1635 Han style rises again

Chapter 552 Naturalization
October 1645, 10, Hanzhou, Kaiyuan City (now Humpty Doo, Australia) mine.

Pu Guang gritted his teeth, swung the whip fiercely, and lashed the back of a native of Hanzhou. Bloodstains criss-crossed across his back, and the native let out a weak hum.

"That's enough! If you killed someone, there is one less coolie to work." Gu Zubing, the captain of the mine guard, said with a frown.

Hearing this, Pu Guang immediately stopped the whip in his hand, and turned his head to show Gu Zubing a flattering smile.

"Hands are black enough! Why do you see more air coming out and less air in?" Gu Zubing walked up to him, and poked the native's head a few times with the scabbard.

"My lord, if these people don't teach them a lesson, they will be lazy and disrupt production." Pu Guang looked at the dying native and said firmly, but there was a hint of weirdness in his tone.

Pu Guang himself is also an aboriginal Hanzhou, but different from these aboriginal "compatriots" who work as coolies in the mines, he has lived in the environment of the Hanzhou people for ten years, and has also endured long-term Sinicized education, apart from being exactly the same as Hanzhou natives in appearance, he is not much different from Hanzhou people in terms of behavior and even the way of thinking.

On the contrary, in order to gain the identity and psychological recognition of the Hanzhou people, Pu Guang was extremely aggressive in his behavior.After being conscripted into the mine guard, he felt extremely contemptuous of those stupid natives of Hanzhou and the many natives of Timor Island.If the coolie fails a little, or fails to complete the daily assigned tasks, he will immediately stand up and severely punish the aborigines (natives) who made mistakes, and his actions are also extremely harsh.

There are many "naturalized" aborigines like him in Hanzhou. Most of them were children and teenagers who were specially selected after the Hanzhou people broke through the aboriginal tribes to carry out "naturalized" education and speak Chinese. , learn Chinese customs and take Chinese names.Oh, by the way, most of the "naturalized" Hanzhou aborigines have a special surname, the surname Pu.

Most Hanzhou natives have no concept of Han people's surnames. Instead, they are inexplicably excited because they have the same surname as Hanzhou people. This proves that although they look different from Hanzhou people, we are In terms of identity and psychology, he is already a Hanzhou native.

The surname Pu, as long as it is known to Hanzhou people with a little culture, in Daming, this surname was the cheap surname established by Emperor Hongwu back then.

Naturally, Pu Guang and the others don't know the high or low of their surnames, but they absolutely obey the Hanzhou people and protect the interests of the Hanzhou people everywhere, but they are deeply rooted in the hearts of these "naturalized" aborigines.Without him, don't you see that in several mines in Hanzhou Jianye Mansion, the coolies will always be these lowly aborigines (natives).Even if occasionally Hanzhou people who were punished as hard labor came to the mine, they were doing some relatively light work.

Pu Guang followed behind Gu Zubing, seeing the captain just walking forward without speaking, he felt a little uneasy.

"Pu Guang, would you like to take a step up?" Gu Zubing asked suddenly.

"Ah?... go up?" Pu Guang heard this, his eyes widened, and he looked puzzled.

"Hehe..." Seeing the bewildered expression of the naturalized aboriginal, Gu Zubing couldn't help but sneered a few times, "The higher ups are planning to promote you and make you an official."

"Being an official?" Pu Guang was surprised and delighted, "I...can be an official too?"

"A huge amount of iron ore was discovered in the interior of Linhaibao (now Port Hedland, Western Australia), and the Ministry of Industry and the Montenegro Iron and Steel Plant are planning to develop there." Gu Zubing said: "Recently, the Immigration Department and the Xinxiang District will also deploy a large number of laborers. Go there to build roads and dig mines, so the higher ups need us to send some guards from Kaiyuan Mine and Heishan Mine to go there. I won a position for you as a vice captain, are you willing to go?"

"I am willing!" Pu Guang said excitedly.Although he is just a low-level deputy captain of the mine guard team, he has also stepped into the ranks of officials in Qi State, not to mention a thousand times stronger than those bitter mining natives, but even better than some of them who are still there. The naturalized aborigines who are struggling at the grassroots level, aren't they also one step ahead!
Originally, I thought that there was still some time before the captain said he would go to Linhai Fort in the west, and Pu Guang would still have time to say goodbye to his few relatives and make some arrangements for family affairs.Unexpectedly, less than a week after the captain told himself about the incident, more than a dozen guards dispatched from several mines hurriedly joined forces with more than [-] mine officials, mining artisans, and construction team workers. , as well as a large amount of equipment, tools, food and other production and living materials, were shipped to the west of Hanzhou.

On October 10, after two days of driving, a group of two Qi State transport ships arrived at Bei Ningbao (Kits Port) and stopped for rest.

Benningburg was once the Hollenburg stronghold secretly set up by the Dutch East India Company on the southwest side of Jianye Port. After several months of arduous negotiations, the Dutch East India Company finally reached an agreement with the Qi State to price Hollenburg at [-] Dutch guilders. sold" to Hanzhou people.

