Xinshun 1730

Chapter 1341 Desperate is wrong, earning money is right ([-])

Whether it is a burden or not depends on whether France is expelled from Canada.

Taking the history of later generations as an example, it is said that North America is separated from the United Kingdom, and it can still trade with the whole of Europe...

That is purely seeking a sword.

That is, France has been expelled from Canada, and then the French revolution has a similar ideology, and then Napoleon led the entire European continent to fight against Britain... That is the value of the united front in North America against Britain.The French lost their heads for Huimei, Hui's king, and the enemy of the enemy is my friend.

At that time, the nascent American products could naturally enter the French market.

And now... France is still in Canada, the Great Lakes, and Ohio. France's strict trade protection policy prevents even Dashun products from entering the French market. The French believe in the Kerberism and their own industrial protection policies , plus France has not been driven out in Canada, how can you sell your goods to France in the thirteen states of North America?

Not to mention, with Carlos III of Spain coming to power, a series of enlightened monarchy reforms, the establishment of the Havana Tobacco Company, Jewish amnesty, religious tolerance, and a series of measures to combat the Jesuits.France's own molasses can't be sold, and Spain still has tobacco. If you in North America are not anti-British and anti-United Front value, why should you buy your goods?
If you don’t buy goods, North America can still make a living. In Dashun, the land that can accommodate 200 million people can accommodate [-] million people. It’s impossible to say that the people are struggling.

But North America can't sell the goods, and Dashun wants to trade in North America for silver, but it's over.

The thirteen states of the United States, in the west and north, had an armed conflict with France, in order to seize land and fur trade, is one thing.Directly cut off trade and increase tariffs.

It is another matter that a small group of bandits in the colonies of the thirteen British states invaded France in the west and north, occupying land and farming.Britain and France can negotiate to suppress these "thugs" together, and the trade between the two sides will continue.

As Li Yan said, the purpose of the UK's deployment of thousands of troops to the Great Lakes, Ohio, and St. Lawrence River regions is different from the purpose of the militias of those state governments in North America.

Britain is for the ginseng mink trade.It’s not that the thirteen states are worthless, but that only the ginseng and mink trade can be monopolized and strictly controlled. Other things cannot be controlled, because Britain has tried it, and the molasses law can’t collect taxes at all. .

And those militiamen are for land speculation, plowing and farming.

No matter how rich the thirteen states are, it has nothing to do with the British government, because it is a loss for the government to pay taxes instead of subsidies.

It's like Dashun has always said to abandon the garrison in the Western Regions and the immigrants in the Western Regions, because they spend money and can't get a dime.

Don't say that North America has corn, rice, and wheat. These are the foundations of the country... The British ruling class also has a powerful landlord class. How do our landlords live?Do you understand that the price of food is low, and the price of grain hurts farmers?

Ginseng and mink fur are easy to monopolize. The Wang family’s exclusive trading post and Indian transactions can be transported through rivers to set up banknotes. This is the money that can be obtained.

If Britain really wanted to throw North America out, it would be quite detrimental to Dashun.

Throwing it out means that Europe and America will definitely go to war.

You can't work hard, how can you make money if you work hard?

During a war, the consumer market declines.This is not the time of World War I and World War II. The transportation capacity at that time could sell food, meat, weapons and steel during the war.What Dashun can sell now are consumer goods, and the war will seriously affect Dashun's trade profits, as well as the frenzy of investment in infrastructure caused by Dashun's overheated mind.In the early stage of large-scale infrastructure construction and industrialization, once the funds are broken and the market is depressed and the capital is insufficient, big things will happen.

Dashun wants a stable Europe and America for at least 30 to [-] years, not a chaotic Europe and America.

Because it will take at least 20 years for Dashun to kill India's handicraft industry and completely disintegrate India's handicraft production capacity. European and American.

It will take time to disintegrate India’s handicraft industry and industrial production capacity. It doesn’t mean that India’s old economic foundation will be disintegrated with a random policy. Dashun can sell cloth to Europe with 82% tariffs, and India can also , India's production capacity is only slightly lower than that of Dashun Handicrafts.

It is not technology or capital that restricts the development of Dashun Industry, but the market.

In a short period of time, it is impossible for Dashun to completely open up the currency barrier and really build a unified national market.

