Xinshun 1730

Chapter 1298 Death and Revenge ([-])
In fact, Pete's fear was far worse than the destruction that Dashun really wanted to bring.

Generally speaking, through reading history, from the history of the Lord Protector era, Peter vaguely touched several methods of "primitive accumulation", and knew that wealth comes from primitive accumulation.

But he mistook primitive accumulation for the purpose.

However, only those who use these primitive accumulations as means and accomplish the real purpose of primitive accumulation can be regarded as qualified and leading the tide of the times.

Because he regarded what should have been the primitive accumulation of means as the end of history and the ultimate goal of Britain, he proposed a global colonial strategy and a plan to disintegrate the French and Spanish fleets and fight to the end.

It's just that the British completed the transition from primitive accumulation to the industrial revolution on the basis of his gamble.

However, his own consciousness regards primitive accumulation as the goal.

Therefore, what he is afraid of is only the problem at the level of primitive accumulation after Dashun's trade products flock to him.

The actual problem is much more serious than this.

For example, once free trade is liberalized, capital will flock to those profitable industries.

To be careful of:
Because Britain exercised extreme control over trade.

Therefore, a large amount of capital has nowhere to go, and can be invested in Britain's large infrastructure-the canal project.

On the side of Dashun, the same reasoning is due to the reform and control of land in the Songsu area, a large amount of capital has to be invested in industries other than land.

This is determined by the profit-seeking nature of capital: Is infrastructure construction the investment with the highest rate of return?no.Trade is.However, trade is controlled, and entry is not allowed, so it can only be the next best thing.I also wanted to sell tea, but the imperial court refused to allow it, and it was really decapitated.

Once trade control is relaxed, a large amount of capital will be invested in trade instead of infrastructure.And the trade itself... How should I put it, the Netherlands is a ready-made example. Trade can make a fortune, but it will destroy the foundation of Britain.

What are Britain's roots?
It is the real economy that can develop under the control of trade.

It is because the capital has nowhere to go and cannot be invested in more profitable trade. Because of the control, a large amount of silver has to be invested in the construction of the canal to obtain a rate of return slightly higher than the 3% of the national debt. The rapid improvement of the level and the reduction of logistics costs have laid a solid foundation for the next step of industrial development.

If 100 pounds is used for business, the profit of buying oriental cotton cloth and selling it is higher than investing the 100 pounds in textile factories, or building infrastructure, digging canals, and repairing roads, then the 100 pounds will be used to buy cotton cloth instead of building textiles factories, build infrastructure, dig canals, and build roads.

This is a simple truth.

Unless, relying on centralization, the government, the navy, and tariffs, anyone who dares to buy cotton cloth will be fined 200 yuan first.

If Dashun makes demands on trade issues, it will destroy the real economy of the UK and bring a falsely prosperous commercial economy to the UK.

In this era, there are no nuclear bombs.

The Netherlands was so prosperous at the beginning, what happened?Commerce destroyed the country's industry, and several wars destroyed the Dutch military.

Even in the fourth Anglo-Dutch war in history, Britain brought warships and cannons to force financiers in Amsterdam to buy British treasury bonds.

Prosperity only depends on trade, and it is impossible to survive in this era.Moreover, behind this trade prosperity is the outflow of silver from the country and the inflow of a large amount of silver into the hands of comprador groups.And they will send this silver to China, because Dashun's industry has already started, and the interest rate is high, so the rate of return is higher.

In this era of precious metals, money is really money, and it cannot be printed or issued in excess. It is really a zero-sum game of "If you have more, I will have less, and if you have less, I will have more".

And the peculiarity of Dashun is like that described in the "History of British India" in 1826: [...Manchester's factory will stop at the beginning, and it is even impossible to start it again, even with the power of steam]

This was the real problem, and what would result would be a rapid and full Dutchification of Britain.

At this time, the real financial center, the capital of Amsterdam, will also choose to support Dashun's industrial revolution instead of investing in British canals, infrastructure, industry, etc., because the profits are higher.

