Xinshun 1730

Chapter 1386 The Treaty of Versailles ([-])

This is actually not a problem.For Indians, sweet potatoes and whiskey only depend on the degree.

Obviously, this proposal is a win-win proposal.

Gold mines are set up, immigrants grow grain for gold and silver, and gold and silver buy land for immigration funds.

In this, gold and silver are just a kind of "lubricating oil" for operation and a medium for operation.

So, does it have to be gold and silver mines?
The gold and silver sold by the French for furs seems to be no different from the gold and silver from the gold mines when gold and silver are used as the "lubricant" for operation.

The point is, with food in hand, "General Dragon and Tiger" can better defend the border for Dashun.

As for whether it is possible to feed enough, fatten up, and end up breeding tigers?
As long as you don't ask for the sword, you will know that it is obviously impossible.

The thirteen prefectures are richer than the current west coast, and the thirteen prefectures don't buy ginseng, and it is impossible to grab Dashun's west coast.Besides, France's brains are pumped, and it's smashing Dashun. In the case of Europe being broken into one place, where can't there be a European thug to beat France?

This group of "General Dragon and Tiger" here has no shortage of allies, no shortage of "birth girls" in the old forest, and no shortage of large amounts of wealth from trade, but they lack food and cannot organize many half-time troops.

Villandry did not expect that in the eyes of the people in Dashun, he was regarded as the "Three Guardians of Jianzhou" who guarded the frontier.It's just that this proposal doesn't matter what young people like He Dashun think of them, the important thing is that it really works.

"Your suggestion is very worthy of consideration. I personally support it, and I think that most people in New France who are engaged in similar businesses to me must also support it."

"Yes, you only need to use the bill of exchange to record and settle the settlement at your port, which completely avoids troublesome trade. You only need to transport the food and alcohol down the river after getting the bill. "

"As for the border issue, that's not a problem. We have no ambitions for the west coast. Especially after you helped us regain Hudson Bay and the mouth of the St. Lawrence River, the Sunset Sea is no longer attractive to France."

"Of course, it's not something I can decide. However, I think I can use my relationship to contact the fur and ginseng merchants in New France."

"Well, you go with me to the lower estuary. There, many of my friends will come to participate in the siege of Fort York. And there, it will be convenient to send you to your officers and diplomats." .”

This is exactly what the young people of the Dashun expedition team wanted.

Not only can you go to the Gulf with others, but you can also "stand out" from the European garrisons and bureaucrats in Dashun.

Several people agreed to come down, and a few days later, they followed the canoe team of Villandry and the Indian armed forces he organized, and went down the river.

The siege of Fort York was uneventful.

It was not a very big castle.

The navies of Dashun and France gained control of the sea again.

This broken fortress is still built on the permafrost layer. With the construction technology of this year, if the fortress is built on the semi-permafrost layer, if it does not collapse in 20 years, it must be a genius-level designer.

After Fort York was conquered, these little people who were not well-known in Dashun met with the real power faction here in France.

It is said that they are real power factions, but they are actually local "local tyrants" and "tyrants".

The common feature is that they do not have the status of French nobility, but they have the King's Cross of St. Louis, the first French medal that can be awarded to non-nobles, and they are actually members of the King's Private Knights.

They are all engaged in the trade of fur, ginseng and pearls.

Several are basically the richest class in Montreal.

I am very clear about the customs, human geography, and aboriginal relations here.

It is basically the group of people who were sent away in the "accidental shipwreck" in history in the UK.

The eight French guards in the Great Lakes region are basically controlled by these people.And these people have relatives by marriage, friends, or original superiors and subordinates.

To put it simply, fighting here depends only on the French regular army, and France cannot fight here.

The local tyrants headed by Villandry basically control the Canadian militia, regiment training, and vassal soldiers.

Therefore, it is only natural that there will be some small frictions between them and the governor sent by the French mainland.

Simply put, if the governor is clean, then everything is fine.

Gifts must be given. As far as the situation in North America is concerned, if you only receive gifts, charcoal respect, ice respect, and New Year's Day gifts, then it is considered clean.

