New Shun 1730

This is Henry Middleton, who took the lead in the attack.

He was a large plantation owner, with more than 300,000 acres of land and hundreds of slaves who were propertyized.

One look at this class attribute, and you can basically guess his attitude in the American War of Independence in history.

In short, he was weak, wavering, and compromising; he bet on both sides.

He himself stood on the royalist side.

His son signed the declaration and stood on the secession side.

He opposed separation from Britain many times.

After the war, because his son was a founding father, he was one of the few royalists who were not "confiscated of counter-intelligence", and his 300,000 acres of plantations were also preserved - compared to the Bing family who stupidly stood on the royalist side directly and did not bet on many parties, I don't know how high it was.

It can be said that those who did not learn to bet on many parties in the era of change and chaos, and the big landlords and big families who did not join the mutual hostility and even the brothers and sisters, did not understand it.

This Henry Middleton was very clear and had very clear ideas.

On the one hand, he was a beneficiary of Britain's previous mercantilist policy. Because Britain had planting subsidies and purchase subsidies for indigo, hemp and other crops.

On the other hand, Britain's mercantilist policy protected North American planting before North American agriculture reached a certain threshold - this protection ensured that the planting industry in southern North American plantations would not be competed by the powerful France and Spain.

Don't think that France really doesn't understand economics. It was the sugar in France that was so cheap that the Sugar Tax Act was forced out.

Don't think that the Spaniards are useless at everything they do. The Spaniards are quite good at growing tobacco. Which is better, Virginia tobacco or Havana tobacco?

The economic base determines the superstructure.

At this time, Britain's industrial development did not keep up with the development of North American planting, which made North American planting reach this threshold of "from loyalty to rebellion" because Britain's industry could not consume so many raw materials and agricultural products.

But this threshold was just reached - the British Industrial Revolution broke out in the later period of history, and the South soon became close to the British economy again.

Therefore, at this time, when this threshold was just reached, the attitude of the southern states towards Britain - especially after Dashun expressed its intention to abolish Britain's Navigation Act at the Philadelphia Convention last year - was quite ambiguous.

Northern states, such as Massachusetts, etc.

Do they want land?

Of course they do. A large number of poor people lack land. Otherwise, New England could not have quickly recruited tens of thousands of people to "go to Guandong" after the Acadian Expulsion.

But the problem is that if you don't even have land and you are so poor that you run to the bitter cold north just for a little land, how can you be qualified to come to Philadelphia for a meeting?

You are "not qualified" to come to this meeting at all.

And who are the people who come to this meeting?

They are all big businessmen, smuggling, selling tea, selling cloth, lending, selling slaves, and selling alcohol.

Even if you don't meet the economic standards, you must be a member of the Freemasonry at the very least. To become a member of the Freemasonry, except for some special "thugs", you must at least be a doctor or lawyer, right?

After Dashun helped the Acadians to develop the "maritime nomadic tactics", several northern states were the first to bear the brunt.

Virginia squeezed in the middle and expanded to the northwest.

Dashun, with its maritime power, fought against the states in the northeast.

What did big businessmen like the Hancock family demand?

Isn't it free trade and exemption of tariffs?

What did the booming rum industry in Massachusetts demand?

Isn't it free trade and exemption of sugar tax?

At the last meeting, Dashun had already stated that it would definitely abolish the British Navigation Act.

In Massachusetts and other states, the shipbuilding industry has also developed in recent years due to the protection of the Navigation Act.

Compared with the British shipbuilding, which still requires planting trees, North America can directly cut down trees, and the cost difference is not a little bit. In addition, due to the protectionist policy of Britain before, there were subsidies for grease, turpentine, wood tar, canvas, cedar mast wood, etc., which made the shipbuilding industry in the northern states rise.

The abolition of the Navigation Act, even if the Navigation Act was added instead of just the Commodity Listing Act, would be 80% beneficial and 20% harmful to them.

In this way, the big businessmen, big workshop owners, and old landlords in the northern states who were able to attend the meeting here would naturally stand on the side of the southern plantation owners and criticize Virginia.

This was also determined by economic factors.

Virginia grew tobacco, so he could only keep pursuing land, because there were no chemical fertilizers in those days, and tobacco ate too much land.

Historically, the tobacco industry in Shandong was able to develop, even though Shandong did not have the conditions to occupy new land for rotation and fallow at that time, but Shandong had another condition - the Northeast was across the Bohai Bay, and the Northeast had bean cake, which was the most cost-effective fertilizer before the emergence of chemical fertilizers.

But now, North America has no soybeans, no Chilean saltpeter, and the guano industry is still early.

The real ruling class of Virginia was also confined to this economic foundation and material conditions, and must be the most aggressive group of people in external expansion.

Relying on farmers alone to expand externally... That is inefficient.

There must be a group of "land nobles" or "big capital with huge land interests" to expand efficiently. Because expansion requires organizational strength. Without organizational strength, capital investment, and political strength - national strength is also a kind of economic strength - do you really think that the land west of the Appalachian Mountains was created by cowboys, rangers, and Irish shepherds?

The current situation is that Liu Yu deliberately created "to provoke big businessmen, plantation owners, and old landlords; to fight new landlords and land speculators."

