New Shun 1730

Let John Penn take a step back. Even if he takes a step back, there are still many problems to be solved. To solve these problems, we cannot rely on the Penn family alone. We must also gather the parliamentary faction headed by Franklin and others to discuss together. This is why we have to encourage people to come to the Bahamas for a meeting.

Take the progressiveness of the Pennsylvania land issue in the American Revolution in history.

Revolution is the highest justice.

So the Penn family's property can be confiscated and turned into state-owned land. The Penn family can be forced to sign. If they don't sign, they will be imprisoned to death.

In legal terms, the rent return fee in British feudal law was abolished. This translation may not be accurate, but it can be roughly understood as something like the night power tax.

But what if we compromise?

If we compromise, the Penn family will donate the land and not charge the rent return fee, because the logic here is feudal privilege.

Then, change the name of this rent return fee to "donation compensation" - my family's land, I donate it to you, and the state government will give me a certain amount of compensation after selling the land. This is not a feudal privilege, right?

In legal theory, there is a difference, and the difference is huge.

In essence, there is no difference, those who cannot afford to buy still cannot afford to buy.

Is it to oppose feudalism in legal theory?

Or is it to oppose landlord ownership in essence?

Is it to change the name of the rent withdrawal fee in legal theory to compensation?

Or in essence, do not pay this money at all?

The reason why the industrial and agricultural bourgeoisie opposes landlords is not to oppose those abstract feudal legal theories, but fundamentally, industrial capitalists believe that "landlords are completely useless waste and real obstacles in the production process."

Let's take a step back and say that even if the Bin family is kind-hearted and voluntarily donates all the land to the state government.

Then, how to divide the land?

Do everyone who comes have permanent land?

When selling land, is the minimum amount 3,000 mu? Or the minimum amount 300 mu?

If you can't afford it at the moment, can you take the interest-free debt and repay it in installments?

Is there a tax on cultivated land? Can you collect taxes?

If we don’t collect taxes, where will the money come from to organize an army and prevent border crossing?

If we collect taxes, should we pay in the form of grain? Or in silver? If we pay in silver, Pennsylvania lacks gold and silver precious metals, can we issue paper money?

If we issue paper money, should we issue it privately? Or should we issue it by the state government?

These are all problems.

And Dashun is very concerned about these problems.

Or rather, we have to pay attention to them.

Because Dashun is tossing around in North America for two things.

Free trade, the North American people have no say, and they also support free trade. This matter needs to be negotiated with the British through warships.

On the western border, the British people have no say, because it is impossible for Britain to station troops and spend money to do something that has no benefits at all, so the North American people need to come up with a specific plan as soon as possible.

Of course, legal principles, justice, and other things are not a big problem.

In the debate of scriptures, the Six Classics explain me, and I explain the Six Classics.

Even Protestantism can require the teachings of tangible saints today, and can do self-cultivation without tangible saints tomorrow.

Now the British government may not want to be the "bad guy", and the elites in North America, facing the threat of the Chinese and French Indians, are more inclined to love Britain, while wanting to retain more autonomy.

Then, you have to have money. Without money, nothing can be done.

The issue of taxation and how to strike hard against those who "resist taxation" are some substantive issues.

Taking advantage of the huge pressure from China and France on the thirteen states of North America, the internal reactionaries and the external imperialist forces can unite to completely suppress activities such as anti-taxation and reclamation.

Since it is said that pressure is to be exerted, then Dashun will inevitably have to perform some military drills and so on, so that the "elites" in North America will deeply realize that North America is not their only power, and the British army cannot make the French army in Canada completely withdraw. If they continue to fight, they will bleed these elites.

After the meeting with John Bean, John Bean came forward and issued an invitation to the North American elites gathered in Philadelphia.

The army of Dashun will not enter Philadelphia, but rent a large piece of land near Philadelphia to perform military drills.

A large number of Philadelphia residents, along with North American elites from all over the country, watched the show.

Most of them came to watch the fun.

A small number of people came with the nervous mentality after Gibraltar was captured.

The performance of the Dashun army was also very interesting. In addition to performing the formation drills commonly used by the world's powerful armies at that time, they also made some strange-looking displays.

Two hot air balloons were released.

A bunch of large-sized Datianhou incendiary bombs filled with a mixture of grease and rubber were sent to the rented woodland.

The engineers performed a kind of "extremely powerful" explosive.

The rifled gun mast shooter shot a flock of sheep at a super long distance.

Different performances are aimed at different groups of people.

For the elite class influenced by the Enlightenment and the development of natural philosophy, Dashun has several images.

In addition to the imagination of prosperity and strength caused by the China fever.

In addition to the moral ideal country described by those enlightenment scholars.

Dashun has another image created in recent years, that is, a rational country pursuing science.

Whether it is or not is one thing.

How many papers have been published is something that only the inner circle can know. For example, Franklin, the King of Thunder and Lightning, must know some of the research results of Dashun Academy of Sciences.

And to create a general impression of "attaching importance to science" and "developed science and technology"... or to create this image, another set of operations is needed.

What does Dashun rely on?

In fact, Dashun relies on the transit of Venus in 1761.

Science is divided into disciplines, but there is no high or low.

But, for example, designing an ingenious experiment to prove the conservation of mass; for example, designing an experiment to prove that the phlogiston theory is wrong...

