New Shun 1730

[February 2. Shanghai. Cloudy.]

The day after tomorrow is the day when the sailboats will set sail, the last batch of Dashun merchant ships this year.

They have robbed us of this year's trade volume, forcing our merchant ships to anchor in the port, and the cargo on the ship will face the risk of moisture, insects, and rats for a whole year.

Disgusting unfair competition.

But we have no way to counter it at all, because we refuse any Dashun merchant ship to bypass our company and enter the Thames.

Moreover, Dashun has no interest in importing goods that can be imported from our country.

The Bloody Duke insulted me, saying that we have double standards. He said that it is unfair competition for our country to prohibit Dashun's cargo ships from entering.

Obviously, he does not understand what unfair competition means.

We do not allow Dashun's cargo ships to enter because we have a monopoly authorized by Congress and navigation regulations. We are legally not allowing them to enter.

And Dashun's seizure of our cargo ships is illegal because they allow us to trade.

And there is no evidence that the company, as the main legal person, engaged in opium trade with Dashun. We subcontracted to individual traders.

According to the law, Dashun can only sanction those individual traders, and there is no reason to sanction the company.

Obviously, this barbaric country lacks the most basic legal common sense.

Unfortunately, I can't reason with them, and they also rely on force barbarically and don't make sense at all.

Outside the window, those Chinese businessmen and investors who are eager to get rich this year are beating gongs and drums to pray and worship their strange sea gods.

The sound of firecrackers continues.

I am in a very bad mood. Although I have known this possibility for a long time, when the monsoon period is about to end and all the results are determined, even if I have anticipated this possibility in advance, I still feel extremely depressed when things finally come to an end.

The Netherlands withdrew from the war, and Prussia also withdrew from the war. Obviously, the war is about to end, and this year will be the first year after the war.

It can be imagined that the cargo on their ships will make enviable profits.

The spices in the European market are still monopolized. It's just that it has changed from the Dutch to the Chinese.

The evil duke who shouts for free trade all day long kept silent about this matter. Real free trade should allow merchant ships from all countries to purchase spices in Southeast Asia at will. Instead of the current situation, anyone who privately purchases spices and ships them west of Malacca will be arrested and sentenced.

This makes his rebuke of us so pale and powerless.

Any moral person, or self-proclaimed moral person, should open up the spice monopoly in Southeast Asia and allow merchant ships from all countries to purchase spices freely in the face of this situation.

Then, he asked us why we couldn't open customs trade and why we didn't allow Dashun to open a trading house in London.

But he didn't.

Oh, the ugly face of politicians.

[February 3. Shanghai. Sunny. ]

In the end, I decided to write a few letters with some confidential suggestions about the company's future and send them to different people who I thought might be elected as members of the board of directors.

And I begged them to guarantee with the honor of a gentleman that no matter what, the confidential content inside would not be made public before they became members of the board of directors.

Otherwise, this would seriously damage the interests of shareholders and the company.

We sent seven people back, three to India and four back to London. They will describe what happened here truthfully.

I told them carefully not to stir up any public opinion. Any public opinion is not good for the company.

If the war cannot be started and won, the final result of public opinion is that it will be used by some dirty politicians to expand the influence of the people and gain influence in the House of Lords.

It is of no benefit to the company.

In the end, it will only evolve into a dispute over the company's monopoly and tariffs on trade goods, which are exactly what should be avoided.

Before the company has an absolute advantage in India, it should refuse to trigger any parliamentary debate on trade issues with China.

Only when the company has won enough victories, gained more wealth, and made more people rich because of the company, can the company start to take the initiative to raise issues in Parliament.

Now, the company is facing a great dilemma and needs to avoid things from being discussed as much as possible.

My advice to the company's board of directors is that the company should make arrangements and pledge loyalty in advance in politics.

At least, you should contact the Prince of Wales privately and establish good relations with the little patriots around him in advance.

Those little patriots are very smart. They know that no matter how much the King and the Prince of Wales disagree, the Prince of Wales will eventually become the king.

