New Shun 1730

Niu Er's dissatisfaction with the traitor Jafar seems to be of little use for the time being.

Speaking of morality, the more than 10,000 cavalrymen under Jafar cannot be killed. Jafar needs the East India Company, and the East India Company also needs Jafar. Only by working together can the two sides complete the rule of Bengal.

However, it seems that there is cooperation between the two, but in fact there is a deep contradiction between the two.

Because this is an era where the ruling class is rushing to betray the country.

You, Jafar, can sell Bengal and sell it to Jiedushi. You can sell it, why can't I?

In everything, I'm afraid of trouble.

Traitors can also be rolled up. Once rolled up, they will bid against each other. You Jafar can give him 17 million silver coins from the East India Company's treasury, and I can give him 17 million rupees and then give him the customs duty.

The problem is that Jafar has ambitions rather than just being a puppet.

Because if you sell your country, you have to sell it at a good price. Before selling, you were the second-in-command, and after you sold it, you will still be the second-in-command. Then wouldn’t the country be sold in vain?

Generally speaking, if the third child betrays the country, he will definitely sell it cheaper than the second child; if the fourth child sells it, it will generally sell it cheaper than the third child.

As someone who has participated in the entire implementation of Liu Yu's Nanyang strategy, Niu Er is already very experienced in this method of sowing discord, planting mines to divide people, and intensifying conflicts.

The magical things in Java in recent years are no worse than those in India. Niu Er still knows the virtues of these rulers very well.

Moreover, Siraj, who had shaved his head and changed his clothes, was hiding in the ranks of the Dashun envoy.

Once he leaves Calcutta, Dashun can let the wind go - the fact is that Siraj did escape from Calcutta - as for whether Jafar believes that the British have nothing to do with this matter, it does not depend on how the British clarify .

Yellow mud fell into his crotch, and it was hard to explain.

Of course this is a conspiracy-level conflict.

Beyond the conspiracy, the deep-seated conflicts between Britain and Jafar are even more irreconcilable.

As the East India Company has come to this day, Liu Yu can clearly say that the East India Company must complete control of Bengal, obtain taxation, and rule, that is, completely puppetize Bengal and control tariffs, trade, etc. .

Otherwise, the capital of the East India Company would not be able to sustain it.

The working people of Dashun, with their calloused hands, gave the British, or in other words, the industrial capital and small producers of the entire Europe a hard job.

So much so that a key commodity in the West African slave trade, Songjiang coarse cloth dyed with Javanese indigo dye, has a proper name - cloth of sorrow - it is not only worn by slaves, but also the most sought-after exchange for slaves with local hands. commodity.

The slave thing has nothing to do with Dashun. In Dashun’s culture, blue has nothing to do with sadness. Besides, it is the private territory of European countries. Even if Dashun’s capital wants to, it will not be able to squeeze in. They are all second-rate dealers, such as the Dutch.

However, even things like the slave trade, which are beyond the reach of Dashun, have special nouns for trade goods. When the leaves fall, we can know the impact of Dashun's cotton on small European producers.

Liu Yu used a whip and a carrot on a stick to induce Songsu Capital to invest a large amount of its previous trade accumulation in the development of Nanyang and Northeast China, so that Songsu finally no longer needed to be called a "land of plenty". Land of plenty, in this era, is not a good word.

The output of raw silk, cotton cloth, and silk has been rising steadily along with the process of "no longer a land of plenty".

Bengal is a good place for Britain, and the best thing is that Rajshahi in Bengal is the center of India's silk industry.

The UK now has many options for importing raw silk.

Tuscany, Florence, Türkiye, and Mexico all produce silk.

The East India Company attached so much importance to Bengal because of its silk-cotton fabrics, Surat in Bombay could also provide them. Bengal was not special in cotton fabrics.

If you want your products to be competitive, there are generally four directions.

tariff.

This is the root cause of this Bengal war.

exchange rate.

Although everyone uses silver, one tael of silver in Europe due to the price revolution is really different from one tael of silver in Asia.

technological progress.

