Mo San was stranded in Horen and Enkehei for another week, but the results were average. At the moment when Britain had officially declared war on the Netherlands, Dutch merchants whose business was greatly affected were now busier than before, because everyone was rushing to hire ships returning to the port one after another, and then ventured out to sea again despite the naval warnings to chase the cute gold coins.

As a yellow-skinned pagan diplomatic envoy, Mo San was not welcomed in the eyes of the Dutch Red Hair. If the entire East Coast Republic of China had not supported him behind his back, the Dutch would probably not even see him. However, Mo San didn't care about this at all. All he cared about was how to gain greater benefits for the East Coast Republic of China.

After wandering for a week in two port cities, Horen and Enkecherzon, which mainly traded in Baltic Sea, he only met one businessman - but a big man - the Conelis of the Bicker family. The Bicker family is a famous family in the Netherlands. Conelis's father is a member of the Amsterdam City Council and a member of the Dutch Provincial Council. Of course, compared with his political titles, he has a very good reputation in the business world. He is one of the founders of the Dutch East India Company and was once the first Dutch merchants to explore the Moscow market.

The Bickel family arrived in the generation of Conelis. The eldest son Andres inherited his father's position in politics and entered the Amsterdam City Council. Andres also had three brothers, Jacob engaged in grain trade in the Baltic Sea. Conelis invested almost all his money in the stocks of the Americas and West India Company, Young was responsible for the Mediterranean trade, while their sister Elizabeth married the newly-researched Tripp family - the deceased Old Tripp left a huge business empire, mainly in iron, copper mining, casting and weapons trade. At the same time, during the Thirty Years War, 750,000 ruts were loaned to the Swedish king every year (the Swedes offset the copper and iron ore income). They were also very powerful.

Mo San was able to get on the line of Conelis. Thanks to the introduction of the Tripp family - this introduction was just a casual act in the Tripp family, but for Mo San and some other small and medium-sized businessmen, it was a pie from the sky. For Conelis, who invested a lot in the Caribbean and West India companies, it was not a bad thing to contact the East Coast people. After all, he was also very concerned about his investment situation - although he rarely went to the New World, and the ones who went on his behalf were usually family managers.

Mo San was also very satisfied with being able to speak with Conelis - it was a pity that the East Coast people and the West India Company had been doing business for so many years, and they could be considered as talking to one of the big bosses behind the scenes. It is gratifying. During the two-hour meeting between the two sides, Mo San did not fail to achieve results. He reminded Conelis that now that Britain and the Netherlands have officially declared war, the Portuguese who are competing with the West India Company for the ownership of northeastern Brazil will not give up. They will definitely take the opportunity to strengthen the offensive in order to completely expel the Dutch from Brazil.

Conelis agrees deeply about this, but there are not many ways. Because the West India Company has been in operation until now, due to the continuous wars over the years, the returns are actually very poor. Therefore, investors are unwilling to increase their investment again. Especially when the transport ships are intercepted by the British, it seems quite risky to invest heavily in West India Company.

Mosan knew some of the thoughts of Conelis and others. Therefore, he flatly stated that the East Coast Republic of China could provide a large amount of stock weapons, military funds for West India Company, and the prices were favorable and of high quality. This was very beneficial for West India Company to capture slaves on the coast of West Africa (slave coast, barbaric coast) at the same time. Unlike other countries, Dutch slaves mainly came from their own personal arrest - fighting the Portuguese in northeastern Brazil and fighting with the Indians in the New Netherlands (later New York State). They did not need to ship from Europe at all, cutting off the possibility of British interception.

Conelis was very moved by Mosan's proposal and said that he would instruct his ships to set off from Recife to order a batch of weapons and military funds from the east coast. For this reason, he signed a commodity supply and marketing contract with Mosan. The contract lasted for five years. In addition to purchasing a large amount of materials from the east coast, it also exported a large amount of sugar (jagged sugar), tobacco, dried fruit, cotton, and Brazilian suma, which is crucial to the construction of ships on the east coast. Healing wood - the East Coast Navy is too high, and the main battleship is not aged Brazilian suma, so this type of wood has always been one of the bulk materials exported by the Brazilian and Peruvian Governor's Governor's District to the east coast.

