He Bin came to Shimei Village and met Guo Huaiyi, "Brother Guo, I am ashamed, the red-haired ghost refuses to reduce taxes."
Guo Huaiyi was in his forties, and his face was covered with grooves after years of running around. Hearing this, his eyebrows trembled, and he said in a deep voice: "Brother Xian is not to blame for this. Brother Fool knows that Brother Xian has tried his best."
"Brother Guo, I wrote a letter to Duke Jianguo. The Ming Dynasty has conquered Nanjing. I believe it won't be long before they send troops to Taiwan. Please persuade the folks to be patient a little longer."
"Well, don't worry, dear brother, but save it, foolish brother."
As soon as He Bin was sent away, the villagers of Shimei Village surrounded Guo Huaiyi.
"The end of the knot, we have to pay taxes soon, and my family has no food at all. What will the red-haired ghost do when the time comes to arrest people? Please save our family?"
"At the end of the year, the crops my family planted grew very well, but after harvesting, there was not much left after paying the exorbitant taxes imposed by the Dutch. How can the whole family cope with the needs of food and clothing?"
"At the end of the day, my family has a small labor force and many children. This little harvest in the fields belongs to me, which is hardly enough to ensure food and clothing for the whole family. If the Dutch take away more than half of it, then the whole family will starve and freeze.
.Please give me some advice"??
The complaints from one family after another pierced Guo Huaiyi's heart like a knife. Most of the villagers in Shimei Village were immigrants from Zheng Zhilong who migrated across the sea from Fujian and Guangdong. They, like Guo Huaiyi, were from Zheng Zhilong's old tribe.
The relationship is very good. Now that the villagers are living happily, as a big leader, should I just watch them starve to death?
Guo Huaiyi sighed in his heart: Brother He Xian, I also want to endure it for a few more days, but those red-haired ghosts force us to revolt!
He calmed down and said to the villagers: "Everyone, please go back first. Tomorrow morning, young men from every household will come to my house. I have something to say."
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On the morning of September 7, the twenty-fifth year of the Chongzhen reign of the Ming Dynasty (1952), Guo Huaiyi hosted a banquet at home for local elites and anti-Dutch sympathizers from all over the country. After getting drunk, he delivered an impassioned speech.
"The princes were tortured by the red hair, and soon they all died together. However, death is waiting for you, and it is better to fight. If we win in battle, we will have Taiwan, otherwise we will die. Only the princes want to do it!" ("General History of Taiwan")
·Pioneering Notes")
"Da Jie Shou, please give the order, we will follow you to the death!"
Wu Hualong, Long Guan and other leaders are willing to listen to Guo Huai's orders.
Guo Huaiyi smiled slightly: "The Mid-Autumn Festival will be in ten days. At that time, as the "big knot leader", I will invite Dutch officials, businessmen and military officers to the banquet, get them drunk and catch them all, and then take advantage of the momentum to capture the Red Army.
"Jianhe Relanzha City".
"This is a very clever plan. The total number of red-haired ghosts is only a thousand. Including the Tufans they recruited, there are only a few thousand at most. As long as they dare to come to the banquet, it will not be difficult to eliminate them." Wu Hualong, Long Guan and others
Everyone thinks this plan is good.
Unexpectedly, Guo Huaiyi's brother Guo Bao objected in tears: "Brother, that red-haired ghost ship is so powerful that you have killed the whole village!"
"Shut up! No one can survive without an uprising. I have decided to uprising on the Mid-Autumn Festival to fight the red-haired ghosts. Those who are men will join me in killing the enemy!"
"Follow Dajiesou to the death!"
"Kill all the damn red-haired ghosts!"
The whole place was in a state of excitement.
It is difficult to offend when people are angry, so Guo Bao dare not persuade him again.
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There is a kind of person in this world who is worse than an animal and is willing to betray his loved ones in order to survive.
In order not to be implicated, Guo Bao decided to inform the Dutch.
When he ran to the city of Geranje, the Dutch guards refused to let him enter the city. The Dutch were very guarded against the Ming people and indigenous people on the island and did not allow them to enter the city without permission.
"If you don't let me enter the city to see Governor Feuerburg, all the Dutch will suffer," Guo Bao yelled.
The yelling had an effect, and the guards took him to see Fairburg.
"You mean, Guo Huaiyi, the leader of Shimei Village, is going to rebel?"
Felbao stared at Guo Bao closely, "But I heard that he is your brother, why would you betray your brother?"
"They are just farmers, so how can they be opponents of your army? I don't want to be implicated."
"Very good, you are a smart man." Felbao smiled arrogantly and "rewarded him ten gold coins."
"Malinas, please quickly take a group of people to Shimei Village and escort Guo Huaiyi back to the city of Relandia," Felburg said to Malinas, the chief horseman.
