Xinshun 1730

Chapter 1333 Intimidated by the Philadelphia Conference ([-])
Whether it is compromise or resistance, the group of Freemasons in North America now cannot come up with a clear program, and their natural weakness and compromise, strong religious remnants, all make the sharpness of struggle in North America accompanied by Dashun's participation in the war and smuggling increased but decreased sharply.

To "debate the scriptures", you need to come up with a whole set of things, not just a few words.

The simplest, say, anti-feudal.

Anti-feudalism is not simply called anti-feudalism if one is not ruled by the king, but it is related to everyone's basic necessities of life.

For example, the issue of inheritance law in North America.I was born later than my brother, so am I inferior to my brother?When dividing the inheritance, as the eldest son, my brother can get all of it, or if he doesn't get all of it, he can get three times and four times my share?Why?The second son is not human?Behind this set of simple inheritance laws is the hierarchical relationship in the feudal era, which requires a whole set of scriptures to prove the legitimacy of primogeniture.

For example, the issue of the "tithe tax" of churches in North America does not mean that if it is not called the tithe tax, it is not or there is no tithe tax.I am not a member of the Congregational Church, so I have to pay the pagan tax of 10 shillings, or I have to pay the church tax to become a "half-way believer", why?
For example, the issue of tariffs between states, is this an extension of the protection of cities by feudal guilds?Has it seriously hindered the development of capitalism in North America?
Another example is the issue of slavery; another example is the issue of land ownership priority for military meritorious landlords.

Wait, etc., relying on the so-called eternal justice, the glory of God, and the supreme truth, can we come up with a whole set of theoretical systems, at least to achieve a kind of justice and progress?
Don't talk about slaves, or even a wider range of people, just talk about the issue of feudal inheritance law. The elder brother and younger brother are directly unequal in the inheritance law, which is unworthy of anti-feudalism.

The set of petty bourgeois theories derived from the Puritanism of the petty bourgeoisie, abstract human nature, abstract justice, abstract freedom, peace talks about the material world, and those who pay attention to specific classes, specific interests, and specific contradictions A set of theories has many differences on the issue of the anti-British struggle in North America.

For example, in terms of the iconic events regarded as "struggling for freedom" and "resisting the tyranny of the king", that is, the issue of the "Western Royal Statute" against the British by land speculators and landlords such as Washington.

This matter, to talk about abstract human nature, abstract freedom, and abstract justice, is a group of free and unfettered people who resisted the unreasonable laws of the monarch.

For the unreasonable decrees of the sovereign impair every man's liberty to cultivate, and man's liberty to acquire his own land, and so on. . .

But from the perspective of specific classes and specific interests, this matter is just a bunch of vulgarities.

Don't talk about the fact that Britain has no money and doesn't want to provoke the Indians; it doesn't talk about the reason why the British government made 10 taels of silver because of its tough policy.

Just talk about the class interests of the Western Frontier Order.

The fur traders didn't want the Indians to die because they could trade their furs with the Indians.And if you continue to cultivate westward, the contradiction between Indians and whites will increase.At that time, the Indians will be slaughtered over and over again, but it doesn't matter if you are a fur dealer or a land speculator, if you can't tell the difference, you will kill them together.

Furthermore, human farming is to destroy the forest.The forest has been destroyed, the animals have run away, where does the fur come from?
How do fur traders make money without fur?

The most classic fur and ginseng route from North America to Guangdong in history, the profit margin was as high as 525% during the period of great luxury trade development after the White Lotus Rebellion ended.It took money to suppress the uprising, but the silver did not evaporate into the black hole, but flowed or concentrated into the hands of the middle and upper classes. This is one of the reasons why the luxury goods market such as fur and ginseng ushered in the "1804 golden decade of luxury goods".

This kind of high-profit trade naturally conflicts with the interests of land speculators and big landowners who tried to sell willing land to later immigrants.

What is needed for the cultivator, the land speculator, is not fur, not forest, but land, and the extermination of Indians.

Only when the Indians are dead and there is no threat, can the price of this land be sold for money.

They are all 100 mu of land, and they are all cultivated land in the river valley. This one is threatened by Indians and comes here every now and then for revenge;

If the behavior of big bourgeois and oligarchs coercing small bourgeois to destroy others to obtain private means of production is defined as correctness, greatness, resistance, humanity, freedom... Then, what is the difference between this and Hitler's set of things? ?
Dead Indians are good Indians; dead Slavs are good Slavs; get land with muskets; get land with tanks...what's the difference?
Obviously, it is the contradiction between large land speculators, financial speculative capital; and fur industry commercial capital, and industrial capital that produces goods needed by Indians in exchange for fur.

Progress, where is it reflected?

