Xinshun 1730

Chapter 1332 Intimidation of the Philadelphia Conference ([-])
This kind of cognition is also normal, because before the economic problems do not break out, small producers, owner farmers, and petty bourgeois will always believe in these things.

At this time, in North America, only whites are counted... To be precise, if only non-Irish and non-German Protestant whites are counted, the average living standard in North America at this time is much higher than that of the United Kingdom, and higher than that of the whole country. The world is much higher.

The real contradiction had to wait until the post-war depression, the new mint law caused deflation caused by landlords and merchants hoarding silver, and the prohibition of crossing the Appalachian Mountains for reclamation, the dissatisfaction at the bottom was completely aroused, and only then did the thirteen states of North America revolution conditions for widespread mobilization.

But now, this condition is obviously still early.

At the very least, the Mint Act and the prohibition of crossing the western reclamation issue, which are the most harmful and influential to the bottom, have not yet occurred.

Hancock couldn't say anything about it, so he could only nod his head and said, "Maybe, maybe it's a conspiracy. However, those who are in the sweet wine business, those who open plantations, those who speculate on land, those who intend to cultivate themselves, and those who plant Tobacco farmers, rice farmers...they have different interests. For the same policy, there must be some people who support it and some people who oppose it.”

"But obviously the Chinese offer us a possibility. A possibility where the majority benefits and the minority opposes."

"For example, the national debt issue is already a problem that cannot be ignored. In order to repay the national debt, the UK will definitely find a way to collect taxes."

"And the Chinese have offered us a plan to pay the national debt that seems likely to satisfy most people...Reduce tariffs on all Chinese goods such as tea, cotton cloth, porcelain, metal products, silk, medicinal materials. Pay the national debt with import duties."

"And this is what the Chinese say is helping the British government correct their wrong trade system. Of course, it also includes helping the thirteen states to fight for free trade."

"At least, I think this is beneficial to most of us. Because they told me that the Chinese industry does not conflict with the North American industry. The Chinese will neither come here to sell wine nor come here to sell shoes. , let alone come here to sell corn, cattle and sheep..."

"The Chinese mean that they will put military pressure on the British government. The people in the thirteen states should take advantage of this opportunity to come up with a feasible plan that is recognized by all states, and take the opportunity to realize it."

"But this plan cannot be too outrageous or unrealistic. That's why they have to tell us again and again that they will never allow us to occupy Canada to the north, let alone expand in Ohio, and it is even more impossible to go west."

"Among them, there will definitely be some people who support it and some people who oppose it. What we need is to persuade those who oppose it, unite those who support it, and help the British government correct the wrong trading system..."

"Or to put it more clearly, they are against the British government's oppression of our trade, but they are also against our killing of Indians, and against our slavery, and against our land speculation..."

These words are very controversial in themselves.

Slavery, Indian massacres, land grabs, land ownership, whether wild lands were private or public... any of these things would lead to a lengthy debate.

Hancock's report also immediately aroused some people's dissatisfaction, and began to debate whether slaves were human beings, why Indians said that the land belonged to them, and so on.

In the chaos, the slave trader John Rowe, who had been silent all this time, cleared his throat and said, "Brothers and gentlemen, the problem we are facing now is not eternal justice, the supreme truth... but the helpless reality question."

"In the simplest terms, if the French are not driven out of Canada, and if the Chinese do provide arms to the Indians...then, do we accept the British garrison?"

"If accepted, do we have to pay taxes to maintain the garrison to protect us?"

"If not, then our loose militia, do we need military service?"

"Even with draft, if the west of Virginia is at war with the Indians, or if we are at war with the French, are the southern states going to pay for our military?"

"Gentlemen, it is pointless to discuss eternal justice, the highest truth. The reality is that the Chinese have surrounded Gibraltar and have made sure that we are absolutely prohibited from crossing the Allegheny Divide, and that the French will certainly Canada continues to garrison..."

"Now, it's up to us to ask the British government to keep the troops here. At the very least, we need, especially those of us who participated in the expulsion and scalping of the Acadian Indians, the protection of the mother country."

