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 implemented a monopoly trade system and monopolized the entire process of product exchange. In terms of acquisition, the company stipulates that designated products should be planted in certain areas, such as cloves grown in Ambon, nutmeg produced in Banda Island, coffee grown in Boliang'an, and coffee sold to the company at a low price. In order to prevent "smuggling" trade, the company sends fleets to patrol four times a year. Violators will be punished brutally.

Because the residents of Banda Island sold nutmeg to non-Dutch merchants, the East India Company ordered that more than 15,000 residents of Banda Island be massacred. In terms of sales, the company monopolized the monopoly rights of most of the goods.

It signed a treaty with its vassal states, stipulating that cotton, opium and other commodities were imported by the company. The monopoly trade system brought amazing profits to the company. The company purchased a pound of spices for seven cents in Ambon and Banda, and sold it to the Netherlands for a high price of three hundred cents (three Dutch guilds). The purchase of salt in Java costs only six shields per stone, and shipped to Sumatra for fifty to seventy shields per stone.

Not only that, the East India Company also implemented a physical fixed-quota tax system in its colonial areas, stipulating that each state should bear a certain amount of tribute share, and each state then distributes tribute to each village, and the village chief forces farmers to plant it. The forced supply system is implemented in vassal states. The forced supply system is first implemented in Matalan, which stipulates that Matalan supplies a certain amount of rice at the lowest price per year.

Later it was promoted to other local countries, such as Bandan, Sugar, Rice, Wood, etc., and Boliang's supply of wood, rice, pepper, livestock, cotton, etc. Whether it is tribute or supplies, it is transported to Jakarta by officials at all levels. According to regulations, the company should pay meager remuneration to farmers who produce tribute or supplies. This little remuneration is mostly packed into the pockets of Dutch employees and officials at all levels.

In order to ensure the huge profits of the Dutch East India Company in the South China Sea colonies and reduce their efforts, the Dutch East India Company also implemented a system of stealing people and selling slaves in the South China Sea. In order to plunder slaves, the company initially implemented a system of stealing people in Sulawesi.

In order to get slaves from Java, the Dutch initially implemented a system of robbery in Sulawesi. For this purpose, a group of robbery thieves were trained. Thieves, translators, and human traffickers were the main agents of this transaction, and indigenous princes were the main traffickers. The stolen young people were locked in a secret prison in Sulawesi before they grew up and could be loaded on slave ships.

The company also concluded an agreement to supply slaves with feudal lords from islands such as Bali, and went to the southeastern coast of China to plunder Chinese residents and became slaves in Indonesia. Jakarta once became a large market for slave trade, and later after many rebellions from natives and Chinese uprisings that were unwilling to be oppressed.

The Dutch transferred the market for slave trade to Sishui. A little earlier, there were Chinese people living here. It was called Surabaya in Java, which originally meant pythons and crocodiles, so the land was originally named after the desolate swamp. The Chinese felt that it was difficult to speak, and first became "Silimu", and then further refined, it became the authentic Chinese name "Sishui". Si means swimming, and Sishui means swimming across the ocean, meaning that Chinese people leave their hometowns and go to the South China Sea to make a living, and they must cross the ocean.

After Jakarta became a new slave trading market, 20,000 or 30,000 slaves entered and exited the port every year. Except for the indigenous people of the South China Sea and a small number of black people transported from Africa, the rest were Chinese slaves looted by the Dutch and the native kings of the South China Sea, and almost accounted for 20 to 30% of the entire slave trade.

These slaves worked hard in Europeans, mainly Dutch-run plantations. The slaves engaged in various heavy labors, allowing the owners to squeeze out the last bit of their strength and flesh. For example, after the Dutch colonists destroyed the residents of Banda, they distributed the land of Banda to Dutch veterans and used slaves to grow nutmeg. These Dutch planters became rich by cruelly exploiting slaves.

Dutch colonists plundered a large amount of wealth from Indonesia through these slavery methods. From 1750 to 1759, the average remittances remitted from Indonesia to the Netherlands were 2.5 million guilds per year, and from 1770 to 1779, it was as high as 4 million guilds per year. The value of the gold, silver and gems was about twice the value of the remittance. On the contrary, the indigenous people on this land and the Chinese who lived in the South China Sea were in a state of hunger and poverty, and the situation of slaves could be described as miserable.

From the beginning of this year to the present, nearly 5,000 Chinese slaves have been transported to various islands in the South China Sea from the slave market in Sishui Port, allowing those European manors to have enough labor to open their plantations.

