Xinshun 1730

Chapter 1309 Death and Vengeance (Thirty)
The Earl of Halifax's idea was similar to George Grenville's negotiation ideas trying to inherit the legacy of Pitt and the Patriot Party.

After all, the world is material, and when one is pushed to this point, there are not many choices left.

Liu Yu was most worried about the two things at the beginning, one was that Britain gave up India and let China and France bite each other, and the other was that Britain replaced the Netherlands as the second-tier businessman between the East and the West.These two things can be regarded as the strategic initiative of the United Kingdom. Once this strategic initiative is given up, when France fails in India and Dashun sends troops, there are actually not many choices to be made.

The earl of Halifax and George Grenville's ideas were to choose one that could be executed from these few choices.

This is the story of a rooster that calls out the sun.

It is nothing more than that there are two roosters in the British court.

One is the rooster of the royalist party at its core; the other is the rooster of the Grenville faction who inherited the patriot party and made a proper cut.

The key now is not for the sun to come out, because this is inevitable.

The point is, it was the rooster that called out the sun.

This is the top priority.

This time, the Sino-French coalition forces captured Gibraltar to send prisoners. From the perspective of the English nation, it must have elements of showing off their might.

But it is not important.

The important thing is that the two roosters in the British political arena urgently need this opportunity to seize the opportunity to "call the sun out".

Dashun's mission is not high-standard, obviously not here to negotiate.

At least it was impossible to hammer out the details of the truce.

However, ordinary people do not know.

Now, the British people, or the people, or the common people, are almost the same, and they only care about a few things.

Can the national debt be repaid?
Is the militia law going to be changed to force people to go abroad to fight?
Of course, there are other classes of British people.

For example, the merchant class, such as financiers, such as handicraftsmen, such as factory owners, and so on.

However, in this situation, these people are not capable of generating a threatening force to overthrow the existing regime.

As far as the regime is concerned, it must first appease those forces that are capable of creating large-scale chaos and may overthrow the existing regime.

After calming them down, the rest of them couldn't make much noise.

At this moment when the Sino-French coalition forces are approaching the wooden wall of the Great Wall, when they have the ability to threaten the British mainland with violence, there are only three kinds of people with such power.

Jacobites in the name of the Tory Party, grassroots militias, and national debt buyers.

In this case, even if Dashun did not necessarily come to negotiate, and even if it might have come to negotiate, it is impossible to finalize the post-war treaty at its level.

But it does not hinder, the two roosters take this opportunity to tell the British people, let the British people know what they want to know.

For example, don’t worry about buying government bonds!We have reached preliminary negotiations with the Chinese, and the national debt can be repaid with tariffs on Eastern trade products!

For example, militiamen who are worried about going abroad to fight, don't worry!We have reached preliminary negotiations with China and France. The new king is the English-speaking king. Hanover can be distributed to the Duke of Cumberland in accordance with the inheritance law. You will not go abroad to fight.

For example, Tories, don't worry.Although the national debt owes a lot, we have found a way to repay the national debt without increasing the land tax. Don't worry, we will not increase the land tax.

These are the few options available to the UK at this time.

So, the point is, "Which rooster called out the sun?"

Whoever calls it out can gain huge advantages in public opinion and parliament.

The one who called later either supports, which proves that the one who called first is only correct; or opposes, which means that they will be abandoned by the militia, the buyers of national debt, and the landowners.

Lao Ma has analyzed this power issue in the era of handicraft workshops.

Although, no matter whether it is the party of George III or the rest of the Patriot Party who is preparing for justice, it is impossible for them to use the old horse's theory and system to analyze the current situation.

But, just like, before Newton, people also knew the principle of using water to flow down, and also knew that throwing things in the sky would fall.It is the gravitation first, and then there is Newton who discovered the gravitation, not the other way around.

Since social science is science, it is the same reason.

The old horse said:
[(The Manufacture Age) Industry (indispensable because of the need to provide employment to a growing urban population) cannot do without privileges not only against domestic competition but primarily against foreign competition.

Manufacture cannot do without protection, because any slight change in other countries is enough to make it lose its market and go bankrupt.

Manufacture can easily be established in any country under slightly favorable conditions, and for that very reason it can also be easily destroyed.

Moreover, its methods of business, especially in the country in the eighteenth century, so united it with the mode of life of the masses, that no country dared to permit free competition despite the existence of manufactures.

Manufacture, therefore, so far as it is able to export its products, is entirely dependent on the expansion or contraction of trade, while its reaction to trade is comparatively insignificant.

This points to the secondary significance of manufactures, and also to the influence of eighteenth-century merchants.

It was these merchants, and especially the shipowners, who most strongly demanded state protection and monopoly; it is true that the manufactures also demanded protection and received it.

But in a political sense, they are inferior to businessmen.

The commercial cities, especially the coastal commercial cities, have taken on the character of the big bourgeoisie, while the manufacturing industry is still ruled by the spontaneous forces of the petty bourgeoisie...]

