Ding Yunyi finally walked into the Shimadzu family governor's house.
Shimazu Mitsujiu was not dead, he became a prisoner shamefully... When he saw Ding Yunyi, he was crestfallen and silent, but his wife Sandaiko was much more courageous than him... Sir, Mr. Qi Yumu
Here we are." Before Ding Yunyi could breathe a sigh of relief, Duan Saner came in and said.
"Oh, so fast?" Ding Yunyi was startled, and then said: "Please come in quickly."
Qi Yumu was specially transferred to Satsuma from Taiwan.
War is just a means to achieve an end. The Satsuma Domain has now fallen into the hands of Ding Yunyi. How to maximize its development...or more accurately, "plunder" is what Ding Yunyi needs to consider most at the moment.
"Congratulations to the main town, congratulations to the main town for a successful battle!" Qi Yumu said with a smile upon seeing him.
"Yu Mu, you're welcome, come in quickly." Ding Yunyi ignored the pain in his body and asked Qi Yumu to sit down, and then drove the others out, leaving only himself and Qi Yumu: "Yu Mu, let's not talk.
That's all nonsense. I made it very clear to you when I went on the expedition. This time I sent troops to the Satsuma Domain, firstly to avenge the waves, secondly to save Zheng Zhilong's family, and thirdly, how to
I want the Satsuma Domain to be used by me."
Qi Yumu nodded: "I know what the main town means. I think the main town already has an overall plan in mind, right?"
Ding Yunyi was silent for a moment: "We already have a colonial Voyage Island, and now the Satsuma Domain is our second one... Qi Yumu said indirectly: "General Town. I have some experience in how to govern the local area, but I really don't know how to govern the colony.
... Ding Yunyi knew that what he was telling the truth, and after thinking about it carefully for a while, he said: "Yu Mu, in fact, the problem of this colony is not very difficult to solve. Countries such as Hongyi, Qianlasi, and Franco are all
They all started by relying on colonies... The main trade objects of the Thai and Western countries are the East, especially silk, gems, spices and other luxury goods from the Ming Dynasty, India and the Southeast Asian Islands... Due to their relationship with
The trade in the East was monopolized by Venice and Genoa. Countries across the West decided to explore the route to the East on their own. The first to explore the route to the East was Francois and dried wax silk. In the eleventh year of Hongzhi in the Ming Dynasty, Vasco da Gama
Arriving in India via the Cape of Good Hope. In order to ensure that trade with India was not interfered by the Mughal Empire, Oman and the princely states along the Indian Ocean, the Francons established their first colony in Goa during the Zhengde period and built a fortress.
Equipped with troops to protect the safety of Franconian merchants, and at the same time occupied some islands and coastal strongholds on the coast of Africa. As a supply station on the way to India... He said this with a slight change of breath: "Because the route to the East via the Cape of Good Hope has been blocked
The Francons had a monopoly, and the Ganrusi people had to go west to find a new route to the East. The Ganrusi people had a navigator named Columbus. After discovering the American continent, the Ganrusi people began to conquer and conquer the Americas.
The colonial movement eliminated various empires established by the Indians in a very short period of time and established extremely vast colonies. Through the so-called papal arbitration, the Francons also gained an area on the American continent east of the 50th longitude west.
A very large colony.
Because the areas conquered by Dry Silk were rich in gold and silver, a large amount of precious metals flowed into Western Europe through Dry Silk, stimulating price changes and industrial and commercial development in other areas of Western Thailand. At the same time, new consumer goods such as coffee, cocoa, tea, tobacco, cane sugar, and potatoes were introduced into Western Europe.
The eating habits of the Thai people have also changed significantly, resulting in an increase in demand for these consumer goods, which has prompted the development of cash crops in the newly conquered vast areas of America... Qi Yumu listened very carefully,
Ding Yunyi also told his subordinates everything he knew about the colonial history.
Later, Britain and France captured the Caribbean islands from the Gansu people. The Red Barbarians captured the Natal area on the northeastern coast of Brazil from the Francois. The Francois captured the Madeira Islands in Africa.
