New Shun 1730

Whether it is the royal party or the Whig patriot party, the mainstream opinions of both sides have chosen the tendency to seek peace. The internal factors are naturally dominant.

The internal class factors are the root of their consistency in the direction of seeking peace.

These politicians know clearly which people can sell, which people cannot sell, which people should be stabilized, and which people can be suppressed.

These internal factors determine "how to make peace".

Other factors determine "war or peace".

Apart from those economic factors, war or peace, more often, depends on whether you can win. If you can win, war will naturally have the upper hand.

But even if it seems that the British Channel Fleet still has the strength to fight, in fact, neither the royal party nor the Whig party dares to fight.

This is different from the era when Britain fought a decisive battle against Spain, or later the battle of Trafalgar.

In the Trafalgar era, the Hanoverian royal family had completely secured its position. The Stuart family was basically extinct. The Jacobites in the country have died out and have completely lost the ability to rebel.

After the Industrial Revolution, all the citizens who can speak out, have a certain influence and economic strength in Britain are immersed in the happiness of the country's prosperity. It will not be like this now. The Tories and the old dynasty forces still have the ability to open the gates and welcome the king's army.

So, at that time, what was there to be afraid of if we lost the war? Millions of people were mobilized, and no one led the way and no one welcomed the king's army. What was there to be afraid of?

Now, the Whigs and the royalists dare not lose. If they lose the naval battle, it will be all over. There are really people leading the way, and there are really people who will welcome the king's army.

To a certain extent, this period can also be regarded as the influence period of the British royal family's "illegal acquisition of the country", and those big businessmen monopolized the monopoly and made most people hate them, such as the Scottish people rioting to protect smugglers and strangle officers; for example, ordinary people wanted to drive the king back to Germany to grow potatoes because of the price increase of wine.

The national conditions, merchant power, rural and urban power of Britain and China make it so that if Britain wants to destroy the Dashun royal family, cause domestic unrest, and implement equal retaliation, and wants to achieve the results of Dashun's hijacking and harassing trade... it has to send people to Dashun's rural areas to shout the slogan of equal distribution of land and start an uprising, unite the rural areas with the spirit of saints, and start an uprising at the level of the Tianchao land system. Otherwise, it is impossible to retaliate equally.

Because Britain has developed trade, Dashun's trade can directly cause unrest in Britain.

Because Dashun's rural areas are vast, Britain can only achieve the effect of Dashun's trade equalization by sending people to the rural areas to preach and revolt.

After all, there is France opposite Britain, and Korea next to Dashun... France can really enter London as long as it crosses the strait, but Korea can't really reach the capital after crossing the Yalu River.

Under this difference, on the one hand, the front-line officers on the navy side, in the previous naval battle where Bosken was killed, recognized the technical and tactical level of Dashun. Not to mention the technical details such as the flintlock, the tactical system of breaking the line decisive battle and interweaving the columns to hit the tail made these front-line officers believe that this was a tough opponent.

This was not the French fleet that aimed to "exist as a deterrent", hit the mast, grab the leeward, and run away. It was a navy full of mental patients, lunatics, drunkards, villains, murderers, felons, and cannibals, just like the British Navy, which could throw the living comrades directly into the sea to feed the sharks without blinking. It was absolutely a first-class navy at this time.

On the other hand, it was really impossible to win and there was no way to retaliate in kind, and the hot winds of China blown by the missionaries made it impossible for Britain to determine the real war potential of Dashun. A country with a population of 6 million people, according to its own mobilization capacity, squeezing capacity and tax efficiency, thinks about a country of more than 200 to 300 million people, which often produces huge cognitive biases.

Liu Yu has been advocating for the fake free trade that he distorted. One of the arguments is that Dashun's tax revenue is low, which greatly caters to the French Physiocrats and the British anti-consumption tax school.

His data is correct, it is indeed low, but in fact it is "incompetence" rather than "deliberately light taxation".

Therefore, Britain will definitely misjudge Dashun's war potential with its world-leading tax capacity of 14% of GNP.

Indeed, every family has its own problems.

But just as Dashun could not understand the metaphor of the Exodus, how could Britain know the problems of Dashun's family?

This is roughly the situation in Britain at this time.

Want to make peace.

And can make peace.

And the group with the strongest political power wants to make peace and can accept peace.

The world is dynamic.

If it were thirty years later, Dashun would not be able to scare Britain with the class situation, royal recognition, and political stability in Britain, and Britain would definitely choose to gamble on a decisive battle at sea. If the militia is mobilized, there is no need to worry about the landlord welcoming the king's army.

Thirty years later than these thirty years, when the economic foundation and class structure of Britain had reached the point where workers stood up against the Corn Laws and launched the Charter Movement, it was even more impossible for Dashun to expect to directly discuss the issue of trade dumping.

At this time, the two major forces in British politics could not know the future, but they understood the present.

It was just that the split of the Whig Party and the rise of the opposition caused by the Tory Party's ban led to a strange trend in British politics.

