New Shun 1730

What does the blood-soaked mantou of Liverpool taste like? For British nobles and some merchants, it must be extremely delicious.

Because Dashun was shouting about free trade.

And some British nobles and merchants actually don’t understand what free trade is.

They just oppose the "status quo" of Britain, and then think that opposing the status quo is supporting free trade.

In short, Britain's mercantilist policy has enabled Britain to raise a strong navy, and previously relied on this strong navy to seize the market, the transportation rights of the slave trade, and control the trade areas of the North Sea and the Baltic Sea for Britain.

Those who support free trade in Britain at this time support free trade "under the existing market and British trade priority".

They want both the British colonial market and the North Sea, Baltic Sea, Caribbean Sea and West African trade circles that the navy has seized after 150 years of fighting.

They also want to give up any form of tariffs and franchise rents so that they can participate in this feast.

This is not wrong, but unrealistic. Historically, Britain's productivity level was able to achieve commodity advantage trade without the protection of warships until the 1850s.

Just as Hume argued with those free trade supporters before he switched to free trade: Do you understand what free trade is? If you really understand, you should know that if free trade is really implemented, all British industries will be ruined.

What is free trade?

Even if we say that true free trade does not exist, we can impose tariffs.

But can free trade impose tariffs of 100% or even 225%? For example, tea, cotton cloth, etc.?

Let's take a step back and say that even if the tariff is increased to 225%, it is still considered free trade.

Then, administrative orders that distort the economy are definitely not free trade, right?

Then, should we repeal the Cotton Prohibition?

Should we repeal the Navigation Act?

Should we repeal the Commodity Listing Act?

Should we repeal the Irish Wool Act?

Should we repeal the Shrouds Must Be Made of Domestic Cloth Act?

These are not tariffs.

These are administrative orders.

Tariffs can be more or less justified within the framework of free trade. Although it is not easy to justify.

Then, administrative orders cannot be justified within the framework of free trade.

If these executive orders are abolished, how many industries in Britain can survive?

Admittedly, these may make sense.

But not entirely.

Who says that developing manufacturing is right in this era?

How many people think that industrialization and developing manufacturing are reasonable at this time?

Many truths that are taken for granted in later generations are not so reasonable at this time.

Even:

Even if it is right, even if it makes sense.

So who says it is reasonable and right, we must do it?

[Because it is right, we must do it], this idea itself is an unrealistic fantasy.

Moreover, many people do not think it is right.

Just like what Jefferson thought later, is it right to develop manufacturing?

Why must large-scale industrialization, which destroys the morality of farmers, creates social contradictions, creates the gap between the rich and the poor, and separates workers from the means of production, be right?

Isn’t farming good?

The development of manufacturing has destroyed the traditional life of Britain and made the beauty of the countryside gone forever. Why must we develop manufacturing?

This is the mainstream thought in North America and other places in Britain at this time.

More importantly, how many people in the Palace of Westminster are rolling cotton? How many are smelting iron?

Compared with the Tory Party, which is so large and powerful that it can still promote the Corn Law decades later, and the Whig Party, which is integrated with the aristocracy and financial capital merchant groups...

How much say does manufacturing have in the British Parliament?

Going further.

Mercantilism started in the Cromwell era.

Is the main purpose to seize commercial interests, and the protection and development of manufacturing are just by-products?

Or, since the Cromwell era, Britain has a strong belief that everything is for industrialization and manufacturing development?

It's like a bird.

Its purpose and original intention is to eat grapes, but it eats too much, and the grape seeds that come out of its shit grow a grape forest?

Or is its original intention to eat grapes in order to shit out the grape seeds and a grape forest, so it eats grapes?

This difference in cognition is precisely the basis for Dashun to strategically believe that it can negotiate with Britain and promote tariff trade.

And this is also the basis for Dashun to strategically try to balance the power in North America, so that Britain and France will not give up North America and balance the power of the four countries in North America.

Liverpool's bloodshed has rapidly increased the value of North America, or the value of North America in the eyes of the British government.

At least, it has surpassed Jamaica and Barbados.

It is not the commercial value or the tax value, but the value of North America as a "pressure relief valve" after Dashun intervened at the crossroads of Britain's transformation after basically eliminating self-cultivating farmers in 1750.

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London at this time.

The new king of Britain and the ministers around him are enjoying a rare good life.

During this period, a large number of newspapers and debates against the king and supporting Pitt seemed to have suddenly lost their voices and were quiet for a long time.

Especially the newspaper The Monitor, which was previously against the king and demanded sovereignty in Parliament and claimed to "speak for the people", has been very quiet recently.

Historically, before Wilkes presided over the North Briton, The Monitor was the most important publication of Pitt's faction, or the Patriot Party, and the faction that supported sovereignty in Parliament.

Although they claim, or think they are "speaking for the people", "crying for true freedom", and "working to enlighten the people".

But in fact, they represent the interests of West Indian plantations, big businessmen, and slave owners.

