【1218 Strategic Choices】
The biggest crisis of Huahuang now is not only the Japanese island of Kyushu, but the whole system. Pen % fun % Pavilion www.biquge.info
Once there is a gap in one place, all the great powers will come to find a gap, and China has shown a certain strength, which has also made China the target of public criticism, and no great power wants to see a country like China become strong.
Other countries need China's vast economic base to stimulate their markets, as well as goods that are cheaper than the European powers.
There is no essential difference between the current system of China and the United Kingdom and the French and other powers, but the Chinese Emperor has evolved the system to the advanced stage of imperialism in advance.
This is the development needs of China in this era, and it is also the development needs of the world.
What did Europe plunder from the colonies? Gold and silver, luxury goods, raw materials.
Gold and silver are not material wealth, but deflationary goods that prevent deflation before paper money is decoupled from precious metals.
The transfer of material wealth related to gold and silver took place within European countries, such as Spain's purchase of textiles from Britain and France: Britain and France lost their material wealth and gained benign inflation.
In a system of free competition, benign inflation stimulates technological innovation and industrial upgrading, and society becomes more developed.
Therefore, in the world of precious metals, the plundering of gold and silver indirectly stimulated the development of European and American societies.
Luxury goods (spices, diamonds, ivory, furs, etc.) are not necessarily linked to social development.
The plundering of raw materials did directly contribute to the development of Europe.
Here, "plunder" is defined as the acquisition of an item at a price less than a "fair price", such as a colonial worker being paid less than a native worker.
In the 18th century, even in Europe, the emperor was very poor: a worker worked hard for 10 hours a day to be fed and clothed, and there were a large number of child laborers and women.
So the wages were very low below the local level at that time.
In 1870, the total value of imported raw materials in Britain was about 2 million pounds, which is a staggering figure, equivalent to about 15 million taels of silver.
In other words, even at the height of the colonial era, the raw materials directly plundered amounted to only a few thousandths of GDP.
If the wages of the colonies were raised to the level of Britain itself, the raw materials obtained in this way could not be considered plundered, and Britain would pay about a few tenths of a percent of GDP for this, which would be less than a fraction of military spending.
This is one of the reasons why the Western world allowed the colonial system to collapse after the Second World War, and the other reason is of course sociological, such as the heightened awareness of human rights, because the continued occupation of the colonies is insignificant and unprofitable from the economic map.
That's why Emperor Hua put forward the Five Principles of Peaceful Coexistence at this time, and took the lead in putting himself in the position of the standard-bearer of human rights in the world.
What was the main reason for the rapid development of Europe in the 17th-19th centuries, if not plunder?
Europe's development came mainly from the Industrial Revolution. That is, to develop wealth from the bosom of "nature".
The development of the tech tree will be much more generous and wealthy than the poor people in Africa, Asia and South America.
One watt will double Britain's GDP in a short period of time, worthy of 1,000 years of global "plunder"!
Of course, in this history, Huaguo was the first country to move towards electrification!
It doesn't matter, after China moved towards electrification, the whole of Europe, as well as the United States, has also entered the electric age, and there is not much technical content to hide here.
However, the automobile industry, China has developed, and other countries are still in the dark, even the businessmen who have seen Huaguo automobiles do not realize that this will be the future to promote the world's economy.
How did the President of the United States get rich by plundering South America?
The GDP of the United States is already several times that of South America. Even if you take South America to zero, it will only be enough for you to eat and chew for a few years.
Europe is ahead of East Asia and South America in terms of development, and it is more advantageous than Europe and the United States.
When it comes to plundering the world, no one grabs the benefits of the whole world more than the Mongols.
At that time, the most developed and wealthiest places in the whole century were not Western Europe, but Arabia and China, both of which the Mongols robbed.
Did the Mongols develop their economy?
To plunder the Chinese country, no one has more advantage than the Manchus. Has the development of Eight Flags reached the economy?
Historically, the direct driving force for the development of large countries has always been the development of science and technology.
Plunder, good wind and rain (good luck), and even hardship and hard work are all auxiliary factors.
Therefore, the Chinese emperor is actually not interested in plundering land, and he can't just let it be barren after seizing it, and how many people will die if he captures a place, even if it is a very poor area?
The reason why the Chinese Emperor wanted to seize Japan at all costs was to hurt people with his own heart, and he had the intention of destroying Japan from the very beginning, and he would not have invested so ruthlessly in other places.
What is the purpose of colonization by foreigners?
Kill the natives to gain the resources of the colony and discover new crops to boost the population.
Buying and selling black slaves, forced labor.
What is the purpose of forcing dependent countries to lower tariffs and dump industrial products in large quantities?
By plundering the resources of the colonies, the foreigners completed the primitive accumulation and gave birth to the industrial revolution.
Industry needs money, people who study technology need to eat, and they are starving to death if they don't have spare money, so how can industry and science and technology develop?
And even if it seems that many countries are sovereign and independent, in fact they are heavily influenced by their suzerains economically, and they are only carried out through trade.
The world's largest colonial power could colonize the world by printing money.
This is the society that Huahuang experienced before he was reborn, and almost everyone knows it.
Therefore, the Emperor of China wants to extend his hand widely, cover the power widely, but does not require in-depth, does not require control to the head of the specific person, in the policy at the beginning of the colonization, the Emperor has been designed in advance!
The reason why Huahuang was able to make Huaguo develop rapidly was that he had a grasp of the economy, military, and policy, and he should always be in the preparation stage.
Each of the great powers had a different attitude towards their colonies.
Spain blindly plundered the Latin American colonies, which is also related to the era of Spanish colonization.
After all, the reason for supporting Columbus to go to India is to make a fortune, and then see that the Indians are stupid and have a lot of silver, and everyone will plunder it.
During the Spanish colonial era, Spain itself was still in the Middle Ages, the Inquisitors were running all over the land, and the spring breeze of the Renaissance had little influence on Spain.
The lack of perfect laws, political instability, corruption, and a single economic structure (banana republics) in Latin America have led to a century of loneliness, and they have become a non-existent state! Chile, the richest country, also relies on minerals for the most part.
Among the British colonies, except for India, Burma and other countries, there are serious ethnic contradictions, religious contradictions, and traditional culture are intertwined; The United States, Canada, Australia and other developed countries are all developed countries.
The era of British colonization was the era of the Enlightenment and even the Industrial Revolution.
The theories of Voltaire, Rousseau, etc., are not deeply rooted in the hearts of the people, but at least have a little influence.
The thirteen states in North America basically adopted autonomy, coupled with the sound legal system and political stability of the United Kingdom, the British colonies without traditional culture (Australia, the United States, Canada, etc.) naturally adopted British politics to rule or accept the British model of rule.
North America and Australia have fertile land and rich minerals, Britain has brought the prototype of a stable and efficient government, and Britain's investment in colonial industry and commerce has created a large number of developed countries.
French colonies include Vietnam, Cambodia, Laos, and Algeria.
Algeria is relatively better, Vietnam is devastated by war, Laos is a small country with devastated land, and Cambodia is devastated by the Khmer Rouge than the Nazi devastation of the Jews.
The fact that these places cannot develop has a lot to do with themselves.
Compared with Britain, at present, it poses a greater threat to the Emperor and China, and it can even be said that the biggest threat is France, because France is doing things in the South Asian Peninsula, which directly threatens the security of China itself, but the Emperor is now lacking funds, industry is just starting, and it is necessary to maintain a stable situation, otherwise France would have been educated by force!
The Emperor never looked at France in the 19th century, because the current China was no longer a decadent society under the rule of the Qing court.