Xinshun 1730

Chapter 1383 The Treaty of Versailles ([-])
Dashun's attitude towards France is somewhat distorted.

Although it is an ally, it has actually been guarding against France.While being on guard, sometimes I really lament that the French people may really be living a little better. After so many years of immigration, the population has always been insufficient. Conception, seriously delayed.

If the estuary along the river was occupied by the French, then Dashun didn't have to worry about it.As long as the French are stuck at the mouth of the sea, based on the traffic conditions of this year, Dashun knows it clearly—the biggest obstacle preventing Dashun from immigrating to the Songhua River Basin in Heilongjiang is the Songliao watershed.Rivers are the best means of transportation for immigration, reclamation, enclosure, occupation and warfare in this era.

If it was really occupied by the French, that would be easy to say.

As for the aboriginal tribes on the prairie, Dashun mainly contacted the tribes in the area west of the Rocky Mountains before, and he was not familiar with these tribes on the prairie.

The reason is also very simple. For Whale Sea Company, the most valuable furs are sea dragon fur and sable fur.It doesn't make much sense to go across the Rocky Mountains to the prairie, because the profit margin of the cowhide and deerskin hunted by the prairie tribes is not too high.

Taking North America as an example, there are leather shoes and leather hats in North America.The pelts of these common ruminants, given that the Atlantic Ocean is not too wide, are profitable.

As far as Dashun is concerned, the profit margin of cowhide and deerskin is not too high.The main market for deerskin in East Asia is Japan, because the samurai need to use deerskin to make things like knife cleaning cloth, and the sales of deerskin in Dashun are only average.

Of course, it is impossible to find high-end fur such as sea otters on the prairie, because there is no way to find it.

Therefore, this journey is still somewhat dangerous and unknown.

But since someone here took the initiative to ask for a job, and the captain made up his mind, then this kind of danger and unknown is nothing.

Although Dashun only grasped the tail of the era of great voyages, many people died in these years, and many of them had the ambitions of Zhang Bowang and Ban Dingyuan.If you die a lot, you will get used to it. As the saying goes, if you don't die, you can stand out.

Still the same problem, although the school of practical learning is regarded as "marginal people" by the mainstream imperial examination school in Dashun, they even laugh at themselves that they are not scholars.

But in fact, they laugh at themselves precisely because they consider themselves scholars.

At this time, this kind of mentality of a scholar is very interesting-to be a master.

The term "people above people" is wonderful. This kind of happiness of "winning others" is beyond comparison with a comfortable life. ".

It is nothing more than that the imperial examination has an imperial examination track, and thousands of troops cross the single-plank bridge; while the real school has a real school track, it can be regarded as thousands of troops cross the single-plank bridge.

Hanging the head on the beam, stabbing the thigh with an awl, and reading thousands of books are the ways of the imperial examination track.

Changing to this side, it is the way of lying on the ice and snow, drinking salt water, and traveling thousands of miles. This is the way of the track here.

Of course, there is the feeling of "the world" and the ideal of "a family of five with a hundred acres of land", but of course it is impossible to lack this kind of self-realization of wanting to be famous and famous.

Not contradictory.

Dashun does not believe in Orthodoxy or God, so it does not dedicate all its hard life to the holy and foolish thoughts of spiritual satisfaction, or the kind of self-sacrifice that is necessarily opposed to egoism that was born out of the "Christian Society" or the Charcoal Party The distortion of the Utopia.

Since the end of the Qin Dynasty, the mainstream thought here has been quite repulsive to the heresy that "takes pleasure in suffering".The heresy of respecting the spirit of Dayu and continuing to enjoy suffering was basically integrated after the end of Qin Dynasty.Including the Yan-Li school, which was evaluated by later generations as "taking pain to the extreme, and being close to ink rather than Confucianism", in history, it was only a small wave of learning for a while.

