New Shun 1730

This song is really well written.

Whether it is the passionate melody or the rhythm of the lyrics, as long as the key words are slightly changed, most of the scenes of defending one's own land in the world can be perfectly covered.

This song is so good.

So much so that the Duke of Lévis, who led the French regular army from Louisbourg, also hummed along.

In fact, the Duke of Lévis certainly could not have imagined at this time that his wife and two daughters were sent to the guillotine in Paris during the Great Storm of 1993 by the person singing this song.

As the commander of the French army who fought back against Louisbourg with the engineers of Dashun this time, the Duke of Lévis agreed with Dashun's view and believed that the key to France's foothold in North America was here.

The Annapolis Valley is the best agricultural area nearby, no doubt about it.

Going north from the valley, across the peninsula, is Louisbourg.

Guarding the cape of the Gulf of St. Lawrence, if the navy is here, the overall situation can be determined.

Going up along the Gulf of St. Lawrence, you will find the St. Lawrence River, Quebec, Montreal, and the Great Lakes, and then the Appalachian Mountains.

The road conditions in North America are here. Whoever controls the Gulf of St. Lawrence and the St. Lawrence River controls the Canadian region.

This means monopolizing the trade of mink and ginseng with China; it means that you can provide continuous influence on the Indians in the Great Lakes region and expand trade volume.

To defend Louisburg, you need food and population.

This is the importance of the Annapolis Valley. According to Dashun, such a good valley can easily feed 50,000 people and is enough to provide food supplies for Louisburg.

This is defense.

And in attack.

The southern end of the Annapolis Valley is the Gulf of Maine.

It is as convenient to attack Boston, Massachusetts, and Rhode Island from here as it is to go from Weihaiwei to Lushunkou.

Just cross the Gulf of Maine.

After completing the regularization of the army, this group of vengeful Acadians can not start from the difficult primeval forest, but can directly attack the enemy from here.

As long as the navy is in hand.

And the current situation is very favorable to France.

Because of the help of Dashun, the British navy can be sure that it will not be able to sustain such a large scale after the war.

A large part of it will be sold as merchant ships, and part of it will be sealed.

As long as Dashun can continue to maintain an alliance with France, France can poke the thirteen states of North America at any time, and poke it as it wants.

Dashun’s main fleet is in Brest, in the Mediterranean, and in Toulon.

These main forces are enough to deter the British Navy, because France has transport ships, and the British Navy dare not go so far.

And the warships squeezed out by France can bombard Boston at any time.

Dashun can tie France to attack Louisburg and go to the St. Lawrence River.

However, Dashun will not send a fleet to attack Boston directly, because Dashun still has to sell tea. Dashun does not want North America to be incited after the battle and drink coffee instead of tea.

However, this does not mean that Dashun cannot lend or sell some weapons used to burn cities, such as the large-sized Sky-piercing Monkey, to France.

The advice that Dashun gave to the Duke of Lewis, or the advice given by Liu Yu, was "to seek peace through struggle, and then peace will exist."

Simply put, France should organize an army to hammer Boston, hammer New York, and hit all coastal areas hard.

The more painful the beating, the easier it will be to demarcate North America, for everyone to strictly guard the border, and resolve border conflicts.

Because if the coastal people are hurt, they will naturally make laws to restrict the actions of the Northwest Frontier Army.

And the coastal people are powerful. Even if there is a civil war in North America, the Northwest Frontier Army and land speculators in North America will be completely defeated under the joint attack of the big businessmen on the southeast coast, Dashun and the French intervention army.

So, don't think about just fighting in the northwest frontier, that's useless.

If you want to fight, fight the southeast coast.

Hammer it, and peace will be there.

So, how to hammer?

That's also very simple.

It's not convenient for Dashun to come forward and directly attack Boston.

Therefore, the guards of Louisburg and the defense of Montreal and other places were taken care of by Dashun.

France concentrated its regular army, as well as the revengeful Acadians and Mirmarks, and attacked the east coast of the Thirteen States from the town of Annapolis.

Kill one person in the Northwest Frontier.

Then take revenge on the east coast of the Thirteen States.

Just make a few big waves, fight and leave, and never stay, because of religious beliefs, France cannot have a mass base.

After a few fierce attacks, peace will be achieved.

Pay attention to pulling and hitting, dividing and disintegrating.

Attack Massachusetts, not Pennsylvania. Because Massachusetts is crazy, and Pennsylvania is temporarily peaceful.

Attack Virginia, not the southern states. Because the tobacco growers in Virginia, whether you attack them or not, they are thinking about expanding their territory; and the southern plantation states, frightened by the slave uprising in Jamaica, are definitely eager for peace.

In short, the Thirteen States should be split into small pieces, pulling one faction and hitting another.

Taking advantage of the weakness and compromise of the big businessmen, big landowners, and petty bourgeoisie in the eastern coastal areas, they were made to stand with China and France and raise the butcher knife against their people in the northwestern border areas.

And this obviously cannot be rushed.

Winter is coming soon, and the grain for this year must be harvested quickly. The grain planted by these "pioneer groups" who migrated to the Annapolis Valley can help these already dilapidated Acadians and Mirmacs survive the winter.

Before the heavy snow in winter, we must quickly build houses and prepare firewood.

