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Chapter 265: A New Trade Empire

The annual volume of goods transported from the distant mainland of the empire to the rapidly expanding western Pacific side of Chizhou can only be seen to meet the needs of colonies and gold diggers, and the growth of transpacific capacity is only a single digit run by the astonishing growth of sea orders along the empire's mainland coast, and even two years after the peak of the crazy gold rush, the capacity crunch has eased slightly, and the capacity increase can be more than double digits.

The Atlantic route is a bull fork, thanks to Europe's abundant manpower and shipbuilding raw materials (large coniferous forests and excellent shipbuilding timber reserves in Central Europe, Eastern Europe, Northern Europe) and the great attraction of Gibraltar, the annual new tonnage of ships has maintained a high growth rate of 30%, due to the poor local economic size of Europe and the slow growth rate of agricultural society can not absorb so much volume, plus the huge trade deficit needs to be balanced, Countries have vigorously supported and developed sales of well-built ships as the only fist exports that can balance the deficit.

The new triangular trade (the old triangular trade was the ancient trade in coins, textiles, furs, medicinal herbs, and handicrafts between Song, Liao, Japan, and Korea) was established after the emergence of the new transoceanic route from the port of Green Horn to the port of Cayenne to the ports on the east coast of Chizhou, and then to the fishing villages on the east coast of Chizhou. The Caribbean Islands were also named Wang'an Islands by the Empire (the first expedition funder and captain of the expedition fleet to draw a detailed chart of the islands and report them to the Marquis), and this area of the sea became known as Wang'an Sea. The value of the specialties of the various coastal regions in the empire itself was astonishingly high; Cocoa, indigo, sugar, jade, gold, silver, coral, carmine, emerald, precious mahogany, tobacco, and chili peppers are among the best-selling commodities in short supply in China and Europe.

The Indian tribes in the coastal areas and islands of the various continents, like the Maya, needed all kinds of textiles, metal products (weapons, knives, arrows and small hardware, iron pots, axes, nails, etc.), grain, salt, large livestock, and building materials exported from the empire and Xuanzhou. Within half a year, the surplus ships in Europe and the unsalable various kinds of crude linen that were not competitive with the native textiles of the empire were all ordered, and many Xuanzhou agents and big businessmen who were moved by the news learned that the establishment of diplomatic relations between China and Malaysia and the imperial legislation no longer restricted trade with Chizhou, and went bankrupt to organize the supply of goods and fleets in the hope of making a big profit in the New World.

World Geography, an open global geographical journal, a major newspaper and a publication designated by the Imperial Royal Geographical Society, provides a comprehensive and detailed account of the known information about Chizhou. Almost 80% of the archives of the Chizhou Intelligence Division in the possession of the Intelligence Bureau have been declassified. Naturally, no foreign merchants outside the empire could participate in the Pacific route, and it was obviously impossible for the Sri Buddha and the Maha and Cham states around the South China Sea, which were most likely to participate in transoceanic trade in the western Pacific, to have such capabilities. The Atlantic Ocean was also monopolized by Imperial merchants, as there was only one open transatlantic route, starting from the Empire-controlled Port of Green Horn and ending at the Mayan port of Tulum, all along the route were under the control of the Empire, and no foreign merchant could enter this route without obtaining a trade permit approved by the Imperial Ministry of Foreign Trade and the Governor of Xuanzhou.

Prepare people for the benefits of infectious diseases. In addition to goods and supplies, the most important items on board were vaccines and medicines, which were necessary to exchange for trade certificates. In order to prevent the uncontrollable devastating contagion that these merchant ships brought to the indigenous people of Chizhou in order to maximize their profits, the number of trade passes was reduced once at a time, and new trade passes were issued only if enough affordable medicines were sold to the colonies and local medical institutions at each trade point.

There are some volumes that are mandatory, in order to bring Maya into the global division of labor and the world market in a short period of time. Increased the size of the Mayan economy and the efficiency of shearing sheep by the Imperial Trade Scissors. Many of the tonnage of transportation was compulsory government orders, and the transportation of large items such as engineering equipment and building materials was much lower than the various consumer goods (salt, sugar, alcohol, tobacco and textiles) that were in high demand in Chizhou. After the establishment of diplomatic relations between China and Malaysia, the Cocum family suddenly became a well-deserved royal family among the many nobles and slave owners of the Maya through monopoly on trade with China. This monopoly is completely dependent on the empire, and can be transferred to other Mayan nobles at any time, without fear of disobedience from the Cocum family.

