Xinshun 1730

Chapter 1321 Acquaintance Society
After the meeting in the Bahamas, Thomas Hancock chose to go to Pennsylvania to visit some old friends of his.

By this time he was quite well known in business circles throughout North America.

Not only because of his assets, but also because of his daring and pioneering spirit in the atrocities in the expulsion of the Acadians at the beginning of the war, he became a business idol—while the rest of the ship owners were still cautiously When a boat loaded dozens, or at most a hundred people, he resolutely used the method of transporting slaves to load three or four hundred people in one boat, and threw seven or eight hundred people into the sea halfway, saving food costs, which symbolized a kind of The business spirit of daring to break through the stereotypes and taking risks.

Philadelphia is the county seat of the center of the thirteen states, and Old Hancock just needs to go there to meet some merchants who trade in smuggling, tea, slaves, etc., and prepare for this feast of participating in the division of the East India Company's commodity franchise.

And his nephew, John Hancock, who was the first to sign the manifesto in history, returned to Boston with the merchant ship.

The Hancock Company is like some aristocratic manors or families with butlers at this time, or companies with professional managers in later generations. Many details are handled by professional people.

Thomas Hancock hoped that Hancock Jr. would take over his company. Of course, such details need to be learned to prevent the people below, or professional managers, from killing them and taking money away.

But more, I still hope that he can learn this kind of business vision of actively contacting smuggling trade with enemy countries during the war.

North America at this time is such an era.

As long as the extensive owner farmers and large numbers of petty bourgeoisie seize the opportunity, they may be one step ahead of others and master more commercial and political resources.Because owner farmers and petty bourgeois are like potatoes in the field, one by one, it is easy to become a group of lost lambs without group consciousness, who are directed by the shepherd's baton to go around and follow others. The act of flying the baton here and there is misinterpreted as one's own self-will.

The Hancock family originally operated the "printing industry and newspaper industry".

In the age of paper and printing, whoever controls printing controls public opinion.After all, he knew well about the Lotus Rebellion, and he also knew to print the documents first, and he went to the printing press controlled by the royal family for printing. The technology there is good and the quality of the printing is good.

Now little Hancock has a pamphlet like "A New People-Oriented Trading System" professionally summarized by Dashun. Of course it can be printed, but before printing, John Hancock still You need to ask some respectable people in the local area.

At this time, Boston was not very big.

The population is only in the early [-]s, which of course refers to people who count people. This kind of population is placed in Dashun... It's not a big village, but it's only at the township level.

This is a standard acquaintance society, an acquaintance community.

With a population in the early [-]s, it is easy to imagine the state of this town.

His second uncle is a veterinarian, and he is basically a celebrity in a town with tens of thousands of people; his family sells tea; his family runs a printing factory; his family sells apples; his family is powerful and smuggling ; his is a doctor; his fried fish is delicious...

Basically it is such a state.

Except for those truly transparent people, as long as you are a veterinarian here, you are considered a celebrity in society.Just like people in a big village, they may not know everyone in the village, but they definitely know people in the village health center.

North American society exists on the basis of such an acquaintance society and acquaintance community.Regardless of whether it is a village or a city at this time, after all, a big city has a population of [-]. People, they all know each other.

After dealing with the company's affairs, John Hancock walked along the King's Road to a pub he often visited.

This tavern is not very big.

But the signboard is chic.

The three bunches of gold-plated grape logo hang at the door of the tavern, attracting passing guests.Even the name is very vulgar, it is called the Grape Bunch Tavern.

But just like some villages in northern China in later generations, there may be several small shops, but there must be one small shop. Every day, many people squat in it drinking beer, playing poker, or contacting someone to help tomorrow. Live.This is how acquaintance society works.

The same goes for this grape bunch tavern.

It was one of the three best-known social venues in Boston at this time for "politics, gossip, liaison, gambling, slave trading, and political campaigns."

In addition to the Grape Bunch Tavern, the remaining two are the Boston Exchange and the Crown Coffee and Tea House.

The tavern wasn't huge and didn't even live to see the 19th century, but it's famous in later American history.Washington, the Marquis of Lafayette, General Stark, etc., all got drunk here.

When this tavern was opened, Li Zicheng was fighting for freedom and survival, and it has been in operation for more than a hundred years. According to the British philosophy at that time, not paying taxes or food is not a property right, but a Use the word "freedom" to remove its vulgar brass stink.

At that time, the significance of the existence of this tavern was to help people "find slave labor in Boston."

The same is true now.

