New Shun 1730

Now that Kang Buluo took the initiative to raise this issue, Anthony happened to take advantage of the situation and said: "The ability of the Marquis, even from a business perspective, is definitely worthy of recognition. I personally admire him, even if he was the one before as a belligerent."

"Of course, the merchants of the Netherlands, especially the shareholders of the East India Company, are both admired and feared. Of course you know that the fear of the enemy is the greatest praise for this man. Fortunately, we turned the enemy into Become friends.”

"The situation in Europe is indeed as you said. Germans serve as marshals in France, Germans become kings in England, and even Dutch people can go to England to become kings. We do not question the leadership of a foreigner."

"However, many of the Marquis's actions make us suspect that he is a serious patriot."

"Will a serious patriot stand completely and fairly on the common interests of China and the Netherlands in Sino-Dutch trade cooperation?"

Kang Bunuo said with a smile: "Since China and the Netherlands have begun cooperation, turning enemies into friends, and turning hostilities into friendship. Then, after the Southeast Asian issue and the Indian issue are resolved, the interests of the Netherlands will be the interests of Dashun."

"In this case, wouldn't a patriot be beneficial to the cooperation between China and the Netherlands?"

He focused on the point "after the problems in Southeast Asia and India are resolved", and this makes sense.

As long as the Dutch East India Company occupies Nanyang, Sino-Dutch relations are potential enemies; if the Netherlands abandons Southeast Asia and India, the Netherlands can be friends with Dashun.

This logic makes sense, so a Dashun patriot supervising Sino-Dutch trade will naturally be beneficial to the interests of the Netherlands.

When Anthony heard this, he thought that might not be the case.

Dashun's reputation is not bad. He is very particular about his allies and is beyond reproach. Every European country has expressed a certain degree of envy for the relationship between China and France.

But Liu Yu's personal reputation, at least for this group of political veterans in the Netherlands, is no better than that of the Prussian one next door.

Strategic deception, especially the strategic deception against the Netherlands, has been done a lot.

And he will use various means to achieve his goals, especially when it is difficult to guess his true purpose. By the time the true purpose was seen and understood, it was already irreversible.

Just like the Batavia sugar factory incident, looking back now, we can understand what the original slave labor uprising was for. It was not to mess up Batavia, because from Dashun's point of view, Batavia was simply vulnerable to a fight, but to force the East India Company to accept the relocation plan, so that Dashun did not spend a penny. , Ceylon, tens of thousands of miles away, has a population of tens of thousands.

At first, the entire Netherlands suspected that the British were behind the Batavia slave labor uprising.

Coupled with the Sinhala British instructors incident, the British instructors' counterattack against the Dutch fleet in Travancore, and the previous British East India Company's suppression of Dutch businessmen in Zhangzhou, Guangzhou, the Netherlands did not have the slightest doubt and took this big blame. On Britain's head.

At the beginning, the entire Netherlands believed that Dashun was about to go to war with Russia, and Liu Yu was about to conquer the Western Regions to cooperate with Sweden, and Southeast Asia could rest easy. As a result, there was no fight between Shun and Russia at all, and Dashun, with his backhand, went to Nanyang with all his strength.

Only after so long can we see through the fog and see the true purpose clearly.

Now I just talk about it, and the interests of the Netherlands will be guaranteed by then. Even if it seems that the Netherlands does benefit in the early stage, who knows whether there will be another conspiracy discovered ten or decades later?

This kind of thing is difficult to predict.

Anthony directly grasped the root of the problem and asked: "Sir, as the personal advisor of the Marquis, he said that after Sino-Dutch cooperation, the interests of the Netherlands are the interests of your country. So, may I ask, where do you think the interests of the Netherlands are? Woolen cloth?"

Kang Busao really hadn't thought about India's affairs. This didn't mean that he didn't know India's interests, but because of the poor information. He knew early on that the Western Trading Company didn't care about India's affairs, only Western affairs.

