Xinshun 1730

Chapter 837
This kind of purely reciprocal effect is the cause, in terms of political correctness, it cannot be said that it is wrong.

But in France, Prussia, Russia, Austria and other countries have suppressed the power of local aristocrats, France created the Palace of Versailles to gather power to the court, and countries can pull out hundreds of thousands of troops to attack cities and land, focus on business and high tariffs, and use administrative power In an environment where industries and commerce in various countries are protected from foreign competition, it is purely meaty to say this.

Relying on free self-government, convoys and fleets, all the provinces play tricks and don't spend money. Is this a way to get rid of the British navigation regulations?Or can it lose the tariff protection of France?

Just like the monopoly East India Company that many people in the Netherlands opposed.

Indeed, is the monopoly East India Company good?not good. The 17-member committee made the decision, right?wrong.All shareholders are supposed to have a say but don't, is it reasonable?unreasonable.Even monopoly rights should not be given, and there should be full and free competition.

However, if we didn't engage in monopoly policies and efficient decision-making by a 17-member committee, why did we win in Southeast Asia and squeeze out Britain and Portugal?
Dashun did not run a monopoly company before, and there was no state power to interfere. As a result, the free Dashun maritime merchants were detained by the Dutch and forced to lower prices. There was no other way but to swear never to go to Batavia again. .

Furthermore, regarding the appeals of the guild middle class in Haarlem, while hoping for self-sufficiency in the city’s self-government, at the same time hoping that a strong government can guarantee the city’s autonomy and not be profited by businessmen from other provinces... Isn’t this smart?
Anthony, as the former Speaker of the House of Representatives, is the successor selected by Fan Siling Grant, a centralized faction among the Regency faction. Of course, he opposes the separation of powers and also strives to centralize them.

If it's the previous mentality of lying down and dying, then it doesn't matter.

But now that there is an opportunity, there seems to be a way out, and Anthony certainly hopes to go on.After the coup, it is necessary to find a way to strengthen the power of the federal provincial government.

However, William IV's most trusted assistant and advisor, Earl Bentinck, was also a supporter of the policy of his mentor's former Great Speaker, and he has been trying to establish a centralized Dutch government.

Moreover, as a representative of the Orange faction, he has always advocated centralization in public.And it is still going to be in place in one step, centralizing power to the situation of the Ming cabinet secretary system.

The problem here is that the various factions within the republican faction are unanimous in opposing the consul.

However, Antony was anti-consul and did not oppose centralization; while the rest of the republican factions opposed the consul because they opposed centralization.

The present opportunity can be said to be fleeting for the Netherlands, and it will never come again.

Cooperation with Dashun requires a process.

The war in Europe is not over yet, and all parties involved in the war, except for the Russians who are just about to send troops, are exhausted.And Russia's sea power can be ignored.

Now is the best time for Dashun to cooperate with the Netherlands. No matter what kind of cooperation mode, it will inevitably damage the interests of the United Kingdom.

After the armistice, Britain will have to lick its wounds for a few years, but once it recovers, it will definitely be suppressed.

The period of opportunity left for the Netherlands, in Anthony's view, is at most ten years.

Once this period of opportunity is not grasped, I am afraid that there will be no chance in the future.

To seize this opportunity, we must solve the problem of centralization.At the very least, if the taxes are raised, ships must be built, and if a war really takes place ten years later, they must be able to resist.

On the one hand, it is obvious to provoke the United Kingdom and violate the interests of the United Kingdom.While not building ships, thinking that Britain will not attack the Netherlands based on self-fantasy... This is the way to die.

If this is the case, it would be better not to cooperate with Dashun from the beginning, and continue to lie flat to death.At least it will not be attacked by the United Kingdom, at least not within ten years.

However, the situation in the Netherlands is very special.

Special to the extreme.

Especially, in the Netherlands, strengthening centralization itself is destroying the possibility of centralization in the Netherlands.

Because centralization means that seven provinces become one country.

For the seven provinces to become a country, the first step is to build a community.

However, there is a problem with the construction of the Dutch community.

Regardless of whether it is reform or revolution in Dashun, this problem does not need to be solved. Someone solved it as early as 2000 years ago.

The Netherlands is different.

The construction of the Dutch community itself lies in the unique freedom of the Netherlands a hundred years ago.

