Chapter 514: East India Company Drinking Human Blood
The name of the Dutch East India Company was familiar to Li Ningyu before his rebirth. After the Battle of Belawan between the Far East Fleet and the Dutch Asia Fleet, Li Ningyu found more information and studied the company carefully. Finally,
That one really doesn’t make sense without looking at it, and it’s shocking when you look at it.
Everything started in 1602 when the Kingdom of the Netherlands established this commercial company with certain national functions, and took the initiative to carry out colonial plunder and monopolize Eastern trade in the East. The Dutch East India Company, Pagnie in Dutch, voc for short, Chinese translation is the United East India Company
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Since the development of the Dutch East India Company, a total of 1,772 cargo ships have been dispatched to overseas areas. About 1 million Europeans have taken ships to various regions in Asia. This company has an average of 25,000 employees in each overseas base and
Twelve thousand crew members.
The most glorious example of the Dutch East India Company was from the 16th to the 18th century, through various forms of overseas colonial plunder. Among them, the Dutch authorities gave the company a 21-year monopoly to carry out colonial activities in Asia. It was also one of the most glorious companies in the world.
The first multinational company, the first commercial company to issue stocks, and the first very large group company in the world. Not only did the Dutch government hold a certain proportion of shares, but it also paid soldiers during the war and represented the Kingdom of the Netherlands with foreign countries.
Sign colonial treaties, mint your own currency, establish colonial control, and more.
Although the company was officially dissolved in 1800, its properties, debts, and overseas colonies were all taken over by the Kingdom of the Netherlands, including Dutch Indonesia.
The main reason why the Dutch East India Company was disbanded in the 18th century was because of the war between the Kingdom of the Netherlands and the British Empire at that time. During the war between the two countries, the domestic demand for Asian goods was greatly reduced, resulting in the Dutch East India Company
The company's economy experienced a local crisis, so it announced its dissolution on December 31, 1799. The company's site is the University of Amsterdam.
But after the dissolution of the Dutch East India Company, overseas companies still existed, so the Dutch East India Company was not a purely private company. Although it was the richest private company in the world, at its peak, it owned more than 1,500 large merchant ships and 40 steel warships.
, 50,000 permanent employees, and an army of more than 10,000 mercenaries.
It is said that when the subscription shares were issued, there was an immediate craze. At that time, the Dutch East India Company provided 6.5 million guilders for people to subscribe. At that time, 10 guilders was approximately equal to 1 pound. At that time, the annual salary of a senior teacher in the Netherlands was only about 280 guilders, which could make
In the end, Amsterdam alone subscribed for more than half of the shares, which shows the status of the Dutch East India Company.
At the same time, in 1619, Cohen, the nominal boss of the Dutch East India Company, was designated as the governor of the East India Company by the Kingdom of the Netherlands. It was this very far-sighted man who finally led the Dutch East India Company to invade various parts of Asia. For profit, he
Do not hesitate to use force brutally.
After Cohen came to Batavia, in order to monopolize the local clove trading rights, he directly killed or drove away the original residents there. In this way, the Dutch East India Company's trade footprint extended to the island countries of Japan, Korea, and the mainland.
area, and then drove away the Portuguese to acquire Sri Lanka. In addition, they established colonial bases in Persia, Bangladesh, Malacca, Thailand, Guangdong, Taiwan, Mara, India and other places.
If Zheng Chenggong had not driven the Dutch East India Company out of Taiwan in 1662, Taiwan's trade would have been monopolized by it.
According to the data yearbook, the Dutch East India Company began to plunder everywhere since its establishment. In 1603, it arrived in Macau through the Strait of Malacca. It failed after a war with Portugal. In 1604, it arrived in the Penghu Islands and was later driven away by the Ming Dynasty army.
, captured Ambon Island in 1607, established the East India regional headquarters in Indonesia in 1619, occupied Penghu again in 1622, and the Dutch retreated to Taiwan in 1624.
In 1638, the Dutch East India Company monopolized all trade in the island nation of Japan. In 1641, it occupied Malacca. In 1648, the Kingdom of Spain recognized the independence of the Netherlands. In 1652, a colony was established at the Cape of Good Hope. In 1662, the Netherlands surrendered and fled Taiwan. The third Java War occurred from 1704 to 1755.
War, Napoleon occupied the Netherlands in 1795, and the Dutch East India Company was dissolved in 1799.
But compared with the British East India Company, which transported opium to poison the Chinese compatriots, the Dutch East India Company's crimes were much lighter.
In the 18th century, starting from 1773, the British East India Company imported up to 900 tons of opium to China every year on average, causing a huge trade deficit between China and Britain. Although the country exported tea and silk, it still failed to prevent the serious problem of large outflows of silver.
, with the increase year by year, the amount of opium imported reached as high as 1,400 tons in 1838. The late Qing government at that time had to send Lin Zexu, the imperial envoy, to supervise the ban on opium. However, this eventually triggered the Opium War in 1840, and finally ceded Hong Kong to the United Kingdom.
Thinking of this, Li Ningyu looked angry, but fortunately, with his appearance and the rise of the Far East Group, Hong Kong and Macau are about to return to the embrace of the motherland.
Of course, in the end, it was also due to the competition with France for overseas trade monopoly that Britain and France became great enemies. Small-scale wars often broke out between the two countries to control the colonies. In 1742, because the British government was afraid that the war would cause it to face financial difficulties, it did not expect that
Eventually the skirmishes really led to a major war, the Seven Years' War from 1754 to 1763, when Britain focused its main attention on consolidating its holdings in Europe and North America.
As the war further escalated, the war between Britain and France finally spread to India, and a full-scale conflict broke out between the company's army and the French army. At that time, Britain had begun to surpass other European competitors through the Industrial Revolution. Due to the supply needs of the wartime army and economy
Involuntarily, Britain gained a large amount of raw materials. With the improvement of production methods and efficiency, the living standards of the British finally improved, and the French retreated.
Therefore, when Li Ningyu, who was sitting on the sofa and thinking quietly, thought of this, he couldn't help but feel disgusted with these two companies, but he had to face one thing, that is, after a while, he would have to work with the current Dutch company.
Representatives of the East India Company were sitting together talking and laughing, and this person was Helena's mother, Princess Emma.
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