The Age of Discovery was actually a history of global colonization, but the road to colonization at that time was bloody and rough, and European colonists pounced on the world like a swarm of locusts, taking away everything of value, even the lives of black slaves.

Gold, silver, cotton, grain, saltpeter, coal and iron, non-ferrous metals...... Countless raw materials were sent to the home countries of Europe at very low costs, and then large quantities of industrial goods were dumped into the colonies.

This is an era when maritime logistics reigns king, and whoever occupies the golden route, who owns more ships, who owns more colonies, owns the whole world.

The rule of the Europeans was undoubtedly very bloody and brutal for the supply of raw materials and the dumping of goods, but for the auxiliary colonies of Tahiti, Europe adopted a very crude mode of management.

In the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries, the European powers ran around like the Manchu Eight Banners that had just entered the Central Plains, and when they found an island, an archipelago or even a continent on the sea, they first marked it on a map and drew the flag of their own country on it.

It was a time when only plundering was known but not construction, and the islands on the ocean either possessed various resources and became first-class colonies, ruled directly by European governors with their armies.

Either it occupies the best geographical position to provide strategic deterrence for the golden route, or it can become a second-class colony, and Europe can garrison troops here to protect the fleet.

The third colony was a pure supply area like Tahiti, which was the most marginalized colony in Europe because of its beautiful scenery but the tourism industry was far from booming at that time, and there were no important goods here, let alone the golden shipping lanes.

When Xiao Lotian negotiated with the French to claim sovereignty over the islands, the negotiating ambassador did not even think of the existence of this land, and finally looked through the atlas to find out where France originally had such an archipelago.

The use of useless islands in place of real money in the indemnity seemed to the French to take a big advantage in the eyes of the people at the time, because the Tahiti Islands at the moment had no value at all.

With no resources to exploit, no population to dump industrial goods, and no proximity to the golden shipping lanes of the Pacific, only a handful of European natural scientists, poets, painters, and travelers were resident in this era, and the rest did not even have a single soldier.

After the signing of the treaty in Beijing, the Ryukyus sent officials with thousands of immigrants to go directly by boat, read the treaty to the Europeans and natives of each island, and then removed the French symbol, erected the Ryukyu stone monument to complete the transfer of power.

When the European countries learned of the news, they only changed a few words on the official map, and they didn't even bother to reprint the world map.

In fact, Xiao Letian's claim to sovereignty over the Tahiti Islands was the same as the United States' purchase of Alaska at that time, and it was called two stupid things.

All countries thought it was a loss-making business that didn't make any sense, and even Bismarck shook his head regretfully and thought that Xiao Lotian was a little stupid.

France has a lot of overseas territories, and Bismarck has always thought that Xiao Lotian will rob the French colony in Annam, which is Vietnam, but he never expected that he would set his sights on the Pacific Ocean. In those days, the strategic importance of the Pacific Ocean was very low, far below the Indian Ocean.

However, when Xiang Ying saw this beautiful archipelago with his own eyes, his heart was deeply shocked, and he didn't need to think about the geopolitical significance, just this beautiful scenery alone was already intoxicating.

Blue sky, white clouds, blue sea, white and delicate coral sand...... Gentle sea breezes, exotic dances and vague, delicious seafood food, coconut palms, sunshine ...... Together, it's a paradise on earth.

The five elders understood Xiang Ying's eyes, and they smiled and said, "We are all homeless people who can't survive in our mother country, and we have no money and no land and property......

"At that time, we didn't know what this place was like, and we thought it was a hell on earth, and we thought there was some hard work waiting for us to do, but we didn't expect that except for a little sin on the road, we were all dumbfounded when we arrived here!"

"We can't imagine that there is such a paradise in the world, people can eat without farming! There are fruits on the islands, and seafood in the sea, although we are not used to eating them at the beginning, but we can't afford to pay for them!"

"There are no four seasons here, it's hot all year round, and you can eat enough every day with a little touch, no wonder those natives all look indifferent, they don't know what starvation is all about, don't you live every day?"

The old people from the Qing Kingdom were very unaccustomed to life here, and in their hearts it was a matter of course to plant in spring and harvest in autumn and hide in winter, but when they came here, they found that there was not much arable land for them to cultivate, and there was no need to store food in the long winter, and the survival experience of agricultural civilization for a long time suddenly lost its meaning.

People can't forget the strange eyes of the indigenous people when they first cultivated the farmland, and in the eyes of the indigenous people, the Chinese are still very easy to get along with, because after all, the two sides have the same skin color, eyes, hair, and face shape are also very similar, and there is a natural sense of closeness.

And this group of Chinese is very elegant, they will not secretly use some glass beads to lure the girls in the tribe, let alone use pistols to force the indigenous people to work. The two groups of people did not interfere with each other, and there was no serious conflict, and gradually this place became a paradise in the mouth of the Chinese.

A small amount of farmland provides some rice and vegetables, not to survive the famine, but simply because of the eating habits of the Chinese, without carbohydrates, the Chinese really can't survive.

Unfortunately, a small amount of rice can only make people occasionally relieve their hunger, more often they still have to rely on fishing and hunting to live, go to the beach to fish, catch crabs, drive small fishing boats out to sea, rich seafood can fill the stomach of Chinese but can not fill their hearts.

Soon, a silent transformation of Tahiti began!

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