Xinshun 1730

Chapter 1314 Forcing businessmen to make money

It is basically unreasonable to reason with capital. Capital has a profit-seeking nature.

But reasoning with businessmen can sometimes make sense, as long as it is not limited to the way of reasoning, including prison, confiscation, confiscation, and exile.

For example, Liu Yu has been trying to reason with the landlords and gentry. If we have money, can we stop buying and hoarding land and collecting land rent?Can we invest in foreign trade industries, or industrial and mining industries?

After talking for a long time, in the end, it is still necessary to rely on the army, laws, Nanyang dumping of artificially manufactured grains to reduce prices, increase nominal land tax, and check the acres of land to reduce the rate of return on land hoarding and purchase land before a large amount of funds can be used for improvement. Land, industry and commerce.

Trade is much the same today.

Previously, Dashun officials, Xinxue faction and Liu Yu's family had been trying to reason with these businessmen as much as possible.

Including the emperor's southern tour before the Macau incident and the Songsu military parade, they were also one of the means of reasoning before the war.

The purpose of the fleet gathering is to convince these merchants that the victory will belong to this side, so that they can buy war bonds and cooperate with Dashun's strategy of strangling trade and seizing the European market.

From a rational judgment point of view, this is a rare opportunity.From the last years of Chongzhen to the present, the control of British navigation regulations and navigation laws on the colonies was lifted because of the threat of French troops landing in Britain.

The markets of all British colonies, due to the deformed structure formed by the previous British navigation regulations, especially the heavy dependence on the home country for industrial products, made it impossible for the British navy to effectively suppress smuggling once the navigation regulations were actually lifted. Traders with perfect substitutes will benefit the most.

Not France, the price of French goods is too high, and there are not so many goods that can satisfy the British colonies that "cut off the two major commodity producing areas of India and the British mainland" at once.

The rest of the countries are even worse, even if they expand production, they will not be so fast.

Only Dashun can, especially the tea, silk, porcelain, etc., which are essentially exported but previously controlled by the British East India Company, can be directly seized by Dashun’s commercial capital and shipping industry. Complete absolute control.

The truth is this.

However, if it is completely liberalized, capital may not cooperate with Dashun's strategy at all, because capital is more inclined to a clearer direction of profit rather than trying to take risks.

Along with Dashun's victory in India, Western European forces, except for Spain in Luzon, Portugal in Southeast Africa, and France in Mauritius, basically all European forces were expelled from the east of the Cape of Good Hope.

Especially in the originally fiercely competitive trade in the Persian Gulf region, Dashun has completely gained hegemony this time, and this hegemony is exactly what Lao Ma said was obtained by means of "naval warfare".

Dashun merchants are already familiar with Persia.In addition, since ancient times, the Persian Gulf area has been the main area of ​​China's foreign trade, with a long history and tradition there.

With the rise of textual research in Dashun in recent years, it is also known that the "General Simabdharaguide Edict" written by Su Dongpo for the emperor is the Persian Gulf area.

As the saying goes, the light of the sky is surrounded by vegetation; although it is far away, it does not shine.Yier tasted Que Ting, bowed to Chen Zhencoin, enlightened and planted, and reached Tihang every year.I would like to compare myself to my inner ministers, to be Yu Linze, to only obey the new favorite, and to be loyal...

Compared with more distant Europe, Persia's rich and prosperous name since ancient times has made merchants more interested in Persian trade.

After Dashun's navy fought for hegemony, expelled the British forces east of the Cape of Good Hope, and extended its tentacles to India, this trade line was obviously more in line with capital's taste.

In Songsu, they are loaded with cotton cloth, Nanyang sugar, or other handicrafts, etc., and head to the Middle East where the navy has eliminated its competitive power.

Such as Clos County, Bussola, Muscat, Mocha and other places.

There, cloth, sugar, etc., all have a profit of more than 50%.

After selling the cloth and sugar, buy myrrh, frankincense, Tianze incense, dates, or horses needed in India there.

Some of them can go home directly.

The other part, such as the goods needed in India, can be sold in India.

After selling in India, load saltpeter from Bangladesh, raw silk from Rajshahi, cotton yarn and jute from all over India, etc., and return home.

Whether it is medicinal materials, saltpeter, raw silk, cotton yarn, etc., they are still in short supply after returning to China, and the profits are not low.

Moreover, the most important thing is that the trade cycle is much shorter than going to Europe.

It is also earning 100 yuan, one is a one-and-a-half-year cycle, and the other is a half-year cycle, which one will the capital choose?

For the same trade, one return journey can only bring silver, and the other return journey can also bring trade goods. Which one will capital choose?

This is self-evident.

Most importantly, there is one more thing.

The battle situation in India has been sent back, and it is already very clear.

However, the battle situation in Europe has not yet been sent back, so it is not clear.Halfway through the run, they found that Dashun's navy had been defeated, and the British were arresting Dashun's merchant ships everywhere.

But still the same.

The Dashun military, as well as the General Staff and the New School, fought the war to Europe and across the Cape of Good Hope, not for the purpose of making Dashun businessmen go to Persia and India to make money.

If it was just to go to India and Persia to make money, then this battle should have ended after Dashun captured India.

There should be no need at all, and there is no need to transport dozens of battleships and cruisers that have been built up for nearly 30 years to Europe with super high military expenditures.

