Xinshun 1730

Chapter 849 Prestige

Not considering the interests of the country, but only talking about the interests of the merchants, the Dutch have to admit that Dashun's move to Nanyang has indeed brought great benefits to the merchant class of Dashun.

Comparing the heads of government in the Netherlands over the years, there is heaven and earth.

The Dutch have not done anything these years, and the handicraft industry has shrunk. It can be said that the Netherlands was founded on commerce; what about commerce?

The Baltic trade right was driven away by the British; the North American trade was sanctioned by France and Britain;

Slave trade Because the "Utrecht Treaty" 30 years ago stipulated that Britain had an "obligation" to send slaves to the Spanish colonies, so the Netherlands had no chance to benefit from the black slave trade.It's not because the noble and free virtues of the Netherlands are opposed to slaves, but because the Netherlands has no chance to engage in this trade, so they shout all day about French etiquette will bring slavery to the Netherlands, which is the same as when the Netherlands shouted for freedom of navigation on the high seas of.

After Dashun went to Nanyang, Liu Yu's reputation and prestige reached its peak in the Netherlands.

Liu Yu has been to the Netherlands, and has influenced some things in the Netherlands, and has published many interesting or sharp editorials.After leaving, it caused such a big disturbance, and the Dutch are really familiar with it.

After going to Nanyang, especially after a group of captured Dutch officers were released in advance, they even bragged about going to Nanyang.

What about the Ceylon Trojan horse trick, what about the Batavian rebel plan to force people to relocate, and so on.

Some of these are their guesses, and the other part is also Liu Yu's own bragging to them, in order to create an oriental myth.

These news and news spread very fast, and these officers visited the cities in the affluent Jiangnan area, and they blew a lot of things they didn't know much about.

For example, tallow trees that can be used as candles planted near the canal; such as stretches of mulberry fields that cannot be forgotten at a glance... These common sights in the south of the Yangtze River, they all think it is a "symbol of extremely developed industry and commerce."

As colonial military officers, they also paid attention to Dashun's control of Japanese trade and the rapidly expanding market after opening the door to Japan.

In their eyes, naturally, Liu Yu, who led all this, was "the lighthouse of the merchant class in the ancient Eastern Empire".

Although the two sides are enemies, the mentality of the merchant class in the Netherlands is more of the kind of hatred of "hate their surname Orange".

From this point of view, Kang said that if the business class in the Netherlands knew that Liu Yu was the head of the supervisory committee, not only would it not discourage their investment enthusiasm, but it would boost market confidence.

The Dutch certainly hope that there is someone who can lead them to expand their business.

I could still count on myself before, but now I must not be able to count on myself, so I can only count on others.

On this point, Anthony and others did not refute.

The focus of their attention is not here, and it is true that as Kang Bushao said, the annual interest rate is high enough, and Dutch businessmen don't care too much whether it is government supervision or a group of 17 gentlemen.

When the East India Company was headed by a group of 17 gentlemen, accounts were reported once every ten years, and the rest of the board of directors had no right to speak. As long as the annual interest rate was sufficient, of course there would not be too many objections.

Even if what the rest of the board of directors say is very reasonable: we are also members of the board of directors of a joint-stock company, why don't we have a right to speak?
But truth... not everyone has the pride to fight for the eternal justice in their hearts.

In the face of the 20% annual dividend, if the members of the board of directors are "very reasonable", it is no different from farting, and there will not be too much splash.

Since the annual interest promised by Kang Bushao is 8%, Anthony and others are well aware that there is obviously room for improvement.

With an annual interest rate of 4%, investors in the Netherlands will question government regulation.

With an annual interest rate of 8%, investors in the Netherlands will question the level of supervisors.

12% annual dividend, Dutch investors will only ask how many shares are going to be issued.

In addition to these commercial prestige, if Liu Yu is the person in charge of the supervision, there are actually other benefits.

Dashun has a good relationship with the group of people in the Swedish Parliament.

