New Shun 1730

In fact, Pitt's fear was far less than the destruction that Dashun would bring.

Generally speaking, Pitt, through reading history, reading the history from the Protectorate era, vaguely touched upon several means of "primitive accumulation" and knew that prosperity came from primitive accumulation.

But he mistakenly regarded primitive accumulation as the goal.

However, only by taking these primitive accumulations as means and completing the real purpose of primitive accumulation can one be considered a qualified person who leads the tide of the times.

Because he regarded primitive accumulation, which should have been a means, as the end of history and the ultimate goal of Britain, he proposed a global colonial strategy and a plan to disintegrate the fleets of France and Spain, and wanted to fight to the end.

It was just that Britain later completed the transformation from primitive accumulation to industrial revolution based on his gamble.

However, his own consciousness regarded primitive accumulation as the goal.

Therefore, what he feared was only the problem at the level of primitive accumulation after the influx of Dashun's trade goods.

The actual problem is much more serious than this.

For example, once free trade is liberalized, capital will flow into those profitable industries.

It should be noted that:

Because Britain has extreme control over trade.

So a lot of capital has nowhere to go and can be invested in Britain's major infrastructure-the canal project.

On the Dashun side, the same reason is that because of the reform and control of land in the Songsu area, a lot of capital has to be invested in industries other than land.

This is determined by the profit-seeking nature of capital: Is infrastructure the investment with the highest return rate? No. Trade is. However, trade is controlled and not allowed to enter, so we can only settle for the second best. I also want to sell tea, but the court will not allow it, and if caught, it will really be killed.

Once trade control is released, a lot of capital will be invested in trade instead of infrastructure. And trade itself...how to say it, the Netherlands is a ready-made example. Trade can make money, but it will destroy the foundation of Britain.

What is the foundation of Britain?

It is the real economy that can develop under the control of trade.

It is because capital has nowhere to go and cannot be invested in more profitable trade. Because of the control, a large amount of silver had to be invested in canal construction to obtain a slightly higher rate of return than the 3% of national debt, which rapidly improved the level of infrastructure in the UK and reduced logistics costs, laying a good foundation for the next step of industrial development.

If the profit of buying and selling Oriental cotton cloth with 100 pounds is higher than investing the 100 pounds in textile factories, or in infrastructure, digging canals, and building roads, then the 100 pounds will buy cotton cloth instead of building textile factories, infrastructure, digging canals, and building roads.

This is a simple truth.

Unless, relying on centralization, government, navy, and tariffs, anyone who dares to buy cotton cloth will be fined 200 yuan first.

If Dashun has demands on trade issues, then it will destroy the real economy of Britain and bring Britain a false prosperous commercial economy.

There are no nuclear bombs in this era.

The Netherlands was extremely prosperous at the beginning, but what was the result? Business destroyed its own industry, and several wars broke the Dutch military.

Even in the fourth Anglo-Dutch War in history, Britain brought warships and cannons to force Amsterdam financiers to buy British government bonds.

Relying solely on trade prosperity will not work in this era. Moreover, behind this trade prosperity is the outflow of silver from the country and the influx of a large amount of silver into the hands of the comprador group. And they will send this silver to China, because Dashun's industry has started, and the interest rate is high, and the rate of return is higher.

In this era of precious metals, money is really money. It cannot be printed or over-issued. It is really a zero-sum game of "you have more, I have less, you have less, I have more".

And the peculiarity of Dashun is just like what is described in the "History of British India" in 1826: [...Manchester's factories will stop at the beginning, and it will not be possible to start again, even with the power of steam]

This is the real problem, and it will bring about the rapid and comprehensive Dutchization of Britain.

At this time, the real financial center, Amsterdam's capital, will also choose to support Dashun's industrial revolution instead of investing in Britain's canals, infrastructure, industry, etc., because the profit is higher.

