Just as Deng Fei was about to get up and angrily scolding the Dutch, Wang Zhusheng, who was a Bacheng Jiabidan, saw that something was wrong, and hurriedly stood up and bowed: "Mr. Deng, how many words do villain have? Don't you know whether to say it or not?"

Deng Fei glanced at Gerald Hurst and Jacob, calmed his anger in his chest, and said to Wang Zhusheng: "Mr. Wang, please speak."

Wang Zhusheng looked grateful and bowed, "Mr. Deng, Mr. Jiang, Mr. Hong, Xiatian is the Jiabidan, Bacheng. Although he was entrusted by the Dutch, he usually does things for us Tang people. This time, Wang was entrusted by thousands of Tang people in the city, hoping to explain to you the old things fifty years ago. Although the Dutch made excessive moves, the root cause is the result of those unscrupulous people who plotted against them."

"Ah?!" Deng Fei and the other two showed an incredible expression in their eyes.

Wang Zhusheng said again: "As far as the villain asked in Xiamen and Bacheng, this Batavia was originally under the jurisdiction of the local Crows, and was later occupied by the Dutch. At that time, the King of Ba held the unruly people and illegal people to Ceylon, and was allowed to return after making meritorious service and atonement. That Ceylon was the place where the Dutch started, and it was far from Bacheng, and there were often invasions of Shengfan. The Chinese in Ceylon fought, fought, won many battles and defeated Shengfan."

"In theory, these Chinese have made meritorious service and should return to Bacheng, but the then King of Ba and the Minister of the Pinyuan were worried that they would all withdraw and harass them again. So they wanted to select the strong ones from Batavia and go to Ceylon to replace them. But you think that the Chinese in Bacheng were originally innocent and would definitely not want to leave their families and businesses to Ceylon, so some people rely on their subordinates to resist the Dutch, and even conspired to incite all the Dutch."

"Think about it, if you were a Dutch government, you would never have to do this unfaithful act, so King Ba ordered his soldiers to attack him. Alas! Since ancient times, there has been no eye-catching swords and guns on the battlefield, and it is inevitable that you will hurt innocent people. But after that, King Ba also felt that he had done something a little too much and regretted it. Therefore, the two sides have been very peaceful in the past few decades. The Tang ship came here and was diligently recruited. Before leaving, he comforted him. Even if the city was a little bit of a secret, it was a matter of responsibility. However, trade affairs were still under the charge of our Tang people, and we would never dare to make things difficult for us."

"..." Deng Fei and Hong Tao looked at the striking and undoubted tone of Karbidan Wang Zhusheng, and were a little confused for a moment. This is different from what they had imagined before! Which one is this guy from?

Jiang Fan, who was standing beard with his hands, squinted his eyes and pondered without saying a word. He was not confused, but remembered that there was a sentence in the telegram Zhao Xin sent yesterday about the Batavia combat proposal, saying that it was a person like Wang Zhusheng.

"The Jiabidan is named Chinese merchants, but is actually a comprador of foreign slaves. From these people, there is no trace of national responsibility. They are a group of refined selfish people who are obviously capable but never consider helping their own people. It is very hateful!"

At this moment, in Jiang Fan's opinion, these people are not only hateful, they are simply killing!

In fact, the reason why the "Hongxi Massacre" occurred was that on the one hand, the Dutch coveted the wealth accumulated by the Chinese and deprived them of them through massacres; on the other hand, the cruel exploitation and even inaction of the Chinese comprador group headed by Karbidan on the lower-level Chinese was also an important reason for the Dutch to take action.

The root of everything is still economic, and it starts with the development of the sucrose cultivation industry in Java.

At the beginning of the 18th century, the sugar cane planting industry in Java developed rapidly and was almost completely controlled by the Chinese. Encouraged by the East India Company, sugar cane plantations were spread all over the countryside around Bacheng. As many as 130 sugar cane plantations belonged to 79 Chinese, 4 Dutch and 1 Javanese.

As the Chinese population in Batavia is increasing, the effective operation of many local political affairs depends not only on the unique relationship between mutual trust and cooperation between Khabitan and the Dutch and Indian authorities, but also on the authority of Khabitan as the Chinese leader and coordinator.

On the one hand, the Chinese are directly under the jurisdiction of the Dutch-appointed Kapitan and Lieutenant (Lieutenant transliteration, meaning assistant) appointed by the Dutch. These Chinese officials act as compradors in all matters involving the East India Company. Through tax contracting, hospitals, orphanages, guardians and other institutions, a firm institutionalized connection between the Chinese and the Dutch. On the other hand, the private business interests of the East India Company officials and the Chinese business owners are increasingly intertwined, and the illegal private trade that a large number of Dutch people engage in is ostensibly handled by the Chinese business owners.

In the early days, there was no doubt that Kapitan's authority among the Chinese was elected and appointed by the Chinese who lived in Bacheng through a very democratic way. The Chinese head tax had to be paid in the official office of Kapitan and then transferred to the East India Company.

