New Shun 1730

This is purely a case of putting the cart before the horse. Politically correct, it cannot be said to be wrong.

But in an environment where a bunch of countries such as France, Prussia, Russia, and Austria have suppressed the power of local nobles, France has built the Palace of Versailles to gather power in the court, and each country can pull out hundreds of thousands of troops to capture cities, emphasize commerce and high tariffs, and use administrative power to protect the industry and commerce of each country from foreign competition, saying this is purely a case of why not eat meat.

Relying on freedom to act independently, escorting a fleet, and each province is playing tricks and not paying, can this destroy the British Navigation Regulations? Or can it destroy the French tariff protection?

Just like the monopoly East India Company that many people in the Netherlands oppose.

Indeed, is the monopoly East India Company good? Not good. Is it right for the 17-member committee to make decisions? No. All shareholders should have a say but they don’t. Is it reasonable? Unreasonable. Even the monopoly should not be given, there should be full and free competition.

However, if they had not adopted a monopoly policy and the 17-member committee to make efficient decisions, how could they have won in Southeast Asia and squeezed out Britain and Portugal?

Before the Dashun Dynasty, there was no monopoly company, and there was no state power to interfere. As a result, the free Dashun merchants were forced to lower their prices by the Dutch after their ships were seized. They had no choice but to swear that they would never go to Batavia again.

Moreover, regarding the demands of the guild middle class in Haarlem, they hoped that the city would be autonomous and self-sufficient, and at the same time they hoped that a strong government could guarantee the autonomy of the city and not be made money by merchants from other provinces... Isn't this split?

As the former Grand Speaker and the successor selected by the centralist Van Siling Grant in the Regent Party, Anthony was of course opposed to decentralization and also tried to centralize power.

If it was the mentality of lying down and dying before, it would not matter.

But now that there is an opportunity, it seems that there is still a way out, and Anthony certainly hopes to go on. After the coup, we must find a way to strengthen the power of the federal government.

However, William IV's most trusted assistant and advisor, Earl Bentinck, was also a supporter of the policies of his mentor's former Grand Speaker, and had been trying to establish a centralized Dutch government.

Moreover, as a representative of the Orange Party, he had been advocating centralization in public. And he was ready to centralize power to the cabinet secretary system of the Ming Dynasty in one step.

The problem here is that the various factions within the Republican Party are consistent in opposing the consul.

However, Anthony is against the consul, not against centralization; and the rest of the Republican Party is against the consul because they oppose centralization.

The current opportunity is fleeting for the Netherlands.

Cooperation with Dashun requires a process.

The war in Europe has not yet ended, and all parties involved in the war, except the Russians who are just preparing to send troops, are exhausted. And Russia's naval power can be ignored.

Now is the best time for Dashun to cooperate with the Netherlands. No matter what kind of cooperation model, it will inevitably harm the interests of Britain.

After the armistice, Britain will have to lick its wounds for a few years, but once it recovers, it will definitely suppress the Netherlands.

In Anthony's view, the opportunity period left for the Netherlands is at most ten years.

Once this opportunity period is not seized, there will be no more opportunities in the future.

To seize this opportunity, the problem of centralization must be solved. At the very least, taxes must be collected and ships must be built. If a war really breaks out in ten years, it must be able to withstand it.

On the one hand, it is obvious that it wants to provoke Britain and infringe on Britain's interests. On the other hand, it does not build ships and thinks that Britain will not attack the Netherlands based on self-delusion... This is the way to death.

If this is the case, it is better not to cooperate with Dashun from the beginning and continue to lie down and die. At least it will not be attacked by Britain, at least not within ten years.

However, the situation in the Netherlands is very special.

It is extremely special.

The special thing is that in the Netherlands, strengthening centralization itself is destroying the possibility of centralization in the Netherlands.

Because centralization means that the seven provinces become one country.

And the first step for the seven provinces to become one country is community construction.

However, there is something wrong with the community construction of the Netherlands.

Whether it is reform or revolution in Dashun, this problem does not need to be solved, as it was solved two thousand years ago.

The Netherlands is different.

The community construction of the Netherlands itself lies in the unique freedom of the Netherlands a hundred years ago.

Freedom itself is the foundation of the community construction of the Netherlands.

The so-called community construction is either to make it clear who we are; or to make it clear who we are not.

