Xinshun 1730

Chapter 1288 Death and Vengeance ([-])

From this perspective, they have their own views on Liu Yu's many reforms.

This kind of national power as a "midwife" includes colonization, heavy taxation, national debt, protection system, monopoly, administrative monopoly and so on.

Many of Dashun's reforms in recent years have all revolved around these few items - including Liu Yu's tax reform in Songsu, which was never "heavy taxation instead of light taxation". From ten taxes to one, nine taxes to one, or even eight taxes to one."

Another example is the protection system that is part of the "national power... the midwife". When people from the Dashun Xinxue school listened to Liu Yu's talk, it was the Colbert doctrine, the British navigation regulations, and the British wool that destroyed Ireland. The textile industry turns it from a wool rubbing to a wool producing...

Then, Liu Yu showed off his backhand in Dashun.

The trade in Guangdong was closed, and Fujian tea was forced to be exported without permission, and had to be transferred to Songsu for export; the immigrants from the Northeast only tried to grow cotton in Shenyang, and Liu Yu backhandedly dumped it. The strong pressure of his national status directly dried up the cotton in Shenyang The planting industry has semi-forced the development of the soybean industry.

For example, before the outbreak of the war, the development and prosperity of the textile industry in the Saxony region was forcibly boosted by direct government investment and subsidies.

And the same thing is that Liu Yu made the trading company specialize in additional obligations and terms, relying on government investment and administrative monopoly-either buy heavy merchant ships from emerging shipyards in Bohai Bay, or get out. If you don’t do it, some people will do it. Buy heavy merchant ships, do not train sailors, and are not allowed to participate in Japanese and European trade—forcibly pulling up the shipbuilding industry in Bohai Bay.Of course, it also includes the mandatory enclosure of cotton in northern Jiangsu, as well as tax exemptions and subsidies.

Basically, from the perspective of the New Learning School, Liu Yu, the "midwife", has always followed the train of thought and pointed out the direction for them.

Because, [by means of this method, manufacturers are "artificially" created, independent laborers and small producers are deprived, and the means of production and means of production are "artificially accelerated" to capitalize]

It seems that all these changes do not involve ideology, so those conservative Confucianists in Dashun would rather devote their main energy to the Yan Li School. In this matter, Liu Yu did very dishonestly. From the very beginning, he felt that the two sides were mortal enemies, but he insisted on pulling people from the Yan and Li School together, using it as a shield for himself, and letting the Yan and Li School attract output from the front—and the conservative Confucianism is very important to Liu Yu’s new school. , I don’t pay too much attention to it, it’s just an evil path that is regarded as “dominant”, and its priority is obviously lower than that of shouting “retro authentic Confucianism” and “Juntian is the most benevolent government in the world” Yan Li school of thought.

However, it is obvious that these people of the new school of learning only learn half of what they learn, because those who teach do not teach the other half.

For example, some crucial words, which are actually the root of the post-war differences between China and France this time, Liu Yu only taught half of them.

The full sentence is:
[Industrial hegemony brings commercial hegemony, commercial capital is a vassal of industrial capital, after machine production occurs]

[However, in the period of manufacture and handicraft industry, it was commercial hegemony that resulted in industrial advantages, and commercial hegemony was achieved by state power, such as colonization, monopoly, protection, etc.].

[During this process, "a wild priest" quietly placed himself on the altar, juxtaposed with the old idols, hiding his own light. 】

[As a result, suddenly one day, this Ye Luzi promiscuously worshiped the gods. He pushed hard, causing all the old idols to fall down and smash to pieces. He became the only true god, and then announced, making money, value, profit , is the ultimate and only purpose of human beings]

Obviously, Liu Yu would never teach the latter part.

Because in that half, if it is taught and made clear, then even if there is the Yan Li school who was pulled to the front row by Liu Yu to resist damage, the new learning and many things that are changing at this time will become conservative and old. The priority target of the forces.

The gods and idols have been changed, and the values ​​have been changed. Is this okay?This is even more terrifying than the fucking Yan-Li School. The Yan-Li School is at best the difference between "from the inside out" or "from the outside in".

