Xinshun 1730

Chapter 1155 Many Divergent Roads, Today Is Here ([-])
However, history has proven that he is a good household secretary, but a geopolitical and strategic idiot.

Of course, sometimes, it is impossible to look at the problem through the fog of history.

If you don't look at the situation in France at this moment from the perspective of Zhuge Liang in the future, Ma Chaoert's choice cannot be wrong.

In North America, because of Liu Yu's intervention, the result of the ginseng war is that France still holds the advantage of North America's trade with China.

Tobacco, corn, etc. in the British colonies cannot be exchanged in Dashun Tiaomao.

At this time, the cotton production in the British colonies was actually only a few hundred thousand catties, and there was no large-scale cotton cultivation.

On the other hand, in France, ginseng, dongzhu, and mink are all hard currencies at this time, and they can really be exchanged for things from Dashun.

Therefore, Washington hacked the French envoy to death. Even if the French officer over there was the elder brother of the hacked messenger, they could only capture Washington and force him to write a letter of guarantee and confession—because France did not want to fight.

People who have already taken advantage of it, why do they fight?free?
If France wants to fight, the fact that Washington hacked the messenger is an excuse for nothing.

When British and French newspapers spread to Dashun, Liu Yu only glanced at the calibers on both sides, and knew who wanted to fight and who didn't want to fight.

India.

The British East India Company has enough profits in India and can sell a large amount of Indian goods back home.

The British East India Company was a comprador at this time, so it made money.

Both the king and the nobles have shares, so on the one hand, the ban on cotton cloth does not hinder making money on the other hand.

France began to control the economy from Colbert, and the mercantilism was too deep.

The tariffs are very strict.

One thing to note is that the dominance of Sino-Western trade is now in the hands of Dashun.And Dashun would not just do nothing to provoke France, but insisted on smuggling to France.

This is one point.

Tea, the French and coffee, few people drink tea, because the coffee planting industry is the national industry of France in the colonies.This is to support the national economy.

Ceylon, India, and Assam did not produce tea at this time.

Tea was produced in these places. Historically, it was not until the end of 1848 that Robert Fortney won the favor of the monks in the monk temple in Wuyi Mountain by debating the scriptures. Stolen and started growing in Ceylon, Assam etc.

And silk...

Indeed, India produces silk.Turkey also produces silk.Persia also produced silk.Mexico also produces silk.Even France itself planted mulberry trees to raise silkworms.

But French silk is a high-end silk manufacturing industry.

Therefore, France cannot use Indian silk, Turkish silk, Mexican silk or Persian silk.

Can only use Dashunhu silk - this is the same reason as Liu Yukeng's death of Guangzhou's textile industry. Cantonese brocade cannot use local silk, only Jiangnan high-quality silk - silk is a luxury, and it must not be used if it can be used well. It is inferior, because people who can afford to wear silk will not try to be cheap, which is determined by the characteristics of luxury goods: they are all nobles with heads and faces, and at palace balls, other people's wives wear high-quality silk, while yours wears low-end silk. Silk, it might as well not go.

Therefore, India is an embarrassing existence here in France.

France can't make money in India, at least not in trade.

There are no very necessary raw materials, and the raw silk is unqualified, so you can’t buy Indian rice and ship it to Paris, right?Parisians eat steamed buns, not rice.

The most profitable trade line in France is to exchange ginseng from North America for raw silk from Dashun, then weave the raw silk from Dashun into high-end French silk, and then sell the high-end silk.

Does this trade line have a dime relationship with India?

This is the reality facing France.

At this point in time, it can be clearly said that there is only one person in the world, only Liu Yu, who is convinced that India will become a vast cotton cloth market and cotton producing area.

The British did not believe that India would become a market.

Can't believe it at all.

The tariffs on cotton cloth are all over the top, and the domestic textile industry is still under pressure. Tell me that India will become a cotton cloth consumer market in the future?Do you have a fever?
This is to sell coal to Datong, sell salt to Haizhou, sell soybeans to the Northeast, sell tea to Fujian, and sell porcelain to Jingdezhen.

It seems magical, but it is not.

After getting rid of the ideological stamp, we must recognize the reality that before 1800, India's cotton textile industry beat the whole of Western Europe.

After seeing this reality clearly, France's choice may not be wrong.

The reason why the British East India Company can make profits in India is not because the British are so smart, but because the British East India Company has the opportunity to be a comprador.

