Xinshun 1730

Chapter 1337 Intimidation of the Philadelphia Conference ([-])
The Dashun group can not only learn from history, but it is also happening in reality at this moment.

The situation in the Northeast is similar to the land problem in North America.

In the south, mergers began to appear on a large scale; the original farmers in the south were forced to go north.

One is favored by capital because of tobacco, and the other is favored by capital because of soybeans.

It's just that because of religious issues, Dashun's side is not so bewildered.

One is killing Indians.

The other asked the court not to let people go north to cultivate because of the tribute factors of the fishing and hunting tribes, or began to transform into landlords proactively and semi-actively.

The Dashun court's approach is also old-fashioned.Some leaders in the old forests have changed from tribal chiefs to big landowners, cultivating and selling land, and recruiting capital.Regardless of whether you are from the original family or the Han nationality from the south, you all carry labor in the fields, imitating the story of "Shaolang and Dave". Lang came to the front of the fort in disguise, and shouted in Shandong accent.

Now that Dashun has passed the Songliao Water Divide Territory, the situation is not too different: today the Changgong uprising, tomorrow the frontier army suppressed, and later fled to the mountains and forests, and soon appeared one by one in the valleys and small plains. village.

This kind of small plain village in the river valley is very common. Koreans, Saurons, Hans, and Mongolians gather together. The Koreans teach the Shandong people to plant rice, the Shandong people teach the Koreans to dig vegetable cellars, and the Saurons teach them to block the river mouth. Catching salmon...

Therefore, Dashun is really clear about this kind of mess of border area reclamation.

Not to mention the distant north of the Songliao watershed, with the end of the Little Ice Age, when they went to Chengde and Kenmeng, the Mongolian nobles transformed themselves into soliciting the poor to cultivate the land, becoming landlords and large farmers, and finally attracted sheep herders and land farmers. The thing of fighting is not far from the capital.

Since this kind of thing is clear, the people in Dashun are very clear about what will happen in the future when the land does not increase but the population increases after the armed intervention and the closure of the western border.

Reading the "Bible", but you can't really read the five loaves and two fish.

Private ownership plus land sales, population increase, farming is impossible, as long as there is no five loaves and two fish, this kind of thing will never be different just because the scriptures recited in Dashun are different from those in North America.

Now that this level is understood, the rest is easy to say.

It's nothing more than splitting, disintegrating, pulling one faction, and fighting the other faction.

To sum it up, cut vertically:
It is to compromise with the merchant groups in the eastern coastal areas and confront the land groups in the western extension.

Cut across:
Win over merchants, plantation owners, and petty bourgeois craftsmen who do not conflict with Dashun's products, such as blacksmiths, bricklayers, winemakers, shoemakers, etc.

Crack down on land speculators, bankrupt homeowners, and westward farmers.

There are only a few key points to grasp.

The petty bourgeois are the most sensitive to currency fluctuations and trade fluctuations, and they are also the easiest to be used and instigated. They cannot be allowed to rebel for the time being.

One is to put pressure on Britain not to ban North America from printing its own paper money, at least temporarily.

The other is to smash the British customs, especially to curb the tendency of the UK to think about letting the customs eat the royal rations and really go to tax inspections.

As long as there are no problems with these two, the petty bourgeois will not be able to rebel at all, and incitement will be useless. They will not feel pain and live well, so they will not let their lives go but have to go against the British.

But that's also the worst part.

The trade ambassador is full of confidence that Dashun will replace the United Kingdom and become a producer of consumer goods that North America cannot produce by itself.

But it was precisely because of this confidence that after communicating with Hancock and other businessmen in the Bahamas, he felt that the currency issue in North America was indeed a big trouble.

Again, Dashun is too far away. Selling cloth and porcelain means that Dashun has a high level of productivity.However, with the transportation capacity at this time, it is impossible to load two boats of rice back from the southern state. Pass through rice-producing India, rice-producing Ceylon, rice-producing Nanyang, and finally arrive at rice-producing Jiangnan, and then sell rice?
If Dashun was in Europe, it would indeed be as Hume said: food, clothing, housing and transportation are all made in China.If industrial products are replaced by raw materials, Europe will perish.

But now, no, Dashun only wants silver, gold and copper.There is really no way to ask for anything else.

Since Dashun has made up its mind to carve up North America, engage in the Romance of the Three Kingdoms, and demarcate the five-party border, it needs to resolve the currency issue in North America while putting pressure on Britain to negotiate.

The trade ambassador then spoke frankly about his concerns, and asked, "His Royal Highness, it is not difficult to summon the North American gentry to Philadelphia for a meeting. But, what to talk about, there is still something that needs to be resolved."

"Free trade, selling tea, selling cloth, forcing the UK to abolish the sugar tax, etc., are easy to talk about. But this can only attract some people."

"In other words, it's easy to win over people from the north and the middle. But it's not easy to win over people from the middle and south."

"The focus of their attention is not here."

"But they are very important. If China wants to sell goods in North America and earn silver, then it needs those people in the south. Because those people in the south can get a lot of silver from Europe, such as selling tobacco, selling indigo, selling Something that grows. Silver can flow into North America, so they can use silver to buy tea, silk, porcelain, etc.”

"The goods sold in this dynasty only need silver, gold and copper. The rest are neither acceptable nor willing. It is impossible to exchange rice from Georgia and return to Nanyang, right? Who would do such a business?"

"I always have to give them an explanation at the meeting so that they can support us. But on this issue, I really don't know how to promise them."

