Author: Orthodox Khan Ali Buge

Theodora was a little helpless about Guo Kang's obsession.

"Hey, why do you think about selling these things every day?" she sighed.

"We are all going to negotiate business with the Ming Dynasty, don't you understand?" Guo Kang also shook his head: "The current situation is that we need to import iron pots and silk, and probably also import cotton cloth in the future.

Porcelain, wait…”

"In short, no matter whether we eat, wear or use, we need to import a large amount of oriental materials. All commodities are all our requests from the Ming Dynasty, not that they need us."

"If this kind of trade can be carried out, it will make us feel comfortable in the early stage, but there will definitely be problems over time. The materials we export are far inferior to those imported. For this difference, we have to take gold, silver, rare products, etc.

High-value materials are filled. In the future, trade volume will increase, and it is not enough to fill in the "Almani Silver". No matter how big the savings are, it cannot stop the sacrificing one's life."

"Then you can't count on these things." Theodora pointed to the model: "How much deficit can you recover by relying on this?"

"I really can't think of any commodities that can be equal." Guo Kang spread his hands.

"Can you not do anything?" Theodora was a little surprised.

"Nothing can do." Guo Kang said confidently: "As long as you have something to do with agriculture, there is no hope."

Based on the experience of the previous world, let alone these serious products, they are just unreasonable and useless in the end.

Back then, the British really couldn't find a normal way to reverse the deficit. Even if the Qing Dynasty's tariffs were far lower than that of himself, even if he had the cost advantage of industry and colonies, he could not compete with others. When all the conventional methods were useless,

Finally, we began to make every effort to develop opium trade.

However, in history, after the First War, the opium trade could only be considered partially open. The British did not take it seriously at the time and thought that this was enough. But more than ten years later, they found that the trade deficit at this time still had not reversed.

, can only continue to push.

Finally, in the late 1860s, after the Second War between the two sides ended, the scale of opium trade further expanded, and the Qing Dynasty's efforts to ban smoking were completely failed. By 1876, the Qing government completely gave up and declared the legalization of opium, and the efforts of Britain

Finally completely successful.

But the problem is that after the Qing Dynasty abandoned treatment, the opium industry also appeared in the local area. The local tobacco developed slowly over the past decade, and expanded rapidly after being completely legalized, resulting in fierce confrontation between foreign tobacco. Just five years later, in 1881,

The British consul reported that Persian opium was no longer profitable and Indian opium was expelled from many provinces. If this continues, it will soon be impossible to make money again.

Sure enough, in 1882, the Qing Dynasty exported opium to more than the entrance and officially became an exporter. The main target of his export was Britain itself.

Of course, Britain could not accept this situation. In 1885, it forced the Qing Dynasty to set a Lijin upper limit for foreign tobacco to reduce sales costs. However, even with many advantages, foreign tobacco still could not compete with local tobacco. By 1891, foreign tobacco imports fell by 15.

About % and the market value fell by 35% to 40%, and it began to collapse across the board.

The Qing Dynasty's opium had already adhered to the principle of free trade, traveling across the ocean, and was best sold in the UK. London and Liverpool became the center of the Qing Dynasty's dumping of opium into the UK. A number of Qing Dynasty-style tobacco houses appeared, teaching various new ways of playing, and for the UK

Carry out cultural output.

By 1906, the amount of local tobacco exported by the Qing Dynasty had reached 11 times that of imported foreign tobacco. With the efforts of both sides, the people of the British Empire finally lived a happy life of large amounts of care and fullness.

The flood of opium has led to the collapse of social order, and even has negative impacts on the British ruling model, which finally made the British government unacceptable. The UK could only change its attitude and began to vigorously promote smoking bans, and demanded that the Qing government also implement smoking bans.

.The Qing Dynasty had basically lost control at this time, but the lion still spoke loudly and asked for benefits.

Finally, in 1907, Britain was forced to sign the China-British Smoking Treaty with the Qing Dynasty, which was humiliating. The treaty stipulated that Indian opium was prohibited from being imported into the Qing Dynasty year by year, and at the same time increased tariffs on foreign tobacco imports. The Qing Dynasty also extended its hands into the British sphere of influence and stipulated the concession area.

Smoking should also be banned, and Qing officials were allowed to be stationed in India to supervise auction and packaging business in the port of Kolkata.

The results of decades of war were abandoned shortly after persisting. Not only did the previous efforts become ridiculous, but the "freedom" and "morality" advocated by Britain became a joke, and it was simply a continuous blow to Queen Victoria.

Face. Of course, because of the situation, I slap it. At that time, everyone obviously didn't care about so much.

Therefore, the conclusion is very simple: in terms of agricultural products, don't try to fight against Serris on any product. This guy is a terrifying giant, even if he lie down and kills himself, he can kill a lot.

The situation in the late Qing Dynasty was not good, let alone the previous era. Guo Kang believed in this.

Although Theodora was a little unwilling to give up, he still accepted his point of view.

"Then what you mean, we can only make a little profit through these... not mainstream products?" She thought about the problem and responded quickly: "Is this the same idea for studying Steam Tian and other things every day?

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"It's just a direction of hard work. I can hold on for a while." Guo Kang thought for a while and said, "If we really have the hope of integrating the entire Mediterranean world, there is a bit of hope of confrontation. These technologies are to strive for this goal to win.

of time.”

"Is it so pessimistic..." Theodora muttered unexpectedly.

Guo Kang spread his hands, not knowing how to tell her for a while.

These are actually the bloody and tears lessons of Europeans in his world, "later generations", because almost all bulk products will face the same problem.

For example, iron pots, this thing appeared from the ocean trade in the Tang and Song dynasties to the time when he lived, and was mostly mainstream export products - even in the industrial era. It may have been about a hundred years in the middle and then stuffed.

The Reese people started selling iron products all over the world again. This thing is simply an invincible product. In this regard, it is purely a matter of making trouble.

Throughout history, this may be the norm, and "Seris cannot have an all-round advantage in commodities" is an unexpected situation. When the unexpected time period passes, the world will return to the "historical normal" again...

"Think about it, even the war at the end of the Yuan Dynasty did not completely interrupt the export of Eastern goods. Now, in order to compete for the ocean and use war to support the war, the Yuan and Ming sides were running around like crazy." He shook his head and shook his head.

, Speaking of the example in front of me: "Even if we don't care, they will come to the door, or even find our enemies, making the situation worse. So I feel that this is a must-do, but after doing it,

It will be very uncomfortable."
Chapter completed!