New Shun 1730

This round egg has been almost pulled, and the rest is to carefully pick and break the details.

The point that Liu Yu grasped was the difference between the thinking modes of "officials" and "businessmen"; and the difference in national conditions between Dashun and Britain.

Facing Fazaklai, who was still full of vigilance towards Liu Yu in his heart, but actually believed in most of it, Liu Yu finally proposed a plan that showed that the court was "somewhat shameless".

The East India Company was very shameless. If you were not shameless, he would think you were deceiving him.

"You merchants, what you need to consider is to spend every silver coin on the goods with the highest profit margin."

"And for the Celestial Empire, which has changed countless dynasties from the Qin and Han Dynasties to the present, what you need to consider is to spend every silver coin on the goods that can stabilize the country for thousands of years."

"The current situation is like this. The Celestial Empire has a huge trade surplus. But you don't sell the things that the Celestial Empire really wants to buy, such as navigation clocks; you want to sell the things that the Celestial Empire doesn't want to buy at all, such as opium and woolen cloth."

"I am the most reasonable person and I like fairness the most. Reasonably, according to the principle of fairness, your navigation regulations will not be changed for a day. "Invalidate, your East India Company's monopoly on Asian trade is not cancelled..."

"According to the principle of fairness, we can also set up equal navigation regulations, prohibiting any non-Celestial Empire ships from selling goods in the Celestial Empire; we can also grant a monopoly on Western trade and prohibit other countries from participating."

"You can't say that you are working on navigation regulations while granting a monopoly on Eastern trade. But you think it's unreasonable for us to expel you. I just want to ask, can we open a trading house in London? Can we directly drive the ship to the mouth of the Thames to sell goods?"

Fazakley is British, and naturally has the double-standard values ​​of their nation.

But now Liu Yu is using his power to suppress others, and he can't explain it according to the reason he thinks is reasonable. He can only hum and ah twice, neither saying it is reasonable nor unreasonable.

Seeing this, Liu Yu snorted: "If you don't want fairness, you have to make rules and maintain the rules of this world system."

"Your trade system, which allows you to monopolize but does not allow others to sell goods in your house, is of course unfair. It does not mean that such unfair things cannot be implemented, but the premise is that Britain has the ability to be the Celestial Empire of the Earth, to make such rules, and is willing to fulfill its obligations for these rules and maintain these world rules."

"The question is, ask yourself, does Britain have this ability now? Not to mention in Asia, even in the Atlantic, can it be the one who speaks the final word? You can't even beat Spain, you are still far from the Celestial Empire."

These words are not to encourage Britain, but to characterize the current world trade pattern, characterizing it as justice and injustice.

Since you, Britain, are engaged in navigation regulations and administrative authorization monopoly, don't complain and accuse Dashun of administrative authorization monopoly, and don't say that Dashun is "unfair" competition.

You have not defined what is "fair" yourself.

If Britain has now abandoned the Navigation Act, does not engage in any form of tariff protection, and does not maintain monopoly by administrative orders, while Dashun has closed trade with Britain and authorized monopoly by administration, then to some extent Dashun is considered to be "unfair" competition.

Just now, since "fair" means the law of the jungle, mercantilism, tariff protection, and administrative interference in monopoly.

Then, Dashun's trade policy is not only extremely fair, but also very benevolently does not impose tariff protection policies similar to British tea and cotton taxes on any British goods. It is almost a bit like the benevolence of Duke Xiang of Song.

Fazakle was scolded by Liu Yu and humiliated Britain. Although he was worried that his "neither humble nor arrogant" would be cut off from trade by Dashun, he still couldn't help but whisper a few rebuttals.

"My Lord, your understanding of fairness may be wrong."

"For example, Song Wan, the King Kong in the story of your country, and Wu Da, the Three-inch Ding Gu Shupi, went to see a play together. However, the performers very 'fairly' erected an eight-foot-high curtain in front of them."

"For Song Wan, the King Kong in the Clouds, the obstacle in front of him is eight feet; for Wu Da, the Three-inch Ding Gu Shupi, the obstacle in front of him is also eight feet."

"So, do you think this is fair?"

"Your country's cotton, silk, porcelain, etc., both in price and quality, are better than Britain. At this time, you say that you want fair competition, is it fair?"

"Of course, I don't support Britain's tariff policy. But from a rational and neutral point of view, I believe What you think is fair is not the same as what you think is fair. "

Liu Yu laughed and said, "You misunderstood one thing. You have to understand that in the UK, due to factors such as climate and soil, no matter how coffee is grown, it is definitely not as good as Java coffee."

"It is this difference that promotes the emergence of trade."

"In fact, division of labor, region, trade, and being good at what they are good at, each country has its own division of labor, which is the most beneficial to the people of each country."