At this time in Britain, basically those who shouted "freedom" had slave owners behind them.

What they wanted was the "freedom" of big businessmen and slave owners, that is, sovereignty belongs to Parliament.

So, they are silent now.

Because the rebellion and chaos that broke out in the Liverpool area were largely due to Britain's participation in the war.

And these people, such as William Beckford, the financial backer behind the Monitor, the mayor of London, a member of the City of Finance, and an elder of the West India Chamber of Commerce.

They did not oppose the war before.

Moreover, the "Monitor" had been "speaking for the people" before, believing that the king was too weak and had German ancestry, and did not continue to expand the scale of the war and seize French islands in the Caribbean such as Martinique and Guadeloupe.

Not only did they not oppose the war before, but they advocated expanding the war.

And they believed that the king's autocracy and the lack of sovereignty in the parliament led to the scale of the war not being large enough.

Now, the scale of the war is large.

From India to North America, from the Cape of Good Hope to Ireland.

Then, Britain collapsed.

Liverpool, Lancashire, Birmingham... resistance, uprisings, and chaos in various places continued.

At this time, the "Monitor", which had been advocating war and advocating the expansion of the scale of the war for the rights of the people, was silent.

Of course, another reason for their silence was that a large-scale slave uprising broke out in the Escher Estate in Jamaica, an important industry of William Beckford, the big money behind the "Monitor".

Dashun sent a small-scale force, which actually only had two cannons and a small boat with a hundred people to support the uprising and achieved great results.

This Jamaican slave uprising in history was also quite "funny".

The "funny" part is that when the British bought and sold slaves, they knew that Tucker, the leader of the slave uprising, was a defeated chief who had certain organizational skills and was proficient in various languages. The British actually threw Chief Tucker and his "close ministers" into the plantation.

This was because they were afraid that there would be no one to organize the slaves on the plantation... and directly threw in a ready-made organizational core.

Dashun just borrowed some strength.

In terms of organizational ability, the chief and the core around him could organize themselves.

They could also use muskets.

It's nothing more than that they can't use cannons, so Dashun only supported a few artillery and a small team of marines who could line up to fight the British light cavalry on the island.

Dashun invested a total of two cannons and a hundred people.

But the impact and shock on William Beckford and other "liberals" was too great.

Because before the Dashun joined the war, no matter whether it was Spain, France, Portugal, or Britain, they fought, but they did not support the uprising of slaves on the other side during the war.

Don't spit in the well, because you have to drink the water in the well.

After the Dashun joined the war, it was completely different.

Not only spit in the well, but also shit in the well.

Because Dashun really didn't drink the water in the well.

In fact, to put it bluntly, what is the difference between the so-called "liberal" faction in Britain at this time and the so-called "despotism" faction in Britain at this time?

It's nothing more than that the interests of one group of people are in the colonies and slave islands.

And the interests of another group of people are in Hanover and on the European continent.

The interests of one group of people are in business.

The interests of another group of people are in land.

One group of people can tolerate a slight reduction in land rent, so as to obtain greater benefits in business.

Another group of people cannot tolerate a reduction in land rent because they cannot obtain enough benefits in business.

That's the difference.

For example, William Beckford and others, that's the standard "republicanism without courage, abolition without limit".

A group of slave owners, shouting "freedom", there is really nothing more magical in the world than this.

Along with the uprisings and chaos in various parts of the UK, some pamphlets such as "The Declaration of the British Poor Classes" more than a hundred years ago began to circulate again, and the "Proverbs" that claimed to represent the people all day long did not dare to move.

The faction that supported the war and supported the comprehensive expansion of the war before was worried that something big would happen if it continued to fight.

To face the uprising of slaves and the uprising of the lower classes in Britain.

At this juncture, opposing the king again would be a sheer brain failure.

Indeed, the system of buying officials and the system of ownership by the head of the group are the last barriers to defending Britain's "freedom".

But whether the sovereignty lies in the parliament, the system of buying officials and the system of ownership by the head of the group, it is a struggle between the upper class and playing within the rules.

When facing the real resistance from the lower class and breaking the rules, everyone can put aside their contradictions and unite.

We must distinguish between the main contradiction and the secondary contradiction.

The main contradiction now is to suppress the uprisings of the lower classes and the slaves, and the secondary contradictions are the disputes between the king and the parliament, the disputes between land and commerce, and the disputes between the continent and the colonies.

Now, whether the king is a Hanoverian barbarian or not is no longer important. What is important is to quickly put out the uprising and suppress the resistance.

Also, we should quickly cease the war. If the Dashun, who not only spits in the well but also shits in the well, continues to fight with Britain, everyone's property will evaporate.

In just two days, the Jamaican uprising caused William Beckford to lose 3,000 slaves and 12 super-large plantations. The economic loss was at least 300,000 pounds.

If the fight continues, I am afraid that this fire will be out of control once it starts.