Chapter 366 The Southern Expedition and the Northern War 31 Attempts
Former Batavia's first Chinese, Kabitan Lee Jin, has officially become the major shareholder of the Chinese company and served as the head of the company's foreign affairs bureau. During the latest monthly meeting of the board of directors, Li Lihua first proposed to let Li Jin enter.
Board of Directors.
Among the 25 people on the board of directors of China United Company, most of them were Chinese businessmen from Manila, and some were representatives of Fujian businessmen, basically some of them when Yin Feng first started his business. Now, Nanyang Chinese businessmen represented by Li Jin will also enter the company.
What does the nominal highest decision-making body represent can be seen by anyone with a discerning eye.
Li Jin was not very happy about the change in his destiny. He once said to his adopted son Su Minggang: We were originally abandoned by the Celestial Empire, but now we are just rebellion of the Celestial Empire. I only hope that Ship Owner Yin can achieve great achievements.
We can become the pioneers of China in opening up Southeast Asia and thus be remembered forever. Otherwise, after a hundred years, we will only become wandering souls who leave our hometown in obscurity.”
Su Minggang was the last Chinese Kabidan appointed by the Dutch before Batavia was seized by the Chinese army. He was imprisoned by the Dutch Governor Kun in prison. After the war, he finally came out alive. Su Minggang was from Tong'an County, Fujian.
This year, he is 38 years old. He is "smart, has little ambition, is good at writing, and is good at martial arts." He was under fourteen years old and went south from Quanzhou to Wandan, West Java to do business. With his outstanding talents, he became Li Jin's assistant and
Adopted son.
After the first Chinese war in Java, he led a group of overseas Chinese from Banten to Batavia. In October of that year, because Li Jin left Batavia, the governor of the Dutch East India Company, Kun appointed him as the Chinese A
Bidan, at that time, wanted to maintain his independence and wanted to keep a distance from China. Not only did he rely on his own efforts to own a vast pepper garden, but he also had other relatives in Gendarère near Semarang to purchase products.
Of course, while serving as Kapitan, he also did some good things for Chinese and overseas Chinese: such as buying land from the Dutch colonial authorities, bringing overseas Chinese to build river embankments, building houses, and also working hard to reduce overseas Chinese working hours and resolve internal disputes.
,Because he was independent of the Chinese company, the Dutch trusted him more. Soon after he served as a Chinese, Kabitan, he was appointed as a local magistrate and later elected as one of the municipal executives of Batavia.
The Dutch colonists have always practiced their ruling strategies and implemented various harsh policies, such as not allowing Chinese to build properties in coastal areas, and ordering the demolition of original houses and forced their residents to move, which has made the Chinese extremely angry and often
Under the leadership of the Chinese company's store, various boycotts were taken. When it reached its peak and the extreme, Chinese merchants completely resisted transactions with the Dutch side. Even the shoemakers took practical actions to support them and refused to repair shoes and boots for the Dutch colonial army.
Su Minggang tried his best to deal with the Dutch and Chinese, and advised Governor Peterson Kun: he asked to eliminate the implementation of the above-mentioned unreasonable and harsh policies, and at the same time contacted the local Chinese business family to exclude the existence of Chinese companies, in order to support the
The policy of "China-based China" was that Governor Kun moderately relaxed various regulations and improved his unfriendly attitude with the Chinese. Su Minggang once thought that by making some concessions, Chinese could still get along with the Dutch.
However, once the Dutch decided to start a war against the Chinese, Su Minggang was inevitably sandwiched between the two sides. In the end, due to his racial identity, the Dutch colonists still imprisoned him, the Chinese and the Netherlands he had tried his best to maintain
Good relationships between people collapse overnight.
After experiencing the torture of the black prison, Su Minggang understood a problem: concessions and tolerance cannot change the fate of overseas Chinese, and his own background cannot be changed. No matter how much effort he has made, Westerners will not do it. As his own, Su Minggang is now the first county magistrate of West Java County, the Java garrison of China. He has planned to work wholeheartedly for the Chinese company. Not only did he join the company himself, but he also allowed his younger brother who was doing business in his hometown to do business. Su Zhongshuang went to Taiwan to take the entrance examination of the Political Academy. After half a year of training, he has started working as an intern clerk in the Foreign Affairs Bureau of the King of Jinghai Shogunate, that is, the Foreign Affairs Bureau of the Chinese Company.