The emperor was not prepared to let the Western Trading Company, or the Sino-Dutch Trading Company, take care of matters in India.

And he also discussed the Indian issue with Liu Yu.

The two people basically came to the same conclusion. The special national conditions of Dashun made it impossible for the trading company to have independent diplomatic powers, judicial powers, war powers, military, government, taxation, etc. under the Anglo-Dutch model.

Whether to attack India or not, the Sino-Dutch Trading Company does not matter.

Moreover, the emperor would never allow a behemoth to exist that had money, an army, and a land of Tianzhu that had been prosperous since ancient times.

Dashun has its own national conditions here. There is no actual duke in the country. How can a company possess several ratios of India in the Central Plains, 200,000 to 300,000 troops, and dozens of warships?

Therefore, India is beneficial to Dashun, and very beneficial, but the steps to attack and capture India, due to Dashun's special national conditions, have to be completely different from those of Britain, the Netherlands, France and other countries.

The first step was to confuse the emperor with India's head tax and land tax.

The second step is to develop trade with the West, giving cotton cloth and other products a broad market; with the development of industry and commerce, Indian rice, etc., has become an important demand for the coastal cities of Dashun and Southeast Asia.

In the third step, industry and commerce brought huge profits. Even if the emperor died and people died, the huge taxes brought by industry and commerce and the large number of landless people accommodated would force the court not to easily react and retreat.

The fourth step is to use cotton and rice, which are urgently needed for the development of industry and commerce, to force the court to control India. The people die, but the politics continue.

To complete these four steps, the most important link is precisely the European market.

Only when the European market is opened can the industry and commerce of Dashun be nurtured and grow without harming the interests of the common people.

Now the budding of Dashun is unable to solve the problem of the bankruptcy of small farmers in Dashun - it can neither carry out the national land reform like the French Revolution, nor suppress the nationwide peasant uprising with a few industrial and commercial cities on the coast.

To achieve the former is harder than climbing to the sky.

To achieve the latter means to engage in a comprehensive confrontation with traditional culture, Confucian benevolence and righteousness, the foundation of the dynasty, and the ruling class that has been heroes.

The bankruptcy of small farmers, in order to protect the interests of the majority of farmers, strangled industry and commerce, according to the ideology of Dashun, how can it be considered wrong?

And with the little power of the budding class now, is it really capable of suppressing the nationwide uprising, which must be participated by a large number of scholars with the idea of ​​"upholding the right path"?

Let alone other things, the grain price problem in Songjiang Prefecture has caused many contradictions. How can this be?

Therefore, if Dashun wants to develop its industry and commerce, it must do so in a very, very deformed way: avoid domestic problems, grow quietly with foreign markets as the driving force.

This is the special national conditions of Dashun.

The internal market, internal demand, and small peasant economy are the main drivers. The Dashun royal family knows very well what the foundation of their country is.

If they have to make a choice, the royal family may be divided and go astray, but the emperor must support small farmers and. The prince who supports the small peasant economy as an emperor and does not support the small peasant economy must be the "traitor" who will be wiped out.

And for the sprouts to develop to a force strong enough to fight against the old forces, a huge market that is so huge that the whole world is affected is needed.

Because Dashun has a large population, strong centralization, and the royal family is both the descendants of heroes who protected the world and drove out the Tartars and the descendants of heroes who equalized the land and exempted grain in those days. They are a stable group, and their appeal is not the appeal of the group of people in the late Qing Dynasty.

The evil dragon is easy to kill. It is not easy to kill a dragon-slaying hero.

Let alone the human, financial and material resources that the court can control when it really comes to the point of rebellion, even the court's regular forces at ordinary times, 200,000 regular line soldiers, 500,000 recruited and restored personnel, hundreds of thousands of good families, hundreds of thousands of border blood tax-paying soldiers who are the most fiercest self-cultivating farmers in the Yongye field... This list is here. To what extent does the development of industry and commerce need to be able to seize power by force?

