Xinshun 1730

Chapter 1313 Forcing businessmen to make money

Pitt's death, and his suicide note, could have huge ramifications for Britain long after.It's even about whether to say "Damn the King!! Damn the Government! Damn the Justices!"

But now, his death is not important.

The important thing is whether Dashun can continue the established strategy and continue to put pressure on the British colonies in terms of trade.

When Gibraltar had just fallen.

on the other side of the earth.

The news of the outbreak of war is a major event in Songsu, Tianjin, Nanyang, Northeast and other regions.

It may be considered a big event in Wuyi, Jingde and other places.

Apart from that, it is not a big deal. Most of Dashun's self-sufficient small-scale peasant economy has not been affected by the war in the slightest.

At this time, the news of the European battlefield has not yet been transmitted, and the trade at this time is still dependent on the monsoon. Generally speaking, the news of the European battlefield will not be transmitted until the rice dumplings are eaten.

However, the news from India has already come back.

With the victory of Dashun in India and the restoration of the Nawab in Bangladesh, the shipping industry in the Songsu area has also ushered in a new wave of stricter shipping regulations.

There is nothing to control when you go to India.

However, everyone knows the virtues of a businessman.

If there is no control, the Navy and the Marine Corps will be able to resell the things that the Navy and the Marine Corps have spared their blood and fought hard.

The victory in India affects not only India.

Just as Dashun's voyage to Nanyang not only affected Nanyang, but also caused riots in the cotton textile industry in Mumbai, Surat and other places.

Dashun's victory in India, in addition to its impact on India, was more about Dashun's unplugging the trade line of the British East India Company.

The trade routes of Persia, Turkey, Red Sea and other places are now taken over by Dashun.

This is similar to the Nanyang problem.

Nanyang is the Dutch East India Company, which cultivated Nanyang's "cotton cloth consumption trade".It's just that it was Suratbu before, and Songsubu after Dashun went to Nanyang.

As for Persia, the Red Sea, Turkey and other places, Dashun had previously inherited the Dutch inheritance, and competed with the British East India Company. On the production side, it was mainly the dispute between Bombay cloth and Songsubu.

There is a very simple fact that Mumbai is much closer to Persia than Songsu to Persia.

If there is no strict commercial control, it should be said that the merchants in Dashun will soon be able to buy Indian products and sell them in Persia.

After all, in the previous era of factory handicrafts, the real enemy of Dashun, Britain, France and the Netherlands, were not ranked at all. The real enemy was always India. It can even be said that after the concept of the world market appeared in the middle of the Ming Dynasty, the Chinese handicraft industry participated The greatest enemy of world trade is Indian handicrafts.

The trade items between Dashun and India have a high degree of overlap.At least relative to Europe, the overlap is much higher.

Shipping distance, labor costs, how to destroy the Indian handicraft industry, etc. These issues need to be completed by the Dashun court with strong control and restrictions.

More and more systematic control policies have not yet been introduced.

But with the help of the previous "franchised trading company" model, this kind of control can still be done in this way of government-supervised merchants, forcing merchants to only buy domestic products and sell them in Persia, Turkey and other places.

In the eyes of the imperial court, the army desperately drove away the British East India Company, not for these merchants to resell Indian goods to Persia and Turkey.

In particular, there are a large number of people from the real school faction in the industrial and commercial trade system. They hate this kind of thing deeply, and they firmly oppose it in terms of three views.Otherwise, from their point of view, it would be that the imperial court paid for merchants to set up commercial colonies, which is completely different from the idea that primitive accumulation is for industrial development they learned, but that primitive accumulation is the goal. Rather than the evil way of means.

For Dashun, it is important to learn from history.

And "history" is close at hand.At this time, it was not long before Dashun went to Nanyang, and Dashun's practical learning system had always criticized the Dutch colonial model.

It is said that the Netherlands is a businessman misusing the country, based on national power, and only making a fortune for a very small number of businessmen.

Such a large Nanyang region and such a large colony can kill the country's textile industry, which has always been a negative lesson for Dashun.

Of course, it also includes the British East India Company, which forced the British textile industry riots and the 1701 petition, which is also a negative teaching material.

In this three-view atmosphere, this kind of control mentality can be imagined.

Even though Dashun keeps calling for free trade in Europe, it still practices the old horse’s summary: [early industry, without privileges and protection is not enough]; [stripping land, cruel legislation for the exploited, Subsidies, chartered companies, armies and fleets, compulsory preference for domestic goods, etc., are the conditions for the emergence of industrial capitalists].

At this time, for the further control of shipping and trade, for the time being, it seems that the merchants' opposition is not high, and it can even be said to be almost non-existent.

Because they were in Persia and the Red Sea before, they had to face the competition of the British East India Company.But now, this kind of competition has disappeared, and it has been resolved by violent means by the court. In a short period of time, their trade volume has increased sharply, and it can even be said to double.

