Xinshun 1730

Chapter 1350 Triangular Trade

This crisis is close at hand, especially the big businessmen and landlords in North America should see it.If they can't see it, then they should be told.

Not just England, Scotland and Ireland are about to have another huge wave of immigration, but another nation as well.That is, the "German bumpkin" who Franklin has been worried about may exchange blood for North America.

The title that Frederick the Great's father never forgets is "Protestant Savior".

Frederick always wanted the title, too.

Now, Frederick has absolutely no chance to be the "Great Emperor", let alone the title of Protestant savior.This special title has been discontinued from the Dutch orange family.

Britain has already cut off the subsidy to Prussia, 300 million taels of silver a year, if it continues, the Hanover family will be thrown back to Germany to grow potatoes by the people of England.

At the beginning, the French made a big gamble, hoping to take down Hanover to force the British to negotiate peace, and engage in military speculation and adventure.Although it can be regarded as Louis XV's opportunism strategically, but tactically, the success rate is still quite high in theory.

But now, facing the current situation, even if the British want to engage in opportunistic adventures, would they expect the Prussian army to invade Paris and end the war?This is worse than France's onslaught on Hannover, the success rate is zero, and Prussia does not yet have the ability to enter France.

Prussia might be able to invade Paris, but that would certainly not be Prussia today.

That being the case, there is no chance for opportunism, so what is the use of subsidy?
Once Prussia is defeated, or Prussia's defeat is inevitable after the British cut off the subsidy this year.

At that time, what will happen to a bunch of Protestants in Shinra?
Those who can go to the Netherlands, of course, can go to the Netherlands and Geneva.

However, as Dashun completely compradorized the Netherlands, and supported the urban oligarchs in the previous coup, the Dutch agriculture, manufacturing, guilds, and handicrafts were completely destroyed, leaving only the financial industry and commerce. People living in the Netherlands must have money in their hands.

this is the truth.

In the era of the Consul, the king's pillars were nobles, villages, and handicraft guilds, which were conservative, but at least the guilds at that time were counting on the orange family's power to suppress merchants.

After Dashun participated in the Dutch coup, the Netherlands... the Netherlands is not finished, but on the contrary, the GDP is higher than before.Commerce, finance, shipping, smuggling, transit business, loans, speculation, futures... As far as the economy is concerned, it is indeed much stronger than before, but it is just that you have to be rich to live in the Netherlands.

Let’s put it this way, before Dashun did not participate in the history, nor did it compradorize the Netherlands, the merchants in the Netherlands had reached the point of “hoarding timber, instigating the war between the Netherlands and the UK, and taking the opportunity to sell timber to build ships”.

After Dashun participated, the complete commercialization of the Netherlands accelerated extremely.The only remaining textile industry in the Leiden area was completely wiped out by the compradors in Dashun and Amsterdam.

That being the case, Protestants who have no money can't escape to the Netherlands, where else can they go to the Americas?

The so-called anti-British and pro-British factions are essentially a conflict of economic interests and a game between the local and central authorities.

Putting the name of "he is a pro-British traitor" on the liquidation of landlords and confiscation of property is an act that seriously affects the true awakening of the North American people.

What Dashun has to do now is to make this group of people lose the cover of this layer of skin.

Although the Dashun military and businessmen who participated in it can be regarded as unconsciously promoting history, they don't know what they are doing or what historical significance it is, but historical significance is produced in this way.

The original anti-British faction had only a few demands.

Dashun's two requirements of "repaying the national debt with tariffs" and "free trade" can precisely turn a large number of anti-British factions into pro-British factions.

At that time, there will be a North American parliament and representatives, and we will no longer be able to shout abstract slogans that hide real contradictions, and we will no longer be able to go to the West.

Then, even if the later immigrants, indentured slaves, bankrupt self-cultivators, and frontier people couldn't escape Li Zicheng, couldn't Er Zhurong also escape?
The new aristocrats and the old thirteen states enjoy the benefits of the landlords; the children of the six towns who want to cross the Appalachian Mountains to reclaim wasteland will always have some ideas.

The truth is to be told.

But you can't just talk with your mouth.

And Dashun's general mobilization of merchant ships and the goods loaded on them are important reliance on these principles and the fact that these principles can be believed.

The cargo unloaded on the merchant ship docked in Philadelphia is actually announcing one thing to the "elites" in North America: the pattern of Atlantic trade has changed.

This change in the trade pattern is not simply due to the increase in productivity.

If we simply calculate the level of productivity, many of India's textile and handicraft industries have crushed Europe.

Relying on Dashun's fleet, with the help of the European war, it broke the old trade pattern maintained by violence and the navy.

Here, the power of the working people, reflected in the products of Dashun, is the foundation of Dashun's success, which is the foundation.Without the production of Dashun's working people, even if Dashun's navy defeated the British Channel Fleet, would it have any use?Isn't that making wedding clothes for others?
In the same way, if France in the Napoleon era had Dashun's level of productivity at this time, the continental blockade would have been successful.

