Xinshun 1730

Chapter 1305 Death and Revenge ([-])
Since it is impossible to take into account some personal emotional factors of Liu Yu who participated in the battle of Dashun, it is easier to rationally see what Dashun probably wants.

It seems that the national debt problem facing the British government can only be repaid by Dashun's tariffs on tea, silk, porcelain, cotton cloth, etc.

Because, at this time, even a talented financier cannot solve such a large debt problem.

The last financial genius to solve a similar problem was John Law.

The solution is also simple.

Marketing the Mississippi company aggressively: it claims to be backed by a gold mine, the annual interest rate is guaranteed to be 18%, and the stock price has risen 60 times in six months.

The whole of France is crazy about it, and a lot of cash, silver and gold are used to buy stocks.

Then, the Mississippi company used the gold and silver that 30 shareholders bought stocks to buy the French national debt at a low interest rate of 3% in the name of the company, and filled the big pit of French national debt.

In this way, the national debt of France was resolved, shareholders held a pile of worthless stocks, and the financial hole left by Louis XIV's misfortune all his life was completely filled.

It can be said that this is definitely a financial genius, and his means are much higher than the gold circle coupons: the gold circle coupons are compulsorily convertible, and the shares of the Mississippi company are what everyone is begging to buy, and ordinary people can’t buy them, and they have to rely on their connections to buy them. Woolen cloth.

It’s not that this method cannot be used in the future, after all, people don’t have a long memory in financial speculation.

However, the two bombings in the South China Sea and Sisippi in the past 20 years have caused psychological shadows in Europe. Some people who lost their money at the beginning are still alive.

If it was 40 years later, or 40 years earlier, this method would really work.But now, it is really useless, no one believes it.

Lord Bute calmly analyzed it for the young King George III.

In the current situation, diplomatic envoys and spies from China and France will soon arrive from Dunkirk.

After the Tories were tricked last time, they must show their attitude as soon as possible this time, otherwise, the French spies would definitely collude with the Tories immediately.

And if you want to win over the Tory Party, the land tax cannot be increased.

Walpole had already said it very bluntly.

The owner of the land, is the pig.If you want to pluck the hair from a wild boar, let alone the strange screams, maybe I will give you a mouthful with sharp teeth.

The consumption tax is on wool, and big sheep are much safer than pigs. Generally speaking, big fat sheep don't bark.

In Walpole's time, he was thinking about reducing the land tax, and it was until Walpole stepped down. The land tax reform was not completed until 53, and the land tax was finally reduced from the May [-]st tax to the [-]th tax.

And dare to move the land tax, the Tories will immediately scream.

At that time, under the banner of welcoming the real king, they must hook up with the French and look forward to the restoration of the Stuart family.Because, one thing is certain, if the Stuart family is restored, given the 150 to 300 disadvantage of the Tory Party and the Whig Party in Parliament, the restored Stuart family will definitely give landlords more money on the land tax issue. Great preferential treatment, after all, the country gentry and landlords are the basic set, and without the basic set, it is impossible to keep it.

Therefore, in terms of government fiscal revenue, land tax should not be considered.

If you dare to increase the land tax, the Tory Party will lead the French army into the customs tomorrow.

Lord Bute was able to say that about a Tory because he didn't really feel like he was a Tory.

There are two kinds of Tories.

It is a bit similar to the Donglin Party of Ming Dynasty.

The real Donglin Party is not the same thing as the Donglin Party that some people in later generations classified into a big basket.

So did the Tories.

After becoming a big basket, especially after years of continuous suppression and stigmatization of the Tories that they and the Jacobite rebels are a group, the Tories are more like a hat at this time.

This hat is already dirty, and political enemies will try to put it on the enemy's head.

For example, Lord Bute himself has always said that his political inclination is actually closer to the Conservative Whig Party, and he has always reiterated that he has nothing to do with the widowed princess.

However, the theory that the Tories, the Scots, and George III's mother had an affair has never been broken.

To put it simply, before George III, because of various restrictions on the Tory Party and rules such as not being able to join the cabinet, when the Whig Party fought internally, it was based on "I am more patriotic", "I am a patriot and you are not" Fighting in such a way.

And after George III loosens the restrictions on the Tory Party, the ready-made "Tory Party" hat can be directly placed on the heads of the ministers around George III.

Lord Boote's Tory hat is put on his head, but he is not an orthodox Tory.Therefore, he can consider the issue of the Tory Party from the perspective of a close minister of the king on the basis of the "non-partisan" ideology of Viscount Bolingbroke, who he studied under.

Here, in the original history, the "cider tax" caused by George Grenville's chaos is also the same as the essence of the land tax issue.

Because of Walpole's previous excise tax issue, Pete insisted on the castle theory that everyone's house is his own castle.Even if there is a search warrant, the inspection of smuggling cannot go to the smuggler's warehouse, because the smuggler's warehouse is the smuggler's castle, and besides-the goods are not sold when they are piled up in the warehouse. From the lawyer's point of view , what is piled up in the warehouse is not contraband.Only after they are sold can they be counted as smuggled goods.