Making friends with this prince in advance means smooth political sailing in the future.

Our king is almost 65 years old. Even if he is in good health, he will eventually be called by the Lord. Even though the Prince of Wales is very unpopular with His Majesty now, no one can shake his position.

Our Crown Prince often declares in public: [My father is a stubborn, indulgent, stingy and severe military disciplinarian, and a greedy and insatiable monarch]

It can be predicted that once the Prince of Wales ascends the throne, many current cabinet ministers will be replaced.

And he will definitely severely criticize his father's foreign policy to draw a clear line with his father.

This is exactly what the company needs to pay attention to.

One is a 40-year-old prince in his prime, the first heir; the other is a king in his 70s.

There is no reason to doubt that our king will definitely go ahead of the prince.

Moreover, we all know that the Prince of Wales can speak fluent English.

Just because he can speak English a little makes his position unshakable.

Of course, the most important thing I must remind the board of directors of the company is to change their thinking.

When the company is really ready to use India's land tax as a profit growth point, it must be considered that, in fact, the contradiction between us and the domestic land-enclosing nobles can actually be resolved. Therefore, we can turn to support the Prince of Wales and the nobles around him.

If we cannot understand the transformation of the company model and cannot consider that the profit composition ratio in the company's financial statements is about to change, we will not be able to change our thinking in time, which will bring huge hidden dangers to the company.

Once we regard land tax as an important profit income, it means that we no longer need to import a large amount of cotton cloth for domestic sales-the cotton cloth issue is the biggest problem between us and those land-enclosing nobles and textile owners.

The object of the company's study is no longer the Dutch East India Company, but Dashun - to establish a complete civil service system, taxation system, and taxation system.

By learning their imperial examination system, the company's own civil service system is selected, and they are made qualified local officials to complete the most important task of the local officials of Dashun, which is to collect taxes.

The board of directors should understand the changes brought about by this transformation of the company and understand it before the other shareholders.

This means that we are actually standing together with the enclosure nobles.

They invest, we share profits, and at the same time we are no longer obsessed with the cotton import trade, which will greatly ease the confrontation between us and our domestic enemies.

At the same time, it also means that our enemies will change from the enclosure nobles to those in the parliament. Those who are said to be dominated by national interests.

They may strengthen their hope that the parliament will get the regulatory power, influence the company, and control the company.

They may use national interests as an excuse to not allow us to collect taxes in India, but try to build India into an India that meets the wishes of domestic industrialists.

Severe exploitation will damage their demands.

But not severe exploitation will affect our profits.

For the domestic industrialists, they hope that the Indian farmers under our control have money to buy their goods.

But for us, we hope that the Indian farmers under our control have money to pay taxes.

You know, collecting taxes is the business model with the highest profit margin. No one else, because once the rule is established, it is almost zero cost.

If they still have money to buy things, it can only prove one thing:

Our profit margin still has room for improvement.

If there is money to buy their woolen cloth, why not pay the money directly to taxes?

The company must understand this change in the company before it can understand the importance of our current transformation in lobbying and supporting candidates in Parliament.

Once the company has determined the Indian land tax plan, it should not continue to advocate and spend money on import bans such as cotton cloth. That will only create enemies and will never succeed.

At the same time, we should note that the political ideas of those around the Prince of Wales are also very beneficial to the transformed company.

The people gathered around the Prince of Wales are all dissatisfied with the current party leader, ready to overthrow the current cabinet, or dissatisfied with the king.

They call themselves patriots.

Their spiritual leader is Viscount Bolingbroke.

He wrote a programmatic document for these self-proclaimed "patriots" called "The Patriots' View of the Monarch".

He is a supporter of the monarchy and believes that the two-party party politics is the root of modern decadence. Parliament has become a boring place for opposition for the sake of opposition, such as "whether to crack the egg from the small end or the big end".

A political model centered on the king and without party disputes should be established.

As the father of all people, the monarch should transcend the party group.

The father of all people should appear as a moral role model and lead all classes out of the quagmire of corruption and degeneration.