Su Minggang's experience is actually similar to many overseas Chinese businessmen at that time. Chinese people who had no national concepts at first met Westerners, heard and witnessed and personally experienced the actions of Western powers, and cultivated their initial results from their own personal experiences. Modern state concept: In fact, Western countries are only at the beginning of their germination. In fact, their development level is similar to that of the people under the Chinese company.
At this time, the Chinese company just filled the gap in the sense of national identity of overseas Chinese. Therefore, after the Battle of Nanyang, the Chinese company's career in Nanyang was prosperous, and the prestige and authority of King Jinghai Yin Feng had surpassed the far side of the sky. , the Ming emperor who had never been in charge of the affairs of the Chinese in Nanyang.
By the end of the 47th year of Wanli, the Chinese Company had immigrated more than two million in Nanyang, Dongyang and other places, and had become a political entity under the jurisdiction of China Company and Yin Feng, the King of Jinghai.
Li Jin came to Macau in October of this year. As the company's foreign affairs director, he wanted to sign a new trade agreement with the Macau Portuguese City Hall. This was the result of negotiations between the company and the Portuguese Goa authorities after Malacca changed hands: China Company guaranteed The Portuguese are in Macau and at the same time, Portugal will redistribute shares in the Chinese trade fleet north of Japan.
After he landed in the Inner Harbor of Macau, he temporarily lived in the China Merchants Hall.
That night, Yu Anfu, head of the China Military Information Department of the Macau company, brought a Portuguese businessman into the China Association for secretly. He knocked on the gate of the yard where Li Jin lived. The door was Li Jin's clerk Su Zhongshuang and Su Minggang's clerk. younger brother.
"Mr. Li is already asleep. What's the matter with Mr. Yu? Can't you come tomorrow morning?" Su Zhongshuang asked while rubbing his eyes, while curiously looking at the man in black who was hiding behind Yu Anfu. The man looked at his height and A guy doesn't look like a Chinese.
Yu Anfu lowered his voice and said with great dissatisfaction: "You don't know what happened. You just came to the Foreign Affairs Bureau to do things,"
Su Zhongshuang was shocked and quickly explained: "Su Zhongshuang, whose courtesy name is Guangyuan, graduated from the 47th short-term training class of the Wanli Academy of Political Science and Technology. He just came to the Foreign Affairs Bureau to do things..."
"No wonder you don't recognize me. Forget it, I'm from the Military Intelligence Department. I immediately called Mr. Li. If you have urgent matters, remember to keep your voice low and don't disturb the people around you. Do you understand?"
Su Zhongshuang is also a smart person. When he heard that the person coming from the Military Intelligence Department, he immediately knew that the person coming sneaked into the mall late at night and there must be something important. He quickly let Yu Anfu and the others come in, turned around and hurried to wake up Li Jin.
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"What, the court sent people to Macau to buy cannons,"
After hearing the Portuguese businessman who came with Yu Anfu, Li Jin was shocked. Although he had just entered the senior management of the Chinese company, Yin Feng trusted him very much and did not hide many things from him. The ceasefire between the imperial court and the Chinese company It is temporary. The company has been guarding against the court, whether it is monopolizing overseas trade, blocking coastal maritime traffic, blocking advanced military technology to spread to the mainland, etc. The target is aimed at the Ming Dynasty court, which attempts to buy Western countries in Macau. Cannons, you can think without using your brain, must be used to deal with the Chinese army.
Li Jin drew a cross on his chest and asked in Dutch: "Uzegtisdatjeogenzien? (You saw what you said with your own eyes?"
The Portuguese businessman named Luanda, with a big bearded face, bowed humbly to Li Jin. Regardless of whether Li Jin was a Protestant, he still drew a cross on his chest: "Deusteaben?oe, (Portuguese: God bless,) , and then spoke a lot of Portuguese - he could understand Dutch, but could not speak, Yu Anfu immediately translated in a simultaneous manner: "He said: He is the rotating sheriff of the city hall this month, but the trade fleet to Japan Commander Thomas Thomson cannot control him. The dock has now been taken over by the Trade Fleet. Therefore, in the past half month, he did not know how many cannons have been dismantled from the fleet warships to the dock. He did not know until today. I found that every day, Chinese sailboats from Guangzhou were shipped to the dock where the fleet warships were located. Moreover, he saw with his own eyes that officials in the imperial uniforms boarded the flagship of the Trade Fleet Commander Thomas Thomson,"
"Have he indeed seen cannons transported to the Guanfu ship?"
Yu Anfu replied: "He saw with his own eyes that two bronze naval guns were loaded on the Guangzhou government's sailboat."
