Xinshun 1730

Chapter 1135
Excluding the overall appeal of wanting to institutionalize the imperial power as a dog, the rest of the appeals are different.

If this interest group formed by military aristocrats and foreign businessmen is defined as a chaebol group with the characteristics of Dashun, there are probably such a few big chaebol groups.

And the respective appeals of the great chaebol groups are exactly the specific content that Liu Yu wants to hear, not the general institutionalization of being a dog.

These appeals, which are closely related to their respective interests, are very "coincidentally" in line with Dashun's diplomatic attitude about participating in foreign wars.

After Liu Yu listened to the appeals of their respective interest groups one by one, he knew it well.It was basically certain that Dashun's war machine was ready to start.

The first to express their demands was the Jinghai Monopoly Privilege Company, which was closely related to the fact that Liu Yu wrote to Cheng Tingzuo, asking them to send people to Honolulu.

That is to say, after the war, the Whale Sea monopoly and privileged company that is closely related to Russia's foreign policy.

Their demands are very interesting.

Just two requests.

One is to establish a supply base in Honolulu, which can provide food for their activities such as whaling and skinning on the northeastern coast of America.

The other is to hope that the imperial court can abolish the trade ports in the Mobei area and transfer all land trade with Rakshasa to the Heilongjiang area.

It sounds like their company is hostile to the Raksha fur merchants.

In fact it is.

But after these years of competition, this hostile relationship has quietly changed, because the Rakshasa completely lost their qualifications to compete in the Arctic and the Americas.

Liu Yu's many policies when he was the envoy of Jinghai Jiedu made Dashun ahead of Luocha for many years.

After many years of competition, the Raksha people completely failed in the competition of the sea animal fur circle.

After some "pirates" and "aboriginal uprisings" destroyed the Luocha people's shipbuilding stronghold in Kamchatka, Dashun's Whale Sea Fur Company has completely taken control.

Just like when Dashun went to Nanyang to fight against the Netherlands, it was to let the Netherlands and Dashun have a basis for cooperation.

Many things in the Whale Sea region have the same logic.

After the Raksha people completely lost their fur dominance in the extremely cold area, the relationship between Dashun's Whale Sea Fur Company and the Raksha fur merchants has a basis for cooperation.

Of course, if they hadn't lost their dominance in the extreme cold area, this kind of cooperation would be out of the question, and they would be endless enemies.Just like Dashun and the Netherlands after taking Nanyang, compared with Dashun and the Netherlands before they went to Nanyang.

In short, in order to divert misfortune to the west, Liu Yu put aside some of his benefits and tried to get Sweden, Luocha, and Dashun to work together to directly bring goods from the East into the Baltic Sea. For this reason, he even strangled the Danish East India Company.

It also opened up a trade route from Songjiang to Petersburg directly, which made the court and nobles of Raksha leave aside the merchants of Raksha and monopolize the trade of tea and rhubarb in Raksha.

For Dashun, this matter is nothing more than the difference between tea going through the Baikal trade route or the sea trade route.

For Rakshasa, it was an internal reshuffle of spoils.

That is, the female tsar and some new nobles robbed the rhubarb and tea profits that controlled the Baikal trade line.

The center of the tea, rhubarb and silk industries in the Raksha State is no longer Irkutsk on the shore of Lake Baikal.

Instead, it was transferred to Petersburg.

For Dashun, it is of course beneficial.

The westward interest of the Rakshasa people has fully overwhelmed the eastward interest, and a reshuffle has been completed within the Rakshasa nobles.

With the victory of the Whale Sea Trading Company in the extremely cold region, the Dongjin merchants completely gave up the idea of ​​going east to America.

Rakshasa's current national strength cannot support such a large-scale expansion.

It can only rely on the power of scattered merchants.

However, the scattered merchant power cannot compete with Dashun, which has advantages in terms of capital, distance, supplies, and sailors.

Now, the contradiction is thrown back to Dashun internally.

The Raksha people have no chance for sea dragon skins and seal skins by the sea. Dashun's capital group has already established several trading points on the northwest coast of America.

And learned the practices of the Tunguska Cossacks, Tatar Cossacks, Buddhist Cossacks, and Muslim Cossacks of the Raksha people, and attracted many local aborigines.

It is true to learn from barbarians to master skills to control barbarians.

However, they can't get sea dragon skins and the like, but they can always get the rest of Siberia's fur.

After getting it, it was originally traded in Kyakta in history. After all, China ate most of the low-end furs and exchanged them for tea.

Now, this group of people still trades in the Baikal region.

This made Whale Sea Trading Company very unhappy.

Because, these furs can also be purchased by the monopoly company of Whale Sea.

The Raksha people's fur processing technology is very poor, so the profit is extremely high.

But now, the profits from collecting furs from the Raksha people and then transporting them to wealthy areas for sale are taken up by the Shanxi Merchants Group who take the Mongolian line.

Of course, the capital group in Songjiang was very upset.

Of course, the Whale Sea monopoly company wants to eat the existing profits, but it also wants the profits in the Baikal region. It thinks that it is better to open the mouth of the Heilongjiang River, so that the goods of the Raksha people can be transported by water more conveniently at the mouth of the Heilongjiang River. trade.

Originally, it was definitely not possible, because it involved the Raksha people.

The Raksha people must have been willing to trade in the Baikal region before, because one-way trade does not make money.

Transporting the furs to Lake Baikal and exchanging them for tea rhubarb in Lake Baikal, this time and again, is the real money.

Otherwise, like some merchant ships of Dashun, they want to be "compradors" but fail. If silver is not regarded as goods but as currency, theoretically, it will always only have half the profit.