Apart from the Sino-Swiss trade cooperation, Liu Yu did "help" the Swedes several times in those years: before the war against Russia, Dashun took the lead in putting diplomatic pressure on Russia, and conducted intense negotiations with the Russians on the issue of border demarcation in the northwest; During the Russo-Swiss War, Liu Yu did help launch a coup in Russia, although the Swedes never thought that the "bad woman" who seemed harmless to humans and animals, who promised the Swedish ambassador to return the territory before she came to power, was worse than her predecessor when she came to power. It's still fucking ruthless, but don't confuse the "accident" afterwards with the help before.

On the Russian side, Liu Yu did help a lot in the empress's coup, and was passed down as a model coup by the European courts: to control officials and try not to bleed a successful coup.

Moreover, among the people close to the queen, everyone in Europe knows that there is a black man who seems to have a good relationship with Liu Yu, and he is also a prosperous official now.

These two points alone mean that the Netherlands can get great help in expanding trade in the Baltic Sea.

Especially in a country like Russia, the queen's personal preferences and personal relationship can sometimes determine many things.

These prestige have been accumulated little by little over the years.

It is both Liu Yu's and Dashun's, and it is a continuation of the stunning appearance in Europe.

However, what Anthony and others considered were not just commercial issues, but the positioning of the Sino-Dutch trading company between Dashun and the Netherlands.

This is a major event related to the Dutch gambling national fortune.

If this is done, the conflict between Britain and the Netherlands will become irreparably acute in a few years at most.

The neutrality of the Netherlands is the greatest betrayal of Britain.

Just like the "Armed Neutral Alliance" that Liu Yu planned to build.Armed neutrality is a confrontation with Britain, which has great maritime superiority.

Of course, France welcomes Dashun to form an armed neutral alliance, because France has just been detained by the British in the West Indies, captured a large number of merchants, and dragged away three or four ships of colonial sugar.

Of course, Spain welcomes Dashun to form an armed neutral alliance, because the troops stationed in some places in Spain have just lived like beggars because of the British naval blockade.

But what about the UK?The United Kingdom has merchant ships, a navy, and a group of armed neutrals. His fleet still has the advantage in decisive battles, but what about the blockade?
A group of merchant ships under the banner of neutrality transported goods from the French colonies. Is it robbing or not?
Calamity, adding a lot of enemies; without robbery, there is no need to block the eggs, and the strategic significance of the navy is directly abolished by half.

What is the use of a navy that cannot block and control routes except for strategic decisive battles?But in a strategic decisive battle, what can they do if they squat in the port and don't fight?

Dutch neutrality is also similar to this.Although the problems are different, the principle of being neutral is the same.

Moreover, Sino-Dutch trade cooperation means that the direction of Dutch trade expansion basically has nothing to do with the French and Spanish colonies.

Dashun will not offend the whole of Europe. It must be to fight against one faction. The direction of Dutch trade expansion can only be the sphere of influence of the British.

If they go to eat the French sphere of influence, it will be purely for the British to make wedding clothes, and the French navy will be crippled. Dashun's navy will still not be able to go to the Atlantic Ocean, and it will be purely for the British.

The cake is only this big, if you eat more, others will eat less.

This is a very, very simple truth. For now, judging from the 20-year economic crisis and speculative bubbles, at least in a short period of time, there is no chance to make the pie bigger.

After eating the cakes of the British, the United Kingdom must not work hard?

Now that the Anglo-Spanish war has been fought, who would believe that it was really because of the humiliation of Jenkins' ears?It is clearly still a trade dispute.

And this involved a matter that Anthony and the others had to consider.

What is the predecessor of this newly established Sino-Dutch trading company?
Dutch East India Company.

Why didn't the Dutch East India Company want India?

Because it was a bad place in the early days, and the British failed to compete in Southeast Asia and were driven there; now it is a good place, but the Dutch East India Company is no longer able to compete for it, and even Travancore can be beaten by the native army.

