Xinshun 1730

Chapter 838
Some cultural things, after all, there is a barrier.

Kang Bushao was from Dashun, so he pointedly said that Liu Yu was not from Dashun at all.

And this conspiracy presided over by Kang Bushao just proved that Kang Bushao is still a Dashun person in his bones, and he is definitely not a Dutchman.After all, the understanding of the Netherlands should be understood with the way of thinking of Dashun people.

Just like in the "War and Peace" of the later generations, the most beautiful paragraph in the eyes of Russians is only a few dozen words. Natasha Rostova, an aristocratic lady who received French education since she was a child, came back from hunting. The part where Shi Zitong danced the Russian dance barefoot as if he was inherited by blood.No matter how beautiful Audrey Hepburn is, she can’t jump out of the charm of that passage; no matter how much money the American emperor spends on remakes, she can’t capture the essence of that passage—those few dozen words are about the greatest fantasy of Russian nobles : The aristocratic Russia of St. Petersburg and the vast rural Russia, these two historically real and completely different Russias, merged into one at this moment without bloodshed.Even if it is just a dance time, it can last forever.

Kang Buxiu is very smart and has means, but he is not Dutch.What he thinks in his bones, subconsciously is still Dashun's way of thinking: the monarch is immoral, cruel and cruel to the people, why not change it.

Even before he met Liu Yu, he could entertain himself by playing western guitar and a watchman's variation like Zheng Zhilong, but he really couldn't understand this kind of deformed concept of freedom derived from religious theology, and he couldn't understand it. It is impossible to understand the political problems caused by the special nation-building of the Netherlands.

He felt that if there was a tragedy in The Hague and fanning the flames, something would happen.

It's okay to think so.The Orange faction is definitely dead, but the direction of inciting public opinion he understands is quite different from what Anthony considers.After all, the Netherlands he saw was just a symbolic Netherlands.

When the Orange faction was in power, the various factions of the Republican faction were allies, but this ally was due to a common enemy.

But when the common enemy is gone, disputes within the republicans will inevitably erupt.

What Anthony represents is the will of a small group of elites within the Regency to pinch the seven provinces into one.

And within the Regency faction, there are still a large group of people who want to weaken the power of the Dutch Province and make the United Provinces truly become the cities of the seven provinces.

At the same time, the Regents represent the interests of the commercial and financial industries.

There is also a faction among the Republicans who hope that the government will support industrial development, solve the increasingly serious unemployment and poverty problems in the Netherlands, and revive the manufacturing industry.

The population of Amsterdam was 60 million 30 years ago, and it is still 30 million now. There has not been a war in the middle of the country, and the country is basically stable.From this point, we can understand how declining the Netherlands is now.

The group of republicans who want the government to support industrial development and revive the manufacturing industry support centralization.But they will definitely not support the secret agreement reached between Anthony and Dashun.

The anti-free trade guilds still have militias in their hands, the elites also have economic seminars, and the Orange family still has a wave of noble bases left over from the Burgundy era.

The Netherlands is different from Dashun. If Dashun wants to stabilize the country, it only needs to grasp one major contradiction: the land issue, and try to maintain the stability of the small peasant economy.The direction is clear.

The interior of the Netherlands is so chaotic, and the various forces are scattered.The handicraft industry has been developed but has declined; the merchants are mercenary but have no guns in their hands; the guilds are reactionary but the middle class have guns in their hands; They are done.

All kinds of contradictions, the ultimate appearance, are the contradictions between centralization and local forces.

People from Dashun, especially when they were still in their prime, had a hard time imagining how to resolve the huge conflict between the central and local governments.

The magistrates of Dashun could obey and obey, but it was impossible to imagine that His Royal Highness Tianyou of the Sixth Government wanted to change Jiedu envoys and governors, but the subordinates refused to obey orders, and could not be replaced, and then the imperial envoys had no choice but to go back.Or the local Fuyin Jiedushi is in charge of the local big family, and the imperial court can't control it.

The difference in economic foundation between Dashun and the Netherlands makes it impossible for the two countries to learn from each other in their methods of dealing with such problems.

The economic foundation of Dashun is the small-scale peasant economy.A certain province refused to accept it, so the imperial court sent troops to arrest and kill those who should be arrested.It will not have any impact on how you should live your life in the future.

Coupled with the fact that Dashun has the imperial examination system, which is a world-leading selection method at this time, there is no superficially capable faction in the local area.The superficially powerful faction is called rebellion.

If the Netherlands had the same economic foundation as Dashun, it could use such a simple and crude method to achieve the goal of centralization.

But obviously, not the same.

How important is centralization to the Netherlands?
If you still lie down and wait for the Netherlands to slowly decay, the difference will not be big.

But if they cooperate with Dashun, they must centralize power.

Of course Anthony knew what the proverb "Nulla poema sine lege" said by Kang Bushao meant.

If the law doesn't prohibit you from doing it, you can do it.

Escort fleets protect legitimate trade.

What about illegal trade?

"Do not escort" illegal trade, and "catch" illegal trade.

In a "legal" place like the Netherlands, there is a huge difference between the two.

Dashun said it nicely, saying that it will work closely with the Netherlands to strengthen bilateral trade cooperation.

Anthony knew exactly what the subtext was.

The real meaning of this sentence is to say that the two partners are smuggling.

The relationship between China and France was at stake, and Dashun didn't have the ability to buy and sell slaves in Africa, so naturally it didn't smuggle into Spanish and French colonies.

