New Shun 1730

"As for the remaining people. Those at the grassroots level were promoted to one level and went to Ceylon to train troops."

"The contributions from above are not small. Let's arrange to be in Nanyang to take charge of Nanyang's future affairs. For the time being, we can open up the situation and make achievements."

"What your Majesty means is that Nanyang will not be under the jurisdiction of the six governments for the time being in the next few years. It will still be presided over by the Privy Council. After it stabilizes in a few years, the court will make a choice based on the situation."

This is a general direction. Liu Yu certainly cannot arrange specific personnel arrangements directly.

The emperor asked Nanyang to temporarily not be under the control of the six governments, so the personnel arrangements must be made by the emperor himself, and the rewards should be attributed to the emperor, not the Privy Council.

The soldiers should be satisfied with the arrangement of the Guiyi Army, and Niu Er and others are also quite satisfied with the result.

Liu Yu made it very clear that the Guiyi Army will be expanded to 5,000 people, but Niu Er and others can no longer be regarded as the chief generals of the Guiyi Army.

Firstly, it is to separate the soldiers and generals, and secondly, the qualifications of the second-class cattle are not enough.

There are fewer traps and more carrots. Ceylon has tens of thousands of Chinese and is the front line of the war against India. Du Feng is quite senior and can serve as the governor of Ceylon.

If the leader of the 5,000 field troops under his command was someone else, there might be disagreements or competition for credit in the future.

In Java, the number of Chinese has been greatly reduced, and it has lost its status as a transit port. Moreover, relations on the island are complicated, so it is not as important as Ceylon.

During the Dutch era, Batavia's status was much higher than that of Colombo.

But in the Dashun era, it was the other way around.

It can be said that whoever is the governor of Ceylon is the second in command of the Nanyang military.

The Governor of Java was a little worse.

Moreover, Dashun chose Malacca as the center of the military town in Nanyang and the station of the Nanyang Governor, not Batavia.

Separating them from the rebel army, as compensation and as a sign of the court's trust, they would be placed throughout Java.

Such as Batavia, Cirebon, Semarang, Surabaya and other places, as governors or garrison commanders replacing the Dutch.

In charge of military and civilian affairs, as well as the deterrence and penetration of small surrounding countries. After all, they have been here for many years and know the situation in Java very well.

However, while being happy, Liu Yu still warned Niu Er and others.

"But don't be too happy too soon."

"The imperial court draws lessons from history, especially many events in the previous dynasty. They are vividly remembered and cannot be ignored. In the previous dynasty, there was the so-called Liao people guarding the Liao soil. There are some things that you should pay more attention to in Java."

"In the past, Li Chengliang was in charge of the Liao Dynasty. Every time Ding's army arrived, the castle was in a commotion. All food and wine were served in the private households, and women were mostly humiliated... There was a folk song at that time: If you were captured by the Tartars, you would still have your life, but if you were captured by the servants, there would be no one left."

"Miscellaneous taxes are levied from time to time, and levies are excessive and exorbitant. The people of the Liao Dynasty said: We have no way to go to heaven, and no way to enter the earth. No matter how long we don't stop the evil government, we will all go to the barbarians and live freely."

"It's not that the Liao people can't defend the Liao land, but some policies have forced them to go to the barbarian lands to live. If the slave chiefs hadn't gone crazy and killed people, they would have been worse than before. I'm afraid the Liao Dynasty would have happened earlier. It sucks.”

"Now the Dutch have left a lot of mess, but the foundation is very good. As long as you do better than the Dutch, you can make this place stable. But if you make money here and the people are dissatisfied and start an uprising, you may ruin the imperial plan. ”

"You did a good job in Bandung. But at that time it was all about fighting. Now the situation has changed, and your brains have to change too."

"You definitely know better than me about the situation and conflicts in Java and what the people want. You also know better than most people in the DPRK about relations and trade with Westerners."

"When the battle here is over, you can look around, think about it, and come up with a charter. I will review it. If it is feasible, I will report it to the emperor. If you can't grasp the key points..."

Niu Er laughed when he heard this and said: "This is like implementing the policy of the Privy Council. The key point is to attract the Dutch navy first. If this key point is not grasped, no matter how good the rest are, it will not be qualified. On the contrary, as long as we grasp the If you understand this point, even if the Guiyi Army is defeated, it will still be the completion of the imperial court's mission. Rewards will be based on merit, not on battlefield success. "

"The Marquis Jing still wants to test us and see how we understand the imperial court's Nanyang policy."

Liu Yu smiled and nodded his head and said: "It's good if you can understand this. When I was in Weihai, I talked to you about many Nanyang issues. You are also one of the few in the DPRK who can understand the new policy. They are also among the few who can truly understand the value of Nanyang.”

"In short, get the general direction right. If the details are not done well, you can change it. But if you don't grasp the general direction accurately, then I really can't express myself as the emperor and leave Java and other places to your supervision."

"If you are testing teaching, that is teaching teaching."

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That night, Niu Er and others gathered together.

There will be another battle tomorrow, when the rebels in Cirebon will assemble and march lightly to catch up with the Dutch troops.

