Rise of the 1630s South America

Chapter 929 Transportation Line Lifeline ([-])

After sending Van Beuningen to a merchant ship heading for the Baltic Sea at the mouth of the Zaan River, Mo San took his letter of recommendation, together with his entourage, to Hoorn in a carriage.

Holen is a port in the Dutch province and, together with Enkhuizen to the north, is the main port for the Dutch province's trade with the Baltic Sea.Just as Rotterdam is mainly engaged in trade with Britain and France, and Friesland is mainly engaged in trade with Northern Europe, the two ports of Holen and Enkhuizen are the ports of departure for the vast majority of Dutch merchants going to the Baltic Sea for trade—and also terminal port.

The Tripp Firm is located in the best location near the Port of Holon Wharf. The tall buildings designed by professional designers are majestic and majestic, highlighting the magnanimity and luxury of the Tripp family.There were more than [-] carriages parked at the entrance of the main building of the firm at the same time. Well-dressed managers of the firm kept coming in and out, and sometimes some small businessmen attached to the firm came to handle errands. All in all, it seemed very busy here.

"Mr. Mo San, special envoy from the Eastern China Republic?" An old man with a pair of glasses suddenly walked to the door and said to Mo San in French.

"It's me." Mo San took off his hat and greeted politely.

"Follow me, Mr. De Haier is waiting for you inside," said the old man.

"Mr. De Haier, what I want to meet is Mr. Tripp, isn't he here?" Mo San wondered.

"Mr. Tripp has gone to Zeeland Province, and now only Mr. De Haier is here." The old man turned around and said seriously: "Is there anything that is the same as what Mr. De Haier said. This firm was originally Terry The wife of Hendrick (nephew of Elias) of the Tripp family is Miss Johanna De Heyer. It is Miss De Heyer's father who is currently in charge of the business in the firm Matthias De Heier, Mr. De Heier usually supervises the iron foundry in Sweden, and he happened to be in the business today. You can talk to him about anything. He is of the same generation as Elias, the hero of the Tripp family. The people who are in charge can completely make decisions about general affairs."

The old man's words are already very clear: Yellow-skinned heretics, your affairs are just general affairs of little importance, and the big shots of the Tripp family may not be in their eyes. Their in-laws will be able to think highly of you if they come forward, please do it yourself .

Mo San nodded when he heard the words, and said nothing more.

At this time, there are still many people in the business dealing with various affairs. Many people couldn't help being a little surprised when they saw Mo San, a very conspicuous yellow-skinned heretic, come in, and some even spoke in a contemptuous and casual tone. "East Indians".The old man who led Mo San in didn't make a sound, as if he didn't hear anything, but Mo San looked at these well-dressed Dutch businessmen and managers with indifferent eyes, as if he was looking at dead people - I don't know Today, two years later, how many of the lords of today can maintain themselves without going bankrupt, and how many of them can guarantee that they will not be fired.What is there to say to such a group of redheads who feel good about themselves?To borrow a sentence from Cao Aman, "the bones in the grave"!

After bringing Mo San into the office upstairs, the old man bowed to a gray-haired old man inside, and then quietly retreated outside the door.Inside the door, there were still a few young people who were writing something furiously. They only looked up a little when Mo San entered the door, and then buried their heads and wrote quickly with a quill pen, as if their work would never be finished. .

"Mr. Mo San, special envoy of the East Coast Republic?" The gray-haired old man took off a piece of crystal clear lens from his right eye, then rubbed his face vigorously, and said in a slightly tired voice: "Mr. Special Envoy, you Recently, the reputation in the province of Holland has been very loud. No, this may not be accurate. To be precise, your reputation has even spread to the province of Friesland. Some merchants in this province who focus on Moscow trade, when you come They have been very worried during the time they arrived in Holland Province, they are worried that their business interests will be affected..."

"Friesland?" Mo San carefully tasted the old man's words first, and then asked: "Is it a grain merchant? But I remember that there are not many merchants in your country who operate grain business in Moscow. Most of the grain merchants are concentrated in Poland!"

"It's just some small businessmen who don't have a reputation." Mathias De Heier muttered disapprovingly, "The businessmen who are attached to the Orange faction are mostly land nobles from the provinces of Friesland and Groningen, and their financial strength is not enough. They are strong, but ambitious. They dare not compete with the twelve large grain wholesalers in Amsterdam who have monopolized the Polish market, so they can only work hard to open up the territory of the unfamiliar Ross people, which is really a virtue of the Orange family."

Listening to the old man's derogatory sentence after sentence, Mo San thought to himself, does this old man tend to be republican?But what does it matter to me from the East Coast?You Republicans and Orange factions took turns taking power in the Inter-Provincial Republic, dragging each other down and tearing each other up in private, we have nothing to do with it!The only thing we care about is how much profit we can get back from the Dutch.However, the old man’s words also revealed a lot of information, that is, most of the Dutch merchants who are active in the Principality of Moscow—at least as far as some grain merchants are concerned—are land nobles from the provinces of Friesland and Groningen .

