Xinshun 1730

Chapter 770

There is a kind of kindness, which is to send charcoal to others when it snows.

There is also a kind of kindness, that is, when the weather is clear and fine, the practice makes the world snow heavily, and then sells charcoal at a high price in a hurry.

The former, the Dutch basically do not understand what it means.

For the latter, the Netherlands, as an established commercial country, is simply beyond comprehension as the financial center of the world at this time.The game of selling short and buying short has been played countless times in Amsterdam as early as 100 years ago.

Qi Guogong just frightened this group of people, and made some jokes, which silenced the representatives of the Dutch merchant class.

Liu Yu really wanted the Cape Colony of the Cape of Good Hope, and now he could buy it if he really wanted to, and the price was absolutely low.

No gold or diamond mines have been found in this place at this time, and it is really similar to a small shop selling water halfway up Mount Tai.

But he is not stupid.

Seeing that they are about to confront Britain and buy the Cape of Good Hope before taking India, this is no different from the Netherlands going to Southeast Asia, where they first went to Dashun's doorstep before taking India.

As for the Dutch merchant ships, Liu Yu didn't want to buy them either.

Dashun's shipbuilding industry is still counting on a wave of take-off after going to Nanyang. At this time, buying Dutch merchant ships is a real comprador behavior, suppressing the fledgling domestic shipbuilding industry.

This is the way of thinking of industrial capital.

It is incompatible with the way of thinking of a commercial capital like the Netherlands.

So Qi Guogong was just making a joke, but the Dutch believed it.

The Netherlands has no real industry worth looting.What is really valuable is the business network of the Netherlands, as well as the business environment in which the Netherlands does not prohibit the export of gold and silver, the country's extremely low return on investment and interest on national debt.

After Qi Guogong's cold joke was finished, no one said a word for a long time, and the banquet was a little cold.

In the eyes of the Dutch, Dashun has no shortage of gold and silver.

When the whole of Europe is raising tariffs sharply, Dashun relies on its own handicraft industry foundation in 2000, and with extremely low tariffs compared with Europe, it still maintains a state of eating but not vomiting, and has maintained more than [-] year.

Since there is no shortage of gold and silver, there is really enough confidence to engage in financial acquisitions and looting.

As Qi Guogong told them, the large amount of real estate owned by the East India Company has become inferior assets after Dashun went to Nanyang.

The war and ship robbery made it impossible for Dutch merchant ships to sell for the time being, and it was impossible for someone to eat so many merchant ships at once.

Warehouses in Persia and other places, the Cape Colony, etc.Without the East-West trade in the former, the Persian warehouse is just a broken house; in the latter without the East-West trade, the Cape Colony is basically a good cornfield and sheep pasture.

If Dashun did not cooperate with the Dutch East India Company, the existing real estate assets of the East India Company would not be worth much.

If Dashun cooperates with the Dutch East India Company, the existing real estate assets of the East India Company will appreciate rapidly.

Dashun definitely does not want to take over the offer from the existing East India Company, and must wait for the existing East India Company to dissolve and complete asset liquidation before reorganizing.

The high-ranking Dutch businessmen who were present did not have much confidence in the company, and they also believed that the company's bankruptcy and liquidation were inevitable.

However, they were shocked by Qi Guogong's joke, and they really didn't expect Dashun to have such a big appetite.

"Your Excellency, the Marquis of East Siberia from your country came to Europa last time to promote his free trade concept. The concept is beautiful, but the reality is cruel. We, the Netherlands, are in Europe and we also like free trade, but the fact is that all countries have The super high tariffs are used to protect the country's handicraft industry, the merchant ships of various countries have private plunder certificates, and the warships of various countries have been catching smugglers."

"Even if your country has enough merchant ships and sufficient supply of goods... This is the prerequisite for your country to implement free trade, but having the prerequisites does not mean that your country can really implement free trade."

"Many East India companies in Europe have the exclusive monopoly of East India and Chinese goods. If you want free trade and want to sell the goods directly to Europe, it means harming the interests of the East India companies of various countries."

"Your Excellency the Duke should understand that the shareholders of the East India Company from various countries, according to your country's class division, are at least all scholars."

"Since your country can't achieve equal farmland and free grain, why do you think Europe can engage in free trade?"

"I think that although your country won the war, what you need to consider now is how to turn the results of the war into dividends. Rather than conceiving an idealized business model, you think that if you win Southeast Asia, you will fully control the trade. initiative."

A director of the company who understands China better explained the difficulty of free trade in Europe with a very inaccurate analogy.

Although the analogy is very inaccurate, the general idea is basically correct.Dashun couldn't carry out the land reform, and Britain couldn't carry out the freedom of trade in the East. The reason is really the same: seriously harming the interests of the ruling class.

Even speaking, the analogy of the Dutch company director is too small and too modest.How can the directors of the East India Company compare with the talents of Dashun?

It is clear that they are above the level of Minister of the Sixth Government, and almost reaching the level of Shangshu. How can a scholar from Dashun be qualified to have the same status in China as a director of the East India Company?
The meaning of the director of the company is that he still hopes that Qi Guogong will think about it carefully, and don't think about eating alone.The result of wanting to eat alone is that there is nothing to eat.