"This is the status quo to be discussed. Not talk about eternal justice, the highest truth."

"Although those infidels are enemies, sometimes what the enemy says may not be wrong. The national debt issue, which must be taxed on us; there are also tariff issues, garrison military expenses... This is more important at this time thing."

"The reality is that the French are scarier than the British government. I think Paul Levier knows that better than anyone."

Paul Levi knew what John Rowe meant.

He stood up and agreed with John Luo's thoughts.

"My father was a Huguenot."

A simple sentence is worth a thousand words.

Their ancestry is French, but their faith is Protestantism. Their encounter in France only needs a simple note of "Huguenots", and everyone present understands it.

Although the Thirty Years War has long passed, even a hundred years later, Massachusetts is still surrounded by sectarian disputes, and too many people have been burned and hanged.

They can even oppose Britain because of its policy of religious tolerance.Because religious tolerance means not being devout enough to "orthodox" beliefs.

The successive uprisings and the strong pressure of the British government defeated the Puritan Congregationalists' ambition to control Massachusetts and integrate church and state, but tolerance was only for Quakers, Presbyterians and Congregationalists, and Catholicism was not included.

As long as the French are around, England will always be closer than the French.There is no doubt about this.

Now, it is absolutely impossible to completely defeat France's power in North America after Dashun entered the war.

The population of the thirteen cantons is large enough, certainly more than that of France.

The little days in France are going well now, ordinary people in Britain can only eat oat bread, and ordinary people in France already have wheat bread.

Although the number of immigrants is here, the question remains: why do people in the southern states spend money, people, and guns to fight Canada and benefit the land speculators in the northern states?
And the strength of Massachusetts alone, or the strength of northern New England, cannot defeat France.

Plus France has Indian allies.

This is a very real problem.

Britain would have actually been quite a failure in the Seven Years War without the two contingencies of India and the subsequent Industrial Revolution.

Fever hijacked British politics and diplomacy.

The frenzy Pitt instigates makes anyone who wants to take a step back from diplomacy be branded a traitor.

The French knew that as soon as they left Canada, something would happen to the thirteen states.

Some politicians in the UK actually know it too.

This is obvious.But at that time, it is impossible for anyone to be this traitor and return Canada to France.

Dashun sent troops to use force and reality to cool down the enthusiasm of Britain, so that France had no chance to give up Canada.

As a result, unite the thirteen states in North America and continue to be loyal to the United Kingdom for the time being.

This is not helping the United Kingdom, but to hide the contradictions that are not too big now, continue to accumulate, let the contradictions continue to grow through compromise, and prepare for the explosion in the future.

Freemasonry wants to talk about eternal justice, supreme truth, and abstract freedom.

Then Dashun will talk about the helplessness of reality, the details of taxation, and the specific economy.

What is a concrete economy?
Troops in North America cost money.

The national debt borrowed for the war had to be repaid.

There is no mountain of gold and silver in the UK. Where can this money and government debt come from other than taxation?
Taxes, as long as taxes are collected, New England is headed for a Great Depression.

Because of New England's brewing advantage, because people on the British islands have to pay taxes, and they can get tax-free smuggled honey.

Leveling up taxes, New England has such a high standard of living at this time, how can the manufacturing industry compete with the British mainland, which has basically eliminated homeowners?
Moreover, with regard to the issue of smuggling, if Britain really ran out of money, it could and could only choose one way, and that was to let the customs that eat the royal food handle the case, instead of letting the local gentry jury and the state assembly handle it themselves.

Once the case is handled by people who eat the imperial food, then more smuggling issues will come to the surface.Grain, cattle and horses, canvas, shoes... These things are the main markets in southern Europe, West Africa, the Caribbean and other places.

The industry in New England is decoupled from the old England.

Once New England's economy slumps and major industries break down, it's not just the brewing industry that's affected.Instead, it will directly affect the lives of most people in the city.Even if you run a hotel or a restaurant, you must have real property behind it.

These things are very realistic.Money...at least for now, isn't printed.Britain's finances have collapsed, and the annual fiscal revenue is no longer enough to repay the interest.And obviously, after Dashun's participation in the war, the interest rate for the UK to borrow new debt must soar, and the interest rate has been reduced from 10% to 3% with great difficulty, and it is about to rise sharply.

