New Shun 1730

This remark startled Anthony.

He thought nervously and hurriedly, what other Dutch interests could "affect Sino-Dutch friendship" like the Southeast Asian colonies.

After thinking about it, he was sure that there seemed to be no more.

In Asia, the Netherlands still has some trading houses in Persia. Persians love to eat sugar, but Anthony knows that Dashun has opened the door to Japan, and the Japanese are also addicted to sugar. For the time being, Dashun's sugar does not need to be shipped to Persia.

Outside of Asia, Dashun is powerless, at least before it has a firm foothold in India, it is powerless to extend its tentacles.

As for the interests in South America and the Caribbean, they really cannot "affect Sino-Dutch friendship."

After being convinced that Dashun would not continue to torture the Netherlands, Anthony seriously thought about the suggestions given by Kang Budai.

Although the words are unpleasant and irritating, in principle, it seems that China and the Netherlands are indeed a match made in heaven without the stumbling block of the relationship in Nanyang.

Dashun and the Netherlands actually have the same situation to some extent: cargo ships cannot go out, there is no market, and they are threatened and blocked at sea.

Like the Netherlands, Dashun is not a good market. Dashun's market is quite small - of course, this smallness refers to European goods. The European goods consumed by the entire Dashun in a year may not catch up with a North American colony.

If you don't have an internal market, you can only look for it outside. But how can you get other people's markets so easily?

However, Dashun is a little better than the Netherlands. Things like porcelain, silk, and rhubarb are either not available in Europe or the quality of European products is not good.

So even if Dashun is blocked at sea and cargo ships cannot go out, it can still sit at home and collect money.

The Netherlands is miserable.

All of Europe is spinning woolen cloth, all of Europe is boiling salt, all of Europe is building ships, and all of Europe is rubbing wool... The industry is homogenized and the internal circulation is serious, which brings huge competition problems.

Why do the British let their own wool textile factories go bankrupt and buy Dutch woolen cloth?

Moreover, the key is that the financial policy of the Netherlands is too loose.

The high labor costs in the Netherlands, the trade blocked by the Navigation Act and Colbert's national industrialism, the small domestic market, and the previous colony but the policy of exhausting the resources and having no consumption capacity at all, all caused a serious setback in the development of the Dutch handicraft industry.

This is not enough.

The profit-seeking nature of financial capital has caused a large amount of Dutch capital to go to Britain, France, Prussia, and Russia. The handicraft industries in these countries have developed rapidly: capital is needed to develop industry. If you are short of money, come to Amsterdam to borrow.

The financial capital of the Netherlands is selling the noose that hangs the Dutch industry.

However, financial capital does not care. As the old Burgundian nobleman said when he was beaten to death in Europe: I am a cosmopolitan, I have seven or eight motherlands.

Even the nobles can say that they are cosmopolitans and have seven or eight motherlands, and the financial capitalists have doubled directly. What does the life and death of the Dutch handicraft industry have to do with me? For the sake of the motherland's industry, can I not lend money and invest abroad?

Since Amsterdam is the financial center at this time, it can only choose absolute openness.

You can't have your cake and eat it too.

If precious metals and monetary policies are tightened, Amsterdam will not be able to become the world's financial center.

How much capital can a declining Netherlands use? If the money of Amsterdam's big financiers cannot be lent out due to the tightening of monetary policies, will they dig a cellar and bury it?

Therefore, these very irritating words said by Kang Budai made sense to Anthony, and even touched his heart.

The handicraft industry in the Netherlands has no future. Or these regents do not represent the interests of the Dutch handicraft industry at all. The guild is the base of the Orange family and the mortal enemy of the regents.

Then the future of the Netherlands can only be the trade and finance industry.

In principle, opening up trade with Dashun and attracting a big customer from Dashun who may borrow money and is absolutely solvent are both major good news for the financial capital and commercial capital of the Netherlands.

Moreover, even if Dashun's goods are allowed to pour in, the damage to the Netherlands will not be too deep.

For industries such as salt, timber, shipbuilding, and pottery, ocean-going cargo ships cannot load these goods, and they will lose money.

There is no competition for silk and tea.

Although there is competition for cotton cloth, Leiden has no say. At most, the Leiden City Council will make a policy to prohibit cotton cloth from entering Leiden.

However, because of their habitual thinking, Anthony and others never thought that China and the Netherlands were still at war, while Dashun had already begun to preach Sino-Dutch friendship.

This change was too fast, which made Anthony difficult to accept for a while.

After calming down, Anthony gave a very profound answer to Kang Budai's question.

"If there is anything that can affect the 'Sino-Dutch friendship', it should be the British 'Navigation Acts'. Without the Navigation Acts, the friendship between China and the Netherlands would be even deeper. As deep as the entire Baltic Sea and North America."

"So, can your country solve this problem?"

"Or, there is also France's Colbertism, the alliance between Spain and France, and France's high tariff protectionism, which are also important obstacles to the 'Sino-Dutch friendship'. If these can be solved, the friendship between China and the Netherlands will be even deeper. As deep as the entire South America, the entire Iberian Peninsula and Gaul."

"So, can your country solve this problem?"

This answer is very sharp, pointing directly to the core issue of Sino-Dutch cooperation.

How exactly does Dashun plan to cooperate with the Netherlands?

Is Dashun qualified to make the Netherlands believe that he is the best big brother and can take the Netherlands to eat and drink spicy food?

