New Shun 1730
Chapter 561 Enlightenment Tool Man (Part 1)
As soon as Liu Yu left, George Anson drew his sword and roared, "This is an insult! An insult to Britain!"
Fazakley turned around with a frown on his face.
The company has finally opened up the situation and can expand trade with China immediately. The company has begun activities in Parliament to reduce tea import taxes and thus crack down on smugglers.
Once the lobbying is successful, the company's profits and tea sales will increase exponentially.
Even if the number of tea drinkers does not increase, as long as the tariff is reduced, the market taken back from smugglers alone will be enough to double the company's profits from trade with China.
Since Dashun wants to force cooperation with the Swedish East India Company, and Britain cannot openly oppose it, it can only cut off the firewood from the bottom of the pot-if it cannot monopolize the source of goods, then monopolize the market share, right?
The British certainly know how much tea the Swedish population can drink, and most of it goes to the North American colonies through tea smugglers.
Why do the people in the colonies have to drink smuggled tea? Because the customs tea tariff is too expensive. Why drink tea? Because tea tastes good.
Originally, the "Tea Tax Law" was not to be issued until thirty years later. In order to save the precarious financial situation of the East India Company, the tea tax was reduced, which triggered various tea-trading activities and rebellions by smugglers in North America.
But now that Dashun has taken the initiative to cooperate with Sweden, the British East India Company has become a little impatient.
If the place of origin directly goes to do business, can we still expect to monopolize the source of goods?
Even if Dashun is a very "reasonable" country, the law will not favor its own people in terms of export and acquisition, but how can the British East India Company compete with native Dashun merchants in terms of acquisition?
Moreover, there are a lot of shares of court officials in the trading company on the Dashun side. Fazakley knows what the Dashun officialdom is like. The above sentence hints that the following can prevent competitors from getting the goods.
Even if the emperor allows normal trade for diplomatic considerations, Fazakley is sure that only Liu Yu needs to say a word, and the officials in Fujian will sell face, and Britain will not be able to get Wuyi tea.
A few years ago in Guangzhou, in order to block the Swedish East India Company, Britain, the Netherlands, France, Denmark and other countries united and used all means, gifts and bribes, so that the Swedes could not get the goods for export porcelain. But as soon as the Swedes cooperated with Dashun, they were able to get the good goods that the British dreamed of.
Since you have the ability to let those who want you to get the goods, you also have the ability to prevent those who don't want you to get the goods. It's a very simple truth.
At this critical moment, the military actually angered the minister of Dashun who was able to influence foreign policy. Fazakle was already very angry and thought he was just a fool.
This kind of person is only suitable for fighting and doesn't know why to fight at all.
"Captain, I must warn you. Please obey the laws here. Please don't bring the arrogance you have in the Caribbean or India here."
"Not to mention that China may have great hostility towards Britain and threaten Britain's security, you can't bear the responsibility for the East India Company's trade volume of millions a year."
"If it affects the company's trade and the situation that has been opened with great difficulty, I think you know the consequences. The Marquis is right. From Omsk to the Philippines, nothing can be done without the nod of Dashun."
"The company is seeking interests in Southeast Asia. I hope the military will not cause trouble. If you do this again, it will be difficult for me to guarantee that the fleet can still get supplies in Chinese ports."
"You may not know that a word from their emperor is enough to make people in the port not choose to trade with ships under the British flag. Please be sober."
George Anson felt a little disgusted. He and Fazaklay were compatriots of the same country, but at this time Fazaklay stood opposite to accuse him.
"For Jenkins' ears, we can go to war with Spain. As a commodore of the Royal Navy, I have been insulted like this, but you stand on China's side and accuse me?"
"Merchants only know about interests, and never know the dignity of the country!"
"The Dutch and the French are at war, and the arms dealers in Amsterdam let the French use Dutch guns to fight the Dutch. You businessmen will one day make Britain suffer such shameless betrayal!"
Fazaklay sneered: "Mr. Commodore, you shouldn't find the dignity of Britain in Lingdingyang. I said, the kind of dignity you want should be found in India or African chiefs."
"Dignity and trade cannot coexist here. The people of the company must kneel down to the officials of Dashun, including those arrogant French. You can go to Macau to see the council there. Even when facing the local county magistrate, people still have to kneel down and bow. This is the rule here. "
"They have a saying in China: those who come are not rejected, and those who leave are not chased. If you don't want to abide by the rules here, they don't say you can't leave."
"Or, Mr. Commodore hopes that the Dashun Navy will ally with Spain and transport 20,000 elite troops that can easily defeat Russia to help defend the Philippines? This matter almost caused a serious diplomatic incident, and the company will question it to the parliament. "
"The navy chose the wrong person, you are not suitable to come to China. If you don't give up a cruiser before dark to show your sincerity in admitting your mistake, the East India Company will refuse any cooperation with you and refuse to pay the bill for purchasing supplies. "
Take out the East India Company's killer weapon. The money for buying supplies must be paid by the East India Company and exchanged in London after returning.