You know, in order to build this Hollenburg, the Dutch East India Company spent at least 30 guilders in materials and more than 700 employees' lives in order to build this secret stronghold. construction complete.Although food and other materials cannot be self-sufficient, a small bastion built with rammed earth and giant logs with a radius of 200 meters as raw materials still has certain defensive capabilities. , There is also a miniature ship repair shop on the river bank, no matter what, it can't be dismissed by the state of Qi with [-] Dutch guilders.

However, who told you that the Dutch East India Company first violated the peace agreement between the two parties and established a secret stronghold in Hanzhou without authorization, and was caught by Hanzhou.According to the opinion of the military of Qi State, they don’t give any money, keep the facilities, and leave all the people. Otherwise, after a few months of blockade and siege, all the people in your stronghold will be wiped out.

However, although the Dutch representative in charge of the negotiation knew that his side was in the wrong, he still insisted on selling all the facilities and materials belonging to Hollenburg to Hanzhou at a price of [-] Dutch guilders.In Batavia and Jianye City, the two sides went through a number of see-saw negotiations, during which several military frictions occurred, and an agreement was not reached for a long time.

However, in Daming, Annan, Borneo, and even near Java, the Dutch suffered Zheng Zhilong's frantic revenge and lost several merchant ships one after another.The Dutch East India Company has reason to believe that the Zheng family's fleet that attacked them off the coast of Annan, Borneo and Java must have borrowed the Hanzhou people's Xinsheng Island base.

For this reason, in order to get rid of the current predicament as soon as possible, the Dutch had to lower their negotiation conditions again and again, and finally sold all the facilities and materials of the entire Holenberg to Hanzhou at a price of [-] Dutch guilders.Then Hanzhou was required to strictly observe neutrality during the war between them and Zheng Zhilong, and not to provide Zheng Zhilong's fleet with several overseas territories near Annan and Ryukyu, let alone provide military support to it.

However, he did not give corresponding compensation for the conditions he proposed to restrict Hanzhou, so he was flatly rejected by the representative of Qi State, claiming that Qi State believes in free trade, as long as the kingdoms of the non-East Indies region buy weapons The power of armaments, they have no reason to refuse.In addition, several overseas territories of Hanzhou are open ports. As long as ships from non-hostile forces enter the port to rest and carry out necessary supplies, Qi has no reason to refuse.

When the Dutch East India Company heard the statement of the Hanzhou people, it immediately understood that the other party had already taken a clear bias in the armed conflict at sea between them and Zheng Zhilong.With this in mind, the Dutch didn't dare to force them, so they reluctantly signed the Hohlenburg transfer agreement. At the same time, they reaffirmed their exclusive interests in the entire East Indies, and demanded Hanzhou to recognize and respect this.

At the beginning of July, the State of Qi sent personnel to take over Hollenburg in its entirety, and moved more than 100 immigrants here. At the same time, it also named this place Beining, and its meaning is self-evident.

On the second day, the westbound fleet of Linhaibao continued to sail westward, and arrived at Pearl Harbor (now Broome, a small port town in northwest Australia) five days later.
).Here, they encountered two armed transport ships of Indian trading companies that temporarily stopped here for rest.For a moment, this small supply port was instantly overwhelmed by hundreds of people who arrived.

Because the personnel on the two ships going to Linhaibao are all official backgrounds, they must do their due reception work. The civil affairs personnel in Pearl Harbor had to make room for some shopkeepers and sailors of the Indian trading company who arrived yesterday.This made the staff of the Indian trading company quite dissatisfied, it was too unethical, and they didn't pay attention to first-come-first-served, not to mention that I didn't give money, as for that?

Although the merchants and sailors who returned from the Indian mainland were full of slander, they still honestly gave up the houses in the inn.However, as soon as they turned their heads, they immediately threw handfuls of silver coins in front of the local residents, asking them to vacate their houses immediately so that they could sleep peacefully.After running for a month, he finally returned to the mainland of Hanzhou, so he had to take a rest.

The residents of Pearl Harbor accepted the silver coins from the staff of the Indian trading company with a smile on their faces, tidied up the house a little, and then let them out, giving these local tyrants who made a fortune from India a temporary residence for two days.

Sebastian Burnish, the special envoy of the Portuguese Governor in Goa, accompanied by a treasurer of the Hanzhou Indian Trading Company, is visiting the port stronghold of the Hanzhou people with great interest.The stronghold with less than 300 people is very neatly planned. Residential areas, warehouses, and official buildings seem to have been specially planned and arranged neatly.A wooden fence roughly encloses the entire settlement, and a tall watchtower stands on both sides near the sea and inland, with militia stationed on it.

Although the port is small, there is a section of stone seaside berm, and the wharf and trestle are also made of stone (cement), which shocked Sebastian Burnish, which shows that Hanzhou has Very powerful mobilization ability, can organize a large amount of manpower and material resources to carry out necessary construction and maintenance of the controlled ports and supply points.

A few days ago, a small island they passed by (Dog Island, also known as Christmas Island) also had relatively complete facilities and more complete defenses.Now, in their homeland, a huge piece of land completely controlled by their Hanzhou people, he has some expectations for cooperation with the Hanzhou people in his heart.

(End of this chapter)