Xinshun 1730

Chapter 643 Against Mercantilism
Earl Bentinck, who had previously encouraged William to take responsibility, had to consider the future situation under the influence of the Russian coup.

Liu Yu's criminal record in Petersburg is too heavy.

Bentinck and others have to suspect that Liu Yu is here to pull William's coup.

William's side is not a question of whether he can take the stage, but a question of whether he wants to take the stage.

The people of the Netherlands have accumulated too much dissatisfaction, and everyone knows it.

The prestige of the Orange family is here. It is really just a matter of ascending to the top, and they can enter Amsterdam the next day.

But the question is, what can we do after taking the stage?
Standing on the side of the people, fighting oligarchs, increasing business taxes, and increasing inheritance taxes?
Isn't that no different from death?

Not on the side of the people...

If you don't come to power, the people still have thoughts, hopes, and unrealistic fantasies, thinking that everything will be fine with a new consul.

If they don't take the side of the common people after coming to power, even if the Orange family has completely lost the chance to be in power, this is really the only chance available.

Next time, the people of the Netherlands may choose the third way directly.

Earl Bentinck's original idea was to let William follow the example of "Caesar's return from Gaul".

He felt that the coalition forces of Britain, Russia, and the Netherlands could still win against France, and that Prussia might not really be willing to follow France to the end.

Since they can win, of course the Orange family will be able to gain prestige.

Once the prestige is raised, the army supports it, and then imitates the cabinet system of Ming Dynasty, conducts a comprehensive centralization, abolishes the parliament, and forms a centralized Netherlands with the Prince of Orange and the cabinet as the core.

It's a good idea.

But with the Russian coup, this is a bit unrealistic.

The diplomatic situation has become treacherous for Bo Yun.

France is victorious everywhere, has captured Bohemia, and occupied Prague; the army preparing to attack Hanover has gathered near the Austrian Netherlands, warning the Netherlands to break the alliance with Austria, otherwise this army may be destroyed. By the way, I came to the Netherlands; Prussia occupied Silesia; the elector of Bavaria has won the title of King of Bohemia, and all countries in Shenluo are preparing to elect him as emperor.

But at this time, Russia actually had a coup?
Moreover, it is dominated by China and France. The person who took the stage is a well-known French-educated princess who has a special relationship with the French ambassador. Russia is likely to join the Franco-Prussian alliance...

At this time, how do you get on stage?

Go on stage and lose?
Then it will not be "Caesar's triumphant return from Gaul", but may become "Crassus has escaped from rest".

Now that Liu Yu had just come back from Petersburg, he came to pay a visit. Repeating his tricks and preparing for a coup d'état was almost written on his face.

So, just how easy is a coup in Russia?Can Liu Yu feel so confident that what he did once in Russia can be done again in the Netherlands?
Moreover, such a coup d'etat requires the approval of the superiors. As long as he firmly refuses, Liu Yu must have nothing to do.

This is Holland, not Dashun.

It is not a big deal in the Netherlands to add a yellow robe, and the Orange family is already qualified to wear it.But now I can wear it but I don’t want to wear it, but it’s not that I want to wear it and have no chance to wear it.

Bentinck's idea was recognized by everyone present.

It's time to meet, you still have to see, this is a matter for the noble circle, and you still have to have the proper etiquette.

But when they meet, they don't necessarily have to accept Liu Yu's bewitching, as long as the bewitched are firm in their minds, no matter how much bewitching they are, it's useless.

With this in mind, William of the Orange family extended an invitation to Liu Yu.

Liu Yu also responded quickly to the invitation to give back. On the fourth day after returning from Petersburg, he came to William's manor in Friesland.

The richest man in the Netherlands is different. This manor is very grand. In addition to the governance of these three provinces, William also inherited a lot of titles, manors, and land from the side branches of the small country of Shenluo.

What she married was the daughter of King George II of England, the eldest princess with the official "Princess Royal" title.This thing is not automatically obtained by the first birth, but canonized.Even if this eldest princess has suffered from smallpox and her face is full of pockmarks, she is still an eldest princess, and the "court" she lives in cannot be bad.

The manor, located in Levaton, the capital of Friesland, was built according to the specifications of the federal government.

However, Liu Yu is not interested in admiring the buildings here. He has seen the Summer Palace and the Amber Room, which was not demolished by the Nazis, so there is nothing to appreciate about this place.

He came this time to take the initiative to "disgrace".

He was neither prepared to fight nor to frighten people, so it was not like going to Petersburg to bring everyone who could carry a gun.

Only a few relatives followed Liu Yu, keeping everything simple.

After all, his official identity is the Marquis and Plenipotentiary Envoy of Dashun.

Today's Orange family is not the consul of the Netherlands, but the governor of the three northern provinces.

According to diplomatic etiquette, if Liu Yu is in an official capacity, it should actually be William of the Orange family who should go to Amsterdam to meet him, instead of him coming to see William here.

