New Shun 1730

What the British businessman named Adams saw was only superficial.

In essence, the cooperation between Neri Dashun and Amsterdam Financier Banker was very pleasant.

The reason for the happy cooperation is the same as the reason why Dashun's voyage to Nanyang caused Amsterdam's financial winter.

Because trade with China can only use silver, it is destined to require turnover in the banking industry in order to obtain enough funds to start trade.

It is precisely because of this turnover that VOC's bankruptcy triggered a series of chain reactions.

When the goods arrive, although you will make a profit, you cannot get the money on the same day the goods arrive.

The current situation is just a replica of the situation in the past, except that Dashun is a wholesaler, and those smuggling organizations and seven provincial chambers of commerce need a lot of cash to buy Dashun goods and then sell them to make profits. .

This, of course, revitalized Amsterdam’s financial industry.

Many smuggling organizations, or chambers of commerce in seven provinces, have sales channels. These sales channels ensure that they have enough credit and can borrow enough money from bankers.

Bankers also understand that these people with channels will make money and profits, and will not run away with their sister-in-law.

At least not this year.

This year's business prospects are visible to the naked eye. The British and Portuguese were suppressed by Dashun on the grounds of the opium case. This year, the cargo gap in Europe is very large.

And the profits will be very high.

After the Amsterdam financial market was devastated by Dashun, it was revived by Dashun. As for the more realistic matter of the Dashun court asking bankers in Amsterdam to borrow money to build the Huaihe River, it is a trivial matter.

Tea, porcelain, and silk are all about credibility.

Although in fact, not all the cooperation between Dashun and the Netherlands is what Dashun wants, especially the weird seven-province quota allocation policy.

Obviously this is inconsistent with free trade beliefs.

But the Netherlands has its own national conditions here, and if it wants to cooperate, it has to do this.

Dashun also took a look around and found that the cooperation in the Netherlands was simpler. At least there is no need to compete with the Dutch wool aristocratic landowners and industrial capital, because they no longer exist in the Netherlands.

The provinces in the Netherlands want a share, or at least they all want to eat meat. It is nothing more than a matter of you taking one more bite and me taking one less bite. It is a confrontational contradiction between right and wrong.

But if it is a battle of wits and courage with the wool aristocrats, woolen landlords, and industrial capital, it will be troublesome. That's the antagonistic contradiction of if I want to eat meat, you have to eat shit.

Of course, the price of the quota for the seven provinces must be slightly lower than the auction price, and it is just used to pay for the passage of the regents with real power in the seven provinces. If you feed them, they will become more supportive of the cooperation with Dashun.

After the shares of the seven provinces were divided, auctions in various places were held in December of that year. The several smuggler groups with the biggest appetites ate up almost 70% of the tea auctioned in Dashun.

Smuggling organizations such as J.J.VOUT\u0026SONS are of course very keen to seize business opportunities. Their main smuggling directions are the United Kingdom and North America.

In fact, they not only sell tea, but also matching tea sets, porcelain, and Caribbean sugar.

The British tax on tea and sugar is also high, but North America has actually been accustomed to drinking tea for a long time. This cannot but be said to be a huge contribution to this group of smugglers.

That year, the British East India Company was deeply involved in the opium case. For the smuggling group, this was not the logic of "this year they are seized and they want to make a fortune" or "next year they unblock them and we won't be able to sell as much."

Instead, they could take advantage of the British East India Company's deep opium case to not only maintain the original smuggled tea market, but also prepare to seize some legal tea space in one step.

Historically, the Dutch smuggling organization actually had a very low opinion of the British East India Company and used the word "incompetent" to describe it.

Because for a while, the smuggling gangs in Zeeland Province were able to get the East India Company to buy their smuggled tea, and then let the East India Company cooperate to transport it back to the UK and turn it into legal tea.

Dashun is not too concerned about the tea market. It is a star product and a geographically monopolized product, and it already has a very broad market.

This is basically the case for several major export items similar to tea.

This is true for tea, silk, rhubarb, silk, porcelain, zinc, white vine, diamond vine, borax, and lacquerware.

Or a monopoly.

Either it seems like there is no monopoly, but in fact it is still a monopoly.

Such as silk.

The French are the most mercantilist, so many people in France also hope to cut off trade with China, saying that even if trade with China is cut off, our women will still have silks to wear.

Those who raise silkworms in France also said, yes, we can.

But after trying it once, French silk weavers had to tell those French silkworm farmers: No, you can't.

Because the French discovered that their silk industry could indeed weave black silk or low-end gauze, but nothing else.

Especially the white that is very popular now, and the rich gold that has quickly become a beauty in the commercial society. The white silk made from their own silk looks like someone has smeared an indescribable light yellow stain on it.

Silk has always been a luxury product.

Luxury goods are very special. You can already afford silk. Do you still need to spend more money to buy some better-quality Chinese raw silk fabrics?

All the nobles want is face. His wife is wearing this beautiful white gauze, and my wife is wearing a black local gauze, which is not something that this person can afford to lose, nor can he afford it.

French mercantilist scholars suggested to France not to buy Chinese silk, which would not only revitalize the country's raw silk industry, but also prevent the outflow of silver.

But this is the case in theory.

In practice, not only did it fail to revitalize the country's raw silk industry, but the country's high-end silk weaving industry was almost ruined.

Dashun was full of confidence in these star products and felt that they would definitely work. Even silk with low-end substitutes was so confident, let alone other products?

