Xinshun 1730

Chapter 847

The specific cooperation details will be discussed slowly when we return to Amsterdam.

On the day when the Sino-Dutch Brussels Treaty was signed, two groups of messengers rode away quickly.

Take the northern line all the way, through the personal relationship between Liu Yu and the Russian empress, take the Russian post station road, and go to the capital from the northern line.

Go all the way to the south, pass through the relationship between France and Ottoman, go to Persia to India via Turkey, rule Nanyang before the monsoon comes, and prepare to ship.

Now it is against the wind, even if the ship can set sail, it will not arrive until March or April next year.There is no way to do this, so I have to let the horse's legs run.If we really have to wait until March and April, Dashun will not be able to carry it.

Whether or not the Dutch side can reach an agreement is directly related to Dashun's entire Nanyang policy and trade policy.

If the Dutch side fails to negotiate, then it can only engage in a "regional distribution monopoly system", and the waste of money is unavoidable.

If the Dutch side makes a deal, it will definitely be shipped directly, and the Netherlands will still control the spice trade in Europe, and Dashun will work together as a partner.

Although Dashun has a silver foundation built by over 100 years of overseas trade in the Ming Dynasty, Nanyang’s stalls are too big, and no matter how strong the foundation is, it cannot afford to wait.

Here is the difference between "fund flow" and "total assets".

Just like VOC, the total assets are definitely not just a few million taels of silver.However, before Dashun just cut off the Dutch trade with Japan and cut off the flow of funds of the East India Company, the East India Company immediately had problems.

Dashun is the same here.

Ports, forts, garrisons, control rights, plots, and land in Nanyang are all considered total assets.

However, from the beginning of the war to the present, if we miss this year, there will be no trade for two years.In order to protect the transformed foundation of the Nanyang Dutch, Dashun is now taking real money to receive the goods.

Just like Ambon and other places, they have been completely transformed into spice producing areas by the Netherlands.If Dashun doesn't accept the goods, let's not talk about whether the local people will starve to death. At least for food, it is possible to cut down the trees and plant cassava first, right?

Eating cassava these days is likely to cause cyanic acid poisoning, but it is like the ergot alkaloid poisoning of Dashun's immigrant species in the Heilongjiang River Estuary. More people die every year, but you can't stop eating it.

If Dashun didn't have a navy, it would be fine for the locals.

Dashun doesn’t want it, but English and Portuguese people want it.

However, Dashun had a navy to catch the "smuggling" stipulated by Dashun everywhere, and the British East India Company did not dare to provoke Dashun at this time due to the sensitivity of the Indian issue and the desire for a monopoly system in distribution regions.

In this case, the money has not yet been earned, and a large amount of funds are first turned into goods in the warehouse.If it piles up for another year, the capital chain of the newly established Western Trading Company will be broken directly.

At this time in the world, no company has the ability to hoard the total amount of goods traded in the entire East and Southeast Asia for two or three years.Even the household government of Dashun couldn't eat or stock up.

However, since China and the Netherlands have signed the Brussels Treaty, and the Netherlands has indeed expelled the Orange family, regardless of the process, the result is indeed acceptable to Dashun.

With this big tone, subsequent negotiations will be easier.

After waiting for the news of the peace talks between China and the Netherlands and France and the Netherlands in Brussels to come back to Amsterdam, Amsterdam immediately fell into a carnival and held a grand fireworks display.

In the firework show, the composer Friedrich Handel, who originally had a good personal relationship with William IV and Princess Anne, refused to compose any celebration songs for the Dutch, and thought that the Dutch had betrayed Britain and left angrily. Go to London.

But the Dutch don't care.

For most Dutch people, the fact that the French were no longer attacking and occupying the Netherlands was a cause for celebration in itself.On such a happy day, one more piece of music is just icing on the cake.

Since this kind of thing is the icing on the cake, who is going to send charcoal in the snow?

Naturally, not French.

As far as this matter is concerned, of course Dashun is the guarantor and mediator of the negotiation.

Moreover, just after the news of the negotiations in Brussels came, people from Dashun, in their official capacity in Dashun, bought a batch of grain, and distributed it to several Dashun The Dutch people in the city have a wave of goodwill.

Kang Bushao thought about this very clearly.

The low-level people in the Netherlands who can't even bear the increase in food prices don't even need to think about it. They definitely don't have stocks in the East India Company, and they definitely haven't bought bonds issued by the East India Company.