Land speculators, war fur sellers.

A small landlord, a small businessman carrying a small boat to collect fur goods.

Financial speculative capitalists, war commercial transport trade capitalists.

Land brokerages, manufacturers of war-produced consumer goods.

Dead Indians make good Indians, and the Great War makes a Indian trade exchange for consumer goods.

This is justice?progress?
From a progressive point of view, smugglers like Hancock are a bit progressive. The navigation regulations imposed by anti-colonialism force mercantilist trade, because behind them stand the booming wine and lumber industries in New England. , animal husbandry and other industries.

The difference between this kind of smuggling and the Opium War, Lao Ma made it very clear: the Opium War was a monopoly trade under the guise of free trade, because the Manchu Qing banned opium.The inflow of opium and the outflow of silver led to insufficient consumption of other industrial products. Even from the perspective of the world market and free trade, the Opium War was completely reactionary.

From the objective point of view of developing capitalism, prohibiting the crossing of the Appalachian Mountains, allowing the population to grow to the point where industry can be developed as soon as possible, and allowing the labor force and land of the thirteen states to be stripped away to work in factories will be conducive to the development of capitalism. Solve the contradiction between the two kinds of private ownership as soon as possible, and solve the chronic problem of the anti-capitalist tendency of the petty bourgeois in the colonies.

In terms of pure human form, morality, good and evil, Dashun supported France's occupation of the Ohio region, which is also just, moral, and humane.

Because of the fertile land in France, France is not very interested in farming across the ocean.

The fur and ginseng trade between China and France is huge, and it has become an important reason why France no longer regards North America as "acres of snow".

The greater the value of the fur ginseng trade, the more likely the Indians would survive.For these trade volumes, France will also support the Indians to have their own reservations, to exchange furs instead of slaughter.

Therefore, on the issue of the fate of the thirteen states in North America, because of Dashun's involvement, many issues became complicated and clear.

Economically:
If the trade and tariff issues were resolved, the unity between the merchants, manufacturers, and even some small producers on the East Coast, the plantation industry in the South, and the land speculators in the West, would inevitably break down.

And as long as part of the British navigation regulations can be knocked out, the currency problem in North America can also be solved.North America does not produce gold and silver, but Southern Europe and the Caribbean do.

As long as the currency problem is not in trouble, the sentiment of small producers against the British and the common big market of the United Kingdom and the United States will be less violent.

Although the power of land speculators was not weak, they could not win against the joint strangulation of merchants, factory owners, the British government, the French government, and Dashun, as well as the glorious resistance of the Indians.

Nationally:
The formation of the American nation relies more on this religious return and religious debate, or it can be regarded as the religious reform in North America.

According to the teachings of Puritan Calvinism: all social inequalities, such as inequality between the rich and the poor, are predestined by God.Forsaken people can never be redeemed.Only monks can communicate directly with God, they are the messengers of the Lord's will, and the incarnation of the Lord.

This is the "visible sage" mentioned in the first edition of the early city on the hill.

This teaching... was not a problem at first.

Because of the characteristics of farming colonies, the development of capitalism is not so fast, and laborers can obtain their own means of production through labor.

In this state where the land is full of land, corn grows casually, and good dry meadows are stretched together, if this can be mixed to the point where you can’t live without hunger, then you can really say that you are poor because you are lazy.Moreover, whoever is diligent, pious, and hard-working will indeed be able to live a prosperous life.

So although the teachings are so nonsense, the material foundation is here, and there is no major problem.

However, with more than a hundred years of immigration, reclamation, first-comers cost landlords, the influx of European gold and silver capital, the development of industry and commerce, the reduction of land suitable for cultivation, the enclosure of land speculators, and so on.

In recent years, the gap between the rich and the poor, a very serious gap between the rich and the poor, has emerged.The bottom class has already appeared in the cities, tenant farmers have also appeared in the countryside, and the life of the indentured slaves is not as good as that of the self-cultivation farmers after working for a few years.

At this time, let’s spread the teaching again: the inequality between the rich and the poor is predestined by God, you are poor because God did not choose you, etc.

It can only be said that the small life in North America is not bad, there are not so many poor people at the bottom, and the development of capitalism has not yet deepened, otherwise, a group of people would have shouted out that the merchants and landlords would rather be kind.

This set of things can no longer be passed on.

At this time, a set of things such as the return of religion and the revival of morality will require major changes in doctrine, such as preaching to the common people, so that the common people can regain their faith and devotion to God.

Because, if the teachings are not changed, the people at the bottom are thinking: According to this saying that the rich and the poor are predestined by God, I am an outcast. Do I believe your mother?
And because of the characteristics of the colonies of the thirteen states in North America...not to mention the unified domestic market, the tariff wars and mutual defenses among the states, church disputes and conflicts, the conditions for the creation of the American nation were not at all.

