New Shun 1730

All the shooters were good, and those who fed the least gunpowder were all at the level of the emperor's personal soldiers. Even though the muskets in their hands had no rifling, at such a short distance, they still swept down ten Dutchmen in an instant.

Huang Ban, who was following Niu Er, saw that Niu Er and others were so skilled that they pulled out the cleaning rods and bit the gunpowder bags with their mouths, just like they were eating with chopsticks. It was obvious that they had practiced it hundreds or thousands of times.

The ambushed Dutch were terrified. Fortunately, the officer was not dead. They subconsciously gathered around the officer and fired back indiscriminately into the woods.

The Dutch officers never thought that they would be attacked by those cowardly Chinese so close to Batavia.

Shouting for the soldiers not to shoot, firing randomly without seeing the enemy, and reloading for nearly a minute, isn't this waiting to die?

However, these colonial soldiers did not have such strong discipline. After randomly shooting, they reloaded in a panic on the roadside.

Then, gunshots rang out again in the woods.

A group of people rushed out with muskets with bayonets. The Dutch officer took out the pistol from his waist and wanted to fight back, but the opponent obviously had a good hand. He shot first and hit his arm.

Huang Ban witnessed all this and saw the means these people had when they raised their hands. These people were definitely not pirates. Pirates don't have such means, and he was even more confused.

Soon, the Balinese soldiers threw down their weapons and surrendered. There was a sound of knocking pots behind them, and a group of Chinese with butcher knives, spears, and bamboo spears rushed out together.

The Dutch didn't expect to be attacked in such a place, nor did they expect the other side to have flintlock rifles, and they were so accurate.

It was like a march in the city. After being attacked, they didn't control their hands and fired randomly. They collapsed after the second round of shooting.

Not many people were really killed or died on the spot. But those who were seriously injured, in this year, coupled with the hot climate of Batavia, were mostly dead.

After surrendering, some Chinese carried bamboo poles, and the Chinese who were butchers used the method of tying pigs to tie up the captured Dutch.

The remaining Balinese soldiers were not tied up. Niu Er walked over and found someone who knew the local language. He said to the Balinese soldiers: "You go, we will only fight the Dutch this time. The Dutch also oppressed you. How brave was Sulabadi back then? Are you willing to be a scapegoat for the Dutch?"

The Balinese soldiers nodded one by one, but thought in their hearts, we didn't live well to begin with. We served as soldiers for the Dutch and received military pay every month. Could it be that we would go back to work for the princes and work hard? Which one of us was not a slave sold here by the princes? Being a soldier is better than being a slave.

Niu Er didn't expect anything from these people. He just wanted to alienate the internal power of the Dutch, at least to make the Dutch distrust the soldiers.

He took out a letter from his bosom and handed it to a soldier, saying: "When you go back, give this to the governor. Let's go!"

After tidying up the battlefield and confiscating the weapons, he asked the soldiers to leave, took off the clothes of the dead Dutchmen, and hung them on the tree with ropes.

After watching the soldiers leave, he asked people to carry away the Dutch captives tied up like pigs, and called Huang Ban, Lian Huaiguan and others to say: "The Dutch must come again, there is no place to defend here. But we will not withdraw directly, but encourage everyone to light a fire outside the city at night to threaten the city of Ba."

"It was late at night, and the Dutch didn't know how many people there were, so they didn't dare to leave the city rashly. In the second half of the night, let the scattered brothers retreat to the south first."

"The Dutch must think we are bluffing, but they also know that we have guns and can fight. They are worried that it will spread like wildfire, so they must send people to chase us. Attack. But they are afraid that there will be changes in the city... They will not come out in full force. It is estimated that there are only more than a hundred people. If we can ambush them again, the Dutch will temporarily be unable to fight. "

"At that time, we will raise the slogans of "equal distribution of land and exemption of tax" and "no tribute", and the Dutch will be shocked. Worried about the trend of spreading the prairie fire, they will definitely transfer troops from East Java."

"When East Java is empty, there will be a lot of room for maneuver whether to go south to Huoshan or east to Semarang. What do you think?"

Niu Er thought, as long as the court takes care of it, it will be a matter of a few months, and there will definitely be news soon.

