New Shun 1730

Excluding the overall demand of wanting to institutionalize the imperial power, the remaining demands are different.

If the interest groups formed by military nobles and foreign merchants are defined as the chaebol groups with Dashun characteristics, there are probably several major chaebol groups.

And the demands of each of these huge chaebol groups are exactly what Liu Yu wants to hear, rather than the general institutionalization of being a dog.

These demands, which are closely related to their respective interests, are very "coincidentally" in line with Dashun's diplomatic attitude of participating in foreign wars.

After Liu Yu listened to the demands of their respective interest groups one by one, he had a clear idea in his mind. It can be basically confirmed that Dashun's war machine can be started.

The first to express the demands was the Jinghai Monopoly Privilege Company, which was closely related to Liu Yu's letter to Cheng Tingzuo, asking them to send people to Honolulu.

That is, the Jinghai Monopoly Privilege Company, which is closely related to the diplomatic policy towards Russia after the war.

Their demands are very interesting.

There are only two demands.

One is to establish a supply base in Honolulu to provide food for their whaling and skinning activities on the northeast coast of America.

The other is to hope that the court can abolish the trade ports in the Mobei region and transfer all land trade with Luocha to the Heilongjiang region.

It sounds like their company and the Luocha fur trade association are hostile.

In fact, it is.

But after years of competition, this hostile relationship has quietly changed, because the Luocha people have completely lost their qualifications to compete in the Arctic and America.

Liu Yu's many policies when he was the Jiedushi of Jinghai made Dashun lead Luocha for many years.

In the competition for many years afterwards, Luocha people completely failed in the competition of marine animal fur circles.

After some "pirates" and "indigenous uprisings" destroyed Luocha people's shipbuilding base in Kamchatka, Dashun's Jinghai Fur Company had completely taken control.

Just as Dashun went to Nanyang and fought the Netherlands in order to establish a basis for cooperation between the Netherlands and Dashun.

Many things in the Jinghai region follow the same logic.

After the Luocha people completely lost the fur dominance in the extreme cold zone, the relationship between Dashun's Jinghai Fur Company and Luocha fur merchants had a basis for cooperation.

Of course, if they had not lost the dominance in the extreme cold zone, there would be no such cooperation, but an undying enemy. Just like the Dashun and the Netherlands after taking over Nanyang, compared with the Dashun and the Netherlands before taking over Nanyang.

In short, Liu Yu had given up some benefits in order to divert the trouble to the west, trying to let Sweden, Luocha, and Dashun work together to directly bring oriental goods into the Baltic Sea, and for this purpose he strangled the Danish East India Company.

It also opened up a trade route from Songjiang directly to St. Petersburg, allowing the Luocha court and nobles to abandon Luocha merchants and monopolize the tea, rhubarb and other trades in Luocha.

For Dashun, this matter is nothing more than the difference between tea taking the trade route of Lake Baikal or the sea trade route.

For Luocha, it is an internal reshuffle of the spoils.

That is, the tsarina and some new nobles took away the rhubarb and tea profits that controlled the Baikal trade line.

The center of the tea, rhubarb and silk industry of Luosha State is no longer Irkutsk on the shore of Lake Baikal.

Instead, it has moved to Petersburg.

It is naturally good for Dashun.

The interest of the Luosha people to the west has completely suppressed their interest to the east, and a reshuffle has been completed within the Luosha nobles.

With the victory of the Whale Sea Trading Company in the competition in the extremely cold region, the eastward merchants have completely given up the idea of ​​going east to America.

With the national strength of Luosha at this time, it is impossible to support such a large-scale expansion.

It can only rely on the scattered merchant power.

But the scattered merchant power cannot compete with Dashun, which has advantages in capital, distance, supplies, and seamen.

Now, the contradiction is thrown back to Dashun.

The Luosha people have no chance for sea dragon skins and sea dog skins on the seashore. Dashun's capital group has established several trading points on the northwest coast of America.

They also learned the practices of the Tungus Cossacks, Tatar Cossacks, Buddhist Cossacks, and Muslim Cossacks of the Russians, and won over many local natives.

They learned from the barbarians to defeat the barbarians, which is true.

However, they could not get the sea dragon skin, but they could always get the rest of the furs in the Siberian region.

After getting it, they originally went to Kyakhta for trade in history, after all, China ate most of the low-end furs and exchanged them for tea.

Now, this group of people is still trading in the Baikal region.

This made the Whale Sea Trading Company very unhappy.

Because these furs can also be purchased by the monopoly company of Whale Sea.

The Russians have poor skills in processing furs, so the profits are extremely high.

But now, the profits from collecting furs from the Russians and transporting them to the rich areas to sell are occupied by the Shanxi Merchants Group that takes the Mongolian route.

The capital group on the Songjiang side is of course very unhappy.

Of course, the Whale Sea Monopoly Company wants to eat the existing profits, but it also wants the profits in the Baikal region. It thinks it is better to open a port at the mouth of the Heilongjiang River, so that the goods of the Russians can be more conveniently transported by water and traded at the mouth of the Heilongjiang River.

Originally, it was definitely not possible because it involved the Russians.

The Russians must have been willing to trade in the Baikal region before, because one-way trade is not profitable.

Ship the fur to Lake Baikal and exchange it for tea and rhubarb in Lake Baikal. This round trip is the real way to make money.

Otherwise, it will be like some merchant ships of Dashun, who want to be "compradors" but cannot. If silver is not regarded as goods but as currency, theoretically, it will always only make half the profit.

But now, the effect of Liu Yu's participation in the coup in Petersburg has also emerged.

