Chapter 335: The WTO in the Seventeenth Century

Michel listened to Ming Jian's words, and his heart was also overjoyed, the Dutch actually wanted to keep the long legs of the Ming Dynasty, with the Ming Dynasty as a support, in the future in world trade, it would become the master of the West.

He immediately said: "I very much agree with what Your Majesty said, and I can agree to join the World Trade Organization on behalf of our king, so please ask Your Majesty to preside over the overall situation." ”

"Haha, Your Excellency Michelle is too wise, since this is the case, then I will reluctantly preside over the inaugural meeting of the World Trade Organization, come on, pass the decree: let the countries on the island send people to Fukuoka to participate in the meeting!"

Ming Jian laughed and said, This is done, it's so happy.

The task assigned by the system is to dominate the world within ten years, not only militarily, but also economically, right? The system is not a good man and does not issue simple tasks.

Within a few days, the ministers of commerce from various countries came to Fukuoka, and in addition to the Ming Dynasty, the Netherlands, and the countries of the island, Spain and Portugal, two traditional maritime powers, were also present, and the first World Trade Organization of this time and space was officially established.

According to the memories of the WTO in later generations, Mingjian formulated relevant regulations that the countries within the organization will enjoy the preferential policies of the WTO, that is, they will be exempted from entry and exit tariffs.

At the same time, countries share resources and technology, but strengthen the protection of patents, that is, countries can register their own technology patents, and countries in the organization must pay relevant fees if they want to buy each other's technology.

Daming has leading technology, this is money, and when the time comes, you can sell patents and make a fortune.

Of course, some other details have also been determined after negotiation, this is a business organization, which is completely linked to commerce and trade, and has nothing to do with the military.

The World Trade Organization (WTO) was officially established after the commerce ministers of a total of thirteen countries signed it.

The headquarters is temporarily located in Fukuoka, and will be moved to Daming later.

After the conference, Mingjian held a special cocktail party to celebrate the early establishment of the World Trade Organization.

"Ladies and gentlemen, I am very pleased that the World Trade Organization (WTO) has been established today, which marks the beginning of a new era for the world. In the past, all countries were fighting for each other, you calculated with each other, he calculated the past, although you have all been dominant for a while, but you may also know very well, what have you gained, can your country be strong for a long time? Didn't you? The strength of a country is not enough to show off, but everyone unites, that's another matter, you can rest assured, Daming will be your strong backing, everyone, for the establishment of the World Trade Organization, for the friendship between us, a toast! ”

As soon as Ming Jian opened, he said such a thing.

Everyone raised their glasses, their faces were full of smiles, and the atmosphere of the reception gradually became warmer.

The Spanish envoy Carlos came to Ming Jian with a glass of wine and said: "Your Majesty the Emperor, I am very happy that Spain can become friends with Daming, and I can't wait to go to Daming to have a look." ”

Ming Jian smiled: "I know Spain, you have been hit hard in the war with the Kingdom of England, right?" However, if you want to rise again, I can consider selling you some advanced weapons, and then I can fight the English again. ”

The Anglo-Spanish War, which had been going on for decades, had transformed the Spaniards from the world's number one power to a second-rate nation overnight, and of course, the Kingdom of England had been severely weakened, delaying its emergence as the world's number one power.

In fact, Ming Jian didn't really want to help Spain deal with the English, and none of these Western colonists were good birds.

But let them continue to fight to the death first, which is in the interests of the Ming Dynasty, and moreover, Ming Jian will not sell them the most advanced weapons, but some obsolete products. In case the Spaniards want to get any moths, the Ming can still balance them at that time.

When Carlos heard this, he immediately said happily: "Your Majesty is really a good friend of our Spaniards, the English are too deceitful, if Your Majesty can help us Spain defeat the English, then we will only be the first to look forward to world affairs in the future." ”

"Well, you can discuss the specific matter with the Minister of Commerce of Daming."

Ming Jian smiled and pointed at Huntelaar and said, he is the Minister of Foreign Affairs, and he is the one who comes forward when he encounters this kind of thing.

However, Huntelaar will definitely do a good job in this business, there are many firearms eliminated by the Ming Dynasty, and every time a new firearm is invented, the old firearms will be eliminated, except for a part of the war that will be consumed, the others will be sold for money.

Carlos really went to talk to Huntelaar immediately, and Ming Jian stayed for a while, then returned to his temporary palace and went to find Michiko Haneda.

It's fun and doing things again.

Within two days, Spain signed an arms sales agreement with Daming, and the amount of the order was as high as 100 million taels of silver!

The Ming Dynasty would provide Spain with a fleet of artillery and flintlock muskets, believing that they would soon launch an attack on the Kingdom of England.

Soon, however, Spanish merchant ships sailed to the shores of the island's countries, ready to earn back the money they had made for their arms.

Not to be outdone, other countries also sailed their merchant ships in.

However, to their surprise, the Ming supplies on the island far exceeded their goods!

At this time, although the handicraft industry in Europe was still developed, it was obvious that it could not be compared with the goods made by the modern machines of the Ming Dynasty.

Simply take a blanket out and compare, the blanket produced by Daming has become very smooth, not rough, and also very warm; The blankets produced in Western countries look very rough, not to mention making money, hurry up and sell them with capital protection, otherwise it will be time to post the car and ship fare.

Only then did the European merchants realize their ignorance, and a large number of merchants quickly drove the merchant ships to Daming after dumping at low prices.

Soon, a large number of European merchants began to buy materials frantically in the Ming Dynasty, ready to ship them to Europe for sale, when the Ming civilization overrode the world, they made the right choice.

This led to the crazy production of Daming's factories, a large number of materials were sold, and the silver was put into the pocket.

Now that the World Trade Organization has unified the metal currency, silver is used as the basic monetary unit, and once the silver enters the financial institutions of the Ming Dynasty, it will basically not flow out again.

The Ming hoarded metal currency, naturally in order to manipulate the world economy in the future, which financiers knew.

After the start of maritime trade, the port economy of the Ming Dynasty also developed rapidly, and a large number of port cities began to be built, which greatly increased the GDP of the Ming Dynasty, so that the people of the Ming Dynasty could live a better life.

Subsequently, in the markets of various European countries, goods from Daming made a shining debut, but their prices also shocked European people.