New Shun 1730

As for Meng Songlu's social practice of faith on Honolulu, it can only be said that it is pure house-playing.

The people who master the most advanced productive forces on more than 30 islands regard the etiquette and laws taught by Meng Songlu as the rules of house-playing.

The only reason for them to play with him is that they will be paid after playing house-playing... a lot of wages.

The logic of their enthusiastic participation in this house-playing is very simple.

The establishment of a national regime can quickly promote technology and increase the level of productivity.

The increase in productivity can promote social division of labor, and fewer people can grow food to support more non-agricultural population.

More non-agricultural population can go to the mountains to cut sandalwood trees.

Cutting more sandalwood trees can sell more money.

More money can improve their status in the "capitalist world centered on Songsu".

Two different worlds are shaping different traditions.

Tradition itself is also a reality.

The imperial power of Dashun is not only maintained by force, but also by inertia and tradition.

Power, most of the time, depends on others believing that you have power.

Here, these thirty-odd hungry wolves, will they really face the so-called King of Honolulu with the mentality of a minister?

Who are you sending to?

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At the same time.

The southwestern frontier of Dashun, Gaolangbu.

The Sinhalese once called this place Kola-amba-thota. Wang Dayuan, who passed by here when he went to the Mediterranean, changed the name to Gaolangbu after returning home. In fact, the literal translation is a port rich in mangoes.

Later, the Portuguese came and changed the name to Colombo, Columbus, Colombo, to commemorate Columbus and eliminate its original meaning.

Later, the Chinese came again, and they also changed the name to Gaolangbu, from Colombo, to lament the summer storm in the Indian Ocean.

The literal translation plus the literal translation is the best way to eliminate the influence of foreign words.

On this point, the Portuguese translated Gaolangbu into Columbo Columbus, and Dashun translated Colombo back to Gaolangbu, using the same method, the same idea, and the same cultural invasion of dispelling the nihilism of history.

At this time, it was the last period before the arrival of the Indian Ocean storm season.

A Dashun merchant ship stopped off the coast of Gaolangbu, but did not enter the port, but raised the flag to salute the two French warships in the distance.

This is a rule of giving face to each other between the two countries. French merchant ships should do the same when they see Dashun warships.

After all, more than 40 years ago, when the French came to Guangzhou for the first time, in order to show that they were the "European orthodoxy", they beat up the British sailors because the British merchant ships did not salute.

On the Dashun side, Liu Yu later followed suit and beat up the Dutch sailors for almost the same reason.

The two sides were still quite tacit.

Of course, Dashun was the initiator of the armed neutrality alliance, and the Sino-French secret agreement ended after the end of the Austrian War of Succession.

But the British have strong blockade capabilities and can impose an embargo on France.

So the armed neutrality of Dashun is actually very obvious.

The two countries are standard non-aligned, but cooperative.

On the merchant ship, Quan Zheshen and Zhao Liben, who had the chance to travel thousands of miles to find his brother again, are already half friends.

When Quan Zheshen was asking for help in the sea, Zhao Liben, who happened to be taking a shit, helped the sailors to pull him up, and he was also half a lifesaver.

Quan Zheshen looked at Gaolang Port in the distance and asked the captain: "When can we enter the port?"

The captain frowned and said: "Today's situation is a bit special, it is estimated that we will have to wait for a while. The governor of Ceylon seems to be meeting with the governor of France, and the battle is quite big. I am afraid that we can't enter the port for a while. Wait for a while. I guess the port is lining up to welcome them."

"I guess they will have to fire cannons and guns in a while, let's wait."

The captain is right.

Gaolang Port is indeed a bit special today, and the army is indeed welcoming them.

However, the one who was greeted was not the French Governor-General of India, but the former French Governor-General of India.

Just a few days ago, he was no longer the French Governor-General of India.

As for the reason, if we use an allusion that is easier for people on the Dashun side to understand, it is a very easy thing to understand.

The simplest way:

The British secretly told the French Minister of the Household Government that Dupleix must be recalled before peace can be achieved.

The Minister of the Household Government repeatedly advised to dismiss Dupleix.

So the King of France handed down a gold medal, sent Charles Gordon to India, summoned him, took back the power, and ordered Dupleix to return to Paris as soon as possible.

Of course, it was not that simple.

The French Minister of the Household Government, the Secretary-General of the Navy, and Fu Baolang, Marchault d'Arnoville, was attacked by the nobles because he wanted to make the gentry pay taxes together.

His position in the court was unstable, and he urgently needed to consolidate his position in front of the King of France, so he had to show his achievements in diplomacy.

Marchault thought he had found a way to consolidate his position, and that he had won twenty years of peace for France, leaving time for his own financial reforms.

So he repeatedly suggested that Dupleix be dismissed.

Generally speaking, that's it.

But the situation also needs to be analyzed in detail.

Machalt was just stupid.

He was not that kind of bad.

Stupid and bad, we still have to distinguish.

This is also one of the reasons for the outbreak of the Seven Years' War between Britain and France.

If we exclude Prussia and look at the Seven Years War from the perspective of Britain and France, Washington's killing and Dupleix's transfer are the beginning of the Seven Years War from the perspective of Britain and France.

Britain did not want to engage in a full-scale colonial war with France while Dupleix was in India.

Dupleix almost just returned to Paris... Historically, Dupleix left India on October 26 and arrived in Paris in March of the following year, and his butt was still warm.

Edward Boskeen, the "old naughty boy" of the British Navy, took his warships to North America in May and destroyed two French ships.

The full-scale colonial war between Britain and France, which affected North America, Africa, and India, was earlier than Prussia's blitzkrieg on the Sudetenland.

The British East India Company was a company, and the King of England could refuse to obey the order.