Again:
The colonists and the Opium War (surplus trade after removing the opium issue) affected the development of national capital and strangled national capital.

However, for the natural economy of small farmers and men farming and women weaving, both Western capitalists and Songsu capitalists are dismantling their survival foundation, and there is no difference. shipping costs.

This emerging power of Dashun, regardless of the buzzing in Europe and the United States, forced Britain and France to issue a ban on cotton cloth, forced the French Painters Federation to increase tariffs, and detonated the Boston Tea Party incident of North American independence... ...But in Dashun, Diao Mao is not, and it does not have the ability to suppress the overwhelming peasant uprising.

Therefore, Dashun urgently needs to have a peaceful and broad market before disintegrating India's industrial capabilities.

The powder kegs in Europe and the United States are nothing more than the Austrian Netherlands, that is, Belgium, Hanover, East Prussia, Poland, Silesia, and North America.

The problems in continental Europe are all easy to solve. I dare not say too much. Peace in the next 30 to [-] years is sure.

Therefore, Dashun must exert enough strength to ensure the balance of power in North America.

Equilibrium is not a permanent peace, but an interwar period of military expansion and preparation for war.Some people in Dashun hope that the war will continue in the future, and a big one; but they also hope that there will be no war in 30 to [-] years, and peace.

The radical faction of Dashun Xinxue, or the imperialist faction, such as Li Yan and others, do not want to make "port-to-port" trade.

They hoped that the imperial court would rather spend more money, pay more military expenditures, and fight for two more years, but also achieve the effect of "the Netherlands as the general commercial port of Europe".

Things are complicated here.

But take an example of the simplest of these complex problems.

Such as tea.

If there is port-to-port trade, and the UK collects tariffs to sell tea in North America, sooner or later, conflicts between the thirteen states and the UK will break out.

At that time, tea will be used as a symbol.

A symbol of "support for British rule".

There have been too many similar incidents in the original history.

Tar and feathers, as well as pouring tea water to the businessman until he vomits; the so-called Boxers do not use foreign products... They are all the same things in essence, and no one is more noble than the other.

North America also shouted the slogan "I would rather not wear clothes than British cloth".

Adams and others have also personally experienced the dilemma of "if you don't quit tea thoroughly, you will be completely disloyal". Adams said that if you want to drink tea, you can drink as long as it is smuggled tea, but a certain wife directly said that you are not loyal and we will not drink tea.

very normal thing.

If there is port-to-port trade, then, in order to repay the national debt, the UK must encourage the consumption of Chinese goods.At that time, when North America opposes Britain, it will definitely oppose Chinese products, and it will definitely use the non-use of Chinese products as a symbol of resistance to oppression and British slavery.

Is tea irreplaceable?
No, because there is another thing called coffee.

Is cotton irreplaceable?
No, because there are other things called woolen cloth and flax, and even North America can grow cotton itself.

Gandhi's grandfather was not yet born when North America played the set of "prefer not to wear clothes, not to use British cloth, women to spin their own yarn, freedom and integrity".

Not to mention the large number of oriental lacquerware, woodware, fans, etc. in Europe at this time, which are "almost imitated and fake".

Therefore, Dashun must take the righteousness of free trade and regard the Netherlands as a port and commercial port in Europe and America.Otherwise, it is easy for a group of people in Europe and the United States to smash Chinese products with the slogan of "opposing franchise rights and monopoly trade".

The North American market has great potential.

I dare not say it is too big, at least, it is still possible to support half of Hubei to transition to tea plantation, so that the people in those mountainous areas of Hubei can live a good life of tea plantation.Those mountainous areas are not suitable for growing food at all, but it is suitable for growing tea.

What we need to guard against is precisely some people who, under the banner of righteousness, finally turn tea culture into coffee culture, and they will lose big.

Once such light luxury goods and hobbies are replaced, it is impossible or even difficult to reverse them: just like coffee cannot replace tea in Dashun, nor can tea replace coffee in France.

Moreover, if Dashun wants to make money, it must obtain pricing power.

Only by avoiding port-to-port trade and engaging in "false free trade" in which the Netherlands acts as a window to Europe can we gain pricing power.

