New Shun 1730

In addition to the above reasons, there is another awkward religious factor, or a very funny factor, for the Quakers to welcome the Dashun army.

Yes, it is funny.

Pennsylvania was founded by a group of Quakers who believed in one thing: they could establish a sacred place with religious tolerance and different sects living together peacefully.

This is a very famous "holy experiment" in the history of Christianity.

Quakers oppose any form of war, including military service. In later generations, they did not serve in the military, and would rather refuse to serve in the military and go to jail than serve in the military.

It is quite strange. It is the only sect that really lives in peace with the Indians, swears peace with the Indians, and actually treats the Indians as human beings.

Then, the experiment failed in less than eight years.

People from different sects almost fought each other.

The reason for the failure is also very interesting:

Because the Quakers oppose violence, they refuse to take up weapons, even as militiamen.

Because they want to do a sacred experiment, people of different sects, even those who have burned them, can enjoy equal rights here.

Because they don't take weapons, while people of other sects take weapons.

It would be strange if this didn't fail.

It can only be said that there is a reason why the Quakers were slaughtered everywhere... They were slaughtered in England, Wales, Boston, and Massachusetts, and were forced to collect "heretic taxes". What else can they do without guns?

Two thousand years ago, Mozi knew that if you want love and peace, you must have a violent organization, otherwise where can you get peace?

Without guns, how dare you do the sacred experiment of "peaceful coexistence of various sects"?

Therefore, after the Quakers' sacred experiment failed, these Quakers still couldn't forget it.

I heard that in Dashun, Confucians, Taoists, previous Catholics, Buddhists, non-believers... could actually live together?

Not only did they live together, but they actually lived for more than eight years?

And they didn't even beat their brains out?

How did they do this?

It feels a bit incredible, unimaginable, and impossible to exist.

How could such a thing happen?

How could such a big country not burn each other every day because of religious issues?

Let alone paganism, there must be different sects within Confucianism, right? Don't these different sects kill each other?

This is also an important reason why the Quakers did not oppose the landing of Dashun with violence. Even soon after the landing, a female Quaker missionary came to the military camp and wanted to meet the officers of Dashun.

The Quakers were just not so crazy about burning people and judging people.

But it doesn't mean that they are not crazy. On the contrary, they are quite crazy about things other than burning people and judging people.

Two kinds of crazy.

For example, Mary, an early Quaker missionary.

She was stripped of her clothes, almost starved to death, physically examined, and expelled in Massachusetts, where everyone believed in Christianity. She almost died.

She was treated well in the pagan Constantinople, although she had different beliefs. The Sultan sent troops to escort her back home, but she refused and walked back home alone without any danger.

Besides being very black humor, it also shows that both of them are crazy.

The Puritans' crazy love is to burn people, love to massacre, and love to judge.

If the Quakers were not crazy, would they go to Constantinople alone to talk to the Ottoman Sultan about their beliefs and hope that the Sultan would convert?

Under this kind of crazy, they heard that a country where various sects coexist peacefully instead of a nationwide heresy and pagan massacre actually exists, and landed in Wilmington, and they really couldn't help but welcome it.

However, it is obvious that the Dashun side would never allow these missionaries to enter the barracks.

After observing outside the barracks for a few days, these Quakers were surprised to find that these Dashun soldiers had very good military discipline.

Compared with the European armies at that time, especially the British army, which Franklin complained that was "not as good as the invader France", the military discipline of the Dashun landing troops was even better.

These elite troops of Dashun were paid in full!

At that time, the army that could pay in full and had a guarantee of land grant after retirement was probably the only one. Don't look at the Prussian military song that was played loudly, "The French king's hair oil is used as military pay, not like our monthly pay", in fact, just listen to it, don't believe it.

Since it is paid in full, at least it will not be like the British army, who was stationed in North America and had to carry the work, roll up the salary reduction, and roll up the disgust of urban citizens: originally working a day can earn 20 kilograms of corn flour, when these lobster soldiers come, they are willing to work for 10 kilograms of corn flour a day, who can stand this.

Dashun's soldiers did not disturb the people when they came... This is not because of their high quality, but because they entered the homes of a group of crazy people and lived in fear that they would die in the middle of the night without knowing how they died. Besides, the field troops also have camping discipline.

Secondly, they don’t compete with local workers for work, and the wages are reduced.

Thirdly, the supplies here are very rich. Many merchants line up to sell food here with cash and silver.

This further fueled the curiosity of the Quakers.

The Quakers have a close relationship with the Bin family. In view of the fact that Dashun prohibits missionaries, especially female missionaries, from entering the military camp, the Quakers hope that John Bin, the heir of the Bin family, can help pass on a message.

John Bin is a landlord here, a real landlord. His family’s land covers 120,000 square kilometers, and the entire Pennsylvania is named after their family’s surname.

When the Dashun landed in Pennsylvania, John Bin could not help but come to talk to the Dashun.

