New Shun 1730

Trade with China certainly has excess profits, which Queen Elizabeth is sure of.

But she did not expect that the purpose of Dashun was to make money?

Liu Yu poured out a lot of complaints, especially the complaints about "making a few hard-earned money", which could fill a vodka bottle.

Whether it is tea farmers or silk workers, they are busy and the profits they get are really pitiful, that is, they earn processing fees, pure hard-earned money.

The East India Company does not affect Dashun's export volume. The one-port trade does not affect Dashun's export volume.

However, it does affect Dashun's total gold and silver imports.

The few cents earned by tea farmers for a bag of tea are far less than those earned by middlemen.

Although Liu Yu's real intention is not to make money, and he is not essentially for the sake of selling tea and porcelain, these complaints are still very convincing.

The most real purpose of creating contradictions between Britain and Russia without contradictions is very deep, and Elizabeth cannot guess it at all.

Because he went around a huge circle.

Sweden is pro-French.

Denmark is pro-British.

Once Elizabeth decides to make Peter III the crown prince, the Swedish crown prince will be vacant.

The Swedish ambassador introduced to Liu Yu the situation that Denmark also has the right of succession. Obviously, Denmark will definitely seek support from Britain. It is even very likely to marry Britain to gain support from the British.

The French now think that there is still a chance to conclude a Russian-French alliance, and the Danes will not seek support from the French.

Seeking support from the British, around the choice of the Swedish crown prince, even if Britain will not fully support Denmark in order to pull Russia, but the seeds of friction between Russia and Britain will be sown.

A more critical point is that the Swedish East India Company may not be clear to the Russians, but Liu Yu knows exactly how much smuggling to Britain is involved.

Sweden has so few people, and the Swedish East India Company's monopoly clearly stipulates that goods cannot be sold to Sweden. So who are they selling all the tea and porcelain they buy every year?

If Russia intervenes again and tastes the sweetness of smuggling, it will really be unable to let go.

Poor as hell, once they see money, they will be like mosquitoes seeing blood, right?

There was no conflict between Britain and Russia, which made Liu Yu feel uneasy.

Since there was no conflict, he would help to create one out of nothing.

One Baltic Sea, two East India companies.

One Sweden, one Denmark.

Now the Swedish company is to be turned into a joint company of China, Sweden and Russia by Liu Yu, and the conflict with Denmark will inevitably deepen.

Denmark itself is pro-British, and Britain may not fully support Denmark in the early stage in order to attract Russia, so as not to anger Russia.

However, the world is changing.

The economies of Britain and Russia are complementary, and there is a very large trade volume between Britain and Russia.

It is conceivable that the textile industry in this broken place of Russia is really not very good.

Russia's handicraft industry is also inherently insufficient. Western Europe has accumulated handicraft talents in medieval guilds, while Russia only knew what handicraft industry was when its guilds were about to disintegrate.

However, Liu Yu is preparing to change the trade between Britain and Russia from complementary and mutual need to mutual competition.

Dashun can also provide some textiles that Britain can provide. The land trade between Russia and China is indeed insufficient. After all, it is necessary to cross the entire Siberia and only transport things such as tea and rhubarb.

But once sea transportation develops, many goods that Britain can ship to Russia can be filled by Dashun.

A closed-door policy means sitting at home and waiting for others to come to you.

If you can take the initiative to trade, you need to "customers are God" and say hello if you need anything.

Textiles, farm tools, porcelain, soap, candles, spices, tea, etc., Dashun can provide them.

As for glass, especially the developed glass industry in Britain, Dashun cannot ship Dashun's glass to Russia to sell, because that thing is much more fragile than porcelain.

Therefore, some handicraft factories that are inconvenient to transport can be opened in Russia, and some things that are definitely impossible to transport, or the freight is too high and the damage rate is too high and there is no profit, can be directly set up in Russia.

Glass, wood, furniture, papermaking, these can all be set up in Russia.

In a few years at most, the trade volume between Britain and Russia will be in jeopardy, and Russia may even have the urge to actively sell wood, furniture, glass and other goods that have received technology transfer from Dashun.

These things are simply money-losing goods for transoceanic trade.

As for those that do not lose money, the trade companies of China, Sweden and Russia can all provide them.

Liu Yu said that he longed for Russia's hegemony over the Baltic Sea, which was the truth. Because he could not squeeze into the Danish East India Company, and the sphere of influence defined by hegemony was a stable market.

Russia tasted the sweetness of trade, and Liu Yu deliberately disgusted the Anglo-Russian relationship with "technology transfer" - especially the technology transfer of some handicrafts that Britain was good at, which would create irreconcilable contradictions between Britain and Russia.

Creating contradictions when there are no contradictions is a routine of great power diplomacy.

Only by reaching out first can you create bargaining chips out of nothing, and this is the same.

Dashun does not have any eggs in the hands of Britain or the Netherlands now, and this kind of contradiction created out of nothing is very suitable for Dashun's needs.

Once conflicts accumulate and the Anglo-Russian alliance becomes impossible, Britain can only win over Denmark.

The trade companies of China, Sweden and Russia will inevitably have conflicts with Denmark.

At that time, Dashun can use the banner of "armed neutral trade" to say that it will never take the initiative to start a war, and only want neutral trade.

However, Denmark wants to get goods from Dashun.