Xinxue, the "Yeluzi God", wants to overthrow all the other idols and replace them with new ones. This is the real enemy.

Naturally, it is impossible to teach the second half without teaching.

The first half of the teaching, as well as Dashun’s productivity base, production efficiency, wage level of global silver monetization, labor cost under the population explosion... also contributed to this time between China and France, the war has not yet been fought It's over, the fundamental reason why the differences are about to explode.

Dashun intends to engage in commercial hegemony in the east of the Cape of Good Hope, especially in India.

That is to say: areas where commercial capital is ruled must implement the robbery system—a collective term for the robbery system such as forced buying low and selling high, forced planting, and forced purchases.

In the east of the Cape of Good Hope, especially in Europe, the logic is industrial hegemony.

It's not that industrial hegemony is superior to commercial hegemony...but commercial hegemony is based on national power, and Dashun's national power is strong enough to beat Poland at home in Europe, because it can't transport so much People, not to mention Britain and France.

Without national power, there will be no commercial hegemony.

For example, in India, Dashun can force cotton to be collected at a low price, because Dashun has troops, fleets, cannons, muskets, explosives stationed in India...

As for Dashun, is it possible for businessmen to go to England to forcefully collect wool at a low price?Shit must not be punched out, who do you send it to?Why sell it to you at a low price, and you don't have troops stationed and you can't kill if you refuse to accept it.

So, if it is just based on the logic of commercial hegemony, does Dashun have to go through the Cape of Good Hope?
The Cape of Good Hope is the limit of Dashun's military power at this time to achieve commercial hegemony, beyond the Cape of Good Hope, basically no one can beat it.Even if they can win, the cost of colonization will drag Dashun to death.

The current reality of Dashun, or the reality of the Sino-French alliance, is that Dashun has gone to Europe.

What are you going to do in Europe?
Naturally, it is based on the logic of industrial hegemony.

What is the logic of industrial hegemony?

Whether it is the British navigation regulations, French navigation regulations, or Spanish navigation regulations, it is only the navigation regulations that I am opposed to, not against any country.

Any form of navigation regulations—here, the negotiation with Spain is a kind of compromise and concession. It is nothing more than a second-hand businessman who passed the Spanish royal family. In essence, Dashun is selling goods to the Spanish colonies.

Going deeper, what is the reason why Dashun is doing well in Europe now?

Because of the division of Europe, there is no real hegemony.

Tariff protection, industrial protection, and colonial commercial hegemony are all based on national power.

Therefore, Dashun has its own views on the post-war situation, and of course it is in favor of Dashun's industrial hegemony.

In this, although Liu Yu has actually planned for a long time in advance, trying to cut off Europe, and trying to make Dashun able to use the balance of power in Europe—it is the balance of power in Europe, which does not include Dashun—so that Dashun can use it The limited military strength becomes the arbiter of Europe, ensuring that European countries are unable to resist Dashun's industrial hegemony.

The earliest layout here is the North American ginseng mink trade.

If there is no such thing, from the perspective of France to look at the Seven Years War, then obviously, they hope to throw away Canada and keep Guadeloupe and other small Caribbean islands.

Here, France is not without experts:
[The existence of French Canada makes it impossible for the British in the thirteen states in North America to rise up to resist, but it will promote their centripetal force towards London. 】

[When the British drove the French from North America and the lobster soldiers defeated the rebellious Indians, the resistance of the North American colonies was coming. 】

It has to be said that there are strategists in the French government.

And the basis of this strategy is French North America. After Liu Yu tried his best to promote the great development of the ginseng and mink fur trade—and, Dashun’s own founding history, the psychological shadow of the last years of the previous dynasty caused the Liaodong emigration, and the emigration after the emigration. The rapid disappearance of wild ginseng in Liaodong, and the myth of ginseng facilitated by the trade in the former dynasty—before these events, France’s attitude towards North America was really "tasteless to eat, but a pity to discard".