Therefore, on the issue of "cider tax", since bootlegger warehouses cannot be inspected, they can only be "taxed on apples". In the end, the tax was paid to the landlord, and the most popular caused a big disturbance-in From the lawyer's point of view, these apples have not been made into wine, so how can the cider tax be added to the apples?

Of course, it also includes the very interesting "Corn Law" issue of later generations, which is essentially a matter of land tax, land rent, and land income.

At this time, the power of landlords in Britain was very strong, and land tax was a red line.

If you want to win over the disgruntled Tory Party, the land tax can't be moved.

Landlords are not just chanting slogans and dare to mobilize land taxes. They are the ones who really dare to lure the French army into the customs.

The young George III didn't have the kind of ecstatic excitement about being king, especially when he heard Lord Bute say that a tax collection problem is so troublesome.

He is still young, will be a 20-year-old boy.The relationship between grandfather and father can really be described by words such as his father's death and his grandfather celebrating each other. Therefore, there is no one question about what the position of the king is, and what kind of troubles he will face. Awareness.

For Lord Bute, after his father died when he was about ten years old, he regarded Lord Bute as his father.

Probably, everyone with a position like this will always have a rumored relationship with someone of similar status to the "Queen Mother", and Lord Bute is no exception.

Mother and Lord Bute are confidantes, and George III is very dependent on Lord Bute, which can be regarded as obedient.

When I was in love with someone before, I also wrote to Lord Bute to ask what Lord Bute meant: "One day, will you agree to me marrying her as my wife?"

Lord Bute directly rejected it, telling him that being a king is different from other things, and you should follow the tradition and honestly marry those royal families in Europe.

George III also knew at that time, "I live for the joy and suffering of a country, and if I have to do things against my feelings, this is the king."

Now, grandpa is finally dead—to be honest, the relationship between his grandfather and his father is not good, and the relationship with his mother is even more impossible. The thoughts instilled in George III since he was a child make him definitely have a good relationship. That "grandpa finally died" happy mood.

I am about to become a king, but the first thing I do when I become a king is to deal with such complicated issues.

Especially for a single taxation issue, he can't help but have a headache when he has to consider so many relationships, influences, opposition, parties, etc.

In fact, George III was not surprised by China's participation in the war.

At least there is no such accident as "people in the background painting, running out of the painting into the real world".

Because some Chinese buildings surrounded him when he grew up.

For example, the Kew Garden funded by his mother, some bamboo plants planted in it, and some Chinese-style garden buildings with a very different European aesthetic.

And the one based on the Pagoda of the Dabaoen Temple in Nanjing; it was designed and built by William Chambers, a member of the Swedish East India Company who had been to China before, and was responsible for some design styles in the Dashun Xinxue University Hall building [Great Pagoda] Great Pagoda.There is also the Confucius House complex in Kew Gardens before Chambers built the Great Pagoda.

Of course, it also includes the porcelain and silk quilts he uses in his daily life.

And some strange instruments made of brass made by Dashun bought for his preference for natural science.As well as a kind of air pump compression gun exported by Dashun to Europe for aristocratic recreation that is "safe and can enjoy hunting pleasure with ladies", George III also has several.

And in addition, as the Crown Prince, the feudal emperors of Dashun had to give some gifts in accordance with diplomatic etiquette under certain circumstances.

Therefore, in this environment, after hearing the news of Dashun's participation in the war, he was not surprised or surprised at all.At most, I feel that since it is not a country that exists in the background board, what is so strange about participating in the war?
However, when the war progressed to this point, Lord Bute tore apart the background paintings, and it was hard to avoid feeling that the beauty of the exotic places before had faded away.

Fade into boring taxes, land taxes, customs duties, silver, sugar, tea, trade, cotton cloth, decrees...these have nothing to do with the beauty of pagodas, porcelain, gardens, etc., extremely boring, extremely vulgar Adu things.

George III basically understood some of Lord Bute's suggestions, but still sighed: "So, will the participation of the Chinese affect the land tax policy?"

Lord Bute replied respectfully: "My Majesty, the Chinese have traveled thousands of miles to participate in the war in Europe. Don't forget that the Chinese prohibit Catholicism and oppose some Christians. The only purpose of their coming here to participate in the war is It's silver. If you go to war on the basis of the anti-Christ, the Chinese are actually offended on matters of etiquette and ancestor worship, and they are more interested in tearing down the Papal States than in fighting us."

"The British use silver, the North Americans use silver, the French use silver, and the Indians, Chinese, and Japanese also use silver."

"Silver is neither grown nor printed."

"They want silver, and the land tax is also silver, so why doesn't it matter?"

"Although he does not collect land tax directly from us, the country's finances rely on taxes, tax packages and monopoly. The premise of monopoly is to be profitable, because the financial revenue brought by these profitable monopolies makes us The land tax was gradually reduced to 2 shillings per pound."

"Obviously, the Chinese hate our monopoly policy and tariff policy, which means that the government will not be able to get the previous revenue."

"Income from trade and monopoly cannot be obtained, and increasing land tax as a supplement is certainly an option. Therefore, the Chinese participation in the war has a relationship with the possible increase in land tax, of course, and it has a lot to do with it."

(End of this chapter)