Xinshun 1730

Chapter 1339 The Pain of Transition Childish Fantasy
This transition can be messy and possibly brutal.

Because before the Second Continental Congress was held in history, a large number of handicraftsmen, poor citizens, etc. had already organized to demand changes in the inheritance law, public land reclamation rights, and the right to discuss things when the amount of wealth reached the standard.

The United Kingdom later prevented the westward advance. In addition to the opposition of land speculators, there were indeed a large number of poor owner farmers who "reclaimed well to be a self-cultivator and work hard for a few years to become the owner".

There are already many class conflicts.

Historically, it was the anti-British faction that won.Even so, there were subsequent tariff turmoil, ex-soldier uprisings, peasant uprisings, etc.

The victory of the anti-British faction is actually because this transition period is chaotic, but it is not so chaotic that it cannot be resolved.

Because, a large number of pro-British and anti-secessionists ran away and returned to Europe.

Indeed, soft gold and silver, antique calligraphy and paintings, ship bonds... these things can be taken away.

But where does the land take?Can the house be taken away?Can the manor take it away?
For these Anglophiles who ran back to Europe, a large number of real estate and houses were confiscated and distributed in the subsequent process.

Although, it is true, most of the speculators, the big businessmen, get most of these distributed wealth.

However, the bottom layer also took a sip of soup and returned to blood.At the very least, the land reform in Pennsylvania has given some benefits to the poor. The Bin family's real estate is all owned by the public, half of it is bought by speculators, and half of it is divided.

This is a situation where the anti-British faction wins.

And what if the Anglophiles win?
The anti-British faction wins, and the pro-British faction can bring money back to Europe, but they can't take away the house and land, but at least they can bring their lives back to Europe.

If the pro-British faction wins, where will the anti-British faction go?
Then you can only die.

If you don't want to die, you can only accept capitalism and abandon the illusions of petty bourgeoisie.

Being pro-British and anti-British is not an abstract issue of "slavery" or "freedom", but more of an economic issue.

For example, I am a self-cultivator, with a family of [-] mu of land, four or five children, and a happy life.

The eldest son asked him to work for a few years, or to learn to be a bricklayer; the second son to learn to be a blacksmith...

When you are about to die, tell your children: Give up your little brother, and all the land in the family will be given to him.I have saved some money here, and you have also learned the craft, so go west.The wasteland there is cheap, so the eldest, second, and third sons all went to the west to buy some land and live a good life like mine.There is plenty of land to the west.

The plan was good, and the family was very harmonious, but suddenly, the British came to decree: no westward travel!

Then why not anti-British?

Not anti-British, if you want to keep the family prosperous, you have to let one person inherit it, and the rest go to work.Not to mention the harmony of the family, the children have to be beaten first.

If you don't be anti-British and treat your children equally, then you have to divide the land smaller and smaller. In the end, life is difficult and you can only borrow money from businessmen.Not yet, the land is debt-paid, and there is nothing left.Life has to pass, at this time, there are factories in the city, let's go to the factories to work.

A group of children have to wonder, what kind of life did their father live?A herd of cattle on a [-]-acre field basks in the sun during slack.What kind of life do you live?A big worker in a factory is worth less than a cow.

Don't tell me that "the land is not infinite, and the New World also has boundaries", I won't listen.

Don't tell me about public ownership. It was born out of the petty bourgeois revolution at the bottom of the United States. It only opposes capitalism and does not oppose private ownership.

Don't tell me that "capitalist development is necessary". I don't understand, I know that my father and grandfather are illiterate and educated, but they still live in a big house and drink small wine.

Even in later generations, this is still the case: my grandfather and my father may not have even finished high school or college, but we still live in a big house and live a happy life.Don't make any sense to me, I just know why my grandfather's time could be like this, but it can't be done now? ,

The same logic has been deeply rooted in North America since anti-British.

Anti-British is over, anti-big businessmen, anti-banks; anti-banks, railways and steam engines have not yet appeared, [Know Nothing Party] has already begun to rise, thinking that it is Irish, Chinese, and Germans, which makes their life more difficult Grandparents had a bad life...

In fact, from the moment Dashun started to get involved in the European war, the industry that had not yet been born in North America was already dead.

Because Dashun wants to promote free trade.

The manufacturing industry in North America started from the Embargo Act of 1807.Strict to the extreme import and export restrictions, almost crazy cut off foreign trade, making North America's textile industry, glass manufacturing, hat making, mining, and metal processing industries develop rapidly in the Northeast.

That was the time of the rise of manufacturing in North America.

Because of his hatred for Britain, Jefferson, who signed the "Embargo Act" with his own hands, cried bitterly in the face of the mushrooming manufacturing industry afterwards.

Because he emphasized agriculture, despised commerce, and suppressed industry, and believed that self-cultivating farmers were the foundation of the republic, and the development of industry would destroy the foundation of the republic.

Jefferson believes that [manufacturing, which is accustomed to keeping people in a state of servitude, makes the principle of aristocratic politics prevail in a republic...the development of industry, which concentrates wealth in the hands of a few people, causes the republic to lean towards aristocracy...]

Therefore, the best way to face this fear is not to develop the manufacturing industry, and let every farmer own a small piece of land... Emphasize agriculture, despise business, and oppose industry.Commerce is a [necessary evil], it has to exist, but it should not be taken seriously.

