic trust in the court officials when they were in Fujian a few years ago.

After discussing it, the two sides decided that Batavia would send troops to maintain order, and Shi Shiyong also brought the court's soldiers to help maintain order.

Summon the Chinese outside the city, read out the court's policy, and count the number of people as soon as possible. Read out the Dutch policy, guarantee that the Dutch will not throw them into the sea to drown halfway, and also guarantee that the Dutch will give them a small piece of land in the future-the emperor will personally guarantee it.

Once the statistics are out, the Dutch will formulate a detailed immigration plan. The real imperial envoy from Dashun will come, review the documents, and after signing the contract, pay the head tax according to the number of people, and send people to supervise the implementation, and the matter will be resolved.

While discussing, a Dutchman hurried in, looking anxious.

In Dutch, he whispered in the Governor's ear: "Governor, something happened. The company that went out of the city to pursue the rebels was ambushed in the West Sadan River. The company was lured by the cunning rebels and chose to cross the river to pursue, resulting in the infantry being disconnected from the artillery behind and being attacked by the rebels."

"The rebels captured Bogor and captured more than 20 company employees who were taking a summer vacation in Bogor. Relying on Mount Salak and Mount Gede, they moved around and attacked local villages everywhere. Several relatives of the village leaders have escaped and reported their evil deeds to us."

"Kill the village leaders and divide their property and food... "

After receiving such shocking news, Valkner nodded calmly to Shi Shiyong and said apologetically: "Mr. Envoy, I have some private matters in the company. Please allow me to leave for a while."

He suppressed his inner shock with a calm face. As soon as he left the meeting room and made sure that the people inside could not hear his conversation, he could not help but curse: "How could this happen? Did anyone come back alive?"

"Yes, Governor, someone came back alive. He is waiting outside the door. I will call him now."

Soon, several distraught Dutch soldiers were brought to the Governor and repeated their pursuit.

At the beginning, the pursuit was relatively smooth.

The rebellious Chinese did not dare to fight at all. They just kept retreating. Occasionally, they would send people to shoot along the way to slow down their pursuit, but soon they slipped away like rabbits.

According to the news from the villages along the way, the pursuing Dutch company chased all the way to the upper tributary of the West Sadan River.

They were blocked at the river bank, but the company had a cannon, and with the cannon, the Chinese rebels on the other side of the river were soon defeated and fled in panic.

The officer ordered to cross the river to pursue, and the cannon could not participate in the pursuit, so they crossed the river behind. As a result, the company in front of the pursuit was disconnected from the cannon, and the cannon was taken away by the ambushed Chinese rebels.

The infantry who went out to pursue were attacked by the Chinese ambushed in the woods, and had to form a square formation to defend themselves.

But those Chinese rebels not only knew how to use cannons, but also shot quite accurately, blasting open the formation of the Dutch infantry, and using some horses that were pieced together to attack... In addition to the Chinese, there were also some former Bugis slaves who could ride horses among the rebels.

Valknier replayed the entire ambush in his mind, which further confirmed his judgment. Among this group of Chinese rebels, there are some well-trained mercenaries.

You must know that the Sinhalese have been fighting with Westerners since the Portuguese era, and they have been fighting for one or two hundred years, but the cannons are still not good.

Whether they are well-trained or not is not determined by whether they can fire a gun, but by whether they can line up and fire at each other, and whether they can fire the cannon accurately.

The Chinese had no right to serve in the military in Batavia. These rebellious Chinese not only knew how to use guns, but also knew how to use cannons, and even knew how to use the tactic of separating infantry and artillery by using rivers. They were definitely not a group of simple rebels.

The Bugis were one of the few ethnic groups in Southeast Asia that could play cavalry. There were also many horses in the sugar factories in Batavia. Many Bugis were captured as slaves after losing the war with the Dutch and worked in nearby sugar factories or spice plantations. It was not surprising that there were some insurgents who could ride horses.

But these people not only knew how to use cannons, but also knew how to use cannons to blast open the formation and chase with cavalry? This was very abnormal.

Just like the uprising in the late Ming Dynasty in the north, they could fight because there were many veterans of the Northwest Frontier Army, and these people were the core force.

And this time's "rebellion" obviously also had some core forces, and these core forces were definitely high-quality mercenaries who had received professional military training.

With the arrival of the special envoy of the Dashun Emperor to Batavia, the last bit of Dashun's suspicion was eliminated.

From the guards around the emperor's envoy, the training level of Dashun's soldiers is very high, and it is definitely not inferior to any army in Europe.

With such an army and such a short delivery distance, Dashun has no need to support a rebel army, and it is even less likely to choose to pay the Netherlands to migrate the Chinese to Ceylon, which is farther away and Dashun's military force should not be able to reach.

Several soldiers who escaped back also reported to Valknier a piece of news that seemed to him "as expected".

"Governor, in fact, we heard their flute. The tune is very familiar, very similar to... [Prince Frilands March], of course, it may also be [Grenadiers March], we can't be sure."

Prince Frilands March is of course the military music of the Netherlands. The problem is that the Netherlands cannot support a rebel army that has been targeting the Netherlands.

And if it is not Prince Frilands March, it can only be the British Grenadiers Song, and the two sides can hardly be distinguished when humming together.

Valkenir was completely sure that the muskets used by Dashun were of French origin, and they were different from the brown bess at a glance.

The Sinhalese in Ceylon also had brown bess, which the Dutch had seized, so they could recognize at a glance.

The muskets were British, and even the military music was British. Valkenir cursed the British dogs several times in hatred, knowing that the situation he least wanted to see had happened.

