Xinshun 1730

Chapter 1346 Desperate is wrong, earning money is right ([-])
Ask John Bing to take a step back, and even if he takes a step back, there are still many problems to be solved.To solve these problems, we can't just rely on the Bing family, but also have to convene the parliamentary faction headed by Franklin and others to discuss together. This is why people are encouraged to come to the meeting in the Bahamas.

Take the progressive nature of the Pennsylvania land issue in the American Revolution in history.

Revolution is the highest justice.

Therefore, the real estate of the Bin family can be confiscated and turned into state-owned land, and the head of the Bin family can be signed. If they don't sign, they will be locked up to death.

Legally abolished the rent-refund fee in the British feudal law. This translation may not be accurate, but it can be roughly understood as something similar to the power tax.

But what about compromise?

If there is a compromise, the Bin family will donate the land, and there will be no refund fee, because the logic behind this is feudal privilege.

Then, change the name of this rent-off fee to "donation compensation"-my family's land, I donate it for your use, and the state government will give me a certain amount of compensation after selling the land.This is not a feudal privilege, is it?

In terms of law, there is a difference, and the difference is huge.

In essence, there is no difference, what is unaffordable is still unaffordable.

Is it to be legally anti-feudal?
Or is it actually anti-landlord ownership?

Is it legally necessary to change the name of the rental cancellation fee and replace it with compensation?

Or in essence, don't pay the money at all?
The reason why the industrial and agricultural bourgeoisie opposed the landlord was not to oppose those abstract feudal jurisprudence, but fundamentally, the industrial capitalists believed that "the landlord is a completely useless waste and a real obstacle in the production process."

Taking a step back, even if the Bin family showed great kindness and took the initiative to donate all the land to the state government.

So, how to divide the land?
Do you want everyone who comes to have Yongyetian?
When selling land, is the minimum amount 3000 mu?Or the minimum amount of 300 acres?
If you can’t afford it for a while, can you take the interest-free arrears and repay them in installments?
Is there a tax on cultivated land?Can I collect taxes?

If you don't collect taxes, if you want to organize an army to prevent transgressions, where will the money come from?

If the tax is collected, is the tax paid in real grain?Or folded silver?In the case of cross-color silver, Pennsylvania lacks gold, silver and precious metals. Can paper money be issued?

If paper currency is issued, is it privately issued?Or the state government?
These are all problems.

Dashun is very concerned about these issues.

Or rather, have to pay attention.

Because Dashun was tossing around in North America for two things.

Free trade, what this group of people in North America say doesn’t count, and they also support free trade. This matter needs to be negotiated with the British by warships.

On the western border, what people in the UK say doesn't count, because it is impossible for the UK to spend money on garrisoning troops to do things that have no benefits at all. This requires the group of people in North America to come up with a specific plan as soon as possible.

Of course, jurisprudence, justice, these things are not a big problem.

Debating the scriptures, the Six Classics annotate me, and I annotate the Six Classics.

Even if it is Protestantism, today it is necessary to have the enlightenment of tangible saints, and tomorrow it can be self-cultivation without tangible saints.

Now the British government may not want to be this "bad guy", and the elites in North America, facing the threat of Chinese, French and Indians, are more inclined to love Britain, while wanting to retain more autonomy.

Then, you have to have money.Without money, nothing can be done.

The issue of taxation and how to deal with those who "resist the tax" are some substantive issues.

Taking advantage of the enormous pressure China and France exerted on the thirteen states in North America, internal reactionaries and external imperialist forces unite to complete the suppression of activities such as resistance to taxation and land reclamation.

Since it is meant to put pressure on, then Dashun will inevitably hold some military drills and the like, so that the "elites" in North America will deeply realize that North America is not the only one of their own, and the British army cannot make the French army in Canada completely To retreat and continue the fight is to bloodlet the elites like them.

After the meeting with John Bing, John Bing came forward and sent an invitation to the North American elites gathered in Philadelphia.

Dashun's army would not enter Philadelphia, but they rented a large piece of land near Philadelphia to perform military drills.

A large number of Philadelphia residents, together with the North American elites who came from all over the country, watched the performance with thousands of people.

Most of the situation came with the mentality of watching the excitement.

A small number of people came with the nervousness after Gibraltar was captured.

Dashun's military performances were also very interesting. In addition to performing a formation drill commonly used by the world's powerful military at this time, they also put on some weird-looking demonstrations.

Two hot air balloons were released.

A bunch of big, fat-and-rubber mixtures were fired at the rented woodland.

Sappers demonstrated an explosive of "extremely powerful power".

Rifled gun mast shooter shoots a flock of sheep at extreme distances.

Different performances are aimed at different groups of people.

For those elites who were influenced by the Enlightenment and the development of natural philosophy, Dashun has several images.

Except for the rich and powerful imagination triggered by the China craze.

Except for the moral utopia depicted by Enlightenment scholars.

Dashun has another image it has created over the past few years, that is, a country that pursues science rationally.

Is it not, that is one thing.

How many papers have been published can only be understood by the inner circle.For example, Franklin, King of Lightning, must know some research results of Dashun Academy of Sciences.

But to create a general public impression of "emphasizing science" and "advanced technology"...or in other words, to create this image requires another set of operations.

What is Dashun relying on?
In fact, the Dashun depends on the transit of Venus in 1761.

Science is only divided into disciplines, but there is no distinction between high and low.

But, such as designing an exquisite experiment to prove mass conservation; such as designing an experiment to prove that the phlogiston theory is wrong...

