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Chapter 33 of the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom, the three treasures of the British Empire

Although Haifeng said at the beginning that he had never supported it. ★ A complete ★ novel can't make an Indian. But in the end, however, he threw out the hand of urging India to negotiate peace with Britain. Bourblon's first mission was a logical one.

After all, an old friend is an old friend, and Bulon can always appreciate the sincerity of an old friend at a critical moment. So much so that this time he was the same as ever. I want to repay. But he didn't know how to repay his old friend for his kindness. But. Lin Haifeng's kindness to him did not end there. And the good things that surprised Bourblon even more followed.

Speaking of which. India is second only to China in terms of land area in Asia. Economically, it used to be very unusual. The country is a big agricultural country. And it. It used to be one of the world's largest cotton weaving countries. Before the British colonists entered. India, which has been exporting its cotton fabrics to the world. And it has been exported for hundreds of years.

It's a pity. Ever since the British set foot on this piece of their land. As soon as qiē it all changed.

The degree of the output cotton fabric. It has become a supermarket for cotton fabrics in the UK. Enter the fifties of the tenth century. India is proud to provide cotton fabrics to the world. It's no longer their cotton fabrics that are exported. It is a large quantity of raw cotton and wool and more than a quarter of the total value of the United Kingdom's total cotton exports. It is all digested by India. Under the ravages of the British colonists. India's national textile industry was completely destroyed. It became a real vassal of the industrial raw materials of the British.

Man has argued. The reason why the British were able to lead the world's industrial revolution. And became a "empire on which the sun never sets", the root of which is that they have mastered the three ** treasures of the primitive accumulation stage.

The first is the so-called "enclosure movement". Lift up the enclosure movement. At the initial stage of capitalist development in any country. None of them were used (when the Manchus colonized China. I've used this hand before. At that time, it seemed like a horse race. Whose land does it matter. As long as the Manchu princes and nobles rode their horses and ran down in a circle. A qiē in a circle formed by a horse. It became the private property of the horse runners).

But in the country. This movement is the most thorough and typical.

Back at the end of the fifteenth century. The British cotton textile industry has become one of the fastest growing production systems in the country. Its products not only have a broad market at home but also abroad. The rapid development of the wool industry. This expands the demand for wool. Thereupon. The price of wool has risen steadily. Sheep farming. This ensued an extremely profitable production1.

It is said that Chinese like Zaer. I always love to do everything. In fact. The same is true of the English, who are still in the stage of primitive accumulation of capital. In a word. No one wants to worry about money.

So driven by interests. The big lords and the owners of the farms. In addition to turning their own arable land into pasture. He also racked his brains in various ways and ways to expand the scale of his territory. They spared no effort in their means. They wantonly plundered the land owned by others and others, demolished and burned the farmhouses and villages in their vicinity, and forcibly forced the peasants to leave their homes. Fence with a fence. Enclosed large tracts of land and turned them into pastures that produced wealth for them.

The British government leader-1 has not studied Das Kapital. But we understand this truth:

In order for the mode of production based on big capital to be established and prosperous, which can make the country truly powerful, it is necessary to first make a part of the people rich. That is, it is necessary to enable a small number of people to concentrate in their hands the vast amount of money necessary for the production of capital. Secondly. It is also necessary to have a large number of. They can also be given personal freedom in certain circumstances. But it must be a laborer who has lost a qiē means of production. It's just cornered. hired workers who can only rely on selling their labor power. And these two conditions are formed at the same time. Left the means of using violence. That's unimaginable.

So while the big landowners and farmers began a bloody wave of violent demolitions, the British government did not lose the opportunity to publicly issue a decree to support the legalization of land enclosures. and promulgated all sorts of laws that were also bloody. They did not hesitate to use whipping, branding, imprisonment, and cutting off their ears. and all kinds of cruel punishments, such as the death penalty. Farmers who had lost the land on which they depended were forbidden to wander. And force them to become wage workers in sweatshops. Forcing them not to accept this so-called accompli system of wage labor.

By the XVIII century. The movement of the earth unfolded more violently. In this hundred years. The British government has more than 2,200 enclosure laws in common with guò. A total of 3.49 million acres of land were encircled. Since then. On the land of England. The yeoman farmers were completely wiped out. And those capitalists. It has a large number of cheap labor.

This was the first root cause of the British development - the "enclosure movement".

The second magic weapon of the United Kingdom. That is the African "black slave trade".

The forties of the fifteenth century. The Portuguese colonists brought back to Europe the blacks they had hunted off the coast of West Africa to be sold. Thus the slave trade was pioneered.

