New Shun 1730

He told his adjutant that when he and his father came to explore the west, they heard the panic in Spanish and the destruction of the Villasur expedition that the Indians remembered very clearly. He just wanted to say, don't be delusional.

If we say that a regular army of 5,000 men can decide the ownership of New France and the Great Lakes region.

Then, a 100-man regular army can decide the ownership of the western Great Plains area at this time.

However, there is no use in beating him down.

At least before that, the map of France was very large, covering the entire western region.

However, after the war ended a few years ago, during the actual negotiations, Dashun did not recognize the French map at all.

By the time the demarcation was completed this year, the French had understood why they had not directly drawn the meridians.

Because the population surge in this new Yizhou County caused Dashun to move a large area eastward during the final demarcation, and the French could only accept it.

News of the discovery of gold on the west coast had spread throughout Europe.

However, it was of no use.

Britain, which has a large population, is blocked by France and Spain.

France and Spain, which have small populations, are simply unable to do this.

Perhaps, it seems now that a hundred or hundreds of years from now, the Great Plains will belong to the Chinese Empire sooner or later. Or maybe, one day in the future, a war will break out between China, France, and China and the West over the colonies.

But, right now, there is no point in thinking about this. We could only watch helplessly as the Dashun demarcation was completed and the "Sino-French Fusang Boundary Treaty" was completely signed. This was the first colonial boundary treaty in Europe that did not take "the discovery and possession of land by non-Christian countries" as the legal principle. .

Now that the boundary treaty that had been delayed for five or six years has finally been signed, Villandry can finally come to Xinyizhou as the commander of the French Western Guards to talk about serious matters.

It should be said that the strange trade cycle between China and France in recent years has been quite successful.

From the Hudson Bay in the north to St. Louis in the south, furs, ginseng, etc. are traded in the vast area. Potato soju here in Dashun has become the largest trading product.

The amount of this trade volume is quite huge.

There is no American ginseng in the Xinyizhou area. The American ginseng production area and the beaver skin production area are highly overlapped, down from the Great Lakes, just stuck between the Appalachian Mountains and the Dashun Reclamation Area.

Like potato wine in history, various blended wines using potato wine as raw materials began to appear on a large scale. Blended fake sugar wine and blended fake wine can only be made from potato wine from Dashun. Due to distillation technology, the fusel alcohol of the potato wine here is very low, and it is not easy to taste after blending.

Because of this, the high or low degree, the adjustable taste of lead, sugar and grape pomace, allowed it to completely replace the original high-priced and inconvenient transportation in the French fur trade area in just a few years. liquor.

Of course, from a moral point of view, not only the religious morals of Catholicism, but also the traditional morals of Dashun, this matter is also quite immoral - although Dashun is not forced to produce "special grapes" "Juice is not wine" is a weird saying, but alcoholism has always been criticized morally.

People don't have much resistance to alcohol. And these Indians, who had no large-scale agricultural foundation for making wine before, had no resistance to wine at all.

But economically speaking... Since France began to expel the Huguenots, these Protestants who focused on handicrafts spread the fashion of fur hats throughout Europe. The huge profits from the fur trade led European colonists, especially French colonists, to go deep into the jungles and mountains to trade with Indians.

Similarly, because of the trade foundation they "laid", Dashun's potato wine is actually similar to Dashun's cotton cloth in West Africa: the cloth of sorrow used to refer to Indian cloth; The cloth of sorrow refers to Dashun indigo-dyed cotton.

Perhaps, we should "thank" these early trade pioneers for creating a trading system. However, the result of Dashun's participation in the First World War was not to reshape the trading system, but to replace the status of "producer" and remain the same. Borrowed from this trading system.

This, of course, also includes Xinyizhou’s potato shochu.

Huge profits - Historically, the fur ginseng trade between the United States and the Qing Dynasty once reached an astonishing profit margin of 1500% gross profit. This profit margin refers to the cost of buying wine and the total return from buying tea after selling it. The ratio of selling prices makes Xinyizhou's potato shochu industry fully fulfill Liu Yu's vision of formal modern colonial techniques.

When Virendri officially entered the new Shaofu City on the north bank of the Bow River, what caught his eye was an industrial and commercial city entirely centered on the shochu industry.

On the outskirts of the city is a huge mule and horse market.

The cattle and horses driven over by cowboys from the east coast and the livestock industry that Dashun has developed in recent years are all traded outside the city.

The main trade item for mules, horses and cattle with the east coast was wine.

After entering the city gate, you can smell the strong smell of alcohol on the street.

The city is divided into four major districts.

Dock area.

Winemaking area.

Cooperage and other carpentry areas.

Residential area.

This place is different from Jinshan, where Liu Yu thought about stimulating the development of Maplewood Bay's timber industry through repeated fires and reconstructions. The city here was strictly planned from the beginning.

