Xinshun 1730

Chapter 593 The whereabouts of capital

Only by facing up to the strength of the Netherlands can we enjoy the most fruits of victory at the lowest cost.

Dashun spends money to build ships, and wants to bombard London to force Britain, France and the West to switch trades, which is unrealistic.If one-tenth of the money spent to achieve this step is used to aid France, Europe can be turned into a mess of a country.

Dashun must find a way to inherit the legacy of the Netherlands after its destruction, such as markets, transportation capacity, and smuggling channels.

Dashun is the factory and Holland is the store.

Dashun is the source of goods, and the Netherlands is the transportation company.

A "big land and abundant resources".

A "coach driver across the seven seas".

The prospect of cooperation between the two is of course very bright.

When it comes to the rising point, my eyebrows are beaming, my face is full of red light, and the balance under my hand swings to the left and to the right for a while, shaking.

The people listening below were taking notes carefully, which was consistent with the angle of view of the world they were exposed to on a daily basis.It can be said that it is mastery, but it is not enlightenment.

There are not many people, and Liu Yu has never counted on the small circle to solve future problems.He didn't even grasp the military power, so he wouldn't consider methods such as five studies.

Moreover, it is impossible for people in this small circle to hold high positions in Dashun. They are a group of fringe people, and they are also Liu Yu's confidantes in the emperor's heart. There are bureaucrats with establishments.

Liu Yu just taught them a set of formulas and expected them to teach this set of formulas to future generations in the future.

In different situations, the "what to do now" derived from this set of formulas is different, and copying is just a matter of time and money.After the Nanyang vote is done, if both legs are connected, then Dashun will become an imperialist.If you have no job experience, no way to copy, and what to do with various internal problems, then you really don't know, and you can only wait for the next generation.

The people in the audience listened only to the way of looking at the world and analyzing the situation.

At this time, he just listened to Holland, and didn't think about Dashun himself.

By the time Liu Yu finished talking about the various difficulties in the Netherlands, two days had passed.

All the content of the two-day conversation can be summed up in a sentence from the instructor: the history of the decline of the Netherlands is the beginning of the subordination of commercial capital to industrial capital.

This is a historical necessity, and the superficial difference manifested in reality is nothing more than whether the industrial capital it is subordinate to is Daying or Dashun.

After two days of closed-door meetings, all of these people were physically exhausted, but they were full of energy.

From the doubts at the beginning, to the half-belief halfway through, and now the belief is seven or eight percent possible.

Anyway, a steady win does not pay, nothing more than a big win and a small win.

As long as Europe can fight, Dashun will have the opportunity to fully extend its foothold to Europe. Even if the Dutch side fails, no matter how bad it is, it can monopolize spices and other products and find other buyers to bring the goods.

Thanks to the hardworking people for thousands of years, Dashun's handicraft industry is quite good, and it cannot be better at this time.So at least there is no need to learn from history and worry about the mistakes of the Netherlands, repeating in Dashun.

In the following five days, the weather was actually good. In order to let these people understand what he said more deeply, Liu Yu took them to the sugar factory outside the city for a walk.

After all, Batavia is under the rule of the Netherlands, and the decline of the Netherlands at this time has the same projection in Batavia.

It's like the dizzying 500 two-masted fishing boats in the Netherlands at its peak, but now there are less than a hundred left; it's like the astonishing wool and linen textile industry in the Netherlands, which is now in decline.

The sugar cane industry, once the pillar industry of Batavia, is clearly visible in the eyes of the depression.

Topless sugar factory slave workers squatted under the coconut trees near the sugar factory. A group of people surrounded a fire, smoking cigarettes there, and muttering whether distant Ceylon is hope or hell.

The sugar mill contractors were busy selling their property, they would not go to Ceylon, but they didn't know what else to do in Batavia.

Several sugar factory contractors followed Liu Yu, and after getting over the initial nervousness, they felt that the imperial envoy was approachable, and then began to talk about their difficulties.

Today's sugar industry is over.

It was already on the verge of collapse, but now the Dutch want to conduct a comprehensive population check and register everyone in order to get more poll tax from Dashun.

These poll taxes added by everyone will still have to be paid by the contractors of the sugar factory after all.Counting these poll taxes, the purchase price of sucrose is already lower than the cost price.

Of the more than 200 sugarcane departments, only a dozen can survive.

Those who can persevere are those with a solid foundation, who feel that everyone can't continue to do it. If they persevere, they may make money next year.

But most of the contractors in the sugar factory can no longer work.

Because the vast majority of contractors are receivers.The ownership of the sugarcane department does not belong to them, but to the Dutch or Kapitan Lei Zhenlan, who need to pay a certain rent every year.

Relying on the monopoly policy, the Dutch kept the price of sugar too low. Once they started paying the poll tax, they would be unable to survive this day.

"My lord, there is nothing we can do. It's so close to Batavia, Kapitan is strictly controlled, and the Dutch are also pressing hard, and the Dutch don't allow other people to collect sugar. The sugar can only be sold to the company. , the company's pricing is too low..."

Complaining bitterly, he glanced at Liu Yu quietly, hesitated for a moment, and couldn't help but said: "This year the court attacked Japan, and in previous years, we could still sell some candy to Japan. This year, the Dutch ship to Japan also stopped. Isn't this candy Does no one want it?"