This is something that can be quantified.

The total capital strength of industry and commerce needs to reach more than several billion; the workers working in the factory need to be at least 1.8 million formal workers.

The premise for the British bourgeoisie to control Parliament is that before the bubble burst in 20 years, the share capital of joint-stock companies and various companies was about 350 million pounds, equivalent to 1 billion taels of silver.

What is the population of Britain? What is the power of the feudal remnants? How many farmers are forced to go to the city every year?

Dashun's size, according to the equity scale of 350 million pounds before the 20-year bubble in the UK, is a geometric progression. It has the power to control the whole country. How powerful does the emerging class need to be?

If the British bourgeoisie wants to develop, how big is the scope of influence? North America, India, the Caribbean, the Netherlands, Spain, which one is not affected now?

If the emerging class of Dashun can reach the power of Britain, how big is the scope of influence compared to the size?

Not to mention reaching this scale completely, just to say that in the process of development, it will become a force that the court has to consider. How big a market is needed?

During the Qianlong period of the Qing Dynasty, the highest total foreign trade volume was 37 million taels a year. It sounds like a large amount, but what is the difference between the merchant class and an ant? If you don't want to be an ant and want to have the power to shake the court, how many times must this trade volume be increased?

It's not that the emerging class is not strong, but that the enemy is too strong. The same trade volume is placed in the Netherlands, which is a behemoth, and the Federal Parliament has to bow and scrape; in Dashun, it is a dog-like figure, and if you want to crush it, you only need a word from the local governor.

Dashun dared not move the internal market lightly, and could not move it: the bizarre tax system, the ostrich-like tax policy and the grassroots tax increase, the landlords often charged 50% of the land rent, and among the hundreds of millions of people, excluding the hundreds of thousands of people with consumption capacity, how much consumption capacity do the remaining people have?

Solving domestic demand is very simple in theory: land reform.

Only with money can you consume. If you can't even afford to eat, and you can't wear a two-foot red headband to celebrate the New Year happily, how can you expect to consume industrial products and grow the bourgeoisie? The bourgeoisie can't grow, and the buds will only be buds for a lifetime.

The landlords can consume and have consumption capacity. But how many feet of cloth can a family wear? Divide his land among 100 people, the purchasing power of cloth will not be expanded by 100 times, but dozens or even dozens of times.

In theory, it is very simple, land reform, domestic demand, industrial and commercial development, the growth of the bourgeoisie, and external expansion.

But... it is harder than climbing to the sky, there is no hope at all.

Internally, they dare not move this or that, so they have no choice but to "make Europe suffer".

Taking Europe, India, Japan, Southeast Asia, and North America as markets, maybe they can raise a new class that can fight against the old forces of Dashun?

To put it more clearly, it is to use half of the world's population to fight against one-third of the world's population.

That half of the population is the fuel for the emerging class to ignite a raging fire.

That third of the population is the last and strongest fortress of feudal power.

Based on this, the discussion between Kang Buyao and Liu Yu on the Indian issue was twisted into those four steps.

The key to the four steps is the European market. Only in this way, when the court discovers that a situation they have never encountered is spreading, can they take action, hesitate, and eventually have to be kidnapped and killed. The government continues to occupy India.

What the European market brings to Dashun is not just a matter of money. Rather, it is a huge crowd of hundreds of thousands, or even millions if you add supporting industry-related, transportation, shipping, trade and other personnel, as well as several million in new revenue for the national treasury.

Only in this way, the imperial court had to be cautious: don't expand. These hundreds of thousands or millions of people will have no food to eat - millions of water workers are dependent on food and clothing, and any movement will break their muscles and bones. This forced the court to continue to eat India, ensure cotton and rice, and ensure a huge fleet to control trade.

Expand, as our ancestors once said: Put out the fire with the help of your salary. If the salary is not exhausted, the fire will never be extinguished. The more it expands, the more powerful this new interest group becomes.

