New Shun 1730

John Bean could find 10,000 reasons why it was wrong for the land to be his and others to take it by force.

He can start from the Bible, talk about British common law, then talk about tradition, then talk about the sanctity of private property, etc., and so on.

As for Dashun, he can also find ten thousand reasons to prove that those people are right if they come to take away his land one day.

Not to mention things like "class morality" and "different classes have different laws" that many people sneer at.

Just talk about religion.

"Bible".

It can both interpret the divine right of kings and the dark Middle Ages.

It can also be interpreted that the religious reform ushered in the era of peasant farmers and small producers.

Even liberation theology was later interpreted in South America, and "Exodus" could be interpreted as "God stands on the side of the oppressed in history and liberates the oppressed." Spirituality is formed in the 'dialectical' interplay between faithfulness to God and devotion to the poor...]

So, in the final analysis, this is not a reasonable thing.

The debaters in ancient times knew that to debate, one must first establish a common understanding. For example, what is white, what is black, what is a horse, what is a cow, these are the most basic consensuses before we can debate.

In this day and age, even consensus does not exist, so in the end we can only talk about something practical.

What is practical?

In the end, it's money.

After all, this era is so big, yet so small, so different from each other, yet so similar in habits.

Christ may have arrived in Dashun, and he may not be as good as Mr. Guan. When Shiva went to an Indian tribe, he must have been an animist.

However, holding 100 taels of gold, let alone running from the Indians to Dashun, to Japan, to South America, is easy.

Even if you travel back in time to novels like Water Margin, these 100 taels of gold are enough to change the direction of history.

John Bing seriously considered Chen Qinghai's idea, smiled bitterly and said, "I understand what you mean."

"If I don't want them to grab my land, then I can still choose to support crossing the Appalachian Mountains. However, because I can't fight now, so if I want to support it, I have to spend money. To organize an army, I still have to spend money."

"This is a very real problem."

"As you said, once the British government withdraws from the war, it is impossible to continue to station troops here to fight the French. If we want to fight, we will have to spend money."

"Besides, it must be us landowners who spend the money. Because merchants will not spend money, such as Hancock. I am sure that he cannot pay a penny to seize land for the westward expansion because he wants to sell tea."

"And land speculators... in fact, as you enter the war, no capital will choose to invest in the westward enclosure."

"You destroyed the Dutch East India Company, and now you have destroyed the London East India Company... These financiers will take your warnings very seriously in the future."

Chen Qinghai laughed when he heard this.

It should be said that this is something that the Dashun army has done very effectively in recent years.

European financiers hide as far away as possible from "high-profit investments that are not held by Dashun but are very close to the Chinese" as if they are covered in shit.

Many people already have long memories of the destruction of the Dutch East India Company.

Waiting for the British East India Company to be destroyed this time, this memory is even more profound.

Before Dashun entered the war, many big businessmen and financiers approached Washington and others. It was suggested that they take the lead in setting up a western land speculation company, and take advantage of the opportunity of war with the French and Indians to first enclose tens of millions of acres of land.

It will definitely sell well in the future.

Waiting for Dashun to join the war, and after asking Hancock to give a message in the Bahamas that the Indians in the Appalachian Mountains must be protected, many people had withdrawn their funds and ran away overnight.

I don’t want to provoke anyone, and I don’t want to get shit all over myself.

Many people even cried for their fathers and mothers. They thought that a war madman like Peter would insist on driving the French away from North America. With such a good opportunity, why not invest all your wealth in northwest land speculation? As long as the French get out, will this land still be worried about being sold?

As a result, Dashun participated in the war, and there was a naval battle and a land battle near Gibraltar. The shareholders who were speculating on the land in the northwest had to withdraw their capital and run away early, and the rest who could not run could only cry.

Capital is the smartest.

There was no British regular army to drive away the French, so we expected the North American militiamen, who could only stand hard for a minute, to compete with the French regular army for the Ohio Valley area? Whether they can defeat the Indians with French supporting muskets is questionable.

