The Swedish ship may soon leave.

At the Doge's Palace, Valknier is furious at a Dutch captain.

"Why did you bring Dashun's official ship to Batavia? Idiot! Don't you know that this official ship will remind the Chinese here that they have a powerful empire of the same race in the north? ”

"What's the point of you doing that? Do we dare to seize the official ships of the Shun Empire? Do we dare to plunder their goods? ”

"Their official ships are firing salutes, but in the eyes of those hateful Chinese, salutes are cannons like cannons!"

When I first arrived, there were already a lot of troubles, but I never thought that I would encounter such an accident when I first arrived.

The captain of the intercepted Swedish merchant fleet was somewhat aggrieved.

"Your Excellency the Governor, it is customary to intercept the inspection of the merchant ships of the Swedes."

The organizer of the Swedish East India Company, Colin Khambier, had worked for the British East India Company, and he was familiar with the trade route. We have a treaty with the British, but not with the Swedes. He has a mandate from the Swedish royal family, and we can't sink them. ”

"However, the order given to us by the company headquarters was to intercept the Swedish ships as much as possible. Suspecting that they were pirates, they were taken to Batavia to delay their return. ”

"Your Excellency, you should know what these Swedes are doing in Gothenburg. Those hateful smugglers seriously damage the interests of the company. ”

"If we delay here for a month, the company's tea will be able to sell at a little more profit."

Valknier said angrily: "The Swedes' ship can be intercepted, but why stop Dashun's ship? Knowing that they were official ships, they still let them dock in Batavia? ”

"Use your mind and think what would happen if a Dutch fleet stopped in Manhattan? Or what if a British fleet arrived on the island of Ploon? ”

It was a difficult to tell whether the Dutch East India Company had made or lost money, and the British traded the island of Protron in Southeast Asia for Manhattan, which was then called New Amsterdam. Since then, it has been impossible for the Dutch fleet to dock in New York, nor for the British fleet to stop at Prollen, in order to prevent the local immigrants from rebelling.

Valknier was very upset by the fact that the British had ceded Manhattan decades earlier and the Dutch fleet had re-arrived in Manhattan, which would have had a great impact on the Dutch who lived there.

The policy of the company's headquarters, Valknier felt that there was nothing wrong with it.

However, the behavior of these captains is really a bit stupid, and they don't know how to be flexible at all, and compared with the adaptability of the first batch of captains who came to Southeast Asia to roam in Japan more than 100 years ago, it is really too bad.

This official ship of Dashun, every time it stays here for one more day, the Chinese here will take a closer look.

The sailors and sailors on that ship were not at all the dirty appearance of those private sea ships, and the shining bronze cannons and black bayonets would have made the Chinese in Batavia even more courageous.

This is likely to pose a threat to his vision of a complete solution to the problem of the Chinese in Batavia. At least until then, the company can be sure that the empire to the north will not be interested in overseas affairs, and these immigrants scattered abroad, they don't know much about it, and no one really cares.

If this accident caused the Shun Empire to become interested in these overseas affairs and overseas immigrants, it was likely to lead to serious consequences.

After losing his temper, he couldn't deal with the captain, so he just scolded a few words and let the captain leave.

But there is good news, judging from the current information, this time the French sent a mission to China, and the Chinese side sent official ships to Sweden...... It is clear that in the near future, another war will break out between Dashun and Russia.

As long as there is another war between Shun and Russia, Valknier feels that what he wants to do in Batavia will not alarm the Shun Empire, nor will it have a drastic impact, and if Shun and Russia go to war again, they must not have the energy to bother and energy on the Nanyang issue.

When the time comes, the raw rice will be cooked and the turmoil will soon pass. The Spaniards carried out more than one massacre in Luzon, so what? Isn't it yet that trade continues to trade?

Thinking of his plan, he instructed his subordinates: this time, don't detain these Swedish ships and Dashun's merchant ships for too long, let them get out of the way immediately, don't intercept them along the way, and let them leave Batavia immediately. By the time the ship returns from Sweden, all warships are not to be caught approaching!

The governor had an order, and his subordinates hurried to send these merchant ships out of the port as if they were sending the plague gods.

The Swedes who were traveling with them were also surprised, originally thinking that if they were caught by the Dutch, they would have to "check" in Batavia for at least a month, but they didn't want the Dutch to change their minds this time, and they didn't even do such routine as getting on the boat to see if they were wrong, and they were directly released.

Of course, the Swedes are very happy, and this time they will arrive a few months earlier than the Dutch cargo ship, so they can seize the opportunity to make this year's new tea appear on the European market first.