As long as the governor is not clean, he must be jealous of such a large ginseng and mink fur trade.At that time, the governor can directly get money from this trade with a little finger movement, which is much more profitable than collecting some charcoal to celebrate the New Year.

This is normal, and it’s not because Dashun Daming is like this, the French are made of special materials, so there is no such thing.

In 50 years, when the Marquis of Yankiel was the governor, the tyrants here were very dissatisfied.

It is because the Marquis of Yankiel is not satisfied with collecting some charcoal to celebrate the New Year, but is planning to directly intervene in the fur trade and arrange for his own people.

From a dialectical point of view, this can be regarded as a good thing.

With the development of trade in ginseng and mink fur, the disbandment of the French East India Company, and the serious debt problem in France, it is reported that France is preparing to establish a new French fur ginseng Dongzhu franchise company.

These local tycoons who have experienced the governor always want to directly intervene in the fur trade can be regarded as supportive of this, as long as the equity is reasonable.

These tycoons had thought of cooperating to set up a franchise company before.

But on the one hand, in the Utrecht Treaty, the important fur port in Hudson Bay was ceded, so that these tyrants could only sell a lot of fur to the British.

On the other hand, the East India Company existed before, and after the prosperity of the ginseng trade, the East India Company actually monopolized the ginseng and mink trade with China, so it tried its best to prevent the establishment of the New France Fur and Ginseng Specialty Company.

Dashun's participation in the war not only bankrupted the British East India Company, but also brought about the end of the French East India Company that Duplex had operated for many years.

The capital is not monolithic. The collapse of the French East India Company cleared the way for the establishment of the New France Fur and Ginseng Specialty Company.

Dashun wanted to open a port in the Netherlands and act as the general window for east-west trade in Europe, which actually helped France resolve a "controversy".

Historically, after the Seven Years War, France was extremely aggressive in its economic policies, manifested as "whether to abolish the franchise of the East India Company" and "whether the French people can trade freely to the East". This radical policy continued until the French Revolution. .

But now, this debate does not need to exist, because...Oriental commodities will be refreshed in the Netherlands in the future, and neither the East India Company nor the scattered merchants need to go to the east of the Cape of Good Hope.

The fur trade in Hudson Bay was very profitable, but France cut off a large amount of North American interests in the War of Spanish Succession.

Now, the war is finally coming to an end, almost rewriting the colonial pattern since the War of the Spanish Succession.

This allowed France to regain control of Hudson's Bay and stabilized the situation, and thus met the conditions for the establishment of an exclusive company similar to HBC.

Prior to this, it was not that France did not want to set up a franchise company, but the conditions did not allow it.

These North American tyrants, in this World War I, proved their worth and their loyalty to France, which naturally got rewarded.

At this time, it is even more favorable that the new governor, the Marquis of Cavanial, was not born in France, but in Montreal, the second generation of colonialists.

To a large extent, it is enough to represent the interests of this group of people in New France.Or it can be regarded as the glue between Paris and local powers.

This is also very conducive to promoting the establishment of franchise companies.

The establishment of an exclusive company is of course beneficial to Dashun.In particular, a company specializing in the interests of fur and ginseng can effectively secure the border with the thirteen states with its degree of organization.

The case of Nanyang has proved that in this era, well-organized franchise companies can blow up individual merchants and private businesses, and can even be regarded as a relatively advanced organizational model at this time-a miniature version of the commercial bourgeoisie.

The attack on Fort York this time was essentially the tyrants of New France taking the opportunity to get together to discuss major issues, especially to discuss issues such as the distribution of profits and equity of the franchise company in the future.

At this historical juncture, the members of the Dashun Expedition had neither official status nor fame, but by virtue of this expedition and the idea of ​​grain trade bills, they became the guests of these New French tycoons.

In fact, these tyrants are basically local military leaders, because the eight French guards in the west are basically hereditary from these families.Occasionally there will be exchanges, but even if it is changed from Fort A to Fort B, it is impossible for France to send regular troops to station so far away.

