New Shun 1730

It is indeed the British guns and British cannons, but the people standing behind them are definitely not British.

The British themselves do not have such battalion and company tactics. If they don't know it themselves, how can they teach others?

In an instant, I seemed to have figured it all out.

Looking back at the whole of Europe, no powerful country has such a style of army tactics, not even one at this time.

Valknier has never fought against the Dashun army, but this completely different tactical style is obviously impossible for these rebels to figure out by themselves.

If Dashun is supporting this rebel army behind the scenes, the consequences will probably be serious.

The appearance of the Dashun fleet on the sea can only prove that this rebel army cooperates with Dashun.

But if this rebel army itself is supported by Dashun, then the problem is big.

Tens of thousands of Chinese in Ceylon, Chinese in Java who can afford the head tax, and Chinese scattered all over Southeast Asia... If this is true, I am afraid that the big country in the north has been planning Southeast Asia many years ago.

Even the Ceylon immigration plan is probably a strategic layout completed by Dashun with the help of the Netherlands.

If this is true, then should we still fight?

Is there any point in resistance?

If this rebel army is supported by Dashun, then Dashun's regular army must be stronger than this rebel army.

Even the navy that the Dutch have always relied on is no longer as good as others.

How to fight in Southeast Asia, a place that is a week's sailing distance from Dashun and at least seven months' sailing distance from the Netherlands?

The Ceylon migration plan was after this rebel army started the uprising, so Ceylon would definitely be lost.

If Ceylon and Java are lost, will the Chinese leave Malacca to the company?

Ceylon, Java, and Malacca are all under the control of Dashun. How can the Spice Islands, Ambon, and Sulawesi in the east be defended?

If these places cannot be defended, how can the company exist?

At this moment, facing the offensive of the "rebels", the only thing Valkner thought of was to pull the troops back to Batavia as a bargaining chip.

Although he had just said that he wanted to use it as a bargaining chip, his thoughts at this moment were completely different from his thoughts before he saw the "rebels" counterattack.

What he wanted to talk about was different from what he had just discussed. Just after seeing the tactical moves of the "rebels".

Although he had already thought of "returning home" when Liu Yu forced him to change his trade policy and put pressure on him.

But now, he did not regret why he did not resign from the post of governor earlier and return to the Netherlands to retire.

In theory, every governor would get a large sum of money before leaving Batavia.

Normally, the governor has a "legal additional income" of 20,000 yuan per year.

Usually, the tax package rights can be auctioned off, and a large sum of money can be obtained.

When he leaves, he will auction his personal belongings. Even a broken bottle can be sold for thousands or even tens of thousands of yuan. This is the unspoken rule of Batavia. As long as the previous governor was not fired for committing a crime, he would basically arrange some things with the next governor at the time of handover.

It seems that when Valknir decided to retire in the Netherlands, it was a great choice for him.

But in fact, it was not.

After seeing who the supporters behind this "rebel" team were, Valknir would not regret not returning earlier.

Dashun had been planning for so long, and immigration to Ceylon was also part of the plan.

If he had returned to the Netherlands when he decided to return, then he would have been blamed for the loss of Southeast Asia.

The 17-member Gentlemen's Group is the real decision-making level. How can their family power be compared with his own? Will they take the blame?

The bankruptcy of a company does not mean the bankruptcy of its directors. Just force the government to stop paying.

Once a company goes bankrupt, tens of thousands of shareholders, stockholders, and investors always need to find an explanation, and someone needs to come out to take the blame.

Who will come?

It must be him who will take the blame to dispel the anger of tens of thousands of people involved in the company's bankruptcy.

How many people committed suicide overnight during the tulip incident?

Now that the East India Company is going to collapse, the turmoil it has caused is much more serious than the tulip incident, the South Sea Bubble and the Mississippi Bubble.

Immigration to Ceylon was initiated during his tenure.

Although the board of directors agreed in principle, the board of directors would never put the blame on themselves, otherwise the 17 gentlemen would be torn to pieces by angry shareholders and investors.

