Xinshun 1730

Chapter 660 Adversarial and Non-Confrontational Contradictions
Liu Yu often said who is a friend and who is an enemy.

Others were fine with it, but Kang Bushao, who was his closest confidant, felt something different.

The Netherlands is not a whole, so is Dashun?

Who is the "we" the young master said?

Anyway, it's not the scholar-bureaucrats, the scholar-bureaucrats have nothing to do with the affairs of the Netherlands.

The "we" that Liu Yu blurted out has some meaning.

Who is "we"?

After savoring the enemies and friends described by Liu Yu carefully for a while, the more I tasted, the more dry the taste became.Kang Buxio had something on his mind, so it was inconvenient to say it at this time.

Fearing that Liu Yu would say something that shouldn't be said on the spur of the moment, he quickly changed the topic and said, "Since the Orange family has already 'El Retorno Del Rey' and the king has returned, can we go?"

"If we stay here again, it will make William of Orange difficult to do. He doesn't make some gestures to drive us away, and it will be difficult to calm public opinion. If we really want to tear up the treaty, he will not dare. I think we should go."

"I'm worried that if you really leave no room for it, force him to the corner, and really tear up the trade agreement in order to appease the people, then the tens of thousands of us in Ceylon will have a hard time, and nothing will go wrong at this time."

Liu Yu also had this intention.

"Of course. It's time to leave. But before we leave, we still need to meet our 'potential friends'. Get online first, maybe we will cooperate in the future."

"As for the Orange faction, the form should be followed. Since the new king is on the throne, according to the 'law of etiquette', the tributary country should send people to the heaven to ask for the canonization, and the emperor sends angels to canonize it."

The people next to him laughed when they heard this.

We all know that if we go again now, it will add fuel to the flames. The Orange faction, which is under the banner of defending the dignity of the motherland, will also take this opportunity to hype up this matter and insist on making the people sent by Liu Yu viciously Can't go.

However, anyway, these people who wanted to drive Liu Yu away at this time were originally enemies in the future.

The financiers from the East India Company and the Netherlands, who made Liu Yu quite upset before, actually already had the foundation to be friends with him.

As long as Dashun can successfully win Nanyang, this "friendship" will be more stable.

The reason for this is simple.

The East India Company occupying Nanyang and Dashun trying to go to Nanyang are endless.

The Dutch East India Company, which Dashun went to Nanyang successfully, can cooperate with Dashun Capital.

This is called [Some contradictions that are originally confrontational, if handled properly, can be transformed into non-confrontational contradictions]

The key to the transformation of antagonistic contradictions and non-antagonistic contradictions is to find the transformation node.

Capital is profit-seeking.

When Dashun was not in Nanyang, VOC controlled the spice trade monopoly in Nanyang. If you invest one dollar, even if corruption is rampant, even if you don’t follow the instructions, even if the governor is corrupt, you can still give shareholders a minimum of 18% per year. dividends.

If Dashun goes to Nanyang, the Dutch capital wants to retake Nanyang and regain the monopoly of the spice trade. Considering the loss around the Cape of Good Hope, logistical supplies, and death rates, at least 30 battleships, 300 soldiers, and 18 auxiliary ships are needed. Speaking of [-]% annual interest, the cost alone would make the Netherlands unbearable for the annual interest.

After a little calculation, this would require at least [-] million taels of silver military expenditure.

If the East India Company can come up with so much cash at once, will it still take ten years to make financial statements and try to make fake accounts?

Many years ago, there was a famous joke in Spain that Ming was so weak that 20000 Spanish soldiers could conquer Ming.

This is really true.But just like those "absolutely correct nonsense" that Liu Yuchang said, this is a standard absolutely correct nonsense.

Being able to transport 20000 soldiers from Spain to Ming Dynasty in the era of sailing ships, this ability... The Soviet Union’s Ethiopian strategic airlift that shocked the world in 1977 could reach this level, which was the peak era of Soviet revisionism.If you ask Su Xiu at his peak, whether he can give up satellites and transport planes, and simply send a wave of 20000 people to the strategic projection of sailing ships, Su Xiu will have a headache.

In this era when the British expedition to the Caribbean had two-thirds of the death rate, if Spain had the ability to transport 20000 soldiers to the Ming Dynasty in the late Ming Dynasty, it would mean Spain’s logistics and shipping capabilities, not to mention the conquest of Ming Dynasty and the world Neither is a problem.

So, this kind of talk is bullshit.

That's why the Dutch didn't realize how dangerous the confrontation between Dashun and the Netherlands was.

The ancients said that in a city of hundreds of miles, there must be national scholars.But looking at the decisions and actions of the East India Company in the past few years, Liu Yu thinks that the brains of the top Dutch people are just like that.

He made a mistake with the scholar-officials in Dashun, not stupid, but very smart.But the methodology of understanding and viewing the world is different from those of the consultants around him.

Nanyang is the key node for transforming confrontational contradictions into non-antagonistic contradictions.

The Netherlands' declaration of war against France is the key to the double effect of this critical node.

If the Netherlands does not declare war on France, Dashun can still win, but the fanatical patriotism of the "enemies" in Liu Yu's mouth will permeate for a long time, and there is no way to break their backbone.

