Xinshun 1730

Chapter 831 The Hague Tragedy ([-])

Every family has its cupboard.

When Liu Yu was in Dashun, he was so frightened by the landlord class that he could only do things outside and didn't dare to face many problems in the country.

The Netherlands does not have the problem of the landlord class, but these commercial oligarchs and financial capital have also brought new problems that may not be easier to face than the landlord class in Dashun.

Not to mention that each province is doing its own thing, even the militia organizations and armed guilds in each city have their own interests.

Merchant capital and industrial capital; marketization and guild interests; merchants and aristocrats; petty bourgeois and taxpayers; federal-provincial governments and city councils... against each other.

It is indeed not a fool to be the speaker of the Inter-Provincial Assembly.After all, this thing is not a hereditary duke, but starts from the secretary of the inter-provincial parliament, all the way to the secretary-general, and then is elected as the successor to become the speaker.

Anthony could see the problems in Holland but was powerless to fix them.

Everything has pros and cons.

Like the East India Company.

In the early stage, if there was no form of shareholding system, no monopoly authorized by the government, and no big businessmen to take the lead in integrating capital, it would have been impossible to get Southeast Asia with great efficiency during the expansion period and force the British to India.

However, the strength in the early stage also brought problems in the later stage.

If the East India Company does not monopolize itself, welcomes Dutch private business trade, and encourages Dutch people to settle down, the entire Southeast Asian market will become active, which can fully support the development of the entire Dutch handicraft industry.

The problem is, the shareholders of the East India Company will ask a question: When we expanded Batavia with a 70% death rate, where were you?Where were you when we fought to the death with Britain, Portugal, and Spain in the tropics?Where were you when we drank green water and ate maggot-infested bread?Where were you when we were so hungry and cannibalized on the boat?

We have won the hegemony of Southeast Asia, saying that it is open to all Dutch people?
Why do shareholders agree?

Does the shareholder's contribution serve the whole Dutch people?

In the early stage, if we don't concentrate our forces and don't engage in monopoly privileges, there is no way to develop.

It is bound to be crushed to death by Portugal and Spain like a chicken cub.

However, after gaining hegemony, if they still do not open up private trade in Southeast Asia, do not support immigration, do not use it as a sales market but use it to exhaust the water, the Dutch handicraft industry will inevitably end.

This situation is similar in the whole of the Netherlands.

If the Netherlands were not so loose in the early stage, it would be difficult for new ideas to spread, and business would not be able to grow rapidly without restraint and restrictions.

But the more benefits in the early stage, the bigger the problems in the later stage.

In this context, everyone is practicing mercantilism, raising tariffs, exporting as much as possible and exporting as little as possible, and even France knows that under the administrative order to transport salted fish, ships from France's own shipyard must be used.

The Netherlands, which is so loosely decentralized and inter-provincial, has promoted its first-mover advantages, and now it has all become disadvantages.

The man Anthony said "could be Cromwell and Louis XIV" did not make it happen after all.

It was not done in the golden age, and it is even more difficult to do it now.

Of course, Anthony's cognition also comes step by step.

At the beginning, he still overestimated the status of the Netherlands among the countries in the world.

After fighting, I realized that the times have changed...

Anthony also knew before that the national strength of the Netherlands has declined.But for example, the national strength of the world's most powerful country is 100, and Anthony feels that the national strength of the Netherlands is also [-] or [-].

When the fight really started, I watched France withdraw from the war from Prussia to Prussia's participation in the war again, and then to Prussia's war again, but it was still able to hold on... I went to Dashun to have a look, the emperor ordered, just 20 years When time does not raise taxes, does not buy national debt, and does not even feel war in the country, it will create a fleet of 20 soldiers and a fleet that can dominate Asia.

I finally understand that the Netherlands is now twenty or thirty, at most it is three, four, five.

Population, depth, war potential, food production, war capability after being blocked, etc., are all far behind.

Now Kang Busha asked him what his vision for the future is and what the future of the Netherlands is.

He really didn't know what to say other than a wry smile, helplessness, and sigh in return.

It is both mournful and decadent.

He thinks, even if power is centralized, so what?In the war of Spanish succession, the Netherlands faced the highest tax rate in Europe, the highest army-to-population ratio in Europe, and the earliest and highest patriotic fanaticism in Europe, so what?

It’s not that the Netherlands hasn’t made progress, it’s just that others have greater potential, a larger population, more centralized power, and faster progress.

50 years ago, it was possible to fight one-on-two, and 20 years ago, it was possible to make the opponent miserable one-on-one. Now, one-on-one can be defeated in three months.

He said that the Netherlands has no future and can only slowly decay.

Even if the power is centralized to protect commercial trade, it will be difficult to support it with the national strength of the Netherlands.

There are only a few trade zones.

The Baltic Northeast Europe trade area is the sphere of influence of the United Kingdom. If you want to trade there, you must provoke the United Kingdom.

North America is within the scope of the "Navigation Regulations". If you want to go there for trade, you still have to defeat Britain.

In South America, the slave trade was seized by the British, and the rest was in the hands of Spain and France. They either defeated the British or angered the Franco-Spanish coalition forces.

In the Caribbean Sea, Dutch pirates and merchant ships were the common targets of France, Spain, and Britain.

Africa, that is Portugal's territory.

