Xinshun 1730

Chapter 1320 Imposing Sanctity
Now Dashun is in the germination stage of the industrial revolution, and it is the time when there is an urgent need for a large amount of precious metal currency.

Gold and silver were indeed neither edible nor drinkable, but they were the key to the transition to capitalism.

Lao Ma said: the colonial system, the national debt system, the protection system and a series of systems are integrated.They all use the power of the state to accumulate and organize social forces, like a greenhouse, to promote the transformation of feudal production methods into capitalist production methods and shorten the process of transformation.National power is itself an economic power.

The generally recognized gold and silver currency is of course also an economic force.

This economic force can facilitate a rapid separation of labor and means of production.

And with the budding industrial revolution in Dashun at this time, the gold and silver were not just thrown into the land as before.Instead, under the technological progress of the industrial revolution, it quickly became new means of production such as mines, steam engines, textile mills, and steel furnaces.

And take advantage of the special national conditions of Dashun, and the relatively surplus labor force and industrial reserve army produced under the private ownership of land after the end of Tang Dynasty, quickly complete the process of industrial production capacity competing with the original agricultural production output value, and lay the economic foundation for the new era.

What Dashun finally needs to solve is internal problems.

Whether it is external expansion or primitive accumulation, just like Dashun’s criticism of Peter, it is considered a means rather than an end.

Liu Yu just changed the world chaos caused by the collapse of the traditional society due to the change of economic foundation into a more pleasant way of saying it, so that people of these new schools can accept it.

Since these are means, it is obvious that what Dashun needs now is real money.

North America is rich in products, and the large number of people and the small land make it possible for each person to provide a lot of food and other crops and raw materials to be put into the market.

However, due to the limitations of the times, the limitation of transportation capacity, and the choice of return on capital, any commodity in North America is not attractive to Dashun merchants.

The same gold and silver can be invested in growing soybeans in the Northeast, rice in Southeast Asia, and cotton in India, all of which are better than buying some iron nails in North America that can be shipped back to lose money.

Of course, this does not mean that these grains and tobacco in North America cannot be exchanged for money.

But it takes a process.

A process of exchanging North American tobacco for European silver and then merchant tea.

This process takes time.

Dashun's capital itself also considers interest.

At this time, Dashun couldn't afford to wait by himself, and it was impossible to exchange by himself. He could only rely on Europe's own internal trade to complete the exchange.

When the goods arrive in North America, just take the money and leave instead of waiting here.Can't wait.

Therefore, even from this point of view, Dashun does not want another large-scale war to break out in Europe, at least not within 20 years.

Once North America begins to choose to separate from the United Kingdom, it will definitely be a large-scale war that will last for several years and lead to another wave of Spain and France-the partition of Poland as the expected bargaining chip for Belgium's neutralization and demilitarization after the war , not a large-scale war.

The British navy was there. Under the war and blockade, trade stagnated, debts soared, and silver tightened. This was not what Dashun wanted to see.

In particular, Dashun's industrial revolution has just sprouted and India's handicraft industry has not yet been destroyed. Europe and America are very critical transitional markets to ensure that Dashun's industry can grow like mushrooms after rain.

After the industry develops, it will be easier to say.It doesn't matter whether it destroys India's handicraft industry, or turns around and asks for the domestic market, after all, new forces can step onto the political stage.

And during the critical period of transition, if North America gets into trouble, a lot of shit happens.

At the very least, the millions of markets with absolute consumption power will be lost, and the volume of trade in Europe will drop sharply.

Here, it is said that the average asset of free farming families in the southern states of North America at this time is 392 pounds. This is about assets, not cash.Assets cannot be directly consumed, and Dashun does not need trade products from North America, so it needs a stable trading environment to allow them to exchange corn and tobacco for silver.

if not……

As for the habit of issuing banknotes indiscriminately in North America, during the Thirteen States Revolution, banknotes were issued indiscriminately to the point of creating a new English idiom: Not worth a Continental.

worthless.

Historically, France, which relied on selling its head to aid the United States, forcibly used its national reputation and silver to resist this large pile of North American banknotes and endorse the indiscriminate issuance of banknotes in North America.But if there was a real fight, most of the money must have been used for military expenses, and it would be useless for Dashun to collect a bunch of banknotes that were issued indiscriminately in North America.

And once banknotes are issued indiscriminately, the choice of most people at this time may be to hoard precious metals, and it is impossible to exchange precious metals for banknotes when banknotes are issued indiscriminately.

However, Dashun only wanted precious metals, not banknotes that could theoretically buy corn and potatoes.

All these things made Dashun prefer to let the North American merchants compromise instead of resisting.At the same time, put pressure on Britain as much as possible to open up trade policies, so as to guide the issue of the thirteen states in North America in the direction expected by Franklin and other pro-British factions.

As long as it can be done, the problem of precious metals in North America is still easy to solve: go to Europe and the Caribbean to sell wine, corn, tobacco, leather boots, pig iron, wood, cattle and horses.

As long as Dashun can break the excessively strict British navigation regulations, all these can be realized.What needs to be smashed is only the excessively severe navigation regulations, not to say that Britain will not be allowed to collect tariffs.

