Xinshun 1730

Chapter 370 Translation Priorities

Li Yan was still digesting these indoctrinations, but Liu Yu didn't give him enough thinking time to digest and understand, but told him to prepare and go to Tianjin with him.

The theories learned in the Jinghai Palace Official Academy are not too much. Normally speaking, they will start their internship on the ship in half a year. This is also the common practice of naval officers from various countries at this time.

It's just that there were too many talents and few warships before, which excessively extended the study time of the theoretical courses of the Jinghai Palace Official School.

It is not a normal course for military cadets at all, but a course arranged according to super-level content such as drawing, measurement, mathematical calculation, ballistics, etc.

This was Li Yan's first time on a warship, and he was a little nervous, worried that he would vomit on board the first time he was on a warship, making others laugh, and it would be difficult to restrain the navy in the future.

But I also knew that if Liu Yu didn't even dare to board a warship, even if Liu Yu left in the future, how could the rebellious naval officers be convinced?I had no choice but to bite the bullet and adopt an attitude of "those who serve in the navy should board the ship themselves".

"Seventh Prince, this trip to Tianjin is not far away. The reason is that the envoys from the Western countries are all gathered in Tianjin. It is necessary for the fleet to come out to frighten them."

"One is to facilitate future trade, and the other is to deter the Dutch. Before I went to Ryukyu, Qi Guogong had already informed the Dutch to send people to Tianjin. Now that they are all here, I am about to put a little pressure on them. "

Li Yan had just been instilled with the truth of "I am not who" and heard about some Dutch trade in Nagasaki. He asked, "Is it to put pressure on the Dutch to prevent them from supporting the Japanese?"

"That's not it."

Liu Yu bared his teeth and smiled, thinking that the Dutch didn’t even have an inter-provincial consul at this time, and the seven provinces were doing their own thing. The East India Company was a company first, and then the Dutch. It is enough to be a spear that breaks the formation. It is mainly the overseas adherents of the Chinese dynasty in Batavia in Nanyang, and this needs to be reasoned with by warships."

Li Yan didn't know anything about Batavia at this time. Liu Yu knew that Li Yan was going to take over the navy in the future, so he told about Batavia's affairs with national history and did not tell Li Yan. The relationship between the local Chinese Jiapitan, Lei Zhenlan, and black household slave labor.

After a few words, Li Yan was already impatient, and he thought why not send a ship to bring back these young children of the Celestial Dynasty?

Although he didn't understand, he didn't ask, he only thought that the court had its own means.

I also thought about going to Tianjin this time, and taking the battleship that was too slow to be marshalled into a cruiser would surely deter the Dutch.

This French 64-gun battleship, which spent a lot of money to practice, is of no use in the East Asian waters at this time. There is no opponent for bombing, and the speed of the ship is too slow.

To scare people can be regarded as the best use of everything.

After three days of booking, if the weather is fine, we will set sail, so I asked Li Yanzi to go back and prepare.

Before sailing, Liu Yu called Mantou in private and inquired carefully about the details of this trip to Sweden.

The two things to be done on the surface have been done, and the craftsmen of wood tar technology have been hired with high salaries; the director of the Swedish East India Company and the Swedish jazz and Scots Colin Cambier also used Sweden for the second time to deal with China. Came to China as a plenipotentiary ambassador.Last time I only went to Guangdong, but this time I can go to the capital.

In addition to the bright side, there are also some dark things.

This time the negotiations with the Swedes were nominally in charge of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs in charge of Qi Guogong, but in fact he was the one behind the scenes, even if he talked about the specifics, he had to sort out all kinds of situations.

And negotiating with the Swedes is a major event in the historical opportunity period of the Austrian King Succession War.

This also involves whether the Dutch will rob the ships of the Swedish East India Company once the war in Nanyang breaks out after the Dutch know that Dashun has a shareholding.

"During the journey, what did you insinuate? How much bond loan did the Dutch East India Company provide to the Swedish company?"

It is the uncle who owes the money, so don't overly touch the purely commercial interests of the Dutch for the time being.

In view of the fact that the Swedish company owed money to the Dutch East India Company, as long as Dashun only holds shares in private name and still hangs the Swedish flag, and as long as Sweden borrows enough Dutch debts, the Dutch will not rob.

Hijacking a Swedish ship is tantamount to declaring war on Sweden, and the money will not be paid back. There must always be considerations under the balance.

There was no one in private, and Mantou only called Mr. Liu Yu, shaking his head and said: "Sir, the Swedes are very secretive about this and don't want us to know. Think about it, they don't want to reveal the truth before negotiating. But they owe money to the Netherlands. That's for sure. How much I owe is really hard to know."

"I heard that the Dutch East India Company now mainly relies on lending and finance, which makes money faster. It seems that their shipping and Southeast Asia trade have not made much money in recent years, and they are far less profitable than finance and lending."

"Sweden is very poor, and the turnover period of transoceanic trade is long, and we only accept gold and silver spot. In addition, the UK and the Netherlands also prohibit non-corporate shareholders from conducting eastern trade. It is difficult for them to collect shares, so they can only borrow from the Netherlands. It should be all It’s long-term, and it’s good to pay the interest every year.”

Without knowing the true details of the Swedish East India Company, it is a bit difficult to negotiate.

It can only be said that there is a direction to talk about in the negotiation if it is confirmed that the money is owed.

Long-term bonds only need to pay interest every year.

The Swedes should not dare to repay the principal. First, they are afraid of cash outflow. After all, Dashun only needs cash.

