Chapter 25 Joint Declaration on South Seas Trade

"Can the Dutch East India Company retain its monopoly on trade in the South Seas?"

Kreutz asked, squinting his eyes.

That's what the Dutch are most concerned about.

For the Dutch East India Company.

It doesn't matter if it's in Ming Yuan or in some other currency.

As long as we can continue to maintain our trade advantages in the South Seas.

If you can guarantee the company's profits, then everything will be fine.

"Impossible! However, I can allow the Dutch East India Company to keep the Batavia colony, and I can release all the Dutch captives, as long as you agree to my request. ”

Zhu Daohua said.

"Your Royal Highness King Ming, I can't sign such an agreement..... If the Dutch East India Company did not have a trading advantage in the South Seas, the board of directors could not have agreed. ”

Zhu Daohua smiled: "I don't need your consent, if you don't agree, then I will exclude the Dutch East India Company from Southeast Asia!" ”

Kreutz breathed heavily.

Oh, yes.

Now the Dutch have little conditions to negotiate.

"Of course, I don't want to kill them all, I can allow the Dutch East India Company to take a stake in Chris's Bank."

"Is that true?"

Kreutz's eyes lit up.

"Of course..."

Zhu Daohua knows.

Your current advantage is temporary.

And before completely taking over the whole of China.

Your own power cannot be dispersed by Westerners.

Not to mention.

It is also impossible for Zhu Daohua to directly close the strait and sever relations with Europe.

Because he needed the gold, silver, precious metals, markets, and technologies of the colonies of the Europeans.

And Zhu Daohua is a traverser from later generations.

More or less, there is a bit of "oceanophobia" that the people of the Celestial Empire of this era do not have.

After all, Zhu Daohua knows it clearly.

The Europeans and their descendants have really controlled the world for hundreds of years.

After all, the Europeans were ruthless, killing tens of millions of people each other, exterminating hundreds of millions of Indians, and harvesting the scalps of the natives of North America.

According to Zhu Daohua's idea.

He felt that even if he completed the task of expelling the Qing court in the future, he would not be able to make enemies of the entire West.

Make sure you have at least one or two allies in the West.

Pull a faction, fight a faction.

Avoid all-out confrontation and make a fortune in silence - in general, Boss Zhu still has a little bit of cowardice.

If you can make a small profit, you can pull some European forces and not let yourself be completely hostile to Europe.

It can smoothly grab enough benefits from the South Seas to support a modern army and navy.

In this way, Boss Zhu had the confidence to go to Emperor Qianlong for trouble.

I heard that he can take a stake in Chris, which has the potential to become the central bank of East Asian countries in the future.

Macartney and Bourblon looked at each other.

And they do.

At present, neither Britain nor France has the power to stop Zhu Daohua's expansion in Southeast Asia and East Asia.

On the British side.

The independence of the North American colonies greatly weakened Britain's power.

This is true both economically and militarily.

More importantly, the bad example of colonial independence forced Britain to tighten its control over the other colonies.

And what about the French side?

In order to support the tax resisters in the British North American colonies.

France is really a supporter of smashing the pot and selling iron.

As a result, the national strength has been greatly depleted.

Therefore, in the affairs of East Asia and Southeast Asia, Britain and France are both powerless.

Zhu Daohua is determined to control the trade order in East Asia and Southeast Asia, and uses the sea power he has in fact obtained in Southeast Asia to seize economic benefits.

Britain and France could not stop it.

Even the two major European powers can't stop it.

Then the Netherlands is even worse.

Therefore.

When I heard that there was an opportunity to take a stake in Chris's line.

Macartney and Burblon said immediately.

Britain and France are also to join them.

In this regard, Zhu Daohua did not refuse.

"Chris's Bank is the bank that will be used for the power to issue Ming Yuan in the future!"

Zhu Daohua stretched out two fingers.

"Fifteen percent of the shares, the original stock price is 10 million taels of silver, which is equivalent to 5 million Ming yuan! Open to companies in the Netherlands, the United Kingdom, and France! ”

"Whoever pays more money will have more shares!"

Zhu Daohua said.

He brought back more than just skilled workers and engineers from Europe.

There are also some talents in the financial industry.

Therefore.

Dow Wah Bank and Chris's Bank are definitely up and running very quickly.

According to Zhu Daohua's assumption.

Daohua Bank mainly absorbs deposits from Nanyang countries.

Chris's Bank, on the other hand, is taking deposits from Western companies.

At the same time, it also does exchange and remittance business.

And.

On the bright side.

Daohua Bank is under the jurisdiction of the Ming Palace.

Chris's Bank, on the other hand, is disguised as a Western bank in the form of a board of directors.

And if you open 15 percent of the equity of Chris's Bank, you can immediately get tens of millions of taels of silver.

And Zhu Daohua has actually paid nothing at all - the fact that Chris's Bank can become the de facto central bank of East and Southeast Asian countries is itself a possibility of happening in the future.

But Kreutz, Macartney, and Bourblon all knew it.

This angel round of investment, they must not miss it.

"The Dutch East India Company can claim ten percent of the shares!"

Kreuz immediately stood up and said.

By monopolizing trade with Japan and China, the Dutch obtained large quantities of gold and silver from the Spaniards.

Therefore, the Dutch East India Company was not short of money at all.

Five or six million taels of silver, they can take it out completely.

"The Dutch can't have so much!"

Macartney said with a frown.

On the question of the 15 per cent quota.

The three argued.

"Three, I only look at money!"

Zhu Daohua said.

"The deadline is before the beginning of spring next year... Whoever gets the money first will get more shares! ”

Zhu Daohua can't wait.

On the one hand, Daohua Bank and Chris's Bank both needed a large amount of silver to mint Ming Yuan and put it on the market.

On the other hand.

He is also saving military funds for next year's march north, buying raw materials and food, and producing enough military supplies.

So he didn't have time to argue with the three of them about quotas.

By involving the Netherlands, Britain, and France, he had already ceded a lot of benefits to them.

Ultimately.

All three signed a joint statement called the Nanyang Trade Declaration.

Kreutz was signed in the name of the Dutch East India Company.

Macartney and Bourblon signed in the name of the envoys of the King of England and the King of France.

In this day and age.

It takes more than half a year to travel between the East and the West.

So the power of the envoy is very great.

Including the power to conclude treaties, establish diplomatic relations, and even declare war.

And so it goes.

The four sides of the four parties, namely the Netherlands, the Netherlands, the United Kingdom, and France, reached a preliminary agreement.

This means:

Zhu Daohua's hegemony in the South Seas was confirmed in the form of words.

At the same time, he conceded some of his interests so that the Dutch East India Company and the British conquered cities in India did not object, and even supported Zhu Daohua's hegemony in the South Seas.

As for France...

That's pure luck.

Because in Zhu Daohua's cognition.

France is China's most likely ally in the future – after all, against Britain and even the United States in the future.

The Franco-Chinese alliance is perhaps the most likely outcome.

Who made the future Anglos so awesome.