New Shun 1730

France is going to be in chaos, and it will be a big one. "Rituals and music are broken", the old French system is the rituals and music of the old French era. The old era is irreparable and something big will happen.

This is the conclusion drawn by the Dashun envoys who carried Liu Yu's coffin as a diplomatic means after arriving in Europe from North America and staying for a while.

France is not the whole of Western Europe, just as Dashun is not the whole of East Asia.

If France is in chaos, the whole of Western Europe will be in chaos; just as if Dashun is in chaos, the whole of East Asia will be in chaos.

This is definitely a dark conclusion for Dashun's annual trade volume of more than 100 million taels with the Atlantic trade zone.

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A few months later.

India.

Surat.

Not long ago, the smoke and dust from the Dashun gunboats firing to suppress the Gujarat spinners' uprising has not completely dissipated.

As the saying goes, the fate of a city depends on both... and...

This city at the mouth of the Tapi River has taken a completely different path from its original history in the course of history.

In short, Mumbai next to him, due to various historical factors and European colonial factors, Dashun did not choose Mumbai as the ruling center of Dashun in northwest India. After all, Dashun faced tens of thousands of cities under Portuguese rule and British rule after Portugal gave Mumbai as a dowry. It was really difficult to manage.

Since it was difficult to manage, Dashun chose Surat, a port on the other side of the Tapi River, to replace Mumbai.

As for what happened to Mumbai after Dashun won the First World War, it is not easy to say.

In fact, Surat is not unfamiliar to Dashun.

As early as before the First World War, the Indians in Surat had experienced the "historical process" of Dashun waking up.

Dashun went to Nanyang and seized commercial hegemony with warships, so that the cotton cloth market in Nanyang no longer used Surat cotton cloth traded by the Dutch, but Songsu cotton cloth.

Surat has already experienced a "historical process".

After the First World War, Dashun defeated the 3,000 British troops and gained an absolute advantage in India.

In view of the particularity of Mumbai, Dashun chose the "Yangzhou Plan", that is, to let Mumbai suffer the same fate as Yangzhou when Dashun abandoned the canal transport and moved to sea transport, and locate the trade center and ruling center of northwest India in Surat.

As the saying goes, its rise is due to this, and its decline is also due to this.

After 20 to 30 years of prosperity and development, the fate of Surat was once again affected by the historical process because of a "small" thing.

This historical process is called "spindle spinning machine".

The uprising that took place not long ago was just because of this thing. In other words, this is a historical process that was destined to start from Dashun's decision to get cotton in India decades ago.

In fact, the fleet carrying Liu Yu's coffin would have refused to stay in Surat if it were not for a sudden storm.

After all, Liu Yu's reputation in Surat is completely different from that in Paris.

In Paris, although some people scold, there are also people who come to the coffin to offer flowers and cry.

In Surat, I'm afraid that if the locals don't grab a few pieces of shit and throw them on the coffin, they are considered to be relatively "well-mannered".

Liu Yu didn't kill anyone in Surat himself.

But when he went to Nanyang to reorganize the Nanyang cotton cloth supply system, fight a war, formulate policies, and spread the spinning industry and suddenly destroyed it, this series of actions caused the death of no less than 200,000 or 300,000 people in Gujarat.

In addition, there is a special "historical legacy factor", that is, the difference between British colonization and Dashun colonization.

The difference here is not the difference in morality, system, culture, law, etc.

It's the most basic thing: the economic base determines the superstructure.

Before World War I.

Britain was a cotton cloth importing country.

Dashun won the first war, and even before winning the first war, Dashun was a cotton cloth exporting country.

This is the fundamental reason why people here, especially some people who were colonized by Britain, hate Liu Yu so much.

Yes, to some extent, Dashun's victory in World War I directly led to the complete collapse of Gujarat's cotton textile industry, which was mainly export-oriented.

The weaving industry was destroyed, leaving only cotton planting and spinning industries.

For some craftsmen who make a living from weaving here, they certainly have not experienced the tragedy of truly ruling India in history.

And Dashun, or Liu Yu's policy, was to "force the British East India Company to develop India, exert pressure on the East India Company to think that it may lose China's supply at any time, thereby forcing the British and French conflicts in India to intensify, and then borrow a knife to kill people to let Britain drive France away, and then Dashun will join the war as an ally of France."

This led to a significant increase in British imports in the Gujarat region before World War I.

Perhaps it can be said that.

Some Gujarat weaving craftsmen who make a living from weaving think: This great Britain is not necessarily good. But when I arrived in Dashun, I was hungry.

There is no need to hide the fact.

Some people in later generations gave such a data in order to promote the development of the West.

It is said that from 1794 to 1814, the textiles sold by Britain to India increased by 696 times!

People who only look at this number and do not seek the truth will definitely think: Wow, the West is really developed, and its industry completely crushed the East in 1800!

This data is correct.

It can be said that it is very correct.

However, this data is a typical "half-speak".

Historically, from 1794 to 1814, did the cotton textiles sold by Britain to India increase by 696 times?

Yes, that's right.

However, it is very likely that this data does not tell you the value of the cotton textiles sold by Britain to India in 1794.

So in 1794, that is, the years when the legendary Macartney visited China, what was the value of the cotton textiles sold by Britain to India?

156 pounds. 500 taels of silver.

Yes, you read it right.

There is neither [thousand pounds] nor [ten thousand pounds] after 156.

It is 156 pounds and 500 taels of silver.

