Xinshun 1730

Chapter 1324 Offense
The words of the Dashun trade ambassador quoted by Hancock did not abstractly talk about rights, freedom, or parliament, authorization, the tradition of self-government after the Norman Conquest, a few words in the Bible against the monarchy, or people going to heaven. stuff.

Instead, it specifically talked about trade lines, commodity complementarity, demand, production, advantages, benefits, money, these things.

If it's just talking about these things, it's not too scary.

What Hancock relayed next made Joseph Warren feel a rather uncomfortable emotion.

"They also say that the present prosperity of New England is based upon the vastness of the land, and the fact that every industrious man can acquire as much land as he can till it."

"That's the foundation of New England's prosperity, but it's also a worry for New England. Because it's just repeating some of the things they've been through."

"When the population is increasing, the remaining land is limited. Now each person can own 100 acres of land, but in fact according to this amount, as more and more indentured slaves arrive and the bond expires own their own land; with four or five children per family ... in at most 100 years, the population of New England will exceed this model of land per family."

"And once that pattern is exceeded, it's stuck in a kind of hopeless cycle."

"Or, just like them, every few hundred years, there will be a vigorous rebellion to divide the land equally."

"Or, as they did, the landowners divided the land into small plots, leaving each tenant farmer with only enough food to survive and survive, in order to maintain stability."

"And once that day comes, all the assumptions based on the land at this time will be shattered."

"After all, they have the longest history of private ownership of land and self-cultivated farmers as the backbone of society. They know all of this the most. Because they don't have aristocrats like France or England or the Holy Roman Empire, but Instead they had one of the broadest classes of yeomen, and defeated the Huns in that pre-Jesus era."

"At that time, they also had wealthy businessmen, and there were debates about monopoly or private ownership, and there were debates about whether to allow unofficial coinage or strictly prohibit it. But in the end, that empire was destroyed by land annexation. And it started again and again."

"They asked me, can your land be bought and sold? I said yes."

"They asked again, is your land unlimited? I said no."

"They also ask, do businessmen accumulate wealth much faster than homeowners? I say yes."

"They asked: Do you have many children? Do you move in many indentured slaves every year? Now that the new indentured slaves in the Boston area are free, can they still easily acquire 100 acres of land as before?"

"After getting my answer, he said: If you don't break the cocoon, wait for the chaos in the world caused by the land annexation."

"They said, don't regard everything in front of you as eternal."

After being shocked and silent, Warren frowned and asked, "Is this a curse from heretics?"

"No... I don't think it's a curse. They just use this to illustrate one of their goals." Hancock thought about the origin of these words, and returned: "They said that they may have found a solution, although There is still a long way to go to solve it.”

"And to solve this problem, not just theirs, but ours, Europe's, and even humanity as a whole, requires a worldwide trade opening."

"If it can be solved, of course it's best."

"If it can't be solved, at least more cloth, consumer goods, luxury goods, etc. can be produced, so that everyone can ensure that everyone has a living; but the output outside of arable land can be as much as possible."

"At least, it can be guaranteed that farmers in North America can only exchange a cart of corn for one bolt of cloth, but in the future, they may be able to exchange one and a half bolts, plus a handful of iron tableware."

"But in short, it's premised on peace, trade, and the elimination of British navigation regulations."

"They say that every family in North America needs to spend on cotton cloth, tea, and porcelain. And these scattered, small changes that each family spends, add up to become enough capital to invest in what they think can solve the food problem. in the direction of the problem."

"This is a great cause in which everyone involved is contributing to the future of mankind."

"Because it's not feasible for everyone to contribute money to the future of humanity."

"But with trade, everyone's labor income can be gathered to explore a great path, which makes everyone happy."

"Although, I don't know if they are lying, and I don't know if they are too arrogant."

"But, I heard, they have discovered some of the secrets of plant growth and touched the power of life. They, I heard, have tried to produce 100 bushels of wheat from an acre of land."

"And cotton, and nails, and iron, and silk, and so on, and so on, and they all found ways of increasing the quantity that each could produce."

"The consumption of everyone here will promote them to build new factories and adopt new technologies... They think that they are the hope that can guide the future of mankind."

The astonishing yield of 100 bushels of wheat per acre is only 500 catties per mu. Of course, it must be amazing at this time.Of course, Dashun can't make chemical fertilizers, and the technology has not even reached the front of the front. It's early.However, saltpeter is potassium nitrate, and seal bezoar is phosphate. It is hoped that a high yield per mu can be achieved by piling up these things.

