New Shun 1730

Whether it is a liability or not depends on whether France is expelled from Canada.

Taking the history of later generations as a trope, it is said that North America can still trade with the entire Europe after being separated from the United Kingdom...

That is purely a matter of carving a boat and seeking a sword.

That was because France had been expelled from Canada, and then the French revolutionary ideologies were similar. Then Napoleon led the entire European continent to fight against the British... That was the value of united front reflected in North America's anti-British war. The French lost their heads for Huimei, and the enemy of my enemy is my friend.

At that time, nascent American products could naturally enter the French market.

And now... France is still in Canada, the Great Lakes, and Ohio. France's strict trade protection policies prevent even Dashun's goods from entering the French market. The French believe in the Colbert Doctrine and their own industrial protection policies. , plus France has not been driven out of Canada, how can you, the thirteen states in North America, sell goods to France?

Not to mention, with the coming to power of Carlos III of Spain, a series of enlightened monarchy reforms, the creation of the Havana Tobacco Company, Jewish amnesty, religious tolerance, the crackdown on the Jesuits, and a series of other measures. France can’t even sell its own molasses, and Spain still has tobacco. If you in North America weren’t anti-British and showing the value of united front, why would they buy your products?

Without buying goods, North America can still make ends meet. The land in Dashun can accommodate 100 million people, and the land can accommodate 2 million people. It is impossible to say that the people will not be able to make a living.

But North America can't sell goods. Dashun's trade in exchange for silver in North America is over.

The Thirteen States of America, in the west and north, were in armed conflict with the French for land and the fur trade, which was one thing. Directly cut off trade and increase tariffs.

A small group of bandits from the British Thirteen States Colony invaded France in the west and north and occupied land for cultivation. That is another matter. Britain and France can negotiate and suppress these "thugs" together, and trade between the two sides can continue.

As Li Huan said, the purpose of the British investing thousands of troops in the battles in the Great Lakes, Ohio, and St. Lawrence River regions was different from the purpose of the militias of the state governments in North America.

Britain was for the ginseng mink trade. It’s not that the Thirteen States are worthless, but only the ginseng and mink trade can be monopolized and strictly controlled. Other things cannot be controlled, because Britain has already tried it, and the molasses law cannot collect taxes at all. .

And those militiamen are for land speculation, cultivating farmland and acres of land.

No matter how rich the Thirteen States are, it has nothing to do with the British government, because places that cannot collect taxes and instead have to subsidize them are losing money to the government.

Just like Dashun, there has always been talk of giving up troops stationed in the Western Regions and immigrants from the Western Regions, because they spent money but could not get a dime.

Not to mention that North America has corn, rice, and wheat. These are the foundation of the country... The British ruling class also has a powerful landlord class, and the "Corn Law" is firmly focused on it: If you bring in grain from North America, you let it How do we landlords live? Do you understand that the price of grain is low, and the low price of grain hurts farmers?

Ginseng and mink skins are easy to monopolize. The Wang family's exclusive trading post and transactions with Indians need to be transported through rivers and can set up banknotes. This is the money they can get.

If Britain really wants to throw North America out, it will be quite detrimental to Dashun.

Throwing it out means that Europe and America will definitely continue to fight.

You can’t work hard, how can you make money even if you work hard?

During the war, the consumer market declined. This is not the time of World War I and World War II. The transportation capacity at that time allowed us to sell food, meat, weapons, and steel during the war. What Dashun can sell now are consumer goods. War will seriously affect Dashun's trade profits and seriously affect the investment and infrastructure frenzy caused by Dashun's overheating. In the early stage of large-scale infrastructure construction and industrialization, once the funds are broken and the market is depressed and there is insufficient capital, big trouble will happen.

Dashun wants a stable Europe and the United States, at least for twenty or thirty years, rather than a messy Europe and the United States.

Because it will take at least ten or twenty years for Dashun to kill India's handicraft industry and completely dismantle India's handicraft production capacity. During this period, the goods Dashun can sell in India will definitely not be as good as those in the "price revolution transmission". Station Europe and America.

It takes time to dismantle India's handicrafts and industrial production capacity. It does not mean that India's old economic foundation will be disintegrated by just issuing a policy. If Dashun can sell cloth to Europe with an 82% tariff, so can India. , India's production capacity is only slightly lower than that of Dashun Handicraft Industry.

