Xinshun 1730

Chapter 607

Nobility is always bound to tradition and stuff like that.But it is not so much a tradition as an elegy for an old age.

Compared with bourgeois rationality, profit, and humanity, nobles can only talk about morality, tradition, etiquette and music, these things.

To the bourgeoisie whose strength is gradually increasing, these people of the old age can only murmur, half elegy, half slander.

The guild system is bound to be disintegrated. How can the free development of industry and commerce be promoted without the disintegration of the guild system?

It's just that the people in the tavern don't know what caused the disintegration of the guild system, so they can only use their sensibility to understand the world, thinking that all this is caused by those regents and oligarchs who "seek profit and not righteousness" .

More and more people are participating in recalling the good old days of the guild system, and more and more people are participating in cursing the new era.

Reminiscing too much and cursing too much made Kang Bushao and those young people look at each other in blank dismay.

They heard Liu Yu talk about the pain of the alternation of the old and the new, but that was just what they had heard.

Today, I have witnessed the backlog of anger with my own eyes, and I finally understand why Liu Yu either engages in undeveloped or non-existent industries such as glass, shipbuilding, and blast furnace iron smelting; or invests a lot of money in extremely long-term industries. , It may take ten or twenty years to see the effect of railway tracks, steam cars and other things that seem to be gods in heaven.

It seems that it is easier to engage in the mechanical textile industry, and it is easier to make money, but it has been procrastinating.

Now that I have witnessed the dissatisfaction of the Dutch, I can understand more deeply: if there are so many "sacrifices" of the new era in Dashun, what kind of horror scene will evolve.

In particular, it will have an impact on the city first, and something happening in the city is easier to be taken seriously than something happening in the countryside.How will the county magistrates and state pastors in various places deal with it?
Like Liu Yu, they feel that this is a symbol of the progress of the times and the price of moving forward?
Or will you worry about undermining stability and endangering the stability of the world, so you choose to suppress new affairs?

The perceptual Thirteen Classics neither teach officials the general laws of the operation of human society, nor can they define good or bad at the dawn of the new era.

The more good officials in the old era, the more likely they are to hinder the progress of the new era.

Kang Bushao and others have always been close to Liu Yu. As confidantes, they have their own perspective on this matter.

Not only is it different from the officials in Dashun tens of thousands of miles away, but it is also different from the Dutch in the tavern here.

They looked at each other tacitly, and they all saw the expression of sudden understanding in each other's eyes. Several people shook their heads in unison, thinking...it's too difficult.

At this time, the atmosphere in the tavern gradually became manic.

I don’t know which drunk man shouted loudly: “How powerful was our Netherlands in the past? What about now? When the Frenchmen approached Amsterdam and had to break the embankment and replace soldiers with water, I was not born yet. Now, what I have is Strength, if the French dare to come again, I will fight them."

"Unfortunately, the regents are a bunch of cowards. They dare not fight at all! During the war of the Spanish succession, the Netherlands could produce 12 troops, but now we may not be able to produce 2 troops, right?"

"If you want me to say, take part of the money from those taxpayers and those big businessmen. Have a good fight with the French, Prussians, and even the British! At that time, I will definitely take up my gun Battlefield!"

The drunken man's yelling brought bursts of applause.

"hero!"

"warrior!"

"Me too!"

Those who were born and raised during the period without archons have been suppressed for too long.

My own life is getting more and more difficult, the myth of the golden age of the past is still there, and the Netherlands has fallen from the hegemony that kicked Britain and France to punch Spain and Portugal to the small country that is now a small country, which is really hard to accept emotionally.

These Dutch people in the tavern have not experienced the era of real aristocrats or hereditary ruling, and they have no personal experience of the Dutch people bearing the highest tax rate in Europe many years ago.

If a small country insists on wearing the unworthy crown of overlord, it needs an extremely heavy price.

In order to make Russia rise, Peter has been in power for 30 years, and the average height of Russia has dropped by three centimeters.

In order to fight for hegemony, the Netherlands suffered the highest tax rate in Europe during the golden age, and the highest national death rate in proportion to the population. In addition to the serious injustice of distribution, the average height of the pressure was not as good as that of the north of Dashun.

But all of that has passed, and these people who were born and raised in the non-government era do not have the painful memories of that era, because those memories are too specific.

On the contrary, the vague power and hegemony became the most easily remembered features of that era.

Kang Buxi felt the manic atmosphere, and his heart was frenzied, but will it last?
If it were true that France had conquered Amsterdam, Dashun had seized Nanyang, and the entire Netherlands was facing collapse, would you still be willing to fight to the end and dedicate everything?
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Back at the residence, the young man summed up these things overnight and was about to rest.Tomorrow they will continue to look elsewhere. For the three levels below the second level, they will have to contact some people, ask some questions, and look for their "common feelings of dissatisfaction except for the subsidy system and serious injustice."

In other words, the unique pain of the new era.

This kind of unique pain can all be dumped on the regent oligarchs.

Kang Bushao came to Liu Yu's residence, dismissed the rest of the people, and talked with Liu Yu about his feelings in the past few days and his own understanding.

After listening to it, Liu Yu greatly praised it.

"Brother Zhongxian's direction is correct, and the summary is wonderful. The common collective pain point we need to find is this kind of pain unique to the new era, so that it will be convenient for people to continue to have fantasies."