If Dashun really bought a lot of merchant ships, he decided to directly send the goods from Southeast Asia to Europe.According to the director of the Dutch company, if you cross the Cape of Good Hope, you will be robbed of the ship, and you will not be able to enter the port to unload the goods when you finally arrive in Europe. If you enter the port to unload the goods, you will be imposed with high tariffs so that you cannot sell them.

If Dashun could cooperate with these directors and Dutch financial capitalists, the bankruptcy of the East India Company would be handled differently.

Even if the company issued a lot of bonds, this is not impossible.

For example, convert all the company's assets into asset bonds.Including shops, warehouses, cargo ships, warehouses, etc.

These asset bonds are distributed to each shareholder and creditor in proportion according to the proportion of bonds and shares.

Not just for sale.

It is a limited liability company, and creditors have nothing to do.At the beginning, no one forced you to buy the company's bonds. If you bought it yourself, of course you had to bear the risk.

According to religious theory, usury is not allowed by Christianity.

However, helping others, lending money to others when they need it, taking risks after borrowing money, and obtaining appropriate rewards... This is not called interest, which is allowed.

In this way, if some insider transactions can be reached in private with Dashun, there will be a lot of room for maneuvering.

If a deal was reached with Dashun in private, these people would have inside information, and it was certain that Dashun would cooperate with them to sell goods.

Then, the news can be blocked, and the asset certificates of the company's real estate will quickly become pieces of waste paper.

When it was the least valuable, a wave of backhand acquisitions was made, and the company's original real estate was recovered at a very low price.

Once they cooperate with Dashun, these originally worthless company real estate will be instantly valuable.At a very low price, a high amount of real estate was purchased, and you can just lie down and count the money in the future.

And the most critical point here is that the company's real estate cannot be auctioned separately.Instead, all of them should be converted into asset bonds.

If it's a separate auction, it's over.If you sell a ship today, you will pay back the money according to the bond ratio; if you sell the building tomorrow, you will pay back the money according to the bond ratio.In the end there was nothing left.

But if we can take advantage of the mentality of "don't worry about too few but worry about inequality" and take advantage of the conflicts among various creditors, we can sell a little bit at a separate auction and convert all assets into asset bonds.Turning entities into paper bonds gives financial capital a lot of room to operate.

Therefore, when Qi Guogong said that he wanted to buy a merchant ship, these people present were shocked.

Once you buy it like this, it is not easy to operate it as an asset bond.

Secondly, what Dashun means is that they don't want to cooperate, but want to eat alone.

Which of the two is missing, these people can't make a fortune on the corpse of the East India Company, how can they not be shocked?

In addition to being shocked, what Qi Guogong said just now inevitably revealed some of their thoughts.

Kang Bushao, who was beside Qi Guogong, secretly rejoiced, thinking that since you said that there are many difficulties in buying a merchant ship and eating alone, it is obvious that you have the intention to cooperate.

It seems that the young master's deduction is really correct. Ordinary people think that if they rob Nanyang, the Netherlands will never die; but in fact, if they don't rob Nanyang, they can't cooperate with the Dutch at all. This robs Nanyang, but there is a basis for cooperation.

Since the Dutch have already expressed their desire to cooperate, Kang Buxin said that the initiative is in our hands, and we just need to wait.Hurrying up is not a business, and now we can't talk about any results, so let's sit and watch the giant VOC fall down first.

Although Qi Guogong didn't understand the logic of business very well, he didn't understand the basic principles of economics either.But people still understand the ways of the world. Talking about people and talking nonsense when seeing people is the basic quality of being a senior bureaucrat in Dashun.

Be obedient and listen to the sound, what the Dutchman said, coupled with the goal Liu Yu hoped to achieve this time, the anxiety and desire for cooperation in the Dutchman's tone, are obvious, and there is no need for Kang Bushi to remind anything.

Duke Qi stroked his beard, and asked slowly and methodically: "In your opinion, the business of the Celestial Dynasty cannot be done?"

The Dutchman quickly replied: "It can't be done."

"Can't it be done? Then I don't understand. Why can't it be done now that it's down to Nanyang?"

The Dutchman was silent for a moment, then spoke the truth.

"In your eyes, you have won Southeast Asia. In our eyes, you are a group of tea fryers, porcelain kneaders, and spice growers. Workers. To be honest, Europe is not afraid of your monopoly."

"Porcelain, now the formula has been handed down, and many porcelain industries have begun to rise. Although it is not as good as yours, general substitutions are still possible."

"Although we don't know how to grow tea, coffee can replace it."

"Silk, not only the Chinese have silk. Persia, Ottoman, India, and northern Italy all have silk and silk, and even France has its own silk industry."

"Spices, you can monopolize the spices in Southeast Asia. But there are many places in the world with similar climates to Southeast Asia. Brazil and the Caribbean have already tried to grow cloves and cinnamon. The Portuguese have already smuggled the seeds over."

"The profits of this trade, even if you have navigation skills and merchant ships, you will not be able to get them."

(End of this chapter)