New Shun 1730

Both of them are in Batavia, and their understanding of the changes in the situation is at least better than that of the seventeen-member board of directors Liu Yu said sitting in Amsterdam and relying on imagination and patting their heads to make decisions.

As Dashun wakes up, uncontrollable variables have emerged in Southeast Asia.

There is no point in considering whether Dashun will sail to Nanyang.

Because Dashun doesn't even need to fight in person.

Just like this time Liu Yu led the fleet, just like this time the British sent an ocean-going fleet led by battleships to Southeast Asia, it would cause subtle changes in the situation in Southeast Asia, which was originally dominated by one country: the Dutch created an invincible, The image of strong ships and powerful guns will collapse in the eyes of the sultans, the chiefs of those island countries.

Power, sometimes, you have it if you believe it, but you don't have it if you don't believe it.

The Netherlands was not always capable of killing all those who resisted, but the more people killed it, the more people believed it was invincible.

Once some people begin to disbelieve, the cost of governance will skyrocket.

Once someone begins to doubt whether the Netherlands is really invincible, those hidden feelings of resistance will burst out.

It must be a huge challenge for the future governor of Batavia.

For Dashun, there was a huge difference between whether Dashun controlled Nanyang, whether the British controlled Nanyang, or whether various sultanates resisted Dutch rule.

But in the Netherlands, is there any difference?

Valkenir thought to himself that he might as well walk off this stage with applause and leave this mess to the new governors who are as ambitious and fanatical as I was a few years ago.

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When the governor of Batavia had the idea of ​​​​retreating and going back, in Lian Fuguang's manor, Liu Yu was excitedly announcing the inevitable defeat of the old Netherlands and how to inherit the Dutch heritage.

Unlike Valkenier and Phillips, who were considering intrigues and taking the blame internally, most of the people discussing in this tightly sealed room at this time were a group of young calves.

These are the confidants selected by Liu Yu. Except for the older Kang Busao, Mantou and others, the rest are the selected orphans who came with the ship.

The outside of the room was tightly guarded by soldiers, and no one was allowed to approach.

However, not a single conspiracy or trick was discussed in this airtight room.

But just learn there and use a different perspective to see the truth of this covered world.

Liu Yu stood in front, with a map of Europe and a world map obtained from the missionaries hanging behind him.

In his hand, there was a simple balance with nothing on it. It was in perfect balance at this time.

The blackboard that the ship carpenter behind him made and carried was written with some words that people outside knew every word but couldn't understand what they meant when connected together.

Words such as class, contradiction, industry and commerce, market, labor cost, subjective, objective.

Holding down the scale at hand, Liu Yu turned around and wrote the words "East India Company" on the blackboard.

Turning around, he said with a smile: "No matter who owns the East India Company, don't look at the changes he has brought about objectively. You must remember that his subjective purpose is to make money. Capital is profit-seeking."

“Understanding this, the fog of many things will be lifted.”

"To make money, you have to sell things. Whose money do you make?"

"Either sell your own things to others; or sell other people's things to the people of your own country."

"Then you say, the East India Company's monopoly was originally intended to make other people's money? Or was it to make money from the people of this country?"

"Subjective wishes remain unchanged, but if objective conditions change, the East India Company's business methods will continue to change."

"This is the fundamental reason why I said that we can use the Netherlands and cooperate with the Netherlands after defeating the Netherlands. This is also why I said that we can cooperate with Sweden and the Netherlands, but it is absolutely impossible to achieve trade cooperation with the United Kingdom and France. "

After speaking, he touched the scale next to him, picked up a weight, and placed it on the left side.

"This is the interest of the British East India Company to use Chinese goods to impact the domestic market and make money from the British and colonial people. In other words, this is the possibility of the British East India Company becoming a comprador."

At this point, the balance naturally tilts to the left.

Then, Liu Yu reached out and took out six or seven weights and placed them on the right side one by one.

"This one is about the aristocratic interests of the British enclosure movement. They raised sheep. They needed high prices for wool, and the basis for the high price of wool was to export woolen cloth instead of shipping cotton cloth back to the UK from China and India."

At this point, the scales have balanced.

Liu Yu put down another weight on the right.

"This one belongs to the emerging textile industry capitalists in the UK, especially those wool textile mills that spend a lot of money and employ hundreds of people. They are absolutely opposed to cotton entering the UK."

The balance has tilted to the right, but it is not over yet. Liu Yu continues to add weight to the right.

"This is the glass manufacturing industry in the UK, this is the porcelain firing industry that has just started in the UK, this is the coffee growing industry in the West Indian region of the UK..."

Finally, he took the largest weight and threw it to the right.

"This is the popular mercantilist concept in Britain at this time. You must be a brave man and only eat gold and silver."

