Batavia, later known as Jakarta, is a port city that has been the center of the Dutch company Batavia in Asia since the Dutch came to Southeast Asia, and the city is also named after the company.

In the 17th-19th centuries, the Dutch Eastern commercial colonial empire was based on the island of Java, centered on the city of Batavia. At its peak, the Dutch East India Company's vast commercial and trading monopoly stretched as far west as Persia, India, and Ceylon (present-day Sri Lanka), as far east as the Maluku Spice Islands, and as far north as China and Zoben. The Chinese who moved to Batavia gradually developed the city of Batavia as pioneers in urban construction, producers in sugar cultivation and production, suppliers of Chinese goods, operators of local rice and shochu, and middlemen in retail commerce and coastal trade.

In 1619, the ambitious Yan? Petersson? Quint began serving as the third governor of the Dutch East India Company, and it was he who laid a solid foundation for the Dutch commercial colonial empire in the East. It was under his leadership that the city of Batavia was the headquarters of the Dutch East India Company's empire, which was established after the raid and drive out of Banten's army, and was the political basis for Dutch rule over the colonies of Java and the entire East Indies.

The permanent occupation and administration of the city of Ba cost the Dutch a great deal of money and energy. In the early days, the area was sparsely populated, lacked food, had no timber to build ships and houses, and the surrounding area was a desolate swampland, with few inhabited villages, flooding during the rainy season, tigers, wild boars, rhinos, etc., and hostility and threats from the local Muslim kingdoms. The Dutch brought boulders from the quarries on the Coromandel coast in India, cut teak from Zabala in East Java, collected coral stones from the locals, and recruited a large number of reliable and hard-working Chinese laborers from China to build the ruins of Bacheng. Most of the major construction projects in Ba Cheng, such as the excavation of canals and drainage channels, the construction of houses and harbors, and the construction of walls and protective fortresses, were mostly contracted by Chinese. The Chinese craftsmen were skilled in brick-making and bricklaying, which was highly appreciated by the Dutch.

In order to enrich the population, the Dutch East India Company began to recruit Chinese in large numbers. In the eyes of Western colonizers, the Chinese were known for being "diligent", "peace-loving" and "cowardly". Therefore, the Dutch governor lured the Chinese of Banten with high salaries, imposed light taxes on Chinese merchants who moved to Batavia, and rewarded overseas Chinese for attracting their fellow villagers to Batavia. Of course, some unseemly measures have also been adopted, such as the abduction of "migrants" in China's coastal areas. This policy was so successful that Chinese galleons brought in a large number of Chinese immigrants, and once the Chinese acquired assets that enabled them to stand on their own, they settled in Bacheng and intermarried with Balinese women who were sent here as slaves. The overseas Chinese population continues to grow, and most of the overseas Chinese in Bacheng are engaged in commercial activities, from itinerant hawkers to permanent street vendors, to retailers and wholesalers, forming a complete business network.

On October 9, 1740 (the fifth year of Qianlong), the Dutch ordered a search of all the homes of Chinese residents in Batavia (present-day Jakarta). This eventually turned into a three-day massacre in which more than 30,000 Chinese were slaughtered in their own homes, and those previously captured were executed in prisons and hospitals. This is the famous "Red Creek Massacre" in history.

The prosperity of Batavia was basically based on the Chinese, and the Chinese benefited from it, and the Dutch colonists became jealous, and finally encouraged the natives of Nanyang to carry out a massacre of the Chinese.

The Spanish colonists in the Philippines, who were the first to massacre the Chinese, killed more Chinese than in Batavia.

The massacre of the Chinese has been a tradition in Nanyang, and the main reason for the formation of this tradition is that the Chinese do not have a strong backing to provide protection for their personal and property safety.

It had been nearly two years since Xu Yuan returned to Batavia, during which time he contacted Chinese people all over Indonesia and trained a Chinese escort of nearly 2,000 people with clandestine smuggling of arms.

The existence of this Chinese escort was finally discovered by the Dutch.

The presence of Chinese militants in the colony caused panic among the Dutch, and if they were allowed to develop, it was entirely possible to replace them with the proportion of Chinese in Indonesia.

The Dutch issued a clean-up order, and the police in Batavia were dispatched on the same day to begin a large-scale search for Chinese who had weapons in their homes.

Soon this rash move by the Dutch led to bloodshed, and more than a dozen Chinese engaged in a fierce shootout with the police in the city of Batavia.

The Dutch themselves did not intend to cause conflict, after all, at this time the East China political axe was diplomatic tough, and had sent a note to the Dutch political axe.

But the incident developed to such an extent that the Dutch could not fight without fighting, and the conflict between the two sides soon became fierce, and more and more Chinese youths took up weapons and took to the streets to fight the Dutch police.

There were casualties on both sides, and the fighting lasted a day and night before it subsided, and the Dutch police outnumbered hundreds of Chinese youths, but they also recovered hundreds of casualties.

Just over three hours into the battle, news reached China.

Xia Jun is in Mawei, Fuzhou, and he plans to live in Mawei for a month in Fuzhou to deal with technical problems that may arise during the launch test of the Fujian.

Once there is any technical problem, Xia Jun can use the exchange platform to quickly solve the technical problem.

It's been three days of testing, and nothing has gone wrong, but that's just the beginning, and there's still a lot to go.