Unless the emperor's warriors are cut off, I don't want the industrial and commercial taxes, nor the profits from overseas trade, they will all be destroyed. Spend tens of millions of taels to counter the rebellion and relocate the people.

And this is another issue of chip balance: How much money can industry, commerce and overseas expansion bring to the emperor?

One million taels? The emperor can make an immediate decision and cut off his wrist.

What about ten million taels? Coupled with India's land tax and head tax, how about 20 to 30 million taels?

Is it easy to make this determination?

The special national conditions of Dashun made it impossible to explain some things clearly to the emperor.

How to confuse the emperor to fight for India?

You can't talk to the emperor about "market", "raw materials", and "profit".

It’s not that I can’t understand, it’s that I can’t speak.

As long as the goal is achieved, the process doesn't matter.

So it's simple and crude: India's current feudal lords and governors are fighting, it's time to invade and reap the benefits of land tax. With three to five thousand people, they can take the land of a province and get half of the taxes of Henan.

The emperor's purpose was to collect taxes.

The purpose of collecting taxes is to solve domestic problems: water transportation, water control, frontiers, snowy mountains, land conversion in the southwest, and the county-level transformation of North Korea and northern Vietnam. This is the dream of the emperor of the Celestial Dynasty.

But if you want to accomplish all these things over many years, let's say it costs one billion taels. Without money, how can you qualify to be an emperor who can be praised by future generations?

If he could finish them all, the emperor would feel that he could really compete with Tang Zong and Han Wu.

Tian Zhenyi said that Liu Yu was an "eunuch", so the "eunuch" had to understand the emperor's preferences and cater to his preferences.

It is obviously for the Indian market, cotton, indigo, and raw materials, but it is said that it is for water transportation, water control, the border, and the southwest.

If we say, abstract the bourgeoisie into capital, and then abstract it into money.

Then, the differences between Liu Yu and the emperor can be very straightforward.

When the emperor made money, he spent money for the sake of heaven. Money was still money, and he earned it for the sake of spending it. Liu Yu made money, for the sake of making money itself, so that he could make more and more money and become stronger and stronger.

What kind of thing is profit-seeking by nature?

But he said that making money was to give the emperor money to spend.

This situation makes it impossible for Sino-Dutch Trading Company to engage in India.

After the emperor finished it, he could use it as a market and source of raw materials. But before the emperor finished it, he worked hard on it himself and brought foreigners to do it. He also built a territory larger than the Central Plains. What was he doing? The land is sealed off? Ready to rebel? One emperor in the south and another emperor in the north?

As a result, this also caused a misunderstanding between Kang Buyao and Anthony.

Kang Busha never thought that it was no longer an option for the Sino-Dutch Trading Company to explore India.

The purpose of the Sino-Dutch Trading Company's existence is to open up the European market and seize shipping transportation in the inevitable next European war.

Then in the later stages of the war, when all parties were exhausted, they struck out and directly seized Europe's trade dominance and maritime control.

This is a huge benefit to Holland. Dashun eats meat, but Holland doesn't just drink soup, but also eats meat.

Why are you still doubting and hesitating?

What Anthony is thinking about is that India is very close to Dashun, and Liu Yu is a person who always considers Dashun's interests. If he is allowed to lead the company's policies, will Dashun join hands with Dutch business capital to seize India? Then the Netherlands was beaten violently by the British?

Businessmen have long legs. Even if the Netherlands is defeated, as long as the company's stocks are still there, how about going to Dashun, India and Southeast Asia to become a big businessman?

But where will the Republic go?

This is what he fears: France has been crippled by Britain in India, and Britain has basically conquered India. If the Sino-Dutch Trading Company expands to India, it will definitely have a major conflict with Britain.

Judging from Anthony's situation and the national interests that can be thought of, no matter how you look at it, Dashun's attack on India is the most labor-saving and most beneficial next strategy. How could he have imagined a final battle involving one-half of the earth's firewood versus one-third of the earth's wood, cows, and horses?