Xinshun 1730

Chapter 747 Batavia New Deal ([-])

Small citizens also have their own plans for the future, and they are quite shrewd when it comes to their own interests.

Now the influx of a large number of troops, warships, and sailors has caused a short-term abnormal prosperity in the service industry of Coconut City.

This kind of prosperity is based on the premise of stationing large troops.

Together with the rebel army, sailors on vacation, marines, etc., there are more than [-] troops, plus the people on the ships expropriated by the Japanese trading companies that transport logistics supplies, the service industry is indeed very profitable.

However, everyone knows that this cannot last.

With the court and the Netherlands in such a deal, it is hard to say what will happen to the business in the future, and some people are already thinking about transformation.

Learning a craft is tiring, but at least you don't have to slip down to the pier to carry a big bag.

And I heard that it seems that the Dutch shipyard will be used to expand a shipyard in Yecheng, taking advantage of Nanyang's teak and other materials, and preparing to build some merchant ships.This requires a lot of carpenters.

It seems that learning carpentry is a good way.

However, there are also many types of service industries. Those who open stores are enjoying this short-lived deformed prosperity.The rest of the population, those who formerly lived off the Dutch trade, did not fare so well.

Two months ago, after the battle ended, Yecheng changed its name and implemented a relief system.

Merchant ships brought rice from Siam, and some temporarily unemployed people could apply for it.There were not too many people in the city, and it would not cost much money to apply for it for a day, but this attitude made the people in the city quickly submit to the rule of the imperial court.

There was also a Wuzhi fan system in the city before, but it was impossible for the company to pay a penny.On the contrary, Wuzhi fans are given some privileges, such as compulsory donations.

When donating money, Wu Zhi fans rushed out; when giving relief... When the Wushan Party stole and robbed in the city, they couldn't survive, Wu Zhi fans pretended to be dead, and suggested that the Dutch arrest them and serve hard labor.

Now that the imperial court came, there was a wave of relief that didn't cost much, which can be regarded as showing the difference between the imperial court and the company.

Sun Tao didn't need relief, he had saved up money and planned to buy a piece of land during the auction.

However, like his friend who runs a hotel, at the auction outside the city, a family can only buy one copy.And it cannot be resold for 20 years.

He also has some sons, and one piece of land is definitely not enough.There is really no way around this, it is obviously a lucrative land, everyone wants a piece of it, and these citizens in the city still have some family background.

After Sun Tao sighed, Schwartz made a suggestion.

"I heard that the new government will also contract out the sugarcane department. Wouldn't it be good for you to partner with a few friends to contract a sugarcane sugar factory? I'm a foreigner and I'm not qualified to contract, and I don't have much money left. You don't have enough money, can't you partner up?"

"Didn't it say that some joint-stock cooperative industries can be registered? The new government will guarantee the validity of the contract?"

Sun Tao shook his head, and said in a low voice, "Everyone is waiting and watching. I heard people say that they are afraid that the imperial court is going to specialize, and they are also afraid that the imperial court will not specialize."

"If you get out sugar, you still have to go through the hands of the court if you sell it. What's the difference between this and when the Dutch were here? They keep the price of sugar down so low every year, and they can't make money at all. Now the contract of the sugar factory in the Ministry of Cane is still It’s empty, everyone is watching.”

"I heard that some people who know how to boil sugar and manage sugar cane will be contracted in partnership. The military town governor's mansion can provide a loan, and it will be paid off in two years. The interest rate is [-]%, which is already quite low. .”

"I seem to have heard that the same is true for the tin mine in Bangka. The Dudu Mansion will buy out the debt and then contract it to the original mining gangs."

"However, the key to this matter still depends on the future policy. If it is a monopoly, it is meaningless to lower the purchase price."

"Furthermore, the East India Company bought it before, and other people were not allowed to come and collect it. As a result, white sugar and rock sugar could not be sold to others except the company. Now even if the sugar factory is contracted, if no one comes Take it, isn't that a loss?"

Schwartz said with a smile: "Then do you want to specialize in acquisitions? Or are you looking forward to not being a franchise, but there may be no one to accept it?"

Sun Tao also laughed and said: "I am looking forward to the franchise first, so that I can sell it this year and next year. In the future, if I give up the franchise, there will be more people who will come to collect it, and they will compete to raise prices. The policy is still undecided, and everyone is waiting and watching. .”

"I know that the arable land outside the city must be profitable, and you can buy it if you have the opportunity. But things other than arable land, such as sugar factories, cane departments, sugar cane gardens, and spice hills, still have to wait for the policy to be finalized."

"But to be honest, we don't count on it anymore. Think about it, how can princes, marquises, and governors have no relatives and friends? The policy is set by them. If it makes money, where is it our turn?"

"If they don't contract, no one dares to do so; but if they do, everyone wants to do so, but they won't be able to do so. So, buying a piece of land and letting our children and grandchildren learn the craft is the right way."

"Back then, those who contracted the sugarcane department paid a lot of money. There are still people who owe Jiapidan a lot of money."

"Even if according to the law of the Great Shun, the interest after doubling is not counted, and the principal and interest can be repaid at most twice, those people have to sell all their belongings if they want to repay."

As Sun Tao said, this city is a city that thrives on commerce after all.Before the land reform in the surrounding area and the whole of West Java is completed, it still needs to revolve around business.

Without commerce, half of the people in the city would have nothing to eat.Not all of them are businessmen, those who drive cars for merchants, those who help to receive goods, those who settle accounts, those who manage warehouses, etc., all rely on business for their livelihood.

For a long time, the Dutch monopoly policy has made the city's business deformed.

Sugar can only be purchased by companies, and spices can only be purchased by companies, as well as cotton, indigo, coffee, and tobacco.