When the board of directors sent him here, they asked him to solve the "surplus population" problem in Batavia, but it could not affect trade with China.

Dashun exerted pressure and reacted very quickly. They could not be killed. They were sent back to Fujian and Dashun refused to accept them. In addition to immigrating to Ceylon, is there a better way?

This is the truth, but will the angry investors and citizens who have exchanged their entire wealth for East India Company stocks rationally consider who is responsible for this?

The Netherlands has the habit of attacking and killing the scapegoat and eating the meat alive.

Those investors who went bankrupt overnight and whose stocks became worthless overnight, will they put aside their anger and analyze rationally and calmly, who is responsible behind this?

Is it possible?

When Van de Wet was skinned alive, his meat was sold for ten copper coins a piece, and the people of Amsterdam were crazy about buying his meat, did anyone rationally think about what the problem of the Netherlands was?

No one.

The angry crowd needs a vent, and no one will go into the truth.

Moreover, at that time, can't the board of directors take the initiative to sue him, saying that he accepted money from the Chinese and helped China send tens of thousands of Chinese to Ceylon?

Will the citizens believe it? It goes without saying.

As for the specific situation in Southeast Asia, the board of directors can say that they were deceived by the governor, so they made a wrong judgment.

This can not only remove the responsibility of the board of directors, but also find a perfect scapegoat.

At that time, he will definitely die!

Even Valknier had thought about it a long time ago. When he took over the position of governor, the 17 gentlemen gave him some secret verbal guidelines, of course there was no written evidence: encouraging him to cut the Gordian knot and directly slaughter the excess population in Batavia.

If he did so at the beginning, given Dashun's cognition and reaction to the outside world, I am afraid that the board of directors would throw him out to take the blame at the first time.

If he dared to bite back and say that the board of directors gave him verbal advice, he would be worse off than dead.

First of all, there is no written evidence. The Netherlands is a law-abiding country.

Secondly, if he dared to bite back, his family, wife and children would all have to die.

William of the Orange family had such high prestige and was also the King of England, but what was the use? He was forced by the business oligarchs to work in the Netherlands, and he had to look at the faces of the financial capitalists, otherwise he would get out.

He was just the governor of Batavia.

Fortunately, Dashun prepared for a rainy day and did not cause trouble after the massacre. Instead, before the massacre, they directly used gunboat diplomacy, demanding that no massacre or repatriation be allowed. As for what to do, you can figure it out yourself.

Otherwise, when I was like a rampant crab, I really cleaned up the "extra" population in Batavia, and I might not even be alive today.

Since they didn't kill them, this gave Valknier a glimmer of hope.

He didn't want to die.

The only hope was with Dashun.

The thought of surrendering was raised, and the world was wide in an instant.

The nearly 2,000 troops under his command were his hope.

Batavia was definitely not defendable. He figured it out after he was sure that the supporter behind the rebels who were proficient in civil engineering was Dashun.

The bastions in the Netherlands were much stronger than those in Batavia. Wouldn't they still be unable to withstand the French attack in this way?

The skills of these "rebels" had already mastered the essence of bastion attack and defense, so the regular army of Dashun standing behind them must be stronger than this.

Batavia was certainly not defendable.

However, if he could withdraw these troops, make a gesture of defending to the death, and at the same time take the Chinese in Batavia as hostages and turn around to surrender to Dashun, then his chance of survival would be saved.

His wife and children were all in Batavia. The Netherlands was not Spain, and there was no requirement that the governor should not bring his wife to office.

Because of Spain's bizarre trade policy and colonial policy, the colonies could be independent.

The basis of the Netherlands' rule in Southeast Asia was the market, warehouses, merchant ships, and sales channels of the Dutch East India Company.

Spain's Philippines and South America, with their agricultural and mineral resources, are all capable of establishing themselves as kings. In the Pizarro era, similar ideas had already sprouted, and they were quite dissatisfied with subsequent immigrants. And after independence, life might be more comfortable than when they were Spanish colonies.

