Xinshun 1730

Chapter 923
The officer of the Customs Corps got the order and immediately led the people to the Danish business house.

This is a newly formed force that mainly deals with foreign affairs and trade issues.The number of people is not large, but in Dashun, this kind of army does not need a few people.

The hundred and ten people walked towards the Danish business hall in a huff. After the British and Portuguese business houses were investigated last time, the people near the business hall were used to it.

Seeing the soldiers from the Customs Headquarters approaching with guns, the fast-handed watchers had already placed their bets, guessing which business house they were going to investigate this time.

After Liu Yu's rectification, the customs is now also acting quickly and with outstanding efficiency. Professional accountants and review officials followed the customs team and entered the Danish business hall.

The person in charge of the Danish business house looked bewildered. He was stunned when he saw the soldiers of the era with guns surrounding the business house.

Denmark is a neutral country, and there is no conflict with Dashun.

The nearest colony is in Tranquiba, India, which is far away, and Dashun's voyage to Southeast Asia has nothing to do with Denmark.When Dashun attacked the Dutch East India Company’s colonial cities in India, the Danish Asia Company also issued a special statement that the company strictly maintained neutrality and refused to berth and supply in its colonies.

The fear is that the Dutchman will run over and Dashun will cause trouble.The Danes heard that Dashun's behavior was a bit domineering. It seemed that some pagan leaders from the Western Regions had fled to Central Asia.

I was afraid that Dashun would find an excuse to clean up Tranquiba when the time came, and he really did not leak anything.

In the Austrian succession war, Denmark chose neutrality directly, and had no intersection with Dashun's enemy, the Netherlands, or its ally, France.

Dashun sided with Russia on the issue of the heir to the Swedish throne, and Denmark took advantage of the trend to retreat, giving Liu Yu enough face.

In terms of trade volume, Denmark, an Asian company or the East India Company, can be regarded as a high-quality customer of Dashun among the East India Companies.

At least in terms of tea imports, it is more than the British East India Company.The Danish company bears the name of the East India Company. In fact, India's trade volume only accounts for 30%, and the remaining [-]% is trade with Dashun.

According to the "mercantilism" view prevailing in the West at this time, the Danes feel that they are simply Dashun's best partner.

Denmark also has nothing to ship to China. At the beginning, it could sell some clocks and music boxes, but before the British businessmen concluded a rule called "sending any reproducible handicrafts to China, it means that the local craftsmen lose their jobs". , Dashun's watch industry has been developing.

Historically, this business law was summarized in the middle and late 18th century, because "London and Birmingham clockwork manufacturers suffered heavy losses", and before, the music boxes and other things made by these clockwork manufacturers could be sold directly As trading futures notes.

In the context of Dashun actively absorbing external technologies, this rule appeared 20 years earlier than in history.

In addition to a few old products such as silk, tea and porcelain, Dashun actually monopolizes a high-tech flagship product of the "metallurgical industry".

Westerners call it "tutenage", which is actually a zinc alloy, which cannot be produced in European countries at this time - Magraf, the director of the chemistry laboratory of the Berlin Academy of Sciences, just refined it in the laboratory the year before last.But laboratory refining and mass production are not the same thing.

Denmark is one of the first European countries to do zinc business, and Copenhagen has always been an important zinc alloy trading center in Europe.Because the Danes were the first to sign an order with zinc merchants, controlling a large part of the supply.

Except for silver, Denmark has basically nothing to ship to China.

Moreover, Denmark feels that its position in Dashun is very stable.

The Danes feel that they carry the identity of a "distributor": zinc alloy and tea are the main products of Danish companies, and these two products are not sold in Denmark, but for the entire European and American markets.

From this point of view, Dashun has no reason to make trouble for himself.

All in all, no matter how you look at it, Danish Asia is a big customer who seems to be very obedient and very cooperative.

This is rare among several East India companies.

Excluding France, which is an ally, Britain and Portugal have the opium problem, Prussia has too little trade, Spain has religious problems, and the Austrian company has been disbanded as a condition for the princess to inherit...

Under various conditions, when the soldiers of the Dashun Customs Corps entered the Danish business house armed with live ammunition, the person in charge of the Danish business house was stunned and collapsed.

The interpreter hurried up to meet him, saluted and asked, "My lord, what's going on?"

The officer of the Customs Corps waved his hand to signal the soldiers to seal up the warehouse first, and said: "The Duke ordered it for his own reasons. The specifics were conveyed by the Danish envoy, and I was just following orders. You tell the director of the store, and he said Starting this year, all Danish goods, whether imported or exported, will be subject to a 25% tariff.”

"Tax increase?"

The interpreter was shocked. Now that even Prussia has come to do business, all countries are engaged in direct flight trade, and they are all trying to break the monopoly of several companies. How about tax increases?
A sudden increase of 25% tax is not as severe as London's tea tariff, but it also directly destroys the profits of Danish companies.

