1890 King of Southeast Asia

On December 8, Liu Yiming sat in his office with a complicated expression, listening to Chen Jiangtao's explanation.

"Those officials did not allow immigration, and said that once the immigration ship docked, it would be sunk directly. As a last resort, through the introduction of several middlemen, the nephew of the Shanghai governor gave me a way to sell piglets." Chen Jiangtao said with a complicated expression.

The reason why it was complicated was that Chen Jiangtao had always had unrealistic fantasies about the richness of the Die Qing Dynasty, and he also had many industries on land, in order to lead the whole clan back to his homeland one day. If it had not been for the internal and external troubles and chaos in recent years, he would have gone back.

Now it seems that there is no loss. In the past few years, I don't know how many refugees died on land. The court couldn't manage it. The refugees became a disaster and became Taiping, the Nian Army, and large and small civil unrests.

Chen Jiangtao originally thought that you couldn't feed the refugees, and there was still the risk of unrest there. I just needed people, which should have been a win-win situation, but this Die Qing official disagreed!

After much inquiry, I learned that these disaster victims were all worth a lot of money!

In the feudal dynasty, natural disasters and man-made disasters, refugees were everywhere, which was normal, especially at this time, the court was used to it.

When there were refugees in the local area, the local officials could report and request disaster relief, and the court would approve it more or less, and of course the money went into the pockets of various officials.

Then refugees were everywhere, public security was in chaos, and taxes could be increased, in the name of recruiting local militias to ensure safety, and the money was divided by the local masters and gentry.

Finally, from the mid-nineteenth century, piglets appeared. After the two parts of the money were divided, the young and strong among the refugees could be sold. As for the mortality rate of slave ships? Is that something the masters need to consider?

Not to mention the survival of the remaining old, weak, women and children after the loss of the young and strong. In order to survive, women and children sold themselves, young children, or sold themselves as slaves, or sold them to brothels. It has become an industrial chain!

Bang!

After listening to this, Liu Yiming kicked the chair that Xiao Songyuan had sat on, and the solid wood chair was kicked over and creaked.

"Buy it! The elderly don't need it. Let's make an agreement with them. It's the same price for wholesale. Children are 1 tael each, and those over 18 years old are 4 taels for girls and 8 taels for boys." Liu Yiming thought for a long time and finally made a decision.

With this decision, he also became a promoter of the evil piglet trade, but the price he offered was very low, hoping to reduce the impact. It can be foreseen that many children will be sent to Java in the future. As for adults, there will not be too many if the price is low.

"Do a good job of publicity. The boat gangs and merchant gangs are powerful. Cooperate with them and spread the news that coming to Java is not to be a slave, but to work for the government for five years and you can get freedom."

"At this price, there shouldn't be many men!" Chen Jiangtao said.

At this time, the price of a strong man in the slave trade was between 20 and 30 yuan, equivalent to more than 10 or 20 taels of silver. Liu Yiming's offer was too low.

"That's it. Not a penny more is allowed. There are no men, no men's way. I don't believe that a living person can be suffocated to death by urine." Liu Yiming said aggrievedly.

At this time, he wished he had a million troops, marched north, caught those officials who were high and mighty and did not treat people as human beings, and sent them to Siberia to grow potatoes, or to Texas to grow cotton!

It would be fine if he didn't add money. Once he added money, it would become a commodity. At that time, those who were not refugees would also be turned into refugees by profit-driven officials, and then become piglets.

After deciding on the general direction, Liu Yiming didn't care anymore. The most urgent thing was to deal with the navy. Liu Yiming was going to draw a schematic diagram and then let Charles send it to the UK. In addition, the first batch of 300 tons of 001 hardened armor was also sent to the UK for testing.

The whole process took two months, one month for sailing and one month for testing, which would be until next year.

The schematic diagram was difficult to draw, especially Liu Yiming didn't know what the current warships looked like. He could only hold the information and books given by Charles and slowly understand it.

………………

December 8th was a very special day. Wang Yang, Xie Hui, and Wang Xu successfully joined forces after conquering all cities within 100 kilometers of Batavia.

Gakata, a small town less than 20 kilometers east of Batavia, is now the distance from the city center to the suburbs. It has become the forward base of the South China Army, with more than 4,000 people stationed here.

The telegraph line has been connected. Today is the day to send the first telegram from the front line to Surabaya. Wang Yang sorted out the recent situation and sent it to Surabaya.

The biggest limitation of the telegraph is the efficiency of information transmission. Whether it is a wired telegraph or a wireless telegraph, it takes half an hour for the telegraph operator to finish the content he wants to send.

"What should we do now? Should we fight or not?" Wang Xu has been thinking about it, wanting to fight, because the special detachment was established with the most dangerous mission, but in the end, no hard battle was fought.

That's fine, but in fact he has become a giant, a giant like Wang Yang, Xie Hui, and Yang Tao, directly controlling one-fifth of Sishui's field forces, but he has no military achievements worth boasting about.

Wang Xu is not ambitious, but he is ready to sacrifice his life for the country, but his teammates took the responsibility for him. In modern times, many people may have opened champagne to celebrate.