Historically, when North America rebelled, the Netherlands was almost the first to jump out to support it.Why?Because of the success of the rebellion, the "smuggled" trade became a "legal" trade.

Smuggling is essentially a commercial activity.

It's not the same as killing people.

Whether smuggling is smuggling depends on the law; whether killing is killing people does not depend on the law.

Once the War of Austrian Succession is over, Britain will enter a years-long recuperation period.During this time, Britain will not initiate wars.

Moreover, the war with Spain shows that Britain is far from being able to dominate the Seven Seas Invincible, quite a bit.

This, of course, is the period of opportunity for the Netherlands.

To cooperate with Dashun is to bet on the fortune of the country.

If the bet is won, the United Kingdom will decline, and the Netherlands will get the right to trade in North America; if the bet is lost, the United Kingdom will beat the Netherlands severely, directly dismantle all the Dutch armed forces, support the restoration of the Orange faction, and become a British puppet state.

If he doesn't gamble, Anthony can foresee that the decline of the Netherlands will continue, and eventually it may lose its status as a financial center.

As his mentor said, it was a miracle that the seven rich provinces were not divided up.

There is a world financial center, but there is no protective power, and it will be taken away sooner or later.

We can't pin the hope of the Netherlands on the continuation of the miracle his teacher said for another hundred years.

Don't gamble, slowly rot to death.

Bet, there is a chance to win.

However, without centralization, the seven provinces are still doing their own thing, and the chances of winning are extremely small.

Anthony has a basic and clear understanding of Dashun. Indeed, if Britain is placed in Southeast Asia, or even in India or Persia, Dashun can easily win.

But if a war starts in the Atlantic Ocean, Dashun's main fleet will be able to protect the mainland of the Netherlands, but Dashun alone will definitely not be enough to maintain maritime trade.

Centralization is the foundation of shipbuilding.

Anthony is a Dutchman, a real Dutchman, so he knows Holland, at least better than Kang Bushao.

The national composition of the Netherlands is condensed by the distinctive feature of "We are the bastion of freedom in Europe".

I'm afraid, if it doesn't work well this time, the Orange faction will step down when it comes to power, but some self-governing elements from various provinces will come to power, then it will be absolutely ruined, and it would be better for the Orange faction to be on stage.

At the very least, Earl Bentinck has been trying to establish a cabinet government with the consul as the king, and has also taken away many of the native elites who are trying to strengthen the centralization of power.

Although until now, there is nothing but a small reform of the nationalization of the postal system, but at least it is still possible in the future.

But if the group of provincial self-government factions came to power, there would be absolutely no chance at all.

The Dutch elite is severely divided, and those who favor centralization believe that the Orangemen are the only hope for the success of centralization in the Netherlands.

It's not that the Orange family is so good, but it's impossible for anyone except the Orange family to complete the integration of the seven provinces.

Therefore, the problem before Anthony is very difficult.

Looking at the report on the tragedy in The Hague, which was full of inflammatory words, Anthony was at a loss for what to do for a while.

After thinking for a long time, he could only show a helpless wry smile.

I thought to myself, after much deliberation, it seems that only the underhanded method that the Chinese used in the tabloids before is the most effective.

They did not incite hatred towards Britain, because they wanted to cooperate with Dashun, and Dashun itself was an enemy who took over the colonies in Southeast Asia, not much better than the British.

Nor can the problem be brought to the consul system, because it is necessary to lay the foundation for future centralization. If the incitement is too much now, centralization will not be successful.

Neither can be used, so the only option left is "personal attack".

To smear and spread rumors, portray William IV as a lunatic, mentally ill, perverted, internally afraid, and incompetent.

Continuation of the indiscriminate and indiscriminate means of the Black William IV before the Dashun group.Something like "you can't sleep with your wife because you look like a baboon," which made him sick, seemed to be the most effective.

To people, not to things.

When it comes to other issues, there may be problems with people and things.

However, the special situation in the Netherlands makes it possible to produce the best results when treating people wrongly.

Being wrong to people does not mean that the consul system is to be abolished, but that William IV is not suitable to be a consul; As a consul, the policy will continue to be inherited.

William IV was not suitable to be a consul, and the chief consul could only be a member of the Orange family, and William IV had no adult children.

Therefore, if you are not right about people, you can achieve your goals without stepping on the two mines that Anthony is careful about.

What if there is no consul?
This is not the first time in the Netherlands. He has long been familiar with the road and is the speaker of the Inter-Provincial Assembly.

Anthony quickly thought of a direction, which forced William IV to admit it: when William IV was cited as having intermittent mental illness and ordered to shoot to suppress it, he was guilty of intermittent mental illness.

Why do intermittent psychosis occur?Because the ruling wife, the eldest princess of the United Kingdom, is like this and that in Britain all day long, forcing the consul to go crazy.As soon as the consul heard people outside talking about England, he thought that his wife might torture him again at night, and he became nervous and sick.

Either admit that he has intermittent mental illness and give up his position in power.

Either admit that he is biased towards the interests of foreigners and is not qualified to be the ruling position of the Netherlands.

Kang Bushao never expected that he planned the tragedy in The Hague himself, thinking that the matter in the Netherlands had reached the point where it was decided.Unexpectedly, in the end, the method Anthony thought of was the lowest level of personal attack and indiscriminate means.

(End of this chapter)