Can the big brother really work? Can he solve the two nooses around the neck of the Netherlands?

If he can solve it, there will be no problem with tribute.

If he can't solve it, isn't it pushing the Netherlands into the fire pit?

Dashun will be fine in Asia. If he annoys Britain and France, the worst thing is to pat his butt and leave, but the Netherlands will be miserable.

There are many contradictions in Europe, but the Netherlands is still concerned about the contradiction between Britain and France.

This is closely related to the fate of the Netherlands.

As for the contradictions within the Holy Roman Empire, although the Netherlands is also afraid of the rise of Prussia, it is powerless, and this kind of war will not benefit the Netherlands at all.

Anthony knows the relationship between Dashun and France, so he seems to have mentioned two problems to be solved, but in fact there is only one.

That is the British problem.

He also knew that the Hague Massacre must have been instigated by this group of Chinese behind the scenes.

From the Lingdingyang incident, it can be seen that this group of Chinese seems to be particularly wary of Britain.

The current Hague incident, after all, is still aimed at Britain. William IV of Orange has done so much that the Dutch people have begun to oppose him. His identity is first the son-in-law of the King of England, and then the ruler of the Netherlands.

If the British navigation regulations can be broken, of course it will be good.

However, if Dashun uses the Netherlands as a gun and instigates the Netherlands and Britain to go to war, and Dashun watches the fun and picks peaches behind the scenes, and learns from the British squatting on the island, Anthony will definitely oppose and be vigilant.

It is better to be a gun for Britain than to be a gun for Dashun.

His meaning is also very clear. Since we want to cooperate, or to say, to cooperate more deeply, it’s okay.

Dashun shows its attitude. Can Dashun help the Netherlands solve the two shackles around its neck?

Either destroy the British navigation regulations.

Either destroy the Franco-Spanish alliance, the French handicraft industry, and France's tariff autonomy.

Choose one of the two.

The regents are not fools, nor are they hardcore pro-British. From the beginning, they were reluctant to participate in the war and secretly hooked up with France. It can be seen that they do not want to bleed for the British.

During the War of the Western Succession, the Netherlands could still say that it was for the Spanish colonial trade and for Belgium. In this war, it was only for the British.

The Netherlands certainly has a grudge against Britain.

Except for the Orange family and the city of Rotterdam, which specializes in legal trade with Britain, they all have a grudge against Britain. Although Zeeland is the province with the largest trade volume with Britain, there is no "legal" trade in Zeeland.

What law? Of course, it is in accordance with British law.

The Netherlands is called the "coachman of the sea". In fact, in other words, the Netherlands is a European express company.

First, you have to become the logistics center of Europe before you can become a coachman. Just like in later generations, logistics and express delivery are always inseparable.

But with the British "Navigation Acts", Britain has gradually become the logistics center of Europe. How can a courier survive without a logistics center?

The "Navigation Acts" are very overbearing.

Not only does it govern Britain, but also Asia, Africa, and America. It is really rude to enforce it. If you catch someone, you will be killed, burned, and the goods will be taken away.

The text says: For the benefit of the British Republic, from December 1, 1651, any goods or commodities grown, produced, or manufactured in Asia, Africa, America, or any part of the three continents, or islands belonging to the three continents, whether by British or foreign colonies, if not a domestic ship, shall not enter the British Republic, Ireland, or the islands, colonies, discoveries or territories belonging to the British Republic. The meaning of domestic ships is that they are manufactured in the British Republic, and the captain was born and raised in the Republic, and 75% of the crew are people of the Republic...

When this regulation was issued, Britain was still the British Republic.

There was originally a huge loophole in this regulation, because when Britain was still a republic, independent countries in Asia, Africa or America did not have the ability to sail ships to Britain to sell goods.

So, in theory, it was "legal" for Dashun to sell goods in Britain, or directly to British colonies.

Because the regulations said "goods from Britain or other colonies", and Dashun was not a colony of Dashun.

However, when Mi Ziming came to Sweden to send prisoners of war, the British Parliament hurriedly held a meeting to fill this legal loophole.

The regulations changed from the original "whether British or other colonies" to "any goods and commodities grown, produced, and manufactured by Britain or other colonies, or independent countries, or Eastern tributary countries with a common monarch, the Great Emperor of the Celestial Empire, in Asia, America, and Europe".

So it was illegal for Dashun's cargo ships to sell goods directly in the colonies after the regulations were revised. It was also illegal for colonial ships to go directly to Dashun without re-exporting through Britain.

For Dashun, the impact was not great before, and they didn't go anyway.

But it is different for the Netherlands.

If the Netherlands wants to be a coachman, it must first be a distribution center for European logistics. Now Britain, France and Spain, relying on their colonies, all use their own countries as distribution centers for logistics, and the Netherlands can't even get the goods.

Originally, there were Southeast Asian specialties, such as spices, cinnamon, sugar, incense, tin blocks, and Japanese copper, but they are gone now.

The sea coachman has to transport goods to make money. The current situation is that all countries are making their own carriages and hiring their own coachmen. Even if the Netherlands is cheaper, all countries will not let the fat water flow to outsiders. How can life be easy?

So the Netherlands and Dashun are the most sympathetic, because they are experiencing the same situation: I want free trade, but who is willing to let me trade freely?

After Dashun cut off the monopoly of the East India Company, the two countries that most desire free trade in Europe have unprecedented sympathy.