Chapter 930 Java Islands
The French army lost a total of 26 main battleships in this battle, more than half of which were lost. Twenty of them were sunk on the spot, and several were too damaged and abandoned.
A total of 21 main warships were captured by the Chinese army, and nearly 60 transport ships and auxiliary boats were all captured.
Only four French warships were able to escape.
In terms of personnel, the French army directly killed more than 2,000 soldiers, all of whom were from the navy.
Nearly 8,000 people were captured, including more than 3,000 navy soldiers, 3,000 army soldiers, and more than 1,000 other personnel.
At first glance, the loss does not seem to be particularly large, with less than 10,000 people lost.
On land, any battle would cost more than that.
However, these are all technical arms.
It is much more difficult to train a qualified navy than to train a qualified army.
Especially those artillerymen, crew members and admirals who fiddle with steam engines, these are even more precious.
There are also those ships whose value is even more immeasurable.
After this naval battle in France, the navy lost one-third of its power directly, and it hurt its muscles and bones.
If the army were to lose one-third of its strength, at least 200,000 people would be lost.
In Jakarta, Eames was as happy as he looked at the dejected captives.
He has not forgotten the arrogant look of the French envoy in front of him before.
Ames came in front of Sean and taunted: "Didn't your French emperor say that you want me to regret it? Why don't I regret it now, but your emperor will regret it now."
"Even if our emperor regrets it, he only regrets that he acted hastily and led to the failure of hegemony, but as for you, you don't even have your motherland."
Sean didn't reply, but Dai Levi on the side retorted, piercing each other's hearts.
One of the two sides became a prisoner, and the other died. It should have been a combination of crying and comforting each other, but now they are tearing each other's scars, and there is no winner.
Although Ames felt pain in his heart, he refused to admit defeat.
"Motherland, I am now a Dahua, and my motherland is extremely powerful Dahua. And France, which you are loyal to, will sooner or later destroy Dahua."
Eames said.
"Being a dog can also show a sense of superiority. I admire you very much."
Dalevy said.
"You're not as good as a dog."
Ames kicked Dai Levi, saying that he couldn't do it, but he just had to do it.
As a prisoner, Dalevy didn't have the consciousness of being a prisoner. He wanted to fight back after being beaten, but was beaten up again by Ames' subordinates.
Ames didn't stop until Lin Wancheng noticed the commotion here.
These were small episodes, Lin Wancheng didn't take them to heart.
Defeated the French army and took over Jakarta at the same time. This time it can be said to be a complete victory.
On the one hand, he wanted to announce the good news to the country, and on the other hand, he asked the country to send some reinforcements to completely control the Java Islands.
Ames actually only controlled Jakarta and Bandung before, and the area he controlled was less than one percent of the Clawed Frog Islands. In other places, all are natives at present, and a small number of outsiders.
There are few Dutch people and they cannot eat the whole of Java.
But Dahua is different. If they want to eat the entire Java Islands, there is no problem, it is just a little troublesome.
These natives are divided into countless large and small tribes, and it is not easy to achieve complete rule over these tribes.
There are actually two ways to deal with these tribes. One is what Ames is using, which uses force to deter those tribes so that those tribes dare not confront them.
Then through trade, the exploitation of these tribes is realized.
For example, exchanging an iron sword for several tons of grain or a large amount of spices is an unequal transaction.
With absolute force and the pricing power of trade, they can easily exploit.
This kind of rule is actually extremely fragile, and it can't even be regarded as the completion of rule over these places.
Those aborigines have always maintained their independence and will not integrate into the local colonists, and it is difficult to be assimilated.
However, this form of domination has the lowest cost and the highest upfront profit.
Dahua doesn't like this, and they are going to adopt another method with higher cost but higher follow-up benefits.
That is to directly hold the management rights of those tribes in their hands. At least, the candidates for the leaders of the tribes must be appointed by Dahua.
In this way, those who want to be tribal leaders will listen to Dahua wholeheartedly, and Dahua can smoothly implement various policies, such as the promotion of Chinese characters, planting technology and so on.
When the Dahua people came to give orders to these uneducated indigenous people, they were easily resisted. But it would be much easier if their tribal leader gave the order.
Therefore, controlling the leaders of those tribes became very important.
But wanting to control the appointment and removal of tribal leaders will definitely arouse strong resistance from those tribes.
Those ordinary natives may be silly and uncivilized. But those tribal leaders can only say that they are ignorant, but there are not many fools. They are definitely not willing to become puppets.
The Clawed Frog Islands are actually very large, including Papua New Guinea, the total area has exceeded 2.5 million square kilometers.
The population is actually very large, at least not less than 20 million, just because there is no decent civilization,
So the sense of existence is very low.
Such a large place is broken into small islands, and they are all primitive aborigines who are difficult to communicate with. …
To complete the effective rule of the Clawed Frog Islands, the difficulty is no lower than that of conquering Fuso.
It is naturally very easy to attack these tribes. Those tribes with primitive weapons cannot be opponents of the Chinese army.
However, how to maintain the rule of this area is a headache.
It is impossible for Dahua to keep managers in every tribe, the cost is too high.
Lin Wancheng doesn't need to worry about such a headache, it's the civil servant's business.
He only needs to use force to force those natives to submit first.
At least, if Jakarta and Bandung are to be fully controlled, these lands must be in the hands of Dahua.
Only in the hands of Dahua can these lands be effectively used.
The soil here is formed by the deposition of volcanic ash after volcanic eruptions. It is very fertile and does not require fertilization for planting.
Moreover, there are many rivers, abundant water sources, and the equatorial zone, so rice is cropped three times a year.
In short, conditions conducive to agricultural development are available here.
If the old farmers on the yellow land came to see this kind of black land, they would burst into tears.
This land was handed over to the immigrants of Dahua, so that the people of Dahua could use advanced planting technology and hybrid rice seeds to build this place into Dahua's big granary in Nanyang.