New Shun 1730

Since war is the continuation of politics, and politics is closely related to the economy.

Then, after Dashun joined the war, the biggest impact was not the military capture of Gibraltar.

Rather, with Dashun's participation in the war, the entire Atlantic triangular trade system was directly rewritten.

This rewriting of the trade system does not seem as magnificent as the capture of a fortress.

But in fact, the impact is much greater.

Take the British slave trade as an example.

The British slave trade and the North American slave trade are two different lines. North America sells wine and Britain sells cloth.

Originally, half of the British slave trade relied on Indian cotton cloth and half on the blended cotton cloth produced in Lancashire.

Britain has a certain tax rebate subsidy for cotton cloth produced in Lancashire, and it imposes additional taxes on Indian cotton cloth shipped by the East India Company.

The British East India Company is the British East India Company.

The British Africa Company is the British Africa Company.

Britain is a country that needs to be taxed and controlled.

It is not as simple as people imagine. The East India Company can just ship cotton cloth to Africa and bring slaves back.

If they really want to do this, the African Company will have to fight with the East India Company.

Moreover, the government has long wanted to deal with the East India Company, at least not to let them be too lawless, so the goods of the East India Company must also abide by the rules and ship cotton cloth back to Britain.

After the tax is added, it will be shipped to Africa by companies and merchants specializing in the sale of slaves.

This is the "benefit" of monopoly trade.

Convenient control.

Otherwise, if the trade east of the Cape of Good Hope is really opened up, let's put it this way, the cotton cloth industry in Lancashire will not even have a chance to be born.

Now, Britain has lost India and the East India Company is dead.

The main fleet did not destroy the French navy in a decisive battle as in history, disintegrating the possibility of France landing, allowing the British navy to monitor France half and wander in the Atlantic to gain sea control half.

In other words, even if Dashun participated in the war, it only fought a large-scale naval battle with Britain.

However, its strategic significance is to keep a close eye on the British Navy, so that the vast ocean is no longer controlled by the British Navy.

In terms of strategic significance, Dashun has achieved its goal.

Landing on the British mainland is the strategic goal of France, not Dashun.

The strategic goal of the Dashun Navy has never been to help the French gain European hegemony, but to break the British navigation regulations and trade system.

This does not necessarily require a naval battle of the Trafalgar level.

What is needed is more of the main fleet to compete for stability, while cruisers, frigates, heavy sailing ships, etc. seize the trade line.

Historically, Napoleon once imposed a continental blockade on Britain.

The fundamental reason for its failure is that France's productivity is insufficient and its productivity level is not enough, and it is impossible to provide industrial products for the whole of Europe by one person.

Now, Dashun dare not say that it can provide industrial products for the whole of Europe, but at least in most of the commodities in the slave trade and triangular trade, Dashun can drive Britain out of the trade system.

This somewhat bizarre, seemingly not fierce war, lasted until May and June this year. The direct manifestation in trade was that Lancashire's textile industry collapsed and France's cotton ban was in name only under the promotion of slave traders and merchant groups.

Because, in the history of slave trade in West Africa, the proportion of goods exchanged for slaves was there.

Textiles accounted for 55%.

Alcohol accounted for 18%.

Weapons, gunpowder, muskets, swords, etc. accounted for 11%.

Other metal products accounted for 5%.

The remaining broken things such as mirrors, combs, and umbrellas accounted for 11%.

This proportion is the total proportion, of course, it will vary according to different regions.

For example, in places such as Sierra Leone where ivory hunting is more developed, the proportion of weapons will increase.

For example, in places such as Gambia, the demand for alcohol is more inclined to wine rather than rum - this is related to doctrine. Regarding doctrine, wine can bypass doctrine, but rum cannot.

Among textiles, cotton cloth is also the main one. Historically, part of it was Indian cotton cloth, and the other part was the inferior Lancashire blended cotton cloth and the inferior cotton cloth led by the French Ministry of Finance in 1959.

Just look at the trade data, and you can clearly see that after Dashun got involved in the "First World War", the trade system of triangular trade would be greatly changed.

Weapons, gunpowder, swords, etc., Dashun will not grab the French share.

Metal products... This is hard to say, many are Swedish iron. In view of diplomatic relations and the existence of Swedish Chinese companies, Dashun did not grab this business.

