Xinshun 1730

Chapter 1349 Triangular Trade

Since war is a continuation of politics, and politics is closely related to economics.

Then, after Dashun joined the war, the biggest impact was not the military capture of Gibraltar.

Instead, with Dashun's participation in the war, the entire Atlantic triangle trade system was directly rewritten.

This rewriting of the trading system does not seem to be as grand as the capture of a fortress.

But in reality the impact is much greater.

Take the British slave trade as an example.

The slave trade in Britain and the slave trade in North America are two different lines.Wine is sold in North America, and cloth is sold in the UK.

Originally half of the British slave trade relied on cotton cloth from India and half on blended cotton cloth produced in Lancashire.

Britain has a certain tax rebate and subsidy for cotton cloth produced in Lancashire, and a tax increase for Indian cotton cloth shipped by the East India Company.

The British East India Company is the British East India Company.

British Africa Company, is a British African company.

Britain is a country that needs to be taxed and controlled.

It's not as simple as people think. The East India Company just shipped the cotton cloth to Africa and brought the slaves back.

If you really want to do this, the African Company must join forces with the East India Company.

Moreover, the government has long wanted to clean up the East India Company, at least not to let them be too lawless, so the goods of the East India Company must also abide by the rules and transport the cotton cloth back to the UK.

After taxes are added, the slaves are shipped to Africa by companies and merchants who specialize in buying and selling slaves.

This is the "benefit" of monopoly trade.

Convenient control.

Otherwise, if the trade east of the Cape of Good Hope is really liberalized, let's put it this way, Lancashire's cotton cloth industry will not even have a chance to be born.

Now, Britain has lost India, and the East India Company is dead.

The main fleet was not like in history. A decisive battle crippled the French navy and disintegrated the possibility of landing in France, allowing half of the British navy to monitor France and half to wander in the Atlantic Ocean to gain command of the sea.

In other words, even if Dashun entered the war, it only fought one large-scale naval battle with Britain.

However, its strategic significance is to stare at the British navy, so that the vast ocean is no longer under the control of the British navy.

In a strategic sense, Dashun has achieved its goal.

Landing on the British mainland is the strategic goal of France, not Dashun's.

The strategic purpose of the Dashun Navy was never to help the French gain European hegemony, but to smash the British navigation regulations and trade system.

This does not necessarily require a Trafalgar-level naval battle.

What is needed is that the main fleet is more determined there, while cruise ships, frigates, and heavily loaded sailing ships seize the trade line.

Historically, the Napoleon era had imposed a continental blockade on Britain.

The fundamental reason for its failure is that France's productivity is insufficient, and its productivity level is not enough. It is impossible for one person to provide industrial products for the whole of Europe.

Now, Dashun does not dare to say that it provides industrial products for the whole of Europe, but at least Dashun can drive Britain out of the trading system for most of the commodities in the slave trade and the triangular trade.

This somewhat strange war, which does not seem to be fierce, has been fought until May and June this year. The intuitive manifestation of trade is that the textile industry in Lancashire has collapsed, and the French ban on cotton cloth has been promoted by slave traders and merchant groups. The name survives in name only.

Because, in the slave trade in West Africa in history, the proportion of goods exchanged for slaves was there.

Textiles, accounting for 55%.

Alcohol, accounting for 18%.

Weapons, gunpowder, muskets, swords, etc., accounted for 11%.

The remaining metal products accounted for 5%.

The rest of the trash, such as mirrors, combs, and umbrellas, accounted for 11%.

This ratio is the total ratio, and of course it will vary according to different regions.

For example, in places such as Sierra Leone, where ivory hunting is more developed, the proportion of weapons will increase.

For example, in Gambia and other places, the demand for alcohol is more inclined to wine than rum-this has something to do with the teaching, the teaching issue, wine can bypass the teaching, but rum cannot.

Among textiles, cotton cloth is the main one.In history, one part is Indian cotton cloth, and the other part is the inferior Lancashire blended cotton cloth and the inferior cotton cloth led by the French Ministry of Finance in 59.

You only need to look at the trade product data, and you can clearly know that after Dashun got involved in "World War I", the trade system of the triangle trade will be greatly changed.

Weapons, gunpowder, swords, etc., Dashun will not grab the share of the French.

Metal products... It's hard to say, a lot of it is Swedish iron. In view of the diplomatic relations and the existence of Swedish Chinese companies, this business is not easy to grab.

Not to mention alcohol, Dashun can't help drinking, but it is absolutely impossible to transport alcohol from East Asia to sell.

