Xinshun 1730

Chapter 656 Glorious Restoration

At a scientific seminar, a fire is burned in a glass cover, and the balance is still balanced.This was the first time that human beings tried to use quantitative analysis and balances to do chemical experiments. Most of the enlightenment scholars sitting below burst into applause, announcing that the era of chemical rationality that can be measured and measured has come.

Besides, on the land of the Netherlands and among the citizens of the cities, the rational way of thinking about politics has not spread, and the vast majority of people are still emotional and easily bewitched and impulsive.

Liu Yu, who has a face of "discussing science for the benefit of mankind", smiled, and discussed rationality with the scholars sitting below in an elegant and easy-going manner.

Outside, a coup d'état by inciting emotions and using sensibility is proceeding in an orderly manner.

The small newspaper that the Dutch people love the most broke out another breaking news today.The news itself has no position. Even if there is no explanation, the vast majority of Dutch people can't tell the difference between tribute, survey and cooperation, and diplomacy.

But the person who sent the message has a position.

It is difficult to convince the people and appease their dissatisfaction.

It is easy to incite the long-suppressed anger in the hearts of the people.

Therefore, in the report with a standpoint, with a sense of arrogance of the heaven and the kingdom, it is clear what is tributary, what is the survey and cooperation trade, and what is the status of the tributary country.

He even said that the Celestial Dynasty would send people to the Netherlands to confer the title of the Great Speaker of the Netherlands as the king. What kind of preparations should the Netherlands make to welcome the "angel", how to kneel when conferring, and how the emperor's envoy should return the gift .

The same is etiquette.

When Liu Yu treated those scientists, he stripped away the core hierarchy of etiquette and law, and turned etiquette into etiquette.

When dealing with this trade agreement, it strictly abides by the core hierarchy of etiquette and distorts etiquette into etiquette, or it is called "just a special etiquette".

The article is not as blunt as it says, but actors have already been hired to reinterpret all this from the perspective of "a truly patriotic Dutchman".

In Utrecht, Friesland, Groningen... In addition to some strong oligarchs such as Amsterdam, the squares of many cities, especially some people who have received money in the north, began their interpretation .

"Gentlemen! This is a trampling on the sovereignty of the Republic of the Seven Provinces! Those high-ranking figures, regents, oligarchs, they put the Republic in a humble situation for their own benefit. It is like the role of father and son, and Not a relationship between equal nations!"

"We have become inferior citizens, but the oligarchs who are high above, they don't care at all. They get profits, gold, for these things, they will sell everything."

"When we fought the Spaniards, we bleed out the front and they gave the Spaniards loans."

"When fighting the French, the oligarchs of Amsterdam sell their arms to the French."

It was natural to bring up the old things, and selectively revealed the resentment accumulated over the years.So what good birds are the Orange family?Of course not. After becoming the king of England, he let the blood of the Netherlands nourish Britain, but of course it cannot be said at this time.

"If we become a tributary state, any minister of the Eastern Empire, come here, because he represents the emperor, so everyone needs to kneel down to this minister!"

"Those oligarchs got the gold and silver for trade, but what did we get? What we got was a motherland whose sovereignty and dignity were sold!"

"What did the Regents bring us? After so many years in power, the only thing that has brought us is that the seven-provincial republic that once made Europe tremble and everyone could hold their heads up lost the dignity of sovereignty and became an empire. father-son relationship."

"You must have read in the newspapers the other day that the Prussians have defeated the Austrians. The French army is on our border, and now they can occupy the Republic unhindered."

"The darkness of Catholicism will once again hang over us Protestants. Soon we will see the French plundering the countryside, robbing food, forcing us to transport supplies for them, even robbing our families and insulting our wives , beat our children!"

"But what did the Regents do? They are still discussing the reduction of inheritance tax and progressive taxation, and they haven't even formed an army that can fight in the field."

"They still want to please France, just like a humble prostitute, kneeling at the crotch of the French, begging that the lowly French will let them go. They can kneel on the ground to the big Chinese for some gold and silver trade. The emperor called his father, of course they would not feel that kneeling and licking the French is an insult!"

Speaking of the rise, the speaker tore his shirt angrily, pointed to a scar on his arm and shouted: "At the beginning our ship was just selling some goods in the French colonies, the cruel French took us Seized, beaten, whipped, and called us damned heretics! My fellow shipmates, many of whom were Huguenots, were expelled from France simply because they didn't believe in Catholicism, and their families were ruined."

"I say! Enough is enough! It's time for this to end!"

"If the Regents continue to be in power, they will only continue to betray the interests of the motherland and kneel and lick the French."

"If they can't uphold the dignity of our country, if they can't guarantee our freedom to practice Protestantism, then put the right person in that position and bring us back to our golden age."

"We Groningen people are proud lions. But we are led by a group of weak sheep, a group of gadflies who only know how to drink blood and suck blood. How can a group of insects lead the Republic of the Seven Provinces?"

