New Shun 1730

It sounds a bit outrageous that the Hancock family, which can provide military logistics and has contacts with the British royal family and nobles, would engage in smuggling. But in fact, on the contrary, smuggling is usually highly overlapped with the business groups that provide military logistics.

There is no shame in smuggling, especially in places like Boston, where smuggling is a "profession recognized and respected by society."

In terms of local morals and evaluation, it is similar to some villages in Fujian, where people collectively masturbated when a new platform came out; or like a village in Guangdong, where children took cold capsules at home after school. Local people think that this is a normal profession, and anyone who earns more must be praised for their ability.

Thomas Hancock brought John Hancock here to contact Dashun and discuss the details of the transaction. He was also preparing to hand over the family business to the next generation.

Old Hancock had no children. He was just a nephew. The family fortune of hundreds of thousands of taels of silver and many slaves had to be inherited by someone.

At this time, there was no serious anti-British sentiment in North America, and the 1933 sugar tax law was just a piece of cake.

Before this tax law, bribes were still required. After this tax law was added, there were no local judges or juries. Economic anti-British sentiment among businessmen basically did not exist.

On Dashun's side, ever since Liu Yu started harming Korean ginseng, he was obviously leaning towards the carving up of North America among the four countries.

France, can't leave.

As long as France does not leave, North America's tendency to separate itself will decrease sharply.

The British drove away the French, relocated the French-speaking people, and spent money to suppress the Indian uprising. The tendency for independence in North America naturally increased sharply.

In fact, after Pitt stepped down in 1963, the British government also came to its senses, so the Boundary Act of 1763 came into being.

Because the British discovered that the French were driven away and the Pontiac Indian uprising was suppressed. If the land speculators continue to move westward and kill all the remaining Indians, the tendency of separation in North America will become more serious. .

There are no enemies anymore, and the land in North America is so fertile, why does North America still need to bear British taxes, garrisons, and rule?

That's why the 1963 Border Act was created. In addition to appeasing the tense relations with the Indians - the Indians were really nervous, as Chief Pontiac discovered. Under the rule of this group of Protestants and Puritans, and with the French It's completely different when people are here. The most the French can do is trick them into ordering goods, or they always try to convert them. These Puritans want them dead - the remaining reason is that they need to create an enemy to ensure that the mother country has control over North America. control, and North America's need for mother country protection.

Of course, France's European nickname "Little China" at this time was really not random.

The method the French used to win over the Indians... was to reward the chiefs with weapons, cloth, silk, clothes, guns, etc., and the chiefs relied on these "tributes" to strengthen their rule over the tribes and distribute them to the tribesmen, and the tribes in turn accepted them in name. French rule.

The people here in Dashun are indeed quite familiar with this, and they also know very well what the French are going to do next. They have been in this situation for a hundred years, and then they can change their ways and return to their hometown.

The completely different governance styles between Britain and France were also an important reason for the subsequent uprisings. After the British came to their senses, they quickly sobered up.

Therefore, under the background of this attitude among a group of people in Dashun, it is not far away from the fact that Britain wakes up and realizes that "the existence of French and Indians is an important factor in North America's centripetal relationship with the mother country."

Similarly, the trade between Dashun and North America must be conducted in a way that seems acceptable to everyone.

Taking tea as an example, what Dashun really wanted to do here was the East India Company.

The conflict between tea smugglers and the British was caused by the East India Company.

The historical reasons are that Britain borrowed a panty of national debt during the Seven Years' War, the East India Company's radical policies in India, and its excessive indifference in Bengal... and the neutrality of the Netherlands and Denmark during the Seven Years' War. , I was so happy when I bought tea in Guangdong during that period in history that I completed the replacement of smuggled tea in North America and the capital chain of the East India Company was broken.

To save the East India Company, the tax on tea was reduced.

However, the fundamental problem has not been solved: the East India Company is still the only British company authorized by law to conduct trade east of the Cape of Good Hope.

Now, since the East India Company must die.

So, in fact, if we follow the ideas of a group of people here in Dashun, we can make the Netherlands a comprador center in Europe. After all, only the East India Company suffered.

The Dutch were partly involved in trade and shipping, and they had shares.

The other part is to transport goods to North America. This has no impact. You should earn money for transporting goods.

The British government lowered the tax rate and lowered the tea tax to the original 10%. In fact, the money received has not changed, because smuggled tea accounts for at least 86% of North America's share, and it will be reduced to 10% of the original tax rate. , in theory the total amount of taxes is the same.