"Since Britain is not good at textiles, porcelain, and tea, why does it have to do it? Why can't it develop characteristic industries, can't it give up the textile industry, can't it give up industry? This is the first. "

"Second, can the trade surplus problem between China and Britain be solved? Can it not be solved? Or do you not want to solve it?"

"I said that the Celestial Empire received a large amount of silver, but this silver could not be spent in foreign trade, which caused huge inflation over the past hundred years. The problem is that the Celestial Empire cannot buy things and cannot spend money."

"Please note that it is impossible to buy things, not that the Celestial Empire is the Dorrag in your stories who have a hobby of collecting shiny gold and silver, and has a pure and weird hobby of collecting gold and silver."

"We want to buy things, we want to spend silver. But you don't give us a chance."

"We want to buy a marine clock , want to buy the full set of patents for marine clocks, want to buy the full set of details of flat glass technology, want to buy the full set of plans for British alkali factories, want to buy Spanish long-wool sheep stolen and improved by the British, want to buy some horses bred by the British that are not allowed to be exported. We not only want to spend money, but also want to spend it to a trade deficit. "

"But you don't sell it at all."

"According to what you said, why did Wu Dalang want to compete with Song Wan to see who was taller? Why not compete to see whose steamed buns and pancakes were better?"

This sounded a bit revealing.

Fazakley understood himself and felt that Liu Yu was obviously saying something else.

It seemed that he was just hinting to him: If your East India Company can lobby Congress to relax technical controls, then your trade will be easy to talk about.

But if you can't do this, then I'm sorry, you are guilty of a serious crime on the opium issue and violated the emperor's edict. We have to close the British trading house and drive out British merchants.

This is what is called one time and another time.

Fazaklai felt that Dashun was not unwilling to cooperate with the British East India Company before. It even hoped that the East India Company could lobby Parliament to relax tariffs on tea, cotton and other things.

But now, Dashun has taken a route that no one expected, cooperating with the Netherlands, which had just fought a fierce battle - that is, smuggling in partnership.

In this case, it is not very interested in relaxing tea tariffs. In fact, if it continues to develop, the Western Trade Company may still hope that Britain will continue to impose tea tariffs.

If smuggled tea is as cheap as legal tea, who will buy smuggled tea?

If tea tariffs were relaxed ten years earlier, the Sino-French alliance might have collapsed now, and the Sino-British alliance might have been established.

Ten years later, Dashun no longer mentioned the issue of tariffs, but turned to the issue of technology protection.

However, because Liu Yu talked about a lot of differences in the consciousness of "officials" and "businessmen", Fazaklai felt that to some extent, Liu Yu might not be unable to continue to cooperate with the British East India Company.

After all, according to the difference between Liu Yu's understanding of "national wealth" and his understanding of national wealth, increasing exports means an increase in industrial scale, which means an increase in wealth created - the wealth here is not the gold and silver wealth understood by Fazaklai, but the "sum of necessities and conveniences of life produced" as Liu Yu said.

The difference between these two views of wealth makes Fazaklai think that the opportunity has not been completely lost.

As long as we find out what Dashun really wants and how they understand wealth, we will have the opportunity to do something that Dashun can accept and be happy about.

As for Britain's relaxation of technical protection, Fazaklai certainly supports it in his heart.

Originally, it set sail in Europe in January, arrived in Songjiang Prefecture in July, returned in December, and returned to Europe in July. It took nearly two years, and the result was that it was basically empty when it went there, and it could only carry one kind of commodity, that is, silver. Only the returning cargo ship is profitable. And the profit of the return voyage must be evenly divided within two years.

If some special, urgently needed and highly profitable goods can be loaded in Europe, the company's profit will certainly double.

Of course, these goods must be legal in Dashun. Opium is profitable, but it is not legal in Dashun.

But the difficulty lies here:

If the East India Company wants to convince Parliament, it needs to be large enough, give shareholders enough dividends, have enough people participate in the shares, bring enough profits to the royal family, and have enough people who can spend money to lobby to bind the company's interests.

If the company does not change its mindset, it means that if the company wants to be large enough, make enough money, and have enough dividends, it needs to convince Parliament to relax the control of technical goods needed by Dashun and relax tariffs on tea and cotton cloth.

It's like if you want to achieve B, you must do A; and if you want to achieve A, the first step is to achieve B.

This is a closed loop.

An idea gradually emerged in Fazaklay's heart.

If the company wants to develop, it must jump out of this closed loop.

Is there another way of thinking, temporarily jumping out of dependence on trade with China, so that the company can continue to expand in size, make enough money, and have enough dividends, so that it has great influence in Parliament?

If so, then where is this growth point?