New Shun 1730

Since 1609, this group of people in North America should be regarded as the most comfortable group of people in the world.

They are far away from war. Although they scalp Indians, it is not really a war.

In the Thirty Years' War, Germany lost two-thirds of its population. They did not hide away like the ancient Chinese, or migrate from one province to another, but were killed.

In fact, they have never seen the cruelty of war.

So much so that decades ago, when King Philip's War broke out, the revenge of the Indians destroyed their villages, which made many people believe that the "Doomsday" mentioned by the Quakers was really coming.

It was terrible that the village would be burned and people would be killed.

In recent years, with the increase of population in North America and the advancement of the border, the Indians have been defeated. Although the war is still going on, the cruelty of war has been far away from these people.

War is cruel.

But if this cruelty is not directed at both sides, but only one side is slaughtered extremely cruelly, then the result after the war will not be to promote peace-loving sentiments, but will promote expansion and war sentiments.

Since war is free of cost, and since the cruelty of war is only borne by the other side, why oppose war?

This is a very realistic psychology.

Of course, religion makes people crazy, and this kind of crazy is even more serious in North America at this time.

After the year that Liu Yu called the "Enlightenment Acceleration Year", a huge earthquake occurred in Lisbon.

This incident can be regarded as an acceleration of enlightenment for Europe.

On the one hand, when the Portuguese Prime Minister shouted the slogan of "burying the dead and treating the wounded", and the Jesuits shouted "This is a punishment from heaven, saving people is against God's will", the decline of Catholicism and the Jesuits in Europe, accompanied by the need for the rise of royal power, can be imagined.

On the other hand, for those enlightenmentists, the "Leibniz Optimism" that permeated Europe in the early days, and the idea derived from this optimism that "although this world is not beautiful, it is actually the best result after God has deduced countless universes, and it is the best possible world. It is impossible for people to fully understand the best will of God", was interrupted by the tragic scene after the earthquake. So this is no longer a "best result among all possible results", which to some extent is also a driving force for the radical French Reform.

Of course, this is in Europe.

In America, it is just the opposite.

As I have said before, religious morality is a reincarnation every few decades, just like the many theories and thoughts in the middle period of the Ming Dynasty, and the direct return of Donglin moralism in the late period.

North America experienced the bankruptcy of the first version of the City on the Hill, and then the Salem Witch Trials, and then the religious morality and the idea of ​​the City on the Hill completely receded, and then the so-called "First Great Awakening", religious revival, and missionaries hoped to reshape morality.

In this context, the Lisbon earthquake was a great blessing for these Protestant missionaries: Look, these heretics are punished by God, right? They deserve it. Now you know who will survive the Last Judgment, right?

However, this thing is easy to backfire.

It was good at the beginning. The Congregational Church had already been unable to hold on in New England, and with this wave, it immediately regained its vitality.

The Protestant people saw that it seemed to be true. You see, if you believe in Calvinism, you are fine; those who believe in Catholicism will be punished by God and the Last Judgment, right?

The key is that if this thing is always good and others are always bad, then it will be fine.

What this thing is afraid of is that it is halfway good and then it is not good, and things like "God's punishment" fall on itself.

So before that, after promoting so much "millennialism", so much "last judgment", and so much "we are the chosen people of God", when something happens, it will definitely backfire.

But just like many religious issues in North America before, from a rational point of view, it can be said that the economic base determines the superstructure. From the beginning of unity and reclamation of agriculture, to the later commercial development, merchants were not very Puritan but lived happily, and then the intensification of contradictions led to the return of religion, etc., there are internal reasons.

But for ordinary believers, if they can understand this set of things, then they will not believe in it at all.

The same is true in reverse, because they cannot understand the truth that "aggression may lead to being hammered back by others", so seeing the massacre in the Anapolis Valley is like hell, what will they think?

Naturally, they also thought that it was over, the Last Judgment, I am afraid that these people are not the chosen people of God, this is going to hell.

So, the Last Judgment itself is not terrible. Because it is a "good thing" that "the chosen ones go to heaven and the guilty heretics go to hell".

The key point is that, not to mention the Orthodox Catholic Protestantism, just talking about Protestantism, there are Congregationalists, Quakers, Presbyterians, Unitarians, Lutherans, Calvinists... Who are God's chosen people? Who are heretics? Who will go to hell?

