New Shun 1730

As long as the myth of Mayflower is not established, for the Puritans, the Netherlands is not a transit point before the 40 years of wandering in the wilderness in the Book of Exodus and finally crossing the ocean to find the promised land.

The new myth will naturally correspond the Egyptian pharaoh's reign of terror to the expulsion of Protestants from the Iberian Peninsula, the French Huguenot Edict, and the British separatist persecution.

The Netherlands can also be the new Israel of Protestantism.

The Dutch nation construction was originally problematic. The fake traditional Batavia myth has been broken, and the foundation of the Dutch nation's creation is "who we are not". The Protestant Exodus myth can make up for the lack of "who we are".

The divided federal parliament, the commercially developed Amsterdam, and the political structure of the seven provinces each governing themselves are all very suitable for being the Protestant Rome.

From the beginning, Liu Yu guided the ginseng and sable fur trade in order to prevent France from giving up "those acres of snow" and making America a territory divided among countries.

However, at this time, these British people were not aware of this and were still worried that Dashun was instigating a rebellion in North America.

Because the war has reached this point, under great pressure, the goal of diplomacy is to try to get more favorable and decent conditions as much as possible without damaging the core interests of the country.

So, is North America a core interest of Britain?

If London is required to be a logistics transit center and financial center for East-West trade, must North America be in hand?

Under the old system, North America was an indispensable part of the British trade system.

But now, the old trade system centered on the Navigation Act is about to be broken. Is a North America that loses money, does not pay taxes, and cannot obtain the advantages of compulsory trade under the Navigation Act an indispensable core interest?

To a certain extent, if the trade negotiations between China and Britain are reached, Britain may fundamentally solve the North American problem and even realize the nation-state with a single or dual parliament envisioned by Franklin.

Even in the eyes of the Earl of Halifax, Dashun's participation in the war, especially helping France to counterattack North America, is a good thing for Britain.

If the French army really invades New England on a large scale, or continues to support Indian tribes, it will greatly increase North America's centripetal force towards Britain.

On the contrary, he was opposed to Pitt's radical policies. Because he felt that North America without France would inevitably make the Thirteen States feel independent. The presence of France in North America was the key factor for the Thirteen States to be close to Britain and maintain centripetal force.

The religious issues in North America and the decisive population advantage of Protestants over Catholics made it impossible for France to swallow North America. At most, they would draw a clear border between the two sides.

Because... the French were not willing to spend more money in North America.

Therefore, in the eyes of the Earl of Halifax, the focus of this contact with the group of diplomatic envoys who sent prisoners to Dashun, or the focus of future negotiations, was the issue of the trade model between Dashun and Britain.

Liberalizing tariffs and normal trade were almost a done deal. The only difference was whether this model was truly international free trade with the Netherlands as a transit point, or London's one-stop trade that maintained the old taxation model and management model.

Working in the Board of Trade and the Plantation Commission over the years allowed the Earl of Halifax to see technical and detailed issues more clearly than Pitt.

Pitt is a staunch defender of the old trade system and a militant radical who takes the old trade system as his foundation.

He is a politician.

But he is extremely lacking in the level of technical bureaucracy.

Because of his status as a member of the Prince Party, the Earl of Halifax has been engaged in the work of the Trade Committee, which is more technical, and is more sensitive to such technical aspects - tax collection, customs, and economic strategies are important, but the technical and tactical aspects of how to collect taxes are more important.

As for the free trade and absolute advantage that Liu Yu talked about before, Dashun has been talking about them in Europe in recent years, and has been talking about them with the wind of "China fever".

Because I am rich, everything I have is the reason for my wealth. This logic derived from the Whig view of history is suitable for propaganda at this time by taking advantage of the China fever in Europe.

Whether the Earl of Halifax believes it or not... Actually, he believes it a little.

And it coincided with the emergence of the Dashun Industrial Revolution, which made the Earl of Halifax have a technically wrong tendency on the issue of "absolute advantage".

How to describe this tendency?

That is, when a new industry first sprouts, there is not only one way. The same is true for technology. Just like when firearms first appeared and eventually evolved into flintlock rifles, there were also some wrong choices in the technology tree such as multi-barreled and breech-loading technologies.

Or, whether the new energy of later generations is electricity or hydrogen, it is also a gamble to see who bets on the future.

The wrong tendency of the Earl of Halifax is a purely technical problem.

Dashun is good at cotton cloth.