At this time, the representatives of Virginia also argued with reason.

Robert Dinwiddie, George Washington, etc. were also spitting.

Now it is the Acadians who are retaliating.

The "accident" of Dashun joining the war caused this situation.

The Acadians burned towns in the north, what does it have to do with us? We enclosed land in the Ohio Valley and fought against the local Indians, not the Acadians.

Dashun burned plantations and rescued slaves, you should fight with Dashun. Why are you looking for trouble with us?

In the final analysis, the root cause is that the southern plantation states and the northern states now hope that the war will end as soon as possible so that they can make money.

For Virginia, if it cannot get the land in Ohio, then the company will go bankrupt.

Among these shareholders, there are some well-known figures. It is not an exaggeration to say that they have a dictatorship in various places.

And one of the conditions for the truce and peace given by Dashun is that the border must be demarcated. Whether it is the states or you follow the spirit of the Albany Conference to form a state union, in short, whoever crosses the border, you must arrest.

Now, this problem is on the surface.

For Virginia, it is a question of whether she dares to say to the envoys from the British side who want to draw the border, "This is a chaotic order, Virginia will not obey the order."

If she dares not, then it is easy to say.

The Ohio Land Speculation Company went bankrupt directly and drew the border.

If she dares, then it is easy to say.

The Virginia representatives can just leave the meeting angrily, saying "This is a chaotic order, we will not obey the order", return to Virginia, organize the army, and go to war directly.

Whether they dare or not...

In the face of reality, this is not something that can be explained clearly by "arguing with reason", "reasoning" or "law".

Either accept it.

Or start a war.

In fact, the second Philadelphia Conference was an ultimatum given to Virginia by the other states.

If Virginia does not accept it, then the states will make the final choice for peace: form a state militia, contribute money and materials, and arrest those who disobey orders together with the lobster soldiers.

Because the trade ambassador of Dashun really brought the dawn of peace.

Unlike before, this time the trade ambassador took out the armistice terms and announced a lot of content related to this group of people in North America.

Last time, they just fired a lot of blanks.

The most important thing is that last time, the trade ambassador did not get the real authorization of the court, and any terms were just "suggestions", "should" and "approximately".

The nature of the Dashun dynasty destined these trade envoys to be useless without the orders of the court. Even if it is said that the generals are not subject to the orders of the emperor when they are away from home, even if it is said that they act at their convenience, the court must set the tone.

This time, the terms are really put forward.

And the high-level envoys of Dashun have also arrived in Paris.

This is the real dawn of peace, proving that Dashun is really ready to negotiate peace.

Of course, peace may be that Dashun decides to fight with France to get to the island; or it may be that way of negotiation.

The reason why Dashun decided to make peace is not because it can't fight anymore.

But what can be obtained is basically almost taken.

At most, it will fight for another two years, and basically it will fight for another year. There will be no results if it continues to fight.

And now, Dashun's Shandong Yellow River channel project is about to start.

It's not about money.

But Dashun urgently needs a large number of ships, and after demarcating the border, it will start the large-scale immigration plan to the west coast of America based on the gold rush.

Once the war is over, Dashun needs to retire some warships and a group of sailors and seamen.

Or it can be called "transfer".

The excess warships, seamen, etc. will be used as transportation tools for the large-scale immigration plan, and tens of thousands of people will be rushed to the west coast as quickly as possible after the border negotiations.

Since the Yellow River channel is to be dug, such a large project requires labor and money. And the arable land that the new Yellow River channel will occupy also needs to be solved.

This is not something that can be solved by giving money, and in fact, it is not possible to give it.

Moreover, the current Dashun cannot accommodate so many landless people. Even if Songsu has ushered in a wave of development during the war, it cannot accommodate so many "wage" people.

There is no better solution except immigration.

Immigration requires money, but it also requires ships and sailors.

Now there is only the "border" problem to be solved.

The key to solving the border problem is that there needs to be a government to issue laws to prohibit crossing the border and to maintain the implementation of this law by violent means.

Therefore, this requires that this government cannot be dominated by land speculators, and even completely eliminate them.

In this way, the existence of the border can be maintained.

Don't consider the purpose of laying mines, trade, boycotting tea, etc.

If you just consider the border problem.

So, it doesn’t matter whether it is the parliament of the thirteen North American states or the governor of Britain.

The key is that Virginia cannot say that it is crossing the border by having its own system. The border must be maintained by both sides.

Of course, even if only the border issue is considered, Dashun is absolutely inclined to let Britain send a governor directly.

Because, for Britain, the Appalachian Mountains are the limit.

Expanding further is meaningless, unprofitable, and impossible for Britain to manage.

If the Indians, Dashun, or the French are pissed off, Britain will have to send troops to resist. Britain will definitely tend to use the Appalachian Mountains as the boundary, and will definitely strictly abide by the border laws, and even Britain will take the initiative to organize border patrol rangers. Especially after being forced by Dashun to sign the Shock Act Free Trade Agreement, it will be even more so.

And the main purpose of this second Philadelphia Conference for Dashun is to create conflicts and ensure that the people of Virginia will not tie up the people of other states, get some politically correct slogans, and make things worse.

It is better to take this opportunity to make the "interests" clear, and no one should sing high-sounding slogans.