These are definitely the top frontier research in science at this time.

But is this suitable for shaping the "image"?

Not suitable.

Because these things may require the popularization of education around the world, and most people have to learn from textbooks before they know that these are enough to prove the development of science and technology.

So, many years ago, Liu Yu has been shouting "Venus transit, all mankind has cooperated, through observations and measurements around the world, to know how far away the earth we live is."

This is not just now.

From the earliest days when Dashun sent survey ships to draw sea charts all over the world to Liu Yu's speech in Amsterdam, this matter has been widely publicized.

From a scientific point of view, is this matter more cutting-edge than the experimental proof of mass conservation after combustion?

Obviously not.

But from the perspective of communication and image building, this matter is much higher than the combustion experiment in the Academy of Sciences.

After all, most people don't care whether they learn about mass conservation or not. They don't have to worry about eating, working and living these days.

But everyone in the world will look up and see the sun every day.

It has been shouted for more than ten or twenty years in advance.

This matter has already spread all over the world, because observing the transit of Venus to calculate the distance between the earth and the sun requires observation from different places and different longitudes and latitudes.

This requires the cooperation of various countries.

Even though the war was going on, Dashun also made a gesture and communicated with various countries in advance through diplomatic means as a serious matter, making a big news.

As for the difficulty of this matter... I can only say that it is more about engineering and mathematical calculations than basic science.

Most people are emotional.

For a thing or a country, they often only accept an abstract image definition, and will not rationally think about the various internal factors.

If we analyze it rationally, can the fact that a country is clamoring to rely on the transit of Venus to measure the distance between the earth and the sun prove that it is strong?

Yes.

Because this proves that this country, its homeland and colonies, at least have a vast territory, and can be measured in different places, so that the distance between the earth and the sun can be inferred using simple mathematical formulas.

This proves the country's navigation level... Well, of course, this is not necessarily true. The Mongol Empire's navy was lame, but this did not prevent them from doing meridian measurement... But the reality faced by European countries is that the country is generally not big, and it is impossible for the homeland to do this, so this can also prove that the navigation level is very high.

This proves that the country's mathematics is not bad, and it is very good, from which it can be inferred that the level of artillery and bastion attack and defense must be not low.

This proves that this country has mastered the method of measuring longitude and latitude, from which it can be inferred that its navy can appear anywhere in the ocean.

This proves that the country is very rich, because if it is poor, it is probably because it has no money to invest in such basic measurement that seems to be purely idle.

And so on... and so on, many things can be deduced by reason.

But most people are emotional, like an abstract definition, a photo-like image, so as to plant seeds in their hearts and think about what it is like according to their own imagination.

It is through this mentality that Liu Yu shaped the image of Dashun in Europe through several things.

It is not the "borrowing from the East to satirize the West" type of shaping by Enlightenment scholars.

For a long time, China has always been an image similar to a "background painting" in European narratives.

There can be gold digging ants there.

It can be the place where Aladdin who touched the magic lamp lived, after all, Aladdin lived in the "capital of China".

It can be the Tang Dynasty in the mouth of the Swedes, where "the emperor would inspect his own land every day and listen to the voice of the people".

When you see tea, you think of China; when you see lacquerware, you think of China; when you see silk, you think of China; when you see porcelain, you think of China; when you see the folding fan at the ball, you think of China...

But what is China like?

Liu Yu is sure that when Dashun begins to wake up and participate in world competition, it will be like a person in a background painting who walks out of the background painting.

Originally in the background painting, this person is tall, muscular, or morally noble.

And after walking out of the background painting, what is this person like? How does he speak? How does he eat? What does he like to eat? Does he wipe his butt after pooping?

In the words of later generations, Liu Yu is creating a "debut personality" for Dashun, or China.

This kind of personality is not a debate.

People all have a strong mentality and despise the poor and love the rich. If you are rich and powerful, someone will debate for you. For example, the Enlightenment was very good. Foreign Confucian scholars often talk nonsense with people who believe in the Bible.

It is better to rely on the great Confucian scholars on the opposite side to recite the scriptures for you. You only need to be responsible for creating a high-end personality.

The "Transit of Venus" was a "worldwide hype" created by Liu Yu to create her "Chinese debut persona" and was specifically designed to set up her persona.

Otherwise, how could he appear to have nothing to do and keep bothering with this matter. How far is the earth from the sun? Do we need to measure it? The knowledge that it takes 8.3 minutes for light to reach the earth can be popularized by reverse calculation, which is definitely more accurate than the current measurement.

But how can such a silent and silent influence have the large-scale hype in the world more than a decade ago?

Once the character is established, China, which just walked out of the background painting, suddenly has a more three-dimensional and glorious image.

At least, when speaking, it has more weight. Especially with the Enlightenment's use of the East to satirize the West, the Dutch coup in Southeast Asia, and the siege of Gibraltar, these things combined together make Dashun's farts in diplomatic occasions much louder than before, and people will listen to it.

For example, in this exercise, Dashun released hot air balloons, sniped sheep at long distances, and used the magical Big Sky Monkey rocket. These were all consistent with the character settings established before, and also added tremendous pressure to the group of people in North America. Especially when facing Dashun's "suggestions" or "threats", they were more likely to listen to Dashun's meaning and think carefully about some obviously threatening words.