At the same time that Zhao Xin and Huang Zhongtong were talking, something minor happened outside a shop in Bacheng. However, a large-scale armed fight ensued, which shocked the entire Bacheng.
It was precisely because of this unexpected armed fight that Zhao Xin made up his mind to incorporate various Chinese forces in West Kalimantan, which eventually led to Beihai Town declaring a full-scale war on the Dutch East India Company two years later, which also reduced the forces in Beihai Town. The scope expanded to the entire Southeast Asia.
The cause of the incident was that among the Hakkas who came from Pontianak, in addition to the crying woman Zhao Xin saw before, there was also a 15-year-old Kayak woman who had some chest tightness due to the smell of disinfectant in the hospital. Feeling sick, I went to the hospital door alone to get some fresh air. Then I heard a few women next to me talking about a new batch of toilet water in the grocery store in the city. The woman was moved and hurriedly spoke to the Balinese people in Malay. The woman asked for the location and ran to the shop alone.
Unexpectedly, when she came out from the shop after shopping, she was spotted by three men from Zhangzhou. Seeing her graceful figure and pretty face, and her dark skin, they knew she was not Chinese, so they began to flirt with her. He directly stepped forward to hug and drag him.
Although the woman was a Kayak native of Borneo, her status in Pontianak was extraordinary. She had grown up in the Chinese community in Pontianak. How could she have ever seen such a thing? She was so frightened that she begged, At the same time, she hugged a tree by the road and refused to let go. After a while, she was seen by several Hakka people from Pontianak who came out to look for her.
When the other party saw this, he was furious. He stepped forward, yelled and cursed, and knocked the three of them to the ground. Seeing that the other party was tall and strong, the three men from Zhangzhou gave in and said that they were drunk and confused. The Hakka didn't want to cause trouble, so he scolded the other party and took the woman away.
Later in the evening, as the condition of the emergency patients hospitalized in the hospital stabilized, except for the three or five people from Pontianak who stayed with the patients in the hospital, the others walked back to the ship in the port to eat and rest. When they were about to arrive at the port , more than twenty Zhangzhou people armed with daggers and sticks suddenly appeared from the roadside, led by the three people who molested the maid in the afternoon. They were obviously here to avenge the quarrel in the afternoon.
The people in Pontianak didn't want to cause trouble, and based on the principle of minimizing big problems, they planned to persuade them and spend some money to get rid of the trouble. Unexpectedly, the people in Zhangzhou were unforgiving, and the three leaders not only wanted money, but also wanted to take the woman away. , and even had to break the legs of the two people who scolded them before.
This is such a bully! If you can't bear it, there is no need to bear it anymore, and the two sides immediately fight. The problem is that although there are few people here in Pontianak, they live a life of licking blood from the knife edge. More than 20 Zhangzhou Humans were no match at all. With just three strikes, five divided by two, more than half of the men were knocked down, and then they retreated to the ship in the port.
When the surviving Zhangzhou people saw that the other party was powerful, they sent people back to Chinatown to call for support. It is said that the immigrants in Bacheng were basically Fujianese, and Zhangzhou and Quanzhou in southern Fujian had a culture of fighting over land distribution since the late Ming Dynasty. The so-called "Seven There is a small fight every year, and a big fight every ten years." Although there are often internal conflicts in their hometown, the immigrants from Zhangzhou and Quanzhou actually stand together when they go abroad. I heard that the Hakkas from Pontianak beat their own people, and Chinatown suddenly The situation exploded, and soon more than 300 people gathered, all armed with daggers and big sticks, and some even carried dung forks.
Because the security team members responsible for security patrols were all from southern Fujian, they turned a blind eye to this behavior, thinking that they would stop it after they had been taught a lesson. Among them were Cai Qian and Jin Wuzai.
When everyone in Lanfang Company returned to the ship, they saw hundreds of people coming up to the port. They initially thought about making peace with words, but who knew that the people from southern Fujian had been instigated and saw the tragic situation of their brothers' heads and blood, so they didn't say anything when they came up.
After two sentences, the fight started directly.
Although there are only fifty or sixty people in the Lanfang Company, their boats are equipped with swords and guns, and they are guarded by the boats. Besides, there is also a tradition of weapons fighting between Hakkas and Cantonese. Who is afraid of Who!
The two sides fought for more than 20 minutes. In the darkness of the night, the severity of the attacks became more and more obvious. The people from Lanfang Company became red-eyed after killing and injuring several people one after another. They attacked without mercy, resulting in the death and injury of dozens of immigrants from southern Fujian.
, eight of them died on the spot, twenty-three were seriously injured, and a dozen were slightly injured.
Just when the southern Fujian immigrants were unable to attack for a long time and began to throw torches on the ship to burn it, sixty Northern Marines arrived after hearing the news. The company commander leading the team ordered a warning shot to be fired in the air. Several people on the port
Only then did the hundreds of people disperse. With the black muzzle of their guns, the Marines held down more than a hundred Zhangquan immigrants on the spot, and then searched and rescued the injured on the scene.