Not to mention alcohol, Dashun does not ban alcohol, but it is impossible to ship alcohol from East Asia to sell.

And 55% of textiles and 11% of other groceries, this share of nearly 70%, Dashun can completely take it all.

However, for various reasons, merchants on the Dashun side cannot trade slaves.

It has little to do with morality.

It's that Dashun can't eat alone.

Eat alone and monopolize the slave trade by yourself, how can this be tolerated? All the compradors who spoke for Dashun would become enemies, which would directly promote a new round of industrial self-sufficiency and technological progress in Europe, especially France.

Moreover, Dashun has always had a problem, that is, it only eats silver and gold but does not poop.

So from a purely commercial perspective, Dashun did not want to destroy the triangular trade.

Instead, it replaced the providers of "industrial products" in the triangular trade and rewrote the important "producers" in the trade system.

This is still the same annoying and weird problem.

That is, even if Sanbaogong's fleet came to Europe, it would not be able to develop trade.

Because the silver that Ming wanted was not much in Europe at that time. It was the emergence of American silver that gave birth to world trade.

Even if Sanbaogong's fleet came to Europe at that time... what did they come for?

To help the poor?

Use cotton cloth, tea, silk, etc. to exchange wool here and ship it back?

The same is true now.

Dashun shipped a bunch of cotton cloth and other things directly to Africa, what did they ship back? Can Africa produce so much silver and gold? Even if all the ivory in Africa was broken, could it withstand the trade volume of Dashun's cotton cloth and small commodities?

So, in the end, Dashun actually threatened people in Philadelphia that they would oppose slavery. Even though they were opposed to it from a moral sentiment, Dashun's merchants were actually not interested.

It can even be said that Dashun is now a beneficiary of the triangular trade.

The emergence of Dashun did not destroy the triangular trade.

It just transferred the producers of "industrial products" in the triangular trade from Flanders, Lancashire, Nantes, Engelsberg, Mumbai, Dhaka and other places to Songsu.

This transfer was devastating to Britain.

For France, the growing triangular trade group hijacked French policy, making France choose the latter between protecting its nascent textile industry and protecting the huge profits and large taxes of triangular trade.

At least, the manufacturing development of several developed countries in Europe and the United States has a "painful and turbulent" "trade protection era" or "embargo era".

This is true for all countries. After the founding of the United States, it relied on the Anglo-French War, Napoleon and the Anglo-American War to tear apart the merchant group and force capital to flow into the manufacturing industry.

The cotton textile industry in France started with the British trade blockade against France during the Seven Years' War, which made France in urgent need of cotton cloth for trade with Africa, which made the cotton textile industry in Nantes and Rouen burst into life.

Among them, at this moment, the fastest in cotton textile is Lancashire in the UK.

However, with the participation of Dashun in the war, Britain was unable to capture Senegal in France, and Dashun squeezed out the East India Company in India.

The cotton textile industry in Lancashire, which had just started, is dead.

Before, it was half dead, because Liu Yu made this kind of "inferior blended cloth" in Songsu and forged it with the help of the Dutch.

And now, it has directly cut off Lancashire's last breath - the African market.

Dashun has experienced Liu Yu's reforms and witnessed the decline of Yangzhou City.

And the same story is also happening in the UK at this time.

60 years ago, Liverpool, with a population of 6,000, had a population increase tenfold to nearly 80,000 due to triangular trade.

It relied on Manchester, Lancashire, and cotton cloth from the African market.

Dashun began to participate in European trade, which caused Liverpool, with a population of nearly 80,000, to decline rapidly at an unprecedented rate.

Those who have experienced the Dashun reforms know very well what this means. Because the salt workers and water transport workers in Yangzhou have already demonstrated it.

Liverpool will not be different from the people of Dashun just because they believe in Christianity and read the Bible.

They are all the same, especially when viewed from the perspective of class interests.

And this will provide North American landlords and businessmen with another reason to organize taxation and violence.

A new wave of immigration is coming. Because the industrial buds in Britain collapsed.

The opportunity to make a fortune for this group of people and landlords who came to the North American continent early has come.

The price of land will rise. As long as you can organize an army and prevent these people from going to the west to open up wasteland, you will make a fortune.

Of course, fortune and disaster are interdependent.

Crisis is both an opportunity and a danger.

If you don't quickly organize your army and collect taxes, you may be hanged from the trees soon.