Forty-eight years of Qianlong

Chapter 617 Encounter with Pontianak

After coming out of the court, Zhao Xin sent Jiang Asheng away and asked him to go about his own business.Then he took two guards for a stroll in Bacheng, intending to take a good look at the city.

After talking about Bacheng for so long, what is its area?Bacheng in the 1.3th century is actually the old city of Jakarta in another time and space, covering an area of ​​[-] square kilometers, which is almost equal to the area of ​​three Tiananmen Squares in later generations.Although it is not big according to the standards of later generations, it was a proper first-tier big city in Southeast Asia at the end of the eighteenth century.

VOC has developed a fishing village called "Jakarta" into a beautiful Bacheng, and the Chinese have made indelible contributions to this.Even the Dutch themselves admit that Bacheng would not exist without the Chinese.

The tall houses on both sides of the canal have been remodeled and distributed by the military control committee to immigrant families who joined the security team and directly owned farms last year.Two or three families were placed in each house, and the conditions were much better than those in Chinatown outside the South Gate.In addition, the military control committee also helps single employees find wives.

Walking around the city, Zhao Xin bought some freshly baked bread and dry rice noodles when passing by the market inside the South Gate.Originally, he wanted to chat with those who opened shops and set up stalls, but the problem was that he couldn't understand Hokkien at all, and the locals couldn't understand northern mandarin either. Talk to the duck.

"Mandarin education has a long way to go!"

After expressing his emotions, Zhao Xin came to the military control building with his things.Beihai Town's military control committee in Bacheng is actually the former VOC Governor's Mansion, with two floors, with offices in the front and people living in the left and right wings and 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 that was converted into a hospital.

Speaking of this Gothic-style large dome church built in the 30th century, it is famous throughout Southeast Asia and even Europe.When ships from afar arrive at Bacheng Port, they will use it as a direction sign.However, because the architect who originally designed the church was a half-baked baker, there have been structural problems.In history, in 1808, the church was finally destroyed by an earthquake.

Zhao Xin didn't know it at the moment, because when the Dutch were expelled, even the local missionaries were also expelled, which caused Beihai Town to attract the attention of the Holy See.

What?you say frenchHey, during the September massacre, pastors and priests were all targeted for elimination.

When he reached the square in front of the military control committee, Zhao Xin heard the sound of horseshoes, and when he turned his head, he saw two horse-drawn carriages coming from the port in the north.When the car stopped outside the gate of the hospital, a dozen or so people jumped off the second flatbed carriage, surrounded by four people who got off the first carriage, and entered the hospital. Among them was a crying woman. She was dressed in a Han woman's cloak and skirt, but because of her dark complexion, she was extremely eye-catching.

It's quite interesting to say, don't look at the men from Fujian and Guangdong flocking to Nanyang, but basically no one brings their wives, and few women are willing to come.In the entire Bacheng, there was only one person who brought his wife during the Kangxi era, and the ratio of men to women was extremely unbalanced.The scarcity of native women, coupled with the conflict of faith among Javanese believers in Islam, led to many Chinese workers buying a slave girl from Bali and marrying them in. The descendants of these people are also called "Baba Nyonya". "(baba nyonya).

The biggest difference between Balinese women and Han women is that they are shorter in stature, and the second is that their skin color is darker than Han women.

However, due to the disparity in social status between men and women, coupled with the Chinese people's concept of ethics and ethics, beating and scolding wives has become a common thing, and there is no feeling of guilt.Coupled with the fact that they started marrying concubines with two bad money, men in Bacheng often abused and beat their wives because of conflicts between their concubines and their regular wives.

Earlier, when Zhao Xin was waiting for someone in the court, the case settled in the second hall was a divorce lawsuit because of this kind of thing.Huang Mianshe's approach is generally to persuade them to make peace but not to persuade them to leave, and they will only decide to divorce if they can't do it.

Zhao Xin found it strange how these people were dressed. Some were dressed in silk and satin, while others were actually wearing the livery of the Green Army of the Qing Army.He originally wanted Wen Dai, who was in charge of the security, to go and have a look, but after another thought, this man was also a stickler for Hokkien.

Coincidentally, at this time two guys in uniforms of the security team and armbands came from the south, and Zhao Xin immediately waved for them to come over.The two security guards who served as security patrols were taken aback for a moment, but when they noticed that there were still two sturdy Bei Haijun standing behind Zhao Xin, they immediately trotted to Zhao Xin.

"Can you speak official language?"

The first senior security team member stood at attention and saluted, and then replied, "Yes."

"Where are you from?"

"Hu (Fujian) Xiapu."

"what is it call?"

"Reporting to the chief, Wow's name is Cai Qian, and Yi's name is Jin Wuzai."

At this time, Zhao Xin's attention was all on the carriage a hundred meters away, without thinking too much, he nodded and said casually: "Please go to the hospital to see, what are the people who went in just now? Why are they still wearing clean clothes?" Army livery? I'll wait for you here."