What restricts Dashun's industrial development now is not technology or capital, but the market.

In a short period of time, Dashun will not be able to completely relax the currency barrier and truly establish a unified national market.

Still the same sentence:

The colonists and the Opium War (the remaining trade that eliminated the opium problem) affected the development of national capital and strangled it.

However, for the natural economy of small farmers, men farming and women weaving, Western capitalists and Songsu capitalists are equally dismantling their basis of survival. There is no difference, and the latter is even more violent, because they save more than half of the world. shipping costs.

Dashun, this emerging force, despite the murmurings in Europe and the United States, forced Britain and France to issue a ban on cotton cloth, forced the French Painters' Federation to increase tariffs, and triggered the independent Boston Tea Party in North America... …But in Dashun, Diao Mao was not capable of suppressing the overwhelming peasant uprising.

Therefore, Dashun urgently needs a peaceful and broad market before disintegrating India's industrial capabilities.

And the powder kegs in Europe and America are nothing more than the Austrian Netherlands, namely Belgium, Hanover, East Prussia, Poland, Silesia, and North America.

The problems on the European continent are easy to solve. I dare not say too much. Twenty to thirty years of peace is guaranteed.

So Dashun must exert enough strength to ensure the balance of power in North America.

Balance is not permanent peace, but only an interwar period for military expansion and preparation for war. Some people in Dashun hope to fight in the future, and to fight a big one; but they also hope not to fight in the next twenty to thirty years, and to have peace.

The radicals of Dashun's new school, or the imperialists, such as Li Xi and others, do not want to fight a "port-to-port" trade.

They hope that the court would rather spend more money, more military expenditures, and fight for two more years, but also achieve the effect of "the Netherlands as the main commercial port in Europe".

The things here are very complicated.

But let's take the simplest example of these complex problems.

For example, tea.

If there is port-to-port trade, and Britain collects tariffs to sell tea in North America, a conflict between the Thirteen States and Britain will break out sooner or later.

At that time, tea will be used as a symbol.

A symbol of "supporting British rule".

There have been too many similar incidents in the original history.

Tar and feathers, whether it is forcing merchants to vomit tea water; or the so-called Boxers not using foreign goods... they are essentially the same thing, and no one is nobler than the other.

North America has also shouted the slogan "I would rather not wear clothes than use British cloth".

Adams and others have also personally experienced the dilemma of "not completely quitting tea, but completely disloyal". Adams said that if you want to drink tea, you can drink smuggled tea. A certain lady directly said that you are disloyal and we will not drink tea.

It's a normal thing.

If there is port-to-port trade, then in order to repay the national debt, Britain must encourage the consumption of Chinese goods. At that time, when North America is against Britain, it will definitely oppose Chinese goods together, and will definitely use not using Chinese goods as a symbol of resistance to oppression and resistance to British slavery.

Is tea irreplaceable?

No, because there is something called coffee.

Is cotton cloth irreplaceable?

No, because there are things called woolen cloth and flax, and even North America can grow cotton itself.

When North America was playing the game of "preferring not to wear clothes, not using British cloth, women spinning their own yarn, freedom and backbone", Gandhi's grandfather was not born yet.

Not to mention the large number of "imitations of Oriental lacquerware, woodenware, fans, etc. that were almost indistinguishable from the real thing" in Europe at that time.

So Dashun must take the righteousness of free trade and make the Netherlands a port of entry for Europe and America. Otherwise, it is easy for a group of people in Europe and America to come and smash Chinese goods with the slogan of "opposing monopoly and monopoly trade".

The North American market has huge potential.

I dare not say it is too big, at least, it can feed half of Hubei to transform into tea planting, and let the people in those mountainous areas of Hubei live a good life of tea planting. Those mountainous areas are not suitable for growing grain at all, but they are suitable for growing tea.

What we need to guard against is precisely some people who, under the banner of justice, will eventually turn tea culture into coffee culture, which will cause great losses.

Once such light luxury goods and hobbies are replaced, it is impossible or even difficult to reverse: just like coffee cannot replace tea in Dashun, and tea cannot replace coffee in France.

Moreover, if Dashun wants to make money, it must get pricing power.