And the French East India Company really wanted to be a comprador but couldn’t. They had no money and lost money all day long. Before 1765, even the Swedish East India Company and the Danish East India Company made money. Why did the French East India Company lose money?

Because of Protestant Catholicism?Sanctioned by Dashun against Denmark, Catholicism is more devout than France.

Because of mercantilist free trade?In order to evade the country's mercantilist laws, the Swedish East India Company burned the accounts all day long, and even sank the Gothenburg by itself in order to make false accounts.

Because there is no pioneering spirit?Before Liu Yu asked France to learn from Donglu trade products, the French themselves set up a special South American smuggling route, just to buy goods from China in exchange for South American silver.

In fact, because the foundation of handicraft industry in France is better than that of Denmark and Sweden, it is much better.

Moreover, the commercial bourgeoisie in France are a bunch of weak chickens, and dare not publicly publish such high-level theories as "On the release of tariffs and large imports of oriental cotton cloth are beneficial to all French people". , Guaranteeing the country's industry" such low theory.

Judging from these issues, it may not be a wrong choice for the French to choose to maintain peace in India and achieve peace through strategic tolerance and humiliation.

However, the reality is not wishful thinking.

I don't want to fight, others want to beat me, so I give in and retreat, others will not beat me... With this kind of thinking, it is really not unfair to label Ma Chaoerte as a stupid minister.

Du Feng, as the governor of Ceylon in Dashun, personally, has high and low evaluations of Duplex.

To say that he is tall is because Du Feng thinks that this man is really good at vertical and horizontal skills, and his strategy is basically right: whether he is the first to think of training Indian soldiers in India, or thinks that he can use India's festival to reduce the chaos of disputes to a small amount. The elite influence the war, or think about collecting salt tax and land tax in India instead of doing business, or even win over the Indian maharaja Jiedushi to directly participate in the coup to gain a strategic advantage...all are very powerful.

It is said that he is low because he is full of strategy, and he does not have a tactical genius under his command to help him complete the strategy.Moreover, there is no support from the DPRK and China, and it is so easy to hope that the naval fleet will come to support it. After two days of bad mouth, they can break up with the fleet commander.

Strategically, today the Deccan Jiedu envoy is fighting a coup, and Duplex seized the opportunity to enter the second and third counties; tomorrow he will support the Hydera Bus Jiedu envoy to compete for the title of Karnadic Jiedu envoy Gained an ally; he supported a puppet in the future, and in return became the deputy governor south of the Krishna River to rule in a legitimate way.

Tactically, these allies had an army of 15000 at every turn, besieged a castle of 600 people, and could not take it down after two months of fighting; allies with an army of 8000 at every turn were defeated by 1500 on the opposite side.Even the company of the Guards Grenadier Regiment in the UK has begun to transfer here, and the French cabinet is still thinking about transferring back to Duplex in exchange for 20 years of peace...

As a result, the strategy has been winning and winning, and the tactics have been losing and losing, and finally a draw.

But until now, the strategy is still dominant, and the initiative is still in the hands of the French. As long as a certain amount of support is given, the initiative to make troubles is still on Duplex's side.

Now Duplex has been recalled by the King of France, and it is said that the order is very strict [If you don't obey the order, you will be arrested directly].

For Du Feng, who was thinking about becoming a Marquis, this was a happy event in the world.

The current situation of France in India is entirely supported by Duplex alone, and many alliances are maintained by him.

Or, he and his wife.

Duplex married a widow in order to establish a good relationship with the local prince.

A diplomatic heartthrob widow who is good at dancing and has a sharp mind.

Who is the man named Gordon who airborne over now, who does the local prince think he is?When the French were most needed, the governor was replaced, so why didn't I vote for Britain?

The situation of France in India is that there is no system, and it is all supported by one person. The standard person dies and the government rests.

People in Dashun know the meaning and characteristics of death and political interest very well.

If you change someone, the situation will collapse directly.

Now this person is going to leave soon, Du Feng said a lot of regret, but in fact, [-]% of his strength is in keeping his facial expression from showing ecstasy.

Because from the perspective of Dashun's strategy, what does the transfer of Duplex prove?
It proves that the French have fallen into the trap planned by Liu Yu to make France spend its energy in the Americas and give up India when necessary.

It also proves that Liu Yu did not engage in France's controlled economy and high tariffs, but instead favored France a lot, collecting French ginseng and mink fur, so that France, knowing that it was unable to maintain more blooms, took the initiative to choose North America, but actually gave up India.

As long as the French are not completely defeated in India, Dashun will have no way to make a move in India.