Therefore, Dashun's official negotiations were communicated with the French central court.

It is impossible to say that the high-level envoys from Dashun are here to talk to these French guards.

As for the members of Dashun's small expedition team, who appeared at this time, they vaguely stated that their true identities were the little people among the little people. The local tycoons on the French side also believed that these people had at least a certain official status.

At the banquet, these little people of the expedition team also took advantage of the strength of the wine to imitate an ancient story, so they talked about the trade issue they had talked about with Villendry before.

These places are powerful, and their hearts are like mirrors.

After these years of friction and wars, they also understand that without the support of the motherland behind them, they would have been wiped out by the gang of Protestants long ago.

During the ginseng war before, they suffered a loss once.If it weren't for the fact that the British East India Company was too powerful at that time, and Duplex exerted strength in India, so that Britain eventually sold North American interests for India, they might have been driven away that time.

And this time the war proved another thing.Without Dashun's help, France's overseas interests could not be guaranteed with France's dangerous land situation.In the early stage, the British had already sent troops to Montreal. If Dashun hadn't joined the war in time and transferred back to the British Navy, this time it would probably be over again.

As long as the Protestants win, they're not being treated kindly.

This is not a question of surrender and surrender.But the profits from fur and ginseng are here. If the Protestants win, will they be short of capital, or short of cargo ships, or short of market?Why let them, Catholic French, continue to take these profits?

Especially the expulsion of Arcadia before, it gave these French tyrants a big impact-the previous governor wanted to get a piece of the pie, which was very uncomfortable, but these fucking Protestants are going to eat it up and wipe it out We all get killed.

These people may not love France very much, and there may even be a conflict of interest between the colony and the suzerain country. Many people are ready to compromise and directly trade with HBC.Coupled with the governor's plan to intervene in the fur trade with power, there was indeed a prelude to dissension in the past few years.

But a mass expulsion from Arcadia and several waves of Protestant concentration camp operations directly forced these vacillating people into staunch French patriots...

It should be said that the expulsion of the Acadians greatly awakened these new French tycoons, greatly increased their loyalty to France, and allowed these people to germinate their ideas of introducing Dashun into North America.

From the perspective of the explorers like Dashun, negotiating with these French military leaders can solve an important problem: farming requires cattle and horses.

It is impossible for Dashun to bring cattle and horses here from the mainland, so these French army leaders are also needed to prepare cattle and horses from the east.In this way, Dashun only needs to relocate people. The price of cattle and horses is definitely not the same as that of buying them from the local area.

Although these people have no official status and are theoretically not qualified to talk about such things, they boldly talked about details with these French tycoons.

"Perhaps you should prepare a batch of cattle and horses in advance, and at least find a provider. Within a few years, you can organize people to send them up the river."

"If everything goes well, relying on the means of farming in Shandong, we can be self-sufficient in one year, and we can provide you with food and wine within three years."

"Large transactions between the two sides, such as cattle, horses, grain, etc., can be reconciled and settled through trading companies between the East and the West."

"Even, you should invest now and raise a batch of cows and horses in the Great Lakes area so that they can be traded at that time. I think, the sooner the transaction is completed, the greater the profit you will make when you go south to collect ginseng and trade furs south."

"The sooner the better, isn't it? And if we lack cattle and horses, the speed of reclamation will be very slow. This batch of cattle and horses can also be repaid with grain or spirits. Since you said that you want to form a franchise company, I don't think there will be any shortage Funds, shareholders fully invest in advance.”

The members of the Dashun expedition team have no right to talk about these matters, and may even cause diplomatic disturbances if they fail to do so.What if no one wants to raise cows and horses?At that time, Dashun didn't choose to go east to the grassland card slot at all?

But they still carry forward the very obvious "gambling" style within the Dashunshi School over the years: win the class transition, lose the exile.

The years of rapid transition, with the war coming to an end, anyone with a discerning eye knows that it will not be a few years, and there are many gamblers in the general environment where there is no time to jump up.

(End of this chapter)