Xinshun 1730

Chapter 1323 Trade Fragmentation
North America will truly become a country entering a new era until the end of the Civil War.

Prior to this, the Anti-Federal Party, which represented the interests of farmers and petty bourgeois in the early days of the donkey-elephant alliance, and the Federal Party, which tried to develop industry, led by the central bank, large infrastructure, manufacturing, and tariffs, and the Whig Party that was inherited later, were life and death. up.

There are not so many mysterious and abstract nonsense, it is the dispute between the two types of private ownership that Lao Ma said. At that point, enough immigrants will have enough laborers who have been stripped of the means of production.

Is the old days of small farmers remaining?
Or is it industrialization and the era of capitalism?
The contradiction between the two is irreconcilable. As Lao Ma said, the latter developed on the grave of the former.

Is it an industrial and commercial city of strangers?

Or an acquaintance's self-cultivated rural town?

Is it the Manifest Destiny to open up the frontiers and expand the land, continue to guarantee [-] acres of land for each person, and extensive self-cultivation?

Or should we deepen reforms, develop internally, build railways and open factories, and create more industrial capitalists and compound economies?
The Federalist Party and the Whig Party finally died, but before they died, they had basically completed their mission. The era of capitalist private ownership has come, and it will not take long for the owner farmers and small producers to be crushed.

In the same way, because it died, the donkey elephant anti-federal party, which was originally one, naturally split.

However, at this time, North America did not have the economic foundation of the 1830s, so their theories were doomed to lean towards petty bourgeois and yeoman farmers.

However, the situation in Massachusetts is a bit special, and it is not the same as the situation in Pennsylvania and other places.

Of course, the people here were tricked by the UK last time, and were slapped severely by the British government.

It is also true that as self-cultivators and small producers, they have no obligation and do not want to serve the British military, help the British fight, or pay taxes to the British.

But Massachusetts needs to face the Indians, the French.

Therefore, their anti-British sentiment exists, but before the French were completely driven out of North America, their anti-British sentiment was not so radical, at least it is still softer now.

After all, you have to worry about the French invasion, retaliation for the previous expulsion of Arcadia, and sympathetic revenge.The French are heretics and Catholics, which is much more terrifying than the British.

Some of these people are also inclined to the idea put forward by Franklin at the Albany meeting, that thirteen states can have a joint parliament or something like that.

At the very least, fighting the war is not Massachusetts' own business. You other states should also contribute. Don't think why should I spend money to defend the northern frontier just because I'm far away and can't fight me, or the enemies on the northern frontier can't fight. To our southern states and things like that.

Although Joseph Warren was talking about Plato's voter political concept at this time, he still only talked about the state as the center, and did not involve the relationship between the thirteen states and the United Kingdom for the time being.

After the lecture, John Hancock and Warren greeted each other, and with a wink, the two came to a secluded room.

"Where did you and you go a while ago?"

Hancock smiled slyly, and did not answer directly, but stared at the ring with the mysterious symbol on Warren's finger, and said, "Just like you joined the Freemasonry, I went to find the truth some time ago. At least, It seems to me that their reasoning can be called truth."

Warren laughed and asked, "What kind of truth is that?"

"About trade and economics."

In response to this answer, Warren smiled slightly, quite disdainfully.

"My friend, you must know that truth, that is, supreme wisdom. Its foundation is not only reason, nor is it the worldly sciences such as business, economics, or physics that rational knowledge divides."

"Supreme wisdom is unique, all-encompassing, knowledge of one law and all laws."

"Knowing God is difficult. We have been working towards this knowledge for thousands of years, from Adam to us today, but we are far from it. How can you say that you have found the truth Woolen cloth?"

"People cannot peek into His truth, that is, the unique, all-encompassing, and one-dharma knowledge."

"We are like a child, unable to comprehend His wisdom."

"It's like a child questioning the most exquisite watchmaker. The reason for his questioning is that he doesn't understand watches at all."

"And the truth you heard was just that child who would go away when he found out that the clock was wound. So this child told you, who is also a cute child, that he knew the secret of the clock..."

Such religious sayings are similar all over the world.Freemasonry is not limited to people who read the Bible. Freemasonry also has people who read the Qur'an and the Vedas. It's not much different.

Epistemologically, it's all this correct nonsense at this point: Assume that there is a founder, that there is a one-way rule that governs the motion of the universe.If one can know this rule of creation, one can master all knowledge of physics, chemistry, mathematics, astronomy and geography, because all these knowledge are just derivatives of this rule of creation.

Saying he's right is bullshit because he is right bullshit.