On Dashun’s side, the free trade under the advantage of Dashun at this time, or the dumping of goods and the accumulation of profits, is described in a fresh and refined perspective.

Of course, this is the North American special edition.

Especially for the economic reality of North America, where 100-acre self-cultivating farmers are the mainstay, and there is no contradiction with the Dashun industry.

In the same way, if you go to France, you have to kill a large number of French handicraftsmen engaged in silk weaving, textiles, iron smelting, carpenters, and lacquerers.

But in North America it's different.

There are just a few industries, none of which overlap with Dashun.

For example, it is impossible for Dashun to come here to sell hats for the hat-making industry that relies on fur and animal husbandry.

For example, the barrel industry, timber, grain, dried fish, cattle and sheep, wine, etc., the industries currently owned by North America, it is impossible for Dashun to take a look at them.

Times are changing, and consciousness is changing.

If the later generations say these words, it means that you farm the land honestly and raise cattle and sheep.We develop industry.

How many people in future generations will think that this is a good thing?

But now, these words are said, in the economic foundation of North America, it really sounds like a good thing.

The foundation of industrial development in North America was land annexation, population surge, capital accumulation, technological development, and immigration in the 1830s.

It's not a good thing, or even a good time, compared to the old days of homesteaders with 100 acres of land per family, especially compared to the good old days when the youngest son inherited the family business, and when the youngest son grew up, the older brother We can get three or four hundred acres of land outside with just a little funding from our family.

The many problems and opposition caused by industrial development directly led to the collapse of the Federalist Party.

For North America, whose economy was based on homesteaders at that time, the future depicted by Dashun was beautiful: cheaper commodities and cheaper daily necessities.

If it is said that women in Dashun weaving, it is because there is no other way, and it is difficult for a family to survive without weaving as a sideline.

Women in North America are weaving at this time because they have no choice, because some villages do not have cheap textiles, and even because of trade policies, the price of textiles is too high, and women have to spin some wool to make do with it.

For a rural family with 100 acres of land per capita, about 600 mu of land, there is really no need to weave by themselves.Cheaper consumer goods are what they like and can afford.

It is nothing more than that Dashun has added a little sacred aura to this matter, so that in addition to being "cheap and affordable", the purchase of Dashun's products must add a little more meaning bonus-buying Dashun's products , which is equivalent to donating money for the development and future of mankind.

Moreover, it is difficult to refute these fallacies relayed by Hancock.

At least in this sentence, this fallacy is correct. With the increase in population, this pastoral beauty and the beauty of abundant resources will soon be destroyed.

It is actually broken.

It is nothing more than the substandard technology, which eventually leads to land mergers and chaos.

The technology is still up to standard, and it has moved towards capitalism and industrialization, but it is also different from the previous society of self-cultivation and acquaintances in beautiful rural villages and towns.

It's all destruction.

Therefore, this statement itself cannot be refuted.

Regardless of whether it is nonsense or nonsense, with regard to the chaotic situation in Europe at this time, which is fighting to death for the crown and inheritance, Dashun has at least shown an attitude of "taking the future of all mankind" as its perspective.

The world of Catholicism is dead.

The world of the Puritans in North America was to be established on the basis of the yeoman and the petty bourgeoisie, and the words Hancock relayed directly declared that this world would also perish.It may be changed to another form, people are still alive, but the appearance of society is completely different from what it is now.

Maybe Dashun has ulterior motives here, such as arousing the awareness of "get in the car first and weld the door to the car door" in North America, and from then on refuse outsiders to move in, thus dying from the lack of labor force during the transition period.

Or maybe Dashun just wants to make its dumping behavior appear righteous, and make money and capital accumulation a great cause for the world.

Or maybe it's just further increasing the trade with Dashun, and now it's still considered the sanctity of smuggling.This makes smuggling itself not only error-free, but even a great cause of contributing one silver coin to the future of mankind.

In short, what Hancock relayed made Joseph Warren feel deeply uncomfortable.

There is much contempt in their meaning.It seems that there is nothing surprising or admirable about such freeholders and small producers, plus all the ideas of vast land.

And more serious.

For a Puritan, a Freemason:

A group of heretics, and they are the most bizarre heretics of superstitious atheists. Are these heretics qualified to say: We want to lead the future of mankind?

(End of this chapter)