Oppose for the sake of opposition.

Opposing any decision of the government is the best way to gain fame and influence.

It is precisely because of this trend that the two sides have basically the same ideas about the war and peace itself; but both sides need to spend more time on who proposed these conditions, who took the blame, who supported and who opposed, and when to support and when to oppose.

Pitt, who had talked with Grenville, did not know the specific actions of the royal party, but he knew that the royal party would definitely use the fact that China and France sent prisoners to create some public opinion and lay the foundation for overthrowing the current cabinet.

The room was empty. Pitt drove out the rest of the people, including the servants, and locked himself in the room.

He understood that the Patriot Party, or the Temple family, wanted to cut off ties with him at this time. And he hoped that Pitt would exert his last strength before the cut.

The promise was that the alliance between the three branches of the Temple family and the Pitt family would continue. After all, they were real relatives and would protect Pitt's children. If they were good enough, they could also let them go into politics.

Every family has its own difficulties, and Pitt was well aware of the difficulties of Britain, so he could climb to this position as a "big commoner". Of course, in Britain, the concept of civilians is different from that of Dashun. The concept of civilians is different from that of British field marshals and nobles.

He is now very clear about the domestic situation in Britain, and he also knows that those who once fanatically supported his policy of all-out war have basically turned. Only the group of people in the East India Company are still fanatically supporting him, but at this time, the support of the East India Company is a burden to him, because the rumors released by the Chinese are that the radical policies of the East India Company in India have led to the security anxiety of the Chinese Empire, which led to the all-out war.

Grenville's betrayal, which is so high-sounding, is actually just because the new king has extended an olive branch to him.

As a veteran in the political arena, what kind of person is Pitt? How could he be fooled by those high-sounding nonsense?

This is an obvious means of division and disintegration, because their Patriot Party started by criticizing the government. The new king won over Grenville because he didn't want all the Patriots to follow Pitt to oppose the government again and become a core of opposition to the government.

At this time, letting him take the blame for the war and proposing a peace plan that seemed to be completely opposite to the previous radical war was just using him to put pressure on the royalist forces.

John Mordaunt, who committed suicide in Gibraltar, wrote an essay that was quite unfavorable to Pitt, and it was obvious that he wanted to lead Pitt from the issue of "cabinet distrust" to the issue of "naval and land commander dereliction of duty".

The former is to step down.

The latter can be sentenced to death according to the treason law and the law of war.

Grenville asked him to propose a peace plan, which was to force the royal party to play a card.

Because this peace plan will be supported by some people.

Once this card is played, the new cabinet organized by the royal party must leave enough space for the Patriot Party. Even if the prime minister is basically determined to be Lord Bute, positions such as the Southern Minister and the Northern Minister must be stuck.

But Pitt must go down.

Because if the war continued, then Pitt would not be responsible. At least before the devastating defeat, Pitt could put the blame on those who opposed him - I wanted to continue to expand the war, you opposed it, so I lost, right? During the Jenkins Ear War, I said that the navy should be reformed and the scale of shipbuilding should be expanded, right? You opposed it.

And if the war did not continue, and a ceasefire and a treaty were signed, then Pitt would be responsible. It was he who proposed the terms and direction of the ceasefire, which proved that he believed that the war was lost under his leadership, so he must be responsible.

How they dealt with Walpole in the past, those who opposed him would deal with him now.

At this moment, Pitt was just quietly flipping through the articles that were leaked or deliberately spun from the Dashun side, satirizing him.

Especially those articles that evaluated him as "an antique among conservatives", "the spiritual executor of Cromwell's policy", and "regarding the colonial trade system of the Navigation Act as the end of history, and only looking for ways in this cognition of the end of history".

At this time, Cromwell's reputation in Britain was similar to that of Wang Anshi or Wang Yangming in the Confucian circle. When the envoys of the Kingdom of Korea heard that these people were going to be honored in the Confucius Temple, they all exclaimed that the world was doomed.

If anyone had said that in the past, Pete would have definitely blasted back.

But now, he could only remain silent.

He assumed that these articles were written by his real opponents who were of similar status to him in the Dashun side. Although he was depressed by such an evaluation, he at least felt that this was someone who was qualified to evaluate him.

In fact, he didn't know that these things were not written by Liu Yu, but by some radicals of the Dashun School of Realism, who were influenced by the way of thinking that had been subtly instilled over the years.

This is a kind of crushing, a kind of ruthlessness of "second- and third-rate people, relying on new systems, thinking, and methodology, crushing first-rate people in the old era."

It's like a group of second- and third-rate people in the Dashun New School whose learning ability, memory, IQ, etc. are much worse than those imperial examination students who fought for the imperial examination essays, but they can crush those first-rate embryos and real jade in trade, economy and other knowledge.

If Pete knew the truth, he would probably vomit blood and die. But he didn't know the truth, so he consoled himself with a thought like "it's not unfair to lose to such a person", and smiled slightly at those ruthless but fitting ridicules.