New Shun 1730

Knowing that these Nanyang princes and nobles in front of him all had evil intentions, Liu Yu could only hold back his nausea and make excuses with them.

A banquet was held to entertain them in the former Governor's Palace, which was not interesting to eat. You can neither eat pork nor drink alcohol, but your appearance must be passable.

In history, after the Hongxi Massacre, along with the Dutch involvement in the European war, the failure of the expedition to Travancore in India, the Chinese uprising and their withdrawal to Central Java to persist in the struggle, it was around this time that the entire Southeast Asia A wave of large-scale anti-Dutch uprisings set off.

There were even Banten Sunnis besieging Batavia and crossing the sea to attack Lampung; and then the Wahhabis spread to Java and launched riots in Cirebon and Madura.

If Dashun wants to control this quagmire, he has to establish a good relationship with these sultans and kings first.

But what is certain is that this good relationship will not last long.

Regardless of whether Liu Yu instructed Niu Er to carry out land reform in West Java; it was definitely to control the number of religions and temples. This will cause great conflicts between Dashun and the local nobles and religious priests.

Just like the mosques in Cirebon and Batavia, even if they cannot be demolished, they cannot continue to be added.

This place is different from Ceylon. Although the original Buddhism of Ceylon is indeed very aggressive, it is still acceptable.

Religious issues in Nanyang are extremely complex. Confucianism is only suitable for the standard farming and small-scale peasant system. It is absolutely powerless under the material conditions of Nanyang.

Dashun also banned Catholicism, and certainly did not support the complicit Protestantism. If you want to gain a foothold, you may need to support Buddhism.

It may even be necessary to try the Western Region model and cultivate a Buddhist power similar to Junggar in Nanyang, with Dashun instigating and secretly supporting it, thus maintaining a relatively balanced situation.

Liu Yu still has to choose one of these small countries to fight against religious staining.

The Spaniards have experience with this. After all, they have experienced a hundred years of restoration movements, so Luzon is Latin American and has a large number of Catholics. But Catholicism cannot be used in Dashun, and there is really no long-term effective solution to Nanyang for a while.

Therefore, all we can do for the time being is "you can't afford to offend but you can hide".

Forget about completely dominating Nanyang, just encircle the land in a few places and make the number of Chinese people reach the overwhelming majority.

For these small countries, try to maintain a relatively good relationship with them, instigate wars between them, and maintain a scene of endless civil strife.

The place Liu Yu really wants to circle is West Java.

Places like Malacca and Bangka are too small and can be used as cities, but they are still too small.

Only West Java has very fertile land and a large amount of volcanic ash land. With the Chinese foundation in Batavia, if we can complete land reform, return land to land, and immigrate in large numbers, we can count as having a piece of land in Southeast Asia.

Therefore, in today's banquet, the most important guests in Liu Yu's eyes were the Banten Sultanate and the Matalan Sultanate.

One is within a hundred miles of Batavia.

The other theoretically controls Central Java.

Liu Yu's attitude towards these two sultanates is also different.

After introducing the characters of each kingdom at the banquet, Liu Yu privately found Niu Er, quietly pointed at the people who came, and whispered: "Within five years, the Wandan Kingdom will be destroyed. Ma Da In the Blue Sultanate, although their sultan knew the meaning of paying tribute, he tried to eliminate the possibility of the Celestial Empire interfering with the internal fighting after the death of the old sultan... But you must also know that if you really have the opportunity, you must not miss it. Two, one divided into three, the more intense the internal fighting, the better.”

"Banten is too close to Coconut City, and it also controls the Sunda Strait. It has always been in cahoots with the British in Bengkulu opposite. How can we allow others to snore on the side of the bed? Since land reform is to be carried out in West Java, Banten must directly Erase.”

"Matalan is in the east. Anyway, we have firmly controlled the Buriangan area. There is no need to destroy their country. We only need to participate in their internal fighting and let them compete to sign more treasonous treaties."

"First destroy Wandan and eliminate the immediate worries of Coconut City; then split up Matalan and completely control West Java. In addition to the land reform, if you can accomplish it, it will be considered a great achievement and will be of great use. You are in Boliang An Rijiu, you should know something about Wan Dan, right?”

Niu Er thought about the difficulty of these three things, thought about it, nodded and said: "Wandan is very close, I know it very well. There are also many slaves who escaped from Wandan in the Guiyi Army."

"We need both land reform and the destruction of Wandan. I think it's easy."

After speaking, he stretched out his hand and made a gesture of wiping his neck.

"Free the slaves. Kill all the priests and nobles who occupy the land, leaving no one alive. Redistribute the land. The country is governed by religious laws, and the missionary elders all occupy the village communities as fiefs, and they use many slaves."

"The Dutch are short of manpower, and as long as Banten can provide slaves, labor, and tribute of spices, they are unwilling to touch them. But once we have enough men, the imperial court has obtained Nanyang, and there will be many people who go to Nanyang to make a living; secondly, whales come Since Hou said that he wanted to change the land system, there was no need to use the Dutch method, so he might as well catch all the priests and nobles. "

"I don't think they should be exiled or anything like that, and don't follow the Dutch method of buying out the kingdom's rule and giving them annuities. Just kill them all."

