Xinshun 1730

Chapter 841 Demolition of the Roof and Opening the Windows ([-])

If the only purpose was to expel William IV, the republicans would have already won the victory after the tragedy in The Hague and the threat of French invasion.

But some people insisted on doing it in one go, not only to expel William IV, but also to take advantage of this perfect opportunity to directly abolish the federal provincial government.

As a result, the stride was too big, and it was a mess.

Food needs to be eaten at one bite, and the road needs to be walked step by step. Everyone understands the truth, but when things come to an end, they often lose their heads.

After a few days of calm in the Dutch editorial circle following the publication of the posthumous work of the former Grand Speaker, a new round of controversy has begun.

At this time, those pens had already forgotten the dozen or so people who had died.

Because the death of those dozen people is nothing.

What is really meaningful is "eternal war".

Not long after, a magnificent essay by the republicans was published.

It's just that the whole article is about debates, which is not easy for ordinary people to understand, and it is too vague.

[A perpetual war exists between despotic power and the people.Both sides are doing their best to defend their freedom.And the former is free, which means that the people are in eternal shackles; the latter is free, which means that the former is locked in a cage. 】

Now that we’ve talked about this, let’s directly start defining eternity, then we must rely on theology.

A large number of Latin words appear in this article.The natural rights of people in the theological sense were proved by medieval scholasticism. The proof process requires a certain theological foundation, and a large number of Latin words have made it difficult for Dutch people to understand.

But this is also impossible.

The religious atmosphere in the Netherlands is quite strong. At this time, the Enlightenment movement had just emerged in France. To discuss these concepts such as nature, decree, and eternity, we had to use the logical basis of scholastic philosophy to prove them.

Everyone in future generations may have heard of "natural human rights", but this thing, like everyone in future generations knowing that the earth is round, is just a concept that has been instilled since childhood and has become part of the subconscious mind.

Even if you are a child of seven or eight years old, if you say that the earth is square, he will laugh at you, but he has no way to prove it.

This time is different from later generations.

In later generations, many things are recognized concepts and correctness; but at this time, it still needs a process for these concepts to become correct.

There are some things that can make people exclaim the truth by just saying four words, but a process of proof must be given and the proof must be recognized by the people of the time in order to pass this truth on to the next generation .

Just like 200 years ago, the earth was round and needed to be proved; but now, the earth is round, even the weavers in Songjiang Prefecture believe in it, and passing it on to the next generation is like a person should be filial to his parents. An axiom that requires no proof.

It is also like the axioms and postulates in "Elements of Geometry".The most basic things do not need to be proved, nor can they be proved.When everyone learns and recognizes it, no one will doubt whether it is true or not. It should be said that the vast majority of people who have studied geometry will not doubt whether those axioms are true or not. Find out how to prove it.

Axioms become axioms that do not require proof, and require a process.

However, at this time, the concept proposed by these Dutch republicans needs to be proved by themselves.

Once it is proven that this kind of air-to-air thing, in the environment of the Netherlands, it is necessary to involve theology.

Once theology is involved, it is beyond the comprehension of ordinary people.

But without such proof, there is no way to refute Vercelin Grant's point of view:

Because Verseling Grant took history as a mirror; while the theories of the republicans have no history to rely on.

History cannot be dealt with without theology.

Just like in Dashun, the most effective means of confronting historical experience is the words of the sages.

In the Netherlands, the most effective means of confronting historical experience is also theological concepts.

The road has come to this point, in fact, the road has been narrowed.

From provocative and emotional content at the beginning to dry, scholastic debate, the influence of these editorials was greatly reduced immediately.

What matters is changing the world, not explaining it.

Changing the world depends on the Dutch people.

Taking advantage of the tragedy in The Hague, it is an opportunity to change the world. What to do in the future, I will go up first and then talk about it. In the end, they themselves turned it into a debate to explain the world.

And the debate on the classics and the point that the Dutch people can't understand and can't scratch the hearts of the Dutch people seems to make sense, but it's actually useless.

After the publication of this classic scripture debate, a large number of scripture debates began to appear, and both pros and cons began to argue tit-for-tat.

Those who died in The Hague were not allowed to be on the stage of debate, and were gradually forgotten in the field of public opinion.

