All along, China has maintained friendly relations with overseas countries, many foreigners will come to our country to work and live, and many Chinese will cross the ocean and seek a way out of foreign countries. In general, each country will implement a protection policy for these outsiders to show the good of the two countries. However, during the Qing Dynasty, more than 100,000 overseas Chinese in China were slaughtered overseas, and the most chilling thing was that the Qianlong Emperor was indifferent to this.
In fact, since the Ming Dynasty, China has imposed a sea ban and no one is allowed to go to sea to trade. However, the law does not completely control the people, in order to find a way out, many coastal people still violate the sea ban, secretly cross the South China Sea, to live in some countries in Southeast Asia. After these people came to Southeast Asia, they relied on their own craftsmanship and worked hard to make a living, although they were not very rich, they lived very comfortably, and they got along very well with the locals, which led to the local economic development to a certain extent.
One of the countries with more overseas Chinese is Batavia, which was originally ruled by British colonists, and later the Dutch expelled the British colonists by force and successfully occupied Batavia. However, due to the impact of the war, the country's economy was paralyzed for a time, and the country was in chaos. Therefore, in order to restore the prosperity of the country as soon as possible, the Dutch colonists tried to attract a large number of indigenous and Overseas Chinese from all over the country to take root and live here to help the country develop its economy.
At the beginning of the Qing Dynasty, these Dutch colonists were still relatively good to the local overseas Chinese and gave various preferential treatment. However, with the continuous influx of a large number of overseas Chinese, the Dutch colonists were worried that the overseas Chinese would infringe on their interests, so they began to crack down on the overseas Chinese who oppressed Batavia and did not allow other overseas Chinese to enter the country again. The dutch colonists did the most by arresting and censoring the local overseas Chinese, and regardless of the identity of the other party, they immediately arrested and imprisoned them whenever they felt suspicious.
If the detained overseas Chinese want to get out of prison, they need to pay a certain amount of bail, and if they do not have the money to bail, they will be escorted to Ceylon as slaves, and they will lose their lives at any time. Therefore, at that time, almost everyone in Batavia was in danger, and they lived a life of fear and fear every day, and many overseas Chinese also lost their lives.
In order to protect their lives and interests, the overseas Chinese decided to gather together to resist the atrocities of the Dutch colonists. However, this gave the Dutch colonists a reason to suppress overseas Chinese. Therefore, in the fifth year of Qianlong, the Dutch colonists began to send troops to suppress, which eventually led to the massacre of more than 100,000 overseas Chinese in the country, and the loss of property was even more incalculable.
When the news of the massacre of these overseas Chinese reached the Qing court, everyone was indignant, but the Qianlong Emperor was indifferent. Instead of expressing anger at the atrocities committed by the Dutch colonists, he believed that these overseas Chinese were self-inflicted. Because he believes that those overseas Chinese who violate the sea ban and smuggle themselves out of the country should have been severely punished, and now that they have ended up in such a situation, it is just a sin they have done. Moreover, the reason why the Qianlong Emperor wanted to deal with it coldly also had his own considerations.
First, Qianlong once issued a decree explicitly ordering no one to go out to sea to trade, and even specially passed on the holy will to let those overseas Chinese who had already gone to sea return to China immediately. However, those overseas Chinese have been rooted in other countries for many years and have long since stopped wanting to return to China. Therefore, in Qianlong's view, these overseas Chinese are all bandits and thugs who only pursue profits, and they no longer belong to the Chinese.
Second, the Qing Dynasty implemented a closed-door policy, so the Rulers of the Qing Dynasty did not know about overseas countries at all, thinking that they were all barbarian countries, and the Qing court's attitude towards these countries was to be both graceful and powerful, and only hoped that these countries could feel China's way of forgiveness and benevolence. At this time, the Qianlong Emperor did not know that the barbarian country he thought had long become a vicious beast, and he would pounce on it and tear China apart when he found the right opportunity.
During the Ming Dynasty, there were also incidents of overseas Chinese being slaughtered in large numbers, and the Ming rulers at that time were indignant and eager to avenge them. But after the same thing happened, the Qianlong Emperor was indifferent, which could not help but make people feel chilled.