New Shun 1730

For Dashun, the process of war is more important than sitting at the negotiation table after the war.

After sitting at the negotiation table, some things will be impossible to get.

During the war, you can increase the scale of smuggling and trade, which will directly affect the post-war trade pattern.

This kind of reasoning is useless to tell businessmen.

Fortunately, many of Dashun’s previous control policies, or in other words, the real learning of the state control and Sang Hongyang’s set that the West has picked up again, have now at least played a role in foreign trade.

Relying on Liu Yu’s reputation accumulated over the years and relying on the collection of various European intelligence for 20 years, this time the Ministry of Industry and Commerce issued a special document guidance, suggesting what cargo to load on the cargo ships.

What is the approximate trade ratio of cloth, luxury goods, consumables, and daily necessities; after going there, whether to go to West Africa, the Caribbean or North America; or how to respond to the North American smugglers’ request to exchange goods directly on the smuggling island after arriving there, etc., all have guiding policies.

The trade in the Persian Gulf region is already a cooked duck, and there is no need to invest too much energy now. In the future, the trade between the Persian Gulf and China was something that any fool could do. It only depended on how much capital assets their parents left behind, not on their ability to explore.

This well-known prospect of making money also drove the development of Dashun's industry, especially the shipbuilding industry.

Indeed, Dashun was at war and issued war bonds.

However, as long as the court still had credibility, the creditors, that is, the commercial capitalists, paid nothing for the bonds in the precious metal era.

They took out silver with their left hand and gave it to the court in exchange for bonds.

But these paper bonds can still be circulated as currency if the court still has credibility.

The real financial rentier class of Dashun has emerged. They earn interest from the court with their left hand and reinvest the bonds in their hands as currency with their right hand. In the precious metal era when bonds can be redeemed, what did they pay?

So the Songsu area of ​​Dashun showed a strange prosperity after the outbreak of the war.

The huge amount of money in the hands of the court was converted into warships, steel, cannons, grain, sugar, tobacco, cloth, and military uniforms.

As a kind of exotic paper money in the era of precious metals, national bonds were directly involved in industrial investment. For the future Persian Gulf and Indian markets, these capitals flowed into various industries and infrastructure.

Overall, Dashun has gradually found a way to transition.

Just like any economy must build large infrastructure before it rises.

The British canal and the French highway, Dashun had no choice but to gamble on the budding railway in the north, because it could neither learn the French highway nor the British canal. In the south, the construction of larger-scale canals has also begun with the strange prosperity caused by this war.

For example, the canal in Fujian, which is mainly for tea trade, the river reconstruction in Jiangxi, which is mainly for porcelain trade, and the dredging of the Three Gorges and the construction of the tracker road in Sichuan, which is mainly for salt, Yunnan copper and Guizhou zinc.

And this strange prosperity is unstable. If there is no subsequent stable market, many investments may not be profitable.

Especially the existing development and industry, infrastructure and transportation, etc., are all based on the existing trade goods for the expected future expansion, and here we have to consider the issue of "being replaced".

This is also one of the reasons why Dashun forced merchants to ship more goods to Europe and America this time.

For example, Dashun's classic goods, tea.

This is very likely to be replaced, such as by coffee.

Generally speaking, although tea and coffee are both hobbies and drinks. But in general, people who are used to drinking tea will not drink coffee; similarly, people who are used to drinking coffee will generally not choose tea.

When later generations mention British drinks, they will think of black tea; when they mention the French, they will think of coffee; and when they mention Americans, it seems that coffee is greater than tea.

However, in this era, it is obviously not the case.

After all, the thirteen states in North America were British colonies, and most of them were British immigrants at this time. Whether it is rational inference or facts at this time, tea drinking should be dominant.

Moreover, the Boston Tea Party and the reduction of Wuyi tea tariffs can be regarded as the official starting point for American smugglers to resist.

But, in the end, for various reasons, coffee replaced tea and became the main refreshing hobby in North America.

This is also what Dashun is more worried about.

After all, hobbies still need to cultivate the market and the target population.

Historically, there was a transition process from drinking tea to drinking coffee in North America.

And this transition process is closely related to the Boston Tea Party.

A country is definitely not a monolithic entity. In addition to those young people who are excited by impulsive words, more people behind the scenes have conflicts of interest.

For example, the Boston Tea Party, there are at least four groups of people behind this incident.

The first wave is the tea dealers who buy "legal" tea normally. Among them, the representative is Hutchinson of Franklin's "Hutchinson Letter Incident".

When Franklin made Hutchinson's letter public, he meant to say, you see, Hutchinson is from our thirteen states, and he also supports taxation. So the king is not that bad, it was not instructed by the king, and Hutchinson was born and raised in our thirteen states...

This man's son was in the regular tea business. At that time, the East India Company was almost bankrupted by the smuggled tea from the Netherlands and Sweden. Britain had no choice but to lower the tea tariffs on Wuyi tea, making these teas that paid the tariffs regularly cheaper than the smuggled teas bought from the Netherlands and Sweden.

The second wave was naturally the smugglers.

The third wave was the coffee merchants.

The fourth wave was some local herbal tea producers in North America, mainly those who planted "Labrador tea" in North America. People in Northeast China should have seen this thing. It is similar to the leaves of Jindalai and Mountain Tartar Flower, which are rolled up and similar to tea rolls.

