Xinshun 1730

Chapter 1129 A New World

Cheng Tingzuo glanced at his disciple with a half-smile.

I think that for young people, getting along with the common people in this kind of place and doing some boring and solid things every day is really not as passionate as Zhang Bowang and Ban Dingyuan.

He also thought that even though Meng Songlu said that he understood the difference, he was still following Ban Dingyuan's path, wanting to make a name for himself thousands of miles away.

After all, he lived a long time, and his thoughts of the younger generation can be seen at a glance.

But he didn't want to tell the truth. He felt that Meng Songlu was keen on this matter. Although there were reasons why young people couldn't bear loneliness and wanted to make things happen, after all, this matter was not wrong.

Dashun's expansion and exploration to the outside world had the greatest impact on these Confucian scholars, which was to greatly expand the concept of "the world".

Titles such as Ceylon, Java, Body Poison, and Europa frequently appear in books and periodicals in the advanced regions. The more you know about the outside world, the larger the scope of the world will be.

The larger the scope of the world, the smaller the fear of distant places.

What used to be a wild land outside the world has now become a remote frontier within the world.

Where exactly is Honolulu, they don't actually know.But they have begun to accept the concept that the earth is a ball. Since Dashun's merchant ships can go to Europa every year, how far can it go?

If the scholars in Yunnan and Guizhou want to go to the capital to take the exam, don't they have to travel for half a year?
It will only take a few months or at most half a year for a merchant ship to go to Europa.

Thinking about it this way, the distant and unknown Honolulu, under the new view of the world, is at most Yunnan and Guizhou.

"Since you want to go, it's a good thing. Although there is a lot of ridicule in the Xingguo public letter, what we do has nothing to do with his ridicule, but only with the kingly way."

"If you want to go, cross the river to the south in a few days, and visit Duke Xingguo."

"In a few days, the Holy Lord will be making a tour to the south. It is expected that Duke Xingguo will return to the capital. He wrote a letter about this at this time, and it seems that before he leaves, he will explain everything he has to do."

It was no secret that the emperor wanted to make a southern tour to see the reformed Jiangsu.

But after all, Meng Songlu was young and had never been an official. He couldn't immediately understand the relationship between the emperor's southern tour and Liu Yu's no longer leaving Jiangsu.

"Duke Xingguo is no longer going out to Zhensongsu? Where is the news, sir?"

Cheng Tingzuo didn't answer, but just smiled, thinking that this matter is obvious.

Today, Songsu is already an important tax center for the imperial court, which is several times higher than in the past.

The land tax has not increased too much, but the income from industry and commerce, franchises, and even royal housekeeping funds is far superior to the past, and it is difficult to count.

As an emperor, he could allow people to stay in the barren land of Yunnan and Guizhou forever, but it was impossible to allow people to stay in this place forever.If it's been in business for too long, even if the emperor doesn't say anything, Duke Xingguo will take the initiative to avoid it if he wants to come.

However, Jiangsu is now undergoing transformation, giving up the land of fish and rice, and gaining the benefits of cotton and silk.Food, coal, and ironware all come from other places.In other words, they all come from the Navy.

The emperor's southern tour was not for sightseeing, but to see the people's livelihood and economy in Jiangsu with his own eyes, and to see the attitude of these supported businessmen towards the emperor, or they came here to show their prestige.

Smart people can guess these things.

I think it is very different from the situation of the last Southern Tour where the canal was abolished, the Huaihe River was built, and the salt merchants were asked for money.

This time, Cheng Tingzuo guessed that this time must be much grander than last time.

It may even attract elite pro-military troops to escort them all the way.

It is also unknown whether the naval fleet will be reordered, and it will be read in Songsu.

He guessed, basically right.

But not quite.

Indeed, this time the emperor toured the south, there were many ideas that Cheng Tingzuo thought.

Including coming with troops.

It also includes the fleet parade in Songsu.

Of course, including after Liu Yu's reform in Jiangsu was completed, not to mention that he was completely hidden, but he would definitely not be allowed to continue to leave the town here.

However, these ideas are relatively normal, ordinary, and understood under the concept of "old world".

The changes in the view of Tianxia and the concept of Tianxia caused by Dashun's foreign exchanges made some differences between the "Old Tianxia" and the "New Tianxia".

The new world includes many aspects of the old world, just like Dashun, which used the banner of "preserving the world" at the beginning, and eventually most of them inherited the Ming system, including taxation, the relationship between the central and local governments, and so on.

But many things are similar to the old world, and some are different from the old world.

At this time, it is the same.

In addition to the actions under the logic of the "old world" mentioned by Cheng Tingzuo, the emperor's southern tour this time also had a logic under the "New World View" that Cheng Tingzuo could not understand at this time.

Even though Cheng Tingzuo and others have vaguely felt that the concept of the world at this time is different from the concept of the world in the past, they still cannot grasp the key to the difference.

This time the emperor made a southern tour, and he wanted to attract the elite guards from the Beijing camp, and he wanted to parade the navy in Songsu. Under the new view of the world, he was preparing for the upcoming foreign expansion.

A comprehensive, first real world war in human history from Europe to America, from America to Luzon, from Luzon to India, from India to Africa, is about to start.

Different people pay different attention to the external world.

