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Chapter 511 The East India Company Split

The Dutch navy left Landack and went to Coconut City to pick up the governor without further attack.

In the cabin, Governor Fan Crone said: "Batavia has been captured by the Chinese, and even Palembang, Banten, and Malacca have all been lost. The company's colonial headquarters in Nanyang has been burned to the ground."

Navy Commander DeWitt was quite indignant: "This group of treacherous British people, we agreed with them to do business (smuggling) together, but they united with the Chinese and betrayed us."

Van Croon was not surprised: "The British have always been like this. They are just like the Spaniards. Even the prostitutes in the brothels are cleaner than them."

DeWitt said: "Then where should we go now, directly to Ambon Island?"

Fan Kroon shook his head: "We can't go to Ambon Island. Although it is the most important source of goods in the Spice Islands, the Chinese have occupied Batavia. When I left, I heard that even Semarang was in the hands of the Chinese. Ambon Island is no longer safe. The Chinese can attack it at any time if they want. Moreover, now that Batavia, Malacca, and Palembang are in the hands of the Chinese, our trade profits in Southeast Asia will become increasingly lower. Even if we control The Spice Islands don’t make much sense either.”

Regarding this problem, Van Croon's predecessor De Haan has been aware of this problem, and he has also thought of a solution, which is to promote the planting of cinchona trees in Java.

It can not only replace the grain and cane sugar controlled by the Chinese, but also use the cinchona tree as a brand new dumping commodity. Moreover, there is no need to worry about sales at all, and the profit is almost the same as that of aphrodisiac.

In another time and space, the cinchona trees on Java Island accounted for more than 90% of the market share in Europe. All European colonists relied on the cinchona trees on Java Island.

Then, the governor who proposed the plan, DeHaan, quickly died of illness. Van Croon squeezed out the original candidate Delphine through bribery, and successfully came to Java to become the unlucky man.

DeWitt nodded and agreed with Fan Kron's words: "Since we can't go to Ambon Island, how about going to the South Philippines? The company there has only been established for a few years, many indigenous people do not obey us, and the local development is not as good as Ambon Island."

Fan Kroon said: "There is no choice anymore. Moreover, it was the southern Philippines that was conquered. The foundation there is insufficient, so it is convenient for us to go directly and take over. Ambon Island is the main source of goods for the Spice Islands, and the guys in the Congress will not give up. We will definitely occupy this place first. If we go there, we will not only appear passive, but also fall into endless internal friction, which will only accelerate the demise of Ambon Island."

As a result, the Dutch governor joined forces with the navy and headed directly to the South Philippines to rebuild the governor's palace there.

The Dutch Parliament also took the army to support them and went to Ambon and Sulawesi Islands to reorganize the East India Company there.

The Dutch East India Company was divided into two parts by the governor and parliament, each occupying two Far Eastern colonies. Moreover, both factions are still sending messages to the mainland of the Netherlands. Batavia has been captured by the Chinese. The main responsibility lies with the governor's inaction (the parliament forced the palace).

The truth is no longer important. The key is that the conflict between the governor and the parliament has completely exploded, which involves the power conflict between local factions and the central nobles.

If it is not handled well, the United States may be born prematurely by accident.

Moreover, how to deal with the relationship with China in the future is a question that needs to be faced.

Just passing the news back and forth, and waiting for the Dutch headquarters to reach a consensus, the Far East side doesn't know how many years have passed.

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The Ming Dynasty cleared the headquarters of the Dutch East India Company in Nanyang and joined forces with the United Kingdom to replace it. It also gathered a large number of vassal countries, mainly around the Southeast Asian archipelago.

Xu Yisheng also received missions to the three Muslim sultanates east of Borneo. Because gold mines were discovered here, many Han people were attracted to move there, and forty years later they established the Lanfang and Daiyan kingdoms. He also paid tribute to the Qing Dynasty and requested surrender, but Qianlong refused on the grounds that all overseas people were rebellious.

After struggling for a hundred years, they were finally destroyed by the Dutch, and the remnants fled to Sumatra.

