How can the Netherlands repair diplomatic relations with Mataran?

Let's fight first!

Sultan Radeng Langsan of Mataran was a man of great skill who resisted the Dutch invasion externally, developed the law, culture, calendar, and economy internally, and expanded the country to its heyday. However, the sultan died last year, around the same time as the Dutch governor Van Dimen.

He succeeded Sultan Armand Gutra I, who loved extravagance and cruelty.

The Dutch strategy was simple, allowing warships to raid each other's trading fleets. Although the Mataran Kingdom is based on the island of Java, its territory includes many islands, and if the fleet suffers huge losses, the domestic inter-island trade will be ruined, and not only will the economy suffer a heavy blow, but the central government's dominance over the islands will also be weakened.

In addition, the current Sultan is greedy for pleasure, and in the case of economic recession, he will inevitably increase the exploitation of the people.

In this way, an uprising will break out in Mataran, and the Netherlands will jump out to help the Sultan put down the rebellion, and then tie the Sultan to the Dutch chariot.

In this way, wouldn't it be possible to establish friendly diplomacy with the country of Matalan?

Historically, the Netherlands did just that, and the rebels captured the capital at one point...... The Netherlands, on the other hand, not only controlled the current sultan, but also engaged in three wars of succession, splitting the country of Matalan into two, and all two countries became vassals of the Netherlands.

Looking at Britain at this time, they were extremely jealous of the Dutch colony of Batavia, and they also wanted to build a big commercial city on the island of Java.

As a result, Britain also set their sights on the country of Matalan, and coincidentally joined the Netherlands to rob the merchant ships of Matalan.

In less than two months, in the face of the double aggression of the Netherlands and the British, the inter-island trade of the Mataran country directly collapsed. Seeing this, the Kingdom of Banten also sent troops to invade Mataram, and the island of Java was plunged into a war, and a large number of prisoners of war were sold to China.

These captives, many of whom were some of the nobles of the white horse and the blue country, were the descendants of Arab merchants.

Aristocratic maidens, in particular, were first sold to Batavia and Banten, where there were estates of Chinese merchants. Chinese merchants invited the former Ming Xiucai to teach these aristocratic girls Chinese, and also taught them piano, chess, calligraphy and painting, and after a year or two, they could pretend to be Persian girls and ship them back to China to sell them at a very high price.

Colonies, where sin breeds.

After the emergence of the rebel army in Mataran, the rebel army also joined the slave trade. They stormed towns, plundered noble goods, and captured noble women. It doesn't matter what color it is, anyway, the richer it is, the whiter its complexion, and the higher the price it will sell to Chinese merchants.

The poor and crazy Spaniards were also expanding the slave trade. The natives of the southern Philippine archipelago, who did not convert to the Jewish religion, would face a Spanish attack, and the prisoners of war would be sold to China in piles and piles.

Then, the price of slaves collapsed, and for only one or two silver dollars, low-class slaves could be bought in Macao.

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Songjiang Prefecture, Huating County.

Liu Chuanzong couldn't get along in the Nanjing police system, and the emperor knew this very well, so he appointed him to enter the Metropolitan Procuratorate as a clean government official.

Although he is only the lowest-level incorruptible officer, he is only from the ninth grade, but compared with the previous small patrol police, he can already be regarded as a carp jumping into the dragon gate.

It was only two months after he was transferred to the Metropolitan Procuratorate, and after getting familiar with the work, Liu Chuanzong accompanied him to Songjiang Mansion.

This time, I did not investigate the corruption of any officials, but learned about the textile industry in the Jiangnan area, which was a special errand arranged by the emperor. There are not only the clerks of the Metropolitan Procuratorate, but also Xu Ying's black-clothed guard.

"Angels, please!" Xu Zhiyuan smiled.

"It's bothering the colt." Officials dressed in black and white costumes work together.

The concubine Xu Zhiyuan, with the eldest princess Zhao Zhenlan, has moved back to Huating County from Nanjing.

