How can the Netherlands repair diplomatic relations with Matalan?
Fight first!
The Sultan of Matalan, Ledeng Langsang, was a man of great talent and strategy. He resisted the Dutch invasion externally, developed law, culture, calendar, and economy internally, and expanded the territory to its peak. However, the Sultan died last year, and with the Dutch
Governor Van Diemen died of illness at about the same time.
The successor was Sultan Amon Gutra I, who liked luxury and was cruel.
The Dutch strategy is very simple, let the warships continue to plunder the other party's trade fleet. Although the Matalan Kingdom is based on Java, its territory includes many islands. Once the fleet suffers huge losses, the domestic inter-island trade will be over.
Not only will the economy suffer a heavy blow, but the central government's dominance over the islands will also weaken.
Coupled with the fact that the current Sultan is greedy for pleasure and the economy is in recession, he will inevitably increase his efforts to exploit the people.
In this way, an uprising will break out in the Matalan Kingdom, and the Netherlands will jump out to help the Sudan quell the rebellion, and then tie the Sudan to a Dutch chariot.
In this way, wouldn't it establish friendly diplomacy with the Matalan country?
Historically, this is what the Netherlands did. The rebel army once captured the capital... And the Netherlands not only controlled the current Sudan, but also launched three succession wars, dividing the country of Matalan into two, and both countries became the Netherlands.
of vassalage.
Looking at the British at this time, they were extremely jealous of the Dutch colony of Batavia and wanted to build a large commercial city on the island of Java.
Therefore, the British also set their sights on the Matalan country, and together with the Dutch, they tried their best to rob the merchant ships of Matalan.
In less than two months, in the face of the double aggression of the Netherlands and the United Kingdom, the inter-island trade of the Matalan Kingdom collapsed. Seeing this, the Banten Kingdom actually sent troops to invade Matalan, and the Java Island was plunged into war.
A large number of war prisoners were sold to China.
These captives, including some nobles from the White Matalan Kingdom, are descendants of Arab merchants.
Especially the aristocratic girls were first sold to Batavia and Banten, where there were manors of Chinese businessmen. The Chinese businessmen invited scholars from the Ming Dynasty to teach these aristocratic girls how to speak Chinese, and also taught them music, chess, calligraphy and painting. After a year or two,
You can pretend to be a Persian girl, ship it back to China and sell it at a very high price.
Colonies, where evil breeds.
After the rebel army of the Matalan Kingdom appeared, the rebel army also joined the slave trade. They broke into the towns, robbed the nobles' belongings, and captured the noble women. No matter what their skin color was, the richer they were, the whiter their skin color was. They sold them to
The higher the prices for Chinese merchants.
The Spanish, who were crazy about poverty, were also expanding the slave trade. The natives of the southern Philippines archipelago, as long as they did not convert to Christianity, would face Spanish attacks, and prisoners of war would be sold to China in droves.
Then, the price of slaves collapsed, and low-level slaves could be bought in Macau with only one or two silver dollars.
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Songjiang Prefecture, Huating County.
Liu Chuanzong could not survive in the Nanjing police system. The emperor knew this and appointed him to the Metropolitan Procuratorate as an honest official.
Although he is only the lowest-level anti-corruption officer, starting from the ninth rank, compared with the previous small patrol police, he is already a carp leaping over the dragon's gate.
It was only two months after he was transferred to the Metropolitan Procuratorate. After getting familiar with the work, Liu Chuanzong accompanied him to Songjiang Prefecture.
This time, we are not investigating official corruption, but rather understanding the situation of the textile industry in the Jiangnan region. It is a special mission arranged by the emperor. Not only the clerks of the Metropolitan Procuratorate, but also Xu Ying's black-clad guards are involved.
"A few angels please!" Xu Zhiyuan said with a smile.
"I'm sorry for bothering you, my consort." The officials in black and white uniforms bowed collectively.
The consort Xu Zhiyuan and the eldest princess Zhao Zhenlan have moved back to Huating County from Nanjing.
