New Shun 1730

Anthony's idea is neither a fantasy nor a random idea, but is based on the special national conditions of the Netherlands and the current situation of the Orange Party.

Now it is not suitable to suppress the situation and invite foreign countries to enter the country to quell the bandits. The Orange Party can only cooperate with the conservatives in the Republican Party.

As for those factions that support city autonomy, there is a very interesting point here.

If it is really city autonomy, they will not be able to deal with it once the lower class resists.

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 lower class.

The premise of city autonomy is to include the third class of people. But obviously, the autonomous faction in the Republican Party is not enthusiastic about this at this time, and does not want it at all.

So this is back to an extremely interesting paradox - just as funny as the city of Haarlem wants autonomy and the provincial government does not care about anything; on the other hand, it hopes that the provincial government can prohibit the goods of other provinces and cities from entering Haarlem in the form of decrees.

The autonomous faction is indeed opposed to the centralization of the Netherlands, but does not want the third and fourth class people to participate in the management of the city.

So, now the question is.

People below the third estate have been "incited and incited", and this is facing a problem of choosing one of two.

Is the great banner of freedom higher than their own interests?

Or is freedom just a cover, and its essence is still interests?

The federal provincial parliament lacks centralization, and even according to their idea, it only has power in wartime. It has no army. It does not talk about how to resist foreign aggression, but only talks about how to suppress the resistance of the ruled class inside?

The state is the product of irreconcilable class contradictions, and the state's violent machine is a tool of the ruling class. If each city is really autonomous, will the violent machine still be in the hands of those autonomous factions who have the idea of ​​participating in the right to vote only if they have more than 100,000 guilders?

A long time ago, those city-states in Italy often had weavers uprising, guild riots, and marching to call for a rest, and many of them were successful. Even if they failed in the end, they also promoted many changes.

Why is the scale of handicraft industry in the Jiangnan cities of Dashun much stronger than that of Italy two hundred years ago, but nothing has been accomplished?

Because there are 20,000 troops stationed around Songjiang Prefecture, and these 20,000 troops are from the taxes of other provinces and the soldiers of the northern and southern provinces. 20,000 are not enough, and there are 200,000 in the capital and the northwest.

Although Songjiang Prefecture has far more handicraft practitioners and a larger population than Florence 200 years ago, if there is really trouble, the number of people pulled out is definitely much more than the wool combers' uprising.

The difference is that Florence 200 years ago could never pull out 200,000 standing troops; a dozen battleships; dozens of cruisers.

If Songjiang Prefecture was a separate city-state, I am afraid that the story of the disturbance would definitely be much more exciting than Florence, and Suzhou Prefecture's Qi Xing Jiao Xie would not only be exchanged for an inscription that would permanently ban Jiao Xie.

The idea of ​​solving the problem of Dashun is also applicable to the Netherlands.

France is Paris that defeated the whole of France, Russia is Petersburg and Moscow that defeated the whole of Russia, and Dashun can only be the whole of Dashun The rural areas defeated Dashun, or let some big cities have the economic status of Paris in France at that time.

If we don't make the mistake of looking for a sword on a boat, and analyze the economic foundation at this time, then the problem of the Netherlands is whoever controls the province of Holland, whoever controls the city of Amsterdam, whoever grasps the hearts of financiers, bankers, smugglers and traders, whoever can defeat the entire Netherlands.

Those who really have the qualities and consciousness of the ruling class know it very well.

So before William IV came to power, Bentinck knew the many contradictions in the Netherlands, but he didn't dare to make a promise; the uncles of the Orange family would rather go to England to be king and talk nonsense with those members of parliament, and never want to care about the affairs of the province of Holland.

Now things have reached the point where they can't be suppressed. Earl Bentinck is very smart. He knows that this matter must be solved by people from Anthony's faction.

As long as the Orange faction reaches some kind of compromise with the conservatives in the regent faction among the republicans, there will be a chance for things to turn around, unlike the dead end like now.

Now it is indeed a dead end.

The root of this deadlock, apart from the original situation in Europe, can be traced back to the meeting between Liu Yu and Dupleix in Weihai and the Sino-French alliance.

Indeed, as a foreigner, Marshal Hermann led the French army to victory after victory, so Marshal Hermann was naturally powerful.

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

This was the butterfly wings more than ten years ago, and now it has finally flapped up the waves that are like the North Sea tide for the Netherlands.

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 an entity that they parasitize on and can provide them with sufficient seamen, soldiers, and shipbuilding craftsmen.

Therefore, the strategy of the Netherlands has not changed, just as Anthony and Kang Budai said: the Austrian Netherlands is the "Korea" of the Netherlands. Since the Ming Dynasty knew that it wanted to defend Korea, how could the Netherlands not know?

Maastricht, Charleroi, Ghent... these fortresses are the defense line of the Netherlands, which provides sailors, soldiers and craftsmen.

