In response to the arrival of Lian Huaiguan, Liu Yu has his own ideas. If this person dares to come, it shows his courage and ability.

However, in the case of Batavia, it is not enough to rely on this courage and ability. If it is not handled well, it is likely that tens of thousands of the lowest Chinese who will be the basis of Dashun's rule in the future will be sacrificed in vain.

He is not worried that overseas Chinese do not have the courage to resist, but that they are worried that they will have too much courage and will come up with blind activism.

In order to deter Lian Huaiguan, Liu Yu put out a score that he hadn't put out for a long time.

The authentic whale sea festival envoy, the official body is here, the level is here, and the etiquette is naturally here.

Green Flag, Green Fan, Apricot Yellow Umbrella, Bronze Stick, Beast Sword, Flag Gun, Avoidance and Silence Cards...... A large string of honor guards that were largely unused were laid out.

This is not to give Lian Huaiguan another horse, but just to remind Lian Huaiguan that the Celestial Empire system is like this, let him make a choice in front of the real Celestial Empire and the real Netherlands.

The only reason why Emperor Dashun would move troops against Batavia was not because there were many overseas Chinese in Batavia, but because Liu Yu said that Batavia could make money.

Liu Yu knows very well what the emperor is, and he expects a few words such as the blood surging the national interests, but he can't move the emperor, no matter what the emperor's surname is.

The situation in Batavia, in the hands of Da Shun, is bound to be different from that in the hands of the Netherlands.

The Netherlands follows commercial capitalism, which is too deeply poisoned, and the country's population of 1 million people, half of whom are speculating in stocks, and half of them are running businesses.

Only violent means can be used to maintain the interests in it. And in order to maintain the cost of violent rule, it has to pursue windfall profits.

Whether it's frantically cutting down spice trees in Indonesia to maintain the high price of "supply exceeds demand"; The reason why the Netherlands could not use Indonesia as a dumping ground could only engage in this low-level colonial policy.

Dashun is different, the handicraft industry at this time, if Britain and France did not have an extremely mercantilist trade protection policy, it could really completely collapse the British and French handicraft industry.

What the emperor needed was a monopoly on lac, spices, and sumac, which needed to perpetuate the Dutch rule over the Javanese.

What the Chinese need is land reform, land division, free management, and the abandonment of the package tax system.

The interests of Kapitan and Lei Zhenlan are not the interests of the majority of the Chinese.

Even if Batavia is recovered, Liu Yu's attitude towards Batavia is also very resolute: the land snake that does not allow Batavia to still control Batavia, whether it is Jiabidan or Lei Zhenlan, all must be eliminated.

Fortunately, the vast majority of Chinese in Batavia are engaged in the cane sugar industry, not the cultivation and cultivation of a series of tropical specialties such as spices and shellac.

The interests of the poor hired laborers, who accounted for the vast majority of the Chinese, did not conflict with the interests of the emperor, and this created an environment for a central adjustment policy.

Liu Yu can only be sure now that Lian Huaiguan has the heart to rebel against the Dutch, but he doesn't know whose interests he stands on to rebel against the Dutch?

Overseas Chinese are not an inseparable whole, but are clearly divided into different classes by different economic bases.

Which part of the interests does this view represent?

There is no policy that can benefit all Chinese in Batavia.

Lian Huaiguan, who finally arrived in Weihai, was the first time he saw the battle of high-ranking officials of the Celestial Empire.

He listened to the drama a lot, but he didn't get a chance to see it in Batavia.

The influence of the drama was still there, and in the shouting and frightening of the honor guard, Lian Huaiguan involuntarily knelt on the ground.

He is not Xu Yu who defected to Cao Cao in the Battle of Guandu, and Liu Yu does not understand the true purpose of this person, so he can't use any attitude to meet him.

After some official talks, Liu Yu still made a gentle enough attitude, Lian Huaiguan went to the back hall to wait, and after a long time, Liu Yu came to the place where he saw the guest slowly.

Even Huaiguan thought back to the majesty of his reliance just now, and his heart was a little timid.

When the waiter served the tea, he didn't dare to drink the tea, so he could only sit there and wait for Liu Yu to ask.

Liu Yu looked at Lian Huaiguan, twenty-five or sixteen years old, and his complexion may be a little dark because he was sunburned in the tropics.