The sound of gunshots alarmed the residents in the Military Control Commission compound, as well as everyone inside and outside Bacheng. You must know that since Beihai Town took over Bacheng, there has never been such a large-scale criminal case. More than a dozen people in the court
After hearing the news, the stewards were all shocked and went to the Military Control Commission to plead guilty.
Even Wang Yuanfang, a good-tempered person, was furious when he learned about the situation. He immediately ordered Hui'anying and Bacheng security teams to gather in front of the Military Control Commission building, blockade Chinatown overnight, and arrest all those involved in the fight. Then
They also sent someone to contact Zheng Wenxian and ordered the fleet to watch the Lanfang Company's merchant ships and not allow them to leave the port without authorization. After the naval blockade was completed, the Marine Corps boarded the ship overnight to arrest the people!
The people from Lanfang Company actually wanted to sail away, but when the searchlights suddenly lit up at the port and locked them in, they were immediately frightened. When the North Korean navy boarded the ship to arrest the people, the leader tried to argue, but
The Beihai navy ignored them at all, and just slapped the butts of their rifles, and then tied them up. Now all the Hakkas quit. Although they did not dare to confront the Beihai navy, someone still shouted out that there were ten Hakkas in Borneo.
Tens of thousands of people, if they dare to touch us, they will kill everyone in Bacheng without leaving a trace.
By the next morning, the detention center in Bacheng was overcrowded. The security team and Hoi An camp arrested more than 200 immigrants who participated in the fight, while the people from Lanfang Company were imprisoned in an abandoned Catholic church near the port.
inside.
After preliminary interrogation and identification of the persons involved, by the afternoon of that day, the whole story of the case was generally clear. Zhao Xin, Deng Fei and others were also shocked and speechless after learning the details.
The three Zhangzhou immigrants involved were actually members of the Tiandi Society. The people who camped at the society found a tattered membership book from their residence, which showed the appearance of the Gaoxi Temple, the incense burner, and the flagpole.
The name, yellow cover, handsome flag, general flag and meeting flag; in addition, it also records the door couplets and poems in the temple, various incisions and blessing words, and 36 oaths.
According to the three people's confessions, they came to Bacheng from Borneo at the beginning of last year. They had been making a living by farming outside the city and secretly developed more than 20 associates. Yesterday at noon, the three of them went into the city to sell vegetables together and met the man.
A woman from Pontianak. They thought the woman was from Bali because her customs were completely different from those in the mainland, so they started teasing her. When the Pontianak group came to rescue them, they recognized her as someone from Lanfang Company.
People. Because the two sides had a blood feud in the past, this was the reason for the subsequent revenge action of gathering people.
Deng Fei was a little strange, so he asked Huang Mianshe and others who came to report the interrogation: "What is the conflict between Tiandihui and Lanfang Company?"
The oldest Huang Mianshe knew this history, so he said: "Sir, you don't know something. When the Lanfang Society was founded eighteen years ago, he and the people of the Tiandi Society started in the Big Tree Mountain in West Borneo.
After the conflict broke out, they retreated to Dongwanlu. After that, they fought several more times with the Tiandihui people. Later, the fourteen gold mines in Da Laolu joined forces. In the end, the Tiandihui was defeated and hundreds of people died. Lanfang Hui
The Heheshun Alliance dominated West Borneo from that time on."
Deng Fei said: "What exactly has the Tiandihui done? Why is it so hated?"
Huang Mianshe said: "What else can we do? They control grain and sugar, monopolize the market, and make all the gold mines complain. No one else is to blame for this. What they did went too far at the beginning, forcing the mine owners to come to us to buy grain.
Buying candy. But these people refused to let me go and burned their cargo ship. Alas!"
Zhao Xin listened silently for a long time, and then asked Huang Mianshe a question that he wanted to know most: "Mr. Huang, I would like to ask you about Lanfang Company or the fourteen companies in the Heshun Alliance.
That’s fine, what’s going on with their company?”
Huang Mianshe was stunned for a moment when he heard this. As soon as he entered the door, he noticed Zhao Xin sitting in the corner. The question raised by the other party was a bit big and he couldn't explain it in a few words.
At this time, Wang Yuanfang took advantage of the situation and said: "Yes, we have never quite understood it. Please Mr. Huang, please explain it to us."
The boss of the Military Control Commission has spoken, and Huang Mianshe can't shirk anymore. Besides, there is an old gentleman on the left and you on the right. It would be outrageous to try to offend him.
Huang Mianshe bowed her hands to Wang Yuanfang and Zhao Xin and said, "Then I'll forgive you for playing tricks. The so-called 'company' people, according to me, are party members..."
As Huang Mianshe slowly narrated, Zhao Xin and others finally understood that the various Chinese "companies" in Southeast Asia during this era were completely different from the companies of later generations. At the same time, Zhao Xin also understood what he had seen before.
The information about Lanfang Company seems to have cleared up.
