When Valknier first arrived, he didn't quite understand what was going on, so he first asked the frightened Kapitan and Lei Zhenlan to step back, and then carefully inquired about the knowledgeable people.

"Your Excellency the Governor, the Swedish East India Company always sets sail on the New Year, and strives to arrive in Gothenburg as early as possible to seize the business opportunities of the New Year."

"We also always pretend that they are pirates and let them go to Batavia if the warship can capture them. Routine check-ups. ”

"They have to show proof that they are not pirates, so that they can delay their return. The smugglers in Gothenburg were not able to get their hands on the goods at the earliest opportunity. This time difference is a reasonable rule, and of course we have to let them go after they show proof that they are not pirates. ”

Walknier's face became difficult to look at at the smugglers who had come to Gothenburg, knowing how rampant the smugglers were there, and the fact that the Swedes kept their customers' information so secret that it was difficult to check.

This is understandable.

However, when did Dashun's armed merchant ships come to Batavia and fire a salute? An armed merchant ship with an officer as a captain? What's going on?

Fortunately, the port side quickly reported that Dashun had captured some Swedish prisoners of war in the counterinsurgency war against Dzungaria.

Dashun sent a ship to escort these Swedish prisoners of war back to China, and there were documents from high-ranking officials of Dashun and the letters of the Emperor Dashun as evidence.

Next to the pier.

Twenty-five-year-old Lian Huaiguan looked excitedly and excitedly at the huge armed merchant ship. As soon as the smoke of the salute cleared, several men in military uniforms disembarked.

The flag of Dashun fluttered on the mast of a huge merchant ship, and a few Chinese characters were written on it, even if even Huaiguan was born in Batavia and never returned to the homeland of his ancestors.

"This is our Chinese ship! This is the first time that the imperial court has sent an official ship to Batavia! But when did Dashun have such a big soft sailing ship? ”

Lian Huaiguan was a little puzzled, in Batavia, you can often see the ships of Chinese maritime merchants. The ships are not large, and they are all hard-sailed, and I have never seen such a Chinese ship of more than 1,000 tons.

Even the Dutch, most of them are only some ships of six or seven hundred tons, and occasionally some large ships of more than 1,000 tons, all of which go to Guangdong and Fujian to return to the Netherlands.

Looking at this boat, Lian Huaiguan had a strange feeling.

It's like a doll, my mother is dead, my father is gone, and I am single, and suddenly one day I see my own maternal uncle......

It's about like this feeling, after all, he was born in Batavia, and he can't be regarded as a person of Dashun at this time, but if Dashun is considered the maternal uncle of these overseas Chinese at this time, it is probably good.

Several officers disembarked from the ship first, and although they were wearing woolen military uniforms, the red tasseled felt hats on their heads were still very distinctive.

One of the officers at the head was dressed in a beautiful gown and had a sword hanging from his waist and was talking to a Dutchman on the docks.

He spoke not Dutch, but northern Mandarin, and his face was visibly displeased.

Some of the officers who followed this officer were also dressed in the same way, all with their heads held high, with the arrogance of the Heavenly Empire on their faces, and they were swearing in their mouths.

However, they are all spoken in northern official dialect, and even Huaiguan can't understand it, but the words of other people's mothers who are just and round can still be understood.

Lian Huaiguan was a little shocked, this was the first time he had seen a Chinese in Batavia who dared to curse the Dutch, even Jiabidan did not dare to do so.

The Dutch on the docks could only laugh and explain what they were doing.

After listening to it for a while, I could probably understand it, as if it meant that pirates often fly the flags of Sweden or other countries, and this kind of routine inspection is a common practice, and I hope you don't mind it.

Even a few brothers around Huaiguan also looked straight, it was not that there were no merchant ships from Fujian and Guangdong before, but no matter which ship arrived at the port, it was honest in front of the Dutch. Where have you ever seen the Chinese scolding in front of the Dutch?

I listened carefully to one of the interpreters beside the Dutchman, who was expressing the officers' swear words in very clean sentences.

"If the monsoon is delayed, the Earl will tell His Majesty the Emperor to seal up your merchant house! You are not allowed to go up and inspect our ship! We didn't come to Batavia to trade, we were going to Sweden. If you have anything to ask, you can go to the capital or go to Stockholm to negotiate. ”

Even Huaiguan and the others were stupid, they didn't dare to imagine that there would be such a hard conversation, and after this hard conversation, the Dutchman who negotiated could only smile and keep explaining.

Lian Huaiguan, who grew up in Batavia, was completely stunned, and the Dutch were the largest in the world he knew. At least in Batavia, the Dutch are the sky.

"There's a heaven out there."

I couldn't help but sigh.

He is a chivalrous person, he also does business, and his family background is not bad, but he specializes in making friends with some city fox and social rats, especially some low-level Chinese in Batavia.

They formed alliances and called each other brothers, and the Dutch called them "blackshirts".

Most of them did not have any proper jobs, belonged to the "lumpenproletarians", stole chickens and dogs, fought and brawled, and were brave and ruthless, and were a group of gray people who were not part of the "high-class Chinese" in Batavia, but did not belong to the slave class of the sugar factory.

Even Huaiguan is an outlier among them, he is a businessman, he is rich, and many brothers rely on him for help.

He also had some business dealings with Jiapitan Lian Fuguang, and both of them had the surname Lian, but they were not relatives. There are many people with the surname Lian and the surname Lin here.