However, some new pamphlets were quietly circulated among the broad masses of citizens at this time, using things that the common people could understand and liked.

Go down Sanlu.

Gradually, the editorials of these professional debates are no longer the scene at the beginning.

In the beginning, when there was no debate, the stage was dominated by stirring up emotions and shouting slogans. Every time these anonymous editorials were published, they were immediately spread widely.After some people read it, they show it to others; after some people finish it, they tell others about it.

When not debating scriptures, what is said is human language, and most people can understand it, and they really empathize.

When starting to debate the classics, most people don’t understand much, and it’s not just slogans, but more boring logic and drowsy proofs, and the power of communication suddenly drops.

The decentralization faction among these republicans has misidentified themselves: do they want to be philosophers who explain the world in an ivory tower?Or the ideal politician trying to achieve amidst the chaos of the Netherlands?
Politicians, especially street politicians, can of course be philosophers at the same time.

But a wise street politician with means will definitely not talk about long philosophy when the street is inciting, but will keenly grasp the emotions of the people and guide them; let alone face the audience they expect , Knowing that the level of literacy is limited, but also moved out a thick Latin scholastic debate vocabulary.

Even if he is not on the street, he can write a whole set of logical works at length.It must be impossible, and it should not be done.

Just when the direction of the editorial changed from discussing facts to reasoning, tabloids circulated among the people gradually led the mainstream public opinion of citizens.

There is the foundation of the "British Wife" laid by Liu Yu before, and those who got the sensational material of the Hague tragedy deliberately abandoned this sensational version.

Soon, the appearance of a husband and wife in the Hague court, which only existed among the people, was unreal, but had a complete set of people, became a fact believed by a large number of people.

In fact, the eldest princess of England will not threaten William IV to submit to the bed.

But, first of all, there is no way to prove this kind of thing.It is impossible to open the palace and bedrooms and ask the public to visit. From dawn to dark, it proves that this is not the case.

Second, this kind of thing cannot be explained.

Once most people accepted the gossip, the more they came out to explain it, the more people suspected it was a cover-up.

Thirdly, there is no way to write a book to refute this kind of thing.

In history, there was a person in the Qing Dynasty who wrote a book to refute it in detail.But it's okay not to refute publicly. Once he refute publicly, the whole world will believe that he has usurped the throne.

In fact, William IV did not have intermittent mental illness; more in fact, William IV was not driven crazy by his wife's British all day long, so that he fell ill when he heard about Britain; and in fact, the eldest princess of England was indeed I look down on the Netherlands a bit, but there is absolutely no such thing as "the Netherlands has this, I thought it was only in England".

That's the truth, but it can't stand the fact that Liu Yu started hacking and spreading rumors when he was in Amsterdam a few years ago.

The tone of the United Netherlands anti-British has already been set.

In the pornographic tabloids that were widely circulated before, one-third of the Dutch jokes made up in it satirized William's wife.

In addition to jokes, half of those with complicated poses are the heroine of the Princess of England.

This tune has been circulating in the Netherlands since a few years ago. Some are true and some are false, mixed together. After years of accumulation and the shattering of the people's dreams after William IV came to power, all the false gradually come true.

The current set of dirty tunes is exactly the same as the original one, and the inheritance is orderly.With the foundation laid before, it will spread extremely fast.

Of course, there must be a whitewash of tragedy in it.

For example, William IV had already proposed to the Eldest Princess that Britain would release some economic pressure on the Netherlands, but the Eldest Princess shouted angrily: Without my father, the Netherlands would have perished in France long ago.You and the Dutch are not grateful.

William IV asked rhetorically: If my uncle had not been the king of England, how could England be where it is today?

The eldest princess said: Your uncle was only greedy for the British throne. Now this time and that time, if you merge the Netherlands into the United Kingdom and only call my father the king of the Netherlands, you will repay your uncle's kindness.

William IV "suffered from the decline of the Netherlands, the need for British support, and the fear that millions of people in the Netherlands would be in danger", and had no choice but to tolerate it.

With this as the keynote, a version that is basically self-consistent in logic and easier to disseminate, just appeared.

A sad consul, a consul who bears the burden of humiliation for the sake of the motherland, a consul who is a true nationalist despite his inability to squeeze the people as before in internal reforms.

The same event, carried out from different perspectives, leads to completely different public opinions.