Britain is good at woolen cloth.

Cotton cloth can be produced in factories, or with technological advancement, the factory system can reduce costs and improve quality.

Why can't woolen cloth work?

In fact, if you know the history of later generations and some technical problems in the textile industry, you will know that it is indeed not possible.

Because the industrial production of woolen cloth is much more difficult than cotton cloth.

Roughly speaking, woolen cloth is "easy to get started, difficult to advance".

The early large-scale alkaline washing, degreasing, combing and other steps can easily achieve the initial factoryization, greatly improving efficiency.

In this regard, in Florence and other places, in the late Middle Ages, there were already uprisings of wool combing workers.

However, after this entry, it is very difficult to light up the subsequent technology, which is much more difficult than cotton cloth.

On the contrary, cotton cloth is "difficult to get started, easy to advance. Once the key Ren and Du meridians are opened, the road ahead is smooth."

In short, picking cotton is a difficult problem. It depends on God's face and requires a lot of labor.

Combing cotton is a difficult problem. Before the cotton combing machine was developed, picking cotton seeds also required a lot of labor.

Spinning is even more difficult. The yarn spun by the Jenny machine cannot be used for pure cotton cloth; the yarn of the water-powered spinning machine is coarse, but it cannot be used for subsequent plain cloth weaving.

The Ren and Du meridians of cotton cloth are the "spindle spinning machine", that is, the mule machine spinning.

Once this thing is made, the subsequent road will be smooth, and the steam engine can be directly used. This is also the technical basis for the crisis transmission of the mass unemployment of Indian spinning planned by Liu Yu.

However, before trying, who knew that the industrial production of woolen cloth is actually more difficult than cotton cloth?

Who would have thought that in the late Middle Ages, there would be handicraft workshops and wool textile industry with hundreds of employees combing wool, which is actually more difficult to produce in factories or factories than cotton cloth?

In the eyes of the Earl of Halifax, Dashun's "absolute advantage" is cotton cloth, so Britain's absolute advantage is woolen cloth.

Moreover, the reality at this time also makes Britain extremely backward in the cotton cloth industry, and the entire industrial chain is not matched.

Few of the current plantation owners in North America grow cotton, and they mainly grow tobacco, grain, sugar cane, indigo and other things. Indigo is still subsidized by the UK.

The only one with a cotton industry base in the UK is Lancashire, and Lancashire's cotton cloth cannot be copied. Because the development of the Lancashire cotton industry is based on the humid climate of Lancashire, it can spin cotton yarn that is more resilient than elsewhere.

Moreover, many of the newly started cotton industries in the UK are also based on cotton yarn and cotton from India.

Now that India is definitely lost, the cotton industry is really unnecessary to continue to support in the eyes of the Earl of Halifax.

It is better to take a gamble and industrialize woolen cloth, and re-occupy the European market with cost advantages.

Cotton cloth and woolen cloth are two kinds of cloth after all. Cotton cloth cannot completely replace woolen cloth, but it is incompatible with the linen cloth industry.

This does not mean that the Earl of Halifax has a problem with his brain. There are always right and wrong bets for any technological progress. Even the most common alternating current and direct current in later generations have the story of betting on two technical routes. It is definitely not wrong to bet on woolen cloth based on past experience.

At least, it is closer to bravely entering the new era than Pitt, who ran all the way in the trade system based on the old law of navigation.

At this time, it is impossible for someone to tell him that industrialized production of woolen cloth is more difficult than cotton cloth.

Once the Earl of Halifax accepted the theory of free trade at a psychological level, he could find a self-explanatory logic on some issues of regulating trade.

For example, he still supported the tax on French honey.

Of course, those who support protectionism and mercantilism also support it.

However, the same thing can be explained by different scriptures.

According to the scriptures of protectionism and mercantilism, the tax on French honey protects the British plantation industry. If it is not protected, the plantations will go bankrupt.

According to the scriptures of free trade, the tax is not imposed to protect the British plantation industry.

Rather, from the perspective of absolute advantage, New England has an advantage in producing rum. New England produces rum, and French plantations produce honey. Exchanging honey for rum and rum for honey is a trade that benefits both parties.

However, rum is a dominant industry, and a huge dominant industry. From the government's perspective, it is of course necessary to levy taxes to maintain the operation of the government.

However, because of the lack of control over the grassroots in North America, there is no choice but to levy taxes on the raw materials, that is, honey.