The game between these four groups of people is that smugglers, coffee merchants, and Labrador tea growers work together to deal with those who buy customs tea.

But after the quarrel, some things got out of control.

At that time, a kind of lynching called [Tarring and feathering] was popular in North America. It is to burn asphalt, pour it on the body, and then stick feathers on the body. This kind of punishment at least makes you peel off a layer of skin. Hot asphalt is poured on your body. If you don't die, you will peel off a layer of skin.

The famous victim John Malcolm was doused with asphalt and feathers, and then tied to the famous "Liberty Tree" and beaten.

After the beating, he was forced to drink tea until he vomited.

Fuck, don't you support the tax reduction on tea? I let you drink, and today I will let you drink enough, but I won't kill you.

After that, drinking tea became a politically correct issue.

Drinking tea means being unpatriotic, having a tendency to betray the country and to protect the monarchy.

Behind this, coffee merchants and Labrador tea merchants are pushing it behind the scenes. In Chinese, Labrador tea also has a tea character, but in English, this thing is not tea.

At that time, there were anti-British and pro-British people, but most people were just ordinary people, just watching the excitement.

And after seeing these persecutions against tea, few of these ordinary people dared to drink tea. Are you looking for trouble? It is not worth it to be arrested, splashed with asphalt, feathered, and beaten for drinking tea.

Theoretically, can I be "patriotic" and "anti-British" and "drink tea" at the same time?

Theoretically, I can. As long as I drink smuggled tea, and drink smuggled tea that is 2 pence more expensive than tariff tea, then I can be both.

The problem is that they are all Wuyi tea. Can you tell whether you are drinking patriotic smuggled tea or unpatriotic tariff tea?

As long as things are taken to the extreme, there is only one option for such things: "purer beats less pure".

For example, the second president, John Adams, specifically talked about this purity issue in his letter.

[I think I forgot to tell you an anecdote: when I first came to this house, it was late afternoon, and I rode at least 35 miles. "Madam," I said to Mrs. Houston, "a tired traveler needs a cup of tea to soothe himself. As long as it is smuggled or has not paid any tariffs."

"No, sir," she said, "we have given up all the tea in this place. I can't make tea, but I can make you coffee.】

Here, John Adams' purity is not enough, because he still drinks tea, but he refuses to drink tea that has paid tariffs. Because paying tariffs means impurity.

And this lady is purer than Adams, because she doesn't even drink tea, but coffee.

So, John Adams is very ashamed Ashamed.

From then on, he stopped drinking tea and switched to coffee.

Originally, there were four groups of people fighting each other: coffee merchants, Labrador tea merchants, smuggling tea merchants, and customs tea merchants.

Three of them together killed the customs tea.

The remaining three, coffee merchants and Labrador tea merchants, were evenly matched with smuggling tea merchants.

In the subsequent "Pure Patriotic Movement", drinking tea itself was considered a sin, especially after Malcolm was forced to drink tea until he almost vomited to death. Ordinary people tried not to drink tea as much as possible to avoid getting into trouble; and those who were in politics needed to defeat the less pure with a purer one. Those who used to only drink smuggled tea to show their ambitions now no longer drink smuggled tea and only drink coffee.

This is the domestic environment.

The foreign environment also made the tea merchants in North America gradually go bankrupt after the founding of the country.

First, the British blockade, then the Anglo-Dutch War, the end of the Dutch East India Company, the French Revolution, and a series of other things, made Britain gradually get the tea trade monopoly. The rise of the coffee planting industry and the backstab of Labrador tea being accused of hallucinations made the coffee merchants win the final victory.

Tea may be replaced by coffee, especially if it is related to politics.

And religious people... their thinking is very crazy.

For example, the death of Cromwell.

He had malaria, but cinchona bark quinine was a Catholic missionary. It was discovered by the scholars, so Cromwell preferred to eat Protestant grass instead of Catholic medicine, and finally died of malaria.

People from Dashun, when they go to such religious countries, especially the countries of fundamentalist Puritans to debate, often have irrelevant arguments and cannot get to the point.

But it doesn't matter.

As long as there is enough tea to be transported, as long as the power of smuggled tea dealers is strengthened, coffee will be killed. Then, smuggled tea dealers will naturally give tea a sacred status.

The economic foundation determines many things. The more money the tea sellers make, the more they have the right to speak. It is also easy to find some gunmen to argue that drinking coffee will lose the spirit of bravery and turn into a French sissy.

Anyway, the East India Company was dead. What Dashun had to do was to take advantage of the war to bring a large number of goods over and cultivate a group of people who made money by relying on Dashun goods. In the future, they would naturally cheer for Dashun's goods.

Not just tea.

There was also cotton cloth, which was related to the struggle with some wool textile industries in North America; lacquerware, which was related to the struggle of immigrant carpenters; metal products, which was related to whether the metal processing industry in North America that was just about to start could be directly killed in the bud, and so on.

The more goods were shipped over and the more abundant the supply, the more people would make money in this business, and the more people would stand up and speak in the future.

Before the negotiations ended the war, some things had to be made into established facts. Smugglers and merchants had great power and could directly manipulate public opinion in North America.

Dashun's decision and this forced large-scale trade had a great impact on North America and even the world.