Xinshun 1730

Chapter 1343 Desperate is wrong, earning money is right ([-])
The team led by Dashun returned from London to Chen Qinghai.

He escorted the captives to London, doing little business.

Attended a funeral.

Then there was a coronation ceremony.

And then there was the British side's attitude of side-firing at Dashun's side. He always used the excuse that civil servants decide politics and soldiers have no right to speak.

Afterwards, I went to London's Financial Street and watched a few scenes of suicide by jumping off a building and drinking laudanum.

And then back to Gibraltar.

Dashun didn't want to talk about it now at all. Whether France wants to fight or talk about it or something else, that's under the control of Tian Pingping, the Ministry of Foreign Affairs.

Chen Qinghai took the might of Gibraltar's conquest to show off his might.After swaggering, he returned to Gibraltar.

This time he went to North America, and then cooperated with France to support Canada, and he led the team.

Chen Qinghai had seen the Emperor Dashun, and he had seen a lot of ostentations, and he went to London for a tour. He was still able to deal with a big landlord like John Bean with ease.

John Bin didn't know Chen Qinghai well, he certainly didn't know him, and he had never heard of his name at all.

However, apart from cotton cloth, porcelain, tea and silk, he still knows something about the country of Dashun.

Even quite concerned.

Because the Indian tribes on the Pennsylvania border had received weapons from Dashun before.The reason is rather strange, not to say that these Indians are descendants of Yin and Shang who moved north after King Wu defeated Zhou.

Whether history is true or not, it doesn't matter.

The donated weapon was sent by Liu Yu during the Austrian Succession War earlier.

The key is that in reality, these weapons donated by the French made the Pennsylvania border messy.

But John Bing did not come up and accused Dashun of providing weapons to the Indians.

Instead, let's talk about the "Peace Covenant" in Pennsylvania first.

Roughly speaking, Pennsylvania began as the site of a "sacred experiment," which was about religious tolerance and anarchic pacifism.

Basically, the relationship with the Indians is okay, and they have sworn oaths with various Indian tribes not to invade each other.The two sides can be regarded as abiding by the provisions of the peace treaty, and they are relatively peaceful on the whole, at least better than other states.

Indeed, there may have been some tricks played when buying the land.But the Indians don't understand geometry, and they used geometry to take advantage of the contract when buying land... But it can only be said that this is immoral, but there is nothing wrong with it from the contract point of view.

Anyway, that's what he said.

Speaking of the latter, it talked about the border friction between them and the Indians, and about Dashun's support for the Indians' resistance.

"Dear Chinese General, you are thousands of miles away and may not understand the situation here. The peace between Pennsylvania and the Indians has been opened since my grandfather's time."

"I can say that of the thirteen states, Pennsylvania is the only one that is at peace with the Indians."

"When the Duke of your country came to the Netherlands before, he made a decision to support the Indians because of George Anson's rudeness in Lingdingyang. Maybe it was private support, or maybe it was official support."

"But anyway, I want you to be clear. There are two kinds of people in Pennsylvania,"

"One is old Pennsylvanians, or real Pennsylvanians. They are peace-loving, commercial, egalitarian, and even religiously tolerant."

"The other, the new Pennsylvanians, or rather, they're not real Pennsylvanians. They're warlike, savage..."

"Maybe you don't know..."

Speaking of this, Chen Qinghai smiled and said: "No, I know very well. In fact, since my classmates and brothers went to Gothenburg to send back the Swedish prisoners captured by Junggar, we have been paying attention to the situation in North America. Your states Newspapers are bought by people and sent back to the country by trading ships."

"My teacher, he will organize people to translate these things, and then tell us many things in it. Of course, it is from his point of view."

"We, well, know what's going on between Pennsylvania and the Indians."

"Because we understand, we are very clear that it is very simple to solve the things you said."

"Reducing rents, interest rates, and land prices can solve these problems."

"It's just that, as a big landlord and landowner in Pennsylvania, will you accept rent reduction, interest rate reduction, and land price reduction?"

These words seem to be out of mind.

What's more, it seems that such things as rent reduction, interest rate reduction, and land price reduction should only happen in Dashun, and it seems a bit out of style in North America.

However, after hearing what Chen Qinghai said, John Bin was immediately convinced that Dashun had really studied the situation in North America, especially Pennsylvania.

Indeed, as Chen Qinghai said, the peace between Pennsylvania and the Indians was broken, and the conflicts that have gradually increased over the years can indeed be resolved by reducing rents, interest rates, and land prices.

Those who came first occupied the land, enclosed the land, bought the land, and made the land their own property.

Later people couldn't afford land in the east, or the land that had been occupied, and the rent and price of land were high.

what is it now?
Can only go to the "frontier" areas.

The land there belonged to the Indians, not to the landowners such as John Bean who came here for more than a hundred years.

Indians are annoying?

Or are these landlords easy to mess with?

One hundred people and seventy or eighty guns can grab a piece of land in the "frontier".

Especially those Indian tribes with a small population. When encountering this kind of gun grabbing land, they can only retreat. Can't afford to provoke or hide?
As for one hundred and ten people and seventy or eighty guns, if you dare to ask the landowners who came first, I am afraid that they have not been organized yet, and the big landlords like John Bean, the predecessor, will be slaughtered.

