New Shun 1730

The words of the Dashun trade ambassador that Hancock relayed did not talk abstractly about rights, freedoms, or parliaments, mandates, the tradition of self-government after the Norman Conquest, the few words in the Bible against monarchy, or people going to heaven. stuff.

Rather, it specifically talks about trade lines, commodity complementarity, demand, production, advantages, interests, money, these things.

If we just talk about these, it's not too scary.

What Hancock relayed next made Joseph Warren feel a rather uncomfortable emotion.

"They also say that the present prosperity of New England is based on the vastness of the land and the fact that every industrious man can obtain a piece of land large enough for him to cultivate."

"That's the foundation of New England's prosperity, but it's also the worry of New England. Because it's just reliving some of the things they've been through."

"As the population grew, the remaining land was limited. Now each person could own 100 acres of land, but in practice at that amount, as more and more indentured servants arrived and the indentures expired and then own their own land; with four or five children per family growing up... within a hundred years at most, New England's population would outgrow this model of one piece of land per family."

“And once this pattern is exceeded, you will fall into a cycle of despair.”

"Or, just like them, every few hundred years, there will be a vigorous rebellion and the land will be divided equally."

“Or, as they did, the landowners divided the land into small parcels, leaving each tenant with just enough food to sustain himself and survive in order to maintain stability.”

"And once that day comes, all the assumptions based on the land at this time will be shattered."

"After all, they have the longest history of private ownership of land and the history of yeoman farmers as the backbone of society. They know all this best. Because they do not have land-based aristocrats like France or England or the Holy Roman Empire. On the contrary, they had one of the most extensive classes of yeoman farmers, and they defeated the Huns in a time when Jesus had not yet come.”

"At that time, they also had extremely wealthy businessmen, and there were debates about whether to be exclusive or private, and whether to allow unofficial coinage or strictly prohibit it. But in the end, the empire was destroyed by land annexation. And the reincarnation began again and again."

"They asked me, can your land be bought and sold? I said yes."

"They asked again, is your land unlimited? I said no."

"They also ask, do businessmen accumulate wealth at a much faster rate than homesteaders? I say yes."

"They ask: Do you have many children? Do you have many indentured slaves moving in every year? Will the new indentured slaves in the Boston area be able to obtain 100 acres of land as easily as before after they are freed?"

"After getting my answer, he said: If we don't break out of the cocoon, we will wait for the chaos caused by land annexation."

“They say, don’t regard what is in front of you as eternal.”

After being shocked and silent, Warren frowned and asked, "Is this a pagan curse?"

"No... I don't think it's a curse. They just used this to explain one of their goals." Hancock thought about the origin of these words and returned: "They said that they may have found a solution, although It’s still far from being resolved.”

"To solve this problem, not only theirs, but also ours, Europe's, and even the entire human race, this requires a world-wide trade opening."

"If it can be solved, of course it would be best."

"If it cannot be solved, then at least it can produce more cloth, consumer goods, luxury goods, etc., so that everyone can ensure that everyone has a share of food that can sustain themselves; but the output outside the cultivated land can be as much as possible."

"At least, it can be guaranteed that farmers in North America can only exchange a load of corn for one piece of cloth, but in the future they may be able to exchange it for one and a half pieces, plus a handful of iron tableware."

"But at the end of the day, it's premised on peace, trade, and the elimination of British navigation regulations."

"They say that every family in North America needs to spend money on cotton, tea, and porcelain. And they need to accumulate these scattered changes that each family spends, and become enough capital to invest in what they think can solve the problem of food in the direction of the problem.”

"This is a great cause in which everyone involved is contributing to the future of mankind."

"Because it's not feasible for everyone to donate money to the future of humanity."

"But through trade, everyone's income from work can be pooled and a great path can be explored, which makes everyone happy."

"Although, I don't know if they are lying, and I don't know if they are too arrogant."

"But, I heard that they have found some secrets of plant growth and touched the power of life. They heard that there have been attempts to produce 100 bushels of wheat from one acre of land."

"And cotton, nails, iron, silk, etc., etc., they all found ways to increase the amount that each person could produce."

"The consumption of everyone here will promote them to build new factories and adopt new technologies... They think that they are the hope that can guide the future of mankind."