The French East India Company was the Governor's Office, and the Governor had to be replaced with an edict from the King of France.

At this time, in the Governor's Mansion in Gaolangbu, Dupleix was already drunk, and he was telling Du Feng, the Governor of Ceylon of Dashun, about his unhappiness.

He cursed Marcel de Arnoville, saying that he was a "stupid cabinet minister like a pig".

Du Feng was very skilled in recalling a sentence Liu Yu had taught him: "If you seek peace through struggle, then peace will exist; if you seek peace through compromise, then peace will die".

He was naturally comforting Dupleix, but he was secretly happy and ecstatic in his heart.

He was almost overwhelmed with joy.

Du Feng was a little afraid of Dupleix.

The matter of India had already been calculated. Dashun relied on its geographical and delivery advantages, and strategically despised the operations of Britain and France in India.

Tactically, Du Feng mainly focused on two people.

One was Dupleix, who had dealt with Liu Yu a long time ago.

The other was Clive, a young British man who was simply a replica of him and had emerged in recent years.

From the information collected by Dashun, the British side valued Clive who had stood out in recent years.

During the short period of peace, Clive returned to Britain.

But this was not good news.

Because Clive, to some extent, entered the upper-middle class of Britain, he married the daughter of the Maskelyne family.

At this time, this family was not well-known, and could only be regarded as the lower part of the upper-middle class whose children could go to Cambridge. Although it was lower, it was also the upper-middle class, starting from Cambridge, and it could not be said that they were ordinary people.

This family was still quite famous in later generations.

Clive's elder brother-in-law, Neville Maskelyne, was the fifth director of the Greenwich Observatory, the first to measure the mass of the earth, and compiled the British lunar distance angle method of the nautical almanac. Although the measurement of the mass of the earth was different from Cavendish's torque gravity method, it also left a name in the history books.

The descendants of this family were quite boastful. Maskelyne, the "war magician" who was known as a magician in World War II, who made the Suez Canal disappear and hid Alexandria to avoid German bombing, was the grandson of the grandson of Clive's eldest brother-in-law.

It can also be regarded as an "astronomical" family.

After all, astronomy, mathematics, magic, and astrology were inseparable for a period of time.

According to the understanding of Dashun, generations of "Taishigong" and "Qintianjian" are definitely not top nobles.

But if you say that marrying a daughter who specializes in this business from generation to generation is not a class transition and touching the threshold of the upper class, it is definitely not right.

From the perspective of Dashun, Britain's return of Clive is more like sending a signal: trying to convince France that Britain intends to maintain peace in India, so that France can replace Dupleix, who is always thinking about making trouble in India.

The British warmonger is Clive.

The French warmonger is Dupleix.

The reason why the French Minister of the Household Government, Ma Chaoerte, was said to be simply stupid, not bad, was also because the British made a gesture that seemed to really mean peace in India and no one would cause trouble.

Ma Chaoerte was a reformist.

He believed that the French economy had already gone into big trouble.

So reform was needed.

Even his ideas on fiscal reform were consistent with Liu Yu's.

Abolish the gentry's preferential treatment that the gentry could legally evade, conduct a comprehensive land inventory, and equalize the per-acre tax.

Ma Chaoerte's reform ideas were not much different, because theoretically, the eleventh tax levied could be legally evaded by the nobles and the clergy.

Therefore, he demanded the abolition of the eleventh tax, and a comprehensive land inventory and the collection of twenty-one taxes.

It seemed to be a tax reduction, but in fact it could increase the country's fiscal revenue, because the eleventh tax was legally evaded by the nobles and the clergy.

A large amount of taxes were all placed on the third estate.

It was similar to abolishing the gentry's preferential treatment, equalizing the per-acre tax, and conducting a land inventory.

France is known as the Little Ming Dynasty of Europe for a reason. In fact, there are many similarities. The only difference is that France has 200,000 nobles, while Ming Dynasty has 600,000 students.

His "naivety" in diplomacy is actually a kind of helplessness.

He opposed the Franco-Austrian alliance and the war between Britain and France. He believed that the Franco-Austrian alliance was just helping Austria. It is not advisable for a hen to crow at dawn. Your Majesty must not believe the words of a woman.

So he believed that the top priority for France now was to avoid war and internal reforms, otherwise France might have a revolution - in theory, in later generations, some people believed that if Machalte abolished the tithe tax evasion of nobles and clergy and levied a comprehensive 21 tax, it would be possible to avoid the subsequent revolution - of course, this is basically just some people's wishful fantasy.

In short, he tried to avoid war.

And in order to avoid war, he had to make compromises.

One of the conditions offered by the British was to transfer Dupleix back from India, because Dupleix was smart and warlike.

In this way, nominally, it can be guaranteed that the British and French will not participate in the internal struggles of the Indian governors, and peace can be maintained.

Marchault believed that France could not carry out a war while carrying out the internal reform of the 20-tax system.

Tax reform is a top priority.

Otherwise, the nobles and clergy will legally evade taxes, and all taxes will be placed on the third estate, and sooner or later something big will happen.

Therefore, he fell into a vicious circle.

Reforms touched the interests of the great nobles and the Paris High Court.

So he was attacked.

Being attacked, he had to fight for his position. If he was not even a cabinet minister, what was the point of changing?

Therefore, he had to do something to gain the recognition of the King of France.

So, what to do?

By giving in to Britain, he gained peace, demonstrated his diplomatic mediation skills, and increased his importance to the King of France.

Strive for 20 years of peace for France and gain the king's respect and favor for yourself.

Complete financial reform, avoid social crisis, strengthen centralization, weaken the privileges of clergy and nobles, complete the unified taxation of gentry, repay national debts, stabilize government revenue, and reduce the resentment of the third estate.