As for Britain at that time, and the reality that Pitt was desperate for, in addition to the East India Company issue, when facing the impact of foreign goods, it also faced a more severe situation.

This severe situation is essentially the reason why Liu Yu believes that Pitt is either at the level of a Showa staff officer or an oppositionist who has been in opposition for a long time and is opposing for the sake of opposition.

There is a very, very, very famous saying in later generations, which basically most people have heard of. This saying was said by Pitt.

The wind can come in, the rain can come in, but the king cannot come in.

The original text of this sentence is [The poorest person may despise all the power of the royal family in his hut. It may be fragile; its roof may shake; the wind may blow over it; the storm may come in; the rain may come in; but the King of England cannot come in - he goes all out and dares not cross the threshold of the destroyed title deed! ]

The background of this sentence is that after the end of the Seven Years' War in history, Britain owed a lot of debts and its finances were about to collapse, so it could only find ways to save money and increase taxes.

And an important item of tax increase is production tax and tariff.

There is a law here, which is the "Assistance in Search Act".

That is: Customs officers and tax officials can use these assistance orders to enter any building by force, search and seize any items that may be confiscated. The officer must have reasonable grounds to suspect that the goods to be confiscated are kept in the premises before obtaining and executing the search warrant, and that the goods are likely to be removed, destroyed or lost. The assistance order is valid from the date of issuance...

In simple terms, such as the tariffs imposed by the Navigation Act.

Smuggling is a common situation.

In this case, customs officers and tax officials are qualified to enter the ship for search. As long as they have an assistance search warrant and suspect that the ship is smuggling, they can enter the ship and check the smuggled goods.

Or, for example, the British cider tax, alcohol is also a disaster area for tax evasion. With this order, you can enter the house of a possible bootlegger for search.

And this matter has been a slogan used by William Pitt to gain the support of the bourgeoisie and small urban producers since the beginning when he opposed Walpole's consumption tax policy.

He opposed such search warrants, and opposed customs officers and tax officials entering houses and cargo ships to search for contraband.

This is actually the same as the French nobles and the Paris High Court, who opposed the land inventory with freedom - the freedom understood by the French nobles derived from the feudal era is not the same as the freedom in the philosophical sense given by the French Revolution era and the Enlightenment scholars.

[The poorest person may despise all the power of the royal family in his hut. It may be fragile; its roof may shake; the wind may blow over it; the storm may enter; the rain may enter; but the King of England cannot enter - he dared not cross the threshold of the destroyed title deed with all his strength! ]

There is a very famous case for this remark, namely the Malcolm incident.

A "suspected smuggler" named Malcolm was suspected of having a smuggled goods warehouse at home, so the customs officers went to check.

Malcolm let the customs officers in, but they found a locked cellar. The customs officers asked Malcolm to open the cellar, but Malcolm said no, because your search warrant only said to search my house, but not my cellar.

The customs officers withdrew and went back to apply for a search warrant to search the cellar.

But when he came back, Malcolm locked his house and gathered more than 300 people to watch, saying that your search warrant this time was for searching my cellar, not my house.

Of course, it should be said that Malcolm probably did not smuggle in this matter. Even if he smuggled, he might have moved the goods away long ago.

This is the pit dug by the Boston independence faction, sending people to report clues and presiding over this matter to create conflicts. The British side fell into the pit foolishly.

There is also the famous search of the smuggling ship of John Hancock, who signed the declaration, which is similar.

William Pitt's words were aimed at this kind of thing.

His words are correct.

This point is undeniable.

Taken alone, it is progressive.

However, there is a question.

Why did this happen?

Why is smuggling rampant?

Why is smuggling considered by the British and the people of the thirteen states of North America to be a "victimless crime" and a hero worthy of praise rather than a criminal?

Why do people help smugglers?

Did William Pitt know that this was caused by the Navigation Act?

Obviously, he knew.

So, did he oppose the Navigation Act?

When he was in charge of the cabinet, did he propose to abolish the Navigation Act?