Just before the valley avenue was set up, smoke was shrouded in a military tent. Liang Pengfei was sitting on a small stool and muttering a cigar. His face covered by smoke almost made people unable to see his face. However, his sharp eyes were still unaware of it even through the smoke, and they dared not ignore it.

After nearly an hour of telling the whole story, Lieutenant George, who was dry-mouthed, was kneeling on the ground. There was a bruise on his gray face, which was sucked by Liang Pengfei, who was so angry that he could not control his temper.

"In other words, this slave trade has lasted for more than a hundred years. In other words, in the past hundred years, at least hundreds of thousands or even millions of Chinese have become your slaves, working hard for you Dutch people until death, right?" Liang Pengfei could no longer remember which cigar he had drawn, his mouth was bitter and astringent, and his throat was dry and burning. However, his heart was more like a volcano buried in his heart, surging with magma that would erupt at any time.

"Yes, General." After receiving the recognition that Liang Pengfei had promised to let him survive, Lieutenant George no longer had to hide anything for the Dutch East India Company. What's more, Lieutenant George believed that this kind of thing would always be possible to know about this kind of thing with the extremely powerful Chinese general in front of him, and it would be better to say it out of his own way to exchange for his own vitality.

"These dogs, bastards!" Ni Ming slapped his thighs with a blue face and angrily. He never thought that his compatriots would actually let these white-skinned ghosts be enslaved as slaves. Moreover, it had a history of more than a hundred years, which made Ni Ming, who had always regarded himself as a citizen of the Celestial Empire, feel like he had put more than ten saws in his heart.

"All these Dutch people deserve to die!" Monk Chen gritted his teeth tightly, holding a knife in one hand, and rubbing the sharp blade with the other hand. A pair of tiger eyes filled with fierce light of violence and blood-devouring. He squeezed out such a sentence from the gap between his teeth. The scar that extended from his forehead to his forehead and his face was like the glaring Vajra worshipped in the temple.

"These Western barbarians are really not human." Bai Shusheng smiled coldly, and his roaring laughter was like a night owl hovering on the wilderness grave.

"You just mentioned Bali, you said there were more than 15,000 Chinese slaves on it." Liang Pengfei slowly squirted a sip of fragrant smoke, and the eyes that could analyze people's hearts fell on Lieutenant George's face.

"Yes, my wife's uncle Ma Kai is the owner of a Bali plantation. He has three huge estates there. In his estate alone, there are nearly eight thousand slaves working for him, and among them, there are more than five thousand Chinese."

Hearing this, Liang Pengfei couldn't help but take a breath of cold air, and the fierce light flashed in his eyes was like a lighthouse that illuminated the night. "In other words, there are more than 5,000 Chinese slaves in your uncle's manor alone."

"Yes, General, I can swear in the name of my beloved wife and daughter that everything I say is true." Lieutenant George swears to the sky. "In addition to my wife's uncle, there are many manors in Bali, who also have a large number of Chinese slaves, with the figure of 15,000. The last time he came to visit our family in Batakan, he said in person, because the owners of Bali agreed that diligent Chinese slaves could create wealth for them than those lazy indigenous slaves. Therefore, there were too few Chinese slaves in the slave market. And in the entire Dutch colony, at least nearly 100,000 Chinese slaves were produced and worked in the manors of those manors."

"Do you have slaves, your wife and you?" Liang Pengfei put out the cigar head and clapped his hands and stood up, looking at the Dutch lieutenant from a high place.

"Absolutely, I am an officer from the Netherlands. I have just brought my wife to the East for less than two years. The Dutch soldiers can prove to me that I have never enslaved any of your fellow countrymen." Captain George's light gray eyes were filled with fear, for fear that the strong Chinese general would tear him to pieces. Two hours ago, he had deeply experienced the incredible power emitted by the young Chinese general's arms.

"Okay, your life is temporarily saved." Liang Pengfei kicked Lieutenant George in the leg with his toes. "You can enjoy the treatment of prisoners of war. If everything you said 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 personal soldiers, Liang Pengfei took a deep breath. "Dutch East India Company... Very good, I will let you white-skinned bastards know how powerful I am!"

"That's right, young master, I think it's better to slaughter these white-skinned ghosts, and don't leave any scum." Monk Chen shouted viciously. Monk Chen's suggestions were almost recognized by all the personal soldiers.

"No, in this way, what is the difference between us and those beasts?" Ni Ming, who was still extremely ugly, stood up and said something that made Liang Pengfei look at him.

"Do you think we should watch our compatriots be so humiliated, but do nothing!" Liang Shuisheng, who had an equally bad face, shouted in a deep voice. No one could hear his dissatisfaction with Ni Ming in his tone.
Chapter completed!