If the Netherlands declares war on France, Dashun will not receive assistance from France in Nanyang. The difference is that the backbone of the Dutch people will be broken, and they will lose the last bit of patriotic enthusiasm and accept the fact that the Netherlands has become a small country.

Before the storm in Paris in 93, it broke the backbone of the Dutch people.That way, the Dutch would not think of a third way.

After despair, he could only choose to lie flat and die, and no longer care about the future of the country, the direction of politics, or the fate of the Netherlands.

Because no one told those who were desperate that there was another way to go.

It will only evolve into: oligarchs, regents, big businessmen, Orangemen, you can make a fuss, anyway, that's it, what else can you do.I have fought, struggled, shed blood for the motherland, and sweated for dignity, but what has changed in the end?I love this country of Holland, but who loves me?Let's just lie down and die, it's your playground anyway, sell whatever you like, sell whatever you like.

Liu Yu is very sure that it is possible to cooperate with those big businessmen, oligarchs, and major shareholders.But the Dutch people, who still have patriotic enthusiasm, cannot cooperate.

The broad masses of the people are the cornerstone of the Netherlands, and they are also the biggest enemy of "us" in his mouth.

That's why the backbone of the Dutch people has to be broken, leaving only a group of Dutch rulers who provided loans to Spain during the War of Independence, and sold arms and smuggled food to France during the French-Dutch War.

He and the doomed Orange faction have nothing to say.

But at this time, there seemed to be many conflicts and irreconcilable parliamentarians, and there was a lot to talk about, although it seemed that he was the one who brought the parliamentary faction down.

If you have to go to the Orange faction to "bring shame on yourself", the main thing is to give the Parliament faction a "National Vote Certificate" to prove your innocence, and you have not reached any ulterior motives with the Orange faction.

It's just that this vote is for his own head.

This is called one willing to fight and one willing to suffer.

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Two days later, before Liu Yu sent someone to ask "the consul to send someone to ask for the seal", the former Great Speaker, Anthony, who was not cut alive like his predecessors, took the initiative to visit Liu Yu .

The Great Speaker, who used to call the wind and rain, has now stepped down from the position of the Great Speaker.

The wonderful political system of the Netherlands and the one-vote veto power doomed William IV to become the ruler of the republic, and he needed to become the ruler of the seven provinces of the seven provinces first.

This is the opposite of Dashun.

What policy Dashun wants to implement needs to be approved by Tianyou Temple and the Sixth Government, and implemented from top to bottom.

What policy to implement in the Netherlands requires that the cities of the seven provinces first reach an agreement in the provincial parliaments; and then the seven provinces reach an agreement in the inter-provincial parliament.This is not the minority obeying the majority, but each city has a veto.

Now the seven provinces have not resisted, nor have the strength to resist.

After the Orange faction and the big businessmen secretly reached a "no reform" deal, the seven provinces recognized William IV as the lifelong ruler of the United Provinces.

In fact, this is called kingship.

Hereditary, lifelong, heir wife inheritance, except that the king is not called the consul, there is no difference from the king.

However, this is just a title.Like William III, the predecessor of William IV, if he dared to reform, the stock price would collapse. Therefore, William III, who is also the king of England, can only bow to the province of the Netherlands. Without the consent of the province of the Netherlands, he will not formulate any policies.

Not because of anything else, but because the province of the Netherlands holds 57% of the fiscal expenditures of the seven provinces.

William absolutely did not dare to put the "royal palace" in Amsterdam. He had to go to Rotterdam or The Hague, and he must escape from Amsterdam, the stronghold of the parliamentary faction.

Although the parliament is still in power, it has to be decent on the surface.

The benefit of being wrong to people is here. When the Great Speaker resigns, this matter will be over.

The great speaker who stepped down is still the leader of the merchant class.

The resignation of the former Great Speaker is just an explanation to the people, not a promise to the people.

At a time like this, the Orange family, which upholds the dignity and integrity of the motherland, would definitely not come to Liu Yu.Therefore, Anthony, the former Speaker of the House of Representatives, who had already taken a big scapegoat, could only come forward and talk to Liu Yu.

This meeting is considered a private meeting.Anthony is no longer the Grand Speaker, so there is no need for so much red tape.

"Lord Marquis. You have completed your revenge on the United Provinces. You successfully dragged the United Provinces into a war. Tens of thousands of Dutch lives and hundreds of thousands of florin silver coins are your revenge. achievement."

"I really want to know, is your revenge aimed at me, the Great Speaker who rejected your 'Free Trade and Tariff Agreement'? Or is it aimed at the entire United Provinces?"

Liu Yu laughed and used a particularly vulgar metaphor.

"The bitch doesn't raise her tail first, and the male dog has no chance to lie on it. I didn't raise the bitch's tail. Do you think this is revenge?"

Anthony sighed, then nodded.

"Yes. A brutal war. And, you are not unaware of what has happened on the Amsterdam Stock Exchange these days. The prices of several stocks, especially those of the East India Company, have plummeted. Many people are selling, People doubt whether the East India Company can maintain the promised minimum annual interest rate of 18% without trade with China.”

Liu Yuxin said the minimum annual interest rate of 18%?When I go to Nanyang, you will not have 1.8%.Besides, where is this going? Is this a fart revenge?
"Mr. Anthony, now that you are no longer the Great Speaker, I hope you can have a word with the parliamentarians and businessmen."

(End of this chapter)