Xinshun 1730

Chapter 1354 The Total Collapse of Britain ([-])
Liverpool's human blood steamed buns, what it tastes like, must be incomparably delicious to British nobles and some businessmen.

Because Dashun is calling for free trade.

However, some nobles and businessmen in Britain actually don't understand what free trade is.

They just oppose the "status quo" in the UK, and then think that to oppose the status quo is to support free trade.

In short, the British mercantilism policy enabled the UK to maintain a powerful navy, and previously relied on this powerful navy to seize the market for the UK, the right to transport the slave trade, and control trade in the North Sea and the Baltic Sea Area.

Those who support free trade in the UK at this time support free trade "under the existing market and the UK's trade priority".

Both the British colonial market and the North Sea, the Baltic Sea, the Caribbean Sea and the West African trade circle that the Navy has seized for 150 years.

And give up any form of tariffs, franchise rents, so that they can participate in this feast.

This is not wrong, but unrealistic.Historically, the British level of productivity was able to achieve commodity advantage trade without the protection of warships until the 1850s.

Just like Hume argued with those free trade supporters before switching to free trade: Do you know what free trade is?As long as you really understand, you should know that if you really want to engage in free trade, British industries will be wiped out.

What is free trade?

Even if true free trade does not exist, tariffs can be added.

But can free trade add 100% or even 225% tariffs?Such as tea cotton, etc.?
Taking another 225 steps back, even if a tariff of [-]% is added, it is considered free trade.

So, administrative orders distort the economy, surely not free trade?
So, is the "Cotton Cloth Prohibition Order" to be repealed?
Should the Navigation Act be repealed?
Should the Listing of Goods Act be repealed?
Is the Irish Wool Act to be repealed?
Is it necessary to repeal the "Shroud must be made of national cloth law"?
These are not tariffs.

These are executive orders.

Tariffs can be done within the framework of free trade, and it can be more or less rounded.Although it's not really round.

Then, within the framework of free trade, administrative orders are absolutely not round.

If these administrative orders are abolished, how many industries in the UK can survive?

Admittedly, there may be some truth to this.

But not all.

Who said that in this era, the development of manufacturing is the right thing to do?
At this time, how many people think that industrialization and the development of manufacturing are justified?

Many things that later generations take for granted are not so taken for granted at this time.

even:
Even if it is right, even if it makes sense.

So whoever says it is reasonable, whoever says it is right, must do it?

[Because it's right, I will definitely do this], this kind of thinking is itself an unrealistic fantasy.

Moreover, many people themselves do not think this is right.

Just like what Jefferson thought later, must it be right to develop the manufacturing industry?
Why must it be right to destroy the morality of farmers, create social contradictions, create a gap between the rich and the poor, and strip laborers and means of production?

Is farming bad?
The development of the manufacturing industry has destroyed the traditional life in the UK and made the pastoral beauty gone forever. Why must the manufacturing industry be developed?
This is the mainstream thinking in Britain, North America and other places at this time.

More importantly, how many people rub cotton in the Palace of Westminster?How much is iron smelting?
Compared with the Tory Party of landlords and aristocrats, which is so large in number and so powerful that they can still promote the Corn Law decades later, the Whig Party, which is integrated with the aristocracy and financial capital merchant groups...

How much say does manufacturing have in the UK Parliament?
Furthermore.

Mercantilism from the time of Cromwell.

In the end, the main purpose is to grab commercial benefits, and the protection and development of the manufacturing industry are just by-products?
Or, since the Cromwell era, Britain has had a strong belief that everything is for industrialization and the development of manufacturing?

Like a bird.

Its purpose and original intention is to eat grapes, but after eating too much, the grape seeds pulled out of shit grow a grape forest?

Or its original intention is to pull out the grape seeds and a grape grove for the sake of shit, so I eat grapes?

This cognitive difference is precisely the basis for Dashun’s strategic belief that it can negotiate with the UK and facilitate tariff trade.

And, this is also the basis for Dashun's strategy to try to balance the power in North America, so that Britain and France will not give up North America, and balance the power of the four North American countries.

The bloodshed of Liverpool has rapidly increased the value of North America, or in other words, the value of North America in the eyes of the British government.

At least, beyond Jamaica and Barbados.

It is not a commercial value, nor a tax value, but the value of North America as a "pressure relief valve" after being mixed with Dashun at the crossroads of Britain's transformation after the self-cultivation farmers were basically eliminated in 1750 .

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London at this time.

The new king of England and the ministers around him are enjoying a rare good day.

During this period of time, a large number of newspapers and debates against the king and supporting Pete seemed to suddenly lose their voices, and they were quiet for a long time.

In particular, the "Monitor", a newspaper that claimed to "speak for the people" in the parliament against the king and demanded sovereignty, has been quiet for a while.

Historically, before Wilkes presided over the "North Britannician", the "Monitor" was the most important publication of the Pitt faction, or the Patriot Party, which supported sovereignty in Parliament.

Although they claim to be, or think that they are "speaking for the people", "crying for true freedom", and "working hard to enlighten the people".