After saying the harsh words, he ignored George Anson and hurriedly got off the boat, preparing to meet Liu Yu again.
If necessary, the East India Company could provide a ship as a warning to others.
The ship is expensive, but compared to the total amount of trade with China, it is still not worth mentioning. As long as Liu Yu can extinguish the fire, a ship is nothing.
As soon as Fazakle left, Anson was still angry.
Walter, the chaplain on board the ship, walked to Anson's side and comforted: "Mr. Commodore, China is a dark and barbaric nation, and their history is almost forbidden. The long-term isolation has left them with nothing to do with the barbarians. difference.”
"Whether it's the Greeks, the Egyptians or the Chinese who believe in evil polytheism, they're all the same."
“All have the same false pride in believing that they are older than all other peoples, that they have long ago created the things necessary for human comfort, while their own recollections of history go back to the origin of the world itself. . They think everything they know is as old as the world.”
"They use their own experience as the standard to measure everything in the world; they use the things around them to judge distant and unknown things."
"As mentioned, they have the arrogance of barbarians. This is all foreseeable and does not deserve your anger."
In fact, this sentence is used in the same way at this moment, no matter which nation it is applied to.
The military chaplain Richard Walter is a Christian, so these words cannot be applied to himself.
This commonality of the closed era of mankind can only be applied to Greece and Egypt, which believe in polytheism, and China, which worships idols.
Even Newton denied the Trinity in his heart, but he kept it hidden until his death and finally said that he was a heretic who denied the Trinity.
Walter lamented the barbarism and rudeness of China's system with this sense of superiority: "We have entered the age of mortals, but you are still in the age of gods", "We have grown up, but you are still ignorant children" .
George Anson was also filled with emotion and nodded: "You are right. They are really still a group of savages. Only true religion can tame the wild nature of savages."
"This false sense of pride among the Chinese is really shocking. They have always believed that they are older than all other nations and have already created things necessary for human beings to live comfortably."
"This kind of pride is actually a kind of barbarism. It is also the reason why they humiliated me rudely and rudely today."
"Even if they start to learn our technology, they still have that kind of pride in the past and refuse to bow down in the slightest."
Walter laughed and said: "Mr. Brigadier, this is all normal. Of course you have read Vico's "New Science". Human beings have gone through the barbaric age of gods, the heroic age when ideas sprouted, and now the mortal age. Barbaric age. People in the age of gods are like children, and China certainly fits this argument.”
"Children have strong imitation abilities, strong memory, and strong imagination abilities, but their reasoning and understanding abilities are very weak."
"They can imitate, they can remember, they can imagine. But they can't understand much of the nature of the world."
"It's like their writing, their poetry. You know, the Chinese like poetry very much, and people who can write poetry are very popular in their country."
"And poetry is a symbol that the nation is still in the age of barbaric gods. It's like children."
"The highest work of poetry is to give feeling and passion to things that are insensible. And this is exactly what children are good at. Their characteristic is that they can pretend to talk to inanimate things as if they are living people. Sometimes , children will whisper to some birds, cats and puppies, and communicate with the world that their childish minds can understand. This is essentially a kind of poetry. "
"Chinese people like to compose poetry, and they are as ignorant as children."
"For example, magnets and iron, poetry will not consider the magnetic field, but will say 'the magnet loves the iron'. This is exactly the way children use their limited knowledge to cling to and explain everything."
"And their writing."
"Chinese characters are not even a kind of writing. They are crude and have no imitation. People around China are using the alphabet of 'God-given invention', but China turns a deaf ear to this 'God-given invention'."
"There are three stages of writing, which correspond to the age of gods, the age of heroes, and the age of mortals in the wild."
"The earliest hieroglyphics were mythical characters, priestly symbols used by humans to communicate with barbaric gods. The Chinese actually still use the hieroglyphics used in the primitive era to communicate with the gods. Next to them, there are a lot of hieroglyphs that began to use alphabetic characters, but with With their arrogance that they have already created things necessary for human comfort, they refuse to learn.”
"They will forever remain children, forever in the wild age of gods. Closed, dark and isolated."
"China only has a static history. It's like a child that won't grow up."
"So, Brigadier General, please don't take it to heart."
"Isn't it normal for a child to lose his temper at you?"
"Didn't your child cry and make some unreasonable demands when he was a child? Or, would you be angry if the other neighbor children made some unreasonable demands to you?"
George Anson thought of his child and how naughty and "rude" he was when he was a child, and a smile appeared on his lips.
Although he knelt down just now, Walter still found the sense of superiority he deserved from the nonsense of the Enlightenment.
Is it worth getting angry when his son asked him to kneel down and ride on him like a horse? Thinking of this, George Anson gradually relaxed, and his knees no longer hurt.
George's first letter is not Q, but if it is transliterated into the pinyin of later generations, it is not wrong to call him Ah Q.
Considering the attitude of the East India Company and the danger of Dashun cooperating with Spain, George Anson finally smiled helplessly and sighed: "What an ignorant, dark and isolated nation. Ridiculous, barbaric pride."
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