New Shun 1730

This sentence obviously has many different interpretations.

Gifts are not things that are forced out by pressing the heads of kings and emperors. They can indeed be taken back at any time.

This thing is not a dinner party, but a life-and-death war in which a group of people overthrows a group of people.

However, this kind of interpretation cannot be interpreted by an orthodox Dashun person.

Only Liu Yu, who Kang Bulao called "a Dashun person who is not a Dashun person at all", can be interpreted in this way.

But in "Thunder, Rain and Dew Are All Divine Grace", this interpretation itself is difficult to reach.

Direct understanding of the literal meaning is the mainstream.

Sure enough, after saying this, a group of businessmen turned to the direction of the capital and chanted: "This is your majesty's great kindness. We will remember it and dare not forget it."

Speaking of this, it seems that Liu Yu is performing a process that he should do as a "Gong of Xingguo" and "Honor of the Imperial Court".

After waiting for what everyone thought was the process, no one felt there was anything to worry about.

It sounds more like a process, or some court clichés.

After all, Liu Yu had already said it first, and the matter was done. Then everyone felt that it was nothing if the emperor's grace came to pass.

Occasionally, some people will have other ideas, but this idea is just a seed in their hearts that will sprout.

After what looked like a process was completed, Liu Yu said again: "I said before that Western trade needs to be supervised by the imperial court. Some of you will inevitably feel uncomfortable. You may even feel that it shouldn't be done. I guess you have this idea. ?”

"I know even if you don't tell me."

"Today is a good thing, but I have to talk about what happened back then. There is a reason."

"First, if you are allowed to go out and work alone, without the supervision of the court, it will be easy for you to do things like the Ningbo Gang and the Zhangzhou Gang. Now we may also add the Gyeonggi Gang, the Yangzhou Gang, the Sunan Gang, the Guangdong Gang..."

"Starting from the Japanese trade incident back then, let me ask you, are you a group of heroes who united a group of businessmen who went to Nagasaki? You said that we cannot let the Japanese take back the pricing power of copper. We must unite and unite the businessmen who went to Nagasaki. To regain the pricing power of copper?”

"The Japanese certainly have trade credentials, but don't you have capital? Don't you have the ability to manipulate the supply of goods on land?"

"From the time when trade with Japan was no longer monopolized by the Zheng family, to more than ten years ago, history gave you a fifty-year opportunity. But history has proven that you cannot do it."

"Don't be unconvinced. I have my own official means, but before I intervene, you don't have the businessman means to accomplish this?"

"Don't look for this kind of reason or that kind of excuse. It's the Japanese tightening trade, the Japanese uniting and so on... Then when we had the power to price copper, why did the Japanese not have the characteristic of unity at that time? If If you are really capable, you can do it.”

This call made many businessmen bow their heads.

But there are also some businessmen who are very unconvinced.

I feel like Liu Yu doesn’t have back pain when he talks while standing. How can it be so easy?

You can succeed not because everything except your ability is zero, but because you have the support of the court. If we have this backing, we may not be able to do it.

But then, Liu Yu's second question made these dissatisfied people completely silent.

"Secondly, I said that you can't do anything at all. You may not accept it. Today I will tell you why the imperial court intervened in trade with Japan in the first place."

"I only ask you one thing: If there had been no intervention from the previous imperial court, let alone anything else, even if the imperial court allows you to monopolize trade today, even if the imperial court helps you to settle Nanyang, even if the imperial court has reached an agreement with the Dutch..."

"Even if you buy a ship for transoceanic trade."

"So, do you have the sailors of the trans-oceanic trade, the nautical chart from here to Amsterdam, the monsoon current chart from here to the Netherlands..."

"You have made so much money, but how many people have you trained who can rely on astronomy to navigate without having to memorize knowledge? Can you try to take a trip to Europa, draw a chart, and prepare for the future? Have you trained enough people? Is there someone who is a candidate for transoceanic sailors to learn the languages ​​​​of Western countries and analyze their cargo needs? "

"When the Dutch came to the capital to pay tribute and requested a ban on trade in Macao, the Dutch took the canal. Along the way, they measured the depth of the canal and concluded that the canal should be cut off if there was a war with China; they also measured the distance from the mouth of Qingjiang River to Jining’s canal depth.”

"Many of you have gone to Batavia, Nagasaki, and even your ancestors have been to Edo. So, how much do you know?"

"Back then, the French were eyeing the price of ginseng, and personally went to Shandong and Liaodong to inspect and measure the latitude, and concluded that they could try to find ginseng in the same latitude area in America."

"Have you ever done anything similar?"

Liu Yu sneered, knowing that some parts were actually strong words, and some parts were even partly true and the rest was made up.

But he still finished his words after sneering.

"You guys are actually spoiled by the people of the Celestial Empire. Even if you do business to make money, you don't rely on your own ability."

