The Rise of the European Emperor

In the last life, when Marin was in college, he heard a history professor explain in detail the process of colonizing North America by Britain and France.

First of all, let's talk about Britain. The British colonial method, in the words of the professor, is "cutting down trees". In the thirteen states of North America, the British colonists cut down trees, opened up farmland, and finally established the North American colony.

However, the British have experienced a huge change in their attitude towards the Indians...

As early as 1609, when the British established their first colony, Jamestown, in the Virginia area, the attitude of the British towards the native Indians was extremely tough. They treated the Native Americans as uncivilized savage animals and carried out a policy of plunder and slaughter.

However, this provoked a strong counterattack from the Indians. Then Jamestown was long under siege by the Indians. In the end, Jamestown ran out of food, and there was a tragedy of cannibalism. If the Indians didn't know how to conquer the castle, maybe the colonists in Jamestown would have been killed by the Indians long ago.

More than ten years later, off the coast of Massachusetts in the north, an immigrant ship called the "Mayflower" came to America. Unlike the Jamestown colonists, however, they were mostly poor and puritanical, and of course criminals.

This group started out honestly, got along with the Indians, and got through the most difficult stage of getting a foothold. Even, with the help of the Indians, they created the custom of eating turkey on Thanksgiving.

However, when the whites here gained a firm footing, the Indians were quickly driven and massacred. While driving the Indians who had helped them into the forest, they wielded logging axes, cut down the forest, and expanded their territory. In the end, on the east coast of North America, a huge site was laid.

Later, the British used this method. When they landed in other parts of North America, if they were weak at the beginning, they pretended that their grandsons and Indians lived in peace. Once they got a firm foothold, they began to turn their faces.

By this means, the British gradually controlled the thirteen coastal states of North America and became the most successful colonial power in North America...

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The French seem to be different from the British in that they adopt a model of expansion, a model of trade. That is to say, the expansion is completed in the mode of trade.

The specific method is to organize a large number of fur traders, go deep inland, and trade beaver hides and other leathers with the Indians.

The French merchants brought pots, iron axes, swords and glass beads and other commodities, which were very popular with the Indians. However, these things are not valuable, but French merchants exchanged them for expensive beaver skins and other furs, and gained a lot of profits.

In the later period, the French even began to sell guns and gunpowder to the Indians, encouraging the Indians to kill each other.

After the Indians acquired guns, because the power of guns was much greater than that of earth bows and arrows, the Indians first used guns to hunt animals. Soon the animals were slaughtered on the turf of the Indian tribes that acquired the guns. Even those who survived were frightened by the loud gunshots and fled.

As a last resort, these Indians began to invade the territory of other tribes, to hunt animals for fur. However, this obviously seriously violated the interests of other tribes. So, the tribal war broke out...

Indian tribes with guns obviously have a greater advantage. As a result, the tribe without guns was defeated, fled, and gave up their territory.

However, the defeated tribes are not fools, they will not be willing to fail. So, they also went to buy guns. If the French don't sell them, they buy from the English or the Dutch. And the British or the Dutch apparently wanted to use them against the French allied tribes. So, both sides have guns...

Next, the defeated Indian tribe staged a revenge drama...

Both sides fired at each other with guns, causing huge casualties...

Such dramas are often staged in the North American jungle, year after year, day after day...

In the inter-tribal conflict, the Indians lost a large number of strong men. many weak tribes,

also disappeared because of the war...

Moreover, in order to establish a good relationship with the good Indian tribes, the French even let young employees marry the daughters of the Indian chiefs to strengthen the ties with the Indian tribes.

But in fact, these young employees have wives and children in Europe. Their marriage to the daughter of an Indian chief is just a means to win over the Indian tribe.

At the same time, these energetic young people also need a female companion to vent their excess energy because their wives are not around. Moreover, these native wives would be the best trade bridge between the French and the Indians.

Later, the children born to these French youths and the daughters of local indigenous chiefs became a special ethnic group - the Métis.

It can be said that the French colonial means in North America are very clever. They wooed some local tribes and let them hunt animals for their furs. These furs, sold to Europe, can be exchanged for huge profits. In the early days, a piece of beaver skin, sold to Europe, could get a super huge profit of 200 times. Even in the later stage, the profit is very high, and there can be dozens of times smaller profits.

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The professor believes that the French are more sophisticated than the British. In the end, however, the French lost in not arranging enough immigrants to occupy the Americas.

And why did the British surpass France in this regard and complete the occupation of thirteen states in North America?

The reason is very simple, because Britain has carried out a large-scale enclosure movement in the country, resulting in tens of thousands of landless peasants. Except for a small part absorbed by textile workshops, most of the rest became refugees.

Refugees are the source of unrest in a country. The dignified and dignified empire of Ming Dynasty was finally destroyed by the refugees in the north. Even in the early 1980s, because the educated youth returned to the city, it also brought huge chaos to China at that time. To this end, Taizong had to resort to the "strike hard" big move, killing a lot of gangsters to stabilize the society...

The British are more cunning. Since there are so many domestic refugees, why don't we send them to North America to open up wasteland?

Then, landless peasants, puritans and criminals, three groups that were not welcome in the UK and could easily cause social conflicts, were sent to the east coast of North America by the British authorities one after another to carry out colonial reclamation.

Although, the colonial methods of the British are relatively crude, not as clever as the French. However, relying on the population, he has achieved far more brilliant achievements than the French.

Moreover, in the process of immigration, the British did not refuse, not only accepting immigrants from their own countries, but also immigrants from other European countries. For example, German immigrants were admitted in large numbers, as well as Irish immigrants, French immigrants and Dutch immigrants. The arrival of a large number of immigrants also accelerated the development of North America.

However, in the long run, because the composition of immigrants is too complex, the immigrants are not strong in the centripetal force of the British royal family. This also laid the foundation for the later North American War of Independence.

It's not that the French are not smart enough, but because France is stable and there are not so many refugees. Therefore, the French cannot create as many refugees as the British did in the "enclosure movement". Therefore, the clever colonial methods of the French were crushed by the brutal methods of the British people...

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Since Marin knew about these problems, he decided to go his own way by combining the characteristics of Britain and France.

As for how? In the early stage, it was natural to learn from France, engage in a trade expansion model, and use a group of Indian indigenous tribes to attack other tribes.

In addition, in addition to purchasing furs, Marin also intends to use European goods that attract Indians to encourage Indians to log and exchange for timber. For example, Marin needs a lot of oak, which can be exchanged with the Indians, and the Indians can cut the wood themselves.

After the Indians cut down a lot of trees by the sea, Marin gave them weapons and supported them to march inland to snatch the territory of other tribes. The original seaside site has become a colony of Marin...

At the same time, Marin would organize a large number of people to immigrate to North America in Germany and occupy these seaside colonies. Of course, Bishop Taylor will also send disciples who can fool them to "teach" these immigrants to be loyal to themselves, lest the colonies become independent...

In this way, in the long run, Marin will complete the occupation of the coastal areas of North America through trade, inciting Indians to log and fight, and then vacate the seaside land. As for the outback? Let's wait for the younger generation to finish it. After all, he is not a god, and there is not so many immigrant populations, it is difficult to complete the occupation of all the land of North America at once. It is not bad to be able to occupy the coast first and demarcate the territory... The main thing is that the total population of Germany is only 12 million, and the Americas are so big that even if all the Germans are immigrated, they can only occupy the east coast of North America at most. Not to mention those inland turf...