Xinshun 1730

Chapter 526 I don't want to take the blame

The purpose of a joint-stock company is to make a profit.

Countless shareholders stared at the year-end dividends of the East India Company, and the East India Company also tasted the sweetness of finance prematurely. A large amount of funds were invested in lending. Now the company's turnover is basically supported by interest collection.

And there have already been triangular debts and the situation of tearing down the east wall to pay the west wall, lending money and borrowing at the same time.

Dashun cut off the Netherlands' trade with Japan, resulting in a cash gap of at least 20 tons of silver every year.

In the Netherlands, or continental Europe, you can pay with bonds.

But in Guangdong, Fujian, and Jiangsu in Dashun, local businessmen did not recognize Dutch bonds.

They only recognize two things, gold and silver, and maybe spices sometimes, but other than that, don't think about anything else.

Normally, they would take raw silk from Dashun and sugar from Batavia and sell them in cash in Nagasaki.Then use cash to go to Dashun to buy porcelain, tea and silk, and then transport them back to Amsterdam, completing a two-and-a-half-year cycle.

Cash—raw silk—Nagasaki for more cash—Fujian buys tea and porcelain with cash—goes back to Europe and sells cash—goes back to China to buy raw silk—Nagasaki... This cycle takes two and a half years .

Once the cash flow breaks and there is a gap in the capital chain, European competitors squatting in Fujian, Guangdong, will surround them like carrion vultures.

The lessons of the Ostend company are still fresh in the memory of the Dutch.Except for the French who were able to shut down and reorganize the East India Company's trade with China, none of Britain, Denmark, Switzerland, and Portugal were good at it.

Now that the important cash flow of Nagasaki Trading has been cut off, if Dashun chooses to embargo the Dutch East India Company, the company is likely to experience a catastrophe of a run on shareholders and a sharp drop in stock prices.

The times have changed.

Dashun is not the former Ming Dynasty, and trade on the shore is not allowed.

In the Ming Dynasty, the Dutch could support pirates and hijack ships bound for Manila, forcing Chinese merchants to trade in Batavia.

Now that Dashun has opened its ports, if Dashun chooses to embargo the Netherlands, there will be no loss for Dashun: without you, the Dutch East India Company, the London East India Company, the Danish Asian Company, the Swedish Chinese Company, and the Prussian Royal Family The Asian Company, the French East India Company, Macau in Portugal, etc.The emperor's daughter is not worried about marrying, Jiangxi's porcelain is not worried about selling, that's all.

If the Netherlands chooses to support pirates and force ships to trade in Batavia, then this is not the era when Britain and the Netherlands joined forces to fight against the merger of Portugal and Spain in the late Ming Dynasty.If this is the case at this time, Britain, Denmark, Switzerland, France, Portugal, Spain and other countries will definitely "defend the free trade and sea route safety in Southeast Asia" and choose to join forces with Dashun to eliminate pirates.

In history, even the closed Manchu Qing Dynasty, engaged in five-port trade, knew little about the outside world, and had no international vision at all, but the Dutch East India Company had to arrest the governor as a scapegoat, just because it was worried about China. Trade is affected.Even if the Manchu Qing at that time had a little bit of diplomatic awareness and really understood what it means to "control barbarians with barbarians", the tragedy at the beginning would not have happened, even if the Manchu Qing navy was useless.But this matter can be solved only by "using the barbarians to control the barbarians", and the navy is not needed at all.

Dashun used the navy because Dashun was not satisfied with the fact that the Chinese would not be massacred, but was planning to manage Southeast Asia.If it is just to ensure that there will be no massacre, there is no need to be so troublesome.A trade embargo warning from the Foreign Office and a banquet for the envoys of the British East India Company were enough.

Now Dashun's overseas government and external vision put even more pressure on Valkner, and he dared not act rashly.

Murder is not a sin.Killed [-] to [-] in Banda, not only innocent, but rewarded.

