Xinshun 1730

Chapter 596 I will be the good guy and you will be the bad guy

After Arai Shiraishi, Japan also intensified the lock-up. Although the trade volume has decreased, Japan and Dashun are different after all: Dashun is a brave man who only eats gold and silver, while Japan is rich in gold and silver.Even if the additional business credit card is halved, Batavia can still get a lot of small gold and small silver, which are hard currencies.

A large part of Batavia's funds are supported by Japanese gold and silver.

The porcelain and tea leaves from Dashun have to be shipped back to Europe before they can be exchanged for silver.Moreover, there is also a trade committee with China, which leads directly to Amsterdam. Batavia can only touch it, but tacitly agrees to smuggle a certain amount of private tea back.The price of private tea on the company's ship is definitely lower than that of the company, but the income does not go to the company but to individuals, so the benefits of these private teas are also private rather than Batavia's financial.

The board of directors can't do anything now. Investing money in Ceylon will definitely make profits in the future-if you tell the Dutch minority shareholders frankly and honestly, the citizens are not stupid, and they can actually support it.

But the problem is, if you talk about the good things, do you talk about the company's bad debts?If the company's financial report is made public, will Ceylon benefit greatly?Or is the accumulated bad debts and corruption bigger?
Some heads cannot be opened.

Today, there is an atmosphere of inciting small shareholders to discuss and approve, and tomorrow they may be required to disclose all financial statements and investment directions, and may even reorganize the board of directors.

Someone even asked before that if Dashun also supports the Ceylon immigration plan, can the Batavia government borrow some money from Dashun?With an annual interest rate of 15%, borrow first, wait for Ceylon to make a profit, and just pay back the money.

However, if it was in the past, maybe it would work.

But now Liu Yu is arrogant and aggressive, and is forcing the company to divest its business in China. At this time, asking Liu Yu to borrow money shows that the company is short of money. Isn't this equivalent to handing a knife to Liu Yu?

Now Liu Yu's small mouth seemed to be smeared with honey, and satirized them for being "generous". Valknir had no choice but to turn a deaf ear and continue smiling.

In the immigration plan, the treatment and living conditions of Chinese immigrants are extremely low, and I have to worry that Liu Yu will find fault again.

A penny is hard for a hero, and the Netherlands has not built a new ship for many years. It relies on its past foundation and decency. Facing the menacing Dashun, the momentum of the negotiation is based on the simple word "money", and Dashun Completely suppress here.

Being ridiculed by Liu Yu, Valkner also knew that the treatment of the Chinese inside was indeed too low, but he couldn't help it.

There are still Chinese insurgents in the volcanic area south of Batavia. If the Chinese in the north are not removed as soon as possible, there is no way to suppress the uprising.

The immigration of tens of thousands of people, even if it is not so far from the slave coast to the North American colonies, even if this road is quite familiar, it is still a big project.

As the imperial envoy of Dashun, Liu Yu of course hoped for "good".

On Batavia's side, of course, only "more, faster, and less" is left.

"Master Marquis, this is the best we can do. Even if the company allocates funds, it will take two years to arrive. I am just the governor of Batavia, so it is impossible to seize the company's payment, right?"

Valkneer made a little excuse, and Liu Yu said again: "Okay, let's not talk about it for now. Then, won't the poll tax be cancelled? If your cinnamon factory collects poll tax, then Isn’t that equivalent to collecting your own money?”

Valknier thought nonsense, the cinnamon money is the company's direct financial income, the poll tax is the colonial local tax, and the company doesn't allocate money, so it's hard for us.

"Master Marquis, we have our difficulties. You should understand that immigration costs money. And some public constructions also need money."

"The poll tax is also used to pay for public works. And it's also a convenient way to collect taxes..."

Liu Yu said with a smile: "It's not convenient, it's because your administrative ability is too poor. You only engage in the tax system."

He sneered on his lips, but thought in his heart, it doesn't matter if the poll tax or the land tax, it's just an excuse anyway.

The key is how can the Chinese in Ceylon have cultivated enough land and have a team of skilled workers who can take over the cinnamon rubbing business when they go to Nanyang?

"Mr. Governor, your plan is very clear. The vast majority of Chinese will be farmers in the future, cultivating the land of the Sinhalese who were driven away by the Portuguese. The Netherlands is a country with a tax system and a commercial country. Can't understand the point of land tax."

"I personally think that land tax can be collected in Ceylon. Some of the Chinese go to Ceylon as skilled workers, and some go to rub cinnamon and process betel nuts. But more people want to farm. If the planning is good, the land tax The revenue can be higher than the head tax. Of course, the premise is that the land has been fully developed."

"Developing the land requires a certain amount of investment. As long as you add a part of the investment and the land is fully developed, the income you get will be higher than the poll tax."

"The Sinhalese have a tradition of water control. I think your company should also increase investment in public water conservancy facilities, so that more land taxes can be collected. In the long run, this investment is meaningful."

"On the one hand, it can improve the living standards of the Tang people. This is the most concerned issue of this dynasty. After all, the people of their dynasty, the emperor as the son of heaven, their monarch and father, must consider the interests of the subjects. Even if they are in your future Under the rule of the Emperor, His Majesty the Emperor does not want them to live too poorly."

"On the other hand, the return on long-term investment is much higher than the income from poll tax. As a country whose main tax is land tax, I think I am qualified to tell you the significance of land tax and the sustainable development of farmland water conservancy. long-term returns on sexual investment."