In short, Europe unified tariffs on goods traded to the East.The right to determine tariffs on Eastern trade products is neither in the hands of Britain nor the Netherlands, but is in the hands of Dashun.

The United Kingdom, France, Netherlands, Austria, Russia and other countries jointly send personnel to supervise, free trade, but the tariff is unified, and the tariff is divided according to each share.

This is of course "false" free trade, because all countries must try to sell their own people to their own homes to get more tariffs, not that British ships can be sold to France at will, and French ships can be sold to Russia at will... But, in the world , is there real free trade like a vacuum spherical chicken?
And only in this way can it be a condition that all countries can accept, and the group of businessmen in North America can also accept.

North American businessmen must pay attention to the attitude of the "Navigation Regulations". They are half against and half in support.

They do not oppose the "Navigation Act", because it protects them from being overwhelmed by merchant ships from the Netherlands, France, Sweden, and Spain; they oppose the "Commodity Listing Act" because it damages their interests in selling goods directly to Europe.

It is not so simple to let the UK accept it, but also to accept it in North America, to keep the potential market of tea from being replaced by coffee, and to trigger the sentiment of "anti-tea, anti-cotton is love of freedom".

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At the same time in North America, with the meeting in the Bahamas and the raid on the plantations in the south, prominent figures in the thirteen states began to gather in Philadelphia.

Those who are famous know that this matter is very important.If you can't show up at this meeting of negotiating with the "enemy country", you will completely ruin your chances of making waves in the future.

Those who are interested in profit know that this matter is very important.Because, it does matter.

All of a sudden, influential figures from thirteen North American states gathered in Pennsylvania.

Slave traders, privateers, smugglers, plantation owners, slave owners, landowners, land speculators, military aristocrats, pastors, lawyers, doctors, etc. all gathered here.

Freemasonry and the church have played a great role here.

Because the interests of each state are different, only the Freemasonry and the church can be regarded as organizations that have groups in each state.

When these people get together, the first thing they do is quarrel.

The interests of the states are so different that it is impossible not to quarrel.

To put it bluntly, let’s not talk about these originally loose colonies, just talk about the oppressive monarchy empire of the Qing Dynasty, where the foreign trade ports are located, Fujian, Zhejiang, and Guangdong, from Shi Lang who secretly sold their sovereignty and hoped for contact between Britain and the Netherlands The port was established in Fujian, and later Ningbo privately lowered tariffs to win over cargo ships. What happened to the open and secret fights?
The crux of the quarrel was not whether to call up the militia to oppose Dashun's landing in Philadelphia, nor was it arguing whether contacting Dashun at this time would be considered traitorous.

The focus of the quarrel is still the foundation laid by the Albany meeting.

Franklin suggested organizing a general assembly, and the states would contribute money together, and they would have to raise soldiers.Because Washington was severely beaten by Indians in the northwest, the two Irish regiments 44 and 48 were directly defeated, which was too scary.

But still the same.

You northerners go to war, what does it matter to us southerners?Why should we pay you to go to war?Why pay for soldiers?
Moreover, the British tradition is against the standing army.

As the British said: The system of buying officials and the ownership of the head of the group are the last barriers to protecting freedom.

The traditional thinking against the standing army is also very serious in North America.

You Franklin want to have a standing army today, do you want to be a king tomorrow?

Of course, this kind of thinking, in this era, is purely a result of getting used to the good times.As long as there is no strait barrier, as long as the Indians have the fighting and organizational capabilities of the Mongolian Huns and Jurchens, it is impossible to come up with the idea of ​​​​"no standing army".

But is tradition sacred?

Just as Lao Ma satirizes the Tory Party, saying that they are flying the banner all day long, saying that they are the best protectors of British traditions.In fact, the "Corn Law" has revealed its original shape, and the tradition of hanging hair is only for land rent.Just add a traditional sacred skin to the land rent of the smell of copper.

North America is also a hanging sample.

When Franklin convened the Albany meeting last time, the South and the North caused a commotion when they jointly paid for the soldiers.

it's good now.

Dashun blew up two plantations, shot more than 600 freed black slaves, and immediately cured their immature disease of fantasy.

This time, the "glorious tradition" will not be debated immediately.

Let's not talk about bullshit, but talk about reality.