The physique is very strong, but the back is straight, and at first glance, I haven't done much tiring work since I was a child.

"Even the strong men who came from Batavia, what do you see? If you have something to say, I have to go to training in a while, so I'm really in a hurry. ”

Even Huaiguan wanted to take a look first and then speak, but when he heard this, he had to go straight to the point.

Giving a general account of the situation in Batavia, he added: "My lord, the Celestial Empire has speculated that the Dutch may migrate the people of the Celestial Empire to Ceylon, but they do not know that the sea is hard and Ceylon is hot now, and if this is the case, half of them may die on the road. ”

"Many people in Fujian no longer have land, let alone half of the gold and silver, and even if they return to Fujian, it will be difficult for them to survive. Batavia started from scratch, whether it is the canals, the city walls, or those fortresses, as well as the sugar cane plantations and land outside the city, they are all watered by the blood and sweat of our overseas Celestial Empire people. ”

"When Batavia was first built, the ancestors below were plundered from Penghu. At that time, Batavia was still a swamp, and the Javanese people did not know how to carpenter and bricklayer, if there were no Chinese such as us, where would there be Batavia today? ”

"Now that the Dutch see that we are 'useless', they want to get rid of them, what is the reason?"

"Yes, I hope that the Celestial Empire can come forward to protect the overseas people of the Celestial Empire."

Liu Yu thought to himself, it only makes sense under the barrel of a gun, the Dutch have guns, cannons and money, so they naturally do whatever they want.

This matter is naturally to be solved, and maintenance must also be maintained, but my solution may be very different from the solution you think.

Even the strong man's words make a lot of sense. It's just, how do you want to solve it? ”

"My lord, people from overseas, they all miss their homeland. If the Dutch really want to expel us and others, tens of thousands of people will have nothing to live on, and there will be trouble. If the Celestial Empire could support some guns in the event of an uprising, or send ships to attack the Dutch, the overseas people of Batavia would surely welcome them with a pot of pulp. ”

Liu Yu snorted, he didn't even dare to look at his face, and after waiting for a long time, Liu Yu slowly squeezed out a few words.

"If the Dutch do such a thing, they will be in charge. If you have such thoughts, how can the court not care about your life or death? But I don't know how far you want the court to be in charge? ”

Lian Huaiguan hurriedly said: "The Dutch are cruel and tyrannical, occupy Bacheng, and do not pay tribute. In the future, if we succeed, we will pay tribute to the Son of Heaven, and we dare not forget the four seasons. If it is like the three proclamations and six comforts of the previous dynasty, we will be loyal. ”

"The Celestial Empire doesn't need many soldiers and horses, as long as we provide some ordnance, we can protect ourselves. In this way, if you don't waste how much grain the court has, you can get a loyal land in Nanyang, which can be done. ”

The Celestial Empire has rarely had official activities in Nanyang over the years, and even Huaiguan thinks that even if the Celestial Empire wants to take care of this matter, it is still the same as the royal land under the whole world, and engage in some Nanyang old legends and the like of the Propaganda and Consolation Division.

He was a little contemptuous of the Dutch, because he only saw that there were few Dutch in the city of Batavia, and there were many Chinese.

As soon as Liu Yu heard this, he knew that Lian Huaiguan was absolutely inferior to the enemy, and he couldn't do it at all by relying on the locals alone.

Moreover, what do you say...... Such conditions are absolutely impossible for Liu Yu to accept.

Fighting the Dutch required the full efforts of the imperial court to make it possible to uproot the Dutch power in the South Seas.

Even now, Dashun's national strength can't win. At least three years later, the fleet will be formed, otherwise even if the army can fight again, it will not be possible to row a wooden basin to Batavia.

After the fight, if there is no real money to be seen, it is impossible for the imperial court to continue to support navigation, and even if there is support, the resistance will inevitably be great.

Unlike the Dutch and the British, it was impossible for the Celestial Empire to allow merchants to form a trading company with strong armies, and the Dutch had been operating in Southeast Asia for a long time, and it was not enough to kill the Dutch with a few local Chinese.

In order to make Lian Huaiguan sober up, Liu Yu asked a few questions.

