Xinshun 1730

Chapter 1366 Internal Diseases and External Treatment ([-])

It is not an exaggeration to say that the profit from a shipment of ginseng is enough to provide tens of thousands of rifles.

In fact, in the original history, from the middle of the Qing Dynasty, how could Liaodong still have participation?They are all ginseng from the arbor.

Not to mention that Dashun had PTSD in Liaodong in the late Ming Dynasty, and frantically immigrated to the area south of the Songliao watershed.

The ginseng trade in North America is still in the ascendant, and there are plenty of ginseng that has been around for hundreds of years. After all, no one picked this thing before.

As a luxury item, the price of a thousand-year-old ginseng is really different from that of a hundred ten-year-old ginseng.

Dashun's labor cost is there, and the price of the musket must be much lower than that of the brown bass.To put it bluntly, before the salt reform, the annual donations made by salt merchants to the imperial court were enough for North American Indians and French residents to pay military expenses for five years.

Not to mention the imperial court, even some private individuals who are specifically thinking about causing trouble in North America can afford it.

As the saying goes, weapons are not as good as silver dollars, and silver dollars are not as good as doctrine.

As for the Acadians and Wabanaki Federation people in North America, it depends on whether they have doctrine or not.Swearing to kill all aggressors, is that considered doctrine?
The group of British royalists are very clear about the bewilderment and madness of the Protestants and what the so-called "rangers" did in North America.

Knowing that the British are selling slaves, recognizing slaves, colonizing everywhere, and massacring at every turn, they all lamented that the actions of some Puritan rangers were intolerable and completely anti-human.

You know, it can be considered "anti-humanity" by the British of this era. It is conceivable what those North American Protestant rangers did to the Acadians.

Is revenge a kind of doctrine?

I'm afraid at this time, probably yes.

The British government does not have to pretend to be a good person, and they are not innocent in this matter.Even they themselves are pushers.

But the crux of the matter was those Acadians, Wabanakis, who couldn't swim across the Atlantic to come to London for revenge.

Therefore, it was originally a bad thing for Dashun to provide weapons and silver coins to the northerners.

However, looking at it dialectically, for the British government, it may not be impossible to turn bad things into good things.

Many problems in North America are of course regarded as the internal affairs of the United Kingdom at this time.

But obviously, these internal "diseases" in North America may really be cured by the outside.

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At the same time, in the forests of northern North America, on the valley plain of the St. Johns River, a group of Acadian soldiers was camping in the forest.

There are more than 400 people in this team. People in the team are of different ages, and there are even women.

The youngest is twelve or thirteen years old.

The oldest, the leader of the team, Joseph Godin Dieter Belfontaine, is 63 years old this year.

His hair is gray, but his body is still strong.

Like most of the guerrillas, they had a deep-rooted hatred for those New England Protestants.

Two years ago, in the village not far from here, Joseph Godin was captured by New England Rangers.

Ranger Lieutenant Moses Hasson, in front of Joseph Godin, slit his daughter's head open and flayed his daughter whole.

Later, three of his grandsons were burned to death, and the charred hand of one grandson was stuffed into Joseph Godin's mouth.

Joseph Godin, with his two grandsons and another daughter, fled into the forest after the guards got drunk.

The wailing of his daughter's skin being peeled off but not yet dead, until now, even after two years, still reverberates in his mind.

The crimson, skinless body writhed in pain, accompanied by the laughter of Rangers such as Moses Hasson, which became an unforgettable nightmare for old Joseph.

Among the guerrillas, Old Joseph's experience was not the worst.

There are many people who are worse than him.

So in this guerrilla team, there will be women and children, and they will become staunch fighters.

As the saying goes, good people are rewarded with rewards, and evil people are punished by evil people, but the reality is not like this.In history, Moses Hasson has always been a brigadier general of the US military.

What he is most famous for is not the massacre of the Acadians, but his sympathy for the British officers who were drawn in the Asgir incident where Washington ordered the execution of British prisoners of war by lot.

A wicked person has done evil all his life, and because of this sympathy, he becomes a good person, a gentleman, and a kind person worthy of respect.

In history, after Joseph Godin escaped, he was immersed in the pain of his daughter and grandson being skinned and burned to death face to face. In less than three to five years, he and his wife died one after another.

At this time, Joseph Godin has completely disbelieved in the rhetoric that good people are rewarded and good deeds are heaven.

All he could think about now was revenge.

