Xinshun 1730

Chapter 1312 Death and Revenge ([-])
Compared with the length of history, human life is short.Therefore, the idea of ​​the end of history will always come up unnaturally. Whether it is history, economy, or even science, there have been sighs that "the building has been built, and only decoration is left."

The education received by Dashun and the Practical School made their ideas basically the same: that is, they believed that British politicians regarded the means of primitive accumulation as the ultimate goal.

And because of this, I was trapped in it, and I didn't do a few decent things at all.Even if they did it, they were forced to do it, not because they had much brains.

Because Dashun’s Practical School’s attitude towards India has always been clear: taxation and exploitation are not the purpose, but just means. The purpose is to abolish India’s handicraft industry, become a market, and grow Dashun’s own industry.

And because of the history of Dashun, these people are quite puzzled by the British rule in North America: Since the imperial examination, they have never heard of the division of the north and the south, and one side can get the imperial examination and the other cannot.There is no imperial examination in the United Kingdom, but the parliament is not much different from the imperial examination, so that North America cannot have the imperial examination, and people will not rebel?

Under these two kinds of thinking, if people from Dashun’s practical school can think highly of British politicians, it would be hell.

To say that Peter is the spiritual successor of Cromwell is to say that he is faithfully continuing the trade framework of Cromwell's navigation law system.Regardless of how loud the wind and rain can enter, isn’t the root cause of the flood of smuggling to the point where people generally sympathize with smuggling is the exclusive trade and tariffs caused by the Navigation Law?If you don't solve it at the root, treat your head and feet if you have a headache.

A real strategist or politician should immediately wake up in the year when Dashun went to Nanyang, take the initiative to vote, violently dismantle the East India Company, and replace the Netherlands as a transit agent for East-West trade.United China to make laws, abandon India, and the Cape of Good Hope divides the world.

But until now, no one has thought of this step.

Pete originally dismissed these articles that satirized him.

Now, although I am not dismissive, although I think it makes sense, I still use a common saying to sum up my more feelings: standing and talking does not hurt my back.

"You understand economics, diplomacy and strategy, but do you understand Britain?"

After reading all the articles criticizing him, Pete said this sentence helplessly.

Did the East India Company dismantle it as soon as it said it would?At the beginning, in order to reduce the influence of the royal family and nobles on the company, we directly welcomed the foreign kings, in order to "everyone above 500 pounds is equal, even if you have 10 pounds of shares".

The huge group of beneficiaries of exclusive trade, the oligarchic alliance between the Whig Party, and the oppressive gentry and landowners can't breathe. Who can move this group on stage?
Walpole wanted to reduce land taxes, didn't want to fight Spain for smugglers, but wanted to stabilize the economy and debt peacefully, and was directly killed.

You understand economics and strategy, but you don't understand Britain at all.

After sighing, there is deep despair.

A huge national debt crisis is imminent, and the country's fiscal revenue constitutes a serious problem.

Under the colonial system, the high revenues from tariffs and protection taxes were essentially an indirect tax.It will not have devastating consequences for the country's economy.

However, since Dashun participated in the war for trade, a large amount of goods poured in, while Grenville pinned its hope of repaying the national debt on tariffs.

Even though Pete is a man of the old times, thinking of the old times, and a conservative under the framework of the law of navigation, he understands what this means.

Oriental trade goods, not counted as smuggling, are only considered genuine goods of the East India Company, accounting for more than 20% of the total imports of the UK.

How much was smuggled is impossible to say, because the amount of smuggled goods has reached the point where the fledgling cotton mills in Lancashire have basically gone bankrupt.There were knockoff Lancashire [Fustian] everywhere, mixed with cotton, linen and wool blends.

According to the normal consumption of tea in North America according to the tariff statistics, there is not much at all, but there are people who drink Wuyi tea everywhere in Shisanzhou.

At that time, Thomas Moe, defending the East India Company, gave a seemingly feasible solution: re-export.Earn re-export money, so importing is not a bad thing.

But now, how to earn?
In the past, Easterners would not travel so far to sell goods, but now Oriental merchant ships are everywhere from the Baltic Sea to the Mediterranean Sea.

For the rest of the countries without the East India Company, why do they do charity instead of directly buying Chinese goods from Chinese businessmen, instead of buying re-exported goods to make Britain earn money from second-tier dealers?

The Swedish East India Company was merged into a joint stock company; the Dutch East India Company was destroyed; the Danish East India Company was really called the East India Company this time, because the business hall was found by Dashun and heavy taxes were imposed, and Tranqueba was left. The "Company" is worthy of its name; the Ostend Company is dead; the French East India Company has lost even India; Portugal's Macau has been taken back...

In this case, except for the United Kingdom, no country is willing to work together to drive Chinese merchant ships back to the Cape of Good Hope.

In the past, the East India Companies of various countries could cooperate.For example, in the case of the Ostend company, several companies cooperate and kill one, because everyone benefits.

If these East India companies are still there, Britain may, at least theoretically, take the lead, and everyone will work together to drive away the Chinese merchant ships, and we will earn the difference.

Now, even the theoretical possibility is gone.

According to the colonial trade theory he was familiar with, Pete knew that there were only two roads before Dashun.

Either at home.

Either cross India, Africa, and run to Europe.