If the court does not care and throws us here, and the group of birds in the court do something weird again, we can only rely on ourselves.

At that time, going south to Huoshan is a dead end, and we can also go east with them. At worst, we can establish ourselves as kings.

Since Ying Suo Bo is concerned about the affairs of Nanyang, even if the court opposes it, he will definitely support it privately. The volcano in the south is not close to the sea, so even if Ying Suo Bo wants to support us, he is powerless. If the court really changes its mind and abandons us, it will be a good opportunity to mobilize the Dutch troops to open up the situation in the east and wait for Ying Suo Bo to send people to support some guns and cannons.

The Dutch are unpopular, Niu Er thought to himself, I have also learned the method of colonial rule in Jinghai Palace, and this Dutch method is considered tyranny even in colonial rule.

Since they have the people's hearts, as long as they are given some guns and a year to train the troops, they don't ask to compare with the Qingzhou army, but it is enough to be a little worse. With the skills I learned in Jinghai Palace, it is not difficult to rebel and become king in such a place of 100 miles.

He has not yet realized that some of the skills that are subtly taught in the official school of Jinghai Palace are very suitable for rebellion and becoming king. It's just that he has been studying in Jinghai Palace for too long, and those things are hidden under normal techniques and instruments. The habitual way of thinking has been shaped, and it just feels suitable.

This is the worst case scenario. People like them have been squatting here for several years. If the court really changes its mind and abandons them, they will have to find a way to do something big on their own.

Huang Ban and others are just reckless heroes, and they need to learn the skills of fighting slowly. At this time, they don't know the methods of "mobilizing" and "attacking in the east and attacking in the west".

After briefly listening to Niu Er's method, he was immediately shocked and praised: "Brother Niu Er, this is a good idea. We want to go east, but we pretend to go south first. We want to go to Semarang, but we pretend to be in Badawi. Ya. Batavia cannot be lost, and the Dutch have to send people to defend the city, so they have no extra troops to encircle and suppress us, so they can only mobilize troops from East Java. "

"There will be a typhoon soon. Once the troops are mobilized, it will not be easy to move back. By then we will go all the way east, capture Cirebon and Semarang, contact the local chiefs, join forces to fight against the Dutch, and great things can be accomplished. "

Niu Er just smiled and thought it was best not to do this. I still have a family in heaven, so I would go back if I could. But even if I go back, I can't sneak back cowardly. Uncle Ying Suo will definitely scold me for being a coward and do some big things.

At this time, we should first stabilize Huang Ban and others and try to delay as much time as possible. It is best for the court to come forward quickly.

Since the opposing forces agreed with this idea, they began to summon the Chinese who worked in sugar mills and sugar cane fields, as well as the Javanese who worked together as slave labor.

Slogans such as equalizing land, exempting from poll tax, exempting tribute, and opposing Dutch forced pricing and monopoly trade were widely spread.

According to what Jinghai Palace officials learned, you must first have a program and know what you want to strive for. Of course, when I taught it, I taught it with Dashun’s founding history, which was nominally to “show the righteousness of this dynasty in winning the country, Emperor Taizu followed the sky and responded to the equalization of land and grain per capita, and Emperor Taizong assessed the situation and knew that the great danger of the world lies in the east. When the captives call for the protection of the world, this dynasty will win the world. The superiors should respond to Han Gao and kill the White Snake, and the subordinates should support the ancestors of the Ming Dynasty and rise to Linhao. This is what is right..."

No one can find fault with it.

But at this time, after being immersed in these things based on history for more than ten years, when the situation comes, they are readily available and can be used extremely smoothly.

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In the city of Batavia, the soldiers who fled back handed the letter to the governor and repeated the situation of their attack.

However, when repeated, distortion is inevitable.

"Those Chinese have very good weapons. They are all fine flintlock muskets, and they all wear bayonets. They have many gunmen, at least hundreds of them. And they shoot very accurately. A single volley can make the team collapse."

"Thousands of Chinese people rushed out from a distance with various weapons and surrounded us. One of the leaders was tall. He not only had a rifle in his hand, but also a short blunderbuss at his waist..."

