New Shun 1730

From this perspective, they have their own opinions on Liu Yu's many reforms.

This kind of state power as the "midwife" includes colonization, heavy taxation, national debt, protection system, monopoly, administrative monopoly, etc.

Many of Dashun's reforms in recent years have all revolved around these few items - including the tax reform implemented by Liu Yu in Songsu, which was never "heavy tax to light tax". On the contrary, he changed the "three agricultural taxes" Ten taxes and one tax have been reduced to nine taxes and one, or even eight taxes and one."

Another example is the protection system that is part of the "national force... midwife". People of the Dashun New School, when listening to Liu Yu's words, believe that it is Colbertism, British navigation regulations, and the British destruction of Ireland's wool. The textile industry transformed itself from wool-twisting to wool-producing…

Then, Liu Yu showed off his backhand in Dashun.

Guangdong trade was closed, and Fujian tea was forced not to be exported privately, but had to be transferred to Songsu for export; immigrants from the Northeast tried to grow cotton in Shenyang, but Liu Yu backhandedly launched a wave of dumping and pressure from other countries, directly destroying the cotton in Shenyang. The planting industry has semi-forcedly promoted the development of the soybean industry.

For example, before the outbreak of the war, the development and prosperity of the textile industry in Saxony was forcibly promoted through direct investment and subsidies from the government.

The same thing is that Liu Yu made the trading company specialize in additional obligations and terms, relying on government investment and administrative monopoly - either buy heavily loaded merchant ships from the emerging shipyards in the Bohai Bay, or get out. If you don't do it, others will do it. If you don't do it, others will. Buying heavily equipped merchant ships, not training sailors, and not allowed to participate in Japanese and European trade—forced to boost the shipbuilding industry in the Bohai Bay. Of course, this also includes forced enclosure of land for cotton cultivation in northern Jiangsu, as well as tax exemptions and subsidies, etc.

Basically, in the view of the new school, Liu Yu, the "midwife", had consistent ideas and pointed out the direction for them.

Because, [through this method, manufacturers are "artificially" created, independent workers and small producers are deprived of it, and the means of production and means of production are "artificially accelerated" in capitalization]

It seems that all these changes do not involve ideology, so the conservative Confucianists in Dashun would rather devote their main energy to confronting the Yan and Li School. In this matter, Liu Yu did something very unethical. He pulled Yan Li School, he felt that the two sides were mortal enemies from the beginning, but he insisted on pulling up the people of the Yan and Li schools to serve as a shield for himself, allowing the Yan and Li schools to attract output from the front - and conservative Confucianism had no regard for Liu Yu's new school. , it is not taken too seriously. It is just an evil path that is mainly based on magic and is regarded as "overbearing". Its priority is obviously lower than that of shouting "Retro Confucianism" and "equalizing land is the best benevolent government in the world" all day long. Yan Li school of thought.

However, it is obvious that people in these new schools of learning only learn half of what they are learning, because those who teach do not teach the other half.

For example, Liu Yu only taught half of some crucial words, which were essentially the root of the post-war differences between China and France.

The full sentence is:

[Industrial hegemony brings commercial hegemony, and commercial capital is a vassal of industrial capital, after machine production occurs]

[But in the period of factory handicrafts, it was commercial hegemony that created industrial advantages, and commercial hegemony was achieved by relying on state power, such as colonization, monopoly, protection, etc.]

[In this process, "a wild priest" quietly placed himself on the altar, side by side with the old idols, hiding his own light. 】

[As a result, suddenly one day, this wild man worshiped the gods. He pushed hard, causing all the old idols to fall down and smash to pieces. He became the only true god, and then announced that making money, value of goods, profits , is the ultimate and only purpose of mankind]

Obviously, Liu Yu will never teach the second half.

Because if that half is taught and explained clearly, then even if there are Yan and Li schools who were pulled by Liu Yu to the front row to resist harm, the new learning, as well as many things that are changing at this time, will become conservative and old. The priority targets of the forces.

Gods and idols have changed, and values ​​have changed. Is this okay? This is even scarier than the fucking Yan-Li School. The Yan-Li School is at most a matter of "from the inside out" or "from the outside in." The values ​​are the same, it's just a matter of which way to go.

