Chapter 288 Economics and Party Struggle (6) Straightforward
The silk and porcelain of this era were indeed astonishingly high from the perspective of trade value, but because of this, their consumption targets could only be mainly for the upper class, supplemented by the middle class, and ordinary people basically did not need to consider it (of course, in
In the Ming Dynasty, low-end porcelain actually had a certain sales volume).
Now the Spanish-Portuguese Empire is probably on the rise in Europe. The decline in trade capacity is an inevitable phenomenon. There seems to be no particularly good solution for a while... Eh? No, the Spanish-Portuguese Empire will fight again, but European consumption
The ability should still exist, which means that the problem now is not the decline of the market, but the decline of trading capabilities.
Gao Pragmatic suddenly thought: Otherwise, the missing transportation capacity of the Spanish-Portuguese Empire will be taken up by Jinghua?
He suddenly became slightly excited. Yes, why can only your European ships come to our Daming and Southern Xinjiang to purchase, instead of our Jinghua taking the initiative to come to sell goods? Your shipowners come to do this business because it is a big business
We make a lot of money, so why can’t we make this money?
Even if you opened the route and you have the "full map" advantage, but now you don't have enough transportation capacity, but the market vacancy is still there, then should we cooperate, I will help you sell the goods, and you will charge a tariff?
A win-win situation!
As for the unfamiliar route, shouldn't you send someone to guide you? Of course, we are all decent people. If it doesn't work, why don't we pay to hire a navigator? What a big deal!
Gao Pragmatic thought about it and felt that this article should not be a big problem. Although there are still some details that need to be improved, the general direction should be determined. If I have to say it, the main problem may be whether the Portuguese are willing to "leak the waterway"
——To go to Europe to sell goods in a pragmatic way, it is impossible to take the American route. You must take the Indian Ocean, cross the Cape of Good Hope and enter the Atlantic Ocean, and then go all the way north to Lisbon, Portugal, or the southern Spanish port of Seville.
The problem is that this route belongs to the Portuguese. Even though Spain and Portugal now form a common federation, the two countries only "share the monarch" and the countries are still independent of each other. This means that this matter needs to be resolved
To be completed, it not only required the consent of Philip II's son Philip III (Philip II should have died two years ago), but also the consent of the Portuguese local nobles.
The Portuguese regard this trade route as very important, and have even been excluding the Spanish from entering. It may not be that easy to convince them. But for the Portuguese, Gao Pragmatic is not too worried, precisely because the Portuguese regard this route very seriously.
It's easier to convince if you have more weight.
If that doesn't work, then just follow what happened in Malacca - deterrence by force. Anyway, Goa is in India, so it's not difficult to be pragmatic and threaten it. After all, if Portugal loses Goa in India, their shipping route will be almost gone. What's more,
, the main sources of goods for the Portuguese are now controlled by Gao Pangjian, and they are not afraid of them not submitting.
Most of the sales problem can be solved in this way, and the remaining half is due to the impact of the war, and Gao Pragmatism can't do anything about it. However, he is not resigned to it, and wants to find some way to expand the market.
The world today is not the 21st century, and there are not many regions around the world that truly have consumption power. Although there are vast Spanish colonies in North and South America, the Spanish colonies at this time are nothing more than sweat mines and cheap resource production areas, with no consumption power.
At most, there were only a few colonists. The number was too small, and there was no big hope at all.
There is no need to think about Africa. The productivity is not much better than that of primitive society, and poisonous insects and ferocious beasts are everywhere. Gao Pragmatism without quinine has no interest in Africa at this time. As for Oceania... it has yet to be discovered by Jinghua himself. At present,
It's already on the agenda.
So looking at this circle, the so-called "international community" now actually consists of the Eurasian continent, plus North Africa at most. The European market is like that for the time being, and Asia... um, sell to India?
Gao Pragmatic is a bit scratching his head. Logically speaking, although India is divided into pieces, with only the north united under the Mughal Empire, after all, India's population base is there, and it is second only to the Ming Dynasty globally, so it should have some spending power.
, can it be developed?
Gao pragmatic recalled his memories of India at this time, and he was really not sure how receptive they were to silk and porcelain. Although these two products should be popular in the world, it cannot be ruled out that there are local people in India.
own preferences.
Forget it, anyway, it is best to have a market. If there is no market, cultivate the market. Anyway, now that the army has fought, dumping goods is a natural thing to do. As the saying goes, if you are poor, you should close the country, and if you are rich, you should have free trade. Now it is time
Jinghua knocked on the door and told India that it was time to open up to free trade.
The idea is there, but the specific implementation will definitely take time, so at this stage, how to appease the Jiangnan Chaebol still needs to make other arrangements. This arrangement is highly pragmatic and can only rely on Jinghua. Specifically, it is to make a time difference - let Jinghua unify first
Acquire the goods accumulated by the Jiangnan Chaebol and sell them after the trade routes are opened.
Gao Pragmatic was a little lucky. Fortunately, silk and porcelain were goods that could be stored for a long time, especially porcelain. Otherwise, Jinghua's strategy of eating these goods first would not work.
He had never thought of letting the Jiangnan plutocrats fend for themselves - even if they were his political enemies. The Ming Dynasty finally had some signs of capitalism, and it was better not to stamp them out if possible. Cultivating a class is not about cultivating a few talents.
Even political opponents must be carefully protected now.
Of course, it is one thing to protect the buds of capitalism, but it is another thing to fight back against political opponents who dare to show their swords at themselves. Therefore, Gao's pragmatic strategy is that the Jiangnan plutocrats will be saved, but those who dare to impeach themselves will die. "Death" does not mean
Not necessarily in a physical sense, but at least in a political sense.
So, after I figured out the root cause behind it, I started to write essays - not writing self-defense essays, but directly writing rhetoric essays.
The Ming Dynasty has the Ming Dynasty's way of playing. Generally, at this time, Gao Pragmatic should write a self-defense first, because he must first explain the problem clearly, and then wait for the group of people who want to impeach him to attack, and wait until bullets are flying like snow flakes.
It is the normal process to be pragmatic and write a few words to force the emperor to come forward as a guarantor.
However, Gao Pragmatic doesn't plan to play like this this time because he is very, very busy and doesn't plan to accompany others to play the whole game.
If you want to impeach me, just impeach me. I didn't even bother to argue and just resigned. I want to see who can force me to back down at this time.
When Jinghua starts to acquire the inventory held by the Jiangnan Chaebol, what value will you, the puppets on the stage, have?
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