The black slave plantation system pioneered in the Cape Verde Islands was introduced to these areas controlled by the British, French and Dutch, and the demand for labor increased sharply. And due to the brutal massacre of the native Indians by the colonists, especially the Ganrasi people, the Indians
The number of workers dropped sharply from 50 million to 4 million, so the Spanish colonists had to find new sources of labor from Africa.
The Francons used the Berbers as slaves in the Franconian territory a long time ago, and the Gansu people began to transport black Africans into the Americas. The demand for slave trade prompted the two countries, as well as the British, Red Barbarians,
France, Denmark and other countries built many trading stations along the coast of West Africa to sell slaves, ivory, gold and pepper.
However, because the coast of West Africa is inaccessible, and the local landform and climate are not suitable for the Thai people to live in, in the following centuries, the Thai colonization of Africa was limited to a few coastal strongholds. From the Thai and Western countries to these colonies
Names - Gold Coast, Ivory Coast, Slave Coast...
These colonies in West Africa are basically resource-grabbing colonies.
With the discovery of the New World, the Atlantic Ocean replaced the Mediterranean Sea and became the only route for commercial traffic, leading to the decline of traditional commercial cities in Italy and the Hanseatic League in northern Germany, as well as the decline of the traditional commercial cities in Italy and the Hanseatic League in northern Germany, as well as the decline of the British, French, and Red Barbarians.
The economic rise of these countries facing the Atlantic Ocean.
The British initially tried to open up the Eastern trade route through Russia, and established the Moscow Company for this purpose. Soon after, they discovered that Russia had no direct commercial contacts with the East, so they turned to the northwest route and tried to go to the East via northern North America. In 1588, the British defeated Dry Silk
After the Armada, they began to colonize North America and established the Hudson's Bay Company and the New England Colony. In 1600, British merchants established the British East India Company, and then began to expand in India. After the war, the Netherlands quickly
It developed into the world's largest maritime and commercial country. It established the Dutch East India Company in 1602 and gradually monopolized trade with the Ming Dynasty, India, Japan, Ceylon and the Spice Islands. France established the New France colony in North America and
The Caribbean Sea occupies several islands that are strategically important and rich in sugar.
As Britain carried out commercial cultivation of tobacco and cotton in the North American colonies and France needed to transport manpower to the sugar cane plantations on the Caribbean islands, the need for slaves in both countries was also increasing. In 1526, Britain began the slave trade.
Soon after, Hongyi and Denmark, as active trade transit countries, also joined the slave trade, trying to share the benefits.
Countries such as Sweden, Brandenburg, Hamburg, and Courland were also engaged in the slave trade during this period and occupied some strongholds on the African coast. Since the local economy in West Africa was mainly based on gathering and hunting, food production was limited.
In order to provide food for the slaves during the long-distance trade, agricultural areas were opened around these strongholds, and sweet potatoes, yams and other food crops were introduced from Europe and the Americas.
The colonial management methods of the Western countries in the Americas are basically the same. That is, they are treated differently from the mainland, and governors or deputy kings representing the king are sent to the colonies. The economic development of the colonies is curbed and supervised. They are forced to plant a single cash crop needed by the mother country, and mining is highly
developed, other industrial development has stagnated, and even basic consumer goods such as agricultural tools and clothing cannot be produced. The mother country exports products from the colonies for free or at low prices, and even causes deflation in the colonies and has to borrow other countries' currencies...
After listening carefully to this, Qi Yumu let out a long sigh: "Now I finally know how these Thai and Western countries became powerful."
"Yeah..." Ding Yunyi nodded silently.
In fact, whether it is the Netherlands, Portugal, or Spain, they are still insignificant compared with the increasingly powerful British plunder of Indian colonies in the future.
British colonial rule over India was gradually established during the war of conquest. After the East India Company occupied Bengal, it used the Nawab as a puppet to rule. Then it implemented a "dual management system": the Nawab authority managed civil affairs
, the company controlled the power to expropriate land. In 1773, the British Parliament passed the "India Administration Act", which stipulated that the British government would appoint the governor of the British Indian Territory, and the "dual administration system" ended. In 1784, the British Parliament passed the "Improving East India Company"
and the British Indian Territory Administration Act". According to this act, the cabinet appointed a committee of inspectors to deal with all major problems in India; although the power to appoint all civil and military personnel still belonged to the company's board of directors, it was the supreme authority who ruled India.
