New Shun 1730

This is actually not a problem. For Indians, sweet potato roasting and whiskey only depend on the degree.

Obviously, this proposal is a win-win proposition.

Gold mines are set up, immigrants grow grain in exchange for gold and silver, and gold and silver buy land and put it into the immigration fund.

Here, gold and silver are just a kind of "lubricating oil" for operation and a medium for operation.

So, does it have to be a gold and silver mine that produces gold and silver?

The gold and silver that the French sold for furs seemed to be no different from the gold and silver that came out of the gold mines when they used gold and silver as the "lubricant" for operation.

The key is that with food in hand, "General Longhu" can better defend the border for Dashun.

As for whether it is possible to feed enough, fatten up, and eventually raise tigers to endanger them?

As long as you don't carve a boat and ask for a sword, you will know that it is obviously impossible.

The Thirteen Prefectures are richer than the current West Coast, and if the Thirteen Prefectures don’t buy ginseng, it’s impossible to rob Dashun’s West Coast. Besides, France has lost its mind and wants to mess with Dashun. With Europe in pieces, where can they not find a European thug to mess with France?

This group of "Generals Dragon and Tiger" do not lack the population of allies here, nor do they lack the "Jurchens" in the old forest, nor do they lack large amounts of wealth from trade. However, they are short of food and cannot organize many semi-full-time troops.

Villandry did not expect that in the eyes of people in Dashun, he was regarded as the "Three Guards of Jianzhou" version of the Jisi garrison. It's just that it doesn't matter what young people like Dashun and Dashun think of this proposal. What's important is that it's actually effective.

"Your suggestions are well worth considering. I personally support it, and I think most people in New France who are engaged in similar businesses to me also support it."

"Yes, you only need to use the bill of exchange to record the settlement at your port, which completely avoids troublesome trade. You only need to transport the food and wine down the river after getting the bill. "

"As for the border issue, that is not a problem. We have no ambitions for the west coast. Especially after you helped us regain the Hudson Bay and the mouth of the St. Lawrence River, the Sunset Sea has no attraction for France."

"Of course, this is not something I can decide. However, I think I can use my connections to contact the fur ginseng merchants in New France."

"Well, you come with me to the mouth of the river downstream. There are many of my friends there who will come to participate in the siege of Fort York. And there, it is also convenient to send you to your officers and diplomats. ”

This is also in line with the wishes of the young people of the Dashun expedition team.

Not only can he go to the Gulf with others, but he can also "stand out" among the European garrison and bureaucracy in Dashun.

Several people agreed, and a few days later, they followed Villandry's canoe team and the Indian armed forces he organized down the river.

The siege of Fort York was uneventful.

It was not a big castle to begin with.

Dashun and the French navy gained control of the sea again.

This dilapidated fortress is still built on the permafrost. With the construction technology of this era, if the fortress is built on the semi-permafrost layer and it does not collapse in twenty years, then it must be a genius-level designer.

After Fort York was captured, these unknown little people in Dashun met with the powerful French people here.

They say they are powerful, but they are actually the local "tycoons" and "tycoons".

The common feature is that they do not have French aristocratic status, but they possess the King's Cross of St. Louis, the first medal in France that can be awarded to non-nobles. In fact, they are also considered members of the King's private knights.

They are all engaged in trade in furs, ginseng, pearls, etc.

Several of them are basically the richest people in Montreal.

I have a very clear understanding of the customs, human geography, and aboriginal relations here.

Basically, they were the people who were sent away in the "accidental shipwreck" in Britain in history.

The eight French military posts in the Great Lakes region are basically controlled by these people. These people may be related by marriage, friends, or original superiors and subordinates to each other.

To put it simply, France cannot fight a war here if it only relies on French regular troops.

The local tycoons headed by Villandry basically control Canada's militia, regiment training, and vassal soldiers.

Therefore, it is natural that there will be some minor frictions between them and the governor sent from France.

