New Shun 1730

This kind of thing has happened all the time and is nothing new.

As the economy continues to develop, business continues to prosper, and the urban industrial and commercial class becomes stronger, then this split and reshuffle will come sooner.

If you play well and win the bet, then Britain will have a smooth transition.

If the game fails, the story of the Philippines will be played out here. The people would rather choose the conservative nobles than support the industrial and commercial radicals.

The Whig party split after the Excise Act was itself a product of British economic development, and urban industrialists and merchants needed their own spokespersons.

Otherwise, the small circle run by the Temple family alone would not have such great influence.

Lao Ma said that the Whigs were aristocratic representatives of the middle class of industry and commerce. Since the bourgeoisie surrendered the monopoly of government and state offices to the aristocratic oligarchy of the Whigs, the latter made all the concessions to the bourgeoisie that the course of social and political development had shown to be necessary and urgent. and help the bourgeoisie achieve these concessions.

Nothing more and nothing less.

Whenever the Whigs took such measures as a last resort, they loudly claimed that historical progress had reached its limit and the development of society as a whole had reached its ultimate goal, and then they "clinged" to this On the "top"...

The Whig Party split triggered by the Excise Tax Act is essentially the "limit" and "ultimate" of "historical progress has reached its limit, and the development of the entire society has reached its ultimate goal." In the end, The question is where.

In other words, the label "Patriot Party" was given to them by others, and it was something they voluntarily accepted and were proud of.

So, whose Britain is the Britain that the "Patriot Party" loves?

A country must have a ruling class. The key question is, whose Britain is this? Whose interests should be the main focus of this British policy?

There is no general and abstract Britain. In fact, among the 6 million British people, only 430,000 are legally considered people at this time, and the rest are not.

And among these 430,000 people, there are many interests.

Is the House of Hanover the German royal family of England?

Is it the UK of the landed aristocracy who live on land rent?

A Britain with monopolistic political families surrounding a small circle of kings?

Is it the British East India Company and other monopolistic commercial bourgeoisie?

Is it Britain's middle-class urban industrialists and merchants?

West Indies merchants of Britain?

And, are those Anglos in North America British?

These issues are the root causes of partisanship in Britain at this time.

The Patriot Party itself was a splinter from the Whig Party. They also started out by opposing Walpole and Walpole's subsequent governments, and they have always claimed that they represent "real British interests."

In fact, the real Britain they talk about is the interests of the capital groups that made fortunes due to the war. Including the Jenkins Ear War and the fanatical global strategy, they are all guided by the interests of commercial capital.

But it is undeniable that, politically, they were more progressive than the conservative Whigs, the Tories, or the King of Hanover in Germany, who wanted sovereignty to rest with the king.

After all, the aristocratic landowners and royal power still held the dominant position at this time. Now is not the time to say this is a piece of shit.

John Mordaunt's final revenge was not only a revenge for personal grudges, but also a political revenge to "eliminate heresy" after the split within the Whig Party.

The core of the Patriot Party is the Temple family, the Grenville family, the Lyttelton family, which are branches of the Temple family, and the Pitt family, which are allied with and promoted by the Temple family under the special British property rights inheritance law.

In the words of George III later: (These four families) are related to each other and must always either exercise arbitrary rule or (if they cannot rule) fiercely oppose the government! They wanted to be a clan, a clan that would rule Britain.

To a certain extent, what this group of "Patriot Party" actually pursues is more like becoming "a legal Cromwell with a traditional aura."

Because the Industrial Revolution has not yet broken out, and because the political ideas of the British bourgeoisie are not strong enough - if they were strong enough, they would not take off their pants and fart to hang out with the Whig Party. The Whig Party is nothing to the bourgeoisie. In other words, the value of its existence lies in the existence of a Tory party of the landed aristocracy. When the Tory party disappears, the Whig party will also disappear - so, because they are not strong enough, the urban industrial and commercial class would rather place their hopes on a party that strives to become a Enter the Cromwellian figure.

In turn, these patriot parties also knew the source of their strength - neither the landed aristocracy nor the German Hanoverian royal family, but the urban industrial and commercial class.

