Xinshun 1730

Chapter 1154 Many Divergent Roads, Today Is Here ([-])
As for Meng Songlu's social practice of faith in Honolulu, it can only be said that it was pure play.

More than 30 people with the most advanced productive forces on the island regard the etiquette taught by Meng Songlu as the rules for playing house wine.

The only reason for letting them play with him is that after the house wine, they will give wages... a lot of wages.

The reason why they enthusiastically participated in this family wine, the logic is very simple.

The establishment of state power can quickly promote technology and increase productivity.

The increase in productivity can promote social division of labor, with fewer people growing food and raising more non-agricultural people.

More non-agricultural population can go to the mountains to cut sandalwood trees.

The more sandalwood trees you cut, the more money you can sell.

More money can improve their status in the "capitalist world centered on Songsu".

Two different worlds are shaping different traditions.

Tradition itself is also a reality.

Dashun's imperial power is maintained not only by force, but also by inertia and tradition.

Power, most of the time, depends on other people believing that you have power, and you have power.

Here, these 30 hungry wolves will really face the so-called King of Honolulu with the mentality of a courtier?
Who do you send it to?

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at the same time.

Dashun's southwest frontier, Gaolang port.

The Sinhalese used to call this place Kola-amba-thota. Wang Dayuan passed by here when he went to the Mediterranean to play. After returning to China, Konger became Gaolangbu. In fact, the paraphrase is a port rich in mangoes.

Later, when the Portuguese came, they changed Gaolumbo into Colombo, Columbus and Colombo, which were used to commemorate Columbus and dispel their original meaning.

Later, the Chinese came again, also empty ears, from Colombo to Gaolang Port, used to lament the summer storm in the Indian Ocean.

Kong Er plus comprehensible translation is the best way to eliminate the influence of foreign language.

At this point, the Portuguese translated Gaolangbu into Colombo Columbus, and Dashun translated Colombo back into Gaolangbu, using the same method, the same thinking, and the same cultural aggression to dispel the historical nihility of history.

At this time, it is the last period before the arrival of the Indian Ocean storm season.

A Dashun merchant ship stopped at Gaolang Port, but did not enter the port, but raised its flag to pay tribute to the two French warships in the distance.

This is a rule between the two countries to give each other face, and the French merchant ships should do the same when they see Dashun's warships.

After all, more than 40 years ago, the French came to Guangzhou for the first time. In order to show that they were "European orthodox", they beat up the British sailors because the British merchant ships did not pay tribute.

On Dashun's side, Liu Yu later learned and learned, and beat up the Dutchman's sailors with almost the same reason.

The two sides are still relatively tacit.

Of course, Dashun was the initiator of the Armed Neutrality Alliance, and the Sino-French secret treaty ended after the Austrian King Succession War.

But the British have strong blockade capabilities and can impose an embargo on France.

So Dashun's armed neutrality is actually very obvious.

The two countries are standard non-aligned, but cooperative.

On the merchant ship, Quan Zheshen and Zhao Liben, who was destined to travel thousands of miles to find his younger brother again, were already half friends.

When Quan Zhe was in the sea asking for help, Zhao Liben, who happened to take a shit, helped the sailors to drag him up, so he was half a lifesaver.

Quan Zhe looked at Gaolang Port in the distance, and asked the captain, "When can we enter the port?"

The captain frowned and said, "Today's situation is a bit special. I think we will have to wait for a while. The governor of Ceylon seems to be meeting with the French governor. There is a big battle, and I'm afraid we won't be able to enter the port for a while. Wait a while. I guess the governor of the port They are lining up to welcome them."

"It is estimated that we will have to fire guns and guns in a while, let's wait."

The captain was right.

There are indeed some special circumstances in Gaolangport today, and it is true that the army came forward to greet them.

However, what was greeted was not the French Governor of India, but the former French Governor of India.

Just a few days ago, not anymore.

As for the reason, if you use the allusions that people in Dashun can easily understand, it will be easy to understand.

Most simplified:
That is, Ying Renmi and the Minister of Fahu government said: Duplex must be recalled before peace can be made.

Then the Minister of the Household Government made repeated remarks and dismissed Duplex.

So the King of France conferred the gold medal, and Charles Gordon went to India, summoned him, took power, and ordered Duplex to return to Paris as soon as possible.

Of course it's not that simple.

The Minister of the French Household Government, the General Secretary of the Navy, Fu Baolang, and Marchaulte de Arnovelli were attacked by the nobles because they wanted to integrate the gentry into one.

The position in the court is unstable, and there is an urgent need to consolidate his position in front of the King of France. For this reason, he has to show results in diplomacy.

Macchaut thought he had found a way to consolidate his position, that he had secured twenty years of peace for France, to allow time for his fiscal reforms.

So he made repeated remarks and dismissed Duplex.

Basically, that's it.

But the situation needs to be analyzed in detail.

Ma Chaoerte is just plain stupid.

Not that bad.

Stupid and bad, still have to distinguish clearly.

This can be regarded as one of the reasons for the outbreak of the Seven Years War between Britain and France.

If you cut out Prussia and look at the Seven Years War in history from the Anglo-French perspective, Washington's murder and Duplex's transfer can be regarded as the beginning of the Seven Years War from the Anglo-French perspective.

Britain did not want to engage in a full-scale colonial war with France while Duplex was in India.

Almost Duplex just returned to Paris... Historically, Duplex left India on October 10 and arrived in Paris in March of the following year with his ass still hot.

The "old urchin" Edward Bosconn of the British Navy took his warships to North America in May and smashed two French ships.

The Anglo-French all-out colonial war involving North America, Africa, and India was earlier than Prussia's blitzkrieg on the Sudetenland region.

The British East India Company is a company, and the king of England may not be called upon indiscriminately.