The reason is very simple. Xu Zhiyuan opened a new factory and used steam engines extensively. He had to go back to Huating to watch it in person, and at the same time carefully summarized the pros and cons of steam engine textiles so that he could make improvements accordingly.
As soon as Mei Zhuyou entered the factory, she felt so big. This prince-in-law was really a rich man.
Xu Zhiyuan introduced as he walked: "There are three main processes for spinning cotton into cotton cloth, namely: ginning, spinning, and weaving. In the factory below, there are no ginning workers. Ginning is done by farmers or small workshops.
Do."
Ginning is to ginning cotton into cotton lint, and the traditional tool is a churning machine.
Spinning is to spin cotton sliver into cotton yarn, and the traditional tool is a spinning wheel.
Weaving is to weave cotton yarn into cotton cloth, and the traditional tool is a loom.
While Mei Zhuyou was inspecting the textile factory, Liu Chuanzong and others were investigating the rural areas of Jiangnan.
It was the cotton harvest season at this time. Although production was reduced in large areas, rural areas were still very busy and were not affected by the impact of steam engines.
After cotton farmers harvest cotton, they cut the cotton to remove seeds, comb and remove impurities, and use cotton bows to flick the cotton. If there is a truck mixer at home, they roll it into cotton lint or even cotton sliver; if there is no truck mixer, they make cotton sliver
The cotton is sold to small workshops in the town.
There are also two types of truck mixers. One is the traditional truck mixer, which requires three people to operate at the same time. The other is the new truck mixer, which has been around since the Tianqi years and can be operated by just one person. However, it has obvious shortcomings that cannot be popularized. After improvements in recent years,
It just slowly became popular.
More and more carpenters have learned to make new types of mixers.
It is difficult to protect invention patents for improved truck mixers. Carpenters are hired all over the countryside to build new mixers for their own use. Can officials go door to door to impose fines?
Seeing someone removing seeds and impurities in the yard, Liu Chuanzong walked over and asked: "Fellow, how is the harvest this year?"
Everyone was busy at work, and the woman looked at Liu Chuanzong curiously, but did not answer due to the difference between men and women.
The old farmer worked quickly and said with a smile: "Are the guests here to collect cotton lint or cotton yarn?"
Liu Chuanzong said: "Take them all."
The old farmer said with emotion: "There is a severe drought this year and the cotton harvest is not good. If the customer wants to harvest cotton, the price must be higher, otherwise we will not sell it."
Liu Chuanzong asked: "Now there is a new machine that can burn coal to spin yarn. The price of cotton yarn dropped last year. Do you still spin yarn yourself?"
"The price of cotton yarn dropped last year because the cotton harvest was good. What does it have to do with the new machine? Don't try to trick me." The old farmer clearly regarded Liu Chuanzong as a profiteer.
This is also one of the reasons for the price reduction of cotton yarn. Last year, not only the cotton harvest in the south of the Yangtze River was bumper, but also in Shandong, which is gradually recovering its vitality. This resulted in a huge price drop for cotton yarn throughout China.
If production is cut this year, it will definitely increase again.
Liu Chuanzong asked: "With the arrival of this new machine, have farmers made less money?"
The old farmer said: "That's it."
In the factory.
Xu Zhiyuan said: “During the early Ming Dynasty, the speed of spinning was far behind that of weaving. After water-powered spinning, the situation eased slightly. Only in towns near large waterwheels, the speed of weaving was slower than that of weaving.
It was impossible to spin. Later, some craftsmen improved the spinning wheel and managed to increase the spinning speed."
The situation of the textile industry in the late Ming Dynasty was that the looms were too advanced and the spinning wheels were seriously hindered. When weaving, we ran out of yarn as we weaved, and the cotton yarn was always robbed by merchants.
"This is the steam spinning machine." Xu Zhiyuan pointed forward.
Everyone looked up and saw workers shoveling coal in front of several large stoves. The boilers were working to drive the spinning machines.
