In his previous life, when Marin was in college, he listened to a history professor who explained in detail the process of British and French colonizing North America.
First, let’s talk about Britain. In the professor’s words, the British colonial methods are “tree-cutting streams”. In the thirteen North American colonies, British colonists cut down trees and opened up farmlands, and finally established North American colonies.
However, in terms of attitude towards Indians, the British experienced a huge change...
As early as 1609 when the British established their first colony in the Virginia region, Jamestown, the British treated the Indian natives with extremely tough attitudes. They treated the Indian natives as uncivilized barbaric animals and implemented policies of plunder and massacre.
However, this aroused a strong counterattack from the Indians. Then, Jamestown was besieged by the Indians for a long time. In the end, Jamestown was out of food and a tragedy of cannibalism occurred. If the Indians had not known how to conquer the castle, perhaps the colonists in Jamestown would have been killed by the Indians.
More than a decade later, along the coast of Massachusetts in the north, an immigrant ship called the Mayflower came to America. However, unlike the colonists in Jamestown, they were mostly poor and Puritans, and of course there were criminals.
This group of people started out with honesty, lived in harmony with the Indians, and went through the most difficult stage of gaining foothold. Even because of the help of the Indians, they created the custom of eating turkey on Thanksgiving.
However, when the white people here stood firm, they quickly drove and massacred the Indians. While driving the Indians who had helped them into the forest, they waved their logging axes, cut down the forests, and expanded the territory. Finally, they built a huge territory on the east coast of North America.
Later, the British used this method to land in other parts of North America, if they were weak at the beginning, they would pretend that their grandsons lived in peace with the Indians, and once they gained a foothold, they would start to turn against each other.
By this means, the British gradually controlled the thirteen coastal states in North America and became the most successful colonial force in North America...
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The French seem to be different from the British. The expansion model they adopt is the trade model. That is to say, expansion is completed using the trade model.
The specific method is to organize a large number of fur merchants to go deep into the inland and trade leathers such as beaver leather with Indians.
The French merchants brought goods such as pots, iron axes, swords and glass beads, which were very popular among the Indians. However, these things were not valuable, and French merchants exchanged them for expensive beaver skins and other furs, making a lot of profits.
In the later period, the French even began to sell guns and gunpowder to the Indians, inciting the Indians to fight each other.
After the Indians obtained the gun, because the power of the gun was much greater than that of the earthly bows and arrows, the Indians first used the guns to hunt animals. Soon, all the animals were killed on the territory of the Indian tribe who obtained the guns. Even those who survived were frightened by the huge gunshots and fled.
As a last resort, these Indians began to invade the territory of other tribes and hunt animals to obtain fur. However, this obviously seriously violated the interests of other tribes. As a result, tribal war broke out...
The Indian tribes with guns obviously had a greater advantage. Therefore, the tribes without guns were defeated, fled, and gave up their territory.
However, the defeated tribes were not fools, and they would not be willing to fail. So they also went to buy guns. If the French did not sell them, they would buy them from the British or the Dutch. The British or the Dutch obviously wanted to use them to attack the French ally tribes. So both sides had guns...
Next, the defeated Indian tribe staged a revenge scene...
Both sides fired each other with guns, causing huge casualties...
Such dramas are often performed in the jungle of North America, year after year, day after day...
During the conflict between tribes, the Indians lost a large number of strong men. Many weak tribes also disappeared due to war...
Moreover, in order to establish good relations with Indian tribes with good friendship, the French even let young employees marry the daughter of the Indian chief to strengthen their ties with the Indian tribe.
But in fact, these young employees all had wives and children in Europe. They married the daughter of the Indian chief, just a means to win over the Indian tribe.
At the same time, these young men, who are full of energy, need a female companion to vent their extra energy because their wives are not around. Moreover, these indigenous wives will become the best trade bridge between the French and the Indians.
Later, the children born to these young French people and the daughters of local indigenous chiefs became a special ethnic group - the Metis.
It can be said that the French colonial methods in North America were very clever. They won over some local tribes and asked them to hunt animals for themselves and obtain furs. These furs can be sold in Europe, and can be exchanged for huge profits. In the early days, a beaver skin can be sold in Europe, and can be sold in Europe with 200 times super profits. Even in the later period, the profits are very high, and it can be sold in dozens of times smaller.
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The professor believes that the French are better than the British. However, the French lose in the end because they did not arrange enough immigrants to occupy the Americas.
And why could the British surpass France in this regard and complete the occupation of the thirteen North American states?
The reason is very simple, because the UK has launched a large-scale land enclosure movement in China, resulting in tens of thousands of landless farmers. Except for a small number of them being absorbed by textile workshops, most of the rest have become refugees.
The refugees were the root of a country's turmoil. The Ming Empire was finally destroyed by refugees from the north. In the early 1980s, the return of educated youth to the city also brought great chaos to China at that time. For this reason, Taizong had to use the "severe crackdown" trick, killing many gangsters to stabilize the society...
This chapter is not over, please click on the next page to continue reading! The British are more cunning. Since there are so many refugees in China, why don’t we send them to North America to open up land?
Then, landless peasants, Puritans and criminals, three groups that were not popular in the UK and were prone to social conflicts were sent to the east coast of North America by the British authorities to carry out colonization and destruction.
Although the British colonial methods were relatively rude and not as good as the French. However, relying on the population to accumulate, they achieved much brilliant achievements than the French.
Moreover, during the immigration process, the British did not refuse, not only accepted immigrants from their own countries, but also accepted immigrants from other European countries. For example, a large number of German immigrants were accepted, as well as Irish immigrants, French immigrants and Dutch immigrants. The large number of immigrants also accelerated the development of North America.
However, in the long run, because the immigrants are too complex, the immigrants have weak centripetal force on the British royal family. This also laid the root of the disaster for the later North American War of Independence.
It’s not that the French are not clever enough, but because France is stable and there are not so many refugees. Therefore, the French cannot create so many refugees like Britain, which is engaged in the “land enclosure movement”. Therefore, the French’s clever colonial methods were crushed by the rough methods of the British to pile up...
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Since Marin knew these issues, he decided to take his own route in light of the characteristics of Britain and France.
As for how to do it? In the early stage, we naturally learned about France, implemented a trade expansion model, and used a group of Indian indigenous tribes to attack other tribes.
In addition to purchasing fur, Marin also planned to use European goods that attracted Indians to encourage the Indians to log and exchange them for wood. For example, Marin needed a large amount of oak, which could be exchanged with the Indians and allowed the Indians to log the wood by themselves.
After the Indians cut down a large number of trees on the beach, Marin gave them weapons and supported them to march inland to seize the territory of other tribes. The territory on the beach originally became Marin's colony...
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 would also send disciples who could deceive and "teach" these immigrants to be loyal to themselves so as not to achieve independence from the colonies...
Chapter completed!