New Shun 1730

The water here is very deep, and the deepest is the word "Heavenly Kingdom".

If these things happened in Batavia, in Dashun, if there was collusion between officials and businessmen, they would just treat it as nothing happened, and even sit and divide the money.

But if there was an honest official, out of the interpretation of "benevolence and righteousness" and the understanding of the righteousness of "Spring and Autumn", he would definitely intervene.

The reason why Lei Zhenlan mentioned that Batavia's policy towards Chinese people was repeatedly changing was that he hoped to solve this hidden danger by means of "treating the symptoms and the root cause".

Today's incident only treated the symptoms.

The slave workers in the sugar factory were paid a head tax by Dashun and immigrated to Ceylon.

The Dutch also wanted them to leave.

Both sides could accept this result, so the matter was resolved.

What about tomorrow?

What if sugar becomes expensive tomorrow? What if tomorrow does not grow sugar but grows coffee and cocoa to make money again, and Chinese labor is urgently needed?

At that time, this and that problem will arise again.

At that time, will the court intervene?

What if the imperial court and the Netherlands go to war? What will happen to them after the war?

No matter what, should we make it clear about the legal principles and make a treaty that the Chinese in Batavia will not be under the jurisdiction of the Celestial Empire in the future? But this is not something they can say, the governor has to talk about it.

Lian Fuguang is of course aware of the problem here. As Kapitan, he has actually talked about this with the governor.

But the governor's answer is ambiguous - if the imperial envoy of the Celestial Empire takes the initiative to mention this matter, then talk about it; if not, just pretend it doesn't exist and don't open this window paper.

Lian Fuguang also understands the logic here.

The governor is going to leave.

The governor will only work here for a few years, and whether he does a good job is reflected in whether Batavia is in chaos.

In this case, especially when Dashun is aggressive, it is better to do less than more.

Moreover, this is a thankless task in itself.

Can Dashun manage the Chinese in Batavia?

Considering from the perspective of the Netherlands, isn't that nonsense? Of course they can't.

When the missionaries in the capital committed crimes, the Dashun side killed them directly, but they didn't say hello to the Pope.

But the problem is that the "diplomacy" of the Dashun is fake diplomacy.

Some things are known to you and me, and there is no need to make them clear.

If it is made clear, it is equivalent to slapping the emperor in the face and telling the emperor that you are not the Celestial Empire, and the overseas Chinese do not recognize you as the emperor, and you as the emperor cannot control the overseas Chinese.

This kind of "all under heaven is the king's land" thinking, when it collides with the thinking under the Westphalian system, it is easy to cause a conflict.

Originally, Valkner was worried that Liu Yu would go out to make trouble and start a war alone.

Doing this at this time, isn't it smoking next to the gunpowder depot?

Allowing the Dashun to have the right to govern the Chinese. Or to take a step back, the judge of the Chinese court must be nominated by the Netherlands and approved by the Dashun, and the company will definitely remove him from his position.

Just tell the Chinese in Dashun that you can't control them. Liu Yu might start a war, and the company will still remove him from his position.

What's the point of working so hard but not getting any thanks?

Therefore, when Lian Fuguang and Governor Valknir talked about this, they got a reply that it's better to have less trouble than more.

If Liu Yu asks, there's nothing we can do but talk.

If we don't ask, we won't talk.

Valknir thought very clearly.

The company sent him to be the governor to solve one thing: to solve the "surplus" population of Chinese in Batavia without affecting trade with China.

This "surplus" is dynamic. If it's surplus today, it may be urgently needed labor tomorrow.

The price of sugar cane is related to factors such as the war in Europe, natural disasters in the West Indies, the situation of the Persian War, and the situation in India. It's hard to ensure whether the price will rise in the future, and it's hard to ensure that it will plummet in the future.

But for now, at this moment.

Did I, Valknir, solve the "surplus" Chinese population in Batavia?

Did Valknir affect the trade with China?

It can be said that it was almost perfectly solved.

Then, the policy towards the Chinese, whether a large number of Chinese labor will be introduced in the future, is a problem that the next, next, and next governors will have to solve, and it has nothing to do with Valknir.

If you do it, you won't get anything good.

If you don't do it, you will perfectly meet the company's requirements and get promoted and a pay raise.

Then why do it? Are you sick in the brain?

After this cleanup of the "redundant" population, the remaining Chinese in Batavia are all "useful" populations, and there are no such intense conflicts as before.

In a short period of time, there will not be too much chaos, so that Dashun will have to come forward to solve it. How short? At least before Valknir leaves office, there should be no problem.

But the problem is that Valknir, the governor, is not hereditary, but these Chinese Kapitan Lei Zhenlan are almost hereditary-theoretically not hereditary, but it depends on the amount of property to determine whether they can be elected, and property is hereditary.

In this situation, the demands of Kapitan Lei Zhenlan and others conflicted with the Governor-General.

They hoped that Dashun would make it clear: Dashun had no control over Batavia's affairs, and Dashun should not send officials to the Chinese community.

This incident was also quite black humor.

If the Hongxi Massacre in history had happened, these people would definitely hope that Dashun would send officials. But if it happened, they would all die, even Fu Guang himself did not die but all his property was swallowed up. The dead cannot speak or ask for anything.

