New Shun 1730

The simple Li Li could not understand the darkness of the game.

Dashun wanted Nanyang, Batavia, Banda, and Ceylon, all of which required Chinese. Without population occupation, it was meaningless.

Dashun’s own immigration, not to mention the cost, the 50% mortality rate in the tropics, forced immigration to Taiwan, there were cries, and the ballads advising you not to go to Taiwan were sung all over southern Fujian, let alone Nanyang?

People could be forced to go to Nanyang "actively and freely" when they could not survive, but official immigration could only be auxiliary, and Britain did a good job in this regard.

With Dashun's miserable grassroots control and bureaucratic inertia, large-scale official actions would inevitably become a disaster.

As Mantou worried, Britain could control news newspapers and public opinion to that extent, whether it was grassroots control or administrative means, Dashun was far behind. Administrative management itself is also a science.

The population that the Dashun court could truly control was actually only a few million, and the rest was actually not managed or controlled at all.

Of course, it was impossible to allow the Dutch to send all the Chinese in Batavia back at this time.

Immigration started in the Ming Dynasty. If they were sent back in batches, not to mention that they would have nothing to do and would not rebel, and Dashun would not give them official land... Even if the hundreds of years of population accumulation in Southeast Asia was destroyed, it would be impossible to accept it.

Let the Dutch spend money to send people to Ceylon and Banda. In these days, forced immigration, especially in the tropics, will definitely kill at least one-third of them.

Liu Yu knew this, and so did Duke Qi, but Li Li didn't understand it at all. The young man thought that immigration was just a matter of sending people there.

If they were sent to Ceylon and Ambon, the Dutch would bear the hatred and spend the money of the immigrants.

This was a win-win situation for Dashun and the Netherlands.

Dashun won.

The Netherlands won by choosing the lesser of two evils.

The Netherlands should be able to accept it.

Putting aside all the fog, it is also very clear to understand the Batavia incident from a capitalist perspective.

The Dutch East India Company is first and foremost a company.

The purpose of a company is to make a profit and give back to shareholders. This is why the Netherlands does not allow non-company Dutch people to trade freely in Batavia, the Netherlands, and does not welcome non-company Dutch people to settle in Batavia, the Netherlands.

The plight of the Chinese in Batavia also stems from this.

At the beginning, the sugar industry was very profitable, so the company's board of directors decided to vigorously expand the sugar industry. There were indeed subsidies and loans to support it. 95% of the sugar industry was also run by Chinese.

The local people in Java... let alone whether they have the technology to grow sugarcane, the village community has not yet disintegrated, and they still have land. In the tropical environment where they can survive by working a little, who would be willing to cut sugarcane if they are paid less?

The Chinese asked for less money, and there was no land when they came to Southeast Asia. They had good technology, low wages, and high efficiency, so they naturally hired Chinese as much as possible.

The Dutch knew that Chinese plantation owners were privately buying and selling Chinese slaves, but they pretended not to know, and thus cooperated with Chinese plantation owners to lower wages: either accept the low wages of indentured servants, or high-ranking Chinese reported that Chinese slaves did not have residence permits. If you do not accept the minimum wage, you will be sentenced to labor service for the Dutch.

The board of directors was not smart and made a wrong judgment, which led to the expansion of the sugar industry.

However, up to now, the original largest customer Europe has eaten Caribbean sugar; the second largest customer Saphibos has exploded; the third largest customer Japan has closed its country.

The result is imaginable.

The board of directors made a wrong judgment and over-expanded, and did not deploy transformation in advance, but the consequences naturally could not be borne by the board of directors, but must be passed on to the employees.

The first choice is naturally to fire the workers.

If it is a place with diversified and prosperous economy, after the layoffs, the employees can either be hawkers or find other jobs to make a living, and the society can still remain stable.

But if the pillar industry of the entire region suddenly collapses, after the layoffs, the employees will have no money and cannot find other jobs, so there are naturally only two choices.

Either, be a starving corpse and die of starvation.

Or, join the Chinese Wushan Party in Batavia, eat and drink, conquer Batavia and claim to be the king, and live a happy life.

In fact, the East India Company also has two choices.

Either, the employees have worked hard for the company before, and after firing them, they will be given a sum of money to ensure that they will not starve to death, and then slowly transform.

Or, kill them. If they die, don’t they need to eat?

The choice of the East India Company determines the choice of the local Chinese, not the other way around.

However, as Dashun began to gradually change, the emergence of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs gave the Dutch East India Company another choice.

Throw these employees back to Dashun: I will take the profits, and you will handle the relief.

As far as the Dashun court is concerned, the Dutch’s counterattack is still lethal.

First tell Dashun: repatriate.

If Dashun agrees, then they will be thrown to Dashun. The local sugarcane industry will be reduced and transformed, and these Chinese who have fled from the mountains, rivers and fields will be thrown back to Fujian, where the population has long been saturated. In the meantime, the local Chinese will be cleaned up to avoid future troubles.

If Dashun disagrees, the massacre will happen, and Dashun will have to bear the blame for "ignoring the people". I think Dashun can only downplay the matter and will not take the opportunity to cause trouble.

But when Liu Yu arrived in Tianjin with a battleship and four cruisers, there was another answer to the matter.

Killing, this option, under the muzzle of the Dashun battleship, can already be ruled out by the East India Company.

The warship went to Batavia to express condolences. The Chinese, who were originally scattered, would definitely know "who they are not" within the range of the gunboat.

Then we can only pinch our noses, spend a little money, and arrange for these employees to go to Ceylon and Ambon for "re-employment".

The game here is too dark, involving the life and death of tens of thousands of people, so there is no need to explain it clearly to Li Hao.