The result of pulling Sweden and the Russians into the group is that sea transportation has defeated land transportation; the interests of the Russian nobles have been reshuffled.

The new maritime trade interest group of Russia began to actively restrict the tea and rhubarb trade in the Baikal region, because the new people replaced the old people, and now the profits of tea and rhubarb are controlled by the new nobles in Petersburg instead of the group in old Moscow.

In theory, those fur merchants in Russia can only sell single trips because they can't get the right to operate the rhubarb and tea trade.

The failure of the backstage nobles internally made the power of the Russian merchant class weak.

This made the Jinghai Trading Company of Songsu Capital Group see the opportunity to overthrow the Shanxi merchants and get furs from the Luosha people, so that their company could completely monopolize the fur trade in the entire North Asia and Northwest North America.

However, these people also know the art of speaking.

The reasons for the appeals given, every word, are for the sake of the court.

The first reason is that the trade with Mongolia cannot be stopped, which is inevitable. And those people in Mongolia also need tea, rhubarb, etc.

Therefore, it is impossible to regulate the direction of tea, rhubarb, etc. After all, trading with Mongolia and trading with the Luosha people in Lake Baikal are the same.

This leads to the problem of "rampant smuggling, resulting in less tariffs for the court."

Therefore, Jinghai Trading Company, for the sake of the court, for the sake of your majesty's tariff silver, and for the sake of the treasury, believes that the trade ports in the Lake Baikal area should be cancelled.

The second reason is that the Mongolian region has always been a major threat to the court in the north.

Although there is control now, opening trade there will inevitably deepen the connection between the Luocha people and the various tribes in the northern part of Mongolia.

It may be a disaster in the future.

On the contrary, if the trade port is moved to the Heilongjiang River area, it will be very beneficial to the court.

Because originally, a trade port was established in the northern tributary of the upper reaches of the Heilongjiang River, but in recent years, two ports have been opened together, and there has always been smuggling there, so that the trade port here has not played a very good role in promoting immigration through commerce.

Of course, this is also because the Whale Sea Trading Company won a great victory in the competition for marine animal furs, which actually made the Heilongjiang River estuary, which originally allowed the Luocha people to transport furs westward along the river, disappear.

If the ports in the northern Mongolian area can be closed and the low-end fur trade of the Luocha country can be transferred to the trade ports of the Heilongjiang River, it will help some people who immigrated from this dynasty to form villages and towns along the river to provide food for merchants and travelers.

Finally, they will gather together and achieve the effect of immigrants filling the border.

Otherwise, who would be willing to go so far to live.

This is in line with the imperial court's plan to settle the border with immigrants.

As for the Mongolian area in the northern desert, immigration is pure nonsense. No one really wants to go to that broken place, and it is quite inconvenient. It is not as realistic as the border area densely covered with the Heilongjiang River Basin.

The third point is that this can completely cut off the smuggling of rhubarb and tea along the northern desert line.

Cutting off the smuggling of rhubarb and tea means that the Russians will not have much benefit in going east. After all, if there is no smuggling of rhubarb and tea, the profit will definitely decrease if there is no smuggling of rhubarb and tea.

And with the decrease in profits, there is even less motivation to develop eastward.

The huge benefits of sea transportation have already made the Russians taste the sweetness, which has also prompted them to be more determined to go west, which is really beneficial to the imperial court.

Although... although in fact their original idea is still jealous of the profits of the Siberian fur trade of the Russians from the Shanxi merchants.

Although... although in fact their original idea is to take these fur profits into their own hands.

However, it does not mean that their demands "all stand from the perspective of the imperial court and the country" are unreasonable.

Whether from the perspective of Luocha's westward and eastward expansion; or from the perspective that Dashun cannot complete immigrant assimilation in the northern desert, but it is very possible in Heilongjiang; or commercial exchanges bring about contact between Mongolian northern desert and Luocha, etc.

They all make sense.

Cutting off the smuggling of rhubarb and tea will reduce the profits of eastward expansion; the profits of fur in the extremely cold region have also been snatched by the Whale Sea Company.

In fact, this has indeed greatly affected the interest of the Luocha merchant group in going east, and the profits have been reduced year by year. There is no interest in going so far without profits to be made.

Now Dashun has taken the initiative to pull Luocha into the maritime trade group, and the effect is showing year by year. The situation in the northern border area is more and more favorable to Dashun.

After listening to the demands of this group, Liu Yu laughed in his heart, thinking that it is true that those who are close to Zhu will be red, and those who are close to ink will be black. These merchants have finally learned to "seek profit in their hearts and talk about righteousness on their lips."

This is a good thing.

It proves that these merchants are becoming more mature, at least in their mouths, and they are implementing the nature of foreign merchants who are beneficial to the country.

Regardless of what they really think, the key is that they have mastered this set of rhetoric and understood the connotation of the "scriptures". What they say can unify personal interests and national justice, proving that they at least have the foundation to become a political force.

To become a political force, or to enter the political stage, even as a vassal, you need to be rich and powerful, but you still have to "talk politics" in your mouth.

No matter whether these things are true or false, at least they can justify themselves, can explain the Ziwu Maoyou, can say that they are righteous and not simply the profit-seeking businessmen, that is a key step.

Yes, they just want to get the profits of Siberian fur from Shanxi merchants, they are really jealous.

But, they must say that this is for the country, for the country, for the court.

Liu Yu was very satisfied with this appeal, and praised it a few times, thinking that it was a good start and set an example, and really understood how the new scripture called economics was used.

Then he asked about the appeals of several consortiums doing Western trade, cotton cloth trade, and ginseng and fur trade in France, and judged how much support these capital groups would have after the Dashun war machine started.