Smuggling is a technical job.

The so-called raptor is not more than the river, in terms of cash, capital and porcelain tea spots, Dashun's maritime merchants are absolutely fine.

But there was no foothold there, and it was still up to the Swedes to lead the door.

At the Gothenburg Bye Bye Pier, meet the gods and goddesses, especially the forefathers of the big smugglers who had the potential to sign the Declaration of Independence.

It should be a gift, a rebate should be given, and the way can still come out.

The emperor asked Liu Yu rhetorically how long it would take for such smuggling to catch up with the emperor's income and directly monopolize foreign trade. This is also the first time that Liu Yu did not dare to give an answer to the packing ticket.

This time, I am going to let the steamed buns explore the way, bye bye to the docks of Western Europe, whether they can open the way in the future, it depends on whether the French did a good job in the Austrian Succession War.

If the French privateers had taken heavy losses from the Dutch and English ships, the situation would have been opened.

However, if the French do not give their strength, if there is any accident, the sea control will be lost in an instant, and the privateers will not be able to stop the ships of the two East India Companies, and the situation may be a little more difficult.

Liu Yu now also knows that the emperor is a quick temper, and in addition to the fact that he "stimulated" the emperor all day long, boasting about the tonnage of warships in European countries, the emperor also felt that the shipbuilding speed of one million taels a year was a little slower.

This time, when the French mission came, they learned more about the situation on the European seas, and it would be wrong if they were not impatient.

Talking to the emperor about the imbalance in the European market that might have been caused by the War of the Austrian Succession and the French blockade of the merchant ships of the East India Company, it was a "supply exceeds demand", and it was not difficult for the emperor to understand even if he had not learned much about economics.

It looks like a good future.

Liu Yu took into account the emperor's urgency and drew a bigger pie.

"Your Majesty, the reason why the minister cares so much about going abroad and going to the ocean is that there is actually a plan to kill two birds with one stone."

"Sailing to the sea, there are a lot of benefits, this is open source, this is a bird."

"The Anguili kingdom was closed to the rest of the world, and it was forbidden for any ship or merchandise east of the Cape of Good Hope to enter its country, except in the possession of the East India Company. Tea was heavily taxed, and cotton cloth was forbidden for the people to wear it. However, in China, tea drinking has become a trend. ”

"So, smuggling is inevitable. Smuggling can avoid taxes and the price is low. For a long time, there was only one choice for the country of Ingua. ”

"Lower the tea tax so that the East India Company's tea can be sold through the official channels, and the goods will not be crushed by smuggling."

"Your Majesty also knows that it takes a year and a half for European countries to go back and forth by sea. Although the interest rate in Europe is low, the interest rate for this year and a half is also a large amount. In addition, the British merchants could only buy tea with silver coins, unlike the Dutch where spices could be exchanged, so once there was too much smuggling, the British East India Company's tea would inevitably be overstocked, and under the pressure of interest, storage, wear and tear, mold and other costs, they would definitely beg the British government to reduce the tea tax and strictly investigate smuggling. ”

"In this way, if it lowers the tea tax, we will export more tea and pay more taxes, because more people can drink tea, and the sales will be large."

"Moreover, if it lowers the tea tax, it will be difficult for those smugglers who have been raised by our dynasty to make a profit, and they will inevitably take risks."

"The minister thinks that the affairs of the former dynasty may not be impossible. It is also possible that smugglers plundered British merchant ships and burned British tea ships. ”

"Thousands of miles away, tired of the enemy's plan. This is the 'art of light and heavy'. ”

The economic principles in this are a little deeper, and two thousand years have passed since the hundred schools of thought, and the emperor no longer understands it.

After following Liu Yu's train of thought for a long time, this can be regarded as a general understanding.

The British now drink a lot of tea every year, but because of the heavy taxes and the monopoly of the East India Company, the price is too high, and there is still a lot of room for sales to increase.

Liu Yu wanted to smuggle tea into the hands of European smugglers and get them to force Britain to lower their tea taxes.

The key is that Dashun is the origin of tea, and the tax reduction and price reduction of British tea does not affect the interests of Dashun tea merchants. On the contrary, it will also lead to the popularization of tea due to tax cuts, with more sales and more tariffs.

In turn, smuggling at sea is a group of outlaws.

There are ships, money, and people, and if Britain dares to lower the tea tax and ruin the livelihood of smugglers, these smugglers will naturally "rise up".

Looting official ships, selling tea privately, robbing tea boats...... It's all done by doing.

After Li Gan reacted, he couldn't help but smile and said, "The ancient Xiangzhuang sword dance is intended for Pei Gong. Now Aiqing's meaning is to talk about Yingyi, but in fact, he is admonishing me. ”

"If I also want to monopolize it in the customs, there will be a lot of smuggling, and it will be difficult to investigate. At that time, there may still be a plague of pirates? If we monopolize trade in Songjiang, then Fujian, Guangdong and other places will be smuggled into Batavia, and maybe there will be a rebellion of pirates? ”

Liu Yu bowed his head and said silently, as long as you know it yourself.

"A businessman cannot be trusted. For the sake of the country, it seems that the east and west oceans are the same. Yingyi is like this, isn't Aiqing worried about the country's maritime merchants as thieves in the future? ”

Liu Yu shook his head, very firm.

