New Shun 1730

Change is not the point.

When to change is very important to Dashun.

The oligarchs are in power now.

Basically, the Netherlands now has two choices.

The Netherlands is not a republic like the later generations, nor a pure Roman republic. It is not like Switzerland, and it is even more different from France I. It is not close to the free cities in the Holy Roman Empire. It is a special political system.

The upper class is extremely opposed to civilian participation in politics. They believe that if civilians participate in politics, Cromwell will definitely appear.

Cromwell has a very bad reputation in the Netherlands because he once fought against the Netherlands and forced them to cede land and pay compensation.

Cromwell abolished the House of Lords in the UK, believing that these nobles were insects, [the House of Lords is useless and harmful to the people of England], and how can you govern the country with these insects?

The Orange faction is worried that the Netherlands will also abolish the traditional aristocratic power. This is the tradition of the Netherlands, and the ancestral law should not be abolished lightly. As long as the traditional values ​​and traditional customs are maintained like the UK, they can be as strong as the UK. They have not figured out where the problem lies. They only see the surface and are like a boat trying to find a sword.

The oligarchs think that Cromwell has too much power. If a Cromwell-like figure really comes to power, they will not be hoisted, but at least they will be forced to pay money, pay taxes, and build warships. If they dare not pay taxes, they will be beaten.

Now there is no Cromwell-like figure, so there is no need to pay more taxes. The latest 90-gun battleship was built in 1696. Disarmament and tax reduction, and the iron masters of each province are in charge, isn’t it beautiful?

Civilians are excluded, and they can only choose one of the two. If the oligarchic regent faction is not good, then let the Prince of Orange come to power.

This is what Liu Yu said to Kang Budai about "taking the blame", and what he said about completely destroying the last bit of patriotic enthusiasm of the Dutch.

The timing of coming to power is very important, and it is directly related to the Dutch comprador plan after Dashun went to Nanyang.

Although William is from the Orange family, he is not Prince Morrison who was invincible in the military reform.

What can William, who has asthma, cowardly and indecisive personality, change when he comes to power? It is not to say that he cannot be a famous general, but cowardly and indecisive personality will definitely not be a famous general.

Besides, his opponent at this time is Frederick II of Prussia, who is in his heyday; it is the French army that got the technology of wooden grenade and Minié bullet from Dashun.

And Liu Yu, who has been preparing for Nanyang for more than ten years, and Dashun behind him.

Whoever comes to power, the Netherlands will be dead. But Liu Yu needs the Dutch people to see that the Orange faction is a waste, and they have encountered failures again and again on the stage.

As long as the oligarchs cooperate a little and incite public opinion, they can manipulate public opinion.

After another round of bleeding, the Netherlands should understand its own weight and accept the fate of "returning to its rightful place in history".

The oligarchs took the opportunity to come to power again, make peace with France, accept the conditions of Dashun, and reorganize the East India Company.

At that time, it was not as simple as "stripping off trade with China" given by Liu Yu.

However, this matter needs to be done slowly. Anyway, the War of the Austrian Succession has already started. At most half a year, Britain and France will force the Netherlands to express its position.

During this period of time, I stayed in Europe. The Russian and French affairs were simple, and it was not difficult to deceive the Academy of Sciences to go to the capital. Only this matter was the most important, so I could take my time.

This group of citizens in Amsterdam was the first step.

At this time, the lottery on the dock had reached its most exciting moment. Some Amsterdam citizens who won the official kiln's high-quality porcelain held up their gifts and showed off to the people around them.

Look, even the royal families of various countries may not have such exquisite porcelain, right? This is the same style as the court of the Eastern Empire!

This is different from the export porcelain brought back by the East India Company. At least the charm is very different:

In history, the Qing Dynasty made export porcelain, and even made strange custom glaze styles such as the tricolor flag and the capture of the Bastille. It looks like it was made by a county ceramic factory in later generations.

Delft in the Netherlands copied Yixing purple clay teapots. The surface of the purple clay teapot is pasted with freehand plum blossoms. It really looks like Yixing Jiangnan style. As a result, a realistic big trademark was printed on the teapot: a running deer with a strong European badge flavor. If you don’t know, you might think that John Deere, who made tractors and harvesters in later generations, stopped making combines and went to make purple clay teapots.

The taste is not right, and you can really see it at a glance.

The Dutch must not understand the deep aesthetics contained in those glazes, but doesn’t not understanding it show nobility and elegance?

Besides, the reputation of this palace in Beijing is enough to show off. After all, the palace is extravagant at this time. Look at France in the west, Dashun in the east, and Ottoman in the middle. But in terms of high-end atmosphere and class, Dashun is definitely a level higher.

Amid the citizens' revelry, Liu Yu signaled the ceremonial guard to prepare.

As the music sounded, Liu Yu slowly got off the boat. Since Europe still recognized the aristocracy at this time, he naturally showed the style of Dashun aristocrats.

The order had been maintained in the name of lottery. The lottery was halfway through and stopped abruptly. The citizens of Amsterdam also stood up naturally and saluted Liu Yu who was walking slowly.

Or took off the hat or squatted slightly.

Under the escort of the tall and majestic ceremonial guards who were selected to represent the face of Dashun, Liu Yu frequently waved to the citizens of Amsterdam.

Then he climbed onto the simply built high platform and greeted the Dutch citizens very politely with his Latin foundation and the Dutch learned from these years and a year of boring life at sea.

Then, the "flattering" speeches began.

A simple loudspeaker made of paper tubes and iron rolls was placed there. Liu Yu softened his voice and blew a lot of praise on the Netherlands.

First, some normal nonsense about the exchanges between the two countries was said, avoiding the three major hatreds of Taiwan, Zhoushan and Penghu.

After the formalities, he began to make up stories.