He divides the land.

He bought Louisiana.

He introduced the "Land Sales Law", which changed the minimum limit of 500 acres of land purchased in the past, and reduced it to a quarter of the original, hoping that "every owner farmer can own his own piece of land, and no speculators will buy it anymore." Large pieces of land are disassembled and sold to make a profit.”

He is anti-bank.

Anti-finance.

Anti-manufacturing.

Anti-industrialization.

When Hamilton took out the "Report on Manufacturing Industry", he used his eloquence and high prestige to kill the manufacturing development plan at the beginning of the founding of the People's Republic of China.

It can be said that he has been anti-capitalism and anti-industrialization all his life, and he has been practicing his dreams of "a republic of the petty bourgeoisie" and "peasants and villages in harmony".

Obviously, he is not an emperor, nor a king.

These ideas of his can be supported because many people support her.

And this is what Lao Ma said [the chronic disease of colonization is anti-capitalism].

It cannot be said that Thomas Jefferson was a country bumpkin who had never seen the world.

Jefferson was an ambassador to Europe. Where has he not been to various European countries?

It is precisely because he has been to Europe and is so familiar with European things that he is so firmly opposed to industrialization and the development of manufacturing.

He has witnessed the cruelty of primitive accumulation, the horror of sweatshops, the large number of urban proletarians created by the development of manufacturing in France, and the horror of industrial transformation.

He witnessed with his own eyes the lack of land in Europe to satisfy the growing population. People who had no land to cultivate went to work in big cities to make a living. A large amount of idle labor drove the development of manufacturing industry. In stark contrast to the poverty of the poor.

social chaos.

revolution.

Counter-revolutionary.

uprising.

Suppress.

resist.

massacre.

Fight.

oppression.

The gap between rich and poor.

Moral corruption.

The world is down.

People are not old...

Again and again and again and again.

Precisely because Jefferson was not a bumpkin and had never seen the world, he opposed industrialization and capitalism all his life.

[I would rather see half of the world's population extinct than this (anti-industrialization, return to petty bourgeois ownership, self-cultivating farmers, rural volunteer society, and village communes) fail! 】

Of course, North America was also qualified to ridicule European industrialization at that time.

Not just ridicule, but contempt.

After the reform of the Land Sales Act, each family was given 160 acres of land, or 960 acres.

In European countries that are industrializing, ask workers in rapidly industrializing cities, do you have 960 square meters in your home, let alone 960 mu?

This anti-industrialization, anti-capitalist petty-bourgeois private ownership idea has confidence and foundation.

Those who oppose industrialization are not necessarily all bad people, and it is even possible that many people are good people.

But yes, reactionary good guys.

All countries that have reached the stage of private ownership and free land sales will, sooner or later, have the idea of ​​emphasizing agriculture over business and anti-industrialization.

This is a common problem in almost all countries based on "private ownership plus free sale of land". If this step is not taken, and if this crucial step of "industrialization at all costs" is not taken...the cycle will be repeated.

And cattle farming, ridge farming, blast furnace iron, the productivity level of 120 jin per mu, coupled with private ownership of land, land can be bought and sold, what will become of the future...

China has already proved this point to Europe in the 18th century, the American Enlightenmentists, and petty bourgeois utopians with 2000 years of history, but no one believed it at the time.

The material basis of Jefferson's reactionary utopia is the vast land and sparse population of North America.These realistic foundations gave him the illusion that this fantasy can be realized.

But it is an illusion after all.

With the damage of the "Embargo Act" to commercial compradors and the stimulation of the local manufacturing industry, the rapid development of the textile industry and other manufacturing industries during the "Embargo Act" cannot be reversed. The city is also shattered, but it is irreparable, and there is no other way.

He said that the fearful manufacturing, banking, and financial industries would gradually disintegrate the acquaintance society based on the township and village community that he imagined.

Indeed, his fantasy has won the support of many North Americans.

However, at the same time, while his "Embargo Act" laid the industrial foundation of North America, he himself was branded a "tyrant" by the beneficiaries of the original trading system.

Because of the "pains" of the embargo law, the original foreign trade in North America was destroyed: the trade system of selling raw materials and importing industrial products.

As a result, the original commercial capital and merchants who completed capital accumulation through trade had to invest capital in the textile industry and glass manufacturing industry that had not yet developed in the United States, and completed the replacement of British textiles.

Some states with developed commercial shipping, grain export states, and raw material export states did not hesitate to shout the slogan of withdrawing from the federation.Because this "labor pain" is really too painful. This is a major reshuffle of the original national economic system. Thousands of people are unemployed, the price of industrial products has surged, and smuggling is rampant.

It's hard to say whether it's right or wrong.

What happened after that might never happen again, and of course it was impossible for Dashun to know about it.

But it is not important.

The important thing is that the Dashun group of people who roughly understand that the economic foundation determines the superstructure can make up a set of suitable deceptions around the economic foundation of North America at this time to completely open up the North American market and gain enough support. And this set of theories that crushed the industrial development of the colonies was carried forward and became prominent.

Select the people they want to win over, identify the people they must oppose, support one group of people, and kill the other group.

(End of this chapter)