New Shun 1730

Pitt's death and his suicide note before his death may have a huge impact on Britain in the future. It even concerns whether to "Damn the King! Damn the Government! Damn the Justices!"

But now, his death is not important.

What is important is whether Dashun can continue with its established strategy and continue to put pressure on British colonies in trade.

When Gibraltar was just captured.

On the other side of the earth.

The news of the outbreak of war is a big deal in Songsu, Tianjin, Nanyang, Northeast and other regions.

It may also be a big deal in Wuyi, Jingde and other places.

Besides that, it is not a big deal. Most of Dashun's self-sufficient small peasant economy has not been affected by the war.

At this time, the news from the European battlefield has not been transmitted back. After all, trade at this time still depends on the monsoon. Generally speaking, the news from the European battlefield can only be transmitted back when eating zongzi.

However, the news from India has already been transmitted back.

With the victory of Dashun in India and the restoration of the Nawab of Bengal, the shipping industry in Songsu area also ushered in a new wave of stricter shipping control.

There is nothing to control about going to India.

However, everyone knows the morality of merchants.

If there is no control, the navy and the marines can sell the things they fought hard for.

The victory in India affected not only India.

Just as Dashun went to Nanyang, it affected not only Nanyang, but also caused riots in the cotton textile industry in Mumbai, Surat and other places.

In addition to the impact on India, Dashun’s victory in India was more about Dashun pulling out the trade lines of the British East India Company.

The trade lines in Persia, Turkey, the Red Sea and other places are now taken over by Dashun.

This is similar to the problem in Nanyang.

Nanyang is the Dutch East India Company, which cultivated the "cotton cloth consumption trade" in Nanyang. It’s just that it was Surat cloth before, and Songsu cloth after Dashun went to Nanyang.

As for Persia, the Red Sea, Turkey and other places, Dashun inherited the legacy of the Netherlands before, and fought with the British East India Company. On the production side, it was mainly a dispute between Bombay cloth and Songsu cloth.

There is a very simple fact, that is, Bombay is much closer to Persia than Songsu is to Persia.

If there is no strict commercial control, it should be said that it will soon be seen that merchants from Dashun buy Indian goods and sell them in Persia.

After all, in the previous era of workshop handicrafts, the real enemy of Dashun, Britain, France, the Netherlands, etc., was not ranked at all. The real enemy has always been India. It can even be said that since the concept of the world market appeared in the middle of the Ming Dynasty, the biggest enemy of Chinese handicrafts participating in world trade is Indian handicrafts.

The overlap of trade goods between Dashun and India is still quite high. At least compared with Europe, the overlap is much higher.

Shipping distance, labor costs, if the Indian handicraft industry is destroyed... and other issues require the Dashun court to complete with strong control and restrictions.

Now more and more systematic control policies have not yet been introduced.

But with the help of the previous "licensed trade company" model, this kind of control can still be used in this way of official supervision and business operation, forcing merchants to only buy domestic products and sell them in Persia, Turkey and other places.

In the eyes of the court, the army fought hard to drive away the British East India Company, not to let these merchants resell Indian products to Persia and Turkey.

Especially a large number of people from the practical school in the industrial and commercial trade system, they hate this kind of thing and firmly oppose it in terms of their three views. Otherwise, in their view, this matter would become the court paying money to help merchants to engage in commercial colonies, which is completely different from the idea that primitive accumulation is for industrial development that they have learned, but it has embarked on the evil path that primitive accumulation is the purpose rather than the means.

On the Dashun side, we should learn from history.

And "history" is close at hand. At this time, it was not long before Dashun went to Southeast Asia, and Dashun's practical school system has always criticized the Dutch colonial model.

It is said that the Netherlands is a merchant who misleads the country, based on national power, only for a very small number of merchants to make money.

Such a large Nanyang region and such a large colony can kill the textile industry of the country. This has always been a negative example for Dashun.

Of course, the British East India Company also forced the British textile industry to riot and the 1701 petition, which is also a negative example.

In this atmosphere of three views, this control mentality can be imagined.

Even though Dashun kept shouting free trade in Europe, it actually practiced the summary of Lao Ma: [Early industry, without privileges and protection, it is impossible]; [Stripping of land, cruel legislation for the exploited, subsidies, chartered companies, armies and fleets, forcing domestic goods to be given priority, etc., these are the conditions for the emergence of industrial capitalists].

At this time, for the further control of shipping and trade, for the time being, the opposition of merchants is not high, and it can even be said that there is almost no opposition.

Because they had to face the competition of the British East India Company in Persia and the Red Sea before. Now, this competition has disappeared and was solved by the court with violence. In a short period of time, their trade volume has increased sharply, and it can even be said to have doubled.

