Chapter 542: Dutch Civilians

Rodriguez, whose Chinese name is Rhodes in Huazhou, is from Rotterdam, the central city of the Netherlands, where he comes from a wealthy merchant family and has a good living environment, allowing him to receive a very good education. His happiness was shattered when he was about to inherit the family business in his twentieth year. Because of his Calvinist father's sympathetic attitude towards the Dutch independence movement, Rodriguez was listed as a dangerous person by agents in the Kingdom of Spain, and when the Calvinists began to openly advocate for confrontation, Rodriguez's entire family was arrested and their property confiscated.

Undoubtedly, Rodriguez's father and mother were brutally executed, and as a young man, Rodriguez was sold by the jailers to Spanish merchants for three silver coins because of the need for exile in Luzon, and was trafficked as slaves to Luzon and then to Washington.

After arriving in Huazhou, Rodriguez felt that he had come to the world of his dreams, where there were a large number of smiling compatriots, living a richer life than in the Netherlands, and the hero Jason Hogan, who was passed down by the Dutch people, actually served as a high-ranking military officer in this place called Huazhou.

Rodriguez knew that this place would be his place of residence, so he studied Chinese extremely diligently and tried to understand the culture and everything around him.

Because of his cultural background, he was very conspicuous among the Dutch people who came at the same time, and he could soon become independent, receive a one-time subsidy from the government, and then find a job in Huazhou, because in the casting of guns, shipbuilding, farming, and various aspects, the Dutch people have made great contributions to Huazhou, so Huazhou's attitude towards the Dutch people has always been better, and it can be regarded as a good treatment.

The Dutch people who came to Huazhou, at the very beginning, were the group of people who came to Dengzhou led by Jason Hogan, these people because they came early, they are also the entrepreneurs of the Huazhou system, these people are either in the army and the fleet as middle and senior officers, or they have a lot of industries, and later come in batches, talented, such as Wisconsn, also have a very good future, and the rest of the people use themselves to come out of the maritime trade area, as well as unique textile, shipbuilding and casting technology, there are also certain industries, Some of them are very wealthy.

The independence movement in the Netherlands was in full swing, but Spain was also at its strongest at this time, and a large number of Dutch people were thrown into prison, and many were transported to Luzon as slaves and coolies in exile, and then transferred to Huazhou according to the old rules in Luzon.

These latecomers do not have the kind of luck and opportunity of their predecessors, they have two ways to come out, one is to join the fleet as a soldier, although Huazhou is temporarily calm on land, but the big and small battles on the sea have not stopped, slowly boiling up on the ship, relying on military merits step by step, this is also a way, or it is to go to the compatriots to open a shop to help, slowly accumulate some money, when enough, go out to open a shop or workshop, Huazhou's current environment, As long as you work hard, it is not difficult to make money.

The hard work of the agricultural officials below Sinon Wisconson, and the fact that the religious organizers in the church are a little too boring, are not the choice of young people in the Netherlands.

Rodriguez's choice is quite interesting, because of his cultural background and living environment, he has been in contact with Huazhou for so long, but he has come to a reason, what to do is not as useful as entering Huazhou's official system, and entering it can be regarded as a guarantee of identity and net worth.

Witnessing his parents hanged and seeing his otherwise happy family ruined, Rodriguez is full of unforgettable hatred for the Spanish royal family, many Dutch people are already accustomed to life in Huazhou and the East, and gradually forget about thousands of miles away, and Rodriguez has always remembered it, and he also knows that if he really has enough strength to fight back in the future.

Only Huazhou's current commitment is useless, if you want to really promote this policy and avenge yourself and your compatriots, you can only enter Huazhou's ruling system and climb to a high position, and it is possible to promote the power of this behemoth.

So Rodriguez made his own decision a month after he came out of the training, asking to join the Governor's Mansion as a small official, the whole world, whether it is the Ming Dynasty or Europe, being an official always makes everyone very enthusiastic, but there is a very special phenomenon in Huazhou, that is, the lack of officials.

