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Chapter 33: The Three Treasures of Ida of the British Empire

Although Haifeng said at the beginning that he had never supported him and could not control the Indians, he finally proposed to urge India to negotiate with the United Kingdom. Boulbron's first mission was naturally completed.

After all, old friend is Lao Peng Bulbron, who can always feel Lao Peng's sincerity at critical moments. So much so that he wanted to repay his old friend's kindness as before, but he didn't know how to repay his old friend's kindness to him. However, Lin Haifeng's kindness to him was not calculated at this point. There are also good things that surprised Bourbron even more closely followed.

Speaking of which, India, which is second only to China in Asia, was once very extraordinary in terms of economy. The country was an agricultural power. It was once a major country in the world. Before the British colonization entered India, it had been exporting its cotton fabrics to the world and exporting them for hundreds of years.

Unfortunately, everything has changed since the British set foot on their land.

The degree of cotton fabrics has become the UK

The super market for selling its cotton fabrics. In the 1950s, India, which was proud to provide cotton fabrics for the world, was no longer their cotton fabrics. It was a large number of raw cotton and wool, which exceeded more than a quarter of the total output of Britain. They were all digested by India. Under the destruction of British colonization, India's national textile industry was completely destroyed. It became a vassal of the industrial raw materials of the British.

People have argued that the reason why the British were able to lead the world's industrial revolution and became a "Empire of the Sun" was that they mastered the three treasures of the original accumulation stage.

First, the so-called "land enclosure movement". When it comes to land enclosure movement, in the initial stage of the capitalist exhibition in any country, they have used this technique when the Qing Dynasty colonized China. At that time, it seemed like a horse-drawn land, no matter whose land was. As long as the Qing princes and nobles rode their horses and ran down, everything in the circle formed by the horse became the private property of the Happy Valley.

But in China, this movement is the most thorough and typical.

As early as the end of the fifteenth century, the British cotton textile industry had become the fastest production system for its domestic industrial development. Its products not only have a broad market in China but also abroad. The rapid development of the wool industry expanded the demand for wool. As a result, the price of wool rose rapidly. The sheep farming industry became an extremely profitable production|.

It is said that Chinese people like Zha'er. They always like to do anything. In fact, the gentleman, the British who are still in the primitive accumulation stage of capital are the same. In other words, no one wants to be dissatisfied with money.

So driven by the land of interest, the masters and farm owners, in addition to turning their own farmland into pastures, also racked their brains to expand the scale of their territory. They did not hesitate to use their efforts to plunder the land of public and others, demolished and burned the farmhouses and villages they liked, forcibly forced the farmers to leave their homes, and used fences to circle large tracts of land into pastures where they produced wealth.

Leadership of the British government

|Although we have not studied theory of Capital, we understand this truth:

To make the country truly powerful and prosperous, and to establish and prosper, a part of the people must first become rich. That is, to make a few people concentrate a large amount of monetary wealth necessary for capital production. Secondly, they must have a large amount of money and wealth that can be given to them in certain circumstances. However, they must be labor that loses all means of production. They are desperate and can only rely on the hiring of workers who sell their own labor. These two conditions are formed at the same time, leaving the means of violence. That is unimaginable.

So while the landlords and farmers began to experience bloody and violent demolition. At the same time, the British government publicly issued laws to support the legalization of land enclosures and promulgated various laws with blood. They did not hesitate to use whip and brand to imprison and cut their ears, and even sentenced to death and other cruel punishments. They prohibited farmers who lost the land they depend on to wander around. They forced them to become employers in sweatshops. They forced them not to accept this so-called fait accompli.

By the 18th century, the land movement began even more violently. During this century, the British government passed more than 2,200 land enclosure laws, which enclosed a total of 3,490,000 acres of land. Since then, on the land of Britain, self-cultivated farmers have completely eliminated, and those capitalists have a large amount of cheap labor.

This is the first root cause of birth in the UK, "enclosure movement".

The second magic weapon of Yizhi in Britain is to sell African "black slaves".

In the 1540s, Portuguese colonization brought the black people hunted from the coast of West Africa back to Europe for sale, thus setting a precedent for the slave trade.