The Bin family, as a whole, was a good person morally. At least compared to those Puritan lunatics and slaveholders, they were good people morally.

Pennsylvania was their family property, and they were relatively peaceful with the Indians. They were not so crazy in religion, and they were considered a clear stream in the North American colonies. Not only did they not burn people, but even Catholics and Jews could live in Pennsylvania.

In this day and age, if you don't burn people, you are considered a good person.

Later, during the American Revolution, the situation of the Bin family was also a manifestation of the "few progressive" independence of the thirteen states:

All of his family's 162 million acres of land were confiscated and nationalized. Because he cooperated, he was considered an enlightened landlord and gave 130,000 pounds in compensation, unlike the other pro-British factions who not only did not pay for the confiscation but also shot them.

This is progress, clearing the way for the development of capitalism.

Its anti-feudal nature is mainly reflected in the abolition of "rent withdrawal fees" - its feudal nature is similar to the right of night.

For example, this piece of property is mine, I rent it to you, and you are just a tenant. According to feudal law, I have the right to hunt on my land - although generally speaking I will not be idle and have to run to your wheat field to hunt, but it is my legal right to hunt on my property. I can choose not to do it, but it does not mean that I do not have this right.

Of course, it is in accordance with feudal law.

So, as a tenant, you have to pay me money to buy rights such as "hunting rights" from me.

This is similar to the right of night. I don't have to sleep with the tenant's wife, but I have the right to sleep with her. I can choose not to sleep with her, but the tenant has to pay for my privilege so that I don't sleep with her.

In terms of legal theory, the stench of feudalism is too strong.

Therefore, during the North American Revolution, the confiscation of the Bing family's property and the abolition of feudal rent withdrawal were absolutely anti-feudal progress.

There is no doubt about this.

Including smugglers, confiscating landlords' property, abolishing the eldest son inheritance system, abolishing feudal legal rights... These are all its progressiveness.

And this progressiveness, as well as the influence of the French Enlightenment, made John Bin decide to welcome the Dashun army. He has realized that the crisis is brewing, and some things may be inevitable. If it cannot be avoided, it is better to choose to compromise and exchange more benefits.

The general trend of history is mighty, and people with discerning eyes in this era can see clearly that some things are out of control.

The flame of the French Enlightenment originated from the European religion. It is precisely because of the religion that their anti-religious enlightenment movement has unconsciously borrowed the talents, people, free will and other things derived from the religious scholastic philosophy.

These things are useless in Dashun at this time, because Dashun does not believe in God's set of things, and it does not delay the rebellion and equal distribution of land in successive dynasties.

And these things, in Europe and the United States, can make the ruling class, especially the landlords like John Bin whose family owns 120,000 square kilometers of land property rights, terrified.

Once Dashun and France were stuck on the western border and could not expand outward to acquire land, they could only divide the land internally.

Now Franklin was in London, mainly busy with two things: one was to allow the printing of paper money; the other was to transform Pennsylvania from a private owner colony to a royal colony in one step.

Franklin recognized that sovereignty was in the king, so after it was transformed into a royal colony, it was equivalent to the transfer of land ownership to sovereign state ownership, that is, nationalization was completed in a peaceful way.

The twists and turns here are very complicated.

If sovereignty belongs to Parliament, then the thirteen states of North America are the appendages of Britain, and Parliament is controlled by the British people; only when sovereignty belongs to the king can North America be equal to England in legal terms.

John Penn, as a key figure involved in the dispute over Pennsylvania land ownership, is the heir to the family after all, and he is full of contradictory feelings about the arrival of the Dashun army.

The things inside are very troublesome.

And the major owners of Pennsylvania, the Penn family, took the initiative to welcome the landing of the Dashun army, precisely because of the troubles inside.

To put it in very rough or "vulgar" words.

External expansion, big capital eats meat, small capital drinks soup, eat meat, drink soup and gnaw bones.

If there is no external expansion, the landlords who came first, especially the big landlords like the Bin family who easily own tens of thousands of square kilometers, may be hung on the street lamp.

Roughly and roughly speaking, it is roughly such a "vulgar" thing.

John Bin was once a happy teenager. He rebelled against his parents' wishes, pursued love, and even broke up with his parents to marry a girl who was not suitable for him. Even though his family kept reminding him that the girl might just want to divide the family property, he was sure that this was love.

Then, after growing up, he divorced the girl under the reminder of the huge... uh, it was really huge, the family property he and his cousin were going to inherit was 120,000 square kilometers... huge family property.

It can also be regarded as a farewell and separation from his past middle school, young, passionate, and youthful self.

The young self in the past is dead.

The "mature" self now is himself.

So, now that he gradually understood how to fight for his own interests, he made a decisive decision at this moment when his family was in London to welcome the landing of the Dashun army and fight for more interests and post-war terms that were more favorable to him.