"When the Orangemen come to power, people will understand, oh, they're all alike."

Kang Buxiu said worriedly: "If you are afraid, you are afraid...these two paths are found to be the same as birds, and the Dutch chose to take the third path, an unimagined path."

At this time, the "unprecedented road" mentioned by Kang Bushao is not the same as the road that Liu Yu knows will be taken by the French in the near future.

Although Liu Yu sounded a little confused at first, but then he understood what Kang Bulan meant.

At this time, French scholars such as Voltaire and Montesquieu also hoped for an enlightened master.To be radical is to think of a constitution that restricts the power of the monarchy like the United Kingdom.

Voltaire's lifelong enemy, Rousseau, who really came up with the concept of sovereignty over all the people, was still a well-known music critic at this time, and it was still some time before he embarked on the road of studying politics.

The meaning of Kang Bushao here is probably that a Cromwell-style figure came out of the Netherlands, or even a little bit like Liu Bang and Zhu Hongwu, who came from the bottom and made a big difference, truly uniting the seven provinces and centralizing power.

This possibility... can only be said to be extremely small.

The Netherlands is not the United Kingdom. It is shrunk on the island. As long as the navy does not fail, the country is not afraid of interference.

The Netherlands is not France either. It can really rely on Paris to defeat the whole of France, and then rely on France to defeat the whole of Europe.

It does not have this geographical condition, nor does it have such a large population and depth, and it lacks the number of France's best soldiers at this time: yeomen.

Even if it exists for a while, it will be extinguished in an instant.

"Brother Zhongxian is worrying too much. Although the Netherlands is in decline, life is going well. Most people, even those who complain about losing their interests, live a much better life than the vast majority of people in Huanghuai District Yes. The things they are asking for, such as restoring the guild and strengthening the influence of the guild, are pure nonsense. Neither workers nor businessmen can be attracted, thinking about returning to the guild system? Who can stand with them ?”

"In the Celestial Dynasty, it is the small farmers who can win the world. In the Netherlands, it is the big businessmen and the regent oligarchs who can win the world."

"Even if the Orange sent up, he wouldn't dare to make reforms and offend those people... Besides, he has no chance. Right?"

Kang Bulan thought for a while and thought it was the same, then said: "That's true. If he wants to reform, he must first gain prestige in the army. But the young master has already prepared a dead end for him, and all the bad things will be in his hands." If you do it in the position of the leader, let him lose his prestige. That's why it's difficult to do this."

"If a clear program is proposed, this William will definitely not dare to accept it."

"I don't put forward a clear program, but I just vaguely feel that it would be better to change someone. This is really troublesome to incite."

"Even if he is an idiot, he must have staff, troops, and counselors by his side. I'm afraid they will see that this is a sinkhole and advise him not to jump..."

Now that Kang Bushao has found the key to the matter, Liu Yu was full of confidence and said with relief: "Don't worry, Zhongxian. His staff and counselors have already asked me to meet, and they want to test some things. I will find a way for the above matters. manage."

"As for the next thing, Zhongxian has seen through the situation and got the direction right, so he tried to do it. I see that there are a lot of books and newspapers in the Netherlands, why not start here?"

Kang Busha smiled and said, "That's exactly what I mean."

"Oh? Do you have any specific ideas?"

Kang Bulao had some ideas about this, and he also noticed that there are a lot of book sellers and newspapers in the Netherlands, and some things can be spread through books and newspapers.

"Well, I really have an immature idea about this matter. My son thinks, if the imperial examination is not taken, how many people read the Thirteen Classics? Or read such books as "The Golden Ping", "The Legend of the Ruyi King", "The History of Sui Yang's Beauty" How many people are there?"

After asking the question, the two looked at each other, smiled, and decided without saying a word.

"So, I think, since we came from the east, the Dutchman is curious about the market conditions in the east; second, he likes these glamorous things. This kind of thing has the least barrier between the East and the West."

Liu Yu laughed and said: "No, no, there is absolutely no such thing. This kind of thing must be the same, there is no barrier."

Kang Bushao also laughed.

"Yeah, so I thought, since there are so many printing factories here, why not hire some locals who write this kind of wild history, and let's tell some unique stories."

"Let's print some of these things first and sell them at a low price. Occasionally some political issues will be mixed in."

"If you only talk about political affairs, there will be few people who don't talk about it, and there are still people who are thinking about this to criticize and oppose."

"However, Ruo Yantan's novels, strange customs, exotic styles, etc., occasionally contain some political talk, but they are sought after and regarded as classics."

"Issuing and selling at a low price first, it will be here for a long time anyway, there are many more to see, and the Dutch like to circulate, relying on these colorful and exotic styles, as well as our low-cost subsidies, first become the Dutch circulation The biggest newspaper. This kind of thing must be read by more people than those regular things."

"Then, this controlled the tool of speech, and has been forbearing, waiting for an opportunity."

"When you need it, hit it hard."

"Say what you really want to say, incitement!"

"Within three days, what you want to say will surely spread throughout the Netherlands."

"As for whether the Dutch seal it up or not, the matter is over, and even if it is sealed, the mission has been completed, and it doesn't matter if it is sealed or not."

(End of this chapter)