Let Lian Huaiguan come forward to rent a few sugar factories and sugar cane plantations, where he will conduct some secret basic training, and bring together some of the most rebellious backbones in Batavia.

Organization is the most important thing. The civilians who are not organized together are scattered, and the army that assembles the civilians together is enough to defeat ten by one in equal numbers.

In Nanyang, the court can only end up by itself, and it is not possible to rely on the maritime merchants of Dashun.

The gap in capital alone is eight streets away from the Dutch East India Company, how can you play it? And judging from the current situation, after going, the richest people are more willing to choose to be tax collectors for the Dutch, and they have a hand in squeezing their compatriots.

Organize a group of people, and if you can't see the rest, you can only think of other ways.

If the Dutch had done it earlier, as long as they were not slaughtered, even these people in the Huaiguan sugar factory would have to endure it, even if the rest of them were to be sent to Ceylon.

"After buying the sugar factory, if the Dutch really had to check the poll tax, I would have paid the poll tax. Of course, you can't be a sincere person, just pay the poll tax for three out of ten people. If you pay too much, and the Dutch think that the Chinese can still be squeezed again, your sugar factories will pay so much money, and if the rest of the sugar factory employees all pay, won't they be rich? ”

"I'm not familiar with Batavia, and I don't know how to give bribes and gifts. I think you're clear. ”

Lian Huaiguan nodded hurriedly, he was very clear about Batavia's set of bribes and gifts. As long as there is money, he knows who to give it to.

Moreover, under the governor system, there is no governor who is not greedy for money. Power has a time limit, and it is invalid when it expires, so who doesn't want to go back to the Netherlands with a sum of money?

He doesn't have to pay the money, he just acts as a middleman, and he understands his position in it.

His position is not irreplaceable, and many people can replace what he can do.

Liu Yu put on a guard of honor to deter, led him to see the military camp was reassuring, and took him to the capital to give him an honor, and the interests of cooperation can really be maintained, so he decided to give Lian Huaiguan a part of Songjiang's stocks. It doesn't take much, but it's enough for this guy, who didn't have any assets in Batavia, to devote himself seriously to this great cause: for his own benefit.

There is no hurry in advance, and I will talk about it after I return from the capital.

asked someone to take Lian Huaiguan down to rest first, and Liu Yu summarized the situation in Batavia that Lian Huaiguan told. Instead of paying too much attention to details, he sorted out the current situation in Batavia on a macro level.

Almost as he had anticipated, Dutch power and mercantile capitalist policies put Dutch rule in Batavia in jeopardy.

It can be seen in conjunction with the "cash outflow problem of the East India Company" that he judged through the changes in the East India Company's policy towards Batavia.

It can be said that it is also the Amsterdam Stock Exchange and the Amsterdam Stock Exchange.

The small Netherlands is too deeply tied to securities and commercial shipping, and as long as it cuts off Malacca and hits Southeast Asian trade, it will inevitably set off a huge wave that will shake the whole Netherlands in Amsterdam on the other side of the world.

The cost of relying on violence to maintain a monopoly is too high, and the excessive labor costs caused by the weak handicraft industry and finance in the Netherlands itself cannot be dumped.

The Dutch, this time it's dead.

However, in order to defeat the enemy with one blow, it is necessary to wait until the War of the Austrian Succession and the declaration of war by France and the Netherlands before taking action, so as to completely dismantle the Dutch colonial system, and can be regarded as making a little contribution to the French "allies" who bear the heavy responsibility of bloodletting the British.

This time, Lian Huaiguan followed him into Beijing, mainly to give the emperor a reassuring shot, telling the emperor that the Dutch people were really vulnerable.

Maybe the emperor can't understand the essential logic of this, and Lian Huaiguan's subjective impression of Batavia is exactly the confidence that the emperor needs.

This time he returned to the capital, not because he took the initiative to go back, but because there are many major events in the capital this year, and the emperor ordered him to go back.

Qi Guogong's envoy group came back from a detour to Rakshasa, and the fast horse report received a few days ago knew that it had caused an uproar in the capital.

This year is the first time that the rice from Songjiang and Suzhou has been transported by sea, which is related to the future of the imperial court's choice of sea and river transportation.

In addition, some workshops in Songjiang have begun to produce, glass and other emerging industries, are levied additional consumption tax, and at the same time a large amount of income, it involves a very serious "salt tax" problem: salt has always been only a daily necessities, and now the intermediate link of the glass industry alkali production method needs to consume a large amount of salt, how to calculate the tax on these salts has become a problem that must be solved.

