New Shun 1730

After all, there are cultural barriers.

Kang Budai was from Dashun, so he pointed out that Liu Yu was not from Dashun at all.

And the conspiracy led by Kang Budai proved that Kang Budai was still a Dashun person in his heart, and was definitely not a Dutch person. After all, the understanding of the Netherlands was still understood in the way of thinking of Dashun people.

Just like in the later "War and Peace", the most beautiful passage in the eyes of Russians was the passage with only a few dozen words, in which the noble lady Natasha Rostova, who had received French education since childhood, danced the Russian dance barefoot without a teacher after returning from hunting, as if it was inherited by her blood. No matter how beautiful Audrey Hepburn was, she could not dance out the charm of that passage; no matter how much money the United States spent on reshooting, it could not capture the essence of that passage - those few dozen words talked about the biggest fantasy of Russian nobles: the noble Russia of St. Petersburg and the Russia of the vast rural areas, these two real and completely different Russias in history, merged into one at this moment without bloodshed. Even if it is only a dance, it can last forever.

Kang Budai is very smart and resourceful, but he is not a Dutchman. Deep down, he still thinks in the way of thinking of Dashun: the monarch is immoral, cruel and oppressive, so change one.

Although he could play a Western guitar and a variation of the cow-guarding song to entertain himself like Zheng Zhilong before he met Liu Yu, he really couldn't understand the somewhat deformed concept of divine freedom derived from religious theology, nor could he understand the political problems caused by the special national construction of the Netherlands.

He thought that making a Hague massacre and fanning the flames would surely succeed.

There is no problem in thinking this way. The Orange Party is definitely not going to work, but the direction of inciting public opinion that he understands is very different from what Anthony considers. After all, the Netherlands he sees is just a symbolic Netherlands.

When the Orange Party was in power, the various factions of the Republican Party were allies, but this alliance was because they had a common enemy.

But when the common enemy is gone, disputes within the Republican Party will inevitably break out.

Anthony represents the will of a small group of elites within the regents, who want to combine the seven provinces into one.

And within the regents, there are a large group of people who want to weaken the power of the Dutch province and make the federation truly a city of seven provinces.

At the same time, the regents represent the interests of the trade and financial industries.

And there is another faction among the republicans who hope that the government will support industrial development, solve the increasingly serious unemployment and poverty problems in the Netherlands, and revitalize the manufacturing industry.

The population of Amsterdam was 200,000 to 300,000 sixty years ago, and it is still 200,000 to 300,000 now. There has been no war in the mainland in the middle, and the mainland is basically stable. From this point alone, we can understand how much the Netherlands has declined now.

The group of republicans who hope that the government will support industrial development and revitalize the manufacturing industry support centralization. But they will never support the secret agreement reached between Anthony and Dashun.

The anti-free trade guild organizations still have militias, the elites still have economic seminars, and the Orange family still has a wave of aristocratic bases left over from the Burgundy era.

The Netherlands is different from Dashun. If Dashun wants to stabilize the country, it only needs to grasp one major contradiction: the land issue, and try to keep the small peasant economy stable as much as possible. The direction is clear.

The Netherlands is so chaotic internally, and the various forces are scattered. The handicraft industry was developed but declined; the merchants are profit-seeking but have no guns in their hands; the guilds are reactionary but the middle class has guns in their hands; the pens that cannot be despised in civil society, in the hands of those anti-centralization factions, even the nation-building is completed by them.

The final manifestation of various contradictions is the contradiction between centralization and local forces.

People from Dashun, especially when it was still prosperous, find it difficult to imagine how to solve the huge contradiction between the central and local governments.

The local officials of Dashun can pretend to obey but disobey, but it is unimaginable that the Sixth Government Tianyou Palace issued an order to replace the Jiedushi and Fuyin, and the people below refused to obey the order and could not be replaced, and then the imperial envoy had no choice but to go back. Or the local Fuyin Jiedushi was held by the local big family, and the court could not control it.

The difference in the economic foundations between Dashun and the Netherlands also made it impossible for the two countries to learn from each other in dealing with such problems.

Dashun's economic foundation is a small peasant economy. If a province is not obedient, the court will send troops to arrest those who should be arrested and kill those who should be killed. Life will continue as it should be, and there will be no impact.

In addition, Dashun has the imperial examination system, which is the world's leading selection method at that time, so there is no such thing as superficial power in the local area. The superficial power is called rebellion.

If the Netherlands has the same economic foundation as Dashun, it can also use such a simple and crude method to achieve the goal of centralization.

But obviously, it is different.

How important is centralization to the Netherlands?

If it still lies down and waits for the Netherlands to decay slowly, it will not make much difference.

But if it cooperates with Dashun, then it must be centralized.

Anthony certainly knows what the proverb "Nulla poena sine lege" said by Kang Budai means.

If the law does not prohibit it, it can be done.

The escort fleet protects legal trade.

What about illegal trade?

"Not escorting" illegal trade and "catching" illegal trade.

In a place like the Netherlands where "laws are upheld", there is a huge difference between the two.

Dashun said it was nice, saying that it would work closely with the Netherlands to strengthen bilateral trade cooperation.

Anthony knew exactly what the subtext was.

The real meaning of this sentence is that the two parties are smuggling together.

The relationship between China and France is there, and Dashun does not have the ability to buy and sell slaves in Africa, so naturally it is not smuggling to the Spanish and French colonies.

