Xinshun 1730

Chapter 1157 Many Divergent Roads, Today Is Here ([-])

Nothing to do with loyalty.

It has nothing to do with personal virtues like loyalty.

This is the basis for Liu Yu's military reform and his voyage to Southeast Asia to seize India.

It was also the basis for the emperor to allow the South China Sea to seize India.

Nothing to do with loyalty.

Du Feng didn't have the capital to become a king on his own, because he didn't have a navy in his hands, he didn't have a gun manufacturing factory, and he didn't even have a trade channel.

The fragile Ceylon economy, outwardly exporting cinnamon and betel nut gemstone pearls, was rich and valuable.But if Zili rebels, Dashun's navy will strangle this trade line, and the Zili will collapse on their own.

So he must be loyal, so it has nothing to do with the virtue of loyalty.

When Liu Yu was busy with the Jiangsu reform, the most important thing the emperor did was to expand the navy and promote a large number of newcomers from good families.

Out of distrust of Liu Yu, the emperor washed away the power of Liu Yu's influence, so the emperor trusted Liu Yu.

The emperor has a force that can instantly disintegrate the Nanyang Protectors, so he believes in the loyalty of the Nanyang Protectors.

Dashun has many fierce men.

There are many heroes of troubled times with outstanding talents, hidden in the prosperous times.

This point, the emperor is very clear.When troubled times come, each county can actually gather a team of government and generals.Such as Pei County, such as Fengyang, such as Yulin Yan'an.

But even so, no one can get rid of the identity of a Chinese, go to India to be an Indian, and then stir up troubles, unify India, resist Dashun's suppression, and eliminate the threat of Britain and France. Such an ability is too heaven-defying.

If this is not possible, during the expansion period of the empire, why don't the ambitious people choose to win a title in the army of the empire and worship their wife and son?
The advantage of external expansion is to throw all the wolves hidden in the empire to the frontier and let them bite everywhere.

And because the navy is in hand, there is no need to be afraid of these hungry wolves.

The best wolves will be collected as dogs.

Engrave their names on the iron coupons of the Danshu, build them a large mansion in the capital, and give tens of thousands of taels of silver every year, and also make their offspring born with imperial power and dog blood, superior to others.

Du Feng just told Duplex very calmly that you don't have the ability to stand on your own and become the king of India.

Actually neither do I.

Therefore, we can only think about the so-called strategic trade-offs from the perspective of the country and the court.

Therefore, although it is lamentable, it can be regarded as self-inflicted, because you cannot get rid of your identity as a French, but it violates the strategy of the French court.

Although, Liu Yu ridiculed France, saying that Louis XV's strategy was fucking no strategy.But if the correct strategy under the objective facts cannot win, will the strategic direction that is bound to fail under the objective facts win?

Duplex was stunned for a long time, heaved a long sigh, glanced at Du Feng, and smiled wryly.

"The fate of people... is really unpredictable."

"When I first went to Guangzhou for trade, I had never heard of the name of that duke in your country, let alone you."

"When I first went to Weihai, the Duke was not yet a Duke. He and I were like equal friends. At that time, you were just a naval trainee officer, and I was the Governor of Pondicherry in France."

"And now... I can only look you in the eye, and listen to your evaluation and advice, but I can't say a word of refutation."

Du Feng also took a deep breath, feeling a lot about these words, nodded and said: "Yes, the fate of people... If everything is as usual, I may still be on the banks of Heilongjiang, looking for opportunities to rob caravans Border Army."

On the one hand, it is tortured by the desolate and sad fate, and on the other hand, it is lamenting the process of history, the same sigh, but different moods.

It's just that Du Feng, and even Duplex, don't know that today's sigh has not yet demonstrated the full power of fate.

In the original history, when Duplex was down and out on the streets of Paris, waiting to die with his eyes closed, he left behind a classic lament about the impermanence of fate:

[I used to control a territory wider than France, and every Indian prince was eager for my help. 】

[I sacrificed my youth, my wealth, and my life to run Asia for my motherland. 】

[Unfortunate friends, wretched parents, beloved brothers, have dedicated all their wealth to my purpose... as the fund of the conquest of the motherland in India.Now, I have nothing and they desperately need this money to live.I respected the laws of the country and asked the creditors about my debts, but they didn't think that my payment needed to be repaid. 】

[My career is used as a parable, a parable that warns others not to be as stupid as I am.I am regarded as the most despicable person among human beings...]