After excluding the big capital and the people in the financial streets, the class attributes of the remaining urban industrial and commercial class determine their fanaticism, weakness, and initiative in defending their own interests.

John Mordaunt, who had experienced the Jenkins Ear incident, understood the characteristics of the people that the Patriots took advantage of.

I understand both their fanaticism and their weakness.

Having experienced the public incitement of the Jenkins Ear incident - War! Total war! Otherwise, you are betraying your country! ——Then, if this incident is to incite public opinion, it must be the loyalty, bravery, and persistence of the garrison of Gibraltar that make people cry.

The image of these defenders in his composition is more loyal, more heroic, and more they still stick to their posts in despair.

Then, the cabinet that "killed" them, the ministers of state who did not help them, and those who led the war to failure, are more hateful and deserve to die.

And then, a scene on the battlefield gave John Mordaunt enough inspiration and enough feelings, and his writing was brilliant and made people feel like they were there.

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The battlefield is like a kind of fate.

More than a hundred years ago, the defeat of the Spanish in the Battle of Rocroi announced the end of the Spanish era.

In Rocroi more than a hundred years ago, the last desperate square formed by the Spanish was surrounded by the enemy, and the square was blasted from all directions with cannons, and finally turned into a massacre after the formation was broken.

At this moment, it was just like that moment.

The combat engineers who penetrated into the isthmus and captured the British camp, together with the main force of the defenders on the Dashun side, completed the encirclement of the 2,500 British troops who attacked.

There is sea on both sides.

It was the gunboats of the Dashun and French navies that occupied the sea that controlled the sea.

To the south, the main force of the Dashun in its own camp was outflanking the British army that had not broken through the trench artillery from both wings of the isthmus.

To the north, there were multiple battalions of well-trained and fast-moving elite engineers.

More than 2,500 British troops had to form a square formation in desperation, hoping that the commander in the rear could win them a chance to surrender with honor.

At this time, forming a square formation was absolutely wrong.

However, if the square formation was not formed, there would be no need to fight this battle. Despair and loss of morale, if the formation was not formed again, it would be a rout and a massacre blocked by people in the isthmus.

The remaining 2,000 British troops formed three hollow square formations, where they defended the attack of the Dashun army motionlessly.

At this time, the morale of the army had been completely dispersed, and it was all thanks to the hard training of officers and the memory of sticks in daily life that the basic formation was maintained.

The commander of the Dashun side, like the French army in Rocroi more than a hundred years ago, did not choose to use infantry to charge the phalanx.

Of course, the Dashun did not have regular cavalry in Gibraltar, so it was impossible to use cavalry to charge.

Instead, they chose the same method as the French back then.

They began to move a large number of artillery forward, obviously preparing to aim at the British phalanx at close range, and use the phalanx's nemesis cannon to completely blow up the phalanx.

The surrounded British army was desperate and motionless, and could only watch the Dashun artillery drag their shiny or black cannons out of the artillery embarrassment little by little and move forward.

This fateful scene gave John Mordaunt great inspiration and endless feelings. He used the metaphor, fate, and biblical fusion of the popular British style at this time to depict a tragic scene that the British could empathize with.

Many times, cultural barriers are insurmountable.

The British know what the British can empathize with.

Just as non-Christian countries cannot understand the metaphors of the Exodus, the wilderness, the covenant of God, the promised land, and the irreversible in the Mayflower Compact.

This kind of fateful, desperate, and tragic scene is exactly the scene that can move British public opinion.

This scene needs a perfect curtain call.

Surrender and avoid death, this is not a perfect curtain call.

The perfect curtain call should be that the square was completely blown away by the artillery of Dashun. In order to defend Britain and the state religion, 2,500 people spit at the Dashun officers who persuaded them to surrender, and cursed in a manic and low-level language: Eat shit, pagan!

Then, the commander who witnessed all this in the fortress on the mountain committed suicide by drinking a bullet.

This is the perfect curtain call.

So John Mordaunt did not give the order to surrender, even though he saw that Dashun had dragged the 24-pound heavy artillery and the large-caliber mortars used for siege to 200 steps away from the besieged square.