Xinshun 1730

Chapter 905 Rome and Carthage
[February 2nd.Shanghai.Negative. 】

The day after tomorrow is the day when the sailboat sets sail, the last batch of Dashun merchant ships this year.

They have robbed us of this year's trade volume, so that our merchant ships can only berth in the port, and the goods on board will face the risk of moisture, insects, and rats for a whole year.

Disgusting unfair competition.

But we have no countermeasures at all, because we refuse any merchant ship from Dashun to bypass our company and enter the Thames River.

Moreover, Dashun has no interest in importing goods that can be imported from our country.

The Bloody Duke insulted me, saying that we have double standards, and he said that our country simply prohibits Dashun's cargo ships from entering, which is unfair competition.

Obviously, he didn't understand what unfair competition really meant.

We do not allow Dashun's cargo ships to enter because we have a monopoly authorized by Congress and navigation regulations.We are legal to not allow them in.

It is illegal for Dashun to seize our cargo ship, because they allow us to trade.

Moreover, there is no evidence that the company, the main legal person, was engaged in the opium trade to Dashun.We subcontract to retail merchants.

According to the law, Dashun can only sanction those retail merchants, and has no reason to sanction companies.

Obviously, this barbaric country lacks the most basic legal common sense.

It's a pity that I can't reason with them, and they also rely on force savagely, and they don't make sense at all.

Outside the window, Chinese businessmen and investors, eager to get rich this year, prayed with gongs and drums and worshiped their strange sea gods.

The sound of firecrackers continued.

I was in a very bad mood.Although this possibility was already known, when the monsoon period was about to end and all the results were confirmed, even though this possibility was foreseen in advance, I still felt extremely depressed when the curtain finally came to an end.

The Netherlands withdrew from the war, and so did Prussia.Obviously, the war is coming to an end, and this year will be the first year since.

It is conceivable that the goods on their ships will earn enviable profits.

Spices in the European market are still monopolized.Just changed from Dutch to Chinese.

The wicked duke who chanted free trade all day long was silent on the matter.True free trade should allow merchant ships from various countries to purchase spices in Southeast Asia at will.Rather than as it is now, any act of privately purchasing spices and transporting them out of the west of Malacca will be arrested and sentenced.

This makes his reprimand to us so pale and feeble.

Any moral person, or a person who claims to be moral, should let go of the spice monopoly in Southeast Asia and allow merchant ships of all countries to freely purchase spices in the face of this situation.

Then, come to ask us again, why can’t customs duty trade be released, and why Dashun is not allowed to open a business office in London.

But he didn't.

Oh, the ugly faces of politicians.

[January 2.Shanghai.clear. 】

Ultimately, I decided to write several letters with my confidential proposals for the future of the company and send them to various people who I thought might be elected to the board.

And implore them, as a gentleman, to guarantee that no matter what, the confidential content inside cannot be made public until they become members of the board of directors.

Otherwise, it will seriously damage the interests of shareholders and the company.

We sent seven people back, three to India, and four to London.They will describe exactly what happened here.

I told them cautiously not to arouse any public sentiment.Any public sentiment is not good for the company.

If it is impossible to start a war and win, then the final result of public opinion will be used by some dirty politicians to expand the influence of the people and thus gain the influence of the House of Lords.

No benefit to the company.

In the end, it will only devolve into disputes over corporate monopoly rights and tariffs on tradable goods, which are exactly the things that should be avoided as much as possible.

Companies should refuse to spark any parliamentary debate on trade with China until they have absolute advantage over India.

Only when the company has won enough, gained more wealth, and made more people rich because of the company can the company start to actively provoke issues in parliament.

Right now, the company is in a dire straits and needs to keep things from being discussed as much as possible.

My suggestion to the company's board of directors is that the company should plan ahead and make allegiance ahead of time politically.

At the very least, get in touch with the Prince of Wales in private, and make good friends with the little patriots who surround him in advance.

Those little patriots are very smart. They know that even though His Royal Highness and the Prince of Wales are at odds, the Prince of Wales will eventually become the king.

Making friends with the prince in advance means smooth sailing in politics in the future.

