I'm the Dauphin in France

Chapter 1022 Banker
However, Sluisken still had some doubts.

In the past, in order to reduce conflicts with the Xhosa people, the Boers had given them some guns and small items, but the natives did not seem to buy it.

After settling in simply—the Xhosa even helped them build some thatched huts in the mountains—Sluisken and Malvik talked about it.

The latter did not hide it and smiled and said, "Because our doctor cured some seriously ill indigenous people. One of them happened to be the mother of the chief of the Njika tribe."

Well, the old lady had a high fever at the time and she managed to survive after taking the "Crown Prince's Blessing" for two days.

However, what Malvik did not say was that the Security Bureau also gave 600 flintlock rifles to the Njika and Kalika tribes respectively, which the Boers would never dare to give - they had been stealing the land of the indigenous people since they arrived at the Cape of Good Hope. How could they steal the land from the armed indigenous people?
This batch of arms alone could be used to exchange for a piece of land from the Xhosa people that was large enough to accommodate 20,000 to 30,000 people.

In the following days, the Boers began to learn how to herd livestock and build camps like the natives.

They brought a lot of food from the city, and with the supplies brought in by French smuggling ships, it was enough to last until the potato harvest.

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Amsterdam.

De Witte, a senior adviser to the French Ministry of Finance, frowned as he looked at the data his staff had collected from stockbrokers.

He was in charge of the capital raising, but after much of the night there were no signs of a massive sell-off of British shares in Amsterdam.

This made it impossible for him to even start his short selling operation.

He picked up the day's Commercial Investor and immediately saw the eye-catching headline on the front page: "Our money must not be used to fund the enemy who is invading our territory."

He read it roughly and it should be written by Mr. Scheherr. The article was very inflammatory. Even a Frenchman like him wanted to fight the British who attacked the Cape of Good Hope.

He remembered that the front pages of the previous two days seemed to read "We must choose between making money and the country" and "Every penny invested in British companies will become a bullet shot at us."

However, the Dutch seemed very angry about such propaganda, but failed to influence investment trends.

After discussing with his assistant, De Witt could only report the situation here to Paris via the Chap signal tower in Brussels.

In the Palace of Versailles, Joseph looked at the report sent from the Netherlands and couldn't help but frown.

This is a period of accelerated national awakening in Europe. Generally speaking, inciting nationalism is very effective, especially with the "genius public intellectual" Scheele in charge. In theory, this should not be the case.

Why don't the Dutch have any patriotic passion?

Wait! His eyes suddenly fixed, as if he had overlooked an important issue.

The main groups that can influence the direction of the Dutch stock market are financial capitalists.

Where is the national sentiment among these people?
Even if the British occupied Amsterdam now, they would still hold the stocks of British companies without hesitation as long as they were profitable.

careless...

Is it true that the Dutch stock market cannot be pried open?
Joseph was thinking while subconsciously flipping through DeWitt's report, his eyes scanning the stock prices of each company - DeWitt sent him the data of all the major companies listed on the Amsterdam Stock Exchange. It was really the government that paid the "telegram" fees, so he didn't feel bad about sending it out.

When Joseph saw the Dutch East India Company, he couldn't help but look surprised.

The share price a month ago was 300 shares per trading unit, while the current share price is 304 shares per trading unit.

The so-called "trading unit" is a standard of the Dutch stock market, which is 3000 Dutch guilders. Usually, transactions are made in integer "trading units", which is somewhat similar to the "lot" of the current stock market.

In other words, despite the British invasion of South Africa, the share price of the Dutch East India Company was not affected at all.

You know, the Cape of Good Hope is an important asset of the Dutch East India Company. Not only is it lucrative, but it is also guaranteed to generate income regardless of drought or flood - the Boers work hard there to manage it, and the company just has to sit back and collect the profits.

Normally, with such a big negative news, the stock price should have plummeted. Joseph quickly concluded that someone was forcibly raising the share price of the Dutch East India Company.

Who did it?
Dutch government? Major shareholder?

What's the motive?
Joseph's eyes suddenly lit up. This was most likely the work of the Dutch government, because the East India Company was the "national stock" of the Dutch.

Almost every Dutch person with a little spare money would buy some shares of the East India Company.

It can be considered a national custom. After all, the Dutch people’s fathers and grandfathers really made a lot of money from the East India Company.

This also meant that once there was any change in the share price of the East India Company, the economy of the Netherlands would be shaken.

If the market falls a little more, I don’t know how many people will go bankrupt and jump off buildings.

Joseph continued along this line of thought.

Therefore, if you want to leverage the Amsterdam stock market, the East India Company is the best fulcrum.

It just so happened that the Cape of Good Hope was an important asset of the East India Company.

Start from here!

Even if the Dutch government plays dead, millions of Dutch investors will not give up.

He quickly wrote an order and had it sent immediately to DeWitt.

……

Soon, the nationalist articles disappeared from Amsterdam newspapers, replaced by detailed accounts of the British invasion of the Cape of Good Hope.

Of course, it would take at least a month for the news from the Cape of Good Hope to reach here, but this did not prevent Scheerer from using his own writing style to "broadcast" the battle situation.

"The British fleet blockaded False Bay..."

"Thousands of British Marines surrounded the Cape..."

"The port stopped operating due to the war, and a large number of merchant ships had to bypass Natal for supplies..."

"The Cape defenders can no longer hold out and will surrender to the British army..."

"After losing the Cape, the Dutch East India Company's revenue will suffer a heavy loss..."

In fact, the loss of the Cape of Good Hope did not cause any serious damage to the Dutch East India Company - its core source of income was the Far East, especially Indonesia.

In addition, there are colonies such as East Africa, North Randa in India, and Guyana in South America.

However, the Amsterdam stock market seemed to have touched a sensitive nerve, and people began to sell a large number of East India Company shares.

Within three days, the stock price fell to 317 shares per trading unit.

The Dutch government could no longer sit still and began to intervene.

As a result, more negative news was exposed - "The British may impose taxes on East India Company cargo ships docked at Cape Port", "The British may have made plans to attack North Randa"...

As short selling increased, the Dutch Parliament made a decisive decision and Amsterdam began to implement strict news control.

(End of this chapter)