The Han Chinese in Batavia had a very delicate relationship with the Dutch colonial government.

There is even a saying that Batavia is a Chinese colonial city!

Originally called Jakarta, it was snatched alive by the Netherlands from the country of Banten. At the beginning of the occupation, Banten, Matalan, Britain and other forces took turns to send troops to besiege the city, and if it were not for the harsh surrender conditions, the Netherlands would have chosen to surrender long ago.

In order to gain a foothold, the Netherlands chose to join forces with the Han Chinese.

The castle was built entirely by the Han Chinese. The bricks were fired by the Han Chinese, the moats were dug by the Han Chinese, and the Dutch were only responsible for transporting stones and grain from other places.

Before the castle was even built, the Han Chinese Jiabidan Su Minggang was appointed as a member of the Appraisal Yuan to discuss the affairs of Batavia.

At that time, the city was surrounded by forests and swamps, and the forests were full of hostile Javanese natives. It was impossible to transport all the grain from other places, so the Netherlands joined forces with the Han Chinese, the Netherlands was responsible for the development by force, and the Han people were responsible for cultivating farmland, and they achieved food self-sufficiency in a few years.

When everything stabilized, the Netherlands bared their fangs and began to impose heavy taxes on the Han Chinese. The poll tax alone, the tax rate of the Han Chinese, is several times that of the indigenous people of Java.

However, the Han Chinese are still strong.

If history had not been changed, the Han Chinese would have gained more power. With the increase of the Han people, under Jiapitan, two more positions were set up, Lei Zhenlan and the street chief, and the autonomy of the Han people inside and outside the city was fully realized. There will also be a martial arts fan, and the power of the Han people will be further enhanced.

Then there were Confucian temples, academies, hospitals, and hospices, and with the expansion of Dutch power, this Han Chinese system spread throughout Indonesia.

Even the countryside was controlled by Han Chinese plantation owners, and indigenous landlords and Dutch plantation owners could only survive in the cracks.

Eventually, the Dutch felt overwhelmed and incited the natives to commit a massacre of the Han Chinese.

Overseas Han Chinese are not ungrouped, nor are they uninterested in politics. They have been holding together, and have even set up almshouses to adopt orphans, and the Han Chamber of Commerce has also provided education for orphans. They have been fighting for political power, and there are more and more Han Chinese official positions, and the number of Han parliamentarians is also increasing.

There is no state support at all, and it is all up to the Han people to fight for it themselves, and it is good enough to develop into that.

It's a pity that the Han people didn't master the guns, not because they didn't want to, but because the Netherlands didn't give them at all. The Han people were forbidden to hold weapons and had no power to resist in the face of butcher knives.

"500,000 taels of silver? That's more than 1.9 million guilders! ”

When Carl Rainiers heard the amount of compensation, he didn't even have the mood to bargain, and said directly: "Prepare for war!" ”

This is the net profit of the Dutch East India Company in Asia for two years. Note that it is the profit of the whole of Asia, including India, Ceylon, Japan, and the Spice Islands.

Navy Commander Balthazar Burt said: "Our fleet in the Far East cannot defeat the Chinese Navy. In previous years, we lost too many warships, and now more than half are converted from merchant ships. And the Chinese Navy, in the past two years, three more capital ships have been launched. If we bring in fleet support from India, the Chinese can also bring in fleet support from the mainland. Therefore, the real decisive battle still depends on the victory of the army. ”

Army Commander William Clapp said: "I can guarantee that I will hold the castle until I run out of ammunition." But there are too many Chinese residents inside and outside the city, and they will definitely help the Chinese army fight, and they will definitely provide food for the Chinese army. We must be the first to kill the Chinese inhabitants and try to grab as much food as possible to defend the city. ”

Reiniers worried: "If a massacre is carried out against the Chinese, Batavia will be destroyed." Not only can the city not function, but it is not self-sufficient in food, and in the future it can only be transported from other places. ”

The Dutch immigrants from Batavia did not grow food at all at this time.