It still needs this religious revival and moral return, those missionaries wandering around, and the thirteen states running around everywhere, so that the communication between the states will deepen, so that the conditions for creating the American nation can be considered.

But... also because the doctrine needs to be greatly changed, as well as the previous uprising.

As a result, Massachusetts had to make concessions, allowing Baptists, Quakers, Quakers, Presbyterians, Moravians, etc., to no longer need to pay the "pagan tax".If you accept it again, people will revolt.

The question is how to support religion without money?If you don't charge the "pagan tax", you have to ask the bottom to collect it.What is lost in the east is made up in the west, as it has always been.

Today, with the return of religion, the thirteen states of missionaries, and the completely outdated teachings of Calvinism.

In addition, the contradictions caused by asking the bottom to collect religious taxes and so on...

The matter of creating a unified American nation has not yet been created. There are already idealistic pastors who follow the bottom line, leading the people at the bottom to resist religious taxes, demand the distribution of common land, reduce rent and interest, reduce usury debts, and oppose There have been armed protests such as paying taxes to the church.In North America, the "throwing out of the window" incident with the Protestant version of North America has already occurred.

Well, after Dashun got involved, it became even more disgusting.

Without Dashun's involvement, the UK would have to choose the tolerant "Quebec Act" because of the Catholic issue, and it would directly unite the sectarian disputes in the thirteen states that were about to burn each other.

Because, sectarian disputes, everyone is Protestant.

This Catholicism is absolutely intolerable.

Britain's religious tolerance contributed to the formation of the American nation, because Britain created a new and perfect common enemy for the Protestant sects who were about to beat their brains out.

Among the "Twelve Deadly Hatreds and 28 Deadly Sins" that raised troops in North America, the Catholic tolerance policy of the "Quebec Act" is at the forefront of the Twelve Deadly Hatreds and the 28 Deadly Sins.

Good this time.

With the dispatch of troops from Dashun and the lure of the ginseng and mink trade, Quebec has no relationship with Britain at all.There is no need for a Catholic Tolerance Act in the UK either.

Congregationalists, new axiomists, old axiomists, Anglican churches, Presbyterians, upper-class factions, and lower-class factions, let’s beat each other’s brains out this time.

Forget about shaping the American nation.There is no depressurization of the land in the west, the gap between the rich and the poor begins to emerge, there is no common enemy to temporarily put aside disputes and unite, the power of capital begins to erode, and the economic foundation changes... It is estimated that it will not be long before I really want to go back to the era of the 1553 Geneva BBQ.

Protestantism burns people much more fiercely than Catholicism.The Christian fundamentalism and anti-intellectual tendency of Protestantism are far superior to those of Catholicism.

It's just that people in later generations only remember Bruno. After all, Catholicism has perished, and Protestantism has become the emperor of Semiticism.

Old Enke commented: [Protestants have surpassed Catholics in persecuting natural science research.When Servetus was about to discover the circulation of the blood, Calvin burned him and roasted him alive for two hours]

Therefore, even if this legendary Freemasonry is really a mysterious organization with great powers like in a fantasy story.

At this time, there is nothing to do.

Because, talking about ethnicity, we can't talk about it.

Talk about class, they don't recognize it.

Talking about religion, not to mention the various sects, but the Congregational Church itself, which has now been divided into upper-class factions and lower-class factions, reformers and original sects.

This can't work, that can't work, and in the end, you can only talk about the supreme truth and eternal justice, and these things at this time lack a realistic carrier that can accommodate these nonsense, so that they can be put into practice and organize people. .

That being the case, this group of Masons in Massachusetts tends to compromise, which is a certain degree of necessity.

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At the same time, after the meeting in the Bahamas, the news that Dashun intends to call North American "celebrities" and "people with social influence" to Philadelphia to participate in the big event has spread throughout the thirteen states.

Similar to or different from the situation of the Masonic Society in Massachusetts, North American "social elites" with different interests and different mentalities began to move towards Philadelphia.

Businessmen, care about tariffs and free trade.

Land speculators concerned with wars with France and Indians.

Church, on the neo-pagan question.

Plantation owners are concerned about national debt and export control issues, as well as Dashun's attitude towards the slave trade in West Africa.

The factory owner is concerned about import tariffs.

Lawyers, doctors, craftsmen, etc... are for improving social status and self-renown.

Only the self-cultivating farmers who account for the absolute majority of the population, no one cares about them.They are not even as good as Indians and black slaves, at least in the interests or moral issues considered by the people who are considering going to Philadelphia, they have little sense of existence.

(End of this chapter)