New Shun 1730

Lao Tzu says: Those who are against the movement of Tao are those who are weak and use Tao. All things in the world are born from being, and being is born from nothing.

I’m afraid France still doesn’t understand the principle that things must go to extremes.

The natural order derived by the Physiocrats is not wrong. But when it comes to specific things, it is too extreme. The approach taken during the French food crisis... will definitely spawn a lot of conservatives and opponents.

Similarly, Colbertism is not wrong. Lao Ma said that it is an efficient method that directly uses treasury investment as a means of primitive accumulation. But again, if you do it too extreme... it will definitely spawn a lot of extreme radicals and opposition parties.

Physiocrats and Colbertism, the two sides are fighting each other to the extreme. You have finished singing and I will come on the stage, and I have not finished singing before you come on. This proves that the opposite is the movement of the Tao, and the weak is the use of the Tao. All things in the world are born from existence, and existence is born from nothingness.

This is the traditional perspective here in Dashun.

And look at it from a non-traditional perspective.

Is the Physiocratic School’s theory of natural order progress?

yes.

However, progress must also pay attention to methods.

A group of Physiocratic scholars were sitting in a Paris salon, drinking coffee, facing famine, talking about natural order, no need for control, spontaneous regulation...

Did any of them walk out of the salon, put down their coffee cups, and go to the farmland to ask the tenant farmers, small farmers, and low-level employees at that time what they wanted?

Even talking about their enemy, Arthur Young, the later director of the British Agricultural Bureau, spent three years going to the fields of France, asking the farmers about their demands, and asking them what they would do if I were a lord. Why do you peasants oppose the bourgeoisie? What are your views on private ownership? You wrote "A trip in three years since 1987; especially a trip to determine the cultivation, wealth, resources and national prosperity of the Kingdom of France."

As for the French people sitting in Paris salons drinking coffee, when they open their mouths they are "the mob", when they shut up they are "progress", when they speak out they are "natural order"...

But...

Dashun placed the treasure on them again.

In other words, they are the French political force that Dashun hopes for.

If you want to say that the expansionists in Dashun and China now have any feelings for France, that is pure nonsense.

Because Liu Yu has been cheating France since the beginning of his reforms. From India to North America, they have always been dissatisfied with France's Colbertism. This group of people is always thinking about industrial substitution and tariff protection, which seriously hinders the sales of Dashun products in France.

Let’s talk about the feelings of the foreign expansion party in Dashun towards France at this time.

Mainly because I have feelings for money in Europe as a whole.

Because what is Dashun’s stuff? It’s just about deceiving outsiders. Those who followed Liu Yu and Li Huan's coup in those days know very well what commercial hegemony under the strong protection of the state is.

At that time, once the "natural order" and "free trade" that Liu Yu previously advocated have been exposed.

After the rebellion, France's founding soldiers equalized the land, freed up grain, and had elite soldiers and strong generals. When the time comes: This country will strongly guarantee commercial hegemony. What can you do in Dashun, but I, France, can't do it?

Yes, my French fleet may not be able to do it. Then can I push Europe and use the entire European continent as a market and engage in Colbertism? What, when the time comes, you, Dashun, can still recruit 200,000 troops and come to Waterloo to fight with me?

Dashun has been somewhat exhausted in trying to maintain stability in Europe over the years - stability can only sell goods. And France is the most important part of Europe. If anything happens to France, Europe will be in chaos. Once Europe was in chaos, the long-standing conflicts within Dashun could no longer be suppressed.

This is your perspective from Dashun's side.

…………

The other side of the waterfall.

Napoleon, a young French major, assembled his team and greeted the team transporting the coffin in Dashun with diplomatic etiquette.

The reason why he was sent here is because when he was a child, several Chinese travelers "accidentally" came to Corsica. They taught him mathematics on the island, cultivated his strong interest in nature, and taught him Speak some Chinese.

The latter is critical. He came from a humble background, and the French diplomatic community was an aristocratic circle, and it was impossible for him to squeeze into it.

He had served successfully in suppressing the Flour War before, but this time he was transferred to North America to command a battalion. In view of his advantage in speaking Chinese, he came to the border to greet him.

He is still young and does not have a deep understanding of politics.

But because he came from a relatively embarrassing low-level noble family, he was more than inferior to his superiors, so he became radical.

However, even though he was still young, he could already smell the chaos of the times.

This is not someone he has a keen sense of smell, or is gifted and chosen by nature.

But because, in fact, many years ago, when he was still young and still studying in Corsica before he even came to France.

Louis XV forcibly dissolved the Parlement of Paris.

As soon as this happened.

Many people have already smelled violence, chaos, ambition, and the surge of the times.

In the words of the French:

[When the news came that the ancient Paris High Court, sacred to the old times, was abolished. The old French were shocked. Some of them realize that the time of violence and adventure has come. 】

[Everything will become possible; the sacredness of a past has been shaken; nothing ancient should be respected as a matter of course; nothing new cannot be tried. 】

According to the exchanges that Napoleon occasionally heard from some Chinese travelers, those Chinese travelers regarded this incident as "If Zhuang Gong shoots the Emperor." The old rituals have collapsed and the new music has not yet been established, and France will be in chaos].

At that time, Napoleon didn't know what Duke Zhuang meant by shooting the emperor. Much later, when he finally understood what this meant, he was convinced that "a new era is coming, an era of violence and trendsetters."

