Xinshun 1730

Chapter 561 Enlightenment Tool Man
As soon as Liu Yu left, after confirming that Liu Yu had disembarked and left without hearing his voice, George Anson drew his sword and roared, "This is an insult! It is an insult to Britain!"

Fazaklei frowned and turned around, his face extremely ugly.

Now that the company has finally opened up the situation, it can expand its trade with China immediately. The company has already started activities in the parliament, preparing to reduce the tea import tax, so as to crack down on smugglers.

Once the lobbying is successful, the company's profits and tea sales will increase exponentially.

Even if the number of tea drinkers does not increase, as long as tariffs are lowered, the market just regained from the smugglers will be enough to double the company's profits from trade with China.

Since Dashun wanted to forcibly cooperate with the Swedish East India Company, and the UK couldn’t expressly oppose it, it could only draw on the bottom line—it couldn’t monopolize the source of goods, so wouldn’t it be enough to monopolize the market share?
Of course, the British knew how much tea a small population in Sweden could drink, and most of them went to the North American colonies through the hands of tea smugglers.

Why do colonial people have to drink smuggled tea?Because customs tea tariffs are too expensive.Why drink tea?Because tea is delicious.

The introduction of the "Tea Tax Act" would have to wait 30 years later. In order to save the precarious financial situation of the East India Company, the tea tax was reduced or exempted, which triggered various tea party activities and rebellions by smugglers in North America.

But now that Dashun has taken the initiative to cooperate with Sweden, the British East India Company has become impatient.

If the place of origin goes directly to do business, can you still expect to monopolize the source of goods?
Even if Dashun is a very "reasonable" country, and the law will not favor its own people on the issue of exporting and obtaining goods, how can the British East India Company compare with the native Dashun merchants in obtaining goods?
Moreover, in Dashun's trading company, there are a lot of shares of court officials, and Fazakley knows what Dashun's officialdom is like.The above sentence implies that the following will make competitors unable to get the goods.

Even if the emperor allowed normal trade out of diplomatic considerations, Fazaklei was sure that only a word from Liu Yu would be needed, and the officials in Fujian would lose face, and Britain would not be able to get Wuyi tea.

A few years ago in Guangzhou, in order to intercept the Swedish East India Company, the Anglo-Dutch Fardan and others united and tried their best to give gifts and bribes, so that the Swedes could not get the goods for exporting porcelain.But as soon as the Swedes and Dashun cooperated, they could immediately get the good goods that the British dreamed of.

Since it has the ability to make it available to those who want it to get it, it also has the ability to make it impossible for those who don't want it to get it.Very simple reason.

At such a critical moment, people from the military actually annoyed Dashun's ministers who could influence foreign policy. Fazaklei was already quite annoyed and thought he was an idiot.

This kind of person is only suitable for fighting, and he doesn't know why he wants to fight.

"Mr. Captain, I must warn you, here, please abide by the laws here. Please don't bring the arrogance of the Caribbean or India here."

"Not to mention that the Chinese side may generate great hostility towards Britain and threaten the security of Britain. Even the East India Company's annual trade volume of several million, you cannot bear this responsibility."

"If it affects the company's trade and the situation that was finally opened, I think you are clear about the consequences. Your Excellency the Marquis is right. From Omsk to the Philippines, without Dashun's nod, nothing can be done."

"The company is seeking the interests of Southeast Asia. I hope the military will not cause trouble. If you continue to behave like this, it will be difficult for me to guarantee that the fleet can still get supplies at Chinese ports."

"You may not know that a word from their emperor is enough to make people in the port not choose to trade with ships under the British flag. Please be sober."

George Anson felt a little disgusted. He and Fazaklei were compatriots of the same country, but at this time Fazaklei actually stood opposite him and accused himself.

"For Jenkins' ears, we can go to war with Spain. And as a commodore of the Royal Navy, I have been insulted like this, and you are blaming me on the side of China?"

"Businessmen only know the interests, never know the dignity of the country!"

"The Dutch are at war with the French, and the arms dealers in Amsterdam let the French shoot the Dutch with Dutch guns. You merchants will one day make Britain suffer such shameless betrayal!"

Fazaklei sneered: "Mr. Brigadier General, you should not find British dignity in Lingdingyang. As I said, the dignity you want should be found in India or African chiefs."

"Dignity and trade cannot co-exist here. The people in the company have to bow down to the officials of Dashun, including those extremely arrogant French people. You can go to Macau and see, even if the people in the council there face local officials The county magistrate still has to kneel and worship. The rules here are like this."

"They have a saying in China: those who come are not rejected, and those who go are not pursued. If they don't want to abide by the rules here, they didn't say that they are not allowed to leave."

"Or, Mr. Brigadier General hopes that Dashun's navy will ally with Spain and transport [-] elite troops that can easily defeat Russia to help defend the Philippines? This matter almost caused a serious diplomatic accident, and the company will raise doubts to the parliament."

"The navy has chosen the wrong man, and you are not suitable to come to China. If you do not give up a frigate before dark to show your sincerity, the East India Company will refuse any cooperation with you, and refuse to pay for the purchase of supplies. draft."

Take out the big killer of the East India Company, and the money for the supplies must be paid by the East India Company, and exchanged in London after returning.

