Xinshun 1730

Chapter 845 Demolition of the Roof and Opening the Windows ([-])

Anthony's conception is neither a fantasy nor a slap in the face, but is based on the special national conditions of the Netherlands and the current situation of the Orange faction.

If you want to suppress the matter now, it is not suitable for the current situation to invite foreign countries to enter the customs to suppress the invaders. The Orange faction can only cooperate with the conservative faction among the republicans.

As for the factions that support urban autonomy, there is a very interesting point here.

If it is really urban autonomy, once the grassroots revolt, they will have no way to deal with it.

The city is not big, and the scale of the violent machine that the city can control is not enough to quell the resistance of the bottom.

The premise of urban autonomy is to include people from the third class.But obviously, at this time, the self-government faction among the republicans is not keen on this, nor does it want to.

So this goes back to an extremely interesting paradox - the city of Haarlem hopes for self-government and does not even care about the provincial government; at the same time, it hopes that the provincial government can prohibit the products of other provinces and cities from entering Haarlem by decree. Ram is as funny.

The self-government faction is indeed opposed to the centralization of power in the Netherlands, but they do not want people from the third and fourth ranks to participate in the management of the city.

Well, now comes the question.

People below the third level have been "instigated and instigated" by others, and they face a problem of choosing between the two.

Is the great banner of freedom higher than self-interest?
Or is freedom just a pretense, the essence of which is interest?
Lack of centralization, and even the federal provincial parliament, which only has power in wartime according to their assumptions, does not have an army. It does not talk about how to resist foreign aggression, but how to suppress the resistance of the ruled class inside?
The country is the product of irreconcilable class contradictions, and the country's violent machine is a tool of the ruling class. If cities are really autonomous, will the violent machine still be in the hands of those self-governing factions with more than [-] guilders who have the idea of ​​suffrage?
A long time ago, those city-states in Italy frequently revolted by weavers, rioted in guilds, and called for a rest, and many of them were successful.Even its eventual failure prompted many changes.

Why is it that the scale of handicraft industry in the southern city of Dashun is much stronger than that of Italy 200 years ago, but nothing happened?
Because there are 20 troops stationed around Songjiang Mansion, the [-] troops use the taxes from the rest of the provinces and the sources of troops from the northern and southern provinces.Twenty thousand is not enough, and there are still [-] in the capital and the northwest.

Although Songjiang Prefecture has far more handicraft practitioners and a larger population than Florence 200 years ago, the number of people who really want to make trouble is definitely much more than that of the carders' uprising.

The difference is that Florence 200 years ago could never pull out a standing army of 20; a dozen battleships; dozens of cruisers.

If Songjiang Mansion were a separate city-state, I am afraid that the story of the trouble would be much more exciting than that of Florence, and Suzhou Mansion would not only get a piece of inscription of eternal prohibition.

Dashun's thinking on how to solve the problem is also applicable to the Netherlands.

In France, Paris defeated the whole of France, and in Russia, Petersburg and Moscow defeated the whole of Russia. Dashun can only be the victory of Dashun’s rural areas, or let some big cities achieve the economic status of Paris in France at that time.

If you don’t make the mistake of looking for a sword, and analyze it based on the economic basis at this time, then the problem for the Netherlands is whoever controls the province of Holland, who controls the city of Amsterdam, and whoever controls the hearts of financiers, bankers, smugglers, businessmen, and trade practitioners. Victory over the entire Netherlands.

Those who truly have the literacy and consciousness of the ruling class know their hearts well.

So before William IV came to power, Bentinck knew the many contradictions in the Netherlands, but he dared not make a promise; Never want to meddle in the province of Holland.

Now that the matter has reached the point where it cannot be suppressed, Earl Bentinck is very smart. Knowing that this matter has to be resolved by the people sent by Anthony.

As long as the Orange faction reaches a compromise with the conservative faction among the republican faction and the regency faction, there will be a turn for the better, and it will not be a dead end like it is now.

It is indeed a dead end now.

And the root of this deadlock, excluding the original situation in Europe, starts from the time when Liu Yu and Duplex met in Weihai and reached the Sino-French alliance.

Indeed, as a foreigner, Marshal Hermann led the French army and won consecutive battles. Naturally, Marshal Hermann is capable.

However, with the military cooperation between China and France, the rapid progress of the French army's siege capabilities finally led to the current deadlock in the Netherlands.

These are the wings of a butterfly more than ten years ago, and now they are finally flapping waves that seem to the Netherlands to be like the tide of the North Sea.

For the Netherlands, the way to make money is business, monopoly, and trade.

For the financial capital and commercial capital of the Netherlands, the significance of the existence of the Netherlands is that they are parasitic here and can provide them with sufficient sailors, soldiers, and shipbuilders.

Therefore, the strategy of the Netherlands has not changed, just as Anthony and Kang Bushao said: the Austrian Netherlands is the "North Korea" of the Netherlands.Since Daming knew that he wanted to defend North Korea, how could the Netherlands not know about it?
Maastricht, Charleroi, Ghent... These major fortress groups are to defend the Netherlands, a line of defense that provides sailors, soldiers and craftsmen.

In other words, this is the "Great Wall" of the Netherlands.