Only by not engaging in port-to-port trade and using the Netherlands as a "fake free trade" window for Europe can pricing power be obtained.

In short, Europe will unify tariffs on Eastern trade goods. The right to set tariffs on Eastern trade goods is neither in the hands of Britain nor in the hands of the Netherlands, but in the hands of Dashun.

The United Kingdom, France, the Netherlands, Austria, Russia and other countries will jointly send people to supervise, free trade, but unified tariffs, and tariffs will be divided according to the share of each company.

This is of course "fake" free trade, because all countries will inevitably try to sell their own products to their own countries to get more tariffs, rather than British ships being able to sell at will in France, and French ships being able to sell at will in Russia... But, is there real free trade in the world, like a vacuum spherical chicken?

And only in this way can it be a condition that all countries can accept and that group of North American merchants can accept.

The attitude of North American merchants towards the "Navigation Act" must be noted, they are half against and half for.

They are not against the "Navigation Act" because it protects them from being beaten by merchant ships from the Netherlands, France, Sweden and Spain; they oppose the "Commodity Listing Act" because it damages their interests in selling directly to Europe.

It is not so simple to make Britain accept it, and also to make North America accept it, and to keep the potential market of tea from being replaced by coffee, and whether to trigger the sentiment of "anti-tea and anti-cotton cloth is love of freedom".

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At the same time in North America, with the meeting in the Bahamas and the raid on plantations in the South, the prominent figures of the thirteen states began to gather in Philadelphia.

Those who are famous all know that this matter is crucial. Those who cannot show up at this meeting to negotiate with the "enemy country" will completely lose their chance to make waves in the future.

Those who seek benefits all know that this matter is of vital importance. Because it is indeed important.

For a time, the influential figures of the thirteen states of North America gathered in Pennsylvania.

Slave traders, privateers, smugglers, plantation owners, slave owners, landlords, land speculators, military nobles, land enclosures, priests, lawyers, doctors, etc., all gathered here.

Freemasonry and the church played a huge role here.

Because the interests of each state are different, only the Freemasons and the church can be regarded as organizations with groups in each state.

The first thing these people do when they get together is to quarrel.

The interests of each state are so different that it is impossible not to quarrel.

To put it bluntly, let alone these originally loose colonies, let's talk about the oppressive monarchy empire of the Qing Dynasty. The foreign trade ports were located in Fujian, Zhejiang, and Guangdong. From Shi Lang's private sale of sovereignty and contact with Britain and the Netherlands hoping to set up the port in Fujian to Ningbo's private reduction of tariffs to win cargo ships, what kind of fight was it openly and secretly?

The key to the quarrel was not whether to call up militias to oppose Dashun's landing in Philadelphia, nor was it a quarrel about whether contacting Dashun at this time was considered treason.

The focus of the quarrel was still the foundation laid by the Albany Conference.

Franklin suggested organizing a general council, and the states would contribute money together to raise troops. Because Washington was beaten by Indians in the northwest, the two Irish regiments of 44 and 48 were directly defeated, which was too scary.

But the same thing.

What does it have to do with us southerners if you northerners go to war? Why should we pay you to go to war? Why should we pay to support the army?

Moreover, the tradition of Britain is against standing army.

As the British said: the official purchase system and the ownership of the regiment commander are the last barriers to protect freedom.

The traditional thinking against standing army is also very serious in North America.

Franklin wants to have a standing army today, do you want to be the king tomorrow?

Of course, this idea, in this era, is purely a habit of living a good life for too long. If there is no strait barrier, if the Indians can have the fighting power and organizational power of the Mongolian Xiongnu Jurchen, it is impossible to have such an idea of ​​"no standing army".

But is tradition sacred?

As Marx satirized the Tories, saying that they are waving the banner all day long, saying that they are the protectors of the essence of British tradition. In fact, the Corn Laws exposed the true colors, and the tradition of hanging hair is just for rent. It is just a sacred skin of tradition for the rent that smells of copper.

North America is also a hang.

The last time Franklin convened the Albany Conference, the South and the North were in an uproar because they jointly paid for the army.

Now it's better.

Dashun blew up two plantations and gave guns to more than 600 freed black slaves, which immediately cured their utopian and childish diseases.