Simply put, if the governor is incorruptible, then everything will be fine.

Gifts must be given. As far as North America is concerned, if you only receive gifts, charcoal gifts, ice gifts, and New Year gifts, it is considered honest.

As long as the governor is not honest, he will definitely be jealous of such a large ginseng and mink trade. At that time, the governor can make money directly from this trade with a little move of his fingers, which is much more profitable than receiving some charcoal as a New Year gift or something.

This is normal. It doesn't happen just because Dashun and Daming are like this. The French are made of special materials.

In 1950, when the Marquis of Yanquière was the governor, the powerful people here were very dissatisfied.

Just because the Marquis of Yanquière is not satisfied with collecting some charcoal to celebrate the new year, but is preparing to directly intervene in the fur trade and install his own people.

Viewed dialectically, this can be considered a good thing.

With the development of ginseng and mink trade, the dissolution of the French East India Company, and France's serious debt problem, there is news that France is preparing to form a New France Fur Ginseng Dongzhu Specialty Company.

These local tyrants who had experienced the governor always wanting to directly intervene in the fur trade also supported this, as long as the equity was reasonable.

These tyrants had thought about cooperating to establish a franchise company before.

But on the one hand, the important fur port in Hudson Bay was ceded in the Treaty of Utrecht, so these tyrants could only sell a lot of fur to the British.

On the other hand, the East India Company existed before, and after the ginseng trade flourished, the East India Company actually monopolized the ginseng and sable trade with China, so it tried its best to prevent the establishment of the New France Fur and Ginseng Franchise Company.

The participation of Dashun not only bankrupted the British East India Company, but also ruined the French East India Company that Dupleix had run for many years.

Capital is not a monolithic entity. The collapse of the French East India Company cleared the way for the establishment of the New France Fur and Ginseng Franchise Company.

Dashun wanted to open a port in the Netherlands and serve as the general window for European East-West trade, which actually helped France resolve a "dispute".

Historically, after the Seven Years' War, France was extremely radical in its economic policy, as reflected in "whether to abolish the East India Company's monopoly" and "whether the French people can freely trade in the East". This radical policy continued until the French Revolution.

Now, this debate does not need to exist, because... Eastern goods will be refreshed in the Netherlands in the future, and neither the East India Company nor individual merchants will have to go to the east of the Cape of Good Hope.

The fur trade in Hudson Bay is very profitable, but France cut a lot of North American interests in the War of the Spanish Succession.

Now, the war is finally coming to an end, and it has almost rewritten the colonial pattern since the War of the Spanish Succession.

This has enabled France to regain control of Hudson Bay and stabilize the situation, and it has the conditions to establish a monopoly company similar to HBC.

Before this, France did not want to establish a monopoly company, but the conditions did not allow it.

These North American tyrants proved their value and loyalty to France in the First World War, and naturally got rewards.

At this time, the new governor, Marquis Cavagnal, was born in Montreal instead of France, and was a second-generation colonist.

To a large extent, he was enough to represent the interests of the people in New France. Or he could be regarded as a glue between Paris and local tyrants.

This was also very conducive to promoting the establishment of a franchise company.

The establishment of a franchise company was certainly beneficial to Dashun. Especially a franchise company that mainly engaged in the interests of fur and ginseng, its degree of organization could effectively ensure the border with the Thirteen States.

The Nanyang incident has proved that in this era, an organized franchise company can beat up individual merchants and private merchants, and it can even be regarded as a more advanced organizational model at this time - a miniature version of the commercial bourgeoisie.

This attack on Fort York was essentially an opportunity for the tyrants of New France to get together to discuss major issues, especially the future distribution of profits and equity of the franchise company.

At this historical juncture, the members of the Dashun expedition had neither official status nor fame, but they became the guests of honor of these New French tyrants by virtue of this expedition and the idea of ​​grain trade bills.

These tyrants were basically local military leaders, because the eight French garrisons in the west were basically inherited by these families. Occasionally there would be exchanges, but it was just from Fort A to Fort B, and France could not send regular troops to station in such a faraway garrison.