As for Britain at this time, and the reality that Pete was desperate for, apart from the East India Company issue, it also faced a more severe situation when facing the impact of foreign goods.

This grim situation is essentially why Liu Yu believes that Pete is either at the level of a Showa staff officer, or the reason why the opposition has been there for a long time to oppose the level.

There is a very, very, very famous saying in later generations, basically most people have heard it, and it was said by Peter.

The wind can enter, the rain can enter, but the king cannot enter.

The original text of this sentence is [The poorest man may defy all the power of the royal family in his cottage.It may be weak; its roof may shake; the wind may blow through it; a storm may enter; The threshold of the title deed! 】

The background of this sentence is that after the end of the Seven Years War in history, Britain owed a huge debt, and its finances were about to collapse, so it could only find ways to extract money and increase taxes.

The important item of tax increase is production tax and tariff.

There is a decree in it, which is the "Assistance in Search Act".

Namely: Customs officials, tax collectors, may use these assisting orders to enter any building by force to search and seize any items that may be confiscated.The officer must have reasonable grounds for suspecting that confiscible goods were kept on the premises prior to obtaining and executing the search warrant and that the goods are likely to be removed, destroyed, or lost.A Writ of Assistance is valid from the date it is issued...

In simple terms, such as the tariff imposed by the Navigation Act.

Smuggling is commonplace.

In this case, customs officials and tax officials are eligible to enter the ship for search. As long as they have an assisting search warrant and suspect that the ship is smuggling, they can enter the ship and check the smuggled goods.

Or, for example, the cider tax in the UK. Alcohol is also the hardest hit area for tax evasion.With this decree, the house of a would-be bootlegger can be entered and searched.

And this, from the beginning of William Pitt's opposition to Walpole's excise tax policy, has been a slogan that Pitt has been using to win the support of the bourgeoisie and small urban producers.

He objected to such warrants, against customs agents and tax officials, entering houses and ships to search for contraband.

Here, in fact, it has the same meaning as the French aristocracy and the Paris High Court, who opposed the land clearance with freedom—the freedom understood by the French aristocrats derived from the feudal era, and the philosophical meaning given by the French revolution era and Enlightenment scholars Freedom is not the same thing.

[The poorest man may defy all the power of the royal family in his cottage.It may be weak; its roof may shake; the wind may blow through it; a storm may enter; The threshold of the title deed! 】

There is a well-known case of these remarks, that is, the Malcolm incident.

A "suspect smuggler" named Malcolm was suspected that his home was a smuggled goods warehouse, so customs officers went to investigate.

Malcolm let the customs go in, but found a locked cellar, the customs told Malcolm to open the cellar, but Malcolm said no, because your assisting search warrant only said to search my house, but No mention of searching my cellar.

The customs officers withdrew and went back to issue an assisting search warrant to search the cellar.

But when he came back, Malcolm locked his house and called more than 300 people to watch, saying that the search warrant you issued this time was to search my cellar, not my house.

Of course, in this matter, it should be said that Malcolm probably did not smuggle, even if he smuggled, the goods might have been removed long ago.

This is the independent faction in the Boston area. They dug a hole, sent people to report clues, and presided over the matter again to create conflicts.The UK fell into the pit stupidly.

There is also the well-known incident of John Hancock's smuggling boat search, which was signed on the manifesto, which is also similar.

William Pitt's remarks are aimed at this kind of thing.

His words are correct.

This is undeniable.

Taking it out alone is progress.

However, there is a problem.

Why did this happen?

Why is smuggling rampant?
Why is smuggling considered by the British and people in thirteen North American states to be a "victimless crime" and a hero worthy of everyone's praise, not a criminal?
Why do people help smugglers?
Did William Pitt know that this was due to the Navigation Act?

Obviously, he knew.

Was he, then, against the Navigation Act?

