In the nearly two hundred years from the 17th century to the 19th century, the Dutch can be said to have used all means, cheating, and even robbing people along the coast of China, migrating a large number of Chinese to the Indonesian islands for development, and with the help of hard-working Chinese, these deeply outdated indigenous people were organized and completed their true evolution.

However, when the local Chinese power gradually grew, the Dutch became suspicious again, and used crazy massacres, turmoil that caused indigenous contradictions, and other despicable ways to weaken the power of the Chinese, and the local overseas Chinese also rose up to resist, and even organized an army by a military attache named Huang Ban to confront it, and under the cold-blooded bystanders of the local natives, they turned to the Java Islands, but they were isolated and helpless, and finally lost at the hands of the Dutch.

The frenzied suppression of the Chinese by the Dutch provoked several massacres such as the Red Creek tragedy, and the blood of the Chinese stained the land of Indonesia where they worked hard

Although in the Dutch East Indies, due to the great role of the Chinese, the Chinese were classified as a second-class ethnic group after the Dutch, and their status was much higher than that of the stupid third-class natives, the Dutch never relaxed their vigilance against the Chinese, and often provoked ethnic disputes to suppress and kill overseas Chinese.

Liu Sheng's family had risen and fallen in the storm in Indonesia, and the Chinese children naturally heard these cruel truths from the oral news of their ancestors, that is, they were angry at the cruelty of the Dutch and natives, but they were powerless to resist.

Without the backing of a strong country, no Chinese, any family, or even any organization can get the status they deserve in Nanyang, where the great powers are rampant, and the "Letter to Overseas Chinese in Nanyang" issued by Qin Kai brought from Ma Jianhua made them feel extremely excited.

After seeing the officers of the Nanyang Naval Division, Liu Sheng was naturally very excited, they lived on a small island in Indonesia, and they did not know much about overseas affairs, although the Dutch allowed the Chinese to do business, and there were Dutch newspapers in the local area, but they almost did not mention anything about the Qing Kingdom in the East.

After the three of them sat down, Liu Sheng immediately asked about the current situation of the Great Qing Kingdom, for this homeland thousands of miles away, they were still quite concerned, "Lord Xu, I don't know what major events have happened recently, we are far overseas, and we don't know!"

Although the presidents of these two mutual aid branches who have stayed abroad have a lot of respect for Xu Hong, the officer of the sailor, they actually have the pride of a scholar in their bones, after all, this Xu Hong looks like a black-faced man with five big and three thick, and this posture looks shrewd and capable, but it can be seen that most of his backgrounds are peasant men...... Therefore, a little bit of crepe is also omitted in the interrogation room

Xu Hongzhi didn't care about the expressions of the two of them, but his words and demeanor were full of confidence, and he arched his hand and said: "Two presidents, my old Xu is from a peasant family, and I am fortunate to have worked in the security team by Lord Qin's side for half a year, so I can read and break words, if we speak too roughly, please forgive me."

Ma Jianhua and Liu Sheng hurriedly smiled and responded: "Lord Xu is too modest, you can tell me about the situation in the Qing Kingdom."

Speaking of this, Xu Hong came to the spirit, "If there is a big deal recently, there should be only one thing, that is, the Qing Dynasty and the Japanese signed a peace treaty between the two countries, and the Japanese State honestly paid reparations and apologies, and opened the port."

When it comes to this topic, Xu Hong immediately gushed endlessly, he personally participated in the Battle of the Ryukyus, and naturally knows a lot of details, although the description is not vivid, but the victory lies in his personal participation, deep feelings, talking about the fierceness of this battle, listening to Ma and Liu are also excited.

The purpose of Xu Hong's trip was naturally to come to Jakarta to inquire about the military strength of the Dutch and the local indigenous forces, of course, he also learned about the information of overseas Chinese by the way.

In this regard, Liu Sheng immediately showed a little boldness, their family is a Dutch comprador business, and they have a family business decades ago, but the relationship between the Dutch has never been broken, and he naturally knows a lot of information, plus after the Mutual Masonic City, he paid special attention to the news in this regard, and provided a lot of important information at once. ,

The current Dutch East Indies did not exercise full control over all the islands of Indonesia, but pursued a strategy of focused occupation, with Java and Madura as the center, and implemented military rule and deployed a large number of troops on this core island, while other islands, including Kalimantan, the Lesser Sunda Islands, Sulawesi and other large islands, did not have a large number of troops.

The Dutch did not attach great importance to the other outer islands outside of Java and Madura, and they called the many unconquered islands "outer territories", which were generally controlled by local indigenous lords, and the Dutch did not aim to seize land, but only to set up company managers and fortresses in these places, and to obtain huge profits through the local lords.

And the Dutch, after the indigenous uprising that broke out 50 years ago, invented a completely new method of plundering, which has to be said to be an extraordinary means of some colonial masters.

Later generations called this method of agricultural plundering the "forced cropping system", which required farmers to use one-eighth of their land to grow the products needed by the European market, such as sugar cane, indigo, coffee, tobacco, etc. The entire harvest is sold to the government at a prescribed price, and the land on which the above-mentioned agricultural products are grown is exempt from paying land tax.