These, at this time, can definitely be regarded as top-level cutting-edge research in science.

However, is this suitable for shaping the "image"?

Not suitable.

Because these things may need education all over the world, most people have to learn from textbooks before they know that these are enough to prove the development of science and technology.

Therefore, since many years ago, Liu Yu has been clamoring that "Venus transits the sun, and all human beings have cooperated. Through observation and calculation around the world, we know how far the earth we live is too far away."

This is not just now.

From the beginning when Dashun sent survey ships all over the world to draw charts, to Liu Yu's speech in Amsterdam, they have been publicizing this matter.

From a scientific point of view, is this matter more cutting-edge than the experimental proof of mass conservation after combustion?

Obviously not.

But this matter, from the perspective of communication and image building, I don't know how much higher it is than the burning experiment in the Academy of Sciences.

After all, most people don't actually learn the conservation of quality, and they don't miss eating, working and living these days.

But everyone in the world will look up and see the sun every day.

It has been clamored for more than ten or 20 years in advance.

This kind of thing has already spread all over the world, because observing the transit of Venus to measure the distance between the earth and the sun needs to be observed from different places and different latitudes and longitudes.

This requires the cooperation of all countries.

Even though it was a war, Dashun also made a gesture, and communicated with other countries in advance through diplomatic means as a matter of business, which made a big news.

As for the difficulty of this matter... It can only be said that it is not so much a basic science as it is more about engineering and mathematical calculations.

Most people are emotional.

For a thing or a country, often only accept an abstract image definition, and do not think rationally about various internal factors.

From a rational analysis, can the clamoring to rely on the transit of Venus to measure the distance between the earth and the sun prove that a country is strong?
can.

Because this proves that this country, its native land and colonies, at least have a vast territory, and can be measured in different places, so that the distance between the earth and the sun can be inferred using simple mathematical formulas.

This proves that the country's sailing level... well, of course, this is not necessarily the case.The Mongol Empire’s navy pulled their hips, but this did not prevent them from measuring the meridian... But the reality faced by European countries is that the countries are generally small, and it is impossible for the mainland to do this, so this can also prove that the level of navigation is very high.

This proves that the country's mathematics is not bad and very good, and it can be deduced from this that the level of artillery and the level of offensive and defensive bastion must not be low.

This proves that this country has mastered the method of measuring latitude and longitude, from which it can be deduced that its navy can appear anywhere in the ocean.

This proves that this country is very rich, because if it is poor, it probably has no money to invest in this kind of basic measurement that seems to be a waste of time.

Wait... wait, many things can be deduced with reason.

But most people are emotional, like an abstract definition, a photo-like image, so as to plant seeds in their hearts, and figure out what it is like according to their own imagination.

It was through this mentality that Liu Yu shaped Dashun's image in Europe through several things.

It is not the kind of "borrowing the east to satirize the west" style of shaping by the Enlightenment scholars.

For a long time, China has always been an image similar to "background painting" in European narratives.

There can be gold digger ants in there.

It could be the place where Aladdin, who touches the magic lamp, lives. After all, Aladdin lives in the "capital of China".

It can be the Tang Dynasty that the Swedes say "the emperor will visit his country every day and listen to the voice of the people".

When you see tea, you think of China; when you see lacquerware, you think of China; when you see silk, you think of China; when you see porcelain, you think of China; when you see a folding fan at a dance, you think of China...

But what is China like?

Liu Yu was sure that when Dashun started to wake up and participated in the world competition, it was like a... um, a person in the background painting, walking out of the background painting.

Originally in the background painting, this person is tall, fit, or morally noble.

And after walking out of the background painting, what does this person look like?What does he say?What does he eat?What does he like to eat?Does he shit and wipe his ass?

In the words of later generations, Liu Yu is creating a "personal design for debut" for Dashun, or China.

This kind of person setting is not a debate.

People have a mentality of admiring the strong, dislike the poor and love the rich, if you are rich and powerful, someone will argue for you.For example, the Enlightenment Movement was very good at arguing.When Confucian scholars from outside go to lecture on the scriptures with people who believe in the Bible, they often don't agree with the horse.

Instead of relying on the great Confucian on the opposite side to take the initiative to recite scriptures for you, you only need to be responsible for creating a high-end character design.

And "Venus Transiting the Sun" is precisely Liu Yu's "worldwide hype" to create "China's debut character design", which was specially created by Liu Yu.

Otherwise, how could he seem to have nothing to do, insisting on tossing about this matter all the time.How far is the earth from the sun?The popularization of the knowledge that light reaches the earth in 8.3 minutes, just do a reverse calculation, it must be more accurate than the current measurement.

But such a silent, how can it have such a great influence that it started to be hyped on a large scale in the world more than ten years ago?
As soon as the people are set up, China, which just came out of the background painting, suddenly has a more three-dimensional image and a lot of brilliance.

At least, speaking, it has more weight.Especially in conjunction with the Enlightenment Movement's parody of the West, the coup d'etat in the Netherlands, and the siege of Gibraltar. These things combined together made Dashun fart much louder than before on diplomatic occasions, and someone would listen to it. up.

For example, in this drill, Dashun released hot air balloons, sniped sheep from a long distance, and the magical Big Diamond Monkey rocket, etc., all of which fit the previous set of characters, and also put great pressure on this group of people in North America. , especially when faced with Dashun's "suggestions" or "threats", it is easier to listen to Dashun's meaning and carefully ponder over some obviously threatening words.

(End of this chapter)