The East India Company collapsed. For them, if someone guides them, it is hatred. If no one guides them, it will be the same.

none of your business?
And those real financiers, bankers, and major shareholders of the East India Company only need to tell them that Dashun will cooperate with the Netherlands, and they still have the opportunity to buy shares, and they will naturally forget the previous hatred.

Only who was Dashun already offended to death?
Naturally those middle class.

The family property is not very large, not to the level of a financier or a big businessman, but he also bought some stocks or bonds of the East India Company back then.

These people have been offended by Dashun to death, and it's useless to please them.If so, then simply dare not.

Spend some money to buy food, and brush up the favor of the bottom.

Cooperate in smuggling together, gain favor with financiers and commercial capital.

As for the middle level, if you oppose Dashun, you can oppose it. Could there be any results?

Kang Buxio agrees with what Liu Yu said, trying to please all classes, the result is that all classes are bound to be dissatisfied.Instead of doing this, those classes that are too costly to please but have little benefit, just give up, and don't even have to think about trying to please.

This statement is valid in Dashun, and it has always been valid in the past dynasties: farmers certainly have the value of united front, because if they are not united, Li Zicheng will be born; scholar-officials and landlords, of course, also have the value of united front, because if they are not united, the bureaucracy will fail. Against the imperial court; only businessmen, if they are engaged, they will not be able to get rid of Li Zicheng, please them and let them buy land to become officials, then land annexation will accelerate unprecedentedly.

In the Netherlands, of course, this principle also works.

Kang Bushi didn't care about those who might oppose Dashun.

Where is this?Waiting for a large amount of goods from Dashun to flow in in the future, they will be completely offended to death.Not too bad today.

From this coup d'état and the previous Regency faction's ruling, Kang Bushao could see it.

If you want to cooperate with the Netherlands, you only need to have a good relationship with those big bankers and big businessmen; it is enough to make the people at the bottom not disgusted.

Those in the middle can't do anything.

At least not for the time being.

In this context, the negotiation on the cooperation details between Dashun and the Netherlands started in a very weird order.

Every day, a large number of Dutch people are paying attention to the news of the negotiations between the two sides.

And the two news that were most dangerous to be released directly satisfied the people from the two strata that Dashun was planning to cooperate with.

First, Dashun announced that it will fully cooperate with the Netherlands. The spices in Southeast Asia, including Ceylon, will be monopolized by a Sino-Dutch joint trading company. Dashun will guarantee that the spices in Southeast Asia will not be given to other countries.Dashun may invest treasury bonds in Amsterdam in the future.

Then, the Sino-Dutch joint trading company will manufacture escort ships in the Netherlands with an order of no less than 40 taels of Kuping silver.Among them, the cables, cloth, canvas, wooden barrels, etc. of the fleet were all purchased in the Netherlands and ordered in the form of orders.

Sino-Dutch joint trading company will expand the wharf and port in Amsterdam.Priority will be given to hiring a large number of people in the Netherlands who have difficulty making a living due to war and rising food prices, or retired soldiers.

And in order to protect the neutral status of the Netherlands from third-party threats, the Netherlands will allow Dashun’s warships—under the condition that Dashun does not go to war with any European country, that is, it is neutral—to dock in the Netherlands.And all supplies and ship repairs will be done in cooperation with the Dutch Dockyard and the Amsterdam Provincial Shipbuilding Guild.

Even before discussing such things as shareholding ratio, trade return, and cooperation model, these two news were released first.

The news of the two spread quickly, word of mouth among those in the Netherlands who were following the talks between the two sides.

This not only pleases the commercial capital of the Netherlands, but also pleases at least a large number of middle and lower-class people in Amsterdam.

It seems that Sino-Dutch cooperation is indeed a win-win model cooperation.

Dashun solved the problem of the initiative in European trade; after losing the East India colony, the Netherlands miraculously regained the monopoly of spice monopoly and tea sales in the European market, as if miraculously blessed by God.

Dashun finally extended its tentacles to Europe; the Netherlands had the neutral status guaranteed by the two great powers, China and France.

Dashun finally got a reliable berth in Europe; the Netherlands got some urgently needed orders and investment to stabilize the serious poverty problem after the war.

Dashun can finally get a good borrowing place with an annual interest rate lower than 36%; the Netherlands has got a high-quality borrower with an annual interest rate higher than 5%.

The budding handicraft capital of Dashun has found a market; the developed commercial capital of the Netherlands has found its source of goods.