We can imagine who will support these ideas. We can also imagine what the cabinet's policies will become once the Prince of Wales, surrounded by patriots, ascends the throne.

But this may not be a bad thing for us.

Because patriots are staunch supporters of the "Blue Water Policy". And we are one of the biggest beneficiaries of the "Blue Water Policy".

The cornerstone of Britain is business. In other words, the basis of the nobles' rent is business. Without business, there will be no enclosure for sheep, and there will be no high rent.

Therefore, all British policies should revolve around "protecting business", not the other way around - such as expanding the army and participating in the war quagmire in Europe - but constantly cutting the army and maintaining more navy.

If it is said that our cotton imports have led to tensions between us and the patriots. Then, if the company successfully transforms, we can completely reconcile with them.

As long as we don't touch wool and woolen cloth, our relationship will be very good. Therefore, it is of great benefit for us to invest in advance and support the Prince of Wales and the patriots around him.

The essence of the Blue Water Policy is land - wool - woolen cloth - business - investment - colonization.

This is the biggest difference between our nobles and other countries. Their land rent income is closely related to business.

The national foreign policy of the Blue Water Policy is to [prevent the emergence of any form of world monarch]. Any country that attempts to be a world monarch in some form will be Britain's enemy.

Britain does not need any form of resurrected Rome. Britain needs a broken world.

Before this, the biggest enemy of this policy was France.

According to the Viscount's argument, the world now is [a war between two civilization centers. It is a war between the expansion model of world monarchs and the expansion model under the commercial center.]

[Britain should enhance its maritime power and release it at critical moments. For example, when major events that have a major impact on the world's power structure occur, Britain should stand up and use the most powerful maritime power. 】

【In this way, Britain can become the arbitrator of world differences; the defender of freedom; the maintainer of balance】

【The struggle between these two civilizations is to prevent France from becoming a world monarch and the Rome of the new era】

【Britain needs a broken world and prevents any force that tries to integrate the world】

These articles were written before Dashun went to Southeast Asia and participated in the Russian coup.

Now, we must clearly realize that the world monarch may not only have the potential of the French. If the whole world is Europe a long time ago, China is the world monarch that is most likely to become Rome.

Their expansion model, especially going to Southeast Asia and conquering Japan, is also a standard expansion model of world monarchs.

But at the same time, it should be noted that Dashun's interference in the affairs of the Netherlands, Sweden, and Russia has squeezed our position: while they have become world monarchs, they still have the spare energy to become the arbitrator of world differences and the maintainer of balance.

When we turn our eyes from Europe to the world; when Dashun begins to interfere in Europe, we should realize who is the Rome.

This means that once we get rid of our dependence on trade profits with China, we can use this to convince the Parliament of His Royal Highness the Prince of Wales, who was deeply influenced by his theory, to support our expansion in India.

Our expansion in India is not just for the company's profits, but can be covered with a sacred aura of defending the traditional British world balance.

Instead of sinking limited energy into the quagmire of Europe.

It can also enable the company to obtain more naval support in the future.

After all, our Royal Highness loves his Hanover more and even opposes the blue water policy.

No matter from which angle, after the company determines the transformation, it will turn to support the patriots and the Prince of Wales, which will definitely be beneficial and will win a better future for the company.

In fact, the root of everything I suggest lies in one word.

Change.

The transformation of the company, transformation, is a very heavy word.

The change of policy, transformation, has to consider that Dashun, which has frequently mediated to expand its influence in the Netherlands, Sweden, Russia, and France, is no longer the background of an oriental story, but has woken up from sleep.

If the chairman does not understand "change", continues to fight for the meaningless cotton cloth issue, and does not understand that the company's profit structure is about to undergo a huge change, then it is foreseeable that the company will be controlled by the parliament.

If the cabinet and the king do not understand "change", continue to focus on France, which is most likely to become Rome, but ignore the empire that is already Rome in terms of population and area, then they will lose the "commercial center theory", the only weapon that can compete with the "world monarchy theory".

Easy.

When you are poor, you must change.

Change will lead to success.

Success will last long.