New Shun 1730

Now Dashun is in the embryonic stage of the industrial revolution, and it is in urgent need of a large amount of precious metal currency.

Gold and silver can neither be eaten nor drunk, but they are the key to the transformation to capitalism.

Lao Ma said: The colonial system, the national debt system, the protection system and other systems are integrated. They all use the power of the state to accumulate and organize social forces, like a greenhouse, to promote the transformation of feudal production methods to capitalist production methods and shorten the transformation process. The power of the state is itself an economic force.

And the gold and silver currency that is generally recognized is of course also an economic force.

This economic force can promote the rapid separation of workers and means of production.

And with the budding industrial revolution in Dashun at this time, these gold and silver are not just invested in the land as before. Instead, under the technological progress of the industrial revolution, they quickly turned into new means of production such as mines, steam engines, textile mills, and steel furnaces.

And take advantage of Dashun's special national conditions, and the relatively surplus labor force and industrial reserve army generated under the private ownership of land after the end of the Tang Dynasty, quickly complete the process of industrial capacity and the original agricultural production value to compete, and lay the economic foundation for the new era.

Dashun ultimately has to solve internal problems.

Whether it is external expansion or primitive accumulation, it is always considered a means rather than an end, just as Dashun criticized Pitt.

Liu Yu just changed the chaos of the world caused by the collapse of the traditional society due to the change of the economic foundation into a more pleasant term for these new school people to accept.

Since these are all means, it is obvious that what Dashun needs now is real money.

North America is rich in products, and the large population and small land make everyone provide a lot of crops, raw materials, etc. for the market.

However, due to the limitations of the times, the limitations of transportation capacity, and the choice of capital return rate, any North American goods are unattractive to Dashun merchants.

The same gold and silver can be invested in soybeans in the Northeast, rice in Nanyang, and cotton in India, which is better than buying some iron nails in North America and losing money.

Of course, this does not mean that these grains, tobacco, etc. in North America cannot be exchanged for money.

But it takes a process.

The process of exchanging North American tobacco for European silver and then for tea on merchant ships.

This process takes time.

The capital of Dashun itself also considers interest.

At this time, Dashun cannot wait and cannot exchange by itself. It can only rely on Europe’s own internal trade to complete the exchange.

When the goods arrive in North America, take the silver and leave directly, instead of waiting here. Can’t wait.

Therefore, even from this point of view, Dashun does not want another large-scale war to break out in Europe, at least not in the next 20 years.

Once North America starts to choose to separate from Britain, it will definitely be a large-scale war that will last for several years and will definitely lead to another wave of war between Spain and France. The division of Poland, which was expected to be a bargaining chip for Belgium's neutrality and demilitarization after the war, is not a large-scale war.

The British navy is there. Under the war and blockade, trade stagnation, debt soaring, and silver tightening are not what Dashun wants to see.

Especially at this time when Dashun's industrial revolution has just sprouted and India's handicraft industry has not been destroyed, Europe and America are very critical transitional markets to ensure that Dashun's industry can develop like mushrooms after rain.

After the industry develops, it will be easy. Whether it is to destroy India's handicraft industry or to turn around and ask for the domestic market, the new force can finally step onto the political stage.

And in the critical period of transition, if North America makes a fuss, a lot of trouble will happen.

At the very least, a market of millions with absolute consumption power will be lost, and Europe will be in chaos and trade will also drop sharply.

Here, it is said that the average assets of free farmers in the southern states of North America at this time were 392 pounds. Here we are talking about assets, not cash. Assets cannot be consumed directly, and Dashun does not need North American trade goods, so a stable trade environment is needed for them to exchange corn, tobacco, etc. for silver.

Otherwise...

As for the habit of excessive issuance of paper money in North America, during the Thirteen States Revolution, excessive issuance of paper money was so excessive that a new English idiom was created: Not worth a Continental.

Worthless.

Historically, it was France, which relied on selling its head to aid the United States, that used its national reputation and silver to bear a large amount of North American treasure notes and endorse the excessive issuance of paper money in North America. But if a war really breaks out, most of the money will definitely be used for military expenses. Besides, it is useless for Dashun to collect a bunch of excessively issued paper money in North America, and it will be invalidated as soon as it turns around.

And once paper money is excessively issued, most people's choice at this time may be to hoard precious metals, and it is impossible to foolishly exchange precious metals for paper money when excessively issuing paper money.

But Dashun only wanted precious metals, not paper money that could theoretically buy corn and potatoes.

All these factors made Dashun tend to make North American merchants compromise rather than rebel. At the same time, they put as much pressure on Britain as possible to open up trade policies, thereby guiding the issue of the thirteen states in the direction that pro-British factions such as Franklin expected.

As long as this can be done, the precious metal problem in North America is still easy to solve: go to Europe and the Caribbean to sell wine, corn, tobacco, leather boots, pig iron, wood, cattle and horses.

All these can be achieved as long as Dashun can break the excessively severe British navigation regulations. What needs to be broken is only the excessively severe navigation regulations, not that Britain should not be allowed to collect tariffs.

