Xinshun 1730

Chapter 866 I'm here to supervise you ([-])

This sentence obviously has many different interpretations.

The gifted things are not things that are forced out by pressing the king's head with his hands, and they can indeed be taken back at any time.

This thing is not a treat for dinner, but a battle of life and death, a group of people overthrowing a group of people.

However, this kind of interpretation cannot be interpreted by an orthodox Dashun person.

Only Liu Yu, whom Kang Buxio calls "a Dashun person who is not a Dashun person at all", can interpret it in this way.

But in Dashun, where thunder, rain and dew are all divine grace, this kind of interpretation itself is difficult to touch.

Direct understanding of the literal meaning is the mainstream.

Sure enough, after saying this, a group of merchants turned towards the direction of the capital, and said: "This is due to the great grace of Your Majesty, I will remember it, and dare not forget it."

Speaking of this, it seems that Liu Yu is fulfilling a process that he should do as "Xingguo Gong" and "Imperial Court Honorary".

After waiting for the process that everyone thought had passed, they didn't think there was anything to worry about.

It sounds more like a process, or some court clichés.

After all, Liu Yu said it first, and when the matter is done, everyone thinks it's nothing to go through the mighty flow of the emperor's grace.

Occasionally there are some people who have different ideas, but this kind of idea is just a seed that will germinate in their hearts.

After the process that seemed to be a process was completed, Liu Yu said again: "I said before that Western trade needs to be supervised by the imperial court. Some of you will inevitably feel uncomfortable. You may even feel that you shouldn't. This kind of thinking is also there. ?”

"If you don't tell me, I know."

"It's a good thing today, but I have to talk about what happened back then. There's a reason for that."

"First, let you go out and do it alone, without the supervision of the imperial court, you can easily do things like the Ningbo Gang and the Zhangzhou Gang. Now you may have to add the Gyeonggi Gang, Yangzhou Gang, Southern Jiangsu Gang, and Guangdong Gang..."

"Starting from the incident of Japanese trade back then, I would like to ask, do you have heroes to unite a group of businessmen who went to Nagasaki? They said that the Japanese cannot take back the pricing power of copper. We must unite and put Take back the pricing power of copper?"

"Of course the Japanese have trade credit cards, but don't you have the capital? Don't you have the ability to manipulate the supply of goods on land?"

"From the time when the trade with Japan was no longer monopolized by Zheng's to more than ten years, history has given you 50 years of opportunities. But history has proved that you can't."

"Don't be unconvinced. I have official means, but before I got involved, you didn't have business means to do this?"

"Don't look for such reasons or excuses. It was the Japanese who tightened trade, and the Japanese were united... Then when we controlled the pricing power of copper, why didn't the Japanese have the characteristic of unity at that time? If you really have the ability, you can do it yourself.”

This call made many businessmen bow their heads.

But there are also some businessmen who are very unconvinced.

I feel that Liu Yu doesn't feel pain in his back when he is standing and talking.How can it be so easy?
You can succeed not because everything is zero except your ability, but because you have the backing of the imperial court.If we have this backing, we may not be unable to do it.

But then, Liu Yu's second question made these dissatisfied people completely silent.

"Secondly, I said that you can't achieve anything at all, and you may not accept it. Today I will talk about why the imperial court intervened in the trade with Japan."

"I just want to ask you one question: If there is no intervention from the previous imperial court, let's not talk about anything else, just say that even if the imperial court allows you to monopolize trade today, even if the imperial court helps you settle Nanyang, even if the imperial court and the Dutch have negotiated..."

"Even if you bought a ship for transoceanic trade."

"So, the sailors who trade across the ocean, the charts from here to Amsterdam, the monsoon current charts from here to the Netherlands... do you have any?"

"You have made so much money, but how many people have been cultivated who can navigate by astronomy without memorizing road songs? Can you try to take a trip to Europa, draw a chart, and prepare for the future? But you have cultivated enough people. Candidate transoceanic sailors of the base number? Can someone specialize in learning the languages ​​of Western countries to analyze their cargo needs?"

"When the Dutch came to the capital to pay tribute and asked to ban Macao trade, the Dutch took the canal. They measured the water depth of the canal along the way, and came to the conclusion that the canal should be cut off if they went to war with China; they also measured the distance from Qingjiangkou to Jining's canal depth."

"Many of you have gone to Batavia, Nagasaki, and even Edo before your ancestors. So, how much do you know?"

"At that time, the French were staring at the price of ginseng, and went to Liaodong, Shandong Province to investigate in person, measured the latitude, and concluded that they could try to find ginseng in areas of the same latitude in America."

"Have you done anything similar?"

Liu Yu sneered, knowing that in fact some places were exaggerated, and some places were purely partly true and the rest were made up.

But after he sneered, he finished speaking.

"You guys are actually spoiled by the people of the Celestial Dynasty. You don't even rely on your own ability to make money in business."