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The Western colonizers implemented a series of inhumane "race1 tactics on the continent." There was a widespread shortage of labor in the mines and plantations. Due to the special adaptability of black Africans to work in tropical climates. It also has the technology to grow tropical crops. Thereupon. The first black slaves were shipped to the Americas.

In the first years of the XVI century. The Spanish royal family officially issued slave trade to the country's "merchants" who were involved in the slave trade. The slave trade is a rare evil in ancient times. It has finally become a legitimate "industry" supported by the government. The slave trade began to spread.

Thereafter. The power of the British colonists broke into Spanish America. Due to the urgent need here for a large amount of cloth and capable "". The cloth is made in the UK. Black slaves were easily purchased from Africa. The great opportunity contained in this gave birth to the first slave trader who dared to be the first to be the first in the British world. His name was Johos.

One mention of John Hawkins. 1 is definitely a famous figure in the history of the British Empire.

Not only did the Hawkins win the British jackpot in the industry for the slave trade. Thus fame in the history of the British Empire. Meantime. His cousin Drake. Nor did he dare to plunder the ships of the Spanish Empire at sea and its lands. And famous in the history of piracy in the world.

Even more serious is the evil deeds of cousin Hanhawkins this qiē. Later, they all had the strong support of the Queen of England. And because of the pirate-like raids of the British led by these two brothers, the king of the Spanish Empire finally decided to go on an expedition to England. This led to a naval battle between Britain and Spain. The result was a crushing defeat for the Spanish Empire's Armada at the hands of the British, and British maritime supremacy was established.

I was already coveting the huge windfall profits brought by the slave trade. The itchy Englishman who watched others get rich from the "black slaves". Now it has taken solid maritime supremacy. The evil of the slave trade was uncontrollable.

Under the escort of the majestic army and navy. British merchant ships loaded various British industrial goods from ports such as Liverpool and Bristol. Make a beeline for the coast of West Africa. There they unloaded 1 cargo. Loaded with batches of "black slaves". Set sail again. He went to the West Indies and sold the "black slaves" on the ship to the owners of the plantations in need of labor. The cabin was then filled with cane sugar tobacco, beloved by the British and even Europeans. And their favorite drink of rum is to return home.

From the middle of the XVII century. By the beginning of the eighteenth century. This untold amount of huge profits drove the British slave fleet. With the one below the deck, they were chained together and curled up in a space only more than seventy centimeters high. The black slaves, who were "like books on the shelf", walked on this route for nearly a lifetime and a half. It became the world's number one slave trading country.

In total, nearly 3.5 million African "black slaves" were trafficked by British merchant ships during this period, accounting for more than one-third of the total slave trade.

According to a record from 1768. At that time, the total number of "black slaves" sold by all European slave ships was 97,100. And in the midst of this. Only the British themselves. Fifty-three thousand one hundred people were trafficked. It actually accounts for more than a lot-

The products of manufacturing were first exchanged from Africa, and then to the West Indies for sugar, tobacco and liquor. You can also go to Brazil to change yellow. It can also be used for industrial raw materials such as cotton and wood. And at the same time. The North American colonies owned by themselves. It also became a large logistical supply base for those plantations in the West Indies. Fish, timber, horses, rice, and so on were delivered in a steady stream. The proceeds can then be used to buy their own goods.

It is impossible not to admit it. This is a perfectly perfect commercial chain unearthed by the clever British. Every link in this chain. All of them are an extension of the export market for domestic products. And the reason why this circulation can run smoothly in an infinite circulation. The crux of it is the millions of miserable slaves.

The fate of the slaves was tragic. But the many slave traders who made a "slave" fortune. It's not tragic. They turn back and light yì the money earned. It is also heavily used for its domestic investment. Adequacy of private capital. 1. It has promoted the sustained and stable development of domestic industry.

A national adventurer named Anthony Bacon. It was during the eight years from 1768 to 1776. Tong guò his "hard and hard struggle". Relying on the sale of "black slaves" alone, he earned more than 70,000 British. And it was this bloody first gold. This eventually made him a famous tycoon in the iron industry of the British Empire. Among the gentlemen of high height.

As a rising star, Ying Yi is really happy to participate in the big cause of the "black slave" trade.

It is no wonder that an English gentleman more than 200 years ago could not help but make such a heartfelt statement:

"There are many shipping businesses to and from the New World, small livelihoods for seafarers, and jobs for British manufacturing. These are largely due to black labor...... For this nation. The black trade was an inexhaustible fund of wealth and naval power. ”

The last law that allowed Britain to flourish was colonial expansion.

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