Xinshun 1730

Chapter 1411 The Last Step of the Yellow River Problem ([-])
He told the adjutant that when he and his father came to the west to explore, they heard the panic in Spanish and the destruction of the Villasur expedition that the Indians remembered clearly. He just wanted to say, don’t be delusional.

If we say that a regular army of 5000 people can determine the ownership of New France and the Great Lakes region.

Then, a regular army of 100 people can determine the ownership of the western Great Plains at this time.

But it's useless to beat it down.

At least before that, on the map of France, the drawing was very large, covering the entire western region.

However, after the war ended a few years ago, during the actual negotiations, Dashun did not recognize the French map at all.

By the time the boundary survey was completed this year, the French had already understood why they didn't draw the meridians directly.

Because of the surge in population in this new Yizhou county, Dashun moved eastward to a large extent when the boundary was finally drawn, and the French could only recognize it.

The discovery of gold deposits on the west coast has spread throughout Europe.

But, nothing works.

Britain, with its large population, is blocked by France and Spain.

France and Spain, with small populations, are simply unable to do this.

Perhaps, now it seems that a hundred years or hundreds of years later, the Great Plains will belong to the Chinese Empire sooner or later.Or maybe, one day in the future, war will break out between China, France, and China and the West because of the colonies.

But, right now, it's pointless to think about this.We can only watch helplessly as the demarcation of Dashun is over and the "Sino-French Fusang Boundary Treaty" is completely signed. This is the first colonial treaty signed in Europe that does not take "the land of a non-Christian country is found and occupied" as a legal principle. .

Now the boundary treaty, which has been delayed for five or six years, has finally been signed, and Villandry can finally come to Xinyizhou as the commander of the guards in western France to talk about some serious matters.

It should be said that the wonderful trade cycle between China and France in the past few years has been quite successful.

From Hudson Bay in the north to St. Louis in the south, fur and ginseng trade in the vast area, and potato shochu in Dashun has become the largest trade product.

The amount of this trade volume is quite huge.

There is no American ginseng in the Xinyizhou area. The production area of ​​American ginseng and beaver skin are highly overlapped, and it is just stuck between the Appalachian Mountains and the Dashun reclamation land below the Great Lakes.

Like the potato wine in history, various blended wines using potato wine as raw materials began to appear on a large scale.Blended fake sugar wine, blended fake wine, these things can only use the potato wine from Dashun. Because of the distillation technology, the potato wine here has very low fusel alcohol, and it is not easy to taste the taste after blending.

Because of this, the degree can be high or low, and the taste can be adjusted by adding lead, sugar and grape marc, so that in just a few years, it has completely replaced the original various high-priced and inconvenient transportation in the fur trade area of ​​France. liquor.

Of course, from a moral point of view, not only some religious morals of the Catholic Church, but also the traditional morals of Dashun, this matter is also quite immoral-although Dashun will not force out "special grapes" Juice is not wine" is such a weird saying, but alcoholism has always been criticized morally.

People don't have much resistance to alcohol.And these Indians who did not have a large-scale agricultural foundation that could make wine before had no resistance to wine at all.

But economically speaking... Since France began to expel the Huguenots, these handicraft-based Protestants have spread the fashion of fur hats throughout Europe.The huge profits of the fur trade made European colonists, especially French colonists, begin to go deep into the jungles and mountains to trade with the Indians.

In the same way, because of the trade foundation they "laid", Dashun's potato wine is actually similar to the situation of Dashun's cotton cloth in West Africa: the sad cloth used to refer to Indian cloth; The cloth of sorrow refers to Dashun indigo-dyed cotton cloth.

Perhaps, we should be "thanks" to these early trade pioneers, they came up with a trade system, and the result of Dashun's participation in World War I did not reshape the trade system, but replaced the "producer" status, still Borrowed from this trading system.

This, of course, also includes the new Yizhou potato shochu.

Huge profits——Historically, the fur ginseng trade between the United States and the Qing Dynasty once reached an astonishing profit margin of 1500% gross profit. This profit margin refers to the cost of buying wine and the total cost of buying tea after selling it The price ratio makes the potato liquor industry in Xinyizhou fully fulfill Liu Yu's idea of ​​formal modern colonialism.

When Villandry officially stepped into Xinshaofu City on the north bank of the Bow River, what caught his eye was such an industrial and commercial city with the shochu industry as its core.

On the outskirts of the city is a huge mule and horse market.

The cattle and horses driven by the cowboys on the east coast, and the livestock industry developed in Dashun in recent years are all traded outside the city.

The main trade item for trading mules, horses and cattle with the east coast is wine.

After entering the city gate, you can smell the strong smell of alcohol on the street.

The city is divided into four districts.

Dock area.

winemaking area.

Cooperage and other carpentry areas.

Residential.

This place is different from Jinshan, where Liu Yu thought about relying on continuous fires and rebuilding to promote the development of Fenglin Bay's timber industry. The city here was strictly planned from the beginning.

