Xinshun 1730

Chapter 850 Misunderstanding
Now that Kang Buxio took the initiative to raise this issue, Anthony just took advantage of the slope and said, "Master Marquis's ability, even from a commercial point of view, is absolutely worthy of recognition. I personally admire it, even before as belligerents."

"Of course, the merchants in the Netherlands, especially the shareholders of the East India Company, are both admired and feared. Of course, you know that the fear of the enemy is the greatest praise for this person. The good news is that we turned the enemy We are friends."

"The situation in Europe is indeed as you said. A German is a marshal in France, a German is a king in England, and even a Dutchman can be a king in England. We do not question the leadership of a foreigner."

"However, the many actions of Lord Marquis make us suspect that he is a serious patriot."

"Will a serious patriot stand completely and fairly on the common interests of China and the Netherlands in Sino-Dutch trade cooperation?"

Kang Buxiao said with a smile: "Since China and the Netherlands have started cooperation, turning enemies into friends and ending hostility into friendship. Then, after the Southeast Asian issue and the Indian issue are resolved, the interests of the Netherlands will be the interests of Dashun."

"In this case, isn't a patriot just beneficial to the cooperation between China and the Netherlands?"

He highlighted the point "after the Southeast Asian and Indian issues are resolved", which makes sense.

If the Dutch East India Company occupies Southeast Asia for a day, Sino-Dutch relations are potential enemies; if the Netherlands gives up Southeast Asia and India, the Netherlands can be friends with Dashun.

This logic makes sense, so a Dashun patriot to supervise Sino-Dutch trade can naturally be said to be beneficial to the interests of the Netherlands.

Anthony heard this, and thought that might not be the case.

Dashun's reputation is not bad, and it is quite particular about its allies, which is beyond reproach. Any European country has expressed a certain degree of envy for the relationship between China and France.

But Liu Yu's personal reputation, at least compared to the veterans in the Dutch political arena, is limited compared to the one in Prussia next door.

Strategic deception, especially against the Netherlands, has been done a bit too often.

And he will use various means to achieve his goal, especially it is difficult to guess his real purpose.Waiting for the real purpose to be seen clearly and clearly, it is already irreversible.

Just like the sugar factory incident in Batavia, looking back now, we can understand what the original slave labor uprising was for.It was not to mess with Batavia, because from Dashun’s point of view, Batavia was simply vulnerable to a fight, but to force the East India Company to accept the relocation plan, so that Dashun didn’t spend a penny , Ceylon, tens of thousands of miles away, has a population of tens of thousands.

At the beginning, the whole of the Netherlands suspected that the Batavian slave labor uprising was caused by the British behind the scenes.

Cooperating with the incident of British instructors in Sinhala, the incident of British instructors in Travancore counterattacking the Dutch fleet, and the previous incident of the British East India Company suppressing Dutch businessmen in Zhangzhou, Guangzhou, the Netherlands did not have the slightest doubt, so they took this big blame over the UK.

At the beginning, the whole Netherlands believed that Dashun was about to go to war with Russia, and Liu Yu was about to conquer the Western Regions to cooperate with Sweden, so Southeast Asia could rest easy.As a result, there was no fight between Shun and Russia at all, and Dashun backhanded and went to Nanyang with all his strength.

After such a long time, the real purpose can be seen clearly through those fogs.

Now I just talk about it, and the interests of the Netherlands will be guaranteed by then. Even if it seems that the Netherlands has indeed benefited in the early stage, who knows if it will be discovered that it is another conspiracy in ten years or decades?
This kind of thing is unpredictable.

Anthony directly grasped the root of the problem and asked: "Sir, as the Marquis's personal adviser, he said that after the cooperation between China and the Netherlands, the interests of the Netherlands will be the interests of your country. So, what do you think the interests of the Netherlands are?" Woolen cloth?"

Kang Buxiu really didn't think about India's affairs. It's not that he didn't know about India's interests, but because of poor information, he knew early on that the Western Trading Company didn't care about Indian affairs, but only Western affairs.