"Actually, a few years ago, this sugar factory was not easy to operate. But there is no way, what can we do? Sugar extraction, often earning a year and losing a year. Sometimes when I lose, I think about it. Get over it, get through this year, maybe sugar will be expensive again, and then not only will you be able to pay back your capital, but you will also be able to repay all the loans you owed before.”

"The U-shirt party and trouserless men who have come out in recent years used to work in sugar factories. However, business has not been good in recent years, and it is really impossible to support them. Many sugar factories have to ask them to ask for help. way of life."

"Where can I go to find a way out? Go back to Fujian? If there is no land, isn't it just hanging around on the street? It's better to stay here. After a long time, some people think about cheating, kidnapping and stealing. They really have nothing to do. what."

"If you talk about not paying poll tax, everyone knows it well. Didn't the Celestial Dynasty also have a lot of people who took land to serve as squires exempt from labor? Isn't it the same thing to put old wine in new bottles? How do you know that this year will be strictly enforced?" Check it?"

Liu Yu handed a cigarette to the sugar factory contractor who had vomited bitterness all the way, and after appearing a little more common, he asked, "Are you planning to change your career?"

The person who contracted the sugar factory took a deep puff, held it in for a long time before spit it out, and said with a wry smile: "It's not easy to do anything in the past few years. It's not like the Celestial Dynasty. Land can't be bought casually." We can’t buy the land in the village community in Java, and they can’t sell it. The land around Bacheng has owners.”

"Hey... now the sugarcane department is over. I'm not afraid of adults' jokes, I also have the thought of hanging myself. In the future, I have to pay the poll tax, so there is no hope at all. Since the imperial court negotiated immigration with the Dutch, then move it. But Well, the Dutch only allow these slave workers to immigrate, and they don’t let us go to contract industries.”

"Let me see, it's better to sell the property and go back to Fujian."

It seems that the Dutch have already told the people here about their immigration to Ceylon.

Liu Yu can understand the thoughts of the Dutch very well. Batavia needs to use Chinese as the middle ruler, because it needs to suppress the local aborigines, and needs Chinese to connect Batavia and the goods produced in the countryside. In addition, Batavia There are serious religious conflicts, so cooperate with the Chinese upper class.

But in the end, the Chinese have people, money, and the power to paralyze Batavia. This is what the Dutch have always been wary of.

Ceylon was very different.

Ceylon has a very large number of "forced naturalized" Christians left by Portugal.

The position of the small Chinese bourgeois in Batavia was occupied by the mixed race of Ceylon.

Ceylon's important cinnamon production does not require Chinese as contractors.

In Ceylon, there is no ecological niche for the middle and upper class of the Chinese, only the ecological niche for the lower class of the Chinese.

From Liu Yu's point of view, the Dutchman's move was really bad.

Batavia can use Chinese to control Chinese and create conflicts. The Chinese inside and outside the city are at odds with each other, and the Chinese at the upper, middle and lower levels have their own demands.

But you let Ceylon accept only the lower class Chinese. Is this because you are afraid that the national consciousness of the Chinese will not be awakened?
However, thinking about it the other way around, the Dutch may have no choice.

We can't let the Chinese go to Ceylon, crowding out the small Dutch bourgeoisie; or let Ceylon's most profitable cinnamon betel nut industry be once again occupied by the Chinese high-level like Batavia.

Looking at the frustrated sugar factory contractor who was about to go back to Fujian, Liu Yu said with relief: "Going back to Fujian may not be a bad thing. Don't you people still have some family property? After you go back, you won't have nothing to do."

"Songjiang is organizing some new industries. Isn't there gold in Borneo? It's not under the control of the Dutch. These people are going to raise some equity and go to Borneo to contract land and mines."

"It's easier to do things with a lot of people, and it's easier to be a group with a lot of people."

"You haven't been back for many years. Don't you know that there have been some changes in the celestial court? Before, people were unwilling to form partnerships, for fear of being involved in an accident. Now, in Songjiang, Tianjin and other places, His Majesty's charter, joint ventures are becoming more and more popular. You go back After that, you can inquire more."

Immediately talking about the fact that the imperial court allowed the establishment of industries in Songjiang, Gyeonggi and other places where the army can absolutely hold down, the meaning is very clear.

Today, the capital in the Celestial Dynasty is concentrating towards the north relative to Fujian and Guangdong.Songjiang or Tianjin are currently short of this kind of mobile capital.

This time the Batavia Incident is resolved in this way, there will be a lot of circulating capital with nowhere to go.The sugar industry in Batavia is sluggish, and the tax-paying industry can't squeeze in. After returning home, it is better to continue to be a capitalist than to buy land and become a landlord.

The contractor of this sugar factory really didn't know about these changes, so he hurriedly asked a few more questions, and said repeatedly: "I have heard that there is gold in Borneo, but the local snakes can't be provoked. If we cooperate to do business, or open a mine , or plowing the fields, it would work. It's just..."

Although he seemed excited in words, he still hesitated in his heart.

In terms of business, although the Dutch are hateful, they are more credible than the imperial court. At least it seems that the Dutch are basically reasonable until now. What is yours is yours, and they will not take it away.

But as for the imperial court, the officials steal and plunder and donate a lot, so don't make wedding clothes for others at that time.

Let's go back and inquire carefully.

(End of this chapter)