New Shun 1730

"However, if those Indians are alive, they will seriously hinder the freedom of the people of the thirteen states!"

"The Chinese gave them supporting muskets, which only aggravated the obstruction."

After hearing that Dashun would send troops to Louisburg and continue to support the Indian muskets, the atmosphere in the Masonic hall suddenly became anxious.

Many people raised surprising objections, because in fact, the problem of farmers not being able to own the means of production to the limit of their own labor has arisen.

Kill the Indians, drive out the French-speaking French, and take the land. Land speculators and big businessmen eat meat, and small farmers eat soup. Only in this way can the dream of the first version of a city on a hill, with farmers as the main body, be maintained.

The freedom that these North American Puritans understood was the freedom of the petty bourgeoisie and the yeoman class. That is, everyone has their own land with the limit of labor, and children and grandchildren can own 100 acres of land even if they divide their families; no one will force them to believe in heresy and paganism; they will not pay taxes or food; there will be no compulsory service; and there will be no need for service money. …

Everything is easy to say after that. Even compared to the chaotic Europe of the 1630s, where religions burned and massacred each other and sold their lives to the nobles, it was definitely progress.

As for the front, it’s hard to say, how to ensure that everyone, or every male who has a family, has 100 acres of land? The earth is not infinite, and neither is America. There were even indigenous people who lived here well, plus the French, Spanish, Dutch, and now Dashun has begun to have settlements on the west coast. .

This leads to the fact that this petty bourgeois dream cannot be realized.

In the end, they will either expand externally, repeat the Great Expulsion of the Acadians, occupy other people's land, houses, etc., use concentration camps to kill the original owners, and occupy the magpie's nest.

Or they can only turn internally and develop into the radicals who later wanted to divide the land and restrict land speculators in the North American Revolution. Of course, those people were directly labeled as "mobs".

This is not to say that the Acadians are human beings and that it does not matter if the indigenous people are invaded. It's because the colonists invented a set of scriptures to justify their occupation of the land. For example, if no one works on the land, it is not private but belongs to everyone. The Indians have not worked, so it is not his bala bala bala. Something like that.

The problem with the expulsion of the Acadians is that they cannot be explained by that set of scriptures, because the French have also worked, cultivated the land, and built houses, so how can we explain the expulsion of them and the occupation of their land? The legality cannot be explained by the set of scriptures used to occupy indigenous lands.

The problem now is that if the French win, they will definitely take revenge. The large-scale massacre of more than 10,000 people and their imprisonment in concentration camps also aroused considerable anti-Puritan sentiment and revenge sentiment in France.

When Hancock saw the crowd's surprised objections, he could only continue to repeat: "But what the Chinese mean is that we also support attacking northward, seizing Canada, and seizing Ohio?"

Seeing what Hancock said, these people understood it clearly and immediately refuted it.

"But, didn't you say that the Chinese thought that the British government's trade policy was wrong and needed to be corrected, so they sent troops?"

"But, indeed...perhaps the reason why the British government moved north is that they relied on and tried to expand the original trade system. That is, the model in which the colonies produced raw materials to the mother country, and the mother country sold the accumulated funds."

"However, we people in North America and the state parliaments also provide money and militia, not for this. We are not here to help the British government continue the old trading system and expand the scope of this system."

"If they really want to correct the mistakes of the British government, they can just attack the British. Why send troops to Canada and why do they fund the Indians?"

"Although we sent troops together with the British government, provided logistics, provided militia, and also participated in expelling the Acadians and exterminating the Indians...but our purpose is different from the British government."

"We want land, eliminate paganism, prevent threats, and defend freedom. The British government wants to maintain and expand the original trading system."

"Perhaps...can you make it clear to the Chinese? Let them fight the British government, not us? Don't help the French, let alone support the Indians?"

"Aren't they reasonable? Isn't the Chinese Empire the most perfect country that governs with morality and reason?"

Hancock shook his head, rejecting this ridiculous and somewhat cute idea.

"Brothers and gentlemen, the issue now is not about reasoning. Because our principles are different from theirs. They say that reasoning between us and them is like talking between chickens and ducks. For some The basic definitions are different and it is impossible to make sense - they say that according to their theory, the land owned by land speculators should be confiscated and given to land reclamators as permanent fields. But obviously, we are absolutely convinced of this truth. Impossible to accept.”

"You can't reason now. What I'm talking about is just a fact that is about to happen."

"The fact is that the Chinese will definitely send troops to help the French retake Acadia, help the Indians defend their tribal lands, and will definitely determine the Ohio dividing line and prohibit crossing the border."