"Of course you know that China is a civilized and polite country. But you don't know that among the Europeans who go to China for business, the most popular among the Chinese people are the Dutch who have the same qualities as us."

"Of course, the country with the closest exchanges in the court is France. But you should know that France has missionaries and nobles, but there are no businessmen who can make an impressive impression."

He made a joke about France in a light way that only the Dutch can understand.

The citizens of Amsterdam burst into laughter, because the French were fierce in battle and aristocratic, but their business skills were really...

Amsterdam merchants often pondered a question: How did France, which was so close to the Dashun court, had great advantages, a group of luxurious court diplomats at the level of corresponding academicians of the Academy of Sciences, the VOC envied China's relations, and participated in the drawing of the national longitude and latitude map of Dashun, cause the French East India Company to go bankrupt and reorganize in an era of China fever, porcelain fever, tea fever, and silk fever? It's appalling.

"In China, such a story has been circulating."

"One hundred and fifty years ago, a Dutchman named William Barents took a fleet to the Arctic Ocean. In the midst of confusion and snow, Barents would rather starve to death than eat the cargo on the ship. Because it was about credibility. So, later the sea in the north was called the Barents Sea."

"I want to know, is this story true?"

This is a very glorious thing for Amsterdam, just like asking you in Fengyang Prefecture if there is a hero who conquered the world with a broken bowl, expelled the Tartars, and restored China?

I quietly stirred up the crowd's emotions, and sure enough, they shouted one after another, saying that this story was true, and that this was the spirit of the Netherlands!

Liu Yu pretended to sigh and praised: "With a small country of less than one million people, it has achieved the Golden Age. Most of the goods in Europe are transported by the Dutch, relying on this reputation."

"And integrity is the virtue that China likes. It is because of this virtue that the Dutch were able to gain the favor of the Celestial Empire and the opportunity to trade with the Celestial Empire in an era when Catholic missionaries from Portugal and Spain served as court teachers and constantly spread rumors and slandered them!"

"We have a saying in the Celestial Empire, which is to say that one must keep one's word and fulfill one's actions. Only in this way can one be considered a lowest-class "scholar". If one cannot even keep one's word and fulfill one's actions, then he is a villain, a villain who is not worth associating with, and absolutely untrustworthy."

The idea of ​​flattery and killing, talking about credibility, is because the Dutch signed the "Basic Law of Succession to the Austrian Throne" in the past, and now it is time to fulfill their promise, but the regents are sitting on the fence for the sake of the Netherlands, and secretly flirting with France.

Of course, this cannot be said too bluntly, and the Dutch must be praised for keeping their word and being honest.

Then, he started to make up stories.

It started with the Catholic missionaries who traveled thousands of miles to ask for help, and then he started to make up stories.

He said that he had no good feelings towards Catholicism, but because this missionary was trustworthy and honest, even if he helped the enemy, Dashun gave Catholicism great trust and tolerance based on this person's honesty.

Including allowing Macau to monopolize trade, allowing Catholicism to spread, allowing Portugal to monopolize porcelain, tea and silk, and bringing Portugal a profit of tens of millions of guilders a year... and so on. The details were true, but the overall situation was completely false.

He was making up stories, but the Dutch who listened to him didn't know it was nonsense, because they had been thinking about why the Portuguese could obtain Macau in Dashun and monopolize the tea and silk trade in the early stage?

So it was because of such a story? And they had never heard of this story. This time, they heard the imperial envoy of Dashun tell it, could it be false?

This story itself is legendary enough, and the first half is basically true. A "scholar" who was entrusted with a task and was loyal to it traveled thousands of miles to organize the Tenth Crusade, which was indeed more appealing to Europe.

After saying this, Liu Yu talked about the stories of keeping promises and breaking promises in Chinese history.

From Shang Yang setting up a tree, to Zhang Yi deceiving Chu, to Chu's betrayal...

"Diplomacy requires credibility. Especially for a country that is not strong enough."

"Qin can commit diplomatic fraud because it is strong enough. It only needs to commit fraud once and never needs to rely on force to solve all diplomatic problems - destroy the rest of the countries and there will be no diplomatic problems."

"But if a second-rate country also engages in diplomatic fraud, it means that its international credibility will fall to the bottom and no one will trust them anymore. It will eventually lead to its demise."

"Not only the country, but also the commercial credibility will be affected."

"...So, integrity is..."

It seems that every sentence is talking about credibility, which is a virtue, a necessary condition for Dashun to interact with the Netherlands, and is related to commercial trust and confidence in national debt.

But in fact, the latter is deliberately set up to lure people to think.

Is the Netherlands... the Qin in the story? Is it capable of solving diplomatic problems - destroying the rest of the countries will eliminate diplomatic problems?

After disarmament, the Netherlands believed that diplomats could solve big problems. What Liu Yu said now was to treat the patient with medicine and secretly mix it with poison.

At the end, Liu Yu added: "I heard that twenty years ago, the Netherlands' national debt matured, but it could not raise the money to repay the national debt, so its credibility was damaged. Problems arose in subsequent issuances of national debt. "

"I think that although we are tens of thousands of miles apart and have different cultures between the East and the West, you must have the same views as we do on the importance of credibility."

"I came here from the far east, and everything starts from integrity. With the ban on Catholicism in China, a new distribution of trade shares is coming soon."

"You Amsterdammers are lucky. Ever since the story of Barentsz, the credibility of the Dutch has been well-known in China. I think the credibility you have always maintained will bring you great benefits in terms of trade distribution during this proscription crisis. Good luck!"

"A country that doesn't even have integrity is not worthy of being called a trading partner of China. Silk, porcelain and tea may be subject to quota trade and royal control in the future."

“Let us pay tribute to the most basic and important morality recognized by human beings in the East and the West—integrity!”