Of course, Dashun's emancipation of the slaves could not be based on such things as natural rights.

However, Dashun's ability to instigate slave uprisings was born in the womb.When Dashun was founded, many southern slaves and mine slaves joined in later.

Follow the example of a slave to change the story, arrest the plantation owner, beat him, whip him, and burn him with a soldering iron, and immediately let the black slave understand what it means to "turn the world upside down, turn the world upside down, and why we are always slaves".

This group of people in North America can criticize Dashun angrily from the perspective of classics: private property is inviolable, you have released our property, and you have violated the principle of sanctity of private property.

But the problem was that Dashun didn't want to argue with them at all.

Although not many slaves were rescued, there were only more than 600 slaves.Not many people were killed, only seventy or eighty.Not even many troops landed.

However, the sensation caused this time was much greater than that caused by Washington's defeat in the Northwest.

For the first time, the southern states felt the fear, and for the first time realized the importance of having an army.

However, this is just the beginning, just an opportunity to talk about things together.

It's still too early to actually negotiate.

At least this time, though, Franklin's political satire, "Join, or Die," was met with no widespread backlash.

A snake, a snake cut into seven or eight segments, symbolizes the disunity of the thirteen states.Join, or die; twist together, or be broken individually.

The original disagreement focused on whether to continue to expand, cross the Appalachian Mountains, conflict with the French, and fight the Indians.

The difference at the beginning was that your northern states wanted to cross the Appalachian Mountains, because you are a group of land speculators, do you have any hair, and if you want to fight the French, you go to fight.

In our southern states, tobacco, rice, cattle and horses, and grain are all sold to the French Caribbean islands.Oh, you took the land, and the French backhanded me an embargo. The good things are all yours, and the losses are all ours?
If you want to fight, you northerners fight, but we in the south are not interested.

now...

Twisting into a rope, or joining is the key to death. The easiest way is not to rely on debate.

Rather, there is a common threat.

A preliminary consensus has been reached, and more quarrels are yet to come.

mid March.

A transport fleet escorted by two battleships and six cruisers appeared at the mouth of the Delaware River.

Dashun's combat engineers took the bayou without bloodshed and were welcomed into the city of Wilmington.

This was originally a Swedish colony, and once stood Christina Fort, but as the Dutch defeated the Swedes, and the British defeated the Dutch, the fortress here has been in disrepair and there is no defense at all.

It's not far from Philadelphia.

As the territory of the Bin family, the younger generation of the Bin family, John Bin, can be regarded as the landlord of Pennsylvania, and he welcomed the landing of the Dashun army as a landlord.

Because there is no defense here, if it is not welcome, it will not work.

According to the weird rules in Europe at this time, if you are occupied after resisting, you have to pay a "redemption fee".

And if you don't resist and open the door to welcome, then you don't need to pay the redemption fee.

The news of Dashun's defeat of Gibraltar has already spread, and resistance is meaningless, so it is natural to welcome it directly.

Strangely enough, many members of the Quaker Society also came here to welcome Dashun's army.

The Quakers have a grudge against the Puritans because they are against any form of church, think God interprets himself in letters and don't need "visible saints" shit.They were in Massachusetts back then, but many were burned to death.

Generally speaking, they are progressive elements who oppose slavery and the unity of church and state.

Not like those Puritan lunatics in Massachusetts.

Of course, they also objected to the fact that Dashun burned two plantations in the south and rescued many slaves, thinking that it was too violent and should not be like this.

But it is not enough to treat Dashun as a devil.

In general, thanks to the spread of European Enlightenment thoughts from east to west, Dashun still exists as an ideal country of "religious tolerance".

Although Dashun banned religion, the reason for the ban was not from a religious point of view. Enlightenment thinkers such as Voltaire also expressed their support for the attitude of banning religion: the reason for Dashun’s ban on religion is the issue of sovereignty, whether the people under the rule are loyal to their own government or The question of allegiance to the Holy See.

In this matter, the Quakers, who had been burned by the Catholic Church and the Puritans, did not object to Dashun's actions too much.

Of course, the main thing is that you can't beat it.

There were neither forts nor garrisons, and the militiamen were still fighting the Indians in the west. When Dashun's fleet came, it was better to welcome it than to oppose it.

(End of this chapter)