But from the perspective of the whole matter, Liu Yu still used the perspective of a capitalist company to talk about it. The reason why he did not just talk about it from a purely national perspective is because there is a problem that cannot be bypassed.

Dashun conquered Nanyang, but still could not reverse the fact of sugar surplus, and the Chinese workers still wanted to live. It's not that if Dashun takes over Batavia, those Chinese hired workers will be able to live a good life.

On the contrary, once the status of the transit port disappears, not only the sugar industry will be destroyed, but also the other people in Batavia who rely on the transit trade for a living will not have an easy life.

Now Batavia's sugar industry is about to explode. Will it explode in the hands of the Dutch? Or will it fall into Dashun’s hands?

If it was bombed in Dashun's hands, the outcome would be that all the local Chinese upper and middle class would miss the Dutch rule.

If it is bombed in the hands of the Dutch, the outcome will be that the local Chinese upper, middle and lower classes will eat pots of pulp to welcome the emperor's army.

The difference here is huge.

Li Huan could understand these things, and it was the perspective from which Liu Yu wanted Li Huan to see things.

The only thing that was not mentioned was that if the Dutch were to move to Ceylon and Ambon, at the current death rate, at least seven or eight thousand people would die. This is still very conservative.

A few words can determine the life or death of nearly ten thousand compatriots. After all, it is too dark. It is better to pretend that immigration has nothing to do with life or death.

Duke Guo of Qi was also an old man. Seeing that Liu Yu was avoiding talking about moving to Ceylon and Ambon, which would definitely lead to death, he thought to himself that if you don't tell me, I won't tell you.

At this time, Li Han was thinking about this matter from the perspective of Liu Yu's interpretation, and just murmured: "Everyone seeks advantages and avoids disadvantages, so he was worshiped in the Hou Mansion and had his hair shaved. But today, the people of the Nanyang Celestial Dynasty may not Isshin, you still need to use such methods... ugh."

"This is according to the Confucian saying of the Song Dynasty: Benefit and righteousness. Whether a benevolent government or not depends on whether the people benefit. Benefit is actually the externalization of benevolence and righteousness. Where does the benefit of the people of Nanyang lie?"

Liu Yu smiled and said: "Seventh Prince, as long as the navy can force Persia and India to buy sugar from Nanyang in the future, it will be a benevolent government for the people of Nanyang. It is called benevolence on the inside and hegemony on the outside."

This completely misinterprets the meaning of inside and outside. To be a saint within and a king outside means to be a saint inside and a king in behavior, but Liu Yu misinterpreted it as being kind to the people of the country and being domineering towards foreigners.

Although the Duke of Qi was not a great Confucian, he understood that Liu Yu was misinterpreting the internal and external meanings. He couldn't help but smile, thinking that you, the boy, are really good at singing distorted scriptures.

In this matter, he originally supported Liu Yu's idea. He neither wanted the Dutch to massacre the local Chinese, nor did he want the Dutch to actually send these people back to Fujian.

However, I still have doubts about Liu Yu's idea of ​​"intimidating with comfort".

"Seventh Prince, Shou Chang, I think this matter is urgent and should not be slowed down. If the Dutch want to repatriate them to Fujian, we will refuse directly. When they spread it in Nanyang, it will chill the hearts of the local Chinese people. The announcement of comfort is false, in order to declare It’s true that the offer is based on comfort. I’m afraid that the Dutch will notice our intention to conquer the Japanese and know that we cannot go to war with the two countries on the same day, so that the Netherlands will have the upper hand in negotiations.”

Liu Yu smiled and said: "The government is on official business. The key to this matter is that the Dutch are a company, aiming to make profits, and do not want to lose everything. Their fundamental interests are Nanyang, and the bottom line of this dynasty's pretense is 'Chinese face'." "

"The Dutch have been doing business in China for a long time. At the beginning of this dynasty's reform, they still think that this dynasty's policy is still the previous policy."

"If you know something and don't take care of it, it is unkind; if you pretend not to know, it is not unkind."

"It's not unkind or benevolent, but at least it's not unkind."

"Once we really go to express our condolences, then the opportunity to 'pretend we don't know' is gone. This is what the Dutch don't want to see."

"According to their past experience, what China wants is just face. As long as they can pretend not to know, China will not care about external affairs."

"But if there is no chance to pretend not to know, China will always take action for the sake of face and justice, even if it is just a formality. The Dutch do not want to fight."

"So, the opportunity is not in the Netherlands, but in our hands. As long as we first say that we are going to express our condolences and send officials to see if the local situation and rumors are true, the Dutch will have to back down."

"In their eyes, China has always been like this. They can pretend not to know as much as possible. But once they can't pretend, they will always ask for an explanation."

Having said this, Liu Yu stood up, bowed to Duke Qi and said, "To do this well, I need Duke Qi to be a coward during the Luzon affair, and the Seventh Prince and I to be a young man with great ambitions. "

"The Seventh Prince and I were so angry that we rushed into the negotiation room and denounced the Netherlands angrily, insisting on condolences. However, the Duke of Qi was too old to seek help for his country. He just 'begged' the Dutch to save some face and not to make a fuss. We here pretended not to know and let them do whatever they wanted. yes."

"The seventh prince and I became radicals in anger, so the Dutch did not dare to kill them, but it was impossible for them to continue to grow sugar cane in Batavia. They had no choice but to move to other places. Go to Ceylon to build a city, or go to Anhui. Wenzhong coffee spices.”

"The Duke of Qi only said that he did not want to start a dispute thousands of miles away in Nanyang. As long as he wanted to save the face of the Celestial Empire, he did not allow the Dutch to mention the matter of repatriation to Fujian again. He just pretended that it had never happened."