New Shun 1730

The leader of the Dashun team was Chen Qinghai who had returned from London.

He escorted the captives to London and basically did nothing serious.

He attended a funeral.

Then he attended a coronation.

Then the British side asked about Dashun's attitude indirectly, and he always evaded them by saying that civil officials decide politics and soldiers have no say.

Then he went to London's financial street and watched several people jumping off buildings and drinking opium to commit suicide.

Then he returned to Gibraltar.

Dashun didn't want to talk now. Whether France wanted to fight or talk or some other intrigue was a matter for people in the Ministry of Foreign Affairs such as Tian Ping.

Chen Qinghai went there to show off his power by conquering Gibraltar. After showing off, he returned to Gibraltar.

This expedition to North America and the subsequent cooperation with France to support Canada were all led by him.

Chen Qinghai had met the emperor of Dashun and had seen many pomps. He had also been to London for a tour. He was still able to deal with a big landlord like John Bin with ease.

John Bin did not know Chen Qinghai, and certainly did not even know him, and had never heard of his name.

However, he knew something about Dashun, in addition to cotton, porcelain, tea and silk.

He was even quite concerned.

Because the Indian tribes on the border of Pennsylvania had received weapons from Dashun before. The reason was rather strange, saying that these Indians were descendants of the Shang Dynasty who moved north after King Wu defeated King Zhou.

Whether the history was true or false, it didn't matter.

The weapons were sent by Liu Yu during the War of the Austrian Succession.

The key is that under the current circumstances, these weapons sent by the French made the border of Pennsylvania a mess.

But John Bin did not accuse Dashun of providing weapons to the Indians.

Instead, he first talked about the "Peace Covenant" of Pennsylvania.

Basically, Pennsylvania was originally a land for a "holy experiment" that talked about religious tolerance and anarchist pacifism.

Basically, the relationship with the Indians was good, and all Indian tribes had pledged not to invade each other. Both sides also abided by the provisions of the peace treaty, and it was generally peaceful, at least better than other states.

Indeed, they may have played some tricks when buying the land. But the Indians did not understand geometry, and they used geometry to gain a great advantage in the contract when buying the land... But it can only be said that this is immoral, but there is nothing wrong with it in terms of the contract.

Anyway, that's what he said.

Later, he talked about the border friction between them and the Indians, and the fact that Dashun supported 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 established since the time of my grandfather."

"I can say that among the thirteen states, Pennsylvania is the only state that maintains peace with the Indians."

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

"But in short, I hope you can understand. There are two kinds of people in Pennsylvania,"

"One is the old Pennsylvanians, or the real Pennsylvanians. They are peace-loving, commercial, equal, and even pursue religious tolerance."

"The other is the new Pennsylvanians, or they are not real Pennsylvanians. They are warlike and barbaric. ..."

"Maybe you don't know..."

Speaking of this, Chen Qinghai smiled and said, "No, I know very well. In fact, ever since my classmates and senior brothers went to Gothenburg to return the Swedish prisoners of war captured by Junggar, we have been paying attention to the situation in North America. There are people who specialize in purchasing newspapers in each of your states and sending them back to China by trade ships."

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

"We know very well what happened between Pennsylvania and the Indians."

"Because we understand, we know very well that it is very simple to solve these things you mentioned."

"Reducing rent, reducing interest, and lowering land prices can solve these problems."

"But, as a big owner and landlord in Pennsylvania, will you accept rent reduction, interest reduction, and land price reduction?"

These words seem to be nonsense.

It even seems that rent reduction, interest reduction, and land price reduction should only happen in Dashun, and it seems a bit out of place in North America.

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

Indeed, as Chen Qinghai said, the peace between Pennsylvania and the Indians was broken, and the conflicts that gradually increased in recent years could indeed be solved by reducing rent, interest, and land prices.

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

Those who came later could not afford to buy land in the east, and could not afford to buy the enclosed land. The rent was expensive and the land price was high.

What to do?

You can only go to the "frontier" area.

The land there belongs to the Indians, not to the landlord families such as John Bin who came here more than a hundred years ago.

Are the Indians easy to deal with?

Or are these landlords easy to deal with?

With a hundred or so people and seventy or eighty guns, they can grab a piece of land on the "frontier".

Especially for the Indian tribes with a small population, when they encounter such people grabbing land with guns, they can only retreat. Can't they hide if they can't afford to offend?

And if a hundred or so people and seventy or eighty guns dare to ask the landlords who came first for land, I'm afraid they will be slaughtered by big landlords like our ancestor John Bin before they can organize themselves.

If you can't afford to offend the landlords, can you afford to offend the Indians?

If you piss off the Indians, if the Indians retaliate, you can do it for justice - look, those red monkeys dare to kill us Christians, why don't you join us to slaughter them? Are you still Christians? Are you still white? Is the peace agreement you signed with the Indians important? Or is it more important that we are all white Christians?