This method is extremely crude, but Liu Yu agrees with it and thinks it is very effective.

Banten's room for maneuver is very small. As long as the army presses forward, the fleet blocks the Sunda Strait and launches slaves, none of them will escape.

Unlike the Sultanate of Matram, which has mountainous areas and a lot of room for maneuver, it would be difficult to kill them all in a short time if they really started to fight.

According to the proportion, it would take about 3,000 to 5,000 people to be killed on a large scale, which is not difficult.

Seeing that Liu Yu supported his idea of ​​killing them all, Niu Er said: "Marquis Jing, killing people is not difficult. But I also need manpower. The Guiyi Army is going to Ceylon, and the garrison in Java must be resolved as soon as possible. Five years, and training the troops will take at least one year."

"In addition to soldiers, we also need some minor officials, enough minor officials, to complete the land reform in West Java."

"There is no need for many soldiers, two thousand is enough."

"But minor officials, at least 300, can completely control West Java, not just a few cities such as Coconut City."

Liu Yu was very satisfied with this request. It seems that the experience in the Burangan area has made Niu Er know how to do this kind of thing.

If it were in the past, it would be difficult to ask for 300 minor officials.

But now, it is simple.

Liu Yu buried a huge pit for the court, that is, the students of the new learning and practical learning department.

When he was in Weihai, he set up a number of new-style schools in Wendeng in the name of training the navy.

And later, as the emperor prepared to go to Southeast Asia, many new schools were built in some places where new policies were allowed to be tried.

These students are of course educated.

However, according to the mainstream ideology of Dashun, they are uneducated.

They know very little about the classics, and they learn practical sciences such as geometry, arithmetic, navigation and physics.

They are not qualified to take the imperial examination.

But to say that they are illiterate? It seems wrong. It's just that they are not the mainstream cultural people of Dashun.

After so many years, a large number of grassroots naval officers came from new-style schools. And there are still many people who cannot pass the new-style schools and cannot find a job in a trading company.

These people are neither officials nor candidate officials, and they really cannot pass the imperial examination.

This is a huge powder keg. With more and more people, it may explode one day.

For the time being, Niu Er needs a large number of educated clerks who are good at math and accounting instead of just reading scriptures. These people are the right candidates.

The emperor is not going to let Nanyang be under the jurisdiction of the six governments, so he can just skip those troubles.

When he was engaged in practical studies, the emperor promised Confucianism that those who studied practical studies would not take up your imperial examination quotas. At most, they would be soldiers in your eyes, or clerks you looked down upon.

This is a kind of compromise between the monarchy and theocracy, and it also avoids a lot of verbal battles.

A large number of grassroots officials in Nanyang can be selected from the practical school graduates who have been arranged and over-educated in advance.

Although the conditions in Nanyang are difficult, there are definitely many people willing to come.

Normal landlord families did not study practical studies that could not be taken in the imperial examinations.

Those who were born in maritime merchant families and were sent to study practical studies naturally had no worries about having things to do in the future.

And those practical students who were neither landlords nor sea merchants, but were trained by Liu Yu at his expense, were asked to work in Nanyang, and they were paid five or six taels of silver a month, so how could they not be willing to come?

Three hundred people, even if the monthly salary was five taels of silver, would only be sixty taels a year. Three hundred people would only be twenty thousand taels.

If the land reform in West Java could be completed, the coffee and cotton grown by the people alone, plus the eleventh land tax, would be more than ten times the tax collected when they were sold.

If education had not been carried out in advance, and so many "cultured but uncultured" marginal people had not been trained in advance, things in Nanyang would not be easy to handle.

But on the other hand, if there were no such new-style schools, the navy of Dashun would not have developed to this scale at all.

The emperor has not yet seen the danger in this, and Liu Yu is also under the guise of "expanding the navy and military reform".

If Niu Er really succeeded here, he might be able to continue to expand the scale of the practical school, because this would make the emperor see the benefits.

Thinking of this, Liu Yu said: "You don't have to worry about the problem of soldiers and petty officials. I will solve it myself. All you have to do is report the number to me and sign a military order. I will get you the soldiers and personnel you want. I just want the result."

"After a few days, when I go to Malacca, I will not come back. I want to be a hands-off boss. What you do is your business. The Privy Council will send people here to investigate. Just let go and do it."

"Killing, execution, it's all up to you. I can protect you. No one will report you in the court. The crime is that you slaughtered the people and provoked border conflicts without authorization."

"Killing and execution are all fine, but either don't do it, or do it thoroughly."

Liu Yu's eyes became fierce. Niu Er looked at the group of people from the Banten Sultanate in the distance, clenched his fists, and thought to himself, "Don't worry, Whale Marquis. I can gain a foothold in the Burangan area by killing all the people who should be killed."

The killing intention has been moved. Niu Er thought, since it is said that there will be five years, then we must hurry up. The purpose of today's meal is to see which small countries should be killed and which ones should be taken in as dogs?