After putting down his harsh words, he ignored George Ansen and hurried off the boat, planning to meet Liu Yu again.

If necessary, the East India Company can produce a ship for example.

Ships are expensive, but compared to the full amount of trade with China, they are still not worth mentioning.As long as Liu Yu can put out the fire, a ship is nothing at all.

As soon as Fazaklei left, Anson was still angry.

Walter, the chaplain on the ship, walked to Anson's side and comforted him: "Mr. Commodore, China is a dark and barbaric nation, and their history is almost forbidden. The long-term closure has made them have nothing to do with the barbarians. difference."

"Whether it's the Greeks, the Egyptians, or the Chinese who believe in evil polytheistic gods, they're all the same."

"All have the same vanity, that they are older than all other peoples, and have long ago created the things necessary for the comfortable life of man, and that they themselves can recall a history going back to the origin of the world itself. .They think everything they know is as old as the world."

"They use their own experience as the standard to measure everything in the world; they use the things around them to judge the distant and unknown things."

"As mentioned, they have a savage arrogance. It's all predictable and doesn't deserve your wrath."

In fact, at this moment, this sentence is like a bird when it is applied to any nation.

Chaplain Richard Walter was a Christian, so the words could not be applied to himself.

This commonality of the closed age of mankind can only be imposed on polytheistic Greece, Egypt, and idolatrous China.

Even Newton, who denied the Trinity in his heart, hid it until his death before saying that he was a heretic who denied the Trinity.

Walter lamented the barbarity and rudeness of the Chinese system with this sense of superiority that "we have entered the age of mortals, but you are still in the age of gods", "we have grown up, and you are still ignorant children" .

George Anson was also emotional, nodded and said: "You are right. They are really a group of savages. Only true religion can tame the wildness of savages."

"This delusional pride in the Chinese is really shocking. They have always thought themselves older than all other peoples, and have already created the things necessary for the comfortable life of human beings."

"This kind of pride is actually a kind of barbarism. It is also the reason why they humiliated me rudely today."

"Even if they start to learn our technology, they still have that kind of pride in the past, and they refuse to bow their heads."

Walter laughed and said: "Mr. Brigadier General, all this is normal. Of course you have read Vico's "New Science". Human beings have gone through the age of barbaric gods, the age of heroes when ideas sprout, and now the age of mortals. Barbarism People in the age of the gods are like children, and China certainly fits this argument."

"Children have strong imitation ability, strong memory, and strong imagination ability, but weak reasoning ability and comprehension ability."

"They can imitate, they can remember, they can imagine. But they can't understand much of the nature of the world."

"It's like their writing, their poetry. You know, Chinese people like poetry very much, and those who can write poetry are very popular in their country."

"And poetry is a symbol that the nation is still in the age of barbaric gods. Just like children."

"The highest work of poetry is to give feeling and passion to things that have no feeling. And this is precisely what children are good at. Their characteristic is that they can pretend to talk to inanimate things as if they are living people. Sometimes , children will whisper to some birds, cats and dogs, and communicate with the world that their childish minds can understand, which is essentially a kind of poetry.”

"Chinese people like to write poems, they are as ignorant as children."

"For example, magnets and iron. Poetry will not consider magnetic fields, but will say 'magnets love iron'. This is exactly a kind of children's use of their limited knowledge to cling to and explain everything."

"And their writing."

"Chinese characters are not even a kind of writing. They are crude and have no imitation. All around China are using the 'invention given by God' alphabet, but China has turned a deaf ear to this 'invention given by God'."

"Words have three stages, and they also correspond to the age of the gods, the age of heroes, and the age of mortals."

"The earliest hieroglyphs are mythical characters, and they are priest symbols for people to communicate with barbaric gods. The Chinese are still using hieroglyphics for communicating with gods in primitive times. Next to them, there are a lot of alphabetic characters, but with With their arrogance that they 'already created what is necessary for a comfortable life of man', they refuse to learn."

"They will remain forever in their childhood, forever in the age of the wild gods. Closed, dark and isolated."

"China has only a static history. It's like a child who doesn't grow up."

"So, Mr. Brigadier General, please don't take it to heart."

"Isn't it normal for a child to throw a tantrum at you?"

"Your child, didn't you cry and make some unreasonable demands when you were young? Or, the rest of the neighbor's children made some unreasonable demands to you, wouldn't you be angry because of it?"

George Anson thought of his own child, and thought of the naughty and "rude" appearance of the child when he was a child, a smile appeared on the corner of his mouth involuntarily.

Although he knelt down just now, Walter still found the sense of superiority he should have from the nonsense made up in the Age of Enlightenment.

Is it worth being angry that my son asked Lao Tzu to kneel down and ride a horse?Thinking of this, George Anson's mood gradually relaxed, and the knee that he knelt down just now no longer hurts.

George's initial letter is not Q, but if it is transliterated and used in the pinyin of later generations, it is not wrong to call it Ah Q.

Considering the attitude of the East India Company and the danger of Dashun's cooperation with Spain, George Anson finally smiled helplessly and sighed: "It's really an ignorant, dark and isolated nation. It's ridiculous and barbaric. pride."

(End of this chapter)