Hearing Shopkeeper Li's explanation, Fan Yize knew it in his heart.

This kind of thing is not strange at all in this day and age.

The Dutch were not inactive, but they simply did not have full control over the Dutch East Indies, and to put it mildly, Dutch control over the Dutch East Indies was only concentrated in a few cities, plundering resources and wealth.

It is hardly a place of indoctrination, and in a few cities, it can only barely maintain order.

Colonial society, nothing more.

Not to mention the Dutch East Indian race, which is full of greed and savagery.

In the shopkeeper's words, Fan Yize seemed to have seen what the old family members living here were facing all the time.

"Thank you for the reminder, but don't worry, we will be ready to go out." Fan Yize said.

"Several, you don't know the cruelty of the murderers, they can even eat people." Seeing this, Shopkeeper Li was not worried about the attitude of Fan Yize and several people, and further said: "None of them are people, if they can't let go of their family business here, and they don't have a place to go, we don't want to live here." ”

Sha Junyi, who was on the side, was also taken aback when she heard the cannibalism, coupled with the face of the shopkeeper Li, and couldn't help but grab Fan Yize's arm with both hands, a little scared.

"Shopkeeper Li is too worried." Fan Yize didn't explain anything, patted Sha Junyi's little hand, and said.

"In that case, I hope a few people can be careful." Shopkeeper Li is also a person who has seen the wind and waves, endured hardships and enjoyed blessings, and when he saw the expressions of several people, he also knew a little in his heart, and then said: "If you need help, just say hello." ”

"Speaking of which, there really is one thing that needs the help of the shopkeeper." Fan Yize said.

"This gentleman, please."

"A few of us have just arrived and want to find a place to stay, but I don't know if the shopkeeper has a place to recommend." Fan Yize asked.

"This matter is simple, when a few people finish eating, I will take you to the patriarch." Shopkeeper Li said.

"Then it's a hassle shopkeeper."

Next, Fan Yize chatted with Shopkeeper Li about a lot of local things, and gradually, the situation in Jakarta had a rough outline in Fan Yize's mind.

During this period, a large number of Chinese settled in the Dutch East Indies, who invested in plantations, developed agriculture, and some light industry workshops, and belonged to the group with a very high average income from the rich and poor class.

This is thanks to the hard-working and thrifty nature of the Chinese, which has led to today's status.

Some Dutch East Indians also depended on the wealthy class to live, helping them to work and engage in grassroots labor in exchange for a stable life.

However, this kind of people, only a small number, and most of the Dutch East Indians, still have nothing to do, or do not have a stable job, and even have problems eating.

The Dutch were only colonizers, so it was naturally impossible for them to consider the issue of employment, because in the Dutch East Indies, social contradictions were very acute, and conflicts caused by the gap between the rich and the poor often appeared.

Although the Dutch garrison was a great deterrent to the Dutch East Indians, there were often Dutch East Indians who took risks, kidnapping, robbing, and killing people almost every day.

It's fine here in Jakarta, but it's even more chaotic when you get outside.

In Jakarta, there are thousands of Chinese living in Chinatown, and for their own safety, the Chinese here are very united, and there are guards to prevent the Dutch East Indians from messing around.

In general, the situation in the Dutch East Indies was not too special, and there were problems of the various nature of colonization in this era.

If there is a more special point, it is that the Dutch East Indies in this era were more chaotic than most of the colonies, and the Dutch could not fully take care of the rule and management of the colonies.

Full of wine and food, under the leadership of the shopkeeper Li, the group came to the Li ancestral hall of the Tang family.

There are several big clans in Chinatown, and the Li clan is the largest one, and the patriarch of the Li clan is an old man in his sixties, with white hair and a long goatee.

Under the recommendation of the shopkeeper Li, when the two sides met and got to know each other, a maid brought refreshments.

When he learned that Fan Yize and others were going to rent a house, he did not persuade Fan Yize and others to leave, but kept them very enthusiastically, and ordered someone to clean up a courtyard behind the ancestral hall and let Fan Yize and others move in, without mentioning anything.

Soon, a servant took Fan Yize and others to the courtyard, and there were only shopkeepers Li and the patriarch of the Li clan in the ancestral hall.

"Uncle, it's not quiet here, why don't you let them leave?" Shopkeeper Li asked his uncle, the patriarch of the Li clan, puzzled.

"Dowling, don't you see that these people are not simple?" The patriarch of the Li clan, the word Yishan, at the first glance of meeting Fan Yize, he had already seen that this young man was not simple.

"But if the Dutch East Indians really want to riot, what is the use of him not being simple? The new Dutch governor has always looked at us unpleasantly, and has recently directly indulged and encouraged the Dutch East Indies, which is worrying. Li Daolin said worriedly.

"I have already discussed this matter with the heads of various families, and I will go to meet the governor in a few days, it is nothing more than the size of the interests, I believe that with enough interests, the governor does not want us to have an accident." Li Yishan said.

"But uncle, I've heard that this new governor is not negotiable, and the targets he is targeting have never come to a good end." Li Daolin was very worried.

"It's just hearsay, don't worry, things will always work out." Li Yishan sighed and said.

"Hopefully, but I still hope that outsiders won't be involved, after all, they just came here, and if things get out of hand, it will hurt them." Li Daolin said.

"It's against hospitality, and besides, a few of them won't be leaving anytime soon." Li Yishan shook his head and said.

"Let's hope nothing happens." Li Daolin said.

At the thought of the newly appointed Dutch governor, Li Daolin did not trust him at all, this was a famous butcher, and in other colonies, he was already notorious.

Butcher, it's not that the new governor has bloodily suppressed the civilians of the colony, but that the new governor's targets have always been the rich people of the colony, and the killings are aimed at the wealthy classes.

The predecessor planted trees and developed, and what this governor had to do was to pick peaches, and where those commoners in the colony had peaches, the target was naturally the rich in the colony.

Get rid of the original rich people, plunder the wealth, and then support others to control the original rich people's industries, and then continue to exploit them. These are all the news that Li Daolin has learned.