New Shun 1730
Chapter 1353 Britain’s Total Collapse (Part 2)
To be honest, when Pitt was clamoring to launch a total war against Spain and France.
Liverpool celebrated with fireworks.
It can be regarded as the region in the whole UK that supports total war the most.
However, with the Dashun bringing all the naval assets to Europe.
This celebration turned into chaos in just one year.
It was not just the chaos in Liverpool.
It was the chaos in many cities along the canal.
The world is dynamic and things are connected.
The Dashun’s participation in the war was not just a simple single-line impact.
Take Lancashire cotton cloth, which was very important in the Liverpool triangular trade.
Lancashire was the city most affected by the Dashun’s participation in the war, and its cotton textile industry, which started, died directly.
This was not only because the Dashun cut off the triangular trade.
There is a more important reason:
There is a truth that if you want to develop the cotton textile industry, you need cotton.
Without cotton, the cotton textile industry cannot be developed.
The Cotton Act of 1721, or the Manchester Act, only exempted two types of "cotton".
One is raw cotton, which is cotton.
The other is Fustian from Lancashire.
Where does raw cotton come from?
Of course it comes from India, but North America?
It is absolutely not true that North America grows cotton, at least at this time.
Because why does North America grow cotton?
On the one hand, the cotton from Bombay and Bengal could not be used before, so it would be easy for the East India Company to supply it to Lancashire's cotton textile industry, which was protected by high tariffs.
Oh, you don't let me transport oriental cotton cloth, so I can transport cotton, right?
On the other hand, North American slave owners have problems with their brains to grow cotton.
How much does a slave cost?
How much does it cost to grow tobacco?
How much does it cost to grow sugarcane?
How much does it cost to grow indigo?
Before the cotton gin, cotton seeds must be peeled by hand. How many kilograms of cotton can a skilled slave peel in a year?
What is the price of slaves?
How is it possible to let slaves grow cotton now?
Historically, until 1799, the cotton production in North America was only 2 million kilograms. Not enough to make a pair of cotton pants for one person in Dashun Shenyang City.
Things are never that simple.
It is so simple that, I heard that Britain invented the spinning jenny and the water-powered loom, so the cotton textile industry in Britain must be very developed, right?
I heard that black people in North America will explode when they hear watermelon, and watermelon is a crop that is very suitable for intercropping with cotton, so North America must be a cotton-producing area, right?
In fact, it is not the case.
The East India Company controls the opportunity to transport cotton to Britain.
The East India Company is called the East India Company, not the American Company or the West India Company.
How could the East India Company allow the cotton industry in North America to develop?
How could the high labor costs in North America compete with Indian cotton?
Therefore, there was not much cotton in North America at this time; at this time, the cotton textile level in Britain was beaten by Bengal.
Therefore, it is not just a simple belief that Dashun cut off the triangular trade, so the cotton textile industry in Lancashire collapsed.
Instead, the cotton textile industry in Lancashire collapsed after Dashun started a war in India last year and directly killed the British East India Company.
Dashun's strategy was also very clear.
Either don't fight.
Or fight hard.
Before, Dashun and Britain had several conflicts in Nanyang. Including but not limited to secretly transporting opium but finding middlemen to prevent the East India Company from taking responsibility; including the fact that the Dashun royal family was very dissatisfied with Britain's sneaky purchase of spices in Nanyang, which seriously affected the emperor's spice profit.
However, they just "endured" it.
What they were afraid of was that Britain had a good brain and saw Dashun going to Nanyang and quickly started to subsidize North America's cotton planting industry.
Obviously, Britain did not do so.
Instead, it relied on India's raw cotton to support Lancashire's cotton textile industry, which started with high tariff protection.
Dashun cut off India's trade, and Lancashire's cotton textile industry... This was not a problem of not being able to sell to the market, but a direct cut in raw materials.
This change in the trade pattern has an impact on all aspects, not a single line.
Another example is Cheshire's salt.
North America is close to the sea.
North America has forests and coal mines.
But the price of labor in North America is too expensive.
Therefore, even if there is a little salt industry in New England, it cannot withstand the salt from Cheshire.
However, as the war progresses.
It is indeed impossible for Dashun to transport salt from northern Jiangsu to America.
But we cannot only consider Dashun.
Instead, we must consider that after Dashun joined the war, trade was cut off, and the salt boiling industry in New England also ushered in spring.
This made it even more difficult for Cheshire salt to be sold to North America.
During the previous Austrian War of Succession, the Duke of Qi participated in the spoils division meeting and proposed the "Anti-Piracy Convention" on behalf of Dashun.
Because of Dashun's special situation, Dashun hated pirates. How could a commodity exporting country like pirates?
At that time, the British laughed at Dashun, saying "a group of eunuchs proposed to ban sexual life."
Because those who joined the Anti-Piracy Convention were countries like Russia, Austria, and Prussia, which had no chance of privateering at all. It really looked like a group of eunuchs discussing closing brothels.