But in fact, they represented the interests of West Indian plantations, big businessmen, and slave owners.

In Britain at this time, basically those who shouted "freedom" had slave owners behind them.

What they want is the "freedom" of the big merchants and slave owners, that is, the sovereignty of the parliament.

So, they are silent now.

Because the rebellion and chaos that broke out in the Liverpool area was largely due to Britain's participation in the war.

And these people, such as the patron behind the "Monitor", the mayor of London, the councilor of the City of Finance, and the elder of the West India Chamber of Commerce, William Beckford.

They were not opposed to war before.

Moreover, the "Monitor" has been "speaking for the people" before, believing that the king is too weak and has German blood, but did not continue to expand the scale of the war and seize French islands in the Caribbean such as Martinique and Guadeloupe.

Not only did they not oppose the war before, but they advocated the expansion of the war.

He also believes that the king's autocracy and the absence of sovereignty in the parliament have led to the insufficient scale of the war.

Now, the scale of the war is bigger.

From India to North America, from the Cape of Good Hope to Ireland.

Then Britain collapsed.

Liverpool, Lancashire, Birmingham...revolts, uprisings, chaos all over the place, one after another.

At this time, the "Monitor", which has been advocating war and advocating the expansion of the scale of war for the rights of the people, is silent.

Of course, another reason why they did not move was that a large-scale slave uprising broke out in the Escher Manor in Jamaica, an important property of William Beckford, the big benefactor behind the "Monitor".

Dashun sent a small-scale army, in fact, only two cannons and a small boat, one hundred and ten people supported the uprising, and achieved great results.

This Jamaican slave uprising in history is also quite "funny".

The "funny" thing is that when the British bought and sold slaves, they knew that Tucker, the leader of the slave uprising later, was a defeated chief with certain organizational skills and proficient in various languages. The British actually compared Chief Tucker with him. The "close ministers" around him were thrown into the plantation together.

This is for fear that the slaves on the plantation will not be organized... just throw in a ready-made organizational core.

Dashun just borrowed some strength.

In terms of organizational strength, the chief and the core around him can organize themselves.

They also use muskets.

It's nothing more than that they don't know how to use cannons. Dashun only supports a few artillery and a small group of marines that can line up the British light cavalry on the island.

Dashun invested a total of two cannons and one hundred people.

But the impact and shock on "liberal" factions such as William Beckford was too great.

Because before Dashun entered the war, regardless of whether it was Spain, France, Portugal, or the United Kingdom, the war was a war, but there was no mention of supporting the slave uprising on the other side during the war.

Do not spit into the well, for you will also drink from this well.

After Dashun entered the war, it was completely different.

Not only spit into the well, but also shit into the well.

Because Dashun really doesn't drink the water in this well.

In fact, to put it bluntly, what is the difference between the so-called "liberal" faction in Britain at this time and the so-called "authoritarian" faction in Britain at this time?

It is nothing more than that the interests of a group of people are in the colony and on the slave island.

The interests of another group of people are in Hannover and in continental Europe.

A group of people with interests in business.

Another group of people has interests in the land.

A group of people can tolerate a slight reduction in land rent, thereby gaining greater commercial benefits.

Another group of people can't bear the reduction of land rent because they can't get enough benefits in business.

That's all the difference.

Like William Beckford and others, that is the standard "the republic has no courage, and the abolition of slaves is immeasurable".

A group of slave owners, shouting "freedom", there is really nothing more magical than this in the world.

Along with the uprisings and chaos in various parts of the UK, some pamphlets such as the "British Poor Class Manifesto" from more than a hundred years ago began to circulate again. up.

The faction that was most supportive of the war and the expansion of the war in the past is worried that if the war continues, something big will happen.

To face the slave uprising, to face the uprising at the bottom of the UK.

At this juncture, if you oppose the king again, it will be purely insane.

Indeed, the system of buying officials and the system of head ownership are the last barriers to defending Britain's "freedom".

But whether the sovereignty lies in the parliament, the buy-official system, or the ownership of the head of the regiment, it is all a struggle at the top, playing within the rules.

When faced with real resistance from the lower levels, when the rules are about to be broken, everyone can put aside the contradictions and unite as one.

It is necessary to distinguish between the main contradiction and the secondary contradiction.

Now the main contradiction is to suppress the uprisings and slave uprisings at the bottom, and the secondary contradictions are the dispute between the king and the parliament, the dispute between land and commerce, and the dispute between the continent and the colonies.

Now it does not matter whether the king is a Hanoverian barbarian or not.The important thing is to extinguish the uprising as soon as possible and suppress the resistance as soon as possible.

Another thing is to stop the war as soon as possible. People like Dashun who not only spit in the well but also shit in the well, if they continue to fight with Britain, everyone's property will evaporate.

The Jamaica uprising cost William Beckford 3000 slaves and 12 large plantations in just two days.Economic loss of at least £30.

If the fight continues, I'm afraid that if the fire starts to burn, it will be out of control.

(End of this chapter)