New Shun 1730

"The Imperial Envoy underestimated me!"

"Although I am a common man, I also know that a promise is worth a thousand pieces of gold. Even though I made an appointment with my brothers to collude on a big thing, before the incident happened, I ran away for my own future. I am not as good as a pig or a dog. Even if a group of dogs fight, I have never seen the top dog get involved because of it. A bone of its owner forsakes his brother behind him.”

Liu Yu thought to himself, I am not looking down on you. Your methods are too seductive. If I don't take you away and disintegrate them, by the time I come back and go to Nanyang, all members of Bangga will be Catholics.

It's a pity that we can't come up with anything better to seize leadership. The rhetoric of the Confucianists has no influence at the bottom, especially the precarious miners.

It's not even as good as the one used by the Xuanwei Si Xin in the old port next door, which can also declare the old rulers as heretics because of the hadiths such as opposing corruption.

The difficulty of Dashun's voyage to Nanyang is not to win. Winning is like an adult or a child. There is neither singing nor cheering, and the Dutch cannot muster many troops at all.

The difficulty lies in how to rule after winning.

It's okay in other places. The court can just stick to the old system and maintain the tribute system.

But Bangga is an important place for the generals to control. If Catholicism really becomes a thing, there is no need to think about it. The court will never tolerate it. The slaughter of thousands of people is just a routine operation for the court.

It would be the same for anyone, but if it were the Tang Dynasty, at the critical stage of the confrontation with the black-clad food, if the Four Towns of Qiuci turned green overnight, would the Tang Dynasty slaughter them all and then immigrate them? Or will they think that "the miners' uprising is organized by foreign religions, which is really helpless and I am innocent" and just let it go?

They all look like birds.

Liu Yu looked at Cai Shiwu, shook his head, and sighed, thinking that even if you hold a little bit of Confucianism's banner, even if the White Lotus Party of Mingjiao joins the party, if I say a few words in the court, the court might be able to do it. Accommodate.

"You are a good man, but it is precisely because you are a good man that I want to take you away. Let you come back in two or three years. You will have your own explanation at that time."

"I guess you are thinking about contacting the Netherlands after the uprising is successful. You hope to pay the head tax to the Netherlands, lower the selling price of tin blocks, and ensure that the Netherlands exclusively buys tin blocks, so as to obtain the protection of the Netherlands, right?"

"If you didn't even think of this step, then you guys are just a bunch of fools and can't do anything."

The corner of Cai Shiwu's mouth twitched unnaturally. He had been very tight-lipped about such confidential matters just now, and indeed he didn't mention a word.

But what Liu Yu said was as if he heard the words of their conspiracy. Cai Shiwu even suspected that there was a court hawk inside to inform?

The scholar who believed in the Lord and was expelled from his position indeed said so. He believed that the surrounding situation was complicated, and that Bangga needed to sell its mines to survive. There were many people who wanted to buy the mines, but the most powerful one was the Netherlands.

The Netherlands definitely also hopes to control the tin mines in Bangka, so if they want to succeed, they must rely on the Netherlands.

As long as the Netherlands supports their independence, they can recognize Dutch rule and pay a poll tax to Batavia. In this way, things can be done.

Liu Yu glanced at Cai Shiwu, who was silent, and sneered.

"Then you really found the right person. Looking for Holland? Hey..."

Cai Fifteen, who had kept his mouth shut and didn't want to speak, was completely angered by these words. He sneered and said: "If you don't look for Holland, who can you look for?"

"When we, the common people, were in China, the imperial court didn't care. Is it possible that when we arrived in Nanyang, the imperial court changed its attitude? Does it care?"

"As long as they can survive, who is willing to leave their hometown and come to this Nanyang mine to seek food?"

There was sadness and anger in his words, but he was not disappointed because he had never hoped for it.

After hearing this, Liu Yu was not worried. He thought that there was nothing he could do about it. If he expected official immigration, with Dashun's grassroots organizational capabilities and faith cohesion, Nanyang's official immigration would be a disaster.

They can only use this method similar to the "land enclosure movement". The British forced farmers to work in factories, and Dashun forced people to go to Nanyang.

Although it was not an active movement, due to the scarcity of land and population growth in Fujian and Guangdong, the number of such involuntary movements was far greater than that of active land enclosure movements.

Since the imperial court wanted to go to Nanyang, it was impossible to give the initiative to the Catholic Church in matters concerning Bangga.

Liu Yu admired their courage to fight, and he also understood that everything they did was just in his three views, even if it was cloaked in the guise of religion, its flaws were still intact.

But, no.

Those things they imagined could be given or bestowed by the court.

But they cannot be allowed to take the initiative to win it under the guise of Catholicism. Absolutely not.

Historically, after the Anglo-Dutch War, the British briefly took control of Bangga. Liu Yu's most admired party, the "Liyuanyuan", which believed that Britain was the most powerful, concluded after inspecting Bangka that the multiple exploitations of the mine owners had made the Chinese miners miserable. There is minimal willingness to work, which severely affects the output of Bangga tin mines.

So they spent money to buy out the debts of all the Chinese miners from the owners of the Bangga mine, put Bangga under direct control, kicked out the middlemen who contracted the mines, and instead established a company with Chinese miners as the main body, with the miners as the main body. They organize themselves and are responsible for their own profits and losses.