These words sound like good words, but they are actually extremely dark.

The construction of water conservancy will definitely require hard labor.

Liu Yu's goal is to live the bad days in the Dutch era, and to live the good days when the good times come.

It is definitely hoped that in the Dutch era, immigrants would reclaim more land and build some water conservancy facilities under the organization of the Netherlands.

This thing, immigrants must suffer.But when Dashun comes in the future, all these achievements will belong to Dashun, and the immigrants will naturally follow the motherland.

This is not a matter of money. If immigrants can be used as "free" labor to basically arrange the water conservancy facilities, the Netherlands only needs to pay some notoriety, and it will not cost much.

If you only talk about the truth, what Liu Yu said is actually very simple, and any big agricultural country understands this truth.

But even this simple truth has to be made clear to the Netherlands.

Because the level of the Dutch East India Company is really far behind that of the British "Li Fan Yuan" in later generations.

The British "Li Fan Yuan" was able to send people to Java to investigate the economic foundation of the village community, and produced an investigation report that "the key to Java is the rural land issue".

The Dutch didn't do it at all.

There is something about Ceylon that is all Portuguese heritage.

The Portuguese finished all the dirty work, and after the Dutch occupied it, they picked up a ready-made one - the religion was forcibly converted to Christianity, the old nobles fled, the caste system basically collapsed in the south, and a large number of old nobles fled.

On the other hand, the Dutch's ruling methods are extremely brutal and have no technical content.

Too much nutmeg?Kill people, kill two-thirds of people, and the production of nutmeg will drop.

Too many cloves?Cut down trees, cut them down and burn them, and the yield will drop.

When the output is down, the demand is unchanged, and the price is going up.

Are the Javanese native nobles powerful?Cooperation, regardless of the land system of the village community, forced planting, and dividends for the nobles.

Chinese business ability?Cooperation, tax package to the Chinese, self-government, as long as the money is paid, everything is easy to talk about.

In Ceylon, a bunch of Tamil slaves are employed to work, and slavery is okay in a plantation. Isn’t it nonsense to rely on slaves to farm land and grow rice?How can there be small farmers with high production levels?
The Dutch do not have the concept of "collecting normal land taxes" in their minds.

Ceylon is not Java, so it is not suitable for planting those crops in Java. The forced planting system that was finally found in the Netherlands is not suitable for Ceylon.

Moreover, Java is a feudal village land system, and it is enough to cooperate with the feudal lord.

The upper-class nobles of Ceylon have all gone to the north. There are no feudal nobles at all. A large number of Chinese immigrants have gone. It is not enough to rub cinnamon and pick betel nuts. There is a large amount of unowned wasteland, which must be planted by small farmers. of.

But looking at the proposal, this group of people has no experience in managing small farmers at all.From this point alone, Dashun can really proudly say that the experience in managing small farmers is the best in the world, and large-scale immigration and reclamation are also traditional arts.

Liu Yu hoped that when the Netherlands declared war on France, Ceylon had already ended its difficult development period. Now it seems that the Dutch's plan is pure nonsense. How can this work?Taking the Java method and applying it to Ceylon, the land conditions, economic base, and land ownership system are different. Regardless of the long-term, Liu Yu will seriously restrict the development of productivity in the short term of three to five years.

"How about this, considering the difficulty of cultivating the land, and also considering that it is not easy for Tang people, the Celestial Dynasty will pay a sum of money."

"A part of it is used to purchase various farm tools and ironware. I don't see any plans for this in your company's business plan. Could it be possible to let immigrants dig the land with their hands?"

"The other part is to buy a batch of cattle from India."

"After the immigrants have gone, you will still adopt the system of Jiapitan and Lei Zhenlan. The farm tools and cattle purchased by the Celestial Dynasty will be loaned to the Tang immigrants. According to each group under the control of Lei Zhenlan, as a basic unit."

"In the Song Dynasty of the Celestial Dynasty, there used to be a loan program for small farmers, but the repayment risk of small farmers was too bad. Therefore, a group of Lei Zhenlan was used as a loan legal person to provide cattle and ironware at low interest rates. Years to pay off."

"You also organize a group of people to carry out water conservancy construction. Try to ensure that these people can exist as small farmers in the future."

"At that time, the poll tax will be exempted and replaced by land tax. This will not only abolish the bad habit of leizhenlan and kapitan, but also facilitate the enrichment of Ceylon's products."

"Of course, from the perspective of the Celestial Empire, I hope that these poor immigrants from the Tang Dynasty can cross over as soon as possible. It is not easy to make a living at sea."

"You really don't know that there is the word 'benevolence and righteousness' in Tianchao. Maybe you really don't understand. This may be a cultural difference between you and me."

"I have no selfish intentions in this matter. It is purely out of 'benevolence' and compassion. Of course, we will not interfere with your governance and jurisdiction over Ceylon. We just let the officials who are going to supervise be a lending institution by the way. That's all."

Liu Yu thought to himself, money still needs to be spent, otherwise there will be more trouble when taking over.But money must never be lent to the Dutch and then let the Dutch spend it.If there is a war in the future, there is no way to collect debts, so why let the Dutch take their own money to be good people?
Who provided ironware and cattle at low interest rates?celestial dynasty.

Who forced labor to reclaim wasteland and repair water conservancy?Netherlands.

(End of this chapter)