Forget it. Historically, it would take sixty or seventy years for mechanical silk to surpass the handicraft industry.

Exploiting labor.

This can be done, and it is currently the only thing that the East India Company has the ability to solve by relying on subjective initiative.

How to solve it? For example, the eunuchs of the Ming Dynasty weaved and collected goods. This was one way. That's really not taxing, that's robbery.

The minimum limit for commercial capital is even lower. If you are more ruthless, you will distribute it. If you fail to complete the task, you will be whipped, clubbed, or hung from a tree.

This is also a way to squeeze labor.

Historically, many silk weavers in India chose to cut off their fingers in order to avoid work such as reeling.

The basis of this robbery system, as Lao Ma taught me, must allow commercial capital to occupy a dominant position.

Otherwise, if you can't even achieve a dominant position, why should you whip, stick, and hang trees to force weavers to work?

In other words, to achieve this step, the Bangladeshi regime must be fully puppetized.

It is necessary to achieve comprehensive control over food, raw materials, population, and taxation, rather than just obtaining tariffs.

You won't make much money just by getting the tariff.

As a watershed in human progress, the Industrial Revolution has many meanings and can be divided into countless branches.

Just pick the thinnest branch and look at it.

Suppose a cargo ship has a carrying capacity of 1,000 tons.

The cycle of an East-West trade is one and a half years.

So, is the freight price the same for loading 1,000 tons of cotton and loading 1,000 tons of cotton cloth?

Obviously, yes.

So, will capital choose to load 1,000 tons of raw materials? Or will it choose to load 1,000 tons of cotton cloth with increased labor value through handicrafts?

The extent of the industrial revolution is the watershed between transporting raw materials and finished products.

At present, it will take Britain 30 to 50 years to reach this threshold.

British commercial capital now needs India's cheap labor and production efficiency far superior to Lancashire, and it needs forced transformation of the embryonic nature of capitalism, such as the package purchase system and handicraft workshops.

Only in this way can it obtain sufficient profits under the oppression of the smuggling craze of Dashun.

This is also the same as the raw silk problem mentioned above. It requires a dominant position, otherwise it cannot be done.

The current Indian problem is different from the Chinese problem in the Opium War in history.

We cannot imagine the essence of the Bengal issue at this time.

The East India Company now needs India to play the role of a "producer" and has never thought of using India as a "consumer market".

It is unrealistic.

Even Dashun, which has already started the industrial revolution, is now giving Liu Yu a headache about turning India into a market. What virtue and ability does the British East India Company have at this time?

A consumer market and a raw material market can exist in a semi-colonial state.

A producer region cannot exist in a semi-colonial state, because it must be forcibly pulled into the capitalist system, and can only be done by violence, coercion, tariffs, control and other means.

Just like the basis of Liu Yu's reform in Songsu, he held the violent organs in his hands, with the army, bayonets, government offices, punishments, bureaucrats, rule, tariffs, and navy, instead of relying on him to chant scriptures to make tenants give up their rents and go to work, and capital go to northern Jiangsu to reclaim wasteland.

The same is true for the Indian issue. Under the pressure of the working people of Dashun, the East India Company can only make the most extreme forced changes to the economic foundation of Bengal.

Catalyze plantations, handicraft workshops, and the system of purchasing and so on.

Otherwise, it will be over.

And all of this must be ruled, not just controlled by tariffs.

The contradiction between the East India Company and the Dashun commercial capital can be summarized very simply: a piece of tattered cotton ready-made clothing can be sold for 2.04 pounds in London in 1754. This money is really good, and the Dashun commercial capital also wants to make money lying down like this.

The East India Company does not want the Dashun commercial capital to make this money, but only wants Dashun to be a producer. However, the Dashun commercial capital that has expanded over the years is unwilling to die on its own initiative. After the Songsu Review, the Dashun commercial capital not only does not want to die on its own initiative, but even wants the East India Companies of all countries to die. What should we do?

This is the contradiction.