The emperor did not intend to let the Western Trading Company, or the Sino-Dutch Trading Company take care of the affairs of India.

And he also discussed the Indian issue with Liu Yu.

The conclusions of the two are basically the same. Dashun's special national conditions make it impossible for trading companies to have independent diplomatic power, judicial power, war power, army, government, taxation, etc. under the Anglo-Dutch model.

Whether to fight India or not, the Sino-Dutch Trading Company does not count.

Moreover, the emperor would never allow a behemoth with money, an army, and a piece of Tianzhu land that has been rich since ancient times to exist.

Dashun has its own national conditions here, and there is no real duke in the country. How many times can a company own India in the Central Plains, 30 million troops, and dozens of warships?

Therefore, India is beneficial to Dashun, and it is very beneficial, but the steps to attack and seize India, due to Dashun's special national conditions, have to be completely different from those of Britain, Holland and France.

The first step is to confuse the emperor with India's poll tax and land tax.

The second step is to develop trade with the Western Ocean, so that there is a broad market for cotton cloth, etc.; with the development of industry and commerce, rice from India has become an important demand for coastal cities in Dashun and Southeast Asia.

The third step is that industry and commerce brought huge profits. Even if the emperor died and people died, the huge taxes brought by industry and commerce and the large number of people who lost their land would force the court not to retreat easily.

In the fourth step, the urgently needed cotton and rice for industrial and commercial development forced the imperial court to control India.When people die, politics continues.

And to complete these four steps, the most important part is precisely the European market.

With the opening of the European market, Dashun's industry and commerce can be nurtured and grown without harming the interests of ordinary people.

Now the sprouts of Dashun are unable to solve the bankruptcy problem of small farmers in Dashun—neither can they achieve the national land reform like Fare, nor can they suppress the nationwide peasant uprising in a few coastal industrial and commercial cities.

Doing the former is harder than reaching the sky.

To achieve the latter means to engage in an all-out confrontation with traditional culture, Confucian benevolence and righteousness, the foundation of the dynasty, and the ruling class that has been a hero.

The bankruptcy of small farmers, in order to protect the interests of the majority of farmers, strangles industry and commerce, with the ideology of Dashun, it is not wrong, right?
And with the little power of the budding class now, is it really capable of suppressing a nationwide uprising, and there must be a large number of scholars joining in with the idea of ​​"rectifying the righteous way"?
Not to mention anything else, there have been many conflicts about the food price issue in Songjiang Mansion, so where is it going?

Therefore, if Dashun's industry and commerce want to develop, they must use a very, very abnormal way: avoid domestic problems, and grow quietly with foreign markets as the driving force.

This is the special national condition of Dashun.

With the internal market, internal demand, and small-scale peasant economy as the leading factor, the Dashun royal family is very clear about the foundation of their country.

If a trade-off had to be made, the royal family might be divided and diverge, but the emperor must support the small peasants.If he is an emperor, he supports the small-scale peasant economy, and the prince who does not support the small-scale peasant economy must be a "rebel" who has been wiped out.

And for the sprouts to be able to develop enough to resist the power of the old forces, it just needs a huge market that is so huge that the whole world will be affected.

Because Dashun has a large population, strong centralization, and the royal family is not only the descendant of the hero who protected the world and expelled the Tartars, but also the descendant of the hero who equalized the land and exempted grain. It is a stable group, and its appeal is not the appeal of the Manchu group in the last years. .

Dragons are easy to kill.The dragon slaying hero is not easy to kill.

Not to mention the human, financial and material resources that the imperial court can control when it is really about to reach the point of resistance, it is the current standing force of the imperial court, 20 regular line soldiers, 50 recruitable recovery personnel, 10,000+ good families, and hundreds of thousands of border nanny Blood tax confrontation germs, the most vicious Yongyetian self-cultivating farm soldiers... This list is here. To what extent does industry and commerce need to develop before they can seize power with arms?

