Chapter 62: Misfortune Leads to the East (II)
These people have to admit that Chen Jian's suggestion is very good, and this is a detailed revision that will allow them to gain an advantage earlier, and in the future, they only need a decisive battle on the battlefield closer to their home country to completely control the situation.
India before spices allowed the Dutch to retreat directly from Asia to Africa or Europe. Spices first and then India gave the Dutch the possibility of retreating from the spice islands to India to concentrate on business.
This is the layout of the war of annihilation rather than the battle of defeat, and everyone also believes that what Chen Jian said about being too hasty is indeed true.
However, these people also understand that Chen Jian harbors evil intentions, if not evil intentions, but also selfish intentions.
If it is not for India first, Wangbei City is an indispensable transit point, and any activities in Asia must reach tacit understanding and communication with the Mexican Party, and it is impossible to act alone.
In other words, if the Mexican people say that your company doesn't do something that doesn't support us, the company will have a hard time in Asia.
Similarly, with Wangbeicheng as a forward base, Wangbeicheng's commerce and trade will develop faster, and at the same time, it can borrow the strength of the Huaxia India Company and its soldiers to achieve deterrence in the South China Sea.
From Wangbei City to Thailand, the establishment of a fortress on that side of the Thai isthmus to confront the Portuguese inevitably had to borrow the Mexican Party's connections in Thailand, at least the company could not have come forward in person, because the trust in the Indian company had not been established by the King of Thailand.
Moreover, every step of progress in India, except for the land rent income that the Mexican Party did not agree with in its philosophy, the Mexican Party's trade could follow up and intervene, pulling the power of the Ming Dynasty craftsmen and maritime merchants over without any stagnation.
But since the goal of these interest groups is land rent income rather than trade income or the dumping system of raw material industry, or since they do not think so far for the time being, or since the social class of the temporary participants determines that they will not consider this issue, then Chen Jian's suggestion of obvious purpose is well worth considering.
In fact, Chen Jian's evil intentions are not only this, once the Indian company has made enough profits in the spice trade and stabilized, it will be a great threat to Wangbeicheng's southward expansion plan.
In the event of a change in the Ming Empire, Indian companies are likely to get involved because of their proximity, which will complicate the problem. These people can do anything for profit, and if the time comes to seize the opportunity and invest in the Manchu robbery group to obtain trade privileges, it is not impossible, and it is even very likely that they will hit it off and become another model of Jin merchants.
In order to put an end to this possibility, even if it was a negligible possibility, Chen Jian decided to keep them away from the South China Sea.
The Dutch are a flash in the pan in Chen Jian's eyes, the small territory, the handicraft industry oppressed by commercial capital, and the capital outflow caused by the excessive profits of foreign investment, etc., all determine that the Dutch are a soft persimmon, which can be kneaded at any time, and can be kneaded as much as you want.
But Huaxia India Company is completely different, this is not a soft persimmon, it is a monster no less than Nanyang Company, and it is a monster with close ties to the power family, once it grows up and takes root, it is not as simple as dealing with the Dutch.
This is a recipe for disaster, selling out India's interests in exchange for a sufficient buffer period.
Whether or not you can set yourself on fire in the future does not depend on yourself, but on the tens of millions of people living in the land of Yao and the land of Shun at this time.
The Mexican party organization on its own side is only a teacher and a fire bearer in Wangbei City, and the rest still depends on the strength of the local people to decide whether to open the country to another Indian company that is more large and powerful than in history. Even if the Indian company is stronger and larger, it does not dare to covet it.
Unlike the British in the past, India's well-developed handicraft industry and high-quality cotton cloth allowed British and Indian companies in the world to dump Indian handicrafts in-country, and even find ways to avoid excessive tariffs at home.
Therefore, the British could wait a long time to start in India, and it was profitable to dump handicrafts in China and Europe in the early stage.
But now, for the Indian companies in China, even if there are no tariffs at home, India's handicrafts are not comparable to the water-powered factories that have developed in Min and the six coastal counties, and the extremely low costs of the impending power revolution and capitalist production relations.
Even if there are no tariffs, and even every ship can be 100% safe, handicrafts may not be profitable, but the export of raw materials and handicrafts can only be profitable in one way.