Affecting the dividends of shareholders and the profits of the East India Company is a capital offense.

Now the spice trade of the East India Company can no longer sustain, and if the trade with China is cut off, he, the governor, will undoubtedly die. He himself knows too well what the consequences will be if it affects the dividends of shareholders.

As a senior executive of the company, as well as a contact with his grandfather and father who were the mayor of Amsterdam, he knew that the company's debt problem was already a big thunder that could explode at any time.

Now in Dashun, Liu Yu is borrowing the problem of American ginseng to destroy the old medical system; the West is also doing it at the same time. "Hotness" can dispel dampness and cold, which is also the reason why the price of spices was high and the sales volume was huge.

But now, with the stupid compatriot named Leeuwenhoek in Valkner’s mouth seeing a more microscopic world with a microscope, the theory of four fluids in the human body has also begun to collapse, and the sales of spices have been greatly affected. Spices filled the position of spices, and the East India Company was almost unable to make ends meet in Southeast Asia relying solely on the spice trade.

It's not that spices don't make money at all, but that if you want to make money, you have to monopolize; if you want to monopolize, you have to use military coercion.

Every year, it costs money to repair forts, buy guns, interfere in the internal affairs of Sudan, suppress the continuous Sulabadi uprising, patrol smugglers, and so on.

Take the inspection of smugglers as an example, 10,000+ silver coins are spent every year, and several forts have to be stationed every year, and each of them has to be inspected.

If the money is not spent, the ships of the British, or the maritime merchants of Dashun, can directly trade with the local aborigines, take away the spices, and bid with the Netherlands.

The virtues of the English are known to the Dutch.

The Dutch are also aware of the virtues of Chinese maritime merchants. Zheng Zhilong, who took a bite back after being raised, is an example.Maritime merchants are merchants on land, but they are a group of wild beasts when out in the sea. They can rob without spending money, smuggle without paying taxes, and can kill without mercy.

Holland's profits came from forced tribute and absolute monopoly under military conquest.Without one of them, there is no money to be made in Southeast Asia.

Now this most stupid colonial policy has begun to backfire.

When Valknir came here, he was ambitious and wanted to cut through the mess quickly. After witnessing Dashun's policy changes in the past few years, he has changed from a rampant crab to a timid bastard.

Hearing the suggestions of these people, Valknir felt like a mirror in his heart: Your suggestion is really sending me to death and taking the blame for me.At that time, I, the governor, will be arrested and deprived of everything by the 17-member gentleman group because of the impact of trade with China. Instead, you slaughtered the Chinese and took the money back to the Netherlands to become rich.

After being emotionally moved, Valkner also used the most commonly used tactic in the bureaucratic system of the East India Company, kicking the ball.

"This matter will inevitably affect trade with China. Now the company has established a trade committee with China, which is not affiliated with Batavia."

"Even if there is no time to ask for an order from the 17-member committee, we should wait for the people from the China Trade Committee to return from the capital of Dashun before making a decision on this matter."

"As governor, I have no power to make such decisions under the company regulations."

"At this time, we should trust our Chinese Kapitan and Lei Zhenlan. We should believe that they can stabilize the situation in the city, and we should not continue to intensify the problem at this time."

Kicking the ball away with the increasingly bloated organization and internal regulations of the East India Company, Valkneer thought to himself that Lian Fuguang would still be used as a scapegoat in the future.

Although the Chinese uprising in Batavia stemmed from the company's consistent policy of oppression, from the erroneous "Sugar Industry Expansion Plan" made by the Committee of 17, from a lunatic in Persia, from the fact that Dashun actually cut off the The Japanese-Dutch trade originated from the acquiescence of the successive governors of Batavia to Chinese slave labor, and the greed of the Dutch bureaucrats in Batavia...

But the Committee of 17 will not admit that it was their fault, or that the company's oppressive policies are at fault.