"Don't be afraid. Because the tea is produced by the dynasty, and the British collect heavy taxes, this is why smugglers and dealers have become pirates. Let me ask, my tea, silk, rhubarb, porcelain, glass, firearms, cotton cloth, etc., are all of good quality and low price, as long as Your Majesty continues to switch on, how can there be smugglers? ”

"On the other hand, if there is one day Western cotton cloth and other products, it will be better and cheaper than those of the national dynasty. His Majesty is worried about the outflow of silver, so he retreats, so that there may be smugglers. ”

"As long as the products of the Celestial Empire are still the most abundant and cheapest, and the trade is switched off, then there is no danger of smuggling into pirates. It's just that some profit-seekers bypass customs and don't pay taxes. ”

Liu Yu knew very well that what the emperor was worried about was that a powerful pirate force would appear on the sea in the future, just like the Zheng family in the last years of the previous dynasty.

As for those smugglers who evade taxes and do not go through customs, in the eyes of the emperor, they are just scabies, and they are nothing more than a little less money.

What the emperor is worried about, Liu Yu must first make it clear, lest the emperor or the minister have a bad mind and worry about such a worrying thing.

"Your Majesty, even in Europa, the pirates do not have warships above the cruiser. A battleship costs two or three hundred thousand taels of silver, and the crew, supplies, consumption, and training on it are even more extremely large. ”

"Self-bayonets and flintlock pistols were used in the Army; The big ships are used in the navy, and there will be no more bandits in the future. Your Majesty can rest assured that it will not be able to become a climate. ”

This is to remove some worries about the imperial power, and there are more such arguments. There have been people who have argued that there is no uprising with flintlock guns, and there are also people who argue that there is no revolution in the era of breech guns, and step by step until there is no revolution in the era of drones, however......

Liu Yu himself definitely doesn't believe it, but in Dashun, this argument is still relatively convincing, because "there is no history to learn".

The emperor pondered Liu Yu's words for a moment, and thought that this was indeed very reasonable. In the past, there were still worries about the abuse of power by military generals, but now the training of troops and the command of the army are separated; The military academy was controlled by the imperial power; The ordnance is all around the capital; If the navy has no land to rely on, it is afraid that it will not be able to support even two battleships......

Could it be ...... Could it be that this great shun really wants to be passed down for thousands of generations and break the curse of the first emperor who has been strong for 400 years?

Thinking of this, Li Gan's heart was a little excited, Rao is joy and anger were invisible, and he was also full of energy at this time.

As long as the authority of the central government is still there, as long as the imperial court can still guarantee an annual income of about 30 million, after the military reform, it seems that as Liu Yu said, the country is stable, and the possibility of internal subversion has been completely cut off.

What they are worried about is nothing more than those Western powers that also earn tens of millions of taels, and the internal forces can only succeed with the help of those Western powers.

It seems, that's the case.

Li Gan stood up a little excitedly, pacing in the room with his hands behind his back, the sunlight from the transparent glass swept out the light and shadow of dust, and the figure of the emperor was patrolling in this light and shadow.

Sometimes the fingers are clenched together, sometimes released, and from time to time I look at Liu Yu, and I say in my heart that this person is really a loyal minister sent by God to protect my Dashun country! It has been nearly a hundred years since the founding of the country, and even like Wei Ying, Wang Jinggong, and Zhang Taiyue, they can only tinker, but the means of this son are very different.

Now that the Beijing camp has completed its military reform, the Northwest Frontier Army is also in the process of military reform, and it will surely achieve results within five years.

At that time, the Japanese kingdom will be surrendered, and Nanyang will be captured, and my prestige will be incomparable, comparable to that of Emperor Qin and Emperor Wu of the Han Dynasty and Emperor Ming of the Tang Dynasty. With the gun in hand, the prestige is added, and the preferential treatment of the Jiangnan gentry will be canceled, the acres will be checked, and the abandoned Cao Yun will be changed to sea transportation, not to mention the thousands of generations, but also dare to chase the 800 years of luck of Fengming Qishan!

When the time comes, all the Westerners will be expelled and only trade in Malacca, so that the Chinese people will not be able to contact the Westerners, and there will be no possibility of using the power of the Westerners to achieve things. How is the country unstable?

If I can control it, I will control it.

If in old age, the heirs are weak, the caravans to Western trade will be abolished, leaving only a corner of Malacca as a window, and the ocean as a gully, which is really the world.

Even if Li Gan is determined to forge ahead, he cannot understand the role of India's cotton and dumping sites in the industrial revolution, which has not yet appeared.

The idea is grandiose at this point, but it is conservative in nature.

Expanding territory is not necessarily conservative, and the chair under his ass makes his thinking necessarily conservative.

This idea, which was previously regarded as a reckless army, seems to have supported its dream of becoming a Han chisel in the Western Regions under the various changes brought about by Liu Yu's appearance.

After turning around the room a few more times, after calming down this excitement, he encouraged Liu Yu and said: "What Aiqing said makes a lot of sense. Aiqing should work diligently, and when Nanyang is calm, I can't say that this Earl's Mansion will be a few points bigger and change a few words! ”

"You sent a ship to Sweden not only to do great things, but also to do something for my world, and I should do something for myself. I wanted to smuggle and get wood tar techniques, so I repaired a book and brought it to Sweden to show my support. The Swedes who were captured by the Quasi-Ministry also gave them some gifts, so that they would have no worries about food and clothing when they returned, and tell about the kindness of the Celestial Empire. ”