Xinshun 1730

Chapter 1375 Versailles Peace Treaty ([-])
This is Henry Middleton who took the lead.

He is the owner of a large manor, with more than 30 mu of land in his family, and hundreds of propertyized slaves.

Looking at this class attribute, one can basically guess his attitude during the North American War of Independence in history.

In simple terms, be weak, waver, compromise; hedge your bets.

I stand on the royalist side.

The son signed the manifesto and stood up to the separatist faction.

Repeatedly opposed secession from Great Britain.

After the war, because his son was the founding father of the country, he was one of the few members of the royalist faction who was not "confiscated" and the 30-acre plantation was also preserved—compared to the silly and straightforward behavior of the Bin family. Just stand on the royalist side, and don't bet more than one side. I don't know how high it is.

It can be said that if you have not learned how to place multiple bets in the age of change and chaos, and the children of the family join the big landlords and big families who are hostile to each other and fight against each other, then you will not understand.

This Henry Middleton should be very clear and his thinking is very clear.

On the one hand, he was the beneficiary of the previous British mercantilist policy.Because the UK has planting subsidies and purchase subsidies such as indigo and hemp.

On the other hand, the British mercantilism policy is to protect the North American plantation industry until the North American agriculture reaches a certain threshold-this protection ensures that the plantation industry in the southern part of North America will not be affected by the powerful France and Spain. competition.

Don't think that France really doesn't understand the economy. It is the sugar tax law that was forced out of France because sugar is cheap to a certain extent.

Don't think that the Spaniards are useless in everything they do. The Spaniards grow tobacco very well. Which is better, Virginia tobacco or Havana tobacco?

Upper decision decided by the economic background.

At this time, the industrial development of the United Kingdom did not keep up with the development of the planting industry in North America, so that the planting industry in North America had reached the threshold of "from loyalty to rebellion", because the British industry could not eat so many raw materials and agricultural products.

But this threshold has just been reached - the British Industrial Revolution broke out in the later period of history, and the South and the British economy were soon attached together again.

Therefore, at this time, when the threshold had just been reached, the attitude of the southern states towards Britain—especially after Dashun expressed at last year’s Philadelphia conference that it would abolish the British navigation regulations—was quite ambiguous.

Northern states, such as Massachusetts, etc.

Do you want to say whether they want land?

It must be wanted, a large number of poor people lack land, otherwise New England would not be able to quickly recruit tens of thousands of people to "break through the Guandong" after the expulsion of Arcadia.

But the problem is, you don't even have land, and you are so poor that you run to the north of the bitter cold place just to get some land. How can you be qualified to come to Philadelphia for the meeting?

They are simply "not qualified" to hold this meeting.

Who are the people who came to hold this meeting?

Those are big businesses, smuggling, selling tea, selling cloth, lending money, selling slaves, and selling wine.

Even if the economy is not too up to standard, you must be a member of the Freemasonry at the very least, and to become a member of the Freemasonry, except for some special "thugs", you must at least be a doctor or lawyer, right?

After Dashun helped the Acadians carry out the "maritime nomadic tactics", the northern states were the first to bear the brunt.

Virginia is squeezed in the middle and is opening up to the northwest.

As for Dashun, they hold sea power, and they fight all the states in the northeast region.

Big businessmen like the Hancock family, what are their demands?

Isn't it free trade and exemption from tariffs?
Like the booming rum industry in Massachusetts, what is their appeal?
Isn't it free trade, exempt from sugar tax?

These, at the last meeting, Dashun had stated that the British navigation regulations would definitely be abolished.

In Massachusetts and other states, due to the protection of navigation regulations in recent years, the shipbuilding industry has also developed.

Compared with British shipbuilding, which has to plant trees, North America can just cut down trees. The cost difference is not 01:30.Moreover, because of the British protectionist policy, there were subsidies for grease, turpentine, wood tar, canvas, cedar mast wood, etc., which made the shipbuilding industry in the northern states have also risen.

The abolition of the navigation regulations, even if the "Navigation Act" is added instead of just the "Commodity Listing Act", this is eight points of benefits and two points of losses for them.

As a result, the big businessmen, big workshop owners, and old landowners in the northern states who were able to come here for the meeting naturally also stood on the side of the southern plantation owners and slammed Virginia.

This is also determined by economic factors.

To grow tobacco in Virginia, he can only continue to pursue land, because there is no chemical fertilizer these days, and tobacco eats the land too hard.

Historically, the tobacco industry in Shandong was able to develop. Even though Shandong did not have the conditions to occupy new land for crop rotation and fallow at that time, Shandong had another condition-the opposite of Bohai Bay is the northeast, and there is bean cake in the northeast. Bean cake is cost-effective before the emergence of chemical fertilizers. Highest fertilizer.

But now, there are no soybeans in North America, no Chilean saltpeter, and the struvite industry is still early.

The real ruling class in Virginia is also limited by this economic foundation and material conditions, and must be the most aggressive group of people expanding abroad.

It is inefficient to rely on farmers alone to expand abroad...that is inefficient.

There must be a group of "land nobles", or "big capital with great land interests" in order to expand efficiently.Because, expansion requires organizational power, no organizational power, no capital investment, no political power-the national power itself is also a kind of economic power-I really think that the land west of the Appalachian Mountains is all relying on cowboys and rangers , Irish shepherd made it?
In the current situation, Liu Yu deliberately "provoked big businessmen, plantation owners, and old landlords; fought against new landowners and land speculators."