"Don't worry, Your Excellency, I will catch him, lock him in an iron cage, and exhibit him like a monkey in the city of Relandia," Malinas promised, patting his chest.
Regarding Guo Bao’s whistle-blowing, this is how the Dutch recalled it:
"If Guo Bao hadn't come to inform us, our situation would have been very bad, and the Dutch rule would have ended tragically" ("Taiwan Under the Dutch Occupation").
"The leader of the Ming people in Formosa (the Dutch name for Taiwan) not only did not participate, but also reported on the conspiracy of his compatriots" ("Letter from the Batavia Council to Governor Felburg")
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"It's bad! Guo Bao is missing. Someone saw him going to Relanja City," a villager reported to Guo Huaiyi.
Guo Huaiyi looked stern, he still knew his brother's character well.
Wu Hualong, Long Guan said: "We have reached the end of the war. We must rise up now. If it is too late, it will be too late."
Guo Huai nodded, "Wu Jiesou, Long Jiesou, please contact the villagers as soon as possible and gather on the mountain to the east of the village."
Malinas led a group of Dutch soldiers to Shimei Village to search for Guo Huaiyi. He had already moved and was not caught. He returned to Chican Street angrily and cursed.
Folks from Shimei Village and surrounding villages came from all directions to the mountains to the east of Shimei Village. The people had hated the red-haired ghost for a long time, and sixteen thousand people actually came.
"As soon as Huai discovered that the plot was exposed and felt that something was not going well, he led 16,000 people to Chichi, destroying everything in sight and killing everyone in sight." ("Taiwan Under the Dutch Occupation")
"On the seventh night of the seventh lunar month, troops ambushed outside and set fire to the streets. The residents were disturbed and massacred the Dutch people, taking advantage of the situation to defeat Chi Chi."
At this time, the castle in Chijia had not yet been repaired, and there were only some simple camps and fences, as well as a hundred Dutch soldiers.
Sixteen thousand rebels shouted the slogan "Drive out the red-haired ghosts" and swarmed in. Malinas only had 100 people and could not resist.
At this time, his hair was messy and his clothes were torn. He no longer dared to say anything crazy about catching Guo Huaiyi and displayed it like a monkey. He rode desperately and fled towards the city of Relanja. Those who escaped with him,
There were only three grooms, and the others were all killed by the rebels.
"The captain of the groom, Malinas, still managed to escape. He rode on his horse, holding a sharp sword in his hand, and led three other grooms to rush out of Chicai, come to Geranze, and report what they saw to Ferburg." ("
Taiwan under the Dutch occupation")
Seeing Malinas, Felburg knew that the matter was urgent. The uprising must be suppressed immediately, otherwise other villages would respond to Shimei Village and the situation would be out of control.
He ordered Captain Dank to lead 120 Dutch soldiers and 2,000 "Tufan" recruited from Xingang, Madou, Xiaolong, Mojialiuwan and other communities to suppress the rebels.
The Dutch had a small population, so in order to effectively rule Taiwan, they recruited thousands of indigenous soldiers. These soldiers were very cheap, and their reward was only a piece of cheesecloth per person. (Letter from the Council of Davia to Governor Feuburg):
"The Formosa people are still loyal to us and heroically eliminated the rebels. Your Excellency rewarded each of them with a piece of cheesecloth. You did the right thing").
More than 10,000 rebels and more than 2,000 colonial troops started a fierce battle in Chichi.
Most of the rebels were farmers. Except for some who held weapons, most of them only had sticks and bamboo poles. But the Dutch all held muskets in their hands. Under the continuous firing of muskets arranged in a square formation, the rebels were defeated. Guo Huaiyi
, Long Guan died in battle.
Regarding this battle, the Dutch recorded this: "Captain Dank led one hundred and twenty Dutch, and with the aid of two thousand Christian Formosa people, they soon defeated the enemy." ("The Netherlands")
Taiwan under human occupation")
After Guo Huaiyi and Long Guan died in battle, Wu Hualong led the rebel army to break through to Ouwang and Dahu (today's suburbs of Kaohsiung City) and persisted for eight days. In the end, they failed because they ran out of food and aid.
Afterwards, the Dutch began to kill people, and the bloody massacre lasted for half a month. In the Chican area alone, 4,000 men, 5,000 women and some children were captured or killed.
After this battle, the Dutch changed their view of the Ming people. “The Ming people in Formosa were regarded as vulnerable, thinking that they were weak and cowardly and unable to fight. According to Dutch estimates, twenty-five Ming people were
All the Chinese people together are not worth a Dutch soldier."
They will soon pay the price for their arrogance.
This chapter has been completed!