Even the Congregationalists alone are now divided into the old school, the new school, the school that needs visible saints to teach, the school that does not need visible saints but only needs self-realization... and so on and so forth.

People who do not believe in religion cannot understand the fear of believers for the "last judgment", which is actually no less than death.

Although it sounds bad, it is really the unique conditions that make this group of people really never see what cruelty is.

Not to mention throwing them to Europe, Africa, and Asia at this time, even if they go back a hundred years ago to see how the Irish were slaughtered when they resisted the Great Uprising, they would not be so surprised to see this or even the previous King Philip Indian War that the Last Judgment is coming.

So how to make this group of people quickly secularize and get rid of overly serious religious plots?

It is not difficult to say.

For example, what Dashun is doing now is to take away the surplus and make up for the deficiency, so that the east of the Appalachian Mountains can feel the war.

For example, the Second World War that is bound to break out in the future, entering the era of imperialism and everyone competing for the market, the borders of the four countries in North America have become a meat grinder that is no less than Europe.

This is basically the best way to break the anti-human ideas such as "exceptionalism", "I am God's chosen people", "I will go to heaven directly when the Last Judgment falls on others".

As for now, it is also of great significance.

The surging Enlightenment in Europe, when it came to North America, actually caused the first great awakening of religious thought. How could this be possible?

How could an awakening be so awakened?

So letting this group of people who experienced the horror of war live and spread this fearful thought is very beneficial to the North American Enlightenment.

Anti-aggression, anti-war, and anti-defeat are not the same thing.

How to raise anti-defeat to the level of anti-war? After a beating, you really know the horror of war, instead of only others suffering.

How to raise anti-war to the level of anti-aggression? After a beating, you can hold it back and have a big purge.

These people in North America are too happy to kill Indians, and they are too happy to set up pioneer groups to rob others of their cultivated land and water conservancy facilities. The big capital and land speculators eat meat, and the bottom follows to drink soup. This is not conducive to their real awakening.

The fear of the Last Judgment derived from religion, and then eliminating this fear, is the process of religious retreat.

Obviously, this time, Dashun has become an unconscious promoter of progress in history.

It was indeed unconscious, because the Dashun people didn't know what the Last Judgment was.

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With these survivors, some were sent to plantations in Georgia or to Pennsylvania to spread the cruelty of war.

After harvesting food, winter came.

Winter was gone, and spring came.

More and more Acadians and Mirmaks migrated to the Annapolis Valley.

Dashun banned religion, and they disliked Catholics.

However, in terms of military farming, or technical means and organizational capabilities such as resettlement and recovery, the two sides had a lot of common topics.

The military farming and the Kingdom of God ideas of the Catholic group, as well as the strong tribal cooperation ideas that these people generally carried, made the production in the spring of the following year quickly organized and developed.

One village after another, around the small church, sprouted again.

One dam and irrigation project after another, under the organization of Catholic priests, was restored as before.

Land, taxation, and management, for post-war recovery, this is undoubtedly efficient.

As more and more people arrived, this valley and the nearby seashore received a total of about 30,000 people from all over the country.

Some came from the forest, some were exchanged from concentration camps in France, and some were sent back from plantations in the south.

These more than 30,000 people also began the standard "farming and fighting" system.

They formed a militia for defense.

They selected elite young men and formed regular forest light infantry.

They formed Catholic labor cooperatives in various villages and communities to reclaim wasteland, repair water conservancy projects, and provide food and grass.

Dashun also selected a group of armed indigenous Yi Dings on the west coast as organized scattered soldiers in the forest light infantry to prepare for field battles.

The navy sent a group of captured British privateers.

The reorganized Acadian forest light infantry also began to learn to fight in formation. Although they were still unable to beat the lobster soldiers in the field, they had no problem arm wrestling with the New England militia.

Waiting for spring to come, the grains to be planted, the trade winds to bring a new batch of cargo ships from Dashun, and the attitude of Dashun: "Keep fighting, trade is developing steadily and very well, fighting is still profitable now."

So, Joseph Godin, who had grown another year older and had no chance of revenge since then, and who should not have been incorporated into the reorganized company, but because of his prestige, rank and personal mandatory requirements, finally had the opportunity for revenge.