Chapter 375: The Industrial Revolution

After the Chinese Empire America sent troops to capture the city of Huaruiz, they carried out the sack, but the effect was little, except for the capture of some vacant houses, shops, farms, pastures, and mines, the oil and water were minimal.

The Spaniards seemed to know the habits of the American dispatch army of the Chinese Empire, so they either transported the treasure away, or buried it secretly, so that the huge city of Huaruiz only looted less than three million silver dollars, making the officers and soldiers of the American dispatch army very faceless.

There were more than 30,000 Spanish prisoners of war in the city of Huaruiz, and the total number of prisoners before them exceeded 80,000. In addition to ordering them to work as slaves in nearby mines and farms to earn money, the temporary military administration of Huaruiz forced the Spanish men and women in the city to be separated and set up separate concentration camps, and all their property was confiscated and reduced to slavery.

This was the first time that the Chinese Imperial Army had enslaved whites since the Chinese Empire launched a colonial war. It also unravels the historical process of white people as slaves, thus opening the prelude to the domination of the world by yellow races and the simultaneous reduction of whites and blacks into slaves.

The practice of the temporary military management office in Huaruiz City was tacitly approved by the American Dispatch Force Command of the Chinese Empire, and soon spread to the whole of North America. In the occupied areas of North America, the Chinese Empire followed the example of the military administration in Huaruiz City, and used all non-Chinese races as slaves.

In Santa Fe, the Santa Fe Military Administration is even more ruthless. In addition to the slavery of all Spaniards and blacks, many Indians and foreigners who were not allied with the Chinese Empire were also imprisoned in concentration camps. At the same time, men and women are separated. Young white women and girls were shipped back home and sold at high prices, setting off the first trade in white slave girls.

Of all the slave trade, the female slave trade was the most popular. In Europe, black slave girls were not very popular, because white Europeans did not want mestizos. In the Americas, the situation is worse, take the Spaniards, in order to control the American colonies, encourage fertility, and increase the population, so the government subsidized money to Spanish immigrants, encouraging them to have offspring with local indigenous women and black slaves.

Similarly, as a newly emerging colonialist empire, the Chinese Empire had this consideration.

Population growth was a problem for the Chinese Imperial government, which had approached the 100 million mark by the end of the Shenwu decade. Among them, there are more than 83 million people in China and more than 17 million nationals who have emigrated to overseas colonies.

But this was still far from enough, the imperial government encouraged childbearing, lowered the age of childbearing to 15 years old, and those who did not marry after the age of 20 were held criminally responsible, and even some states and counties issued separate decrees on raising children at the government's expense in order to increase the population. What's more, some prefectures and counties have harsh laws and regulations, punishing those who have been married for two years without children, and those who have few children in the family are also punished.

This kind of policy seems to be drastically unreasonable today, but for the Chinese Empire at this time, it was a last resort.

More than two-thirds of the empire is sparsely populated, more than one-third of the empire is uninhabited, and the overseas colonies are in urgent need of a large number of people to fill the gap and maintain their rule after the burning and looting of colonial wars.

These problems are all brought together, and that is that the population is too small.

In response to this problem, the imperial government adopted a two-pronged long-term strategy. On the one hand, it is strictly forbidden for imperial women to marry non-Chinese men to prevent the outflow of imperial women's resources. On the other hand, the imperial government used various means to bring in foreign female resources from colonies and dependent countries on a large scale to weaken the growth rate of foreign populations.

Among them, the introduction of young women and girls to the colonial areas was enormous, mainly through the colonial plundering methods. In East Asia, more than 500,000 young Japanese women were imported into the Chinese Empire as prisoners of war every year. In various vassal states in Southeast Asia and South Asia, including Vietnam, the Taungoo Dynasty, the Siamese Dynasty, the Lancang, the Buddha Qi Kingdom, Ceylon, Sumatra and other vassal states, hundreds of thousands of women were introduced into the Chinese Empire by coercive and semi-coercive means such as worshipping the suzerains and recruiting weaver girls. In West Asia and North Africa, a large number of women from the coasts of Persia, Mangsanga, and Guli entered the country.