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

For this reason, after the War of the Western Succession, even though the Netherlands was cheated like that, it still wanted to obtain the right to garrison these fortresses.

Maastricht may not be well-known in the future. But there is a fortress city next to it, called Liege. The Liege Fortress should still be very famous. It can be said to be a place of contention for military strategists and a key throat.

Maastricht Fortress is not only the eastern gate of the Netherlands, but also the southern gate of Hanover in a sense.

Although France has long had the Vauban siege method, these fortress groups have been operated by the Netherlands for 200 years. Even with the Vauban siege method, it will take some time to chew.

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

Vauban siege method, equipped with wooden grenades and Minié bullets, has greatly improved the efficiency of siege.

Dashun had already carried out military reforms, and the conclusion drawn from the deduction of the staff department brought about by the military reform was that with the use of wooden grenades, Minié bombs, low-pressure mortar explosive shells, artillery, and concentrated conscription and training, the value of bastion fortresses dropped sharply.

Including Europe, it will soon be like Dashun, from avoiding decisive battles, focusing on food cuts, harassment, sieges, and sieges, to gradually changing to a strategic thinking of "decisive battles".

This is the conclusion drawn by the Privy Council Staff, or the conclusion drawn under the guidance of Liu Yu.

This conclusion is meaningful and effective - the struggle of contradictions is a gradual process of one foot higher than the other. The siege, field battle, trench defense, interspersed breakthroughs, and the tactical system are constantly improving with the changes of "spear" and "shield".

Since this conclusion is meaningful and effective, the situation of the Netherlands is extremely dangerous with the military cooperation between China and France.

Originally, the battle could not be won. In the Battle of Fontenoy, the British and Dutch coalition forces were defeated by the French army in one wave.

If there were no Vauban siege method, the Netherlands would certainly not panic: You French are good at field battles and battles. Maastricht, I ask you to siege, if you can besiege this fortress in less than two years, we will all learn French immediately.

Moreover, there are a lot of such fortresses on the southern border of the Netherlands. If you dare not surround them, the fortresses will attack and cut off your supply lines.

If it really is an era when the bastion fortresses siege for one or two years and there is no other way except to hope that the city is short of food or scurvy breaks out, the Netherlands is not in a desperate situation now.

Even if Russia can drag it out, it can still hold on for one or two years. By then, the situation will be reversed.

However, on the one hand, the French siege technique is indeed good, and on the other hand, several technical exchanges between China and France have greatly increased France's siege capabilities.

The current Maastricht fortress group is under siege by France. Wood-backed grenades and low-pressure mortar explosive shells have been bombarded for three to five days. Hot air balloons are used to observe the location of the fortress artillery. Vauban siege methods are used for civil engineering excavation, and the indirect artillery and Gamini bullet shooters provide cover... If they cannot capture it within a month, the French commander 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 makes the Orange faction have very, very, very few choices now.

It is not that they cannot learn from the Franco-Prussian War, preferring to be with friendly countries rather than with domestic slaves, but that "friendly countries" are now simply unable to come. The British dare not move now, and they dare not fight the morale-boosting French army in the lowlands.

The special relationship between the Orange family and Britain makes it impossible for the Orange family to invite the French.

The Netherlands is now in chaos.

But this is not a story. It is not that the Netherlands hangs up a war exemption sign and the French will not attack. When the Netherlands was in chaos, the French continued to attack.

It can be said that the way to ask for troops to enter the pass to quell the bandits has been blocked by the current situation and the Sino-French military cooperation that began more than ten years ago.

The Orange family certainly cannot forget one thing that happened many years ago:

When France was about to invade the Netherlands, the angry Dutch people rioted, killed the Grand Speaker De Witte, and cut off the Grand Speaker's flesh, which was sold everywhere for ten copper coins per pound, and everyone said it was delicious after eating it.

When the Grand Speaker was skinned alive, was William III, who was not in power at the time, pushing and inciting behind the scenes?

The Orange family knows this very well.

The Chinese ancestors have a saying that the king must end with this.

What did William III do in the world where De Witte was skinned alive? Will the same thing happen to William IV?

This is what the Orange faction is most worried about.

At this point, the Orange faction was worried that under the stimulation of the Hague Massacre, in the scene of France's imminent invasion of the Netherlands, and in the context of the collective disappointment of the Dutch people caused by his ruling for several years, would the furious and incited Dutch people also skin William IV alive like the De Witte incident?

After all, the news of the French siege was spread every day, sandwiched in the chaotic debate.

The speed of the French siege and siege of the fortress added to the sense of crisis.

Originally, they wanted to continue to drag it out, but France and the Duke of Qi agreed on the strategy of "fighting to promote talks" and increased the scale of the attack.

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

There were not many people, but they were like a tiger with wings.

The Orange faction could not wait any longer.