Looking at the serious tilt of the scale, Liu Yu smiled and said, "So, Britain can't cooperate with us. The East India Company wants to be a comprador, but it can't because it can't compete with the common interests of the other companies. Besides, his East India Company is still in name only, and it hasn't occupied India yet, so it doesn't make any noise."

With a push, all the weights on the scale were poured out. When the scale was balanced again, Liu Yu said, "I said, Britain can't, but the Netherlands can. But this Netherlands is certainly not the Netherlands at this time."

After that, he pressed the biggest weight on one end of the scale.

"When Nanyang was still in the hands of the Netherlands, there was no possibility of cooperation between us and the Netherlands. But..."

He stretched out his hand, took away the biggest weight, and asked, "What if we took Nanyang?"

The people present looked at the scale that was still swaying but would eventually restore balance, thinking.

This sounds a bit incredible, letting the Dutch East India Company be a comprador?

However, if you think about it carefully, if you analyze the words on the blackboard, it seems that there is really such a possibility.

In Liu Yu's view, the Dutch East India Company is a qualified potential comprador.

VOC and BEIC are completely different.

The Dutch light industry and handicraft industry have been destroyed because of the premature transformation to commerce and finance, and the Netherlands has become hollowed out.

Southeast Asia is the reason for success and failure.

History sometimes needs to be viewed from a longer perspective.

The Netherlands was once too powerful and robbed Southeast Asia, which was coveted by everyone in Europe in the last era.

India was the target of Britain's failure in Southeast Asia and its second choice; even New York was "awarded" to Britain by the Netherlands, because in the last era, the whole of North America - of course excluding the silver mining area of ​​Spain - was not as valuable as a small Ambon Island.

But times have changed.

In terms of a hundred years, the Dutch took an absolutely correct path in the last era.

In terms of three hundred years, the Dutch's step can be said to be outrageous.

This is no longer an unchanging and static era where people who were resurrected from coffins five hundred years ago could live without hindrance in the same year.

Liu Yu wants to completely destroy the old Netherlands, so naturally he has to consider creating a new Netherlands.

The Netherlands is very strong. It is still very strong now.

If Dashun was in the Atlantic Ocean at this time, the Dutch Navy could beat Dashun and make it move its capital to Xijing, avoid the Dutch attack, and leave its coasts deserted.

But Dashun is not in the Atlantic Ocean, but in the Pacific Ocean.

The Dashun Navy, which was completely annihilated by the Dutch in the Atlantic Ocean, could beat the Dutch to the point where they didn't even recognize their mothers in the South China Sea. VOC is the most important lifeline of the Netherlands, and this lifeline is now in the hands of Dashun.

Cutting off the lifeline of the Netherlands, Dashun has the possibility of commercial cooperation with the Netherlands, and the possibility of dissolving and reorganizing the Dutch East India Company and becoming a comprador group.

Originally, in the Boston Tea Party in history, the smugglers were smuggling Dutch tea.

But now, Zeeland and the Swedish East India Company are evenly matched, because the Netherlands was neutral in the Seven Years' War in history, so Zeeland could fully expand the smuggling industry and basically squeeze out the Swedes who were short of capital.

Now Liu Yu has both of the two major smugglers divided by the Seven Years' War in his hands.

Many people imagine that the East India Company is the vanguard of capitalist commercial dumping, but that is at least not the reality at this time.

The reality at this time is that the East India Company still earns money from its own people, selling Indian and Chinese goods to European people.

The British East India Company cannot be a comprador because the domestic textile industry, large landowners, old aristocrats who raise sheep on fences, glass manufacturing, British porcelain, etc., represent the power of selling goods abroad.

Britain is eager to be a comprador, but it cannot beat the powerful emerging bourgeoisie and old aristocracy in Britain.

The Netherlands is just the opposite. It just lacks an opportunity.

The domestic handicraft industry in the Netherlands has been destroyed, and the wave of handicraft talent dividends that expelled Protestants in the "Fontainebleau Edict" has almost been eaten up.

The most critical thing is that the overdevelopment of the financial industry and commerce has naturally led to the flow of Dutch capital to the commercial and financial industries. Just like Liu Yu believes that it is impossible to issue national bonds in the Ming Dynasty or the Dashun Dynasty, in the Netherlands, if overseas investment and financial speculation can have an average annual return rate of 10%, will capital invest in handicrafts with an average annual return rate of only 5%?

Why build factories when you can make money by lending, stock trading, and speculation?

People of insight in the Netherlands call for "revitalizing the national industry and making the Dutch textile industry great again", so the bigwigs of the Amsterdam Stock Exchange invest money in the unprofitable textile industry with patriotic enthusiasm?

