At the same time that Zhao Xin and Huang Zhongtong were talking, a minor incident occurred outside a shop in Bacheng. However, it triggered a large-scale armed fight and shocked the entire Bacheng.
However, it was precisely because of this unexpected armed fight that Zhao Xin made up his mind to incorporate various Chinese forces in West Kalimantan, which eventually led to Beihai Town declaring a full-scale war on the Dutch East India Company two years later, which also reduced Beihai Town's sphere of influence. expanded to the entire Southeast Asia.
The cause of the incident was that among the Hakkas who came from Pontianak, in addition to the crying woman Zhao Xin saw before, there was also a 15-year-old Kaya woman who had some chest tightness due to the smell of disinfectant in the hospital. Feeling sick, I came to the hospital door alone to get some fresh air. As a result, she heard several women nearby talking about a new batch of toilet water in the grocery store in the city. The woman was moved, and hurriedly asked the women from Bali in Malay for the location, and then ran away alone. shop.
Unexpectedly, when she came out from the shop after shopping, she was spotted by three men from Zhangzhou. Seeing her graceful figure and pretty face, and her dark skin, they knew she was not Chinese, so they began to flirt with her. He directly stepped forward to hug and drag him.
Although the woman was a native Kayak in Borneo, her status in Pontianak was extraordinary. She had grown up in the Chinese community in Pontianak, so how had she ever encountered such a thing? She was so frightened that she begged and hugged a tree by the roadside without letting go. After a while, she was seen by several Hakka people from Pontianak who came out to look for her.
When the other party saw this, he was furious. He stepped forward, yelled and cursed, and knocked the three men to the ground. Seeing that the other party was tall and strong, the three men from Zhangzhou gave in and said they were drunk and confused. The Hakkas didn't want to cause trouble, so they scolded each other and took the woman away.
Later in the evening, as the condition of the emergency patients hospitalized in the hospital stabilized, except for the three or five people who stayed in the hospital to accompany the patients, the others from Pontianak walked back to the ship in the port to eat and rest. When they were approaching the port, more than twenty Zhangzhou people armed with daggers and sticks suddenly appeared from the roadside, led by the three men who had molested the maid in the afternoon. They were obviously here to avenge the quarrel that afternoon.
The people in Pontianak didn't want to cause trouble, and based on the principle of minimizing big problems, they planned to persuade them with good words and spend some money to get rid of the trouble. Unexpectedly, the people of Zhangzhou were unyielding when they gained power. The three leaders not only wanted money, but also wanted to take the woman away and even break the legs of the two people who had scolded them before.
This is so fucking bullying! If you can't bear it anymore, you don't need to bear it anymore, and the two sides immediately fight. The problem is that despite the small number of people here in Pontianak, they live a life of licking blood from the edge of a knife. The more than twenty Zhangzhou people are no match at all. In three strikes, five divided by two, more than half of the troops were knocked down, and then they Return to the ship in the harbor.
When the surviving Zhangzhou people saw how powerful the opponent was, they sent people back to Chinatown to call for support. It is said that the immigrants in Bacheng are basically Fujianese, and the Zhangquan area in southern Fujian has had a culture of fighting over land distribution since the late Ming Dynasty. The so-called "a small fight every seven years, and a big fight every ten years." Although there were frequent internal strife in their hometown, the immigrants in Zhangzhou and Quanzhou actually stood together when they arrived overseas. I heard that the Hakkas from Pontianak beat up my own family, and Chinatown exploded. Soon more than 300 people gathered, all armed with daggers and sticks, and some even carried dung forks.
Because the security team members responsible for security patrols were all from southern Fujian, they turned a blind eye to this behavior, thinking that they would stop them only after they had been taught a lesson. Among them are Cai Qian and Jin Wuzai.
When everyone in Lanfang Company returned to the ship and saw hundreds of people coming up to the port, they initially thought of conciliating with words. However, they didn't know that the Hokkien people had been instigated and saw the tragic situation of their brothers' heads and blood, so they didn't say anything when they came up. After two sentences, the fight started directly.
Although there are only fifty or sixty people in Lanfang Company, they have swords and guns on the ship, and they are guarding the ship. Besides, there is also a tradition of fighting between Hakka people and Cantonese people. I'm afraid of that!
The two sides fought for more than 20 minutes. In the darkness of the night, the severity of the attacks became more and more obvious. The people from Lanfang Company became red-eyed after killing and injuring several people one after another. They attacked without mercy, resulting in the death and injury of dozens of immigrants from southern Fujian. , among whom eight died on the spot, twenty-three were seriously injured, and a dozen were slightly injured.
Just when the southern Fujian immigrants were unable to attack for a long time and began to throw torches on the ship to burn it, sixty marines from the North arrived after hearing the news. The company commander leading the team ordered to fire warning shots in the air. Several people on the port Only then did hundreds of people disperse in a swarm. With the black muzzle of their guns, the Marines held down more than a hundred Zhangquan immigrants on the spot, and then searched and rescued the injured at the scene.