As long as Dashun drags on, it will not give the French face and will not land in Britain, so France will have no choice.

Previously, France was given many benefits through the ginseng trade, which made France protect Canada, and as long as Canada is still in the hands of France, the tendency of North America to separate will be reduced.

On the British side, as long as Dashun continues to prolong the war and continue smuggling, forming an established fact, Britain will have to abandon its original bizarre extreme mercantilism policy - as long as the smuggling is too serious, then theoretically Dashun can separate North America at any time and create a rebellion. But Dashun will not do it. This is the reason for opening windows: I want to tear down the roof, and then I say I want to open the window, and the British will easily agree.

At least create another twenty years of peace, Dashun can basically solve the Indian problem, and domestic industrial power will also develop. At that time, if the steam-driven spinning machine is introduced, Europe will fight again and India will explode again, then the world will be in chaos and the situation will be very good.

Therefore, Dashun needs to cooperate with the North American merchant group at this time. Let's talk and compromise as much as possible. Don't separate as soon as the war is over.

The essence of many problems is economic problems and conflicts of interest. The separation of North America is of course also.

Even if it is said that these Puritans are obsessed with the devil's voice.

However, in fact, Thomas Paine's "Common Sense" is so passionate and cites scriptures, and it is "commentary" on "Matthew", "Judges", and "Samuel", which is in line with the consciousness of these Puritans.

But it is far less than the anger caused by the illegal enclosure of the Ohio Land Speculation Company declared by the British "Quebec Act".

The land speculators invested so much money in vain. If they don't kill the British government, then isn't this money wasted? This was one of the key events in Franklin's turn against Britain, because he was one of the founding 72 shareholders of the Ohio Company, and the deal was a bit big, with 15 million acres of land enclosure.

From a vulgar point of view, this is a story similar to the Russian-American Company's participation in the Decembrist uprising by falsifying accounts, the Subei Reclamation Company's participation in the burning of Jiangsu government's public funds in the Xinhai Revolution, and the Scottish capitalists and aristocrats' investment in Panama went bankrupt and sold Scotland's sovereignty to England for money.

In short, it's about money.

Money can solve money problems.

Dashun can solve centripetal forces. Dashun has organized a group of "Yiding Forest Light Infantry" on the northwest coast of North America to go to the east coast, with guns, cannons and cowpox to help the Indian tribes launch a major uprising and make the thirteen states of North America pro-British.

Therefore, when the trade ambassador and trade commissioner chanted scriptures with these North American businessmen, they only chanted trade scriptures and not separation scriptures.

Although it is easier to chant separation scriptures at this time.

But chanting trade scriptures is not difficult either.

I just read a passage:

Smuggling has never been very moral, it is a great cause for the people's livelihood.

Trading with China and France during the war was a bit of treason, but true patriotism was to trade with the enemy during the war.

Forming a price alliance and a regional sales alliance together was a form of monopoly, and it was a common choice after consultation.

A pamphlet entitled "A New Trade Theory Based on the People" was also given to Hancock and other merchants who came here.

Finally, Hancock and other merchants took out about 400,000 pounds of silver and gold and exchanged them for a batch of tea and other commodities.

In addition, there were a batch of furs, beeswax, turpentine and other trade goods.

These are the only goods that Dashun can ask for. In theory, you can buy some wine, pig iron and so on, and sell them in Senegal and other places on the way back. But at this time, it is still the stage of the Sino-French alliance, and there is no need to do such things that are easy to cause diplomatic disputes and distrust for the time being.

Other things can't be transported.

However, these goods, plus the 400,000 pounds, still could not eat all the goods on these ships, and even tea alone could not be eaten.

The trade ambassador finally showed his true colors and proposed to Hancock and others to call all the big businessmen in North America to a meeting.

These goods will be temporarily placed in the warehouse in Havana, and Spain will temporarily open Havana to the Dashun fleet.

It is suggested that the big businessmen in North America come to the Bahamas when the time comes, not only to transport all these goods, but also to discuss trade issues.

Of course, it also includes political issues, that is, what kind of conditions Britain wants to reach after the war, they can accept. But this is essentially an economic issue.

If possible, Dashun will send warships to Boston to escort these North American businessmen to the Bahamas for a meeting. If the businessmen prefer to hold a meeting on the North American continent, Dashun can also send people there, which is easy to discuss.

After discussing with Thomas Hancock privately, he still thought it would be best to hold the meeting in North America, and the best location would be Philadelphia in the middle of the Thirteen States.

The time was set for April next year, and he would help with the contact. Of course, Dashun also guaranteed that Hancock Company would be the designated distributor of tea, cotton, and porcelain in the Boston area.

During this period, Dashun would sell these teas and other things in the Bahamas, and trade directly with the smuggling ships on the island.

As for the Philadelphia Conference next April, the trade ambassador was thinking that after taking Gibraltar and resting in Havana, he would not rush to help France save Louisbourg directly.

It would be better to suggest taking Philadelphia directly and holding a conference at the same time. The defense there is insufficient and there are not many soldiers. As long as the local merchants and prominent figures help, it will be easy.