Our king is almost 65 years old, even if he is in good health, he will eventually be called by the Lord.Even though the Prince of Wales is very unpopular with His Royal Highness, no one can shake his position.

Our Royal Highness the Crown Prince often declares in public: [My father is a stubborn, indulgent, stingy and strict military discipline officer, and a greedy and stupid king]

It is foreseeable that once the Prince of Wales takes the throne, many current cabinet ministers will be replaced.

And he will definitely criticize his father's foreign policy severely, so as to draw a clear line with his father.

This is where companies need to pay attention.

One is a 40-year-old prince in his prime and the first heir; the other is a king who is nearly seventy years old.

There is no reason to doubt that our king will go before the prince.

And, as we all know, the Prince of Wales can speak fluent English.

The mere fact that he can speak a little English makes his position unassailable.

Of course, the most important point I must remind the company's board of directors is that it must change its thinking.

When the company really plans to use India's land tax as a profit growth point, it must take into account that, in fact, the conflict between us and the domestic land-enclosed nobles can actually be resolved.So we can turn to support the Prince of Wales, and the nobles who surround him.

If you can't understand the changes in the company's model and can't take into account that the profit composition ratio in the company's financial statements will change soon, you won't be able to change your thinking in a timely manner, which will bring huge hidden dangers to the company.

Once we regard the land tax as an important profit income, it means that we no longer need to import a large amount of cotton cloth for domestic sales-the cotton cloth problem is the biggest problem between us and those enclosure nobles and textile owners.

What the company wants to learn is no longer the Dutch East India Company, but Dashun—the establishment of a complete civil service system, taxation system, and taxation system.

By studying their imperial examination system, select the company's own civil service system, and make them qualified local officials, complete the same most important task as Dashun local officials, tax collection.

The board of directors should understand the change of the company, and understand the changes brought about by this change before other shareholders.

This means that we and the enclosure nobles are actually on the same side.

They invest, we share the profits, and at the same time we are not obsessively pursuing the import trade of cotton cloth, which will greatly ease the antagonism between us and our domestic enemies.

At the same time, it also means that our enemies will change from the enclosure nobles to those who are members of the parliament.Those who are supposed to be dominated by national interests.

They may strengthen the hope that parliament will get regulatory powers, influence companies, and control companies.

They are likely to use the national interest as an excuse not to allow us to collect taxes in India, but to try to build India into the India that those industrialists in the country want.

Severely squeezed, will damage their appeal.

But not squeeze it badly, it will affect our bottom line.

As far as those domestic industrialists are concerned, they hope that the farmers in India under our control will have money to buy their products.

But for us, we hope that the farmers in India under our control will have money to pay taxes.

You know, tax collection is the business model with the highest profit margin.There isn't one, because once a dominion is established, it costs almost nothing.

If they still have money to buy things in their hands, it can only prove one thing:

There is still room for improvement in our profit margins.

If there is money to buy their woolens, why not just pay taxes on that money?
Companies must understand this change in the company to be able to understand the importance of our shift in lobbying and supporting candidates in parliament now.

Stop advocating and spending money on import ban issues like cotton cloth once the company has settled on the Indian land tax plan.That will only create enemies and will never succeed.

At the same time, we should note that the political ideas of those around the Prince of Wales are also very beneficial to the transformed company.

Those who gather around the Prince of Wales are dissatisfied with the current party leader, ready to overthrow the current cabinet, or dissatisfied with the king.

They call themselves patriots.

Their spiritual leader is Viscount Bolingbroke.

For these self-proclaimed "patriots", he wrote a programmatic document "The Monarchy That Patriots Should Have".

He was a supporter of the monarchy and believed that partisan politics of the two parties was at the root of modern decadence.The parliament has become a boring place to oppose for the sake of opposition, "whether to knock the egg from the small end or from the big end".

A political model centered on the king and non-partisan should be formed.

As the father of the people, the monarch should surpass the party and the masses.

The father of all peoples should appear as a moral example and lead all classes out of the quagmire of corruption.

We can predict who will support these ideas.It can also be predicted what will happen to the policy of the cabinet once the Prince of Wales, surrounded by patriots, takes the throne.