This all-encompassing control was deeper than that of other imperial allies and client states with which diplomatic relations had been established, and the deepest control permeated every city-state and corner. Every consumer product used by the Maya was labeled as an empire, and every resolution and law passed by the council of the Mayan city-state had a distinct shadow of the parent and interest groups of the Chinese Empire. Relative to many allies and vassals in Europe and India. The country's influence was more deeply rooted in the Chinese Empire, and a year or two later, except for 30% of the corn and 20% of the production of dozens of cash crops, belonged to the Mayan aristocracy and the new feudal lords. Most of the land and real estate was mortgaged by the Maya, who were in dire need of foreign exchange, to various banks of the empire in exchange for dragon dollars and foreign exchange to import various consumer goods and medicines.

The decision to establish diplomatic relations with the Maya was not all to see the Maya struggling with famine and abject poverty, but since they were determined to establish a global world order and a system of social division of labor, they would not open up privileges and small stoves for a certain people for the will of a few. The Maya people were able to get far more than the European countries and the Indian countries to get a lot of assistance, but also paid a price far more than the European and Indian countries, more thorough refuge, more extensive opening up of various industries and regions, more than Europe and India several times the trade profits and more sparsely populated colonies, more dependent on the Chinese Empire imported medicine and food and other necessities, more primitive and backward, naturally more powerless to resist the import of advanced civilization ideology.

Although there are many primitive Indian tribes in the vast grasslands, forests and mountains of North Chizhou, the huge living space and the life of nomadic and migratory are not conducive to the spread and spread of infectious diseases, and the aborigines of these nomadic tribes are much better than the Mayans who have been in famine and malnutrition for a long time. On the contrary, there is not much threat of infectious diseases. On the Pacific side, there are many barren deserts and forests and mountain areas that are not conducive to large-scale agricultural cultivation, so the Chinese immigrants still used a few gold-producing ports as their main destinations. The scale expansion is far less rapid than when Nanzhou was discovered.

The Maya naturally became an important labor force and partner in the Chinese Empire's efforts to open up plantations, oil and gas fields, and mines in central Chizhou that were much more popular for investment than the fur, gold, and timber markets in the north. The Maya were generally in a slave society. Even when the grassroots are illiterate, they still develop a glorious civilization. The Chinese merchants brought not only goods and advanced institutions, but also a wealth of opportunities for the Mayan priests and the upper classes who had learned how to accurately correct the calendar beyond the level of the Second World War era.

In the case of the Cocom family, for example, they were just ordinary aristocrats who had mastered basic arithmetic, and by virtue of their monopoly on the imports of the entire Maya region (the only counterparty of all the exporters of the empire in the Mayan United Kingdom), they amassed more than 20% of the national wealth of the country by adding 10 to 50 percent of the purchase price of all imported goods and reselling them to distributors at all levels in other city-states (in a slave society, it was normal for the top 1% of the population to occupy 80% of the social wealth, Emancipating slaves in the process of changing from slave owners to feudal masters. The aristocracy of the various city-states extracted a lot of wealth, and these newly freed slaves had to pay decades of hard work to repay and redeem the free ransom and land money paid by the Kokam family, a trick learned from the emancipated serfs of Tsarist Russia in the old time and space).

Some of the old guys who have been working with the Travelers for the longest time are also shocked by the profits of trade in the New World. The originally thriving trade in the East China Sea (gold, silver, seafood, handicrafts, copper, sulfur, saltpeter, raw silk and other local products of the Japanese archipelago, rice, spices, sugar, dyes, timber, rubber, fruits, agricultural and sideline products produced by various colonies in Southeast Asia, including Dongyi Island, and various industrial consumer goods produced in the empire, were constrained by the increasing scale and the rapid decline in the application of new technologies. It is becoming increasingly difficult to attract the appetites of the predators of commercial capital, and even the fledgling cross-border trade in Europe and the Islamic world is struggling to compete with the trans-Pacific or transatlantic trade. As for the trade between the empire and the Indian states, it was at a balance between size and profiteering, with a scale far greater than that of Europe and the Islamic world. And because India has almost no money, labor and resource costs, and high profits, this ideal market has long been carved up by the predators. Where to get the turn of rising stars and emerging business families to step in.

Speaking of lucrative trade routes, modern people who have received the baptism of junk information in the information society will immediately think of legendary trade routes that will have a negative impact on society and civilization, such as the smuggling of drugs, arms and antique cultural relics. Taking the silk trade in textiles as an example, a snow-white ordinary plain silk can only be regarded as a mid-range textile a little more expensive than linen cloth in the land of many fish and rice in southern China before it is dyed and printed, and the wholesale price of one square meter in the Suzhou and Hangzhou regions of the empire will not exceed 1 large silver coin (5 yuan), but it can be sold for 10 gold coins (500 yuan) when it is transported to Baghdad in the Seljuk Empire. In order to feel the breath from the East, the profiteers of Eastern Rome used to directly disassemble the silk bought from the merchants of Baghdad at a high price into raw silk and flax fiber blended into silk with Western characteristics. When dyed and colored, you dare to sell a square 40 gold coins (the silk content is halved, and the counter-price is doubled and doubled, which is equivalent to an increase of 800 times compared with the place of origin). Of course, this windfall was destroyed by Gibraltar's CIF and treaty of friendship, but there was no pressure on middlemen to make a 20-fold profit. Can drugs be imported and exported from customs in a transparent manner? Can it go up to scale without falling into a shit price? Can this success be replicated in large numbers and give rise to trading companies that are its main business?