The gunfire alarmed the residents in the Military Control Commission compound and everyone inside and outside Bacheng. You must know that since Beihai Town took over Bacheng, there has never been such a large-scale criminal case. After hearing the news, more than a dozen stewards in the court were all shocked and went to the Military Control Commission to plead guilty.
Even Wang Yuanfang, a good-tempered person, was furious after learning about the situation. He immediately ordered the Hui'an camp and the Bacheng security team to gather in front of the Military Control Commission building, blockade Chinatown overnight, and arrest all those involved in the fight. Then someone was sent to contact Zheng Wenxian and ordered the fleet to watch the Lanfang Company's merchant ships and not allow them to leave the port without authorization. After the naval blockade was completed, the Marine Corps boarded the ship overnight to arrest the people!
The people from Lanfang Company really wanted to sail away, but when the searchlights suddenly lit up at the port and locked them in, they were immediately frightened. When the Beihai Navy boarded the boat to arrest the people, the leader tried to defend himself, but the Beihai Navy ignored him at all and just slapped the butt of his rifle and tied him up. Now the Hakka people quit. Although they did not dare to confront the North Navy head-on, some people still shouted out that there are hundreds of thousands of Hakka people in Borneo. If they dare to touch us, they will kill everyone in Bacheng. Class words.
By the next morning, the detention center in Bacheng was overcrowded. The security team and Hoi An camp arrested more than 200 immigrants who participated in the fight, while the people from Lanfang Company were imprisoned in an abandoned Catholic church near the port. inside.
After preliminary interrogation and identification of the persons involved, by the afternoon of that day, the whole process of the case was generally clear. After Zhao Xin, Deng Fei and others learned the details, they were shocked and speechless.
The three Zhangzhou immigrants involved were actually members of the Tiandi Society. The campers found a tattered membership book from his residence, which contained the appearance of the Gaoxi Temple, the incense burner, the flagpole, the brand name, the yellow cover, the commander's flag, the general's flag and the guild's flag; in addition to this, In addition, it also records door couplets and poems from the temple, various inscriptions and blessings to gods, and 36 affidavits.
According to the three people's confessions, they came to Bacheng from Borneo at the beginning of last year. They had been making a living by farming outside the city and secretly developed more than 20 accomplices. Yesterday at noon, the three of them went into the city to sell vegetables together and met the woman from Pontianak. They thought the woman was from Balinese and her customs were completely different from those in the mainland, so they began to tease her. When the Pontianak group came to rescue them, they recognized the other party as someone from Lanfang Company. Because they had a grudge in the past, they later mobilized people for revenge.
Deng Fei was a little strange, so he asked Huang Mianshe and others who came to report the interrogation: "What is the conflict between Tiandihui and Lanfang Company?"
The oldest Huang Mianshe knew this history, so he said: "Sir, you don't know something. I heard that when the Lan Fong Society was founded eighteen years ago, he and the people of the Tiandi Society went to the Big Tree Mountain in West Borneo. After a conflict broke out, they retreated to Dongwanli. After that, they fought several more times with the Tiandihui people. Later, the fourteen gold mines in Da Laolu joined forces. In the end, the Tiandihui was defeated and hundreds of people died. Lan Fang The Huihe Heshun Alliance has dominated West Borneo since then.”
Deng Fei said: "What exactly has the Tiandihui done? Why is it so hated?"
Huang Mianshe said: "What else can be done? Controlling grain and sugar, monopolizing the market, and causing many gold mines to complain. No one else is to blame for this. What they did went too far at the beginning, forcing the mine owners to come to us to buy grain. Buying candy. But these people refused to let me go and burned their cargo ship. Alas!"
Zhao Xin listened silently for a long time, and then asked Huang Mianshe a question that he wanted to know most: "Mr. Huang, I would like to ask you something about Lanfang Company or the fourteen companies in the Heshun Alliance. That’s fine, what’s going on with their company?”
Huang Mianshe was stunned for a moment when he heard this. As soon as he entered the door, he noticed Zhao Xin sitting in the corner. The question raised by the other party is a bit big and cannot be explained clearly in a few words.
At this time, Wang Yuanfang took advantage of the situation and said: "Yes, we have never quite understood it. Please Mr. Huang, please explain it to us."
The boss of the Military Control Commission has spoken, and Huang Mianshe can't shirk anymore. Besides, there is an old gentleman on the left and you on the right. It would be outrageous to try to make excuses.
Huang Mianshe bowed her hands to Wang Yuanfang and Zhao Xin and said, "Then I'll forgive you for playing tricks. The so-called 'company', from my point of view, is just a party..."
As Huang Mianshe slowly narrated, Zhao Xin and others finally understood that the various Chinese "companies" in Southeast Asia during this era were completely different from the companies of later generations. At the same time, Zhao Xin also understood what he had seen before. The information about Lanfang Company seems to have cleared up.