This tax should actually be called "wine tax", but because New England cannot be controlled, this wine tax is levied in the form of sugar tax.

Although, according to the taxation theory of free trade, industrial and commercial taxes, profit taxes, and capital taxes should not be collected, only land rent and land taxes should be collected. However, landlords are not something that anyone can afford to offend. The Tories in China can't afford to offend, but those plantation owners can?

Therefore, the rum industry in New England has such an absolute advantage. Isn't it reasonable to collect some taxes to maintain the operation of the government and ensure security?

The same thing can be explained by different scriptures. If North America is really entangled in the issue of no taxation without representation, it is entirely possible to pull North American representatives into parliament.

Playing population constituencies, the population of Britain at this time is three times that of North America, an absolute advantage.

The British Parliament has been playing zombie constituencies for so many years. Every year, the Whigs and Tories are busy bribing those zombie constituencies, not to mention.

Therefore, the Earl of Halifax's attitude towards the post-war negotiations is also very clear.

Strive for Dashun to put the trade center in London.

Deregulate trade control. Anyway, monopoly companies such as the East India Company are dead, so just impose import tariffs.

Abandon the cotton industry and bet the future on woolen cloth, a traditional British advantage industry.

Support Franklin's North American entry into parliament, but oppose one king and two parliaments, and strive to promote the model of one king and one parliament.

Ensure that land taxes remain unchanged, or at least will not increase.

Promise tariffs on trade with China as collateral for the repayment of national debt, boost financial confidence, and stabilize the London financial market, which has collapsed at this time.

Approve the implementation of the Jewish naturalization law of 53 years, and win over the Spanish Jews who are selling bonds at this time, asking them to help stabilize the financial market.

With the promise of "not increasing land taxes to repay national debts", and the Tory Party's lifting of the ban, win over the Tory Party and the Whig Party's rural faction.

With a quick ceasefire, win over the West India Chamber of Commerce. Because the war caused heavy losses to the West India Chamber of Commerce, Dashun rescued Senegal, and Spain and Cuba joined the war, which directly cut off the triangular trade. Dashun's heavily armed merchant ships and cruisers' wolf pack tactics have made the people of the West India Chamber of Commerce unbearable.

As a person who supports free trade, suppress the East India Company. Anyway, the East India Company is dead. The debt exploded, all colonies were lost, the trade with the East was cut off, and the three major trade items of tea, silk and cotton cloth had been cut off for more than a year. It can't be saved. Moreover, even if you want to save it, you can't save it. Can you really counterattack back to Malacca?

Taking advantage of Pitt's defeat, taking advantage of the Patriot Party's desire to cut off, win over George Grenville, form a cabinet with the Royalists, Tories, Scots and the Patriot Party after the split, and quickly seek peace.

Strengthen the 1745 "Militia Act", conscript service, and prepare to suppress the Lancashire Cotton Textile Industry Uprising-this "Militia Act" is called militia. If Shang Yang reads the terms, he will definitely call it an expert.

Of course, the British military service has always been weird. After all, it is so weird that it can be stationed in North America. Soldiers compete to do the work, which has caused the local wages to drop, causing great dissatisfaction among the bottom of North America.

The reason why the militia law should be strengthened is that the militia has a rotation system, which is mainly to prevent local people from being ruthless. Therefore, the militias in each county should be rotated. When the time comes, they will not know each other, so they can do whatever they want. Whether it is the Tories or the Whigs, they do not like standing armies, and can only rely on the rotating militias formed by local gentry.

The reason for the militia law at this time is that rebellions have broken out in Yorkshire and Lincolnshire. The reason for the rebellion is that the war is not going well, and someone is spreading the news that Parliament may require compulsory service and overseas combat in Hanover.

If no explanation is given, the rumors of national debt repayment and compulsory military service overseas combat will really cause riots. In theory, militias cannot fight abroad. The riots in Yorkshire are worried about amending the militia law to allow militias to fight abroad.

If the national debt is not explained quickly, 300,000 middle-class and above families in the UK will rebel.

If the militia doesn't give an explanation quickly, it's the lower classes in Britain who can't even pay the 30 taels of silver fine for not serving who are going to rebel.

This is more terrifying than the big businessmen at the top. Moreover, as long as the Tories and the rural Whigs are stabilized by the land tax issue, and the bond-buying class and the lowest class are stabilized, the transfer of power can still be completed when the old king dies and the war is extremely unfavorable.