Power has vested in the British Government.
The changes in the system of British colonial rule in India served the needs of the British bourgeoisie to plunder India. In the process of the British colonists' military conquest of India and the establishment of the colonial rule system in the 17th and 18th centuries, Britain was in the period of primitive accumulation of capital.
The main methods of colonial plunder were: piracy, unequal trade, and direct looting. After the East India Company occupied Bangladesh, it looted the treasury and stole a total of 37 million pounds of wealth, of which 21 million pounds fell into the pockets of senior company employees.
, Clive alone robbed 234,000 pounds; when the capital of Mysore was captured, the British only plundered royal treasures worth 15 million pounds.
The "dual management system" ensured that the British colonists directly collected land tax from India. Before the East India Company took over the taxing rights of Bengal, the actual land tax revenue in Bangladesh was 810,000 pounds. One year after the company took over, the land tax amount
It soared to 1.47 million pounds, and later reached as high as 3 million pounds. The company's exploitation of handicraftsmen was also extremely cruel. Through its business offices and Indian brokers all over the country, it forced thousands of Indian handicrafts
They place orders for processing, but the price paid to them is less than half of the market price, not even enough to purchase raw materials.
In addition, the company also monopolizes the trade in salt, tobacco and opium. The salt patent alone earns a net profit of 800,000 pounds a year. The company forces Bangladeshi farmers to grow opium, buys it at a low price, and then smuggles it to China to make huge profits.
, opium revenue accounted for one-seventh of the company's total revenue. A large amount of wealth plundered by British colonists from India continued to flow into the United Kingdom. In the 58 years after occupying Bangladesh, the United Kingdom extracted 1 billion pounds of wealth from India.
This large amount of wealth promoted Britain's industrial revolution, making it quickly become the world's first capitalist industrial power. However, Britain's appalling plunder of India seriously damaged India's social economy and turned India into an extreme country.
A country filled with poverty and mourning.
As the Industrial Revolution progressed, the economic power of the British industrial bourgeoisie became increasingly powerful. They insisted on opening up the Indian market and participated in the exploitation of India.
The East India Company's trade monopoly over India was abolished. From then on, a new stage of British industrial capital's plunder of India began. India increasingly became Britain's commodity sales market and raw material supplier.
With the help of low tariffs: silk fabrics are taxed at 3.5% and woolen fabrics are taxed at 2%, the cotton fabrics exported to India have increased from less than 1 million yards to more than 51 million yards. India, which has been known as the world's largest cotton textile industry since ancient times, is now full of British goods.
Cotton fabrics. Under the impact of cheap British goods, India's handicraft industry suffered a devastating blow. Millions of handicraftsmen went bankrupt and became unemployed. Dhaka, a famous textile industry center, declined rapidly and its population dropped from 150,000 to 3
Thousands of people.
Governor Bendinck confessed: "The miserable situation is unparalleled in the history of commerce. The bones of cotton weavers have turned the Indian plains white."
In order to ensure the source of tax revenue and cultivate the social pillar of colonial rule, the British colonists implemented a new land tax system in India.
The colonial authorities first implemented the "fixed Chamindar system" in the provinces of Bengal, Bihar and Orissa, canceling the land inheritance rights of rural communes, and the land was handed over to Chamindars by companies; Chamindars levied rent and taxes on farmers, but they had to
Give 90% of the land tax to the company; regardless of the amount of land rent collected.
In this way, farmers became tenant farmers and Chamindar became landowners.
The colonists implemented the "Letwal system" first in Madras and then in Bombay. Although this system recognized the ownership of farmland by commune farmers, farmers had to pay one-third to two-half of the annual harvest to the company.
With a land tax of 1, farmers effectively become tenant farmers of the company.
In the following years, the "unfixed Chamindar system" was implemented in the central region, which stipulated that Chamindar was responsible for collecting rents and taxes from farmers. The tax amount was not fixed and would be reset every 25 to 30 years.
Although the land tax system implemented by the British in India took various forms, its essence was the same, which was to squeeze farmers to the maximum extent.
After the implementation of the new land tax system, the colonial authorities' land tax revenue surged.
And it is obvious that Ding Yunyi really appreciates the British method of exploiting the colonies!