In the end, the problem had to be placed on Valknir's head. In their view, it was clear that Valknir sent people to arrest people and led to the uprising.It's like the Romans thought that if Spartacus died in the arena, there would be no slave uprising; just like the Dutch thought that if Surabadi was executed earlier, there would be no Java uprising.

Therefore, Valkenier has also thought that if he is charged with a crime, he will arrest Lian Fuguang to take the blame. It was Lian Fuguang who gave wrong information, which led to the outbreak of the uprising.

But now is not the time to catch him.At this time, the Chinese in the city, Kapitan and Lei Zhenlan, are needed to stabilize the Chinese in the city.

So at this time he wants to say, we must trust our Chinese Kapitan and Lei Zhenlan.

Now that the governor has kicked the ball to the China Trade Commission, the people below are helpless.Batavia is a local government, and there is a conflict with the 17-member committee of the "imperial court". If this matter is not handled well, it will be troublesome in the future. It seems that Batavia ignores the authority of the "imperial court".

That being the case, we had no choice but to invite the Chinese in the city, Kapitan and Lei Zhenlan.

They had already guarded the gate of the Governor's Mansion, waiting for the news inside, all of them were uneasy.

Some were worried that the uprising outside the city would implicate them, after all they and themselves were Chinese; some were worried that the uprising outside the city would affect their land, sugar factories and other industries outside the city; "Equal land and equal wealth".

It’s like taxpayers don’t like Huangming Yanjing’s rise of Linhao and destroying Mengyuan. From time to time, they have to miss “Dayuan’s lenient rule of the world”; wealthy Chinese businessmen in Batavia don’t like Dashun’s rule of Nanyang at all.

Firstly, Dashun is a traditional celestial dynasty, and would not allow such a tax-subsidy system that is prone to major incidents. They don't know about the development of Eizo at this time, and even if they know that there are many differences between the two, the minimum is to reform the land. Flow still needs to be done, and local snakes are definitely not allowed to rule; secondly, if Dashun rules Nanyang, Batavia will lose its status as a transit port, and Batavia will probably lose its current prosperity.

Now that Lian Fuguang and others heard that there were good guns in the uprising outside the city and that they had ambushed the Dutch, what they were most worried about was that Dashun would come to Nanyang and support them behind the scenes. If this was the case, they would be in big trouble.

On the one hand, it is a natural resentment, and on the other hand, if Dashun wins... What's the matter with them?Not to mention traitors, at least the title of "serving a false official" cannot be escaped. At that time, the family property will be confiscated, and the whole family will be exiled to the Beihai sheep herding land to guard the border?

Thinking of this, Lian Fuguang thought to himself, fortunately his younger brother had hooked up with the group of people outside the city.If it is true that the imperial army is coming, I will say that I am dealing with the red-haired ghosts in the city, and I am actually in Cao Ying and my heart is in Han.

Before, I was depressed that my younger brother was not found after returning home, and I was worried that the Dutch would settle accounts afterwards and implicate me.Now he is glad that he did not find his younger brother before, and did not let his servants imprison him in the manor.

The Dutch are so terrifying and invincible, how did the group of people outside the city win a game?Also killed and injured dozens of people?
The idea of ​​the invincibility of the Netherlands subtly instilled by watching the execution as a teenager, after the ambush very close to Batavia, although it did not disintegrate, it also shook.

If it wasn't for the end of the imperial court, there would be ghosts!Lian Fuguang knew too well that the group of people outside the city would not be able to accomplish anything, because they had no money, no guns, and a life that was not afraid of death. How could they succeed?

Even Fuguang is not Valkner, so he cannot understand the struggle and discord between the East India Company and Britain, France and other countries. In his eyes, one world is called the Netherlands, and the other is called the Celestial Empire, so he can only think about it.

However, although his guess was correct, thinking about the future, he felt that it was best not to mention it to the Dutchman.In case Tianchao wins, he should surrender as soon as possible, leaving an extra way out.

(End of this chapter)