New Shun 1730

The profit of a ship of ginseng is enough to provide tens of thousands of rifles, which is not an exaggeration.

In fact, in the original history, from the middle of the Qing Dynasty, there was no ginseng in Liaodong? They were all ginseng in the shade sheds.

Not to mention that Dashun had PTSD in Liaodong in the late Ming Dynasty and immigrated crazily to the area south of the Songliao watershed.

The ginseng trade in North America is in its infancy, and there are many ginsengs that are hundreds of years old. After all, no one has ever picked this thing before.

As a luxury, the price of a thousand-year-old ginseng and a hundred ten-year-old ginsengs are really different.

The labor cost of Dashun is there, and the price of a musket is definitely much lower than that of a brown bass. To put it bluntly, before the salt reform, the annual donations from salt merchants to the court were enough to pay for the military expenses of North American Indians and French residents for five years.

Not to mention the court, even some private individuals who are thinking about causing trouble in North America can afford it.

As the saying goes, weapons are not as good as silver dollars, and silver dollars are not as good as doctrines.

As for the Acadians and Wabanaki Confederation people in North America, how do we look at it? Is it an ideology to swear to kill all invaders?

The British royalists knew very well the insanity and madness of the Protestants and what the so-called "Rangers" did in North America.

The British, who were trading slaves, recognizing slaves, colonizing everywhere, and slaughtering at will, all lamented that the actions of some Puritan Rangers were unbearable and completely anti-human.

You know, if the British of this era considered it "anti-human", it is easy to imagine what those North American Protestant Rangers did to the Acadians.

Is revenge an ideology?

I'm afraid it is probably at this time.

The British government doesn't have to pretend to be a good person. They are not innocent in this matter. They are even the pushers.

But the key to the problem is that the Acadians and Wabanaki people can't swim across the Atlantic to London for revenge.

Therefore, the fact that Dashun provided weapons and silver dollars to the northerners was originally a bad thing.

However, dialectically speaking, for the British government, it may not be impossible to turn a bad thing into a good thing.

Many problems in North America are of course Britain's internal affairs at this time.

But obviously, these internal "diseases" in North America may really rely on external treatment.

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At the same time, in the forests of northern North America, on the valley plain of the St. John River, a team of Acadian soldiers were camping in the forest.

There were about 400 people in this team, and the people in the team were of different ages, and there were even women.

The youngest was only twelve or thirteen years old.

The oldest, the leader of this team, Joseph Godin Dieter Bellefontaine, was 63 years old this year.

His hair was gray, but his body was still strong.

Like most of the people in this guerrilla team, they had a deep hatred for those New England Protestants.

Two years ago, in a village not far from here, Joseph Godin was captured by the New England Rangers.

Ranger Lieutenant Moses Hassan cut open his daughter's head with a knife in front of Joseph Godin and peeled off her skin completely.

Then, he burned his three grandsons to death and stuffed the charred hand of one grandson into Joseph Godin's mouth.

Joseph Godin took his two grandsons and another daughter and fled to the forest after the guards got drunk.

The wailing of his daughter who was skinned but not dead still echoes in his mind even now, even after two years.

The red, skinless body twisted in pain, accompanied by the laughter of Moses Hassan and other rangers, became a nightmare that old Joseph could not forget.

In this guerrilla team, old Joseph's experience was not the worst.

There are many people who are worse off than him.

So there are women and children in this guerrilla team, and they have become firm fighters.

As the saying goes, good people are rewarded, and evil people are punished, but the reality is not like this. In history, Moses Hassan has been a brigadier general in the US Army.

His most famous thing is not the massacre of the Acadians, but the Asgir incident in which Washington ordered the execution of British prisoners of war by drawing lots. He expressed sympathy for the British officers who were drawn.

The evil man did evil all his life, but because of this sympathy, he became a good man, a gentleman, and a kind person worthy of respect.

In history, after Joseph Godin escaped, he was immersed in the pain of his daughter and grandson being skinned and burned in front of him. In less than three or five years, he and his wife died.

At this time, Joseph Godin no longer believed in the rhetoric of good people being rewarded and doing good deeds in heaven.

In his mind now, he only thinks about revenge.

He wants to catch Moses Hassan and peel off his skin.

Not only that, he also wants to kill everyone he sees who speaks English.