It's "acres of snow".

It is "a colony that doesn't make money but has to fucking pay back money."

In addition, Liu Yu's three views allowed him to see various economic contradictions between the thirteen North American states and the United Kingdom.

He looked at it from the perspective of class, industry, and trade.

So, he can see something.

However, he also couldn't see something.

And what he couldn't see was exactly what the French could see.

Because, he...is not a Christian.

Therefore, Liu Yu can only look at it from the perspective of class, industry, and trade.

But it is impossible to understand "Protestantism", "Puritanism", "Anglicanism", "Religious Metaphors", "Promised Land", "Tyranny of Egypt and the Exodus of God's Chosen People" and the like.

However, from this perspective, the French see it very clearly, because the French have been tossing about the issue of Protestantism and Oldism for almost 200 years.

It's like... At this time, a Frenchman, even a missionary who has been in Dashun for a long time and is proficient in Confucianism, can't figure out what these people are fighting for from the Yangming Mind School in the late Ming Dynasty to the Yan-Li School at this time. WTF.

Similarly, Liu Yu, who has read the Bible for a few days at most as a story about Christianity, has no way of understanding the religious contradictions between the thirteen North American states and the United Kingdom.

In Dashun's words, this "is not a simple local rebellion, but a dispute between orthodoxy and orthodoxy."

In other words, it is the "Orthodoxy" of Christianity once again after the Eastern and Western churches split into Orthodox Catholicism.

Who is orthodox?

The "artificial myth" of "The Mayflower"-this, like the Dutch Batavia myth, is a man-made national myth-what story does it tell?
Liu Yu couldn't understand.

People from Dashun's new school can't understand it either.

In other words, what they see is just what they think they understand, and they interpret it blindly according to their own experience and tradition.

However, the French understand it quite well.

The myth of "Mayflower" tells such a story:
The Pharaoh of Egypt, seeing the increasing number of Israelites, was afraid of affecting his rule, so he planned to harm them.Pharaoh enslaved them and made them work in industry and commerce.The hard work of industry and commerce actually increased the Hebrew population.Pharaoh ordered all males born in Israel to be thrown into the river and drowned... (Puritans and Separatists were persecuted).

So Moses went to the Promised Land under the guidance of God.But on the way to the Promised Land, many people doubted, so God punished them to wander in the wilderness for 40 years... drifting).

Finally, after wandering and suffering in the wilderness, God’s chosen people signed a contract and finally arrived at the Promised Land—a group of retro-fundamentalist Puritans who must demand the restoration and existence of Israel, because in the prophecy, the restoration and existence of Israel is a Preconditions for "Doomsday Judgment, Apocalypse Coming".

If not, then create a new "promised land" according to Exodus.

On Dashun's side, among the new school, what they think they understand is nothing but things like "township covenant" and "contract".

In fact, the French may say at this time: You understand a hammer.How can you, a country that bans Christianity, understand it?

Do you understand Christianity?
Do you know better than me, a Catholic country that imprisoned the pope, issued a Protestant edict, a Protestant decree, participated in a 30-year war, and took the fucking side of Protestantism?

This is a battle of orthodoxy.

The attitude of France has always been quite clear: the world?The world of Christianity?It's none of my business, I just want to be the overlord, I don't want to have an emperor in the Christian world.Not the Orthodox Church, not the Pope, not the Anglican Church, not Protestant.It is the attitude of France to dismantle it into pieces, without orthodoxy, or all of them think they are orthodox.

It is a tradition, it can form an alliance with Ottoman to prosecute, and it can arrest the Pope.

It is also enlightenment, saying that Notre Dame was smashed, and turned around and changed to the Temple of Reason.

France would rather let a new "orthodoxy" emerge in the Americas and compete with the traditional European orthodoxy, because as far as it seems, the problem is not big.

But Dashun didn't like this.

At least, since Liu Yu began to guide the ginseng trade, the idea of ​​America is to rebuild a divided Europe, divide the four countries, balance the forces, and fish in troubled waters.

(End of this chapter)