[At this moment, the landlord asked me for rent, and I couldn't pay it. I was forced to ask for probation to avoid being dragged into prison for not paying rent. 】

Perhaps, it is hard to imagine how a person who used to be the emperor of South India and who was once used as a bargaining chip for peace between Britain and France by the United Kingdom when facing the landlord asked for rent, humbly begged for a few days of grace to avoid being dragged into prison.

Perhaps, it is also easy to imagine, especially for the people of Dashun.

The shabby room was empty, and the wat was full of beds; the decayed grass and poplars were once a singing and dancing venue.

The spider silk is full of carved beams, and the green gauze is now pasted on the canopy window.

It is said that the fat is thick and the powder is fragrant, but how the temples turn into frost.

Yesterday the loess ridge sent bones to the bones, and tonight the mandarin ducks lie under the red light tent.

A box full of gold and a box full of silver will slander beggars.

Just lamenting that other people's lives are not long, how can I know that I will return to mourn!
If you are well-trained, you may be a strong beam in the future.Choosing Gaoliang, who wants to live on Firework Lane!

The shackles resisted because they thought the gauze hat was too small; yesterday they felt sorry for the cold torn coat, but now they think the purple python is long.

Noisily coax you to sing and I will appear on the stage, denying that the other country is my hometown.

It's ridiculous!
In the end, they all make wedding clothes for others!

It is a universal, enduring, repetitive and cyclical story.

Common, ordinary stories that transcend nations, countries, cultures, and histories.

Because it is ordinary, it is great.

It's just that it's impossible for Du Feng to understand these words at this time. Even though he seems to have heard Liu Yu say it, how could he remember these tasteless sentences when he was a young man?There was neither sword nor blood.

In his heart, there is only a sympathy for the same governor who has been transferred back to Beijing for retirement, but he is far from the age and experience to understand fate.

So when Duplex talked about fate, in Du Feng's sigh, the excitement overcame the sorrow of empathy.

I am a wild boy of the frontier army, a person who should have spent his whole life on the bank of Heilongjiang, but because of the progress of history, he has become the governor of Ceylon at this moment, and he is about to send away the most terrifying of the two enemies, and then make contributions , left a name in history, sealed his wife and son, returned to his hometown in fine clothes, reborn in Bengal, and drank the city of Mumbai.

Sighing, both of them felt the wonder, unknowability, and unfathomability of fate.

Both of them don't understand the process of history.

For Du Feng, the historical process is the development of the British and French sugar industry in the Caribbean, which gave Ceylon tens of thousands of Han Chinese who returned to Yiyi, and gave him the opportunity to be the governor of Ceylon.

For Duplex, the historical process is the contradiction between the commercial bourgeoisie of Dashun and the London East India Company, forcing the commercial bourgeoisie of the British East India to urgently get rid of their dependence on Dashun’s goods and increase their reliance on Indian goods. His power projection has made him feel great pressure in the past few years, and he has been frustrated everywhere.

The opium case, the teaching case, the sanctions against the Danish East India Company... From the perspective of the empire, fighting against opium and Christianity is the empire's maintenance of system governance.

But from the perspective of the commercial bourgeoisie, this is the commercial bourgeoisie in Dashun, using administrative power to suppress the commercial bourgeoisie in Europe.

Different people's perspectives, looking at the same problem, will have different conclusions.

The commercial bourgeoisie does not produce commodities, but only transports them.

Who is the most suitable substitute for Dashun's cotton cloth, silk, medicinal materials, jute, rice and other commodities?
is India.

Because Dashun launched the opium case and launched sanctions against the Danish East India Company, the British bourgeoisie had to devote more energy to India.

For the British industrial bourgeoisie, Dashun sanctioned the London East India Company?And such a good thing?It would be better to sanction death!Damn it, this gang of compradors, blood-suckers of monopoly franchises, and shameless destroyers of domestic industries should be dead.

But for the British commercial bourgeoisie, Dashun's sanctions against the East India Company sent a terrible signal, that is, Dashun has the ability to pass commercial sanctions to prevent the East India Company from obtaining oriental goods in Dashun.

The East India Company, which has no oriental goods in its hands, is worthless.It's like the Dutch East India Company without the spices.

The pressure that Duplex has felt in India has suddenly increased in recent years.

