Xinshun 1730

Chapter 935 Binding

"We should be selling more tea in the UK, and the rest of the goods."

It was originally a discussion about how to price tea in the future, but by this time it had completely gone astray.However, the purpose of this kind of deviation is the same as that of discussing tea pricing at the beginning, which is to obtain more profits.

Gradually leading the topic to this direction, Liu Yu secretly rejoiced.While there is a big difference between trading and looting, there are places like looting that are more efficient in wealthier areas.

In the case of a substantial monopoly, forcing the other party to switch to low-tariff trade is a kind of "legal, reasonable and righteous" robbery.After all, this matter, from another perspective, can be called "for the freedom of the English people to drink tea, let the English people drink cheaper tea".

Now that the topic has been brought here, there is more to say, and the time flies by quickly.

The first day of the general meeting of shareholders ended with a bright vision of European trade.

When the meeting adjourned in the evening, the businessmen all praised the young man Xu Heng who had questioned Liu Yu before.

When Xu Heng asked about Liu Yuxi's smiling face, everyone was not blind, and they all saw it.I thought that his family was the first to engage in trade with Japan, and they contributed a lot when they were fighting against Japan, and now there is such a person in the younger generation, it is a coincidence that the eldest son of the old man Xu Tao died.If he hadn't died in Xiaocang back then, maybe such a young son wouldn't have been able to succeed him.

After all, Xu Heng is young and doesn't have so many cities. At the age of 27 and eight, it is the age that I like to be praised by others the most.

His father chose him as the head of the family, and he wanted to show a good performance.It's just that in the case of this kind of joint-stock cooperation, if I want to perform well, there is really no better way, I can only lean on Liu Yu's side, and Liu Yu's value is better than a lot.

Satisfied with being praised by others, he floated home as if his feet had no roots.His family is not from Songjiang Mansion, but later moved to Songjiang Mansion and bought a big house.

When I got home, I went to visit the old father first. Although the power was handed over to him in name, the old man was secretly enough to take everything back with a word.

When entering the house, Xu Tao, who was still able to help the logistics with the ship when Dashun conquered Japan, could hear the coughing of his dying years.

The vocal cords have aged a little, and Sasha's voice like a bellows can be heard while breathing.

"Father, the Duke praised me today..."

After telling his father what happened today, Xu Tao nodded.

"Hen'er, today's speech is good. When I met the Duke earlier, I knew he was a person who didn't like empty talk. It is really a happy event for my family that you can grasp the key points today, so I am relieved. "

"What does the Duke mean today, can you hear anything else?"

Xu Tao looked at his youngest son with a smile, and asked him what other thoughts he had about what Liu Yu said today.

Xu Heng thought for a while and replied cautiously: "Father, I heard the meaning of the Duke, and it seems that he still wants to expand foreign trade? The Duke has always opposed everyone being a businessman or a businessman, saying that there is no skill in this, and it is purely hardworking." The weavers of the common people let us sit on the ground to collect money, which is not a skill..."

Xu Tao laughed twice, beckoning his youngest son to sit down.

What Liu Yu said today, different people can hear different meanings.

What makes Xu Tao different from others is that he was engaged in smuggling in his early years, and for this reason, he even hooked up with his eldest son.

Arai Shiraishi issued a new trade order to reduce the outflow of gold and silver from Japan, which immediately reduced the shipments of that year by more than half.This caused Xu Tao to let his eldest son take the risk and cross the Maguan Strait to smuggle him, but he died at sea.

He participated in the whole process of Dashun's subsequent war against Japan, and as a representative of the trading company, he was responsible for coordinating the logistics.

He is old and has experienced too much in this life.From the time when the trade with Japan got the pricing power of copper mines, the oppressed Japanese businessmen had to sell copper at a loss in order to make up for it from raw silk; The Japanese War opened the door of Japan, and the original smuggling became a legal trade.

I have experienced a lot, and I have experienced smuggling becoming legal, and I have experienced various situations where I was cornered by a single administrative order.

Looking back at the past now, it really feels like a lifetime away.

After thinking about it for a long time, Youyou said to the younger son: "You may not really understand what the Duke said today. I have experienced a lot, but I can understand these words."

"You also know that your elder brother died in Japan. To put it bluntly, what did your elder brother do at that time? It was actually smuggling."

"The question is, what does the Duke think of this kind of smuggling?"

"You also know that when I went to sign the Treaty of Shimonoseki with the Duke, I also did something for your elder brother. The Duke also poured a glass of wine. The definition of your elder brother is [for the Japanese people to wear better and cheaper clothes] The free trader who gave his life for the silk and cotton cloth], and erected a monument.”

"Guogong generally doesn't comment on others lightly, but when he does, he may still be disdainful in his heart, but he is trying to convey a meaning. In Guogong's own words, this is called 'attitude'."

