New Shun 1730

In general, at this time, there was too much financial capital in Europe, but the investment direction was limited.

This means that Dashun can easily borrow money in Europe in the future.

It also means that after the War of the Austrian Succession, a larger-scale war will inevitably affect the whole world after Dashun is defeated. The war from Europe to Luzon will be very tragic.

After the financial crisis in 20 years, Britain and France tightened their policies and strengthened government supervision to prevent the recurrence of the South China Sea and Mississippi bubble incidents.

This makes capital more inclined to invest in government bonds with better stability, especially when Dashun destroyed the Dutch East India Company, which also means that governments such as Britain and France can borrow enough money more easily.

Only with money can we fight wars.

Only by borrowing money can we fight larger wars.

When there are many investment directions and there is often an annual interest rate of 20%, capital will not buy government bonds. Even if they buy, they can't expect to borrow at such low interest rates as 3% or 6%.

Of course, it does not mean that war will definitely break out if there is excess capital and limited investment directions. Rather, it is a prerequisite for a long and brutal war.

And once such a war breaks out, it often means the overall decline and internal revolution of an alliance group. Because too much money has been borrowed, capital is betting on each other, hoping to make money in the future if they win.

Too many bets, the winner takes all, and the loser revolts.

And once the war starts, it is not that anyone can stop it if they want to, and they must fight until they can no longer hold on.

Otherwise, they have already borrowed so much money, how can they pay it back if they lose?

These situations are certainly good news for Dashun, which is outside the ocean and cannot be affected by the war.

In fact, it is also good news for the Netherlands.

If Dashun goes down, it can keep Amsterdam's position as the European financial center, as long as it ensures that Dashun provides enough investment directions.

Including national debt, and Dashun actually completed the initial stage of the industrial revolution first.

Once the European and American markets are opened, there will be many investment directions.

A large amount of European hot money can flow into Dashun.

As long as Dashun raises shares in Europe or borrows national debt in Amsterdam in the future, the Netherlands will have a chance to survive after the disaster year of 45 if it can cooperate with Dashun, abolish the Anglo-Dutch joint defense treaty, and drive out the Orange family.

Just like after the last disaster year, the French edict to expel Protestants made the Netherlands recover. Last time, it was France that destroyed the Netherlands; it was also France that saved the Netherlands.

This time is the same. It was Dashun that destroyed the Netherlands; it was also Dashun that could save the Netherlands.

In short, the future of the Netherlands is still bright.

As long as you find the right partner.

It cannot be said that cooperating with Dashun is equivalent to being used as a gun by Dashun. Anyway, Britain cannot go on an expedition to Dashun. If the Netherlands and Dashun get too close and engage in smuggling together, they will be targeted by Britain.

Because even if the Netherlands does not cooperate with Dashun, Britain will sooner or later destroy the Netherlands' commercial capabilities.

There have been three Anglo-Dutch wars before, and the contradictions are not necessarily less serious than those between Britain and France.

Sooner or later, you will be beaten, so you might as well prepare early and find a partner early.

Or you can just lie flat and destroy your own transportation capacity, commercial market, and financial status.

But it is unrealistic to not want to lie flat and hope that Britain will not attack you in the future.

Cooperating with Dashun will have a bright future.

However, no one in Amsterdam can see this at this time.

Even hope is not seen.

From the bottom craftsmen, to the small shareholders in the middle, to the high-level aristocratic oligarchs, and even the highest level of the Consul Council... all they see is despair.

For Dashun, if the stock market in Songjiang collapses, it will not have much impact. Songjiang can only be regarded as a bud, and Dashun is essentially a feudal monarchy with a small peasant foundation.

But the Netherlands is moving too fast. When other countries are still farming, the Netherlands is fishing and spinning; when other countries are spinning, the Netherlands is transporting and delivering goods; when other countries are engaged in transportation, the Netherlands has transformed into the financial industry and abandoned all industries.

Under such circumstances, when the news of Dashun's voyage to Southeast Asia came on August 12, the whole Netherlands collapsed, the financial market was in chaos, and the province of Amsterdam was the first to be hit and fell into riots.

A large number of middle-level shareholders surrounded the headquarters building of the East India Company and demanded repayment.

The problem is that the East India Company does not have so much cash at all.

If he really had sufficient cash, such as the 50% dividend in the past, he would have wanted to disclose the accounts every six months to stimulate investor confidence.

Now the accounts are only disclosed once every ten years, which is obviously due to insufficient cash. Internally, they need to make false accounts and rob Peter to pay Paul to maintain as much as possible.

Seeing that their stocks were about to become waste paper, a large number of Amsterdam citizens were at a loss.

At this time, the people who were arranged here by Liu Yu when he came last time finally waited for the opportunity.

These people began to mix into the streets of Amsterdam and spread chaos among those desperate citizens.

The method of spreading chaos is actually very simple.

Should the private property of the company directors be responsible for the company's debts?

From a legal point of view, they are not responsible. What do I care about the money I earn and the company's debts? If I am responsible, should these small shareholders also be responsible?

However, when the public is angry, the so-called law may not be meaningful.

The current situation is that the stocks are likely to become worthless paper; the directors of the East India Company are all wealthy people; the company's accounts are only made public once every ten years; what the oligarchs have done in recent years has angered the world and the people.

