Xinshun 1730

Chapter 1126 Self Positioning

As for what happened, it can be regarded as an awkward microcosm of Dashun's participation in colonial operations these years.

That is to say, capital is unwilling to go to places farther overseas that are suitable for growing food.

For example, in the Americas, the capital mind is so sick, they don’t make investments with higher returns, and go across the ocean to grow food in North America?

And the far side of the ocean where capital is willing to go is more painful.

Along with the solution of the roughly approximate solution formula of the moon's orbit, and the drawing of the star map of the northern and southern hemispheres, Dashun used a set of solutions that are completely different from the British navigation clock to solve the problem of longitude.

Although the engineering school is one step ahead.

However, the manufacturing cost of nautical clocks is too high, the difficulty is too great, the requirements for craftsmen are too high, and the cost is high.

In the end, although the longitude method of the Science School of Dashun was a step behind, it took the lead in application.

With the successful drawing of the star catalog, Dashun carried out the second wave of global exploration. The expedition ship sailed into the vast Pacific Ocean and began to draw a sea chart with accurate latitude and longitude.

In the vast Pacific Ocean, the Honolulu island group is found.

This meaning, for Dashun, is big and small.

Speaking of immigration, the Northeast is not yet full, so where should I go when I have nothing to do?That place is far away.

But to say big, it has something to do with Dashun's war and trade with Raksha many years ago.

After the war between the north and Luocha ended, Liu Yu adopted the immigration plan of "painting the ground as a prison" to the Whale Sea.

That is to send people to block important river mouths and river mouths, and first occupy the main traffic routes.

At the beginning, he also served as the governor of Whale Sea for several years, and the development there was also capital-oriented.

The development of commerce and profitability can promote the development of agriculture.

This is the logic of colonization.

It is exactly the opposite of the logic of the empire's agricultural development, promotion of handicraft differentiation, and commercial development.

For example, the immigrants at the mouth of the Heilongjiang River. The reason for the increase in the number of immigrants there is that after the war with Luocha, when Liu Yu served as the governor of the whale sea, he encouraged the commercial colonization of whaling, hunting animal fur, and cooking oil and blood. Activity.

As a result, the number of agricultural immigrants in the Heilongjiang estuary was driven.

The development of commerce drives up the demand for food.The demand for food makes it profitable to grow food.Growing grain was profitable, and some capital led people to emigrate north.

The first battle in the north directly disrupted the pace of the Rakshasa people's eastward expansion.

Under the development of Jiangsu, the huge demand for fur and oil made capital start to organize professional hunting teams and expand northward.

Firstly, Dashun settled in the north, the weather was cold, and the dignitaries were dignitaries, so it was understandable that they loved fur.

If the capital is located in the tropics, and the dignitaries and aristocrats don't bring up the trend of liking fur, it will definitely be difficult to become popular.

Secondly, since the middle and late Ming Dynasty, perhaps because of the trade with Jurchen, fur has become a must for the wealthy class, and the market has been opened.

In "Jin Ping Mei", many girls wear 60 taels of mink.

Three, it is Liu Yu's policy of supporting France.

France lacked the silver to trade with Dashun. Of course, most countries lacked it. After the Netherlands lost its spice Nanyang, if Dashun hadn't cooperated with it, the Netherlands would have nothing to trade with Dashun.

In order to induce France to give up the fight for India, Liu Yu fought in North America and the United Kingdom, and fostered France's "French Three Treasures" trade.

Ginseng, Mink, Antler.

North American ginseng-producing areas happen to be mink fur-producing areas, and the influx of mink fur has further expanded the fur market, increasing market acceptance.

but……

The mink fur in the hands of the French is not the best stuff.

The best fur is sea otter.

That is, in "A Dream of Red Mansions", the "sea dragon skin" copied out when the house was searched.

Sea dragon skin is the top fur in Dashun, the most luxury.

That is to say, Dashun's fur dealers and Raksha's Cossack fur dealers took two different paths.

The Cossack fur traders in Rakshasa expanded river after river at the same latitude, not to expand the land for the empire, but to chase sables.

The sables were exterminated all the way from the west to the east, which eventually led to Luocha Kingdom and Dashun fighting in the "last habitat of the sables", that is, the Heilongjiang area, over 20 years ago. No small war.

After this battle, the expansion of the Raksha Kingdom was curbed.

At the same time, because of Liu Yu's support for France, a large amount of mink fur and other fur from the Great Lakes region entered Dashun, which lowered the prices of mink and fox fur.

According to the statistics of Songjiang Customs last year, the price of a piece of red fox fur has been reduced to about one yuan and two cents.

This one dollar refers to the common currency for trade between the East and the West, the Spanish silver dollar, which contains 27 grams of silver, which is only a few coins.

The price of sea dragon skin has soared to 55 yuan.

At the same time, with the development of the handicraft industry in southern Jiangsu, the demand for oil is also increasing day by day.

Thanks to Liu Yu's support for the fur and oil industry when he was the governor of the Whale Sea, and the impact of a series of developments, capital began to organize people to hunt those stupid and valuable animals.

Liu Yu has been the envoy of the Whale Sea Festival for several years, using the strategy of closing doors and occupying land to drive immigrants with capital.

Then, about two years after Weixin, the last sea cow in the world became extinct.

Because since the second year of Weixin, there has been no more hunting boats to "pick up" this kind of stupid, five or six tons of head. As long as you get a head, you can earn three or four times the hunting expenses of going north, and it is known as a "good omen." Good luck" animals too.