Asia... Asia wants to overthrow a celestial kingdom with a population of [-] million, not to win, but to kill them all.Because once such a large body takes a breath, it will be endless revenge.

Anthony believes that even if the Netherlands is centralized, none of these things can be done.

The simplest of these things all require the Netherlands to challenge with the highest tax rate and the highest conscription ratio in Europe, and now there is no chance of even a [-]-[-] split.

That being the case, what future is there to talk about?

Decay slowly, just count the days, and wait for death.

However, it is better to live than to die.

And now that Dashun has ruined the Dutch financial industry, if France invades the mainland again, it will not decay slowly, but will be burned down.

This very dejected and dejected answer made Kang Bushao somewhat astonished.

He thought that asking such a question would make the eyes of the former Great Speaker shine, and he felt that fighting the fourth Anglo-Dutch war with Britain and winning it was the future of the Netherlands.

He never expected that what he got was an answer of lying down and dying slowly.

Kang Buxin said, the young master wanted to knock out the spirit of Holland, and completely crush Holland's feelings of being a big country and the mentality of being a country.

This is good, crushing is crushing, and they will lie down and die if they are crushed directly.

When he was thinking about how to lead the topic to "the real and hopeful future of the Netherlands", a person from outside hurried in and whispered a few words in Kang Bushao's ear.

Then he handed a piece of paper into Kang Bushao's hand.

Seeing that Kang Busha looked at the paper in his hand, Anthony didn't ask any questions out of politeness.

But Kang Buxiu took the initiative to raise the paper and said: "It seems that your consul is a ruthless person. Something happened in The Hague."

"There is a group of fishermen who petitioned because of fishing issues, hoping that the UK will relax the control of fishing grounds and the arrest of Dutch fishing boats."

"The result was good, maybe it meant a few radical words? Your consul actually ordered the massacre, killing 17 people and injuring more than 60 people."

"You European countries are very interesting. The British king can't even speak English, and the Dutch consul slaughtered Dutch people for the British. Hmm, interesting."

He said it lightly, but in fact it was all planned by him.

Whether it was just a few radical words, or whether these people were all real fishermen, he knew better than those in the Hague court.

Anthony did not care much about the seventeen dead.It's just a dead person.

But after this incident came out of Kang Bushao's mouth, he immediately thought of an old incident!
A few years ago, it was still the same group of Chinese, still in the Netherlands, and still instigated by public opinion, which finally led to the Orangemen coming to power.

In the incident that happened in The Hague today, more than a dozen people died, Anthony felt that it didn't matter, he neither knew nor cared.

It's just that the taste of this operation is too familiar.

It's the same taste as the Orange family's march to Amsterdam a few years ago.

An inexplicable sense of familiarity made Anthony suddenly alert.

It looks like the approach is a little different, but in fact it is the same.

Previously, Dashun opened some pornographic tabloids here, relying on the distribution of newspapers, the small land environment of the Netherlands, and in Anthony's opinion, the editorials, jokes, oriental anecdotes that are quite exciting and can catch people's hearts, plus subsidies. Low prices, quickly spread throughout the streets of Holland.

Before leaving, some articles that satirized the Netherlands and insulted the Dutch national system completely blew up the emotions of the Dutch people.

The expulsion of the Dashun diplomatic missions, the welcome of the Orange family to power, and the formal declaration of war on France all took place in one go.

However, this time, the tabloids run by Dashun before were banned by the Netherlands, and they no longer had the right to speak.

However, more than a dozen people died in The Hague at once, in front of the consul's court, or because of petitions for fishing livelihood issues.

This does not require newspapers to guide emotions, nor does it need to create public opinion, nor does it need to be published in newspapers to spread.

For a week at most, the whole of Holland will know about it.Without newspapers to guide emotions and public opinion, all the dissatisfaction accumulated before will explode.

This is just a variant of the old method, another manifestation after the discourse power of the newspaper was banned.

Anthony was aware of the conspiracy, but he didn't know why these Chinese people did this.

Even before, Anthony didn't understand why these Chinese insisted on pushing the Orange family to power: whether the Orange family came to power, he felt that it would not affect the progress of Dashun's journey to Nanyang in the slightest, nor would it affect the Netherlands being restrained. on the European battlefield.

Now Dashun and his group are repeating their old tricks, inciting public opinion and creating emotions. What is the reason for this?
Anthony would not believe it if it was said that there was no manipulation by Dashun and his group.

But what about the purpose?

He didn't understand what happened back then.Now that he did it again, he didn't understand even more.

Although he couldn't understand it, the political sense of the Great Speaker for many years still let him smell a key point.

Last time, the real reason why the Orange family came forward to assume the ruling responsibility was not Dashun's insult to the Netherlands, but the news that Prussia had withdrawn from the war. The Orange family knew about it first.

Now, Dashun has scored twice, could it be that there is a huge change similar to Prussia's withdrawal from the war?

Or did Dashun first destroy the Regency faction, and then destroy the Orange family, creating chaos, thereby creating conditions for the pro-French faction in the Netherlands to come to power, and thus completely reducing the Netherlands to a vassal of France?Or cause the disintegration of the seven provinces and completely dismember the Netherlands?

If the latter, it would be terrible.That is to say, these Chinese people have considered dismembering the Netherlands a few years ago?How much hatred is it?How did the Netherlands mess with these Chinese?

(End of this chapter)