It is the British commercial bourgeoisie, under the pressure of the Dashun commercial bourgeoisie, urgently need to get rid of the excessive dependence on Dashun products, and plan for a rainy day, launching a class self-help movement.

In the next 30 years, British industrial capital and commercial capital will unite to find a market.At that time, the value of commercial capital was to sell the country's industrial products in exchange for more raw materials and allocate more resources.

But now, the British commercial capital can only put all their fate on India under the double pressure of the domestic industrial bourgeoisie and the Dashun commercial bourgeoisie.

For Duplex, the course of history is sad.

If it is the production efficiency of the French people 30 or 50 years later, then the vast market of India will definitely allow him to get great support from France, no matter the cost.

But now, the historical process before his eyes is that the goods produced by French laborers cannot be sold in India, and they cannot open up the market, let alone compete with Indian handicrafts.

Therefore, fate will pull him back to Paris, because there is no profit.

The good relationship between Dashun’s industrial capital and commercial capital stems from the millions of industrious and intelligent working people in Dashun. Their leading handicraft technology and products are the strongest bond between Dashun’s industrial bourgeoisie and commercial bourgeoisie.

Otherwise, if the industrial level of Europe surpasses that of Dashun, will the relationship between Dashun Western Trading Company and Dashun Nantong Textile Company be like glue?Or is it incompatible?

This is a simple question that does not need to be considered.

One day you can cheer Dashun Western Trading Company as a pawn of imperialism, but tomorrow you will be indignant that they are a comprador group of foreign capital. The development of China's industry, the level of industrialization, the stronger the industrial power and the higher the industrial output value, the more it can promote the enemy's industry. The division and contradiction between capital and commercial capital even directly tear each other's society apart.

The biggest difference between the Dashun where Liu Yu lived and the Manchu Qing Dynasty was that they vaguely recognized the power of the working people, and Liu Yu knew what the process of history was.

He only borrowed a little bit of the power of the working people, and even if the power of the working people was suppressed, in the time and space when he did not appear, he still showed a powerful force that could tear apart the other party's society—otherwise, you think Defoe and The mutual spraying of the East India Company, the debate between Adam Smith and Hume, and the debate over the Manchester Cotton Act, what are they talking about and fighting for?
The real power that triggered the debate between Defoe and the East India Company was the porcelain craftsmen in Jingdezhen and the weaving women in Songjiang Prefecture.They used their hands to tear open the rift in British society; they used their hands to create the real world, and the debates of those people are only explaining the real world created by the laborers.

Min sisters from Fujian who picked tea, Guizhou who smelted zinc in Guizhou, Jiangxi craftsmen who fired porcelain in Jingdezhen, women from Wu who reeled silk in Jiangnan, and Su Qiao who weaved cloth in Songjiang. They created many realities in this world.

With their industrious hands, they created a further tear of the Dutch industrial and commercial capital.

Created the legal smuggling desire of North American smugglers.

France, which created the Colbert Doctrine, could not gain commercial interests in the East.

The desperate bet that created Britain's commercial capital was on India.

Created the trust of free commercial capital in Western Europe in Dashun treasury bonds...

Liu Yu understood the reality of the world with the eyes of seeing the world learned from later generations, and lured or forced Dashun's feudal ruling group to follow the process of history.

In fact, until now, the total horsepower of Dashun’s steam engine is still not worth mentioning; Dashun’s railway is still just a toy for a horse-drawn carriage;

All of this is the tinkering of the old world, but it is enough.

He just allowed this ancient country with the world's largest handicraft output value in the era of the rise of world trade to regain its position in the era of global trade that should have adapted to its handicraft output value.

Du Feng only knows how to lament his personal fate.

He doesn't know what India means to China's future.

Even he probably doesn't care at all.

What he thinks about is still the old things, conferring on his wife and son, enfeoffing a marquis and worshiping his prime minister, and returning to his hometown in rich clothes.It's nothing more than a place where stones are cut, from Yanran yellow sand to Indian moist soil.

But it is not important.

Not important at all.

Just like the Cossacks who fought with Liu Yu in Heilongjiang and expanded eastward for fur profits and wealth; like one of the two enemies he considered, Clew for the sake of wealth and adventure, robbery and fame .

It doesn't matter what they think.

And the irony of history is that Duplex in the battle of the fate of the three people in India is the only one among the three who has the motherland, the country, the glory, France, the future of the nation in his mind, and really takes his own property. People who come out to pay for the army to buy cannons...

(End of this chapter)