"Vegetarian (yes)!"

After the figures of the two disappeared into the hospital gate for a while, Zhao Xin came to his senses and said in astonishment, "Xiapu Cai Qian? Damn! Isn't this going to sea!"

On the other side, Jin Wuzai whispered to Cai Qian while walking: "Brother Qian, just now the officer spoke like setting off firecrackers, wow, I heard the word hospital clearly."

Cai Qiandao: "Northern people always speak like this. Commander Wang is also a northerner. Didn't he do that when he trained us?"

"Brother Qian, should we first ask what that 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 Wuzai a slap on the back of the neck, cursing: "You are a big fool! Tiger head! You can let people from the special warfare battalion be the guards, can you see him as an ordinary person?!"

Jin Wuzai stuck out his tongue, showing a surprised expression.

It is said that Wang Yuanfang led 30 special warfare battalions to attack Batavia by land, and took Dingjiabao with only [-] people. The narrations of Jiang Asheng and other Chinese workers who were present were passed on to everyone in Chinatown.Those soldiers of the Special Operations Battalion wearing tiger-head armbands and camouflage camouflage have become, in the eyes of the Chinese in Bacheng, capable of killing people invisible, and even capable of defeating a hundred with one.For the security team like Cai Qian and the others who are not formal soldiers, the people in the special warfare battalion are existences that need to be looked up to.

Zhao Xin waited for less than 10 minutes before Cai Qian and Jin Wuzai came out of the hospital.

"Report sir, those people have always come from Hundian, they are all from Sulanhuang Company."

"Hunning store? Lanhuang company?" Zhao Xin tilted his head and thought for a while, but he didn't have any impression in his memory.But now his interest has turned to Cai Qian.

"Where is your ancestral home?"

"Tongan."

"How many people are in the family?"

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After asking a few questions, when he learned that the other party's parents had both died and he was 31 years old this year, Zhao Xin felt that the security guard in front of him was very likely to be the great pirate in history.He felt that the encounters in life were really interesting, but he never thought that Beihai Town was recruiting people in Fujian, and it actually got this one.

Then he encouraged Cai Qian and Jin Wuzai to do a good job, and then turned around and entered the military control committee.After going up to the second floor, he came to Wang Yuanfang's office and saw that the other party was there, so he told what happened just now.

Wang Yuanfang laughed when he heard this, and then told the funny story when he was recruiting soldiers.After hearing this, Zhao Xin joked, "Tell me, do we count as all the heroes in the world? There is Bailian Wang Cong'er in the north, and Cai Qian in the south."

Wang Yuanfang said curiously: "If you don't tell me, I really forgot. What is Wang Cong'er doing now?"

"I'm 15, and I heard that I entered Lao Yu's cadre school last year. Her mother kept talking about finding her a husband's family every day, but Teacher Fang disagreed, and the two argued a lot about it. The last time I went to see Teacher Fang, I sat down for 2 minutes. Wang Cong'er's mother asked me about Xu Funan, probably because she has taken a fancy to that kid."

"How old is Xu Funan?"

"17."

Wang Yuanfang said with emotion: "It's so fast, it's been nine years in a blink of an eye!"

"Yes! Little Doudings are about to grow up." Zhao Xin changed the subject and asked Wang Yuanfang curiously, "Your brother is already forty, right? When do you plan to carry on the family?"

Wang Yuanfang showed a proud face when he heard the words, and said with a smile: "It's been five months. You should hurry up and prepare red envelopes!"

"Have you figured it out? Will the surname be Wu when you give birth to a son?"

"The surname is also my son, you have to call me Daddy!"

Zhao Xin chuckled, got up and was about to leave, and casually said to Wang Yuanfang, "Hey? I have something to ask you, have you heard of Hundian and Lanhuang Company?"

"What?" Wang Yuanfang was stunned for a moment, and 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 Fujianese speak regardless of Hu Fu? That's Pontianak and Lanfang Company!"

Zhao Xin asked in surprise, "It's them?"

"We have specific medicines to treat malaria. Right now, people in Borneo come to the doctor every month, usually for emergencies."

Speaking of this, Wang Yuanfang opened his notepad and said after a while: "I found it, it was on April 4th last year, Luo Fangbo sent a man named Jiang Wubo here, and wanted to become our vassal state .On the 5th, Deng Fei and I sent a telegram to the staff."

Zhao Xin thought about it, but he had no memory at all.At that time, he was having a meeting with Liu Sheng and Fan Tong to plan the war in Outer Mongolia, and held closed-door meetings for several days.Maybe I didn't think it was important at the time, so I left it behind.

"A vassal?" Zhao Xin turned around and sat back opposite Wang Yuanfang, squinting his eyes and said, "How dare you show your teeth."