As for the reason for the extinction of sea cows, hunting is one aspect, and more importantly, the price of "sea dragon skin" has soared to 55 yuan a piece.

Sea otters eat sea urchins.Sea urchins eat aquatic plants.Manatees eat aquatic plants.

Hundreds of sea dragon skins are transported to Songjiang Prefecture every year, and the manatees have starved to death in the past twenty years.

The Cossacks of Rakshasa are also envious of this hugely profitable business, but they can't compete with Dashun.

Because Dashun not only hunted by himself, but also exchanged things.

The Cossack of Rakshasa has long lamented: "When the Chinese buy a fur, they pay the Tlingit five or six large blankets, plus some candies and preserved fruits, but we cannot pay such a sum. In addition to robbing, There is no way."

"But in fact, in their Jiangnan area, they can buy a few big blankets without spending a few silver coins. As for candies and preserved fruits, in their Jiangnan area, they can buy a boatload of preserved fruits at the grocery store."

"We can't compete with those Chinese except for robbery and forced payment of tribute."

"However, the Chinese implemented the monopoly franchise system early on. Their capital groups formed a core monopoly company and fully controlled the fur trade in the northern region."

"And we... the Moscow Gang, the Petersburg Gang, the Constantinople Russian Trading Company, the Persian Trading Company, the Bukhara and Khiva Commercial Company... these companies that seem to have nothing to do with the Arctic are trying to seize Fur trade, there is no one force that integrates them."

"In the face of the Chinese companies that have achieved and completed their monopoly, the scattered power makes us unable to compete-in fact, in the Whale Sea area they talk about, as long as a ship is found on the sea, there will be a battle. You know, a ship of fur , comparable to a ship of gold, no matter in Songjiang, or Amsterdam, or Petersburg, this is the case - and the forces after their monopoly, whether it is the Moscow Gang, or the Petersburg Gang, or those strange names and Arctic trade Unrelated companies have been devastated."

"We have been unable to compete with them in northern America. Chinese blankets, sugar cubes and brick tea have become the hard currency of the Tlingit people."

It should be said that this was Liu Yu's greatest legacy to Dashun during the years when he was the envoy of Jinghai Jiedu.

The power of the Raksha people has no chance to get involved in northern America.

As for the reason... To a large extent, it is the formation of monopoly companies.

The integrated capital, against the bunch of "free competition" commercial companies in the Raksha Kingdom, has formed a crushing advantage over retail merchants in Nanyang, just like the East India Company before.

The meaning of a monopoly company is that where there is order, I am a company; where there is no order, I am a pirate.

As far as the route in the Arctic region is concerned, everyone can't see up and down, as long as they are not one of them, let's do it first.

The reason is also very simple.

No one is idle and has nothing to do, so they sail to such a place that really doesn't shit.

For those who come, there are designated goods on board.

It doesn't matter if it's fur, whale oil, or grease, as long as you have a shot and grab it, you're guaranteed to make money.

In the sea of ​​whales, no one is left alive.

There is no "diplomatic dispute".

Even, no one wants the boat after the robbery, for fear of causing trouble.Because the goods on the ship are worth more than the ship.

And in this place, it is really difficult to keep alive.

The progress of Dashun's shipbuilding industry has allowed Dashun to have more suitable ships and the Rakshas to rob furs.

The Raksha people can't build big boats here; Dashun can book big boats in the south.

The trade between Dashun and France made fur a luxury widely accepted by the rich.But for luxury goods, once the market opens, it needs to be divided into grades - buying fur is a consumer awareness; buying mink fox fur or sea dragon fur is a special attribute of luxury goods, but whoever has money will buy mink Fox fur?

With the development of the Dashun Navy, a group of retired sailors joined fur companies and received high salaries.And the particularity of the sailors contributed to Dashun's monopoly in the Jinghai area. Normal farmers may still feel that they can't bear it. These sailors who have served in the claustrophobic space for ten years have no psychological burden on killing people and stealing goods.

At the same time, a large number of sailors participated in the monopoly company of fur whale oil, which made Dashun's trading company surpass Rakshasa's Cossacks in terms of sailor quality.

There are only a few sea routes, and Dashun started to expand to the Americas in order to chase profits and the high profits of exchanging five blankets for one sea dragon skin.

Capital seeks profit, only when it is profitable.

The hunting speed of the aborigines is also slow. Although it can be exchanged, it is still not as good as a professional team to hunt and kill.

This leads to a problem, lack of food.

There is definitely no shortage of meat, but no one can bear to eat meat all day long.Definitely want some cereal too.

Under the overall background, the completion of the lunar distance method star catalog and the discovery of Honolulu made the geographical location of Honolulu worth expanding.

Because it is closer to the sea dragon leather production area in America; it is much easier to go to Songjiang from Honolulu than to take the dangerous Arctic route.

However, the situation there is a bit special.

Those who engage in furs only hope that there will be a transfer station and a grain supply base. Although they have some interest in investing there, they definitely don't want to build a farm.

Dashun itself also urgently needs an assimilated Honolulu, and must be prepared to resist religion.

Don't even think about assimilating tens of thousands of people on the island with basically profit-seeking capital, but it is possible to force out nationalism on the island.Moreover, once Christianity is passed on, people who fall under the whiteboard belief will be infected immediately.

Under such circumstances, the successors of the Yan-Li School, which is very suitable for the concept of colonization and pioneering, and the gradually religious Taizhou School, became the targets of Liu Yu's search.

(End of this chapter)