Xinshun 1730

Chapter 1315 Forcing businessmen to make money

For Dashun, the process of the war is more important than sitting at the negotiating table at the end of the war.

After sitting at the negotiating table, some things are impossible to get.

Large-scale smuggling and trade can be increased during the war, which directly affects the post-war trade pattern.

This kind of reasoning is of no use to businessmen.

Fortunately, many of Dashun's previous control policies, or in other words, truly learning from the state control and Sang Hongyang's set that was picked up by the West, have now at least played a role in foreign trade.

Relying on the reputation accumulated by Liu Yu over the years and the 20-year continuous collection of various intelligences in Europe, this time the Ministry of Industry and Trade issued a document to advise on what cargoes should be loaded on cargo ships.

What is the approximate trade ratio of cloth, luxury goods, consumables, and daily necessities? After going there, whether to go to West Africa, the Caribbean, or North America; or how to deal with North American smugglers’ requests to exchange goods directly on the smuggling island after arriving there? And so on, have introduced the guiding policy.

The trade in the Persian Gulf region is already a boiled duck, so there is absolutely no need to invest too much energy now.In the future, the trade between the Persian Gulf and China will really be done by a fool.It only depends on the amount of principal assets left by the parents, not on the ability to develop.

This well-known prospect of making money led to the development of Dashun industry, especially the shipbuilding industry.

Indeed, Dashun was at war and had issued war bonds.

However, for the national debt in the precious metal era, as long as the court still has credit, for those creditors, that is, commercial capitalists, they have paid nothing.

They took out silver with their left hands, gave it to the court, and exchanged it for national bonds.

But these paper national bonds can also be used as currency circulation as long as the imperial court's reputation is still there.

The real financial rentier class in Dashun has appeared. They earn the interest of the imperial court with their left hand, and invest the bonds in their hands as currency with their right hand. In the era of precious metals when national debts can be redeemed, what did they pay?
So the Songsu area of ​​Dashun showed a strange prosperity after the outbreak of the war.

A lot of money in the hands of the court was transformed into warships, steel, cannons, grain, sugar, tobacco, cloth, and military uniforms.

As a wonderful banknote in the precious metal era, treasury bonds have directly participated in industrial investment.For the future Persian Gulf and Indian markets, these capitals flow into various industries and infrastructure.

On the whole, Dashun has gradually found a way to transition.

Just like before the rise of any economy, it is necessary to build a large infrastructure.

Canals in England and roads in France, Dashun had no choice but to gamble on the budding railway in the north, because it could neither learn from the roads in France nor the canals in England.And the construction of larger canals in the south has also begun to be built along with the strange prosperity caused by this war.

For example, the canal in Fujian is mainly based on tea trade, the reconstruction of river channels in Jiangxi is mainly based on porcelain trade, and the dredging of the Three Gorges and the construction of tracker roads in Sichuan are mainly based on salt, Yunnan copper, Guizhou zinc.

And this strange prosperity is unstable.If there is no subsequent stable market, many investments may not be profitable.

In particular, the existing development, industry, infrastructure transportation, etc. are all based on the existing trade products as the expected future expansion, and there is a problem of "replacement" that has to be considered.

This is also one of the reasons why Dashun forced merchants to ship more goods to Europe and America this time.

For example, Dashun's classic goods, tea.

This is very likely to be replaced, such as coffee.

Generally speaking, although tea and coffee are both luxury goods and drinks.But in general, people who are used to drinking tea are not very good at drinking coffee; similarly, people who are used to drinking coffee are generally not good at choosing tea.

When people think of British drinks, later generations think of black tea; when they think of French people, they think of coffee; and when they think of Americans, coffee seems to be more important than tea.

However, in this day and age, that is clearly not the case.

After all, the thirteen states in North America are British colonies, and the majority of British immigrants are at this time. Whether it is a rational inference or the facts at this time, it should be tea drinking that dominates.

Moreover, the tea party in Boston and the reduction of tariffs on Wuyi tea can be regarded as the official starting point for American smugglers to go on the road of resistance.

But, in the end, for various reasons, coffee replaced tea and became the main refreshing hobby in North America.

This is something that Dashun is more worried about.

After all, for things like luxury goods, it is still necessary to cultivate the market and target groups.

Historically, in North America, there was a transition process from drinking tea to coffee.

And this transformation process is closely related to the Boston Tea Party.

A country is certainly not monolithic.Except for those young people whose blood is aroused by impulsive words, more people behind the scenes have entanglements of interest.

For example, the Boston Tea Party event, behind this incident, stood at least four groups of people.

The first wave is the tea dealers who normally buy "legal" tea.One of the representatives is Hutchinson of Franklin's "Hutchinson letter incident".

When Franklin published Hutchinson's letter, he meant to say, look, this Hutchinson is from our thirteen states, and he also supports taxation.So the king is not that bad, it was not ordered by the king, this Hutchinson was born and bred in our thirteen states...

This man's son is in the regular tea business.At that time, the East India Company was forced to go bankrupt by the smuggled tea from the Netherlands and Sweden. There was no way that the British lowered the tea tariff of Wuyi tea, so that the tea that had paid the tariff was cheaper than the smuggled tea that bought tea from the Netherlands and Sweden. Cheap.

The second wave is naturally smugglers.

The third wave is coffee merchants.