Where it was not suitable for the cultivation of cash crops, where the peasants paid a poll tax or spent one-fifth of their working time each year in the service of the colonial government, the Dutch, in order to effectively enforce the system of forced crops, also stipulated that the feudal lords and officials who supervised the peasants' cultivation could share a share of the total harvest, and granted large tracts of land and various privileges.

When Liu Sheng talked about this so-called "forced planting system", even if it was the practice of the Dutch oppressing the local low-class natives, he couldn't help but reveal disgust in his tone, but what they didn't know was that the Dutch invented this plundering method, after the hands of local lords and officials, forced farmers to plant native land, not one-eighth, but one-third, one-half, or even all.

And what is extraordinary about this system is that it has brought fabulous profits to the Dutch. The money exported by the Dutch East Indies increased rapidly from 12.7 million dong at the beginning to 74 million dong per year (about 30 million silver dollars), such an astonishing income, Qin Kai was also a little surprised when reading historical materials, and even wondered if his future colonial plan could copy the magic method of the Dutch.

Of course, the few people who were talking at this time naturally couldn't know that Lord Qin, who was at the top of the pyramid of the Nanyang Naval Division, also had the idea of following the trend, but these news made Xu Hong, who was born in the military, have a lot of ideas, and it seems that most of the low-level natives have the value of use

Liu Sheng's understanding of the Dutch fleet and army is much weaker, and what he learned is that there are Dutch regular troops stationed in Jakarta, Padang, and Palobo, and the Dutch army in Jakarta alone is estimated to have more than 8,000 people, and the Dutch navy is stationed in the port of Jakarta, and he has checked in the port at least about 10 warships.

Xu Hong also appreciated Liu Sheng's efforts in this regard, and after the three of them discussed, Xu Hong once again found the shopkeeper of Mawei Shipping in Pontianak, and soon opened an inconspicuous Chinese cargo store in a remote location in Jakarta City.

Liu Sheng is the big boss of this cargo bank, and the Pontianak Mawei shipping branch borrowed a small shopkeeper to decorate the façade, and the big boss took a group of subordinates to be idle all day long, and began to make friends with some Dutch people through various channels.

In the bars infested by Dutch sailors, a rich Chinese paid for a few Dutchmen, and for such generous friends, these ordinary Dutch sailors were naturally unsuspecting, and the topics he chatted about were vulgar enough that he quickly mingled with the bars......

Xu Hong's subordinates got a lot of news from various people in the port, and they even disguised themselves as local fishermen and squatted near the anchorage of the Dutch fleet for more than ten days to learn about the situation of the Dutch warships, and they also appeared outside the Dutch barracks......

Pontianak port, since the arrival of this huge fleet, the young people in the city have an additional hobby, that is, to go to the military camp near the port to watch the army patrol and exercise, these neatly dressed soldiers almost do not appear in other places outside the barracks, occasionally come out to buy things, it is also very polite, and soon spread among the local Chinese and natives, these are the most elite Nanyang sailors of the Tian Dynasty. ,

Xu Shoushan stood in the barracks, holding a book in his hand, this is the various news compiled by his officers after sorting out the information sent by Jakarta, the Dutch stationed in Jakarta has as many as 17 warships, this number surprised him a little, including 6 ironclad warships and 11 wooden-hulled warships.

Of course, the reconnaissance officer's evaluation of the Dutch's combat power was only below average, and among the six ironclad ships of the Dutch, two battleships with an estimated tonnage of about 2,500 tons were old-style ironclad ships with side-gun guns, with an estimated main gun caliber of no more than 200mm and 4 guns.

One is a more advanced shipside rotating battery ironclad ship, with a tonnage of about 4,000 tons, and two heavy guns of about 240mm caliber are installed at the waist, with an almost full-angle firing range, relatively speaking, the combat effectiveness is strong, and the other three are ironclad ships with a waist gun room, which are about 3,000 tons, and have 4 heavy guns of more than 200mm caliber.

The results of the Jakarta Army's reconnaissance were also greatly contrary to the original judgment, and based on the observed army formation, the Dutch stationed at least three mixed infantry brigades in Jakarta, estimated to be more than 15,000 people.

Xu Shoushan estimated the strength in his hand, if he wanted to smash the Dutch, it was really a little cramped, but leave a deep impression on the other party...... It's still not that hard

Qin Kai, who was far away in Guangzhou, soon received a telegram sent back by Xu Shoushan from Olongapo, he was naturally very satisfied with such a detailed Dutch intelligence so quickly, and he could see that the efficiency of the Guangzhou fleet was very good, he smiled and looked carefully at the situation of the Dutch fleet.

Sun Fu was sitting down at this time, seeing that Qin Kai was carefully studying the telegram, so he didn't interject, but slowly tasted the clumsy green tea of the governor Yamen, I have to say that this Qin Kai and Qin Governor, this tea drinking skill is not generally bad, and I don't know where this green tea came from, except for the bitter taste, there is no fragrance at all.

