Chapter 381 Even if Quan Xu of the Red Palace meets with the Dutch, he will not discuss any substantive issues with the Dutch.The demands of the Dutch, in fact, have been formed into an official document and placed in front of Quan Xu, and the Dutch proposed to obtain the right to settle, do business, settle and study in southern Liaoning.Of course, Quan Xu agreed, but with one incident, the Ming people also had the right to settle, do business, and study in the Netherlands and its native Dutch Kingdom.Secondly, the Dutch wanted to open a Dutch bank in southern Liaoning.Quan Xu did not hesitate to refuse this matter.He is not ignorant of the financial sector, and no developed country allows foreign countries to open banks in their own country!
Powers such as issuing currency and lending credit are all held in their own hands, and they would rather rot than let foreign countries interfere!
All transactions must go through the full bank, and the currency, the Dutch silver coin, must be exchanged for the full silver coin, throwing out impurities and weight loss, and the silver ingot is used as the common currency.After the Dutch saw the silver coin, they immediately had no objection, Quanxu's minting technology came from later generations, not only the weight is absolutely one, the difference is less than 001 milligrams, which the Dutch could not do.The whole record of silver coins, beautiful, accurate, each is one, even if 10,000, the difference is still not much, now the Dutch are convinced, there is no way to be stronger than people, they can not agree, or there is no need to trade.Nowadays, the production capacity of southern Liaoning has not reached the point of surplus, whether it is the textile industry, or steel, Quanxu's steel is not enough to dump overseas, first satisfy yourself, and then look for dumping.Of course, the Dutch also wanted to buy artillery made by the whole army, and specifically asked for the kind of naval guns that could kill a battleship with a single shot.Jeon Wook refused without hesitation, joking.In terms of shipbuilding, if it is not for the technological advantages of later generations, the Ming Dynasty has actually lagged behind the West, this is an indisputable fact, the kind of Dafu ship two hundred years ago, the Ming Dynasty is now no longer capable of manufacturing.According to the records of "History of the Ming Dynasty and the Biography of Zheng He", Zheng He's fleet has a total of about 240 ships, including 63 treasure ships, the largest of which is 44 zhang 4 feet long and 18 zhang wide, which is equivalent to the current length of 15,118 meters and 616 meters wide, which is the largest sea ship (wooden) in the world at that time, and they were mainly built in Nanjing Bao Shipyard.The ship has four layers, the nine masts on the ship can hang twelve sails, the anchor weight is several thousand catties, it takes 200 people to set sail, a ship can accommodate more than 1,000 people, the carrying capacity is 800 tons, it can be described as a majestic body, the giant is unmatched."
History of the Ming Dynasty: Soldiers" also recorded: "The treasure ship is as tall as a building, the bottom tip is wide, and it can accommodate a thousand people."
Such a warship, even in the face of today's Dutch third-class warships, is actually not at a loss, after all, it is big, and it is resistant to beating, but the new warships of the whole family army have not yet had time to be launched, and they do not have the strength to compete with the Dutch at sea for the time being.Otherwise, Quan Xu would not have to use the wooden model to deceive the Dutch, and put on an empty plan, the purpose of which was to make the Dutch believe that Quan Xu was now eager to start a decisive battle with them, and he was deliberately showing weakness, signaling that they could strike first.Where the main force of Quanxu's fleet is, it is not known for the time being, but they Dutch believe that Quanxu will not be beaten and not fight back.In other aspects, Quan Xu basically agrees, they want to buy cement.Yes, sell.The pricing power is in the hands of Quanxu, ordinary cement only needs two or three hundred yuan a ton in later generations, and the cement produced at the end of the Ming Dynasty is directly used by himself due to the lack of packaging bags, and it is directly loaded with a covered van carriage, and a carriage is a ton.The Dutch had detected the castle and dock built by Quanxu with concrete and steel bar, which were so hard that even if they were smashed with a sledgehammer, they would smash a white spot.The Dutch needed cement to build a port fortress.Quanxu directly set the price to the FOB price per ton of cement, twenty-five silver coins, that is, twenty-five taels of silver, whether to buy or not.Of course, the Dutch also have a very high demand for steel.Until now, Europe is not the Europe of later generations, their metallurgical industry is still relatively backward, and the production of steel is very small, and the production of steel in a small country like the Netherlands is even less.On the contrary, it is steel that fights in war, and without steel, no matter how good the strategy and tactics are, it is in vain.The rise of the Dutch was to take advantage of the war between England and Spain, and as early as 1588, England took advantage of the hurricane and defeated the Spanish Armada.The Dutch, taking advantage of Spain's weakness, broke free from Spanish control through the bourgeois revolution and rose rapidly.However, the emaciated camel was bigger than the horse, and the Dutch were barely able to breathe in the face of the aggressive Spanish offensive.The Dutch tried their best to scavenge steel resources from all over the world, but the results were not satisfactory.Through the intelligence of the Huayang Society, it was learned that the southern part of Liaoning could produce nearly 100,000 tons of steel every year, and the Dutch were ecstatic, and the East India Company instructed Alfonso to get a batch of steel at all costs!
