Xinshun 1730

Chapter 1392 The Treaty of Versailles ([-])

Liu Yu grinned in pain when he smashed his foot against this stone.

The trade issues related to Dashun in the "Treaty of Versailles" can indeed be explained by Malthusian economics-the country's effective demand is insufficient, so it is necessary to find effective demand.

Now in Versailles, France, Dashun has actually almost reached the point of discussion on the trade issue.

In general, there are a few items:

One:

France dissolved the East India Company, Britain dissolved the East India Company, and Denmark dissolved the East India Company.European countries are not allowed to form exclusive monopoly trading companies targeting China and India.

All countries should restrain their own ship owners, not to sail eastward across the Cape of Good Hope, and not to issue any form of permission to trade east of the Cape of Good Hope.

This article is not that Dashun opposes free trade, nor does it mean that Dashun wants to engage in monopoly trade.

It is because Dashun forbids Catholicism, Protestantism, etc. that are not registered in Dashun, canonized by the patriarch by the government, and are translated using Dashun's Nestorian system.

Use translations such as "Trinity's Wonderful Body" and "Mishha Puzun's Great Son".In addition, personnel need to issue certificates from the government according to similar methods such as monks, Taoists, and nuns.Moreover, the "big law master", that is, the great patriarch, must be selected and recognized by the ritual government. If there is no ritual government nod, it will be false.

In addition, preaching in the interior is not allowed, mainly for the purpose of disintegrating and absorbing the large number of Catholics that existed before Dashun.

Therefore, this is not a trade issue, nor does it involve free trade, it is just a religious issue.

Given that the Dutch were in Japan before, they were full of grinning, and for the sake of trade, they lied at all that they didn't believe in Christianity at all.

Therefore, with previous convictions, Dashun also does not accept any form of people who "claim to be out of religion" to go to the east of the Cape of Good Hope for trade.

Second:

France handed over the territory of the French East India Company in India to Dashun to manage, as Dashun's thanks for defending France's West African colonies.

France will not station troops in Mauritius, and the French navy will withdraw from Mauritius, but France still has sovereignty and governance over Mauritius.

Britain will cede its colonies and trading posts in India, Southeast Asia, Bengkulu and other places.East India Company members and garrisons will all be withdrawn from Southeast Asia and India.

Britain abandons trading posts in Muscat, Somalia, Persia, etc.

Portugal will give up Timor, Goa and other colonies in Southeast Asia and India, and hand them over to Dashun.

Denmark will abandon the colony of Tranqueba and hand it over to Dashun.

Gibraltar in Spain will be jointly administered by Dashun and France for the time being.Spain’s colony in Luzon was preserved, but Spain was not allowed to support the Holy See’s dispatch of missionaries to Dashun. Spain’s Luzon Viceroyalty would fulfill its obligation to investigate the activities of various missions in Luzon.

Dashun will provide Spain with 4000 "die-hard Catholics" who will immigrate to the Mississippi area and be managed by the local Spanish diocese.If Spain is willing to pay, more Dashun can also be provided here, and it would be good to remove all the die-hard Catholics.

Dashun will conduct trade with Spain in the Luzon area in Sulu. Dashun's merchant ships will not go to Luzon, and Spanish merchant ships will not go to Dashun port.

The issue of Mozambique in Portugal is not on the table for the time being, but the slave trade in Mozambique needs to be licensed in Dashun to pass through the Cape of Good Hope.For unlicensed merchant ships, Dashun can be sunk.

That is to say, apart from Luzon in Spain, Mozambique in Portugal, and east of the Cape of Good Hope, European forces have been swept away.

Denmark made up the numbers. Even if Dashun didn't force Denmark to sign the treaty, the Danish East India Company would be disbanded. Tranqueba was blocked by "pirates" all day long, and it was really unbearable.

The Luzon issue is more troublesome. Don’t worry about it. Take your time in the future. Anyway, Gibraltar is used as a mortgage; Mozambique is because of the slave trade, and Portugal cannot let it go. Moreover, Spain is too weak, and Portugal is beaten by Portuguese farmers. Without getting angry, Dashun didn't have the strength to reach out so far, but he completely cleaned up Portugal's influence in Mozambique.

