New Shun 1730

North America truly became a country entering a new era until the end of the Civil War.

Prior to this, the early Anti-Federalist Party, which represented the interests of farmers and petty bourgeois, and the Federalist Party, which tried to develop industry, central bank leadership, large-scale infrastructure, manufacturing, and tariffs, and the Whig Party that later succeeded them, were already fighting each other to the death. .

There are not so many mysterious and abstract nonsense, it is the battle between the two types of private ownership that Lao Ma mentioned. At that point in time, enough immigrants will create enough workers who have been stripped of the means of production.

Is it to maintain the old days of homesteaders and small producers?

Or industrialization and the era of capitalism?

The contradiction between the two is irreconcilable. As Lao Ma said, the latter developed on the grave of the former.

Is it a stranger’s industrial and commercial city?

Or a homesteading rural town with acquaintances?

Is it Manifest Destiny that expands the territory, continues to guarantee each person a hundred acres of land, and spreads self-cultivation?

Or should we deepen reforms, develop in depth internally, build railways and open factories, and create more industrial capitalists and a composite economy?

The Federalist Party and the Whig Party died in the end, but before they died, they had basically completed their mission. The era of capitalist private ownership had arrived, and it would not take long before all small producers, including yeoman farmers, were crushed to pieces.

In the same way, because it died, the Donkey-Elephant Anti-Federalist Party, which was originally one, naturally split.

However, at this time, North America did not have the economic foundation of the 1830s, so their theory was destined to be biased towards petty bourgeoisie and homesteaders.

However, the situation in Massachusetts is a bit special, and it is not the same as the situation in places such as Pennsylvania.

Of course, the people here were tricked by the British last time and were slapped hard by the British government.

Of course, as yeoman farmers and small producers, they have no obligation and no desire to serve in the British military, help the British in the war, or pay taxes to the British, etc.

However, Massachusetts needed to face the Indians and the French.

Therefore, their anti-British sentiments exist, but before the French were completely driven out of North America, their anti-British sentiments were not that radical, at least they are still softer now.

After all, they still have to worry about the French invasion and revenge for the previous expulsion from Arcadia. The French are heretics and Catholics, which is much scarier than the British.

Some of these people were also inclined to the idea proposed by Franklin at the Albany Conference, that the thirteen states could have something like a joint parliament.

At the very least, the war is not Massachusetts's own business. Other states should also contribute. Don't think that because they are far away and can't defeat me, why should I pay to defend the northern border, or that the enemies on the northern border cannot be defeated? To our southern states and the like.

Although Joseph Warren was talking about Plato's political concept of voting at this time, he still only talked about his own state as the center, and for the time being it did not involve the relationship between the thirteen states and the United Kingdom.

After the lecture, John Hancock and Warren said hello and winked, and the two of them came to a secluded room.

"Where did you and you go some time ago?"

Hancock smiled slyly and did not answer directly. Instead, he stared at the ring with the mysterious symbol on Warren's finger and said, "Just like you joining the Freemasons, I went to explore the truth some time ago. At least, To me, their principles can be called truth.”

Warren laughed and asked, "What kind of truth is that?"

"About trade and economics."

Warren smiled slightly disdainfully at this answer.

"My friend, you have to know that truth is the highest wisdom. Its foundation is not only rationality, nor the secular knowledge such as trade, economics, or physics divided by rational knowledge."

"The supreme wisdom is unique, all-encompassing, and the knowledge that one method covers all methods."

"Knowing God is difficult. From Adam to our own day, we have been working towards this knowledge for thousands of years, but we are still far from the goal. How can you say that you have found the truth? Woolen cloth?"

"Human beings cannot glimpse His truth, which is the unique, all-encompassing knowledge that applies to all laws."

“We are like a child who cannot comprehend His wisdom.”

"Just like a child questioning the most exquisite watchmaker, the reason for his questioning is that he doesn't understand clocks at all."

"And the so-called truth you heard was just that the child discovered that the clock would run when you wind it up. So the child told you, who is also a cute child, that he had understood the secret of the clock..."

Such religious statements are similar all over the world. Freemasons are not the only ones who recite the Bible. Some of the Freemasons also recite the Koran and the Vedas. They are all pretty much the same.

Epistemologically, it's all correct nonsense at this point: assuming there is a founder, there is a rule that governs the universe, and that rules govern the movement of the universe. If you can know this creation rule, you can master all knowledge such as physics, chemistry, mathematics, astronomy and geography, because all these knowledge are just derivatives of this creation rule.

Call him bullshit because he is right.