Unlike those Jiabidan and Lei Zhenlan, Lian Huaiguan's favorite stories are "The husband should be like this" and "I can replace him", and he is eager to do something big in his heart.

staring blankly at the big ship of Dashun, the brothers beside him didn't know what he was thinking.

…………

Mantou, who was negotiating with the Dutch, was not in the same unpleasant mood as his face appeared.

Before coming, Liu Yu told him that he might be stopped by the Dutch.

The ship of the Swedes came to Batavia helplessly, and he followed, after all, without the Swedes he did not know how to get to Gothenburg.

There are priorities for things, and Liu Yu has also asked them, and he can still tell them clearly.

The draftsman on the ship was quietly observing the city defense of Batavia, which was arranged by Liu Yu: if the Dutch did not turn their faces and had to go to Batavia to check, they would observe the city defense of Batavia by the way.

The negotiations with the Dutch were also smooth, and the Dutch, after learning that this was a ship with an official background in Dashun, behaved very politely and did not dare to do anything unusual.

After all, there are Dutch merchant houses in Guangdong, and the annual trade volume is also huge, and the Dutch don't want to provoke Dashun at all.

The first time I went to Nanyang, Mantou saw how arrogant Liu Yu often said about the "sea coachman".

The Swedes also had to be honest, and after the Dutch asked to go to Batavia for inspection, they could only come obediently, even knowing that it was the Dutch delaying the return of the cargo ship to Europe.

The Dutch said that they suspected that the Swedish merchant ships were pirates under the Swedish flag, and that if they fought back, they would be confirmed to be pirates, and that if they did not fight back, they would go to Batavia for inspection.

The Swedes also knew in their hearts that they could only scold a few times, knowing that the Dutch wanted to delay their return, but they did not dare to resist and could only cooperate.

The Swedes don't go, and they don't know the way. Mantou drove a merchant ship again, not his beloved warship, so he could only follow him to Batavia.

Like the steamed buns, the Dashun naval officers who graduated from the official school of Jinghai Palace on Liugong Island were all very dismissive of the arrogance of the Dutch: Why?

There is not a single battleship here, and most of the battleships are inferior to the cruisers in Weihai, why are they so awesome? Stop whoever you say?

The temperament of the newborn calf, which is not afraid of tigers, is vividly expressed in these young naval officers. Anyway, they had only heard of the Dutch raid on London, but they had never actually fought against the Dutch, and they all felt that they were very good.

When I arrived in Batavia, I looked at the city defense of Batavia, and I felt even more ridiculous.

There were more than a dozen small fortresses around Batavia, and there was a city wall, but the level of these fortresses was significantly behind those they had learned in the Jinghai Palace official school.

The French were familiar with dealing with such a fortress, and these young officers who had learned Liu Yu but had actually learned the tactics of Vauban felt that they did not need the army group for such a defense, and that their own naval officers could fight a textbook siege warfare.

And in this broken place, do you still need to attack the city?

As long as the navy is dispatched to seize the supremacy of the sea and surround the perimeter, as long as the Dutch navy cannot break the siege, this place will have to surrender.

Not to mention whether the capital ships of the Netherlands can run here, even if they can come, it will take more than half a year to get here from the Netherlands.

After coming, the cucumbers and vegetables were cold, and if such a city could not be surrounded for half a year, the army fools of the artillery and engineering soldiers who had been training at the small station would have been able to apologize for their crimes.

Mantou's idea is similar, he is one of the few people who knows that Liu Yu is determined to go to the South Seas, and he has long known that Batavia is the most important stronghold of the Dutch in the South Seas, but now it seems that there are loopholes everywhere.

There were either Chinese or Javanese on the docks, and there were not a few Dutch people in sight.

Some soldiers with guns on their backs, as well as some Javanese, are accustomed to seeing the training of the Qingzhou Army next door, and looking at the level of these Dutch troops, it is inevitable to have contempt.

The training of the Qingzhou army was far from being comparable to that of these colonial armies. The small station training office is also on Liugong Island, and the naval officers look at it all day long, just like seeing too many beauties and then going to see the saltless woman, and being able to hold back and not laugh is considered self-cultivation.

After the negotiation with the Dutch was completed, Mantou threw down a sentence: he is the lieutenant colonel of Dashun, and he was personally awarded by the emperor in the First War against Russia.

Leaving this sentence behind, he went back to the boat.

According to the rules of going to sea, the sailors' money should be distributed when they docked at the port, and the sailors should go down to have fun, and it was okay to cause trouble, but they should not make shameful things such as not giving money for eating and visiting the kiln.

The officers were all left on the ship and were not allowed to go out casually, mainly for fear of contracting a dirty disease, which would not be cured in those years. Sailors can be recruited, and these officers from Jinghai Palace are all trained by Liu Yu with money and limited energy, and they are very expensive.

In the evening, someone came to the captain's quarters.

"My lord, a local sent a letter of worship. I want to meet adults. ”

When a prayer note was delivered, the steamed bun must not understand what the locals said, but he recognized the words on the prayer post: of course, the words on this prayer post are common from Batavia to Jingqili River, from Shandong to Ili City in the Western Regions.

The Han people even looked at it and asked to see the captain

There is such a line of words on the worship post, and the steamed buns are very interested, and the heart says that this person is interesting, so he said: "Since it is the same race, then go on the boat and talk about it." ”

：。 ：m.x