No.

In terms of the overall evil, he supports evil.

In terms of specific details, he supports human rights and natural law.

What does this show?

Either it shows that his brain is not working well at all, his level is average, and he can't see the essence of the problem.

Either it means that he has a brain and knows the root of the problem, but he only dares to quibble over the details, and dares not touch the core interests of the real vested interests - the large number of beneficiaries created by the Navigation Act.

Or it means that he is just the kind of person who draws on the map, but has no concept of taxation, finance, and national debt.

There are so many labels, and one must be used, otherwise how to explain this matter?

Can taxes be levied? Can taxation be searched?

It is difficult to say this because it involves debate.

To put it in a broader sense, as long as the consumption tax, tariffs, and liquor tax are abolished, then there will be no smugglers and bootleggers?

If there are no smugglers and bootleggers, then the problem of home searches to assist search warrants will not be solved at the root?

This is a debate.

However, the world of debate does not exist in reality.

Therefore, this has to involve a compromise method:

Because the tariffs are too high and the liquor tax is too high, everyone regards bootleggers and smugglers as "victimless crimes" and thinks this is glorious.

Therefore, we can lower the tariffs and liquor taxes to a level that everyone thinks is actually not bad. In this way, can we search for smuggling?

But this does not make sense from the perspective of debate.

If smugglers with a 50% tariff are not bad people, then smugglers with a 10% tariff are bad people?

The problem is that since Liu Yu went to Amsterdam and talked about free trade, the aggressive expansionists of the Dashun New School who followed Liu Yu's expansion have been using this set of scriptures to promote it.

Especially at that time, William Pitt was at a critical juncture in opposing Bovo's consumption tax.

Pitt opposed Bovo's increase in consumption tax on the grounds that wind and rain can enter. Because consumption tax involves checking smuggled goods and goods that do not pay taxes.

Liu Yu, on the other hand, evaluated this matter on the grounds that "as long as consumption tax, tariffs, and alcohol taxes are abolished, there will be no smugglers, bootleggers, and tax evaders."

For a long time, Liu Yu and Pitt were regarded as symbols of true freedom in Britain and North America.

When Liu Yu was promoting free trade in Amsterdam, he used the term "treating the symptoms and the root cause" to explain this matter.

He said that his approach of asking Europe to abolish consumption tax and tariffs was to treat the root cause; while Pitt was just treating the symptoms.

And very...somewhat embarrassing, Liu Yu is very good at celebrating funerals.

Dashun's tax collection ability is like eating shit, which is the same as that of the Ming Dynasty. Liu Yu explained "inability" as "deliberate".

Taking advantage of China fever and the "borrowing from the east to criticize the west" of the Enlightenment, Liu Yu said, look at our Dashun, such a big country, only collects 20 million taels of silver in land tax a year, and the consumption tax, wine tax, tea tax and so on are pitifully small, you should do the same. Why are we rich? It's because we collect less taxes!

Calculated, according to the standards of Dashun, France only needs 4 million taels of national treasury income a year; while Britain only needs 2 million taels, and the excess is "tyranny" and "competing with the people for profit".

There has been a lot of propaganda in recent years.

This is the problem facing Britain at this time.

The various defenses of the East India Company before solved the scripture that "silver outflow is not necessarily a bad thing".

The free trade advocated by Liu Yu solved the scripture that "smugglers are heroes".

The former solved the problem of "using foreign goods is patriotism"; the latter solved the problem of "illegal psychological barriers".

In terms of ideology and cognition, Dashun had already made preparations for comprehensive economic colonization. This must be thanked to the East India Company, which spent so much money on lobbying and hiring writers every year to eliminate the cognitive problem of silver outflow.

Just like thanking the East India Company for cultivating the consumer groups of tea, silk, and cotton cloth, and helping Dashun open up the West African market, winning the good reputation of Songjiang cotton cloth as "the cloth of sorrow".