This involves someone fanning the flames behind the scenes.

In the early days, the Quakers occupied a major position in the political ecology of Pennsylvania.

They are pacifists.

Of course, it was mainly because they came first.

Those who came first could occupy the land first.

The Presbyterians, on the other hand, had always hoped to drive the Quakers out of power and truly control the political arena in Pennsylvania.

The Presbyterians were not pacifists, and they were very happy to burn people.

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

The reason was very simple.

If the border areas went to war with the Indians, the Indians would definitely retaliate.

When they retaliated, the Indians could still ask first: Hey, are you a Quaker? Or a Presbyterian? Do you support peace? Or do you support the massacre of us?

They definitely wouldn't ask, because they would definitely kill you because you are white, for revenge.

The Presbyterians could take this opportunity to publicize the brutality, terror, and barbarity of the Indians, and that they should be exterminated.

There was a problem here.

The Quakers were pacifists, and their doctrines were so rigid that they couldn't even hold guns. Even in later times, when World War I and World War II broke out, there was still a group of Quakers who would rather go to jail than serve in the military.

Other religious sects, on the other hand, all have guns.

If you promote the brutality, barbarity, and terror of Indians, do you want to protect yourself? Do you want to arm the militia? Do you want to organize an army?

Once you organize an army, then, since Quakers are against violence, do they have power in the militia? Do they have a say? Besides... how can there be Quakers in the militia?

As long as you incite mutual killings on the border, the Quakers will sooner or later lose their political power and withdraw from the political arena of Pennsylvania.

This can't be solved by saying to the Indians, "Be patient," "They killed me, we don't want to retaliate, we want to be reasonable," etc.

You Indians don't retaliate.

Then wouldn't I hire people to paint their faces, stick feathers on them, pretend to be Indians, and go and slaughter the white caravans?

Of course, this is a conspiracy.

And there are always reasons for the emergence of conspiracies.

Why would people settle in the frontier areas?

Pennsylvania is not small, how many people are there? Such a large area can accommodate not only the current population, but also ten times the population. Why do those people have to go to the frontier?

This is the crux of what Chen Qinghai said.

John Bin, the first comer, occupied the land, enclosed the land, and used the land for land speculation.

The newcomers can't afford to buy the land that has been occupied by others, so what should they do?

There is an old Chinese saying: A harsh government is more fierce than a tiger.

The situation in Pennsylvania is: the land rent is more fierce than the Indians.

This group of latecomers can't buy or rent the land, and they can't beat the landlords... or they don't want to fight at all.

Instead, they think that the land belongs to others, and private property is inviolable. How can I grab the land occupied by the first comers? Other people's land can be sold at any price. Buy and sell, raise the price and pay on the spot. It's not that they don't want to sell, but I don't have the money to buy. Isn't this very reasonable?

Later people, who supported the inviolability of private property but could not afford to buy the wasteland on the eastern coast, could only go west together.

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

This is back to the "legal rights" issue.

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 wastelands and have not been transformed by human labor. The first group of people pulled a rope and said that this piece of land is mine, private property is inviolable, and you who come later have to spend money to buy land from me... This is not reasonable at all.

The group of people in the "frontier" were mainly Irish and Scottish.

Ireland became a British colony.

Many Irish and Scottish people were forced to leave their homeland and flee to North America due to the enclosure movement and the serfdom of Irish plantations.

When they arrived in North America, they saw that all the land near the sea was owned.

They couldn't afford it, so they had to go to the frontier.

The Indians would definitely not be happy if they went to the frontier. We had agreed not to invade each other. You asked for land to farm, so we gave it to you. We also retreated to our own territory according to the original contract.

We hunted, learned to grow some food, and traded some wine, guns, etc. with you.

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

Now your people have run into our territory, or into our borders. What do you mean?

The Indians are reasonable and have talked to the Pennsylvania State Assembly about this. Can your state government manage you white people? Do you still abide by the original oath?

What can the Quakers say? They don't even have a gun in their hands. Can they keep those people on the border from crossing the border by preaching morality, saying love and peace?

In history, after the Paxton boys massacred the Indians, the Quaker members of the state government who didn't have any guns could only curse a few times [white barbarians]. What else could they do?

After the 250 rebels massacred the Indians, they directly led their troops to Philadelphia and wanted to directly launch an armed coup. The state government couldn't even get a soldier to fight back. They could only ask Franklin to mediate, and he relied on his prestige to make a long argument, and only then could the matter be suppressed.

Now, Chen Qinghai directly pointed out the matter: Indians are more terrible than tigers, why do those people have to go to the frontier? Is it that there is no land to be reclaimed in your hundreds of thousands of square kilometers of land in Pennsylvania?

If you really want peace, you landlords just need to lower the rent and the price of selling land. Isn't your love of peace a bit hypocritical?