The sphere of influence of the Ming Dynasty expanded to most parts of Southeast Asia. Even many small indigenous countries around Ambon Island, after receiving the news of the Dutch defeat, took the opportunity to send envoys to China for pilgrimage to request a seal. Those who were unable to sail far took the opportunity to expel the rebellious Dutch rule. If it were in the past, the Dutch would have sent troops to suppress them severely and intercept and kill the envoy ships of these disobedient vassals. But now the Dutch have just been defeated, and the navy was taken to the Philippines by the governor, and is in the hands of the Ambon Island Parliament. With only an army of thousands, it was unable to suppress the rebellion in the subject country.

The Dutch Spice Islands suffered heavy losses in an instant.

The original overseas territories of the Ming Dynasty, Ryukyu County and Penglai County, have been managed for many years. After many years of Chinese governance, the Ryukyu County Magistrate has been in his third term, and the Penglai County Magistrate has been in office twice.

Not surprisingly, during the first two terms of the county magistrate alone, Ryukyu County experienced fifteen major and minor indigenous rebellions. It was all caused by the immigration of Kumi Han and inland Han people and their oppression of the Ryukyu natives.

Whether it was the first county magistrate Fuhao or the subsequent magistrates, they never tolerated the rebellion and suppressed it forcefully.

Fuhao, the left minister of the Ministry of Industry of the Ming Dynasty, could almost say that his official career was paved with the corpses of these Ryukyu natives. The benefits of such suppression are also obvious. The speed of the sinicization of the indigenous people is obviously faster, because the indigenous people who disobey the rule and sinicize are almost all slaughtered.

Starting from the second Ryukyu magistrate, the scale of the indigenous rebellion became smaller and smaller, and the second magistrate also began to adopt a strategy of suppression and appeasement. Penglai County in the northeast has fewer Han people, so the number and scale of rebellions are not as good as Ryukyu County.

Coupled with the Japanese people who were originally moved to the eight northeastern Ryukyu islands by the Satsuma Domain, these people saw China's policies and quickly chose to Chineseize and submit. And directly acted as the dog of the Ming Dynasty, helping the government supervise and suppress the indigenous people.

Since the last time the Governor of Luzon returned to Beijing to report on his duties, the new Governor has now taken office. As soon as he took office, he implemented the new policy negotiated by the former Governor Cui Li and the emperor, began to conditionally curb the land annexation in Luzon, and encouraged the Han people to move to the center of Luzon Area reclamation.

The powerful landowners in Luzon were not surprised by the imperial court's increase in taxes on land. Instead, they felt lucky.

These people originally thought that the court would directly seal this hole, but at least they should be able to keep their land, but they did not want the court to increase taxes based solely on the amount of land.

Although the money earned will be less, who cares about this? If the money is less, then squeeze the tenants and continue to expand and annex land.

The former can be done slowly. Han tenants must not be moved, and the indigenous people do not need to rush. First, expand reclamation and annexation, and then squeeze out the indigenous people after the annexation is almost completed.

As for the Han tenants, these are all valuable, at least for the next few decades. When there are enough Han people in Luzon, Han tenants will no longer be valuable.

The Dutch suffered a defeat in Southeast Asia and lost most of the East Indies Company Islands. When the Spaniards got the news, it was impossible not to react.

However, life for the Spaniards this year was not easy. They had finally restored trade relations with China, but they turned around and encountered an indigenous rebellion.

Although it was suppressed not long after, it also made the natives and Filipino Han people see the weakness of Spain. This year, they heard that the imperial court was launching troops against the Netherlands, and many Filipino Han people began to think about it.

Most of these people were Chinese merchants traveling to and from the Philippines. They felt that the profits from normal business were still too low, so they began to privately support the provocation of the indigenous people of the Central Philippine Islands, as well as some local Han people (many of whom were of mixed race).

Instigated by thoughtful people, these natives launched another rebellion only a year later.

Spanish Governor Fernando is going crazy. He has obviously restrained the indigenous people, so why do they still want to rebel?

　In the previous chapter, I got fucked a little bit

　　

　

(End of this chapter)