And this time, there are some Swedish sailors and captains' private goods on the free trade ship of Dashun, which can be regarded as a kind of "bribery". Once safely in Gothenburg, the crew members receive a significant income.

After receiving some very expensive gifts, the Swedish navigator on the Free Trade happily told the captain and trainee captain of the Free Trade, as well as the first mate and navigator, all the landmarks, islands, ocean currents, wind directions, etc. along the way.

The design of the new ship was good, the materials were quite extravagant, and soon, with the help of the Swedish navigator, the Free Trade became the head ship of the fleet and began to cross the ocean.

After sending off the plague-like ship, the governor of Batavia read the information of Batavia in detail in recent years, and for the first time wrote the first letter of the new governor to the company's headquarters as the governor.

It had been more than a month since the departure of the Swedish ship, and the Dutch merchant ship had just left, because the conflict of interest between Batavia and the company's headquarters forced the board of directors to choose a compromise: some cargo ships had to stay in Batavia before returning to the Netherlands, rather than sailing directly from Guangdong. This reluctance to compromise meant that Dutch merchant ships always arrived in Europe a month or two later than Swedish merchant ships.

In Valknier's first letter to the Seventeenth Gentlemen, he reported that Dashun had sent official ships to send Swedish prisoners back to Sweden, and made his own judgment about the purpose of the French mission to Dashun: between Shun and Russia, there might be another war, and maybe even Sweden...... At the very least, Russia and Sweden could go to war, suggesting that the company could stock up on some iron bars and copper.

After reading a large number of reports and materials, Valknier also reported to the headquarters about the problems encountered by the Japanese Merchant House and the expansion of trade between the Dashun merchants in Japan.

But he attributed all these changes to one problem.

"As long as Japan's lock-up policy is still in place, the expansion of Chinese businessmen will have little impact on the company."

"As for the trading company of Dashun, it is not so much a victory of a certain merchant group as a victory of the power of the officials of the East. It is just the story of an Oriental aristocrat who uses his authority for personal gain. ”

"In fact, the emperor of Dashun can make anyone rich and anyone poor, with just one sentence. Obviously, the count, who had fought with the Russians and the Mongols, had only gained a monopoly on Japanese trade because of the favor of the Emperor of China. ”

"But, I have to say, he's still an idiot. A really smart man could choose to have their emperor close the customs and not allow us to build a merchant house in Canton, so that they would have more monopoly interests in Japan, and the company would have to come up with more silver coins for the raw silk sold to Japan. ”

"Neither the Emperor of China nor the Count who formed a monopoly on trade with Japan, they do not know the art of trade, nor do they have the mind to use violence to maintain trade—if anything, they only need to close our merchant house, which is only a sentence for the Emperor, so it shows their stupidity."

"The company's interests in Asia will not be affected in any way."

"But in Batavia, something bad is happening. Cane sugar trade ......"

After writing this letter about the sugar industry and the Chinese hired workers in Sweden, Russia, Japan, and Batavia, Valknier began to prepare for his reforms.

For example, a census of the number of Chinese who do not pay the poll tax can add tens of thousands of guilders to Batavia's income every month, and then choose to divide these people, thus purging a population that is no longer meaningful to Batavia and cannot bring profits.

This policy of purging the population was in fact the meaning of the Committee of Seventeen, or rather the choice of the Dutch East India Company after the change of trade thinking.

At the end of the Ming Dynasty and the beginning of the Ming Dynasty, Batavia's trade idea was that Chinese merchants would bring tea, silk, and pepper and spices, and Batavia would ship these Chinese goods to India to make a profit, but this was not something that the company's headquarters was happy to see. The company's headquarters did not want to see a Batavia with its own trading circle. This is similar to local and central and contradictory.

After that, there was the triangular trade of the Netherlands, Batavia, Guangdong and Fujian. Dutch merchant ships shipped pepper and spices from Batavia and raw silk tea and porcelain from Dashun.

Compared with the previous trade policy, it turned out that Chinese maritime merchants were an important link and participant in the old trade route; Under the current trade policy, the Chinese maritime merchants became competitors of the East India Company.

The desire to eliminate the Chinese in Batavia was not only as simple as the sugar trade, but also for a deeper reason, to ensure the monopoly of the East India Company on the trade in Fujian, Guangdong and Batavia, and to eliminate competitors by violent means.

When Valknier decided to clear the poll tax on the Chinese, he also began to disintegrate the layout of division.