Dashun was mainly concerned about the cotton cloth trade. There was indeed competition in this thing, and it was a life-and-death competition.

Therefore, it was hoped that the smuggler groups could help Dashun open up the cotton cloth sales market.

The market in the Netherlands was easy to say, as the Netherlands had no industrial capacity.

The consul, who was regarded as a savior by the guilds and industrial capital, was driven away. Now the merchant capital group and the regent were in power. Anyway, they were all buying, and naturally they were buying Dashun's cotton cloth.

But the market in the Netherlands was still a little small after all.

In France, due to diplomatic strategic interests, Dashun was not planning to smuggle cotton cloth to France for the time being, and could not forget its principles for the sake of small profits.

They could only make a lot of money from Britain.

After seeing the goods, the Dutch smuggling group agreed immediately, thinking that they could make the smuggling of cotton cloth bigger and stronger.

However, the smugglers also hoped that Dashun could actively adapt to the special situation of the European smuggling market, and gave Dashun an idea.

The smugglers gave an example, saying that China's currency, the main currency is silver, and the subsidiary currency is copper coins, so can copper coins be counterfeited?

Dashun said that it is definitely possible, but if caught, they will be beheaded.

The Dutch smugglers asked, what if more copper is added, and the coins are the same as the real ones?

Dashun said that if the coins are the same as the real ones, they will not make any money at all. The purpose of counterfeiting is to add more cheap tin and lead. If the coins are the same as the real ones, what can they make?

The Dutch smugglers said, "You can't make real copper coins. Then can't you make fake cotton cloth of the style allowed by the UK? Or, isn't the quality of what you make the same, but the cost is cheaper than the style of cotton cloth they allow?

If the fake money is made more real than the real money and contains the same copper, how can you tell whether it is fake or real?

The Dutch smugglers believed that Dashun's cotton cloth would certainly sell well and could also be sold in the European market. But it was mainly the Central European market, especially the Holy Roman market, which was the traditional sphere of influence of Dutch merchants, so there was no problem.

But smuggling in the UK was a bit troublesome and easy to arouse vigilance.

Dashun's cotton cloth was of too good quality, and it was obviously oriental cotton cloth at first glance. The UK now also produces blended cotton cloth, but the quality is very poor, and it is obviously British at first glance.

The Dutch smugglers said that they could provide a full set of technical support, and Dashun could invest in a special "counterfeiting" factory to specialize in producing inferior British cotton cloth in Manchester.

As long as they can guarantee a lower price than Manchester, they can use fakes to defeat the real ones. The British will have no choice at that time, either to accept cotton or to give up cotton and wear wool.

But in the eyes of Dutch smugglers, cotton replacing wool is a mighty historical trend, and those who follow it will prosper and those who go against it will perish. Therefore, once Britain chooses to abandon the newly introduced Manchester Cotton Act, the British textile industry will be completely finished, and it will not be able to stop the dumping of Dashun cotton at that time.

The Dutch smugglers said that of course these good cotton cloths can still be sold. But in the long run, this kind of fake goods that are indistinguishable from the real ones will first destroy the British cotton textile industry, which has just started, and then there will be great profits in the future.

Since Dashun is not short of money, and Dashun's craftsmen are famous in Europe [Chinese craftsmen can imitate the crafts shown to them by Europeans with amazing talents, and they can skillfully imitate any pattern provided to them], then counterfeiting is not a problem at all.

This kind of counterfeiting is not easy to detect.

The cotton cloth from Songjiang Prefecture is as conspicuous as a Chinese spy in Britain, and it is too easy to be caught.

This thing is different from tea. Tea is smaller and easier to hide. Moreover, they also have the smuggling network in the inland, which can ensure that the whole journey is unimpeded.

It can be sold from London to Philadelphia.

But the cloth is too conspicuous. A carriage can carry hundreds of kilograms of tea, but not much cotton cloth. It is easy to enter by sea, but it is not easy to pass the checkpoints on land.

If Dashun can imitate the inferior cotton cloth of Britain, then they can ensure that these cotton cloths are transported all over Britain.

Moreover, it will not make Dashun lose much money.

Because the good cotton cloth of Songjiang Prefecture is still cheaper than the inferior cotton cloth of Manchester. And the fake inferior cotton cloth made by Dashun will sell for about the same price as the good cotton cloth.

In the Central European market, there is no need to worry that the fake cotton cloth will damage the sales of good cotton cloth. If the price is the same, only fools will buy inferior cotton cloth.

But in the UK, due to the ban on cotton, good cotton is easy to be checked and inferior cotton is easier to transport.

Smugglers believe that cotton is different from money. If cotton is made the same as Manchester, it is impossible to tell the real from the fake.

And they proudly say that they have all kinds of stamps and tax stamps.

The French use "tin-lead locks" at customs. Boxes must be sealed with special lead seals to avoid smuggling. When the customs seals the boxes, they use tin-lead alloy to make special marks.

But the French have just released a new anti-counterfeiting tin-lead lock this month, and they have a corresponding model here.

Not to mention the British side, they can get the bills and stamps of cotton cloth.

But the key is that Songjiang cloth is obviously imported, and it is indeed not easy to get on land.

Tea is not only small in size, but the British have regular tea. As long as the procedures are complete, do you say it is smuggled tea or legal tea? They look the same.

But the British do not have legal, large-scale sales of pure cotton cloth.

So it is better for Dashun to change its thinking. It is not feasible to make inferior fakes, not to rely on good quality and low price.