But that's not necessarily a bad thing for us.

Because patriots are staunch supporters of the "blue water policy".And we are one of the biggest beneficiaries of the "blue water policy".

The cornerstone of the UK is business.In other words, the basis of land rent for nobles is commerce.Without commerce, there would be no land for raising sheep, and there would be no high land rent.

Therefore, all British policies should revolve around "protecting commerce" instead of doing the opposite - such as expanding the army and participating in the quagmire of war in Europe - but constantly abolishing the army and maintaining more navy.

If we say that our import of cotton cloth before caused the tension between us and the patriots.Then, if the company's transformation is successful, we can completely reconcile with them.

As long as the wool and woolen cloths are kept, our relations will be very good.Therefore, it is of great benefit for us to invest in advance and support the Prince of Wales and the patriots around him.

The essence of the blue water policy is land—wool—wool—business—investment—colonization.

This is the biggest difference between the nobles of our country and other countries. Their land rent income is closely related to business.

The national foreign policy of the blue water policy is to prevent the emergence of any form of worldwide monarchy.Any country that tries to be a world monarch in some form will be an enemy of Britain.

Britain doesn't need a revived Rome in any form, Britain needs a broken world.

Before that, the biggest enemy of this policy was France.

According to the Viscount, the current world is a war between the centers of two civilizations.It is the expansion mode of the world monarch, and the expansion mode of the commercial center, the war between the two civilizations]

[Britain should increase its sea power and release it at critical moments.For example, when a major event that has a major impact on the world's power structure occurs, Britain should stand up and use the most powerful maritime power. 】

[In this way, Britain can become the arbiter of world differences; the guardian of freedom; the maintainer of balance]

[The struggle between these two civilizations is to prevent France from becoming a worldwide monarch and Rome in the new era]

【Britain needs a broken world and prevents any power that tries to integrate it】

These articles were written before Dashun went to Nanyang and before Dashun participated in the Russian coup.

Now, we must be soberly aware that it is not necessarily only the French who have the potential to be a worldwide monarch.If the whole world were Europe a long time ago, China would be the world monarch most likely to become Rome.

Their expansion mode, especially going to Southeast Asia and conquering Japan, is also a standard expansion mode of a worldwide monarch.

But at the same time, it should be noted that Dashun’s interference in the affairs of the Netherlands, Sweden, and Russia has squeezed our position: while they have become world monarchs, they still have the power to become an arbiter of world differences and a balance maintainer.

When we turn our attention from Europe to the world; when Dashun starts to interfere in Europe, we should realize who is that Rome.

This enabled us to persuade the Parliament of His Royal Highness the Prince of Wales, who was deeply influenced by his theories, to support our expansion in India once we got rid of our dependence on China's trade profits.

Our expansion in India is not purely for the company's profit, but can cast a halo of sacred world balance that defends the British tradition.

Rather than sinking limited energy into the quagmire of Europe.

It can also enable the company to obtain more naval support in the future.

After all, His Royal Highness loves his Hannover even more, and even opposes the blue water policy.

No matter from any point of view, it is absolutely beneficial for the company to turn to support the Patriots and the Prince of Wales after confirming the transformation, and it will win a better future for the company.

In fact, everything I suggest has its root in one word.

change.

The company's transformation, transformation, is a very heavy word.

The change of policy, the change, has to consider that Dashun, which has frequently mediated and expanded its influence in the Netherlands, Sweden, Russia, and France, is no longer the background of an oriental story, but has woken up from sleep.

If the chairman does not understand "change", continues to fight for the meaningless cotton issue, and does not understand that the company's profit structure is about to undergo a huge change, then the company will be controlled by the parliament, and it will be foreseeable.

If the cabinet and the king do not understand "change" and continue to focus on France, which is most likely to become Rome, but ignore the empire that is already Roman in terms of population and area, then the "commercial center theory" that is the only one that can be compared with "Romanism" will be lost. The weapon against world monarchism.

easy.

If you are poor, you will change.

Change makes sense.

The general rule is long.

(End of this chapter)