This time, they immediately stopped arguing about "glorious traditions".

They started to stop talking nonsense and talk about practical matters.

Of course, Dashun could not talk about liberating slaves from things like natural rights.

However, Dashun's ability to incite slave uprisings was innate. When Dashun founded the country, many southern slaves and mine slaves participated in it.

The story of slaves becoming slaves, catching plantation owners and beating them, whipping them with whips, and branding them with irons, immediately made the black slaves understand what "the world is turned upside down, the universe is turned upside down, why are we always slaves?"

From the perspective of debate, these North American people can angrily denounce Dashun: private property is inviolable, you released our property, and you violated the principle of the sanctity of private property.

But the problem is that Dashun didn't want to argue with them at all.

Although not many slaves were rescued, only more than 600 people. Not many people were killed, only 70 or 80. Even the landing troops were not many.

However, the sensation caused this time was much greater than the shock caused by Washington's failure in the Northwest.

For the first time, the southern states felt fear and realized the importance of having an army.

However, this is just the beginning, just an opportunity to talk about things together.

It's still a long way from a real deal.

However, at least this time, Franklin's political satire "Join or Die" did not encounter widespread boycotts.

A snake, a snake cut into seven or eight pieces, symbolizes the disunited thirteen states. Join or die; twist together, or be defeated one by one.

The original disagreement focused on whether to continue to expand, cross the Appalachian Mountains, clash with the French, and fight with the Indians.

The original disagreement was that you northern states wanted to cross the Appalachian Mountains because you were all a bunch of land speculators. You had nothing to lose. If you wanted to fight the French, you went ahead and fought.

We southern states, tobacco, rice, cattle, horses, grain, and other things, were all sold to the French Caribbean islands. Oh, you got the land, and the French gave me an embargo. All the good things are yours, and all the losses are ours?

If you want to fight, you northerners will fight. We southerners are not interested.

Now...

The key to being together, or joining or dying, is not to debate.

But to have a common threat.

A preliminary consensus has been reached, and more arguments are still to come.

In mid-March.

A transport fleet escorted by two battleships and six cruisers appeared at the mouth of the Delaware River.

The combat engineers of Dashun occupied the mouth of the river without bloodshed and were welcomed into the city of Wilmington.

This was originally a Swedish colony, and Fort Christina once stood here. However, as the Dutch defeated the Swedes and the British defeated the Dutch, the fortress here has been in disrepair for a long time and has no defense at all.

It is not far from Philadelphia.

As the territory of the Bing family, the younger generation of the Bing family, John Bing, can be regarded as a landlord in Pennsylvania. He did his best to welcome the landing of the Dashun army.

Because there is no defense here, if you don't welcome them, you can't do it.

According to the weird rules in Europe at that time, if you resist and are occupied, you have to pay a "ransom fee".

If you don't resist and directly welcome them, then you don't need to pay a ransom fee.

The news that Dashun has taken Gibraltar has already come, and resistance is meaningless, so they naturally come to welcome them directly.

What's weird is that many members of the Quakers also came here to welcome Dashun's army.

The Quakers have a grudge against the Puritans because they oppose any form of church and believe that God interprets himself in the letter and does not need "visible saints" and other shit. They were burned to death in Massachusetts that year.

In general, their progressive elements are against slavery and the integration of church and state.

Unlike the group of Puritan lunatics in Massachusetts.

Of course, they also opposed the fact that Dashun burned two plantations in the south and rescued many slaves. They thought it was too violent and shouldn't be like this.

But they didn't regard Dashun as a demon.

In general, thanks to the spread of European Enlightenment thought, Dashun still existed as an ideal country of "religious tolerance" at this time.

Although Dashun banned religion, the reason for banning religion was not from a religious perspective. Enlightenment thinkers such as Voltaire also expressed support for the attitude of banning religion: the reason for Dashun's ban on religion was the issue of sovereignty, whether the people under its rule were loyal to their own government or to the Roman Catholic Church.

In this matter, the Quakers, who had been burned by the Catholics and the Puritans, did not oppose Dashun's approach too much.

Of course, the main reason was that they could not win.

There were no forts or garrisons, and the militia was still fighting with the Indians in the west. When Dashun's fleet came, it was better to welcome it than to oppose it.