The dynasties before Dashun chose to make it clear who we are.

But the Netherlands chose the latter, to make it clear who we are not.

Relying on who we are not, we can infer the existence of the concept of "us".

It is not that the elites of the Netherlands have not tried to build a community that makes it clear who we are.

But this concept is the "Batavia Republic in the Roman Era".

The people of the Netherlands are all descendants of the Batavia Republic in the Roman Era.

Our resistance to the rule of the Spanish is a repetition of the history of the Batavia Republic.

The people of the Batavia Republic are free, moral, and perfect, just like the spirit of our golden age.

We are all Batavians. They are all descendants of Batavia.

Originally, this is possible.

With the national strength of the Netherlands at that time, it was completely possible to have the Dutch Republic first and then the Batavian nation.

But the problem lies in this national myth, Batavia in the Roman era. The story is about a dispersed city-state republic, not a consul with monopoly power.

Therefore, the Orangemen in the Netherlands, with their very rigorous historical knowledge and very delicate archaeological level, told all the Dutch: nonsense! There was no Batavian Republic in history.

What the Orangemen objected to were the last three words in the Batavian Republic.

But the first four characters were also thrown away.

The national construction of "who we are" has not been completed. In later generations of China, this is equivalent to someone telling all Chinese that Yan and Huang did not exist at all.

How else to construct the concept of “who we are”?

If "who we are" cannot be constructed, then we can only rely on "who we are not" to construct it.

So, who is Netherland not?

First of all, the Netherlands is definitely not a monarchy, so it is different from those other monarchy countries.

Secondly, although there are many republics in Europe, there are even stories from the Greek era and the Roman era.

However, the Netherlands is not a bunch of free cities like HRE. This is a difference that even a fool can see.

Then again, the Netherlands was not a Roman republic. The Roman Republic relied on slaves to farm the land, while the Netherlands relied on trading.

Furthermore, the Netherlands is not like Switzerland or Venice.

All in all, we are different!

We in the Netherlands are unique.

Your and my country are different from those countries outside, so you and I are us, not them.

After completing the construction of "who we are not" - if this is all, it is not an exception.

For example, the concept of "who we are not" promoted by Liu Yu in Weihai was motivated by foreign wars. A group of people went to Japan and Southeast Asia. Listening to the chattering language on the other side and seeing the different skin and hair colors on the other side, it was easy to understand who we were.

Another example is that after the Russians built a framework based on religion, they fought all day long. A bunch of serfs who had never had the chance to leave the village were eager to go to war and see the outside world. As long as they didn't die, this life would be worth it. If the Czar's "little daddy" didn't fight, he would only be able to look at the one-third of an acre of land in the manor for the rest of his life. What's the point of living?

Then a group of gray animals gathered together and asked where you were from and where I was from. Being so far away, it turned out that everyone spoke the same words, ate the same things, and believed in the same religion. Look at those Turkish barbarians and French sissies, they are really different from them. Therefore, Russian serfs are the most Russian, while those aristocratic young people who often go abroad to chat and laugh in Western European cafes are the least Russian.

The problem was that the Dutch were not serfs on Russian estates. All your life, your neighbors are just potatoes. Once you go out, you can feel that "we are all the same" and "we are different from others."

The Dutch have seen a lot. They have been sailing for more than a hundred years. From North America to Australia, what kind of people have they not seen?

With the development of commerce, the Dutch people still feel that they are no different from those who believe in Protestantism and speak German based on simple skin color, language, religion, etc. to distinguish "who we are not."

This requires adding some cores within the basic framework that is different from ours.

China has built an entire civilization on its own and is the mother country of culture.

In Europe, no matter how hard it is, it is not the Netherlands' turn to build a civilized motherland.

There was originally a fabricated nation structure, the Republic of Batavia, which our ancestors had enjoyed. But this myth has been destroyed by the Dutch themselves.

Then if you look up for "ancestors' great achievements", you can only find the period from Spain's independence to the golden age of dominating the sea. This is not the "ancestor" in the virtual sense, but the generation of grandfathers and great-grandfathers in the true sense...

If we use the Batavia Republic of "who we are" to build this national community, it will actually be simple.

Stuff the spirit of the golden age into the Batavia myth and say that we have been like this since ancient times. This is our national character.