With a little incitement, these citizens who hold shares but are unwilling to admit defeat suddenly got excited and surrounded the East India Company's headquarters building, shouting slogans: If the company can't pay back the money, let the seventeen directors pay it back!

This is definitely meaningless, just an emotional vent, but it can easily cause chaos in Amsterdam.

The chaos incited among the people is more than that.

A large number of rumors mixed with lies quickly spread in various provinces in the Netherlands.

Although the yellow tabloid founded by Liu Yu was banned when Liu Yu left Amsterdam a few years ago.

But some people who stayed behind at the time still play their role and instigate the emotions of the people among the people.

[The ruling wife is a British princess. She has always looked down on the Netherlands and believes that everything in the Netherlands cannot be compared with Britain...]

[Do you expect an Englishman not to consider Britain? Why did the Netherlands get involved in the Austrian war? Why did the Netherlands help Britain to fight? All this is because the wife of the ruler is a British princess. 】

【She pretended to be pregnant and returned to Britain because she just wanted to borrow a seed from the Protestant nobility so that the child in her belly could inherit the British throne. 】

【The decline of the Netherlands was caused by Britain. The British took away the Golden Age of the Netherlands, and Dutch cargo ships were restricted by the British "Navigation Act". 】

【The wife of the ruler said that if the ruler did not stand with Britain, she would refuse to sleep with him at night, because the British princess thought that the ruler looked like an African baboon, and she had to endure nausea and sleep with him. 】

All kinds of vicious, personal attacks, and low-level rumors began to spread in the Netherlands as early as the Battle of Fontenoy.

Most of them are false, but even if they are false, there is still a large part of truth mixed in. The war failed, the decision failed, and the wrong team was stood on, so someone must be found to be responsible.

The people of the Netherlands hate the parliamentary party and the oligarchs.

However, the declaration of war on France, the full support for Austria, and the subsequent rejection of Dashun's trade request, which led to Dashun's attack on Southeast Asia, had nothing to do with the parliamentary faction and the oligarchs.

At least, this was not a decision made when the Grand Speaker was in power.

It was a decision made after William IV marched to Amsterdam and became the ruler of the seven provinces.

These rumors spread very easily. At least before the news of Dashun's going to Southeast Asia came, in Amsterdam, the regent oligarchs even fueled the flames and provided a lot of help in secret.

Many people in Dashun did not know the Netherlands, but if we use the history known to Dashun, we can roughly know what the Netherlands was like at this time.

The Netherlands, to some extent, is a bit like the Ming Dynasty in the late Ming Dynasty.

Before the outbreak of the Fourth Anglo-Dutch War in history, the oligarchs knew early on that if the relationship with Britain continued to deteriorate, war would definitely break out.

However, the choice they made with foresight was not to actively prepare for war.

Instead, they supported the anti-British and anti-Consul factions while quietly hoarding a large amount of wood for shipbuilding. Because once the war with Britain breaks out, the Netherlands needs to expand its fleet, and the timber stockpiled at this time can make a fortune.

When the war really starts, the oligarchs sell the timber for shipbuilding at a high price while refusing to pay taxes.

When the government recruited sailors to join the warships, the oligarchs doubled the wages of the sailors on the smuggling ships, making the fleet unable to recruit sailors. The oligarchs took advantage of the opportunity of the breakdown of Anglo-Dutch relations without going to war to make a fortune by smuggling in the Americas on a large scale.

When Britain finally took action and began to capture Dutch merchant ships in the Caribbean, the regent oligarchs began to launch a massive questioning of the consuls at home: Why not take measures? Why not send a fleet to protect the interests of the Dutch people? Are we going to endure the arrogance and rudeness of the British?

When the Dutch government decided to build ships and prepare a fleet to escort in the Caribbean, the regent oligarchs refused to pay taxes and believed that it was unreasonable to increase inheritance tax and asset tax, and that they should not be taxed to build ships.

By the way, since the government wants to build ships, the timber they have hoarded before can be sold at a good price.

Escort, whose interests are they protecting? These people know it clearly.

However, it is impossible for them to pay taxes.

Do they know what the consequences will be if the Netherlands loses the war if they hoard goods and refuse to pay taxes?

Or do they think that the consequences will not affect them?

It is really hard to say clearly.

In short, it is probably such a group of people.

At this time, the Orange faction obtained the status of consul, and the attitude of these regent oligarchs was "whatever the consul does, we oppose it."

Because the regent oligarchs are convinced that the biggest enemy of the Netherlands, or them, is not the outside, but the Orange family that may be centralized and powerful.

In the Netherlands, the Orange family is the savior, the always correct, and the hope in despair.

This kind of force must be destroyed no matter what. No matter what method is used, the only threat that can destroy the special "republican system" of the Netherlands must not be allowed to grow day by day.

Amsterdam was the base camp of the anti-Consul faction, so William IV did not dare to live in Amsterdam and had to go to The Hague.

Therefore, when these obviously inciting words were spread in Amsterdam, Amsterdam gave the green light.

Those low-brow and low-brow rumors and slanders, with the cooperation of the Dutch, quickly spread throughout the Netherlands.