New Shun 1730

The nearly 10,000 Chinese people in Batavia will never know what this year means to them, let alone how pitiful human nature can not withstand the temptation. A neighbor who eats and drinks together will not hesitate to take... Beat yourself to death with a stick, just for a pig.

The nearly 10,000 Chinese people in the city would not know that historically, the group of people who pulled the pole to start the uprising had a higher survival rate.

Some ran to the mountains, some went to Borneo to achieve success, and some continued to fight and launched a joint Chinese and Javanese uprising.

From Batavia, they moved to Central Java and East Java, and persisted in the struggle until three years later. The Netherlands discovered that Batavia was a dead city without Chinese people, and had to reintroduce Chinese.

Eventually many members of the rebel army survived and took root in East Java.

But those who were watching in the city, obeying Kapitan's orders, and closing their doors and windows and not coming out were almost all slaughtered.

Afterwards, some of the surviving people in the city hated the insurrectionists outside the city and believed that if they had not revolted, they would not have been massacred.

Or, a businessman named Lin Hengtai who fled back to Guangdong commented: "The person who should be responsible for this is the barbaric governor of Batavia. In fact, even the King of the Netherlands must have considered this behavior to be excessive. ". Even after experiencing such a thing, I still think that "the emperor and the king are good, and the corrupt and bad officials below are bad."

However, Lin Hengtai may not know until his death that there is no king in the Netherlands at this time. Batavia was also not Dutch but company property.

If you fight to the death, you will live, if you are afraid of death, you will die if you compromise. The reality is so cruel.

Just like the owner of the gun in the memories of the German carpenter Schwartz, until the last moment before his death, he still wanted to be a good citizen and save his family business. He had a gun in his hand, but in the end he was used. Beat him to death with a rice pestle.

But the group of black-shirted and trousers-less men outside the city couldn't afford to wear trousers. They had bamboo slices, butcher knives, sugar factory tools, rakes, and even a few guns, but they fought in Java and finally lived for most of their lives. .

The biggest casualty at the beginning of the uprising was on October 8, when he risked his life to attack the city gate of Batavia and was killed and wounded while trying to save the compatriots in the city out of simple emotions.

The compatriots with residence permits in the city followed Kapitan's orders and stayed behind closed doors during the fierce fighting that night. It was not until the next night that the Dutch repelled the rebels who attacked the city gate. On the night of October 9 The massacre begins.

Even the highest-ranking Chinese have a similar fate. Lian Fuguang's property was robbed and confiscated, and his daughter-in-law's family paid bribes and was exiled not to Cape Town, but to Ambon; three Chinese Lei Zhenlan who reported to the governor early that the Chinese might rebel, two died, One person bit Lian Fuguang with the unfounded excuse of "forgiving Kapitan and should know about the sugar factory" and became the new Kapitan.

It's just that all these tragedies will no longer happen at this time.

So a tragedy turned into a farce.

The core force of the resistance left and gathered in the volcano for an uprising. There was no continuous movement, but they did not even dare to hang the apricot-yellow flag.

The pillar of resistance complied, took the residence permit and left for Ceylon, where he began a new life of slave labor. Shouting long live our emperor, looking forward to the future.

The Chinese people in the city, who were originally the most miserable and suffered the most deaths in the massacre, proved their importance to Batavia by staying behind closed doors for ten days. Without them, Batavia would no longer be a functioning city. At the same time, they also proved that they were the most obedient and good people, no matter who owned Batavia.

So Dashun also felt confident that the imperial court liked obedient people. In the future, stability would not be a problem when conquering Batavia.

The richest Kapitan, Lei Zhenlan, and tax collectors toasted to celebrate. Congratulations to those mud-legged rebels who have been certified by the court as "stubborn" and no longer "government-forced people to rebel"; congratulations to those unsettling slave laborers outside the city who have left Ceylon and will not implicate the peace and stability of the country. Threaten them.

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At this moment, outside the city.

Groups of slave laborers were driven out of spice plantations, sugar mills, and sugar cane fields.

The contractor drove them to the door, and under the surveillance of the Dutch musketeers and Dashun musketeers, they counted their names, ancestry, when they came to Batavia, and other matters.

Many Dutch people knew that these slave laborers were quietly transported by contractors using various means. From top to bottom, everyone collected money, smoothed relationships, and turned a blind eye.

But even they themselves didn't expect that there were so many Chinese in the suburbs of Batavia.

Fortunately, at this moment, these people are no longer a threat.

But each head means a head tax of six silver coins for three years. Once the number is calculated, Dashun will give cash directly.

Although the money will be given to the Chinese, in the eyes of the Dutch, it is better to give it to the Chinese.

When you arrive in Ceylon, you have the opportunity to forge the quantity. A thousand people only say that half of them died and half of the ship sank. 6,000 silver coins were transferred to the public account. It is enough to keep 2,000. The remaining people do not need to issue formal, They need a residence permit to do accounting, just let them stay in Ceylon.

As for throwing it into the sea midway, the Dutch no longer considered it at this time.

Dashun made it clear that the Privy Council would send people to follow them, and reassured the Dutch that many of the people sent were from the navy and would never get seasick.

When it comes to Ceylon, the Privy Council will also establish an expatriate department there to "help" the East India Company survive the chaos in the early stages of immigration.

