Chapter 601 Something to Hand

There is a problem that Chen Xie overlooks, and that is the status of the human race in Java. When the Dutch ruled, there was a difference between the rule of Chen Xie. The Dutch also have different attitudes towards the indigenous and Chinese. The Chinese are fat pigs, and they will be slaughtered when the time comes. Therefore, although the Chinese are rich, in fact, their social status is the lowest in this territory, and even if they are indigenous, they can bully the Chinese. What if there were many anti-Chinese incidents in this place in history?

In other words, the natives were oppressed by the Dutch and could vent their anger on the Chinese. But now it's different, Chen Xie doesn't treat the natives as people, the Europeans are still from civilized society, and the natives are a group of savages. In this way, the contradiction has shifted, the natives did not dare to bully the Europeans, and now even the Chinese cannot bully. Some contradictions that were not intensified before are now being stimulated. Realizing that in the future, the Chinese and Europeans would join forces to bully the natives, it was only natural that the natives would unite against this hopeless ruling structure.

In response to that sentence, where there is oppression, there is resistance! Chen Xie had this realization very early, so he didn't plan to engage in any peaceful means to solve the problem. This place is to be occupied, I just don't give you a way to live, you bite me!

Ushito Jiro was lucky, and he was lucky to go shit. Just thirty miles away, another heavy military point, the town of Puwakada, about 500 Dengzhou soldiers, 500 European soldiers, and 2,000 Japanese mercenaries, adding up to a little more than 3,000 troops, were besieged by ten times their own strength. Where the fighting was more fierce, it was far from being comparable to that of this unknown little village.

As the supreme military commander of the locality, after receiving an urgent report from the front, he strictly ordered the intelligence department to do everything possible to find out the situation. The next day, when the information came back, he realized what had happened. It rained that morning. But the indigenous troops, numbering about 50,000 men, marched through the woods in the rain with the aim of besieging the town of Puwakarta. After completing the strategic deployment by surprise, an indigenous army found a small village thirty miles away, stuck in the path of advancement, and launched a fierce attack.

Attack the natives of this small village. There were heavy casualties, about 2,000 natives were killed and wounded, and the troops guarding the village turned out to be a transport team and a small squad of Japanese mercenaries. In contrast, the battle in the town of Puwakarta was less than ideal, with the three thousand garrisons fighting hard, fighting fiercely all night, and the natives who had repeatedly stormed the town were beaten out.

The biggest surprise of this war was actually the cousins of the Japanese mercenaries, these cannon fodder who did not report much hope at first. In this battle, from the initial panic, to the tenacity after the battle, and the madness at the moment of crisis, it was far beyond expectations. In the last battle, by the most dangerous time, the natives had already stormed more than half of the town, and it was these crazy Japanese mercenaries, holding explosive bags, who rushed into the crowd one by one. Detonated explosives and repelled the natives.

According to the report, the requirements of these Japanese soldiers are really not high. It is to give 100 trees of land to house their relatives in Japan. After reading these reports, Lin Ya's whole person fell into contemplation, things don't seem to be so simple, but some things can be guessed, so he needs to make a decision from Chen Xie.

Two battles. The natives were dealt a heavy blow, with more than 1,300 Japanese mercenaries suffering casualties, but no less than 10,000 corpses were left behind by the natives in the two battlefields. The blow it has suffered is as heavy as you can imagine.

Chen Xie, who is far away in Japan, has been receiving the report for 20 days. Even if it is a clipper boat, it will take 20 days to run this trip at the earliest. Chen Xie missed the telegraph, a backward means of communication that had been eliminated in modern society.

The construction of the concession is in full swing, and the two links and one leveling, and the wharf project are all being carried out in an orderly manner. Naturally, a large amount of labor is required to carry out the project, and the people in the vicinity have benefited a lot. As long as it is not on the battlefield, the Dengzhou soldiers are more reasonable. Money will be given for buying things, canned food will be given for sleeping women, confessions for work and food, and wages will be paid. In just three months, there were not many Japanese in the vicinity of the concession who hated the Ming people. These Ming people, compared with the noble Japanese nobles, treat the Japanese people as people, not as slaves.

Dressed in the cloak of kindness, he is an aggressor and a predator in his bones, Chen Xie still knows how to do this routine, and after having the model of North Korea, he is very skilled in using it. After sending 20,000 Japanese mercenaries to Xinghai City one after another, Chen Xie received a report from Lin Ya, which said two battles and mentioned some truths hidden behind the battles.

What is the truth? After reading it, Chen Xie couldn't believe it. The three major families of Xinghai City, after the aborigines united, they got the news through some natives who had close business dealings, but they did not report it. It's not that the intelligence is uncertain and they dare not report it, but they deliberately do not report it. The reason is very simple, the shadow caught a son of the Li family, and an hour later, he even explained the matter of peeking at his aunt taking a bath.