Freedom itself is the foundation of the Dutch community.

The so-called community building is either to clarify who we are; or to clarify who we are not.

In all the dynasties of China before Dashun, they chose to clarify "who we are".

But Holland, who chose the latter, made it clear who we are not.

Rely on who we are not to deduce the existence of the concept of "us".

It's not that the Dutch elite haven't tried to build a community that makes it clear who we are.

Rather, it is this concept, the "Republic of Batavia in Roman times".

The people of the Netherlands are all descendants of the Batavian Republic in the Roman era.

Our rebellion against the rule of the Spanish is a repeat of the history of the Batavian Republic.

The people of the Republic of Batavia are free, moral, and perfect, just like the spirit of our golden age.

We are all Batavians.All are descendants of Batavia.

Originally, this is possible.

With the national power of the Netherlands at that time, it is completely possible to have the Republic of the Netherlands first, and then the Batavian nation.

But the problem lies in this national myth, Batavia in the Roman era, the story is a scattered city-state republic, not a consul with monopoly power.

Therefore, the Dutch Orange School, with a very rigorous historical foundation and a very delicate archaeological level, told all the Dutch: nonsense!There never was a Batavian republic in history at all.

It was the last three words in the Batavian Republic that the Orangemen objected to.

But the first four words were also thrown away.

The nation-building of "Who We Are" is not complete.Putting this in China in later generations is equivalent to someone telling all the Chinese that Yanhuang does not exist at all.

Then how to construct the concept of "who are we"?
"Who we are" can't be constructed, so we can only rely on "who we are not".

So, who is the Netherlands not?

First of all, the Netherlands is definitely not a monarchy, so it is different from the bunch of monarchy countries.

Secondly, although there are many republics in Europe, there are even stories about the Greek era and the Roman era.

However, the Netherlands is not the bunch of free cities in Shinra. This is a difference that any fool can see.

Then again, the Netherlands was not a Roman Republic.The Roman Republic was established by slave farming, while the Netherlands was established by trading.

Then, the Netherlands is not Switzerland, or Venice.

After all, we are different!
We, the Netherlands, are unique.

You and my country are different from those outside, so you and me are us, not them.

After building who we're not - if that's all, it's not an outlier.

For example, the concept that Liu Yu promoted in Weihai that we are not who we are is motivated by foreign wars.A group of people went to Japan and Nanyang, listening to the chattering language on the other side, seeing the skin color and hair color on the other side, it is easy to understand who we are not.

Another example is that after the Russians built a framework based on religion, they fought all day long, and a bunch of serfs who never had the chance to leave the village in their entire lives wanted to go to war and see the outside world. As long as they didn't die, this life was worth it.If the tsar's "little daddy" hadn't fought, he would only be able to look at the one-third of an acre of land in the manor in this life. What's the point of being alive?

Then a group of gray cattle gathered together and asked where you are from and where I am from. It turns out that everyone speaks the same thing, eats the same thing, and believes in the same religion from such a distance.Look at the group of Turkish barbarians and French pussies, they are really different from them.Therefore, Russian serfs are the most Russian, while those aristocratic youths who often go abroad to chat and laugh in Western European cafes are the least Russian.

The problem is that the Dutch were not serfs on Russian estates.For a lifetime, apart from the neighbors, you are potatoes, and you can feel "we are all the same" and "we are different from others" when you go out.

The Dutch have seen a lot. They have been sailing for more than 100 years. From North America to Australia, what kind of people have you never seen?

With the development of commerce, the Dutch people still feel that they are no different from those who believe in Protestantism and speak German.

This has to add some kernels within the basic framework that we are different from.

On China's side, it has built a whole set of civilization by itself, and it is the mother country of culture.

In Europe, no matter what, building a civilized home country is not up to the Netherlands.

Originally, there was a fabricated nation-building, the Batavian Republic whose ancestors were more extensive.But this myth has been destroyed by the Dutch themselves.

Then if you look up "the ancestors are rich", you can only find the period from the independence of Spain to the golden age of domination of the sea.This is not the falsely referred to as "ancestor", but the generation of grandparents and great-grandfathers in the true sense...

If the Batavian Republic of "Who We Are" is used to construct this national community, it is actually simple.

Stuffing the spirit of the golden age into that Batavian myth, we say that we have been like this since ancient times, and this is our national character.

