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    The writer Johann Neuhof was by no means born in the bottom of the poor, because he was good at reading, writing and painting.

    Moreover, initially as a reserve officer, he went to Brazil, a colony of the Dutch West India Company.

    But to say how rich his family is is pure nonsense.  This guy has also been a sailor, which belongs to the most difficult, tiring and dangerous profession, and he doesn't know how to clean the deck with a little background.

    "Sir, Mrs. Witherson, I invite you to the ball tonight." A servant came to hand the invitation.

    prom?

    The castle was surrounded, and there were still people holding a ball.

    Neuhoff held the invitation in both hands: "Please tell Madam, I will attend on time."

    Neuhoff would definitely scoff at someone else holding a ball.

    But Mrs. Witsen's ball, Neuhof must attend.  Because his benefactor's surname is Wetson, if he hadn't been supported by his benefactor, he would still be fooling around in America now.

    Mrs. Witson's husband is the nephew of Mrs. Engong, and one of the arrested MPs!

    As night fell, many soldiers and civilians were still on duty to guard against Chinese sneak attacks.

    However, in a certain hall of the castle, more than two hundred candles were lit.  Some candles are placed in wall sconces, some are placed in chandeliers, and some are placed on tabletops.

    The interior is brightly lit, and food and wine are constantly being served.

    Mrs. Wittsen, with heavy makeup, was walking around the audience holding a glass of wine, and soon came to Neuhoff: "I'm glad you can come, Mr. Neuhoff."

    "It's an honor to be invited by my lady!" Neuhof bent down and kissed the back of the lady's hand.

    Guests arrived one after another, all of them were high-level company employees and city officials, as well as their wives and daughters (all mistresses and illegitimate daughters) and sons-in-law.

    The women at the ball, young and old, were all mixed blood.

    That Mrs. Witherson is also of mixed race, and her father was the previous governor.  Her mother was from Japan (Portuguese-Japanese mixed race), was arrested as a Catholic, and was sold to the Dutch and sent to Batavia, where she became one of the governor's mistresses and maids.

    In early Batavia, there was a shortage of women.

    Han people can only marry Javanese natives, and gradually there are Han women.  As long as they are Han women, even if they look crooked, they will be snapped up by Han men.

    How scarce are Han women?

    According to Batavia's official records, Han women often turn against their husbands.  Sometimes they just got divorced after a few quarrels, and they don't have to worry about whether they can remarry after divorce. The better the family background, the more this is the case.

    The most important reason for divorce is that the wife finds out that her husband is keeping a concubine, and this kind of extramarital affair is completely intolerable.  The second is that the relationship between mother-in-law and daughter-in-law is not harmonious, and the Han woman is angry with her mother-in-law and wants to break up with her husband.

    There are even parents of Han girls who force their daughters to divorce and remarry because they can't get used to their son-in-law's uselessness.

    In order to curb this phenomenon, the Dutch and the Han people jointly promulgated relevant laws and regulations: first, Han people need to pay marriage tax when they get married;  Permit; Fourth, once you marry illegally, you must be deported.

    And the Dutch also lack women.

    Initially, women were transported from Europe, but there were two problems. One was that the cost of long-distance transportation was too high, and the other was that most of the women transported were prostitutes.  Many of these European prostitutes suffered from venereal disease, and were disgusted by the Dutch, who even nicknamed the prostitutes "rotten pears".

    ?It just so happened that the Japanese shogunate fell out with Portugal and arrested and killed Japanese Catholics.

    The Dutch took the opportunity to buy, and those Japanese-Portuguese mixed-race women became sought-after items for the company's executives.  Ordinary Japanese women are assigned to middle and low-level company employees.

    The illegitimate offspring of the company's top executives, the boy was sent back to the Netherlands to study, and the girl stayed in Batavia.  These girls will marry new company employees, and the father-in-law will train his son-in-law as a confidant, and cultivate cronies through marriage. After decades, they will be intertwined.

    The Mrs. Witson in front of her is one of the best.

    Although her former governor's father has returned to China, her husband is the chairman of the Batavia City Council and a member of the company's East India Council.  Moreover, her husband listened to her very much, because her father was based in the Netherlands, and she herself had a business in Batavia, and she earned far more money than her husband.

    "Bang!"

    The door was slammed open.

    Governor Rainiers led his troops in and ordered: "According to the wartime decree, candles, food, alcohol belong to war materials, and all are temporarily confiscated!"

    "Stop!"

    &nbs??, he is more for himself, even if he is desperate to keep the greedy money.

    Jonas is even more interesting. His wife and children who stayed in Holland wrote to say they bought war bonds.  All the savings in the family were bought in British bonds, hoping that the British would win the war.

    You heard me right, before the war between Britain and the Netherlands broke out, the Netherlands not only sold warships to the UK, but the UK could also get war loans from the Netherlands.  Not to mention these things, during the war between the two countries, Britain directly issued war bonds in the Netherlands, and there were not a few Dutch people who bought British war bonds.

    Jonas was stunned when he received a letter from his family.

    He firmly believes that Britain will fail, and the bonds bought by his wife and children must be in vain!

    So he can't surrender, he has to last until China withdraws its troops, and then bring the embezzled money back to China, otherwise he won't even have the money to return to China for retirement.

    "Bang bang bang!"

    There were sporadic gunshots outside, and soon the gunfire became more and more intensive.

    Rainiers stood up in surprise: "It was shot outside the Governor's Mansion, someone turned traitor!" </div&gt
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