Just when Deng Fei was about to stand up and angrily denounce the Dutch's statement, which was full of hypocrisy and sophistry, Wang Zhusheng, who was from Kapitan in Bacheng, saw something bad and hurriedly stood up and cupped his hands and said: "Master Deng, I have a few words that I don't know what to say.
Shouldn’t you say it?”
Deng Fei glanced at Gerald Hester Jacobs, calmed down the anger in his chest, and said to Wang Zhusheng: "Mr. Wang, please speak."
Wang Zhusheng looked grateful, and said with cupped hands: "Master Deng, Mr. Jiang, Mr. Hong, I am here to serve as Kapitan in Bacheng. Although I am entrusted by the Dutch, I usually work for us Tang people. This time
Wang has been entrusted by thousands of Tang elders in the city, hoping to explain to you what happened fifty years ago. Although the Dutch have done something excessive, the root cause is that it was caused by the unruly people who had evil intentions."
"Ah?!" Deng Fei and the three of them had expressions of disbelief in their eyes.
Just listen to Wang Zhusheng say again: "According to the villain's inquiries in Xiamen and Ba City, this Batavia was originally under the jurisdiction of the local Crow Band, and was later occupied by the Dutch. At that time, Ba Wang punished those who were unruly and lawless.
Ceylon is allowed to return only after meritorious service and atonement. Ceylon is the birthplace of the Dutch. It is far away from Bacheng and is often invaded. We Chinese in Ceylon have fought hard and won many battles.
, and also defeated Shengfan."
"Ordinarily, these Chinese have made meritorious service and atone for their sins, so they should return to Batavia. However, the then King of Ba and the Dukes of the Council were worried that if they all withdrew, they would cause trouble and harass them. So they wanted to recruit Chinese people from Batavia from among them.
Select the best and go to replace them. But think about it, the Chinese in Bacheng are innocent, and they are definitely not willing to leave their homes and careers to go to Ceylon. So some people took advantage of the fact that they had more people and money to resist the Dutch.
They even conspired to start an uprising to kill all the Dutch."
"Think about it, if you were a Dutch government official, you would never tolerate such an act of betrayal and forgetfulness, so King Ba ordered his troops to attack. Alas! Since ancient times, swords and guns have no eyesight in battle formations, so it is inevitable to hurt innocent people.
But later, King Ba also felt that he had gone too far and regretted it endlessly. Therefore, the two sides were very peaceful in the past few decades. Tang Chuan came here and recruited him diligently. Before leaving, he gave many condolences. Even if the security in the city is slightly tight, it should still be safe.
It makes sense. However, we, the people from the Tang Dynasty, will still be in charge of all trade matters, and they will not dare to embarrass us."
"..." Deng Fei and Hong Tao looked at Kapitan Wang Zhusheng's convincing and conclusive tone, and were a little confused for a moment. This was so different from what they had imagined before! Who exactly is this guy?
Which end?
Jiang Fan on the side twirled his beard with his hands, squinting his eyes and thinking silently. He was not confused, but he remembered that there was a sentence in the telegram about the Batavia combat suggestions sent by Zhao Xin yesterday, which said that Wang Zhusheng was like this
people.
"The Kapitan people are called Chinese businessmen, but they are actually compradors of foreign slaves. There is no sense of national responsibility in these people. They are a group of self-interested people who are obviously capable but never consider helping their own people. They are extremely hateful!"
At this moment, in Jiang Fan's view, these people are not only hateful, they are simply killable!
In fact, the reason why the "Hongxi Massacre" occurred was that on the one hand, the Dutch coveted the wealth accumulated by the Chinese and deprived them of it through massacre; on the other hand, the Chinese comprador group headed by Kapitan was responsible for the persecution of the lower-class Chinese.
Cruel exploitation and even inaction are also important reasons for the Dutch to take action.
The root of everything still lies in the economy, starting with the development of the sugar plantation industry in Java.
At the beginning of the 18th century, the sugar cane planting industry in Java developed rapidly and was almost completely controlled by the Chinese. With the encouragement of the East India Company, sugar plantations spread across the countryside around Bacheng. There were as many as 130 sugar cane plantations belonging to 79 villages.
Chinese, 4 Dutch and 1 Javanese.
As the Chinese population in Batavia increases, the effective operation of many local political affairs depends not only on the unique relationship of mutual trust and cooperation between Kapitan and the Dutch-Indian authorities, but also on the leadership and coordination of the Chinese
The authority of human Kapitan.
On the one hand, the Chinese were directly under the jurisdiction of Kapitan and Lieutenant (transliteration, meaning assistant) appointed by the Dutch. These Chinese officials acted as compradors in all matters involving the East India Company. Through tax contracting, hospitals, orphans
Through institutions such as courts and guardians, strong institutionalized ties were established between the Chinese and the Dutch. On the other hand, the private business interests of East India Company officials and Chinese merchants became increasingly closely intertwined, and a large number of Dutch engaged in illegal private trade.
, ostensibly all handled by Chinese businessmen.
In the early days, there was no doubt about the authority of Kapitan among the Chinese. They were all elected and appointed by the Chinese elders living in Bacheng in a very democratic way. The head tax of the Chinese had to be paid at the official office of Kapitan.