It was similar to the slaves in Jamaica who burned white people to death, or the slaves and tenants in Jiangnan who beat their masters to death in the late Ming Dynasty. Later "historians" or people who "believe in love and eternal justice in the world" would inevitably say that their revenge was too cruel and lost justice.

This idea of ​​preferring to die and be a perfect victim for future generations to commemorate was not mainstream at this time, and there was basically no room for it to exist.

Joseph Godin and the hundreds of guerrillas around him wanted to do something very simple and very brutal.

Kill back.

Now, they hold the rifles supported by Dashun and eat the cheap corn and wheat purchased by Dashun from North Carolina and Connecticut - as long as they don't give paper money but silver, they can get as much corn and wheat as they want, and merchants from the thirteen states will take the initiative to transport them to the St. Lawrence River.

The improved version of the navy rifles that Dashun bought from the French became the standard equipment of the Acadian guerrillas and the Wabanaki federal army.

As the British royalists said, the production price of muskets in Dashun gradually decreased, and the profit of a ship of ginseng trade was enough to send tens of thousands of muskets.

Perhaps, from the perspective of "aesthetics", at this moment, Joseph Godin should take out a few lead soldier dolls from his pocket, which were the relics of the three grandsons who were skinned alive by the Rangers two years ago. He should melt these lead soldier dolls into lead bullets by the campfire, turning them into the soul of revenge, and use them in future revenge.

But the reality is not so "beautiful".

After he escaped, his other daughter who escaped with him went crazy soon. Because she could not forget the scene of her sister being skinned alive, she went completely crazy soon and jumped into the river and drowned.

Another grandson who escaped died of smallpox.

His village was burned down.

The horses in the village were all robbed, the food was burned down, the houses were all burned down, and the cows were all killed.

He didn't even have the relics of his skinned daughter and grandson, let alone the lead soldier doll.

His enemies, the Rangers, have been hunting him down all these years.

Unlike the regular British army, which was restricted by the drill code and didn't fight in the forest, the huge primeval forests in North America and the destruction of Washington and the 44th and 48th Irish Regiments prompted the formation of the Rangers in North America.

That is, select from those who are familiar with jungle warfare in the border areas, fight guerrilla warfare with guerrilla warfare, and if they do well, they can give priority to the land they have robbed in the future.

These people are very good at fighting in the forest, using standard bandit fighting methods, killing, burning, robbing, scalping, and exchanging for rewards.

It should be said that the North American Rangers are the closest to the original meaning of the English word "company".

[Company], [Company], is a word.

These Ranger companies are [companies], which are formed by people's money, and after the war, they share dividends, land, and priority enclosure rights.

These Acadian villages are scattered all over the place, and each village does not have many people, so one village after another was destroyed by the Rangers.

It should be said that the Acadians should "thank" these Ranger Protestants.

It was these Protestants who taught them "unity" and educated them, so that they gradually had a sense of community beyond family and village.

Now, there are many people like Joseph Godin.

Some escaped death, some rioted and saved themselves during the expulsion, some were rescued by Dashun on the ship, and some were transported back from the Spanish colonies.

The negotiations with the Spaniards were easy and pleasant. Since the Spaniards were worried about the expansion of Protestants and their country lacked sufficient population, they would rather choose Acadians or Chinese Catholics than be cannibalized by Protestants in the future.

And Dashun’s attitude towards those Catholics who refused to repent and would never convert was quite clear - they should be given as much as possible and all that could be given.

Just don’t let the Dashun government pay the money.

In this, the role of the Vatican, or the role of the Jesuits, still exists.

In view of the widespread persecution of Chinese "believers", the Jesuits even established the Eastern Patriarchate and returned to the jurisdiction of the Li government, which can be regarded as a super-large heresy at the level of self-established popes.

So after reaching an agreement with Spain, the Jesuits issued a fundraising call to Catholics around the world through their military organizations, preparing to transport away all the Catholics in Dashun who still insisted on "orthodox faith" and would never give up their religion.

As for the Acadians who were sent back, they were not used to living in the Mississippi River Basin. Compared to the St. Lawrence River, it is too hot there, similar to asking a group of Northeasterners to live in Southeast Asia, which is really unbearable.

Even these Acadians who were sent back had experienced being thrown directly into the sea at sea.