The fourth wave is some local herbal tea producers in North America, mainly growing "Labrador tea" in North America.People in the Northeast should have seen this thing before. It is similar to the leaves of Jindalai and Shantaria flowers. After being rolled, it is similar to tea rolls.

The game between these four groups of people is smugglers, coffee merchants, and Labrador tea growers, who work together to buy customs tea.

But after it was over, things got out of hand.

At that time, a kind of lynching called [Tarring and feathering] was popular in North America.It is to burn the asphalt, pour it on the body, and then put the feathers on the body.This kind of punishment must at least peel off the skin, pour hot asphalt on the body, and peel off the skin if you don't die.

The famous victim, John Malcolm, was tied under the famous "Liberty Tree" after being splashed with asphalt and stained with feathers.

After beating, he was fed tea until he vomited.

Cao Nima, don't you support tea tax reduction?I'll let you drink, let you drink enough today, I won't kill you.

After that, drinking tea became a matter of political correctness.

Drinking tea means that if you are not patriotic, you will have a tendency to treason, and you will have a tendency to protect the king.

Behind this is the coffee merchant and the Labrador tea merchant behind the promotion.In Chinese, Labrador tea also has the word tea, but in English, this thing is not tea.

As far as the time was concerned, there were anti-British and some anti-British, but in fact, most of them were just everyday people, so it was quite lively.

And these days, few people dare to drink tea after seeing the persecution of tea.Are you looking for trouble?In order to drink tea, it is really not worthwhile to be grabbed, splashed with asphalt, stained with feathers, and beaten.

In theory, can I be "patriotic" and "anti-British" while "drinking tea" at the same time?

In theory yes.As long as I drink smuggled tea or smuggled tea that costs 2 or [-] pence more than tariff tea, they can exist at the same time.

The problem is that they all drink Wuyi tea. Can you tell whether you are drinking patriotic smuggled tea or unpatriotic tariff tea?
As long as everything is on the line, then there is only one option for this kind of thing, "more pure beats less pure".

For example, the second president, John Adams, specifically addressed this issue of purity in his letter.

[I think I forgot to tell you an anecdote: When I first came to this house, it was late afternoon and I had ridden at least 35 miles. "Ma'am," I said to Mrs. Houston, "a weary traveler needs a cup of tea to soothe. So long as it's smuggled, or doesn't pay any duties."

"No, sir," she said, "we've given up all tea in this place. I can't make tea, but I can make you coffee.]

In this, the purity of John Adams is not enough, because he still drinks tea, but he refuses to drink the tea that has paid the customs duty.Because paying customs duties means impurity.

And this lady was purer than Adams, because she didn't even drink tea, but coffee.

So, John Adams is ashamed.

Since then, he stopped drinking tea and started drinking coffee instead.

Originally, coffee merchants, Labrador tea merchants, smuggled tea merchants, and customs tea merchants were fighting among themselves.

The three families dried up the customs tea together.

The remaining three, the coffee merchants, the Galabrador tea merchants, and the smuggled tea merchants are evenly matched.

In the subsequent "Pure Patriotic Movement", drinking tea itself was a sin, especially after filling Malcolm with tea until he almost vomited to death, most people tried not to drink tea as much as possible to avoid trouble; Those who are not so pure need to defeat the less pure ones. In the past, they only drank smuggled tea to show their ambitions, but now they don’t drink smuggled tea, and only drink coffee.

This is the domestic environment.

The foreign environment also made the tea merchants in North America after the founding of the country gradually come to an end.

First came the British blockade, then the Anglo-Dutch War, the end of the Dutch East India Company, the French Revolution and a series of events, which gradually enabled Britain to obtain a tea trade monopoly.And the rise of coffee farming, and the hallucinogenic backstab of Labrador tea, gave the coffee merchants the ultimate victory.

Tea may be replaced by coffee, especially if it has something to do with politics.

And those who believe in religion...their thinking is very bewildered.

Like Cromwell's death.

He got malaria, but cinchona bark quinine was discovered by Catholic missionaries, so Karen Welling ate Protestant grass instead of God's medicine, and finally died of malaria.

When people from Dashun go to this kind of religious country, especially a country with fundamentalist Puritans, to debate the scriptures, they often have the wrong lips and fail to argue.

But it is not important.

As long as there is enough tea to be transported, as long as the power of tea smugglers is strengthened, the coffee will be killed.Then, tea smugglers will give tea a sacred status.

The economic base determines many things. The more tea sellers earn, the more power they have to speak.It's also easy to find a gunslinger to argue that drinking coffee makes you lose your prowess and become a French sissy.

Anyway, the East India Company was dead. What Dashun had to do was to take advantage of the war to bring a large amount of goods there, and cultivate a group of people who made money from Dashun's products. They would naturally cheer for Dashun's products in the future.

Not just tea.

There is also cotton cloth, which is related to the struggle with some wool textile industries in North America; lacquerware, which is related to the struggle of immigrant joiners; Budding, wait.

The more shipments are made and the supply is more abundant, the more people will make money in this business, and the more people will speak out in the future.

Before the end of the war negotiations, some things must be made into established facts.Smugglers and businessmen, they have great power and can directly manipulate public opinion in North America.

Dashun's decision, this forced large-scale trade, had a great impact on North America and even the world.

(End of this chapter)