If the liquidation of the 90s, the world's overseas assets, said to be the first, the United States second, then the United Kingdom is still the world's third.

One of the P5, the birthplace of the Industrial Revolution, at its peak, the Victorian period, ruled over an area of more than 30 million square kilometers, accounting for one-quarter of the world's land area.

Unlike Spain and Portugal, the two original maritime hegemons, Spain and Portugal were funded by the royal family, formed a large fleet to go to sea to plunder, and were the first to claim hegemony.

At that time, the British royal family was far from that ability, and the treasury was empty, unable to pay for the army's colonial expeditions, so they found another way, and the royal family came forward to encourage exploration, promote the establishment of the Exploration Society, authorize the explorers to set up private colonial companies, and issued a "royal charter" to the explorers, promising that if they succeed in colonization, they can obtain various powers of development, management, and trade monopoly on the colonies they have established.

This paper is actually a royal plunder certificate.

There is no one else in this operation.

Not a penny, encouraging merchants to rob money, but also colonization as a symbol of bravery, and after returning will be awarded knights, this policy greatly stimulated the traditional British princes and nobles, and even more stimulated those adventurers and ordinary merchants with small capital, pooled capital, financed expeditions to go to sea, exploration became a trend, plundering nature.

So the early colonies of the British Empire were often private in nature.

In 1606, 21 merchants in London held a royal charter and established the Virginia Company, which raised funds to transport hundreds of immigrants to North America, establishing the first permanent colony, and by the way, creating the history of the United States.

Among the 21 businessmen at that time, there was a coal merchant named James Reilly, who was also the most contributed, occupying 35% of the shares of the Virginia Company, and for 30 years, plundered the Indians and the indigenous tribes in the South American jungle weighing more than a dozen tons of gold and silver, and then engaged in banking, and was awarded the title of British Empire by the British royal family before his death, and was made an earl, and single-handedly created the Reilly family.

This was one of the first and most famous companies to go to sea, the British Virginia Colonial Company, which was famous for its royal division and was authorized to be in charge of North American trade by the Queen's order.

But it is not strictly the first team to go to sea.

There was another company that preceded it even earlier, and that was the famous British East India Company.

In 1600, the company obtained a colonial license from Queen Elizabeth of England to take full charge of the Oriental trade, and the first ships arrived in the Indian subcontinent in 1608, including a wool merchant named Lloyd William Russell, but what awaited them was not pepper wine, but Portuguese guns.

Miraculously, the British merchant fleet fought against the unstoppable Portuguese and gained the trust of the Mughal emperor four years later, thanks to the fierce struggle of the British merchants, who had no way to retreat, and gained a foothold in the Indian subcontinent, the right to trade and trade, and a colony in the Surat region.

The East India Company promised all merchants who rose up to resist that each merchant should acquire his own land, according to English law and his agreement with the Queen, and Lloyd William Russell deserved his share of it.

However, at that time, India was poor and backward, deeply trapped in the racial system, and its social status was extremely unfair, while the East India Company, relying on the trade in cotton, silk, saltpeter, indigo, tea and other daily necessities, developed rapidly, and also established an effective civil and legal system in India, abolished the local law of women such as Shati who were buried with their husbands, declared infanticide and drowning a crime, declared war on the entrenched caste system, and protected citizens' property, practiced monogamy, and achieved high prestige among Indians.

Growing bigger and bigger.

By the end of the 17th century, the East India Company had grown to the point of a quasi-state in the Indian subcontinent, with considerable military power and three rulers.

Eventually, in 1757, Bangladesh was conquered, and the entire Indian subcontinent was unified.

A company that conquered several countries, and then the British stepped in, authorized the takeover of the East India Company, cooperated with the company, and eventually annexed the entire Indian subcontinent together.

The colonial era of British India began.

At this time, Lloyd William Russell had already passed away for a hundred years, but he single-handedly established his own family, owning a large number of tobacco plantations in Mumbai, xx plantations.

The third generation of Russell, Stuart Evan William Russell, also won the first credit in the Battle of Plassey in 1757, and was awarded the Star of India in 1758, making him an earl, and had his own fief in Sussex, a fine grape producing area, and was run into a wine and cigar estate covering an area of more than 3,000 acres.

So, Portland Arthur William Russell, he was a botanist by profession.

You can distinguish hundreds of red wine and coffee types with your nose alone, and you can extract anything you want from a huge number of microbial communities.

It can also extract drugs from plants and animals, and (GSK) world-renowned drug companies, GlaxoSmithKline, and the Russell family also occupy a large proportion of shares.

At the same time, for hundreds of years, they have not forgotten their ancestral business, the British William Russell Group, is still a giant in the wool textile industry.

For Portland Arthur William Russell, money no longer means anything, he is 56 years old this year, and the only thing that can interest him is the academic aspect, and the glory of being an Englishman.

Until his later years, he continued to contribute to the commercial prosperity of the empire.

Honorary Vice President of 48 British Groups, Microbiology Technical Director of Unilever Shanghai, and countless other honorary titles, with personal assets of up to one billion US dollars.

And he is not a core member of the family.

Walking in China, he is just a low-key and ordinary foreign old man, working hard for the commercial prosperity of the British Empire, after all, there are still many obstacles to the reopening of the Eurasian land bridge, and he himself has only been in China for more than a year.

But what about Kazakhstan?

Portland's investment in Kazakhstan began even earlier, four years ago, when Nazabayev was still prime minister.

It has been operating in Kazakhstan for four years.

Today's Almaty is flooded with countless British, banks, factories and mines, and even the most unpalatable Western restaurants opened by the British, which can be said to be countless, and the British and Erros, who are both Caucasians, are not even distinguishable from each other in appearance.

An ordinary Chinese businessman, Medvedchuk can ignore and do things for the British, or he can selectively ignore them.

But see who that person is.

But as everyone knows, this provocation will break the sky.

provoked the one who shouldn't be messed with the least.

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