Xinshun 1730

Chapter 1342 Desperate is wrong, earning money is right ([-])
In addition to the above reasons, the Quaker members greeted the Dashun army because of an awkward religious factor, or rather a dumbfounding factor.

Yes, just dumbfounding.

Pennsylvania was founded by a group of Quakers who believed in one thing: that they could establish a sacred place where religious tolerance and various denominations lived together peacefully.

This is a very famous [divine experiment] in the history of Christianity.

Quakers oppose war of any kind, including military service.In later generations, they also refused to perform military service, and would rather refuse to serve in the military and go to prison than to do military service.

It's quite weird, the only sect that really lives in peace with the Indians, swears peace with the Indians, and actually treats the Indians as human beings.

Then, less than eight years into the experiment, it failed.

Between people of different denominations, the brains almost didn't come out.

The reason for the failure is also interesting:
Because the Quakers were against violence, they refused to bear arms, not even to serve as militiamen.

Because they are going to do holy experiments, people from different sects, even those who have burnt their sects, can enjoy equal rights here.

Because they don't carry weapons, the rest of the denominations carry weapons.

It would be strange if it didn't fail.

It can only be said that the Quakers were massacred everywhere, not for nothing... massacred in England, massacred in Wales, massacred in Boston, forced to impose "heretic tax" in Massachusetts, etc., there is no way not to take a gun ?

Mo Di knew 2000 years ago that there must be a violent organization in the hands of love and peace, otherwise how can there be peace?
How dare you do the sacred experiment of "peaceful coexistence among sects" if you don't even have a gun barrel?

Therefore, after the Quakers' sacred experiment failed, these Quakers still couldn't forget it.

I heard that in Dashun, Confucianists, Taoists, former Catholics, Buddhists, non-believers... can fucking live together?
Not only did they live together, but they even lived for more than eight years?

And it didn't blow out the brains?
how did you do that?
It just feels a little unbelievable, unimaginable, and impossible to exist.

How could such a thing happen?

How could such a big country not burn each other every day because of beliefs?
Not to mention paganism, there must be different factions within Confucianism, right?Don't these different factions kill each other?

This is also an important reason why the Quakers did not oppose the landing of Dashun with violence. Even shortly after the landing, female Quaker missionaries came to the barracks, wanting to meet the officers of Dashun.

The group of Quakers are not so dazed when it comes to things like burning people and judging people.

But it doesn't mean that they are not bewildered, on the contrary, they are quite bewildered when it comes to things other than burning people and judging.

Two kinds of bewilderment.

Like Mary, an early Quaker missionary.

In Massachusetts, where everyone believed in Christ, she was stripped of her clothes, nearly starved to death, medically examined, deported, and almost died.

In pagan Constantinople, she was entertained, though of a different faith, and the Sultan sent troops to escort her home, but she refused, and wandered home alone, safe and sound.

In addition to being very black and humorous, it also shows that both of these are bewildered.

The madness of the Puritans is that they love to burn people, love to slaughter, and love to judge.

If the Quakers were not dazzled, they could go to Constantinople alone, talk to the Ottoman Sultan about their beliefs, and hope that the Sultan would convert?
Under such bewilderment, when they heard that a country where various sects coexisted peacefully instead of a nationwide massacre of heresies actually existed, and it landed in Wilmington, they really couldn't help but welcome them .

However, it was obvious that Dashun would never allow these missionaries to enter the barracks.

After observing outside the barracks for a few days, these Quakers were surprised to find that these Dashun soldiers had very good military discipline.

Compared with the European army at this time, especially the British army that Franklin complained was "not as good as the invader France", the military discipline of the Dashun landing force was even better.

These elite troops of Dashun are paid in full!
At this time, the army that can pay in full and has the guarantee of granting land after retirement may be the only one.Don't look at the loud Prussian military song, "The king of France pays the army with oil, so it's not like our moonlight", but listen to it, don't believe it.

Since the salary is paid in full, at the very least, it will not be like the British army. When they were stationed in North America, they did the work. Once the lobster soldiers come, they are willing to cook ten catties of stick noodles a day, who can bear it.

The soldiers of Dashun never disturbed the people... It's not because of their high quality, but because they lived in the house of a group of bewildered people, worried that if they died in the middle of the night, they wouldn't know why they died.Besides, the field troops also had camp discipline.

Secondly, they don't compete with the local workers, and their wages are reduced.

Three, the supplies here are very rich. They are really holding cash and silver. How many merchants are lining up to sell food here.

This fueled the Quaker curiosity even more.

The Quakers have a close relationship with the Bin family. Since Dashun prohibits missionaries, especially female missionaries, from entering the barracks, the Quakers hope that John Bin, the heir of the Bin family, can help spread the word.

As the landlord here, John Bean is the real landlord. His family's land covers an area of ​​12 square kilometers, and the entire Pennsylvania is named after their family's surname.

Dashun's side landed in Pennsylvania, and it was impossible for John Bing to come out and talk to Dashun's side.

