New Shun 1730

Chapter 1368 Internal Diseases and External Treatments (IV)

The Dashun was thinking about creating and intensifying conflicts, which was a bit like "acting on behalf of heaven".

The ancients said: The way of heaven is to reduce the surplus and make up for the deficiency.

What Dashun did was to reduce the surplus and make up for the deficiency.

In the case of North America, the surplus was the thirteen states; the deficiency was New France, the Indian alliance.

The way Dashun reduced the surplus was not just to support the resistance of the mixed-blood Indians and French natives.

Of course, it also included winning over North American smugglers, big businessmen, big landlords, etc.

So Dashun's strategy, from a general perspective, was still very clear.

Pulling in North American smugglers, big businessmen, original big landlords, self-employed farmers, and small producers.

Hammering the land speculators, land speculation companies, landless farmers, Scottish Irish and other frontiersmen who were insulted and harmed in Britain in the West and the interior.

After this wave of pulling is over, the borders and laws are determined, and then the smugglers, big businessmen, and landless farmers are pulled in, and the landlords, land hoarders, and massive land deed owners are hammered.

At this time, it is still in the first stage.

Therefore, it should be said that from the perspective of rich and poor, many of those who ran to Annapolis to occupy the magpie's nest are poor people.

Because the reason is very simple. If there are 300 acres of land in the thirteen states, who would run to such a dangerous place in the north and possibly be retaliated to take this little land?

Taking the Annapolis Valley occupied by New England as an example, how to characterize this group of New Englanders who went there?

[Under the pretext of "maintaining public order", the immigration destination was declared a "dangerous area", and the local farmers were driven away on the grounds of military security. Occupy the land of local farmers]

[Many farmers who have lived in the Northeast for generations have been deprived of the land they depend on for survival and are forced to sell cheap labor to the invaders... In the name of "maintaining public order", farmers in the so-called "dangerous areas" in the country are moved to various places and sold to plantations as hard labor...]

People in other countries may not be able to empathize with what this is called.

But for the Chinese in later generations, no one will forget this set of things.

This is the [Kai, Tuan, Tuan] of the Japanese invaders!

How to solve this problem?

It's also very simple.

Organize and arm the invaders to win the war. Disintegrate their acts of aggression, so that they cannot transfer contradictions to the outside, so that they will implode, so that the bottom will truly awaken, revolt, head-slap, and burn land deeds-of course, head-slapping may not be popular here, so tar feathers are the same.

It's just that this time is not the future, and there is no real army with ideals.

The reality is that when Dashun brought a large number of Acadians across the Bay of Fundy and returned to the Annapolis Valley, a brutal massacre and revenge began.

Dashun people are Dashun people, not people of later generations.

Seeing this group of people killing people, what can the Dashun military adviser who followed Joseph Godin say?

Say no massacre?

No revenge?

Say no revenge to a 63-year-old man whose daughter was skinned alive two years ago, whose grandson's burnt hand was cut off and stuffed into his mouth, whose little daughter who escaped went crazy and jumped into the river and died, and whose only thought of living was revenge?

Dashun was just a feudal dynasty.

The instructors of Dashun were not instructors, but professional affairs officers who did things for a few more taels of silver every month.

Besides, I'm afraid no one would listen if they said not to kill them all or to expel them.

The Acadians who returned to the Annapolis Valley were all crazy and blood-thirsty.

More than 400 households and more than 2,000 people who had immigrated from New England were blocked in the narrow Annapolis Valley and half of them were slaughtered.

Including some pastors, they also picked up guns and started killing. Because Moses Hassan not only skinned these people, but also skinned 14 pastors.

The remaining hundreds of immigrants from New England who had not been killed had nowhere to escape, and huddled in a small town called Wolfville, waiting for their fate in fear and despair.

It was the golden autumn season. Except for the burning houses, the bodies lying on the ground, and the blood that dyed the river red, everything was so beautiful.

It is the favorite season of farmers and the favorite scenery of farmers.

The 126-kilometer-long valley is close to the sea, but the two sides of the valley are blocked by the ruthless climate of the Atlantic Ocean by the uplifted basalt.

The glacial sedimentary soil that has been deposited for tens of millions of years is like fat meat, and it seems that oil will come out if you squeeze it hard.

Planting apples here does not even require special cultivation, as long as the branches are inserted, they will sprout.