After taking over, the Sino-Dutch Trading Company is the continuation of the Dutch East India Company.

So, where is the development focus of this Sino-Dutch trading company?
The focus of development is India, okay?
For shareholders and investors, of course it is good.

Spices in India are much more valuable than they are now.

But Anthony kept saying just now that "the interests of shareholders must be considered, and companies that consider the interests of the nation and the country are not qualified", but what he thought in his heart was not the interests of Dutch shareholders, but the interests of the Netherlands.

If the development focus of the Sino-Dutch trading company is in India, the Netherlands will cry!

The benefits are all taken by the company.

All the anger of Britain was piled on top of the Netherlands.

There are a large number of Dutch shareholders in the company. Does the company count as the interests of the Netherlands?If the company benefits, does it count as a Dutch benefit?This is a matter of debate, obviously, in Anthony's view, not.

Regarding the performance of Dashun in Southeast Asia, Anthony and others have a very clear understanding: how far is Bangladesh from Ceylon and London?
The British dispatched troops from the mainland, went around Africa, took the Cape, and crossed the Indian Ocean; Dashun dispatched troops from Ceylon, to put it bluntly, a birch bark boat robbed by the Vikings could go to India.

Ceylon, others do not know, how can the Dutch do not know?There are at least tens of thousands of Chinese, and they are all accustomed to the tropical climate and have eaten jackfruit in Ceylon for several years without dying.

Where is the closest place in the UK to India, where there are tens of thousands of British people?
The national fortune that Anthony gambled on was based on the cooperation between Dashun and the Netherlands to open up the European market, the Baltic Sea trade, and the smuggling channel in North America, so that the British navy’s superiority would be abolished, and the Netherlands would become the coachman of the sea.

The big deal is that the Netherlands does not produce goods, but only acts as a porter of goods.

It doesn't mean that the commercial capital of the Netherlands cooperates with Dashun's manpower to take down India.If you learn from VOC's previous practice of getting on the car and welding the door, the dividend will be 30%?

Shareholders cheered.

Then the British heart said that I can't go to India, can't I go to Amsterdam?
This is completely contrary to what he just said sternly that "the interests of shareholders are the company's first consideration".

So the negotiation itself, the questioning of regulation and dividends, are all nonsense.

The real thing to talk about is "the strategic direction of the Sino-Dutch Trading Company".

To be honest, Anthony hopes that Liu Yu will supervise the company, provided that the strategic vision in Liu Yu's mind is the same as his.

Using Liu Yu's prestige to suppress the short-sightedness of the company's shareholders is exactly the embodiment of his mentor's political concept of "a kingdom without hereditary kings" in the company.

Otherwise, considering purely the interests of shareholders, India is fat and easy to eat, and shareholders must eat India and abandon Europe for their own interests.

The Netherlands has already suffered a lot from the so-called "short-sighted nationality" that Kang Bushao said. Anthony knows that those businessmen are all like birds. Where is the problem of the nationality of the Netherlands?Dashun's shareholders, if there is no one to suppress them, can they look far away?

This goes back to Anthony's original worry: Dashun used the Netherlands as a messenger, so the Netherlands might as well be used as a messenger by Daying.After offending the UK in India, the shareholder financiers of Dashun and the Netherlands were full and patted their buttocks and left. How could the Netherlands bear the anger of the UK?
At that time, in desperation, if you vote in the law, you will really be a puppet country.Who can stand France's cultural invasion and army superiority?
Now the entire German-speaking region is filled with a wave of "anti-French cultural invasion". The Netherlands is the first one to wake up. The Dutch elites are very aware of the difference between being neighbors, friends, and younger brothers with France.

As for the Sino-Dutch trading company that bet on the national fortune of the Netherlands, in terms of decisiveness, prestige, and means, the best candidate who can best suppress businessmen from both sides of the Netherlands is of course Liu Yu.

The point is, what is Liu Yu's plan?If this is not clear, the treaty cannot be signed.

(End of this chapter)