Speaking of it, Duke Zhuang shot the emperor, it was not a big deal.

But, this is a landmark event.

The old era is coming to an end.

And what does the new era mean?

Because of this, in an era of violence and adventure, you may be just a tax collector today, maybe you can become a cabinet minister tomorrow; you may be just an officer today, maybe you can become a general or even a commander tomorrow.

As long as it becomes chaotic.

Napoleon had a simple ambition at this time: I don't know when the era of chaos will come. But I know that the higher you climb in the old era, the easier it is to realize your ambitions in chaos. At least, it is easier than being an unknown person in the old era.

As for which way the great wave of the times will rush...

Those Chinese travelers told many stories.

When Liu Yu's coffin was transported to the right bank of the Mississippi River, Napoleon looked at Liu Yu's coffin with a complicated heart.

This complexity, moreover, stems from the initial reaction of those few Chinese travelers to "Ruo Zhuang Gong shoots the Emperor." The old rituals have collapsed and the new music has not yet been established, and France will be in chaos].

He didn't know the original history, nor did he know that in the original history, Louis XV dissolved the Paris High Court because of "tax" or "money" issues.

But he knows the current history.

Dashun participated in World War I and helped France win the war. The king's prestige increased and he felt it was time to implement reforms, which triggered the dissolution of the Paris Parlement.

Because reform naturally evolves in the ultimate direction of absolute monarchy. As a reform initiated by the king, I have never heard of it being reversed.

To reform, abolishing the Paris High Court is the first step.

However, this had serious consequences for France.

The ruling class of the old era was completely divided.

It is normal for the ruling class to be divided.

But the weird thing is... in the big sense.

The monarchists posted newspapers with large characters everywhere on the streets of Paris: [Resolutely oppose the aristocratic oligarchy! It is correct to abolish the Paris High Court, which will make France slide into the abyss of aristocratic oligarchy! 】

The court faction also posted large-character newspapers everywhere on the streets of Paris: [Resolutely oppose absolute monarchy, resolutely oppose completely unrestricted royal power, hereditary judges and hereditary nobles are the pillars of French freedom! 】

This also directly led to the various factions of the Enlightenment movement all siding with each other.

Continue to tear on both sides.

Post newspapers and distribute pamphlets everywhere.

The two sides are actually "dog eats dog" and both are the ruling class of the old forces.

But this dog-eat-dog approach had an unexpected effect. That is to expose each other's shortcomings and attack each other, so that the people of Paris, who were already amazed that "nothing is sacred and nothing is unchangeable", accelerated their enlightenment in the dog-eat-dog attacks.

The old system was nothing more than either an absolute monarchy or a charter of feudal nobles against the king.

This time it was good, both sides exposed each other's shortcomings.

Let's take a look and see, okay, they share every good thing? Don't want either of these.

Similarly, the judicial reform in this reform also resulted in a strange result:

That is, restricting the text of the High Court. Don't look for "sacred legal provisions" to oppose reform from the old papers, even from the old papers of 1278.

This also leads to a "small" problem.

It turns out that one needs to be proficient in texts, many feudal laws starting from 1278, and a large number of scriptures.

But now, what is needed is the mouth, eloquence, eloquence, and the ability to arouse the audience's emotions at one point. What era are you in, and you are still looking through piles of old papers from 500 years ago? Out of date!

This promoted the transformation of the French lawyer class.

Without a good mouth, the ability to speak impromptu, and the ability to mobilize emotions, you cannot be a reformed lawyer.

so……

Robespierre, what is his profession?

Jacques Danton, what is your profession?

In the three-level conference, which occupation directly accounts for more than one-third of the number?

Later, Saint-Simon, who had experienced the French Revolution, once commented:

[An era has its own distribution of power. In the new era, scientists, industrialists, bankers, and technical experts are the forces of progress that represent new things and the new era. They should be the ones who hold power in the new era and replace the decadent aristocrats]

[Lawyers, on the other hand, are just talented people who play tricks in litigation, write cunningly, and write pamphlets to incite. 】

[All the slogans they put forward, such as human freedom, etc., are as empty as the slogans of the reactionaries they oppose]

But there is another key sentence: [They are like termites, burrowing under old buildings, causing them to inevitably collapse. But they cannot bear the task of building a new era, and they have stolen the status of scientists, industrialists, bankers, and technical experts who should be in power in the new era...]

Of course, Saint-Simon looked at this matter from the perspective of an "industrial party that grew up under the old system", after all, he personally experienced the French Revolution.

But the sentence [They are like termites, drilling around under the old buildings, causing them to collapse] is the key.

Yes, we are not afraid of tossing, but we are afraid of not tossing. The more we toss, the faster the corrupt old era will die.

Looking at the surface, it seems that everything originated from the reform of Dashun, Dashun's participation in the war, and helping Louis XV gain prestige. Then Dashun's true monarchy attracted Louis XV to make a decision to centralize power reform, abolish the Paris High Court, and reform the judicial lawyer system, making the current situation extremely chaotic.

So, the young Napoleon, who had heard about [Zhuang Gong shooting the emperor, rituals and music collapsed, and the chaotic times were coming], and had already had a hint of the idea of ​​being a trend-setter of the times, was undoubtedly emotionally complicated for the man in the coffin.

On the one hand, it seems that his intervention led to the opening of chaos. This provides opportunities for those who want to be the trend-setters of the times.

On the other hand…after all, young people still have some different passions.