The basalt hills on both sides give the valley a magical microclimate, which is warm, humid, with distinct four seasons and no storms.

If this place is in Dashun, this 126-kilometer-long valley, in terms of agricultural conditions, can be called a small Guanzhong or a small Luoyang. If a pass is built on each side to block the valley, it will be three-quarters similar.

The Acadians have been operating here for 150 years, building basic water conservancy facilities, irrigation agriculture, and dams, making the land here irrigated fields.

The Chinese plow was spread from China to the Netherlands, from the Netherlands to France, and from France to here.

Ridge cultivation, ox plowing, crop rotation, and irrigation have gotten rid of the drawbacks of the heavy plows in the Middle Ages and Northern Europe that required six or eight oxen and horses, greatly improving the productivity of farmers.

There is a huge difference in agricultural costs between a heavy plow that can only be pulled by six horses and a curved plow that can be pulled by one ox.

A heavy plow that can only be pulled by six horses must be driven by someone; while a curved plow that can be pulled by one or two oxen can be driven by women or not at all.

These technological advances, coupled with 150 years of water conservancy construction, the French actually gave North America an "other possibility" - changing the land to the flow, turning hunting into farming, naturalizing mixed-race people, and turning agriculture into towns.

It is not just a possibility to kill all the indigenous people.

Catholicism is certainly not a good bird, but good and bad are relative. Protestantism in Europe is progressive in terms of anti-aristocratic and anti-clergy.

But as Lao Ma said, ideas can be moved directly, but can social foundations, economic foundations, and social material conditions be moved?

Protestantism is progressive in Europe.

In North America, it is extremely reactionary.

Whether it is the theocracy in Massachusetts, the Salem witch trials, the expulsion of heretics, or the massacre of indigenous peoples. These social foundations, economic foundations, and material conditions are different from those in Europe, especially in Central Europe and the Holy Roman Empire. Therefore, Protestantism, which was once a progressive force in Europe, has become extremely reactionary here.

From the perspective of political economy, the most reactionary system is the private land ownership in the thirteen states, which makes a large amount of land undevelopable and seriously hinders the progress of agricultural productivity in the thirteen states.

This is a louse on a bald head, an obvious thing.

The thirteen states have a total population of more than 2 million. There are tens of thousands of people willing to come to the north, endure the revenge and danger of the Indians, and come to farm in places with much worse agricultural and climatic conditions than the thirteen states.

When the Acadian population was expelled, more than 6,000 people wanted to come at any time.

They all come to farm. Even if your family has 100 acres of land, are you willing to give up your family and business to come to the "bitter and cold" frontier?

What does this prove?

No need to say more.

Including some "historians" in later generations, they also said that the main reason for this migration movement was because "there was a lot of free land there."

What is "free" land?

In the English context, "freedom" is different from freedom in the philosophical sense. It means more of a property right, and there is a serious abuse.

For these people, "free" land, in other words, the ownership of these lands does not belong to anyone, because land belonging to others is not "free" land for the landless.

The problem is that these lands, from the bourgeois natural law theory, belong to the Acadians who reclaimed them. It is their labor that turned these natural lands into arable land. According to the bourgeois theory, they naturally belong to the reclaimers.

It's just that the reclaimers are precisely the "indigenous people."

Therefore, this set of legal principles cannot be used, but the most reactionary and feudal religious legal principles are used to expel people.

To be precise, this is the counterattack of feudal religious legal rights against the legal rights of the bourgeoisie. The legal consciousness of the early bourgeoisie, out of the need to oppose feudalism, aristocracy and colonization, talked about "labor", and talked a lot about labor.

Although Dashun was a feudal dynasty, it did not have such progressive thinking, and it was impossible to do things based on this ideology.

However, objectively speaking, this time Dashun sent troops to North America to maintain the sanctity of the legal rights of the bourgeoisie, representing the progressive forces and swearing against the backward forces of feudal religion.

It's just that the process was a bit bloody.

But the people behind it still hope to reduce this bloodiness as much as possible.

So, the instructors sent by Dashun taught these people in French and sang a "war song" specially prepared by Liu Yu for these people.

It is a battle song.

It is also a song of kindness.

A song of man.

A song different from that of beasts.

The lyrics have changed slightly, but they are very appropriate:

Let's go, children of this land.

The glorious day has come.

The brutal enemy is irreconcilable with us.

Raise the bloody flag.