If it is the version of the Hague tragedy written by Kang Bushao, as long as it is released, it will definitely explode.

It is completely described from the perspective of the victim, how the victim loves his family, how he loves his children, how he takes risks to go fishing, how he prepares gifts for his children before going to sea, full of warmth.

Then, in front of the court in The Hague, he knelt down and begged for mercy for his family, but how the consul's minions stepped on and broke his fingers, how he beat him, how he tortured him, and how he died with a gift for his child in his arms.

He also said that the minions of the consul said, who are you instigated by?

Can't you do something else if you don't fish?
It's a small thing that you starved to death, but it's a big thing that affected the friendship between Britain and the Netherlands.

Even though it's fake...

But things written from this perspective, and things written from the perspective of the tragic, helpless, incompetent, but true nationalist William Consul, guide the emotions in a completely different direction.

Most people have a common problem. Whoever is the protagonist is easy to substitute for him emotionally.As long as you change the angle of view, even the son of heaven can be washed, let alone William IV, who only killed a dozen people.

Just as these gossips spread wildly while the deaths of more than a dozen people caused by the debates gradually faded away, another anonymous editorial author who called himself a "true patriot and a true freer" simultaneously reported to the The two factions opened fire.

First, he satirized and commented on the totalitarians.Immediately afterwards, he slammed the decentralization faction.

[...they have dug up, even invented, some natural rights, peddled them around in a language that people could not understand, and enforced them, regardless of whether the historical facts and social laws match them; The political situation coincided with social life. 】

[Open your mouth naturally, shut your mouth divinely.Speaking of it is virtue, speaking of it is nature, but human beings who do not know the perfect virtue of perfect behavior and noble morality only exist in myths and books. 】

[Professing to be logical, but can't even distinguish between the concept of 'leader in the government organization' and 'monarch in the kingdom system'. 】

[The criteria for distinguishing virtues proposed by them are completely considered from their point of view—the Netherlands in their conception is that all above themselves are equal, and all below themselves are pariahs. 】

[If it is said that God's decree and nature can really lead to the concept of Tao following nature.Then, there is such a universal and fixed principle in the universe: Newton told us that planets always move around the stars, and planets also have their own axes, and smaller objects also have their own laws—centrality. 】

[Then, from the perspective of divine decree and Tao following nature, can we deduce that the monarchy is reasonable and the rules that God gave when he created the universe? 】

【…Arguing will not give you the freedom you desire. 】

[A person who really yearns for freedom should take to the streets, arm the militia, arm the legions of various guilds and cities-from a historical point of view, the Netherlands comes from the "Utrecht Charter", and Utrecht The Telecht Charter stipulated the right of the people to have an army. 】

[A man is called free only when he is completely in charge of his own life without dependence on others; a man is free only if he is skillful in the use of a musket against the public, Violence at home and abroad can be called freedom. 】

[Freedom that cannot be defended with one's own hands is not secure... People who really yearn for freedom should not argue here, but should walk into the citizen militias in various cities and use violent means to seize real freedom. 】

【What do you think, that is your freedom.You think you should oppose centralization, and if you want to kill anyone who tries to centralize power, you can kill him with a musket. This is freedom; you think you should oppose decentralization, and you want to kill anyone who tries to divide power in your heart Just kill him with a musket, that's freedom; if you think the businessman should be killed to defend the interests of the guild, then kill the businessman, that's freedom; if you think the poor should be hanged, then use a musket Drive them to the gallows, that's liberty. 】

【Those who really yearn for freedom should take up arms at this time and take to the streets to realize true freedom. 】

[As Mandeville said in "The Fable of the Bees", private vices are public interests.When everyone is free to realize the selfish desires in their hearts, one day the real public interest will be realized, and the principle of mutual compromise and recognition will be realized. 】

[Only in this way can the real public interest be achieved, a public interest that satisfies everyone and compromises with each other. 】

[All gentlemen of the Netherlands, take your muskets, kitchen knives, axes, and fish knives, take to the streets, and fully demonstrate your selfish desires and evil virtues in order to realize the real public interests of the Netherlands! 】

【Only in this way can the final law satisfy everyone.Anyway, the French are about to invade the Netherlands, let's do the last carnival before they invade! 】

(End of this chapter)