Chapter 346: Irish Colonial Strategy

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Since then, England has undergone a series of reforms, especially the most important local reform, which is centralization.

Edward will send Privy Council Ministers to personally check and supervise the eight major regions, and strive to ensure that this reform is successfully completed.

Although the process is always accompanied by riots and obstructions, after three years of unfolding, it has finally stabilized, and the next thing is only to run in.

At this time, Ireland, the first colony of England, came into Edward's eyes, and it was a place of its own experimentation.

If Henry VIII was gentle, only taking advantage of the name, then, by this time, Edward had changed greatly.

The gradual stabilization of internal affairs has finally brought our Majesty the King to Ireland.

This policy is called a two-pronged approach.

First, Edward continued Henry VIII's policy of paying first and giving later, and gradually expanding it to the entire island of Ireland.

Of course, this pace is slow, and the effect is not very significant, but it is the most important thing, and the name of this thing cannot be stopped.

On the other hand, in addition to implementing this policy, Edward also practiced colonial expansion.

First, the land of the Irish was confiscated, and it was given to the obedient Irish, and then the obedient ones were taken together to occupy the disobedient land.

And Edward's double management is different from the historical double management.

In the sixteenth century of history, the colonization of England was real colonization.

Colonization means to reproduce and breed.

Colonization refers to the migration of a powerful country to the areas it has conquered, and plunders the interests of the original local people, plunders and enslaves the local people, and immigrates to the areas it conquers, and the state invades and settles in large numbers abroad.

To put it bluntly, the original English people looked down on the Irish very much, and even regarded them as human beings.

Of course, this is the same as when they later looked down on the Chinese and looked down on the Africans.

The people of England, who considered themselves advanced civilizations, looked down on the Irish who still had slavery and were still predominantly tribal.

It was the direct confiscation of the land of the Irish aborigines, and the expulsion of them, the possession and enslavement of the Irish.

You may not believe it that the triangular trade, or the slave trade, was originally aimed at the Irish.

Africa was a time of great tribalism and military power.

In the current period when firearms are not in full bloom, a large number of troops is the greatest danger.

As a result, the Irish became targeted by the English and were trafficked to South America to be used as slaves and mines for the Spaniards and Portuguese.

By the time of colonization of North America, the Irish still accounted for a certain proportion of the slave trade.

It can be said that the biggest builders of the United States earlier were these Irish slaves.

Later, the Irish were the largest ethnic group in the United States, and they came to the United States as slaves, along with blacks.

So, the Irish have always been called drunk, brutal, violent, these terms.

This was not the case with the neo-colonization that Edward envisioned.

After such immigration, although the benefits of less are great, it is full of difficulties, and even forces the originally divided Irish people to unite and create greater difficulties.

Our Majesty the King, however, has pursued another strategy, co-opting and suppressing a group.

Unite with tribes close to England and work together to fight against hostile tribes, thus gradually expanding the British occupation and gaining more and more followers.

In the later stages, this snowballed and grew bigger and bigger, and finally Ireland joined England as a matter of course.

As part of the New Colonial Deal, the Ulster region of Ireland became England's main target.

According to the oldest division of Ireland, the whole of England is divided into the provinces of Ulster, Connaught, Munster, and Leinster.

These four provinces still have provincial flags.

The province of Ulster is close to England, is the northernmost part of the island of Ireland, and is the main area of English colonization, where the Dublin area is located, and also includes the later Northern Ireland region.

The westernmost province is the province of Connaught, the easternmost province of Leinster, and the southernmost province of Munster.

Encroaching step by step, steady and steady, is the principle and policy instructed by Edward himself.

Thomas came to the Irish region. Marne, in combination with His Majesty's strategy and the situation in Ireland, chose the policy of nailing.

The so-called nailing is to divide the Ulster region into more than a dozen small points as a stronghold, and then expand the area with points, and strive to digest the Ulster province in one fell swoop within five years.

John. As the governor of one of the strongholds, Perrott was of course obliged to secure more immigrants for his stronghold.

The moment he saw the king again, he knew that his fate would be different.

At a very young age, his mother told him that his father was King Henry VIII of England.

Once, he was distressed.

As the son of the king, he did not have any inheritance rights, at most he owned a large estate, and did not even have a knighthood, so he could only watch those nobles spend their days drinking with envy.

But the reality made him have to give in, and gradually began to agree with this concept again, and he died.

However, after the death of Henry VIII, he suddenly received a knighthood and became the upper echelon of the county.

When he felt what a real nobleman was, he realized how small and short-sighted he was.

It wasn't until he met the young king that he knew that his chance to become a true nobleman had come.

As an illegitimate child, his chances of becoming a nobleman are hundreds of times higher than that of ordinary people.

Therefore, even when he came to Ireland, he still worked tirelessly and diligently.

This is definitely not to become the so-called court noble, but to become a real power nobleman with fiefdoms.

Only with real merit can he get his wish.

Layers of memories flooded through my mind, and then bursts of cheers came from my ears.

John looked up and saw two dark cargo ships, escorted by five or six merchant ships, approaching the harbor.

Ordinary people are certainly excited.

Every time the immigrants came, they were escorted by armed merchant ships, which brought goods needed by the colonies and bought the specialties they brought back to England.

And in front of him, His Excellency the Governor of Ireland, also had a faint smile on his old-fashioned face at the moment.

Just behind him, more than a dozen people in charge of other strongholds also looked at the cargo ships coming from afar in front of them with a happy face, and they began to be vigilant against each other.

Of course, the same was true of Sir John, whose credit was boosted by the population.

Every month, it's a regular drama in Dublin.