However, all the workers in the plantation and Chinese businessmen who are quite far from the city are not under the jurisdiction of Kabitan and Lei Zhenlan in the city, but are placed under the direct supervision of Dutch judges and their subordinates. Despite this, according to the rules, the Chinese operators of these plantations have to pay the captive tax on their employees through Kabitan every year.

Under this twisted policy of going far and wide, with the Chinese's urination, there are definitely not many people who actually pay taxes according to the rules. Planter owners would rather bribe the judicial judges to be lenient than go to the city to pay taxes according to the number of people. After all, the more illegal workers do not pay taxes, the more profitable Chinese businessmen will be. Dutch judicial judges turn a blind eye to this and just accept bribes. Therefore, as corruption continues to grow, Kapitan's prestige is declining.

Finally, those Kapitan and Lei Zhenlan who invested in sugarcane plantations also became part of the fraud activities, which resulted in a vicious cycle, and short-term corruption replaced long-term cooperation. The lower-level Chinese workers were exploited and exploited by these people, and they also had to borrow usury to repay the cost of the snakehead. Once someone was dissatisfied, the Chinese merchants threatened them by reporting to the Dutch.

This chapter is not over, please click on the next page to continue reading! The full rollout of fraud has led to the price of sugar in Bacheng that is not as good as sugar in British Bangladesh, and sales have dropped. As a result, the Dutch East India Company suddenly significantly reduced the purchase price and quantity of sugar, thus directly hitting the local sugarcane planting industry, and a large number of Chinese people operating the plantation became victims.

Many of the sugarcane garden operators who were bankrupt were ordinary Chinese. They had no capital when starting a business and had to rely on loans to operate. Not to mention the Chinese who rented land at high prices to operate the plantation. Like the tenants who took Qingqing, they must first ensure that the landlords make profits.

The decline of the sugar industry has led to the increasing difficulties of Chinese people in other industries in the city. Bankrupt Chinese workers and small Chinese businessmen have appeared in groups in the countryside. The tax measures and extortion of the Dutch make these people like squeezed sponges. Thousands of elderly and young people have lost their land, money and work, leaving them with only three roads, either waiting to starve to death, beg for sporadic relief, or stealing.

The news of the increasingly turbulent rural areas almost never reached the ears of the rich people in Bacheng. The Dutch officials in the countryside felt that it was wiser to cover up the truth. Kapitan and his Lei Zhenlan were only required to spend a few hundred taels of silver to help these miserable compatriots, but as compradors and landlords, they were indifferent.

The loss of authority of Kapitan in rural areas has led to the separation of the two groups of urban Chinese and rural Chinese, and an explosive situation has been inevitable.

In the spring of 1740, the powder keg was finally ignited, and the scandal of officials from the Dutch East India Company selling residence permits to Chinese sugar cane plantations was exposed. This incident forced the Bacheng authorities to propose a radical but unrealistic plan to force Chinese workers to immigrate to Ceylon so that they could solve the problem of Chinese workers who were wandering in the countryside once and for all.

However, what did the Dutch actually do? After sending Chinese workers out of the sea, they killed them directly, or threw them into the sea. The survivors fled back to the countryside of Batavia, forcing others to think that instead of waiting for death, it is better to rebel and survive in death.

When the Chinese workers outside the city began to revolt, the Chinese in the city remained silent, and even the birthplace of the riot was the plantation of Kabitan at that time. When the Chinese workers' uprising defeated the Dutch's first attack and began to directly attack the Batavia gate, the relationship between the Dutch and the Chinese was completely disintegrated.

The revenge mentality and fear of being robbed triggered a bloody massacre that lasted for three days, and the evil in human nature was completely released. The East India Company authorities made a fortune from the massacre, and everyone involved in the massacre made a fortune.

Just like the "Night of St. Bartholomew" in French history when Catholics massacre Protestants, the Chinese in Batavia, both men, women, young and old, died tragically under swords, even pregnant women and infants in swaggers were not spared. No less than a hundred prisoners in shackles were cut off their throats one after another like sheep. Some Dutch people had provided sheep for many wealthy Chinese citizens in the past, but on this day they even attacked these Chinese in order to divide their property.

A German carpenter named Jog Berhadt Schwartz said in his afterthought: "I knew my Chinese neighbor had a fat pig, so I planned to take it for myself. When my boss, the carpenter, saw what I mean, he patted my shoulder and told me to kill the Chinese first and then rob. So I picked up a stick of rice and beat the neighbor who often drank with me."

However, things didn't stop there. Later, Schwartz found a pistol at his neighbor's house, and took the gun outside and shot the Chinese he saw. He said: "I gradually became accustomed to this. To me, killing a Chinese is like killing a dog."

Zhao Xin said it very clearly at the end of the telegram. He warned Deng Fei and others not to think that it would be possible to defeat Batavia City. What you are going to deal with is a colonial system with the Dutch as the top of the pyramid, Chinese merchants as compradors, and Chinese workers at the bottom were cruelly exploited.

