From Chief to Ball

Just as the small group of these people eliminated Chen Jian for the first time, Chen Jian also needs to completely draw a line with these people and cut off ties with them from now on.

When all this really happens, what I have to do is to fight these people. These allies for 20 years will eventually become my worst enemy.

Chapter 61 Misfortune

All of this is just a hope for the future layout of these interest groups. It is not enough to plan for a lifetime if you don't plan for a while. Imperial craftsmen, commercial landowners and maritime merchant groups.

Chen Jian didn't have much of a problem with these people reaching out to India. If these people didn't reach out, others would do so. From a certain point of view, he hoped that these people would reach out to India.

India has great interests, internal divisions, and religious conflicts can all be used by the colonists to leverage their strength. Otherwise, the power of the colonists alone is not enough to collect excess land rent.

For European colonists, it is impossible to set foot in China without conquering India, and it is impossible to set foot in China without completing the conversion from land rent profits to dumping profits of industrial products, that is, completing the industrial revolution.

For the colonists here, because they don't need the advantage of going around the ends of the earth, they can directly get involved in India's affairs.Also because China's social form is completely different from that of India, it can and can only be profitable in China after the completion of the industrial revolution.

Therefore, Chen Jian hopes that these people will go deep into India and invest a lot of power in India. As long as they can complete the industrial revolution before India can gain complete and effective rule and complete a series of ideological and social revolutions in the Ming Empire, everything will be fine. .

It's like some sort of scam, too much has been invested in India, and it's impossible to get away and go to China before fully effective rule.

This time difference may only take seven to eighty to 80 years because of Chen Jian's involvement, so the Chinese cultural circle on this world line must seize the 100 years to complete the most critical leap to shake up the world order.

According to Chen Jian's personal understanding, the more balanced the development of the world, the sooner there will be excess production capacity and relative excess in the world, and the sooner the so-called developed countries will not be able to use the excess profits obtained by technological advantages to improve welfare and win over the working class of their own countries. changes are more likely to occur.

And what he has to do is to spread the technology as much as possible, let at least half of the countries and regions in the world complete the industrial revolution instead of just a few countries to complete the industrial dumping system, make the contradictions more acute, and make the improvement infinite. There is no way to go but nothing to give up.

Objectively, colonization and imperialism can accelerate the integration of the world, and if the revolution occurs in the first imperialist country, the system built by it will also collapse.If you want to disintegrate it and not be deceived by temporary internal improvements, there is no easier way than a real world war that really spreads to several continents of the world, not the center of Europe, and diverts domestic conflicts. And it's unavoidable.

It's just that Chen Jian hopes to have a good talk with these people at this time, because the actions of these people may affect what he wants to do.

After pretending to seriously consider the interests of these people, Chen Jian praised: "Your ideas are correct, but I still feel that you are a little too hasty."

"As long as Mr. Chen doesn't object, then we can still talk."

Chen Jian said with a smile: "What can I object to? I don't support the European aristocratic system. What you are going to do is not in conflict with what we are going to do. What I mean by rushing is that your ambitions are not It’s unrealizable, but the cost of input is a bit too high.”

"It's up to me to ask."

It can be regarded as sincere, but the other party can't believe everything, they have to listen to Chen Jian's suggestions, and want to strip away the things that are not good for them in Chen Jian's suggestions.

Chen Jian pondered for a moment and said slowly: "The Dutch are eager for spices, and spices are produced in the Spice Islands. To return to Europe from the Spice Islands, you need to go through India and the ends of the earth where more than a hundred people have immigrated, and you have to go around Africa."

Everyone nodded, not understanding why Chen Jian said these words that sounded like facts.

"Gentlemen, it's like flying a kite. There is a line between the kite and the person who flies the kite. That line is India and the ends of the earth."

"If the aggressiveness towards the Spice Islands is shown too early, the directors of the Dutch Indian company may cut their wrists and withdraw their energy from the Spice Islands, so as to focus all their energy on their company's nominal main business-India."

"Evacuate from the Spice Islands to India. They are closer to the mainland, and we are farther away. One goes up and down, and it is not profitable for you to compete with each other."

Speaking of this, someone has already thought of something and asked: "Mr. Chen means that our appetite and ambition are feasible, but the sequence needs to be changed?"

"That's right. Don't try to do both, but lure them to look far away. You also know that the strength of the Netherlands in the Spice Islands is not strong at this time, and the company's investment is not so much that it is difficult to give up. So, now they still have Maybe get away and withdraw to India to focus on business."

Chen Jian compared the distance with his hands, and said again: "But if they are allowed to continue to toss in the Spice Islands, your Huaxia India Company should not reveal its great ambitions for spices for the time being, but to obtain the right to tax and legal trade in India in advance If you have an advantage in terms of time, the Dutch Indian Company will increase its investment in the Spice Islands for its own benefit."

"Once they are determined to take root in the Spice Islands, the initial investment must be huge, including garrisoning troops, building forts, maintaining monopoly, naval superiority, etc. At that time, the Dutch Indian company may have a short-term cash shortage, and at that time too much investment will be made. It would be hard to leave.”

"Once you get a foothold in India, it's like cutting the string of a kite. And we only need to cross the ocean from here instead of going around a continent. Under the attack of things, they are fish on the chopping board. How can there be resistance? What about the power?"

"At that time, even if they have no choice but to withdraw from the trade in the Spice Islands, India and you have already taken the lead, and they have no advantage. What else can they do but retreat to Europe? The Nanyang Company engages in the slave trade in Africa because there is a market It is profitable, but if the Dutch do not have a market where Nanyang Company continues to maintain a monopoly, they will not even be able to stay in Africa.”