As for 55% of textiles and 11% of other groceries, which is close to 70%, Dashun can completely eat them all.

However, due to various reasons, it was impossible for the merchants in Dashun to trade slaves.

It has nothing to do with morality.

But Dashun cannot eat alone.

Is it okay to eat alone and monopolize the slave trade by yourself?Compradors who speak for Dashun will become enemies, which will directly promote a new round of industrial self-sufficiency and technological progress in Europe, especially France.

Besides, Dashun has always had a problem, that is, it only eats silver and gold.

Therefore, from a purely commercial point of view, Dashun does not wish to destroy the triangular trade.

Instead, replace the suppliers of "industrial products" in the triangular trade and rewrite the important "producers" in the trade system.

This is still the problem that is so painful.

That is to say, even if Lord Sanbao's fleet came to Europe, it would not be able to develop trade.

Because the silver that Ming wanted was not much in Europe at that time.It was the advent of silver in America that gave birth to world trade.

Even if Lord Sanbao's fleet had arrived in Europe at that time...what were they doing here?

To help the poor?
Use cotton cloth, tea, silk, etc., to exchange the wool here, and ship it back?
The same is the case now.

Dashun shipped a pile of cotton cloth directly to Africa, and why did it go back?Can Africa come up with so much silver and gold?Even if the ivory breaks all the ivory in Africa, can it withstand the trade volume of small cotton commodities in Dashun?

So, in the end, in fact, Dashun threatened people in Philadelphia that it would oppose slavery. Even though it was opposed from a moral point of view, in fact, the businessmen of Dashun had no interest.

It can even be said that Dashun is now a beneficiary of the triangular trade.

The emergence of Dashun did not destroy the triangular trade.

It is just that the producers of "industrial products" in the triangular trade have been transferred from Flanders, Lancashire, Nantes, Engelsburg, Mumbai, Dhaka and other places to Songsu.

This diversion, for Britain, was devastating.

For France, it was the growing triangular trade bloc that hijacked French policies, making France choose the latter between protecting its fledgling textile industry and protecting the huge profits and massive taxes of triangular trade.

At least, the development of the manufacturing industry in several pioneering countries in Europe and the United States has a "painful and turbulent" "trade protection era" or "embargo era".

This is true in all countries.After the founding of the United States, it was the Anglo-French War Napoleon and the Anglo-American War, which forcibly tore apart the merchant group and forced capital to flow to the manufacturing industry.

The French cotton textile industry started because of the British trade blockade against France during the Seven Years War, which caused France to be in short supply of cotton cloth for African trade, which made the cotton textile industry in Nantes and Rouen burst into vitality.

Among them, at this moment, in the field of cotton textiles, the fastest moving is Lancashire in the United Kingdom.

However, with Dashun's participation in the war, Britain was unable to capture Senegal in France, and Dashun squeezed out the East India Company in India.

The cotton industry, which had just begun in Lancashire, was dead.

Before, it was already half-dead, because Liu Yu made this kind of "inferior blended fabric" in Songsu, and faked it with the help of the Dutch.

But now, it directly cut off Lancashire's last breath - the African market.

Dashun experienced Liu Yu's reforms, and also witnessed the decline of Yangzhou City.

And the same story is happening in the UK at this time.

Sixty years ago, the population of Liverpool, with a population of 60, increased tenfold to nearly 6000 due to the triangular trade.

It depends on Manchester, Lancashire, and cotton cloth from the African market.

Dashun began to participate in European trade, which caused the population of Liverpool, which was close to 8, to decline rapidly at an unprecedented rate.

Those who have experienced Dashun's reform are very clear about what it means.Because the salt workers and water tank workers in Yangzhou have already demonstrated it in those years.

Liverpool will not be different from people in Dashun just because they believe in Christianity and read the Bible.

It's all the same, especially when viewed from the perspective of class interests, there is no difference.

And this, in turn, will provide the big landowners and businessmen in North America with another reason to organize taxation and violence.

A new wave of immigration is coming.Because of the sprouting of British industry, it collapsed.

The group of people and landlords who came to the North American continent earlier had a chance to make a fortune.

The price of land is going to increase, as long as you can organize an army and prevent these people from going to the west to reclaim wasteland, then you will make a fortune.

Of course, fortune and misfortune depend on each other.

Crisis is both an opportunity and a danger.

If you don't organize your army and taxes quickly, you may be hanging from a tree.

(End of this chapter)