He was going to grab Moses Hasson and skin him off.

Not only that, but he's going to kill every English-speaking person he sees.

It is similar to the slaves in Jamaica who burned white people to death, or the slaves in the south of the Yangtze River in the late Ming Dynasty who changed their tenants and beat their masters to death.Later generations of "historians" or those who "believe in love and eternal justice in the world" will inevitably say that their revenge is too cruel, that they have lost justice, and so on.

This kind of idea that he would rather die himself than be a perfect victim for future generations is not the mainstream at this time, and there is basically no room for it to exist.

What Joseph Godin and the hundreds of guerrillas around him wanted to do was very simple and brutal.

kill back.

Now, they hold the rifles supported by Dashun in their hands, and eat the cheap corn and wheat that Dashun bought from North Carolina and Connecticut—as long as they give silver instead of paper money, they can have as much corn and wheat as they want, from thirteen states. Merchants will take the initiative to transport to the St. Lawrence River.

The improved version of the naval rifles that Dashun bought from the French in their hands has become the standard equipment of the Acadian guerrillas and the Wabanaki Federal Army.

As the group of British royalists said, the production price of muskets in Dashun gradually decreased, and the profit from a shipment of ginseng trade was enough to send tens of thousands of muskets.

Perhaps, from an "aesthetic" point of view, at this moment, Joseph Godin, should have pulled out of his pocket a few lead soldier dolls, the relics of his three grandchildren who were skinned alive by the Rangers two years ago.He should melt these lead soldier dolls into lead bullets by the bonfire, turning them into spirits of revenge, and use them in future revenge.

But the reality is not so "beautiful".

After he ran away, the other daughter who ran away with him soon went crazy.Because the scene where her sister was skinned alive, she couldn't forget it, and soon went completely crazy, jumped into the river and drowned.

Another grandson who escaped got smallpox and died.

His village was burned.

All the horses in the village were taken away, all the food was burned, all the houses were burned, and all the cattle were killed.

He doesn't even have the relics of his skinned daughter and grandson, let alone any lead soldier dolls.

His enemies, the Rangers, had been chasing him all these years.

Unlike the British regular army, the British regular army is subject to the code of conduct and does not know how to fight in the forest. The huge virgin forest in North America, as well as the destruction of Washington and the 44th and 48th Irish regiments, prompted the formation of rangers in North America.

In other words, choose from those who are familiar with jungle warfare in the border areas, and fight guerrilla warfare with guerrilla warfare. If you do a good job, you can give priority to the distribution of the captured land in the future.

These people are very good at fighting in the forest, using standard bandit fighting methods, killing, burning, looting, scalping, and exchanging rewards for silver.

It should be said that the Rangers in North America are closest to the original English meaning of the word "company".

[Company] and [Company] are one word.

These ranger companies are individual [companies], which are funded and established by people. After the war, they are divided into dividends and land, and they are given priority in enclosing land.

The villages of these Acadians were scattered all over the place, and there were not many people in each village, so one village after another was destroyed by the rangers in this way.

It should be said that the Acadians should be "thanks" to these Ranger Protestants.

It was these Protestants who taught them "unity" and educated them so that they gradually had a sense of community beyond the family and the village.

Now, think of people like Joseph Godin, many, many.

Some escaped death, some rioted to save themselves during the expulsion process, some were rescued by Dashun on the ship, and some were transported back from the Spanish colonies.

Negotiations with the Spaniards were easy and pleasant.Since the Spaniards are worried about the expansion of Protestants and the country lacks enough population to fill them, they would rather choose the Acadians or Chinese Catholics than be eroded by Protestants in the future.

But Dashun has a very clear attitude towards those Catholics who never repent and never convert - they should benefit as much as they can, and benefit as much as they can.

Just don't let the Dashun government take the money.

In this, the role of the Holy See, or the role of the Society of Jesus, is still there.

In view of the widespread persecution of the "Catholics" in China, the Jesuits even established the Eastern Patriarchate under the jurisdiction of the Guili government, which can be regarded as a super-large heresy at the level of the pope.

So after reaching an agreement with Spain, the Society of Jesus, through its military organization, issued a call for donations to Catholics all over the world, preparing to transport away all the Catholics in Dashun who still insist on "orthodoxy" and never quit.

As for the returned Acadians, they were not used to living in the Mississippi Valley.Compared with the St. Lawrence River, it is too hot there. It is similar to letting a group of Northeast people go to Nanyang to live, and it is really unbearable.

