New Shun 1730

Many, many years ago, when Dashun was still asleep.

Defoe, facing the impact of the East India Company's imported oriental cotton cloth on the British woolen textile industry, used some exaggerated strokes to describe the general depression, unemployment, and poverty. After the two cotton cloth bans were issued, he did not hesitate to praise the effect of the cotton cloth ban, saying that London's textile industry suddenly came alive.

Many, many years ago, when Dashun was half asleep and half awake.

Dutch craftsmen, guilds, and farmers, watching Amsterdam's prosperous financial and shipping industries, watching the oligarchs in various cities swallowing up everything in the past with finance bit by bit, in despair, they regarded the Orange family as a real savior, hoping that the Orange family could save them, restrict imports and the financial industry, and not let the story of the collapse of the Leiden textile industry repeat itself.

Many, many years ago, when Dashun just woke up.

The French Carpenters' Association, the Lacquer Workers' Federation, and the Silk Weaving Association made a collective petition. I hope that the East India Company will no longer ship those lacquerware, furniture, and silk from the East. If it continues, everyone will really not be able to survive. So the Minister of Finance wrote a special letter to the East India Company, warning them: I am not against your profit, nor against your trade, I just remind you that if you continue to do this, it will cause a huge backlash.

Yes, that's the situation.

Even when Dashun just woke up, it was still not the crushing of industry against handicrafts, but only the crushing of handicrafts against handicrafts.

However, Lao Ma said: In the era of handicraft workshops, naval battles seized commercial hegemony, and commercial hegemony could bring about industrial development. Wait until the industrial age, financial capital will become a vassal of industrial capital.

This sentence is so correct.

Because, before 1800, there was no "industry crushing handicrafts" imagined by later generations.

The world before 1800 was as Lao Ma said: heavy taxes, protection system, colonization, and fierce shipbuilding. Shipbuilding wins commercial wars, obtains commercial hegemony, and drives the country's industrial development with the ruling logic of commercial capital.

The developed handicraft industry in the East was defeated by the more efficient centralization, more powerful violent machine, and more scientifically trained army in Europe.

Where commercial capital gained dominance, the old order was destroyed by the inevitable robbery system - India did not die from the crushing of handicrafts by industry, but died under the robbery rule of fleets, armies and commercial capital.

However.

At this time, the steam age and the industrial age had quietly arrived.

So, when the advanced areas of Dashun gradually transformed from handicraft workshops to large industrial factories, greater troubles than the previous handicraft era also came.

Dashun had industry, population, markets for commercial hegemony, land to be developed, and a large number of cheap labor forces needed to develop the land.

Therefore, Europe was not just the previous handicraft workshop era. Dashun relied on the two thousand years of handicraft advantages and the silver purchasing power exchange rate difference to impact European mercantilism with real mercantilism "under the banner of free trade".

It also brought a large amount of European capital to Dashun and became a vassal of industry.

Cheap labor, even if you invest in land to grow soybeans, even if you grow cotton in the Fusang Golden Valley, this has a higher return on investment than in Europe.

Because the population, labor price, policy and other factors on the Dashun side provide more suitable conditions for the social relationship of capitalism.

These two problems combined have made the days in Europe in recent years... some people are really good, while some people are really sad.

The financial industry is making money, the shipping industry is making money, and the import merchants are making money. Of course, their lives are getting better and better, and they have become loyalists in Europe who support the free trade led by Dashun, or the "natural order under the national trade system", the world of the new etiquette.

But at the same time, they are good, but some people are sad, and their lives are getting worse and worse.

There are many people who are getting worse and worse.

The Physiocrats in the center of the Enlightenment have carried out several waves of radical reforms.

So, the force of the rebound is huge.

This is why the young Napoleon's heart is complicated.

The troubled times are coming. If there is a chance, a low-level noble may be able to swing to a position that he dared not think of under the old etiquette in the tide of the times.

But in the troubled times, Dashun was eyeing Europe covetously.

Like a terrifying, hungry beast, it devoured everything in Europe crazily.

Cotton textile industry.

Finance.

Silver.

Wood industry.

Silk industry.

Ceramics industry.

Coffee industry...

What about the absolute and relative advantages?

In addition to Caribbean sugar and French wine... What other relative advantages does France have? Even these things, such as wine, are facing the impact of substitutes; and sugar is purely because of the high transportation cost. Otherwise, as Hume said, if there is no ocean as a natural tariff, the whole of Europe will be filled with Chinese-made goods.

For decades.

Dashun asked Europe to find absolute and relative advantages.

But, it seems that these do not exist.

Unemployment.

Chaos.

Despair.

The bankruptcy of handicraftsmen.

The industrial capital of the country is being destroyed bit by bit by dumping, and it cannot be built up at all.

People on the Dashun side said that this is labor pain.

Because you have too much silver and gold in Europe.

According to Liu Yu's theory of national wealth, silver and gold are not wealth at all.

So, as long as your silver and gold continue to flow out, and persist until the per capita silver deposits in Europe are the same as those in Dashun, then good times will come!

Only when the bubble fades can you in Europe find your absolute and relative advantages.

But this pain is too painful.

It's not just a problem of commodity dumping, nor is it a problem of capital flowing crazily to the East.

There is also a large outflow of silver and gold, which has led to a serious currency shortage in Europe and chaos everywhere - this is not an era of printing money, this is an era of gold and silver precious metals.

Are these chaos caused by this person?

This is macroscopic.

And from a more direct perspective, a situation that scares Europeans has been created.

For example, the French city called Minnemuran where Napoleon is now.

The river is the border.

On the other side of the river is the border city of Dashun.

However, there was no city here fifty years ago.