Now that Dashun has mobilized merchant ships, it is repeating the mainland blockade policy.But it does not rely on an army so powerful that it is invincible in Europe, but on cheap goods that can destroy the Great Wall of Britain's wooden wall on the sea.

It can be said that Dashun played tricks here, and Dashun's productivity level is not enough to say that it is a dimensionality reduction blow from industrialization to the handicraft industry.

However, the price revolution is here. The purchasing power of Dashun's silver price is higher than that of European silver prices. Even with the same production efficiency, Dashun's cotton cloth is cheaper, so what can be done?Moreover, in fact, the efficiency of Dashun in the production of cotton cloth is higher than that of Europe.

Just like the cargo on the cargo ship berthing in Philadelphia at this time.

North American businessmen have never been involved in trade with China before.Even if they can get smuggled goods through Dutch second-hand traffickers, wouldn't the Dutch second-hand dealers make a fortune?
There are a variety of goods on the cargo ship, the quantity is extremely large, and the price is cheap.

It can even be said that as long as the goods cannot be produced in North America, they can be found on Dashun's cargo ships.

Moreover, these goods were gathered from south to north along the coast of Dashun.

There are so many types of them, as long as they can be sold for money, all of them can be shipped.

Liaodong.

There are tussah silk.

The more expensive tussah silk quilts are light and luxurious.

This is a secondary industry based on soybean planting that emerged along the Liaohe River relying on Dashun's development of Northeast China.

Tussah is not the pillar industry of Northeast Dashun at this time, but soybeans, sorghum, timber, wheat, etc. cannot be sold here. Tussah is only a pillar industry for export in Northeast China at this time.

Shandong, Gyeonggi.

There are straw hat braids.

Bone crafts.

isinglass.

Dried dates.

Metal products by-products of shipbuilding and heavy industry around the Bohai Rim, delicate mirrors.

Songsu's.

There are cotton and blended fabrics.

High-end cotton.

Low end cotton.

silk cloth.

Jiangxi.

There is china.

Fujian.

There is tea.

from Hubei.

There are processed tea cakes.

Nanyang.

There are spices.

of Ceylon.

There are cinnamon, gemstones.

The rest such as folding fans, lacquerware, neem tree lice oil, Han clothing, hunting air pump guns for female nobles, glycerin, high-end and exquisite glycerin mainly sold in the box...

From big to small, from south to north.Strange goods, all kinds.

In addition to the food, wine, sugar, and pig iron that North America itself does not lack, the trade links between North America and the United Kingdom can be said to be, except for the English version of the "Bible", which can be produced and is profitable but cannot be produced due to political reasons. Replace all but .

Exquisite porcelain is packed in sand, and the roots of germinated wheat are used to condense the sand into blocks, which greatly guarantees the yield of transportation.

The low-end tea is crushed with a steam engine, and after fermentation, it is pressed tightly, which greatly increases the loading capacity and minimizes the transportation loss of tea.

Mid-to-high-end tea, buy tea, get free tea set.

Low-end cotton, thick and durable, just right for homesteaders and pioneers in North America.

The weaving women used starch washing to ensure the tenacity of the warp and weft, making the coarse cloth extremely strong and durable.

This is not a new technology. The warp toughness problem before the invention of the mule machine can be solved by this method of warp sizing.

Songsu’s characteristic contract purchase system and looms going to the countryside, etc., only adopted factory labor on the yarn side, and solved the problem of warp tenacity by batch sizing.Old technology, dumb method, but it works.

Not to mention the high-end textiles, Dashun even started to engage in the contracting system for the royal use, and high-end textiles can of course be circulated as long as they don't overstep.

This change in thinking is partly due to the lessons learned from previous dynasties.

The other is that the emperor has really gotten rich in recent years, and money can really buy things.

After being mobilized by Dashun's registered merchant ships, these various commodities appeared in the Atlantic Ocean with the attitude of completely replacing the old triangular trade "industrial product producers".

Of course, now Dashun has determined the strategy of "the Netherlands as the main European commercial port".

Well, the triangular trade of the past actually still exists.

The system is still there.

The biggest differences are:

In the past, the industrial products needed for the triangular trade, iron, were produced in Sweden; cotton cloth, produced in Lancashire; mirrors, produced in France; glass beads, produced in the Austrian Netherlands; wine, produced in Portugal or France; Rum, produced in North America...

In the future, the industrial products needed for the triangular trade will be grown from merchant ships!

Every June and July, it is regularly refreshed at the port of Amsterdam with one click.

As Dashun has always said before, "thanks" to the Dutch East India Company for opening up the consumer market for tea; "thanks" to the French East India Company for opening up the oriental luxury goods market; "thanks" to the British East India Company for opening up cotton market.

Dashun did not destroy the old trade system.

Even became a beneficiary of the old Atlantic trading system.

However, Dashun destroyed the original producer and replaced it.

And, it left an impression on Europe and America: commodities are regularly refreshed from merchant ships every year.

(End of this chapter)