Even these Arcadians who were returned had experienced being thrown directly into the sea at sea.

The leaders of the various Acadian rebels who were lucky enough to survive were basically back this time.

With Dashun's muskets, food, lead bullets, and gunpowder in place, these people quickly pulled together a large number of guerrillas.

The guerrilla team formed by Joseph Godin is very typical.

The commander is him.

He is the core of the guerrillas.

Below him were the priests sent by the battle priest Jean-Louis.

In view of the fact that Jean-Louis Le Routre was born in the Association of Foreign Missionaries in Paris, France - this broken association is not a good bird, it can be regarded as a tool of French imperialism's external expansion, an excuse for the second crow of France, and the Marai of the Priest Ma incident , since the members of the Paris Association of Foreign Missionaries, a tool of imperialism’s expansion—since it is a tool of external expansion, then religion must have the most basic technique of “applying water”.

Therefore, the combat priest who followed this guerrilla also acted as the doctor of the guerrilla.

As for how religion and missionaries should be positioned in this conflict, this should be looked at separately.

It's like the Paraguay kingdom of God in South America.

Some missionaries may stand with the locals and resist the orders from the pope and the king, completely lose the concept of the country, and take up guns to resist the behind-the-scenes transactions of the colonists.

And most of the time, just like Paraguay, the missionaries put their own interests first, and decisively betrayed these believers in the political game.The clergy will ruthlessly use them as consumables, as bargaining chips after the failure of imperial policy, and can be given up at any time.

To be precise, Jean-Louis Le Routre was not a good bird, and he also acted on the interests of France, including inciting the Mi'kmacs to fight New England because of the armistice between Britain and France.

But in fact it is still the same sentence, there is no contradiction, how effective can his incitement be?Wouldn't the New England Protestants not have massacred if he hadn't agitated?
The same angle of looking at the problem can also lead to the third person in this guerrilla team, that is, the French-speaking military adviser sent by Dashun.

For the military advisors sent by Dashun, if they have any compassion, I'm afraid they don't have any.

Most of them come here because they can get an extra 8 taels of silver per month as a subsidy and can make contributions.

From the point of view of the Dashun imperial faction, it is very correct to spend small money, do big things, and promote revenge to buy time for Dashun to open up the west coast.

Dashun's imperial faction actually didn't care about the lives of these people, they just hoped to use their power to achieve Dashun's strategic goals.

But at the same time, objectively, Dashun's military advisors and weapon support did support the Acadians' anti-aggression war.

After all, on Dashun’s side, it has always been about “justification by deeds, regardless of deeds”, and on the Protestant side, “justification by faith, regardless of deeds”. .

Just like the people in Dashun, as well as people in later generations, it is impossible to understand that group of people's justification for "the expulsion of the Acadians is not a genocide"-because it is not for the purpose of extermination, but For the purpose of eliminating military threats, although concentration camps and extermination were actually caused, it cannot be regarded as genocide.

Since it's about deeds and heart, there's really nothing to argue about.

In terms of deeds, Dashun sent a large number of naturalized Indians on the west coast and forest light infantry recruited from the old forests in the northeast to the St. Lawrence River and the Great Lakes area, as well as a group of military instructors and agricultural instructors.

The various instructors sent by Dashun are a manifestation of the severe surplus of new school graduates caused by Dashun's characteristic free school system.With the system in place, many people from the new school of thought went overseas to find something to do, and were suppressed internally by the imperial examination faction, so it really couldn't accommodate so many people.

These military instructors, in addition to teaching combat and teaching them to gather guerrillas to form part of the regular army, also taught them farming and building dams in their villages.

In fact, Dashun also knew that after a few years, these instructors would choose to live in the local area, become naturalized Catholics, or integrate into the local area, but that didn't matter.

The Empire faction has the idea of ​​the Empire faction.

Liu Yu has Liu Yu's thoughts.

The ends are different, but the means are the same.

There are many reasons for Liu Yu to support these people, whether it is out of abstract human nature or a higher purpose, they all make sense.

Because from Liu Yu's point of view, providing rifles to the rebels, making them more terrifying than the landlords and land speculators in the thirteen states, is a good way to promote the true awakening and enlightenment of the people in North America.Just oppose the unity of church and state in New England, superficial things, it's a fart awakening.After sleeping for a long time, isn’t it still a state-religious system in the end?
(End of this chapter)