“It’s because of the thousands of women in China that weaved unique embroidery in the world; because of the hard-working kiln workers in China, we made porcelain that is unparalleled on earth; because of the hands of Fujian’s tea farmers, we created the most beautiful hobby Taste."

"Thousands of hard-working people in China have no idea what commercial competition is, because you can collect money just sitting at home, or at most you can go to Nanyang, and you never have to worry about not being able to sell your goods."

"Dutch merchants have to fight to the death with England and France in order to sell their woolen goods; they have to work hard to sell their wine."

"Do you think you can do business?"

"No, in essence, you are still sitting at home and collecting money. Even if you go to Nanyang or Japan, you are still relying on everything produced by the unique people in the world. No one competes, and you are still sitting at home and collecting money."

"So, I say, you can't."

"You still need to study more. History has proven that you are not good at it. I have to let you learn to be good at it."

"That's why I'm here to supervise you."

After saying this daddy reason, the businessmen who were a little dissatisfied before bowed their heads one by one.

In itself, the environment in Dashun is like this. It is normal if the court supervises it, and it is abnormal if it does not supervise it.

There is no need to talk about this truth.

Liu Yu's reasoning with them is a kind of respect for them. Even if the words are so unpleasant, it is still respect in their eyes.

As for the facts Liu Yu said, no one present could refute them.

Western trade is not a simple matter.

The simplest and simplest among them are the issues Liu Yu mentioned about sailors, ocean-going ships, nautical charts, and language.

Indeed, as Liu Yu said, even if the court arranged everything and asked them to form a Western trading company, what could they do without the previous preparations?

Relying on a group of memorizers to get to Europa?

Or should we ignore the ocean current and follow the old path of the Tang and Song Dynasties and move along the coastline?

Now, none of this is a problem.

Even everyone present was only excited when they heard about the establishment of the Western Trading Company. No one doubted that they could not recruit qualified sailors, qualified captains, qualified interpreters, or suitable seamen. picture.

And all of this, it seems, is really what Liu Yu said, starting from the moment when he went to Japan and took away most people's trade licenses, and used the lion to eat alone to persuade the wolves to fight.

Today, it seems that sailors, captains, nautical charts, trade goods, ocean current charts, and voyage ships are not problems, and they are not even qualified to be considered. But without previous preparation, these are the top issues that need to be considered.

There is no shortage of sailors now.

When the trading company with Japan was first established, Liu Yu was forced to use long-distance sailing ships. He was forced to train a large number of sailors who could operate long-distance sailing ships on the grounds of assuming "military obligations."

Navy construction, regular retirement system, and a system for ocean trading companies to give priority to recruiting retired sailors; ocean trading companies assist the navy in training sailor registration systems.

As a result, today they have not considered the issue of sailors at all.

There is no shortage of ships now.

Several large shipyards prepared for the manufacture of warships, and complete teak, cypress, and oak logging, transportation, and shade-drying operations ensure that Dashun can be used in two or two years in an emergency, regardless of the increased service life of shade-dried wood. Within the year, a powerful... semi-disposable fleet was quickly assembled.

The control of northeastern oak, the development of Taiwanese cypress, and the trade of Nanyang teak ensured that Dashun's century-old navy became a thing of the past without the British tree planting law.

Dashun's shipbuilding capacity is fully sufficient to ensure sufficient demand for long-distance ships.

Craftsmen did not appear in a day. Liu Yu started building ships in Weihai, and he was trained by forcing trading companies with Japan to use long-distance ships as military obligations to ensure orders.

All that was left now was sufficient non-Court and Admiralty orders.

Now there is no shortage of charts.

The return of Swedish prisoners of war after the Dzunghar war seemed to be a diplomatic move, seemingly to scare the Rakshasa Kingdom in order to gain benefits in negotiations.

But in fact, what was obtained was dozens of complete sailing diaries, chart records, and experience reports.

Afterwards, they used the threat of a trade embargo and the diplomatic pressure on Rakshasa to get the opportunity to cooperate with the Swedish Eastern Company, and started a merchant fleet that regularly sent to Gothenburg.

We have trained enough captains, first mates, bosuns and navigators to take European routes. I also got a sufficiently accurate chart.

For this kind of sea map from Europe to East Asia, one spy story after another was staged between the Portuguese and the Dutch.

But here in Dashun, there are no legendary stories. They just rely on diplomatic and trade blackmail and follow the routes that the Swedes are familiar with.

There is no shortage of news on trade goods now.

There is no shortage of interpreters now.

As for Dashun's numerous quarrels with France, Britain, the Netherlands, and Sweden for the sake of trade, in order to develop trade, they joined forces in Europe and staged three coups, risked their own blood to buy French ginseng, and asked the British to attack Luzon, etc. Wait, Liu Yu didn't say this.

But just what he said, which now seems to be a matter of course, left these businessmen speechless.

It turns out that those things are taken for granted.

It's not that natural.