Liu Yu thought to himself, free trade? This is not necessarily true, but it is rare for a member of the royal family to think of such a step.

If the emperor wanted to make money, the easiest way was to trade with the Western countries, control the monopoly privileges himself, and not only facilitate taxation but also share a part of the profits of goods.

Basically, this is not harmful to the domestic handicraft industry.

Whether or not there is a mouthful of trade does not affect how many goods the Westerners buy, and what restricts the trade volume of the Westerners is now their own mercantilist policy of accumulation of precious metals, and the scale of the handicraft industry depends on the size of the market.

At this time, the world currency is not the dollar paper after the collapse of the Bretton Woods system, but real money. If you import less goods, your own precious metals will be able to flow out less, and if you are stronger, others will be weaker.

Liu Yu didn't want to engage in trade, but wanted to go out and grasp the initiative in trade, even if it had to look at the face of the Swedes, who were already weak chickens at this time.

Is it free trade to rely on smugglers in Gothenburg?

Hardly.

Free trade is sometimes wishful thinking, like the great shun at this moment.

At this time, he really wanted free trade, but his wishful thinking about free trade did not allow Britain to liberalize the tea tax, change the Manchester Textile Regulations, abolish the Navigation Regulations, dissolve the East India Company, and abolish the monopoly.

It's useless to think.

Liu Yu was just a little casual in the pamphlets that Li Yan had read, and did not choose to debate the scriptures to explain what constitutes free trade: anyway, there is no need to explain, Dashun does not need tariff barriers at this time, and it is probably said that no tariff barriers are free trade, and if there is, it is not. Of course, it's not defined that way, but it's enough.

He wanted to remind Li Yan again.

Li Yu was also looking at Liu Yu at this time, hoping to get an evaluation from Liu Yu's mouth such as "The Seventh Prince is really smart".

What he said was consciously not only to cater to Liu Yu, but also to his own heartfelt words.

However, Liu Yu did not open his mouth to praise, but talked about another thing.

"Does the Seventh Prince know that the Netherlands is in Batavia in the South Seas?"

Li Yan immediately memorized the contents of the book and said: "Batavia, south of the equator, about 6 degrees south latitude, there is no Beidou here. If the capital is in the middle of the world, this place is about 10 degrees west longitude, and it is about the same passage as Tianbao Mansion in terms of east and west. The land is hot, the four seasons are like summer, rainy and tidal, and malaria is frequent. Since the previous dynasty, there were people from the Celestial Dynasty who settled in the south to avoid the difficulties of eight mountains and one water in Fujian. ”

This is all the content of the booklet, Li Yan has a good memory, and this booklet is also written as much as possible with Dashun as a reference, but it is easy to memorize.

Longitude and latitude, Liu Yu didn't dare to write nonsense when he wrote a booklet. If the latitude and longitude are not in the capital, but in Weihai, then it is purely nothing to do.

By the time Li Yu finished reciting, Liu Yu had already brewed a sigh.

"The former dynasty was closed and did not trade with the Netherlands. Therefore, since the apocalypse, if the Dutch wanted to obtain goods, they had to ask the Celestial Empire to go to Batavia, and even funded Li Dan, Zheng Zhilong and others to hijack cargo ships bound for Manila. At that time, as long as he went to Bacheng by boat, he not only bought and sold fairly, but also rewarded more cloth and spices for the next time. ”

"After the opening of this dynasty, the Dutch built commercial halls in Fujian, Guangdong, Jiang and other places. Since then, if Chinese businessmen go to Bacheng, they will be deducted and deducted goods at every turn. Now there are even rumors that the Dutch think that there are too many immigrants from the Celestial Empire and want to kill them. ”

"What do the Seven Princes think?"

Li Yan didn't think about it, and subconsciously replied: "Chen Tangyan, who is like a Han man: Those who commit a strong man will be punished even if they are far away." ”

"I see. If the Han and Tang Dynasties opened the Western Regions, the soldiers would either walk, or ride horses, or drive camels. Bacheng is far away, and it is impossible to reach it without warships, so it is impossible to go on foot. Therefore, the switch of this dynasty seems to be more like free trade than the previous dynasty, but if there is no navy, it is completely free trade, which encourages Xiyi to have no fear. ”

"The Dutchman may think, "Anyway you want my money; Or, if you don't sell it to me anyway, I can also rely on the sea merchants to transport it to Bacheng, or borrow the space of other countries' merchants. Yes, if you kill it, you will kill it, and you will not be able to fight it, so if you have no fear, what are you afraid of? ”

"Even if the DPRK cuts off trade with the Netherlands, as long as it continues to switch and allow Nanyang trade, there will always be people who will bring goods to Bacheng, which is difficult to stop. Therefore, if you want to switch on and off and make the people of the Celestial Empire not bullied outside, you must have a navy. ”

This is to the point, of course, Liu Yu is taking it out of context, the reason why the Dutch want to exclude Chinese in Batavia is not so simple.

It's more like something went wrong with the company's policy, and the sugar industry needed to "lay off employees", and at this time, the layoffs were to starve the Chinese on the plantations to death, for fear that they would resist before starving, so they were slaughtered in advance, and naturally they would not resist.

But Li Yan doesn't need to know these things at this time.

At the age of seventeen or eighteen, it is the time when the mind is full of fanaticism, and it is much easier to instill a few sentences of "although it is far away, it will be punished" than to explain the essence of it.