Jinshan can be burned and rebuilt, and built and then burned. It can also promote the circulation of gold and silver and promote the development of Fenglinwan industry.

From the very beginning, this place has existed as a military stronghold and a trade center, and it is not a gold mining area. If it really burns down, it will be troublesome to build.

Therefore, the city is not big, but it is extremely neat.

Historically, the place where this city is located has experienced very serious violence against Chinese.Because of a smallpox, it is said that it broke out first in the Chinese area, so the white people here used this as an excuse to beat, smash, rob, and burn the Chinese.

But now, this kind of thing is impossible to happen.War is inevitable, but at least it will not break out here, and the front line will obviously be at least hundreds of kilometers or even thousands of miles away.

The first pioneers, now basically the same as the first comers on the east coast of North America, have become the upper class here.But the difference is that the east coast is dominated by large plantations and land speculators; while here, land speculation has been strangled from the very beginning, and the upper class supported are all engaged in industry and commerce.

The first batch of pioneers did have more than two years of hard life.

When they came here, they didn't have any food in their pockets, and the seeds were strictly guarded and not allowed to move.

Relying on fishing, hunting, paddling canoes to pick wild rice in autumn, finding fish on ice in winter, trading dried meat with Indians, rationing system, poor clothing so that winter shoes are made of reed wool...

It's been so hard for two years. After all, the wife and children were put as hostages in Fenglinwan, and there are all young and strong laborers here.Furthermore, it was so difficult when I came here, there was no place to run here, and I couldn’t go back, and my wife and children were still held there as hostages. Even if it was difficult, I could only survive.

It wasn't until the food was self-sufficient, the prototypes of the walled city were built, and the amount of cultivated land and grain storage could accommodate new immigrants, that there was no vitality here.

However, here, the process of history is accelerated.

The historical gathering of villages into towns has industry and commerce.

Here, being accelerated as the new batch of immigrants can guarantee food, industrial and commercial reforms began.

Through imperial support and other methods, the original accumulation was quickly completed, and more than 40 various industrial and commercial cooperatives quickly seized key industries such as wine making, cooperage, wood processing, and shipbuilding and transportation.

Although the scale was small at the beginning, from the very beginning it was aimed at smashing the traditional handicraft mode and going directly to the division of labor handicraft workshop.

From upstream wood processing, to downstream shipbuilding hoop barrels, to brewing potatoes, under the intervention and support of the government, the process of step-by-step development of the handicraft industry was directly canceled.

Instead, a new school of technical personnel was adopted, integrated into local cooperatives, and [-] households started to hire new migrants.

To put it simply, one step is in place, directly turning technicians into capitalists.However, through the cooperative model, the interests of local people and technical personnel are entangled together, and the joint management is a model in which dividends are distributed according to shares and ownership belongs to a small circle of collectives.

In return for the first batch of "pioneers", the cooperatives of the first batch of pioneers approved a large amount of wasteland as collective assets.

This also makes the third batch of new immigrants have to go through a process of digging potatoes in the field, or going to the mountains to cut trees, or to saw planks.After completing this process, you can earn money, buy land, and transform from a propertyless wage laborer to a petty bourgeois owner farmer with a hundred acres of land.

Relying on this method, the rapid development has been completed like the east coast relying on black slaves.

However, there are some differences between this place and the gold mining area west of Dashi Mountain.

Because of the military and geographical significance here, the imperial court provided subsidies here, including immigration subsidies.The subsidy is on the boat ticket, remigration through the mountain pass, etc.

It is precisely because of this kind of subsidy and the policy of forcing the social relationship of capital to maintain that this place has rapidly grown into the number one city in the upper reaches of North American rivers in just five or six years.

Of course, Villandry is emotional about this, because in just five or six years, the population here has actually surpassed that of Montreal, the French notification center in North America, which has been operating for more than 100 years.

It is also because he knows the situation of France on the east coast, so he has no idea of ​​provoking a war.Even if it is said that Dashun has "cut off the Hu" on the issue of fur trade, he doesn't want to argue about it.

In any case, he saw in his heart that the development and population here were incomparably contradictory.

As far as personal interests are concerned, in fact, only speaking of personal interests, he and the Dutch East India Company have the same mentality of not welcoming the Dutch to Nanyang.

He also wanted as few French as possible.The fewer people there are, the less people will compete with him for the fur business, and the more profitable he will be.The more people, the more troublesome, especially the natives.

Whether it is smuggling, private collection of furs, new companies playing side-by-side trade, etc., they will be hard to guard against.This point, when the Dutch were in Nanyang, they had a lot of experience, so that private businessmen almost controlled Japan's copper trade for a while.

But if you add the consciousness of nationality, country, etc... it must be that the more immigrants in the country, the better.

It's just that, obviously, you can't expect a North American fur and ginseng tycoon trained by Liu Yu to have such noble feelings.

(End of this chapter)