After coming out of the court, Zhao Xin sent Jiang Asheng away and asked him to go about his business. Then he took two guards for a walk in Bacheng, intending to take a good look at the city.
I have been talking about Bacheng for so long, how big is its area? Bacheng in the 18th century was actually the Old City of Jakarta in another time and space, covering an area of 1.3 square kilometers, almost equal to the area of three Tiananmen Squares in later generations. Although it was not big by the standards of later generations, it was a proper first-tier city in Southeast Asia at the end of the 18th century.
VOC developed a fishing village called "Jakarta" into the beautiful city of Bach, and the Chinese have made an indelible contribution to this. Even the Dutch themselves admit that without the Chinese, Bacheng would not exist.
The tall houses on both sides of the canal were renovated and distributed last year by the Military Control Commission to immigrant families who joined the security forces and directly owned farms. Each house accommodates two to three families, and the conditions are much better than those in Chinatown outside the south gate. In addition, the Military Control Commission also helps its single employees find wives.
It’s quite interesting to say that although men from Fujian and Guangdong flock to Nanyang, basically no one brings a wife, and no women are willing to come. Only in the Kangxi era did a man bring his wife, and the gender ratio between men and women was extremely unbalanced. The scarcity of women of this ethnic group, coupled with the conflict of beliefs among Javanese people who believe in Christianity, has led to many Chinese workers buying slave girls from Bali and then marrying them into the family. The descendants of these people are also called "Baba Nyonya" ” (baba nyonya).
However, due to the disparity in social status between men and women, coupled with the Chinese people's ethical concepts in this era, beating and scolding the wife has become a common thing, without any guilt. Coupled with the fact that two poor men began to marry concubines, which led to men in Bacheng often insulting and beating their wives because of conflicts between their concubines and their first wives.
When Zhao Xin was waiting in court, the case decided in the second court was a divorce lawsuit because of this kind of thing. Huang Mianshe's approach is usually to encourage reconciliation but not divorce. If it doesn't work, they will decide to divorce.
Zhao Xin walked around the city and bought some freshly baked bread and dry rice noodles when passing by the market inside the south gate. Originally, he wanted to chat with the people who opened shops and stalls, but the problem was that he couldn't understand the southern Fujianese, and the locals couldn't understand the northern Mandarin. He could just point and buy things, but if he talked any more, he would be like a chicken. Duck talks.
"Mandarin education has a long way to go!" Zhao Xin sighed and carried his things towards the Military Control Commission building.
The Military Control Commission of Beihai Town in Bacheng is actually the former VOC Governor's Mansion, with two floors. Offices are in the front, and people live in the left and right wings and in the back. In front of the main entrance of the building is a large lawn, and on the west side is the Great Dutch Church, which was converted into a hospital.
Speaking of this large dome church built in the 1830s in the Gothic style, it is very famous throughout Southeast Asia and even Europe. When ships from far away arrive at the port of Bacheng, they will use it as a direction sign. However, because the architect who originally designed the church was a dabbler by training as a baker, there have been structural problems. In history, in 1808, the church was finally destroyed by an earthquake.
Zhao Xin did not know at this moment that Beihai Town had attracted the attention of the Holy See because of the behavior of expelling local missionaries when expelling the Dutch.
What? You mean France? Hey, during the September Massacre, priests and priests were all targeted for elimination.
When Zhao Xin walked to the square in front of the Military Control Commission, he heard the rapid sound of horse hooves. He turned around and saw two galloping carriages approaching from the northern port. When the car stopped outside the hospital gate, they saw a dozen people jumping out of the second flatbed carriage. They entered the hospital surrounded by four people who got off the first carriage. Among them was a crying woman. , wearing a silk and satin suit, very eye-catching.
Zhao Xin found it very strange how these people were dressed. Some were dressed in silk and satin, and some were actually wearing the uniforms of the Green Camp of the Qing Army. He originally wanted Wen Dai, who was in charge of the security guard, to come over and take a look, but then he thought about it, he was also very good at Minnan dialect.
By coincidence, two guys wearing security uniforms and armbands came over from the south. Zhao Xin immediately waved to them to come over. The two security patrol members were stunned for a moment when they saw it, but when they noticed that there were two tough Bei Haijun standing behind Zhao Xin, they immediately trotted to Zhao Xin.
"Can you speak Mandarin?"
The older security guard first stood at attention and saluted, and then replied: "Yes."
"Where are you from?"
"Hu (Fu) built Xiapu."
"what is it call?"
"Reporting to the chief, my name is Cai Qian, and my name is Jinwuzai."
At this time, Zhao Xin's attention was all on the carriage a hundred meters away. He didn't think much, nodded and said casually: "Please go to the hospital and have a look. What are the people who went in just now? Why are they still wearing clean clothes?" Military uniform? I'll wait for you here."
"Su (yes)!"
After the two figures disappeared from the hospital gate for a while, Zhao Xin finally reacted and said in shock: "Xiapu Cai Qian? Holy shit! Isn't this a big trip to the sea!"