On the market side, Dashun said that it wants fair competition.

At the source of goods, Dashun has a hundred ways to make Denmark feel unfair.

Denmark will definitely not be able to stand it.

At that time, the East India Company of Denmark will be solved at the same time. Russia and Sweden will send troops, and Dashun will pay some money to directly ask Denmark to dissolve the East India Company.

In this way, the Sino-Swedish-Russian joint trade company will get the entire share of Chinese goods in the Baltic Sea circle.

Not only will it not affect the shipment of Dashun's handicraft industry, but it will also increase the profit of sea transportation.

What Britain can give Russia is money.

Dashun is better to teach people how to fish than to give them fish, and directly give Russia fishing nets.

As for who dominates Europe, it doesn't matter.

No matter who dominates Europe, it is necessary to raise the strongest army. The European hegemon can only be a land power, and there is not so much energy and money to build ships.

As long as Britain is destroyed, Dashun will open up in Europe.

Alliances.

But if Britain develops, it will be troublesome. They will stay on the island and will definitely work hard to raise the navy, and Dashun will never be able to enter Europe.

In the short term, this matter is to create friction between Britain and Russia on the issue of the Swedish crown prince; in the long term, it is to turn the British-Russian trade from complementary to competitive, and completely create irreconcilable contradictions.

However, Elizabeth could not think so far. What she heard can be summed up in one sentence: Dashun wants to cooperate with Russia to get the trade profits with China in the Baltic trade circle.

To be honest, this money, if placed in the court of Dashun, may be a large sum of money, not to mention the poor Russia.

And Liu Yu's words made Elizabeth more certain that Dashun was ready to take action against the Netherlands.

Because... spices and sugar in Nanyang are also a huge income, especially after being able to obtain the market of the Baltic trade circle.

All this seems to become extremely reasonable.

The doubts that had been in Elizabeth's mind seemed to be finally solved at this moment.

The Queen thought, yes, Sino-Russian non-aggression means that Dashun will go south.

The Sino-Swiss-Russian trade company is to transport goods to sell after going south.

Otherwise, those goods lack a market and cannot be sold, and occupying Nanyang is meaningless.

All this is logical.

Liu Yu also explained very clearly the purpose of encouraging Russia to move westward, so that Russia can gain hegemony over the Baltic Sea and control the market.

Because according to Liu Yu's logic of "times have changed", the population of Sweden and Denmark is not enough to become the hegemon of the Baltic Sea; and although Prussia is possible, the Sino-Prussian alliance means that China still has to face the threat of Russia.

On the contrary, cooperating with Russia now and putting all the treasures on Russia can not only save the military expenditure of the Sino-Russian confrontation, but also guarantee a broad and large Baltic market.

The trade circle of Northern Europe, Eastern Europe, and half of Central Europe is very huge.

The annual demand for special goods such as silk, textiles, porcelain, tea, etc. is also huge enough.

She certainly didn't expect that Liu Yu was going to deal with Britain, but the logical chain she understood was very clear and definite, and seemed impeccable.

After calculating the benefits of Liu Yu's suggestion, she was already very inclined to Liu Yu's suggestion.

Finland, this broken place, is cold and sparsely populated. It can only serve as a buffer for Petersburg. It doesn't make much sense to cut it off.

And what can be gained from Sweden by winning on the battlefield is far better than cutting off Finland.

Including the crown prince candidate recommended by Liu Yu, the exemption of strait tolls, the trade company of China, Sweden and Russia, and the possibility of bringing Sweden into the partnership when moving westward in the future.

All of this is calculated, and it is indeed beneficial to Russia.

Similarly, because it is beneficial to Dashun, everything Liu Yu said is very credible.

She would not believe that Liu Yu was thinking about a coup that had been planned for more than ten years in order to fulfill his promise to Hannibal.

"My Lord Marquis, I will seriously consider your proposal. But I hope we can keep this matter secret from each other. I will also keep my mouth shut about the privy council ministers around me. And I also hope you can convey my regards to the Chinese emperor and the news that I hope this matter will be kept secret."

"As for the investment in building a factory you mentioned, I hope it can be implemented quickly. If necessary, I can allocate some serfs to you, or grant you the right to rent serfs. These serfs can be directly invested in the glass factory or paper mill you want to build."

"Or, you can directly allocate them to your state-owned farmers."

Elizabeth, who wanted to continue Peter's policy, was very happy about the idea of ​​"giving a man a fish is not as good as teaching a man to fish."

Before Peter, Russia had only a pitiful number of handicrafts.

Peter saw clearly that Russia's geography, topography, infrastructure, and transportation conditions made it pure fantasy to rely on "encouraging industry and commerce" to develop industry and commerce.

So Peter's policy was "forced official operation".

After official operation, private ownership was decentralized. Even if government-run factories were decentralized to private enterprises, many people were still unwilling to take over, because those who were qualified to take over were nobles and landlords, who had no tradition of running factories.

[Our people are like children. Because they are so ignorant, they will not take the initiative to memorize the alphabet. It must be the master or the parent who forces them to do so. ]

This is Peter's description of the current situation in Russia.

Memorizing the alphabet is a good thing, which can help them learn to read and get rid of ignorance. However, it is impossible for children to memorize the alphabet on their own initiative, so a strong man is needed to play the role of "little father" and force them to do some "civilized" things.