Xinxue, the "god of the wild road", wants to tear down all the other idols and replace them with a new set. This is the real enemy.

If the second half is not taught, it is naturally impossible to teach it.

The first half of the teaching, as well as Dashun’s productivity base and production efficiency at this time, the wage level of global silver monetization, and the labor cost under the population explosion... also contributed to the fact that this time the war between China and France has not yet started. After all, the fundamental reason why the differences are about to explode.

Dashun is seeking commercial hegemony east of the Cape of Good Hope, especially in the Indian region.

That is to say: areas where commercial capital gains dominance must implement a robbery system - a collective name for robbery systems such as forced buying low and selling high, forced planting, forced acquisition, etc.

East of the Cape of Good Hope, especially in Europe, the logic is industrial hegemony.

This is not to say that industrial hegemony is superior to commercial hegemony... but that commercial hegemony is based on national strength, and Dashun's national strength is so strong that even Poland can't beat it at home in Europe, because it can't transport so many People, let alone Britain and France.

Without national strength, there would be no commercial hegemony.

For example, Dashun in India can be forced to collect cotton at low prices because Dashun has troops, fleets, cannons, muskets, and explosives stationed in India...

As for Dashun, could merchants go to Britain to force them to buy wool at a low price? If you don’t get beaten, who can you send it to? Why should we sell it to you at a low price? You don’t have an army stationed there, so you can’t kill them if they don’t obey.

So, if it’s just based on the logic of commercial hegemony, is Dashun so idle that it has to cross the Cape of Good Hope?

The Cape of Good Hope is the limit of Dashun’s military power that can achieve commercial hegemony at this time. If you cross the Cape of Good Hope, basically no one can beat it. Even if you can beat it, the cost of colonization will drag Dashun to death.

And the current reality of Dashun, or the reality of the Sino-French alliance, is that Dashun has gone to Europe.

What is going to Europe for?

Naturally, it’s based on the logic of industrial hegemony.

What is the logic of industrial hegemony?

I don’t care whether it’s the British Navigation Regulations, the French Navigation Regulations, or the Spanish Navigation Regulations. I only oppose the Navigation Regulations, not a certain country.

Any form of navigation regulations - the negotiations with Spain were a compromise and concession, nothing more than a middleman through the Spanish royal family, and in essence, Dashun was still selling goods to the Spanish colonies.

Going deeper, what is the reason why Dashun is now so comfortable in Europe?

Because of the division of Europe, there is no real hegemon.

And tariff protection, industrial protection, colonial commercial hegemony and other things are based on national strength.

Therefore, Dashun has its own views on the post-war pattern, and of course it is a view that is beneficial to Dashun's industrial hegemony.

In this, although Liu Yu had actually laid out for a long time in advance, trying to cut off Europe, and trying to let Dashun take advantage of the balance of power in Europe - it is the balance of power in Europe, which does not include Dashun - so that Dashun can use limited military forces to become the arbitrator of Europe and ensure that European countries are unable to resist Dashun's industrial hegemony.

The earliest layout here is the North American ginseng and mink trade.

If this incident had not happened, from the perspective of France, the Seven Years' War would obviously have been a war that they wanted to throw away Canada and keep Guadeloupe and other Caribbean islands.

France is not without experts in this regard:

[The existence of French Canada makes it unlikely that the British in the thirteen states of North America will rise up in rebellion, but will instead promote their centripetal force towards London. ]

[When the British drove the French out of North America and the lobster soldiers defeated the rebellious Indians, the rebellion of the North American colonies was about to come. ]

It must be said that there are strategists in the French government.

And the basis of this strategy is French North America. Before Liu Yu tried his best to promote the development of the ginseng and sable fur trade - as well as the founding history of Dashun itself, the Liaodong immigration caused by the psychological shadow of the last years of the previous dynasty, and the rapid disappearance of wild ginseng in Liaodong after the immigration, and the ginseng myth promoted by the Donglu trade of the previous dynasty - before these things, France's attitude towards North America was really "tasteless to eat, but a pity to abandon".

It is "a few acres of snow".