Sixteenth generation

In Western colonization, the mines and plantations there were widely lack of labor due to the special adaptability of African blacks to work in tropical climates and the technology of planting tropical crops, so the first batch of black slaves were transported to the Americas.

In the first year of the 16th century, the Spanish royal family officially issued slave trade to the "merchantists" involved in slave trade. The rare evil deed of slave trade finally became a legal industry supported by the government. The slave trade began to spread.

After that, the British colonial forces broke into the Western America. Because there was an urgent need for a large amount of cloth and capable ". Cloth was produced in Britain. Black slaves were easily purchased from Africa. The great mechanism contained in this gave birth to the first slave trader who dared to be the first in the world. His name was Yohos.

When it comes to John Hawkins, he is definitely a famous figure in the history of the British Empire.

This Hawkins not only made the first name for the British industry for selling slaves, and thus became famous in the history of the British Empire. At the same time, his cousin Drake was still famous for his courage to plunder the sea ships and their civilians of the Spanish Empire.

Even more powerful was the evil deeds of the cousins ​​of John Hawkins. Later, they were strongly supported by the Queen of England. And because of the pirate-like looting of the British people in the land of these two brothers, the king of the Spanish Empire decided to seek the expedition to Britain, which led to the naval battle between Britain and Spain. As a result, the Spanish Empire's invincible fleet was defeated by Britain and Britain's maritime hegemony was established since then.

The British, who were already coveting the huge profits brought by slave traders, were so itchy that others saw the money from the "black slaves". Now they have taken solid maritime hegemony. The evil behaviors in slave traders are out of control.

Under the escort of the majestic army and navy, British merchant ships loaded various British industrial products from ports such as Liverpool Bristol. First, they headed straight to the coast of West Africa. There they unloaded goods, loaded batches of "black slaves" and set sail. They ran to the West Indies to sell the "black slaves" on the ship to the owners of plantations in need of labor. Then they filled the cabin with cane sugar tobacco that was loved by Britain and even Europeans. They also like to drink the most rum to return home.

From the mid-17th century to the early 18th century, this innumerable huge profit drove the British land slave ship fleet to carry the iron chains under the decks and curled up in a space of only more than 70 centimeters high. The black slaves, who were "like books on the shelf", walked on this route for nearly a lifetime and a half, and became the world's number one slave country.

In this period, British merchant ships trafficked nearly 3.5 million African "black slaves" in total, accounting for one-third of the total slave trade.

According to a record in 1768, the total number of "black slaves" sold on all European slave ships was 97,100. Among them, the British alone sold as many as 53,100 people, which accounted for more than one of the total.

Use manufacturing products to exchange them from Africa and then to the West Indies to exchange sugar tobacco and wine. You can also exchange yellow in Brazil, and also exchange them for industrial raw materials such as cotton green and wood. At the same time, the North American colonies that you own have become a large logistics supply base for plantations on the West Indies. All the needs of fish, wood, horses, rice, etc. are continuously delivered. The income you get can then buy your own goods.

It is impossible to admit that this is an extremely perfect business chain discovered by the smart British. Every link in this chain is an extension of the domestic product export market. The reason why this circulation can operate smoothly under the infinite cycle is the millions of miserable slaves.

The fate of the slaves is tragic. But the many slave traders who have "slaves" wealth are not tragic. They turn around and use the money they easily to invest in their domestic investments. The sufficient private capital is further promoted to the continuous and stable development of domestic industry.

A country called Anthony Bacon adventure was that he earned more than 70,000 yuan through his "hard and arduous struggle" through his "hard and arduous struggle" alone by selling "black slaves". It was this bloody first money that made him eventually become a tycoon of the famous iron smelting industry in the British Empire and a noble gentleman.

As a rising star, Ying | is involved in selling "black slaves"

It's really a great pleasure in a big career.

No wonder a British gentleman could not help but make such self-reflection statements over two hundred years ago:

"The multi-shipment business that travels to and from the New World, seafarers have a small livelihood of British manufacturing. These are mainly attributed to black labor... For this nation, black trade is an inexhaustible fund of wealth and naval power."

The last method to promote the growth of Britain

That is colonial expansion.
Chapter completed!