Besides, the conditions of the Netherlands, as well as the wrong path they took at the beginning, and the excessive success in Southeast Asia also made the Netherlands have no conditions for industry.

The city of Leiden, which was famous for playing with electricity in later generations, was once the textile center of the Netherlands. But what about now?

Europe spins wool, but the whole of Europe is spinning wool and selling woolen cloth. Everyone is crazy about involution and has high tariffs on each other.

Britain had enclosure movement to raise sheep, France had unique arable land and pasture conditions, what did the Netherlands have?

Wool had to be bought, the market was blocked, and textiles did not make money at all.

Premature financial industry and commercial speculation, a large amount of capital accumulation, and soaring prices in the Netherlands. The average salary of a textile worker in Leiden was three times that of Germany, 2.5 times that of Switzerland, and 1.8 times that of the UK.

It is not that the Dutch factory owners are kind-hearted, but that prices are too high. The wages paid to workers must at least ensure that the workers can continue to be tools. People need to eat before they can continue to be tools the next day.

If the industrial capitalists of the country are unable to suppress the commercial capitalists, then for the commercial capitalists, being a comprador is the best choice.

If the British East India Company dared to say that it would reduce the import tariffs on Chinese cotton cloth, the next day the company's headquarters in London would be smashed by the country's textile industry, wool industry, and enclosure gentry, who would angrily denounce it as a shameless traitor and even scatter its ashes.

If this were said in the Netherlands, people in the textile industry would certainly want to smash it, but the question is how many people are still engaged in the textile industry? How much power? How much energy? How many people can be mobilized?

The reason why Liu Yu must wait for the Netherlands to participate in the European war is to exhaust the last bit of patriotic enthusiasm of the Dutch.

Historically, the Netherlands was already confused at this time. After the war, patriotic enthusiasm made the seven provinces unite again and support the Orange family. However, when he died, when the whole country was mourning, many people had already begun to ask: It's just a hereditary family, so what's there to be sad about?

If the Dutch still support the Orange family with their last patriotic enthusiasm and choose to join the war, Dashun can just take action suddenly, cut off the lifeblood of the Netherlands and take over Nanyang, and the Netherlands will collapse.

For the hollowed-out Netherlands, the East India Company is not just about the profits from Southeast Asian trade, but is related to stocks, finance, loans... one move can affect the whole body. The South Sea Bubble made Britain and the Netherlands bleed, what if the VOC goes bankrupt?

On the day when Dashun takes over Nanyang, the Amsterdam Stock Exchange will stage a drama of the times: selling.

VOC kidnaps Parliament and announces that it is not allowed to sell, so those who have long been dissatisfied with the VOC monopoly will stage a revolution.

If VOC abides by the rules and allows selling, the Netherlands will collapse instantly. If the Netherlands collapses, VOC's main business is lending, and many of them are loans to foreign countries. The Netherlands used to be very strong and had to pay it back; now it is bankrupt, why should it pay back the money it borrowed based on its own ability?

This time, he united with France, brought new guns and new artillery technology to France, and used American ginseng and mink to transfuse blood to France, in order to make France bleed more in North America in the future. Now, he wanted to completely break up the remaining patriotic enthusiasm of the Netherlands and tell them a cruel reality-times have changed, and the patriotic fanaticism of the small country of the Netherlands will only bring destruction to the Netherlands.

Destroying the last bit of patriotic enthusiasm will also clear the last obstacle for the post-war negotiations to let the Netherlands be a comprador.

The Dutch bosses who are engaged in finance and business neither make money from industry nor invest in industry, so why not cooperate with Dashun to make pounds and Spanish silver dollars together?

VOC is bound to collapse, but the shareholders and bosses behind the scenes of VOC still control everything. Opening another company and cooperating with Dashun, it doesn't make any difference whether it is called VOC or not.

The local industrial capitalists are powerless. Even if they have opinions and think that Dashun's cotton cloth will destroy the textile industry in the Netherlands, but... how many people do they have? How much money do they have?

The Netherlands has a huge transportation industry and established smuggling channels, and these people also need to eat.

The legacy of the Sea Coachman is the coachman. As for whose goods are transported, will the coachman care?

Is it to follow Dashun, share the profits of Nanyang's trade goods, and cooperate with Dashun's French, Swedish and North American smugglers to break the British "Navigation Act"?

Or... However, there is no or, the Netherlands is not able to take back Nanyang, let alone swear to avenge this and break through the capital.

Of course, Dashun just needs to not eat alone. After taking Nanyang, for the sake of the Sea Coachman's legacy, it is better to give half of the pie to the Netherlands. We can make money together.

Dashun can't eat alone, and the Dutch can't take back Nanyang, but the same is true. If they really eat alone, none of Dashun's ships will be able to pass Cape Town. Go one, sink one.