It is mainly Portugal's policy in Mozambique, which has made a bunch of local "beneficiaries of the slave trade".Dashun does not engage in the slave trade, and taking Mozambique is also troublesome.

Slave trade and opium trade are the two bottom lines, and Dashun is determined not to do so.

Anyway, Portugal is abolished, there is no rush, sooner or later.

Third:

The Netherlands is permanently neutral.

The seven countries of China, Britain, France, Russia, Austria, Spain and Switzerland jointly guarantee the permanent neutral status of the Netherlands.

The lowland areas of the Austrian Netherlands will be demilitarized. Countries are not allowed to garrison troops, and France is not allowed to hoard troops in border areas.

Austria has jurisdiction over the Austrian Netherlands, but is not allowed to garrison.

The Protestant Netherlands and the Catholic Austrian Netherlands are not allowed to send missionaries to each other.

Dashun will guarantee that Silesia belongs to Austria.

The "Poland issue" and the "Prussian issue" will be resolved in the subsequent secret treaty between China, Russia, Austria, and France, and are not in the direct interest of Dashun, but as a negotiation on the issue of permanent neutrality between the Austrian Netherlands and the Netherlands chips.

Dashun will form a joint fleet with the Netherlands to defend the Netherlands and ensure the neutral status of the Netherlands.

Any country that declares war on the Netherlands is deemed to have declared war on Dashun.

Dashun resolutely maintains Amsterdam's status as a European financial center, and expresses support and affirmation for the Netherlands' "completely unregulated precious metal export policy".

Fourth:

Dashun's commodities will be sold in a centralized manner in the Amsterdam futures market.

Dashun promised not to send merchant ships to sell goods in other places west of the Cape of Good Hope.All Dashun merchant ships will concentrate their trade in Amsterdam.

Dashun will impose a uniform "European tariff" on commodities from Amsterdam.

Before purchasing goods, merchants from various countries need to register to determine the whereabouts of the goods, and Dashun will hand over the tariffs to each country in proportion.

The Netherlands will not impose another tariff in Amsterdam.

Because for the Netherlands, it is meaningless to levy tariffs. The Dutch federal provincial parliament has been abolished, and the army and navy cannot be supported.

And as long as Amsterdam's status as a European financial center can be guaranteed, the Dutch merchant class will be able to sell everything.

Similarly, if Amsterdam serves as the only turnover center for trade between the East and the West, it will bring Amsterdam prosperity again, or even return to the prosperity of the "Golden Age", which is also unknown.

Finance, logistics, consumption, hotels, brothels, dock workers, bonds, insurance, etc. are enough to support the prosperity of the financial center Amsterdam.

And the merchants in Amsterdam will no longer smuggle to North America, because it is meaningless.

However, the geographical advantage of the Netherlands as "the mouth of the Rhine River" cannot be changed.

Then, the market along the Rhine in the Shinra area is actually in the hands of Dutch merchants.They will be able to get cheap Dashun products, and the benefits will be huge.

After all, the Ostend company has long since disappeared, and Austria can't build such a trading company if it wants to rebuild it. The market has been eaten by the Netherlands before, and Austria is now bleeding heavily and is unable to do this.

Fifth:

All Dashun goods purchased by British merchants were registered and stamped by the British customs officials in Amsterdam.

After that, the United Kingdom shall not impose sub-tariffs on all oriental goods from Amsterdam Customs.

In all the British colonies and the main island, there will be unimpeded, no obstruction for any reason, and no double taxation.

Including all forms of taxation or administrative orders, are considered violations of the peace agreement.Including but not limited to luxury tax, toll tax, etc.

The United Kingdom will cancel any form of administrative order for the control of oriental trade products, including but not limited to cotton cloth prohibition orders, tea trading orders, etc.

This treaty can be realized because Dashun and North American smugglers, British merchant groups, and commercial capital have cooperated early.

It is not just Dashun's warships that guarantee "free trade."

Instead, rely on British commercial capital to guarantee "free trade."

And this is the most critical item in the entire "Treaty of Versailles" related to the development of Dashun's industry and commerce.

This peace treaty, or this "free trade", is not just a single Britain.

But for the whole of Europe.

In history, why did smugglers in North America create the Boston Tea Party?

The root cause is that Dutch tea is not subject to tea tax.

To some extent, in Europe, before 1800, the country closest to the word "free trade" was the Netherlands.

