The meeting took place in Batavia, at the Dutch Governor's Palace, which was guarded by Chinese and Dutch troops, and the flagpoles in the square were hoisted with the national flags of the two countries. Pen? Interesting? Pavilion wWw. ｂiquge。 ｉｎfo

The neighborhood near the Governor's Palace, full of European style, is a European settlement, but it is also full of Chinese, during this time the Chinese raised their eyebrows, and the white people who used to see them horizontally and vertically were not pleasing to the eye are now much more restrained, but the white people are not very daring to go to the street, because there are Chinese soldiers standing guard at many street corners.

The Chinese are gathered here because they really care, many Chinese have lived in Nanyang for generations, and have completely regarded this place as their home, despite the cultural relationship, many of them still maintain contact with the country, and even still send money home to help poor relatives, developed Chinese are also willing to take poor relatives to Nanyang to make a living, but at most at this time Nanyang as a second home.

But if they can improve their position in Nanyang, this is important for many people, not necessarily careerally, but spiritually, really important.

And the negotiations in the Doge's Palace will determine their status.

Rumors from the outside world also make it difficult for them to stay out of the matter, there are all kinds of rumors, some say that China is going to occupy Nanyang, and Nanyang will be China's territory in the future, and the Chinese have the final say here, just like the Dutch in the past, when they go out, they are masters; Some people also say that when the state negotiates with foreigners, it only asks foreigners to pay compensation, but if they provoke foreigners, as soon as the army leaves in the future, foreigners will definitely retaliate.

These rumors have made many people uneasy, so some people have even closed their shops and come here to wait for news, and they want to know the outcome of the negotiations as soon as possible.

The Dutch are actually very nervous, they have prepared the worst plan, if the Chinese must seize the South Seas strongly, they cannot be stopped by the power of the Netherlands, the Dutch plan is that if the Chinese can allow the Dutch to continue to rule here, they are willing to pay any price, but if the Chinese are determined to occupy the South Seas, the honor of Queen Wilhelmina is still wanted, they decided to give this place to the British, they believe that the British will definitely protect their investment in the Indonesian archipelago.

However, what neither the Chinese nor the Dutch expected was that the Chinese diplomatic corps did not mention a single word of territorial change in the negotiations with the Dutch.

So the two sides reached an agreement quickly, and in just half an hour, several important decisions were made.

The Chinese diplomatic team demanded that the Netherlands must guarantee the interests of the Chinese, cancel the humiliating treatment imposed on the Chinese, such as the poll tax, in a word, in the future, the Chinese in Nanyang will be equal to the Dutch.

The Dutch's looting of Nanyang over the years is almost the same as scraping the land, all kinds of taxes, the Indonesians are too poor, and it is inconvenient to scrape, so they generally scrape the Chinese, and the Chinese, most of them are engaged in commerce and planting, and scrape the indigenous people in this way.

Poll tax, inheritance tax, these unreasonable taxes are added to the Chinese, the poll tax is completely humiliating, the inheritance tax is completely a kind of looting, although the inheritance tax can also be interpreted as a means to adjust the gap between the rich class and the common people, which is conducive to social fairness, but the Dutch do not pay, just let the Chinese pay, there is a fart fairness.

Speaking of the Dutch is too poor, for a century or two, they have been going downhill, in Europe, in the past they were the economic center of Europe, the Netherlands controlled the Rhine and other downstream areas, which is equivalent to the location of Shanghai in China, Berlin, Frankfurt and even Paris, France, all through the Netherlands to re-export goods, but when Germany and France developed, people engaged in their own logistics, Germany has Hamburg, France also has its own ports such as Marseille, the Netherlands will inevitably decline.

So the colony could only be looted.

The British colony of Malaya, which was also a colony, was more successful than the Dutch East India colony, and the overseas Chinese leader Huang Zhonghan is a typical example.

Huang Zhonghan and his father Huang Zhixin is a member of the Little Knife Society, after the failure of the Anti-Qing uprising of the Little Knife Society, he fled to Nanyang, operated in Semarang, after half a lifetime of hard work, the property was passed to Huang Zhonghan when there were already millions of silver, after Huang Zhonghan took over the family business, began to modernize the operation, changed the past only business model, set foot in the sugar industry, has built five sugar factories, 100,000 acres of sugarcane plantations, during the First World War, it was the shipping industry, made a fortune.

After the war, the Dutch and Indian colonial governments imposed a 30% tax on those who made an annual profit of more than 30 million guilders from the year of the outbreak of the war.

Just before this incident, the Dutch and Indian colonial governments demanded that Huang Zhonghan pay 35 million Dutch dong war tax and income tax. Colonial government officials told Huang that if he felt he couldn't do it, the government was willing to buy Huang Jia's business for 7 million guilders. As a result, Huang Zhonghan was secretly preparing to immigrate to Singapore and move the Huang family's property to the British colony in Singapore.