Jinshan can be burned and rebuilt, and built and burned again. It can also promote the circulation of gold and silver and promote the industrial development of Maplewood Bay.

This place has existed as a military stronghold and trade center since the beginning. It is not a gold mining area. If it really burns, it will be more troublesome to rebuild.

Therefore, the city is not big, but it is very neat.

Historically, there have been very serious violent incidents of exclusion of Chinese people in the place where this city is located. Because of a smallpox, it is said that it broke out first in the Chinese area, so the white people here used this as an excuse to beat, smash, rob and burn the Chinese.

But now, this kind of thing is impossible to happen. War is inevitable, but at least it will not break out here. The front line will obviously be at least hundreds of kilometers or even thousands of miles away.

The first batch of pioneers are now basically the same as the first batch of pioneers on the east coast of North America, and have become the upper class here. But the difference is that the east coast is dominated by large plantations and land speculators; while here, land speculation has been strangled from the beginning, and the upper class supported are all engaged in industry and commerce.

The first batch of pioneers did have a hard life for more than two years.

When they came here, they did not have any food in their pockets, and the seeds were strictly guarded and not allowed to move.

Relying on fishing, hunting, rowing canoes to pick wild rice in autumn, knocking ice to find fish in winter, trading dried meat with Indians, rationing system, and wearing so little clothes that winter shoes were made of reed hair...

They survived for two years like this. After all, their wives and children were left as hostages in Maple Bay, and this place was full of young and strong laborers. Moreover, it was so hard when they came here, and there was nowhere to run or go back, and their wives and children were still held hostage there. Even though it was hard, they had to endure it.

It was not until food could be self-sufficient, the prototypes of walled cities were built, and the amount of cultivated land and stored grain could accommodate new immigrants that life appeared here.

However, here, the process of history was accelerated.

The history of gathering villages into towns, and then there was industry and commerce.

Here, it was accelerated to ensure that food could be guaranteed for a new batch of immigrants, and industrial and commercial reforms began.

Through the support of the imperial court, primitive accumulation was quickly completed. More than 40 various industrial and commercial cooperatives quickly seized key industries such as wine making, barrel hooping, wood processing, shipbuilding and transportation.

Although the scale was small at the beginning, it was aimed at breaking the traditional handicraft model and directly going to the path of a manual workshop with division of labor from the beginning.

From upstream wood processing to downstream shipbuilding barrel hooping, and then to wine making and potato planting, under the intervention and support of the government, the process of the step-by-step development of handicrafts was directly cancelled.

Instead, the technical talents of the new school were integrated into the local cooperatives, and the method of hiring new immigrants starting with 20 households was adopted.

In short, it was done in one step, and the technicians became capitalists directly. However, through the cooperative model, the interests of local people and technicians were entangled, and they jointly managed the model of dividend distribution according to shares and ownership belonging to the small circle collective.

As a reward for the first batch of "pioneers", the cooperatives of the first batch of pioneers approved a large amount of wasteland as collective assets.

This also made the new immigrants starting from the third batch have to go through a process of digging potatoes in the fields, or cutting trees in the mountains, or sawing wood boards. Only after completing this process can one make money, buy land, and transform from a propertyless wage laborer to a petty bourgeois self-employed farmer with a hundred acres of land.

In this way, the rapid development of the East Coast was achieved, just like the black slaves.

However, this place is somewhat different from the gold mining area west of Dashishan.

Because of the military and geopolitical significance here, the court subsidized this place, including subsidies for migration. Subsidies were given on boat tickets, re-migration through the mountain pass, etc.

It was precisely with this subsidy and this policy of forcibly maintaining the social relations of capital that this place quickly grew into the first city in the upper reaches of the North American rivers in just five or six years.

Vérendry was of course impressed by this, because in just five or six years, the population here actually exceeded Montreal, the notification center of France in North America, which had been operating for more than a hundred years.

It was precisely because he knew the situation of France on the East Coast that he had no idea of ​​provoking a war. Even if it was said that Dashun had "intercepted" the fur trade, he did not want to argue about it.

No matter how you put it, the development and population here are extremely contradictory in his mind.

In terms of personal interests, in fact, if we only talk about personal interests, he and the Dutch East India Company have the same mentality of not welcoming the Dutch to go to Southeast Asia.

He also hopes that the fewer French people there are, the better. The fewer people there are, the less people will compete with him for the fur business, and the higher his profit will be. The more people there are, the more trouble there will be, especially for his own people.

Whether it is smuggling, privately collecting furs, setting up new companies to play tricks on trade, etc., it will be hard to prevent. The Dutch had a lot of experience in this regard when they were in Southeast Asia, so that for a period of time, private merchants almost controlled Japan's copper trade.

But if you add the consciousness of nation and country... it must be that the more immigrants from the country, the better.

But, obviously, you can't expect a North American fur ginseng tycoon who puts shareholder interests first and has long been trained by Liu Yu to have such noble feelings.