Monopoly, monopoly, the East India Company earns this money.

Taking the simplest sugar as an example, the company collapsed and was driven away by Dashun, and no one monopolized it.But who is the sugar sold to?
For more than a hundred years, no merchant came to Batavia to collect sugar.

If this is caught, at least 20 years of hard labor will be required.

The company has its own sales channels, and the sales direction is mainly Persia and Europe.In places other than the company's sales channels, the market has been saturated for more than a hundred years.

It is also a big problem to squeeze out sugar and sell it.

Many people could see that after Dashun occupied Batavia, it tried to restore the prosperity of Batavia as much as possible.However, many policies have not yet been finalized, and the new laws and regulations that have been promulgated are at best tinkering and relief, and have not touched the core.

Especially for many people who used to rely on the East India Company for their livelihood, their attitude towards Dashun's replacement of the East India Company is very clear: if it is the same as before, we will support it; if it is different from the past, of course we will not support it.

The rule of the Dutch in Southeast Asia was centered on Batavia and densely covered with many strongholds.

And these points, the line of connection with the Javanese countryside, depend on the Chinese.

Many Chinese also eat this bowl of rice. For example, there are seven or eight villages here, and the tropical products of these seven or eight villages are contracted to a certain Chinese.

In other words, only he can come to these seven or eight villages to receive goods.The rest cannot come.If other people come, their own company will support him.

Many people in the city also do this. Now that the policy has not been finalized, they are very worried about their future life.

So far, it has been two months.

It seems that Batavia has implemented a lot of new policies, and it is lively, changing the city name, office hall, and relief.

But if you think about it carefully, it seems that there is no new policy.

Although some people have found jobs again, it seems that the court drove away the Dutch, and it makes no difference; but there are also a large number of people who are temporarily unemployed and don't know what to do.

Should we continue to wait here, and wait for the imperial court's policy to come out, what if we continue to implement the package system?
Or should I not wait, thinking about other careers earlier, changing careers or even leaving Batavia?

Some people have already reported these matters to Niu Er, the false governor of Yecheng's military town. Niu Er is also in a hurry, and he also wants to make a policy as soon as possible.

Niu Er went to ask Liu Yu about this, and Liu Yu meant that these matters should not be rushed.

Before Malacca is captured and the rest of the castles in the Netherlands are not completely taken over, the land reform policy should not be announced for the time being.

Once announced, it may spark some resistance.It will be announced after Malacca has been dealt with, the expansion of the rebel army has been completed, and the local garrison has been increased.

This kind of thing can't be rushed.

As for trade policy, Liu Yu can only tell Niu Er that trade policy should not be rushed.

The East Asian market, and even the sugar market in northern Southeast Asia, has long been saturated.There is a lot of sugar in Taiwan. Originally, Batavia’s sugar was sold to Persia and Europe. Even when European sugar was selling well, they also bought sugar from the coastal areas of Daming and Dashun.

Now say no franchise, just buy sucrose casually, can small merchants sell it?

Can it open the gates of Persia and the customs of India?

All the Chinese sea merchants who came to Batavia for trade in the past counted as one, and none of them had the ability to cross Malacca.

This has nothing to do with farming peoples or sea peoples.

This has something to do with the accumulation of capital into a monopoly trading company with an army, a political power, and a fleet to deal with those small private investors.

Even if it is born in the sea with abundant martial virtue, it is useless.How can small retail investors fight against the world's first super-large multinational monopoly with a market value of over [-] million silver shields?

People can let you a small retail investor to eat their market?
As for the market west of Malacca that the company does not occupy, a market that cannot be occupied by such a large company, how can you, a small retail investor, occupy it?

Dashun's maritime merchants were strong enough, and when Arai Shiraishi's lock-up intensified, he forcibly broke into the Shimonoseki Strait to smuggle.But fierceness is useless. Without an advanced form of organization, the loose forces can only be gathered together, and the end can only be smashed by bombardment.The joint-stock monopoly company was indeed a fairly advanced organizational form at this time.

Don't look at Liu Yu's shouting about free trade all day long, but in fact at this time he absolutely supports the establishment of a monopoly company.

If you don't run a monopoly company, you're giving money to the East India Companies of various countries.Free trade is a world system, and the strongest handicraft country, with a fleet of peace and prosperity, has to knock on the doors of all countries one by one.A country cannot engage in free trade.

Spices, indigo, sugar, cotton... these, I am afraid that the pricing policy will continue to be exclusively purchased.However, one must be careful not to waste money on fishing, and not to take profit into account when setting prices. This requires the imperial court to have absolute control over the monopoly company.

In two months, Java's major policy has not yet been finalized, which is caused by the above reasons.

For one thing, whether to buy or not depends on the treaty reached with the Dutch and whether the East India Company can be reorganized.

Second, the imperial court must have absolute control over the monopoly company, and raising shares may be a problem, and investors will be suspicious.And excessive military obligations, as well as the complete transfer of decision-making power to the court, will make investors less enthusiastic.

Knowing that there is such a problem, but I have to do it.Because, if the Dutch model is followed and an uncontrolled East India Company is also established, once the capital is out of control, it is almost inevitable that the fish will be exhausted, and a large-scale uprising will break out within ten years.

Dashun wants to try a new model that is different from the West European East India Company and the previous government-run monopoly on the West.

This in itself is difficult.

Batavia's new policy can indeed only be swayed on the tinkering of "changing the name of the city" and "giving relief to the unemployed".

Because Batavia's new policy is related to the Netherlands tens of thousands of miles away, the imperial court thousands of miles away, and the wealthy businessmen who moved to Songjiang Prefecture.

Nothing to do with Batavia alone.

Batavia's New Deal, so far, has no policies, only traces of the court coming.

(End of this chapter)