Historically, after 2010, China began to move from the low-end textile industry to the middle and high-end, and a number of high-tech enterprises emerged, their products were very competitive, and almost all the industries of developed countries were affected, and this impact was fatal to some countries where the industrial field was too concentrated.

Japan and South Korea were the first to feel the pressure, followed by countries such as France and Germany in the West, and China's more cost-competitive electronics and machinery products squeezed the traditional markets of these countries, causing their companies to go bankrupt and workers to lose their jobs, a phenomenon they call the China shock.

The impact of later generations is only the impact of China from the low-end to the middle-end, and now, the size of the Chinese is greater than the advantage of the West in the 21st century, China has one-third of the world's population, more than the population of the whole of Europe, in this population size, the beginning of the industrial revolution, and is standing on the basis of the most advanced steam power at the moment, the impact on other countries is unimaginable.

Since a few years ago, European countries have found that any country that can provide raw materials for the Chinese can make a fortune, while countries that compete with Chinese goods often suffer economic blows, even the United Kingdom.

Britain's industrial technology still leads the world, but in the fields that China has begun to develop, the profits of British companies have begun to be squeezed, profits have fallen, production has declined, investment has shrunk, a large amount of profits have flowed into the banking sector, and the financial industry has begun to swell, but the inflated financial industry has not been able to invest in industry, but has begun to underwrite a large number of foreign bonds, and so on, Britain is rapidly transforming into a financial capitalist country. It's like the Netherlands in the past, becoming a rentier country.

The opening of the Suez Canal has made British textiles no longer without competitors in Europe, at least on the Mediterranean coast, Chinese goods with greatly reduced freight costs have begun to form an overwhelming competitiveness against British products, and the Italian states, the Ottoman Empire, Greece and even the British textile market on the dark coast of Russia have been rapidly squeezed out by Chinese goods.

In the high-end field, the United Kingdom is not an opponent, the production of Nanjing cloth continues to expand, this natural color cotton production, never fade high-end goods, has been sought after by European countries, one is that the printing and dyeing process is still unable to do never fade, two to Nanjing cloth has formed a brand effect, everyone recognizes, as long as it is not their own death, a large number of fake and shoddy products, otherwise this brand effect will make Nanjing cloth continue to maintain high profits for a long time.

Even the British themselves are importing a large number of Nanjing cloth, Britain's own high-end textiles can not be born at all, and they are reduced to the embarrassment of hovering at the low end and being squeezed by profits.

This is not the case in the UK, and those countries that have not yet started the industrial revolution are basically incapable of confrontation. The Industrial Revolution became very slow to spread in the small countries of Europe, and during the time of Fredet II, engineers were sent to England in an organized manner to steal technology.

Brugelmann established Germany's first water-powered spinning factory in 1783, and the Kingdom of Prussia officially funded the experienced mining assistant engineer Carl Friedrich Bickering to steal back the Watt steam engine technology, but these technologies have been slowly promoted in Prussia, mainly because there is no market.

Relying on the protection of high tariffs, it can only develop slowly in its own country, and cannot obtain foreign markets. The reason why the Industrial Revolution was born spontaneously in Britain was mainly a market phenomenon, not a technological phenomenon, and it was the market forces that led to the popularization of technology, and then caused a wave of technological innovation.

Without a market, it was difficult for Prussia to popularize, let alone innovate.

The industrial development of the northwest European region represented by Prussia is much bigger than in history, the central and southern European regions represented by France and Austria have been hit harder, and Chinese commodities have been pouring into the two countries from the Mediterranean, and the cotton textile industries of the two countries have been suppressed and cannot develop, and the silk weaving industry, which has traditional advantages, has also been affected and has begun to shrink.

Britain found a way to balance the trade deficit by producing raw materials in India and exporting large quantities to China in exchange for products such as tea, Nanking cloth and silk, and the countries of Central and Southern Europe did not even have a single colony, as a result of which a large outflow of precious metals began, Austria adopted a policy of high tariffs, and France did not dare to implement even high tariffs, because Chinese companies always threatened to return Napoleon.

The contradictions caused by trade frictions are getting bigger and bigger, and if there is no other way, it is not impossible to end up in war.

In later generations, Westerners could also avoid Chinese competition by entering high-end industries, but now the middle, high and low end are in China's hands, so they can hardly find a way out. Zhou Lang was very worried about this, if it continued to develop, just like Napoleon's continental blockade policy, it would force European countries into the opposite side of China again and again, and they could only be co-opted by the British to confront China again and again.

But Zhou Lang can't find a way for these countries to export more goods to China to balance trade, allow them to raise tariffs, and give them more preferential policies, this kind of domestic industrial and commercial competition into a disadvantageous position, Zhou Lang can not accept, and his top priority now is to develop his own economy, mainly worried about the conflict caused by the inability of Western countries to balance trade, but now China is richer than in the Qianlong era, does not need foreign goods, trade seems to have fallen into a dead knot.

The British found cotton in India to meet the bottomless pit of domestic demand in China's industrialized era, and the British financial, shipping, and commercial interests benefited handsomely, and the textile industry group's demand for control of the Indian market was completely suppressed, and the British government continued to promote free trade in India and expand trade between India and China as much as possible.

The Americans continued to expand their slave plantations, the Southern economy had left the industrial North economy far behind, the southern slave owners firmly controlled the federal government, and the high tariff protection policies promoted by the industrial interests of the North were far away.

The countries of continental Europe, especially the countries on the Mediterranean coast, which have been infiltrated more strongly by Chinese goods, have shrunk step by step. There are already philosophers lamenting that old Europe is dying. All levels of society, feeling the impact from China, are extremely dissatisfied with the government, and are increasingly calling for higher tariffs.

The British fanned the flames behind the scenes, constantly pushing up public opinion on the invasion of Chinese goods, and it was at this time that the contradictions suddenly intensified.

For other reasons, an expedition of Chinese, European, Alab, and Africans hired by an African company went inland along the Niger River and found a large number of rivers containing gold.

As word spread, a large number of unemployed veterans from Europe, who had lost their jobs after the Napoleonic Wars, poured in to plunder the gold, and the gold-fanatical Europeans forgot about the power of the African corporations and ignored the territorial powers claimed by the African corporations, causing a fierce conflict.