Dashun has control of the sea, and gunpowder supplies cannons, etc. will be transported through auxiliary ships recruited by the Sino-Japanese Trading Company, thereby greatly increasing the speed of the troops' march.

Li Huan will move with the fleet, while Liu Yu will lead an elite marine force of 300 people to follow the Guiyi Army in Cirebon.

Trying to arrive at the battlefield when the other part of the rebel army was confronting the Dutch and completing Niu Er's plan could be regarded as preparing some merit for him as the governor of Java in the future.

But even though they knew that there would be a battle and a hasty march tomorrow, the upper echelons of the rebel army could not sleep.

Liu Yu sent them a bunch of good cigarettes from Luzon, and the room was filled with smoke. Even with the oil lamp, it was still dark.

The upper echelons of the Guiyi Army all attended the daytime meeting. They also knew that Liu Yu was trying his best to fight for their future, but the premise was that they had to understand the court's method of ruling Nanyang.

In other words, they had to understand why the court had to go to Nanyang first before they could know the direction of the answer to the test. Otherwise, if they went in the opposite direction, the faster they ran, the more mistakes they made.

As for why the court had to go to Nanyang, they had heard a lot in Weihai, so it was not difficult.

"The court's trip to Southeast Asia, according to what the Whale Marquis said, is nothing more than a matter of distance and nearness."

"The far one is that the population increases but the land does not. If we don't go to Southeast Asia, there will be too many people and too little land. Not only will the people suffer, but the court will also be unstable and turbulent."

"The near one is nothing more than money."

"But money includes taxes and trade. I think the money in Southeast Asia is still in trade. Since we are talking about trade, we must grasp the taste of Westerners, who have mountains of gold and silver. According to Westerners, this is called mercantilism. Gold and silver are wealth, more exports and less imports."

They have heard these issues countless times in Weihai. Now it is good to talk about them in general terms.

However, Niu Er couldn't help but smile bitterly when he said this: "The Whale Marquis once made a joke, saying that where the butt sits determines how the head thinks, not how the head thinks. "

"I used to think this joke was funny, but now I think it's bitter."

"When we started the rebellion, we talked about abolishing the head tax and the forced planting system."

"But if we really become the governor of Java, we want to make money and achieve the court's short-term goals... I really think that the Dutch forced planting system is good."

When he said this, several people around him also echoed.

"That's right. The Dutch forced planting system can really make money."

"Really, and it is also convenient for governance. You said that the village chiefs would collect the crops on behalf of the villagers, and give dividends for the extra crops after meeting the standards. Then the village chiefs in Java would stand with us, extorting the villagers' money and forcing them to plant more things that can be sold, and we would buy them back at a low price. After reselling, wouldn't it all be money?"

There were also one or two people who still had some conscience, and they lowered their heads and said, "Then the slogans we shouted when we started the uprising would become nothing more than talk?"

"This system is not good, you have also seen it in the Burangan area. The village chiefs oppressed the villagers, cut off their hands and feet, forced them to plant more indigo and coffee, and then sold them to the Dutch at extremely low prices. After we shouted the slogan of abolishing the forced planting system, the people won the grain and followed us."

"This matter... I feel that if we really do it, our conscience will really be unbearable."

The rural areas in Java and other places are different from Dashun. They are still based on villages and communities, and the village chiefs are similar to the clan leaders in Dashun, but they are only similar.

It can be said that if you can't deal with the village head without using a knife, you can't deal with the land issue.

When the uprising started in Bandung, it was simple. With a knife in hand, the rebels were all outsiders and had no interest in the local area.

If the village head and the local feudal nobles dared to oppose, they would first ask if the knife of the Guiyi Army was sharp?

But from the rebels being recruited as the Guiyi Army, and from the leader of the Guiyi Army to the governor of Java, they had to consider the stability of Java and cooperate with the village head and local nobles, otherwise, I'm afraid that war would break out.

It's not that you can't kill just by killing, but how much money do you have to invest in the early stage? How much manpower and material resources?

Niu Er sighed and said helplessly: "The difficulty of this matter is not here. It's about how the court views our contributions?"

"Marquis Jing said it clearly. Now Nanyang is not under the jurisdiction of the six governments. The emperor is in charge of it and wants to be the emperor's inner treasury. After a long time, we can't stay here for too long. According to the court system, we will definitely be transferred in the future."

"The problem is that the Dutch forced planting system is definitely the most effective in the short term. Millions of taels of coffee, indigo, cotton, etc. are produced every year. The emperor sees it. This is also our ability."

"As for long-term policies, they are slow to take effect. It may take ten or eight years to see the effect. achievements. But I am afraid that before that time comes, we will be labeled as incompetent and thrown away. "

"Besides, many people in the court are against going to Southeast Asia. Short-term benefits are fine, which can shut up opponents; if there is no short-term benefit, you have to spend money on it. If there is no short-term benefit, how can there be long-term benefits?"

"A policy that is beneficial in the long run may not be beneficial in the short run. And if there is no short-term benefit, how can there be long-term benefits?"

"This is difficult."

"Maybe there is a policy that has the best of both worlds, but as it stands now, if I am the governor of Java, the Dutch forced planting system and monopoly purchase system are the most suitable, most profitable, and easiest to achieve short-term achievements."