Dashun found a base where the naval crew and officers could easily familiarize themselves with the sea conditions in the Atlantic Ocean; Holland got an escort that was probably almost free.

Dashun borrowed Cape, a transit point in Asia and Europe, and got the sea route connecting Sweden and Russia; the Netherlands got the possibility of returning to the Baltic Sea trade.

Regardless of the fact that Dashun just snatched Southeast Asia, Ceylon and India from the Netherlands; regardless of the fact that it was Dashun who helped France capture the Maastricht Fortress...

Indeed, a win-win.

After the general direction of these two negotiations was released in advance, the negotiations between China and the Netherlands have reached the core part.

The cooperation model proposed by Dashun is dominated by Dashun.

After the East India Company went bankrupt and the franchise was banned, the Dutch government should grant the franchise to the newly formed Sino-Dutch Trading Company; of course, Dashun also granted the Sino-Dutch Trading Company the franchise of spice trade.

The previous VOC monopolized the production area and the market.

Now, the monopoly of the production area and market sales is divided into two.

Since the two parties want to cooperate, it is natural to clarify the issue of monopoly rights first.

On this point, the Netherlands has no objection, it is normal and should be so.

But the next question made the Netherlands a little uncomfortable.

Dashun's shareholding ratio should reach 55%, and the Dutch side should preferably have 45%.

Moreover, within three to five years, Dashun will conduct comprehensive government supervision, and all decisions will be made by Dashun's Industry and Commerce Bureau headed by Liu Yu.

Three to five years later, a board of directors will be elected to make decisions in accordance with the shareholding ratio.

As for the Dutch side, whether it should be held by chambers of commerce in various provinces as the East India Company did before, or whether it should be liberalized, this is a problem for the Dutch side, and Dashun doesn't care.

Of course, during the regulatory period of three to five years, Dashun will guarantee the annual dividends for Dutch shareholders.Whether it is a loss or a profit in the early stage, it will be distributed according to a fixed annual interest during the supervision period, and will not be offset with tea and spices like VOC.

However, since it is a negotiation, it is impossible to directly say the bottom line, but to give a room for bargaining.

So, Kang Bushao bit harder.

Liu Yu's dividend annual interest rate is 12%.

This is calculated data, and it is also a similar bottom line that the businessmen on Dashun side can accept.

On the one hand, the direction of Dashun is completely different from that of the Dutch East India Company.Since Dashun itself is the only producer of spices, tea, and high-end porcelain in the world, Dashun can ignore the issue of export tax, and just pay the monopoly rights and purchase fees.

Secondly, as a producer, Dashun can guarantee the quality, quantity and quality of tea.There will never be a situation where other companies get stuck like the Ostend tea incident.

Then, Dashun will also increase the export tax on tea and porcelain from the Danish East India Company, and even send people pretending to be pirates to squat near the Danish colony in Tamil Nadu, India, to rob the Danish company's ships.

At the same time, Dashun's attitude towards Nanyang is that it is the place where raw materials are produced and the place where goods are dumped, and it will not engage in the Dutch method of curbing the development of productive forces.

In addition, Dashun's dominance over Nanyang is much stronger than that of the Netherlands.The distance factor is there, the traditional factor is also there, and there is a large Chinese population base in Southeast Asia.This can save a lot of suppression costs.

And, Dashun also has some new products that have been developed in recent years, which can be sold.There is also the Sino-Dutch Trading Company, which does not have a local faction like "Batavia".

All in all, various natural and man-made advantages make the profit of this trade cooperation not too low.Not to mention the nearly 20% profit of the East India Company, about 12% must be no problem.

However, during the negotiations, Kang Bushao gave the first quotation, which was 30% of the Dutch equity, with an annual return rate of 8% during the regulatory period.

It is convenient to bargain.

After all, this matter was not that Dashun sailed the gunboat to Amsterdam, captured the fortress by himself, and forced the Netherlands to sign the treaty.

Dashun doesn’t eat Southeast Asia, and it can return Southeast Asia in the negotiation, which is called a bargaining chip; Dashun directly ate Southeast Asia and Ceylon, and even killed the Dutch East India Company, so there is not much leverage: big deal One shoot and two break up, the Netherlands won't deal with you Dashun, you can still call Amsterdam?

Dashun doesn't want a win-win situation at all. Who doesn't want to eat alone, but they have to win a win-win situation.

(End of this chapter)