This is what Lao Ma said. In this era, it is the hegemony of commerce and the navy that drives the hegemony of industry.

The essence of the struggle between the British Whig Party and the Tory Party is that the bourgeoisie has grown stronger in the coastal cities, but the British feudal forces and land aristocracy are still strong.As a last resort, the commercial big bourgeoisie used the Whig Party or the opposition within the Whig Party to form an oligarchy political alliance to maintain its ruling position.

The reason why they do not dare to trade freely is because [its methods of management, especially in the countryside, combine it with the way of life of the masses, so that no country dares to allow free competition regardless of the survival of manufactures and handicrafts] .

This point is typical of the cotton prohibition orders of 1701 and 1721. The laws of these two cotton cloth prohibition orders both contain such a sentence: [for more Effectual Employing the Poor]

Poor, the poor, the bottom.

The rough translation is "in order to let the poor also have jobs" - a more profound point is "instead of dumping oriental cotton cloth, it is better to ban oriental cotton cloth, let the poor spin some yarn and rub some hemp at home, at least have something to do, earn money You can't starve to death with a few dollars."

Lao Ma's words are so correct that Britain and Dashun did not dare to let go of the inland tariffs after the Songsu reform, for fear of blowing up.

Of course, France is also like this. It’s hard to say that it’s just the French brandy producers and capitalists who have hindered the development of the French winemaking industry, so that cheaper honey can’t be used... At least it can’t be evaluated in such a simple way, but France Millions of people who survive by picking grapes, growing grapes, making wine, doing part-time jobs, doing oak carpentry, etc., also have to eat and live.Let go of the rum, what do these people eat?What to drink?

This is not to say that such a simple matter, let go, nothing to do, the invisible hand will naturally promote new industries, and these labor forces will fill these new industries.

The truth is not wrong, just like those things in the late Ming Dynasty:
But it's like the lament of some sad and dying people: "The consciousness of the common people is so fucking low that they don't want to obediently starve to death."

And people can't hibernate, and don't eat or drink while being regulated by the invisible hand.Some things are really helpless realistic choices, because the world is material, people will die if they don’t eat, but before they die, they are likely to die with a big name.

Including the Songsu reform in Dashun, Liu Yu also knows that factories and industries cannot accommodate so many people, so he wants to develop northern Jiangsu, develop Kanto, develop Nanyang and comprador system of rice, and drive people to Nanyang and Northeast to plant land, rather than crowding into the city, because it simply cannot accommodate so many jobs.

The British side may not be able to sum up the essence of the problem with the incisive reasoning of the old horse, but it does not mean that the rulers are unaware of the crisis brought about by the liberalization of tariffs and free trade.

For example, the Earl of Halifax suggested that the militia law should be used to reassure the people that they would not go to Hanover to participate in the war, and quickly mobilize the militia to prepare to suppress the textile uprising after the liberalization of trade. This kind of reasoning, Dashun The old antiques here also know that during the reform of Liu Yu's salt administration and shipping reform, Liu Yu's army was given in advance to suppress the Yangzhou salt workers' uprising.

The situation facing the United Kingdom now is a problem of preferring to allies rather than domestic slaves.

If you keep going, it is very likely that the Tory Party will switch to welcome the return of King Stuart.And how to choose the ruler of Britain?Naturally, it is the lesser of two evils, choosing to suppress the uprising in the textile industry, rather than choosing to carry it to the end.

After all, if the Stuart family is restored, the Hanover family will of course be doomed.

This group of Whigs counts as one, and most of them have to enter the Tower of London.

Therefore, on this issue, the choices of the Whig Party and the Royal Party are the same: they would rather compromise with China, sign a treaty, and suppress the textile uprising than fight an internal explosion. The orthodox Stuart who can speak English Return of the King—Although the Stuart family is also Brittany, if it is really about feudal orthodoxy, it is a little bit more upright than the Dutch or Germans.

According to Lao Ma's analysis, it can be seen that the political power of the current British manufacturers is not as good as that of the commercial capitalists in the coastal cities-such as ship owners, shareholders of monopoly companies, and big businessmen.

The commercial capital of the coastal cities must also rely on the Whigs of the land aristocrats to be able to govern and transfer to the ruler of the cabinet.

It can be deduced that among the political forces in Britain at this time, the political power of the industrial clusters of the manufacturing industry is very weak and weak, that is, it can be abandoned.

What's more, if the trade is really to be liberalized, the impact brought by Dashun does not mean that all the handicraft industries in Britain will be wiped out.

That is, porcelain, pottery, silk, textiles, and metal processing are just a few industries.

If you ask the landowners who grow grains whether it is good to let go of these things, it will have no effect on them, and even the cost of living will be lowered.

The political power of the entire class itself is not very strong, and it has been divided into many industries, some of which are influential and some are not.

So, dare not provoke the landlords to increase land taxes, and dare not suppress the textile uprising?This is of course the preferred direction.

(End of this chapter)