New Shun 1730

If it is said that these emerging classes want to be institutionalized dogs of the imperial power, it is a special feature of the social structure and traditional power of Dashun.

Then, in terms of the common characteristics of capital, this group of people in Dashun is still completely in this circle.

The attitude towards the outside world is very clear.

Dashun's industrial capital has a certain good impression of British commercial capital and believes that it can cooperate.

But it has a standard life-and-death attitude towards European industrial capital.

Dashun's commercial capital reflects the extreme xenophobia of commercial capital under special circumstances.

They hate European industrial capital.

They also hate European commercial capital.

The reason is very simple, which is determined by the economic foundation of both sides.

Take Dashun's Western Trade Company as an example. They hate many people.

From the Danish East India Company to the French controlled economy.

The East India Companies of various countries and Dashun's industrial capital actually have a certain basis for cooperation.

For example, the British East India Company repeatedly showed goodwill to Dashun. The company has been striving for a series of policies such as reducing tea taxes and lifting the ban on cotton cloth in parliament.

However, because the country's industrial bourgeoisie and the land-locked wool aristocracy are too closely tied, the commercial capital of the East India Company, although it is easy to kill the country's industrial bourgeoisie, still cannot beat the land-locked aristocratic group.

The British East India Company is actually quite frustrated. It really wants to be a good comprador. It also spent a lot of money to advocate in the country that "increasing the import of oriental cotton cloth is very beneficial to the people of England."

But unfortunately, those nobles and those who run wool textile factories asked the East India Company, are we lords, gentry, and factory owners the people of England?

You, an East India Company that doesn't even have India, are you worthy of representing the people of England?

Therefore, the industrial bourgeoisie of Dashun felt that the British East India Company could actually represent the people of England.

But the problem is that they don't speak well and are useless.

As for Dashun's Western Trade Company, it is really the vanguard of imperialism.

I hate the British woolen light industry.

I also hate the British East India Company.

How wonderful it would be if there was no British East India Company?

Selling tea, silk, and porcelain are all monopolized by my own company. Wouldn't that be wonderful?

This is different from when Dashun went to Southeast Asia.

When it went to Southeast Asia, it was the Dutch commercial capital that eliminated its own industrial capital, so after Dashun went to Southeast Asia, it ended very smoothly.

Conquering Southeast Asia occupied by the Netherlands cleared all obstacles for Sino-Dutch "friendship".

It's different now.

If there is a real fight, it will be a decisive battle between the Dashun bourgeoisie and the British bourgeoisie.

There is no compromise.

It is impossible to go down to Southeast Asia.

The East India Company must die.

The British textile industry must also die.

There is no room for compromise.

This is completely different from the previous war in the northwest of Dashun.

From the perspective of national strategy, Dashun’s previous war in the northwest was indeed to save more money and benefit the Jiangnan region in the long run.

But the merchant class in the Jiangnan region had no interest in this. Capital was not interested in the century-long plan, and it might not even have much interest in the ten-year plan.

Of course, the result is here. Dashun’s use of troops in the northwest fed the Shaanxi capital group, which had already failed in the competition in Jiangnan. They made money from Dashun’s use of troops in the northwest, and now they are "racing for land" in the southwest and northwest, engaging in well salt and pawnshops, and are very busy.

But what benefits did Jiangnan capital get? It can be said that apart from the important significance of national security and defense against aggression, Jiangnan capital has no benefits.

Now Liu Yu has begun to drum up support for the First World War, and these people’s support for the war is hundreds and thousands of times better than the use of troops in the northwest.

For capital, taking Nanyang as an example:

Investing huge sums of money in construction to make everyone in Nanyang rich and thus expand the market is also a way.

But capital is definitely not interested.

Let alone Nanyang, they are not interested in making everyone in the country rich, expanding domestic demand, expanding the market, and improving the circulation, let alone Nanyang.

Therefore, for these capitals, those lands without people are worthless. Even if it is land like Oceania, they don’t want it now, it is purely a loss of money.

Those backward civilized areas are worthless.

What they like are rich areas with thousands of years of accumulation, agricultural and handicraft foundations, and money in their hands.

In this way, their products can be sold and they can make money.

In short, you come to build; we go to make money.

The current situation, the reality at this time, is the price revolution caused by the gold and silver mines in the Americas. Dashun is the end point of the spread, so it has caused a price difference of two to three times.

In other words, let alone the handicraft level of Dashun, it is still the world leader.

Even if it is not leading, but at the average level, it still has a destructive impact on Europe. That is to say, as Hume said, unless Europe increases trade with Asia and brings China's per capita silver reserves to European levels, there is no possibility of "fair" free trade.

However, in order to practice the concept of free trade, is it feasible to open up domestic tariffs, allow European silver to flow to China for another 3 billion taels, and embrace free trade at the cost of destroying domestic industry?