Things may have gotten out of control.

If we expect to mobilize troops from the Netherlands, even if we send a message now to avoid the storm period in the Indian Ocean, we will have to wait until January next year to send a message to the company headquarters.

It will take at least two years for the company headquarters to send troops. This is simply not worth waiting.

For now, the only solution is to quickly solve the Chinese problem in Java, so that this group of Chinese rebels will become a rootless tree and cannot continue to absorb Chinese.

By the way, we must also arm Chinese soldiers in Ceylon and mobilize Dutch soldiers in Ceylon to Java to strengthen the troops for encirclement and suppression.

But in any case, it is impossible to mobilize all the troops in Batavia to encircle and suppress the Chinese rebels immediately, because the Chinese emperor's special envoy and his 300 well-trained infantry are still in Batavia. It is impossible to mobilize all the troops in Batavia to encircle and suppress them, but let the Chinese emperor's guards take over Batavia?

Valknir couldn't help rubbing his swollen and painful temples, thinking that the situation was out of control. This group of people really developed in the direction he was most worried about - breaking through the village, killing the head, liberating serfs, and abolishing the compulsory planting law.

Even if the soldiers encircled and suppressed, relying on the volcanic group in the south, it would take at least another 20 years. The Buran system, which had just started to pick up and gradually made profits, was over!

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On the top of the towering Gede volcano, in the rare cool climate in the equatorial region, Zhang Sanbiao sat on a volcanic rock and hummed the song "Snow Lotus" that he had sung in the army before.

In fact, the original tune was Edelweiss, which was a song sung when crossing the Altai Mountains. Most of the old soldiers who were not from the Qingzhou Army did not know this song, but the veterans who had fought in the Western Regions would ask their brothers which company they were in when they heard it.

There was no snow lotus in Gede, but there was really Edelweiss, such as the one under his feet at this moment.

But Zhang Sanbiao really didn't know what Edelweiss was, but he had really seen the snow lotus in the Altai Mountains when he pacified the Western Regions.

On the top of the mountain, several technical officers were measuring the height with a flatbed meter, and some officers were digging Edelweiss on the top of Gede Mountain, preparing to dry them and give them as gifts to Liu Yu, or drawing the appearance of these things with a pen and describing the growth environment.

All naval officers knew that Liu Yu liked this kind of strange things, and the subordinates would cater to the superiors' preferences. This was also a sign that it was easy to distinguish whether these technical officers were from the army or the navy.

On the top of the mountain where you can almost touch the clouds, Niu Er, who is now the leader of the uprising and is now convinced by everyone, is looking at the sea south of the volcano with high spirits.

The hot wind blowing from the sea is cold even at such a high altitude. The climate here makes these officers who are not used to the climate of Batavia find a sense of blowing in the wind in Weihai.

A beautiful ambush, the rebels now have more than 200 guns and a small-caliber cannon. Although the guns are still too few, at least it gives him the confidence to gain a foothold here.

Yesterday, several villages under the volcano were cleared. They showed the skills of the group of people when the Dashun was founded. In addition to capturing and killing and dividing things, Niu Er and other naval officers from Weihai had to sigh... [I really want to thank the Dutch for the changes].

Before the Dutch came, the villages here were still primitive villages, with public fields, small countries, few people, and no contact between old and dead, and no private ownership differentiation.

The Dutch came and brought currency, exchange, the Roman-Dutch legal system, private ownership, and the disintegration of primitive villages and class differentiation.

So the methods that could be used in Dashun two thousand years ago, such as "equal distribution of land and exemption of taxes" and "enforcing justice on behalf of heaven", can finally be used here.

Otherwise, it would be useless.

The primitive village people didn't need this set of things at all. Fortunately, the Dutch led to the disintegration of the primitive village, class differentiation, and the gradual replacement of the local customary law by the Roman law of private ownership, which also gave the village heads and heads the opportunity to bully men and women, force planting, and receive dividends.

The Dutch did not want to reform, but only wanted to use the original system similar to the primitive village of Russia to collude with the upper class and grab profits.

But the upper class knew the benefits of wealth, silver coins, transactions, private ownership of land and inheritance to descendants. Decades and hundreds of years ago, they had destroyed the original village communal land system and began to hoard their own private land, lend money, and force villagers to work.

I talked about these things in Weihai. Although they only tasted them briefly, they were deeply imprinted in their minds. In their subconscious, they already believed that the world worked like this.

For a moment, Niu Er felt that he seemed to understand why Lao Dan thought the era of "small country and few people" was so beautiful. It must be that Lao Dan witnessed the stories of the disintegration of the village community in that era.

At this moment, it is just like that moment, just two thousand years later.

Put down the telescope and stop looking at the sea in the south. I thought that if I had gone east, I would have no way to survive.

Although there are many Chinese in the coastal areas in the east, as long as the court's navy does not go down, the place with the most Chinese is also the most suitable place for the Dutch to mobilize troops and suppress. It can't hold up there.

Even if they failed and retreated to the mountains, they would not be able to hold out for long in the east without the Dutch disintegrating the old villages.

At most, they could collect the 11th tax. The locals would not support these outsiders, and of course they might not oppose it either. It was the 11th tax for everyone, and there was not much difference. Sulabadi went east and eventually became king, but what could he do? It was still a dead end.

If you really want to do big things, you can only stay here, which is closer to Batavia and where the old system was disintegrated by the Dutch.

A man is born between heaven and earth, and he must do something big. In the future, when the court goes to Southeast Asia, once the war breaks out, I will take down Batavia myself before the court army arrives!

Looking up at the clouds in the sky, I feel very proud.