There is no middleman to earn the price difference, which greatly improves the labor enthusiasm of miners in a short period of time.

Although the essence of the monopoly remained unchanged, the East India Company still controlled the price of tin and earned excess profits. But for those miners, the vertical comparison is indeed better than before.

Although, this time's reform, just like the British land reform in Batavia, ultimately had to consider profits, it became a joke and paralysis.

However, this provides ideas for how to manage Dashun after it sails to Nanyang.

Later generations often say that if you learn mathematics, physics and chemistry well, you will not be afraid of traveling all over the world.

But the situation that Dashun is facing now is a strange lack of "liberal arts students", especially the lack of outstanding liberal arts students who can compete with the British "Science and Technology Academy" - archaeology, linguistics, social sciences, history, etc. .

These are the necessary talents if you want to continue to be the "Chinese Dynasty".

When Britain was the "Chinese Dynasty", its "Li Fan Yuan" level was extremely high, and its level of humanities and social sciences was extremely strong. Therefore, it could conduct social surveys in Java and point out agricultural and class problems in Java; it could use archeology and psychology to , sociology, and history, divide and rule "vassals", divide and create contradictions, and even artificially create nations.

Science has nothing to do with morality. Morally, it can be practiced in reverse.

There is no shortage of science students in Dashun now. The level of science and engineering in the world is about the same at this time. Except for the particularly sophisticated high-tech technologies such as marine clocks, which are lacking in Dashun, the rest are basically catching up with those of other countries. pace.

Especially after Liu Yu started his career again, Dashun was really not bad in subjects other than advanced mathematics and mechanical processing. After all, other disciplines are just starting now.

There are also "literary students" in Dashun, but they are still far behind the "literary" students.

There is also a courteous government and the "Lihan Yuan", but just by their management of Ryukyu, Ryukyu's Japanese studies have brought down the level of Sinology. How can they be expected to control Nanyang?

It would be better not to go to Nanyang directly, and save money to avoid the world's money and food.

Otherwise, there will definitely be a lot of Chinese rebels who are alienated from China.

If you want to be a dynasty, not a powerful China, you must make up for the shortcomings of liberal arts students. If you can't make up for it at the moment, just copy it.

China is a country, and the Celestial Empire is a political concept. They are like black and white and length, with different attributes.

In this case, the stones from other places can be used to attack jade. Think about some of the British governance techniques in the colonies, how to divide and rule, and how to cultivate a group of pro-British factions. Some methods can still be used.

The focus of Gbarnga's rule was on these miners, not on the mine owners who were attached to the Sultan of Old Port.

It is entirely possible to borrow British methods, and the court "gives" the miners a way to form their own companies and receive government loan support.

But now, the Catholic Church's utopian promises are threatening to take away Dashun's future ruling foundation in Bangga. This is something Liu Yu cannot accept under any circumstances.

Once these people become successful, they have no idea that everything is because of their own struggle. Instead, they will think that this is a gift from God, and Catholicism has taken root in the Bonga miners.

Now that Cai Fifteen has no access to oil and salt, it is impossible to say some things now, let alone tell Cai Fifteen that the imperial court will go to Nanyang in the future. If you continue to be patient and patient, the imperial court will improve your living conditions - and These secrets cannot be revealed now, and even if they were told, this group of people who have no trust in the imperial court would not believe them.

The people are not stupid. They will only believe it when they see the imperial court doing it. Before anything is done, no one will believe it based on the image established by the grassroots bureaucrats of the court.

Glancing at Cai Shiwu again, Liu Yu gritted his teeth and shouted: "Send the order, assemble the team, all the marines are assembled in the mine. The cannons are set up, ready to arrest people according to the list!"

Cai Shiwu suddenly became angry and said angrily: "The imperial envoy's words don't mean what he says! You said that the two sides are not helping each other!"

Liu Yudao: "I just don't want to help each other. If I want to help them, why bother?"

After saying that, they tied up Cai Shiwu and blocked Cai Shiwu's mouth.

After the troops were assembled near the mine, Liu Yu also showed his fangs, took the list provided by the mine owner, and led the troops directly into each mine to arrest people.

After nearly thirty "treacherous leaders" were captured, the angry miners, pressured by cannons and bayonets, reached the critical point of anger.

But most of the miners are not local Peranakans, but came to Nanyang from Dashun.

The power of the imperial court in their hearts was still there, and looking at the banners of the imperial envoys, they were just making noise outside.

If it weren't for the fear accumulated over thousands of years, the fight would have started long ago under someone else's banner.

Without a leader, these miners belonged to various mines and different mining groups. The leaders were all arrested. At this time, they really were unable to make any big moves.

During the confrontation between the two sides, the miners were not too afraid of the bayonets of the Marines, but more afraid of the imperial envoy's flag.

In the midst of the chaos, the Marine Corps suppressed the situation. Words came from behind to tell everyone to be quiet. After a while, the Imperial Envoy would come out and give an explanation.

The miners sat down on the ground and waited quietly.

There were both heroes and cowards in the room. Under coercion and inducement, someone soon revealed who Liu Yu was really looking for.

He was young, in his mid-twenties, and when he was about to ask, the other party called out "Ying Suo Bo" first with an accent from the Songjiang area.