Xinshun 1730

Chapter 1372 Internal Diseases and External Treatment ([-])

Since 1609, this group of people in North America should be regarded as the most comfortable group of people in the whole world.

They stayed out of war, and although they scalped Indians, it wasn't really war.

In the 30-year war, two-thirds of the population in Germany was lost. It was not like the hermits in ancient China, or they migrated from one province to another, but they were wiped out abruptly.

They have actually never seen the cruelty of war.

So many decades ago, when King Philip’s War broke out, the revenge of the Indians destroyed their villages, which made many people firmly believe that the "Doomsday Judgment" that the Quakers said was really coming.

It's terrible that villages will be burned and people will be killed.

Over the years, as the population of North America increased and the frontier advanced, the Indians retreated steadily. Although the war was still going on, the cruelty of the war had left these people far away.

War is cruel.

But if this cruelty is not aimed at both sides, but only one side is brutally slaughtered, then the result after the war will not be to encourage peace-loving sentiment, but will encourage expansion and war sentiment.

Since war is priceless, and since the cruelty of war is only borne by the other side, why should we oppose war?
This is a very realistic psychology.

Of course, religion makes people bewildered, and this kind of bewilderment is even more serious in North America at this time.

After the year that Liu Yu called "the year of accelerated enlightenment", a huge earthquake occurred in Lisbon.

This incident, for Europe, can be regarded as the acceleration of enlightenment.

On the one hand, when the Prime Minister of Portugal chanted the slogan of "bury the dead and heal the wounded", and the Jesuits chanted "this is God's punishment, saving people is against the will of God", Catholicism and the Jesuits in Europe The ebb tide, accompanied by the demand for the rise of kingship, can be imagined.

On the other hand, for those Enlightenmentists, the "Leibnizian optimism" that pervaded Europe in the early days, and the "although the world is not beautiful, this is actually God's deduction" derived from this optimism. The best result after countless universes is the possible world of the best, and it is impossible for people to fully understand the best will of God.” This kind of thinking was interrupted by the tragic scene after the earthquake.So this is no longer a "best possible result", and to some extent it can be regarded as the driving force behind the radicalization of Fare.

Of course this is in Europe.

In America, it's the exact opposite.

As I have said before, religious morality is a matter of decades, just like a reincarnation in the middle period of the Ming Dynasty, with a lot of open-mindedness in the middle period of the Ming Dynasty, and the return of Donglin moralism in the late period.

North America experienced the bankruptcy of the first version of the city on the hill, then the Salem witch trial, and then the religious morality and the idea of ​​​​the city on the hill completely ebbed, and then there was the so-called "first great awakening", the religious revival , the missionaries hoped to reshape morality.

In this context, the earthquake in Lisbon was simply a great thing for these Protestant missionaries: Look, the heretics are punished by God, right?It's time to be a live chicken, this time you know who can survive the doomsday trial, right?
However, this thing is easy to backfire.

It was good at the beginning, the Congregational Church had already been unable to hold on in New England, and with this wave, it immediately revived.

Protestant people, at first glance, seem to be the case.You see, if you believe in Calvinism yourself, you will be fine; those cults who believe in God will be punished by God and judged at the end of the day, right?

The key is that if this thing is always good and others are always bad, then it will be fine.

What this thing is afraid of is that if he is half as good as he is, things like "God's Punishment" will fall on him.

So much "millennialism", so much "Doomsday Judgment", and so much "We are God's chosen ones" were preached before, and when something happened, it would definitely be backfired.

But just like many religious issues in North America before, from a rational point of view, it can be said that the superstructure is determined by the economic base. From the beginning of unity and reclamation and agriculture, to the later development of commerce, businessmen are not very Puritan but overly There are internal reasons for being flattered, and then the intensification of conflicts led to the return of religion, etc.

But for ordinary believers, if they can understand this set of things, then they will not believe in this stuff at all.

The reverse is also true, because they can't understand the truth that "aggression may lead to being hammered back", so seeing the massacre in the Anapolis Valley is like hell, what will they think?
Naturally, I also thought, it's over, the final judgment is over, I'm afraid that people like myself are not the ones chosen by God, this is going to hell.

So, the doomsday judgment itself is not terrible.Because it is a "good thing" that "the chosen ones go to heaven, and the guilty heretics go to hell".

The point is, don’t talk about Orthodox Protestantism, only Protestantism includes Congregationalists, Quakers, Presbyterians, Unitarian Trinitarians, Lutherans, Calvinists... who is God’s Chosen? civil?Who is heretic?Who is going to hell?
Even, the Congregational Church alone has now divided into the old school, the new school, the school that needs a visible sage to teach, and the school that does not need a visible sage but only self-enlightenment...etc.

