This has been said very clearly.

Just say directly: You do the Netherlands in Europe, and I do the Netherlands in the South Seas. Dashun pinned down the Dutch navy, and France went to engage the Dutch army.

Count Morpa seemed to understand why Liu Yu had to use the new rifled gun bullet technology to replace the French battleship technology when he was in Weihai.

After all, there are no straits in the Netherlands.

France and Dashun are too far apart, and this kind of alliance and cooperation can only be done in this very ingenious way.

Dashun did everything he could to improve the French army, and the French helped Dashun build a navy to challenge the British and Dutch as much as possible.

Britain is fortunate that Southeast Asia is the main artery of the Netherlands, and once it is cut, the strength of the Netherlands will be greatly damaged, especially since a large amount of Dutch money and stock transactions revolve around the big treasury of the East India Company.

The clouds of war now loomed in Europe, but no one could have fully predicted that the War of the Austrian Succession would be fought to that extent, and for a time it became a rehearsal for the Seven Years' War.

France had signed the decree of change in the Austrian succession law to allow women to inherit, and the Lords and factions in France did not want to make too many enemies in the future.

However, the main war faction had the upper hand at this time, and this time the war of the Polish succession, that is, the French king hoped to use the main war faction to weaken the power of the cardinal, which caused great damage to the cardinal's policy of improving the diplomatic situation in the neighborhood.

Count Morpa is considered to be the main battle faction, and he also hopes to be ready for war.

The Dutch are no longer good now, and with a population of more than one million, they are no longer the Netherlands of a hundred years ago.

It's just that the aftermath is still there, and people's consciousness always lags behind reality.

Coupled with the existence of the Anglo-Dutch alliance, if Dashun's side can really contain the Netherlands in Southeast Asia, this will undoubtedly be extremely beneficial to France.

In any case, if Dashun went to war against the Dutch, Amsterdam's stock market would plummet and would seriously affect the East India Company's trading operations. It is not too much to say that it cuts the blood vessels of the aorta.

However, if an alliance is an alliance, it is impossible for Dashun to be a Kaizi.

On this point, Liu Yu must also remind the French.

"Mr. Count Morpa, I must make it clear that under the free trade system of Dashun, any sanctions against Britain and the Netherlands are in fact sanctions against Dashun. Although it may damage its East India Company, Dashun will not get any benefits, but may cause tens of thousands of people to lose their jobs, resulting in a backlog of porcelain and silk tea. ”

"Therefore, the situation in Europe has nothing to do with Dashun, and once the war starts, there is only one choice, that is, to restore the natural frontier in Nanyang at the peak of the Ming Empire. This is the only advantage that war can bring. ”

"Dashun will not sanction the trade of a country tens of thousands of miles away for the sake of any ally, but if this ally has a common enemy with us, that is another story."

"What I'm trying to say is: Dashun will choose a wartime ally, not a business ally that joins some kind of tariff sanctions agreement. Dashun does not need import duties, nor does it need mercantilism. ”

In fact, there are really not many cards that Dashun can play now, except for the occupation of the war.

When engaging in trade sanctions, in fact, it is oneself that is sanctioned.

After all, Nanyang Trade is the first central bank of the Dashun Empire, and Dongyang Trade is the second central bank, and the second central bank may be replaced by the copper mines in Yunnan in a few years, but as long as Dashun is still paying taxes with silver, the first central bank cannot be closed.

Therefore, Liu Yu hoped that the French would not have unrealistic illusions, such as Dashun and France reaching an extremely close alliance to serve France as a triumphant and sanction the Anglo-Dutch East India Company.

The benefits were all taken by France, but Dashun had no benefits at all.

At the same time, it can also be regarded as telling France that Dashun is eager for war, and the basis of Sino-French cooperation is war, not trade.

France is not qualified to discuss trade issues with Dashun.

Count Morpa thought about what he had seen and heard along the way, as well as the unsolvable trade deficit with China that Duplex said, and finally understood what Liu Yu meant.

Obviously, Dashun is likely to fight in the southeast ocean at some time in the future, such as when the Netherlands is involved in a war in Europe.

And the biggest adversary in the war that the Netherlands may be involved in is France.

It's just that Dashun really has the ability to defeat the Dutch East India Company in a short period of time? Or, can Dashun's war against the Netherlands be maintained until the end of the Franco-Dutch war?

This is related to how much France is willing to pay for the construction of the navy in Dashun, and how closely it cooperates.

"The Dutch East India Company is still very strong."

Count Morpa reminded Liu Yu.

For the Dutch East India Company, Liu Yu has a good psychology, and now he can't even use the word emaciated camel.

The fragility of the Dutch East India Company was completely seen from the old data collected by him on the Dutch trade in China, as well as the intelligence collected by the trading company in the South Seas.

About 20 years ago, before the Austrian company Ostend was closed, there was a very special trade war in Guangdong.

The Ostend company, which had just arrived in Guangdong, taught the Dutch a lesson with a raptor posture of crossing the river.

A large amount of funds were raised, and all the tea in Guangdong was bought out at once and shipped to Europe for dumping.

At that time, there were Chinese merchants in Batavia, and smuggling tea in the past was cheaper than the Dutch buying tariffs directly in Guangdong, and they could also get some spices and other return goods.

The sudden intervention of the Ostend Company led to the collapse of tea prices in Europe that year: for the Ostend Company, it may not have sold something with a high profit before, and it is enough to make a profit; However, for the Dutch East India Company, which had a huge organizational structure, a common practice of carrying private goods by its crews, and was addicted to corruption for many years, and inflated prices for the loss of public and private interests, it would have to pay for losses without windfall profits.

In order to deal with it, the Chinese merchant ships that went to Batavia were tortured by the Dutch with various overt and covert means, not to the point of direct robbery, but dragged the merchants to reduce the price without settlement.