This is Groningen, the territory of the Orange family, and one of the three ruling foundations.You can scold the Regency faction here, because this is not the territory of the Regency faction.

The so-called tributary state status is just an introduction.

Misty, illusory.

But this introduction can lead to the French.

The French are arrogant and conceited.France is a Catholic country, and there are a lot of fugitive Huguenots in the Netherlands. How can there be a good word?
Dutch censorship has always given the green light to French issues.How could a newspaper run by an exiled French have a good word for France?
In addition, although the British had conflicts with the Netherlands, and the Lord Protector had humiliated the Netherlands and paid a large sum of money for the Ambon Island incident in Southeast Asia, he had never occupied the Netherlands after all.

France is different. It really forced the Dutch to imitate Du Gongmei's move to open the Yellow River embankment to block the Jinren.Moreover, the French are quite fanatical about religion. They abolished the Edict of Nantes and persecuted Protestants.

Going to be a tributary country for the sake of trade, and kneeling and licking France, is there a direct and absolute logical relationship?not at all.

But ordinary people don't have so much rationality and logic. Once they are a little instigated by others, a complete logic chain will emerge: since they can become a tributary country for trade, they will definitely kneel down and lick France for profit.

Bringing things to France naturally aroused the anger of these people.

Moreover, this anger did not arise in a day. Many policies in the Netherlands are too biased towards big capitalists, bankers, and maritime merchants. Ordinary people were quite dissatisfied as early as the 80 Years War.

This side is fighting for independence, and the upper class over there gave loans to the Spaniards; the country’s handicraft industry is on the verge of collapse, and loans cannot be obtained, but a large amount of funds are lent to Britain and France to develop handicraft industries, and the interest is lower than that of the domestic handicraft owners. Because Financial capital believes that the domestic handicraft industry may not be able to afford it.

Coupled with indirect taxation, tax package system, guilds being squeezed by the new era, small handicraftsmen with vested interests in the old era, and petty bourgeoisie and small producers facing the atmosphere of free industry and commerce, the days are getting worse and worse. Friesian farmers bear the highest burden in the seven provinces. Taxation is due to the wonderful provincial share tax system... These are all fires in the bottom of my heart.

Liu Yu’s targets are clear: old-time handicraftsmen, petty bourgeoisie, handicraftsmen eager to restore the feudal guild system, and wealthy yeoman farmers. These talents are most likely to support the Orangemen. It is also destined that these people have strength and appeal, and they are also prone to patriotic passion.

However, these people also have one of the biggest class characteristics: fanaticism, but not lasting.Once the frenzy is over and you are severely beaten, you will reverse introspection, and even reverse the frenzy.The people who love the most today may also be the people who hate the most in the future.

The one on the stage is too rubbish, so he is full of fantasies about the one off the stage.

However, when the fanaticism wears off, reality will soon teach them what the real world is.

Just like the classic turning point in "Teahouse", "I don't smoke opium! I smoke white flour instead". After William IV came to power, some indirect taxes were abolished, but he paid taxes as a contractor...

Farmers in Friesland hoped that Orange would come to power to lower agricultural taxes, but William dared not ask the big merchants to collect money; the guilds in the provinces hoped that Orange would come to power to restore the glory of the guilds, but William dared not challenge the big merchants The patriots look forward to the coming of Orange to power, because the Orange family is the spiritual leader of the Dutch army, but the cowardly William dare not even go to the battlefield...

Like the passage in the classic long poem "The Death of Racine".

I should blame myself, I know I should judge myself like this: I am guilty!

No, O people, I am not guilty of hanging the nobles from their towers; my guilt, in my eyes, is that I have hanged them too little!

I was guilty of this, and in a world ruled by demons, I wanted to be a good person.

I was guilty of it, I thought a good tsar could be obtained by revolt; but there is no such thing as a good tsar, silly!force!
Stepan Razin, your sacrifice is worthless!
The same is true for the Netherlands at this time.The Dutch felt that a good consul could be obtained through a petition and a riot.However, there are no good consuls at all.

At this time, the Dutch people have not waited for the overwhelming thunder in Paris in 93, and no one has told them that there is actually a third way. There is no third way without the Regents and the Orangemen.

None of this has happened yet, so there is room for fantasy.

This fantasy and anger is not a day or two, but after all, the object of their fantasy, the Orange family, does not want to promise anything, and is not ready to take over this mess.

Today, however, everything is different.The mess is likely to become a sweet pastry. Perhaps, the Orange faction is waiting for such an opportunity.

After the passionate incitement, some "tuo" in the crowd encouraged everyone: "We should grant more powers to His Royal Highness William of Orange! He should also be made the governor of the remaining four provinces! Gentlemen, come with me Go to the provincial council to petition! Only he can save the Netherlands!"

(End of this chapter)