After taking on this small business from the Bickel family, Mo San realized that his "sales representative" had done a very good job, so at the urging of the DeHier family, he returned to Amsterdam from Enkehey. Matthias of the DeHier family will take him to meet some guild representatives in Amsterdam today (August 25). After all, they signed some food purchase contracts with the East Coast, and some of the relationships must be straightened out.

The two arrived at the wine guild early the next day and met with several members of the guild's leadership. The DeHell family, as a big family in Horen, also gained a high reputation in Amsterdam, so things went smoothly. Although the leadership of these guilds (basically large wine wholesalers) were a little dissatisfied with the Tripp Trading Company's squeeze into this circle, they did not make much trouble in the end in the exchange of private interests. After asking Mo San some matters, they agreed to produce Xiangshan Dried Red on the east coast, Xianghe wine entered the Amsterdam market.

Let me say more, but in this era, even the Netherlands, which claims to be the most open in business, still has many commercial policies with medieval local protectionism. For example, if wines on the East Coast want to enter the Amsterdam market, they must first obtain the license of the wine wholesaler guild. The agents of wines on the East Coast (Treep Train) must apply to join the guild and be approved before they can wholesale wines. Otherwise, they will not be able to sell wines on the East Coast in the city, and violators will be put into prison.

Throughout the 17th century and from the first half of the 18th century, the number of guilds in the entire Netherlands has been on a surge, and the business and economy of the Netherlands are basically controlled by these large and small monopoly guilds. Especially important industries such as grain, iron, weapons, wood, fish, wine, etc., are basically controlled by the only monopoly guild. Businessmen, big and small in the alliance of the seven provinces, and business owners are all members of these guilds.

Guilds are extremely xenophobic and extremely vigilant against all foreign competing products that endanger the interests of members. They charge members and then serve all members (including assistance), such as wine merchants, which will provide 3 guan a weekly subsidy to members of guilds who are in trouble. Moreover, it is not the only guild that does this. Doctors guilds, goldsmiths, and silversmithsmen will also provide 3 guan a weekly subsidy to members who are sick or have difficulties; guilds with less than enough strength, such as tailors, booksellers, candy merchants, etc., only provide 1-2 guan a weekly subsidy to members who are in trouble.

In some wealthy guilds - such as the Grain Wholesale Corps and the Wood Wholesale Corps - they will also be funded by wealthy members of the guild to establish some orphanages. The food standards of this orphanage are very high, and there is never a shortage of meat, fish, and eggs. Scholars are also hired to provide qualified education to the orphans admitted to the hospital so that these orphans can obtain the necessary knowledge and ensure that their social class will not easily slip away in the future. Of course, this orphanage only accepts orphans from their members, and orphans other than members cannot enter.

The wine guilds that Mosan and DeHell are now visiting monopolize the wholesale of wines in the entire Amsterdam market, so they have obtained their recognition and permission and formal membership (of course, Tripp's guild has been qualified), which is the prerequisite for East Coast wines to be sold in Amsterdam - otherwise they will have to be smuggled.

After visiting the wine merchants' meeting, Dehair took Mo San to various monopoly commercial guilds such as the Fish merchants' association, Cheese merchants' association, and Clothing merchants' association. Then, with the golden signboard of Tripp merchants and the tacit understanding that had been communicated in advance, he obtained the recognition of these guilds and officially obtained membership, so he could hold a signboard to sell things.

However, gaining recognition from so many guilds in Amsterdam is only the first step, and the rest of the guilds in various places have not yet been gone! Because of the special system of the Netherlands (confederate system), each city and each province have very strong independence. This independence is reflected in economic and commercial conditions, that is, the homogeneous guilds in every municipality. Do you think that you have completed the membership of the Amsterdam Wine Chamber? No, it can only make your goods unimpeded in the city. If you want to sell the goods to Horen, to Enkecher, to Rotterdam, to Utrecht, to go to these cities to join the local wine chain, otherwise you can't sell them here, or you can only use the guild member agents of these municipalities.

Of course, Tripp Trading Company does not want to join the guilds of every town (in fact, it is unlikely). They are planning to join only a few major cities - if they focus on international trade, they usually only need to join the guilds in these regions, because re-export trade mostly takes place at these ports - as for other regions, it is better to develop agents. Therefore, within the next ten days, Mo San and Dehel rushed to important cities in important provinces such as the Netherlands and Zelan, and completed the membership procedures separately.
Chapter completed!