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Chapter 1558 Blood-sucking Colonization

It will not be decades before the war of independence in that country in North America, and perhaps it will be the United Kingdom that will be battered by then.

At that time, it is not just France that will support the independence of that country behind the scenes. All countries will poke in the back, eager to watch the British scold and jump.

This is one of the reasons why the American War of Independence was won.

If there were not many European countries making trouble behind the scenes, it would be really difficult for the American War of Independence to win against Britain.

From a military point of view alone, the British military has been developing with a high profile since its rise, and it has established colonies one after another in the world.

It can be seen from this that the quality of the British army is not that bad, and it can even be said to be strong.

In today's era of linear tactics, the way the American War of Independence was fought is a completely weird development trend.

Although the American War of Independence can be said to be an internal strife among the British themselves, a country was finally formed.

But it also shows a problem. The British still have certain flaws in their colonial experience, especially in internal governance.

This American War of Independence also taught the British fully a lesson, which gradually strengthened the British colonial rule in the future.

The so-called learning from a fall, the failure of this War of Independence was not useless, and even had some benefits.

In the foreseeable future, Zeng Yunfeng has already made some plans and paved the way for this war of independence.

You must know that after the establishment of this country, it is not just an independent and good country.

His future actions will make the surrounding American countries and American colonists lose their glasses.

Not only did he win the War of Independence, he even began to expand in the future, and even his way of expansion made people a little dumbfounded.

On the one hand, he achieved results through war, and on the other hand, he bought territory through trading. Under such a two-way operation, this guy called the United States grew step by step, and even developed into the largest country in the entire America, and even the world.

As the largest colonial country in modern times, Britain has colonies all over the world, but before that, Spain was the largest colonial country in the world.

The colonial expansion of Britain in the period of primitive accumulation benefited from the rise of the Industrial Revolution in the 16th and 18th centuries.

Merchant capitalists became the main drivers of its colonial expansion.

When the old colonial countries such as Portugal and Spain dominated the sea, the inaccessible east coast of North America had become the earliest colonization area of ​​the British.

By the mid-18th century, Britain had established 13 colonies on the east coast of North America, and turned these colonies and islands into plantations and drug trafficking bases, as well as places where pirates haunted.

In the 18th century, Britain began to compete with France for colonial hegemony. There were four wars between the two countries in the 18th century, each of which ended in British victory, and the British colonies increased greatly.

Especially due to the victory of the Seven Years War, Britain not only won Canada and all the territory east of the Mississippi River, but also won Grenada, St. Vincent, Dominica, Tobago and Senegal in Africa.

Spain's Florida was also later given to the United Kingdom, but the independence of North America later dealt a heavy blow to the United Kingdom, and the focus of Britain's colonies gradually shifted to the East, especially India.

At this time, the British had begun to immigrate to places such as Australia and New Zealand.

In the later period, the British started to do things in the Malvinas Islands on the east coast of South America.

And Britain's strategic shift from west to east will undoubtedly poison India and the Central Plains in the end.

In the middle of the 18th century, the whole of the United Kingdom was frantically expanding overseas. The territory of the United Kingdom expanded from the British Isles to many places, with an unprecedentedly vast territory, as far as Australia, India, and Kenya.

It means that under their territory, no matter what time of the day, the sun will shine on their territory.

But one thing is very strange. British colonization invaded many parts of the world, but these countries did not hate Britain very much.

Britain's hypocritical colonial rule has deceived many colonial people, and even some fools want to return to the embrace of Britain.

There are actually several reasons for this. The first is that the biggest colonial purpose of Britain through the Industrial Revolution was to plunder unscrupulously and effortlessly cheap raw materials to supply the country's development.

Compared with other invaders, Britain's colonial method is relatively civilized. Although there have been armed suppression incidents, the number of casualties is controllable.

In comparison, the Japanese are truly brutal and inhumane, and have created many tragic massacres.

However, the British plundered subtly in this way, and it was basically difficult to arouse the resistance of the local people.

Secondly, after the British seized the colonies, they did not extort wildly, burn, kill and loot. They adopted a smooth transition to rule the colonies, and dispatched police and local officials to manage the colonies together, which was a blood-sucking colonial rule.

They did not change the local beliefs and culture too much. Instead, they gave the colonial people the greatest respect. They advertised themselves as disseminators of advanced civilization and came to lead the colonial people out of poverty.

Later, this method was imitated by the Japanese, and they made a so-called gangster with four different characters, but it was a bad move.

But the Commonwealth of Nations survived after the colonial system disappeared, and some countries still chose to join the Commonwealth.

This allowed Britain to retreat after the development of the independence movement was exceptionally strong. Although Britain has withdrawn from many colonies, its influence in the world is still there.

It can be said that the British colonial method has achieved considerable results. When the colonies became independent one after another, the local elites in the colonies did not feel the brutality of the British. The regime moved closer.

Some people are even proud to study in the UK and become British citizens, which has led to a considerable part of the colonized countries in the world still have a good impression of the UK, and their culture and language have been greatly influenced by the colonial period.

While these guys look cutesy silly to a sober outsider, the Brits have got what they want.

In Central America, Zeng Yunfeng also hopes to adopt a similar method to target different races and people. As the saying goes, blocking is worse than sparse, rather than repeated force to suppress massacres.

Cruel methods will basically not work where there is no foundation at all, and they will even become more and more chaotic.

Central America is a typical example. Even though they became independent one after another in the future, there are mixed races and diverse cultures.

It is too difficult to knead them together without a culture as the backbone.

Fortunately, Zeng Yunfeng already had a basic plan in mind, and these things needed to be dealt with slowly, not in a hurry.

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