Mei Zhuyou asked: "How does the steam spinning machine work?"
Xu Zhiyuan smiled bitterly and said: "It's not that bad. To be honest, I already regret it. The steam engine, like the waterwheel, can only spin coarse yarn. If you want fine yarn, you have to let the workers use the spinning wheel to finish it again."
During the process of spinning cotton sliver into cotton yarn, it is necessary to continuously twist it so that the yarn sliver has a certain strength without breaking.
With the cooperation of steam engines and workers, fine spinning is temporarily impossible and only semi-finished roving can be spun.
Then a traditional spinning wheel is used to finish the roving to make the cotton yarn thinner and make the cotton fibers straight and parallel.
Xu Zhiyuan took everyone to the warehouse and saw many women queuing there.
Xu Zhiyuan explained: "They are all peasant women from nearby villages and towns. After they finish spinning their own cotton, they go to the factory to get roving, spin it into fine yarn at home, and then send it to the factory. But the steam loom is very easy to use and the spinning speed is really fast.
, the spinning speed cannot keep up at all. Since the completion of my steam factory, no farmers in the three surrounding towns have spun cloth, and they all help my factory to spin yarn. Even so, there is still not enough cotton yarn."
The traditional handicraft industry that Zhao Han was worried about was being destroyed. This situation has not happened yet, but is developing in the opposite direction.
The emergence of steam looms caused cotton yarn to be in short supply.
Today's farmers no longer weave their own cloth, but are all engaged in ginning and spinning. Their income has thus increased, and they can sell more yarn no matter how much they spin. The only worry is that there is not enough cotton. The worries of the steam factory owners are:
It means there is not enough cotton yarn.
"Those who burn boilers, aren't they Chinese?" Mei Zhuyou asked, pointing to the workers with darker skin.
Mei Zhuyou asked again: "Among the textile workers, are there any workers from Nanyang?"
Xu Zhiyuan laughed and said: "The hired workers in Nanyang are all very stupid. How dare you let them touch spinning wheels and looms? Even if you want to burn a boiler, you have to be taught repeatedly. They are all as stupid as pigs."
Mei Zhuyou walked over and asked a Nanyang slave: "Where are you from?"
The slave shook his head.
Mei Zhuyou asked again: "How are you doing?"
The slave grinned and said, "Okay."
This is not a lie. Burning boilers in a factory and having food every day is better than living in Nanyang. Nowadays, there is no electric light, so no work is done at night, and workers cannot be forced to work fifteen or six hours.
The number of working hours depends entirely on the length of the day.
The extension of working hours of British textile workers coincided with the development of lighting equipment. Before the invention of electric lights, there were Algonquin lamps, gas lamps, etc., which enabled workers to work at night.
Early winter.
More than a dozen investigation reports were placed in front of Zhao Han.
The emergence of the steam engine did not destroy the small farmer economy and traditional handicraft industry. Instead, it promoted the development of traditional handmade textiles and increased the income of spinning farmers. This status quo surprised Zhao Han. He even thought that technology would no longer advance and maintain this state.
The status quo is best.
Once the steam engine could spin fine yarn, it would definitely be a huge blow to textile manufacturers.
The use of foreign slaves has become common in several southern provinces, which is far beyond Zhao Han's expectation.
Especially the gentry in the south of the Yangtze River had several Nanyang female slaves at home, and there were also many male slaves working in the fields.
In the winter of this year, another imperial edict was issued: foreign male employees were not allowed to get married and have children in China. Foreign female employees were encouraged by the government to get married. After getting married and having children, their household registration would be in the husband's family, and their status would be the same as that of a Chinese citizen, and they would no longer pay additional head taxes.
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Once this order came out, it further stimulated the slave trade, and a large number of female slaves were sold to the north where women were scarce!
Many northern men who cannot marry a wife save money to buy Nanyang women. Anyway, the lowest price only costs a few yuan, and according to the imperial edict, they can still settle in the government normally. I will provide you with the fastest update, 596 [Social situation
