"How much is the poll tax in Batavia?"

"Back to my lord, 8 big coppers, or 32 small coppers. Paid monthly. ”

"Who collects?"

"The tax collector may be Lei Zhenlan, Kapitan, or the street chief. Each street has a street chief, and the street chief is generally the tax bearer, and the poll tax is sometimes outsourced, sometimes not outsourced. ”

"What are the conditions for this to be a tax bearer? How can I be? ”

Lian Huaiguan smiled, Lord Xindao, you are also an official, don't you understand this question?

"Back to my lord, including tax, some have to shoot *** For example, this year's casino tax, the starting price is 900 guilders, and if you come out high, it is basically yours. However, some do not auction and rely on gifts and bribes. ”

As soon as he heard about sending money and bribes, Liu Yu thought to himself that this was simple.

"Is there a way to pay this bribe?"

"When you go back to adulthood, you need a way, but you need money even more. Local Dutch officials would write under the government notice that they were going to auction off their 'private property'. For example, if you want to sell a teacup and you want to give him money, you go to the auction and buy the teacup back. A few years ago, Kapitan Lian Fuguang bought a broken teacup from the Dutch and spent 400 guilders, which is actually worth a few copper broken cups. ”

But this broken cup gave him the right to pay the liquor tax. It can be said that anything can be auctioned, spoons, clothes, broken cars, etc., in the homes of Dutch officials, as long as they want to collect money, they will be auctioned. Because...... This...... It doesn't count as bribery. ”

Liu Yu couldn't help laughing out loud and praised: "The Dutch business society has really played a new trick with bribery. It's wonderful. ”

"By the way, are there many Dutchmen in this city?"

Lian Huaiguan shook his head.

"Back to my lord, there are not many Dutch. Bacheng, which belongs to the East India Company, is not Dutch. ”

"Because if a non-company Dutchman comes, he may bring private goods or become a private businessman, which will affect the company's earnings. Therefore, the company does not welcome non-employees to come to Batavia, and even if they do, they are all with the mentality of making a fortune and returning to the Netherlands to enjoy it. The Chinese were not allowed to deal in spices, but they could deal in sugar cane, and some of the Dutch were outsourced to sugar factories to collect rent, and they relied on the company to take the accounts, and they themselves were not in Batavia. ”

There are not many Dutch people in the city, which is also an important factor in Lian Huaiguan's idea to replace him.

However, it is true that there are not many Dutch, but there are many natives, and the Dutch can mobilize some indigenous cavalry.

In addition, some indigenous taxes were also handed over to the Chinese tax collectors by the Dutch with sinister intentions...... The contradiction can be imagined.

The tax package must be paid first, and the rest will be responsible for the profit and loss.

Merchants spend so much money on auctions and gifts, and obtain the right to package taxes, but they do not pay for themselves to serve the people.

In terms of these circumstances, Liu Yu calculated an account in his heart.

If in three or four years, the Dutch are not ready to expel the Chinese in full, then forget it.

If you do it in advance, you will have to pay the poll tax, and it won't cost much to keep the Dutch still for the time being.

8 big coppers a month, 350,000 people are counted, and 350,000 taels of silver a year are counted.

Spending 350,000 taels of silver to raise a potential rebel army in Batavia, instead of letting this rebel army rise up and be slaughtered if it is not prepared, is definitely profitable.

While retaining this core of resistance, it would not be impossible for the Dutch to transport a group of people to Ceylon with the threat of diplomacy and embargo sanctions.

As long as the reaction of the Dashun court was not so sluggish and slaughtered, the Dutch should not have the courage to do so now.

And now, it is the tail of the Age of Discovery, there is no international law, and there is no need for the Dutch to fight the Dutch first, and there is no need to wait for the Dutch to slaughter before there is a righteous name.

What is the danger of adding to the sin?

Besides, the Netherlands is not a crime that it wants to add, and the affairs of Penghu, Taiwan, and Zhoushan back then have not been counted. inherited the Ming Empire, so it is natural to inherit these hatreds and pretexts for war.

"Lian Zhuangshi, do you have any acquaintances in Ceylon and other places?"

"Yes. Some of my brothers were punished for not paying the poll tax and were punished with hard labor, and some were sent to Colombo. Whether it is life or death, I don't know. ”

Lian Huaiguan didn't know what Liu Yu was doing when he asked about Ceylon, thinking that Liu Yu was thinking about the Dutch going to move the Chinese from Bacheng to Ceylon.

Ceylon is a small place, and the location is very important, especially for Australia, where the Chinese have complete control over the South Seas.

Because of the existence of the equatorial windless belt, it is almost impossible to go from the Indonesian archipelago to Australia.

Therefore, Liu Yu hopes that when Bering goes to the Americas to explore, he will take the South American Pacific route and follow the ocean current to Australia.

Ceylon is almost the closest springboard to Australia at this time, otherwise it can only follow the route of Shandong - around North Korea - the Whale Sea - the Kuril Islands - North America - South America - Australia, which is purely an unrealistic dream.

It would be much easier to get rid of the Dutch in the future, and to have a place in Ceylon.

Ceylon is a Buddhist, and Liu Yu has no interest in occupying Ceylon completely.