Historically, when the North American rebellion occurred, the Netherlands was almost the first to jump out to support it. Why? Because the rebellion was successful, and the "smuggling" trade became a "legal" trade.

Smuggling is essentially a commercial activity.

It is different from killing.

Whether smuggling is smuggling depends on the law; whether killing is killing a person does not depend on the law.

Once the War of the Austrian Succession is over, Britain will enter a recuperation period lasting several years. During this period, Britain will not take the initiative to initiate a war.

Moreover, the war with Spain shows that Britain is far from being invincible in the seven seas.

This is of course the opportunity period for the Netherlands.

Cooperating with Dashun is gambling on national destiny.

If the bet is won, Britain will decline and the Netherlands will get the right to trade in North America; if the bet is lost, Britain will beat the Netherlands, directly abolish all the Dutch armed forces, support the restoration of the Orange Party, and become a puppet state of Britain.

If he does not bet, Anthony can foresee that the decline of the Netherlands will continue, and eventually it may not even maintain its status as a financial center.

As his mentor said, it is a miracle that such a rich seven provinces have not been divided.

With a world financial center but no power to protect it, it will be taken away sooner or later.

The hope of the Netherlands cannot be pinned on the miracle that his teacher said will continue for another hundred years.

If you don't bet, it will slowly rot.

If you bet, you may win.

However, without centralization, the seven provinces will still be independent and the chance of winning is very small.

Anthony has a basic clear understanding of Dashun. Indeed, if Britain is placed in Southeast Asia, or even in India or Persia, Dashun can win easily.

But if the war breaks out in the Atlantic, even if Dashun's main fleet can protect the Netherlands, it is definitely not enough to rely on Dashun alone to maintain maritime trade.

Centralization is the foundation of shipbuilding.

Anthony is a Dutchman, a real Dutchman, so he understands the Netherlands, at least more than Kang Budai.

The national composition of the Netherlands is cohesive by the unique characteristic of "we are the bastion of freedom in Europe".

I am afraid that if the operation is not done well this time, the Orange Party will step down, and some autonomous elements from various provinces will come to power, which will be absolutely a disaster, and it is better for the Orange Party to be in power.

At the very least, Earl Bentinck has been trying to establish a cabinet government with the consul as the king, and has also pulled away many of the local elites who are trying to strengthen centralization.

Although up to now, there is nothing else except the small reform of nationalizing the postal system, but at least it is still possible in the future.

But if the group of autonomous elements from various provinces come to power, there will be absolutely no possibility.

The elite class in the Netherlands is seriously divided, and those who support centralization believe that the Orange Party is the only hope for the success of centralization in the Netherlands.

It's not that the Orange family is so good, but that no one except the Orange family can complete the unification of the seven provinces.

Therefore, the problem facing Anthony is very difficult.

Looking at the report of the Hague Massacre full of inflammatory words in his hand, Anthony was at a loss for a while.

After thinking for a long time, he could only smile helplessly.

Thinking about it, it seems that only the kind of low-level methods used by the Chinese in the tabloids before are the most effective.

Neither incite hatred to the British side, because they have to cooperate with Dashun, and Dashun itself is an enemy that has seized the Southeast Asian colonies, and is not much better than the British.

Nor can the problem be directed to the consul system, because it is necessary to lay the foundation for future centralization. If it is too incited now, centralization will not succeed.

Neither can be used, so the only option left is "personal attack".

Slander and rumor, portray William IV as a madman, mentally ill, perverted, henpecked, and incompetent person.

Continuing the despicable and mean means that the Dashun group had used to slander William IV. Things like "Because he looks like a baboon, he is not allowed to go to bed if he doesn't listen to his wife" made him sick, but it seemed to be the most effective.

Be right about the person, not the matter.

On other issues, being right about the person, not the matter, may be problematic.

But the special situation in the Netherlands makes it possible to achieve the best results by being right about the person, not the matter.

Being right about the person, not the matter, does not mean that the consul system should not be abolished, but that William IV is not suitable to be a consul; it does not mean that the centralization advocated by the consul's adviser, Earl Bentinck, has been denied, but that the consul himself is not suitable to be a consul, and the policy will continue to be inherited.

William IV is not suitable to be a consul, and the chief consul can only be a member of the Orange family, and William IV has no adult children.

Therefore, being right about the person, not the matter, can achieve the goal without stepping on the two mines that Anthony is wary of.

What to do if there is no consul?

This is not the first time for the Netherlands, and they are already familiar with it, the Speaker of the Federal Parliament.

Anthony quickly thought of a direction, which forced William IV to admit: he attributed William IV to intermittent mental illness and said that he was suffering from intermittent mental illness when he ordered the shooting to suppress the rebellion.

Why does one have intermittent mental illness? Because the wife of the ruler, the eldest princess of England, kept talking about England all day long, driving the ruler crazy. When the ruler heard people outside talking about England, he thought that his wife might torture him again at night, so he became nervous and had a mental illness.

Either admit that he has intermittent mental illness and give up the position of ruler.

Or admit that he is biased towards the interests of foreigners and is not qualified to be the ruler of the Netherlands.

Kang Budai never thought that he planned the Hague Massacre and thought that the matter of the Netherlands had reached the point where it could be decided by a proclamation. He never thought that in the end, Anthony's method was still the lowest level of personal attack and despicable means.