New Shun 1730

It has nothing to do with loyalty.

It has nothing to do with personal virtues such as loyalty.

This is the basis for Liu Yu's military reform and going to Nanyang to seize India.

It is also the basis for the emperor to allow going to Nanyang to seize India.

It has nothing to do with loyalty.

Du Feng has no capital to establish himself as a king, because he has no navy, no gun manufacturing plant, and even no trade channels.

The fragile Ceylon economy, which exports cinnamon and betel nut gems and pearls, is rich and valuable. But if he rebels, the navy of Dashun will strangle this trade line, and the self-reliance will collapse on its own.

So he must be loyal, so it has nothing to do with the virtue of loyalty.

Before and after Liu Yu was busy with the reform of Jiangsu, the most important thing the emperor did was to expand the navy and promote a large number of new people from good families.

The emperor washed the power of Liu Yu's influence out of his distrust of Liu Yu, so the emperor trusted Liu Yu.

The emperor had a force that could instantly disintegrate the Nanyang governors, so he believed in the loyalty of the Nanyang governors.

There were many fierce people in Dashun.

There are many talented heroes in troubled times, hidden in prosperous times.

The emperor is very clear about this. When troubled times come, each county can actually put together a team of government and generals. For example, Pei County, Fengyang, Yulin Yan'an.

But even so, no one can get rid of the identity of a Chinese, go to India to be an Indian, and then stir up the storm, unify India, resist the suppression of Dashun, and eliminate the threats of Britain and France. Such ability is too against the sky.

If this cannot be done, during the expansion period of the empire, why don't ambitious people choose to win a title of nobility, be appointed as prime minister, and have their wives and children in the empire's army?

The advantage of external expansion is to throw all the wolves hidden in the empire to the border and let them bite everywhere.

And because the navy is in hand, there is no need to worry about these hungry wolves biting back.

The best wolves will be taken in as dogs.

Engrave their names on the red-lettered iron voucher, build them a big mansion in the capital, give them tens of thousands of taels of silver every year, and let their descendants be born with royal power and be superior.

Du Feng just told Dupleix calmly that you don’t have the ability to make a name for yourself and become the king of India.

In fact, I don’t have it either.

Therefore, we can only think about the so-called strategic choices from the perspective of the country and the court.

Therefore, although it is lamentable, it can be said that it is self-inflicted, because you can’t get rid of your identity as a Frenchman, but you violate the strategy of the French court.

Although Liu Yu ridiculed France and said that Louis XV’s strategy was fucking without strategy. But if the correct strategy under objective facts can’t win, can the strategic direction that is bound to fail under objective facts win?

Dupleix was stunned for a long time, sighed for a long time, glanced at Du Feng, and smiled bitterly.

"The fate of a person... is really unpredictable."

"When I first went to Guangzhou for trade, I had not heard of the name of the duke in your country, let alone you."

"When I first went to Weihai, the duke was not yet a duke. He and I were like equal friends. At that time, you were just a naval trainee officer, and I was the Governor of Pondicherry in France."

"And now... I can only look you in the eye and listen to your evaluation and advice on me, but I can't say a word of rebuttal."

Du Feng also took a deep breath, feeling a lot about these words, nodded and said: "Yes, the fate of a person... If everything is normal, I might still be on the bank of the Heilongjiang River, looking for opportunities to rob caravans."

On one side is the torture of the cold and tragic fate, and on the other side is sighing the progress of history, the same sigh, different mood.

However, Du Feng, and even Dupleix, will not know that today's sigh has not yet demonstrated the full power of fate.

Originally in history, when Dupleix was penniless and waiting for death on the streets of Paris, he left behind a classic lament about the fickleness of fate:

【I once controlled a territory larger than France, and every Indian prince was eager to get my help. 】

【I sacrificed my youth, my wealth, and my life to manage Asia for my motherland. 】

【Unfortunate friends, pitiful parents, and beloved brothers have dedicated all their wealth to my goal... as funds for the motherland's conquest of India. Now, I have nothing, and they are in urgent need of this money to live. I respect the laws of the country and ask my creditors for my debts, but they do not think that my efforts need to be repaid. 】

【My career is regarded as a fable, a fable that warns others not to be as stupid as me. I am regarded as the most despicable person in the world...】

【At this moment, the landlord asked me for rent, which I could not pay, and I was forced to ask for probation to avoid being dragged into prison for not paying rent. 】

Perhaps, it is difficult to imagine the mood of a man who was once the emperor of South India, who was used as a bargaining chip for peace between Britain and France by the British when he was in great glory, when he was facing the landlord asking for rent, he humbly begged for a few days' grace to avoid being dragged into prison.