The astonishing yield of 100 bushels of wheat per acre is only 500 pounds per mu. Of course, it must be amazing at this time. Of course Dashun can't make fertilizers, and even technology hasn't even reached the front-end of the front-end yet, it's too early. However, saltpeter is potassium nitrate and seal feces is phosphate. It is possible to achieve a high yield per acre by relying on these things.

Dashun's side talks about the free trade, or commodity dumping, and profit accumulation under Dashun's advantage at this time, from a fresh and refined perspective.

Of course, this is a North American special edition.

This is especially a special edition for the economic reality in North America where 100-acre homesteaders are the main body and there is no contradiction with the Dashun industry.

The same thing is said in France. The large number of French craftsmen engaged in silk weaving, textiles, iron smelting, carpenters, and painters must be killed.

In North America it's different.

There are only a few industries, and none of them overlap with Dashun.

For example, the hat-making industry relies on fur and animal husbandry. It is impossible for Dashun to come here to sell hats.

For example, the barrel industry, timber, grain, dried fish, cattle and sheep, wine, etc. North America now has industries that Dashun cannot even take a look at.

Times are changing, and so are consciousness.

If we were to say these words in future generations, it would mean: You people are farming the land and raising cattle and sheep honestly. We develop industry.

How many people in future generations will think this is a good thing?

But now, when these words are spoken, and based on the economic foundation of North America, they really sound like a good thing.

The foundation of North American industrial development was land annexation, population growth, capital accumulation, technological development, and increased immigration in the 1830s.

Compared to the past, when each family had 100 acres of land, this was not a good thing, or even a good time, especially compared to the good old days when the younger son inherited the family business, and before the younger son grew up, the elder brother With just a little bit of support from our families, we can go out and get three to four hundred acres of land.

The many problems and opposition caused by industrial development directly led to the collapse of the Federalist Party.

For North America, whose economy was based on homesteaders at this time, the future described by Dashun was bright: cheaper goods and cheaper daily necessities.

If we say that the women in Dashun spin weaving, it is because they have no choice but to survive as a family without weaving as a sideline business.

Women in North America were spinning at this time because they had no choice, because some villages did not have cheap textiles, and even because of trade policies, the price of textiles was too high, so women had to spin some wool to make do.

For a rural family with an average of 100 acres per capita and about 600 acres of land, there is really no need to spin their own textiles. Cheaper consumer goods are what they like and can afford.

It’s just that Dashun has added a little sacred halo to this matter, so that in addition to being “cheap and affordable”, buying Dashun’s products also adds a greater meaning – buying Dashun’s products , which is equivalent to donating money for the development and future of mankind.

Moreover, the fallacies relayed by Hancock are difficult to refute.

At least in this sentence, this fallacy is correct. As the population increases, this pastoral beauty and abundant resources will soon be destroyed.

It was actually destroyed.

It is nothing more than technical substandardness, which ultimately leads to land annexation and chaos.

The technology is still up to standard, and it has moved towards capitalism and industrialization, but it is also different from the previous pastoral and beautiful villages and towns where farmers and acquaintances lived together.

This is all destruction.

This statement itself cannot be refuted.

Regardless of whether it is nonsense or nonsense, in the current chaotic situation in Europe where they are fighting to the death for the crown and inheritance, Dashun at least has an attitude of "taking the future of all mankind" as its perspective.

The Catholic world is dead.

The Puritan world in North America was to be established on the basis of yeoman farmers and petty bourgeois. What Hancock relayed directly declared that this world would also perish. It might be different, people would still be alive, but the society would be completely different from what it is now.

Perhaps Dashun has evil intentions here, such as inspiring the North American mentality of "getting on the bus first and welding the doors shut", and then began to refuse outsiders to move in, thus suffering from the lack of labor force during the transition period.

Or maybe Dashun just wants to make its dumping behavior appear righteous, and describe making money and capital accumulation as a great cause for the world.

Or maybe it just further increases the sanctity of trade with Dashun, which is still considered smuggling. This makes smuggling itself not only faultless, but also a great cause that contributes one silver coin to the future of mankind.

All in all, what Hancock relayed made Joseph Warren feel deeply uncomfortable.

There was a lot of contempt in what they meant. It seems that all the ideas of such homesteaders and small producers to expand the vast land are nothing worthy of surprise and admiration.

And something more serious.

For a Puritan and a Freemason:

A group of pagans, and the most bizarre pagans who are superstitious atheists. Are these pagans qualified to say: We want to lead the future of mankind?