Even, in the past 20 years, there is no need to build so many warships.If it is only to capture India and keep the east of East Africa, then Dashun actually only needs 10 battleships.The extra money can be used to repair the Yellow River, repair the generals, repair the Liaohe River, arrange water transport personnel, relieve famines, etc.

Originally, in the First World War, Dashun's attitudes included "no fight", "small fight" and "big fight".

But if you want to fight big, you must figure out what the purpose of Dashun's big fight is.

Now that Dashun has chosen to send troops to Europe, it is clear that the faction that supports the "big fight" has the upper hand.The reason why the big fight faction has the upper hand is that at least they must have explained why they want to fight big.Although it may be "reasonable", it is not necessarily the strongest reason for "doing this".

As for the big fight, how should we fight?In the process of fighting, how can we get the maximum benefit in Europe, where the influence is very small and the garrison does not have too many troops?

This is the reason why Dashun used officials to supervise the commercial operation, the imperial court controlled it, and forced the Western Trading Company to continue to increase its merchant ships.

Da Da Pai believes that with the development of navigation and the increase of trade between the East and the West, the technological gap between the East and the West is rapidly narrowing.

This shrinkage is even visible to the naked eye.

Not just the spread of steam engine technology or something.

But some special trade products of Dashun, Europe, are imitating frantically, not only silk, porcelain, but also more commodities.

Take something that didn't exist at all before Europe and is purely a real oriental specialty commodity.

lacquerware.

At least in terms of lacquerware, Dashun's advantage no longer exists.French imitation lacquerware furniture is engulfing the Dashun lacquerware market at an astonishing speed.

Especially the "Chinese lacquerware" in Germany, at least seven out of ten are not made in China or Japan at all, but are pure imitations made in France.

In the early years, France had already established the [Corporation des peintres et des vernisseurs], and they sent out petitions like the French government very early.

Moreover, historically, the letter from the French government finance director to the East India Company clearly stated the content of "preventing compradors and supporting the development of domestic imitations".

[I learned that the fans, large woodenware, pottery, lacquerware and other industries that we started imitating are extremely dissatisfied with your import of such goods from China in large quantities... Of course, I am not writing this letter to blame you, more It is to remind you, so that these grievances will not be detrimental to you in the future...]

In addition to France, British joiners also petitioned the government in 1741, asking the government to ban the import of lacquerware and woodware from the East, otherwise they would really be unable to survive, and the newly developed imitation lacquerware industry also It's over.

This kind of handicraft industry, especially this kind of carpentry products that are regarded as mid-to-high-end luxury products, is not too difficult to imitate in Europe.Europe is not without carpenters, and more importantly, it is accompanied by the spirit of scientific experimentation, which makes reverse engineering very fast.

The French royal carpenter, Jean-Felix Huatian, clearly titled the chapter in his book "How to Imitate Chinese Lacquerware; How to Imitate Lacquer Boxes, Snuff Boxes, and Furniture".

A very famous incident is that Mrs. Pompadour bought a Chinese lacquer box from the famous Paris businessman Du Weisi for 3260 livres.Mrs. Pompadour thought it was Made in China, she liked it very much, and often showed it.

But in fact, this lacquer box is not only made in France, but even directly produced in Paris.The Gobelin region is the largest center of counterfeiting in France.

Mrs. Pompadour in Paris bought high-end foreign products at a high price. As a result, the story that this high-end foreign product was produced in Paris is not magical.

This is also the reason why some people in Dashun actually hate France more.The set of things left by Colbert, whether it is mercantilism or the country's industrial substitution policy, has caused many people in Dashun a headache.Gobelin's center of imitation, also Colbert's legacy.

Even basically, more than half of the so-called "Chinese lacquerware" in South Germany is produced in France.

This is true of lacquerware, a true oriental specialty.

Not to mention the rest.

The logic of capitalism's defeat of the enemy is not blockade, but dumping.

Only by dumping can the industry that has just started on the opposite side be completely wiped out.

As far as Dashun is concerned, once the war is over and the power in Europe is rebalanced, Dashun will have no chance of dumping in all directions.

So Dashun hopes to fight late, fight big, fight a world war, and fight slowly.

And I hope the longer the fight, the better.

And it will not cooperate with France at all to engage in such outrageous things as landing in Ireland, Scotland, or a decisive battle in the Strait.

Instead, prepare to fight, and fight slowly.

In the process of fighting, expand trade.

In the process of fighting, seize the market.

Especially in the gap period when the British navigation regulations that had lasted for more than 100 years had collapsed in fact, and France's mercantilism policy was physically interrupted by Prussia's trade routes to Germany.

It is even more necessary for Dashun to gather all the merchant ships that can be gathered.

Within two or three years, with the help of war, smuggling, etc., some start-up industries in Europe, especially the imitation handicraft industry, were destroyed.

This requires more ships and more cargo.

Instead of letting these businessmen, during this rare opportunity period, go to Persia, Oman and other places to transport things like dates and Tianzexiang.

This kind of money can be earned slowly in the future.

Now, go there and earn more in the future.

Businessmen are inherently dissatisfied, but there is nothing they can do about it.The merchants of Dashun are not merchants of the East India Company, and they do not have the strength to force the government to separate from North America to save the company.

The businessman didn't want to hear it, but wanted to go to the Persian Gulf, but the consequences of not listening were still very serious in Dashun.

(End of this chapter)