Xinshun 1730

Chapter 824 The Hague Tragedy ([-])

Dashun's "coincidentally" trip to Nanyang has the greatest impact, of course, on the United Provinces of the Netherlands.

The 45 years, hailed as the second disaster year, are about to pass.

But the disaster is not over yet.

In the early summer of 46, the whole of Holland was buried under the shadow of panic, discord and uneasiness.

At the beginning of 46, the most frequently heard word among the Dutch people was "ism".

However, it is neither "constitutional" doctrine, nor "three powers" doctrine, nor "people's sovereignty" doctrine, or some kind of "mercantilism" doctrine.

Rather, it is a term that has been around since Roman times.

【Vandalism】

What is [Vandalism]?
In 455 AD, the Vandals broke through the city of Rome and burned and looted for half a month. They burned, looted, and completely uncontrolled violence and destruction. This is called Vandalism.

Now, the term is closely associated with the French.

Throughout the Netherlands, rumors of the French "Vandalism" are circulating everywhere in the middle and upper classes.

In the Austrian Netherlands, they burned, killed, looted, looted, raped women, and robbed food.

This is not a Dutch rumor, but the military discipline of this era, that is.Rao is a later generation. In the movie, the Huangwei Corps, which is beautified enough to walk out of the amazing march, reports to the Ministry of National Defense according to its own regiment leader, "... 14-year-old young girls near Shuangduiji are inevitably polluted and committed suicide. I don't know how many." Is this still 200 years later on its own territory to its own people, let alone 200 years ago when France was in the Austrian Netherlands?

Of course, this is a vocabulary used only by the middle class and above in the Netherlands. Apart from the atrocities of the army, they used a comparison of "comparing themselves to the civilization of Rome, while the French are as barbaric as the Vandals".

The low-level ordinary people who are regarded by them as "mobs, ignorant people, and ignorant people" still don't use this special vocabulary.

But not knowing this term doesn't mean they don't understand what it means.

The successive victories of the French in the Austrian Netherlands plunged the Netherlands, which had not really suffered war since 1672, into a desperate panic.

This hopeless panic, accompanied by news of the Anglo-Dutch subsidy treaty negotiations, eased a little.

But then, the French marshal broke through two fortresses in the Belgian area, and the front of the soldiers had reached the Dutch border.

At this time, the Dutch people thought of a serious problem.

The infantry in Petersburg, the Cossacks on the Don River, and the Turghut Mongolian cavalry archers on the Volga River, how far are they from Amsterdam?
Panic is a breeding ground for rumors to spread.

Despair is the catalyst for dissatisfaction.

And the Chinese who catalyze these dissatisfaction and rumors behind the scenes are like the yeast when brewing and buying wine, and like the hops when brewing beer.

No one ever thought that ale was made from yeast and beer from hops.But without these two things, it's just a pile of grain, not ale and beer.

Kang Bushao, who stayed in Amsterdam, clearly implemented Liu Yu's guiding ideology: destroying the last bit of patriotic enthusiasm of the Dutch, destroying the last bit of great country sentiment of the Dutch people in the golden age, and destroying the last memory accumulated by the Orange family after 200 years. A little fame.

It's so easy to do.

Kang Bulan discovered that the people are tolerant, not unreasonable.This point, whether it is the Netherlands or Dashun, is actually the same.

Or as in the story, the emperor said, "First suffer and suffer the common people." If it is true that the first suffer and then it will be sweeter, in fact, the common people are not unbearable.

However, what have the Dutch people experienced in recent years?

Since then, the Marquis of China came here to "show off his power" to promote his free trade theory and let the Netherlands treat the Eastern Celestial Kingdom as a tributary state...

Then, the arrogant Marquis of China was driven away, and the people pushed William of the Orange family, whom they had pinned all their hopes on, on the seat of consul for life in the seven provinces.

Then again?

It's not that the people can't wait, and they never demanded that the Orange family is like the sun in the sky, as long as it comes out, it can drive away the darkness and coldness, with immediate results.

The people gave time, opportunity, and waiting.

But the result?

Over the years, has anything changed?
When he was not in power, the French were besieged in Prague by the coalition forces of various countries, tens of thousands of people were surrounded, the coach fled lightly, and a large number of generals were arrested and taken to London.The Austrians were in the direction of Italy, and the French who fought could only stick to it.

After he came to power, the French made great strides and broke through the fortresses of the Austrian Netherlands all the way. Now the lead bullets of French soldiers may fly into the Netherlands with a little carelessness.

The last field force of the Netherlands was defeated in the Battle of Fontenoy, and so far the entire Seven Provinces Republic has no last field army.

The biggest reason why people support the Orange family is war.

The Orange family, orange, is the totem of the Dutch God of War.

People believe that the dragon begets the dragon, the phoenix begets the phoenix, and the son of a mouse can make holes.

But the reality is...