However, the reality is that the Red River Massacre did not happen, and these people are alive, so they do not want Dashun to send officials.

The Dutch control at this time requires Chinese to be the line, connecting the scattered points in Java to Batavia, and constantly sucking blood for the company.

They also need Chinese high-level people to serve as tools to rule the middle and lower Chinese.

The head tax is also a tax-farming tax, so the tax farmers do not have to pay the head tax. In other words, before the Europeans occupied India, the Industrial Revolution and the Naval Logistics Bureau Revolution, which gave them enough power to rule Southeast Asia, they had a cooperative relationship with the Chinese at the top of the pyramid.

The cooperation was so great that Dutch merchants ran to the Amsterdam company headquarters to complain that the governor treated the high-level Chinese too well.

Was there any oppression of the middle-level craftsmen, traders, restaurant owners, and inn owners? Yes. And it was very deep.

Was there any oppression of the lower-level slaves, contract workers, debt slaves, etc.? Yes. And it was very deep.

However, there was almost no oppression of the dozen or so Chinese at the top of the pyramid at this time.

In Dashun, they were under the pressure of a huge monster like the imperial court.

Moreover, they were not compatible.

The main contradiction of Dashun was the land issue, so the contradiction that Dashun was best at reconciling was also the contradiction between annexation and small farmers. If the same logic was used to deal with industrial and commercial contradictions, the situation of "cutting off for permanent control" would often occur: I killed all the buds, so I didn't have to deal with industrial and commercial contradictions that I couldn't deal with?

The simplest mining, why did the dynasty often ban mining? Because the contradiction between mine owners and miners could not be dealt with by the same means as dealing with landlords and farmers.

The landlords' land was in a hurry. If they met an honest official, they would investigate and return the land, and everyone would praise them.

At worst, they would rise up and equalize the land and exempt grain.

What about the mines? What about the factories? Split into small pieces?

A feudal dynasty with centralized power, is it afraid of those few mine owners and machine owners? They can kill them at will.

What they are afraid of are the miners and weavers who are born in opposition to the mine owners and machine owners.

Rather than saying that the feudal dynasty was afraid of the sprouts of capitalism, it is better to say that they were afraid of the proletariat brought by the sprouts.

The situation in Batavia is similar.

Is the conflict between the sugar factory workers and the sugar factory owners the same as the conflict between the landlords and the peasants? Can it be solved with the same idea? Dismantle the sugar-making machine into small pieces? Divide the sugarcane plantation into small pieces?

The "Dashun Law" is the law of the traditional feudal dynasty. It cannot solve the problem between the Batavian bourgeoisie and La Chalonnie. It will only tend to choose to erase both together.

Dashun is a standard product of the irreconcilable contradiction between landlords and peasants.

It is unable to reconcile the contradiction between hired workers and capitalists.

Unless the contradiction of the latter reaches a certain degree, when the old ruling class and ruling means can no longer rule as usual, a country that can reconcile such contradictions will be born:

This country may be called Dashun, or it may not be called Dashun, but it is definitely not the current Dashun.

It is not just the dark side of "slave labor" and "exploitation".

The Dashun Law also cannot solve a series of new problems in Batavia, such as shareholding system, employment contract, property ownership, private property protection, etc.

So no matter the dark side or the bright side, the high-level Chinese in Batavia do not want the Dashun rule to extend to Batavia.

In Dashun's homeland, the old ruling class is powerful. They are unable to resist, nor can they press the emperor's head to ask for their conditions like their European counterparts.

So overseas, far away from Dashun, they do not want Dashun's hand to reach out completely.

Unless Dashun clearly gives the conditions for how to rule Nanyang and how to protect their interests in the future.

First, the Hongxi Massacre did not happen, and these people did not know the danger of the Dutch; second, when the massacre did not happen, the laws of the Seven Provinces Republic were indeed more suitable for the Chinese at the top of the pyramid than the laws of the feudal Dashun.

Under various factors, Lian Fuguang felt that he had to do something.

At least, take the initiative to make this matter clear.

It's not that I said I didn't want the Celestial Empire's jurisdiction, but I just needed to make it clear that this matter had to be resolved, and how to resolve it was left to Dashun and the Netherlands.

I, based on Dashun's attitude, decided which side to take and how to take.

At this time, Dashun's battleships were already very close. Lian Fuguang, who had been frightened by the Dutch's dismemberment since childhood and believed that the Netherlands was invincible, had already leaned towards Dashun's invincibility.

In this case, he, or the desire of the high-ranking Chinese in Batavia, clearly and clearly distinguished the importance.

Best, Dashun would not care about Batavia and everything would remain the same.

Secondly, Dashun would conquer Nanyang, but the laws would remain the same and the means of governance would all use the Dutch law.

Thirdly, the war between Shun and the Netherlands would not be decided, and there would be no business for several years.

The worst, Dashun would conquer Nanyang and use the old system of Dashun to rule Nanyang, which had a completely different economic foundation.

If the worst possible outcome is really possible, then we should now consider cutting off our tail to survive and prepare for transformation: for example, selling off our property, fleeing back to Dashun, buying a house and land, donating to become a student in the Imperial Academy, hiring a teacher to teach our son the Thirteen Classics, preparing our grandchildren for the imperial examinations, and having our great-grandchildren become officials.