In fact, to explain this matter, we must start with the various folk sects with many names in Chinese history. The so-called folk sects originally originated from the Five Dou Rice Road founded by Zhang Ling in Huming Mountain, Sichuan in the late Eastern Han Dynasty, and later in Julu, Hebei
Taiping Road founded by Zhang Jiao.
The birth of Luo Jiao during the Chenghua period of the Ming Dynasty was a major event in the history of the development of Chinese folk religion. Taking this as a turning point, folk religious organizations with various names emerged everywhere. However, in terms of names, there has always been "Southern Meeting and Northern Sect".
"The so-called "Gaijiao religion flourishes in the north but not in the south, and Huijiao flourishes in the south but not in the north." That is to say, the secret societies in the north are called "religion gates", while those in the south are called "Hui Dang"
”.
For example, there are Bagua Sect, Qingshui Sect, Hunyuan Sect, Shuoyuan Sect, etc. in the north, while in the south there are Tiandihui, Nandouhui, Beidouhui, Zilonghui, Xiaodaohui, etc...
As for these Chinese "companies" in Southeast Asia, they are actually a kind of party that originated in Guangdong, Guangxi and Fujian. It relies on rural temples and receives donations from believers to provide charitable assistance to poor congregations. Its main business project is "human relations".
”, rather than engaging in commercial activities.
The problem is that Westerners who come into contact with these organizations - especially the Dutch, whose country is based on contractual relationships, do not understand at all that the social foundation of ancient Chinese civilization is morality and human relations. They can only far-fetchedly regard this organizational structure as familiar.
The incomparable "meeting" is called "company" (Congsee). As for "pany" in Western vocabulary, the Chinese society at that time could not translate it; because it was also funded by multiple shareholders, a shareholders' meeting was needed to discuss matters.
, so they borrowed the name from the countryside of Fujian and Guangdong and called it "company".
In many articles of later generations, the above two organizational forms are often confused to show how advanced the ancient Chinese business organizations were, but in fact the connotations of the two are completely different; you must know that whether it is Lanfang Company,
The fourteen companies that make up the "Heshun Alliance" are all "Congsee", not "pany".
As for the "Lanfang Republic" that is commonly used on the Internet in another time and space, there was no such name in either the 18th or 19th centuries. The person who first proposed this term was Luo Xianglin, a scholar during the Republic of China. Luo Xianglin's statement comes from
The 19th century Dutchman Gaoyen, and Gaoyen’s statement was based on his comparison of the organizational form of Lanfang Company to the defunct United Provinces Republic.
This chapter is not finished yet, please click on the next page to continue reading the exciting content! Rather than saying that Lanfang is a "republic", it is better to say that it is a conference party formed by the Lanfang Society annexing many small parties. When nothing happens
Everyone digs their own mines and various lands; when trouble occurs, they join forces to attack cities and plunder lands, or to defend against enemies together.
The reason why Luo Xianglin made this conclusion must be combined with the background of the times in which he lived. After the collapse of imperial power, the Chinese ushered in an era of true and false republics that experienced several ups and downs. There were warlords fighting internally, people's livelihoods were in decline, and powerful enemies were eyeing them outside.
All people of insight are looking for a path that can guide China's future and a system that can make the world a better place.
When Western civilization envelops East Asia with its hegemony, faced with the current situation of being backward and being beaten, the descendants of China can only bury their heads in the ancient books to find self-esteem. Perhaps it is because of this urgency and hope that Lanfang Company was called "Republic"
” was magnified and became the first democratic republic earlier than the United States and France, and it also spread among the Chinese.
The problem is that it was understandable for Chinese people to say and think this way a hundred years ago, but if they still think this way in the 21st century, it would really become "boasting."
In addition, regarding Luo Fangbai, who is known as the "King of Pontianak", Huang Mianshe met him in Pontianak more than ten years ago. According to Huang Mianshe, this person was a scholar and was capable of both literary and military skills. Although at that time,
He works as a teacher in Pontianak, but because of his good eloquence, fair dealings, and often mediates disputes for others, he has become famous in the local area.
After listening to Huang Mianshe's words, and thinking about the other party's wars with various forces over the years, Zhao Xin couldn't help but sigh in his heart, what kind of scholar is this? He is a ruthless gang boss!
In Huang Mianshe's story, there were four words that caught Zhao Xin's attention, that is, Luo Fangbai was "as rich as anyone in the country." He was rich, capable of literary and military skills, and had tens of thousands of miners under his command. No wonder he was able to survive in Kalimantan.
The island is so king that even the Dutch and surrounding sultans dare not provoke him.
The question is how long can such a force last? No matter how powerful Luo Fangbai is, he is still an old-style tycoon at heart, which can be seen from the fact that he lets his men wear the uniforms of the Qing army. In history, as the island of West Kalimantan
As gold production continues to decrease, Lanfang Company has also joined the ranks of opium trafficking...
It was from this moment on that Zhao Xin had the idea of annexing West Borneo.