"That day in the Bahamas, their businessmen asked me this question, and I could only prevaricate it."

The new practical knowledge accepted by Li Yan and his group naturally understands these things and also knows some general situations.

The trade ambassador made the matter even more complicated by talking about some details of the talks in the Bahamas.

Smuggling, free trade, business interests, etc., are easy to talk about.

Only the issue of North American banknotes is really not easy to handle.

Because of the issue of paper money, it is not just about petty bourgeois, craftsmen, etc.

Also concerned with plantations in the southern states.

They also want to issue paper money, the purpose is to pay back the money.

With the invasion of capitalism, they must have owed a lot of money to the financial capital, and they couldn't pay it back, so they thought about printing some money and returning some paper to the financial capital of England and Scotland.

Of course, it is impossible to pay back all the paper money.

At least, historically, those people in the plantation thought about it and felt that their demands were not too much.

For example, a total of 1500 million was borrowed, and it was agreed to pay it back next year.

With interest, the total is 1600 million.

Then print 500 million banknotes here, and then ask the financial capital not to be so anxious to collect the account. You can postpone it for one or two years, and pay it back the next year, or the next year.

Delay for three years, and return 1000 million silver and 600 paper money.But in fact, normally speaking, plus the deferred three-year interest, in fact, a total of 2000 million has to be repaid.

But in doing so, only 1000 million precious metals were returned.

This is equivalent to depreciating the debt by 50%.

The group of people working on the plantation must think this is a good way.

But the problem is that people who engage in finance are not fools, because fools cannot be financial capitalists.Since you are not stupid, you must think that this method is not good.

Therefore, this matter seems to be a simple paper money problem.

But it's actually not that simple.

For example, I took banknotes and went to pay back the money.People's creditors don't want it, saying it's paper money, but they want silver.

Then you have to go to court.

In a lawsuit, how does the British Supreme Court decide?
This is not a simple moral issue, nor is it a simple right or wrong, or a messy thing.

It is okay to judge paper money to pay off debts, which means that the British Supreme Court has to endorse North American paper money.

In other words, the British government is using the government's reputation to endorse these indiscriminate banknotes in North America.

In history, in order to endorse the banknotes issued by the people in North America, the French used real gold and silver bonds to stabilize the value of the currency, and those who endorsed the king's head.

Now the entire colony has issued about 1800 million banknotes without any anchors, and the southern states are planning to print another 600 million in order to depreciate their debts. How can the British government have the ability to endorse these more than 2000 million banknotes?

Besides, the financial capital that lends money is not out of its mind.With the experience of Massachusetts and Rhode Island depreciating to 4%, who would dare to accept banknotes?
So this matter is difficult to understand.

According to the logic of such things as "law", "natural law", "sacred property rights", and "tradition", it is difficult to understand.

The only thing that is easy to understand is the logic of revolution.Revolution is the highest rule and the highest natural right, and it does not need to repay the debt, as long as it wins.

This matter is the invasion of capital on colonies.

That is, the resistance of small local producers, landowners, and some local landowners to capitalism, especially finance capital.

Here lies the difficulty.

These big financiers and big capitalists who lend money are, in Britain, a serious ruling class allied with the Whig Party.

Even the King of England would not dare to say that North America should pay its debts with banknotes.

Do you still want to do it, king?

However, it is not enough to solve the problem of free trade without solving the currency problem in North America.

In other words, if they can't attract enough people to suppress the group of western land speculators that Dashun wants to suppress, they will push a large number of petty bourgeois to the hostile side.

Only to solve the problem of free trade, a big businessman like Hancock will definitely not be the opposite: those who go to West Africa and the Caribbean trade do not use banknotes, they are all real gold and silver, they just don’t want to pay customs duties, do they use it? Paper money has little effect on them.

But for those small producers and petty bourgeois, that would be nothing less than the sky falling.They have banknotes in their hands, and they also use banknotes to assist in their daily transactions. Buying two catties of corn, making a barrel of rum, etc., are all local products, and banknotes can be traded.

They don't have any silver currency in their hands.

Once the United Kingdom requires silver to be used for paying taxes and debts, those big businessmen will definitely choose to hoard silver, because obviously silver will appreciate in value against banknotes.

This kind of thing happened in the Ming Dynasty.

People in North America are not made of special materials. It is impossible not to see the depreciation of banknotes leading to a large amount of silver being hoarded, which intensifies the depreciation of banknotes.

This is inevitable.Similar currency problems, deflation, silver hoarding and other incidents have been staged several times in Daming and Japan.

The situation in North America is a process of capitalism slowly invading. The capitalist system is a whole set, not a single isolated incident.

Capital invaded the southeast coast first, causing the population to expand to the west, so that land speculation in the west was profitable.

The capital for land speculation in the west is also the financial capital for borrowing. Otherwise, how could there be so much money to enclose land?
How can people go west if they don't engage in land mergers along the southeast coast?
If people don't go west, how can the land in that circle be sold for money?
What the land speculators earn is the price difference. They spend 100 yuan to put up the land, and in the future, they will slowly sell it for 1000 yuan to pay off the debt.

This is a loop.

It doesn't mean that if private ownership grows some corn and then sells the corn to buy cotton cloth, that would be called capitalism.

Banknotes and the prohibition of westward movement, if these two things are accomplished, they will be knocked on the head of London's financial capital, and they must come up with an argument for them to accept.

(End of this chapter)