"If the future is to be done, you only have to guard a batavia? I've heard that the Javanese have also been rebelling against the Dutch rule in recent years, and if it happens in the future, you will only defend Batavia, and you may be able to hold on to those Javanese? Besides, what will Batavia depend on for survival in the future? ”

Lian Huaiguan was slightly stunned, he didn't quite understand what Liu Yu meant, it was difficult for him to understand the problem.

According to his thoughts, drive out the Dutch, and he will do a great thing, and become the lord of Ba City.

As for what will happen to Bacheng in the future, he really hasn't thought about it.

Speaking of which, he is actually a strong man, a real strong man.

It's just an instinctive feeling of the brutality of the Dutch rule, and he wants to overthrow the Dutch, but he doesn't think about what to do with Batavia after the Dutch leave.

Liu Yu saw that he was at a loss, so he simply said it more clearly.

"Do you understand the roots of Batavia's prosperity?"

Lian Huaiguan pondered for a moment, nodded and said, "From merchant ships?" ”

Liu Yu smiled: "Yes, it originated from merchant ships." Without merchant ships, Batavia would not have prospered. Do you know why Batavia has been in decline in recent years? ”

Lian Huaiguan still shook his head, he probably understood that he had thought about it in his heart, but it was really difficult to organize it into words and say it.

"If the Celestial Empire retreats, the city of Ba will prosper."

"If the Celestial Empire is opened, Bacheng will inevitably decline."

"You want to go back to the good old days, but you're afraid it's difficult. Even if the Dutch are gone, the decline of Bacheng is inevitable. The Dutch can go directly to Guangdong to buy goods, why should they go to Batavia? The only reason for going to Batavia was to save some silver, to exchange it for Batavia's spices, and to appease a group of officials in Batavia. ”

"Batavia, which is not closed in seclusion in the Celestial Empire, will inevitably decline; And Batavia, which cannot control Java and the Spice Islands, is nothing. You ask yourself, can you control the whole of Java and the Spice Islands? ”

"The price of sugar is certainly low by the Dutch, but the Celestial Empire produces sugar from itself, India also produces sugar now, and the Caribbean west of Europa also produces sugar, and tens of thousands of Chinese employees who make a living from cane sugar, have you thought about what they will do in the future?"

"You can't let the Celestial Empire not want sugar from Fujian and Taiwan for you, but collect sugar from Batavia at a high price, right?"

Lian Huaiguan obviously didn't think about these problems, and Liu Yu was sure that Lian Huaiguan couldn't think of them.

The matter of Batavia is not something that can be captured, but the follow-up disposal of the capture is the most important thing.

If the Dutch are driven away, Malacca will be the most prosperous port, and as long as Dashun continues to switch, there will be no fool who will go around to Batavia again for trade with Europe.

Batavia is militarily important, radiating to Java, Malay, Brunei, and in the South Seas.

But in terms of trade with Europe, it is not even a chicken rib.

This kind of place is similar to the Western Regions and the Northeast, and at this time it is an economic loss of money and a political and military battleground.

In this kind of place, it's impossible to make a consolation division.

For the local Chinese, Liu Yu relied on local Chinese hired workers and those handicraftsmen engaged in small trade.

As for the local land snake, he didn't want any of them.

Lian Huaiguan has the courage to come here, it can be seen that he wants to do something big in his heart, this kind of person can be used and cooperated, but at the beginning of cooperation, he must have an accurate judgment of his positioning.

The Dutch relied on the East India Company, which was supported by the whole country, and relied on the smuggling of Persia, India, the Netherlands, and Europe and North America to be able to rule Java.

Lian Huaiguan's idea of relying on one Batavia to establish a state is extremely immature, because it cannot come up with the cost and money that can sustain violent rule.

Once the Dutch had been driven away, the role of the Batavian transit port ceased to exist. A city that thrives on transit ports, without the advantages of transit ports, will only be more decaying than it is now.

Liu Yu was afraid that after retaking Batavia, the local rich and local snakes all missed the rule of the Netherlands.

This kind of thing is not clear by reasoning, so Liu Yu doesn't want to reason with these people at all, where the emperor is far away, he will firmly stand on the side of the poor people at the bottom, who account for the vast majority of the Chinese population, and get rid of any existing indirect rule.

Even if those Jiapitan, Lei Zhenlan and the tax collectors are all Chinese, it will not work.