At the same time as the poll tax of the Chinese, the board of directors was asked to ensure the interests of the employees of the company in Batavia, and since the smuggling and carrying of illicit goods by employees could not be prohibited, then the smuggling should be legalized, and the company sent a ship directly to Fujian to buy the private goods of the employees of Batavia. And these private goods were originally privately traded by Dashun Maritime Merchants and the company's employees.

As soon as this policy was implemented, it legalized illegal smuggling and private gain, and allowed the company to cut a little of the meat that could not be obtained in exchange for the breakdown of the relationship between the Dutch employees and the Chinese maritime businessmen, so as to ensure that when he implemented the policy of eliminating the Chinese, the employees in Batavia supported him, and did not oppose it because of the damage to his personal smuggling interests.

Now, it's up to the company's board of directors to agree to his proposal to "legalize bootlegitimism." Having completed this step, there is only one last step left before he raises the butcher's knife for the "inferior population that cannot bring profits" in his eyes here.

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Soon after the Free Trade left Batavia, Lian Huaiguan took seven or eight brothers and found a captain who wanted to return to Dashun.

The dragon has the dragon road, the mouse has the mouse road, even Huaiguan did not have the idea of going back to Dashun to see, and now he wants to go back to Dashun, but it is also easy to find the boat that goes directly to Songjiang through interpersonal relationships.

The cargo ship was loaded with Javanese shellac, a gum that can be used both medicinally and as a dye to give silk a brilliant red color.

The captain of the cargo ship has a special supply channel and a special shipping channel, and it is by this hand that he maintains profits.

The captain was quite polite to Lian Huaiguan, he was introduced by an acquaintance, even if he was not familiar before, he had to give the acquaintance he introduced a face.

Even Huaiguan was more talkative, and after a little chat, the captain said something depressed.

"As soon as we leave Ba Cheng, my boat must first go to Banga and load some tin there. Business is not good, the Dutch are very strict with the lac pipe, and I can't get too many goods. If you only put this bit of lac back, you won't make too much. ”

"If you load the tin block, you can make a little more money. If you go back in time for the Qingming Festival, you can earn a little more. ”

"This business is getting harder and harder."

When it comes to tin blocks and the Qingming Festival, even Huaiguan understands what these tin blocks are for. The tin foil in Jiangsu and Zhejiang is also burned in Batavia, and the ones in Ningbo, Hangzhou, and Suzhou are all of the highest quality, and there is a silk production area, and shellac and tin can be directly transported there for sale.

Before catching up with the Qingming Festival, you can sell it at a good price, whether it is shellac or tin for silk dyeing.

It is said that it is the prophet of the plumbing duck in the spring river, and the change of the trade policy of the Dutch East India Company in recent years has made the deepest experience of these maritime merchants who run the sea, and it is really difficult to do business.

The East India Company monopolized the trade between Batavia and Fujian and Guangdong, and mosquitoes were small and meat, and the Dutch East India Company may not have looked down on this mosquito meat in the past, but now it is becoming more and more difficult to operate, and this mosquito meat is also targeted.

Shellac, sumac, spices, tin blocks, etc., are now basically monopolized by the Dutch. It is not by capital, who has the ability to come, but by force, which is incomprehensible for the maritime merchants of Dashun who are fighting separately.

If the Chinese maritime merchants wanted to buy it, they had to pay a high price, but the East India Company could directly ship it to Fujian and Guangdong to obtain profits, or sell it at a lower price than the Chinese maritime merchants.

In just a few years, several shipowners who had traveled to Batavia and could continue without transporting tea could not stand it anymore and had to find another way to make a living.

They are all running to the sea, only respecting Mazu Niangniang and Xu Zhenjun, and the rest are not afraid, it's not that no one wants to be a pirate - monopolizing trade rather than free trade will inevitably give rise to pirates, but ...... Now it is no more than a few years ago, and now it is impossible to beat the Dutch, and after several battles, I can only watch with a small eye as the Dutch basically monopolize the trade from Batavia to Fujian and Guangdong in a few years.

Dashun didn't care, the customs were open, but there were no countermeasures, and the officials were extremely slow to react. And the local festival envoys are all more than less, and they may not be able to figure out the way in trade.

Now there is another way to do this, and the rest is to make some hard-earned money by selling people, or simply not to come to Batavia.

The depression of simple maritime trade, Lian Huaiguan can not empathize; But the business brought about by the change in the Dutch policy is not good, and he also feels the same way.

In Batavia he had some casinos and liquor stores, and in recent years there have been fewer Chinese merchant ships in Batavia, and his business has also been affected.