The thing is very simple, it is because the three families want Master Chen to increase the strength of the Ming army's army in Xinghai City, instead of the current little strength. After initially grasping the administrative power, the desires of the local overseas Chinese could not be controlled, and they constantly clashed with the natives. At this time, the shortcomings of their small number were exposed, and they could not do it or always suffered, so they had the idea of building a local army. Chen Xie ostensibly supported this idea, but only helped them train some officers, and then sent the Japanese mercenaries over and handed them over to command. There is no doubt that such an army is simply not what they want. Even they suspect that the combat effectiveness of these armies is not enough to guarantee their vested interests.

In this case, I can't afford to offend Master Chen, what should I do? simply, after knowing the news, conceal it and not report it, let these Japanese soldiers die completely, and then Master Chen of the Ming Dynasty will send officers and soldiers. It's a simple reason, but it reflects the deep sinister human heart. In the face of desire, many things will be discarded, which is a large part of human nature.

On the surface, it seems that they paid for the Japanese soldiers they recruited, and all the Japanese soldiers they recruited died were their losses. What about the other way around? This is a terrible sign, and they are already trying to sway, or get rid of, Chen Xie's control of this territory.

Xinghai City is different from Japan's lease, Chen Xie does not allow it and will definitely not tolerate it, and anything that goes against his will in the entire Xinghai City is a thing. Chen Xie quickly replied to Lin Ya, and did not move, stabilized the existing territory, and ensured the smooth flow of traffic. The matter is kept secret, and we will talk about how to deal with it when Chen Xie arrives. Chen Xie was not worried about Lin Ya, but was thinking about how to solve this matter satisfactorily without excessively destroying his relationship with local overseas Chinese.

No matter how many Japanese people die, Chen Xie will not feel distressed and will not care. What Chen Xie is concerned about is the signs of this kind of thing, and it must not happen again in the future. Well, the necessary punishment is a must, and there are few problems that preaching can solve. If teaching can solve the problem, then the world will be full of saints, and Nyima will be the same in the world.

In the affairs of Japan, Chen Xie was thrown to Su Haochen and appointed him as the ambassador to Japan, and his main job was to supervise the entry of the project and urge the shogunate to send a delegation to Beijing to worship. For other things, Su Haochen doesn't have to worry about it. On the Japanese side, there is nothing to do, and for the sake of the stability of his own rule, Tokugawa Iemitsu is more active than anyone else in maintaining tomorrow's relations. Isn't it the shogun of this shogunate who talks about "friendship and goodwill tomorrow" all day long?

Before leaving, Su Haochen once again raised a question, that is, the issue of arms sales to Japan. What was sold to Japan were smoothbore guns and three-pounder smoothbore guns, which were all guys that had been stored in warehouses for many years, and in principle, they were obsolete equipment and had to be recycled. As a military commander, Su Haochen knew the power of these guys. Don't underestimate these smoothbore guns, once equipped with the Japanese army, the combat effectiveness will definitely soar, and then it will be difficult to defeat the Japanese army lightly. People are not stupid, they will dig ditches, and they will fight night combat with you in close combat. Even if you can't, you will work hard to develop this ability.

Su Haochen was not in favor of selling arms to Japan, but Chen Xie smiled and did not give an answer. In fact, the answer has long been in Chen Xie's heart, even if it is a rope to hang himself, as long as there is enough profit to support it, the capitalist will sell it. This sincere person either feels that he is very strong, or he simply sees profits. And Chen Xie also has an understanding, that is, the longer the shogunate rules, the better the month, as long as the shogunate is in one day, Japan will be closed to the country, and there is only one foreign trading country. By the way, the Dutch had already been declared persona non grata by the shogunate because of their refusal to sell arms.

Tokugawa Iemitsu also made a ridiculous request for Chen Xie to send a fleet to expel the Dutch from Nagasaki. Chen Xie gave him a smile without smiling, and then there was no more. Fortunately, the Dutch were also interested in it, and began to shrink slowly, and no matter how great Japan's interests were, they did not dare to compare with the trade with the Ming Dynasty. One more point, the mission of the Kingdom of the Netherlands, is on its way.

On this trip, Chen Xie went to Xinghai City again, and the number of Japanese mercenaries he brought with him was more, a full 20,000 people, and the emerging Ming navigation industry was developing at an unimaginable speed. Some folk craftsmen have joined the ranks of civilian shipyards to imitate European armed merchant ships. Therefore, Chen Xie easily collected eighty large ships to transport these Japanese mercenaries, as well as a large number of materials from Dayuan and Huating.

When passing through the Ryukyus, Chen Xie did a thing, leaving two warships, announcing that Ryukyu would be included in the territory of the Ming Dynasty, and playing Zhu Youzhen, and the king of Ryukyu was changed to the Duke of Ryukyu, not a vassal, but a courtier of the Ming Dynasty. The reason for doing this, Chen Xie simply said, is to ensure the smooth flow of the line in Navigation County. As for what the King of the Ryukyus thought, Chen Xie didn't care about it at all, just a letter of writing, and then he didn't care. The gist is, don't be a king in the future, just be a courtier of the Ming Dynasty, this place is good, I will leave a detachment, and you can take care of the supplies. (To be continued......)