It is true that everyone is willing to be an official, but to be an official, there are always some conditions, especially in the case of Huazhou's military management of the people, flat organizational structure, and efficient operation, the requirements for officials are not only scholars, of course, it is necessary to have a certain cultural foundation, in addition, to have the corresponding experience in the management area, to have a solid and hard-working style.

So at present, whether it is Huazhou, Guanwai, Heyizhou, Han Minwei and the scholars in the manor, there are not many people who really hold positions of real power, and these scholars even have some fame, but they are generally engaged in the work of clerical work, but those officials who are from the account office, small merchants, and artisan leaders have climbed particularly fast in the Huazhou system, because they are very suitable for this system, and there are not so many meaningless ideas.

Rough in writing and ink, born in a merchant family, with the ability to communicate with the Dutch people, and more importantly, with a certain level of Dutch education, Rodriguez has already met the conditions for serving as an official.

After he applied in accordance with the formalities, the Governor's Mansion quickly agreed to this request, in fact, there was still a lot of controversy about Rodriguez's application under the curtain of the Huazhou Palace, and the accurate name at that time should be the Governor's Mansion.

Among Jiang Feng's subordinates, it can be said that there are all ethnic groups, and the most important part is naturally the Han nationality, in addition, the Mongolians, Koreans, Jurchens (most of them have been sinicized), the Dutch people, if you add the Dingbei City, there are even some Cossacks and Russians.

However, there has never been any saying that ethnic equality is in Huazhou, the first-class ethnic group is the Han people, and the others are divided into grades according to their kinship and distance from Huazhou, and if people of different nationalities are loyal to Jiangfeng, they can also be transformed from the low-level to the high-level. The treatment and everything have been greatly improved.

Speaking of which, this is just the transformation and transformation of the fourth-class people's policy implemented by the Mongol Tatars in the Mengyuan period, but compared with the very rigid system in the past, there is still some hope in it, but the real core of the rule can only be the Han people, which is the tacit rule of Jiang Feng and his subordinate generals, so although in Guanwai and Yizhou, the foreigners are loyal and naturalized, and even many people's identities have become Han people, but there are still very few officials in the proportion.

The Dutch people are a very special group of people among these people, they are now, although they immigrate every year, the current population is not more than 10,000, but because most of the people who have crossed the ocean to Huazhou are people with a skill, these people can be said to be in an upper middle class in Huazhou, in the fleet, in the workshop, in the trade are all there are their figures, all rich may not be, but at least they are well-off, these people's home country is thousands of miles away, here in East Asia, Except for Jiang Feng, they currently have nothing to rely on, so for Jiang Feng's loyalty, it is a little exaggerated to say that these people are also one of the pillars of Huazhou's rule.

The army in Huazhou, especially in the army, because of the example of Jason Hogan, all the people who have some military skills are in the army, and there are fewer people in the fleet. However, no one was born as a clergy, which is inevitably a bit lacking.

This time, Rodriguez applied to join the Governor's Mansion, which can be regarded as a model for Huazhou to promote, and the position he applied for did not need Jiang Feng's attention, or even Liu Twelve to ask, but under the special arrangement, he became one of Jiang Feng's attendants.

The duties of the attendants are somewhat the same as Jiang Feng's personal guards, except that they don't care about the work of fighting and defending, it can be said that Jiang Feng's secretary, to be honest, about half a year of training, is just for Rodriguez to be able to write roughly, and to be able to stammer, listen and listen Chinese, it is really a bit inadequate to take on this job, but for Huazhou, this is a gesture, an appointment to show the attitude of the Dutch people.

The attendants of the supreme chief, this position will at least be the town guard of the state capital in the future, and the chief of one side, now such a position has a share of the Dutch, you put your heart in your stomach, what happened to the Koreans will definitely not happen to you.

Since the establishment of Huazhou, although this appointment has his significance, it is only an appointment made to win people's hearts, but the impact of this incident in the future history has surprised everyone, of course, at that time, the relevant people are no longer in the world.

When Rodriguez returned to the Netherlands at the age of sixty, it took him five years to write a book of observations, "Looking Up to the Emperor......