Chapter 1287 Death and Revenge (VIII)

That being said, the fundamental differences between the two sides have not been resolved to any extent.

Sending prisoners back to London can be interpreted in various ways.

That's what happened.

The unsentimental description is "the Chinese and French forces conquered Gibraltar and sent the prisoners back to Britain."

However, it is impossible to do things without emotion, especially diplomacy and games between countries.

Sending prisoners can be given many different meanings.

It can be intimidation:

Listen to what kind of hellish three months these prisoners have experienced? Listen to how these prisoners describe the Gibraltar hellfire caused by the flying monkey? Listen to how these prisoners evaluate the bloody artillery bombardment of their phalanx by Dashun in the end?

It can also be a gesture of goodwill:

I sent the prisoners back, and we can have peace talks. I have shown my sincerity; I sent the prisoners back, and we can have a separate peace. You should stop interfering in the affairs of the Holy Roman Empire. I will be the arbitrator between Prussia and Austria, and you can throw away this hat of Hanover; I sent the prisoners back, and there is really no need for us to continue fighting. Your finances can't bear it, and I can't bear it either...

It's like some sports competitions in later generations.

It can be a simple sports competition of football or table tennis.

But it is also possible that the result of a certain game triggered a war with the death of tens of thousands of people; it is also possible that a game triggered a diplomatic thaw between two hostile countries.

The act of returning prisoners is simple in itself, but it can be given many different, even opposite political meanings.

The alliance between China and France has had huge differences from the beginning.

However, before the Dashun officially sent troops and before the Dashun fleet defeated Edward Bosken's fleet in Gibraltar, France had no choice but to "have a good talk" with the Dashun diplomats.

However, once Gibraltar was conquered, the differences between China and France, that is, the differences on "how to end this war and how to sign the post-war treaty", could no longer be happy and shelved.

The fundamental reason for the differences between the two is the huge difference in productivity between China and France.

This difference...

Simply put, take the British "Navigation Act" as an example.

Is it against the [British] "Navigation Act"?

Or against the British ["Navigation Act"]?

The refined focus is to oppose Britain? Or oppose the "Navigation Act" no matter which country it is from?

This difference in where the "emphasis" is placed, generalized, beyond the narrow "Navigation Act", is the difference between China and France on the post-war division of spoils.

The differences in the division of spoils after the war will ultimately depend on how far the war has been fought and in what state it ends, in order to determine what conditions can be obtained during the final peace talks.

Do the new school of Dashun understand what Dashun really wants? What exactly does it want to do? What conditions need to be achieved?

In fact, they know.

Although they may not be very proficient, or they may not be able to fully understand the reasons and purposes of Dashun's many requirements and conditions.

However, according to the ideological education they have received, they only need to give them a little reminder to understand what the essence behind it is - this essence is the essence of the world view under the ideological education they have received.

It is similar to "sheep kneeling to suckle, crows feeding their parents", and different three views and ideologies see different essences of "sheep kneeling to suckle".

Some three views are completely inhuman: because it is not good to drink standing up, so kneel down to drink. Why is it not good to drink standing up? Because lambs are born tall. Why are lambs not small when they are born, but people still need parents and families to take care of them when they are born? Because sheep are not social, they may be eaten by lions and wolves when they are born. Lambs can only grow up before they are born, so they are born tall so that they can run, otherwise they will be eaten. As they grow up, they can only kneel down to drink milk, otherwise it will be uncomfortable. This is like if you don’t have a gourd ladle, don’t you kneel down and put your mouth into the stream water to drink when you are by the stream?

Some people’s three views are warm and affectionate: because lambs are filial, filial piety is the ultimate truth of heaven and earth, so lambs also know to kneel down to drink milk.

Obviously, the new school of Dashun people have learned some "completely human" principles - this is also the Confucian conservatives of Dashun, using the new school of Dashun people as an example to attack the Yanli school of thought, which is a typical example of nonsense from the outside to the inside: you see, the new school people have learned "arts", and they are proficient in the six arts. According to your Yanli School, Confucianism can be developed from the outside to the inside, and from external skills and techniques to generate Confucianism's inner strength. If you learn and master the arts, you will experience the true core of Confucianism. Why do these people who are proficient in the six arts have no human touch in their core?

As for the fact that the new school itself did not have such great resistance in Dashun, it was because the traditional scholars of Dashun thought that the new school was a technique, not a way.

It was not the heresy of the Hundred Schools of Thought, Yang and Mo, but at most the techniques of the Mohists and the formations of the military strategists.

It was a technique, not a way.

Moreover, Dashun's new school itself had the foundation of building the Wude Palace and achieving balance at the beginning of Dashun's founding.

On this basis, Dashun's new school seemed to only teach "techniques" such as technology, mathematics, geometry, arithmetic, and economics.