Therefore, the official negotiations of Dashun were communicated with the central court of France.

It is impossible to say that the high-level envoys of Dashun came specifically to talk with these French garrison military leaders.

The members of this small expedition team of Dashun appeared at this time, vaguely saying that their true identity was a small person among small people, and the local tyrants on the French side also believed that these people had at least a certain official status.

At the banquet, these small people in the expedition team also took advantage of the wine and prepared to act out an ancient story, and talked about the trade issues they had discussed with Verendry before.

These local tyrants also have clear minds.

After years of friction and war, they also understand that without the support of their motherland, they would have been eaten up by the Protestants.

They suffered a loss during the previous ginseng war. If it weren't for the fact that the British East India Company was too powerful at the time, Dupleix made efforts in India, so that Britain eventually sold its North American interests in exchange for India, they might have been driven away that time.

And this war proved another thing. Without the help of Dashun, France's overseas interests could not be guaranteed at all given its dangerous land situation. The British had already sent troops to Montreal in the early stage. If Dashun had not joined the war in time and transferred back the British navy, this time it would probably be over again.

As long as the Protestants win, they will not be polite to them.

This is not a question of surrender or surrender. It's that the profits of fur ginseng are here. If the Protestants win, are they short of capital, cargo ships, or markets? Why should they let these Catholic French continue to occupy these profits?

Especially the previous Arcadian expulsion, which dealt a great blow to these French powerful people - the governor wanted to get a piece of the pie before and was quite unhappy, but these damn Protestants were ready to take everything and kill us all.

These people may not have loved France, and there was even a conflict of interest between the colonies and the mother country. Many people were ready to compromise and trade directly with HBC. In addition, the governor was ready to intervene in the fur trade with his power, which did cause a prelude to disunity in the past few years.

But the Acadian expulsion and several waves of Protestant concentration camp operations directly forced these wavering people to become firm French patriots...

It should be said that the Acadian expulsion awakened these New French nobles, greatly increased their loyalty to France, and gave these people the idea of ​​bringing Dashun into North America.

In the eyes of the Dashun explorers, negotiating with these French military leaders can solve an important problem: farming requires cattle and horses.

Dashun could not transport cattle and horses from its homeland, so it needed these French military leaders to prepare cattle and horses from the east. In this way, Dashun only needed to move people, and the price of cattle and horses, shipped by ship and purchased locally, was definitely not the same price.

Although these people were not officials and theoretically had no right to discuss such matters, they were bold enough to discuss the details with these French tyrants.

"You should perhaps prepare a batch of cattle and horses in advance, or at least find a provider. Within a few years, you can organize people to send them up the river."

"If everything goes well, relying on the farming methods of Shandong people, we can be self-sufficient in one year and provide you with food and wine within three years."

"The large-scale transactions on both sides, such as cattle, horses, and food, can be settled through the East-West trading companies."

"You should even invest now and raise a batch of cattle and horses in the Great Lakes region so that you can trade them when the time comes. I think the sooner the transaction is completed, the greater the profit you will make from going south to collect ginseng and trading furs in the south."

"The sooner the better, isn't it? And if we lack cattle and horses, the speed of reclamation will be very slow. This batch of cattle and horses can also be repaid with food or spirits. Since you said you want to set up a franchise company, I think you will not lack funds, and the shareholders will invest in advance."

The members of the Dashun expedition team had no right to discuss these matters, and if they were not handled well, they might even cause a diplomatic storm. What if they raise cattle and horses, but no one wants them? What if Dashun has no choice to go east to the grassland to secure a position?

However, they still carried forward the "gamble" style that has been very obvious in the Dashun School of Realism in recent years: win the class jump, lose the exile.

In the years of rapid jump, with the war about to end, everyone with a discerning eye knows that there are only a few years left, and there are many gamblers in the environment of seizing the time to jump up.