Chapter 271 Post-war Situation (Part 1)

The indigenous riots in Jakarta City happened suddenly and calmed down very quickly. Around the hour of the night, the war in the city had basically subsided, and there were only sporadic resistance in some alleys and houses. Although there were still many local indigenous tribes coming to support, they were densely packed at first glance, at least nearly 10,000. However, most of the weapons of these indigenous people were earthy muskets and earth cannons, so they naturally could not compare with the weapons purchased by the Chinese merchants in the city from Western trading companies and the artillery built by foreigners on the walls. The indigenous people had not even broken through the city gates for several hours. They only threw a bunch of corpses at the foot of the wall outside the city, and the blood that emerged from the corpses gradually formed a circle of blood-colored moats.

The Chinese merchants, whose number is far less than that of the local natives, play a vital role in quelling the riots so quickly. Guan Poming used his magic to the secular people without any scruples, killing the main force of the natives in the city on a large scale. Guan Zheng used his own advantages to kill the leaders of the battle groups in a purposeful manner, causing the enemy to collapse quickly. Their role for grandfathers and grandsons was the greatest in the eyes of Chinese merchants. Not to mention that the Chinese merchants and local natives were crucial at the Jakarta Pier, even in the subsequent battles of the shop area and other dangerous battles, they broke the deadlock. So after the battle, the local Chinese merchants regarded them as gods who descended to earth. Some even thought they were descendants of the Saint Lord Guan Emperor, so they respectfully called Guan Poming the Heavenly Lord, Guan Zheng as the Immortal Lord, and wanted to build temples and temples for the two of them.

Compared with the Guan family's grandson, Luo Xuan, the leader of the Spiritual Sect, seemed more practical and sleek. He did not take action directly, but allowed the believers and masters in the surrounding sects to promptly rescue those well-known Chinese merchants trapped in the center of the city. These Chinese merchants are famous families in the local area, with extremely high identities, and can directly or indirectly influence people at all levels in Southeast Asia. When they were escorted to a safe place one by one and knew who was the one who saved them, they expressed their willingness to support Luo Xuan's mission, and some elderly people with extremely high family status also turned to believe in the Spiritual Sect. It can be foreseen that in the next few years, the power of the Spiritual Sect will expand exponentially in Southeast Asia and eventually become a religious sect that plays an important role in Southeast Asia. In a certain way, perhaps Luo Xuan's spiritual Sect is the biggest beneficiary of the riot.

After the man in black escaped, Xu Changqing stayed in the Governor's Mansion and did not directly intervene in the battle outside. The so-called ignorant fearlessness, compared to Guan Poming and others, Xu Changqing's cultivation of Taoist heart has penetrated into the world, not much worse than those land gods who have refined the soul and are about to ascend to the earth. Therefore, he is more aware of the reasons for the heavenly calamity and its terrible degree, so he dare not be too presumptuous. Although he did not intervene directly, he still acted as a small matter and used the power of the Soul-Swinging Bell to influence the minds of everyone in the city. The Chinese became more and more brave as they fought, while the local natives lost their fighting spirit and subtly controlled the direction of the situation in the city.

"These foreigners must have conspiracies!" In a conference room in the Governor's Office, several powerful old men and Guan Poming from the Chinese businessmen sat together. Xu Changqing and others. One of the presidents of the Chamber of Commerce suddenly said.

The reason why this person said this is mainly because the foreigners' garrison on Java today is really weird. The base of the British and French foreign coalition forces on Java is not far from Jakarta City. If you march quickly or take a boat, it only takes an hour and a half to reach Jakarta City. However, when the coalition forces arrived, the battle had ended in Jakarta city for more than an hour. From the beginning of the riot to the end of the final silence, there was nearly ten hours between them. With such sufficient time, let alone strong soldiers, even elderly people should have climbed there long ago. Therefore, the support method of the foreign coalition forces rushing over time gives people the feeling that they were here to clean up the mess.

After the arrival of the foreign coalition, a large number of local natives gathered outside the city of Jakarta. If at this time, the Chinese merchants and foreign coalition attacked each other internally and externally, these natives could be wiped out. Although it is not said that the Java natives were exterminated, they would not be able to recover their vitality at least for more than ten years or even decades. But when the Chinese merchants sent people to contact the foreign coalition, the foreign coalition had already begun to blindly attack the natives outside the city. Although the coalition's attack seemed to be huge, in fact, only a small number of local natives had suffered casualties, and most of the people had safely retreated to the jungle, and most of the indigenous forces were still preserved.

After dispersing the local natives, the foreign coalition did not enter the city, but only stayed outside the city for a while, and asked the Chinese merchants to hand over the thousands of indigenous prisoners, and then used the excuse of the natives to burn and kill foreigners to execute all the thousands of people on the ground at the gate of the city. Immediately afterwards, the generals of the foreign coalition and the temporary governor praised the role of the Chinese merchants in quelling the chaos on the execution ground with corpses all over the ground, and expressed that the city of Jakarta was handed over to the Chinese merchants to manage the Chinese merchants as a reward for their reward. When the Chinese merchant representatives took the letter of appointment from the temporary governor, they could clearly feel the hatred gaze shot from the depths of the jungle, and they also understood in their hearts that the hatred between the Chinese merchants and the local natives could no longer be resolved from this moment.

Afterwards, the foreigners' coalition acted even more strange. Without asking about the casualties of foreigners in the city, they hurriedly retreated back to the base. The representatives of the chamber of commerce, who had already felt something was wrong, hurriedly sent someone to investigate the identities of foreigners who died in the riot. As a result, they learned that the foreigners were all European farmers with extremely low identities, some criminals, and none of the foreigners with real identities. It was not until this time that all the Chinese chambers of commerce felt that they had fallen into a carefully designed trap. So they turned to Guan Boxin for advice, hoping that this god-like figure could come up with a countermeasure.

"Nonsense, now everyone knows that foreigners have conspiracies," the old man sitting next to Guan Poming seemed to be a little disagreeing with the president of the chamber of commerce that he had just spoken. He mocked him without hesitation, then turned around and respected Guan Poming with a pious expression: "Guan Tianzun has great supernatural powers, so he can naturally see through the minds of those foreign devils. He also hopes that Tianzun can be kind and righteous, and think of a countermeasure for us ordinary people to save our suffering."

"This..." Guan Poming looked puzzled and didn't know how to answer. If he wanted to ask about various miscellaneous magic, he could tell that he was Chou Yin and Mao, but it would be a bit embarrassing to solve this kind of secular power struggle.
Chapter completed!