Chapter 285 More than a hundred years of suffering!
The Dutch East India Company's colonies in the South Ocean mainly rely on various minerals and spices to obtain wealth. In order to ensure high profits, the East India Company implements a monopoly trade system and monopolizes the whole process of product exchange. In terms of acquisition, the company stipulates that designated products are planted in certain areas, such as the cultivation of cloves in Ambon Island, the production of nutmeg on Banda Island, and the cultivation of coffee in Brian'an, which is sold to the company at a low price. In order to prevent "smuggling" trade, the company sends four fleets to patrol every year. Violators will be severely punished.
Because the residents of Banda Island sold nutmeg to non-Dutch merchants, the East India Company ordered the slaughter of more than 15,000 residents of Banda Island. In terms of sales, the company has the exclusive right to sell most of the goods.
It signed a treaty with the vassal states, stipulating that cotton, opium and other commodities should be imported by the company. The monopoly trade system has brought amazing profits to the company. The company bought a pound of spices for seven cents in Ambon and Banda, and sold it for 300 cents (three guilders) when shipped to the Netherlands. The cost of buying salt in Java is only six dong per stone, and the price of each stone in Sumatra is 50 to 70 dong.
Not only that, the East India Company also implemented a fixed tax system in kind in its colonial areas, stipulating that states should bear a certain amount of tribute shares, and the states then distributed tributes to villages, and the village head forced farmers to plant them. The compulsory supply system is implemented in the vassal states. The forced supply system was first implemented in Mataram, which required Mataram to supply a certain amount of rice to the company at the lowest price every year.
Later, it was implemented in other countries, such as Wandan to supply pepper, Jingliwen to supply blue indigo, sucrose, rice, wood, etc., and Burian to supply wood, rice, pepper, livestock, cotton, etc. Whether it is tribute or supply, officials at all levels are responsible for delivering them to Jakarta. According to the regulations, the company shall pay a small remuneration to the farmers who produce tributes or supplies. And most of this little reward is pocketed by Dutch staff and officials at all levels.
In order to ensure the huge profits of the Dutch East India Company in the Southern Ocean Colony and reduce the payment, the Dutch East India Company also implements the system of thieves and slave trade in the Southern Ocean. In order to kidnap slaves, the company initially implemented a theft system in Sulahwesi.
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In order to get slaves on Java, the Dutch initially implemented a theft system in Sulawesi. And trained a group of thieves for this purpose. Thieves, translators and traffickers are the main agents of this transaction, and indigenous princes are the main traffickers. The stolen young man was imprisoned in a secret prison in Sulawesi before he could load the slave ship.
The company also concluded agreements on the supply of slaves with feudal lords in Bali and other islands, and went to the southeast coast of China to plunder Chinese residents to Indonesia as slaves. Jakarta once became a big market for the slave trade, after many local rebellions and unwilling-to-oppress Chinese uprisings.
The Dutch transferred the slave market to Surabaya. In the early years, there were Chinese living here. In Javanese, it was called Surabaya, which originally meant python crocodile, so it was originally named a desolate swamp. The Chinese felt that it was irreverent, first harmonized with "Silimu", and then further elegant to become the authentic Chinese name "Sirgao". Si means swimming, and Surashui swims across the ocean, which means that the Chinese leave their hometowns and go back to the Nanyang to make a living and must float across the ocean.
After Yaga reached a new slave market, 20,000 to 30,000 slaves will enter and leave the port every year. In addition to those Southern Ocean natives and a small number of blacks transported from Africa, the rest are Chinese slaves looted by the Dutch and those Southern Ocean kings. Li, and it accounts for almost 20% to 30% of the entire slave trade.
These slaves worked hard in the plantations run by the Europeans, mainly the Dutch. The slaves were engaged in all kinds of heavy labor, allowing the manor owners to squeeze out the last trace of strength and flesh and blood from them. For example, after the destruction of the residents of Banda Island, the Dutch colonists distributed the land of Banda Island to the veterans of the Netherlands and used slaves to grow nutmeg. These Dutch planters became rich by cruelly exploiting slaves.
The Dutch colonists plundered a lot of wealth from Indonesia through these methods of slavery. From 1750 to 1759, the average annual remittance from Indonesia to the Netherlands was 2.5 million Dutch guilders, and from 17700 to 1779, the average annual amount was as high as 4 million Dutch guilders. The value of the looted gold, silver and gems is about twice that of the remittance. On the contrary, the indigenous people in this land and the Chinese exiled to the Southern Ocean are in a state of hunger and poverty, and the situation of slaves is described as tragic.
Since the beginning of this year, nearly 5,000 Chinese slaves have been trafficked to the islands of Nanyang in the slave market in Surap Shuigang, allowing those European manor owners to have enough labor to set up their plantations.
