Xinshun 1730

Chapter 1301 Death and Revenge ([-])
For Pete, this plan is the end of his political life.

But he could use his dead body as nourishment to nourish the political power of their "Patriot Party", that is, the four-family alliance of the three branches of the Pete and Temple families.

More importantly, it can attack the king's forces that tend to "return the king" and the Tory forces that are making a comeback.

However, the price is that Pete must step down.

Somebody has to take responsibility for the defeat of the war and appease popular discontent.

Pete scoffed at the idea.

"It was I who saved Britain, survived the disastrous year after Menorca, and ushered in the next miracle year. But now, no one remembers my achievements in saving Britain, and they all want to drive me out. A bunch of cowards. Our finances are indeed in trouble, but are the French comfortable? Aren't their finances more difficult than ours?"

Grenville admitted that it was Pitt who had a miracle year.This is due to Pitt's subsidy to Prussia, the tradition of the British navy, and Pitt's strategy of "blocking France, attacking colonies, and not landing in Europe".

However, behind this strategy, there is a huge flaw hidden.

The entire strategy revolves around "command of the sea".Once the command of the sea is taken away by others, others can use the same strategy to destroy Britain.

And behind the dominance of the sea, why does Britain have so many warships? Pete avoided talking about this matter.

Britain's first large-scale shipbuilding was around the time Cromwell promulgated the "Navigation Regulations". A system of forced sales, with a 15% tariff on every merchant ship, developed a large fleet.

This huge fleet, in turn, prevented other countries from selling goods to the colonies; and prevented other countries from selling goods to the colonies, which in turn promoted the prosperity of British trade, allowing the construction of a larger fleet.

The question is, did Pete win the Miracle Year?Or was it won by the British fleet far superior to the French fleet whose military expenditures were tilted towards the army?

Is a person who can effectively grasp the stock and use this stock to gamble on the future and victory of "keeping all the old systems" a great strategist?

Grenville had to remind Pete at this time that their Patriot Party had a big problem.

"Peter, we started out as anti-government activism. We talked big, we defended traditions, we satirized cowards... But we all lacked some technical experience in politics."

"Such as trade, colonies, taxation... We actually don't know anything about it. Your strategy is broad, but no matter how broad the strategy is, it also needs these detailed and technical officials to support it."

"The fall of Gibraltar will not save France's finances. However, London's finances have collapsed. Those Hispanic Jews no longer support us and began to sell their bonds frantically."

Pete sneered disdainfully: "These people are a bunch of vampires and traitors. Cromwell shouldn't have allowed them to come to London. There isn't a single Hebrew name on the bankrupt list of the South Sea Bubble!"

These right and wrong about the Jews, Grenville didn't want to argue with Pete, he just reminded Pete.

"Peter, we are opposed to the 53-year Jewish Naturalization Act on the grounds that it defiles Christ."

"However, it was the Hispanic Jews who staunchly supported the government in the Jacobite Rebellion; formed the Jewish Volunteer Battalion; and were the These Hispanics bought Treasuries and bonds, resisted the run, and stabilized the financial markets."

"Thus, they are eligible to be discussed for naturalization."

"However, isn't it precisely because of our operation that this bill was abolished in the Parliament in the second year?"

"Your prestige comes from the people, and the people are anti-Semitic."

"Those Hispanic Jews, who once proved their loyalty to Britain, but we overturned the 53-year naturalization act."

"Now, they choose to retaliate against us in the way they are good at."

"The fall of Gibraltar is a symbol that even a strong fortress cannot resist the Chinese attack."

"It's not in the UK, but it's a symbol of the British fortress. Now, the national debt, the bonds, the banks, and the utter madness, the great panic sweeping our country."

"The hatred is spreading. Every possible Jacobite citizen is considered a possible traitor. There have been at least two dozen killings of panic and suspicion."

"The stocks of the East India Company have completely become the existence of bonds in the South China Sea. No one will support an East India Company that has lost India and China, just like what the Chinese did to the Dutch."

"Why did Cromwell allow the Jews to settle? Because he wanted to go to war with the Dutch, hoping that through the war, the Jews would come to London from Amsterdam, that is, bring their capital to London."

"But now, the Chinese are protecting the neutrality of the Netherlands and instigating a coup in the Netherlands. The William faction in the Netherlands has been completely defeated by financiers and oligarchs. These capitals have better options, and they no longer pin their hopes on London."

