Xinshun 1730

Chapter 1136 The Threshold of Modern Times

If we say that these emerging classes want to be institutionalized dogs for the imperial power, it is a particularity of Dashun’s social structure and traditional forces that are too strong.

Then, in terms of the common characteristics of capital, this group of people from Dashun is completely still in this circle.

The external attitude is very clear.

The industrial capital of Dashun has a certain liking for the British commercial capital and thinks that they can cooperate.

But for European industrial capital, it is a standard attitude of life and death.

The commercial capital of Dashun, on the other hand, reflects the extreme exclusion of commercial capital under special circumstances.

Both hate European industrial capital.

Also quite disgusted with European commercial capital.

The reason is very simple, it is determined by the economic basis of both sides.

Take Dashun's Western Trading Company as an example, they hate many people.

From the Danish East India Company, hated to France's dominant economy.

The East India Companies of various countries and the industrial capital of Dashun actually have a certain basis for cooperation.

For example, the British East India Company has repeatedly shown its favor to Dashun. The company has tried its best to fight for a series of policies such as tea tax reduction and cancellation of the cotton cloth ban in the parliament.

However, because the country's industrial bourgeoisie is too deeply bound to the land-enclosed aristocratic class, although the commercial capital of the East India Company can easily kill the country's industrial bourgeoisie, it still cannot kill the land-enclosed aristocratic group.

The British East India Company is actually quite aggrieved, he really wants to be a comprador.He also spent a lot of money advocating in the country that "increasing the import of oriental cotton cloth is very beneficial to the people of England".

But it is a pity that those nobles and those who run woolen mills asked the East India Company, are we lords, squires, and factory owners the people of England?
You, an East India Company that doesn't even have India, are worthy of representing the people of England?
Therefore, the industrial bourgeoisie in Dashun felt that, in fact, the British East India Company could represent the people of England.

But the problem is that they don't speak well and are useless.

As for Dashun's Western Trading Company, it is really a pawn of imperialism.

He hated the British wool light industry.

At the same time, he also hated the British East India Company.

How beautiful would it be without the British East India Company?

Selling tea, silk, and porcelain are all monopolized by your own company. Isn't that flattering?
This is different from when Dashun went to Nanyang back then.

When it first went to Nanyang, it was the Netherlands' own commercial capital that wiped out its own industrial capital, so after Dashun ended, it ended smoothly.

The capture of Nanyang occupied by the Netherlands cleared away all obstacles for the "friendship" between China and the Netherlands.

It's different now.

If there is a real fight, it will be a decisive battle between the Dashun bourgeoisie and the British bourgeoisie.

There is no compromise.

It is also impossible to follow the path of Nanyang.

The East India Company must die.

The British textile industry must also die.

There is absolutely no room for compromise.

This is completely different from Dashun's previous battle in the northwest.

Before Dashun fought in the northwest, from the perspective of national strategy, it was indeed to save money and strategically benefit the Jiangnan region for a long time.

But the merchant class in the Jiangnan region has no interest in this. Capital, not to mention lack of interest in the [-]-year plan, may even have nothing to do with the [-]-year plan.

Of course, the result is also here. Dashun used troops in the northwest to support the Shaanxi Capital Group, which had already failed in the competition in the south of the Yangtze River. They used the money that Dashun used to make money in the northwest, and now they are "running horses to enclose land" in the southwest and northwest. It is engaged in well salt and pawnshop, and it is extremely busy.

But what benefits did Jiangnan Capital get?It can be said that apart from the important meanings of national security and defense against aggression, Jiangnan Capital is of no benefit.

Now Liu Yu started to play the side drums for the First World War. These people's support for the war is more than a hundred times thousand times better than that of Northwest troops.

For capital, take Nanyang as an example:
It is also a way to invest huge sums of money in construction to make everyone in Nanyang rich and expand the market.

But capital is definitely not interested.

Don't talk about Nanyang, they are not interested in making everyone in the country rich, expanding domestic demand, expanding the market, and improving the cycle, let alone Nanyang.

Therefore, for these capitals, those lands without people are worthless.Even if it is a land like Oceania, they don't want these capitals for free now, they just lose money.

Those areas with backward civilization are worthless.

What they like are rich areas with thousands of years of accumulation, agricultural and handicraft foundations, and money in their hands.

In this way, their things can be sold to make money.

All in all, build, you come; make money, we do.

The current situation, the reality at this time, is the price revolution caused by the American gold and silver mines, and Dashun is the end point of the spread, so it has caused a price difference of two to three times.

In other words, not to mention Dashun's handicraft level, it is still the world's leading.

Even if it is not leading, but on the average level, it still has a devastating impact on Europe.That is what Hume said, unless Europe increases its trade with Asia and makes China's per capita silver stock reach the level of Europe, there will be no possibility of "fair" free trade at all.