No one denies the laws of the universe.

A kind of person chooses to accumulate this kind of science and knowledge bit by step, starting from why the sun rises in the east and sets in the west, to why the sun shines and heats, to people's birth, old age, sickness and death, and the endless changes in numbers, to time and space. When everything in the universe is studied and understood, it can be declared that human beings have mastered the mysteries of the universe.

The laws of all things are connected with all laws.

The other kind of people are convinced that through their own meditation, purifying their hearts, and containing the light of creation in their souls, they can get closer to God and thus get closer to His indescribable infinite wisdom.

One law leads to all laws.

To a certain extent, the conflicts between some Confucian schools during the reform period in Dashun are similar: in the fierce confrontation with Buddhism, they gradually became convinced that there is a way, and if you clear this way first, everything will be lost. The other school believes that the true meaning of Confucianism can be understood in practice through Zhou rites, six arts, poetry, calligraphy, etiquette and music, arithmetic and astronomy.

It's just that it's not so weird, but it's basically a manifestation of such differences.

But here, especially where the Puritan fundamentalism has entered their minds, they are more likely to fall into this circle of "knowledge of the truth of the universe and creation."

At this time, the truth spoken by Joseph Warren and what John Hancock wanted to say were not on the same level.

But Warren's words made Hancock's already confused mind even more confused. After thinking about it, Warren's words did seem to make sense.

So he changed the word.

"Okay, man, you're right. Maybe, someone just told me some truths about trade. It's just that these truths have nothing to do with faith, freedom, or even loyalty. But I was impressed by his truths. ”

"However, you know. That group of people is a group of pagans. They are not only opposed to the Holy See. In fact, they are opposed to the Puritans, Protestants, and Orthodox Christians. They are opposed to everything related to Jesus Christ."

"I feel a little confused in my heart. I wonder if my heart is bewitched by these pagans. The French have been trying to argue that the Chinese just don't know that they are believers in God. They are hidden and unaware. Christians. But this time I had a brief contact with them, and I found that they did not believe it at all, not what the French said.”

Warren asked interestingly: "So, what did they say? You know, they are cunning, insidious, and even barbaric. In the last ginseng war, the Indian tribes ambushed our muskets in the forest. Part of it was funded by them; and the French offensive in India was also supported by them, which directly caused the banknotes in our state parliament to become waste paper.”

John Hancock knows these things.

But understanding is understanding, religion is religion, and trade is trade.

Conflicts in the past belong to the past, and making money now belongs to the present.

"Man, maybe they are cunning and insidious. But when it comes to trade, I think some of their views are reasonable."

"They say that New England's trade can now exist independently of Britain."

"They believed that trade in New England really only had two lines."

"One is from New England, loaded with commodities such as rum, to West Africa. After exchanging rum for slaves in West Africa, it goes to the plantations in the West Indies. At the plantations, the slaves are sold, and then the plantations Molasses from France and Spain, shipped back to New England to make rum.”

"The other line is loaded with grain, wood, food, wooden barrels, cattle and horses, and goes to the West Indies. In the West Indies, it trades syrup, tobacco, etc. with the French and Spanish. Then these tobacco, syrup, etc. are transported to the United Kingdom for exchange. British utensils, woolen cloth, tea, etc.”

"In fact, the first trade line has no connection with Britain at all."

"As for the second trade line, in fact, as long as someone can provide the utensils, tools, tea, cloth, etc. that the UK can provide at this time, then this trade line can be completely disconnected from the UK."

"What the UK has to offer, we can obviously complement. And it's better quality and cheaper."

"In fact, New England is not a southern state and cannot grow the indigo that the UK needs, so it cannot receive subsidies. Therefore, the economic connection between New England and the UK is fragile and dangerous."

"New England is rich in grain, but the aristocratic landowners in England also produce grain. China's Songsu Reform has experienced similar problems. Rice from Southeast Asia entered there, which lowered the price of grain. Their gentlemen objected, saying that the low price of grain hurt farmers. In the same way, the results will not be different just because Britain and China have different beliefs. Therefore, British landowners and aristocrats will soon say the same thing that hurts farmers. "

"Moreover, they believe that our smuggling is not a one-time sale in the traditional sense of shamelessly violating the law in pursuit of profits."

"On the contrary, our smuggling is just. It is because we have closer trade links with West India, Southern Europe, West Africa, French colonies, and the Spanish Islands. This is an inevitable decision determined by supply and demand, and is full of resilience. It cannot be separated. As long as the economy continues to develop, this trade line will continue to develop whether it is regarded as smuggling or legal."