Furthermore, it may be that Europe is expected to be in chaos, so it is thinking about taking the opportunity to expand trade with China. Shipbuilding will cost money, and it is estimated that it will borrow money to prepare for it.

"The Swedes are building ships, right?" Liu Yu knew that the famous Gothenburg should have been launched in the past few years.

"Yes. They are also building a new ship. It is quite big, about the size of the Free Trade. But it is estimated that it will not be completed until next year, and the cost is too expensive. Sweden does not have so much good wood, and pine and cedar are not good at building ocean-going ships. "

"The Swedes don't trade anywhere else except with us?"

"Well. Although they are called the East India Company, they are actually a Chinese company. The goods are basically from Guangdong and Fujian. I really haven't seen anything else."

"What is the sentiment of the Swedes towards Rakshasa?"

"Recovering the lost ground, the voice is strong, and there is a sense of war. In my opinion, the prime minister of the Lord Peace faction must step down."

Either he didn't want to be a monster who didn't want to be a prophet, or he tempted Mantou to follow what he said, which roughly straightened out the situation in Sweden, and made a rough judgment and suggestion on the negotiation.

These things should be compiled into a report and sent to the Ministry of Foreign Affairs.

He will not directly participate in the negotiations, but the pen to write the report is in his own hands, and with a little guidance, he can control the situation, and it seems that he will not interfere too much.

After talking about the situation in Sweden, Mantou took out several large boxes.

"Didn't the master ask me to collect some newspapers from Western countries? I have collected quite a few too. Smugglers in Gothenburg can get them for money."

"This box is from Holland, and these boxes are from England..."

He took out a stack of British newspapers and said: "The British now tell the people not to talk about state affairs. In order to prevent talking about state affairs, newspapers are heavily taxed. Most of the British newspapers that my husband asked me to collect are official newspapers."

"Newspapers are heavily taxed, but official newspapers are subsidized. The British have very high means. If you want to make money, you can say whatever the British court asks you to do. Otherwise, there will be no subsidies and you will have to go bankrupt."

Hearing this, Liu Yu was amazed.

"Wonderful! It's not that you are not allowed to talk about state affairs, but you are heavily taxed. Doesn't that mean that whoever wants to get subsidies just shut up?"

Mantou also smiled and said: "I heard from a British smuggler in Gothenburg that there was a novelist named Defoe, who seemed to have written a story about a sailor drifting on a deserted island. He was quite famous. He was He once said: The mouths of the people are better than those of Fangchuan, newspapers are heavily taxed in order to keep the people from talking about state affairs.

"However, the British did not listen to it, thinking that this policy could kill two birds with one stone. They not only received money, but also controlled public opinion."

"Nowadays, the British are engaged in literary prison. I heard that a few years ago, a man named Franklin, because he was dissatisfied with the Anglo-Spanish peace treaty, said a few complaints and was imprisoned for 'defamation'. He was fined 6800 taels of silver and imprisoned for one year. Now Anyone who speaks falsely about state affairs or insinuates that the royal family is a foreigner from Hanover is a felony. In addition, according to the jurisprudence, any satirical comment on celebrities, regardless of the truth or falsehood, is libel."

After talking about these jokes, Mantou's expression turned to worry again, and he sighed: "The British are doing this, which shows that the British are really the enemy. If it were in this dynasty, how could the court control what the Confucian Association said? The British not only control living, and the management is in an orderly manner, which shows that its control power is beyond the reach of this dynasty."

"Britain is a small state, but the population it can control is actually about the same as this dynasty. Mr. has always been hostile to Britain, and now I know that its strength is extraordinary."

This kind of emotion is sincere. From the words of those smugglers, it can be seen that Britain's grassroots control capabilities and governance methods are indeed far superior to Dashun at this time.

Seeing the whole leopard at a glance, this kind of control means that smuggling to the UK is not easy.

Liu Yu casually flipped through a few pages of the newspaper, Mantou handed a stack of magazines to Liu Yu's hands, and after a glance, the titles of the magazines were easy to recognize.

Esquire Magazine

"The smuggler said that this "Gentleman's Magazine" records the content of the British Parliament's meetings, and he has connections and connections."

"However, I didn't dare to say the name of the person in the content, so I used a story in a novel to 'innuendo'. This novel is called "Gref's Travels". The Stories of the National Parliament'. If you want to see the issues of the British Parliament, sir, this is the "Gentleman's Magazine."

Liu Yu grabbed two copies, and said with a smile: "There is a bit of "Journey to the West" in which the introduction of children's medicine in the Bhikkhu Kingdom alludes to the taste of Jiajing's alchemy."

Using Lilliputian as an allusion to the British Parliament, although the characters are fictitious, the content of the parliamentary discussions is realistic. This should also take advantage of the loophole of the British "defamation crime": the premise of the defamation crime is the existence of the person who defamed.

But even so, the boss of the "Gentleman's Magazine" who can touch the parliament to record the content is definitely strong enough.

The more these magazines and newspapers are, the better. We have to find someone to translate them all, especially the trade policy and other issues that Liu Yu is very concerned about, so as to determine how to open the door to trade with Britain.

These are all information. If the Ministry of Foreign Affairs really wants to send people to the West in the future, these newspapers must be collected, so as not to sit at home and know nothing about the outside world.

This "Gentlemen's Magazine" seems to be the highest priority. After the negotiation with Sweden, the ship going to Europe should bring back such newspapers every year.

It is necessary to translate, and it is more useful to translate these.

(End of this chapter)