However, in order to practice the concept of free trade, it is feasible to let go of domestic tariffs, allow another 30 billion taels of European silver to flow to China, and embrace free trade at the cost of destroying domestic industries?
Therefore, the upcoming war will be far more tragic than the Seven Years War in history.

The outbreak of the First World War was already doomed.

The three major contradictions in Europe have not been resolved at all.

In addition, the irreconcilable contradictions between the Dashun Capital Group and the three major powers of the British industrial and commercial circle aristocrats were added.

Who now represents the UK?
The common people do not have much right to speak now.

The British industrial capital group, commercial capital group, and the aristocratic forces are actually the entire ruling class of Britain, that is, the whole of Britain.

Dashun's imperial power, military aristocrats, military officer corps, and the strange fusion of emerging classes have made a part of Dashun's ruling class and the contradictions between the British ruling class no longer harmonious.

As for the rest of the ruling class in Dashun, it has nothing to do with them. They have not been involved in the world market, nor have they been involved in the capitalist economic system, just watch the whole show.

Therefore, it seems to be a "national war" between Dashun and Britain.

In fact, it was Jiangsu Province that was pulling Kantung, Nanyang, Dengzhoufu, Wuyishan, and Jingdezhen to start a war with Britain.

The rest, watching a play, has nothing to do with them.

This is not a lie, but really has nothing to do with it.

It doesn't matter if you win or lose.

People on both sides of the canal from Funing to Nantong are middle-class people who read newspapers and care about the war situation, which directly affects their future income.

The people in Henan, even stable self-cultivators, will not feel the existence of the war. Whether they win or lose, within ten years, it will not have even the slightest impact on the price of food there.

Perhaps, the children in the family are cheap, and they stabbed the swallow's nest under the eaves with a bamboo pole, which is more important than this war.

And the mode of this war itself, for Dashun, must be a limited projected force, a small number of elite standing army, the maximum projected scale of 5000 people, and a naval battle dominated by harassment.

This also means that in this war, Dashun can demonstrate a strong mobilization force.

Because the main force of mobilization that is meaningful to the war is surrounded by Liu Yu, and there are only two or three hundred people on the periphery.

That is, two to three hundred families of the emerging bourgeoisie in Dashun.

Compared with the previous war mode, there is no mobilization at all, or it is impossible to integrate national forces for mobilization.

Totally different.

In this war, Dashun has also entered the threshold of a "modern country".

Liu Yu mobilized before the war by taking advantage of his imminent departure from Jiangsu, which seemed to be an opportunity to "arrange the funeral".

This is neither abrupt nor surprising, or directly affects investment volatility.

Because on weekdays he kept talking about class interests, trying to let the bourgeoisie in Dashun understand where their interests lie.

Moreover, this time, he also firmly stood on the side of the big capitalists in the Jiangsu reform that started with the reform of the salt administration reform and the abolition of the canal.

Brutal repression at home.

Take advantage of others.

Create bankrupt farmers.

Create cheap labor.

Advocating "debt-indented long-term workers" in distant colonies is reasonable.

Resolutely attack the just demands of the literati and bureaucrats who "harm the peasants with cheap rice".

I have done a lot and talked a lot, and I have been subtly influencing them on weekdays. At this time, facing these forces that should be mobilized, it is surprisingly harmonious to say some "funeral arrangements" that sound extremely aggressive.

He lured these people to express their demands. Of course, they dare not mention domestic affairs.

The demands of these people can be summed up roughly as follows:
Cancellation of the British East India Company's merchant houses and trading rights.

Occupy India.

Destroy the cotton textile industry in India, supplying cotton from India.

Increased smuggling to Europe and North America.

Open European tariffs.

The imperial court dispatched a naval fleet, visited Persia, signed a trade agreement, and drove away Europeans.

Japan expanded trade and deepened port opening.

Resolutely crack down on the pirates in Nanyang, leaving no one behind.

Take back Macau, completely drive away the power of the Portuguese in Southeast Asia, and attack Mozambique by the way, occupying the gold producing area and ivory trade.

Sign an agreement with Spain to allow trade in South America, and be willing to pay Spain an appropriate privileged trade fee.

In general, their appeals, their enthusiasm for these appeals, and their implicit willingness to pay if the court is willing to do so are basically consistent with Dashun's established diplomatic and strategic policies.

The hostile targets considered by the temple are Britain and Portugal.

For the rest, whether it is Rakshasa or France, there is no great contradiction in the general direction.

Even if there are some inconsistencies, they are small contradictions.

For example, the Whale Sea Company hopes to impose heavy tariffs on French furs, because French North American furs have affected their interests.If they can snatch Siberian furs from the Shanxi people, they must wish to impose a 200% tariff on French furs.

There are of course many such small contradictions.But in the general direction, these people who need to be mobilized, or mobilized meaningfully, are basically consistent with the strategic diplomatic situation calculated by Dashun Temple.

(End of this chapter)