As long as Dashun drags on, if it doesn't give the French face, if it doesn't land in the UK, then there is nothing France can do.

The previous use of the ginseng trade gave France many benefits, which made France protect Canada from the death, and also made North America's tendency to separate as long as Canada was still in French hands.

On the British side, as long as Dashun continues to prolong the war and continue smuggling to form an established fact, Britain will have to give up its original bizarre policy of extreme mercantilism—as long as the smuggling is too serious, then theoretically Dashun At any time, North America can be separated and a rebellion can be created.But Dashun would not do it. This is the principle of opening windows: I want to tear down the roof. If I want to open windows at this time, the British will easily agree.

At least another 20 years of peace will be created, and the Indian issue will be basically resolved, and domestic industrial power will also develop.At that time, the steam-driven mule spinning machine will be thrown out, Europe will start to work again, and India will explode again, then the world will be in chaos and the situation will be great.

Therefore, Dashun needs to cooperate with North American merchant groups at this time.Let's have a talk, try to compromise as much as possible, and don't want to separate as soon as the war is over.

The essence of many problems is economic problems and conflicts of interest.So did the separation of North America, of course.

Even if it's okay to say that these Puritans sounded like magic sounds into their heads, they were stunned.

However, in fact, Thomas Paine's "Common Sense" is so impassioned and so quotable. It is also a "commentary" to "Matthew", "Judges", and "Samuel". In line with the consciousness of these Puritans.

But it is far inferior to the anger caused by the illegal enclosure of Ohio land speculators declared by the British "Quebec Act".

Land speculators have invested so much money in vain. If the British government is not killed, isn’t the money wasted in vain?This was one of the key events when Franklin turned anti-British, because he was one of the founding 72 shareholders of the Ohio Company, and the deal was a bit big, with an enclosure of 1500 million acres.

From a vulgar point of view, this is a case of falsifying accounts with Russian and American companies to participate in the Decembrist uprising, the Northern Jiangsu Reclamation Company moved officials and banks to participate in the burning of Jiangsu government accounts in Xinhai, Scottish capitalists and aristocrats invested in Panama and went bankrupt, and sold Scottish sovereignty to England. For money, pretty much the same story.

Simply put, it's about money.

Money matters, money to solve.

Dashun will solve the matter of centripetal force. Dashun has already organized a group of "Yiding Forest Light Infantry" from the northwest coast of North America to go to the east coast. Thirteen North American states are pro-British.

Therefore, when the Trade Ambassador and Trade Commissioner recited the Sutra with these North American businessmen, he only recited the Sutra of Trade and not the Sutra of Separation.

Although it is actually easier to recite the Sutra of Separation at this time.

But it is not difficult to read the business classics.

Randomly read a passage:

Smuggling has never been very moral, and it is a great cause for the people's livelihood.

Trade with China and France during the war, from a little bit of treason, sacred to true patriotism is to trade with enemy countries during the war.

Forming a price alliance and a regional sales alliance together changed from a monopoly in another form to a sacred one. This is a common choice after consultation.

In addition, Hancock and other businessmen who came here received a pamphlet titled "A New Trade Theory Based on the People".

In the end, merchants such as Hancock took out about 40 pounds of silver and gold, and exchanged a batch of tea and other commodities.

In addition, there are also a batch of trade products such as fur, beeswax, and turpentine.

These are the goods that Dashun can ask for.In theory, you can actually buy some wine, pig iron, etc., and sell them in Senegal and other places on the return trip.But at this time, it is still in the stage of the Sino-French alliance, and there is no need to do this kind of thing that is likely to cause diplomatic disputes and distrust.

Other things are really unlucky.

However, these goods, plus the 40 pounds, still can't eat all the goods on these ships, or even just tea.

The trade ambassador finally tried to see it, and proposed to Hancock and others about calling all the big and famous businessmen in North America to a meeting.

These goods will be stored in the warehouse in Havana for the time being. Spain has temporarily opened Havana to Dashun's fleet.

It is suggested that those well-known businessmen in North America come to the Bahamas when the time comes, not only to transport all these goods, but also to talk about trade issues.

Of course, it also includes political issues, that is, what kind of conditions Britain wants to achieve after the war, they are acceptable.But this is essentially an economic issue.

If possible, Dashun will send warships to Boston to escort these North American businessmen to the Bahamas for a meeting.If the businessmen prefer to hold meetings on the North American continent, Dashun can also send people there, which is easy to discuss.

In private, after discussing with Thomas Hancock, he still thinks that it is best to hold the meeting in North America, and the best location is Philadelphia in the middle of the thirteen states.

The time is set in April next year, and he will help to contact. Of course, Dashun also guarantees that Hancock Company is the designated distributor of tea cotton cloth porcelain in the Boston area.

During this period, Dashun will sell these teas in the Bahamas and trade them directly on the island with smuggling ships.

As for the Philadelphia meeting in April next year, the trade ambassador is thinking about waiting for Gibraltar to fall, and after finishing in Havana, he is not in a hurry to directly help France to save Louisbourg.

If you don't make a suggestion to take Philadelphia directly, and hold a meeting by the way, that's fine.There is not enough defense there, and there are not many soldiers. As long as the local businessmen and prominent people help, it will be easy.

(End of this chapter)