The leaders of the various Acadian rebels who were lucky enough to survive at the beginning basically came back this time.

With the arrival of Dashun's muskets, food, lead bullets, and gunpowder, these people quickly raised a large number of guerrillas.

The guerrillas formed by Joseph Godin are very typical.

He is the commander.

He is the core of the guerrillas.

Under him are the priests sent by the combat priest Jean Louis.

Given that Jean-Louis Le Routre was from the Paris Foreign Missionary Society, this lousy association was not a good one either, and could be seen as a tool for French imperialism to expand abroad, and an excuse for France, the French priest Ma Lai in the Ma incident was a member of the Paris Foreign Missionary Society, a tool for imperialist expansion. Since it was a tool for external expansion, religion must have the most basic "magic water" skills.

Therefore, the combat priests who followed this guerrilla also served as the guerrilla's doctors.

As for how religion and missionaries should be positioned in this conflict, this needs to be viewed separately.

It's like the story of the Kingdom of God in Paraguay in South America.

Some missionaries may stand with the locals and resist the orders from the Pope and the King, completely losing the concept of the country and taking up guns to resist the behind-the-scenes deals of the colonists.

And most of the time, just like the Kingdom of Paraguay, missionaries prioritize the interests of their own country and decisively betray these believers in political games. The clergy will ruthlessly use them as consumables and bargaining chips after the failure of the imperial policy, and they can be abandoned at any time.

To be precise, Jean-Louis Le Routre is not a good bird. He also does things in the interests of France, including inciting the Mi'kmaq to fight New England because of the Anglo-French armistice.

But in fact, it's still the same sentence. If there is no contradiction, how much effect can his incitement have? If he didn't incite, would the Protestants in New England not be massacred?

The same perspective can also lead to the third person of this guerrilla team, that is, the French-speaking military adviser sent by Dashun.

For military advisers like the one sent by Dashun, I'm afraid they don't have any compassion for the world.

Most of them came here because they could get an extra 8 taels of silver subsidy every month and they could make achievements.

From the perspective of the Dashun imperial faction, this approach of spending little money, doing big things, promoting revenge, and buying time for Dashun to open up the west coast was very correct.

The Dashun imperial faction actually didn't care about the lives of these people, but just wanted to use their power to achieve Dashun's strategic goals.

But objectively, Dashun's military advisers and weapons support did support the Acadians' anti-aggression war.

After all, Dashun has always emphasized "justification by deeds, judging by deeds rather than by heart", and the Protestant side's "justification by faith, judging by heart rather than deeds" is often completely different from the two sides.

Just like the people on the Dashun side, and the people of later generations, it is impossible to understand the group of people's defense that "the great expulsion of the Acadians is not genocide" - because it was not for the purpose of extermination, but for the purpose of eliminating military threats, so although it actually caused concentration camps and extermination, it cannot be regarded as genocide.

Since one is about deeds and the other is about heart, there is really nothing to talk about or argue about.

In terms of deeds, Dashun sent a large number of naturalized Indians from the west coast and forest light infantry recruited from the old forests of the northeast to the St. Lawrence River and the Great Lakes, as well as a group of military instructors, agricultural policy instructors, etc.

The various instructors sent by Dashun are a manifestation of the serious surplus of new school graduates caused by the charity school system with Dashun characteristics. The system is there, and many new school people can only find something to do overseas. They are suppressed by the imperial examination faction internally, and there is really no room for so many people.

In addition to teaching them how to fight and how to gather guerrillas to form a part of the regular army, these military instructors also have to teach them how to farm and build dams in their villages.

In fact, Dashun also knows that these instructors may not be able to survive for a few years, and they will choose to live in the local area, naturalize as Catholics, or integrate into the local area, but that doesn't matter.

The imperial faction has its own ideas.

Liu Yu has his own ideas.

The purpose is different, but the means are very consistent.

Liu Yu supports these people for many reasons, whether it is out of abstract human nature or a higher purpose, it makes sense.

Because from Liu Yu's point of view, providing the rebels with rifles and making them more terrifying than the landlords and land speculators in the thirteen states is a good way to promote the true awakening and enlightenment of the people in North America. Just opposing the New England's union of church and state, superficial things, is not a fart awakening. After awakening for a long time, isn't it still a union of church and state in the end?