In fact, to explain this point, we must start with the various folk sects with numerous names in Chinese history. The so-called folk religion originally originated from the Five Dou Rice Road founded by Zhang Ling in Huming Mountain, Sichuan in the late Eastern Han Dynasty, and the Taiping Road founded by Zhang Jiao from Julu, Hebei.
The Luo religion, which was born during the Chenghua period of the Ming Dynasty, was a major event in the history of the development of Chinese folk religion. Taking this as a turning point, folk religious organizations of various names emerged everywhere. However, in terms of names, there has always been a saying that "Southern Buddhism meets Northern Buddhism", that is, "Gaijianism flourishes in the north but not in the south, and it flourishes in the south but not in the north." From this, there is a way to divide the northern religion into the northern religion. The secret societies are called "religious sects", while those in the south are called "guilds".
For example, there are Bagua Sect, Qingshui Sect, Hunyuan Sect, Shuoyuan Sect, etc. in the north, while in the south there are Tiandihui, Nandouhui, Beidouhui, Zilonghui, Xiaodaohui, etc...
As for these Chinese "companies" in Southeast Asia, they are actually a kind of party that originated in Guangdong, Guangxi and Fujian. It relies on rural temples and receives donations from believers to provide charitable aid to poor congregations. Its main business project is "human relations" ” rather than engaging in commercial activities.
The problem is that Westerners who come into contact with these organizations - especially the Dutch, whose country is based on contractual relationships, simply do not understand that the social foundation of ancient Chinese civilization is morality and human relations. They can only far-fetchedly regard this organizational structure as familiar. The incomparable "will" is called "company" (Congsee). As for "Coany" in Western vocabulary, the Chinese society at that time could not translate it; because it was also funded by multiple shareholders, a shareholders' meeting was needed to discuss matters, so they borrowed the name from the Fujian and Guangdong countryside and called it "Company" ”.
In many articles of later generations, the above two organizational forms are often confused to show how advanced Chinese business organizations are, but in fact the connotations of the two are completely different. You must know that whether it is Lanfang Company or the fourteen companies that make up the "Heshun Alliance", they are all "Congsee", not "Coany".
As for the "Lanfang Republic" that everyone calls "Lanfang Republic" on the Internet in another time and space, there was no such name in either the 18th or 19th centuries. The person who first proposed this term was Luo Xianglin, a scholar during the Republic of China. Luo Xianglin's statement came from the 19th-century Dutchman Gao Yan, and Gao Yan's statement came from his comparison of the organizational form of Lanfang Company to the already extinct company. United Provinces Republic.
Rather than saying that Lan Fong is a "republic", it is better to say that it is a congress party formed by the Lan Fong Association annexing many small parties. When there is nothing to do, everyone digs their own mines and lands; when there is trouble, they join forces to attack cities and plunder lands, or defend the enemy together.
The reason why Luo Xianglin came to this conclusion must be combined with the background of his time. After the collapse of imperial power, the Chinese ushered in an era of true and false republics that experienced several ups and downs. There are warlords fighting inside, people's livelihood is in decline, and powerful enemies are looking at it outside. All people of insight are looking for a path that can guide China's future and a system that can make the world a better place.
When Western civilization enveloped East Asia with its hegemony, faced with the current situation of being backward and being beaten, the descendants of China could only bury themselves in the ancient books of their ancestors to find self-esteem. Perhaps it was precisely because of this urgency and hope that Lanfang Company was "republicized" and magnified, becoming the first democratic republic earlier than the United States and France, and thus spread among the Chinese.
The problem is that it was understandable for Chinese people to say and think this way a hundred years ago, but if they still think so in the 21st century, it would really become "boasting."
In addition, regarding Luo Fangbai, who is known as the "King of Pontianak", Huang Mianshe met him in Pontianak more than ten years ago. According to Huang Mianshe, this man was a scholar, capable of both literary and martial arts. Although he was a teacher in Pontianak at that time, he was well-known in the local area because of his good eloquence, fair dealings, and often mediated disputes for others.
After listening to Huang Mianshe's words, and thinking about the other party's wars with various forces over the years, Zhao Xin couldn't help but sigh in his heart, what kind of scholar is this? He is a ruthless gang boss!
In Huang Mianshe's narration, four words caught Zhao Xin's attention, that is, Luo Fangbai was "as rich as the enemy." Rich, capable of both literary and military skills, and with tens of thousands of miners under his command, it is no wonder that he can dominate the island of Kalimantan, and even the Dutch and surrounding Sultans dare not provoke him.
The question is how long can such power last? No matter how powerful Luo Fangbai is, he is still an old-style hero at heart, which can be seen from the fact that he lets his subordinates wear Qing army uniforms. Historically, as gold production in West Kalimantan continued to decrease, Lanfang Company also joined the ranks of opium trafficking...
It was from this moment on that Zhao Xin had the idea of annexing West Borneo.
We provide you with the fastest update of Ten Thousand Pandas' "The Forty-Eight Years of Qianlong" by the great master Ten Thousand Pandas. In order that you can check the fastest update of this book next time, please be sure to save the bookmarks!
Chapter 618 The Battle of Bacheng is free to read.