This is something that can be quantified.

The total capital strength of industry and commerce is required, which can reach a scale of several billion or more; the workers who need to work in factories must have at least one million and 80 formal workers.

The premise that the British bourgeoisie can control the parliament is that before the bubble burst in 20 years, the share capital of joint-stock companies and various companies was about 3 million pounds, equivalent to one billion taels of Kuping silver.

What is the population of the UK?What power is the feudal remnant?How many farmers are forced to go to the city every year?

The size of Dashun, based on the UK’s stock capital of 20 million pounds before the 5000-year bubble, is a proportional series. It has the power to control the whole country. How much power does the emerging class need?
If the British bourgeoisie wants to develop, what is the scope of its influence?North America, India, the Caribbean, the Netherlands, Spain, which one is not affected now?
If the emerging class of Dashun can reach the influence of Britain, how big is the scope of influence compared to its size?

Not to mention fully reaching this scale, but only to say how big a market is needed to become a force that the imperial court has to consider in the development process?

During the Qianlong period of the Manchu Qing Dynasty, the total amount of foreign trade was 3700 million taels a year. It sounds like this amount is not small, but what is the difference between the merchant class and an ant?If you want to not be an ant, and want to have the power to shake the court, how many times does this trade volume have to be multiplied?
It's not that the emerging class is not strong, it's that the enemy is too strong.The same trade volume in the Netherlands would be a colossus, even the federal and provincial councils would have to bow; in Dashun, a dog-like figure, if you want to crush it to death, you only need a word from the governor of the local state.

Dashun's internal market dare not move lightly, and it can't move: the wonderful tax system, the tax policy of ostrich-like gentlemen far away from the kitchen and the grassroots bonus, the landowners pay 50.00% of the land rent at every turn, and hundreds of millions of people get rid of hundreds of millions of people. There are [-] people with spending power, how much spending power does the rest of the group have?
The solution to domestic demand is theoretically very simple: land reform.

You have to have money to spend.I can't afford to eat, and I wear a two-foot red-headed rope to celebrate the New Year with joy, hoping to consume industrial products and raise the bourgeoisie?The bourgeoisie can't raise them big, and the sprouts can only be sprouts for a lifetime.

Landlords can consume and have the ability to consume.How many feet of cloth can a family wear?If he distributes his land to one hundred people, the purchasing power of the cloth will be increased not to mention one hundred times, but also dozens or ten times.

It is very simple in theory, land reform, domestic demand, industrial and commercial development, the growth of the bourgeoisie, and external expansion.

But...it's harder than climbing to the sky, and there's no way to do it.

Internally, if you dare not move this, you dare not move that, so you have to "suffer Europe".

Taking Europe, India, Japan, Southeast Asia, and North America as markets, maybe we can raise a new class that can fight against the old forces of Dashun?

To put it more clearly, one-half of the earth's population is against one-third of the earth's population.

That one-half of the population is the firewood for the rising class to ignite the fire.

That third of the population is the last and strongest fortress of the feudal forces.

Based on this, when Kang Bushao and Liu Yu discussed the Indian issue, it was distorted into the four-step process.

And the key to the four-step process is the European market. Only in this way, when the court finds out that a situation they have never encountered before is spreading, can they be cautious, hesitate, and eventually have to be kidnapped and killed The government continued to occupy India without stopping.

What the European market brings to Dashun is not simply a matter of money.It is a huge crowd of hundreds of thousands, or even millions of supporting industry-related, transportation, shipping, trade and other personnel, and millions of new revenues from the treasury.

Only in this way, the imperial court has to be cautious: don't expand, these hundreds of thousands, millions of people have no food to eat-millions of waterworkers are tied to food and clothing, and they will hurt their muscles and bones if they move.This forced the imperial court to continue to eat India, guarantee cotton and rice, and ensure a huge fleet to control trade.

Let's expand, our ancestors said a word: put out the fire with the salary, the salary will not be exhausted, and the fire will not be extinguished.The more it expands, the stronger this new interest group becomes.

