Xinshun 1730

Chapter 771 Difficult to touch
The last words were a bit heart-wrenching.

In the eyes of Europe, Dashun is actually a vegetable grower, a crafter, and a pottery maker...

Dashun is a scholar, farmer, businessman.

But in Europe, workers and farmers are almost the bottom of the social disdain chain, and they are far behind those who do business and finance.

Dashun itself does not have a big internal market, but with a quarter of the world's population, the market is extremely small.The widespread poverty in the countryside and the high rents of the landlord class made many commodities almost unmarketable.

If the family has money, of course they are willing to buy some spiced pork, a porcelain vase, and some silk for clothes.

It's not something most people can afford.

From a commercial point of view, Dashun's hundreds of millions are at most 700 million people, and the rest are worthless animals.

This is also an unsolvable problem lingering in Dashun's foreign trade: how to sell the goods.

But Dashun has already found a way, that is, not to eat alone.Relying on the cost advantage, as long as you find a group of compradors, the alternative industries in Europe that the Dutch say, they will all be crushed.

The Dutch pointed out that the basis for Dashun’s failure was that Dashun had to eat alone.

But Dashun didn't want to eat alone, he just pretended to eat alone.

Qi Guogong smiled lightly at the words of the Dutch, and said: "Whether you can do it or not, you always try. The Heavenly Dynasty has a vast land and abundant resources, and there is everything, and it is not short of these few dollars. Anyway, it is all money from the court, and the people are collecting money. Even if you lose, even if the business is not done, there are hundreds of millions of people sharing it equally, and everyone will not be able to share much."

"If you win, it will be a lot of money. If you lose, the Celestial Dynasty can afford to lose. It will never be like you. Losing once, it will almost collapse."

"In such a small country, how do you know how rich the people of the Celestial Dynasty are?"

Qi Guogong refused to talk about substantive issues like a hooligan, but directly talked about the potential of the Celestial Dynasty.Anyway, the Celestial Dynasty is so big, from outsiders' perspective, it seems like there are mountains of gold and silver, and it is completely affordable to lose once or twice.

According to this meaning, anyway, the Celestial Dynasty does not need to be responsible to shareholders when doing business.It is only necessary to carry out the will of the imperial court and the great emperor. It is good to win, but it is nothing to lose, it is just a few million taels of silver.

Of course, these words are to fool these European countries. If there are millions of taels of silver in the imperial court, it will shock the jaws of all officials.

Before the 20-year financial crisis in the UK, the share capital of registered joint-stock companies was more than [-] million taels of silver.The private wealth stored in the Netherlands is much higher than this.

They use their own consciousness to speculate on the national conditions of Dashun, and they think that the United Kingdom and the Netherlands can produce one billion taels of silver. Dashun is so vast and has such a large population, and the degree of prosperity in the south of the Yangtze River that Dutch businessmen can see. Ten billion taels of silver seems to be impossible.

This number sounds scary, but it is actually traceable.From the mid-Ming Dynasty to the present, Spain has mined about 15 tons of silver in the Americas, equivalent to about 40 billion taels of silver in Dashun's unit of measurement.

There are also about 3000 tons of gold.

Compared with the total economic volume of Europe and the stock of silver currency, European currency is seriously overissued.Of course, many flowed into China.

In addition, Japan began to produce gold and silver on a large scale since the middle of the Ming Dynasty. A large part of Japan’s gold and silver and American gold and silver flowed into China, which even allowed China to complete the currency reform.

This is the rational basis for Duke Qi to brag.But in terms of sensibility, the Dutch's impression of China's prosperity is the basis for his bragging that can scare people to death in the court and is still believed by others.After all, no one has counted how much silver has flowed into China since Columbus arrived in the Philippines. It is just a perceptual and intuitive feeling that China is eating gold and silver, but it is difficult to spit it out.

The bragging words made the Dutchman unable to answer the words.My heart said yes, the great emperor kept his word, whether he would pay or not, and there were no shareholders staring at him, and no shareholders asked to open the accounts. If he was determined to do it, it would definitely be possible.