The imperial court was only at the level of officials and supervisors, requiring merchant ships to register and prohibiting the loading of Indian goods to Persia and Turkey.

Everything else...that's all.For some commodities, the import tax is added purely to increase the revenue of the national treasury, not to fend off competition.

The competition Dashun has to face is not the entry of goods from other countries into its own country.Instead, external markets like Persia, Turkey, and Europe face competition from Indian or European products.

And most of the commodities that can enter Dashun from Persia, Turkey and other places belong to Dashun, which basically has no substitutes.Adding import tax at this time is not for the purpose of protection, but purely for the purpose of increasing the revenue of the national treasury.

For example, frankincense, incense, Tianze incense, myrrh, and other things must be found in Ethiopia or Somalia; for example, sandalwood, the main production area is Honolulu controlled by Dashun, and East Timor and other islands that are basically in Dashun's pocket.

Adding some tariffs on these things is just for the money to enter the treasury. It is neither protecting anyone nor restricting anyone. It can only be regarded as a special "middle class tax" of Dashun.
For these things, Dashun would like to learn from the British Shroud Act. All monks and temples must buy sandalwood from Dashun’s official camp to increase government revenue, whether it is repairing the Yellow River or building ships.It's a pity that I don't have this administrative ability, so I can't do it, and there are too many people's objections...

Basically, Dashun has basically touched the pulse of trade, tariffs, and smuggling, and has a basic clear understanding.

At this time, closely related to Dashun's European strategy, the issue of trade control between India and Persia is very special.

It is now November, and normally, the cargo ship can set sail at this time.

In order to make more money, the merchants naturally hope that the court will be tolerant for the time being.

Merchant ships are allowed to carry domestically produced goods to travel to Persia or the Red Sea. After unloading there, they can load some alternative goods in India, such as cotton cloth, etc., and go directly to Europe.

Because doing international trade this year depends on the face of God, and the annual monsoon period is fixed.

If you finish unloading in Persia and go directly to Mumbai to load cotton cloth, you can catch up with the monsoon and go to Europe before the wind direction changes.

In this way, for businessmen, it is equivalent to earning two shares of money and completing two international trades in one trade cycle.

Although, as a special case of wartime, this is nothing.

After all, as soon as the war started, coupled with the suppression of the British, Danish, Portuguese and other East India companies, the foreign trade volume of Dashun increased steadily after the war.And the number of merchant ships, especially heavy merchant ships that meet the regulations, is insufficient.

Although the shipbuilding is at full capacity and vigorously built, a lot of new orders have piled up.But shipbuilding is not like digging a toilet on flat ground after all, and it can be done in a few strokes.

Ordinarily, as a transition, allowing this kind of transit trade as a special situation in a special period is not a big problem.

However, the imperial court directly rejected this request.

The order prohibits such behavior, and an order was also issued to the Indian garrison and the Nanyang Metropolitan Guard, strictly prohibiting this opening.

It would be better for the merchants to make less money now, and never open the opening that allows Indian cotton cloth to be loaded.

At this time, Dashun's merchant class is still weak compared to the countryside, gentry, and imperial power, so that Dashun can implement the strategy more thoroughly.

Faced with this situation, the Ministry of Industry and Commerce in Dashun used the thinking of officials, supervisors and officials in a unified country to solve this problem, and carried out very complicated regulation around the overall strategy as much as possible.

On the one hand, Dongyang Trading Company is required to continue to deploy reloading merchant ships and join the trading fleet to Europe.

As for the goods of Dongyang Trading, the company specializing in rice transportation will help transport those goods that have insufficient capacity due to transfer to European trade.

Vessels that transport grain rice are allowed to temporarily hire those Nanyang ships or Guangdong and Fujian ships that are not registered. As long as the grain rice is kept, how many reloading merchant ships can be allocated for the rest is the ability of the transportation and shipping company.

On the other hand, merchant ships and warships captured in India during the war were auctioned.

After the battleship was repaired and rebuilt, it was sold to the Western Trading Company as a merchant ship.

The Western Trading Company is required not to increase its trade with Persia and the Red Sea this year, but to maintain the trade scale before the destruction of the East India Company.

More ships are required to go to Europe, at least until the end of the war, they must go to Europe.

Since the Western Trading Company is a monopoly company run by government-supervised merchants, it is much easier to manage than coastal smuggling at this time.The reloading merchant ships are all registered, and the Western Trading Company is the only chamber of commerce allowed to cross Malacca. Under this kind of control, it is not shareholders and directors who say that it is more profitable to travel to Persia so that all ships can go to Persia.

Relying on this kind of control, coupled with the normal number of trade ships, Songsu now has gathered a larger trade fleet to Europe than last year.

However, the ship owner, company shareholders and directors are a little worried after all.Last year's ship hasn't come back yet, what's the situation in Europe?Can this large batch be sold?The imperial court forced them to sell goods to Europe, and they were not allowed to send more ships to India and Persia. Will they lose a lot of money this year?
(End of this chapter)