Xinshun 1730

Chapter 948 European Trade Area
What this British businessman named Adams saw was only superficial.

In essence, the cooperation between Neri Dashun and Amsterdam financier banker is very pleasant.

The reason for the happy cooperation is the same as the reason why Dashun's voyage to Nanyang caused the financial winter in Amsterdam.

Because the trade with China can only use silver, it is doomed to need the banking industry to turn around in order to get enough funds to start the trade.

It is precisely because of this turnover that VOC's bankruptcy triggered a series of chain reactions.

When the goods arrive, although it is profitable, you will not get the money on the day the goods arrive.

The current situation is just a replica of the past situation, except that Dashun is a wholesaler, and those smuggling organizations and seven province chambers of commerce need a lot of cash to buy Dashun's goods and then sell them to make a profit .

This of course revitalizes the financial industry in Amsterdam.

Many smuggling organizations, or chambers of commerce in seven provinces, have sales channels.These sales channels, make sure they have enough credit, get enough money from bankers.

Bankers also understand that these people with channels will make money and profit, and will not run away with their sister-in-law.

At least not this year.

This year's business prospects are visible to the naked eye. The British and Portuguese were suppressed by Dashun on the grounds of the opium case. This year, there is a huge shortage of goods in Europe.

And the profits will be very high.

After the financial market in Amsterdam was devastated by Dashun, it was revived by Dashun.As for the more realistic Dashun court asking the bankers in Amsterdam to borrow money to build the Huaihe River, it is a trivial matter.

Tea, porcelain, and silk are reputations.

Although in fact the cooperation between Dashun and the Netherlands is not all what Dashun wants, especially the wonderful seven-province quota allocation policy.

Obviously this is not in line with free trade beliefs.

But the Netherlands has its own national conditions, and if it wants to cooperate, it has to do so.

Dashun also took a look around, and the cooperation on the Dutch side should be simpler.At least, there is no need to match wits with Dutch wool aristocratic landowners, industrial capital, because they don't exist much in the Netherlands anymore.

The provinces in the Netherlands want a share, at least they all want to eat meat. It is nothing more than a matter of you eating more and I eating less. It is a confrontational contradiction between right and wrong.

And if you are fighting the wool aristocrats, woolen landlords, and industrial capital, you will be in trouble.That is the confrontational contradiction that if I want to eat meat, you have to eat shit.

Of course, the price of the quota for the seven provinces must be slightly lower than the auction price.If they are well fed, they will become more supportive of the cooperation with Dashun.

After the shares of the seven provinces were divided, the auctions in various places were held in December of that year.The smuggler groups with the biggest appetite almost ate up 12% of the auctioned tea in Dashun.

Smuggling organizations such as JJVOUT&SONS are of course keen to seize business opportunities.Their main smuggling directions are the UK and North America.

In fact, they not only sell tea, but also sell matching tea sets, porcelain, and Caribbean sugar.

The tea tax and sugar tax in the UK are high, but North America has actually been used to drinking tea, which cannot but be said to be a huge credit to these smugglers.

That year, the British East India Company was deeply involved in the opium case. For the smuggling group, it was not the logic of "they will get rich if they are seized this year" or "we will not be able to sell so much if they are unsealed next year".

Instead, it is completely possible to take advantage of the British East India Company's deep opium case, not only to maintain the original smuggled tea market, but also to prepare to seize some legal tea space in one step.

In fact, the Dutch smuggling organization had a very low evaluation of the British East India Company in history, and used the word "incompetent" to describe it.

Because for a while, the smuggling gang in Zeeland Province allowed the East India Company to buy their smuggled tea, and then let the East India Company cooperate to transport it back to the UK to become legal tea.

Dashun does not pay much attention to the tea market. It is a star product and a geographically monopolized product, and it already has a very broad market.

This is basically the case for several large export items similar to tea.

This is true of tea, silk, rhubarb, silk, porcelain, zinc, white rattan, diamond rattan, borax, and lacquerware.

Either a monopoly.

Either it seems that there is no monopoly, but in fact it is still a monopoly.

Such as silk.

The mercantilism of the French is the most serious, so many people in France also hope to cut off the trade with China, saying that even if the trade with China is cut off, our women still have silk to wear.

Those silkworm farmers in France also said, yes, we can.

But after trying it once, the French silk weavers had to tell the French silkworm farmers: No, you can't.

Because the French discovered that their silk industry could indeed weave black silk or low-end silk, but nothing else at all.

Especially the white that is very popular now, and the golden color that has quickly become beautiful with the commercial society. The white silk made with their own silk is like someone has smeared an indescribable light yellow stain on it.

Silk was originally a luxury.

Luxury goods are very special. If you can afford silk, why don’t you spend a little more to buy better quality Chinese raw silk fabrics?
What the nobles want is face.His wife wears this beautiful white gauze, and his own wife wears a black local gauze, so he can't afford to lose this man, and it's not that he can't afford it.

French mercantilist scholars gave France the idea of ​​not buying Chinese silk, which would not only revitalize the country’s raw silk industry, but also prevent the outflow of silver.

But in theory it is.

In practice, it is not only that the domestic raw silk industry has not been revitalized, but the high-end silk weaving industry in the country has almost come to an end.

For these star products, Dashun is full of confidence and thinks it will work.Even the silk with low-end substitutes is so confident, let alone others?

Dashun's main concern here is the cotton cloth trade.This thing does have competition, and it's a life-and-death competition.