The imperial court only required merchant ships to register and prohibited the loading of Indian goods to Persia and Turkey at the official supervision level.

Others...others are just like that. For some commodities, adding import taxes is purely to increase treasury revenue, not to resist competition.

The competition that Dashun has to face is not the entry of commodities from other countries into the country. Rather, it is the competition from external markets such as Persia, Turkey, and Europe, where it has to face competition from Indian or European commodities.

And most of the commodities that can enter Dashun from Persia, Turkey and other places are basically irreplaceable. At this time, adding import taxes is not for protection purposes, but purely for the purpose of increasing treasury revenue.

For example, frankincense, incense, myrrh, and other things must be found in Ethiopia or Somalia; for example, sandalwood, the main production areas are still Honolulu controlled by Dashun, and islands such as East Timor, which are basically in Dashun's pocket.

These things, adding some tariffs, are just for the white silver to enter the treasury. It is neither to protect anyone nor to restrict anyone. It can only be regarded as a special "middle-class tax" of Dashun. Why play with sandalwood if you don't have money?

Dashun was eager to learn from the British Shroud Act. All Buddhist temples had to buy sandalwood from Dashun to increase government revenue, whether it was repairing the Yellow River or building ships. Unfortunately, there was no administrative capacity to do it, and there was too much opposition to competing with the people for profits...

Basically, Dashun had already grasped the pulse of trade, tariffs, and smuggling, and had a basic sober understanding.

At this time, the issue of regulating trade between India and Persia, which was closely related to Dashun's European strategy, was very special.

It was already November, and normally, cargo ships could set sail at this time.

In order to make more money, merchants naturally hoped that the court would be lenient temporarily.

Allow merchant ships to carry domestic goods to Persia or the Red Sea, and after unloading there, load some alternative goods in India, such as cotton cloth, and go directly to Europe.

Because international trade these days depends on the mood of God, and the monsoon period of the year is fixed.

If you unload the goods in Persia and go directly to Mumbai to load cotton cloth, you can catch the monsoon and go to Europe before the wind changes.

In this way, for merchants, it is equivalent to making two profits and completing two international trades in one trade cycle.

Although, if it is a special case during wartime, this is nothing.

After all, now that the war has started, coupled with the suppression of the British, Danish, Portuguese and other East India companies, the foreign trade volume of Dashun has risen after the war. However, the number of merchant ships, especially the heavy merchant ships that meet the regulations, is insufficient.

Although the shipbuilding is running at full capacity and building hard, a lot of new orders have accumulated. But shipbuilding is not like digging a toilet on flat ground, which can be done in a few steps.

In theory, if it is a transition, allowing this kind of transfer trade as a special case in a special period is not a big problem.

However, the court directly rejected this request.

The order prohibits such behavior, and also issued orders to the garrison in India and the Nanyang Protectorate, strictly prohibiting this loophole.

It is better for merchants to make less money now than to allow Indian cotton cloth to be loaded.

At this time, the Dashun merchant class is still powerless compared to the countryside, gentry and imperial power, which allows Dashun to implement the strategy more thoroughly.

Faced with this situation, the Ministry of Industry and Commerce of Dashun used the official supervision and management thinking of the unified country to solve this matter, and carried out very complex regulation as much as possible around the overall strategy.

On the one hand, it requires the East Ocean Trading Company to continue to draw heavy merchant ships to join the trade fleet to Europe.

The goods of the East Ocean trade will be transported by the company specializing in the transportation of grain to Europe.

The ships that are allowed to transport grain temporarily hire those unregistered Nanyang ships or Guangdong and Fujian ships. As long as the grain is kept, how many heavy merchant ships can be drawn is the ability of the shipping company.

On the other hand, the merchant ships and warships captured in India during the war will be auctioned.

After the warships were repaired and remodeled, they were sold to the Western Trade Company as merchant ships.

The Western Trade Company was required not to increase trade with Persia and the Red Sea this year, and to maintain the scale of trade before the destruction of the East India Company.

More ships were required to go to Europe, at least before the end of the war.

Since the Western Trade Company was a monopoly company supervised by the government and run by businessmen, it was much easier to manage than coastal smuggling. All heavy merchant ships were registered, and the Western Trade Company was the only chamber of commerce allowed to cross Malacca. Under this control, it was not that all the ships could go to Persia just because the shareholders and directors said that it was more profitable to go to Persia.

Relying on this regulation, plus the normal number of trade ships, Songsu now has a larger trade fleet heading to Europe than last year.

However, the ship owners, company shareholders and directors were a little worried. Last year's ships have not returned yet. What is the situation in Europe? Can this large batch of goods be sold? The court forced them to sell goods in Europe and did not allow them to send more ships to India and Persia. Will they lose a lot of money this year?