Then it was transferred to the East India Company.
However, all the employees in the plantations and the Chinese businessmen far away from the city were not under the jurisdiction of Kapitan and Lezhenlan in the city, but were placed under the direct supervision of the Dutch judicial officers and their subordinates. Despite this,
, according to the rules, the Chinese operators of these plantations must pay the head tax for their employees through Kapitan every year.
Under this kind of policy of neglecting the near and far away, given the poor nature of the Chinese, there must be very few people who actually pay taxes according to the rules. The plantation owners would rather bribe the judicial officers to be accommodating than go to the city to pay taxes to Kapitan.
After all, the more illegal workers who do not pay taxes, the more profits the Chinese businessmen can make. The Dutch judges turned a blind eye to this and just collected bribes. Therefore, as corruption grows day by day, Kapitan’s
Prestige is also in decline.
Finally, those Kapitan and Lei Zhenlan who invested in sugar cane plantations also became part of the fraudulent activities. The result was a vicious cycle in which short-term corruption replaced long-term cooperation. The Chinese workers at the bottom were exploited by these people.
At the same time, they had to borrow usury to repay the smuggler's expenses. Once someone was dissatisfied, the Chinese businessmen threatened them with reporting to the Dutch.
This chapter is not over yet, please click on the next page to continue reading! The widespread fraud caused the price of sucrose in Bacheng to be lower than that of British Bengal, and sales dropped. As a result, the Dutch East India Company suddenly lowered the purchase price of sucrose significantly.
and the number of purchases, thus directly hitting the local sugarcane planting industry, and a large number of Chinese operating plantations became victims.
Many of the bankrupt sugarcane plantation operators are ordinary Chinese. They had no capital when they started their business and had to rely on loans to operate. Not to mention the Chinese who rented land at high prices to operate the plantations. They and the Qing Dynasty
Just like tenants, they must first ensure that the landlord makes a profit.
The decline of the sugar industry made the livelihood of Chinese in other industries in the city increasingly difficult. Bankrupt Chinese workers and small Chinese businessmen appeared in the countryside in droves. The taxation measures and extortion of the Dutch made these people like squeezed sponges.
Thousands of old and young people have lost their land, money and jobs, leaving them with only three options: waiting to starve to death, begging for sporadic relief, or stealing.
News of the growing turmoil in the countryside could hardly reach the ears of the wealthy people in Bacheng. Dutch officials in the countryside felt it was more sensible to cover up the truth. At this time, Kapitan and his Lei Zhenlan only needed to spend a few hundred taels.
Money can help these miserable compatriots, but as compradors and big landowners, they are indifferent.
The loss of Kapitan's authority in rural areas has led to the separation of urban Chinese and rural Chinese, and an explosive situation is inevitable.
In the spring of 1740, the powder keg was finally ignited, and the scandal came to light that Dutch East India Company officials sold residence permits to Chinese sugar plantations. This incident forced the Bacheng authorities to propose a radical and unrealistic plan.
, forcing Chinese workers to immigrate to Ceylon in order to solve the problem of Chinese workers wandering in the countryside once and for all.
But what did the Dutch actually do? After they sent the Chinese workers out to sea, they killed them directly or threw them into the sea. The survivors fled back to the Batavia countryside, forcing others to think that instead of sitting back and waiting to die, it was better to take action.
, seeking survival from death.
When the Chinese workers outside the city began to revolt, the Chinese in the city remained indifferent. Even the origin of the riot was Kapitan's own plantation. When the Chinese workers' uprising defeated the Dutch's first attack, they began
When they reached the gates of Batavia, the relationship between the Dutch and the Chinese completely collapsed.
The psychology of revenge and the fear of being robbed triggered a bloody massacre that lasted for three days, and the evil in human nature was completely unleashed. The East India Company authorities made a lot of money from the massacre, and everyone involved in the massacre also made a fortune.
fiscal.
Just like the "St. Bartholomew's Night" when Catholics massacred Protestants in French history, all the Chinese in Batavia, men, women, old and young, were brutally killed by the sword. Even pregnant women and infant babies were killed.
They were not spared. No less than a hundred shackled prisoners had their throats cut off one after another like slaughtered sheep. Some Dutch people had provided shelter to many wealthy Chinese citizens in the past, but on this day they also killed these Chinese people.
The purpose is to divide their property.
A German carpenter named Georg Berhardt Schwartz said in his later memories: "I knew that my Chinese neighbor had a fat pig, so I planned to take it for myself. When my boss -
-When the carpenter saw what I meant, he patted me on the shoulder and told me to kill the Chinese man first and then rob him. So I picked up a rice pounder and beat to death this Chinese man who often drank and ate with me.
neighbor."
However, things didn't stop there. Schwartz later found a pistol in his neighbor's house, so he took the gun outside and shot the Chinese he saw. He said: "I gradually became accustomed to this.
In other words, killing a Chinese is like killing a dog."
Zhao Xin made it very clear at the end of the telegram. He warned Deng Fei and others not to think that defeating the city of Batavia would do anything. What you have to deal with is a pyramid with the Dutch as the top, Chinese businessmen as compradors, and the bottom.