It is "a colony that doesn't make money and has to pay for it".

In addition, Liu Yu's three perspectives enabled him to see the various economic contradictions between the thirteen states of North America and Britain.

He looked at it from the perspective of class, industry, and trade.

So, he could see some things.

But, he also couldn't see some things.

And what he couldn't see was exactly what the French could see.

Because, he... wasn't a Christian.

So, Liu Yu could only look at it from the perspective of class, industry, and trade.

But it was impossible to understand things like "Protestantism", "Puritanism", "Anglican Church", "religious metaphors", "Promised Land", "Egypt's tyranny and God's chosen people's exodus from Egypt".

However, the French saw it too clearly from this perspective, because the French had been struggling with the Protestant and Old Church issues for almost two hundred years.

It was like... at this time, a Frenchman, even a missionary who had been in Dashun for a long time and was proficient in Confucianism, couldn't figure out what these people were fighting for from Yangming's School of Mind in the late Ming Dynasty to the Yanli School at this time.

Similarly, Liu Yu, who only read the Bible for a few days and only considered Christianity as a story, could not understand the religious conflict between the Thirteen States of North America and Britain.

In the words of the Dashun side, this is "not a simple local rebellion, but a dispute over the orthodoxy of the Taoism and orthodoxy."

In other words, it is another dispute over the "world orthodoxy" of Christianity after the Great Split of the Eastern and Western Churches into Eastern Catholicism.

Who is orthodoxy?

What story does the "man-made myth" of "Mayflower" - in this respect, like the Dutch Batavia myth, both are man-made national myths - tell?

Liu Yu could not understand it.

People of the Dashun New School could not understand it either.

Or, what they saw was just what they thought they understood, and they interpreted it blindly according to their own experience and tradition.

However, the French understood it quite well.

The myth of "Mayflower" tells such a story:

The Egyptian Pharaoh saw that the Israelites were increasing in number and was afraid that it would affect his rule, so he designed to harm them. The Pharaoh enslaved them and made them engage in industry and commerce. The hard work of industry and commerce actually increased the Hebrew population. Pharaoh ordered that all male children born to the Israelites be thrown into the river and drowned... (Puritans and Separatists were persecuted).

So Moses went to the promised land under the guidance of God. But on the way to the promised land, many people doubted, so God punished them to wander in the wilderness for forty years... (The Puritans left England in 1608 and went to the Netherlands. Until they left the Netherlands, they were punished by God to wander in the wilderness).

Finally, after the pain of wandering in the wilderness, God's chosen people signed a covenant and finally arrived at the promised land - a group of retro fundamentalist Puritans. They must restore Israel and exist, because in the prophecy, the restoration and existence of Israel is a prerequisite for "the Last Judgment and the advent of the Apocalypse".

If not, then according to the Book of Exodus, create a new "promised land".

On the Dashun side, in the new school, what they think they understand is nothing more than "village covenant" and "contract".

In fact, at this time, the French may say: You understand a hammer. How can you understand it in a country that bans Christianity?

Do you understand Christianity?

Do you understand better than me, a Catholic country that has imprisoned the Pope, issued Protestant pardons and Protestant edicts, participated in the Thirty Years' War, and still fucking stood on the side of Protestantism?

This is a dispute over orthodoxy.

France's attitude has always been quite clear: The world? The Christian world? None of my business, I just want to be the overlord, not the emperor of the Christian world. The Orthodox Church is not allowed, the Pope of Rome is not allowed, the Anglican Church is not allowed, and Protestantism is not allowed. Tear it apart, there is no orthodoxy, or everyone thinks they are orthodox, this is the attitude of France.

It is a tradition, and it can ally with the Ottomans to blaspheme and arrest the Pope.

It is also enlightenment, saying that Notre Dame was smashed and then turned around to become the Temple of Reason.

France would rather let a new "orthodoxy" rise in America to compete with the traditional orthodoxy in Europe, because it seems that there is no big problem now.

But Dashun does not like this.

At least, since Liu Yu began to guide the ginseng trade, his idea for America was to recreate a divided Europe, divided among four countries with balanced power, making it easier to fish in troubled waters.