After listening to the soldier's retelling, Valkenier opened the letter. The letter was entirely written in Dutch. It was very beautifully written. It was obvious that the person who wrote the letter had a high level of education.

The content of the letter made Valkenir worried.

This letter is like a negotiation letter, or a platform for the insurrectionists.

If the letter only emphasizes the problems of the Chinese, then fine, we can divide and conquer.

But the content of the letter emphasized the tyranny of the Netherlands in the entire Java, and the analysis was so penetrating that even Valkenir nodded frequently when he read it.

In order to monopolize the trade, reduce the quantity of cloves and thereby increase the price, it led to the massacre of tens of thousands of people in Banda Island and the cutting down of clove trees.

Then to the Dutch's forced tribute on Java, to the imposition of a poll tax, rampant corruption among governors and subordinates, extortion of bribes from company employees, forced cultivation, monopoly trade, and so on.

The following are the programmatic documents proposed by the uprising, including reform of the land system, abolition of the poll tax, abolition of Batavia's land system law, abolition of tribute, abolition of trade monopolies and private trade restrictions, reform of the village land system, and opposition to the tax farming system. etc.

As far as the program is concerned, it seems that it is not just about fighting for the interests of the Chinese. It does not spread the nationality and bloodline. It may be because even if it does, the Chinese in the city will not side with the rebels, but those who are oppressed. The slave laborers, village serfs, and slaves were more motivated to participate in the uprising.

After reading the letter and contacting the soldiers' retellings, Valkenir almost immediately confirmed that there were "foreign forces" involved behind this group of uprising people.

But it was almost immediately ruled out that Dashun was behind the scenes.

For Dashun, if he wanted to go to Nanyang, there would be no need to go to such trouble, and it would be impossible to put forward such a program. He knew that Dashun's court would never say such a thing.

Moreover, from the perspective of the Netherlands, even if Dashun wants to go to Nanyang, he will definitely continue the Dutch rule: just let the Chinese be first-class people, and the rest will pay tribute, control trade, and capture Slaves, etc., will all be of the same origin.

It is difficult for people to imagine things they have never seen or done. Valkenir could not imagine Dashun's methods of colonization, and it was even impossible for him to understand what the tribute system was.

Thinking about how to save others by oneself, if Dashun shouted these slogans, wouldn't it make it more difficult for his own colonial rule?

It was hard for Valkeniva to imagine how one could make money without seizing slaves, using slave labor, forcing cultivation, and killing and burning to reduce production.

Those rebels actually had excellent muskets and were well-trained... In addition, one of the conditions was to allow free trade. Valkner naturally thought of his European counterparts, who were the most eager for free trade in Southeast Asia... Even Britain, which was closed and promulgated the "Navigation Act" to completely monopolize trade, definitely supported free trade in Southeast Asia because they had not yet monopolized Southeast Asia.

France, Britain, Spain, Portugal... all possible, they were all happy to see the collapse of the Dutch rule in Southeast Asia. Anyway, they couldn't get it, as long as there was chaos. If there was chaos, their smuggling ships could buy spices everywhere and bypass Dutch inspections.

And Dashun was the least likely. Either they didn't care at all.

If they cared, Dashun was the only one who had the ability to drive them away at this time. If they drove them away, they would have to maintain colonial rule. How could they support such a program?

And Dashun was definitely not interested in whether there was free trade in Southeast Asia.

Free trade or monopoly privileges, what does Dashun care about? Whether it is free trade or monopoly, don't they still come to Guangdong, Fujian and Songjiang to buy tea, silk, cloth, porcelain and rhubarb?

It is very likely that it is Britain, France, Portugal and Spain.

For a moment, Valkenir thought of the British.

Britain and Spain are at war! Could it be that... the British want to capture the Philippines to weaken the Dutch rule in Southeast Asia, so as to prepare for ruling Southeast Asia after defeating Spain and occupying the Philippines? So they use the Chinese to mess up Java?

If so, it is very likely.

Once the Philippines is captured and a foothold is established in Southeast Asia, they will definitely hope that the Netherlands will be unable to rule, so as to support the locals to resist the Netherlands... The British did something similar a hundred years ago, and were killed by the Dutch and withdrew from Southeast Asia. Is this a repeat of the old trick?