New Shun 1730

Kang Budai's doubts about whether the Anthony faction would do a coup reached its peak a few days later.

When the republicans who tried to decentralize power used the Hague Massacre to incite public opinion with pamphlets, the Anthony faction did almost nothing.

On the contrary, the masters of the Orange faction made a move.

Just when the republicans who wanted to decentralize power were making a lot of noise, the Orange faction did not directly refute the remarks of these republicans, but published a book with great momentum.

The posthumous work of Anthony's teacher and former Grand Speaker Van Silin Grant.

"Staatkundige geschriften: opgesteld en nagelaaten, volume" - my political posthumous work, damn, how did the country become like this, how should it be governed.

After the notary came out to testify publicly and some people in the Federal Parliament who had worked with Van Silin Grant confirmed that the original manuscript was indeed the handwriting of the former Grand Speaker, this book was finally published.

According to the testimony of the notary, according to the request of the former Grand Speaker, this book should be published either fifty years after his death or when a major crisis occurs in the Republic.

And the authorization letter with the private seal of the former Grand Speaker was produced. The notary believed that the Republic had already encountered a major crisis, so the book of the former Grand Speaker should be published at this time.

The prestige of Van Siling Grant was much higher than that of Anthony who was kicked out of office.

On the one hand, he was the nephew of De Witt, who was skinned and eaten by the Dutch people. After the Dutch people skinned the Grand Speaker, it was understandable that they were angry because the French were about to break through the Netherlands, but someone in the future would eventually reverse the verdict.

On the other hand, apart from the kinship of this major event in Dutch history, when Van Siling Grant was the Grand Speaker, the Netherlands was generally rotten, but it avoided the war. Moreover, Van Siling Grant did try to reform. When he was the Grand Speaker, the Netherlands had not completely despaired of the regents.

Now those who write editorials are all anonymous.

People always have a strange view, such as celebrities, their farts must be louder than others. A person who is famous in profession A is often quoted in profession B.

And Vancelin Grant is both famous and a politician. The simple and direct translation of this book is actually called "Political Works", which is professionally matched.

At the same time, there is such a big gimmick: it will be published either fifty years after his death or when the Netherlands is in crisis.

Once this gimmick came out, all the editorials were immediately suppressed.

Including those Republican writers who wrote editorials to criticize and prepare for real federal autonomy, they temporarily stopped writing.

Everyone knows that the Orange Party must be counterattacking by throwing out this book at this time.

Although Vancelin Grant is the Grand Speaker, a Regent, and a Republican, the content of this book is very unfavorable to the Republicans when it is used by the Orange Party to counterattack.

All Republican writers are ready to buy this book and refute it after reading it. Otherwise, they have not even read it, and they are powerless to refute it.

After a few days of temporary calm, the entire Dutch writing community was no longer calm.

Facts have proved that politicians look at problems from different angles than those pure writers.

In this posthumous work, Van Siling Grant did not talk about freedom, God's will, virtue, etc. in a vague way.

Instead, he used detailed historical facts and history as a mirror to briefly describe the history of the Netherlands and came to a conclusion:

【Due to various realistic and historical factors, our ancestors did not establish an effective and powerful administrative system. 】

【The freedom of the Republic needs to be defended, otherwise it will be invaded by foreign countries. A nation invaded by foreign races cannot be said to be free anyway. 】

【To defend the freedom of the Republic, a strong and effective administrative system is needed. If a country's government does not even have the administrative ability to make decisions and execute decisions, it will not be able to guarantee the existence of the country and the nation in the world; internally, it will put the people in a dilemma of the law of the jungle and being deceived - the people will become puppets controlled by eloquent orators, and orators have always used empty words to describe the future they promised, but never consider everything in reality. 】

This "posthumous work" should be written after Van Silin Grant held a federal conference in 27 years to strengthen centralization, but it turned into a six-province attack on the Dutch province for managing too much.

Between the lines, there is full of dissatisfaction with the current system in the Netherlands. Loose, inefficient decision-making, non-centralized, provinces and even cities and towns are scattered...

The solution he gave is not to say that there is no debate, but the focus of the debate is who has the sovereignty of the country? Can part of the power in the hands of the people be transferred to the government? Should the Netherlands improve legislation instead of talking nonsense in the provinces all day long?

Of course, he is a big boss of the regent faction, and naturally a member of the republican faction.

There is not a single sentence in the whole book that says that the Netherlands needs a governor because of its special historical reasons. It is only necessary to clarify the concepts of sovereignty and legislation.

However, the fact that he did not say it explicitly does not mean that he did not mean this.

Any Dutch writer who has read this book can see that Vansling Grant’s meaning is very clear: the Netherlands needs centralization, a head of government with sufficient authority, to solve the various problems of the Netherlands and lay a solid foundation for the ultimate freedom of the Netherlands. Without this fully authoritative transitioner, the Netherlands will be divided or occupied by various countries. If even the Netherlands is divided and occupied, how can we talk about the Netherlands being the "bastion of freedom in Europe"?