However, since Britain did not participate, Dashun hijacked the ship. The convention is only effective for countries within the convention, and countries that join the convention do not even have the qualifications to engage in privateering. Of course, Dashun will abide by the convention.
And because Dashun has a relatively authoritarian monopoly trade policy, all ocean-going merchant ships in Dashun, even merchant ships going to Japan, must purchase refitted merchant ships in accordance with standards.
Although it seriously distorts free trade, otherwise cheaper and lower-cost ships will still go to Japan.
But after the war began, the effects became apparent.
Heavy-duty merchant ships, lunar elongation and longitude methods, monopoly company sailor training and military obligations... and most importantly, the change of king in Spain led to Spain's participation in the war. The Dashun fleet can be replenished in Havana, and the privateering efficiency is increased by at least 200%.
After these combinations of punches, the entire industrial area in western England collapsed.
The financial collapse was already doomed.
Whether it was the East India Company being strangled to death.
Or... in the financial industry, you have to consider interest, turnover, and risks.
After Dashun entered the war, the North American Plantation Park's 15 million loan has not been repaid to this day. These huge risks have naturally been detonated one by one.
The collapse of budding industries is what is really fatal.
Around 1750, Britain basically eliminated yeoman farmers.
This is a good thing, if industrialization can be sustained.
But behind the good news, this budding industry has been cut off, and these people have no land, so what do they eat? What to drink?
How to survive?
The chaos in Liverpool was just a microcosm of the general collapse of Britain after Dashun entered the war.
Even though, in fact, the largest naval battle fought between Dashun and Britain was the scale of the sinking of 3,578 ships each.
Even though Dashun did not actually fight a "Trafalgar" with Britain.
Even Dashun has no intention of landing in the UK at all. Moreover, guarding against "allies" is like guarding against thieves, for fear that if France really dominates, the European market will be ruined. France's industrial autonomy policy will make Dashun a slave for others. Made wedding clothes.
However, Britain collapsed.
The collapse of the financial industry, accompanied by the destruction of the East India Company, swept across like a tsunami.
The collapse of the manufacturing industry is like a big white steamed bun with a few buds of mold growing on it. There are not many at the beginning, and the militia can be mobilized to suppress it.
But soon, the mold spread.
The first to collapse was Lancashire's cotton textile industry.
Then, there was the ceramics industry in Staffordshire.
Then, there’s the salt industry in Cheshire.
Then, it set off a new round of turmoil in the financial industry - because the canal requires tolls and shareholders invest a lot of money. If the canal has no navigation volume, how can it make money?
The previous high-profile development of Liverpool has convinced the British that infrastructure is profitable.
The introduction of the Highway Law allowed highway tolls.
The canal to Liverpool lured more capital into canal infrastructure.
Road bonds, canal bonds, along with the collapse of manufacturing in Stafford, Cheshire, Manchester, there was a general collapse.
Sephardic Jews, who hated the fact that the Jewish Naturalization Law was sold out in 1953, began to manipulate the financial market, driving down the price of infrastructure bonds, and preparing to hoard equity bonds for canals and highways.
Finally, Liverpool, a port closely related to manufacturing, also ushered in depression and destruction.
A city of 80,000 people.
They all rely on business to survive.
There is no decent manufacturing industry.
A large urban population needs to eat.
Originally, their daily sugar intake was a lot in their lives.
Therefore, it seems that there is not much food to eat.
However, as the Atlantic trade collapsed, sugar shipments also declined sharply.
Simple conservation of energy.
Eat less sugar.
Just eat more steamed buns.
Of course the landed aristocrats would be happy if they ate more steamed buns, because the price of food had increased.
The only reason why they supported the Corn Laws had nothing to do with tradition, but because they were landowners and an increase in grain prices would be good for them.
Merchants were hoarding goods.
Landowners added fuel to the fire.
This kind of fueling the flames is not just due to the skyrocketing food prices.
Rather, the Tories are finally looking forward to the lifting of the party ban and a king who allows the Tories to join the cabinet.
Ever since Viscount Bolingbroke was defeated and criticized, the Tories have not had the opportunity to enter the cabinet for many years.
And the chaos in Liverpool naturally has the shadow of the Tories behind it.
They need chaos, they need greater chaos, they need bloodshed.
Only with bloodshed can the Whigs be liquidated.
Even within the Whig Party, because the Tories were previously banned from entering the cabinet, they also split into rural factions and patriotic factions.
In recent years, the Rural Whig Party, which had been tormented by the high-profile Patriot Party by Pitt and others, would also take the opportunity to conduct a general liquidation of the Patriot Party.
Didn’t Pete insist on taking the credit in the first place?
When Clive came back from India to get married, weren't you the one who welcomed him with a high profile and awarded him a medal?
That's great.
Now, Dashun has insisted that Dashun participated in the war because Britain's radical policy in India stimulated Dashun's safety bottom line, and Dashun had no choice but to send troops.
You, Pete, are dead.
But what about you bunch of patriot boys?
In politics, how can one not hold his party members accountable once someone dies?
Liverpool’s human blood steamed buns are delicious.
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