Speaking of Chizhou's trade profiteering, we have to talk about the world trade structure and industrial division of labor layout through the public planning, and it is an inevitable result for the empire to become the world's factory and bank, but this result is not an overnight achievement. The vast majority of key industrial products and all industrial products are two completely different concepts, one is the pursuit of profit and the optimal allocation of various resources (market, raw materials, energy, labor) for maximum efficiency. One is the result of persecuted delusional people's efforts to achieve a sense of security. It is obvious that the crossing will not choose the latter, so it is natural to take the road of marketization. In the case of the lucrative porcelain trade, it has been a tradition in China since the Han Dynasty that the technology crystallized by the calcination of clay and glaze in high-temperature kilns to become a fist product with poor scissors. This pattern is not subject to the will of a particular country or organization, and it is impossible to change even the powerful and god-like traversal crowds. The reason why an advanced civilization is an advanced civilization is not because of its powerful violence, but because of its upright conspiracy and profound cultural and technological strength, which cannot catch up with those backward civilizations, no matter how hard they try. China has always been the only core civilization in East Asia, and it is also the most powerful and advanced nation-state, and it has long been a well-deserved superpower in this time and space that has been seriously changed by the people, with a population of more than 200 million and a territory of 30 million square kilometers, which basically covers 90% of the world's economic output. In order to maintain the new economy generated by high growth and large-scale investment and consumption without being damaged by severe inflation and deflation, the company has not only maintained a high proportion of the state-run economy and the collective economy. A lot of pools have also been dug as buffers to stabilize the supply and demand of liquidity. One of the most important pools is the high-growth business sector, blue chips, which account for a quarter of the total market capitalization of the empire's stock market.

Whether it is Chenji Group or the shares of partner commercial companies, they need to maintain an annualized rate of return of more than 12%, otherwise they will soon be taken away from the leading position in the stock market by companies in many emerging industries and high-tech industries that are profiteering, and the market value will be reduced due to the decline in dividend capacity. The profits of a large number of options, bonds, funds and leveraged derivatives derived from its stocks will be lost, so finding new profit points and maintaining the highest industry average profit margin in society has become the main job of the board of directors of every listed company. You know, the price of raw materials is not stable at all. Received from the influence of various factors in the market. In the past ten years, there have been differences between the highest point and the lowest point by several times, tens, or even dozens of times. In order to eliminate the impact and damage of this instability on the economy, in addition to the strategic reserves and strong consumption capacity of the empire can play a stabilizing role in the price of industrial raw materials, the reserve system and internal supply and demand capacity adjustment of the Chenji Group have also played a great role. After the establishment of the Standing Position and Price Report (the strategic material reserve system of the Chinese Empire and the weekly report on the public information of prices in various places), the futures system and the perfect insurance system were also established, so that the prices of most of the necessities and daily necessities of the empire maintained basic stability and balance between supply and demand. Therefore, in order to obtain excess trade profits on the basis of price transparency and limited scale, it was necessary to leave the empire and the surrounding areas and go to the distant Chizhou and Atlantic coasts to do triangular trade.

The Lu family took a fancy to the feng shui of North Chizhou and decided to establish a family business that has been passed down from generation to generation in this vast wasteland in high latitudes. However, you can't miss the natural harbors of Golden Gate Bay and Los Angeles, which have long been the best places on the west coast of the Pacific Ocean. It would take at least thirty or forty years for the initial enclosure movement to complete the division of the entire Chizhou, so the traversers who occupied the vital essence of the core cities of each of the inevitable future development areas left the scraps and cold burning for the heads of the others to fight for. The vices and traditions of watching plays on the sidelines at home naturally have to be maintained.

The development of many new lands in Chizhou and the introduction of new goods were an opportunity to continue the empire's commercial legacy. Not only is Chizhou the world's largest black soil plain and primeval rainforest, but also has the largest mountain system and countless unique species, although crops such as corn and tobacco were introduced to the Old World in advance, but Chizhou can export more lucrative goods in large quantities. The high-quality red shirt wood, hemlock wood, pine wood, ornate furs, horns, cowhides, beef bone meals, beef, and cow hair weaving handicrafts from cattle on the plains were all best-sellers. The coastal waters of Chizhou are rich in salmon, plaice, cod, mackerel, eel, herring, sardine, flounder, samen and other fish, whales in the marginal waters of Cod Island (Newfoundland), walruses, seals and polar bears along the northern coast. In the vast broad-leaved forests of north-central Chizhou, there are still countless maple syrups produced by sugar maples, and Napoleon in the old time and space would rather give up the vast expanse of Louisiana than give up an island of Haiti, except for fighting for a breath and not wanting to lose to the black slave rebels, Haiti produces precious cane sugar, and Louisiana has no economic value. Labor in the Indian tribes here is extremely cheap. Cheap enough to buy basic rations and salt, such as goods, can be exchanged for large quantities of labour-intensive crafts and rare items that take an extremely long time to obtain.