But there is still a lot of interest in helping the Kingdom of Ceylon drive out the Dutch and occupy Colombo City as a stronghold.

Those who believe in Buddhism are at least more suitable for Chinese people to get along with than those who believe in green religion in Southeast Asia.

If the Dutch could move three to five thousand batavian Chinese to Ceylon under their own control, even if more than half of the mortality rate was achieved, there would be a basis for a firm foothold in the future.

From a dialectical point of view, there are pros and cons to everything.

Finding a way to use the Dutch ship to immigrate Chinese to Ceylon in this wave of anti-Chinese in the Netherlands, and make the Dutch bear the notoriety, can be regarded as turning a bad thing into a good thing.

Of course, if the operation is not good, it is likely to get away with it, and when tens of thousands of Chinese are slaughtered, it will be self-inflicted.

With a preliminary plan in mind, Liu Yu knew that he had to strengthen Lian Huaiguan's mind, so he took him to visit the army camp in Weihai.

This one is called "close to the coast, familiar with future naval operations, coastal sea transportation and rice to reduce consumption"; In fact, the army after military reform sent by the emperor to monitor the navy was one of the few troops in Dashun that completed the military reform at this time. The emperor was not placed in the capital, but in Weihai.

The fort in Weihai was also taken over by the army, which is a technique of balance and checks and balances, not that the emperor has no trust in Liu Yu.

Although the chief officer did not go out to train troops in a small station back then, the staff officers and a group of key veterans in the army were still trained in a small station, and their face is still there.

When I was in a hurry to go out to take a look, the staff officers in charge of the drill and training also seriously prepared for a military exercise.

Although even Huaiguan has never been a soldier, he can distinguish between good and bad.

followed Liu Yu around, and knew in his heart that what he thought was too simple. Where can the group of brothers under his command compare with the army on the right track?

I wanted to establish myself as a king, but now it seems that if the court really moves its mind, my little ambition will be crushed if it is crushed.

Now Liu Yu has given such a big step, promising that he will be crowned an official after the deed, and even Huaiguan is not a fool, and he made a decision quickly under the gun of the black hole in the Wei Navy camp.

"Even if it is an adult who lifts up, a villain cannot ignore it. Since the court has made a decision, it will be relieved to be in the future. Before, I was really worried about the cruelty of the Dutch, and I did something like Luzon, which was related to my heart. When the time comes, it may be that the jade will be burned. ”

Who is Jade? Who is the Stone?

Liu Yu smiled and didn't bother with this statement.

"Even the strong men and the Chinese in Bacheng are all people of the Celestial Empire. The court is in charge. But how to manage it, there is a saying in this. The letter said, "You also have a sugar factory and a sugar cane plantation in Bacheng, and you are sheltering your brother with money, right?" ”

Lian Huai nodded and said, "Yes." If you have money, you can do things. My sugar factories don't make any money, and I don't rely on sugar factories to make that money. It's just a matter of finding a place for the brothers. ”

This method is indeed a good method, and the Dutch in Batavia could not even rule directly, which shows how weak the management ability is.

All the employees of the sugar factories were ruled indirectly by wealthy Chinese merchants.

On the letter of steamed bread, as well as Lian Huaiguan's self-statement, and Liu Yu already knew what virtue was a profit-making operator, he also knew the living conditions of the employees of the Batavia sugar factory.

Lian Huaiguan does not rely on the sugar factory to make money, he has other ways, so the role of this sugar factory is to provide a cover for the brothers around him.

Even Huaiguan can do this, Liu Yu can naturally do this, isn't it money?

"Is it easy to rent a sugar factory in Batavia?"

"Good rent. It's especially easy to rent in recent years. Many people don't want to continue their business, but they owe some loan sharks, so they can only run hard, hoping that the price of sugar will be higher this year. I don't know that this sugar trade has such a big problem now, but even if I am so stupid, I know that those people are pure dreams. This sugar was forcibly collected by the Dutch, even if there is still a profit, how can they take the initiative to raise the price? ”

Since it's easy to rent, it's simple. Silver is now the world's hard currency, and Dashun's silver is taken to Batavia to be spent, and some people collect it.

"Even a strong man, if you want to start an incident, you can't have fewer people. And it's scattered, and it will be a problem in the future. Well, I'll give you a sum of money, and you go back to Batavia and buy a few sugar mills and sugar cane plantations. Drove all the Javanese away, leaving only the Chinese. ”

"I don't want to make money, even if it's to prepare for the future. In case the Dutch wanted to slaughter, it was far better to organize themselves than to scatter them. ”

"Of course, I'll have to send someone to keep an eye on it. This is not to say that you don't trust Lian Zhuangshi, the main thing is that there are many people, and there are some things, you may not understand, and once thousands of people get together, don't say that Jiabidan Lei Zhenlan, even a street chief has never been a street chief, where can you manage it? ”

If you don't say it, the scene makes both sides not so embarrassed, and it's good.

Lian Huai pondered for a moment and said with a smile: "My lord is smart." The Dutch had no idea how many Chinese there were in the sugar mills, not even how many Chinese there were in Bacheng. If there are more than a dozen sugar factories and they don't seek profit, thousands of people can still live on them. ”

"It's just that it's suffering those who can't take care of it."