I really want to eat alone, but I can't eat it.Although all countries have high tariffs and laws.But if law and morality were omnipotent, there would be no smugglers in all countries, and the Zeeland Provincial Chamber of Commerce, which mainly smuggled tea to North America, would have closed down a long time ago—smuggling must be supported by someone, and it must be local people. Morality and law There is no way to restrain them, and they will not stop being smugglers for the benefit of the motherland.

When Qi Guogong said this, he actually killed the sky.

There is no way to continue the topic of this banquet.

Indeed, it was not easy for Dashun to eat alone.The high tariff policies, mercantilism policies, and anti-smuggling measures of various countries can make Dashun who wants to eat alone feel miserable.

However, what good does this do for the financial capital and big businessmen present?
Capital is very keen on things that benefit others at the expense of others.

Capital is really not interested in things that harm others and benefit oneself.

Even if Dashun choked to death on his own food, everyone here would not benefit at all.Can you be happy?
I'm afraid the only happy state of mind is gloating: You deserve it, let you eat alone without me, what's the matter, choked to death, right?
But schadenfreude is a personal emotion.

It is the nature of capital to seek profit, and people can gloat, but capital will not find the pleasure of endorphin secretion from gloating.

The meaning of the Dutch people's invitation to this meal is that you are likely to choke if you eat alone, so it is better to eat with everyone.

What Duke Qi meant was that I just want to eat alone, and Dashun’s system does not need to be responsible to the shareholders.

In this way, it is really too much to say.

Once the words are not speculative, the second half of the banquet will become extremely dull.

Waiting for the banquet to end, after Qi Guogong and Dashun's group left, the people in the Netherlands stared at each other, a little at a loss.

The people of Dashun left, and all that was left was endless speculation about Dashun's attitude and endless irony of Dashun's policy.

"The free trade idea of ​​the Marquis is completely wishful thinking and unrealistic. If free trade is achieved, who will be responsible for the lack of food for the textile workers in Leiden, Lancaster, Manchester, and Lyon?"

"What if free trade is achieved, and the rights and interests of large companies such as BEIC, VOC, SOIC, DOK, etc. are achieved?"

"The British East India Company, as a large local company in the UK, has to be targeted by the Parliament for the import of cotton cloth, so as not to destroy the British textile industry. As an outsider, why do you think that China will be more convincing to London than BEIC in London? Congress?"

"The Chinese are not so mentally retarded as to think that the world will operate according to the laws they conceived and wishful thinking?"

Wishful thinking is a taboo in international politics.

In fact, the Dutch are also very poor at this point. It can only be said that it is easier to do than to do. If the Dutch really understand that wishful thinking is a taboo in international politics, they will not have the naive idea that "diplomacy decides everything".

It's just that the political literacy of most people is just like that. It is basically wishful thinking and fantasy, without considering the economic basis behind it at all.I just think that as long as China opens its arms to embrace the world, European businessmen will be happy, and China will already be developed.The reality is that you want free trade with open arms, but others impose high tariffs, administrative orders to ban cotton cloth, and government-authorized monopoly.

Most of the Dutch are actually just as retarded.

It's just that now that the whip is on themselves, these Dutch "elite" people will be so satirical about Dashun's whimsy.

Although Dashun has made a stunning debut in Europe, it is still a mysterious country in Europe.Coupled with the huge cultural differences, many actions on the Chinese side are incomprehensible to Europe, and they feel that China's actions do not conform to their cognitive logic.

So Qi Guogong's bragging to scare them and charge more for the future made these Dutch people confused.

A director of the East India Company shook his head and sighed bitterly: "In this case, the company will have to go bankrupt and liquidate. I think it is impossible to do it even if it is asset bonds."

"The Chinese ended up with a huge amount of money, and they have already proved their ability to incite public opinion. I think they will soon incite public opinion and demand that the company fully liquidate its assets and go to bankruptcy auction."