Unless the emperor's strong man cuts off his wrist, I don't want the industrial and commercial tax, and I don't want the interest from overseas trade, all of which will be destroyed.Spend tens of millions of taels to counter the rebellion and relocate people.

And this is another question of chip balance: How much can industry and commerce and overseas expansion bring to the emperor?
100 million taels?The emperor can immediately make a decision and cut off his wrist.

What about 1000 million taels?Coupled with India's land tax and poll tax, what about 3000 million taels?
Is this decision easy to make?

Dashun's special national conditions made it impossible to explain some things clearly to the emperor.

How to confuse the emperor to compete for India?

You can't talk about "market", "raw materials" and "profit" with the emperor.

It's not that I don't understand, but that I can't speak.

As long as the goal is achieved, the process does not matter.

So simple and crude: India's current military governors are in chaos, and it is time to invade and take advantage of land taxes.Three to 5000 people can take the land of one province and get half of the tax of Henan.

The emperor's purpose was to collect taxes.

The purpose of tax collection is to solve domestic problems: water transportation, water control, frontiers, snowy mountains, land reform in the southwest, and counties in North Korea and northern Vietnam. This is the dream of the emperor of the Celestial Dynasty.

But if you want to do all these things, after many years, let’s count on one billion taels. If you don’t have money, how can you be qualified to be a great emperor who can be praised by future generations?

If he could finish it all, the emperor would feel that he was really better than Tang Zong Hanwu.

Tian Zhenyi said that Liu Yu was an "eunuch", so the "eunuch" had to gain insight into the emperor's preferences and follow suit.

It is obviously for the Indian market, cotton, indigo, and raw materials, but it is said to be for water transportation, water control, frontiers, and southwest.

If we say, the bourgeoisie is abstracted into capital, and then abstracted into money.

Then, the differences between Liu Yu and the emperor can be very straightforward.

The emperor made money to spend money for the Celestial Dynasty, and money was still money, and he earned it for spending; Liu Yu made money for the sake of making money itself, making the money more and more powerful.

What kind of thing is profit-seeking by nature?

But he said that making money is for the emperor to have money to spend.

In this case, it is impossible for Sino-Dutch Trading Company to engage in India.

After the emperor finished it, it was fine to be a market and a source of raw materials; before the emperor finished it, he tried his best to do it himself, brought foreigners to do it, and even built a site bigger than the Central Plains. What is this for?Lands seal borders?Ready to rebel?One emperor in the south and one emperor in the north?

As a result, this also created a misunderstanding between Kang Bushao and Anthony.

Kang Bushao never thought that the China-Dutch Trading Company would go to India, which was not an option at all.

The purpose of the existence of the Sino-Dutch trading company is to open up the European market and seize shipping by taking advantage of the inevitable next European war.

Then in the later period of the war, when all parties were exhausted, they stabbed in and directly seized Europe's trade dominance and maritime dominance.

This is really beneficial to the Netherlands. Dashun eats meat, but the Netherlands does not eat soup, but also eats meat.

Why do you still question and hesitate?
What Anthony thinks is that India is very close to Dashun, and Liu Yu is a person who always thinks about the interests of Dashun. If he is allowed to lead the company's policies, will it cause Dashun to join hands with the commercial capital of the Netherlands to seize India?Then the Netherlands was beaten up by the British?
Businessmen have long legs, even if the Netherlands is gone, as long as the company's stock is still there, go to Dashun, India, Southeast Asia, and become a big businessman?
But where is the Republic going?
This is what he is afraid of: France has been crippled by the British in India, and the British will basically dominate India.If the Sino-Dutch trading company expands to India, it will definitely have a big conflict with the UK.

Judging from Anthony's structure and the national interests that can be thought of, no matter how you look at it, I feel that Dashun eating India is the next step to save effort and the most beneficial strategy.How could he have imagined a final battle between one-half of the earth's firewood and one-third of the earth's wooden cattle and horses?
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