But now, the effect of Liu Yu's participation in the coup in Petersburg is also showing.

The result of bringing Sweden and Raksha people into the group is that sea transport has defeated land transport; the interests of nobles within Raksha have completed a reshuffle.

Luocha’s new maritime trade interest group began to actively restrict the trade of tea rhubarb in the Baikal region, because newcomers replaced old ones, and now it is the upstarts in Petersburg who control the profits of tea rhubarb, not the group of people in old Moscow.

Theoretically, those fur merchants in the Raksha Kingdom can only sell one-way trips, because they can no longer get the right to operate the rhubarb and tea trade.

The nobles in the background failed internally, and the power of the Rakshasa merchant class was also weak.

This made Songsu Capital Group's Jinghai Trading Company see an opportunity to move Shanxi merchants to get fur from the Raksha people, allowing their company to completely monopolize the fur trade in North Asia and Northwest North America.

However, these people also understand the art of speaking.

The reasons for the appeal given, every word and every sentence, are all for the sake of the court.

The first reason is that the trade with Mongolia cannot be stopped, which is inevitable.Those in Mongolia also need tea, rhubarb, etc.

Therefore, it is impossible to supervise the trend of tea, rhubarb and the like.After all, going to Mongolia to trade and trading with the Raksha people on Lake Baikal are the same route.

This has the problem of "rampant smuggling, resulting in less tariffs for the court".

Therefore, for the sake of the imperial court, His Majesty's tariff silver, and the national treasury, Whale Sea Trading Company believes that the trade port in the Baikal region should be cancelled.

The second is the Mongolian region, which has always been a major problem for the imperial court in the north.

Although it is controlled now, the opening of trade there will surely deepen the connection between the Raksha people and the tribes in Mobei, Mongolia.

It may be a disaster in the future.

On the contrary, if the trade port is moved to the river area of ​​Heilongjiang, it will be of great benefit to the imperial court.

Because of itself, a trade port was established in the northern tributary of the upper reaches of Heilongjiang, but the two ports have been opened together in recent years, and there has always been smuggling there, so the trade port here has not played a very good role in promoting immigration through business. Effect.

Of course, this is also because the Whale Sea Trading Company won a big victory in the sea animal fur competition, which essentially made the meaning of the Heilongjiang Estuary, which allowed the Raksha people to transport fur west along the river, to disappear.

If the ports in the Mobei Mongolian region can be closed and all the low-end fur trade in the Raksha Kingdom can be transferred to the trading ports in Heilongjiang, it will help some people who immigrated from the dynasty to form villages and towns along the river to provide food for business travelers.

In the end, they gathered together and achieved the effect of emigrating to the frontier.

Otherwise, who would travel so far to live.

This is in line with the imperial court's plan to immigrate to the border.

As for the Mobei Mongolian region, immigration is pure nonsense. No one wants to go to that poor place, and it is quite inconvenient. It is not as realistic as the border area densely covered with the Heilongjiang River Basin.

The third point is that it can completely cut off the smuggling of rhubarb and tea on the Mobei line.

Cutting off the smuggling of rhubarb tea leaves will not bring much benefit to the Raksha people going east.After all, only relying on that little fur, if there is no smuggling of rhubarb tea, the profit will definitely drop.

And with declining profits, there is even less motivation to develop eastward.

The huge benefits of sea transportation have already given the Raksha people a taste of the sweetness, which also makes them more aspiring to go west, which is really beneficial to the court.

Although...although their original idea is that the Shanxi merchants are envious of the Siberian fur trade profits of the Raksha people.

Although...although in fact, their original idea is to take these fur profits into their own hands.

However, it does not mean that their demands "are all from the perspective of the court and the country" are unreasonable.

Whether it is from the perspective of the westward expansion and eastward expansion of Rakshasa; or from the perspective that it is impossible for Dashun to complete immigrant assimilation in the Mobei area, on the contrary, Heilongjiang area is very possible; contact and so on.

It really makes sense.

Cutting off the smuggling of rhubarb and tea will reduce Dongjin's profits; the fur profits in extremely cold regions have also been snatched by Jinghai Company.

In essence, this has indeed greatly affected the interest of the Rakshasa merchant group to go east. The profits have been decreasing year by year, and there is no interest in running so far without profit.

Now Dashun is taking the initiative to pull Luocha into the shipping trade group, and the results are showing year by year. The situation in the northern border area is more and more beneficial to Dashun.

After listening to the demands of this group, Liu Yu smiled secretly, thinking that those who are close to vermilion are those who are red and those who are close to ink are black.

This is a good thing.

It proves that these businessmen are becoming more and more mature, at least in words, they implement the nature that foreign businessmen are beneficial to the country.

No matter what they really think, the key is to master this set of words and understand the connotation of the "scriptures". What they say can unify personal interests and the righteousness of the country, which proves that they have at least become a political force. The basics.

If you want to become a political force, or enter the political arena, even if you enter the political arena as a vassal, you need money and power, but you still have to talk about politics after all.

Regardless of whether these things are true or not, at least if they can justify themselves, if they can say it well, if they can say it righteously, but it is not a simple businessman's emphasis on profit, then he has taken a crucial step.

That's right, they just want to get the Siberian fur profits of Shanxi merchants, and they are really jealous.

However, it must be said that this is for the country, for the country, for the country, and for the court.

Liu Yu was still very satisfied with this request, and he praised it a few words. He felt that he had made a good start, made a sample, and really understood how the new classic called economics was used.

Then they inquired about the appeals of the consortiums engaged in Western trade, cotton cloth trade, and ginseng and fur trade in France, and judged the support of these capital groups after Dashun's war machine was activated. how many.

(End of this chapter)