The reason why Wang Guojun attached great importance to the new map brought by Zhen Xing and others was because he wanted to expand the trade volume of Daqian. Because they found that the more prosperous the trade, the better the economy of Daqian, and the higher the income of the court.
In fact, in the past few years, Wang Guojun and other high-level officials have encountered an incomprehensible problem! It is clear that the Silk Road of the Pre-Han Dynasty has been operating safely for hundreds of years. This road even fed the Western Regions and enriched the Chang'an region.
But after they established the Maritime Silk Road in Daqian, the volume of silk, tea, and other maritime cargo transported was hundreds of times that of the Han Dynasty. However, the trade in Daqian was not very smooth, and even There are so many obstacles! Many countries are unwilling to trade with them, and the richer the countries, the more obstacles they set up.
When merchants from Daqian went to trade with Tianzhu, they did make some money in the first two years, but soon all the countries in the Tianzhu region began to restrict their trade. If Liu Bei hadn't solved the situation, Tianzhu's trade volume would not even be as good as those in the South China Sea. An area infested with savages.
Now, the same applies to their maritime merchants going to places such as the Parthian Empire. The Parthian Empire is more powerful, has a larger population, and has more wealth, but they have also begun to restrict the trade of Daqian maritime merchants.
According to the latest laws of the Parthian Empire, Daqian can only have a maximum of 200 ships docking in a year. Ships exceeding this number are all smuggling ships. If they catch them, they will confiscate all the goods!
So they were shocked to find that a large empire with a population of tens of millions was not much worse than Daqian, and the commodities it could digest were actually not as good as the New World where savages were everywhere.
Only Xu Wei reluctantly knows why. Although Daqian's industrialization is extremely primitive, no matter how primitive it is, Daqian can barely be said to be an industrial country now. Originally, Daqian's productivity was the most powerful in the feudal era, but it is still With the bonus of industrialization, it would be impossible for ordinary feudal countries to withstand such a surge in productivity.
It is difficult for these countries to withstand the impact of Daqian's industrial products. In order to reduce losses, they need silk, tea, and porcelain, but Daqian rarely needs their local goods. The trade is not balanced at all. Daqian's maritime merchants can only Shiploads of gold and silver were transported back.
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The gold and silver earned by the Daqian in a year was hundreds of times more than that of the Han Dynasty. Of course, countries such as Parthia could not bear such blood-sucking, and they could only find ways to limit the trade quota.
This kind of thing happened in the Japanese country. The productivity of the Japanese country was far inferior to that of the Ming Dynasty. As a result, even though the Japanese country guarded several gold and silver mountains, their wealth was still sucked up by the Ming Dynasty within hundreds of years. The Ming Dynasty relied on the Japanese silver to let In the Ming Dynasty, which did not produce silver, silver became the mainstream currency. And now these countries want to use this method to reduce the loss of gold and silver in their own countries!
Territories like the South China Sea and the New World are still in the barbaric era, and there is no so-called country. The productivity of the savages in these areas is extremely low, and they cannot produce much wealth. To a certain extent, the arrival of Daqian has improved With their productivity and living standards, they naturally don't have to restrict the goods of Daqian like other countries like Parthia, because they can't produce anything! The arrival of Daqian people has instead increased the local wealth and made the living standards of the savages rise sharply. .
When Daqian wanted to solve the trade problem with the Parthian Empire, the colonists in history had already given the answer, which was to use naval cannons to open the doors of these countries and make these countries the production base of Daqian commodities and raw materials.
However, Xu Wei's special experience made him extremely disgusted with the history of naval gun colonization. He certainly did not want to become a colonist in the history books of later generations.
Of course, distance is also an issue. Parsi is tens of thousands of miles away from Daqian, and this country is still in its prosperous age. Even if Daqian has the advantage in weapons, it is not so easy to defeat Parsi. The early industrial countries were more powerful than the feudal countries The advantage was not that big. The colonists back then only dared to attack some primitive countries. However, for feudal countries, they usually focused on trade. They only pounced on them after they found out that they were weak!
"In power, our Daqian's goods are so good, and they like them so much. Why do these countries have to restrict trade? Don't they know the benefits of trade circulation! The reason why our Daqian has restrictions is because we have broken the internal hills. Head, so that the goods can be circulated to all parts of Daqian!" Wang Guojun said helplessly.
During this period, many merchants spoke ill of the Parthian Empire to the Royal Army, especially because the Parthian Empire used pirates to rob their merchant ships, causing them huge losses. Therefore, these merchants approached the Royal Army and asked him to make the decision. It was best to send a large fleet to fight. them!
Although the royal army was annoyed by the Parthians' behavior of restricting trade, he also knew the danger of the fleet traveling thousands of miles, so it was naturally impossible for him to agree with these merchants.
Xu Wei said with a smile: "Most countries in the world use gold and silver as currency. The first function of this gold is circulation within the country, and the second is as a socially recognized wealth.
You also know that our Dagan goods are very popular. Many times our Dagan goods are sold, but these countries do not have the goods that we need. This results in our merchants having to transport gold back.
But doing so will cause an extremely bad effect. Insufficient currency circulation within the country will cause deflation. This is the reason why these countries restrict trade with us. If they have enough goods to trade with us, like now, Such behavior will no longer occur!”
At this time, Wang Guojun suddenly realized: "No wonder after Liu Bei went to Tianzhu, the trade between our Daqian and Tianzhu doubled, because they found new trade goods!"
This understanding is really perfect, but Xu Wei is a little embarrassed!
Because the goods from Tianzhu were the nobility of Tianzhu back then, Xu Wei didn't want this trade if he had a choice, because it reminded him of the slave trade back then.
When Liu Bei surrendered the entire Tianzhu nobility and sold them to the South China Sea for development, now these Tianzhu have become the wives of the Daqian people (compared to the barbarians, the Tianzhu aristocrats who have been optimized for thousands of years are more in line with the aesthetics of the Daqian people) , so many of the Dagan people working in Nanhai married Tianzhu women as their wives!)
Otherwise, he could become the steward of the Dagan people, take charge of affairs, and help the Dagan people manage the savages in the South China Sea. In other words, the status and treatment of these Tianzhu people would be slightly higher, allowing Xu Wei to comfort himself. Becoming a slave, Dagan has not degenerated into a slave trader like Niu Niu. The moral bottom line of Dagan people is higher than that of Niu Niu.