However, in times of chaos, the characteristics of Chinese culture always make people feel a sense of mission. Every man is responsible for the rise and fall of the world! But he did nothing and was in a high position. He was panicked. Now Wang Xu is panicked!

"What are you thinking about? The driver has issued a strict order not to attack. Let's wait and see!" Xie Hui said.

"The envoy has been sent out. The commander's intention is to negotiate with the Dutch and let them surrender voluntarily, which will reduce casualties and damage to the city." Wang Yang said.

The envoy was a hired British businessman, but Liu Yiming asked Charles to find him. He took the letter from the former Governor Pinak to Batavia to negotiate with the Dutch.

It is worth mentioning that the Dutch did not appoint a fourth governor, and appointed Major General Bar in Batavia as the city guard to defend Batavia. Liu Yiming already knew all this and published it in Singapore newspapers.

"Report! There is a situation!" The voice of the sentry came from outside the room.

Wang Yang grabbed the telescope and climbed the wall to the watchtower to observe the situation.

"What's the situation?" Wang Xu and Xie Hui's telescopes were not very good, and there were not many people on the watchtower. There were already sentinels and Wang Yang on it, so they simply asked the sentry who reported.

"A large group of people ran towards us. It was very chaotic and too far to see clearly!" The sentry replied briefly.

"People?" Wang Xu and Xie Hui looked at each other. The Dutch dared to go out of the city to fight in the field? ? ?

When Wang Xu was excitedly preparing to assemble his troops, a telescope flew down from the top of his head.

Bang! Glass fragments were everywhere.

Wang Xu took a closer look and found that this was Wang Yang's telescope. He treasured it every day, so why did it fall now?

Looking up, Wang Xu was climbing down from the watchtower.

"What's wrong? Did your hand slip?" Xie Hui asked, even a little gloating.

"Chinese, tens of thousands of Chinese, were driven here with nothing!" Wang Yang said trembling all over.

"What!" Xie Hui widened his eyes, and Wang Xu's hair almost stood up.

Hundreds of South China soldiers crossed the tunnels, evacuated the huge refugee group, maintained order, and led them to the rear, where there were houses and tents to shelter from the wind and rain, as well as hot soup and doctors.

"They are looking for death!" Wang Xu stood on a mound and saw many Chinese with scars, and said with red eyes.

"Let's start the war!" Wang Xu turned to Wang Yang and said.

"Be quiet!" Wang Yang said coldly, but the violent rise and fall of his chest showed that he was also very angry.

"Xie Hui, how is it?" Wang Yang looked at Xie Hui.

"The telegram has been sent, and it should take more than half an hour to get a reply." Xie Hui replied.

"Wang Xu, you go to appease the troops, I will go to see the situation of the victims, Xie Hui, keep an eye on the Dutch!" Wang Yang did not speak. He could not decide on this matter, but he chose to let the radical among the radicals, Wang Xu, to appease the troops.

"Father-in-law, what happened?" As soon as Wang Yang arrived at the resettlement site, the guard brought an old man who was said to be very prestigious among the Chinese.

"Sir! You have to make the decision for us!" The old man was about to kneel down when he saw Wang Yang, but fortunately the guard held him up.

"Father-in-law, tell me slowly, what did the Dutch do." Wang Yang supported the old man and asked.

"More than ten days ago, all the Chinese were under control. We couldn't go out, and we had to deal with the Dutch or natives who came to inspect at any time. This lasted for a few days, but it was still okay." The old man took a breath.

"Ten days ago, the Dutch suddenly sent soldiers to drag all the Chinese out of their homes and gathered them together. They only gave them a little food every day to fill their stomachs. They endured the sun and rain for ten days! Countless people died of illness. They didn't even give them a straw hut! Most of the old people and children died!" When talking about the sad part, the old man shed tears, and his eyes looking at the South China Army were full of complaints.

"There are still tens of thousands of Chinese in there, please save them! We all have properties in Batavia, and I have hundreds of thousands of pounds of cash hidden under my house. I will give it all to you, please save them!" Thinking of his clansmen and family members in the city, the old man kowtowed again.

"We are trying to find a way. If we attack rashly, we are afraid that the Dutch will be defeated. But we didn't expect them to be so crazy..." Wang Yang said sincerely, "The follow-up army will arrive soon. We will make them dare not do these things again!" This sentence is full of ruthlessness.

"Where is Commander Wang?" Xie Hui's voice came from outside.

"I'm here!" Wang Yang said loudly.

"The order has come. The headquarters has ordered to bomb Tangerang indiscriminately, and then ask the Dutch to take over." Xie Hui said.

"Arrange Wang Xu to go! There are more than 100 white phosphorus bombs, take them all over." Wang Yang said without thinking.

"Also, let the political commissar and instructor appease the people, sort out the casualties, and send them to Sishui."

"Phosphorus gas cannot be used, but Wang Yang gave you all the white phosphorus bombs. Give you an idea. Go and capture a few hundred natives. After burning them, send the natives in first and tell them that those who can't kill ten people must die. Don't say it's me who said so..." Xie Hui explained to Wang Xu and left...