Liu's Trading Company is a small company engaged in entrepot trade, engaged in the trade of Japanese raw silk and domestic medicinal materials at the beginning of the establishment of the empire, and actively explored the Chizhou market under the leadership of the third-generation master Liu Jue. Turning to the fur import business produced in Chizhou, it immediately stood out from many of its peers engaged in offshore trade, and swallowed up more than 40 overseas import companies in one go. The reason why the children of the Liu family dared to expand rapidly was because they discovered the huge profits of the fur trade, for example, ordinary seal fur is just an ordinary cargo as cheap as dirt on the coast affected by many cold snaps, just like ordinary fresh fish sold in ordinary fishing ports, and the price of a better first-class goods is only a few thousand yuan a ton.

After being imported into the country, it can be sold for hundreds of yuan a piece by processing it into a fur coat. Laws such as the Eco-Environmental Protection Law and the Endangered Animals Protection Law restrict the killing of wild animals in the country, while wealthy people, under the deliberate guidance of fashion authorities such as Gao Jing, focus their consumption on food, clothing, housing and transportation rather than land and savings. The huge demand for fur from the country's emerging middle-class wealthy families has kept the price of fur high.

When other traders found out about the huge profits of the fur trade and wanted to get a piece of the market, they found that the Liu family had become a leader in the industry. In addition to learning the cooperative model of the public by signing exclusive agreements with various tribes for the unified purchase and sale of furs, the Liu family also used extremely high prices to push the Senate to legislate to expand the scope of protective regulations to the world, and established a new quota system for killing wild animals to obtain furs. Except for fur. There are many other products in Chizhou. Beef, animal products (bones, sinew, horn, teeth), timber, honey, rosin, ore, and gold and silver from the great plains and western mountains were gathered from the traditional trading networks of countless Indian tribes to a few large ports in exchange for the coins, salt, grain, and industrial goods exported by the empire, and each trading house could find new sources of profit growth, and the business opportunities in this new continent were almost limitless. More than 50 million indigenous people and more than 40 million square kilometers of land can provide almost no less business opportunities than India, which has a population of more than 80 million.

In order to extract profits from friendly and sustainable trade, the import of vaccines and medicinal materials is given top priority, and of course, the Chenji Group, which monopolizes the upstream supply of this core trade product, gives every downstream distributor a reasonable but not excessive profit margin, although it is not comparable to the trade profit margin of fur and other Chizhou specialties. However, it is also higher than domestic offshore trade. The era of trade permits for the forced trafficking of vaccines and medicinal herbs quickly passed, and it was impossible for the bigwigs who had made the biggest profits in the early days of the new route to maintain high monopoly profits after making a lot of money in the process of tasting the first soup. Growing calls from other small and medium-sized traders with abundant supplies have forced the Senate to open up shipping lanes and abolish the exclusivity of trade warrants. Under the premise of the general trend, after three years of monopoly on the limited number of trade certificates, Chizhou ushered in a new era of trade volume blowout. Not only has the number of ships sailing on the original routes increased several times, but the dozen or so new routes have also become busier. Dozens of natural deep-water ports along the Chizhou coast have also been developed, which have become emerging strategic development centers for many domestic port construction companies that are basically saturated.

With the exception of Fatimid Egypt, which could not even go out of the Mediterranean Sea and the Red Sea, and the Mulabit Dynasty, which was busy with civil war, all the countries of the Old World formed the New World Trading Company, and even Britain and France, which were at war, sent dozens of ships to import whales, furs and other local products from North Chizhou. Regardless of whether they can occupy a place or not, the active participation of trading companies in various countries has also brought a great positive impact on the production and life of the aborigines, and it is not said that it has produced a qualitative leap, but it can be guaranteed to improve to the level of the early feudal era. Some wealthy tribes even used glass and steel from the empire to build important public facilities.

In this round of the tide and I don't know how many new trading companies were born, among which there must be many that can develop into a trading empire, when the development of the Indian route and the Islamic world route created by the large companies have already become the giants of the empire's business, one by one hanging the name of the dazzling group company to lead its many industries, from the local market for shareholders to create huge income every year. Then among these companies, there may also be dozens of guys with words such as XX New World Trading Company to change to XX Group, become a multinational group with cross-industry mixed operations, and become a new trading empire to create one miracle after another. (To be continued......)