Perhaps, it is also easy to imagine, especially for the Dashun people.

The humble room was empty, and the bed was full of hu tablets in the past; the withered grass and withered poplars were once a place for singing and dancing.

The spider silk is full of carved beams, and the green gauze is now pasted on the windows.

What is said about thick rouge and fragrant powder, how come the temples are white again.

Yesterday, the yellow earth sent white bones, tonight the red lanterns are sleeping under the tent.

Full boxes of gold and silver, in a blink of an eye, beggars are slandered by everyone.

I was lamenting that others would not live long, but I didn't know that I would be mourned when I returned!

If you train well, you can't guarantee that you will be a strong leader in the future. Who chooses to live in the fireworks alley?

Because the gauze hat was too small, the shackles resisted; yesterday I felt sorry for the coldness of the torn coat, but now I think the purple python is too long.

After you sing, I will appear on the stage, and you will think that this foreign country is your hometown.

How ridiculous!

In the end, they are all making wedding clothes for others!

This is a universal, enduring, repeated and cyclical story.

Common and ordinary stories that transcend nation, country, culture and history.

Because it is ordinary, it is great.

It's just that Du Feng couldn't understand these words at this time. Even if he seemed to have heard Liu Yu say it, how could he remember this tasteless sentence as a young man at that time? There is neither sword nor blood.

In his heart, there was only a hint of sympathy that the governor had been ordered to return to the capital for retirement, but he was far from the age and experience to understand his fate.

So when Dupleix talked about fate, in Du Feng's sigh, excitement triumphed over sympathetic sadness.

I am a wild boy in the frontier army, a person who should have lived by the Heilongjiang River all his life. Due to the course of history, I have become the governor of Ceylon at this moment, and I am about to send away the most terrifying of the two enemies, and then make great achievements. , left his name in history, was given the title of wife and son, returned to his hometown in rich clothes, laid stones on Bengal and drank in the city of Mumbai.

While sighing, both of them felt the wonder, elusiveness and unpredictability of fate.

Two people, but neither understands what the process of history is.

For Du Feng, the historical process was the development of the sugar industry in the Caribbean by Britain and France, which brought tens of thousands of Han returnees to Ceylon and gave him the opportunity to be the governor of Ceylon.

For Dupleix, the historical process is the conflict between the commercial bourgeoisie of Dashun and the London East India Company, which forced the commercial bourgeoisie of British East India to urgently get rid of its dependence on Dashun goods and increase its reliance on Indian goods. The power projection made him feel great pressure and suffered setbacks in recent years.

The opium case, the lesson plans, the sanctions against the Danish East India Company... From the perspective of the empire, the fight against opium and Christianity was the empire's maintenance of governance.

But from the perspective of the commercial bourgeoisie, this is the commercial bourgeoisie of Dashun, using administrative power to suppress the commercial bourgeoisie of Europe.

Different people will come to different conclusions when looking at the same problem from different perspectives.

The commercial bourgeoisie does not produce commodities, but only acts as transporters of commodities.

Who is the most suitable substitute for Dashun’s cotton, silk, medicinal materials, jute, rice and other commodities?

It's India.

Because Dashun launched the opium case and launched sanctions against the Danish East India Company, the British bourgeoisie had to invest more energy in India.

For the British industrial bourgeoisie, Dashun sanctioned the East India Company in London? And such good things? It would be better to be punished to death! Damn it, these compradors, bloodsuckers of monopolies and shameless destroyers of domestic industry, would be better off dead.

But for the British commercial bourgeoisie, Dashun's sanctions against the East India Company sent a terrible signal, that is, Dashun had the ability to pass commercial sanctions to prevent the East India Company from obtaining Eastern goods in Dashun.

The East India Company without Eastern goods was worthless. Like the Dutch East India Company without the spices.

Dupleix has felt pressure in India that has suddenly increased in recent years.

It was a class self-rescue movement launched by the British commercial bourgeoisie, who, under pressure from the Dashun commercial bourgeoisie, urgently needed to get rid of their over-reliance on Dashun commodities and prepared for a rainy day.