Just as Xia Jun was having lunch, Zhou Shunze suddenly ran in and shouted, "Chairman of the Committee, there is an emergency." ”

"Read." When Xia Jun heard that it was an emergency, he hurriedly looked straight and said to Zhou Shunze, "According to the report of the intelligence officers of the Java Military Intelligence Agency, the Dutch police searched for the Chinese who were secretly hiding arms in Batavia, and three hours ago, the Dutch and the Batavian Chinese had a large-scale street battle, and the street fighting is still ongoing. After Zhou Shunze read out the telegram, Xia Jun slammed it on the table.

"Xie Baozhang." Xia Jun shouted.

"The subordinates are here." Xie Baozhang, who was on the side, hurriedly put down the chopsticks, stood up and replied.

"Immediately order the South China Sea Fleet to go south to the Java Sea, and the Fujian does not need to be tested, and all of them will be driven to the Java Sea." Xia Jun said to Xie Baozhang.

"Yes." Seeing that the situation was urgent, Xie Baozhang hurriedly turned around and left to give an order.

Xia Jun continued to say to Zhou Shunze: "Immediately ask the Ministry of Foreign Affairs to send a note to the Dutch political axe, demanding that the Dutch political axe immediately stop the relevant behavior, otherwise it will be regarded as a provocation to China, and China will impose necessary sanctions on the Netherlands." ”

"Yes." Zhou Shunze answered, and then immediately turned around and went to give an order.

Xia Jun suddenly lost the mood to eat, stood up and walked out, took out a cigarette and lit it, thinking about how to change the next steps.

The Dutch are not worried, the Dutch are only a small agricultural country in this era, although the Dutch agriculture is very developed, but also by the serious impact of Chinese agriculture, the economic strength is very weak, and the military strength is even weaker, no economy and military, naturally there is no political strength.

The Entente were currently busy fighting with the Allies, and it was impossible for them to intervene in the conflict in Batavia, and even if China declared war on the Netherlands, the Entente would not dare to care.

The only thing worth considering is the United States.

The United States may have begun to consciously encircle China, so the United States does not want China to occupy Indonesia.

But if there is only one United States, they are not strong enough to destabilize China's military operations in Asia.

Xia Jun is sure to eat the Dutch.

…… The Dutch political axe soon received a sternly worded note from the Chinese Foreign Ministry eight hours after the clash in Batavia.

The Dutch political axe was still a little confused for a while, and they have not yet confiscated the report on the conflict in Batavia, and the speed of response is much worse than that of China.

When the Dutch received the report from Batavia, the Dutch political axe leaders were in a panic.

The Dutch political axe immediately sent a telegram to the governor of Batavia, Klinro, and demanded that he immediately cease all actions against the Chinese, but by this time the conflict in Batavia was over.

The entire clash lasted nearly 24 hours, and the Dutch police continued to search the Chinese residents.

When the governor of Batavia, Klingro, received a telegram from the Netherlands, he immediately realized that he had committed a major diplomatic incident.

Originally, he wanted to avoid it, but the change in circumstances did not allow him to take other actions.

He had the impression that the cowardly Chinese had taken up arms to fight back, and his anger had made him lose his mind, and although he had already thought of how the Chinese political axe would react, he blindly avoided the question.

Despite receiving a stern reprimand from the locals, Klingro did not see the reaction of the Chinese political axe, and there was a hint of luck.

However, what happened next was beyond his imagination, and less than two hours later, another order came from the Netherlands.

He was relieved of his post as governor of Batavia by order.

Clinroe was dumbfounded, but what happened next was even more unexpected, and on 19 July, the mighty South China Sea Fleet appeared in the Java Sea. Clinro's face turned pale, China at this time was no longer the feudal country in history that did not care whether the Chinese lived or died, and he quickly realized his possible fate, that is, to become a victim of the Dutch in exchange for peace.

Sure enough, as soon as Batavia reported the news to the mainland, the local government immediately ordered the new governor to arrest Klingro for questioning.

However, before the appearance of China's South China Sea fleet in the Java Sea, the Chinese political axe had already engaged in a fierce diplomatic dialogue with the Dutch political axe.

The Batavian conflict spread all over the world within a day, and the world public opinion propaganda system secretly established by Xia Jun achieved initial results.

In the coverage of the conflict in Batavia, the image of the Dutch colonizer was portrayed as a ruler, a butcher, and an executioner with oppressive surnames.

It also exposed the long-term massacre of the Chinese by the Dutch, and the massacre of the Dutch soon aroused strong condemnation around the world.

This caused a great deal of passivity in the diplomacy of the Dutch political axe, which quickly determined their response strategy, which was to agree to apologize and make reparations for the incident, but did not admit the massacre, and insisted that it was an act of law and order against the militants.

However, the attitude of the Dutch political axe soon provoked the political axe of East China.

Xia Jun said at the high-level meeting: "If we do not retaliate harshly against the Dutch, then the rights and interests of the Chinese overseas will never be protected in the future." ”

It is true that a country is strong enough to deter other countries, but if it does not react to the injustices suffered by its expatriates abroad, it is just a paper tiger.

"Everything is subject to the instructions of the chairman." You Zhengbin immediately spoke.

"Call me." Xia Jun waved his hand and said.

(To be continued)