Historically, it would take more than a decade for the Han Chinese plantations to be burned down by bandits from Banten, resulting in a persistent food shortage in Batavia. The Han Chinese, dissatisfied with the Dutch army's lack of protection, seized the opportunity to demand more power. It was only then that the Governor called on the Dutch to set up plantations in the suburbs, and gave them super-preferential treatment almost tax-free.

If the Han people are slaughtered now, even if this war is won, Batavia's future will be bleak, and there will be a food shortage for several years.

Because a gold mine is going to take possession of that gold mine at the risk of turning against China, it is enough to prove how short-sighted the Dutch colonial authorities are. In their minds, even if China sends troops, it will not be so fast. By the time China sent troops, these high-ranking staff had already returned home, and the mess would be a headache for the next governor.

"The first priority now is to defend the castle, and that's what to do later," Clapp said. The Chinese, especially the Chinese in the urban areas, must all be killed! Let the Javanese servants kill, and all the Dutch soldiers stayed at the castle to prevent the sudden landing of the Chinese army. ”

Reiniers thought about it again and again, and finally made up his mind: "Okay, kill those Chinese, take their property and food!" Then he sent people to the plantations in the suburbs to incite the Javanese slaves to make trouble. Promise those slaves that if they kill their Chinese masters, they will take away their land, property, and women! ”

At this time, it was already summer, and it was smooth sailing from Batavia to Guangdong.

The Chinese merchant ships, which had been staying for a long time, could not wait to return home with a full load of goods. In Batavia's ports, there are no more Chinese ships left, and they will have to wait for the northeast monsoon to blow before heading south again.

This is Liu Hanyi and Su Minggang, discussing the time to send troops after that. The large army first nested in Canton and waited for the monsoon current to change, and rushed to Batavia against the wind and current, so as to minimize the losses of Chinese merchant ships.

As for the rainy season in Batavia, it is concentrated from November to February, as long as you avoid these three months.

The Dutch governor summoned the Javanese servants, which also took time. Coupled with the closure of the port by Dutch warships, this series of operations quickly attracted the attention of the Han Chinese.

The Chinese maritime merchants, who had not yet had time to leave the port, abandoned their ships and went ashore one after another, not even their goods, and took their men into the city for refuge.

Liu Hanyi was afraid of revealing the military plan, so he didn't notify these Han businessmen in advance!

However, he also secretly sent an envoy to take the Mataran merchant ship to contact Su Minggang's son.

……

A month ago, Mamagalai.

Makarai is Bekasi hundreds of years later, 30 miles from the city of Batavia.

Thirty years ago, the Han people only cultivated outside the city, but now they have cultivated more than 30 miles. It was originally full of woods and swamps, but under the patient transformation of the Han people, it has been transformed into one fertile field after another.

At first, they only grew food, but gradually they became indigenous slaves, and they learned from the Europeans in the plantation economy. Tobacco, sugar cane, fruits, oil palms...... The rapid economic strength of the Han Chinese landlords forced the Netherlands to vigorously support the Javanese landlords. The Dutch were ungrateful, leviing heavy taxes on the Han Chinese landlords while helping the Javanese landlords capture serfs.

In this way, the Han landlords were still strong, and their land area was more than ten times that of the Javanese landlords.

The Su family's mansion was built in Makalai, and the lantern at the door was written with the four Chinese characters "Founding Father".

This country refers specifically to Batavia.

The Su family believed that Batavia was a country that they had built with the help of the Dutch, but they were only tools for the Dutch to gain a foothold.

Su Dingguo is already over 40 years old, and his proudest deed in these years is the establishment of a righteous school in Makalai, where the children of the Han people can study for free. And the most frustrating thing for him was that after his father Su Minggang left, the Su family could no longer obtain the position of "Jiabidan".

His father, who was too serious, kept asking for expediency for the Han Chinese, which caused the Dutch to become more and more dissatisfied with the Su family.

"Master, a businessman from the Han family came to visit, saying that he brought a letter from the old lady." The housekeeper came to report.

