Daming Military Empire

Chapter 674 Alternative Colonization, Aboriginal Assimilation

There are many types of colonization in history, ranging from simple and brutal predatory colonization to relatively mild economic colonization.

In the early days of colonization, due to the huge difference in economic and technological development, the great powers had the power to crush the natives in many backward areas. It was easy to defeat the native countries and suppress the resistance of the natives. Therefore, they generally adopted predatory colonization.

Simple and rude, extremely brutal, to put it bluntly, it is robbing, robbing gold, robbing silver, robbing all kinds of resources, and using all kinds of means to rob.

However, in the late colonial period, with the proliferation of basic industries and the explosive growth of the colonial population, the great powers gradually discovered that brutal plundering was no longer feasible.

Because people will resist, violently resist, and it becomes more and more difficult to suppress the resistance of the colonies.

In addition, countries that have not been colonized have certain strengths, and it is more difficult to defeat them in one fell swoop and start colonization. Therefore, they began to adopt relatively mild economic colonization methods.

To put it bluntly, economic colonization is to turn the colony into a raw material processing plant and a commodity dumping place. It is to obtain raw materials from the colony at a low price, and then process the raw material into high value-added commodities and then dump them to the colony.

This way of plundering wealth is actually more than direct robbing, because robbing things does not create wealth, it just turns the original wealth of the colony into the wealth of the colonists. These wealth will always be robbed, and economic plunder It is the exploitation of the wealth created by the colonial people with their labor force. Not only will this wealth not decrease, but it will also increase with the development of the colonial economy.

Of course, no matter what method is used to plunder, the people in the colonies will eventually resist, and no one is willing to be exploited and enslaved forever.

Zhu Cijiong naturally knew that endless plunder would lead to fierce resistance, and the final result was to be overthrown and driven away.

Is this really necessary?

The European powers need this, because their land is relatively small, their population is relatively small, and their resources are not very rich. To be strong, to dominate the world and maintain their hegemony, they have to rob and plunder, otherwise, they will be slow. Slow to be overtaken.

But the Ming Empire is different. In terms of territory, the current Daming crushes all great powers; in terms of population, it also crushes all great powers; in terms of resources, it still crushes all great powers.

Does Daming still need to grab it?

The answer is naturally no need, with the current territory, population and resources, Ming can dominate the world, all that is needed is time.

And this time is not a time to sit and wait, but to suppress the European powers while developing themselves, and prevent them from acquiring more resources to catch up with Da Ming. In this way, it won't take long for Da Ming to dominate the world up.

If you just sit there and wait, or just focus on your own development, no matter how the enemy develops, it is very likely that the ship will capsize.

Because Ming didn't occupy more than half of the world's land. If all continents were counted, Ming didn't even occupy a small half. No wonder the ship capsized.

Therefore, Zhu Cijiong wanted to send a colonial fleet to plunder the North American colonies, not for plunder, but only to prevent the anti-Habsburg alliance from growing through plunder.

Of course, not plundering does not mean giving up colonization. If Ming gives up, the big powers will come to snatch it sooner or later, and this colony must still be in the hands of Daming.

Since it is only for the control of this colony, not for plunder, there is no need to adopt the colonial method of the great powers. For this reason, Zhu Cijiong came up with a brand new colonial method, which is an alternative colonization and assimilation of the indigenous people.

What he said to Lu Xiangsheng to win and be soft is a way of assimilation, and Lu Xiangsheng also executed it very well.

In the process of contacting the Indian tribes, Lu Xiangsheng always kept in mind the principle of courtship and tenderness. After the chief of Seattle agreed to sell the land, he even took the initiative to discuss with him and give back in various ways.

The chief of Seattle was very pleased with this. After the discussion, he took the initiative to gather a group of people to remove all the thatched houses on the land transferred to Daming and move them to other places, and called on all the young and strong laborers to quarry Digging sand, cutting trees and logging, to provide materials for the Ming army to build the city.

Lu Xiangsheng first built a simple pier to unload all the grain, grass and materials, and then began to build the pier and repair the city wall.

The two sides cooperated very tacitly. The soldiers of Tianxiong Army and Dongpu First Army didn't have to worry about materials at all. The people from the Seattle tribe kept sending sand, stone and wood, and they just built it.

The materials sent by the Seattle tribe are also paid. About one hundred catties of sand and stone can be exchanged for a piece of porcelain, and about one thousand catties of sand and gravel can be exchanged for a piece of cotton cloth.

Of course, the prices of these items are not so cheap. However, the batch of items Lu Xiangsheng brought was not used for business, but to win over Indian tribes. .

Now they can get so much reward for doing some work, which is the same as the effect of standing tree bounty. The people of the entire Seattle tribe have more trust in the friends of the Ming Empire, and the friendship between them has become deeper and deeper.

With the help of the people from the Seattle tribe, the progress of the construction of the pier and the city wall was very fast. In less than ten days, the first permanent pier was built.

At this time, most of the armed blessing boats and super battleships had already returned to Daming to pick up the second batch of personnel and supplies. Only a dozen or so armed blessing boats were parked in the harbor in front of Jinshan City.

As soon as the first wharf was built, more than ten armed blessing boats docked one after another. Immediately afterwards, the sides of those armed blessing boats were opened one after another, and ground-turning dragons slowly drove out of it. It is naturally commonplace for soldiers, but the Indians of the Seattle tribe were taken aback.

These giant steel beasts emitting white smoke are simply too frightening. The timid people even turn around and run away in fright, as if they are afraid of being eaten by these monsters.

Soon, the chief of Seattle hurried over with a Mongolian translator. Even if he was as bold as he was, he was startled by the giant steel beast, which was a bit too scary.

The reason why Lu Xiangsheng didn't take him to visit Dilong before was because he was afraid that he would not be able to accept it and cause unnecessary trouble.

It's really hard to explain this thing to people. After all, his appearance is too scary. When he first appeared, even many people in Ming Dynasty were frightened, let alone the natives of the Indian tribe.

It’s hard to explain the function of the Earth-turning Dragon when it’s not moving on the boat, but it’s easy to explain it once it gets off the boat. Lu Xiangsheng specially took the Chief of Seattle to visit the whole process of the Earth-turning Dragon’s road repair, so there’s no need to say much What, the chief of Seattle understood that this thing was used to build roads.

The Ming Empire is really powerful, no tribe can stop it just by using this road-building thing to crush it!

(End of this chapter)