Why didn't the Ministry of Foreign Affairs come forward? Because Shi Shi used this time to convey another message.

The Dutch East India Company was not qualified to communicate with the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Dashun. Even if Dashun put aside its status as the Celestial Empire and had equal diplomacy, it would not be possible to have equal diplomacy with a company under the Netherlands. In the future, the department that the East India Company would deal with Dashun was the Privy Council.

On the high ground outside the sugar factory, Valkenir, who was accompanying Shi Shiyong, looked at the statistical list with increasing numbers in his hand, and was still frightened.

He knew that Batavia was deceiving its superiors and subordinates, and all the successive governors... including him, of course, were thinking about how to make money. There must be a large number of Chinese without residence permits.

But he really didn't expect that there would be so many Chinese.

Everyone knew that the contractors of sugar factories, spice plantations, or manors were happy to use Chinese slaves, because they could use the excuse of "If you dare to make trouble, I will report to the Netherlands that you don't have a residence permit" to lower wages and save head taxes.

But this number was really too large.

The lingering fear was also because if Dashun didn't come forward, this group of people really participated in the riot, and I'm afraid it would be an unmanageable situation.

At this moment, he was really grateful to the Dashun court.

Now, trade with China has no impact, and the problem of "excess" Chinese in Batavia has been solved, and he has finally secured his position as governor.

Valknier knew the root cause of this problem very well. It was the Dutch monopoly, which kept the sugar price too low, and the policy of taxing even shit. But he cursed the merchants who contracted the sugar factory in front of Shi Shiyong.

"Mr. Envoy, even I, the Governor, didn't know that they hid so many illegal populations. These profiteers evaded the head tax for hired workers. I think there must be similar people in your country. Maybe they are landowners or businessmen."

"In short, the corrupt morals of these people are the root of all chaos. Their deception almost led to the destruction of Batavia. We must deal with this kind of thing seriously."

"But please rest assured, Mr. Envoy, they will never be treated so miserably after moving to Ceylon. At least, their lives will be better than now. The company will also fulfill its promise. When the service time is up, we will allocate land to them for living."

Shi Shiyong thought that this moral corruption was inevitable.

Whoever pays the head tax will go bankrupt, whoever does not use slave labor at a low price will not be able to repay the usury, if you are a good person, you will go bankrupt, and those who come out in the end must be bad people. In the final analysis, isn't it still your company's legal system that has problems?

"Governor, if you raise the price of sugar a little, it may not be so, right? I have heard many people complain to me that your company charges too low a price and does not allow private resale."

Valkniel was not embarrassed at all and smiled: "Mr. Envoy, even if the company raises the purchase price of sugar, will these contractors be paid more? Moreover, the root of this is closely related to your country. If your country does not attack Japan and force Japan to cut off trade with the company, the purchase price of sugar cane can be increased this year. You have been in Japan for many years, and you should know that the company will ship a lot of sugar cane to Japan every year, and the Japanese like sugar, and they don't like it either. I can grow sugar cane."

"Mr. Envoy, things are different now than they were before. Sailing ships connect the whole world. Your country's war against Japan may cause the workers of the Tang sugar factory in Batavia, thousands of miles away, to be unable to survive."

"This whole thing is not entirely the responsibility of our company. I hope Mr. Envoy will tell your great emperor not to make changes easily. Any change may lead to unexpected consequences. No one can predict the economy, and no one can predict the impact of any change on the whole world."

Shi Shiyong did not comment, and Valkner took a deep breath and said the most vicious words.

"I heard that your country is setting up various handicraft factories. And I heard from the Kapitan that your country likes to learn from history the most. I hope that your country can also learn from what happened in Batavia."

"Establishing handicrafts is a double-edged sword. Any accident, natural disaster, war, production reduction, market change may cause practitioners to lose their livelihoods. And these practitioners who cannot make a living will be the source of chaos and riots."

"The East India Company has a vast market from Europe to Persia, to Java and Japan. When faced with an accident, it still almost caused such a big chaos, and even failed to guarantee the employment of tens of thousands of Chinese. If your country builds a factory, can you guarantee that there will never be any accidents that lead to industrial bankruptcy, What about the employed workers who lose their jobs? "

"These people will oppose Batavia after they lose their jobs. So, if they are in your country, won't they oppose the court and the emperor? "

"If your country wants stability, it is better not to establish industry. There is a Frenchman named Colbert, who is the Minister of Finance of France. He once said: Taxation is like plucking goose feathers, plucking more feathers without making the goose cry in pain."

"I heard from Kapitan that your country has a policy of salt and iron monopoly, which is an excellent way to pluck goose feathers. Your country has vast land and population. If the company also has such a population and land, it will not choose business and trade. It is enough to collect consumption tax. Establishing handicrafts will do more harm than good to your country, and may even trigger a rebellion. "

"Didn't your Songjiang and Suzhou have a strike a few years ago? Compared to the benefits received from them, it may cost more to prevent their rebellion. Or do you think your industrialists have conscience and morality?"

"Please be sure to convey my words to your emperor. Please learn from the lessons of Batavia. I sincerely hope that your country will be stable, because at the end of the Ming Dynasty, your country was in chaos, which seriously affected the interests of the company and had to go to Japan to buy their inferior porcelain and tea. It is enough to maintain the production of tea, silk and porcelain. My words are truly for the good of your country."