1635 Han style rises again

Chapter 471 Indian Trading Company
"Your Majesty, that India is far away from our Hanzhou, almost as big as Ming Dynasty, thousands of miles away, how can we devote our energy to take care of this place." Qi Dajiang frowned and said: "I think the most important thing for our Daqi at this time The goal is to vigorously immigrate. According to the current immigration intensity, it only takes another 20 years for Daqi to have a population of 40 to 50. At that time, even if we cannot dominate Nanyang, we will definitely It can be regarded as a powerful local force that cannot be ignored, and no one can threaten us anymore."

"Immigration is naturally our main goal at present, but some layouts occupy points, we still have to do it in advance. Running India is because of the long distance and the government's lack of energy. Therefore, a large amount of idle private capital in the country was concentrated in the early stage to intervene. "Qi Tian said: "You must know that India has a population of tens of millions, and its products are extremely rich. It is rich in cotton cloth, grain, silk, saltpeter, indigo..., and countless gold, silver, jewelry, and jade articles. The degree of its wealth, No less than Ming Dynasty. Today, the Dutch, English, Portuguese, and even Danes from Europe have entered India and established strongholds and business stations, earning a lot of money. Our Daqi Kingdom, How can you miss such a fat prey?"

"Since India has a population of tens of millions, and its wealth is no less than that of Ming Dynasty. How could it be humiliated by a few Western countries at will?" Qi Dajiang shook his head and said, "As for us Daqi, we should not wading into this muddy water. People and boats folded in."

"Second brother, although India has a large population and rich places, it is a completely different concept from Ming Dynasty." Qi Tian said with a smile: "India is the easiest region to conquer, and the people there are even more A group of people who are most likely to be plundered and squeezed and unwilling to resist. If we go late, the meat and bones will be eaten up by those Western countries."

"Is it necessary for us to travel so far to plunder and squeeze India?" Qi Dajiang asked, "The entire Weiyuan Island (now New Guinea) is so big that we have only established a few strongholds along the coast. If it is filled with people, it will take at least tens of hundreds of years."

"Although Weiyuan Island is very large and is very close to our Hanzhou mainland, the natives there can't even create a little wealth." Qi Tian sighed: "Occupying it is just to use it as our Han Island. It is not only a resource supply place in Europe, but also requires long-term investment in population and materials. But India is the complete opposite. As long as a few strongholds are established there, it is like inserting several huge "pipes", and wealth will flow in continuously We, the mainland of Hanzhou, nourish and strengthen our Great Qi Kingdom."

"...An Indian business company can do this?"

"Some things, if you don't try to do them, you will never be able to do them. Furthermore, even if you lose them, it's some private idle capital, which will not cause severe turmoil in the Daqi Kingdom as a whole." Qi Tian said : "You may not know that the most successful colonial trading company in India is the British East India Company."

During this period, the British East India Company had been established for more than 40 years and came to India as early as 1608, establishing its first trading post in Surat.
The full name of the Indian East India Company is "The Company of London Merchants Trading in the East India".It was founded in 1600 by a group of enterprising and influential merchants who were granted a 21-year trading patent to the East Indies by Queen Elizabeth of England.The company has a total of 125 shareholders with a capital of £7.2.

However, the Indian trading company initiated and established by the Daqi Kingdom a month ago has an initial rated capital of 50 Hanzhou silver dollars. The royal family headed by Qitian holds 20% of the shares with a 3-year trade franchise and 15 Hanzhou silver dollars. The naval fleet invested in three decommissioned armed merchant ships, which accounted for 15% of the shares. The Foreign Trade Corporation under the control of the civil government also accounted for 15% of the shares on the condition that it would support some immigrants and some supplies every year.The remaining 55% of the shares were sold to the public, but most of the shares were snapped up by the veterans of Dengzhou, as well as wealthy businessmen and factory owners with a certain amount of assets.

Ordinary people in the kingdom, not to mention not having a lot of money in their pockets, even if they have some savings, dare not invest in this so-called Indian trading company at will.Maritime trade is profitable, but the natural risk is also huge. If the ship sinks and the people are gone, wouldn't all the investment be in vain.