"What we can do is to learn from them, incite public opinion, and use patriotism as a starting point to get the Hague government to issue a decree prohibiting foreigners from buying East India Company assets."

Taking patriotism as the starting point, it is feasible to prohibit foreign countries from acquiring domestic assets.

However, after the director of the company finished speaking, the rest of the people didn't care much about it.

What is the significance of this decree?What good can it do them, or Holland?

The company is doomed, beyond repair.The assets of the company are liquidated in order to repay the bonds.But really, as Dashun Qi Guogong said, many assets are worthless now, and no one is willing to buy them.

The Hague government will not take over from the East India Company, and nationalization is meaningless.If there is still Southeast Asia, nationalization is of course beneficial.But now that Southeast Asia is gone, there are tens of millions of taels of silver left in debt. At this time, the Orange family in The Hague may have to drink to alcohol poisoning before they can do it.

At first, no one was willing to take over the offer. At this time, a group of Chinese people with money came to buy it. If this is not sending charcoal in the snow, what is it?

Creditors and shareholders of the company, what reason do you have to prevent Dashun from purchasing the liquidation assets of the company?

It can be sold for a penny. Is it possible to wait for the East India Company building to be neglected, and finally sell it at a low price and transform it into a brothel, tavern, and hotel?
A kind of Dutchman was silent, thinking, and sighed in his heart.

Many of them are shareholders of the East India Company, and they must be extremely angry about Dashun's voyage to Nanyang.

Cutting off people's wealth is like killing one's parents.

But the so-called death can not be resurrected, parents have been killed, can not be resurrected.

It's useless to be angry, it's better to cooperate with the enemy who killed your parents to make money, this is the right way.

No matter how angry you are, you won't be able to survive.

From Dashun's declaration of war in April, to the news of Dashun's capture of Southeast Asia in August, and to today's visit by Dashun's envoys, these Dutch people have actually accepted this unchangeable fate.

When the unchangeable fate is no longer acceptable, they have to think about where the capital in their hands should go next?

The Netherlands has nothing to invest in, and buying national debt is not interesting at all.British government bonds can be bought, but the interest rate is not high.

If Dashun can cooperate with them, the rate of return will definitely not be low.

Even if Dashun doesn't cooperate with them, they feel that Dashun is booming. If they can invest in Dashun, the rate of return will definitely be very high.

In Britain, France and the Netherlands, it is relatively easy to borrow money, the credit is good, and the interest rate is not high.

The interest rate on Russia's national debt is quite high, and the rate of return on investment in Russia is also high. You can even get serfs that are almost free to use.But Russia, an emerging country, is "too small" after all to not use this much money.

Originally, Dashun was like a country in a book, illusory.Now that it has come into reality, I am thinking about investing in Dashun. Even if the rate of return is slightly lower than in Russia, but with Dashun's size, it is not a problem to eat ten times the full amount of investment in Russia, right?

But Qi Guogong's words cut off the hope of the Dutch.It seems to be quite reasonable. According to the thinking of Dutch commercial capital, China has never had a surplus in foreign trade in recent years, and there has never been a deficit. Will there be a shortage of capital in the country?Will there be a lack of investment?They are going to pack and buy the merchant ships of the East India Company, the warehouses of Persia, and the Cape Colony directly. It doesn't look like there is a lack of capital.

And the most profitable investment, like the East India Company, how could outsiders intervene?The insiders have finished digesting it by themselves, thinking about the dukes and marquises of Dashun, even if they can't afford one or two million taels of assets, they can still afford three to five million taels, right?How to get the Dutch capital for the real profitable investment?

The Dutch, who felt depressed one by one, finally came to a strange conclusion.

"We used to think that when the Marquis of Dashun visited Europe a few years ago, China, an empire that has always been at the junction of legend and reality, can really be touched by us. Investment and loans can completely consider this empire that is gradually coming to reality. "

"But now, we understand that this empire has entered reality from legend, but he is still incompatible with us. He can hurt us, but we cannot touch him."

(End of this chapter)