The reason is simple, Xu Zhiyuan opened a new factory and used a lot of steam engines. He had to go back to Huating to stare at it personally, and at the same time carefully summarize the pros and cons of steam engine weaving, so as to improve the right medicine.

Mei Zhuyou felt so big as soon as he entered the factory, this colt is really rich.

Xu Zhiyuan introduced while walking: "There are three main processes for spinning cotton into cotton cloth, namely: ginning, spinning, and weaving. In the lower factories, there are no ginning workers, and the ginning is done by farmers or small workshops. ”

Ginning is to gin cotton into cotton skin, and the traditional tool is to churn the car.

Spinning is the spinning of cotton slivers into cotton yarn, and the traditional tool is a spinning wheel.

Weaving is the weaving of cotton yarn into cotton cloth, and the traditional tool is the loom.

When Mei Zhuyou inspected the textile factory, Liu Chuanzong and others were investigating in the countryside south of the Yangtze River.

It was the cotton harvest season, and although the yield was greatly reduced, the rural areas were still busy and were not affected by the steam engine.

After harvesting the cotton, the cotton farmers cut the cotton to remove the seeds, comb the cotton to remove impurities, and use the cotton bow to play the cotton. If there is a churner at home, they will roll it into cotton skin by themselves, or even make it into cotton slivers; If there is no churning cart, they sell the cotton to a small workshop in the town.

There are also two kinds of mixers, one is the traditional mixer, which requires three people to operate at the same time. One is the new type of mixer, which has been available during the Apocalypse, and only one person can operate it, but the defects are obviously not popular, and it has become popular after improvement in recent years.

More and more carpenters are learning how to make new types of churns.

It is difficult to protect the invention patent for improving the agitator. Carpenters are hired everywhere in the countryside to build a new type of churn for their own use, and officials can go door-to-door to fine?

Seeing someone removing seeds and impurities in the courtyard, Liu Chuanzong walked over and asked, "Fellow, how is this year's harvest?" ”

The whole family was busy with work, and the woman looked at Liu Chuanzong curiously, but did not answer because of the difference between men and women.

The old farmer worked with a lot of money in his hands, and said with a smile: "Are the guests here to collect cotton skin or cotton yarn?" ”

Liu Chuanzong said: "Accept them all." ”

The old farmer sighed: "This year's drought has not made the cotton harvest good. If the guest collects cotton, the price can be higher, otherwise we will not sell it. ”

Liu Chuanzong asked, "Now there is a new kind of machine that can burn coal and spin yarn. The price of cotton yarn dropped last year, do you still spin it yourself? ”

"Last year, the price of cotton yarn was reduced because the cotton harvest was good, and what happened to the new machine? Don't deceive me. "The old farmer obviously regarded Liu Chuanzong as a profiteer.

This is also one of the reasons for the price reduction of cotton yarn, not only last year's cotton harvest in Jiangnan, but also a bumper harvest in Shandong, which is gradually recovering its vitality, resulting in a large price reduction in cotton yarn throughout China.

This year's production will be reduced, and it will definitely rise again.

Liu Chuanzong asked: "With this new machine, has the peasants made less money?" ”

The old farmer said, "That's it." ”

In the factory.

Xu Zhiyuan introduced: "In the early Ming Dynasty, the speed of spinning was far from keeping up with the weaving. After water-powered spinning, the situation eased slightly, and only in the towns near the big waterwheel, the weaving speed could not keep up with the spinning. Later, some craftsmen improved the spinning wheel and barely increased the spinning speed. ”

The situation of the textile industry at the end of the Ming Dynasty was that the looms were too advanced, and the spinning wheels were seriously lagging behind. When weaving, there is no yarn when weaving, and cotton yarn is always coaxed by merchants.

"This is the steam spinning machine." Xu Zhiyuan pointed forward.

Everyone looked up and saw that in front of several large stoves, workers were repeatedly shoveling coal into it, and the cooking boiler drove the spinning machine to work.