There is also the leased land on the North Korean side; Russia is to send a higher ducal envoy to negotiate the question of the western border; There are too many cashier coins in Suzhou, Fujian, Guangdong and other customs places, and it is recommended to mint silver dollars...... All kinds of good or bad news, each of which tells the story of the Celestial Empire of Dashun slowly opening the Kyushu Barrier and beginning to integrate into the outside world.

This time Liu Yu wants to go back, and he wants to go back in style, and there are still many things to do. Lian Huaiguan's matter is just an add-on, just to make the emperor's final decision.

If you want to be tougher when discussing the policies of the imperial court, you can't have the slightest problem with shipping this time.

Soon, Liu Yu called Chen Qinghai and Du Feng and assigned new tasks to each of them.

This time, Caomi took the sea, although the route of taking the Heishui Ocean was quite mature, and there were no pirates along the way, but just in case, Liu Yu still decided to send a warship to escort the first sea.

In addition, the new tax silver in Songjiang under his suggestion will also be transported by warship and directly docked at Dagukou.

He wants to make sure that nothing goes wrong, even if he is well prepared, and even has a marine insurance company organized by the royal family, but if something happens halfway, there will still be big problems.

In order to ensure that nothing goes wrong, Matsue is also fully prepared.

A large amount of Nanyang rice has been hoarded, and anyway, this year Japan will ban the trade of illegal rice goods, and a large amount of Nanyang rice is hoarded in Songjiang in order to prevent the loss of shipping and become an excuse for the canal faction to oppose shipping.

The people who have invested in the sea shipping rice know the truth of the long stream, so the company has also made a decision: this year to take out a certain amount of money, transport a few percent more rice, offset the possible shipping risks, and ensure that ten out of ten percent of the rice is transported to the capital.

If nothing else, just for the benefit of being able to carry one-tenth of the duty-free goods for this rice.

If we can really abolish the sea and change the sea, the profits of millions of workers will be transferred to the coastal areas of Jiangsu, and for the sake of such long-term interests, it is worth investing a little more this year.

Chen Qinghai and Du Feng heard Liu Yu say such a task, and they all showed a relaxed look on their faces.

They had traveled this route many times, and each of them loved their warships so much that they were not afraid of possible pirates.

Besides, I really haven't seen pirates in these years, their warships are all piled up with silver, where do pirates have so much silver?

"This time I went to Songjiang, and the entire fleet went out together, Qinghai as the forehand, and Du Feng as your deputy. One is for military training, and the other is to let some people with a heart know that they don't have crooked ideas. ”

"These people with a heart are both domestic and may be foreign. Westerners may know that we are training our navy, but including the French, they don't know what level our navy is. ”

"So this time you're going to go to Songjiang neatly. It just so happened that it was the season for Western ships to come to Matsue to trade, so they could see and understand. ”

After saying the purpose of this voyage, Chen Qinghai said: "Haven't you been secretly developing the navy in a secretive way? If this is known to potential enemies, they are afraid to be on guard. If our battleship is completed and launched, it seems that it will not be too late to be so ostentatious. ”

These outstanding naval officers listened to Liu Yu explain the situation and world trade in the Age of Discovery all day long, although Liu Yu never publicly said that the imperial court would take action against Japan and the South Seas, but these few who were close to Liu Yu knew it in their hearts.

The navy costs so much money, and if it weren't for the war, it wouldn't be worth raising such a navy at all.

Besides, how can you make a contribution without fighting? How can you be promoted if you don't make meritorious contributions?

Faced with Chen Qinghai's doubts, Liu Yu laughed, happy and relaxed.

It is no longer the time when everything had to be hidden when I first came to Weihai a few years ago, and now the overall situation has been decided, and there is nothing to change.

He had previously knelt down to lick Japan for trade, in order to build up the navy and education before the imperial court threw money into it, and to gather a group that would be beneficial to Japan's war.

The Navy is a technical arm that needs to be invested many years in advance. By the time the imperial court decided to invest the money, it was already the final step: to build a ship, so that the captains who squatted on land to learn mathematics would have a real warship.

Now even if Japan has woken up, even if there is money, the shaded oak teak and cypress cannot be conjured with empty hands; Captains and officers who can shell and sail did not grow overnight.

As for the Netherlands...... Not to mention whether it could be perceived that the navy was headed for them, not to mention the financial and operational difficulties that the East India Company was now facing.