As far as the colonies were concerned, the imperial colonial government directly dispatched military and police to sell them directly into the empire by means of semi-forced recruitment of workers and forced arrest of slaves. Every year, more than one million women of Asian descent enter the colony. After these foreign women entered the country, most of them were sold to imperial families as concubines, and those who were unable to have children would be re-sold into the Qinglou Ji Village by their owners and reduced to Ji women.

By the 10th year of Shenmu, more than 4 million foreign women had entered the empire, and these women had brought new population growth and infant birth rates to the empire, and even prospered the prostitution business in the empire.

However, there are joys and sorrows. After a large number of foreign women joined the imperial family, it became a common phenomenon for ordinary citizens in the empire to have three wives and four concubines, which increased the contradictions between Chinese women and foreign women.

In order to improve the status of Chinese women, the imperial government promulgated new laws from the seventh year of Shenmu. The imperial government completely banned Chinese women from engaging in prostitution, but in order to promote Chinese culture, the imperial government allowed Chinese women to engage in the work of art queens, while foreign women did not have this privilege.

The long-term national policy was to weaken the foreign population and increase the population base and growth rate of the Chinese empire itself. However, in the short term, it was only possible to complete production and life through large-scale capture of slaves and hard labor.

However, due to the large population of the Chinese Empire and the continuous natural disasters in the country, a large number of immigrants could be transferred to fill the colony. However, with the rapid expansion of the colonies of the Chinese Empire, the living standards of the imperial citizens improved dramatically, and most of the people became propertied and no longer wanted to engage in coolie, dangerous and spilly work, so they urgently needed a large number of slaves to fill this gap.

This was particularly strict in the overseas colonies, where the imperial nationals accounted for 90 percent of the means of production and subsistence in the colonies, and all the imperial nationals in the past relied on the enslavement of the colonies' aborigines for production and living. Most of the annual taxes collected by the imperial government from the colonies come from these imperial nationals, so it is particularly important to indulge their servile rule in the colonies, so since the summer of the seventh year of Shenwu, the governor of Luzon announced that the original Luzon natives would be included in the slaves, and the imperial overseas colonies such as Kalimantan and Papua began to implement the slave nine-class system.

The colonial slavery system was similar to the military soldier promotion system, in which slaves were divided into three, six, and nine, with the superior being in charge of the inferior, and the superior being superior to the inferior, so as to control the obedience of all classes of slaves to the rule.

In this way, three coexisting social systems emerged in the Chinese Empire. The traditional feudal system and the emerging capitalist system coexisted in China, while the imperial overseas colonies entered the era of slavery. The North American colonies were the first to enter a system akin to a slave society

In short, the Yiqiē policy was all in the service of the colonial wars and colonial rule of the Chinese Empire. The slave trade, which was originally limited to the trade of indigenous and black people in Southeast Asia, has now been transformed into a trade in which even whites are reduced to slaves, which has greatly trampled on human rights in the seventeenth century, and the 200-year-long slave trade will become an unforgettable disaster for mankind all over the world.

A large number of slaves were used in manors, pastures, mines, and factories, and then spread to all walks of life in the Chinese Empire, which greatly promoted the rapid development of various industries in the Chinese Empire.

By the end of the Shenwu decade, the number of domestic companies in the Chinese Empire had surged to more than 30,000, covering all walks of life, making it the world's largest capitalist economy. However, compared with the traditional feudal economy of the empire, such as farms, pastures, textiles, iron smelting, and salt making, it is still a small thing, and it is very far behind.

Generally speaking, the empire's economy was still a mixed economic system dominated by feudal economy and supplemented by capitalist economy.

However, the economic thinking of the Chinese Empire was changing, and the economic model of male ploughing and female weaving was gradually changing.