The colonial system in which Chinese workers were brutally exploited.
To deal with this system, just defeating the Dutch is useless. Because the center of the pyramid is filled with Kapitan, Lieutenant, Secretary, and loan shark groups similar to the big domestic landowners.
Population groups, gambling syndicates, and even opium dealers; these people are all compradors of the Dutch, as intricate and tightly connected as a vine.
Therefore, the Dutch and Spanish colonists were certainly enemies, but the Chinese comprador groups that had taken root in Southeast Asia had irreconcilable conflicts with Beihai Town.
He asked Deng Fei and the others to think carefully. It was okay to fight against the Dutch, but what would happen after the fight was over? In other words, war is like love. It is easy to start but difficult to end. If not, it will end in a "grave".
The purpose of launching a war is nothing more than political and economic interests. As a political power, or as the leader of Beihai Town, it is impossible for Zhao Xin to let the Thor come all the way just to collect debts from the Chinese fifty years ago, and then
Just pat your butt and leave.
The purpose of attacking Annam is for Dong Dang and Lang Son, and for the magnetite and coal mines in northern Annam; the purpose of attacking Batavia is to finally control the Sunda Strait, and then control the entire Southeast Asian economy. Sign a big-picture agreement with Nguyen Phuc Anh.
It's easy, because Zhao Xin knows that the opponent's strength is not enough to unify Annan in the short term, but Java is different.
Not to mention that VOC has 10,000 soldiers and tens of thousands of employees throughout Southeast Asia, with strongholds all over the East Indies and Spice Islands. If Beihai Town wants to completely eliminate the Dutch, it will not only require force, but also economic means. It will take only a few years or even ten years.
After several years, the situation could not be controlled at all.
After listening to Wang Zhusheng's words, Deng Fei suddenly felt that even if he defeated the Dutch, as long as the North Navy did not set up government management or station troops here, these guys might still invite the Dutch back!
This chapter is not finished yet, please click on the next page to continue reading the exciting content! At this point, neither Deng Fei nor anyone else has the heart to explain to Wang Zhusheng and others what happened back then. These comprador butts
I was originally sitting crookedly, and I was willing to be a slave to a foreigner, just like the "Li Picking a Melon" in another time and space.
Only then did Deng Fei finally understand what Zhao Xin meant. To completely change the fate of overseas Chinese, it was not just the struggle between Beihai Town and the Western colonists, but also the confrontation between classes; how cruel class struggle is.
, but he knew very well that maybe there would be a river of blood.
"Zhao Xin, this bastard, no wonder he asked me to come to Southeast Asia. That was his original idea!"
Just when Deng Fei was in trouble, Wang Yuanfang was leading two hundred special operations battalion troops, trudging forward in the jungle more than 60 miles east of Bacheng. Their goal was to seize the city in a day's time.
A fortress twenty miles east of Bacheng.
This group of people set off from the Thor before dawn in order to avoid the surveillance of the Dutch. When the sun came up, these people had already entered the jungle.
Wang Yuanfang, who has been a scout in the south for many years, also has a headache for such a combat environment. In such an environment, the troops cannot be dispersed to organize coordination according to time, nor can they organize coordination according to the order of battle. They can only rely on visibility
Support each other and respond to their needs.
In fact, the biggest problem in jungle warfare is not snakes and insects, but communication. Even if there is a GPS in another time and space, it is useless. You must know that in a high temperature environment, who can always wear headphones is definitely a hero. Even if someone can insist on wearing them
However, the hot and humid environment will reduce hearing, and hearing is very important for mountain and jungle operations.
Because of their outstanding performance in the short-term training on Da Cham Island and their bravery in killing the enemy in the Battle of Hoi An, Wen Dai and Rapini, who had been promoted to second class soldiers, walked 20 meters in front of the team as the vanguard. As before,
The difference was that Wen Dai did not use a walkie-talkie to communicate with the rear. Instead, he imitated frog calls from time to time to guide the teams behind.
When the two of them saw a large tree lying down in the weeds, they did not step over it directly, but went around it from one side, and then used the sound of frogs to alert the people behind. The reason for this trouble is because
There is probably a snake under the tree trunk.
Suddenly, Wen Dai's ears moved as he was advancing, as if he heard something. He immediately signaled to Rapini, and the two of them immediately moved towards a big tree in a tacit understanding.
When Wen Dai saw the guy squatting in the grass clearly, he slowly retracted the gun, and then pulled out the dagger from his thigh. When the other person was attracted by the noise Rapini made, Wen Dai jumped out like a tiger, using his left arm
He put a dagger around the other person's neck, and then put the dagger on that person's chest.
At this time, the man in Wen Dai's arms had his hat knocked off, revealing the pigtails on his head. Wen Dai knew that this might be a Chinese, so he shouted in a low voice: "Don't scream, or I will stab you to death. Do you understand?"
The man he was hugging hurriedly said "Hmm" twice, and then was thrown into the grass by Wen Dai. He took a few deep breaths, and when he turned around and saw his attacker clearly, he suddenly