Therefore, the upcoming war will be much more tragic than the Seven Years' War in history.

The outbreak of the First World War was already doomed.

The three major contradictions in Europe have not been resolved at all.

Added to this is the irreconcilable contradiction between the Dashun Capital Group and the three major forces of the British industrial and commercial land-grabbing aristocracy.

Who represents Britain now?

The common people do not have much say now.

The British industrial capital group, commercial capital group, and aristocratic forces are actually the entire ruling class of Britain, that is, the entire Britain.

The strange fusion of Dashun's imperial power, military aristocrats, officer corps, and emerging classes has made the contradiction between part of Dashun's ruling class and the British ruling class irreconcilable.

As for the remaining majority of Dashun's ruling class, it has nothing to do with them. They have not been involved in the world market or the capitalist economic system. Just watch the show throughout.

So, it seems to be a "national war" between Dashun and Britain.

In fact, it is Jiangsu Province that is pulling Guandong, Nanyang, Dengzhou Prefecture, Wuyi Mountain, and Jingdezhen to go to war with Britain.

The rest are watching the show, and they have nothing to do with it.

This is not a lie, but it really has nothing to do with it.

Whether they win or lose, it doesn't matter.

The people on both sides of the canal from Funing to Nantong are middle-class people who read newspapers and care about the situation of the war, which directly affects their future income.

The people of Henan, even if they are stable self-employed farmers, will not feel the existence of the war. Whether they win or lose, within ten years, it will not have the slightest impact on the grain prices there.

Maybe, the children at home are naughty and use bamboo poles to poke the swallow's nest under the eaves, which is more important than this war.

And the mode of this war itself, for Dashun, must be a war mode with limited delivery forces, a small number of elite standing troops, a maximum delivery scale of 5,000 people, and naval battles everywhere.

This means that in this war, Dashun can demonstrate a strong mobilization force.

Because the main force of mobilization that is meaningful to the war is around Liu Yu, and with the peripherals, there are only two or three hundred people.

That is, the two or three hundred families of the emerging bourgeoisie of Dashun.

Compared with the previous war model, there is no mobilization at all, or it is impossible to integrate national forces for mobilization.

Completely different.

In this war, Dashun can be regarded as entering the threshold of a "modern state".

Liu Yu took the opportunity of his impending departure from Jiangsu to carry out pre-war mobilization as if to "arrange his affairs".

This is neither abrupt nor surprising, or directly affects investment fluctuations.

Because he keeps talking about class interests on weekdays, trying to make the bourgeoisie of Dashun understand where their interests lie.

Moreover, this time, starting with the reform of the salt administration and the reform of the canal, he also stood firmly on the side of the big capitalists in the Jiangsu reform.

Cruel repression at home.

Plundering and plundering abroad.

Creating bankrupt farmers.

Creating cheap labor.

Advocate that the "debt contract long-term workers" in distant colonies are reasonable.

Resolutely crack down on the just demands of the literati for "cheap rice hurts farmers".

He did a lot and said a lot, which had a subtle influence on weekdays. At this time, facing these forces that should be mobilized, it was surprisingly harmonious to say some "aftermath arrangements" that sounded extremely aggressive.

He lured these people to express their respective demands. Of course, they did not dare to mention domestic affairs.

And the demands of these people, in summary, are roughly:

Cancel the British East India Company's trading house and trade rights.

Occupy India.

Destroy India's cotton textile industry and have India provide cotton.

Increase smuggling to Europe and North America.

Open European tariffs.

The court sent out a naval fleet to visit Persia, sign a trade agreement, and squeeze out Europeans.

Japan expanded trade and deepened the opening of ports.

Resolutely crack down on pirates in the South Seas, leaving no one behind.

Recover Macau, completely drive out the Portuguese forces in the South Seas, and attack Mozambique by the way to occupy the gold producing areas and ivory trade.

Signed an agreement with Spain to allow trade in South America and was willing to pay Spain appropriate privileged trade fees.

Generally speaking, their demands, their enthusiasm for these demands, and their implicit willingness to pay if the court was willing to do so were basically consistent with the established diplomatic and strategic policies of Dashun.

The enemy targets of the temple calculation were Britain and Portugal.

As for the rest, whether it was Luosha or France, there were no major contradictions in the general direction.

Even if there were some inconsistencies, they were all minor contradictions.

For example, Jinghai Company hoped to impose heavy tariffs on French fur because French North American fur affected their interests. If they could snatch Siberian fur from the Shanxi people, they would definitely want to impose a 200% tariff on French fur.

There were of course many similar minor contradictions. But in the general direction, these people who needed to be mobilized, or who had a meaningful mobilization, were basically consistent with the strategic diplomatic situation of Dashun's temple calculation.