Alfonso also thought of a lot of ways in advance for this, money bribery, beauty temptation and so on were all considered, but he never expected that he would not wait for him to use these tricks.Quanxu directly agreed that he could sell steel.Looking at the official document approved by Quan Xu, Alfonso was so excited that his voice flew straight away: "God bless the Kingdom of the Netherlands!"
”At its peak, the Kingdom of the Netherlands had 16,000 armed merchant ships or warships, which were almost three-quarters the size of England, Spain, and Portugal at about the same time.However, the problem is that this has emptied the maximum potential of the Kingdom of the Netherlands, and they can grab wood from colonies all over the world, but there is no way to use steel resources.Whether it is to build a warship, whether it is an armed merchant ship, it takes a lot of steel, and now many of the cannons of the Dutch are cast in bronze, because there is too little steel, and copper is the currency in the world, and the Dutch can grab it or loot it.But, the problem is, there is no way around steel.Quanxu agreed to trade steel with the Netherlands, mainly to disgust the British.If Britain defeated the Spanish Armada for the first time, it was because God was on the side of Britain, but in the Anglo-Dutch War, Britain gradually became an empire on which the sun never set by virtue of its own strength.Although Quan Xu did not occupy the entire Ming Dynasty, only a corner of Liaodong, but he could use resources to arrange Europe, in this time and space, Quan Xu not only wanted to obtain the unification of the Ming Dynasty, but at the same time, he also wanted to make the Ming Dynasty the greatest country in the world, the empire on which the sun never sets.The Dutch delegates hugged each other and wept with joy.However, when Alfonso looked at the offer, his brow furrowed: "Three hundred silver coins per ton?"
”This is equivalent to three hundred taels of silver a ton, this price is not cheap, basically the retail price of Daming domestic iron, when will international trade be sold at the retail price?
However, after the seller monopolizes the market, it can only be recognized by pinching the nose.Just like in the 80s, an imported color TV set cost more than 10,000 yuan, but the per capita salary is only a few dozen yuan, and ordinary wage earners can't afford it at all, in unceremonious words, a color TV is more expensive than a house.However, with the domestic TV set using the most tragic way of the price war, it has regained the market.The price of color TVs has dropped, and it has also entered thousands of households.The fact is that when the seller has a monopoly and has no ability to manufacture it, it can only be slaughtered by others.Quanxu's pricing is such a fuck thing, love to buy it or not.On the third day of the ninth month of the fourth year of Chongzhen, Alfonso, the representative of the Dutch East India Company, and Colonel Duncan were received by Xiu Wu Bo Quanxu.When they came to the foot of Jinshi Mountain, they looked at the huge red buildings in the mountains, and their faces were sluggish: "Red Palace!
”When Quanxu was in the Daimyo's Mansion, in order to pursue the effect, he took green bricks, not the right ones, but only the expensive ones.However, in the process of the large-scale development of southern Liaoning, money has to be used everywhere, and the firing of red bricks and red tiles is far more efficient and cheaper than that of green bricks and green tiles.Therefore, when building the Xiuwubo Mansion, red bricks were adopted, that is, like the houses built in later generations, red bricks and red tiles, looking from a distance, from the mountainside to the bottom of the mountain, a piece of red.As a puppet once controlled by Spain, the Dutch naturally knew the Red Palace of Spain, which occupied an area of 17 hectares, or about 255 acres.Compared with Xiuwubo's mansion, the scale of the Red Palace is smaller, and it is not atmospheric enough.Quanxu's Xiuwubo Mansion is far less huge than the Quanjiabao of the Daimyo Mansion, only one-third of the Quanjiabao, but it still has an area of more than 500 acres.This really shocked Alfonso so that he didn't react for a long time.Follow the steps to the warm pavilion located halfway up the mountain.Alfonso finally met Quan Xu, Quan Xu is different from ordinary Ming people, ordinary Ming people like to grow beards, including Lu Xiangsheng, Mao Yuanyi and others, all of whom have long beards and elegant demeanor.However, Jeon Wook doesn't like to grow a beard, and his face is clean."
Meet Your Excellency the Earl!"
Alphonso gave Duncan a knightly salute to Jeon Xu.Quan Xu does not have a rich language instinct, he does not understand Dutch, even English is average, under the translation of the tongue man, Quan Xu smiled faintly: "Please take a seat!"
”Alfonso whispered a lot to Quan Xu, and under the translation of the tongue man, to the effect that he came to Liaodong, that is, with the friendship of the Dutch, the first meeting, a small gift, not a respect, and so on.Then, Alfonso had a gift brought in.Unlike the generosity of other merchants, the Dutch were very stingy, and there were only three gifts, a blue gemstone necklace, which looked similar to the roughness of Black Africa, which tribe should have been snatched from.The second gift was a civilization staff wrapped in gold, which made Quan Xu a little regretful, including wood, weighing no more than five catties and worthless.The third gift was a black mass.Quan Xu's face changed instantly: "Opium!
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