And Liu Yu has never taught in the new school "what kind of people we should be"; "what kind of people are good people and good citizens"; what is good and what is bad; what should be done and what should be done. What not to do...etc., none of it was taught.

He just taught some "economic management of the world".

This is mainly because, in his view, these things themselves are part of the ideology, because he believes that the economic base determines the superstructure.

The mainstream of Dashun believes that the superstructure is Tao and the economic foundation is art, so they do not criticize the new learning because it does not involve competing with them for orthodox orthodoxy, because the new learning does not teach much about the superstructure.

To be more specific, Dashun's traditionalist view of the Three Views believes that A, B, C... this is a dispute between orthodoxy.

The new school does not teach B, C, and D, so they are not a threat, nor are they the main enemy.

But the three views that the mastermind behind Xinxue believes in are A, B, and C, which are just the moral reflections of 1, 2, and 3. Therefore, he does not teach A, B, C, and D, but he teaches 1234, and he firmly believes that the current A The economic basis is 1, so as long as he replaces 1 with 2, the abstract mapping will naturally change from A to B.

He wants to explode A and turn him into B.

But instead of saying that B is right and A is wrong, he is quietly changing 1 into 2.

Therefore, within the Celestial Dynasty, taking the matter of criticizing the Yan-Li School of "from the outside in" as an example, the traditionalists did use the New School as an example, but they did not attack the New School, but used the New School as an example. As evidence to attack the Yan-Li school, proving that their outside-in thinking is a heresy.

Because their three views are not that the economic base determines the superstructure, they are not wary of the economic base, only the superstructure.

So, what did Liu Yu teach in the new study of "managing the world and applying it"?

Basically, what he taught was the same thing as Lao Ma.

It's just that Lao Ma's set of things is divided into two parts.

Part of it is how this thing called capitalism came about.

The other part is why capitalism doesn’t exist.

In view of the economic foundation at this time, there is no need to teach the second half, and it will be useless if taught.

Therefore, Liu Yu only taught half of it.

In other words, only teach the half, or even just a small half, of "how does this thing come about".

And this half is about "how it came about", which makes the new school essentially have its own ideology.

Because this time Dashun participated in the European war, or in other words, the main force of Dashun participating in the First World War were all from the new school.

Whether it is war, negotiation, diplomacy, or trade, it is all handled by the new school.

Therefore, in essence, the New School has its own ideology, and based on this ideology, it has its own "essential" understanding of war.

So, only half, what do you mean?

[The various elements of primitive accumulation... are the integration of the colonial system, the national debt system, the tax system, the tariff protection system, and the industrial support system. 】

[These things (colonial system, national debt system, tax system, tariff protection system, industrial support) all require the use of state power. 】

[Using the accumulated and organized social power of the country, like a greenhouse, protection promotes the transformation of the feudal mode of production into a capitalist mode of production, and like greenhouse promotion, shortens the transformation process. 】

[This kind of strong state power is the midwife of all new societies. And this itself is an economic force. 】

Of course, Liu Yu only taught this half.

For many things, he either practices backwards or only talks about half of them.

for example:

[The colonial system, like a greenhouse, promoted the growth of trade and navigation]

for example:

[Specialized companies and monopoly companies are powerful levers for capital accumulation. Colonies provided markets for nascent manufacturing industries. 】

[More importantly, it relies on the power of the country (such as the army, fleet, cannon, navigation regulations, anti-smuggling, etc.) to achieve market monopoly and cause enhanced accumulation]

[Besides the mother country, the treasures accumulated through robbery, slavery, killing and other means all flow back to the mother country and are converted into capital. 】

[In 1648, the Netherlands (the first to play this trick), its fishery, shipping industry, and manufacturing industry were all superior to other countries. The total capital of the Dutch Republic is probably greater than that of all the other countries in Europe put together].

However, Liu Yu did not teach the second half: in 1648, the people of all other European countries combined did not have the high taxes of the Netherlands, the overwork of the collapsed small farmers of the Netherlands, and the brutal oppression of commercial capital in Nanyang. As a result, uprisings occurred frequently.

Since words only teach half of the story, then the new school of thought in Dashun, which actually led and participated in the First World War, certainly knew what they were doing.

How did the high-ranking military officers headed by Li Huan, or the spokespersons of the new school in the military and political circles, view Dashun's participation in the First World War?

The answer is obvious:

The power of the state, the army, cannons, muskets, warships, and wars, are like a greenhouse, protecting and promoting the transformation of the feudal mode of production into a capitalist mode of production, and shortening the transformation process just like the greenhouse fueling. Be the midwife of the times.

What does the new era look like?

The concept in their eyes is one-sided and purely from the perspective of productivity: machine production, plenty of cloth, plenty of salt, accumulation of silver, stable commodity grain prices - in short, the Songsu model of "pure productivity perspective" of special features, geographical advantages and first-mover advantages is promoted in the Celestial Empire. In their eyes, it does not involve superstructure and political construction.