Dashun has now put forward a plan and wants the support of the British in North America.That is to rely on tariffs on Eastern trade products to replace specific taxes and repay national debts.

Well, this is of course an internal differentiation.

This differentiation stems from a fundamental question: where does everyone make money?

John Hancock made money from trade and smuggling.

The reason why George Washington was anti-British was that he speculated on the land in the west, and Britain prohibited the reclamation of the west and prohibited private companies from occupying land in the west.

The southern plantation owners and slave owners were anti-British because Britain denied paper currency, and they owed a debt of 1500 million pounds to British merchants. They were planning to print paper money to pay off part of the debt, which was equivalent to devaluing the debt. The British banned the use of The decree on the repayment of gold and silver debts with paper money directly spurred the anti-British opposition of planters in the south.

If the French leave, then the merchant group represented by Hancock, the large landowners and land speculators group represented by Washington, and the southern planter group headed by Henry Middleton will be united. .

But if the French don't leave, and the UK accepts the plan to repay the national debt with tariffs, then these interest groups in North America will explode in an instant.

For example, after the French left, Washington and other big landlords and land speculators would firmly oppose the British.But the French did not leave, and Dashun forced Britain to release customs duties—in fact, there was no need to force it. The East India Company was dead, and such a large national debt had to be repaid. The best solution—he wants to be anti-British and anti-French. In this case, for Hancock and other businessmen: It's my business?I don't speculate on the western land, I just sell goods.I am fighting for freedom in the abstract, and I am fighting for trade and less taxes in a concrete way. I have obtained the concrete things, so why should I fight for the abstract ones?
In the absence of specific economic interests, how many martyrs can be pulled up by abstract things?
What the slave trader John Luo said was very practical. Instead of talking about eternal justice and the supreme truth, let’s be more pragmatic. Let’s talk about how to contact Dashun and put pressure on Britain together.If your farmers, landlords, and land speculators in the west want to go to war with the French and Indians, that is your business. We have no interests, and we will not pay money or people.

We all know that the purpose of fighting is to grab money, grain, and land. In 54, so many militiamen went to the war, not because of the original promise—everyone who participated in the war would be granted land.

Now that the French have not been beaten away, how will the 54-year promise be fulfilled?

Later, Washington was so excited against the British and anti-British, why?Wasn’t it because the 54 mu of land promised in 15 years after the war was to be distributed to the militiamen who participated in the war at the beginning? He lied to the militiamen that the land was bad land and hills, bought 14 mu of land at a low price, and invested in a land speculation company?
The British are afraid that the French will make a comeback and support the Indians in the west. They really can't afford it, so they draw a line not to let them go west.This is equivalent to spending money plus the 10,000+ acres of land cheated, plus the 1500 million acres of land occupied by the company.

But the question is still, the land of the group of people who went to war in 54 is none of the business of the people of Massachusetts?Is it possible that Massachusetts will pay and send people to help the people in Virginia and take the land back?France may at most support the Indians in the west to light guns and cannons, but in the north, France can really send warships and regular troops to Boston.

Talking about unconstitutionality, then when the "Sugar Tax Law" was promulgated in 33, the righteousness of unconstitutionality could be directly grasped.

This righteousness has been available for a long time, but there is no reason why there is no movement now. It can only be that there are too few people who "give me free or give me death", and more people are just petty bourgeois living for their own interests.

That being the case, the meaning of John Rowe is very clear.

Or, just raise the banner and do it. You want to kill Britain, France, and the Indians supported by Dashun. By the way, you will also start a war against Dashun. You are all garbage and nobles. The monarchy is all reactionary. At the same time, it suppresses the British aristocratic landlords such as the Bin family internally. It divides the land equally and grants land to the state.

Or, don't raise the banner, talk about specific things directly, compromise directly with the UK, take a step back, and see what tax laws and tax rates are acceptable here.With the help of Dashun, let's put pressure on the mother country together to achieve conditions that are beneficial to themselves.

(End of this chapter)