The power of the Indians has also grown rapidly in recent years. The French were very happy selling ginseng and mink skins to Dashun, so they paid more attention to the "tribute" to their Indian allies. Liu Yu destroyed the Korean ginseng trade, and the Russians destroyed the Eurasian sable. Many of the benefits of the trade between the two were transferred to the Indians.

Even if he himself has doubts about the medicinal value of ginseng, it’s not that he thinks it’s useless at all, but he doubts whether the ginseng in the ancient recipe is Codonopsis pilosula or ginseng. But this thing will not kill people anyway. It is impossible for Dashun to directly provide financial subsidies to the French and Indians. Using this kind of trade is equivalent to adding a middle-class tax or a luxury tax. This kind of tax is the easiest to add, and it won't even squeal when the hair is plucked.

Anyway, this is the situation now.

Those poor people who try to cross the Appalachian Mountains, especially the poor Scots and Irish immigrants, will soon face the three major imperialisms of Dashun, France, and Britain; plus many business groups, landowner groups, and plantation owners in North America. Joint strangulation.

That's what happened. Dashun is discussing with these "first come" immigrants to come up with a charter.

At the very least, this is your Pennsylvania responsibility.

Or deliberately massacred Indians, then we have to come up with an explanation. Whether to kill, hang, or roast, you decide this yourself.

If you are not sure, you will bombard Philadelphia in retaliation when the time comes.

Don't say that those who killed the Indians were not real Pennsylvanians. Dashun didn't care about this, because it was inconvenient for Dashun to go directly to the Appalachian Mountains. They could provide equipment to ensure that the Indians could defend it, but they could not attack the plains. Then we can only take revenge in the east.

At that time, let’s look at this group of people in North America. Are they saying with tears in their eyes that we are all God’s chosen people, and they must unite as one, and they will not hesitate to destroy Pennsylvania to go to war with these infidels?

Still, the businessmen from the east and the landowners who came first gathered up the regiment and hanged all those who were "good at provoking border affairs" first. To prevent China and France from retaliating against the east?

Or maybe the British people heard that their compatriots in the broad sense were fighting for the nation's living space in the Appalachian Mountains, so the nobles took the initiative to ask for the land tax to be added to the Trinity tax, and the businessmen donated money to build ships. Will the war go on to the end?

The whole of Britain was still in an uproar, denounced them as white villains, discredited Scottish horse thieves, and Irish villains. Together with the French, they sealed off the Appalachian Mountains and put pressure on Pennsylvania to severely punish the murderers and severely punish those who crossed the border. Who?

This helps give this group of people in North America an in-depth understanding of what law is and is a tool of rule by the ruling class.

Of course, Dashun prevented the British from crossing the Appalachian Mountains, which objectively promoted progress.

This kind of progress has nothing to do with morality or the lives of Indians.

Rather, Lao Ma had specifically criticized a similar issue - how to create wage laborers in a colonization colony?

[Although a person owns currency, means of living, and means of production, he cannot become a capitalist if he lacks wage laborers (that is, people who are forced by life to voluntarily sell their own labor power)]

[...Capital is not an object, but a social relationship between people established using objects as media]

So, how to solve this problem?

Lao Ma criticized a clever strategy of "killing two birds with one stone":

[…put uncultivated land at artificial prices so that laborers from Europe could purchase the land with money. However, before you can buy land and become a self-cultivated farmer, you must work for a long time to earn enough wages to buy land]

[...Labourers from Europe, unless they work for money, will not be able to obtain enough money to purchase land...Until the capitalists find substitutes for this group of people in the wage market, these workers cannot Become an independent farmer...]

[...The sale of land can also ensure that the money can be used as a fund to continuously bring in new labor force]

In this way, every new worker is actually doing two things.

The first thing is to create surplus value for their masters, the capitalists.

The second thing is to use your wages to buy your own small piece of farmland after creating surplus value. The money spent on purchasing farmland can also be used as a "relocation fund" to enable the government to transport their "replenishers" from across the sea.