Li Jin thought about it, opened his mouth, and asked Yu Anfu in Minnan dialect, "This Folang Ji people don't understand Quanzhou dialect, right?"
Yu Anfu shook his head: "He can understand Cantonese dialect, but not Quanzhou dialect,"
Li Jin immediately said in Minnan dialect: "Whether the Macau City Hall involves this matter? If there is indeed a Macao Florida intervene, then the Macau Portuguese authorities violated the alliance treaty signed with the Chinese company: In the Chinese Civil War, the Macau people Weapons and personnel cannot help any party fight. They are helping the government deal with us. Then the treaty signed by the company and the Macau Floridae people will be invalidated. This time, things will be a big deal. I'll come here. The re-signing matter cannot be carried out, so I have to report this matter to the prince immediately. There are a few pigeons in the Ministry of Commerce and Information in Macau,"
“There are three people who have been sending messages between Taiwan and Macau all year round.”
Li Jin pointed to the bearded Portuguese businessman and said, "What is he doing to us like this?"
Yu Anfu smiled and replied, "He is the secret shareholder of our company, the business information department developed by Mr. Bernardo. He has been working for our company secretly," he said.
Li Jin suddenly realized: "So that's it, no wonder, okay, with my highest authority, I will reward him with 1,000 yuan silver coins first. Tell him that the prince will reward him more for it. I will draft a simple copy for the prince. The situation report should be sent out immediately with a carrier pigeon. Tomorrow, the communication ship Hai Urchin will come to Macau. You write a detailed report and let the Hai Urchin send it to Taiwan.”
之后一连五天,本来要和澳门市政厅签订新协约的中华公司全权代表李锦,因为在海上长途旅行积劳成疾,生病了,市政厅评议会的两位议长一齐来中华商馆看望了李锦,看见这位快五十岁的汉子脸色蜡黄地躺在床上,不断地喘着粗气,他们代表全体澳门葡萄牙商人前来慰问,并希望李锦能早日康复,然后尽早和澳门签署新的和平同盟After agreement, Li Jin on the sickbed sighed, drew a cross, and nodded repeatedly...
In the past few months, the imperial army stationed troops in Liaoyang and Jinzhou, but did not send troops. The 15,000 bird gunners from Korea crossed the river from Yizhou and arrived in Liaoyang for a month, and there was no movement. Yin Feng Now I have been paying attention to the development of the situation in the Northeast and have been thinking in my mind: due to the troubles of my big butterfly, the famous Battle of Sarhu in history will still happen.
The inner city in the center of Taiwan Harbor City, the original ship owner's alley is now called Wangfu Street. The Jinghai Prince's Mansion has more than doubled based on Yin Feng's original mansion. Yin Feng rested for a few days and was busy supervising 9 The year-old daughter Yin Qian wrote and painted, helping her six-year-old son (known as Zhengfeng and his courtesy name) make handmade toys.
After Mai Wan'er, who is content and happy, has become more mature and steady after having a son; and Mei Xinlan, the most beloved concubine of Yin Feng, has also become pregnant recently, which makes Li Lihua very unhappy for a while, and Yin Feng is still busy comforting her. At the same time, Yin Feng was afraid that Zeng Junting, the seventh lady of the Zeng family who replaced Zeng Jing's position, would be neglected, so he took her to the sea for a walk.
Yin Feng rarely enjoys family happiness in such a peaceful manner, but he feels very tired.
Soon, a secret report sent by Chen Zhongji broke his peaceful family life. He hurriedly sent someone to summon Lin Xiao, the head of the Ministry of Commerce and Information Technology, Li Yue, the head of the Weapon Research Department, and several staff officers from the old battalion operation department. .
"Xu Guangqi, the imperial envoy of the Ming Dynasty court, and Xiong Tingbi, the Nanjing Strategic Management Officer, have begun to form a new army. The new army's training supervisor is the Fujian general Chen Yourong, and Yu Zigao was appointed as the Wuhu guerrillas to take charge of the training matters," Lin Xiaoyi said. After reading this brief information sent by Chen Zhongji through a pigeon, he smiled bitterly and raised his head and said, "Ship owner, oh prince, I said that Yu Zigao is always from the government, let him learn our war strategy And technology will be bad for us.”
Yin Feng shook his head and said, "Forget it, there is no need to mention the past. Besides, the Western army that is comparable to ours has been defeated by us? The problem is, one thing I think is very strange: Xu Guangqiyi I wanted to train the new army a few years ago because I had no food and salary to die. Now the court is preparing for war against the Jianzhou Juzhen, so where can I get money to train for him?”