People who bought and sold slaves would come here every time they finished their business, to clear a few big coins and drink a few glasses of wine.If you are willing to spend a little more money, you can go through the promenade to the hut at the back. There are other services, but if you don't like black people, you will inevitably have to queue.

This is the best tavern in Boston for trading slaves. The most talked about word at this time is actually "freedom".

Talk about more freedom.

So at the bar here, you can buy any contraband.

Madura wine that does not pay customs duties, with the genuine "Vinho da Roda" logo on it, although it is all smuggled goods, but the tavern owner can always produce a legal tax bill. The 25 barrels of tax on the bill seem to be drunk no matter what not finished.

The French brandy that should not appear here is also sold publicly under the name of "pirate goods".

Of course, more, or local cheap rum. "Thanks" to the French brandy industry protection policy, the honey in France is more than half cheaper than the honey in the British sugar cane garden, which makes the rum industry here develop rapidly.

Conversations such as slave trading, smuggling, and piracy are intertwined with philosophies such as freedom, patriotism, and rights. They are intertwined, and they do not seem to violate harmony, revealing a magical picture.

In fact, the Grape Bunch Tavern, one of the first three public places in Boston, had become a gathering place for anti-British people after Massachusetts participated in the last ginseng war.

The last time the war of succession to the Austrian throne broke out in North America, Massachusetts is the saddest state in North America.

At the time when Liu Yu harmed Korean ginseng and purchased American ginseng and mink fur, the state government of Massachusetts issued a large amount of banknotes, recruited militias, and participated in the ginseng war.

But the result was that the Indians who were provided with weapons by Dashun ambushed in the forest; the cruiser that Dashun "leased" to France and returned the naval instructor at the same time won victory in India.

In the end, the British East India Company, with an undisputed gesture, told the group of people in Massachusetts: silly, Lao Tzu is the ruling class.

The British exchanged the castles captured by the North American for the castles captured by the French in India.

In the end, it directly led to the depreciation of the banknotes in Massachusetts, because when the banknotes were issued at that time, a group of big businessmen issued them together. They thought that if they conquered the north in the future, wouldn’t there be ginseng and mink fur?Going to China, isn't that a lot of money?At this time, the over-issued currency is anchored by the future ginseng and mink trade.

As a result, the British government loves the East India Company more. Can this banknote not depreciate?

Today, Benjamin Franklin is in London trying to get the notes to be traded.And the Massachusetts people who were cheated by these banknotes were naturally dissatisfied with the British government.

Of course, not everyone is dissatisfied.

Those who still have this simple patriotic feeling, or those who have confiscated those banknotes, are gathering at the Crown Coffee and Tea House at this time.

Those who were dissatisfied all gathered in the Grape Bunch Tavern.

The three most famous "political centers" in Boston, the Exchange is for business, and anyone can go to make money; the Grape Bunch Tavern is anti-British; the Crown Coffee and Teahouse is pro-British.

When John Hancock walked into the tavern, he saw an acquaintance of his who was an alumnus and classmate of his at Harvard preaching something there.

However, in fact, John Hancock basically knew everything whether he was preaching or listening there.

After all, this is a small town with a population of over [-], and in such a small town, it is unlikely that young people of the same age will not know each other.

We didn't play marbles together, pee together, or grab each other's hair when we were kids.

For example, Joseph Warren, a doctor in Boston and an alumnus of Hancock at Harvard, was preaching there at this time.

In later history, his name was eternally recorded on the famous oil painting "Warren died in battle at the Battle of Bunker Hill", and he became one of the heroes who shaped the national identity and collective consciousness of the nation in the United States.

For example, at this time, beside the podium, I ordered a glass of rum, and applauded there, it was the silversmith in the town, Paul Levi.

In later history, his most famous deed was that he rode a horse to Lexington in the starry night, told the people there that the British army might be about to attack, and fired the first shot of North American resistance.

An older gentleman nearer, smiling and nodding, was the town tax collector, the nicest man in town, Samuel Adams.Because he, as a tax collector, neither collects taxes nor keeps accounts.

In later history, he was called the father of the American Revolution.Because he contributed the most to the "commentary" and "commentary", and keenly discovered the key to the problem, not how much tax the UK collected. He was the first to erase the "tax" and switch to the "freedom" scripture Master - the key to the problem is not how much tax to collect.Don't talk about the details, just ask that if he can charge threepence today, he can charge three million tomorrow.Once it comes to the details, then the debate fails.It is necessary to replace clear property rights with generalized freedom; to replace specific issues with abstract "crisis".

(End of this chapter)