This contradiction is actually quite interesting in Britain at this time - liberalizing tariffs will make Dashun's goods flock in; while strictly abiding by tariffs will give the East India Company monopoly privileges, so opposing the East India Company's monopoly is treason and selling out the country? Small and scattered merchants relying on free trade, competing with monsters like the Dashun Western Trade Company for the markets of West Africa, Persia, and Turkey?

Now, if the British East India Company wants to forcibly change the economic foundation of Bengal, it must control the violent organs and the political power, otherwise it will not work.

An ambitious man like Jafar, who became the boss from the second by betrayal, if he even sold the violent organs, the core of the political power, and land taxes, what is the meaning of his betrayal?

Who would betray without giving benefits?

This is the irreconcilable contradiction between the two.

On the other hand, if the industrial revolution had broken out in Britain now, and its production efficiency had reached the level of 1820 in history, then it would be possible to compromise with each other. It is not unacceptable for the company to get tariffs and the Jiedushi to be a local official.

The logic behind this is different from the full-scale invasion of India advocated by Liu Yu.

Because Britain had basically eliminated self-cultivating farmers and small peasant economy around 1750, an environment suitable for implantation was already there, and it was only waiting for the eggs to be fertilized and then began to develop.

The reason why Liu Yu advocated a full-scale invasion of India was that he hoped to violently destroy the small peasant economy in India, so that India's cotton yarn and Dashun's tradition could be upgraded to the embryonic capitalist family-made iron wheel foot-operated shuttle weaving industry, in a way that was not painful for the time being, but once it hurt, it would be terminally ill, to stimulate Dashun's violent reforms, temporarily anesthetize Dashun's feudal rulers, and quietly nourish the power of the new era.

At this time, both sides were salivating over Bengal, and both wanted to invade in full, but the form was the same, and the core logic was completely different.

This deep difference is why Dashun has been squatting in Ceylon to watch the fun and did not take the initiative to come to India at this time.

Even if Liu Yu knew that Bengal's treasury had tens of millions of taels of silver, Liu Yu was unmoved and continued to wait. He had to wait until an opportunity to open the European market and legalize smuggling. Without a broad consumer market, the economic foundation could not be changed quickly.

Therefore, Dashun's invasion of India was not an isolated incident, but could only be part of the world war.

Once the war started, it would be impossible to fight a controllable war only in India, and it was necessary to fight against Europe.

Because the emperor wanted to attack India in order to collect taxes.

Liu Yu's warm-up and mobilization of capital for national debt was to destroy the British East India Company and European customs. They are willing to pay for this, but they are not willing to pay for India. Does it matter to me if the emperor goes to India to collect taxes? But if the British East India Company were to be attacked and the Navigation Ordinances were to be shattered, then it would be my duty to buy national debt, and my patriotic sentiment would suddenly rise.

Therefore, if Dashun wants to truly take advantage of capital mobilization and war preparation, it can only fight a late, big, and global war.

Now before Niu Er left, he did not forget to instigate a conflict between the British and Jafar, and he was also implementing Liu Yu's line.

The two sides quickly started fighting, resulting in extremely cruel exploitation, war and internal strife.

Quickly intensify the conflict between Britain and France, allowing Britain to quickly defeat France.

Because if you are wary of Jafar, then the Dutch have already been eliminated, and Dashun is temporarily watching the show. He must kill the French as quickly as possible to prevent Jafar from colluding with the French.

Another hardship for the people of Bangladesh.

Another hard time for the French East India Company. infamy……

Infamy, the East India Company and Jaffar came to take charge, and it has nothing to do with Dashun.

Dashun's name when he sent troops to India should be the belated revenge of justice, the nightmare of the notorious Gaddar-e-Abrar, the protector of Siraj Nawab, the savior of the French East India Company, and the diplomacy of Louis XV The crystallization of wisdom, the staunch ally of the Bourbons, and the destroyer of Protestant nations.

As for whether the people of Bangladesh will lament like the people of Ceylon in the future, throwing away ginger, coming here with chili... Invaders have to find something to smear themselves with.