The land aristocrats, hehe, and the Tripp, De Haier and other families who were born as merchants (or nouveau riche)—no matter how rich these businessmen are, they are always discriminated against by the land aristocrats. It's not easy to deal with.And Frederick of the Orange family, who is now the ruler of Friesland, is precisely the natural leader of these land nobles.But what does the old fox Matthias mean by saying that in front of Mo San?Is it to encourage me, the merchants on the East Coast, not to give face to the Orange family, and to run on those Dutch merchants who are active in Moscow?

"Let's just say it..." Matthias De Heier suddenly stood up, walked towards Mo San, and said, "Our firm plans to develop new projects outside of traditional businesses, mainly food, tobacco, fish, etc. , olive oil and wine business. But you also see, the damn British pirates blockade the Straits of Dover, chasing the ships of the United Provinces like mad dogs. And our navy is powerless to break this blockade, which is really Shame, the three levels of parliament must be held accountable for this! The Orange family is also—well, far away, simply put, the Tripp firm intends to order a batch of grain, fish and wine from your country. The grain includes flour and Soybean, the flour of the same quality as last time, the bread baked with this flour will be the object of pursuit by the entire gentleman class; Conrad (referring to Van Beuningen) has already talked to you about soybeans, right, Those two shipments of soybeans are what we ordered, we want to test the market acceptance of this new product, and heard that the Genoese business houses are selling this product in small quantities, so we also want to try it.”

"Also, I heard that your country has a vessel that can preserve meat and fish at freezing point. 1 tons, 2 Rust in grain transportation is about [-] tons), the type of fish does not have to be limited to cod or herring. In fact, the citizens of Amsterdam are still very curious in their consumption habits. Fish are particularly interesting, and the price is relatively high, but no one has done this before. By the way, I specifically declare that the fish cannot be salted fish!" Mathias urged word by word.

"This is a reasonable request." Mo San nodded in understanding.

"Finally, wine. I heard that there are two wines in your country (Xiangshan Dry Red from Zhenhai County and Xianghe Wine from Hezhong County in South Africa), both of which are of mediocre quality. The wine is good. Now the British are attacking everywhere in the Mediterranean, and the navy is forced to send a large number of ships into the Mediterranean to escort. Therefore, the source of wine and olive oil in the Mediterranean is greatly reduced. In addition, the British are crazy in the Strait of Dover Move, there is a shortage of such materials in the Amsterdam market now. Therefore, our firm intends to import more such living materials. Well, did you hear that you use liters to calculate the amount of wine? Well, let’s calculate by liters. The specific number will be discussed later, but it will definitely surprise you.”

"Our country still produces some cheese, salty ham, and some whale oil, whale skin, and whale bone products. Don't you need to order some?" Mo San skillfully sold goods on the east coast to Mathias .

"You can buy some cheese." Mathias nodded in approval, and said: "Whale products are also available. Recently, the British are also attacking our whaling ships. Damn it! Forget about ham, Denmark in the Jutland Peninsula People are now specially organizing a large number of beef cattle to be fattened in the Drenthe area through Germany, and then exported to the Netherlands. This is due to Mr. Nanning Kaiser, the speaker of the city (Hollen), who was on his mission Denmark has used its diplomatic excellence to accomplish this significant task during this time."

This Nanning Kaiser must be a republican!Mo San thought maliciously.

Now that these types of goods have been discussed (Tripp's main business is to expand into the food industry), it's time to talk about the details—including the quantity of goods ordered.In this regard, Mo San strongly suggested that the two parties sign a formal supply contract, and Matthias agreed with this, but he and Mo San disagreed on the supply period: Mo San required at least five years, while Mathias only intends to sign for two to three years.

But fortunately, the sincerity of both parties is very strong. Finally, after negotiation, the duration of the supply agreement was limited to four years. To be honest, although the De Haier family and the Tripp family are big and famous merchant families with a wide range of sources, But they really couldn't predict exactly how long the war would last, so they signed a four-year supply contract with Mo San, which was one year longer than the period of the "Hotel Secret Agreement" signed by the three-level Dutch parliament instructing Van Beuningen. In the past year, Mo San was overjoyed.

What Mo San was happy about was not limited to signing some supply contracts with the Dutch, but he was more concerned about the "zero breakthrough" in the large-scale export of materials to the Dutch province.Although many agreements are only signed for three or four years, this is already very good. In the past few years, I will work hard to improve my relationship and get to know more people. I will guarantee that both parties will unanimously request to renew the contract after the agreement expires. At that time, the export of goods to the Netherlands was long-term, which was of great significance to the industry and agriculture on the east coast.

Think about it, the Federal Republic itself has a population of 80 million (the purchasing power of these people must not be underestimated), and they also control a large overseas market.If the East Coast Republic follows the path of these powerful Dutch merchant families and enters these overseas markets through the distribution channels of the Dutch, the profit prospects here are simply immeasurable.What's even better is that this also avoids direct competition with many Dutch businessmen, and virtually circumvents market barriers, which is simply the cheapest thing in the world.

"It seems that I have to stay in the Netherlands for a while longer." Mo San thought, "I'm sorry for myself if I don't take advantage of the difficult time for the Dutch people to make more money."

(End of this chapter)