After the establishment of this Indian trading company, it immediately began to recruit troops, hire manpower, and renovate the ships it received.Considering that Hanzhou ships have never crossed the Strait of Malacca before, all they know about India is just Qi Tian's brief explanation and the descriptions of some Western sailors in the navy.But what the actual situation looks like, the main shopkeepers of several trading companies decided to take a boat to India for a field look in the next month or two.

If it is true that the trade is very profitable, then nothing to say, we must increase investment, place an order with Jianye Shipyard, purchase an order for one or two large armed merchant ships, and recruit more sailors and armed personnel.

Promising high remuneration and favorable treatment, the Indian trading company recruited a dozen experienced sailors and navigators from the Dutch East India Company from Batavia. very familiar.Match them with some local trainee sailors, and they can sail to India immediately.

The only thing to worry about is that from the mainland of Hanzhou to the remote India, along the way, it will pass through Java Island controlled by the Dutch East India Company, the Strait of Malacca, and Ceylon, which is fiercely contested between the Dutch and the Portuguese. There may be certain risks of being attacked. risk.

To deal with this situation, of course, two or three armed merchant ships should be sailed in formation to reduce the chance of being attacked.If, when encountering the opponent's large-scale fleet, it can also be guaranteed that it will not be completely wiped out in the first place.As long as one or two ships escape, the attacker will face the crazy revenge of the Qi State fleet.I can't find the ship you attacked, but your colonial stronghold will not be moved.Through the three-year war with the Dutch East India Company, those European colonial forces who often acted as pirates must have known that the Daqi Kingdom (Hanzhou) is not easy to mess with.

Most of the earliest Dengzhou veterans who landed on the Hanzhou mainland to establish their foundations entered the Qi State Naval Fleet, serving as mid-level and high-level officers such as captains and first mates of various ships, and continued to engage in the adventurous life of men at sea.There are also a small number of government departments at all levels and counties and towns in the kingdom, managing various civil affairs in this nascent small country.

There are also a small number of Dengzhou veterans who are either tired of life at sea, but unable to adapt to the management work in the government, but relying on their status as "conglong" and having a permanent share in the Hanzhou General Trading Company, their lives are not bad. Free and easy, apart from working hard to "make people", on weekdays, it seems a bit like eating and waiting to die.

However, there are still some Dengzhou veterans who have been marginalized in their careers because they belong to the replacement of the old and new forces in the kingdom.Then they turned to rely on their own strong contacts and capital to devote themselves to commerce and handicraft manufacturing.

Bai Yuangui first worked in the Black Guards. Two years ago, although he was not involved in any conspiracy against Qi Tian, ​​he was still implicated by Guan Zongxiang, the first commander of the Black Guards, and was transferred to the civil government Under the immigration department, he lived a life that was neither salty nor dull.

Until a month ago, Qi Tian summoned him and said that he was ordered to form a trading company similar to the model of the Dutch East India Company - the Indian Trading Company. This immediately aroused Bai Yuangui's enthusiasm.

Bai Yuangui is not very clear about the specific operation and operation mode of the Dutch East India Company, but he does know that this company has almost monopolized the maritime trade of the entire Spice Islands and completely controlled the maritime hegemony in the South China Sea.I, Hanzhou, gritted my teeth and persisted for more than three years before I was able to draw it and obtain the same status as it.

Well, since the Indian trading company that the king ordered him to form, since it is modeled on the model of the Dutch East India Company, will the Indian trading company become like the Dutch East India Company as it grows in the future and become our Great Qi Kingdom? The princes of the special overseas side can manage the army with their horses and the people with their horses. They can decide all the affairs of the colony with one word. The life and death of all the people are all in my mind.

Damn it, this kind of life, this kind of authority, is what I want.

This Indian trading company, I will turn it into my Daqi East India Company no matter what!Bai Yuangui secretly said harshly.

(End of this chapter)