The Beans are, on the whole, morally speaking, good people.At least compared to those Puritan lunatics and slave-holding lunatics, he is a good person in the moral sense.

Pennsylvania is their family's estate, and it is relatively peaceful with the Indians. It is not so religiously bewildered. It can be regarded as a clean stream in the North American colonies. Not to mention that it has not burned many people, even Catholics and Jews. Can live in Pennsylvania.

These days, if you don't burn people, you are considered a good person.

And later in the American Revolutionary Period, the situation of the Bin family can be regarded as a manifestation of the "few progressiveness" of the independence of the thirteen states:

His family's 1 million mu of land was confiscated and nationalized.Because he was more cooperative, he was regarded as an enlightened landlord, and he gave a compensation of 6200 pounds, unlike other pro-British factions who not only refused to pay the money, confiscated it, but also shot him.

This is progress, clearing the way for capitalist development.

Its anti-feudal nature is mainly reflected in the abolition of the "refund fee" - its feudal nature is similar to power.

For example, this piece of real estate is mine, I lease it to you, and you are just a tenant.And according to feudal law, I have the right to hunt on my land-although generally I don't have nothing to do to go hunting in your wheat field, but it is my legal right to hunt on my property. right.I can do it, but it doesn't mean I don't have the right.

Of course, it is the feudal law.

Therefore, as a tenant, you have to pay me to buy rights such as "hunting rights" from me.

This is similar to Daquan. I don't have to sleep with the tenant's daughter-in-law, but I have the right to sleep.I can stay awake, but the tenant has to pay me for the privilege to keep me awake.

In jurisprudence, the stench of feudalism is too strong.

Therefore, during the North American Revolution, the property of the Bin family was confiscated, and the feudalism and rent abolition were abolished, which was an absolute anti-feudal progress.

There is no doubt about it.

Including smugglers, confiscation of landlord property, abolition of primogeniture, abolition of feudal legal rights... These are all progressive.

And this kind of progress, as well as the influence of the French Enlightenment, made John Bing make the decision to welcome the Dashun army.He has realized that a crisis is brewing, and some things may be unavoidable, so if it cannot be avoided, it is best to choose a compromise and exchange for a little more profit.

The general trend of history is mighty, and anyone with a discerning eye in this era can clearly see that some things are out of control.

The flame of the French Enlightenment originated from the infusion of European religions.It is also precisely because religion has entered the brain that these anti-religious enlightenment movements have unconsciously borrowed such things as talent, human beings, and free will derived from religious scholasticism.

These things are useless in Dashun at this time, because Dashun’s set of things that don’t believe in God will not delay the rebellion and equalization of land in all dynasties.

And these things, in Europe and the United States, can make the ruling class, especially landlords like John Bean, whose family owns 12 square kilometers of land property rights, feel terrified.

Once Dashun and France are stuck on the western border and unable to expand and acquire land, they can only divide the land internally.

Now that Franklin is in London, he is mainly busy with two things: one is to allow the printing of banknotes; the other is to convert Pennsylvania from a private owner colony to a royal colony in one step.

Franklin recognized that the sovereignty rests with the king, so after being converted to a royal colony, it is equivalent to the transfer of land ownership to sovereign state ownership, that is, the completion of nationalization through peaceful means.

The twists and turns here are complicated.

If the sovereignty belongs to the Parliament, then the thirteen states in North America are affiliated to the United Kingdom, and the Parliament is controlled by the British people; only when the sovereignty belongs to the king, can North America and England be equal in jurisprudence.

As a key figure involved in the dispute over land ownership in Pennsylvania, John Bing was, after all, the heir of the family. He was full of conflicting feelings about the arrival of the Dashun army.

Things inside are very troublesome.

And the big proprietors of Pennsylvania, the Bin family, took the initiative to welcome the Dashun army to land, precisely because of the troubles involved.

In very crude, or "vulgar" terms.

External expansion, big capital eats meat, small capital eats soup, eats meat, drinks soup, and gnaws bones.

Without external expansion, the landlords who came first, especially the big landlords like the Bin family with tens of thousands of square kilometers at every turn, may have to be hung with street lights.

Roughly and roughly speaking, it is roughly such a "vulgar" thing.

John Bean was once a joyous teenager who rebelliously violated the wishes of his parents, pursued love, even broke up with his parents, and married a girl from the wrong family.Even though the family kept reminding him that this girl might be just for dividing up the family property, he was sure it was love.

Then, after growing up, he divorced the girl under the reminder of the huge... er, it is really huge, the family property he and his cousin will inherit is 12 square kilometers... a huge family property.

It can also be regarded as a farewell and separation from my second, young, passionate, and youthful self in the past.

The younger self in the past, dead.

The present "mature" self is the self.

So, now that he gradually understands how to fight for his interests, at this moment when his family is in London, he made a decisive decision to welcome Dashun's army to land, and strive for more interests that are more beneficial to him and the post-war war. terms.

(End of this chapter)