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[Despite the ban, it was clear to everyone that sooner or later the ban would be lifted due to increasing smuggling and the East India Company's powerful lobby in Parliament.

As a result, investment in cotton production began to gradually increase in the UK.

In 1765, Hargreave invented the spinning jenny; in 1768, Arkwright invented the water-powered spinning machine; in 1779, Crimpton invented the mule machine; in 1784, Watt improved the linkage steam engine, which was used in the following year Cotton Textile Sector…]

Connected, the spinning jenny, the steam engine and the industrial revolution all have the fundamental purpose of producing and making profits.

Many people can't forget the documentary about Britain, because the narrative was grand and the combination of pictures and dubbing made it look very formal.

But in the words of the scholars in this video, they keenly discovered many details that were deliberately hidden by the documentary.

For example, their Western countries’ colonial plunder; and the birth of outstanding scientific talents is not the so-called scientific rationality and constitutional uniforms, but the actual needs of production——

In order to provide the British with an alternative to the cotton cloth from the Indian handicraft industry.

Different narrative methods bring completely different results. People who are very aware of the power of words will find something wrong after thinking about it for a moment.

Those people are trying to beautify or even distort their past history.

Although what they did made the scholar-officials in the Central Plains call them barbarians, the barbarians in their minds did not have the ability or means to do such a thing.

Thinking of the turmoil in the future that is still raging with war, the situation in the future is more serious than they thought.

[Although the British mainland also began to produce cotton cloth in large quantities through factories, the Indian handmade cotton textile industry is a traditional industry that goes deep into the lowest level of Indian society.

With huge cotton textile workshops and skilled craftsmen, Indian cotton is still a more affordable commodity than British cotton.

Faced with this unfavorable competitive situation, the East India Company chose to create a famine in Bengal, the cotton textile center of India. ]

What to make?

From the princes and ministers to the common people, they couldn't believe their ears after hearing it.

Liu Che stood up suddenly, unable to believe what he heard.

"Are those Westerners crazy?"

Why didn't the Great Qin in front of them still remember it vividly in their minds, and they had a clear understanding of how powerful ordinary people could be.

Rulers like them know very well that no matter how heavy the taxes are, as long as they don't make it difficult for people to live and win over the people they should win over, there is no need to worry about anything else.

It was the norm in these dynasties for people to starve to death due to lack of food, but famine was still a man-made famine, and it was so terrifying no matter how you heard it.

Those who starve to death are all manpower, and those who do not starve to death are the most important threat. Are those Westerners not afraid of causing riots at all?

It's true that they only care about making money and don't want to rule at all. But if there is no cure, there will be no cure. Where do they have the confidence to do these things for money?

Those weapons that are superior to those of small countries in Southeast Asia and South Asia?

There are many people who are puzzled and shocked by the same problem.

The early Tang Dynasty and the early Ming Dynasty had just come out of troubled times, and they knew best what it was like for people to live in dire straits.

Clenching their fists, many people cursed at the sky. The limited vocabulary was not enough for everyone to express their anger.

[In 1768, there was a summer crop failure in Bengal, which continued in 1769.

In order to support the huge army and other affairs agencies, the East India Company forcibly collected and stored large amounts of grain.

Reports of a famine in Bengal had been received at the East India Company headquarters at Fort William in Calcutta, and were also reported to London, but others were concerned about the potential loss of tax revenue.

When the Mughal Empire was here, the agricultural tax on farmers was 10%. The agricultural tax paid by the East India Company to Bengal farmers was 50%.

In bad harvest years, farmers have to hand over half of their grain. Speculators of all stripes also take advantage of the famine to hoard large amounts of rice in order to sell it at a high price.

Under the double blow of natural disasters and man-made disasters, Bangladesh has turned into a hell on earth.

After the news of the famine reached London, it aroused strong concern from all over the Parliament.

The main focus of the parliament is whether the East India Company can collect 40 pounds in taxes next year, and they do not care about the deaths of more than million people. ]

At this point, ancient viewers from different time and space can finally understand what the video narrator meant when he said at the beginning, "The history of colonization by Western powers with great powers and great virtues".

Whether it was the United Kingdom, the Netherlands, or France, the governors and responsible persons of East India each had their own existence that was enough to challenge the moral bottom line of the scholar-bureaucrats.

Not to mention their burning, killing, looting and depleting the lakes for fishing in Asia.

As for why the countries surrounding the Central Plains Dynasty suffered such inhumane conditions in modern times, the weakening of the strength of the Central Plains, the strategic contraction of borders, and the overall backwardness of science and technology after missing the Age of Discovery are all important reasons.

There is no need to think about it anymore, just thinking about it is a frustrating thing.

[In addition to hoarding food, another important reason for the famine in Bengal was that a large amount of land was used by the colonists to grow their cash crops-opium and tea.

I won’t go into details about opium, but tea has always been a bulk trade commodity exported by my country, and the Ancient Tea Horse Road is a commercial transportation network comparable to the Silk Road.

At that time, the tea business in Europe was monopolized by the Dutch East India Company, and the Dutch naturally charged whatever price they wanted.

It was impossible for the British to let themselves be slaughtered by the Dutch. Starting from 1689, the British East India Company began to bypass the Dutch East India Company and directly import tea from Xiamen, my country, back to London.

By 1750, tea had basically become the British national drink.

At that time, the tea we sold for takeout was all pressed tea, such as Pu'er tea, and we were very strict about the tea leaves.

So not surprisingly, the British chose to steal. ]

Compared to the bloody massacres and artificial famines, even the stealing of the country's important cash crops, they were not so shocked after hearing this.

Tea seeds and tea-making techniques are all techniques that people in tea-growing areas take for granted.

They did not expect that one day in the future, foreigners would actually target this.

Needless to say, tea farmers are worried. Tea merchants are more aware of the impact and losses caused to the local tea economy after the outflow of these things.

Tea merchants and farmers at other times were less worried, but the Qing people during the Kangxi period were the most worried.

This future is too close to them. It is only a few generations away, and their descendants and family business will suffer such a blow.

The tea cups in their hands wanted to drop but they couldn't bear to part with them. The tea merchants took a deep breath and decided to wait for the last video to end before they quickly went to sit down with their acquaintances to discuss it together.

In the future, those foreign devils will come in, make money from them, and suppress their business. This kind of frustrating future must be planned in advance.

[Crimian War, suppression of Indian national uprising, Second Opium War...