However, given the special national conditions and historical reasons of the Netherlands, this group of people with the Orange family as the core are the most suitable to be this transitioner.

This is determined by historical factors. At least the Orange family still has prestige to be supported by the people. The true unification of the complete motherland and the construction of the nation are impossible for others.

These real things to express are why he chose to publish it fifty years after his death, or when there was a major crisis in the Netherlands.

After all, he was a republican from beginning to end during his lifetime. Including people within the republican faction, they never thought he was an Orangeman.

But his posthumous work seems to be satirizing the Republicans in every sentence.

This book was published at this critical juncture. After reading it, Kang Budai was quite impressed and thought that there were masters in the Orange Party.

Kang Budai did not agree with the content of this book.

But he agreed with the Orange Party's use of this as a means of counterattack and the use of this big move at this time.

This book seems to use the reputation of the deceased former Grand Speaker to support the Orange Party.

In fact, it is not.

Because, in the current situation, after the Hague Massacre, William IV has become stinky.

No one dared to say directly: Your Highness the Archon did a good job! It was wonderful! Don't be a starving corpse, so that friendly countries are surprised, you should be killed!

Including the Orange Party, they can only avoid the option of "supporting William".

And the significance of this book is that the Republicans who are now united and ready to seize the opportunity to get rid of William IV will first cause internal divisions before William IV steps down.

Normally, this kind of thing is also normal. For example, in France, the king's head was chopped off before the action began.

But the Dutch republicans were very complex, with different components and different ideas.

On the issue of centralization and decentralization, they can be directly divided into two, and the contradictions are quite deep.

Some republicans absolutely support centralization.

And they believe that the current priority of the Netherlands is to complete the unification of the motherland with seven provinces, complete the nation building, and survive and regain glory in the chaotic situation in Europe with a centralized and efficient government. The Dutch republicans have a dual mission, which is to defend the republic and complete the construction of the nation and the country, and they believe that the latter is more important than the former.

Some republicans are absolutely opposed to centralization.

After the Hague Massacre, the republicans were united as a whole, in order to overthrow the Orange Party.

But publishing this book at this time is to let the internal contradictions of the republicans, which should have erupted after William IV stepped down, erupt first.

If the enemy is in chaos first, the Orange Party will still have a chance.

The Orange faction has no chance now if the enemy is not in chaos.

The significance of publishing this book at this time, in addition to splitting the Republicans, has another purpose: to bring things to reason.

The Hague Massacre is a matter.

Centralization and decentralization are principles.

There is no way to talk about things. No matter how you talk, Orange is in the wrong.

Therefore, avoid things, talk about empty principles, and slowly dilute the Hague incident.

Moreover, the best thing is that Van Silin Grant is Anthony's guide, predecessor, and mentor. Anthony is Van Silin Grant's successor, which is well known.

The leader of the regent faction in the Republicans is Anthony. Although he was driven out of power because of the coup instigated by Liu Yu, his power and prestige are still there.

The publication of this book is forcing Anthony to express his position.

Because the decentralization faction in the Republicans will inevitably criticize the content of this book. Anthony can't pretend not to know, nor can he be a turtle at this time.

Of course, this is Kang Budai's understanding.

He thought from the perspective of the Dashun people. In Dashun, if the teacher is scolded and the students do not stand up, then even the opponent who scolds the teacher will despise the students.

But apart from this point, the centralists within the Republican Party must also stand up and speak. And once they stand up, the nature of the matter will change.

The cause of this incident itself was the Hague Massacre.

However, the decentralists within the Republican Party wanted to use this incident to directly smash the Dutch government.

As a result, the internal decentralists did this, but the Orange Party, which was already in a dead end, found a loophole for counterattack-as soon as Van Silin Grant's book came out, the decentralists would inevitably oppose it, and once the centralists supported it, the nature could be misinterpreted as: the centralists in the Republican Party supported William IV.

Even if the centralists supported centralization.

But at this time, supporting centralization can easily be distorted into supporting the consul.

And the consul happened to be William IV, who had just committed the Hague Massacre.

Centralization, decentralization, central government, local government, in the Netherlands, support or opposition is divided by region.

Centralists, no doubt, have the most provinces in the Netherlands. Because if there is centralization, the provinces in the Netherlands with the most developed economy will be the most advantageous.

The abolition of local protectionism and the abolition of the guild militia's boycott of foreign goods will inevitably be supported by the most developed provinces - this is different from the welfare system era in later generations. In the era of the welfare system, the most developed provinces always felt that they had suffered a great loss and could not lead. At this time, the Dutch business brains can still understand what a unified market and navy mean, and what a divided market and decentralized power mean.

Considering the Dutch problem from another angle, it can actually be understood as the "colonization" or "invasion" of the other six provinces by the Dutch province.

The taxes of the Dutch province account for more than half of the Netherlands. As long as the republicans and decentralizationists in the Netherlands break up, the Orange faction seems to have a chance to turn over.