On the contrary, due to the return of morality at the end of the Ming Dynasty, Liu Yu’s Practical School pursued [not to put forward moral requirements for people, such as you should love each other, don’t be egoists, etc.; on the contrary, They clearly know that both self-interest and self-sacrifice are a necessary form of personal self-realization under certain conditions].

Under the [certain conditions] at this time, Dashun's external expansion is actually driven by a group of people who pursue self-realization and mostly self-interested people.

This [certain condition] refers to the fact that Dashun has entered an era that seems to be in a prosperous age, the imperial power seems to be extremely stable, and everyone knows that this will be the best class leap in Dashun since the founding of the country. Therefore, strict military management, not drinking the blood of soldiers, developing production, building ships and fighting, and exploring and discovering are all manifestations of pursuing personal interests and self-realization under this specific condition.

It is a standard model of unconsciously promoting historical progress, because there is absolutely no strong and efficient organization with a clear purpose in Dashun at this time, and the purpose is progress. Most of the progress depends on this kind of unconscious historical progress. driven by progress.

Just as Ilich's "What to Do" is about what the pioneers of the 20th century should do; Hamilton's "The Federalist Papers" is about what to do when creating a bourgeois republic on a piece of virgin land in the 19th century; What the Practical School pursues is how to complete the original accumulation period and expansion of a country with imperial power and imperial examination system at the peak of feudal autocracy in the 18th century.

This kind of "what to do with the primitive accumulation and expansion of the imperial power state in the 18th century", this kind of indoctrination of "conscious primitive accumulation and modern standard formal systemic scientific colonial theory" in the "unconscious", also gave birth to the Dashunshi School A large number of talents.

Whether it is the army, navigation, surveying and mapping, or exploration, they all show a dynamic trend.

Dare to bet, dare to do things, dare to take risks.

Winning to stand out from the crowd, not to mention benefiting the world in the future, at least to be able to gain fame and fortune for oneself during the period of class transition and mobility once again ushered in after the founding of Dashun.

Therefore, five young surveying and mapping professionals from Dashun and two guides from the Blackfoot Alliance followed the route provided by the Blackfoot people and found a winding, eastward-flowing, unsightly path on the grassland more than a hundred miles away. Know the rivers that lead to great lakes or seas.

This is called "a very fast-flowing river" by the Blackfoot people, and it is very convenient to walk.

Riding a horse in this kind of place is unlikely. You can ride a horse in the grassland, but riding a horse on both sides of the river is just a dream.

With the help of simple boats, canoes, bark boats, and even the easiest way to get a big tree to burn the hollow, the seven people quickly came to the lower reaches of the river.

When approaching the downstream, there are gradually more canoes on the river, many of which are filled with furs.

It is very easy to communicate with these aborigines who transport fur, because they are very fond of spirits, and a few bottles of spirits can make a good relationship with them.

It may be that the ancestors of humans originally ate fruit, and it was really difficult to resist alcohol.

But this kind of biological reason is not a reason that people in Dashun can know at this time.

On the contrary, because of some strange legends or strange theories, some people in Dashun believed that the people in these places were actually the descendants of the Yin Shang who moved away back then.

The reason is related to "wine".

You must know that the "Shangshu" written by Ji Quqinya does not have many characters.

But there are not many words in this, but there is a special article "Jiugao", which discusses that one of the reasons for the demise of the Yin and Shang Dynasties was King Zhou's alcoholism, which can be regarded as the "Prohibition on Alcohol" 3000 years ago.

As the saying goes, I am in the west of the country, and the king of the state, the son of the king, Shangke uses the teachings of the king of Wen, and is not shy about wine, so I have been ordered by Yin until now.

... In the future, heir to the king, who is intoxicated, who will die, and who will not show himself to the people, will not be easy to protect and complain.Birth is only Jue Zong, who is promiscuous to non-Yi, and uses swallows to mourn the majesty, and the people are not sad.But Huang is shy with wine, not only for self-rest but for rest, he has a very serious heart disease, and he cannot fear death.When Gu was in Shangyi, the Yue Yin Kingdom was destroyed, and there were no victims.Fuwei De Xinxiang sacrifices, and it is heard in the sky; birth is only the people's grievances, the common people drink themselves, and the smell is on the top.Therefore, when the heavens descended and mourned Yin, they did not love Yin, but Yi.The sky is not cruel, but the people are free to blame.

