Xinshun 1730

Chapter 274
Valknir had just arrived here, and he didn't know much about it. First, he asked the frightened Jiapitan and Lei Zhenlan to retreat, and then carefully questioned the knowledgeable people.

"Your Excellency, the Swedish East India Company always sets sail in time for the new year, and strives to arrive in Gothenburg as early as possible to seize the new year's business opportunities."

"We also always pretended they were pirates, and if the warships were able to capture them, they would go to Batavia. Routine checks."

"They have to show evidence that they are not pirates, which can delay their return time. The smugglers in Gothenburg will not be able to get the goods at the earliest time. This time difference is a reasonable use of the rules, of course they show that they are not pirates. After obtaining the evidence, we will let it go.”

When mentioning the smugglers in Gothenburg, Valkner's expression became ugly. He knew how rampant the smugglers were there, and the Swedes kept their customers' information absolutely confidential, so it was difficult to check.

This is understandable.

However, when did the armed merchant ships of Dashun fire salutes when they came to Batavia?An armed merchant ship captained by an officer?How is this going?

Fortunately, the port quickly reported that Dashun captured some Swedish prisoners of war during the anti-insurgency war against Junggar.

Dashun sent a ship to escort these Swedish prisoners of war back to the country, and there were documents from senior officials of Dashun and the letter of credence of Emperor Dashun as evidence.

next to the pier.

25-year-old Lian Huaiguan looked excitedly at the huge armed merchant ship.As soon as the gunpowder smoke from the gun salute had just been fired, several people in military uniforms disembarked.

The flag of Dashun fluttered on the mast of the huge merchant ship. Even though Lian Huaiguan was born in Batavia and never returned to his ancestral homeland, he could still recognize the few Chinese characters written on it.

"This is our Chinese ship! This is the first time the imperial court has sent an official ship to Batavia! But when did Dashun have such a big soft sailing ship?"

Lian Huaiguan was a little puzzled, in Batavia, you can often see the ships of Chinese sea merchants.The ships are not big, and they all have hard sails. I have never seen such a Chinese ship of more than [-] tons.

Even the Dutch, most of them are only ships of six to seven hundred tons, and occasionally some large ships of more than one thousand tons, all of which go to Guangdong and Fujian to return to the Netherlands.

Looking at the boat, Lian Huaiguan had a strange feeling.

It's like a baby, whose mother is dead, father is gone, and she is away alone, and one day suddenly sees her own uncle...

It's probably like this feeling, after all, he was born in Batavia, so he can't be regarded as Dashun's person at this time, but if Dashun is regarded as the uncle of these overseas Chinese at this time, it is probably not bad.

Several officers got off the ship first. Although they were all wearing woolen military uniforms, the red tasseled felt hats on their heads were still very characteristic.

The leading officer was wearing a beautiful dress with a Han sword hanging from his waist, and was talking to a Dutchman on the pier.

He spoke not Dutch, but northern mandarin, with a displeasure visible to the naked eye.

Some of the officers following this officer were also dressed similarly, with their heads held high, their faces full of arrogance, and they were still cursing.

However, they all speak northern mandarin, and even Huai Guan doesn't quite understand him, but he can still understand the polite greeting to other people's mother.

Lian Huaiguan was a little shocked, this was the first time in Batavia that he saw a Chinese dare to curse at a Dutchman, not even Kapitan.

The Dutchman on the pier could only laugh and keep explaining something.

After listening to it for a while, I can probably understand it. It seems that there are often pirates flying the flag of Sweden or other countries. This kind of routine inspection is a common practice. I hope you don’t mind it.

Even the brothers around Huaiguan looked straight ahead. It was not that there were no merchant ships from Fujian and Guangdong before, but no matter which ships arrived at the port, they were honest and honest in front of the Dutch.Where have you seen the Chinese yelling in front of the Dutch?

He listened carefully to an interpreter next to the Dutchman, who was expressing the officer's dirty words in clean sentences.

"If the monsoon is delayed, the Earl will tell His Majesty the Emperor to seal up your business house! You are not allowed to go up and inspect our ship! We are not here for trade in Batavia, we are going to Sweden. What's the problem? You can go to the capital, or go to Stockholm to negotiate."

Even Huai Guan and the others were dumbfounded. They couldn't imagine such a tough conversation, and after the tough conversation, the Dutchman who was negotiating could only continue to explain with a smile on his face.

Lian Huaiguan, who grew up in Batavia, was completely shocked. In the world he knew, the Dutch were the biggest.In Batavia at least, the Dutch are heaven.

"There is a heaven beyond the sky."

Can't help sighing.

He is a heroic person, he also does business, and his family background is not bad, but he likes to make friends with some urban foxes and social mice, especially some low-level Chinese in Batavia.

They formed an alliance and called each other brothers, and the Dutch called them "Ushan Party".

Most people do not have any legitimate jobs, and belong to the "rogue proletarians", stealing chickens and dogs, fighting, and fighting fiercely. They can be regarded as a group of "high-level Chinese" in Batavia, and they do not belong to the sugar factory slave labor class. a group of gray classes.

Lian Huaiguan is an outlier among them. He is rich in business, and many brothers rely on him to help.

Lian Fuguang and Jiapitan also have some business contacts. Both of them have the surname Lien, but they are not relatives.There are many people surnamed Lian and Lin here.