After reading the telegram, Qin Kai turned around and took the position next to Sun Fu, without the majesty that a governor should have, picked up the teacup and poured himself a cup of inferior tea, and took a big sip of it...... This tea is strong enough, I drank it to refresh my mind, turned my head and said to Sun Fu: "By the way, Brother Sun, you just said about the disaster victims, go on."

Sun Fu shook his head, this governor is really undisciplined, but he is really impressed, this time more than 100,000 people fled from Guangxi, in the past, in his experience, in this case, even if the government provides disaster relief, there are at least more than thirty percent of the victims who will not survive until the end of the autumn.

However, this disaster relief has definitely created a myth, none of the victims who went down the Xijiang River died of starvation on the road, of course, the old and frail or young children who could not withstand the bumps also died, which were caused by disease and wind cold, which was also unavoidable, and the number of people was also very small.

And all the victims have been successfully resettled, now there is hardly a single disaster victim outside the city of Guangzhou, more than 100,000 people, all sent to Leizhou Mansion by Mawei Sea in the past two months, and almost all the victims have chosen where to settle down, a small city comparable to a first-class county has been formed, and a qiē seems to be in order.

Sun Fu smiled slightly, "Gale, Leizhou New City has taken shape, there are more than 100,000 residents in the past, and most of the surrounding villages have been incorporated into it, waiting for the big factory you designed to be put into operation, this is a big city, you should apply to the imperial court to set up a county seat, install officials for management, and the night is long."

Qin Kai was stunned for a moment, but he forgot about this stubble, and hurriedly smiled and said, "Brother Sun, who can be appointed to manage Xincheng, you can watch this matter" Speaking of this, Qin Kai took out a booklet, laughed and asked again: "Brother Sun, after my governor arrived, why did he become very cold, don't you look down on the ability of our governor?"

This is indeed a vision, the land of the two wides, Liu Kunyi has been in business for many years, and the forces are intertwined, Qin Kai, a newcomer, is naturally difficult to intervene quickly, even if there is Sun Fu, an old man of the Hunan army, it is only convenient to communicate, if Liu Kunyi wants to give up some of the places controlled by the Hunan army to himself, it is absolutely impossible, even if Liu Kunyi is willing, the prefect under him may not be willing.

What he is holding in his hand is the roster of officials of the provincial capitals of Guangdong, Huizhou, Zhaoqing, Luoding, Shaozhou, Chaozhou, Jiaying, Gaozhou, Guangzhou, the eight richest state capitals in Guangdong are all controlled by the members of the Hunan military department, and the remaining four state capitals, Nanxiong Prefecture, Lianzhou, Leizhou Prefecture, and Lianzhou Prefecture are basically places where birds don't, far away from the rich Guangzhou port. ,

Qin Kai came to the map with the roster, and Nanxiong Prefecture was connected to Jiangxi in the north...... That broken place is the place where Taizu fought guerrilla trouble, no wonder Liu Kun couldn't see Lianzhou Mansion at a glance...... The border with Hunan is also a state of poor mountains and bad waters...... The land is vast and sparsely populated, and the land is barren, and there are no things to grow in the fields, Lianzhou? The place is quite big, but the traffic is extremely inconvenient, there is no treaty port, nested in the corner, backed by 100,000 mountains, almost every year

"Brother Sun, I want this Lianzhou and Leizhou, do you think there is any way to operate?" Qin Kai pondered for a moment, the place where Taizu made his fortune was really too fierce, how much money should be invested in infrastructure construction for the development of that place...... We'll leave it at that

Sun Fu looked at Qin Kai, now he is completely from the Nanyang system, he and Qin Kai are in a prosperous situation, the only way to win the official positions in these two places is to spend money, he has already thought about this matter, the prefect of Lianzhou has only been in office for more than a year, and the prefect of Leizhou is about to step down......

"Gale Wind, do you have the right person?" Sun Fu is concerned about this issue, Qin Kai has a lot of people around him now, but there are not many people who can really dominate the political side, although those students have ability, but the operation of this officialdom must not rely on ability alone, but more on wrists.

This obviously stabbed Qin Kai's weakness and made him depressed for a while, why didn't he have the spirit of a king, he had achieved the position of a provincial governor's feudal official, and he didn't see a large number of capable people coming to take refuge in him, all around him were students and officers who had been trained by the Mawei Ship Administration, he smiled, "Brother Sun, you see that there are suitable candidates around me, if not, you go look for it."

Sun Fu smiled, he had already thought about this matter for Qin Kai, "Gale Wind, I have thought about this for you, Lianzhou Fangcheng County Ling Lu Yixing and the main bookkeeper Wang Yidao are still usable, in addition, I still have a few old brothers of the Hunan Army on hand, I can also recommend them for you."

Sun Fu is still very cautious about recommending the old man of the Xiang Army, for the way of the official, it is better to be alone in front of the boss, even if he recommends the old man of the Xiang Army, he is also cautious, otherwise he will inevitably fall into the suspicion of forming a strong party, although now it seems that Qin Kai does not have that kind of idea at all.

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