The dragon gave birth to a bunch of ugly bats, and the wind gave birth to a nest of ugly moles. The sons of the mice could not only burrow, but even breathe with their lungs.

Napoleon of later generations said that he was a usurper, so he needed continuous victories to consolidate his legitimacy.The Bourbon family is a natural king. They do nothing, and there are always people who regard them as orthodox.

The situation in the Netherlands is somewhat similar.

The Regents and the Parliamentarians, in the eyes of the Dutch, used to be a group of usurpers.

Unless they can solve all the problems of the Netherlands and consolidate their legitimacy with successive victories, they will be rebels and traitors after all.

However, that was before.

Because now, the Orange family has wiped out their legitimacy.

At first, the Dutch people were very rational. They knew that the war was imminent, and they also knew that change would not happen overnight. They had to give the Orange family enough time to suffer, but at least there was still hope.

As long as there is hope, how can we not endure temporary suffering?
However, one month, two months, three months, half a year, one year, or even three to five years...

The most basic things, nothing has changed.

At the beginning, people felt that there was a war going on, and internal changes could wait until the war was over.

However, shortly after coming to power, Prussia withdrew from the war, the French army was trapped in Prague, and the Austrian Netherlands army went to rescue and returned to France. There was no imminent threat of war on the Dutch side.

But what did William IV do?

William IV treated the "iron lords" in charge of the city with courtesy.

The middle-level militia organizations that demanded the restoration of the guild system were denounced as mobs.

The petition to the people who want the state to control food prices is vague.

The tax subsidy system, which is the most concerned by the public, has not been moved at all, but a few people from his own family have been replaced as tax subcontractors.

However, what the people want is not to change the tax bureau, but to abolish the tax system.

The people are tolerant.

The people know that a lifelong consul needs to be familiar with the affairs of the country before he can try to make changes.

The people have given him enough time, not weeks or months, but years.

However, in the Hague court, the new consul advisory group was selected from the original "regent" lords; people certainly hate these regent lords, but they also hate those extremely conservative nobles, but the palace is full of people. The most conservative Frisian nobleman in the entire Netherlands.

What finally made the Dutch people completely desperate came from a dinner incident.

At the end of 43, the people of Zeeland collectively sued the regents of their cities, enumerating all kinds of crimes and cruel exploitations of the regents, hoping that the orange sun of the Netherlands could dispose of these city regents.

Under strong pressure from the people, William IV dismissed the regents of several cities in the province of Zeeland.

However, in the second week after the revocation, William IV personally presided over the dinner, entertained the former city regents who were dismissed by him with the privilege of "consul for life", and expressed his difficulties at the dinner: I am not that This kind of hard-hearted person is really under pressure, I hope you can understand.

The people, who were already quite disappointed, were completely angered by the dinner that was revealed.

This is similar to the people of Dashun suing the imperial court, enumerating all kinds of crimes committed by the local officials. After the emperor dismissed those local officials, he then hosted a banquet for these officials.

Or, suppose that the slave soldiers uprising in the last years of the previous dynasty felt that the upheaval in the north was their chance to resist.Burning the land deeds, burning the debts, and finally the long-awaited Chuangjun came. If the Chuangjun not only refused to recognize them, but ordered them not to return the land within ten days, the debts were redrawn, and all the day lilies were peeled...

Of these two analogies, the former is absolutely impossible.No matter how incompetent the emperor of the Celestial Dynasty is, it is impossible for an official to be dismissed after being sued for impeachment, and then invite the official to dinner to explain that he is forced to be helpless.

The reason why the latter assumes that Dashun’s invasion of the army is used as an analogy is because Manchurians have done this in history, and the people are not too desperate, because this is normal. Of course, the above is for the gentlemen. Is there anything wrong? But if Dashun, who shouted the slogan of equalizing the land without grain, did this, it would be abnormal, and a good person who still had a glimmer of hope would do this, it would be the anger that gave hope and despair .

Without hope, how can there be despair?

As a politician, you must never give hope to the people and let them despair.That made the people a hundred times more angry than keeping them hopeless.

Because the common people tacitly agree that it is normal for bad people to do bad things, and they have a higher tolerance for bad people.

But the situation in the Netherlands is a little different with Dashun as an analogy.

That is, William IV, never shouted any slogans, and never made any promises.

All expectations are the "self-moving" and "wishful thinking" of the people.

However, this is different from the simple relationship between people.

Self-moving, wishful thinking, if it is a simple relationship between people:

It's like A man's wishful thinking that Otome likes him.Then Otome went to the hotel with others, and Aman was very angry, feeling disappointed, angry, and angry.But the question is, what's none of your business?
However, the political issues within a country, the relationship between the ruler and the ruled, is not simply the relationship between people.

William IV couldn't justly ask the people back: Have I promised you anything?It's none of your business if I invite them to dinner?
(End of this chapter)