Driven by profits, the Indian companies in China will be far more hungry for rent and control than the British Indian companies on the normal world line, and will spare no effort to invest more power, more obscene use of religious contradictions, and more skillful use of class contradictions to cultivate upper castes as allies.
It will also greatly speed up the time to gain dominance in India, and once it is completed, it will inevitably turn its attention to the encircled Chinese cultural circle. Without metamorphosis and self-transformation, it could be more dangerous than normal, and it would have been caught in a situation of encirclement from both east and west sooner than the kite strings, and it would not only be the Dutch Indian companies that had fallen into the kite string situation.
All this variables occurred during the period when Indian companies gained dominance in India and the technological advances of the Industrial Revolution were forcibly spreading.
If you can't grasp this time of fighting, it will be an even more terrible double-sided noose in the future.
It is a period of opportunity, but also a greater crisis.
However, Chen Jian had no choice but to choose the lesser of two evils.
Eventually, after secret negotiations between Jian Chen and these interest groups, the crowd accepted Jian Chen's suggestion of India first and spices later.
Within the Mexican Party, Chinese Indian companies were allowed to stop, dock, resupply, and even station soldiers in Wangbei.
The supply of Indian companies in Wangbei City can be settled directly in the form of bills in the bank of Minbei City, or it can be exchanged in the bank of Minjun for a certain amount of banknotes of the place of immigration in Wangbei City.
Wangbei City could provide clothing, gunpowder, sails, ropes, repairs, and food for the armed hired men of the Indian companies stationed there.
The Mexican Party organization in Wangbei would send people to accompany the first ships of the Indian company to India, and they could also help them find Indian merchants to introduce them in Pattani or Ayutthaya.
In the event of war, the fleet of Wangbei City could help the Indian company capture Malacca, and it could also help organize a certain number of Ming immigrants to Malacca to expand the power there and build forts.
At the same time, if a war with Portugal is confirmed, the Mexican Party organization in Wangbei City and the monopoly company of the Ming Empire's maritime group will take Macao if the opportunity allows, cut off trade between the Portuguese and the Ming Empire and Goa, and jointly fight the Portuguese.
However, the Indian company in China was not allowed to occupy Manila without the consent of the Mexican Party. As for the spice trade of the Dutch, Chen Jian also led the two Indian companies of the Netherlands and Huaxia to negotiate, and for the time being, they should not make a move to monopolize the spice trade, but try their best to reach a non-aggression condition with the Dutch that Europe will belong to the Netherlands and the Republic will belong to the Indian company.
The port of trade with the Dutch for the exchange of spice and handicraft products was temporarily set in Wangbei City, so as to attract the Dutch to continue to invest in the Spice Islands, so that they could not extricate themselves from the excessive investment, and it was impossible for the strong man to give up the spice trade to run India.
Wangbeicheng and the Indian company will cooperate in the fight against smuggling and piracy, with the Indian company using its power to help develop a series of systems to combat coastal smuggling and regular patrols, while Wangbeicheng's forces will expel the remaining forces in the South China Sea and crack down on any pirate groups that may be supported and exploited by the enemy.
Of course, the premise of all this cooperation is that Huaxia's Indian company has a smooth first step in India.
At the very least, it is necessary to obtain the legal right to trade, the right to start a factory and the right to include taxes, otherwise all the established basis of interest will cease to exist.
When the predetermined terms of the troubled waters were negotiated, the Huaxia India Company, formed by the power family and the capital rent-seeker, sent three ships loaded with all kinds of strange goods, commanded by the colonial-minded young man, and the board of directors appointed the young man who had followed Jian Chen around the world and wanted to do something great as the company's first Governor Plenipotentiary in India.
On the pier of the Coastal Defense Acropolis in the capital, this young and ambitious young man understood that he had taken the first step, and with the pride of a young man, he embarked on the flagship that crossed the Pacific Ocean and docked at Wangbei City, just like Chen Jian, who was still young when he embarked on a round-the-world voyage a few years ago.
He had nothing but youth and ambition.
But that's enough, at least, it's an age when young people without noble blood can realize their ambitions.
The era when young people dare to be ambitious and there may be nouveau riche, is alive and well.