"I don't want to accept this fact, because my uncle invested in the land of the Acadian deportees and used the right of priority to occupy a large area, but obviously, his investment was going to fail."

"And Mr. Washington of Virginia established the Ohio Priority Enclosure Company early on with many people in Virginia, and their investment will be lost."

"None of us want to accept it, but the reality is we can't stop this behavior."

"Because the British government will definitely accept it. If we oppose it, it will mean that we need to fight a war with China, France, Spain, and the United Kingdom to use war to get what we want."

"However, it is clear to everyone that we cannot do this. To do so would be catastrophic."

"As long as France has colonies in North America, the French will not support us; the Spanish are a disgusting terror; the Indians prefer the French to us; the Chinese already have immigrants on the western coast point……"

"We have no choice but to accept it. Because without the help of the mother country, these enemies will wipe us out just as we wiped out the Indians."

"My uncle has accepted this reality. Even though he has invested money in Arcadia and acquired a large area of ​​land, he still accepted this reality."

"And if the people of the Ohio Enclosure Company want to oppose and use iron and fire to win their company's interests, I will never support it. They can fight on their own! Why, we have to fight for the land speculators in Ohio and Virginia. war?"

After all, there are experts in Freemasonry. After listening to Hancock's words, someone immediately pointed out the most terrifying part of Dashun's statement.

"This is a conspiracy!"

"They are using class and interests to divide us and disintegrate our unity!"

"Some people have interests in land investment, some people have interests in trade, some people just own their family's farmland, and some people rely on the interest on commercial loans to survive..."

"They are conspiring to use class to divide us and make us disunited! Such a conspiracy is something to be wary of!"

“We are all brothers because of our faith in God.”

"The only hierarchy between us is virtue and morality. There is no hierarchy beyond that."

"Whether you are rich or poor, have land, have money or have no money, this should not be a class. They are sowing the seeds of hatred."

The speaking Freemason inadvertently looked towards the shoemaker, McIntosh, who had high prestige among the city's civilians.

These people are quite sensitive to this kind of thing.

Historically, when the "Loyal Nine" and the "Sons of Liberty" started the Boston Tea Party, they were already worried about McIntosh.

Because this group of people, businessmen, capitalists and wealthy petty bourgeoisie, are very [worried that McIntosh will become the next Masaniello]. Rather than letting him become Masaniello, it would be better to seize power, replace him with one of his own, and squeeze out McIntosh.

Masanino, the leader of the grassroots uprising in Naples during the Thirty Years' War, was born into a poor fisherman.

The "success" of the North American revolution was that in the early days, it was a bourgeois revolution in which "big capitalists, big businessmen, big slave owners, petty bourgeois, and farmers" resisted together. However, as the revolution continued to spread, the big capitalists and big The merchants and big slave owners decisively sold the bottom class and stabbed their former allies, the bottom class, in the back.

Including the very famous author of the revolutionary pamphlet "Common Sense", which sold 500,000 copies in North America with a population of 2 million, Thomas Paine, also because of his "obvious equality, attempt to levy property taxes and distribute land" in his later period "Utopian tendency"; and he swore that Washington had betrayed the revolution and was a traitor like a son of a bitch; he suddenly realized that no matter whether it was Judaism, Catholicism, or Protestantism, it was all bullshit. In the end, he was not even allowed to enter the cemetery when he died.

Many years later, Lincoln wrote a paper in an attempt to rectify Thomas Paine's name. This frightened his political ally Samuel Hill and burned the paper overnight, [which saved Lincoln's political career].

As people have commented, no American does not know "Common Sense", but no American knows the story behind "Common Sense" either. "Common Sense" is harmless. The author should have died after writing "Common Sense" which was anti-feudal, anti-monarchy and anti-sovereign. Instead of continuing to live and oppose those things that he would continue to oppose after he finished opposing the monarchy and the suzerainty.

Of course, this kind of thing is not unusual at all, it is very normal.

Because this will continue to happen in various countries, first-mover countries, colonies, and semi-colonies, again and again.

Former fellow travelers, after walking together on the same road, they were worried that if they continued to move forward, they would become "Masanillo", so they stabbed him in the back without hesitation.

Now people from the new school in Dashun have begun to talk about "different classes have different interests", which naturally arouses great vigilance within the Freemasonry.

McIntosh didn't have many ideas at this time. He didn't understand these things yet because he had little reading and no one to guide or show him the way. He could only vaguely believe that "except virtue" There is no other hierarchy outside. Under the embrace of God, we are all brothers, rich or poor."

Even he himself felt that those who were worried that this was a Dashun conspiracy were right. We are all brothers who believe in God. There is only a hierarchy of moral virtues, so what other hierarchy is there?