Merchants can't go, they can't sell, and in the end they can only stop their losses and sell the tea at a very low price.

Batavia's credibility with Chinese smugglers was ruined, and no tea was shipped to Batavia since.

Let the Dutch say that the sky is broken, and the merchants of Fujian and Guangdong are not fools, and they will not go anyway after suffering losses.

Coupled with Dashun's on-off trade policy, the Netherlands had to send ships directly from Amsterdam to Guangdong for trade, bypassing Batavia as a transit point.

Batavia's status is not as good as before, and the garrison and prosperity are very different from before.

The Chinese who immigrated there generally cut sugar cane, or were divided into some to make dog legs, and the previous exploitation was lighter, but now that the status of the transit station has plummeted, they will find ways to cut money to maintain the system, especially from the local Chinese.

The local Chinese are now quite dissatisfied with the Dutch, which is a human heart that can be exploited.

Another one, the Dutch East India Company, was formed by the Chamber of Commerce of the Seven Provinces.

The company's board of directors was clearly biased in favor of Amsterdam, and the tea trade with China was handed over to Amsterdam. Later, in order to attract people into the gang, Zeeland was added.

Batavia, it was made by the Chamber of Commerce of the seven provinces together, and now you Amsterdam and Zeeland have secretly bypassed the remaining five provinces and went directly to Guangdong to transport tea, so you two provinces have made money, what should we do with Batavia that the seven provinces paid together?

Indeed, the tea of Batavia, because it has to be transferred over first and then returned to the Netherlands, is all old tea, and it is used by the Ostend company to reduce the price of the new tea in Europe, and the old tea is indeed not good.

Indeed, Batavia's tea transportation is more expensive, some are floated, the crew brings more private goods, and the governor has a small warehouse, so it is theoretically more cost-effective to transport tea directly, but isn't this "competing with the people for profit"? How many people are in it?

It is true that sometimes in order to secure a monopoly on the European market, it is necessary to transport tea at a loss to ensure that there is no market vacuum and is crowded out by companies like Ostend, which is good for the company in the long run, but not for Batavia. The company buckled the rope and did not subsidize Batavia, and now the financial road is cut off again, what kind of trouble is this?

Besides, this is tantamount to the two provinces of Amsterdam and Zeeland, robbing the tea trade of the original seven provinces.

Amsterdam and Zeeland transport tea, without going through Batavia, without Batavia's pepper, spices, etc., then you can only use the company's cash.

Because China doesn't want wool, it wants pepper and silver, but pepper is in Batavia, which is under the condominium of seven provinces, and Batavia is not allowed to transit, and you set sail directly from Amsterdam from the Netherlands to Guangdong, so you can only use silver.

The company's silver was flowing out, and the crew of the tea ship in Amsterdam were frantically bringing their own goods, borrowing the company's ships to sell their goods.

In the end, after tossing for a long time, I could only use a compromise strategy: it was very profitable to transport tea directly in Guangdong, but I had to hand over Guangdong's tea imports to Batavia.

Batavia sent a ship to Guangdong, half of which went back to the Netherlands directly, and the other half went back to Batavia first, first guaranteed the private goods and small vaults on the ship, and then loaded some private tea from the small Batavia warehouse, and then returned to the Netherlands, and the price was sold at a fixed price according to the company.

It was this compromise that allowed Liu Yu to see clearly the fragility of the Dutch East India Company.

Once a company does not take profit as the first pursuit, but chooses internal tearing and balancing compromises, and finally does not have the courage to completely rectify Batavia, then it proves one thing: this once efficient company is now over, and it is no different from the last years of the Ming Dynasty.

It is no exaggeration to say a word about paper tigers.

What it is like to rot cannot be seen from the outside, but it can be seen from the degree of policy compromise.

If this had been the same East India Company that had given birth to a calf a hundred years earlier, this would never have happened.

This compromise also proves one thing, and that is that the company's turnover is definitely going badly.

If there is no problem with the running water, it is extremely profitable to buy tea directly with silver, and it is impossible to have a shortage of money to buy tea every year, and it will have to be made up for by tropical goods and tin blocks from Batavia.

Maybe the company theoretically has a lot of assets, but the cash flow is absolutely insufficient, and there is a problem with capital turnover. Otherwise, it would not have been possible to compromise Batavia to such an extent.

If it weren't for the huge space left for the Dutch to smuggle tea due to the high tariffs on tea in the UK; The Seven Years' War, the Netherlands avoided the war and went all out to trade for a few more years, and probably went bankrupt long ago.

Now this paper tiger is still scaring and scaring the French. This paper tiger is also the basis of the Sino-French cooperation facilitated by Liu Yu this time.

As long as the French make bigger moves in Europe, Liu Yu will take the opportunity to attack Japan and go to the South Seas, and destroy the cash flow of the Dutch East India Company in a two-pronged manner, which will be hell if he does not go bankrupt.

If a company goes bankrupt, the Netherlands is still in a vacant position, there is not even a dictatorial prince, and the provinces are in their own hands, and no one can save the company.

For this reason, Liu Yu took this opportunity to make a secret guarantee to the French mission.

"Count Morpa, Dashun can guarantee that as long as there is a war in Europe, as long as France declares war on the Netherlands during the war, Dashun will immediately find an excuse for war and declare war on the Netherlands alone, instead of participating in the war in Europe as an ally of France."

But this does not affect the substantive question, as long as Dashun declares war on the Dutch, it will never withdraw from the war alone until the Dutch East India Company's entire rule in Southeast Asia is destroyed. Because for Dashun, it is either to regain the political legacy of the Ming Empire in Southeast Asia, or to invest millions of taels of silver in military spending in vain and get nothing, there is no intermediate option. ”