So, how much is it if it increases by 696 times?

107,306 pounds, about 350,000 taels of silver.

So, did the data lie?

No.

The data is not false, it has indeed increased by about 696 times.

It's just that the base is 156 pounds. Neither 156,000 pounds nor 1.56 million pounds, but 156 pounds.

So, what was the quantity of cotton textiles exported by India to Britain in 1794?

4,500,000 pieces.

The piece here is not a piece of clothing, but a unit of measurement similar to a package or a box.

According to the data in 1759, the price of such a piece was about 2.03 pounds.

In other words, in 1794, the East India Company imported a total of 4.5 million pieces of cotton textiles from India, equivalent to about 9 million pounds.

This data is very critical and of great significance.

If you don't understand this data, you won't understand the true greatness of the Industrial Revolution. It is precisely because of the greatness of the Industrial Revolution and the viciousness of the plundering system under the rule of commercial capital that Lao Ma said that India's handmade textile industry was completely destroyed in just 40 years.

On the contrary.

Misinterpreting this data will not lead to the horror and greatness of the Industrial Revolution, but will instead produce an illusion that "Britain's productivity has always been so strong", and the greatness of the Industrial Revolution has given way to the continued strength of Europeans.

It seems that Britain is so strong, far superior to Asia, so as long as it comes to Asia, it can instantly impact Asia's handicraft industry.

Even many data will not tell you that before the Indian National Uprising, the first income of the British East India Company was [acre tax].

The acre tax collected 15,317,911 pounds, equivalent to 45 million taels of silver, ranking first in the company's total income.

Therefore, concealing these data, it is easy to draw many strange conclusions.

You think it is a big trust in the industrial age, a great industrial monopoly group, and its profits are killing agricultural countries.

In fact, it is a variant of "sea nomadic tax-farming Mongolia", relying on 45 million taels of agricultural taxes a year to maintain the operation of the company.

Understanding this data, you will understand why this situation occurred: the fleet carrying Liu Yu's coffin did not want to stay in Surat at all.

Because... Dashun's textile industry is rapidly destroying India's textile industry.

It was 1793, but the economic base determines the superstructure. Dashun used the British productivity script of 1870 in history, not the British productivity script of 1793.

And the cotton textile practitioners in Surat also used the mentality of the Indian people in 1870 in history, not the mentality of 1793.

What does it mean?

In the history of the British textile industry in 1793, the zero tariff of the customs in China was useless, and it would make a joke in 1842: Jiangnan bought British cloth as packaging and raw silk.

And the opening of the Suez Canal on November 17, 1869, and the productivity development of the thirty years of the Industrial Revolution, such as the past three hundred years, the cotton textile industry in Songsu area has begun to be a little bit unable to withstand.

This is what Lao Ma said: [Commercial hegemony can bring industrial development, and most of the commercial hegemony is obtained by fleet decisive battles].

Without a fleet, commercial hegemony, and bayonet, even if you have good quality and low price, you have no hegemony and you have no market. If they don't buy yours, and they issue a ban on cotton cloth, what can you do?

Liu Yu practiced against it and won the battle. He didn't need to go around the Cape of Good Hope to get from Dashun to India.

Dashun wanted cotton and cotton yarn, not Indian cotton cloth.

And, as Li Li originally thought, the supporting policy of the "Frontier Railway" was to destroy India's sugar industry. He understood this and also understood the secret of primitive accumulation.

Obviously, the impact of Dashun on India was terrible.

So, there was the emotion of the original trade beneficiaries in Mumbai and other places: this great Britain may not be good, but I was hungry when I came to Dashun.

There is nothing we can do. This is the course of history. We can't catch these people and send them to another time and space to feel how Britain destroyed India's cotton textile industry after the Industrial Revolution after 1820.

On the one hand, it was the impact of Dashun's textile industry on India.

On the other hand, it was the difference between Britain as a "buyer" in Mumbai before and Dashun as a "dumper" at this time.

Indeed, historically, India's cotton textile industry was destroyed by Britain.

However, it was definitely not possible for Britain to destroy it before the Great Shun War; on the contrary, at that time, Britain still had to rely on administrative protection and tariffs, so how could it be qualified to talk about destroying India's cotton textile industry.

Naturally, at this point in time, the contrast is obvious: before the arrival of Dashun, Surat and Mumbai developed well, and the export of textiles to foreign countries continued to rise; when Dashun came, Surat's cotton textile industry first collapsed in the Nanyang market, and then the Persian market was seized by Dashun after winning a war, and then this big wave came.

This contrast is too obvious.

With the spread of the mule spinning machine in the first-developed areas of Dashun, Indian handicraftsmen rebelled, or "awakened".

More importantly, under the rule of Dashun, a group of Indian merchants were supported and a bunch of spinning mills were established to supply Dashun cotton yarn.

And Dashun, with the application of the mule spinning machine, now abandoned the national bourgeoisie of India. The national bourgeoisie of India, especially the national bourgeoisie engaged in the spinning industry in the previous trade system, also began to step onto the stage of history.

Li Li may know the consequences of doing so, or he may want to say: I want to be the emperor of the world, including India, I want stability, and everything will continue to rule as usual.

But the imperialist ruling class coalition of the industrial bourgeoisie that had developed in Dashun, the military aristocracy that had been tied to the interests of imperialist policies after the transformation, and the emerging class of practical learning patted the steam- or water-powered spinning mule and told the emperor: No, you don't want to. You don't know, so we tell you.