This matter is related to the state system, and he dare not mess around, so he can only meet in a private capacity.

After receiving a set of messy European etiquette, Liu Yu finally saw the chicken-breasted and crooked governor of the three provinces who was said by his wife to look like a baboon.

And after suffering from smallpox, Princess Anne with pockmarked face.

Although it is not good to comment on other people's looks, and Liu Yu is not the kind of villain who likes to comment on other people's looks. After all, it is born or caused by an irresistible disease.

But thinking of such a person, he actually thought about imitating Caesar in history. When the hero returns, he wants to order troops with his father-in-law to command the army to fight against Frederick II and the Duke of Belle Isle in France. This makes Liu Yu feel special. magic.

It is really lack of congenital conditions.

If King Lanling had an ugly face like that, he could still wear a mask.

But with crooked chicken breasts and deformity of the spine, it is really impossible to gain prestige in the army.The military is a place that places great emphasis on masculine beauty.

The Netherlands, it seems, is doomed.

Liu Yu thought to himself that even if I don't cheat you, you can't gain prestige in the army. Without Napoleon's prestige in the army, how could you possibly win against those regent oligarchs?
You really can't centralize power.

If we can't collect it now, the Netherlands will miss the last chance for revival.

Although he was slandered in every way in his heart, he had been in the Dashun court for a long time, and he still did a good job on the surface, expressing his first etiquette to William and Princess Anne politely.

But soon, the good impression created by such politeness was shattered by Liu Yu himself.

After meeting and exchanging pleasantries, Liu Yu came up and said a lot of absolutely correct nonsense.

What are the benefits of free trade, what are the comparative advantages of location, and what free trade can help improve people's living standards.

The mercantilist theory of what gold and silver are wealth is wrong, what gold and silver are rubbish is useless at all, and what comprehensive customs duty protection is conducive to the healthy development of the Netherlands.

What is to obtain products that cannot be produced in the country or whose production cost is too high through international exchange, so that consumers can get a higher level of satisfaction; through the international division of labor and the use of comparative advantages, the domestic resources can be optimally allocated.

What he said was actually very reasonable, very reasonable, very reasonable.

But it's also really useless nonsense.

William and the others didn't just nod their heads and praised the forward-looking thinking of "The Wealth of Nations", but thought that the Marquis was crazy, right?

Let go of tariffs?Isn't the only remaining textile industry and industry in the Netherlands all over?
Conducive to people's living standards?Tens of thousands of textile workers have no food to eat. Is this conducive to improving people's living standards?Where is the promotion?

Gold and silver are rubbish, useless at all?Since it's useless, why don't you come all the way to Amsterdam to talk about free trade?

When Liu Yu talked about the rise, he even said bluntly that Dashun will always open the door to the country. As long as trade agreements and tariff agreements can be negotiated, Dashun will guarantee compliance, and welcomes all-round trade with Dashun.

If the Netherlands wins, Dashun will give Dutch goods a 5.00% low tariff and cancel the ship entry tax.

Even, Dashun is willing to cede a small island near Zhoushan to the Netherlands, and the Netherlands only needs to give Dashun a third of the size of the small Zhoushan island near Amsterdam.

When it comes to excitement, it dances and dances, and every sentence is inseparable from words such as free trade, free navigation on the high seas, and opposition to protectionism.

William and the others stared wide-eyed, thinking they were crazy, crazy.

This condition, not to mention that we dare not agree to it, the Regency faction will definitely not agree to it either.

If you really use this condition to support a coup d'etat, then you should hire someone else, we dare not.

Whoever dares to sign this treaty is a proper traitor.The heritage accumulated by the Orange family, the reputation and prestige left by their ancestors, as long as such a treaty can be defeated, nothing will be left.

William's chief adviser, Earl Bentinck, broke out in a cold sweat.

I thought to myself, my God, what kind of conditions did the Russian Empress agree to Liu Yu?
This is an obvious logic.

Liu Yu launched a coup in Petersburg and pushed Queen Elizabeth to the throne. There must be some secret transactions between the two parties.

Moreover, the scale of this secret transaction should be very huge; moreover, the Russian Empress must agree; moreover, if this condition is made public, it will definitely shock many people's jaws.

Because...if Liu Yu had a bad time in Russia, or if the Russian empress did not agree, or what he got was not so amazing, it is impossible for Liu Yu to directly ask such a big condition at this time.

Apparently, this is cool in Russia.

Based on Russia's experience, it is taken for granted that the Netherlands can also agree to similar conditions, as long as he can support the coup.

It's like a man sleeping next to a tree stump and snapping a rabbit.This person will take it for granted that if he continues at the stump the next day, he can pick up another rabbit.

Conversely, if this person cuts a tree stump hard and waits for the rabbit, but in the end Mao doesn't get it, and his busy work is in vain, will he still have expectations for the tree stump?
So, what kind of conditions did the Russian Empress agree to Dashun to make the Marquis so happy?

(End of this chapter)