To deal with this system, it is useless to defeat the Dutch. Because in the center of the pyramid, there are Karbidan, Lieutenant, Secretary, usury groups, population groups, gambling groups, and even opium dealers like domestic landlords. These people are compradors of the Dutch, as complex as vines and closely linked.

Therefore, although the Dutch and Spanish colonists are enemies, the Chinese comprador groups that have already taken root in Southeast Asia have irreconcilable contradictions with Beihai Town.

He asked Deng Fei and the others to think clearly that there is no problem in fighting with the Dutch, how will the battle end? In other words, war is like love. It is easy to start and difficult to end, and maybe you will enter the "grave" if you are not done well.

The purpose of launching a war is nothing more than political and economic interests. As a regime, or as the leader of Beihai Town, Zhao Xin could not let the Thunder come all the way to collect debts for the Chinese people fifty years ago, and then pat them and leave.

The battle of Annan was to go up and Lang Son, and the magnetite and coal mines in northern Annan; the battle of Batavia was to ultimately control the Sunda Strait and then control the economy of Southeast Asia. It was easy to sign a big cake with Nguyen Phuc Ying, because Zhao Xin knew that the other party's strength was not enough to unify Annan in the short term, but Java was different, and people left and tea was cold.

Not to mention that VOC has 10,000 soldiers and tens of thousands of employees throughout Southeast Asia, and its strongholds are spread across the East Indies and the Spice Islands. If Beihai Town wants to completely eliminate the Dutch, it not only requires force, but also requires economic means. In just a few years or even more than ten years, the situation cannot be controlled.

Now that he heard Wang Zhusheng's words, Deng Fei suddenly felt that even if he beat the Dutch away, as long as the North Navy did not set up government management here and did not station troops, these guys might even invite the Dutch back!

This chapter is not finished yet, please click on the next page to continue reading the exciting content below! At this point, whether it is Deng Fei or others, they have no intention of explaining to Wang Zhusheng and others what happened back then. The butts of these compradors were originally sitting in a crooked manner, willing to be foreign slaves, just like the "Li Zhaigua" in another time and space.

It was only then that Deng Fei finally understood what Zhao Xin meant. To completely change the fate of overseas Chinese, it was not only the struggle between Beihai Town and Western colonists, but also involved the confrontation between classes. He knew very well how cruel the class struggle was, but maybe it would be blood flowing.

"This bastard Zhao Xin, no wonder he asked me to come to Southeast Asia. It turned out that this is the idea!"

Just when Deng Fei was in a tangle, Wang Yuanfang was struggling with two hundred special operations camps in the jungle more than 60 miles east of Bacheng. Their goal was to capture the fortress twenty miles east of Bacheng in one day.

Their group of people set out from Thor before dawn in the early morning to avoid the surveillance of the Dutch. After the sun came out, these people had already entered the jungle.

Wang Yuanfang, who had been a scout in the south for many years, was also very troubled. In such an environment, the troops could not be dispersed and organized according to time, nor could they organize and cooperate according to the order of combat. They could only support each other based on visibility and be anxious.

In fact, the biggest problem in jungle combat is not snakes and insects, but communication. Even if you have GPS in another time and space, it is useless. You should know that in a high-temperature environment, who can wear headphones all the time is definitely a good man. Even if someone can persist in wearing it, the stuffy and humid environment will reduce hearing, and hearing is very important for mountain jungle combat.

Because of his outstanding performance in the short-term training on Dazhan Island and his bravery in the Battle of Hoi An, Wen Dai and Rapini, who have been promoted to privates, walked twenty meters ahead of the team as vanguards. Unlike in the past, Wen Dai did not use a walkie-talkie to contact the rear, but occasionally guided the team behind by imitating the call of frogs.

When the two saw a big tree lying down among the weeds, they did not step over it directly, but walked around from one side, and then used the croaking of frogs to remind the people behind. The reason for this was that there was a snake under the trunk.

Suddenly, Wen Dai, who was moving forward, moved his ears, as if he had heard something. He immediately signaled Rapini, and the two of them immediately surrounded a big tree with great understanding.

When Wen Dai saw the guy squatting in the grass, he slowly retracted his gun and then pulled out a dagger from his thigh. When the other party was attracted by the sound made by Rapini, Wen Dai rushed out like a tiger, and his left arm was tied around the other party's neck, and then he pushed the dagger to the man's chest.

At this time, the man in Wen Dai's arms was knocked off because of his hat, revealing his braid on his head. Wen Dai knew that this might be a Chinese, so he whispered: "Don't yell, otherwise I'll stab you to death, do you understand?"

The man he hugged first hurriedly "yes" twice, and then Wen Dai threw him into the grass. He took a few breaths, and when he turned around and saw clearly the person attacking him, he was immediately scared.
Chapter completed!