Basically, Dashun wants to develop an immigration policy. This mainly refers to immigration towards the west coast of North America and Australia. Except for the land allocated to retired soldiers, it basically follows this idea.

Gold mines only make capital willing to go; and the purpose of the labor force is precisely to make money and then buy a piece of land. This is the thirst for land that has existed in the minds of farmers for two thousand years, and it perfectly fits the national conditions of Dashun.

The problem east of the Appalachian Mountains is that there is neither a lack of capital, nor a lack of merchants, nor a lack of markets. What is lacking is "people who are forced by life to voluntarily sell their own labor power".

Therefore, even if there is capital and means of production, but without wage labor, it will be difficult to develop a capitalist production model.

Dashun now wants to cut off the Appalachian Mountains and prohibit westward expansion. This is exactly what promotes the development of capitalism on the east coast of North America.

The western border issue can be regarded as the biggest issue among the thirteen states in North America.

This issue has a huge impact.

Not only did it lead to the subsequent separation of the United States, even with the development of capitalism, it still retained strong feudal and petty bourgeois remnants, especially at the cultural level; it also directly gave birth to the fierce confrontation between the Federalist Party and the Republican Party, and a series of subsequent The traditional factors of bipartisanship have been renamed.

The key material basis of the dispute between Hamilton and Jefferson was the westward expansion. In other words, the land of the west.

From the beginning of the founding of the People's Republic of China, Hamilton came up with the "Manufacturing Development Plan" and told Jefferson that your set of things based on homesteaders, small producers, acquaintance societies, and rural cooperatives would be over sooner or later. If you don’t engage in manufacturing, you will die.

Jefferson thought, why would it be over? There is still vast land in the west, and everyone can be a farmer or small producer. This model of rural community and acquaintance society can be fully replicated.

Hamilton believed that without manufacturing, it would be over sooner or later. Village communities, acquaintance societies, judges who were Protestant popes, small producers and self-employed farmers' mutual aid communities, etc., would certainly collapse. If these things were not changed in advance and prepared for a rainy day, something would happen sooner or later. We should focus on the future to conduct social experiments, rather than staring at the past, otherwise things that were patched up and stitched together would definitely have problems in the future.

Jefferson believed that it would be over only with manufacturing. If the manufacturing industry developed, with this system, it would definitely become a magical aristocratic oligarchy with big capital behind the scenes. So in order to avoid this kind of magic, we should not make progress, but emphasize agriculture, despise commerce, and suppress industry. Wouldn't it be avoided if everyone became farmers?

The famous "Whiskey Rebellion" further demonstrated Hamilton's concept of developing capitalism: light taxes on large factories and high taxes on small bourgeois workshops, so that large factories could squeeze all these small bourgeois to death. Let small producers go bankrupt and prepare for a new era.

It eventually led to a rebellion. The main force of the rebellion is these "Scottish Irish frontiersmen", which is also the main force of the border crossing issue that Dashun and John Bin are talking about now.

Hamilton's methods are very effective. Small workshops went bankrupt, and the price of crops in the West plummeted because they were mainly used to make whiskey, which led to the rapid development of brewing factories in the East, and the land in the West was quickly annexed by large farms because of the plummeting grain prices, and the bankrupts had to go to work.

Now, Dashun and John Bin are still talking about similar issues.

That is, the land issue in the West.

The people are still the same group of people.

As for what to do... Historically, Hamilton has given a solution: organize an army, 15,000 soldiers pressed over and suppressed.

Now, what Chen Qinghai and John Bin are talking about is this: the law is to be enforced by violent agencies, and now you have to come up with something, whether it is the army or the militia, you have to be able to restrain those people from crossing the border, and there must be punishment after crossing the border.

Otherwise, this matter is not over, and they must fight at that time. Dashun and France are determined to keep the Appalachian Mountains as the border.

Of course, we can't just rely on punishment.

So, John Bin, you should take a step back and lower the land price so that they can come back.

Alternate between tension and relaxation, the way of civil and military affairs.