At this time, the representatives of Virginia also argued with reason.

Robert Dinwiddie, George Washington, etc., are also spitting.

Now it is the Acadians who are taking revenge.

What led to this situation was the "accident" of Dashun's participation in the war.

The Acadians are burning down towns in the north, and it's none of our business?We rode in the Ohio Valley, and the Indians were not the Acadians.

Dashun burned the plantation and rescued the slaves, but you are doing it with Dashun.Why are you bothering us?
After all, the root cause is that the southern plantation states and the northern states now want the war to end the fuck so they can make money.

As far as Virginia is concerned, if it cannot get the land in Ohio, then the company will go bankrupt.

Among these shareholders are some well-known figures, and it is not an exaggeration to say that they have overshadowed the sky in various places.

And one of the conditions for the truce and peace given by Dashun is that the border must be demarcated, whether it is the states, or you follow the spirit of the Albany Conference to form a state federation, in short, whoever crosses the border, you have to catch it.

Now, the issue is on the table.

For Virginia, it is a matter of daring to say to the emissary of the British side who wants to draw the border, "This is a mess, and Virginia will not obey the edict".

If you don’t dare, that’s easy to say.

The Ohio Land Speculation Company went bankrupt straight away, and the frontier was drawn.

Dare, that's easy to say.

The representative of Virginia could leave the meeting angrily, saying, "This is a disorderly order, and I will not obey the order", and return to Virginia, organize an army, and go to war directly.

Whether you dare or not...

In the face of reality, this is not something that can be explained clearly by "struggling with reason", "reasoning the truth", and "speaking the law".

Either admit it.

Either raise troops.

In fact, this second Philadelphia Conference was the ultimatum issued by the rest of the states to Virginia.

If Virginia does not accept it, then the states will make the final choice for peace: form a state militia, pay money and goods, and work with the lobster soldiers to arrest disobedience.

Because, Dashun's trade ambassador really brought the dawn of peace.

Unlike before, this time the trade ambassador took out the terms of the armistice and announced a lot of content related to this group of people in North America.

The last time it was just a lot of empty cannons.

The most important thing is that last time, the trade ambassador did not get the real authorization from the court, and any terms were just "suggestions", "should", and "approximately".

And Dashun's dynastic nature meant that these trade envoys would be useless without imperial orders.Even if it is said that the general's orders are not accepted, even if it is said to be cheap, there must be a tone set by the imperial court.

This time, he really came up with the terms.

Moreover, Dashun's high-level diplomatic mission has already arrived in Paris.

This is the real dawn of peace, proving that Dashun is really ready to talk about peace.

Of course, peace may be due to Dashun’s decision to go to the island together with France; or it may be just that.

The reason why Dashun decided to make peace was not because he couldn't fight anymore.

It's what you can get, basically what you can get.

At most two more years, basically one more year, and there will be no results if you continue to fight.

And now, the Shandong Yellow River channel project on the Dashun side is about to start.

It's not about money.

Instead, Dashun urgently needed a large number of ships, and after demarcating the borders, it started the American west coast emigration plan based on the gold rush.

Once the war is over, Dashun needs to retire some warships and a group of sailors.

Or called "transfer".

Use the surplus warships and sailors as the means of transportation for the grand immigration plan, and after the border negotiations, rush to pack tens of thousands of people to the west coast at the fastest speed.

Since it is necessary to dig the Yellow River, such a large project, labor is linked to money.The cultivated land to be occupied by the new course of the Yellow River also needs to be resolved.

This is not something that can be solved by giving money, and in fact, it can't be paid.

Furthermore, the current Dashun cannot accommodate so many landless people.Even if it is said that Songsu is now ushering in a wave of great development taking advantage of the war, it cannot accommodate so many "salary" population.

There is no better solution than immigration.

Immigrants needed money, but they also needed ships and long-distance sailors.

Now only the "boundary" problem remains to be solved.

The key point to solve the border issue is that there needs to be a government that issues decrees to prohibit crossing the border, and is able to maintain the enforcement of this decree by violent means.

Therefore, this requires that this government should not use land speculators as the main force, or even completely eliminate them.

In this way, the existence of the boundary can be maintained.

Regardless of the purpose of laying mines, trade, boycotting tea, etc.

If you just simply consider the boundary problem.

So, it doesn't matter whether it is the parliament of the thirteen states in North America or the governor of the United Kingdom.

The key point is that Virginia cannot say that its own system is crossing the border, and the border must be maintained by both sides.

Of course, even if only the border issue is considered, Dashun's side is absolutely inclined to the British directly sending a governor.

Because, for Britain, the control of the Appalachian Mountains is the limit.

Expansion there is meaningless, unprofitable, and out of control for the UK.

At that time, if the Indians, Dashun, or the French are offended, the British will have to send troops to fight against them. The British will definitely be inclined to use the Appalachian Mountains as the boundary, and will definitely strictly abide by the border laws, and even the British will take the initiative to organize border patrols Rangers.Especially after being forced by Dashun to sign the Shock Law Free Trade Agreement.

For Dashun, the main purpose of this second Philadelphia meeting was to create conflicts, to ensure that people in Virginia would not bind people in other states, get some politically correct slogans, and make things worse up.

It's better to take this opportunity to clarify the "interests", and everyone should stop talking about it.

(End of this chapter)