Even if their god sent a revelation to let them know everything, with the current level of communication, this year's news will not reach Amsterdam until next year, and then it will return to Batavia in the third year, and it is estimated that the first 74-gun battleship in Weihai will be built at that time.

The Dutch are very good in Europe, and the fleet is very strong, but they can't come to the South Seas, and no matter how much they have, it's useless.

Now Liu Yu has no fear, and he just uses this incident to interfere with the situation reflected by Lian Huaiguan: the possible anti-Chinese issue in Batavia.

To start a war with the Netherlands, you don't have to wait for a tragic reality for justice, and you don't have to wait for the Dutch to kill people.

The initiative is in your own hands, and you can fight whenever you want.

Full of confidence.

"I used to say that the navy was not built in a day. What counts as building a navy? Tell me, is our navy built now? ”

The two of them suddenly asked such a question, and the two of them were stunned for a while, and Liu Yu said: "A navy, not just a fleet. ”

"Instead, the Jinghai Palace Official School accepts people every year, and more and more people apply for the exam, and there is a steady stream of new graduates. There were more reserve sailors, working on the new style of soft sailing ships. ”

"There are a large number of craftsmen who can build ships, ships can be repaired if they are damaged, and there are complete logging and sawing and dry material workshops. Looking at it now, Dashun's navy is completed, but the stock is a little worse. Isn't the problem of stock just money? When it's really urgent, the court will pull out the money. ”

"So I'm bold now, and I don't have to hide it. Because I can say that Dashun finally has a navy. ”

This is not quite the same as the "real navy" that Du Feng and Chen Qinghai understood, according to their thoughts, a real navy should be a fleet that covers the sky and the sun.

But Liu Yu thought from the beginning that such a navy was a one-time thing, and it could not be regarded as a navy, but only a fleet.

Just like France, with 40,000 tons of warships, one-tenth of the stock of the Anglo-Dutch fleet today, it can become the world's second navy within a few years.

France's second navy in the world is not at sea or in port, but in military academies, academies, Canadian timber, and the system of registration and service of sailors.

Weihai now has a foundation, this is the beginning of the navy in Liu Yu's eyes.

"This time I arrived in Songjiang, and when I returned, Qinghai led the team back. Du Feng also has to go to Guangdong and escort some people to a trip. His Majesty allocated a sum of money to allow me to build a naval port near Canton. To be able to repair ships, and to build some forts. It's not your business, you just have to send people. ”

"When you get to Songjiang, go to the trading company and ask them to borrow a few boats. Go to Guangdong and Fujian to recruit a group of sailors and marines. Guangdong will charge a little less, Fujian will recruit a little more, and I will also write down the specific number of people, and you can do it. ”

Hearing this, both of them became excited. This could not be more obvious, it was necessary to make a move against Nanyang, so a large number of people from Guangdong and Fujian had to be recruited to serve as soldiers.

The climate in the south is too hot, and the existing group of navy and marines in Weihai cannot adapt to the local climate at all. Moreover, most of the Nanyang Chinese are mainly Fujian and Guangdong, and the language barrier is also a huge problem.

The emperor allowed Liu Yu to build a military port in the harbor near Guangzhou, which shows that he was interested in Nanyang. If there is a real fight, we must not drive the ship back to Weihai to repair it, and we must find a nearby port that can repair the ship.

The two looked at each other, and they both saw excitement in each other's eyes. It's finally time to fight.

The naval officers did not fight, and in addition to practicing navigation all day, they were learning mathematics, and they were idle at the extreme, and they also made a lot of bets in private.

There are eastward factions and southward factions, and the two sides bet on each other, in the end, will the navy fight the first battle to the east, or to the south, or both?

Du Feng and Chen Qinghai both pressed a lot of money on the bet of "fighting the Japanese country first and then going to the South Seas", and now it seems that they are obviously right.

If Zhi is not in Nanyang, this port should be built in Taiwan, not Guangzhou. If it weren't for the war against the Japanese state, it would be impossible to build a city in Ezo early and hoard food.

The navy, although there is a bet on going east or south, but everyone in their hearts is looking forward to going to the South Seas. After all, it is still the army that sings the leading role in fighting the Japanese country; And going to the South Seas, the navy can finally sing the leading role. The land army in Nanyang, the marines in Weihai can clean up; The army of the Japanese kingdom could not be won by relying on the marines.