Anyway, Dashun is not in a hurry to end the war. Let alone delaying it until next year, even if it is delayed for another three to five years, it is not a problem.

Because Dashun does not need battleships.

These battleships were built purely to burn money for the European war. Otherwise, does Korea need Dashun to have battleships, or does Vietnam need Dashun to have battleships, or does India need Dashun to have such a large-scale battleship main fleet?

Now it seems that although the money is burning, it is actually profitable.

The trade is getting better and better, and the Emperor of Dashun has also monopolized some commodities, and he is very happy to count the money; and the Songsu area is even more prosperous, various factories are working vigorously, constantly absorbing refugees, and a scene of vigorous vitality and everything is flourishing.

In addition, the national debt system was introduced. After the siege of Gibraltar, Dashun could issue Dashun national debt in Amsterdam at a low interest rate of 2.8% per year.

There is a reason for this.

Because the European Industrial Revolution had not yet broken out, anyone who bought British national debt at this time was a fool.

And originally during this period, a large amount of Dutch financial capital went to British infrastructure.

Especially the large number of canal projects that rose with Liverpool as the center, Birmingham coal and iron industry as the axis, Manchester Lancashire cotton cloth as the starting point, and nearby rock salt as the foundation.

If you want to be rich, build roads first.

Britain is suitable for building canals, France is suitable for building roads, and Dashun in the north is suitable for building railways, and can only build railways. In short, everyone is busy with infrastructure.

The capital of the Netherlands has nowhere to go - where to go, you say.

The Dutch industry itself is ruined, and the Dutch financial capital and hot money cannot invest in Dutch industry.

France's loan credibility... Hehe, and Geneva can provide loans to France.

In Germany, Prussia and Austria are both about to fight their shit out.

Russia is reforming and in urgent need of capital, but Russia's size can't absorb much hot money.

Originally, they invested in the British canal, which had made a good profit before.

With the attack of Dashun, Liverpool was directly blown up. Dutch financial capital is not stupid, so how could it invest in the canal again?

In this case, who should they invest in?

Naturally, they should buy Dashun's national debt, especially after the siege of Gibraltar ended, which was even more popular.

For Dashun, an annual interest rate of 2.8% is really like giving it away for free.

Because the interest rate of Dashun is still at the level of Britain 60 years ago, which is 8% or 10%.

Dashun is willing to continue fighting anyway, so there is no need to rush this year.

First settle these people down, use the winter to complete the reorganization, and go directly to Massachusetts for revenge in the spring of next year.

In view of the tight financial situation of France, Dashun was also very generous and allocated 300,000 taels of internal treasury silver. In fact, 200,000 taels were Liu Yu's personal contribution to provide these people with muskets, ammunition, farm tools, etc.

In return, French American ginseng will be officially monopolized by Dashun and can only be sold to Dashun officials, with prices set by the government.

Basically, Dashun can earn at least a few million taels a year by relying on official American ginseng.

There is nothing to compete with the people for profit with this thing. Those who can afford American ginseng will not starve to death due to the lack of this little profit; and those who are starving to death will not buy American ginseng.

Now, in addition to the normal taxed trade, the trade items that Dashun is officially operated or monopolized by the internal treasury include cinnamon bark, sapphire, American ginseng, some high-end official kiln porcelain, some high-end silk that is purely a luxury, and some handicrafts with cross patterns that the emperor made while ordering the ban on religion.

Except for American ginseng, which is a luxury tax levied internally, the rest are official monopoly and profit.

As for the big items like tea and cotton cloth, taxes are imposed. These bulky items… Even the British can’t play pure mercantilism in this terrain, let alone Dashun.

But even if it’s just these things, not counting tariffs, it has greatly improved Dashun’s financial situation. The profit from the monopoly of selling cinnamon alone can make hundreds of thousands of taels a year.

So for Dashun, it really can fight as long as it wants.

By this year, Senegal has become the industrial product fulcrum of triangular trade. Dashun certainly hopes that the war will continue and that France will continue to use transport ships and the army to disgust the British navy across the strait.

Of course, although this North American war was Liu Yu helping the North American people cure their childishness and enlighten them. For Dashun, it is actually a standard internal disease external treatment. Relying on external expansion, continuing primitive accumulation and industrial development, accumulating internal explosive energy, waiting for the explosion.

However, no one in Dashun felt it. They all thought that the current situation was infinitely good, and all factions were in the excitement of expansion. This can be seen from the fact that Dashun finally chose Liu Yu's strategy of using the Netherlands as the main trading port in Europe.

So Dashun could continue the First World War at a very slow pace.

No rush or impatience.

If you lack money, give money; if you lack guns, give guns.

Of course, there is no shortage of people here. The slightly modified Marseillaise has become the war song of the Canadian region. More and more people are gathering here, waiting for the reorganization in winter.

Food has never been a problem in North America. As long as you take silver to Connecticut, North Carolina and other states, you can really buy as much as you want. Once the silver is thrown out, local merchants will jump up and help deliver it here. The British customs directly issue special passes with clear prices.

The current situation is very good. The only small problem is what to do with the hundreds of New England "pioneers" huddled in Wolfville?

Kill them?

Or educate them, send them to plantations in Georgia, and sell them cheaply to local British landlords as indentured servants? To prove that they are people who understand compassion rather than beasts?