There are no intermediate options.

However, Leng took that very difficult step by relying on the chaos in Europe, the national conditions in the Netherlands, and the smuggling in Sweden.

Now looking at the assumptions in the articles satirizing him, such as the fact that the UK should have fully voted in the southeast Asia, it seems that this is really the only way to avoid the current situation.

However, regardless of the reasons in the past, such as national conditions, internal strife, franchise beneficiaries, etc., if you didn’t make it, you didn’t make it. There is no chance now, and there will be no chance in the future.

The fog that was covered before has been removed a lot at this moment.

Grenville hoped that Pete would bring up the issue of tariffs and the issue of peace and truce, hoping to preserve the interests of the family alliance.

But Pete... has his own dignity.

He knew that he had a son, a descendant, and a family.

But he also knew that if he raised the issue of tariffs, his reputation after death would definitely be extremely bad.

Perhaps, at this time, it seems that this is a good choice.

The vast majority of people who can make a sound can be satisfied. It seems that the only one who is at a disadvantage and can make a sound is the half-disabled East India Company.

But what about the future?

One of the presuppositions of Thomas Moe's defense for the East India Company was that the East India Company had obtained a trade monopoly east of the Cape of Good Hope.

Not just for England, but also to beat Holland, France, Austria, Portugal...

Under this premise, imports can be used for entrepot trade.

But, isn't this the strategy that satirizes him in the article, after going to Nanyang?
If you consider Thomas Meng’s status as a director of the East India Company, you should not be confused by his original economics, because the presupposition in his status is that the East India Company monopolizes the shipping of trade goods east of the Cape of Good Hope.

But most people don't think about this hidden prerequisite.

Therefore, at this time, many people think that this is very good.

But Pete knew that this was not good.

Even if it is good now, it will look good in three, five, or even ten years.

The national debt can also be paid off, the trade volume has also developed, and more people have become rich.

However, what is the essence of the East India Company's fortune?Did the silver in the hands of the common people be sucked into the hands of the directors of the East India Company? Did they create any wealth?

One thing Piet is well aware of, and that is an example at hand: the decay of the Netherlands.

Not just the kind of apparent decay.

It is precisely because of the excessive prosperity of business that the overall failure of the construction of the Dutch nation has been caused, and the internal division cannot be bridged.

The conflict between merchants and guilds, between trade and local industry, between tax contractors and farmers, between oligarchs and nobles... was so fragmented that even the national identity could not be established, and the seven provinces were completely shattered.

The stable situation after the coup in the Netherlands was only after Dashun chose to cooperate, and the merchants in Amsterdam realized the colonization of the remaining six provinces by virtue of their economic advantages.

The Netherlands is not big.

But if the UK wants to do this, something big will happen.Because, England, Scotland, Ireland, North America... This is more fragmented than the seven provinces of the Netherlands.

Pete believed in Grenville's promise.

I also believe that Grenville's choice to take over the olive branch of the new king is just a stopgap measure.

I believe that with the cooperation of their family, his descendants still have the opportunity to lead the political arena in politics.

However, he didn't want to leave an eternal infamy.

I also don't want to have my tombstone filled with rubbish after ten, twenty, or even longer.

He doesn't want to, or in other words, he will never raise the issue of tariffs.

He started out as an oppositionist.

He was against taxation, but he was for war, and he had a good reputation for being against taxation.

He has won a lot of good reputation for many things he opposed.

Now, he still hopes to leave a good name.

Without peace talks, how can we persist in war?He didn't care, he was just against surrender.

How can we repay the national debt without tariffs?He doesn't care, he just opposes the rampant use of foreign goods.

As for what Britain should do now, he knew, but he didn't want to do it.

On weekdays, they fanatically go to war, and they are defeated and die to report to the country.

I would rather split up and pay compensation than leave my reputation in the world.

So Pete wrote a long prophecy about the terms proposed by Grenville and the possible consequences of liberalizing trade with China.

Don't talk about the present, only talk about the future.

In his suicide note, he upholds his arrogance—only I can save Britain, and God sent me to save Britain—the king, cabinet ministers, colleagues, Tories, Whigs, country factions, The court faction all satirized, depicting a decaying future.

Sign this long suicide note with your own name and your own personal seal.

Before deciding to swallow laudanum and opium to end his own life, he called the most loyal housekeeper who had followed him for many years since the widow of the Duke of Churchill gave him an annuity, and asked him to give this suicide note to someone, And told him that it can only be made public after the peace treaty is completely signed.

After the butler left, Pete swallowed enough alcohol and opium to paralyze his central nervous system.

The recipient of the suicide note was not his relatives, but his most fanatical supporters, writers, and young fanatical opponents.

The youngest and most ardent Pete follower in history.

Great writer who produced details of the beds of Lord Bute and the King's own mother.

At the end of the appointment for a duel, we met the founder of Ruinhuo on the bed in sympathy.

After being locked up, it triggered the St. George Field Massacre, which made the British shout "Go to the king! Go to the justice! Go to the government!", and he fanatically believes that the Scots are rubbish, The first generation of the "Freedom Fighter" certified by the United Kingdom and the United States was the first generation of the Irish who were mentally retarded, supported all-out war, and supported aggression and expansion.

John Wilkes.

(End of this chapter)