In a temporary military tent next to the Avenue in the valley, Liang Pengfei sat on a pony and talked about a cigar. His face shrouded in smoke made people almost unable to see his face clearly. However, even through the smoke, his sharp eyes could not be ignored and dared to ignore it.
After telling the ins and outs of the matter for nearly an hour, Lieutenant George, who was dry-mouthed, was kneeling on the ground at this moment. There was a bruise on his gray face, which was pulled by Liang Pengfei, who was so angry that he could not control his temper.
"That is to say, this kind of slave trade has lasted for more than a hundred years. That is to say, in more than 100 years, at least hundreds of thousands or even millions of Chinese have become your slaves and die for you Dutch, right?" Liang Pengfei couldn't remember that he had smoked a few cigars. His mouth was bitter and astringent, and his throat was dry. However, his heart was more like a volcano buried, and the magma would erupt at any time.
"Yes, Your Excellency." After getting the recognition that Liang Pengfei has promised to let him survive, Lieutenant George no longer needs to hide for the Dutch East India Company. What's more, Lieutenant George believes that the former Chinese general with extremely strong combat effectiveness will always have a way to know these things, which is not as good as Say it by yourself in exchange for your own vitality.
"These bastards, beasts!" Ni Mingqing slapped his thigh angrily. He never thought that his compatriots would let these white ghosts enslave in front of slaves. Moreover, it has a history of more than a hundred years, which makes Ni Ming, who has always regarded himself as the people of the heavenly dynasty, seem to have more than ten saws in his heart.
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"These Dutch people deserve to die!" Monk Chen clenched his teeth tightly, holding a knife in one hand, and rubbing the snowy blade in the other hand. A pair of tiger eyes were overflowing with the fierce light of tyranny and blood-eating. Such a sentence was viciously squeezed out of the seams of his teeth. The scar extending from his forehead to his forehead and the horizontal flesh on his face were like the angry King Kong worshipped in the temple.
"These Xiyi are really not human." Bai Shusheng had a cold smile on his face, and the gloomy laughter of Jiedi was like a night owl hovering on the chaotic graves in the wilderness.
"You just mentioned Bali, do you think there are more than 15,000 Chinese slaves above?" Liang Pengfei slowly sprayed a mouthful of fragrant smoke, and the eyes that could analyze people's hearts fell on Lieutenant George's face.
"Yes, my lord, my wife's uncle, Ma Kai, is the owner of a Balinese plantation, where he owns three huge manors. In his manor alone, nearly 8,000 slaves are working for him, and among them, there are more than 5,000 Chinese."
Hearing this, Liang Pengfei couldn't help taking a cold breath, and the fierce light in his eyes was like the lighthouse illuminating the night. That is to say, there are more than 5,000 Chinese slaves in your uncle's manor alone?
"Yes, Mr. General, I can swear in the name of my beloved wife and daughter that everything I said is true." Lieutenant George swore to the sky. In addition to my wife's uncle, there are many manor owners in Bali. They also have a large number of Chinese slaves. The figure of 15,000 is what he said when he came to visit our family in Batakan last time, because the manor owners in Bali agreed that diligent Chinese slaves were more than those lazy soils. Slaves can create more wealth for them. Therefore, there are too few Chinese slaves in the slave market. In the whole Dutch colony, there are at least a hundred million Chinese slaves working in the manor of those manor owners.
"Your wife and you, do you have any slaves?" Liang Pengfei pressed the cigar head on the ground fiercely, clapped his hands and stood up, and looked down at the Dutch lieutenant.
"Absolutely not. I am an officer in the Netherlands. I have just come to the East with my wife for less than two years. Those Dutch soldiers can prove to me that I have never enslaved any of your compatriots." Captain George's light gray eyes were full of panic for fear that the strong Chinese general would tear himself to pieces. Two hours ago, he had deeply understood the incredible power of the young Chinese general's arms.
"Well, your last name has been saved for the time being." Liang Pengfei kicked Lieutenant George's leg with his toes. You can enjoy the treatment of prisoners of war. If everything you say is true, then you will save the lives of you and your family.
Looking at the back of the Dutch lieutenant who was kicked forward by his own soldiers, Liang Pengfei took a deep breath. Dutch East India Company... Very good. I'll let you white bastards know how good I am!"
"Yes, young master, I think it's better to slaughter these white-skinned ghosts, and it's best not to keep a piece of scum." Monk Chen shouted viciously. Monk Chen's suggestion was approved by almost all the soldiers.
"No, in this way, what's the difference between us and those beasts?" Ni Ming, who still looked extremely ugly, stood up and said something that made Liang Pengfei look sideways.
"Do you think we should watch our compatriots so humiliated but do nothing?" Liang Shuisheng, who also looked very ugly, shouted in a low voice. Everyone could hear the dissatisfaction with Ni Ming in his tone.
(to be continued)