All problems were solved very smoothly.

Since ancient times, the nation, the spirit, the culture, and the system have existed since ancient times.

But now, the Orange faction has proved with exhaustive historiography that the Batavian Republic does not exist.

Even this nation is made up, so how can there be any national character and national spirit?

This thing has to have an entity to bloom, right?

Even the Batavian Republic does not exist, how can there be the nationality and spirit of the Batavians?

After this myth was shattered, the national community rebuilt by the Dutch elites was only a general framework of "we are different from others".

In addition to the fact that the political system is different from others, how can we be different from others?This has to be found out.

Otherwise, others have also learned the Dutch system of government. Can it be said that we are a family?This obviously doesn't make sense either.

So you have to stuff things in there.

Cypriot spirit, culture, tradition, Cypriot ideology.

The myths of the ancient times in the past were shattered, and the construction of new myths came from independence from Spain. So what is the national spirit of the Netherlands?
Naturally, it is derived from the Utrecht Charter.

The provinces are self-governing, there are no dukes or kings, and there is no centralized government.

Absolute freedom.

Each province can retreat if it wants to, and each province can do whatever it wants.

This is what is stuffed into this new national formation.

Without this, nation-building would not work.

There is no nation-building, so what about the integration of seven provinces to build a Dutch nation and a Dutch state?

Conversely, would building a centralized Dutch state and depriving the provinces of some of their power violate the established Dutch national spirit and traditional culture?

Is the Batavian country created against the Batavian national spirit and Batavian traditional culture still Batavia?
At the beginning of the resistance to Spanish rule, the core was that they did not want to listen to the Spanish government.

So, if the provinces still listen to the federal government, what is the core difference from Spanish rule?
The special national conditions of the Netherlands make it difficult for Anthony to make the most favorable use of this tragedy in The Hague.

From the overall situation, France can make peace, the government killed the petition group, it seems that the coup d'état is very easy.

However, this coup is to take advantage of the opportunity period of the European armistice to gamble on the fate of the country, not a simple issue of superiority.

You have to think about the next ten years.

There are various ways of inciting public opinion about this tragedy in The Hague.

The simplest and seemingly most effective two, but Anthony can't use it.

The first is to incite "everything must take care of the interests of the people of the country and be tough with the outside world."

If a consul kills a citizen of his own country for the benefit of foreigners, he should get out.

This does not work.

Because Anthony wants to cooperate with Dashun.

With this logic and emotional incitement, the British are not good birds, and they want to safeguard the interests of their own people.

So, what kind of a bird is Dashun who won the colonies in Southeast Asia?

This time even these dozen people died because of Britain.

So how many people in Southeast Asia died because of Dashun?After the stock market crash, how many people committed suicide because of the Dashun?
The second type, inciting "The monarchy is not based on the law, but is completely obeyed by the monarch's personal will, ordered by the monarch's personal interests, prejudices, emotions, relatives, distance. This is the worst and most deformed in the world , the most irrational thing".

"The so-called ruling is just that the uncrowned king is a variant of the monarchy. So he can bypass the law, bypass the wishes of the people, and choose to be close to the UK."

This direction works almost as well as the first incitement direction.

However, considering the centralization of power in the future, and the "centralized kingdom without hereditary kings" envisioned by Anthony's mentor and the former Great Speaker, this is also useless.

Otherwise, if you are so incited today, when you want to centralize power tomorrow, you will be opposed by people with the original words.

In view of the special national conditions of the Netherlands and the particularity of the construction of the Dutch national community, such incitement will only give rise to those factions that are extremely opposed to centralization.

They themselves have a great right to speak, and they built a new Dutch national community after the Batavian myth was destroyed by archaeology and history.

The core of the community they built is "we are different from others", "our absolute freedom", "our cities and provinces have free will".

If you really want to instigate in the second direction, you are really doing things for this group of factions that oppose centralization.

And this group of people, who are now allies against the lifelong consul and the Orange family, will be the biggest enemy when power is centralized tomorrow.

If it is used against the consul today, it will be used by them against the centralization of the provinces tomorrow.

Dashun seems to have laid the groundwork, and the coup seems to be a matter of course, but in Anthony's view, people on Dashun's side still don't understand that the Netherlands has its own national conditions.

(End of this chapter)