Why is the financial industry in Amsterdam so developed?
Because the export of precious metals is completely unlimited.

Why are Dutch smugglers rampant?
Because the commercial capital of the Netherlands killed the guilds and local forces in the country, the province of Amsterdam "colonized" the remaining six provinces.

As a result, the Netherlands almost controls more than half of the tea trade in Europe, but the Netherlands can't even organize a fleet, because the inter-provincial parliaments are all big businessmen and financiers in power. Do they collect their own taxes?
"Freedom" means that Dutch businessmen can continue to buy the national debt of hostile countries during the war without any financial controls; "freedom" means that Dutch businessmen can hoard timber before the war and sell it at high prices to the warship manufacturing industry ...

The Netherlands is too close to "free trade" and "financial freedom" is too developed.

Therefore, in 1780, during the Fourth Anglo-Dutch War, the Netherlands was hammered.

The high amount of British government bonds purchased?Britain simply refused to pay the interest.

The British treasury bonds purchased by the Netherlands depreciated, and the UK directly repurchased the treasury bonds at a low price. Not only did the interest not have to be paid, but the principal was also saved.

In one wave, the European financial center was moved from Amsterdam to London.

Of course, here we only talk about the issue of "Oriental Trade Items".

Well, before that, the Netherlands had the least tariffs on Eastern trade products in Europe.

That is to say, after Dashun stepped in, the Netherlands was the only one in Europe to play "free trade" with Dashun, or at least the closest to free trade.

Therefore, countries have a headache.

The United Kingdom has a headache, and Dutch tea is rampant in North America.

France has a headache, and finally made some "high-tech" customs lead locks. If they are made today, the Netherlands will be able to crack them tomorrow, and smuggled goods are everywhere.

It should be noted that the reason why smuggling is "profitable" is that the Dutch tax less on Eastern trade goods.

Therefore, there is only the Boston Tea Party in history.

In other words, if the Netherlands also imposed an 80% tariff on tea, would there still be tea smuggling?
Therefore, if there is only one Netherlands, countries will try their best to control "smuggling".

In other words, "free trade" can also be rejected.

Now, although Dashun has only negotiated with the UK, because the UK is a defeated country, it can only negotiate with the UK.

Then.

One Dutch, one British.

These two are enough to stir up the whole of Europe, and they have to "not increase tariffs on Eastern trade products."

For example, France wants to protect its own industry.

It turns out that with the East India Company, the king can replace the governor with a single sentence. Similarly, the king can make the East India Company import less oriental trade products with a single sentence, so as not to kill the domestic industry.

At this time, there is only one "low tariff" in the Netherlands.

The Netherlands smuggled it themselves.

Everyone is annoyed, the United Kingdom is also caught, France is also caught, and the Netherlands has nothing to hang on.

This is relatively speaking, easier to grasp.

Now, add Britain.

What about France?

Tax increase?

Then smuggling cannot be stopped.

It turned out that they mainly caught Dutch smugglers.

But now, it is necessary to capture both the Netherlands, the United Kingdom, and those small countries.

Whoever sells more goods will get more tariff points.

Even if France says that Lao Tzu does not want this import tariff, Lao Tzu will continue Colbert's industrial protection and domestic industrial substitutionism.

Is it easy for France to speak by itself?

A wave of Dutch smugglers today, a wave of Swedish smugglers tomorrow, a wave of Prussian smugglers the day after tomorrow, and a wave of English smugglers the day after tomorrow.

Can you defend against it?

Can't help it.

As long as the United Kingdom votes, the United Kingdom and the Netherlands will be equivalent to the whole of Europe, and the tariffs on Eastern trade products will be released.

Because I can't help it.

At most, for example, for lacquer ware, Paris products can be faked, so the domestic market can still be maintained.But that's all.

Dashun said that the tariffs on Chinese goods in Amsterdam were increased in advance.

This is only added by Dashun itself, and this "import tariff" will be divided among other countries.

Can France increase tariffs by itself?

of course can.

Dashun is only a victorious country to Britain, forcing Britain not to increase sub-export taxes, but it cannot do this to France.

France could, if it wished, add "an additional tax upon entry to France, on top of the tax already levied in Amsterdam".

This matter is the "internal affairs" of France, and Dashun has nothing to do with it.