In addition to a sufficient population and mixed-race people, these are all factors that make Spain extremely wary of the governors and governors of the colonies.

However, places like Java, without the Dutch East India Company, cannot stand at all. And the value will be greatly discounted, and it is impossible to guard against the covetousness of other countries, and there are not many local Dutch or mixed-race people.

Therefore, the governor of the Netherlands can take his wife and children to office, and the company is never afraid of their independence. The dream of every governor is to make a fortune in Batavia and then return to the Netherlands to become a member of the real upper class.

And this has also become the basis for Valkner to find a way to survive.

My wife and children are all here. If I can offer Batavia, use my two thousand garrison troops as bargaining chips, and use the Chinese in Batavia as hostages, so that Dashun can guarantee my property, guarantee that I will not be sent back to the Netherlands, and give me an idle official position where I can retire in Dashun, then wouldn’t it be a way out in a dead end?

Moreover, the immigration to Ceylon was promoted by me during my tenure.

Although I did want to massacre the excess population in Batavia at the beginning.

But I didn’t do it in the end.

So, I can be regarded as having made contributions to Dashun.

Otherwise, how could Dashun gain a foothold in Ceylon so easily?

It is not difficult to capture Ceylon, but it is difficult that if there are not enough Chinese, Dashun will have to spend a lot of money to gain a foothold.

I can also be regarded as going to Southeast Asia for Dashun, and generously helping Dashun as a shareholder of the East India Company.

As long as you have money, where can you not live comfortably?

It’s not that the money of the Netherlands can’t be spent elsewhere.

In the world, where is gold, silver and copper coins not recognized?

When the time comes, I will go to Songjiang Prefecture of Dashun to retire. It is said that it is very prosperous. When I have nothing to do, I will write a memoir to recall my years in the company and the things I have witnessed in the rise of Dashun and the conquest of Southeast Asia. Isn't that good?

As for fighting to the death, Valknier thought it was a bit funny.

If it is for the motherland, maybe I can choose to fight on.

Although the seven provinces of the Republic of the Netherlands are independent, although there is no centralization into a truly unified country, although the French have bled them and have basically lost their patriotic enthusiasm, although the real ruling class has been busy reducing inheritance taxes and progressive taxes for the past forty years, and although financial capital has provided France with a loan of 5 million guilders in the context of the war between the Netherlands and France...

But, after all, there is still a bit of sentiment.

But Batavia is a company asset, not the Seven Provinces Republic.

Batavia does not even welcome Dutch people who are not company employees. It is very clear who the sovereignty belongs to.

Die for the company?

I have only heard of dying for love and dying for the country, but I have never heard of dying for the company.

Besides, even if I really die for the company, won’t the company’s loss of Southeast Asia and Ceylon still be blamed on me?

Someone has to take the blame.

By then, I will be dead, and I will not even have the opportunity to defend myself, and I will take the blame more thoroughly.

My wife remarries and my children beg?

It would be difficult for my wife to remarry. Who would dare to take this job and be humiliated by those bankrupt investors every day? The board of directors would never give annuities, and the family property was confiscated. He was used to a life of luxury and had no work skills. Wouldn't he just lie down and earn some sailor's money?

His own children beg, and those angry investors have nowhere to vent. Wouldn't his children be beaten every day? Even forced to lick dog shit on the street?

Valknier had heard of the tulip incident but never seen it, but he had really experienced the explosion of the South Sea Bubble and the Mississippi Bubble. How crazy were those failed investors? They attacked children for no reason and then committed suicide; they blew up churches with gunpowder bombs; they attacked the stock exchange with muskets and killed strangers they saw. Although the bubble exploded in Britain and France, Amsterdam was the world's financial center at that time, without a doubt. A large number of investors were from the Netherlands, and Valknier was deeply impressed by that madness.

After careful consideration based on his own interests, Valknier made a decisive decision.

"Order the artillery to abandon the cannons and retreat."

"Don't engage in battle, retreat, retreat to Batavia."