"Yes, tax hikes. I don't know why. I'm just following orders."

The officer didn't explain why, and he really didn't know why.

The person in charge of the Danish business office pleaded and asked a few more questions, but the answer he got was the same as before. The reason was conveyed by the minister in Tianjin, and it was only law enforcement here.

"Excuse me, is this matter only for our Danish company?"

"It should be? I just received an order to seal up the Danish business house first, and there was no order for me to investigate other people's business houses."

While talking, the customs officers with notepads rushed to the door of the warehouse of the Danish business hall and began to count the goods inside.

The curator of the Danish business house watched boxes of goods and was asked to take out the order form, thinking about the high tax of 25%, he really felt like a person sitting at home and the disaster came from heaven.

All countries are now scrambling to export. I only heard that there are export subsidies, but I have never heard of any export tax.The curator of the Danish business house only felt that he had gained a lot of knowledge today, but he sighed, but he couldn't do anything about it.

The first expedition of the Danes was the first trip after getting the goods back from Guangzhou. The road was unfamiliar, the goods were not understood, the Netherlands was in the way, the United Kingdom suppressed them, and the death benefits still earned 11.7% of the net profit.

Since finding the two wealth codes of "tea smuggling to Britain" and "guaranteed zinc alloy trading center", the company's profit margin has soared all the way to 26% of the net profit.

This is considered a very high profit margin in Europe.

The Danish royal family gave the company an absolute monopoly.

Any Dane who is not a company is not allowed to travel to Asia for trade without permission.

No ship of any non-Danish company is allowed to unload in Denmark with oriental cargo.

In addition, the company can directly use tea futures to obtain low-interest loans from British smugglers to obtain capital turnover.

It can be said that trade with China is the foundation of Danish Asia.

Now that such a heavy export tariff has been added, the company is afraid that it will be ruined.

The people in the Danish business house were very anxious, but they didn't dare to do anything, they could only obediently hand over the order account.

In the British business hall next door, Fazakle watched with glee at the Danish company being seized by Dashun Customs.

Of course he had reasons to gloat.

The Danish company's tea was smuggled to England all day long, and the British East India Company was very annoyed.However, external thieves are easy to guard against, but internal thieves are difficult to guard against.

The smugglers linked to Danish companies are of course British.

And many of them are employees of the former East India Company, and most of their capital is still the first pot of gold they got in India.Some relied on buying gems in India, and some themselves participated in the East India Company's trade with China.

It is not easy to catch in the UK.

Ben came from a company, made money in the company, and then engaged in smuggling that was not good for the company.

They are extremely expert, all of them are well-known, and even many of them are seniors of the company, how to catch them?
For example, Ihuli Yale, who donated to the university so that the university was named after him, is the senior of Fazaklei, the former head of the company's India office, the first bucket of gold in the tea trade, and the second After a pot of gold, he switched to slavery and smuggling.

Although the British business hall has not yet been unsealed, today I got an ambiguous answer instead of a clear negative answer before. Based on Fazakley's understanding of China, I feel that this ambiguous answer actually means that this year's trade can be carried out normally.

He didn't have the mood of "the rabbit died and the fox was sad, and the things hurt his kind". He felt that Dashun could find a reason to seal up the Danish business house today, and maybe it would seal up the British business house tomorrow.

From Dashun's seizure of the Danish business house, Fazaklei felt that he had seen through it.Xindao Liu Yu's words are like farting. What national wealth is the total product produced, what is too much silver is useless, pure nonsense.

Obviously, Dashun found a reason to check Britain and Portugal, and then turned around to check Denmark.

reason?

Thinking of the word reason, Fazaklei spat in disdain.

Xindao, why?The reason is nothing more than that Dashun wants to make money from the transshipment. Now that the Swedes and Russians are cooperating with them, Dashun no longer needs a second "distributor" in the Baltic Sea.

The Danes should have seen this clearly a long time ago, took the initiative to cooperate with Dashun, and offered a part of the shares to let Dashun hold the shares. Maybe there is still a way to survive.

But I don't understand, it's so normal to be seized today!Anyone who tries to reason and find reasons is like the Dutch taking what they think is a reasonable theory of freedom of navigation in the oceans to make Britain abandon the navigation regulations.

childish.

With the experience of dealing with Liu Yu these years, Fazaklei summed up a set of very effective conjecture logic.

Then he turned his attention to the Swedish business house next to him, thinking that the Chinese are shaping a kind of awareness that they can make money by cooperating with China, and the more they earn, the more they earn.As a model of this kind, it will be supported by policies, and in Dashun policy decides everything.The Swedes are lucky, and the Dutch lost Southeast Asia, maybe it is also a kind of good luck, right?
(End of this chapter)