However, it is possible in theory, but is it possible in practice?

A "smuggler" is easy to guard against.

The United Kingdom and the Netherlands, how to defend against these two?
Furthermore, there is also the issue of the slave trade. The French cotton textile industry started because of the Seven Years War, and the French slave trade could not get enough cotton textiles.

There is no way, the French Ministry of Finance took the lead in setting up a cotton textile factory in Nantes, and black Africans with inferior quality complained.

Now, all countries can get cotton textiles, high-quality and cheap Oriental cotton textiles that are available in large quantities and taxed only once in Amsterdam.

France insists on raising taxes, so how can you compete with the Netherlands and Britain in your slave trade?
Originally, the slave trade in France was a pain in the ass. Wine was more expensive than rum after all. Except for some special green zones, where rum could not be drunk but "special grape juice", France itself was not allowed to produce rum of rum.

Textiles and wine, this is [-]% of the slave triangle trade.

Europe is different from Dashun.

As long as the navy is still in Dashun, and as long as the centralization of power does not collapse, the tariffs can be stabilized.

For example, only allow trade in Songsu, or stipulate a unified tax rate.

Under the conditions of great unification, what the hell, can you in Shandong be so good that you don’t listen to the court and open your own port for low-tariff trade?

Obviously not.

In Europe, the countries are divided.

But France can only control French tariffs, but not the Netherlands.

The Netherlands said, I will not increase tariffs, and my businessmen will go to your place to smuggle. What can France do?The United Kingdom said, I will not increase tariffs, and my businessmen smuggle to France, and I don't care.

In theory, France can use diplomatic means to say that you are in charge of the smugglers in your own country, and I can't stand it if you keep smuggling to me.

In reality, unless it is resolved directly by force like the Fourth Anglo-Dutch War, otherwise, Britain will take the initiative to manage its own "foreign smuggling" smugglers?Can't wait for the more the better.

Only the Netherlands did this. Historically, the Boston Tea Party was created, and Britain’s headaches could only be resolved by force.

Now the Netherlands and the United Kingdom, at least two countries will definitely not increase tariffs, which means that the entire Europe cannot increase tariffs.At least in Dashun's trade items, there is no way to add it.

No one can add.

Whoever added it was stupid, and in the end the tariffs were confiscated, the slave trade collapsed, and smuggled goods continued to proliferate.

Not just France.

Austria, Prussia, Russia, Sweden, Denmark, Shinra, a bunch of...all the same.

Whoever adds, who suffers.

If you don’t add it, at least you can keep the basic market, and take your own share from the "total tariff" according to their respective spheres of influence.

Indeed, France is also a victorious country.

and then?
France, as a victorious country, means that France does not need to build an army, and invests all its money in the navy and overseas colonies?
France, the victorious country, smashed Prussia.The problem is that there is a century-old conflict between Fao and Austria.Now that Prussia has been abolished, it means that the contradiction between France and Austria is the primary contradiction again.France has to support the army, but there is still no way to vote for the navy.

If there is no way to join the navy, there is no way to turn against Dashun.

If you can't turn against Dashun, you can't say that the Atlantic Ocean is my home. We trade in the Cape of Good Hope. I, France, want to monopolize the oriental trade products in the whole of Europe. You Dashun, don't go to the Cape of Good Hope.

Because it was bullshit, Dashun didn't listen at all.

Dare to turn his face, Dashun backhandedly dared to cooperate with other countries, and exploded the French navy.

As long as Dashun's merchant ships cannot be stopped from going to Amsterdam, then, when the East India Companies of various countries are all blown up, France, the "victory country", will not be able to stop the sale of Dashun's products in France.

Possibly, Colbert's inheritance can also guarantee a private area for high-quality imitation goods such as lacquerware and silk.

But that's about it.

The East India Companies of various countries, to a certain extent, "protect their own industries".Because at least it is large, easy to manage, can be checked, and can be grasped.Let's put it this way, without the British East India Company, the British cotton ban would have been impossible to implement.The bigger the company, the easier it is to manage. As long as the centralization of power can still be managed, it can be punished if it is disobedient.But now, all countries are gone, and there are a large number of "free" businessmen. The customs of this era can't control, catch, and punish them endlessly.

(End of this chapter)