Therefore, he hoped that the smuggler groups could help Dashun open up the cotton cloth sales market.

The market in the Netherlands is easy to say, and the Netherlands has no local industrial capabilities.

The consul, who was regarded as the savior by the guild and industrial capital, was driven away. Now the merchant capital group and the regent are in power, and they are all buying anyway, naturally they are buying cotton cloth from Dashun.

But the Dutch market is still a bit small after all.

On the other side of France, out of diplomatic strategic interests, Dashun also does not plan to smuggle cotton cloth to France for the time being, and cannot be ungrateful for small profits.

Of course, it can only be slapped on the British side.

After seeing the goods, the smuggling group in the Netherlands agreed without hesitation, thinking that they could make the smuggling of cotton cloth bigger and stronger.

But the smugglers also hope that Dashun can take the initiative to adapt to the special circumstances of the European smuggling market, and give Dashun an idea.

The smuggler gave an example, saying that the main currency in China is silver, and the auxiliary currency is copper coins. Can the copper coins be counterfeit?
Dashun said that he could definitely do it, but he would be beheaded if caught.

The Dutch smugglers asked, if more copper is added, will it be the same as the real thing?

Dashun said that the ones made are the same as the real ones, and they don’t make any money at all.The purpose of counterfeiting is to add more cheap tin and lead. If it is the same as the real thing, what will you earn?

But the Dutch smugglers said, you can't make real coins from fake copper coins.Can't you make the fake cotton cloth of the style allowed in the UK?Or, don't you guys make the same quality cotton at a lower cost than the style they allow?

The counterfeit money is made more real than real money, with the same copper content, so how can you find out whether it is fake or real?

The Dutch smugglers believed that Dashun's cotton cloth was of course easy to sell, and it could also open up sales in the European market.But it is mainly the Central European market, especially the Shinra market, which is the traditional sphere of influence of Dutch businessmen, and there is no problem.

But smuggling in the UK is a bit troublesome, and it is easy to arouse vigilance.

The cotton cloth of Dashun is so good that it looks like oriental cotton cloth.The UK now also produces blended cotton cloth, but the quality is very poor, and it looks like a British product.

The Dutch smugglers said that they could provide a full set of technical support, and Dashun could definitely invest in a special "counterfeit" factory, specializing in the production of inferior British cotton cloth from Manchester.

As long as the price is lower than that in Manchester, they can beat the real one with the fake one.The British will have no choice but to accept cotton, or to give up cotton and wear wool.

However, the replacement of wool by cotton cloth, in the eyes of Dutch smugglers, is a mighty historical trend, and those who follow it will prosper and those who go against it will perish. Therefore, once the UK chooses to abolish the new Manchester Cotton Cloth Act, the British textile industry will be completely destroyed. When it's over, it won't be able to stop the dumping of Dashun cotton cloth at all.

The Dutch smugglers said that of course these fine cotton cloths could still be sold.But in the long run, this kind of counterfeit products that confuse the real ones will bring down the fledgling cotton textile industry in the UK first, and then the profits will be large in the future.

Since there is no shortage of money in Dashun, and the artisans of Dashun are well-known in Europe [Chinese artisans can imitate the handicrafts shown to them by Europeans with amazing ability, they can skillfully imitate any pattern provided to them ], then fraud is not a problem at all.

This kind of fraud is not easy to check.

And the cotton cloth of Songjiang Mansion is as conspicuous as a Chinese who sneaked into the UK as a spy, and it was too easy to be caught.

This thing is different from tea, which is smaller and easier to hide.Moreover, they also have inland smuggling networks, which can guarantee unimpeded travel.

It can be sold from London to Philadelphia.

But the cloth is too conspicuous. A carriage can hold hundreds of catties of tea, but not much cotton cloth.It's easy to walk in by sea, but it's hard to pass the checkpoints on land.

If Dashun can imitate the inferior cotton cloth in England, then they can ensure that these cotton cloths will be shipped all over the UK.

Moreover, Dashun would not lose much money.

Because the good cotton cloth from Songjiang Prefecture is still cheaper than the inferior cotton cloth from Manchester.And the fake Manchester low-quality cotton cloth made by Dashun will sell for about the same price as the good cotton cloth.

In the Central European market, there is no need to worry about fake cotton cloth damaging the sales of good cotton cloth. If the price is the same, fools will buy inferior cotton cloth.

But in the UK, because of the cotton cloth ban, good cotton cloth is easy to be inspected, and inferior cotton cloth is easier to transport.

The smugglers believed that cotton cloth was not the same as money, and that if the cotton cloth was made in the same way as Manchester, it would be impossible to tell the real from the fake.

And they proudly say they have all sorts of stamps, tax stamps.

The French engage in "tin-lead locks" at the customs. The boxes must be sealed with special seals to avoid smuggling. When the customs seal the boxes, special marks are made of tin-lead alloy.

But the new anti-counterfeit tin-lead locks of the French just came out this month, and they have the corresponding models here.

Not to mention the British side, they can get cotton bills and printing.

But the key point is that Songjiangbu is foreign at first glance, and it is really unlucky on land.

The tea is not only small in size, but there is regular tea in the UK. As long as the procedures are complete, do you think it is smuggled tea or legal tea?They all look the same.

But there are no legal, mass-market pure cotton cloths in the UK.

Therefore, it is best for Dashun to change its thinking.To create low-quality fakes, don't rely on high quality and low price, this will not work.

(End of this chapter)