All problems were solved very smoothly.

The nation has been around since ancient times, the spirit has been around since ancient times, the culture has been around since ancient times, and the system has been around since ancient times.

But now, the Orangemen have proven with detailed historiography that the Batavian Republic did not exist.

Even this nation is made up, so how can there be any national character and national spirit?

This thing has to have an entity to flourish, right?

The Republic of Batavia doesn't even exist, so how can there be the national character and spirit of the Batavians?

After this myth was shattered, the national community rebuilt by the Dutch elite was only a general framework of "we are different from others".

Apart from the political system being different from others, how are we different from others? You have to find out.

Otherwise, if others also learn from the Dutch political system, can it be said that we are one family? This obviously doesn't make sense.

So you have to stuff things in it.

plug spirit, culture, tradition, plug ideology.

The myths of the past ancient times were shattered, and new myths were constructed due to independence from Spain. So what is the national spirit of the Netherlands?

Naturally, it comes from the Utrecht Charter.

The provinces were autonomous, there were no dukes or kings, and there was no centralized government.

Absolute freedom.

Each province can withdraw if it wants to, and each province can do whatever it wants.

This is what is stuffed into this new national composition.

Without this thing, nation-building will not be established.

Without even building a nation, how can we talk about unifying the seven provinces into one and building a Dutch nation and a Dutch state?

On the other hand, does it violate the national spirit and traditional culture of the Netherlands to build a centralized Dutch state and deprive the provinces of some of their powers?

Is the country of Batavia, created against the national spirit of Batavia and the traditional culture of Batavia, still Batavia?

When they first resisted Spanish rule, the core reason was that they did not want to listen to the Spanish government.

So, if the provinces still listen to the federal provincial government, what is the core difference between it and Spanish rule?

The special national conditions of the Netherlands made it difficult for Anthony to make the most advantageous use of the tragedy in The Hague.

Looking at the overall situation, France can make peace, govern and kill the petition group. It seems that a coup is very easy.

However, this coup is to take advantage of the opportunity period of the European armistice and gamble on the national destiny. It is not a simple matter of ascendancy.

We have to think about the next ten years.

There are various ways of inciting public opinion about this tragedy in The Hague.

The two simplest and seemingly most effective ones, but Anthony couldn't use them.

The first is to incite "everything must take care of the interests of the country's own people and be tough on foreign countries."

If a consul kills his own citizens for the benefit of foreigners, he should get out.

This cannot be used.

Because Anthony wants to cooperate with Dashun.

Based on this logic and emotional incitement, the British are not good birds and want to safeguard the interests of their own people.

So, what kind of good bird is Dashun who took over the colonies in Southeast Asia?

This time, even these dozen people died because of Britain.

So how many people in Southeast Asia died because of Dashun? How many people committed suicide because of Dashun after the stock market crash?

The second is to incite "the monarchy is not based on law, but is completely subject to the monarch's personal will, personal interests, prejudices, emotions, relatives, and distance. This is the worst and most deformed thing in the world." , the most irrational thing.”

"The so-called ruling means a king who has not been crowned. It is a variant of the monarchy. So he can bypass the law and the will of the people and choose to be close to Britain."

This direction is almost as useful as the first incitement direction.

However, considering the future centralization of power and the "centralized kingdom without a hereditary king" envisioned by Antony's mentor and former Grand Chancellor, this did not work.

Otherwise, if you are so inciting today, when power is being centralized tomorrow, you will be opposed by people using the exact same words.

In view of the special national conditions of the Netherlands and the particularity of the construction of the Dutch national community, such incitement will only allow those factions that are extremely opposed to centralization to gain power.

They themselves have a great say, and they built a new Dutch national community after the Batavia myth was destroyed by archeology and history.

The core of the community they built is "we are different from others", "our absolute freedom", and "our cities and provinces all have free will".

If you really want to instigate in the second direction, you are really helping this group of factions that oppose centralization.

And this group of people are now allies against the lifelong consul and the Orange family, and they will be the biggest enemies when power is centralized tomorrow.

If it is used against the consuls today, it will be used against the federal centralization of power tomorrow.

Dashun seems to have laid the groundwork, and the coup seems to have come naturally, but from Anthony's point of view, the people in Dashun still don't understand that the Netherlands has its own national conditions.