Now, there are cities with tens of thousands of people here. With the help of the waterfall water power here, mills, sawmills, shipbuilding, wheat processing, flour, brewing and other industries have developed wildly.

Fifty years ago, there were only a small number of people in Dashun on the west coast of North America, and even more were only engaged in fur trade fleets.

But now, with the mining of gold and silver mines, the development of cotton brewing industry, and more population migration.

There are already two large cities with a population of more than 200,000.

One is Fenglin Bay, and the other is Jinshan.

And 200,000 people, in less than the previous Europe, also means that this must be a city like Amsterdam, London, and Paris.

At the Cape of Good Hope, fifty years ago, there were only a small number of Chinese immigrants who planted lemons there to prepare for Dashun's participation in World War I.

But now, there are nearly 300,000 people there.

It seems that China's population is unlimited. They are looking for every arable land and take root here to survive.

The French and Dashun had been fighting for so long, and when they finally built the railway, they chose to attack Dashun for opposing the metric system that they had participated in formulating. Therefore, France had to build a one-meter track in the metric system to build the railway...

The so-called metric system, or the opposition to Dashun's use of the retro six-foot, are all superficial. Many people know the real reason, in order to prevent Dashun's future attacks under the connection of the railway.

Now, some French people have begun to ask: Did we really win the First World War? Who was the real winner of the First World War?

Indeed, the French saved North America.

Because France saved North America, the resistance of the Thirteen States quickly decreased. Facing the threats of Dashun and France, Britain was able to complete the reform and control of the Thirteen States.

So, France needs to be more tied to Dashun, because the population of the Thirteen States is millions, and the population of France here is too small, which requires the help of Dashun.

Fur traders and ginseng traders are also happy with this kind of binding.

However, the deeper the bond, the French finally found out: Puritans were a threat, because they had a population of millions; but Dashun, a newcomer, also had a population of millions in North America in just three or five decades.

Indeed, Dashun smashed the British "Navigation Act" and "Commodity Listing Act".

The horn of free trade floated in the Atlantic.

However, after the French were delighted, they found that France got almost nothing.

Dutch capital flowed to Dashun instead of France.

The North American market was filled with Dashun's cotton cloth and tea.

New England wine brewed with cheap French honey and whiskey brewed by Irish immigrants made it impossible for French wine to gain a market in North America.

Dashun's handicrafts, lacquerware, woodware, fans and other light industrial products, with the help of the Rhine River, suppressed French imitations and left them with no room for survival.

In the triangular trade, Dashun became the industrial product provider of the triangular trade.

Indeed, Dashun did not participate in the slave trade and could not squeeze in, but slave traders would give priority to Dashun's industrial products because they were cheaper and more profitable.

The most intuitive manifestation is that the French have been keen on speculation and finance in recent years, because the French have found that there is no good investment direction at all.

France, which was deeply influenced by Colbertism, is still like this, what about other countries?

In this situation, many European "so-called new enlightenment" factions began to mutter about the story of the Mongol westward expedition. It seems that the sound of the humming is attached to cotton, porcelain, and tea.

In order for the slogan to work, the language must be incisive and powerful, clear and easy to understand, labeled, and even more historically alluded to.

It is difficult for people to imagine things they have never experienced.

People's brains will always find an old thing in their minds to put the new things they see on the brain for easy understanding.

The economic base determines the superstructure.

In France, these things are most widely spread not only in Paris, but also in Lyon, the silk industry center of France.

This is the place in France that was hit hardest by the Dashun Rebellion.

The artisans who were attacked burned cotton cloth and tea, obstructed the construction of railways, and opposed the metric system.

And more people saw the opportunity and added fuel to the flames. Slogans and propaganda that were easier to understand, more incisive and more powerful, and more labeled were widely spread among these artisans.

Cartoons depicting densely packed Chinese people migrating from the East and occupying every inch of the earth were spread all over Europe.

Because of the ban on religion by Dashun, Catholicism exerted its huge influence among the people, calling for unity in the Christian world and launching a holy war against atheists - they even denounced Voltaire and others as agents of the devil in France, aiming to destroy the faith of France and obscure the light of God.

Under the influence of his childhood experiences, the young Napoleon had a certain liking for the East. But more of it was uneasiness, doubt, confusion and fear.

Sometimes, he even thought: Europe is like this because of division. Division brings chaos and irrational competition among countries. Because Dashun has a vast territory, they can play a relatively and absolutely superior economy internally. And the huge population and strong national strength give it an absolute advantage over the divided Europe.

Perhaps, what Europe needs more now is a first emperor in their history. Only in this way can we gather the power of Europe to withstand the invasion of China in America, Africa and the Atlantic.

Perhaps, to oppose the injustice of the old system, we must also oppose the so-called natural order state system dominated by China, and also oppose their agents in Europe: those importers and compradors.

This is not his own idea.

Rather, many French people and many Europeans have already had this vague idea.

The radical French physiocracy has slowly given way to the compromised Italian physiocracy: internal free trade, proper control of foreign trade, the tone is natural order, and state intervention is indispensable.

Just as Dashun ridiculed the radical policies of the French Physiocrats, saying that they did not understand that the opposite is the movement of the Tao, and the weak is the use of the Tao. All things in the world are born from existence, and existence is born from non-existence.

By the same token, Dashun's mercantilism under the banner of free trade, as well as its continuous absorption of money and dumping of industrial products in Europe, also gave rise to the awakening of the European nation - the opposite is the movement of the Tao, and the weak is the use of the Tao. All things in the world are born from existence, and existence is born from non-existence.

As an important force of the European bourgeoisie, urban citizens and handicraftsmen have been forced to oppose Dashun by Dashun's products.

However, the empire placed its hopes on the group of people drinking coffee in the Paris salon.