Unlike those Jiapidan and Lei Zhenlan, Lian Huaiguan's favorite stories are "A man should be like this" and "I can replace him". He is eager to do something big in his heart.

Staring blankly at the big ship of Dashun, the brothers beside him didn't know what he was thinking.

…………

Mantou, who was negotiating with the Dutchman, was not as unhappy as his face showed.

Before coming, Liu Yu told him that he might be blocked by the Dutch.

The Swede's ship came to Batavia helplessly, and he followed, because he didn't know how to get to Gothenburg without the Swede.

There are priorities, and Liu Yu has entrusted them all, so he can still tell the difference.

The draftsman on the ship was quietly observing the city defense of Batavia, which was arranged by Liu Yu: If the Dutch don't turn their backs and insist on going to Batavia for inspection, they can observe the city defense of Batavia by the way .

Negotiations with the Dutch were also smooth. After learning that it was a ship with the official background of Dashun, the Dutch were very polite and did not dare to do anything unusual.

After all, there is still a Dutch business house in Guangdong, and the annual trade volume is also huge. The Dutch do not want to provoke Dashun at all.

It was the first time I came to Nanyang, and Mantou saw how arrogant Liu Yuchang's "sea coachman" really is.

The Swedes should also be honest. After the Dutch asked to go to Batavia for inspection, even if they knew that the Dutch were delaying the time for the cargo ship to return to Europe, they could only come obediently.

The Dutch said that they suspected that the Swedish merchant ship was a pirate that faked the Swedish flag. If they fought back, they would be considered pirates. If they did not fight back, they would go to Batavia for inspection.

The Swedes also knew in their hearts that they could only curse a few times, knowing that the Dutch wanted to delay their return, but they didn't dare to resist and could only cooperate.

The Swedes don't go, and they don't know the way.Mantou was driving a merchant ship again, not his beloved warship, so he could only come to Batavia together.

Like Mantou, the officers of the Dashun Navy, who graduated from the official school of Jinghai Palace in Liugong Island, all of them disapproved of the arrogance of the Dutch: Why?

There is not a battleship here, and most of the battleships are not as good as the cruisers in Weihai. Why are they so awesome?Stop whoever you want to stop?

The temperament of newborn calves not afraid of tigers is vividly expressed in these young naval officers.Anyway, they only heard about the case of the Dutch raiding London, but they had never really fought against the Dutch, and they all felt that they were very good.

When I arrived in Batavia and looked at the city defense of Batavia, I felt even more ridiculous.

There are more than a dozen small bastion groups around Batavia, and there is a city wall, but the level of these bastion groups is obviously behind those they learned in the Jinghai Palace official school.

The French are familiar with such a bastion. These young officers who learned from Liu Yu and actually learned from Vauban's tactics feel that such a defense does not require the army. The naval officers themselves can write a textbook style of siege warfare.

And with this broken place, is it still necessary to siege the city?
As long as the navy dispatches to seize control of the sea and encircle the surrounding area, as long as the Dutch navy cannot relieve the siege, this place has to surrender.

Not to mention whether the Dutch battleship can come here, even if it can come, it will take more than half a year to get here from the Netherlands.

After arriving, the cucumbers and vegetables were cold. If such a city can’t be surrounded in half a year, those artillery and engineer army idiots who were training at the small station can kill themselves and apologize.

Mantou had the same idea. He was one of the few people who knew that Liu Yu was determined to go to Nanyang. He also knew that Batavia was the most important stronghold of the Dutch in Nanyang. But now it seems that there are loopholes everywhere.

There are either Chinese or Javanese on the pier, and there are not a few Dutch people in sight.

Some soldiers with guns on their backs, as well as some Javanese people, are used to the training of the Qingzhou Army next door, and looking at the level of these Dutch troops, it is inevitable to be contemptuous.

The rigor of the training of the Qingzhou Army is far beyond that of these colonial troops.The Xiaozhan military training office is also on Liugong Island. The naval officers watch it all day long, as if they have seen too many beauties and then go to see the girl without salt.

After the negotiation with the Dutchman was completed, Mantou left a sentence: I am a lieutenant colonel of Dashun, and I was personally awarded honors by the emperor in the first World War against Russia. The Dutchmen on the pier are not high enough. Level enough to meet him.

After saying this, he returned to the boat.

According to the rules of going to sea, the sailors will be given their money as soon as they are in port, and let the sailors go down to have fun.

The officers stayed on the ship and were not allowed to go out casually, mainly because they were afraid of contracting dirty diseases, which are not easy to cure these days.Sailors can be recruited, and these officers from the Jinghai Palace official school were all cultivated by Liu Yu with money and limited energy, and they are very precious.

In the evening, someone came to the captain's cabin.

"My lord, a local person sent a letter of worship. I want to meet my lord."

A greeting card was delivered, and Mantou certainly could not understand what the locals said, but he could recognize the characters on the card: Of course, the characters on the card ranged from Batavia to Jingqilijiang, from Shandong to Yili in the Western Region City, are common.

[The Han people are looking at each other, asking to see the captain]

There is only one line of words on the greeting card, the mantou cited is very interesting, and he thought that this person is interesting, so he said: "Since we are of the same clan, let's go on board and tell the story."

(End of this chapter)