When he was in the Cabinet, did he propose to repeal the Navigation Act?
not at all.

In total evil, he supports evil.

In specific details, he also supports the rights of man and natural law.

What does this mean?
Or it means that his brain is not good at all, his level is average, and he cannot see the essence of the problem.

Either it means that he has a brain and knows the root of the problem, but he only dares to talk about the details, but he dare not touch the core interests of the real vested interests-the large number of beneficiaries created by the navigation regulations.

Or it means that he is just the kind of person who draws on a map, but has no idea about taxation, finance, and national debt issues.

With so many labels, one must be taken, otherwise how to explain this matter?
Is it possible to levy taxes?Is it possible to search for taxes?

This matter is hard to say, because it involves debating scriptures.

On a larger scale, as long as the consumption tax, tariffs, and alcohol tax are abolished, then there will be no smugglers and bootleggers?

If there were no smugglers and bootleggers, wouldn't the problem of home searches that assisted with search warrants be solved at the root?
This is debate.

However, the world of debates does not exist in reality.

So, this has to involve a soft way:

Because the tariffs are too high, and because the alcohol tax is too high, everyone regards bootleggers and smugglers as "victimless crimes" and thinks it is honorable.

Therefore, it is possible to reduce tariffs and alcohol taxes to a level that everyone thinks is actually good. Is it possible to search for smuggling in this way?
But this matter, from the debate, does not make sense.

A 50% tariff on smuggling is not a bad person, so a 10% tariff on smuggling is a bad person?
The problem is that ever since Liu Yu went to Amsterdam to talk about free trade, the Dashun New School of Aggression and Expansion, who followed Liu Yu's expansion, has been using this set of scriptures to promote it.

Especially at a time when William Pitt was opposing Pouvre's excise tax.

Pete is using the reason that the wind can advance and the rain can advance to oppose Povor's increase in consumption tax.Because the consumption tax involves the clearance of smuggled goods and those goods that do not pay taxes.

Liu Yu, on the other hand, evaluated this matter on the grounds that "as long as the consumption tax, tariffs, and alcohol tax are abolished, then there will be no smugglers, bootleggers, or tax evaders."

For a long time, Liu Yu and Pete, both in Britain and North America, were regarded as symbols of true freedom.

When Liu Yu was promoting free trade in Amsterdam, he used the term "fix the symptoms" to explain this matter.

He said that his approach of asking Europe to abolish consumption tax and tariffs is a cure for the root cause; while Pete is just treating his head and feet.

And very... very embarrassing, Liu Yu is very good at organizing funerals.

Dashun's taxation ability is like eating shit, and it is in the same line as Daming.Liu Yu interpreted "incapable" as "intentional".

Taking advantage of China's enthusiasm and the Enlightenment's "borrowing the east to satirize the west", Liu Yu said, look at our Dashun, such a big country, we collect 2000 million taels of land tax a year, consumption tax, wine tax, tea tax and so on. The few are pitiful, and so should you.Why are we rich?It is because we collect less tax!

Forget it, according to Dashun’s standard, France’s treasury income is 400 million taels a year, while Britain’s 200 million taels is enough. The excess is “tyranny” and “competition with the people”.

There has been a lot of publicity over the years.

This is the problem facing the UK at this time.

The previous defenses of the East India Company solved the scriptures that "silver outflow may not be a bad thing".

The free trade advocated by Liu Yu solves the scriptures that "smugglers are heroes".

The former solves the problem of "using foreign goods is patriotism"; the latter solves the problem of "psychological barriers to illegality".

In terms of ideology and cognition, Dashun has already made preparations for comprehensive economic colonization. This must be thanks to the East India Company, who spent so much money lobbying and hiring pens every year before, eliminating the cognition problem of silver outflow.

It’s like thanking the East India Company for cultivating tea, silk, and cotton consumer groups, and helping Dashun open up the West African market, which earned Songjiang cotton a good reputation as "cloth of sorrow".

(End of this chapter)