As soon as he heard the letter from his old father, Su Dingguo hurriedly got up and ran to the courtyard to greet him.

The man was a young man, about thirty years old.

Su Dingguo looked at it carefully and said suspiciously: "Your Excellency is a member of the Su family in Tong'an?" ”

Instead of answering the question, the young man said, "Please give me a bamboo or wooden cane." ”

Su Dingguo was confused and asked the housekeeper to find a bamboo cane.

The young man pulled out of his bosom, which was strung together with rope, knots after knots of yak tail hair. These yak tails are soon tied to bamboo canes, reflecting the sunset and fluttering in the wind.

Su Minggang studied back then, and because his family was in the middle of the road, he went to sea to make a living, and he was very concerned about the education of his children and grandchildren.

And Su Dingguo, who has studied the Four Books and Five Classics since he was a child, is also very familiar with the allusions of the Han family.

After only a little stunned, Su Dingguo guessed what this was. Thinking of the Su family's discriminatory experience in recent years, a stream of blood surged up in his heart, and he knelt down and bowed down, shouting with tears: "Overseas outcasts Su Dingguo, meet the angels, long live the Holy Son of Heaven, long live long live!" ”

The young man bowed his hand: "The contemptible Sun Jue, as a deputy envoy, was ordered to go to sea to canonize the king of Murba Wow." Here is a handwritten letter from Mr. Su, please take a look at it first. ”

Su Dingguo knelt and didn't dare to get up, holding his father's letter with both hands.

After reading the letter, Su Dingguo gritted his teeth and said: "Angel Lord Rong Bing, that Dutch red-haired ghost, ungrateful, crossing the river and demolishing the bridge, is becoming more and more harsh to my Han people. My father has made great contributions, but people are cool, and the people of the Su family can't even do Jiabidan anymore. There are also Han farms, the farther they are cultivated, they are often plundered by Javanese bandits, and the Netherlands do not send troops to help. If the army is killed today, as a Han Chinese, he should try his best to serve the country. I don't dare to guarantee that the Su family's grain will be given as much as it is, and I won't receive a tael of silver! If the Han army besieges the city for a year, the Su family's sugar cane orchards will also be used to grow food until the army captures Bacheng! ”

Sun Jue was greatly moved, and hurriedly helped Su Dingguo up: "Your Excellency's heart to serve the country, when I return to Nanjing, I will report to Your Majesty!" ”

Ten years ago, the Han landlords here were expected to hesitate and sway, and even help the Dutch fight the Datong army. But now it is different, the Dutch have been defeated repeatedly, and the local Han people are more optimistic about the Chinese army.

Su Dingguo got up and instructed the housekeeper: "Take off the lantern at the door!" ”

"You don't have to do it for the time being, don't leak the news." Sun Jue stopped.

Su Dingguo said with a smile: "Angel, please rest assured, the radius of dozens of miles outside the city is the territory of my Han people, and the Dutch will not go out of the city." Even the taxes in the countryside outside the city were contracted to the Han gentry, but the tax amount was getting higher and higher. The Dutch only went out of the city twice a year, not to the countryside to collect taxes, but to check whether the Han people had hidden military armor. ”

"I see," Sun Jue said, "it is inevitable that there will be traitors and traitors who tell you, so don't take off the lanterns." Ambassador Liu has already made an appointment to send troops, and Mr. Su will not connect with the Han gentry for the time being. When the agreed time is approaching, go in tandem half a month in advance, so as to avoid exposing the military situation as much as possible. ”

"The angels have a good plan, and the grass people must follow it." Su Dingguo said.

Then he said: "Although the red-haired ghost forbade the Han people to hold military armor, the gentry of each family quietly purchased some, and they could also pull up hundreds or thousands of rebels. ”

For Han people in the countryside, recruiting thousands of soldiers is already the limit.

Don't look at the radius of dozens of miles, most of the land belongs to the Han people. But there are few real farmers, mainly using slaves to farm, and those Javanese slaves are not the same as the Han landlords.

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