"It's the thousands of women from the Celestial Dynasty who weave unique embroidery in the world; the hardworking kiln workers from the Celestial Empire to burn porcelain that is unique in the world; and the hands of tea farmers in Fujian to knead out the most beautiful hobby. Taste."

"Thousands of hardworking people in the celestial dynasty, you don't know what commercial competition is, because you can collect money while sitting at home, and at most you can go to Nanyang, and you never worry about not being able to sell your goods."

"The merchants of the Netherlands will fight to the death with England and France for the sale of their woolen fabrics; for the sale of their wine, they will do their best."

"Do you think you can do business?"

"No, in essence, you still sit at home and collect money. Even if you go to Nanyang or Japan, you essentially rely on everything produced by the unique people in the world. There is no competition, and you still sit at home and collect money."

"So, I said, you can't."

"You still need to learn more. History has proved that you can't do it. I have to let you learn it."

"That's why I'm here to supervise you."

After saying this fatherly reason, those merchants who were a little bit dissatisfied before also lowered their heads one by one.

In itself, Dashun's environment is like this.It is normal if the court supervises, and it is abnormal if it is not supervised.

There is no need to talk about this truth.

And Liu Yu's reasoning with them is a kind of respect to them, even if the words are so ugly, it is also respect in their eyes.

As for the facts Liu Yu said, no one present could refute them.

Western trade is not a simple matter.

And the most, simplest, and simplest of these are the sailors, ocean-going ships, charts, and language that Liu Yu mentioned.

Indeed, as Liu Yu said, even if the imperial court arranges everything and asks them to form the Western Trading Company, what can they do without the previous preparations?
Relying on a group of back-stitch road song, back to Europa?

Or should we let the ocean currents go and follow the old roads of the Tang and Song Dynasties and advance along the coastline?
Now, none of that is a problem.

Even everyone present was only excited when they heard about the establishment of the Western Trading Company. No one suspected that they could not recruit qualified sailors, qualified captains, qualified interpreters, or suitable marine picture.

And all of this, it seems, is really what Liu Yu said, starting from the moment when he went to Japan and took away most people's trade licenses, and used lions to eat alone to persuade wolves to fight.

From today's perspective, sailors, captains, nautical charts, trade goods, ocean current maps, and long-distance ships are not a problem, and they are not even qualified to be considered.But if there is no previous preparation, these are the top issues to be considered.

There is no shortage of sailors now.

When the Sino-Japanese Trading Company was first established, Liu Yu was forced to use long-distance ships, and was forced to train a large number of sailors who could operate long-distance soft sailing ships on the grounds of undertaking "military obligations".

Naval construction, a regular discharge system, and a system in which ocean-going trading companies give priority to recruiting retired sailors; ocean-going trading companies assist the navy in training sailor registration systems.

This has led to the fact that today they have never considered the issue of sailors at all.

There is no shortage of ships now.

Several large docks prepared for the manufacture of warships, and complete teak, cypress, and oak logging, transportation, and shade-drying businesses ensure that Dashun can be used in two years without considering the increase in the service life of shade-dried wood. Quickly put together a strong... semi-disposable fleet within the year.

The control of northeast oak, the development of Taiwanese cypress, and the trade of Nanyang teak ensured that Dashun would become a thing of the past without the British tree planting law.

Dashun's shipbuilding capacity is fully sufficient to ensure sufficient demand for long-distance ships.

The craftsmen did not emerge in a day. Liu Yu started building ships in Weihai, forcing the trading company to use long-distance ships as military obligations and guaranteeing orders.

All that is left now is sufficient, non-court and Admiralty orders.

Now there is no shortage of charts.

The return of the Swedish prisoners of war after the suppression of Junggar seemed to be a diplomatic action, and it seemed to scare the Raksha country in order to benefit from the negotiations.

But in fact, what was obtained was dozens of complete navigation diaries, chart records, and experience reports.

Afterwards, with the threat of a trade embargo and the pressure and lure of Rakshasa diplomacy, they got the opportunity to cooperate with the Swedish Orient Company and started a regular merchant fleet to Gothenburg.

Cultivated enough captains, first mates, bosuns, and navigators who can take European routes.Also got a sufficiently accurate chart.

For this kind of sea chart from Europe to East Asia, the Portuguese and the Dutch staged scene after scene of spy stories.

But here in Dashun, there are no legendary stories, just relying on diplomacy and trade blackmail, and followed the familiar route of the Swedes for a few laps.

Now there is no shortage of trade goods news.

Now there is no shortage of interpreters.

As for Dashun’s many games with France, the United Kingdom, the Netherlands, and Sweden for the sake of trade, in order to develop trade in Europe, it has staged three coups, risked its own blood to buy French ginseng, and let the British fight Luzon, etc. Wait, Liu Yu didn't say anything about this.

But just what he said, which now seems to be taken for granted, made these businessmen silent.

It turns out that those things that are taken for granted.

Not so for granted.

(End of this chapter)