"In 53, Sampson Gideon led the Jews to buy national debt and stabilize finance in order to obtain the settlement law and the right to allow investment in real estate to buy real estate. This is their last attempt. But in 54 we tore up the Jewish naturalization law, It completely kills their hopes."

"Obviously, the Chinese hope that by using the Netherlands, the Jews throughout Europe, including those in Geneva, will go to the neutral Netherlands. They will provide loans for their canal construction and provide transit for their trade."

"Now, the Jews have made a choice, they are selling bonds and stocks, and this turmoil is out of our control."

"And some people, taking this opportunity, amplified the incitement of anti-Semitism, propagating that the Jews once again showed their traitorous nature and stabbed the country in the back when Britain was in danger. This further aggravated the Jews selling bonds and trying to leave London. The idea of ​​going to Holland."

"This is just the tip of the iceberg."

"The prosperity of trade and the forced trade of fleet protection covered up many problems. Once our trade is cut off, many problems that were covered up before will expand dramatically."

"The question of the land tax, the question of the poor tax, the question of search warrants, the question of free trade, the question of Ireland, the question of North America, the question of Scotland..."

"Peter, what we are facing now is not the crisis we faced when we dealt with the Spanish Armada."

"It's a systemic collapse of the entire country."

"Pamphlets about free trade are circulating everywhere. You know, the Chinese have instigated a coup in the Netherlands, and they will probably choose to do the same against us."

"even……"

Grenville emphasized his tone.

"Even, there are some such as "The Real Age of Cromwell", "The Prosperity of the English Republic", "On Diggers and Enclosures", "Ireland Must Get Free Trade or Should Revolution", "On the Wool Act" The Destruction of Ireland," "The Scots Betrayed by the Scots Nobles, and the Trading Company's Debts," etc., have begun to circulate in many places."

"I don't know if you have read it, but I can be sure that the ideas in it are full of danger, incite violence, and intensify dissatisfaction...even, openly denying the legitimacy of the monarch, calling for the destruction of the parliament, saying that the parliament has been reduced to a group of smugglers, An instrument of oppression against the people of England controlled by overseas merchants."

"Peter, the fleet is loyal and brave enough to defend the Channel."

"But on this side of the channel, there's a systemic breakdown and rot that's set in."

"It is impossible to reproduce the old days, because all the old days are based on the premise that our navy can defend our trade and sink all ships that enter our colonies."

"All your strategies revolve around restoring everything that was old and consolidating everything that was old. It's nothing more than extending the old system, the old system, to Canada, to Guadeloupe, to Senegal, to the India."

"Forgive me, this is indeed what the French newspapers in the Netherlands said, and most of them were used by the Chinese to attack you, but it is undeniable that the Duke who is against us is right."

Granville here, citing some editorials in the Netherlands.Obviously, this set of analysis models is too familiar to them, because this is a standard format for the Chinese group of people who are advocating free trade in Europe.

Contradictions, specimens, essence, class...these things have been circulating in Europe these years.

Amsterdam and Geneva, at this time, are the two centers of public opinion in Europe, as well as the two centers of finance in Europe.After all, one is the place where commercial capital first gained the status of the ruling class, and the other is "Protestant Rome".

There are many French-language newspapers in the Netherlands, or many opposition parties in France publish editorials and comments in the Netherlands or Geneva.

After Dashun ensured the neutral status of the Netherlands and the economic status of the East-West trade smuggling transfer station, the Netherlands has been in a state of rejuvenation and prosperity in recent years.

Although this prosperity is based on the decline of the northern agricultural province, the complete collapse of the textile industry in Leiden and other places, the destruction of guilds, and the complete suppression of small farmers and small producer guilds by local oligarchs, financial and commercial prosperity.

But it can still be said to be thriving, as long as those who decline and collapse are excluded.

Some editorials in the Netherlands are actually Dashun's propaganda machine.However, the article quoted by Grenville is not really written by Liu Yu, but by Dashun's New School or Practical School, which he deduced according to that set of methodology and three views.

The result of the launch still sounds quite sensational: Radical and militant Pete, a conservative?Just expanding the scope of the old era according to the logic of the old era?
At first glance, no one believed it.

But until now, there are some characters who have tasted something, which seems to be the case.It seems, indeed.

(End of this chapter)