In his last life, when Marin was in college, he listened to a history professor explain in detail the process of British and French colonization of North America. Pen × fun × Pavilion www. ｂｉｑｕｇｅ。 ｉｎｆｏ

First of all, let's talk about Britain, British colonial methods, in the words of the professor, are "cutting down trees". In the thirteen colonies of North America, British colonists cut down trees and opened up farmland, eventually establishing the North American colonies.

However, the British have undergone a dramatic change in their attitude towards the Indians......

As early as 1609, when the British established their first colony in Virginia, Jamestown, the British were extremely tough on Native Americans. They treated the indigenous Indians as uncivilized savage animals and carried out a policy of plunder and massacre.

However, this provoked a strong counterattack from the Indians. Then Jamestown was under siege by the Indians for a long time. In the end, Jamestown ran out of food, and there was a tragedy of cannibalism. If it weren't for the fact that the Indians didn't know how to conquer the castle, perhaps the colonists in Jamestown would have been killed by the Indians.

More than a decade later, off the coast of Massachusetts in the north, a migrant ship called the Mayflower arrived in the Americas. However, unlike the colonists in Jamestown, they were mostly paupers and Puritans, but there were also criminals.

This group of people was honest at the beginning, lived in harmony with the Indians, and passed the most difficult stage of gaining a foothold. Even, because of the help of the Indians, they created the custom of eating turkey on Thanksgiving.

However, when the whites here gained a foothold, the Indians were soon driven and slaughtered. While driving the Indians who had helped them into the forest, they also swung their logging axes to cut down the forest and expand their territory. Eventually, on the east coast of North America, a huge territory was laid.

Later, the British used this method, and when they landed in other parts of North America, if they were weak at the beginning, they pretended that their grandson was at peace with the Indians, and once they had gained a firm foothold, they began to turn their faces.

Relying on this means, the British gradually took control of the thirteen coastal states of North America, becoming the most successful colonial power in North America......

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The French seem to be different from the British, and they adopt a mode of expansion, a model of trade. In other words, the expansion is done in the mode of trade.

The specific method was to organize a large number of fur merchants to go inland and trade beaver skins and other leathers with the Indians.

The French merchants, on the other hand, brought goods such as pots, iron axes, swords and glass beads, which were very popular with the Indians. However, these things were not valuable, and the French merchants exchanged them for expensive beaver skins and other furs, and made a lot of profits.

In the later period, the French even began to sell guns and gunpowder to the Indians, encouraging the Indians to fight each other.

After the Indians obtained guns, the Indians first used guns to hunt animals because they were much more powerful than earthen bows and arrows. Soon, the animals were slaughtered on the territory of the tribes of Indians who had been given guns. Even those who survived were frightened by the loud gunshots.

As a last resort, these Indians began to invade the territory of other tribes, hunting animals for furs. However, it is clear that this is a serious violation of the interests of other tribes. Thus, the tribal war broke out......

Indian tribes, who own guns, obviously have a greater advantage. So, the tribes, which did not have guns, were defeated, fled, and gave up their territory.

However, the defeated tribes are not fools, and they will not be willing to lose. So, they also went to buy guns. If the French don't sell it to them, they buy it from the English or the Dutch. And the British, or the Dutch, apparently also wanted to use them against the allied clans of the French. As a result, both sides have guns......

Next, it is time for the defeated Indian tribes to stage a drama of revenge......

Both sides fired at each other with guns, causing huge casualties......

Such dramas are often played out in the jungles of North America, year after year, day after day......

In the inter-tribal conflicts, the Indians lost a large number of strong men. Many weak tribes have also disappeared because of the war......

Moreover, in order to establish good relations with the Indian tribes with good friends, the French would even let young employees marry the daughters of Indian chiefs to strengthen ties with the Indian tribes.

But in fact, these young employees have wives and children in Europe. Their marrying of the daughters of Indian chiefs was merely a means of co-opting the Indian tribes.