Liu Yu nodded approvingly in this answer, and asked again: "For example, the silk and porcelain cotton of today's dynasty are all low in price and high in quality. There is no problem with free trade in this country. ”

"If one day, the porcelain and cotton cloth of Westerners will be cheaper than in this dynasty...... If trade is free again, the tens of millions of people who make a living from spinning and burning will inevitably be unemployed. ”

Li Yan really didn't think about this problem, or it was no longer in the consideration of the rulers of the Chinese system since ancient times.

After Emperor Wu of the Han Dynasty hollowed out the Western Regions, was there a time when foreign goods tended to the Central Plains?

Although there is a satin in the name of Dashun, although the name is called satin, it may also originate from Japan, but the first place in the output of satin is Fujian, the second is Sichuan, and the third is Japan.

Not to mention that Li Yan is still young, even if the old foxes in the DPRK and China who have been in the world for a long time say a word of dumping to them, they will definitely not be able to understand it, because it has never appeared in history, so there is no way to think about it.

Li Yan felt that this question was really a bit weird, and just wanted to say that it was impossible, but after thinking about it, he said in his heart: Uncle Ying asked me what I should do if there was such a thing, but he didn't argue with me about whether this matter was possible. If I am obsessed with "is it possible", I am going in the wrong direction.

"What Ying Sabo assumed, if there really is such a day, he will retreat and raise taxes to protect the industry and commerce of this dynasty. Although the Celestial Empire does not attach importance to industry and commerce, Emperor Taizong of this dynasty also said that the four peoples of Shinong, industry and commerce are one. Besides, even if I don't talk about this, I know that the grain is cheap and hurts the peasants. The grain is cheap and hurts the peasants, and the silk is the injured worker. ”

Liu Yu asked again: "Then what if the Westerners attack by sailing and forcing me to open the door to trade?" ”

Speaking of this all the time, Li Huanfu was so happy that he figured it out all of a sudden.

"I see! The navy was neither for free trade nor for mercantilism. ”

"It's what kind of policy the imperial court has, and the navy must have the ability to maintain the policies of the imperial court. The military order comes from the king; The decree comes from the Temple of Heavenly Blessing. If the decree wants free trade, the navy will have the ability to make other countries switch on and off; The decree should be mercantilist, and the navy would have the ability to keep a foreign ship close to the shore. ”

"If you are like the six divisions of the Son of Heaven, cut Chu, say: do not pay tribute; is also like the three armies of Chu, with the war, saying: I am a barbarian. Free trade and mercantilism are not tribute to Bao Mao and I barbarians, and the teacher is famous; The navy is the sixth division of the Son of Heaven and the three armies of Chu, the division is famous, and it is won by victory. ”

"The time is also, the momentum is also. Before, I said that the navy was for free trade, but at this moment. And at that moment, if it remains the same, it is a boat for a sword. ”

This answer made Liu Yu very satisfied, and said in his heart, you can finally tell what is the Celestial Empire of Benevolence and Righteousness and what is imperialism.

So he laughed and said, "The Seventh Prince can rest assured. I have a thing that can be called that time and moment, just this moment and now. Please come with me and let the Seven Princes see what true power is. ”

Hearing Liu Yu's laughter and feeling the recognition in Liu Yu's laughter, Li Yu was very excited. But I just saw this 64-gun battleship salvo in front of me, which is not really power in Liu Yu's eyes, so what kind of shock will the real power be?

With this expectation, he followed Liu Yu ashore and walked into a heavily guarded compound in the small mountainous valley south of Weihai.

Li Yu thought that he would see something more shocking than a battleship, but when Liu Yu, under the guidance of a group of craftsmen, lifted a piece of utensils covered with red cloth, Li Yan was stunned.

The thing in front of me did not look magnificent or magnificent, as if it were just a water-propelled instrument.

Thinking of the shock of the battleship's salvo, Li Yan thought to himself, could this thing be able to erode dozens of miles with one shot? It doesn't look like a cannon.

Looking at Liu Yu's excited and smug expression, Li Yan asked tentatively: "Uncle Ying, this is ...... Is this what you call true power? What is it? ”

Liu Yu slowly spit out two words in a very indifferent tone that was difficult to hide his excitement.

"Boring machine."

"Uh......"

Li Yan didn't know what a boring machine was, and after asking carefully for a long time, he learned that this was indeed a blacksmith's tool, which could cut iron and copper.

Not only can it not be eroded for tens of miles, but it may not be as easy to kill people as it is with a dagger.

So, this is the real power? And the battleship that can fire a salvo, in Liu Yu's opinion, is just a waste of hundreds of thousands of taels of silver for training craftsmen?

Li Huan is a little confused, what does the boring machine do? Why is this thing more powerful than a battleship?

Touching this guy who is mostly wooden, he couldn't help but laugh and said, "I think this thing can turn stones into gold?" Forgive me for being stupid, Eagle, I really don't know what its power is. ”

What Liu Yu said was "at that moment, at this moment", Li Yu understood that this thing could make the goods of Westerners always difficult to be cheaper than the Heavenly Empire. But before talking about cloth silk porcelain, it is difficult for Li Yan to associate this diamond thing with cloth and silk.

And it really can't be beaten with shock, Rao is he thinks that Liu Yu attaches great importance to it, and he can't help but make a joke.

This joke made Liu Yu laugh for a moment, and did not explain where the power of this thing was, but said the most inferior use of this thing.

For example, boring barrels.