Mei Zhuyou asked: "How is the steam spinning machine?" ”

Xu Zhiyuan smiled bitterly: "It's not good, to tell the truth, I already regret it." The steam engine, like the waterwheel, can only spin roving, and if you want to spin the yarn, you have to let the workers finish it again with the spinning wheel. ”

In the process of spinning cotton slivers into cotton yarn, they need to be twisted continuously to make the yarn sliver have a certain strength without breaking.

The steam engine cooperated with the workers, and for the time being, it could not be finely spinning, and could only spin semi-finished roving.

Then use a traditional spinning wheel to refine the roving to make the cotton yarn thinner and make the cotton fibers straight and parallel.

Xu Zhiyuan took everyone to the warehouse, only to see many women queuing there.

Xu Zhiyuan explained: "They are all peasant women from nearby villages and towns, and when they finish spinning their own cotton, they come to the factory to get roving, spin it into fine yarn at home, and send it to the factory. However, the steam loom is very easy to use, the spinning speed is really fast, and the spinning speed cannot keep up at all. Since the completion of my steam factory, there are no farmers spinning in the three towns within a radius of three towns, and all of them help my factory spin. Even so, cotton yarn is not enough. ”

Zhao Han's concern about the destruction of traditional handicrafts has not happened for the time being, but is developing towards the opposite.

The advent of steam looms has led to a shortage of cotton yarn.

Today's farmers don't weave their own cloth anymore, they all engage in ginning and spinning. As a result, their income has increased, and they can sell as much yarn as they spin, and their only trouble is that there is not enough cotton. The trouble of the steam factory owner is that there is not enough cotton yarn.

"Those boilers aren't Chinese, right?" Mei Zhuyou asked, pointing to the dark-skinned worker.

Xu Zhiyuan replied: "Nanyang slave...... Employees. ”

Mei Zhuyou asked again: "Among the textile workers, are there any Nanyang hired workers?" ”

Xu Zhiyuan said with a smile: "Nanyang employees are very stupid, how dare they touch the spinning wheel and the loom?" Even if you burn a boiler, you have to be taught repeatedly, and you are as stupid as a pig. ”

Mei Zhuyou walked over and asked a Nanyang slave, "Where are you from?" ”

The slave shook his head.

Mei Zhuyou asked again: "How are you doing?" ”

The slave grinned, "Good. ”

It's not a lie, burning the boiler in the factory and being able to eat every day is better than life in Nanyang. Nowadays there are no electric lights, no work is done at night, and it is impossible for workers to be forced to work fifteen or sixteen hours.

A few hours of work, depending on how long the day is.

British textile workers, whose working hours were extended, were in tandem with the development of lighting fixtures. Before the invention of electric light, there were Algon's lamps, gas lamps, etc., which caused workers to work even at night.

Early winter.

More than a dozen investigation reports were placed in front of Zhao Han.

The advent of the steam engine did not destroy the small-scale peasant economy and traditional handicrafts, but promoted the development of traditional handicraft weaving and increased the income of spinning farmers. This situation surprised Zhao Han very much, and he even thought that the technology would no longer advance, and it would be best to maintain this status quo.

Once the steam engine can spin yarn, it will definitely be a huge blow to the weavers.

The use of foreign slaves was already widespread in the southern provinces, which was far beyond Zhao Han's expectations.

Especially the gentry in the south of the Yangtze River, more or less, have a few Nanyang female slaves in their families, and there are also many male slaves in the fields.

In the winter of that year, another decree was issued: foreign male hired workers were not allowed to marry and have children in China. After getting married and having children, the hukou falls in the husband's family, the status is equivalent to that of a Chinese national, and no additional poll tax is paid.

As soon as this decree came out, the slave trade was further stimulated, and a large number of female slaves were sold to the north, where women were scarce!

Many northern men who can't marry wives save money to buy Nanyang women. Anyway, the lowest is only a few yuan, and according to the holy decree, you can still settle down in the government normally. To provide you with the fastest updates, 596 [Social Conditions] free to read.

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