The French East India Company is the governor's mansion, and the French king has to change the governor obediently with an edict.

At this time, in the governor's mansion in Gaolangbu, Duplex was already drunk, and told Du Feng, the governor of Ceylon in Dashun, about his unhappiness.

He scolded Marciulte d'Arnovelli for being a "stupid cabinet minister like a pig".

Du Feng skillfully recalled a sentence Liu Yu taught him: "Peace through struggle will lead to peace; peace through compromise will perish."

Naturally, he was comforting Duplex on his lips, but he was secretly happy and ecstatic in his heart.

The joy was almost overwhelmed.

Du Feng was a little afraid of Duplex.

Within the calculation, the matter of India has already been settled. Dashun, relying on its geographical and delivery advantages, strategically despises the British and French operations in India.

Tactically, Du Feng mainly focused on two people.

One is Duplex, who has dealt with Liu Yu a long time ago.

The other is Clive, a British youth who has stood out in recent years and is a replica of him.

Judging from the information collected by Dashun, the British side attaches great importance to Clive, who has stood out in recent years.

During the brief period of peace, Clive returned to England.

But this is not good news.

Because Clive, to some extent, entered the upper-middle class society in England, he married the daughter of the Maskelyne family.

At this time, the family is not well-known, and can only be regarded as the lower part of the upper-middle-class society where the children can go to Cambridge.Although it is lower, it is also the upper middle class. It started from Cambridge. It cannot be said that it is a common people.

The family is still quite famous in later generations.

Clive’s elder brother, Neville Maskelyne, was the fifth director of the Greenwich Observatory. He was the first to measure the mass of the earth and compiled the British lunar calendar. Vendish's torque-gravity method is different, but it is also famous in the history books.

The descendants of this family are very fierce in bragging about X.In World War II, the "war magician" Maskeline who claimed to be a magician, who made the Suez Canal disappear and hid Alexandria to avoid the German bombing, was the grandson of Uncle Clive's grandson.

It can be regarded as an "astronomical" family.

After all, astronomy, mathematics, magic, and astrology all went hand in hand for a while.

According to Dashun's understanding, the generations of "Tai Shi Gong" and "Qin Tian Jian" are definitely not top nobles.

But if you want to say that marrying this kind of daughter who has been passed down from generation to generation and specializes in this industry is not considered a class transition and touching the threshold of the upper class, then it is definitely not right.

From Dashun's point of view, Britain's letting Clive return to China is more like sending a signal: trying to convince France that Britain intends to maintain peace in India, so that France can replace the old man who was always thinking about doing things in India. Duplex.

Britain's belligerent is Clive.

The militant of France is Duplex.

The reason why it is said that the French Minister of the Household Government and Fu Baolang Ma Chaoert are simply stupid, not bad, is also because the gesture made by the British seems to really mean peace in India and no one will cause trouble.

Ma Chaoerte is a reformist.

He believes that the French economy has a big problem.

So reform.

He even agrees with Liu Yu on the idea of ​​fiscal reform.

Abolish the preferential treatment for gentry that gentry can escape legally, conduct a comprehensive inventory of land, and pay per-mu tax.

Ma Chaoerte's reform ideas are similar, because in theory, the nobles and priests can legally evade the tithe tax.

Therefore, he demanded that the 21th tax be abolished, and that the land should be thoroughly inspected and the [-]st tax be collected.

It seems that tax cuts can actually increase the country's fiscal revenue, because the eleventh tax can be legally evaded by both nobles and priests.

A lot of taxes are all on the third class.

It is also similar to the abolition of preferential treatment for gentry, the distribution of gentry into mu, and the inventory of field mu.

France is known as the Little Ming Dynasty in Europe. It’s really not for nothing. In fact, there are many similarities. The difference is that France has 20 nobles, while Ming Dynasty has 60 students.

His "naiveness" in diplomacy is actually a kind of helplessness.

He opposed the French-Austrian alliance and the war between Britain and France. He believed that the French-Austrian alliance was purely helping Austria to work.It is not advisable for a rooster to wake up in the morning. The king must never trust a woman's words.

Therefore, he believes that the top priority for France now is to avoid war and internal reforms, otherwise France may have a revolution-theoretically, from future generations, some people believe that if Ma Chaoerte abolished the tax avoidance of the noble priest's tithe and fully collected 21 Taxation, it is possible to avoid the big revolution after the event - of course, this is basically just some people's wishful thinking.

In short, it was he who was trying to avoid war.

And in order to avoid war, compromises had to be made.

One of the conditions offered by the British was to transfer Duplex back from India, because Duplex was smart and warlike.

In this way, in name, it can be guaranteed that on the Indian side, Britain and France will not participate in the internal struggles of the Indian envoys, and peace can be maintained.

Ma Chaoert believes that it is impossible for France to carry out the internal reform of twenty taxes and one tax while going to war.

Tax reform is a top priority.

Otherwise, the nobles and priests legally avoid taxes, and the taxes are all on the third class, and sooner or later there will be big troubles.

Therefore, he fell into a vicious circle.

The reform touched the interests of the great aristocracy and the Paris High Court.

So get criticized.

After being criticized, he wants to fight for his own position. If he is no longer a cabinet minister, why change?
Therefore, he had to do something again to obtain the approval of the King of Dharma.

So, what to do?
By making concessions to the United Kingdom, he obtained peace, showed his diplomatic mediation methods, and increased his importance to the King of France.

Fight for 20 years of peace for France, and gain the respect and favor of the king for yourself.

Complete financial reforms, avoid social crises, strengthen centralization, weaken the privileges of priests and nobles, complete the integration of gentry and gentry, repay national debts, stabilize government revenue, and alleviate third-level grievances.

(End of this chapter)