Perhaps, it may be that as long as there is a human being, as long as the food production can be satisfied, there will inevitably be a process of alcoholism.This process takes hundreds or even thousands of years to form a cultural trend of prohibition of alcohol and awareness of non-drinking.

Obviously, the aborigines here have not completed the historical process that human beings must go.

And the people in Dashun, based on the "Shangshu·Jiugao", came to the conclusion, only saying that most of these groups are descendants of Yin and Shang——fuck, 800 years have passed, why are you still drinking too much?
The hieroglyphs of Mirmark and other ethnic groups have added a bit of evidence to this kind of persuasion.

To be or not to be is a scientific question, but it is also a political one.

In this day and age, historically, the Russians buried stone slabs with inscriptions all over the coast of North America, and the French insisted that the North American Mandans with light skin had relatives with France. Dashun said that these people were descendants of wealthy merchants That is also a situation that is too normal to be normal anymore.

After talking after drinking and looking at the muskets in the hands of these Indians, the members of the Dashun expedition team finally breathed a sigh of relief.

Looking at the musket, it is not much different from Dashun's style. It basically looks like it was born by a mother. It is obviously the French standard musket navy short, so it can be basically confirmed that the downstream control is in the hands of the French.

The new generation of young people in the surveying and mapping department basically cannot speak French, because the previous generation still needed the help of French instructors, but their generation no longer needs it at all.

However, although they can no longer speak French, they can still understand the iconic "stupid pig" and "silly donkey" in French through the mouths of these fur-selling aborigines.

The members of the Dashun expedition team breathed a sigh of relief, thinking, at least the downstream is in the hands of the French, and it seems that there is no need to worry about anyone going downstream to reclaim wasteland for the time being.

Soon, at the lake in the lower reaches of the big river, together with the Indians who came to trade, they came to a trading post established by the French. Because the French here are discussing the recruitment of soldiers with the native chiefs there.

The members of Dashun's expedition team greeted the officers of the French guard here, and in exchange, the officers on the French side responded with greetings in Chinese that was not very fluent but certainly understandable.

"My father is in the fur and ginseng business. You sent some ginseng pickers here many years ago. There are many Chinese in our trading post."

The French officer speaks Chinese well, and his name is de la Virendry.

Although in the later game "Assassin's Creed Renegade", he is a member of the villain BOSS and the Brotherhood of Assassins.

But in the reality at this time, he is a middle-aged man in his early 40s, who can speak Chinese well, and impatiently asked the Dashun expedition team some questions that he was very concerned about.

In other words, since the "Treaty of Utrecht" in 1713, the French have been very concerned about the issue:

Is mer du couchant real?

Mer du couchant, Sunset Sea, Sunset Bay, that is, the bays and river estuaries of the North American continent facing the Pacific Ocean.

This is something the French have wondered ever since the estuary fur station was dry blasted by the British in Hudson Bay after the Treaty of Utrecht in 1713.

Mer du couchant, like India, Treasure Island, the Northwest Route, and even the older land passage of the Western Great Qin, etc., is a special vocabulary produced in a specific era during the exploration period.Because, on the North American continent, the setting sun sets in the Pacific Ocean.

De la Virendry, and his father, have been exploring intermittently for more than 40 years to find this legendary "Sunset Bay" and "Sunset Sea".

Although, with Dashun's participation in the war and the main force of the British navy being trapped in the strait, "Sunset Bay" has little meaning to the French.

But de la Virendry is still eager to know the answer to this question that has plagued his father and son for more than 40 years.

An answer that no longer has practical and economic significance for France at this time.

(End of this chapter)