"Your Excellency the Governor."

A moment later, a steady and powerful footstep came from behind Governor Putmans, followed by the young and loud voice.

"Bosten, come here, let's discuss how to deal with the crisis brought by the Northern Ming Dynasty."

When Putmans saw the arrival of his most powerful adjutant, he asked directly, "I don't know why, I have always had a faint sense of foreboding these days, could it be that I am thinking too much?" ”

"Those pigs who are in the Batavia vegetarian corpse position, basically no one has contact with the people of the Northern Ming Empire, and they can't figure out the current grim situation at all, it's too annoying!"

After a moment, after listening to the troubles and anger of the governor of Putmans, the number one thinker of the Governor's Palace, after a moment's thought, spoke:

"Your Excellency the Governor, I feel that you should write a letter to the headquarters of the Company, asking them to send more warships and soldiers to defend our interests in the East."

"I really don't understand that such a colony the size of the Netherlands mainland produces all kinds of materials and wealth, and there are only less than 10,000 soldiers and dozens of large and small warships guarding it, which is really ridiculous."

Bosten said, and a trace of anger appeared on his face: "Actually, I don't say it, Your Excellency should also see that this huge port is enough to berth one or two hundred large warships of the first and second ranks, and now?" ”

"Now there are only a few second-class thousand-ton battleships, and the rest of the third, fourth, and fifth-class battleships add up to only a hundred hundred,"

"If the Royal Navy of the Northern Ming Empire really comes to attack, with the strength of our hearsay and terrifying enemy's fleet, we will definitely be defeated!"

Bosten, like Putmans, was an outstanding general of the Kingdom of the Netherlands, an excellent graduate of the Royal Netherlands Military Academy, and a visionary.

He has also been dissatisfied with the bureaucrats in Batavia for a long time.

Every day, I know that I call meetings of officials from all sides, hold various seminars, eat, drink and have fun with state funds, drink, gamble, and play with women, and do not do my job, which is simply ......

"Bosten, calm down."

Governor Putmans had to reassure his somewhat agitated adjutant, "You must know that our country has too many colonies in the world, and it is impossible to send a large number of troops to garrison every place. ”

"And you know that my tenure has just begun, and even if the company wants to increase the number of troops, it needs to make achievements so that those big people can see the real benefits."

"What can those bureaucrats do if they don't organize meetings every day? This is an unspoken rule, a form of enjoyment at public expense for everyone to eat, drink, prostitute and gamble, but you can't go out and talk nonsense, otherwise, the consequences will ......"

When the two of them sighed with emotion, the night gradually fell, and the city of Geranza, which had been noisy for a day, gradually became silent.

The area of Relanza City is not too large, and it is about the same as the original Yuegang City, which has not yet been expanded and renovated.

In addition to the main urban area inhabited by the Dutch, there are also areas inhabited by the indigenous people of Dayuan Island and the Han people who came to Dayuan Island to open up wasteland.

Since the sixth year of the Apocalypse, there have been thousands of ships traveling between Dayuan Island and the coast of the Ming Empire every year, and the total number of Han immigrants traveling between the two sides of the strait has approached 100,000.

And these are part of the conditions of the deal between Zheng Zhilong's pirate group and the Dutch, in order to develop and utilize Dayuan Island, and both sides can earn huge fortunes.

In the eyes of the coastal people in the south of the Yangtze River at that time, going to Dayuan Island to reclaim the famine was the same as Zhu Youxiao's previous life when the peasants went to the city to work, it was a very normal thing, and everyone didn't think much about it, and they didn't think about it so much.

Today, the total amount of cultivated land that has been developed on Dayuan Island has exceeded 20,000 hectares!

In the past, it was a wild and barren land, but now under the hard work of many Han people, it has become a fertile land, like a thriving world. Xuanshu Literature Network

Speaking of the beginning of the Dutch colonization of Dayuan Island, there is also a ridiculous allusion:

In September of the fourth year of the Apocalypse of the Ming Empire, the armed fleet led by the Dutch left the Penghu Islands and came to the south of Dayuan Island.

At that time, the Dutch, who pretended to be pitiful, proposed to the local Han immigrant villages: as long as they borrowed "a place the size of a cowhide" and settled their fleet.

The kind-hearted Han villagers, of course, believed it and thought that the Dutch were just going to stop the boat and go ashore and that they didn't need much space, so they agreed.

As a result, the cunning of the Dutch deceived the local simple Han people.

In the mouths of these Dutch fleet officers, how big is a cowhide?

The Dutch colonists first occupied Asha and other places, and built the "City of Orange" on a large scale.

When the local Han people asked the Dutch to fulfill their promise to "a place the size of a cowhide", the shameless colonists did a jaw-dropping thing:

They actually divided a huge cowhide into very thin leather threads, connected them and enclosed the land, and at once they circled a piece of territory that could not be seen at a glance!

This is the origin of the allusion to "a piece of cowhide".

The city of Orange, later changed to a Dutch canton, was named the city of Geranza, and became the seat of the Dutch governor's palace on the island of Grand.

This big city has been under construction, but only half a year ago, the East India Company suddenly began to increase the number of people, spent a lot of manpower and material resources, and only recently succeeded in construction.

The city of Geranza was the first truly foreign invader's stronghold on the island of Oto.

And its sheer size is what the Dutch crooks used to coil out of a huge kraft silk coil.

From then on, as the number of Han Chinese who came to Dayuan Island increased, the Dutch colonists became more wary of Han Chinese.

Three months ago, the current governor of the Netherlands, Putmans, introduced the "apartheid system".

In this system, it is stipulated that Han people are not allowed to build houses in the Gaoshan people's settlements, let alone contact and trade with the Gaoshan people without permission.

They even offered a reward in the Gaoshan villages, and anyone who caught a Han Chinese who entered the Gaoshan village without permission could receive a reward of five lils for each one caught.

In the two cities of Geranza and Prominza, built by the Dutch, Putmans even issued a "curfew": after half of the night, the Han people were not allowed to cross more than six houses without lighting lanterns in the city, and violators were fined.

If a group of Han Chinese walks, only one lantern is allowed, otherwise there is also a fine.

And if a Han man walks with a lantern and accidentally walks to the house at the end of the city of Geranza, he will still be fined.

All of the above has only one purpose: that is, to turn the Han people into second-class untouchables, untouchables who are even lower than the Gaoshan people.

However, as the saying goes, where there is oppression, there is resistance, and the inhumane actions of the Dutch naturally aroused the anger of the Han people in the cities of Geranza and Puminza.

Although the contradictions between the two sides did not erupt immediately, the voice of secret resistance has begun to germinate.

The current situation is very similar to the inhumane racial system during the period when the Mongols ruled the Han Empire.

Obviously, if Zhu Youxiao hadn't been reborn through the crossing, it wouldn't be long before a round of suppression and massacre against the Han people on Dayuan Island would still be staged as scheduled in history.