At the same time, these young people with strong blood, because their wives are not around, also need a female companion to vent their excess energy. Moreover, these indigenous wives will be the best trade bridge between the French and the Indians.

Later, the children born to the daughters of these French youths and local indigenous chiefs became a special ethnic group, the Méti.

It can be said that the French colonization methods in North America were very clever. They co-opted some local tribes to hunt animals for themselves and get furs. These furs, sold to Europe, can be exchanged for huge profits. In the early days, a beaver pelt could be sold to Europe for a super huge profit of 200 times. Even in the later stage, the profit is very high, and there can be dozens of times smaller windfall profits.

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The professor believes that the French are more clever than the British. In the end, however, the French lost by not arranging enough immigrants to occupy the Americas.

And how did the British outperform France in this regard and complete the occupation of the thirteen states of North America?

The reason is very simple, because Britain has carried out a large-scale land enclosure movement in the country, which has produced tens of thousands of landless peasants. Except for a small number that were absorbed by the textile workshops, most of the rest became homeless.

And the displaced people are the source of turmoil in a country. The dignified Ming Empire was finally collapsed by the exiles in the north. In the early 80s, because of the return of educated youths to the city, it also brought great chaos to China at that time. For this reason, Taizong had to sacrifice the big move of "striking hard" and killing a lot of gangsters to stabilize society......

The British are more cunning, since there are so many homeless people, so we might as well send them to North America to open up the wasteland, right?

Then, landless peasants, Puritans, and criminals, three groups that were not welcomed in Britain and were prone to social conflicts, were sent by the British authorities to the east coast of North America to colonize and open up the wasteland.

Although, the British colonization methods were more crude and not as clever as the French. However, relying on the heap of people, they have achieved much more brilliant achievements than the French.

Moreover, in the process of immigration, the British did not refuse to come, not only accepting immigrants from their own country, but also immigrants from other European countries. For example, German immigrants were admitted in large numbers, as well as Irish, French, and Dutch immigrants. The arrival of a large number of immigrants also accelerated the development of North America.

However, in the long run, because the composition of immigrants is too complex, the centripetal force of immigrants towards the British royal family is not strong. And this also laid the foundation for the later North American Revolutionary War.

It's not that the French are not clever enough, but because France is stable and there are not so many displaced people. Therefore, the French could not create as many displaced people as the British engaged in the "enclosure movement". Therefore, the clever colonial methods of the French were crushed by the brutal methods of the British......

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Since Marin knew about these problems, he decided to take his own line by combining the characteristics of Britain and France.

As for how? In the early stage, it was natural to learn from France, engage in trade expansion mode, and use a group of indigenous Indian tribes to attack other tribes.

In addition, in addition to purchasing furs, Marin also planned to use European goods that attracted the Indians to encourage the Indians to cut down and exchange them for wood. For example, Marin needs a lot of oak, which can be exchanged with the Indians and let the Indians cut the wood themselves.

When the Indians had cut down a large number of trees on the seashore, Marin gave them weapons to support their march inland to seize the territory of other tribes. The former seaside territory became a colony of Marin......

At the same time, Marin organized a large number of people to immigrate to North America in Germany to occupy these seaside colonies. Of course, Bishop Taylor will also be asked to send disciples who can fool and "teach" these immigrants to be loyal to themselves, so that the colony will not become independent......

In this way, in the long run, Marin would complete the occupation of the coastal areas of North America by trade, encouraging the Indians to log and fight, and then vacating the lands near the sea. As for the outback? Let's wait for the juniors to finish it. After all, he is not a god, and there are not so many immigrants, so it is difficult to complete the occupation of all the lands of North America at once. It would be good to be able to occupy the coast first and demarcate the territory...... The main thing is that the total population of Germany is only 12 million people, and the Americas are so big that even if all Germans are immigrated over, they can only occupy the east coast of North America at most, not to mention those inland territories......