If you can't offend the landlords, can you also offend the Indians?
If the Indians are offended, if the Indians retaliate, they can do justice-look, those red-skinned monkeys dare to kill us Christians. Why don't you guys follow us and kill them?Are you still a Christian?Still white?Is the peace agreement you signed with the Indians important?Or is it more important that we are all white Christians?
Here again, it involves someone fanning the flames behind the scenes.

The Quakers had been dominant in Pennsylvania's political ecology in the early days.

They are pacifists.

Mainly, of course, because they came first.

The one who comes first can occupy the land circle first.

The Presbyterian Church has always hoped to drive the Quakers out of power and truly control the political arena in Pennsylvania.

The Presbyterian Church is not a pacifist, and burning people is very happy.

Of course they encouraged people in the border areas to go to war with the Indians.

The reason is also very simple.

The border area and the Indians went to war, and the Indians would definitely retaliate.

When retaliating, the Indians can ask first: Hey, are you a Quaker?Or Presbyterian?Do you support peace?Or support the slaughter of us?

I definitely won't ask, I must kill you because I see you are white, revenge.

The Presbyterian Church can take this opportunity to publicize the cruelty, terror, and barbarism of the Indians, and they should be slaughtered.

There is a problem here.

Quakers are pacifists, and their teachings are so rigid that they can't even hold a gun.Even in later generations, when World War I and World War II were fought, there were still a group of Quakers who would rather go to jail than do military service.

As for other sects, they all have guns.

Propagating the brutality, savagery, and horror of the Indians, is it to protect yourself?Are you going to arm the militia?Is it necessary to form an army?

Once the army is organized, then, the Quakers are anti-violent, will the Quakers have power in the militia?Have a say?Besides... How could there be Quakers in the militia?

As long as the frontier vendettas are encouraged, the Quakers will sooner or later lose their political power and withdraw from Pennsylvania politics.

This is not something that can be solved by saying that the Indians "be patient" or "they kill me, we don't want revenge, we have to be reasonable".

You Indians do not retaliate.

So wouldn't I hire people to paint their faces, put feathers on them, pass themselves off as Indians, and slaughter white caravans?

Of course, this is a conspiracy.

And there is always a reason for the conspiracy.

Why do people settle in the border areas?
Pennsylvania is not small, what is the population?Such a big place, not to mention the current population, even if it was ten times bigger, it would still be able to accommodate it.Why do those people have to go to the frontier?

This is the crux of what Chen Qinghai said.

First comers like John Bing first occupied the land, encircled the land first, and gave the land to land speculation first.

Newcomers can't afford the land that has been occupied by others, so what should we do?
There is an old Chinese saying: Tyranny is fiercer than a tiger.

In the case of Pennsylvania, the land rent is higher than that of the Indians.

This group of later people could not afford to buy or rent land, nor could they beat the landlords...or in other words, they did not want to fight at all.

Instead, I feel that the land belongs to others, and private property is inviolable. How can I preempt the land occupied by the first comer?People's land can be sold for as much as they want.Buying and selling, starting the price on the spot and paying back the money on the spot, it’s not that they don’t sell it, but I don’t have the money to buy it, isn’t it reasonable?
Later people supported the inviolability of private ownership and could not afford the wasteland along the eastern coast, so they had to go west together.

Leave the landlord's land, go to the Indian land, and occupy a piece of land.

This brings us back to the question of "legal rights".

Why is this land yours?

According to the theory of natural law, for example, this piece of land was originally wasteland.I used labor to turn this land into arable land, so this land is mine.

This is not unreasonable, at least it makes sense.

Now, many lands are basically wasteland, and there is no transformation of human labor at all.A group of people who came first pulled a rope around, saying that this land is mine, private property is inviolable, and you will have to pay to buy the land from me later... This is simply unreasonable.

The group of people in the "frontier" are mainly Irish and Scots.

Ireland became a British colony.

Many Irish and Scots were forced to leave their homeland and go to North America by problems such as the enclosure movement and the serfdom of Irish plantations.

I went to North America to see, well, the land near the sea has an owner.

I can’t afford it, I have no choice but to go to the frontier.

Going to the frontier, the Indians must not be happy.It was agreed at the beginning that we would not invade each other. You said you wanted land to cultivate, and we gave it to you. We also retreated to our own territory according to the original contract.

Hunting, learning to grow some food, and trading some wine and muskets with you.

Since you drove out the Dutch and the Swedes in 1682, our two sides have been at peace.You keep your promises, and we keep our promises.

Now your people have gone to our territory, or to our border, what do you mean?
The Indians were reasonable enough to speak to the Pennsylvania legislature about it.Can your state government take care of you white people?Do you still obey the original oath?

What can the Quakers say?You don't even have a gun in your hand, and relying on moral preaching, asking for love and peace, can those people on the border not cross the border?

Historically, after the Paxton boys massacred the Indians, the group of Quaker members of the state government who didn’t have any guns could at most curse a few [white savages], what could they do?

The 250 rebel members, after slaughtering the Indians, directly raised their troops to Philadelphia, and wanted to directly carry out an armed coup. The state government couldn't even come up with a counter-soldier.I can only ask Franklin to adjust and adjust, relying on prestige to explain the truth, so as to suppress this matter.

Now, Chen Qinghai directly made the matter clear: Indians are more terrifying than tigers, why do those people have to go to the frontier?Is it because your 10,000+ square kilometers of land in Pennsylvania has no place to reclaim?

If you really want peace, as long as you landlords lower the land rent and sell the land, it will be fine.Is your peace-loving a bit hypocritical?

(End of this chapter)