The surrender of the Dutch seemed very interesting, Tan Tiyuan did not kill more, but just disarmed all the Dutch soldiers in Batavia City, and all of them were put into custody, and they were not even bound.

However, not all of these Dutch soldiers were Dutch, and there were also some hired Spaniards, French, and British. However, in Tan Tiyuan's opinion, they are all the same foreigners.

The happiest are the Chinese laborers and Chinese leaders in the city and suburbs, and the two cousins Chen Xuelin and Chen Yongyuan, who were appointed by the governor of Batavia as Kapitan, were the most happy, and they took the initiative to organize hundreds of Chinese businessmen, craftsmen, and labor leaders inside and outside Batavia to beat gongs and drums and carry gifts to the soldiers in their hometowns.

For a time, the Chinese in Batavia took to the streets to celebrate.

You must know that they were originally restricted by the Dutch from being free and could only move within a certain neighborhood, unless Chinese leaders like Chen Xuelin and Chen Yongyuan had a small number of privileges because they regularly paid a large amount of money to the governor's palace. If they want to pick up a relative from their hometown or other places in the South Seas to come to Batavia, they must have someone to guarantee and pay a deposit, and the law enacted the year before last directly divides the whole society into four classes, with the Chinese being the last class. The law also forcibly stipulated that the Chinese were not allowed to wear suits, only Tang costumes, and they had to wear braids according to the Manchu customs, and they could not speak Dutch, and the Chinese could be whipped and insulted by the police at will, and the taxes were much heavier than those of the natives.

Even Chen Xuelin cried: "General Tan, even if the villain is Jiabidan assigned by foreigners, he is not as good as the natives, and he is often secretly scolded by Chinese compatriots as traitors and lackeys. Those foreigners know that we Chinese are hardworking and willing to work hard, and can earn some coolie money, so they collect the poll tax from us Chinese two or three times a year, and those natives are lazy and poor, but they avoid the poll tax, and the villains curry favor with the foreigners, but also to be able to do some business and pay the tax for some compatriots. After speaking, Chen Xuelin cried loudly, as if he wanted to shout out all the grievances and pain in his heart.

The surrounding Chinese shouted one after another: "Boss Chen, I've hurt you!" ”

Tan Tiyuan patted Chen Xuelin on the shoulder: "Mr. Chen Tuan, it won't be in the future, in the future, my Chinese Empire will govern this land, and I will no longer be bullied by foreigners." ”

Chen Xuelin found a pair of big scissors, and in front of everyone, he clicked and cut off the pig's tail braid on the top of his head, and said: "Brothers, from now on, I, Chen Xuelin, am a person of the Chinese Empire and obey the imperial court." If you still think that I am the eldest brother, just like me, cut off the Manchu braids on the top of your head, and return to the court with me. ”

So, under the leadership of Chen Yongyuan and others, tens of thousands of Chinese cut off their ugly whips in front of and outside Batavia, frightening the natives of Java to flee.

The governor of Batavia, Rokote, offered to give Tan Tiyuan the Dutch treasury, granaries and warehouses in Batavia, and asked Tan Tiyuan to release him and the Dutch soldiers, and provide troop carriers to send them to Xingjiapo. Tan Tiyuan naturally didn't agree, he knew that this foreigner still had an idea, and wanted to go to the British to help him attack again. As the saying goes, let the tiger go back to the mountain, even if he doesn't kill these Dutchmen, he won't just let them go. In his opinion, foreigners are not superior, according to the practice of the Empire, these Dutch who surrendered and were captured either took money from their relatives to ransom them, or they served the Empire and became mercenaries or other talents to earn the ransom back. No matter how bad it is, it will be directly escorted back to China, it just so happens that these foreigners are tall and big, and the Maanshan iron ore mine is now in full swing and needs a large number of manpower.