In the next thirty years, British industrial capital and commercial capital will unite to find markets. At that time, the value of commercial capital lay in selling the country's industrial products in exchange for more raw materials and allocating more resources.

But now, British commercial capital can only put all its fate on India under the double pressure of its own industrial bourgeoisie and Dashun commercial bourgeoisie.

For Dupleix, the course of history is sad.

If the productivity of the French people is thirty or fifty years from now, then the vast market in India will definitely allow him to get great support from France, support at all costs.

But now, the historical process before him is that the goods produced by French workers cannot be sold in India and cannot open the market, let alone compete with India's handicraft industry.

That's why fate pulled him back to Paris because it was unprofitable.

The good relationship between Dashun's industrial capital and commercial capital stems from the millions of hard-working and intelligent working people in Dashun. Their leading handicraft technologies and commodities are the strongest bond between the industrial bourgeoisie and the commercial bourgeoisie in Dashun.

Otherwise, if Europe's industrial level surpasses Dashun, then the relationship between Dashun Western Trading Company and Dashun Nantong Textile Company will be inseparable? Or are they incompatible?

This is a no-brainer.

Today you can cheer Dashun Western Trading Company as a pawn of imperialism, but tomorrow you will be indignant that they are a comprador group of foreign capital - the development of China's industry, the level of industrialization, the stronger the industrial power and the higher the industrial output value, the more it can promote the enemy's industry The divisions and contradictions between capital and commercial capital can even directly tear apart each other's societies.

The biggest difference between the Dashun where Liu Yu lived and the Manchu Qing Dynasty was that they vaguely recognized the power of the working people, and Liu Yu knew what the historical process was.

He only borrowed a little bit of the power of the working people, and even if the power of the working people was suppressed, in the time and space when he did not appear, it still showed a strong force that tore apart the other society - otherwise, what do you think Defoe and the East India Company were arguing about, the debate between Adam Smith and Hume, and the great debate on the Manchester Cotton Act?

The real force that triggered the debate between Defoe and the East India Company was the craftsmen who fired porcelain in Jingdezhen and the women workers who wove cloth in Songjiang Prefecture. They used their hands to tear open the cracks within British society; they used their hands to create the real world, and the debates of those people were just explaining this real world created by the workers.

The Fujian girls who picked tea, the Guizhou zinc smelters, the Gan craftsmen who fired porcelain in Jingdezhen, the Wu women who reeled silk in Jiangnan, and the Su Qiao who wove cloth in Songjiang, they created many realities of this world.

With their hard-working hands, they created a further tearing of Dutch industrial and commercial capital.

They created the legal smuggling desire of North American smugglers.

France, which created Colbertism, could not obtain commercial benefits in the East.

It created the desperate bet of British commercial capital on India.

It created the trust of Western European free commercial capital in Dashun national debt...

Liu Yu used the eyes of later generations to see the world, understood the truth of the world, and lured or forced the feudal ruling group of Dashun to follow the course of history.

In fact, until now, the total horsepower of Dashun's steam engine is still not worth mentioning; Dashun's railway is still just a toy of horse-drawn carriages; Dashun's muskets still have tolerances made by craftsmen and parts cannot be interchangeable.

All of this is the repair of the old world, but it is enough.

He just let this ancient country, which was the world's number one in handicraft output value in the era of the rise of world trade, regain its position in the era of global trade that should be adapted to its handicraft output value.

Du Feng only knows to sigh for his personal destiny.

He doesn't know what India means to the future of China.

He may not even care at all.

What he thinks about is still everything old, ennobling his wife and children, being a marquis and a prime minister, and returning home in glory. It's nothing more than the place where the stone was engraved, which changed from the yellow sand of Yanran to the moist soil of India.

But it doesn't matter.

It doesn't matter at all.

Just like the Cossacks who fought with Liu Yu in Heilongjiang and expanded eastward for fur profits and wealth; just like Clive, one of the two enemies he considered, who expanded eastward for wealth and adventure, for robbery and fame.

What they thought was not important at all.

And the ridiculous thing about history is that Dupleix, in the three people's battle of destiny in India, was the only one among the three who had his motherland, country, glory, France, and national future in his mind, and really took out his own property to pay for the army and buy cannons...