Those who sell smuggled tea in North America also make money, which means that it was considered smuggling before, but now it is legal to get the goods in the Netherlands and is not considered smuggling.

Therefore, according to Dashun's plan, the only ones who will suffer are the East India Company, which is already certain to die, and the company's shareholders, large and small, who will lose everything.

Of course, financial turmoil is inevitable. The East India Company still owes a debt of 100 to 200 million, and the impact will certainly be considerable.

Therefore, Dashun needs to ask Dutch brokers to find reputable North American businessmen.

It would be great if someone from the Pennsylvania Freemasonry could be introduced.

The Freemasonry is not that magical, but as an elite circle, it still has a wide network of contacts.

The main purpose of finding these well-known figures is to let them take the lead in pulling strings and gather together the tea sellers in North America, especially the well-known big merchants who sell smuggled tea.

The Dutch are like thieves. They know their intermediary identities, so they always keep the identities of their clients confidential, especially not telling Dashun, in case Dashun, the manufacturer, bypasses the intermediary and communicates directly with the client.

Maybe, all intermediaries have this habit.

Therefore, Dashun can only confirm that the smuggling organization in the Netherlands has many big customers in the tea selling circle in North America, but the Netherlands will not say who the big customers are. Dashun can only find people on its own and give a large sum of money to let the intermediary in the Netherlands pull strings and find big businessmen in North America directly.

Then the big businessmen in North America will contact people in the circle.

Call all the big businessmen in North America, and send people from Dashun to come over, and sit down and talk and hold a meeting.

Go to Philadelphia, Boston, or the Bahamas, Havana, etc. to sit down and hold a meeting, it's all fine, they can decide the place.

As of now, the ships and people from Dashun in North America are not much different from those in Southeast Asia. The warships you see are either their own or those of their allies.

It doesn't have to be tea sellers, cotton cloth sellers, porcelain sellers, luxury goods sellers can all participate.

It's easier to get things done with more people.

There's power in numbers.

There's also more noise. It can cover up other opposing voices.

From the perspective of selling tea or cotton cloth, regardless of whether it's reactionary or progressive, Dashun doesn't mind if someone in North America eats alone from a purely commercial perspective.

But the premise of eating alone is that you have to have the ability.

Whoever is jealous will be killed; whoever writes an article criticizing will be ruined; whoever wants to enter the market but has no chance will smuggle and beheaded immediately.

As long as this can be achieved, it is okay to eat alone and cooperate.

But the key is that even a family like Hancock does not have the ability to eat alone. The East India Company can't do it, let alone these people.

So, we have to rely on the power of numbers.

The big smugglers in the thirteen states, come and have tea, sit down, and make a common statement and common opinions.

For example, together promote the benefits of tea and kill the coffee merchants.

For example, together promote the benefits of cotton cloth and kill the wool rubbing.

On the issue of North American trade after the war, stay consistent with Dashun, suppress North American public opinion together, guide public opinion, and urge Britain to reach a series of trade conditions.

These big businessmen gather together to completely offset the opposition voices in North America.

As for people like Franklin who have been accused of being "traitors to the United States" and "pro-British" in history, from his own cognition, he himself tends to lower tariffs and allow the East India Company to sell tea directly in North America.

When the East India Company died, Franklin, a rational person, would not oppose this thing that was actually good for North America.

The hat on Franklin's head was put on. But in fact, his hat of "traitor to the United States" and "pro-British" is not unremovable. Behind this hat, Franklin's compromise attitude is more like maintaining a community. It does not mean that he thinks that everything in Britain is right and the British king is powerful, but a compromise with a bottom line, a goal, and a program.

There are not many rational pro-British people like him.

As long as this group of rational pro-British people and these businessmen who chose to oppose Britain for economic reasons in history reach an agreement on trade issues, they can gain an overwhelming advantage in the North American public opinion field.

In short, those who go on the road of rebellion or revolution because of economic factors will also go on the road of compromise because of economic factors.

Out of simple national sentiments, such as Franklin, who was worried that the Thirteen States would be occupied by German "country bumpkins", these people would also tend to change trade policies in exchange for political unity because of simple blood-related national sentiments.

And this pre-constructed idea of ​​"don't eat alone, let more influential businessmen participate, there is strength in numbers" really doesn't need to be deliberately completed.

After Thomas Hancock saw the goods in the Dashun merchant ship, asked about the price, tasted or tried the samples, he understood.

He couldn't eat this trade by himself, the amount was too large. He had to find more people to discuss it together.