For example, the group of people from Dashun Academy of Sciences, in the past few years of Jiangsu's reform, was listed as the top priority. On the land of North America, Benjamin Franklin "proved" that lightning is also a kind of electricity with a kite. Electricity makes no difference.

The reason for using "proof" is because Dashun's general education in the new practical textbooks regards this statement as a kind of "common sense", and it is just crammed without any proof.

Subsequently, Lomonosov, the first native academician of the Raksha Kingdom, and Li Heman, another academician who proposed a wrong thermodynamic formula, repeated the experiment... and Lomonosov survived, The Rakshasa Academy of Sciences lost a physics academician on the spot.

As a result, a wave of experiments "to prove those strange theories of Dashun Academy of Sciences" was triggered, and various bold and life-threatening experiments were staged in various places.

Dashun's decision-making circle, of course, did not focus on this matter.

The key news they focused on was still the situation in Europe, the situation in India, and the struggle between the French East India Company and the British East India Company in India.

And, Britain and France officially declare war in North America.

The reason is that after the "Ginseng" War, Dashun's reforms in Jiangsu made the strange situation of trade between the East and the West seriously intensified.

Originally, the only Netherlands that could exchange spices for goods cooperated with Dashun.

The rapid development of the textile industry in Dashun and the counterfeit watch industry made it difficult for any goods from Europe to enter Dashun.

There were not many.

Now it's just exacerbated this weird state.

And France was busy digging ginseng, catching mink, and catching antlers in North America. Ships of goods traveled thousands of miles to Dashun in exchange for the oriental fine silk that the French silk and textile industry urgently needed.

The French proudly said that they no longer need to send ships to South America to smuggle enough silver to trade with the Chinese.

The ginseng war seems to be over, but it is not.

The French, who had tasted the sweetness, supported the Indians to go south to the Ohio Valley.

The French, on the other hand, built many forts along the river. With the manpower of the French forts and Indian allies, they continued to occupy the British North American colonies.

This is to create a buffer zone for the "exclusive ginseng mink" trade, but it does not want to have a full-scale conflict with the United Kingdom.

Because... In terms of trade, the French have an advantage. They just want to maintain the status quo, and they don't want to expand the war.

George Washington, a young British officer, led his troops to ambush a small French army in order to get promoted.

French officer Jumontville, with the arrogance unique to the French in Europe, believed that France was the language of court and diplomacy in Europe, and shouted in French not to shoot, we are here to negotiate.

Washington certainly didn't know French, but he wasn't very brave to go it alone, and he didn't really want to confront the French head-on.

Even if he couldn't understand French, he didn't want to make trouble.

But Huff King, the leader of the British Iroquois allies, knew not only English but French very well.

Almost instantly, Huff King made a decision that was hard to tell whether he was smart or not. He rushed forward and hacked the French officer Jumonville to death with an axe.

The reason for the chopping can basically be understood by anyone in Dashun who is familiar with history books.

Provoking Britain and France to go to war, thus causing both Britain and France to lose, the Iroquois took the opportunity to grow bigger.

"Yi" said: Take advantage of the chaos, benefit the weak and have no master.Then, let Xiang Hui enter the banquet.

Zell, who fishes in troubled waters.

It cannot be said that it was not a good idea.

But the problem is that this kind of strategy, which is similar to provoking a dog to bite a dog, has a premise that you must be strong enough.

If you are not strong enough, you may make your family bigger and completely lose the time for development.

Everyone was hacked to death, so Washington could only do one thing and wipe out this French team.

But not long after, the French made a comeback and, with the help of their Indian allies, captured Washington.

Because the commander-in-chief of France in the Ohio Valley was the brother of the unfortunate Jumonville who was hacked to death.

So Washington was arrested.

As I said before, Washington does not understand French.Although the French believe that it is impossible for Europeans, especially the middle and upper classes above the lieutenant level, to understand French, this is only what the French themselves think.

So Washington was forced to sign a plea and repentance.

The statement of guilt and repentance was written in French, and the content was very clear: it was the British military officer Washington who "assassinated" the French diplomat Jumontville.All future conflicts between Britain and France in North America will be the responsibility of the British.

Subsequently, Washington, who signed a French plea, was released.

If it is only up to this point, Dashun's decision-making circle is not a fool, so they can naturally understand: the French are scared, and they don't want to go to war with the British at all, otherwise the diplomats will be hacked to death, and they will be released like this?
However, the response from the UK was very subtle.

The British companies who were jealous of trade with France and Dashun, the colonists who tried to seize the ginseng and mink trade, the East India Company and the financial capitalists who had determined the priority policy of India but fought endlessly between India and France, all immediately became like the Jenkins Ear War. In that way, using the public opinion tool in hand, a comprehensive propaganda was launched.

By Washington's own admission, the conflict was not serious, with only 30 to [-] casualties on both sides.

But soon, the 30 people in his mouth turned into 300 people in Virginia newspapers, and then turned into "killing more than 900 French people" described by capital-controlled public opinion on the streets of London.

A young hero who defended British frontier and colonial interests.

Interestingly, some newspapers quoted some details of Washington's letter to a friend: I heard a lot of bullets whizzing by, really!There's something fascinating about that sound...

And King George, who has actually been on the battlefield, complained: Damn it, think I haven't been on the battlefield? 【It is impossible for him to hear so many bullets】.

Once the public opinion controlled by capital is launched, it is impossible to stop and can only upgrade each other.

(End of this chapter)