No one denies the rules of the universe.

One kind of person chooses to take one step at a time, from why the sun rises in the east and sets in the west, to why the sun shines and heats up, the birth, aging, sickness and death of people, the infinite changes of numbers, and then to time and space, to accumulate this kind of science and knowledge little by little.When everything in the universe is studied and understood, it can be declared that human beings have mastered the mysteries of the universe.

If you can understand all laws, you can understand all laws.

The other kind of people are convinced that through their own meditation, purifying their hearts, and containing the light of creation in their souls, they can narrow the distance with God, and thus approach His indescribable infinite wisdom.

The one rule is the same as the ten thousand laws.

To a certain extent, the contradictions among some Confucian schools during the transformation period in Dashun are also similar: in the fierce confrontation with Buddhism, they are gradually infected, thinking that there is a way, and if you pass this way first, everything will go away. The other school believes that the true meaning of Confucianism can be realized in practice with the rituals of the Zhou Dynasty, the six arts, poetry, books, rites and music, arithmetic and astronomy.

It's just that it's not so weird, but it's basically a manifestation of such a difference.

But here, especially where the puritan's fundamental teachings enter their minds, they are more likely to fall into this kind of circle about "cosmic truth and creation knowledge".

At this time, the truth that Joseph Warren said is not at the same level as what John Hancock wants to say.

But Warren's words made Hancock's already confused mind even more chaotic. After thinking about Warren's words, it seemed to make sense.

So he changed the word.

"Well, man, you're right. Maybe someone just told me something about trade. It's just that these things have nothing to do with faith, freedom, or even loyalty. But I am convinced by his truth .”

"However, you know. That group of people is a group of pagans. They not only oppose the Holy See, in fact, they are all opposed to Puritans, Protestants, and Orthodox Churches. They are opposed to everything related to Jesus Christ."

"My heart is a little confused. I wonder if my heart is bewitched by these pagans. The French have been trying to argue that the Chinese just don't know that they believe in God. They are hidden and unaware Christians. But this time I had a short contact with them, I found that they didn't believe, not at all, not like the French said."

Warren asked interestingly: "So, what do they say? You know, they are cunning, insidious, and even barbaric. In the last ginseng war, Indian tribes ambushed our muskets in the forest. Partly they financed it; and they supported the French offensive in India, which led directly to the waste of paper in our state legislature."

John Hancock knew about these things.

But understanding is understanding, religion is religion, and trade is trade.

The conflicts of the past belong to the past, and the current money-making belongs to the present.

"Man, maybe they are cunning and insidious. But in terms of trade, some of their views, I think it makes sense."

"They say that the trade of New England can exist without England."

"They think that there are really only two lines of trade in New England."

"One is to go to West Africa loaded with rum and other commodities from New England. After exchanging slaves for rum in West Africa, go to the plantations in the West Indies. In the plantations, slaves are sold, and the plantations are sold. Molasses from France and Spain, shipped back to New England to make rum."

"The other one is loaded with grain, timber, food, wooden barrels, cattle and horses, heading to the West Indies, and trading syrup, tobacco, etc. with the French and Spaniards in the West Indies. Then transport these tobacco, syrup, etc. to the UK for exchange English utensils, cloths, tea, etc."

"In fact, the first trade line has no connection with Britain."

"As for the second trade line, in fact, as long as someone can provide utensils, tools, tea, cloth, etc. that Britain can provide at this time, then this trade line can completely break away from the connection with Britain."

"What the UK has to offer, we can obviously add to that. And with better quality and lower prices."

"In fact, New England is not a southern state, and cannot grow indigo, etc. needed by the United Kingdom, so it cannot receive subsidies. Therefore, the economic relationship between New England and the United Kingdom is fragile and dangerous."

"New England is rich in grain, but the aristocratic landowners in England also produced grain. The Songsu reform in China has experienced similar problems. The rice from Southeast Asia entered there, which made the price of grain lower. Their gentry objected, saying that the cheap grain hurt the farmers. In the same way, there will be no different results just because Britain and China have different beliefs. Therefore, the British landlords and nobles will soon say the same words that hurt the peasants.”

"Moreover, they believe that our smuggling is not a one-time transaction in the traditional sense of chasing profits and shamelessly violating the law."

"On the contrary, our smuggling is just. It is because we have closer trade ties with West Indies, Southern Europe, West Africa, French colonies, and the Spanish Islands. This is an inevitability determined by the relationship between supply and demand, full of resilience, It is inseparable. As long as the economy continues to develop, whether this trade line is considered smuggled or considered legal, it will continue to develop.”

(End of this chapter)