"So, my suggestion is that you don't interfere with the affairs of the Dutch Indian Company. Luzon and Manila, don't take an attitude of wanting to seize it for the time being, and don't put too much pressure on the Dutch."

"For us, we can continue to obtain the silver in Manila, and at the same time temporarily join hands with the Dutch in Asia to appear to be an alliance, reducing our pressure. For you, you will only need one battle to solve all problems in the future, not in the Spice Islands. After that, I will continue to compete with them on the same starting line as India."

"If you force them away from the Spice Islands now, they will focus on India, but you have not even officially obtained the right to trade legally in India, and India still has an empire after all, and they will be vigilant your actions there."

After listening to Chen Jian's suggestion, everyone whispered to each other, frowning, obviously difficult to decide.

Chapter 62 Misfortune

These people have to admit that Chen Jian's opinion is very good. This is a revision of the details that can allow them to gain an advantage earlier. In the future, they only need a decisive battle on a battlefield closer to their own country to completely control the situation.

Putting India first and then spices allowed the Dutch to retreat directly from Asia to Africa or Europe.Spices first and then India made it possible for the Dutch to retreat from the Spice Islands to India to concentrate on their business.

This was a battle of annihilation rather than a battle of defeat, and everyone also believed that what Chen Jian said about acting too hastily had something to say.

However, these people also understand that Chen Jian has evil intentions, even if they are not evil, they also have selfish intentions.

If India is not spiced first, Wangbei City is an indispensable transit point. Any activities in Asia must reach a tacit understanding and communication with the Mexican Party, and it is impossible to act alone.

In other words, if the people of the Mexican Party say that your company is not doing right and we don't support it, the company will struggle in Asia.

Similarly, with Wangbei City as a forward base, Wangbei City's commercial trade will develop faster, and at the same time, it can use the powerful capital and soldiers of Huaxia India Company to achieve deterrence in the South China Sea.

From Wangbei City to Thailand, building a fortress on the side of the isthmus of Thailand to confront the Portuguese will inevitably have to borrow the relationship of the Mexican Party in Thailand. Not established.

Moreover, with every step forward in India, except for the land rent income that the Mo party’s philosophy does not agree with, the Mo party’s trade can follow up and intervene, pulling the handicraftsmen and maritime merchants of the Ming Dynasty over without any stagnation.

But since the goal of these interest groups is land rent income rather than trade income or the industrial dumping system of raw materials, or they have not thought about it so far for the time being or the social class of the participants temporarily determines that they will not consider this issue, then Chen Jian’s this Suggestions for obvious concealment purposes are much worth considering.

In fact, Chen Jian's evil intentions were more than that. Once the Indian company gained enough profits in the spice trade and stabilized, it would be a great threat to Wangbei City's south expansion plan.

Once there is a change in the Ming Empire in the future, Indian companies are likely to get involved because of the closer distance, causing problems to become complicated.These people can do anything for profit. If they seize the opportunity at that time and invest in the Manchu robbery group to obtain trade privileges, it is not impossible. They may even hit it off and become another type of Shanxi merchants.

In order to prevent this possibility, even if it was a negligible possibility, Chen Jian decided to keep them away from the South China Sea.

In Chen Jian's eyes, the Dutch are just a flash in the pan. The small size of the country, the handicraft industry oppressed by commercial capital, the capital outflow caused by the high profits of foreign investment, etc., all determine that the Dutch are a soft persimmon, which can be squeezed at any time. How to knead.

But Huaxia India Company is completely different. This is not a soft persimmon, it is a behemoth no less than Nanyang Company, and it is a behemoth that is closely connected with the power family. Once it grows up and takes root, it will not be as good as dealing with the Dutch. easy.

This is bringing disaster to the east, selling India's interests in exchange for a sufficient buffer period.

In the future, whether or not you can get burned depends not on yourself, but on the tens of millions of people living in Yao's land and Shun's land at this time.

The Mexican party organization on my side is just a teacher and a fire spreader in Wangbei City. The rest still depends on the power of the local people to decide whether their future will be faced with another Indian company that is bigger and stronger than in history. The opium influx opens The gate of the country; or even if this Indian company is stronger and bigger, it dare not covet it.

The method of diverting disaster to the east will bring many variables. Unlike Britain in history, India’s developed handicraft industry and high-quality cotton cloth allow the British and Indian companies that were originally on the world line to dump Indian handicraft products into the country, and even find ways to avoid them. Domestic excess tariffs.

Therefore, the British can wait a long time before starting in India, and it is also profitable to dump handicraft products to China and Europe in the early stage.

But now, for China's Indian companies, even if there is no domestic tariff, Indian handicrafts are no match for the hydraulic factory industry developed in Min County and the six coastal counties, as well as the impending power revolution and capitalist production relations. Extremely low cost.

That is, there is no tariff, and even every ship can guarantee 100% safety. Handicraft products may not be profitable. On the contrary, the export of raw materials and handicraft products can make one-way profits.

Driven by profits, Huaxia's Indian companies will have far more desire for land rent and control rights than British and Indian companies on the normal world line, and will spare no effort to invest more power, use religious contradictions more wretchedly, and use religious conflicts more skillfully Class conflicts cultivate upper castes to be allies.

It will also greatly speed up the time to gain dominion in India, and once it is completed, it will inevitably turn its attention to the besieged Chinese cultural circle.If transformation and self-reform cannot take place, it may be more dangerous than the normal historical line, and it will fall into the situation of being surrounded by the east and the west earlier-at that time, it will not only be the Dutch Indian company that is caught in the kite line.