Even the top Chinese Dutch people like the Huang family, who are worth hundreds of millions of dollars, dare to loot unscrupulously, let alone ordinary Chinese, it is simply scraping if you want, and the kind of rich overseas Chinese in the story who want to rely on the identity of Japanese women to avoid the blackmail of the Dutch police is definitely not fiction.

Compared with the British, the management of the colonies is much more relaxed, and the overseas Chinese at least do not have a poll tax, so where the Chinese vigorously operate the rubber plantation industry, and even open a bank and run a newspaper, the strength is not a star and a half stronger than here in Indonesia.

"But when will your country withdraw its troops?"

"After the treaty is signed!"

"You must withdraw your troops immediately before you can sign a treaty."

The Dutch had no problem with improving the status of the Chinese, nor did they have a problem with abolishing a series of harsh treatment of the Chinese, but they feared that the Chinese would not honestly withdraw their troops.

The Chinese delegation did not expect that the Dutch would have no opinion on the main terms, and that the Dutch would insist on such an inconsequential issue as the withdrawal of troops.

The members of the delegation immediately and firmly rejected the demands of the Dutch and took the opportunity to declare the negotiations broken.

The Dutch were immediately confused, just now they clearly agreed to all the demands, just a question of the withdrawal of troops, can the Chinese be so radical, or they do not want to talk seriously at all.

The Dutch thought right, the Chinese delegation really didn't think about negotiating, but they had no choice, they gave orders to talk about these things, and the terms were all set for them, that is, the status of the Chinese, just the status of the Chinese, just let the Dutch promise that here in Indonesia, the Chinese will be on the same status as the Dutch and other Westerners.

However, in the case of complete military superiority, these diplomats really think that this demand is simply outrageous, and their minimum idea is to occupy one or two major Indonesian islands, at least Bangka Island and Belitung Island, two islands with many Chinese laborers and rich in tin mines, to be ceded to China.

But the conditions were too lenient for the Dutch, and the Dutch agreed without thinking about it, but finally put forward a request for withdrawal, and if the Chinese did not withdraw their troops, it would be difficult for the Dutch to feel at ease, and even now there has been a situation where Dutch expatriates have rushed to buy tickets to return home.

This gave the Chinese diplomats an excuse, an excuse for the breakdown of the negotiations, and they went out to declare that the Dutch were not sincere, and that the conditions put forward by China were quite lenient and completely constructive, but the attitude of the Dutch was too insincere, and the responsibility for the breakdown of the negotiations must be fully held accountable by the Dutch.

The newspapers outside were noisy, the Chinese's demands were not too much to put in the newspapers, as a world power, they just asked for the same status as other big powers, this is not too much, they can't think of why the Dutch refused, and the Dutch explained that the Chinese were not sincere on the issue of withdrawing troops, so the negotiations broke down.

"Your Excellency, Prime Minister, I am sorry for today's negotiations, the diplomats on both sides are too irrational."

"Your Excellency, I agree with you, but that's not something we can decide, can we?"

Pan Xun smiled and touched a glass with the Indonesian governor Dek Foucault.

This was a special European-style reception, but the atmosphere was very awkward, the British, the Americans, the Japanese, and the big people with interests in the South Seas all came, but because of this crisis, the atmosphere was not too warm, full of political flavor, and they were all tempting, provoking and conspiring with each other.

The Dutch governor took the opportunity to talk to Pan Xun.

"If you are sincere, withdraw your troops as soon as possible, otherwise I am afraid that there will be no more peaceful atmosphere."

Foucault smiled bitterly.

Pan Xun said: "Thank you, Your Excellency the Governor, for your advice, but don't you see that we are full of sincerity. And dwelling on the issue of withdrawal will only disadvantage the Netherlands in the end. ”

Foucault said tentatively: "So once the treaty is signed, your country's troops will be withdrawn immediately?" ”

The Dutch were afraid that the Chinese would be in the South Seas, just like when the Russians signed the treaty, they did not leave in the northeast, and at that time there was a Japanese who stood up to fight Russia, and the Dutch really did not see any hope that someone would stand up and start a war with China, even if it was the British, they would definitely not come out.

Pan Xun said: "Don't you see that our government just wants to set a benchmark in Nanyang? ”

"Tree benchmarks?"

Foucault was stunned.

But Pan Xun just nodded to him, and immediately took the wine glass and walked to the living room to chat one by one, but his eyes kept walking towards the consuls of Britain and the United States and other countries who peeked at him.

Pan Xun wore a Chinese caftan and walked towards the Western celebrities in suits and leather shoes, with a lovely smile on his face, calm and calm, but faintly majestic, not angry and arrogant, just like the country behind him.

Foucault lingered on his back for a long time.

Then Foucault made this decision, or rather, the decision he had already made, the decision that had no choice.

Even if the Chinese insisted on not withdrawing their troops, the Dutch could only agree. (To be continued.) )