For this reason, after the Western King Succession War, even if the Netherlands was cheated like that, it still had to get the right to garrison these fortresses.

Maastricht may not be well-known in later generations.But next to it is a fortified city called Liege.The reputation of Liege Fortress should still be great.It can be described as a battleground for military strategists, where the throat is the key.

Maastricht Fortress is not only the east gate of the Netherlands, but also the south gate of Hannover in a sense.

Although France has long had Vauban's siege method, these fortresses have been operated by the Netherlands for 200 years. Even if there is Vauban's siege method, it will take a while.

However, more than ten years of Sino-French military cooperation, the exchange of 74-gun battleships and the Dashun Army's technology have made France's siege capabilities progress by leaps and bounds.

The Vauban siege method, equipped with wooden support grenades and mini bombs, has greatly improved the efficiency of siege.

Dashun has carried out military reforms, and the deduction of the staff department brought about by the military reforms has drawn the conclusion that: accompanied by wooden butt grenades, Mini bombs, low-pressure mortar bombs, concentrated use of artillery, and conscription The training camp made the value of the bastion fortress drop sharply.

Including Europe, it will soon be like Dashun, from avoiding decisive battles, focusing on food shortages, harassment, siege, and siege, to gradually changing the strategic thinking of "fighting and winning".

This is the conclusion drawn by the Privy Council Staff Department, or in other words, the conclusion drawn by Liu Yu's guidance.

This conclusion is meaningful and effective——the dispute between contradictions is a gradual process of gradual change, siege and siege, field battles, mutual defense of trenches, and interspersed advances. The tactical system follows the "spear" Constantly improved with "shield" changes.

Since this conclusion is meaningful and effective, the situation of the Netherlands is extremely dangerous along with the Sino-French military cooperation.

Originally, the battle could not be won.At the Battle of Fontenoy, the Anglo-Dutch forces were defeated by the French.

If there is no Vauban siege method, of course the Netherlands will not panic: you, France, are fierce in field battles and battles.Maastricht, I let you besiege, in less than two years, you can surround this fortress, and we will all learn French at once.

And there are a lot of such fortresses on the southern border of the Netherlands.If you dare not surround the past, the fortress will attack and cut your supply line.

If the fortress group was surrounded for a year or two, and there was no other way but to count on the lack of food in the city or the outbreak of scurvy, the Netherlands would not be considered hopeless now.

Even if Russia can delay it, it can hold on for a year or two.At that time, the situation will be reversed.

However, on the one hand, the French army's siege skills are really good, on the other hand, several technical exchanges between China and France have greatly increased France's siege capabilities.

The current Maastricht fortress group was besieged by France, bombarded with wooden support grenades and low-pressure mortar bombs for three to five days, hot air balloons observed the position of the fortress, Vauban siege method civil engineering excavation, curved shooting Cannon Gamini projectile shooter cover... If this cannot be attacked within a month, the French army coach can retire and go home.

It is not difficult for the French army to capture the Netherlands now, and it will definitely be before the Russian army advances to the Rhine.

This leaves the Orange faction with very, very, very few choices now.

It's not that you can't learn from the Franco-Prussian War, you would rather be with Youbang than domestic slaves, but that "Youbang" is simply unable to come now.The British dare not move now, and they dare not fight the morale of the French army in the lowlands at all.

The special relationship between the Orange family and the United Kingdom made it impossible for the Orange family to invite the French.

Now the Netherlands is in chaos.

But this is not a story, it is not that the Netherlands hangs a free card, and the French will not attack.While the Netherlands was in chaos, the French continued to attack.

It can be said that the way to invite troops to enter Guanpingkou is blocked by the current situation and the Sino-French military cooperation that started more than ten years ago.

The Orange family certainly cannot forget one thing over the years:

When France was about to invade the Netherlands, the angry Dutch people rioted and killed the Great Speaker De Witt, and cut up the Great Speaker's meat, which was sold everywhere for ten coppers a catty, and everyone agreed to eat it.

When the Speaker of the House of Representatives was murdered alive, was the ruling William III pushing or instigating behind the scenes?

The Orange family is well aware of this.

The Chinese ancestors have a saying that you must start with this and end with this.

What did William III do in the world where de Witt was cut alive, and will the same thing happen to William IV?

This is what the Orange faction is most worried about.

Things have developed to this point, and the Orange faction is worried that under the stimulus of the tragedy in The Hague, under the scenario of France's imminent invasion of the Netherlands, as it happened yesterday, and under the background of the collective disappointment of the Dutch people after several years in power, the furious and forced Will the instigated Dutch people kill William IV like the de Witte incident?
After all, the news of the French army's siege spreads every day, caught in the chaotic debate.

The speed at which the French army attacked the city and besieged the fortress added to the sense of crisis.

Originally, I wanted to continue to procrastinate, but France and Qi Guogong agreed on the strategy of "promoting talks through fighting" and increased the scale of the attack.

This time, a group of officers with professional siege experience and professional experience in attacking Dutch castles, Dashun professional technical officers and engineers who came with the messenger also "volunteered" to join the French army, making up for the French army's observation and staff. And the lack of artillery suppression tactics.

There are not many people, but they are even more powerful.

Orange pie, can't wait any longer.

(End of this chapter)