On the other side, Jin Wuzi walked and whispered to Cai Qian: "Brother Qian, the officer just spoke like he was setting off firecrackers. Wow, I heard the word hospital clearly."
Cai Qian said: "People from the north speak like this. Chief Wang is also from the north. Didn't he do the same when he lectured us before?"
"Brother Qian, we should first ask what the officer does?"
"Your skull is broken! Didn't you see the armbands on the arms of the two soldiers behind him?"
"nothing?"
Cai Qian raised his hand and gave Jin Wu Zai a slap on the back of his neck, and cursed: "You are such a fool! You have a tiger head! You can let people from the special operations battalion serve as guards, do you think he can be an ordinary person?!"
Golden Crow stuck out his tongue and showed a surprised expression.
It is said that Wang Yuanfang led 200 special operations battalions to attack Batavia by land and captured Dingjia Fort with only 30 men. Later, he defeated the Württemberg Cape Corps and a thousand indigenous soldiers. The story told by Jiang Asheng and other Chinese workers who were present at the time spread throughout Chinatown. In the eyes of the Chinese in Bacheng, those soldiers of the special operations battalion wearing tiger head armbands and camouflage camouflage have become heavenly soldiers and generals who can kill people invisible, and can even defeat a hundred people with one. For security teams like Cai Qian and others who are not yet formal soldiers, the people in the special operations camp are the ones who need to look up to them.
Zhao Xin waited for less than ten minutes before Cai Qian and Jin Wuzai came out of the hospital.
"Sir, those people who came from Hundian are all from Sulanhuang Company."
"Dark shop? Lanhuang Company?" Zhao Xin tilted his head and thought for a while, but there was no memory at all. But now his interest has turned to Cai Qian.
"Where are you from?"
"Tong'an."
"How many people are in the family?"
"..."
After asking a few questions, when he learned that both of his parents were dead and he was thirty-one years old, Zhao Xin felt that he was inseparable. The security team member in front of him was most likely the great sea pirate in history. He felt that the opportunities in life were really interesting. He didn't expect that Beihai Town was recruiting people in Fujian and they actually got this person.
Then he encouraged Cai Qian and Jin Wuzai to work hard, then turned and entered the military control meeting. After going up to the second floor, he came to Wang Yuanfang's office. When he saw that the other party was there, he told him what happened just now.
Wang Yuanfang laughed after hearing this, and then told an interesting story about when he was recruiting soldiers. After hearing this, Zhao Xin joked: "Tell me, do we think that all the heroes in the world have fallen into the trap? There is White Lotus Wang Cong'er in the north, and Da Chuhai Cai Qian in the south."
Wang Yuanfang said curiously: "If you don't tell me, I really forgot. What is Wang Conger doing now?"
"I'm 15. I heard that I entered Lao Yu's cadre school last year. Her mother kept talking about finding her a husband every day, but Teacher Fang didn't agree, and the two of them had a lot of arguments about this. The last time I went to see Teacher Fang, I sat down for less than two minutes. , Wang Conger's mother asked me about Xu Funan, she probably fell in love with that boy."
"How old is Xu Funan?"
"17."
Wang Yuanfang sighed: "It's so fast, it's been nine years in a blink of an eye!"
"Yes! The little cubs are all grown up." Zhao Xin changed the topic and curiously said to Wang Yuanfang: "Are you already forty, brother? When do you plan to carry on the family line?"
Wang Yuanfang looked proud when he heard this, and said with a smile: "It's been five months. You should hurry up and prepare red envelopes!"
"Have you thought about it? If you give birth to a son, your surname will be Wu?"
"Whatever your surname is, he is also my son. You have to call me daddy!"
Zhao Xin chuckled, stood up and prepared to leave, and said casually to Wang Yuanfang: "Hey? I have something to ask you, have you ever heard of Huandian and Lanhuang Company?"
"What?" Wang Yuanfang was stunned for a moment, then laughed loudly: "Hahaha, who told you that?"
"Cai Qian, I asked him to inquire before I came up just now." Zhao Xin then talked about the people he saw.
Wang Yuanfang said: "Don't you know that Fujian people speak the same language as Hu Fu? Those are Pontianak and Lanfang companies!"
Zhao Xin said in surprise: "Is it them?"
"We have special medicine to treat malaria. Now people in Borneo come to see the doctor every month, usually for emergencies."
Having said this, Wang Yuanfang opened his notepad and said after a while: "I found it. On April 5th last year, Luo Fangbo sent a man named Jiang Wubo to come here and wanted to become our vassal state. . On the 6th, Deng Fei and I sent a telegram to the staff."
Zhao Xin thought for a while and was completely lost. At that time, he was meeting with Liu Sheng and Fan Tong to plan the campaign in Outer Mongolia, and they held closed-door meetings for several days. Maybe I didn't think it was important at the time, so I just forgot about it.
"A vassal?" Zhao Xin turned around and sat back across from Wang Yuanfang, narrowing his eyes and saying, "You really dare to show your teeth."
In countless rumors from another time and space, Lanfang Company was praised to the sky. It was called the first republic in Asia, the first Chinese president, and his offer of soil to Daiqing was rejected. Qianlong was so proud. Ao, braids are long but knowledge is short of wisdom...it's all bullshit!