In the countless false rumors in another time and space, Lanfang Company was simply touted to the sky, such as the first republic in Asia, the first Chinese president, and the refusal to donate soil to Daiqing, Qianlong was very proud Ao, the braid is long but the knowledge is short, it's all fucking nonsense!
We must know that the suzerain-vassal relationship in the Ming and Qing Dynasties was not a vassal state with officials in the Han Dynasty, but similar to that of Korea, Ryukyu, and Annan in the Central Dynasty.

Wang Yuanfang explained: "So Deng Fei and I met once, and then we let the staff below deal with it. Later, Luo Fangbo didn't send anyone anymore."

At this time, Zhao Xin recalled the previous scene again, and waved to Wang Yuanfang to say goodbye.After standing in the corridor for a while, he called an officer on duty and gave some instructions in a low voice.The officer saluted after hearing this, and hurried downstairs.

In fact, before Zhao Xin decided to win Batavia, he had already considered Lanfang Company, which was founded 15 years ago.The reason why he didn't contact these people was because he instinctively didn't believe that it was a so-called "republic".

We must know that in the mid-Qianlong period, there were more than 30 Chinese companies in West Borneo and Lanfang Company, and there were more than a dozen Huiyang Hakka companies in the area 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, for some people in later generations to say that Lanfang Company was born out of Tiandihui, Zhao Xin thinks it is pure nonsense!Referring to the records of Beihai Town Public Security Police Station’s inquiry on the remnants of the Heaven and Earth Society, when Luo Fangbo left his hometown for Borneo in the 37th year of Qianlong’s reign, Tixi’s son Zheng Ji was still running a night casino to make money, and the Heaven and Earth Society had not spread to Guangdong. East.

It is said that since the death of King Li of Zhou in 828 BC, Prince Jing of Zhou and Zhao Ergong appointed Prince Jing as the queen of Zhou Xuan. There has never been a time when "two people have the final say" in the feudal history of China for more than 2000 years. The idea of ​​"being ordered by the sky, and the world is ordered by the emperor" has been engraved into the bones of the Chinese people in the feudal era, that is to say, one is the same!

Now suddenly a talented Cantonese scholar who has tried and failed, went to Borneo to pan for gold, and after a lot of beatings and kicks, he led a bunch of illiterates to fight in a sea of ​​blood, and then this person suddenly became enlightened, saying that I was talking alone Counting is not enough, I want to decentralize power, and everyone sits down and discusses it together.is it possible?

Don't say Luo Fangbo can't do it, even Zhao Xin can't do it.Even though he is well aware that his abilities are limited, and he often travels between two time-spaces, being infected by the modern atmosphere from time to time, his desire to "speak with one word" is stronger than anyone else!
"Guanzi" said: "Whoever gains from one hole, his country will be invincible; whoever gets out of two holes, his soldiers will not swindle; whoever gets out of three holes, cannot raise troops; It is about the pros and cons of centralization and decentralization.Even in modern times, the boss of any company doesn't want someone who is equal to him; it's okay for his subordinates to give advice, but it doesn't matter to me.

Zhao Xin felt that Luo Fangbo didn't ask for canonization from Daiqing. If he did, he would definitely make a king, and then summon the son of the main house from Guangdong, and pass it on from generation to generation.

The reason why these countries in Southeast Asia are crying and clamoring to be a vassal of Dai Qing, even like Ruan Guangping, who will go to celebrate Qianlong's birthday after winning the battle, is that the name is justified and the destiny belongs.

However, the problem is that Dai Qing didn't take care of Luo Fangbo, and with the Sultan of Pontianak looking at him inside and the Dutch aggressive outside, it is impossible for Luo Fangbo to become a king on his own, so he can only do his best to die.

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 loyal subordinate.

Zhao Xinyi pointed to the chair in front of him, smiled and said, "Come on, sit down and talk."

Huang Zhongtong hurriedly said, "I don't dare to be in a lowly position! If you have something to do, you can just tell me."

Although Huang Zhongtong met Zhao Xin when he cooperated with the Beihai Navy to attack the Hue Palace, he knew that this man had no airs and was quite easy-going; but in his limited understanding, Zhao Xin would be the emperor in the future, the real dragon emperor .Who dares to sit and answer in front of the emperor?

Zhao Xin smiled and continued without forcing, "I came here because I heard that you are very careful in your work. There is an important matter for you to go now."

"Yes." Huang Zhongtong was very excited, and said in his heart that King Zhao personally gave the task, this is a great opportunity!
"You take a few people to West Borneo, and give me the details of Lanfang Company and that Luo Fangbo."

Huang Zhongtong saluted and said: "Yes! I must find out as soon as possible."

Zhao Xin shook his head and said, "I don't want you to be quick, but to investigate carefully, including the internal organization of their gold mine and the treatment of workers."

(End of this chapter)