Due to the wealth of the empire, the ordinary peasants of the empire did not need to pay agricultural taxes and other exorbitant taxes. This not only solved the problem of the peasants' livelihood, but also allowed the peasants to have surplus money in their hands, which could be used to purchase commercial and industrial products, which greatly stimulated the development and growth of the empire's commerce.

At the same time, the more money the peasants had to spare, the more land they possessed, and they soon changed from peasants to landlords, and with the large-scale use of slaves, they changed from landlords to large manor owners and large farm and ranch owners.

The identity of the peasants in the empire changed, they all became the propertied class, so they gradually stopped working, and the traditional economic mode of male ploughing and female weaving naturally collapsed, and they became capitalists who exploited slaves.

After becoming capitalists, they became more money, and the pursuit of luxury led them to buy more things, which stimulated various industrial and commercial companies in the empire to expand their production scale, and then produced more, better, and cheaper goods, and promoted the continuous development and growth of all walks of life in the empire, and the technology became more and more advanced.

The continuous progress of technology, in the end, led to fierce competition in all walks of life in the Chinese Empire in order to pursue profits, and companies and enterprises from all walks of life have invested in the research and development of advanced equipment and technology, and finally led to the first industrial outbreak of the Chinese Empire.

In the summer of the tenth year of Shenwu, the salt merchants in the south of the Yangtze River of the Chinese Empire took the lead in initiating the industry.

Due to the fact that the imperial government allowed private salt production by the people, the salt industry of the empire underwent heavy changes, and the salt merchants monopolized the salt industry, which made the price of salt in the empire remain high. Since the empire encouraged individual citizens to produce salt privately, it has brought fierce competition to the traditional salt merchants, forcing them to lower the price of salt, and their profits have plummeted.

The trend of a sharp decline in the price of salt continued unabated, and more and more people of the empire invested in the salt industry, leading the empire's salt production to soar, and the inventory backlog was strict, and even if the salt merchants stopped production for a year, the empire's salt would still not be in short supply.

The continuous decline in the price of salt has led to almost zero profits, especially the big salt merchants, who cannot afford such huge losses.

As a result, the salt merchants began to seek cooperation with each other, and several salt factories merged to form joint-stock companies, reducing the number of slaves, rationalizing the use of production tools and means of production, and reducing costs.

Their actions gradually led to the entire salt industry, Jiangnan salt merchants formed a business association, set up a 700 people to join the Jiangnan Salt Co., Ltd., all shareholders will be personnel and means of production centralized deployment, the cost will be greatly reduced, turn losses into profits. The small folk workshops gradually could not compete with them, and they were slowly merged.

Following Jiangnan, Jiangbei, Shandong, Tokyogi, Northeast China, and South China formed large regional salt trust companies to compete with it. In this way, the salt merchants were resurrected and took the lead in the primary industry of survival of the fittest**.

However, while salt merchants from the sea have formed large salt companies to reduce costs, inland salt merchants have not been able to carry out this kind of trust-style joint production.

The inland salt merchants relied on well salt and lake salt for production, and they could not compete with the coastal sea salt merchants, relying on the underdeveloped inland transportation to balance the competitive disadvantage.

Nowadays, the price of salt in the country is too low, and the profit is almost zero, and after the industrial integration of the coastal salt merchants, the inland salt merchants suddenly lose money and close their doors in large numbers.

However, the inland salt merchants near Qinghai Lake were not willing to fail. The big salt merchants of Yanchi unexpectedly got to know the mechanics of the Imperial Longjiang Shipyard and learned that the Imperial Longjiang Shipyard used steam engines for shipbuilding, which could save a lot of manpower and time.

So, they introduced steam engines from the Longjiang Shipyard to the salt ponds, which were used to pump water from the well and lake salts to the terraces on the mountains.

Originally, the original purpose of the steam engine was to pump water, but after more than ten years of technological improvement in the empire, the power of the steam engine was greatly increased, and it was a piece of cake to pump water.

As a result, the salt merchants in Yanchi immediately purchased steam engines and water pipeline equipment produced by the Jiangnan Machinery Factory of the Chinese Empire on a large scale, and transported them back to Yanchi and put them into the salt factory.