You must know that the suzerain-vassal relationship in the Ming and Qing Dynasties was not a vassal state with floating officials in the Han Dynasty, but similar to that of Korea, Ryukyu, and Annan in the central dynasty. It was just a title to claim vassal status and pay tribute!
Wang Yuanfang explained: "So Deng Fei and I met once, and then we asked the staff below to deal with it. Later, Uncle Luo Fang stopped sending people."
At this time, Zhao Xin once again recalled the previous scene, and waved to Wang Yuanfang to say goodbye. After standing in the corridor for a moment, he called an officer on duty and gave a few instructions in a low voice. After hearing this, the officer saluted and hurried downstairs.
In fact, before Zhao Xin decided to capture Batavia, he had already considered Lanfang Company, which had been founded 15 years ago. The reason why he did not have contact with these people was because he instinctively did not believe that it was a so-called "republic".
We must know that during the mid-Qianlong period, there were more than thirty Chinese companies in West Borneo and Lanfang Company, and there were more than a dozen Huiyang Hakka companies in the areas north of Nanbawa and east of Salvage Deer. The largest of these companies is not Lanfang, but the Heshun Alliance headed by Dagang Company.
Of course, Zhao Xin believes that it is pure nonsense for some people in later generations to say that Lanfang Company was born out of the Tiandihui! According to the records of inquiries from the Beihai Town Public Security Police Department about the remnant members of the Tiandi Hui who defected to the Tiandi Hui, when Luo Fangbo left his hometown for Borneo in the 37th year of Qianlong's reign, Tixi's son Zheng Ji was still making money by opening a night casino, and the Tiandi Hui also did not spread to eastern Guangdong.
It is said that since the death of King Li of Zhou in 828 BC, Duke Zhou and Zhao established Prince Jing as king and Queen Xuan of Zhou. In China’s more than two thousand years of feudal history, there has never been a time when “two people have the final say”. The idea that "the emperor is ordered by heaven, and the world is ordered by the emperor" has been engraved in the bones of Chinese people in the feudal era, that is to say, one thing is the same!
Now suddenly a talented scholar from Guangdong appears who has failed many times and went to Borneo to pan for gold. After a lot of beatings and kicks, and a bloody battle with a bunch of illiterate people, this person suddenly became enlightened and said that I can speak alone. Calculation is not enough. I want to decentralize power and let everyone sit down and discuss it together. is it possible?
Not to mention Luo Fangbo couldn't do it, even Zhao Xin couldn't do it. Even though he is well aware that his abilities are limited, and often travels between two time and space, and is influenced by the modern atmosphere from time to time, his desire to "one word" is stronger than anyone else!
"Guanzi" says: "If the advantage comes from one hole, his country will be invincible; if the advantage comes from two holes, his army will be invincible; if the advantage comes from three holes, his army will not be able to raise troops; if the advantage comes from four holes, his country will be destroyed." The words not only refer to financial power, but also to business power. Even in modern times, the boss of any company does not want to have someone who is equal to him; his subordinates can give suggestions, but it is not up to me whether to use them or not.
Zhao Xin felt that Luo Fangbo had not gone from being brought to the throne to being canonized. If he had been, he would have made him a king, and then he would have summoned the legitimate son from Guangdong to pass it on from generation to generation.
The reason why these countries in Southeast Asia are crying and clamoring to be vassalized by Qing Qing, and even like Ruan Guangping, who even went to celebrate Qianlong's birthday after winning the battle, is because they are just and destined.
However, the problem was that Luo Fangbo was not ignored by Dai Qing. In addition, the Sultan of Pontianak was eyeing him inside, and the Dutch were aggressive outside. It was impossible for Luo Fangbo to establish himself as king, so he could only keep the general system to death.
Not long after Zhao Xin returned to his residence, the previous officer brought the person he was looking for. It was none other than Huang Zhongtong, He Xiwen's die-hard subordinate.
Zhao Xin pointed to the chair in front of him and said with a smile: "Here we go, sit down and talk."
Huang Zhongtong said hurriedly: "I don't dare to be humble! If you have anything to do, just give me your orders."
Although when he cooperated with the Northern Navy to attack the Hue Palace, Huang Zhongtong had met Zhao Xin and knew that he had no airs and was quite easy-going. However, in his limited understanding, Zhao Xin was going to be the emperor in the future, the real Dragon Emperor. . Who dares to sit down and reply in front of the Emperor?
Zhao Xin smiled and did not force it, and continued: "I came to you because I heard that you are very careful in your work. Now there is something important that I have to let you run."
"Yes." Huang Zhongtong was extremely excited, thinking that King Zhao personally gave him the task. This is a great opportunity!
"Take a few people to West Borneo and check the details of Lanfang Company and Uncle Luo Fang for me."
Huang Zhongtong saluted and said, "Yes! I will investigate this matter as soon as possible."
Zhao Xin shook his head and said: "I don't want you to be quick, but I want to investigate carefully, including the internal organization of their gold mine and the treatment of the workers."