"When the Duke of Shimonoseki signed the Treaty of Shimonoseki, he sent people to pay homage to Arai Shiraishi's tomb, saying that it was for him to refute Christ and promote the famous religion. In fact, does the Duke understand Confucianism? If he does, he It's not close to Zhu Zi's learning. It's nothing more than praising the various methods he did to prevent the outflow of gold and silver. It seems that there is a kind of lament that he hates being born at the wrong time. Make Japanese Confucian scholars submit to the rule of the Celestial Dynasty."

"Do you think that if the silk, cotton, tea, etc. of this dynasty are all competing with imported products, will the Duke still call for free trade? I'm afraid he will do more than Arai Shiraishi."

The eldest son has been dead for many years, in fact Xu Tao has even forgotten his appearance.It's just that I have personally experienced Dashun's overseas trade expansion in recent years, and thinking of my previous experience, I have a better understanding of Liu Yu's many practices than others.

Xu Heng has never experienced the bitterness of his parents' trade in Japan, but after hearing about the strategy of "two peaches and three scholars", each family rushed to give gifts to Nagasaki in order to obtain a few quantitative trade letters.

I have heard of it, but I haven't seen it, so I can't understand the experience of my parents at all.

Now that Xu Tao is talking about the past, which continues to this day, Xu Heng thinks about Liu Yu's policies and the slogans he shouted all day, and can't help but nod.

"Indeed, if it is true as what my father said, the Duke must be stricter than Arai Shiraishi. Although the Duke said that the sum of national wealth is the total consumer goods produced, gold and silver are only general equivalents. But in fact, he is very strict with Gold and silver are valued."

"Although he criticizes mercantilism, in fact, what he pursues is also mercantilism. Only exports, no imports, and tariff protection."

Xu Tao laughed and said: "Heng'er, remember one sentence. Those who are emperors hate the ones who claim to be emperors the most; those who are businessmen hate other businessmen the most. The one who hates mercantilism the most must be the one who pursues mercantilism the most .”

"The Duke is such a person. What do you think he thinks about the British cotton ban?"

Xu Heng thought for a while, then hummed and said: "Of course I support it. Mr. Guo thought that would help the development of the domestic textile industry. Mr. Guo didn't always scold us, saying that we are waste spoiled by hard-working farmers. A businessman? He couldn’t help mentioning farm workers. He thought the cotton ban in England was a coup, so he cursed so often?”

Xu Tao thinks that children can be taught.

"Of course. Where the Duke scolds fiercely, that is the place that really hits the Duke's sore spot. The Duke often says that it is my honor that the enemy scold me. Every time he mentions the Dutch scolding him When the Russians call him vicious and cunning, and the Japanese call him extremely shameless, he is always beaming with joy, with his chest up and his face flushed, complacent."

"Conversely, most of the people and policies he scolded really made him uncomfortable."

"So when he was engaged in trade with Japan more than ten years ago, he scolded Arai Shiraishi the most fiercely, so later the Chinese government attacked Japan. Now he opens his mouth and shuts his mouth to scold the British East India Company, and now he mentions the wealth of the UK. Judging from what he has seen and heard in the past 70 years, the Duke has murderous intentions in his heart."

Speaking of this, Xu Tao couldn't help laughing and said: "You have to know, before the Duke of the Kingdom wanted to attack Japan, he went to Edo to visit Edo. Kneel what should be kneeled and lick what should be licked. After kneeling Woolen cloth?"

"As for the British East India Company, the Duke scolded him the most, as well as opium and other things that the Duke absolutely disliked. The result? Held it high and lowered it gently, and still let the British East India Company trade, but took 'Innocent' Danish company's hands."

"If he hits hard at the British East India Company, especially taking advantage of the justifiable opium investigation this time, the British East India Company will be fine."

"But he didn't make a big move, but held it high and lightly. Others don't know, but I have followed him for more than 20 years, and I have seen with my own eyes how he opened the door to the Japanese people."

"If he doesn't suppress such a good opportunity, there is only one possibility. The big one is coming."

Xu Heng hasn't thought about it yet. At most, he thinks about expanding the scale of smuggling. After all, there is a professional and mature smuggling distribution team in the Netherlands. The JJVOUT&SONS organization is said to be very wild. Smuggled tea can be sold from the Baltic Sea. In South America, various well-known gentry from Europe participated, and the relationship can always be found in the royal families of various countries.

The most I can imagine is to expand some cooperation with these smuggling distributors.

After all, this is not the same as fighting Japan.

After all, it is close to attacking Japan, and Japan has no navy at all.A few million taels of military pay is enough.

To fight against the Netherlands, Dashun's navy will have to put all their strength on it.

This is going to hit the UK, how to fight?
I really can't imagine.

However, what my father said seems to make sense. Judging from previous experience, at least from the experience of dealing with Japan, it seems that this is indeed the case.

Before, I scolded Arai Shiraishi all day long, and scolded so fiercely that the trade license system was completely overthrown in the end.

Nowadays, they scold the British East India Company twice in three days, and the George Anson incident in Lingdingyang before exposed a kind of "unreasonable" hatred.

However, they didn't take advantage of the opium problem to deal with the British properly. Xu Heng felt that there was something wrong with what his father said.

(End of this chapter)