Dashun must maintain a good relationship with France, at least until the end of World War I, they must be allies.

For India, it can only be that France can't hold on, and at the cost of India, which can't hold on anyway, Dashun can only enter if Dashun sends troops.

The French may have thought very well, Dashun is next to them, and there is a garrison in Ceylon.

Let Dashun be the mediator, Britain and France will maintain the current status in India, and no one will take the initiative to cause trouble.

The idea is good.

the reality is cruel.

Because whether to interfere, whether to send troops, is in the hands of Dashun.

And Dashun didn't need to sign a secret contract with the UK, just a few hints, and the UK would make a "correct" judgment: Dashun would not intervene.

Duplex's idea is to eat India and collect poll tax, salt tax and land tax.

The problem is that it loses money in the short term, and there is no profit at all, and it is losing money every day; while in North America, there are boatloads of ginseng and mink fur Dongzhu, which are shipped to Dashun to exchange for money and lake silk.

Which is important?

The choice of the French is actually correct.

Including the cakes that Liu Yu painted for Emperor Dashun, they also painted the Indian salt tax, small tax, and mu tax.

When Liu Yu painted cakes for the emperor, he always painted cakes from the perspective of feudal nobles and feudal monarchs.

I have never exported a big piece of capitalist pie to the feudal emperor. The railway cake is to make it easier for the emperor to rule and suppress; the bank cake is to let the emperor confiscate all the bank deposits when necessary; the mining cake , It is to solve the problem of the Xishan coal mine in the capital that is a headache for the emperor.

The problem is that before Liu Yu painted this cake for the emperor, he first used the Trojan horse trick.

With the help of the Dutch, tens of thousands of Han people went to Ceylon, and a rebel army was also created.

The tens of thousands of Han Chinese in Ceylon were the first prerequisite for Emperor Dashun to accept Liu Yu's painting.

This big pie began to spread when the Persian civil strife, the switch to Japan, and the great development of the Caribbean sugar industry triggered the crisis of relative excess sugar production in Java.

Dashun is really going to the Indian subcontinent with a bathtub, and there are tens of thousands of rebels.

And it was a sincere army of volunteers—the Dutch used whips, jackfruit, and harsh punishments to complete the resettlement of Chinese immigrants in Ceylon before Dashun went to Nanyang. It is famous for Jiemin's upside down.

And the ruler of Dashun, taking history as a mirror, understands how easy it is to enter the arena when an empire collapses and various envoys fight each other.

Because Dashun's history books recorded too many stories like this - the story of the collapse of the centralization of power, the Jiedu envoys fighting in chaos, and looking for their father everywhere.

So Liu Yu said that the centralization of power in India has collapsed, and the Jiedu envoys are fighting among themselves and the feudal towns are divided. Only three to five thousand elite soldiers are enough to obtain great benefits.

Of course the emperor believed it, that's what was written in the history books, why didn't he believe it?

However, why did the King of France believe in the big pie painted by Duplex?

The corpse of the Mughal Empire is still there, just dead, and it seems to be still hot. How can the King believe that hundreds or thousands of people can solve the legacy of this huge empire?
Do French history books record the story of the rebellion of Jiedushi's feudal towns after the collapse of centralization?
Duplex said, give me 20 years, 2000 regular troops, and four battleships, and I will return you a land that is seven or eight times larger than the French mainland, rich, and can collect [-] million taels of silver a year. Taxes of India.

Why did the king believe it?
Liu Yu said, if you manage well in North America, dig ginseng, pick pearls, and hunt mink, I will give you millions of taels of trade every year.

Why does the king not believe it?
At the moment when Liu Yu sent Mi Ziming to visit Sweden to send prisoners of war, passed through Batavia to intimidate the Netherlands, and forced the Netherlands to move Chinese to Ceylon.

Britain and France have already lost in temple calculations.

Britain still has a chance to make amends, which is to give up India, replace the Netherlands, and cooperate with China and Britain to carve up the world.The British did not choose, so it is impossible for the British to get India.

France accepted Liu Yu’s kindness at the beginning, and used ice cubes as ballast stones to transport ginseng and mink fur to Dashun; Nanyang came, which overwhelmed the moment when Korean ginseng was overwhelmed.France is also doomed not to choose India, but America.

Now it seems.

More than 20 years ago, the dire prophecy of historical theology that Viscount Bolingbroke muttered - the agrarian and centralized Roman Empire that destroyed Carthage's maritime commercial civilization - was not France.

(End of this chapter)