In desperation, Rocote simply did not say a word, refusing to reveal where the money hoarded by the Dutch East Indies this year was hidden. However, his idea was too naïve, and after Tan Tiyuan had two "heart-to-heart talks" with several middle-level officials in the Governor's Palace, several middle-level Dutch officials confessed to the underground warehouse where the money was buried. Tan Tiyuan was overjoyed, and personally led people to organize hundreds of soldiers to loot it.

It has to be said that the Dutch East Indies are not at all what they used to be. The Dutch East India Company declined in the last century, the spice trade was no longer popular, and now it was tea and silk that were popular, but today's tea was almost directly transported from the Chinese Empire by merchants from the United States, Britain, France and Prussia, and Batavia and the entire Dutch-occupied East Indies lost their original importance, ceased to be the center of commerce, and went into decline.

The Dutch East Indies could only make a profit from its own cheap spices, primary agricultural products, minerals, etc., but because of the corruption of officials in the colonial authorities of the Dutch East Indies, the profits were extremely pitiful. Unable to pay dividends to shareholders a long time ago, and even more difficult in previous years, the Dutch government simply dissolved the East India Company, but the situation could not be reversed. That's why the Dutch soldiers and navy stationed in the Dutch East Indies were so small that they couldn't afford it.

So, Tan Tiyuan saw that he only found more than 7 million guilders, and thought that the Dutch were hiding, but after three days of searching, almost the entire Batavia City was searched, and the Governor's Palace was even more dished and full of pits, and he still didn't find it again, so Tan Tiyuan was unwilling to stop. More than 7 million guilders, which is less than 3 million holy dollars, is really too little. Such a big Dutch East Indies is not as good as a small Vietnam!

At this time, the Republic of Lanfang sent people to deliver the news that more than 2,000 of their Chinese, with the assistance of the local Chinese, had occupied all of Machen in the south of Borneo and Samarinda in the east in one fell swoop.

Tan Tiyuan was overjoyed, and coupled with his anger at the Dutch, he directly led the third detachment to escort Yourong Rong, and used 35 troop carriers to escort more than 1,000 Dutch soldiers in Batavia, together with the 200 Dutch soldiers and 700 Dutch navy captured earlier, to return to Saigon in Rinan Province through Pontianak, preparing to send all these Dutch prisoners of war to Guangzhou City first.

However, the governor Rokote remained by his side, and Tan Tiyuan also had to surrender other important Dutch strongholds on the island of Java through this largest Dutch official who surrendered.

On this day, Tan Tiyuan and Zeng Guoquan were discussing to continue to send troops and occupy nearby Bandung first. At this time, a leader of the Republic of Lan Phong in Pontianak arrived in Batavia on a small merchant ship, bringing a shocking news: the Third Squadron led by You Romantic, escorting the troop convoy carrying the Dutch prisoners to the north, was about to return to Saigon, and in the vicinity of an island called Tembellan, it clashed with the British East India Fleet, which had been preparing to intercept it, and suffered heavy losses. Nanyang VI was captured, two 1,200-ton frigates, one captured and one sunk, and the other two gunboats were all sunk. The entire Third Squadron was almost completely wiped out, and the troop carriers carrying more than 2,000 Dutch soldiers escaped only 700 navy and 200 infantry, and it was estimated that they could reach Saigon, and the other more than 1,000 Dutch soldiers captured from Batavia, except for the troop carriers with 200 men, were sunk, and the rest of the troop carriers carrying 800 men were captured by British warships and sent back to Xingjiapo.

Hearing this news, Tan Tiyuan was extremely angry, and he and Zeng Guofan hurriedly terminated the plan to march into other parts of Java Island to deal with the sudden arrival of the British.

Tan Tiyuan was furious about this undeclared war of the British, and he was eager to immediately lead the Nanyang Fleet to Xingjiapo and fight a decisive battle with the British. But he immediately calmed down, and it was better to figure out the situation of the British first, even the third squadron was completely annihilated, Tan Tiyuan felt that even if the first and second squadrons stepped forward together, it was likely to end in a fiasco.