With a large number of steam engines pumping brine into the terraced fields on the mountain, the salt-making process in the salt pond was reduced by two-thirds, and only a few workers and technicians who added coal to the steam engine could complete the work used by hundreds of slaves to carry water, which greatly reduced the expenses and resurrected the salt merchants in the salt pond.

Soon, inland salt merchants followed suit, introduced and upgraded machine equipment, and also completed the industry, which could compete with coastal salt merchant groups.

After the rise of the industry from the salt industry, it was out of control, and the people of the empire began to realize the huge ideological impact brought by the steam engine, and changed the thinking that all relied on human work in the past.

For the first time, the application of the steam engine was transferred from the imperial military industrial enterprises to private enterprises, and brought huge profit margins to private enterprises.

With the gradual understanding of the working mode of the imperial people, all walks of life have gradually changed their production mode, from the traditional manual work to the operation mode of the large factory, which gradually laid the foundation for the large-scale industrial development of the empire.

In fact, the industries of the Chinese Empire** first appeared in the Imperial Shipyards. When wooden warships were first built, as long as there were enough skilled workers, no matter how large the ship, it could be built in the end. However, as the empire began to work with steam engines, hydraulic presses, and other machines, the construction of all-steel warships was no longer something that could be done by manpower alone, but had to be done with powerful steam engines and hydraulic presses.

However, this kind of industry that occurs in the military industry is not a real national industry, because it is only used for war consumption and does not belong to the national industry that serves the people's livelihood.

Although it is only a primary industry, it is very rare for the Chinese Empire.

Deng Haonan originally thought that the industry and industry of the Chinese Empire would occur in the textile industry or the shipbuilding industry, but he did not expect that it would first happen in the salt industry.

The textile industry in the empire did not take the lead in the industry**, mainly because the colonial wars of the empire brought huge slave resources. A considerable number of female slaves captured and abducted from vassal countries and colonies entered the textile industry of the empire, making the labor cost of the textile handicraft workshops of the empire almost zero, and the profit margin was still huge, so the workshop owners of the textile industry did not think of the problem of industrial integration and reorganization and expansion of production scale.

However, Deng Haonan is not worried. He knows that now that the industry has begun, as the textile industry, they are the most vulnerable. It won't be long before the textile industry will set off the industry, and then detonate the industry, which is an inevitable trend of history and cannot be stopped.

The Chinese Empire achieved great military successes and economic take-off, but also underwent changes in politics.

Qian Qianyi and other cabinet ministers jointly wrote to Emperor Shenwu, asking Emperor Shenwu to accept marriage requests from affiliated royal families such as Persia, Dongoo, and Vietnam.

At this time, Deng Haonan already had a queen and five imperial concubines, Deng Haonan knew the principle of being greedy and chewing too much, so since he ascended the throne as emperor, he has not chosen a concubine. The selection of national colors in previous years was cancelled, which caused some dissatisfaction among the civil and military ministers of the Manchu Dynasty.

Since ancient times, the emperor has seventy-two concubines in three palaces and six courtyards, and three thousand beauties in the harem, which seems to be the emperor's own vanity, but in fact it is not.

The emperor building a huge harem is equivalent to attracting a huge family of relatives, which is extremely important for stabilizing the throne.

Each selected national color represents a family and a force after that.

At this time, the family power and relatives of Emperor Deng Haonan of Shenwu were not strong, but they were actually very weak, which caused concern among old politicians such as Qian Qianyi.

Deng Haonan's family power is only him, and the other four relatives have almost no power except for Concubine Rui and Concubine Xiao.

In this way, the power of the royal family is very thin, and Deng Haonan's personal power alone is not enough to stabilize the entire court situation for a long time. Especially now that the empire is engaged in colonial wars everywhere, the colonies that have been defeated need to appoint colonial governors. At present, Deng Haonan's personal power can still control them, but it is difficult to say Deng Haonan's descendants. M