Those who do not believe in religion cannot understand the fear of the "Doomsday Judgment" by believers, which is actually nothing more than death.

Although it doesn't sound good to say, it is really a unique condition that makes this group of people really have never seen what is called cruelty.

Don't say throw them into Europe, Africa, and Asia at this time, but let them go back a hundred years ago to see how the Irish were slaughtered when they resisted the Great Uprising, and they would not see this, or even the previous King Philip fought the Indian war, and he could exclaim that the doomsday judgment has come.

So how to quickly secularize this group of people and get rid of overly serious religious plots?

It is not difficult to say.

For example, what Dashun is doing now is to make up for the excess and make up for the deficiency, so that the east of the Appalachian Mountains can feel the war.

For example, World War II, which will inevitably break out in the future, has entered the era of imperialism where everyone competes for each other's markets, and the borders of the Romance of the Four Kingdoms in North America have become a meat grinder no less than Europe.

This is basically the best way to get rid of anti-human thoughts such as "exceptionalism", "I am the chosen people", "the last judgment falls on someone else and I go straight to heaven".

As for now, the significance is also very important.

The Enlightenment Movement, which was surging in Europe, went to North America and caused the first great awakening of religious thoughts. Is that okay?
How can you be so awakened?

So keeping this group of people who have experienced the horrors of war alive and spreading the idea of ​​this fear is a major event that is very beneficial to the North American Enlightenment.

Anti-aggression, anti-war, and anti-war defeat are not the same thing.

How to elevate the anti-war defeat to the level of anti-war?Take a break and really know the horrors of war, not just other people suffering.

How to elevate anti-war to the level of anti-aggression?After a beating, it was held back and imploded for a big liquidation.

The group of people in North America killed the Indians and killed them too well, and the pioneering group robbed the cultivated land and water conservancy facilities that have been reclaimed by others, and it was too cool. The big capital and big land speculators eat meat, and the bottom follow the soup. This is not true. Conducive to their real awakening.

And the fear of the doomsday judgment derived from religion, and then the elimination of this fear is the process of the ebb tide of religion.

Obviously, this time, Dashun has once again acted as a promoter of historical unconscious progress.

It was indeed unconscious, because Dashun's gang didn't even know what the Doomsday Judgment was.

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With this group of survivors, they were either sent to a plantation in Georgia or sent to Pennsylvania to spread the cruelty of war.

After rushing to harvest the grain, winter came like this.

Winter is gone, it is spring.

More and more Acadians and Millmarks migrated to the Annapolis Valley.

Dashun banned religion, and the Catholic Church did not like each other.

However, the two sides have a lot of common topics in terms of farming, or restoring these technical means and organizational capabilities from resettlement.

The idea of ​​the Kingdom of God of the Tuntian and the Catholic group, as well as the strong cooperative thinking of the tribal era generally carried by these people, made the production in the second spring quickly organized and developed.

Villages one by one, around the chapel, sprouted again.

The dams and irrigation projects were restored as before under the organization of Catholic priests.

Land, taxation, management, it is undoubtedly efficient for post-war recovery.

As more and more people came, back and forth, the valley, and the nearby seashore, received a total of about 30000 people who came here from all over the place.

Some came from the forest, some were exchanged from concentration camps in France, and some were sent back from plantations in the south.

These more than 3 people have also started the standard process of "farming and fighting" system.

A militia was formed for defense.

The elite young and strong were selected and formed a regular forest light infantry.

A Catholic-style labor cooperative in each village was formed to reclaim wasteland, repair water conservancy, and provide food and grass.

Dashun also dispatched a group of aboriginal Yiding who were armed on the west coast, as organized skirmishers in the forest light infantry, ready for field battles.

The navy sent a batch of captured British privateers.

The reorganized Acadian forest light infantry also began to learn to fight in formation. Although they still couldn't beat the lobster soldiers in field battles, they had no problem wrestling with the New England militiamen.

Waiting for the spring to come, the grains to be planted, and the trade winds to bring a new batch of cargo ships from Dashun, and Dashun's attitude of "keep fighting and don't stop, the steady development of trade is very good, and it is still profitable to fight wars" .

Therefore, Joseph Godin, who was one year older and had no chance of revenge at some point, should not be incorporated into the reorganized company, but because of his prestige, military rank and personal mandatory requirements, Joseph Godin finally ushered in the opportunity for revenge.

(End of this chapter)