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Chapter 7 The Messenger of the West

After Napoleon's death in 1821, his ideal of establishing a European community with force was completely wiped out.

com However, the results of the French Revolution were brought to the conquered areas by Napoleon, allowing the world to understand the truth and understand that the king's rights were not granted by God. After the Vienna Conference in 1815, nationalism was rapidly and strongly expressed in Europe.

At this time, France among the Western powers, Louis XVIII was restored with the support of the anti-French alliance, but the enlightened French people were like magma being prepared to gush, making Louis XVIII as if they were in a crater.

Germany established a loose German alliance after the Vienna Conference, and coordinating the quarrel between Prussia and Austria became an important task of the alliance. Despite this, capitalism within the German Federation was greatly developed, which laid a good foundation for the iron-blooded Prime Minister Bismarck to unify Germany later.

Russia's Tsar Alexander I was still enjoying the results of defeating Napoleon in 1812. However, for Russia on the margins of Europe, Western Europe's ideas, economy, social systems and technology were gradually approaching the Kremlin of the Moscow in the cold winter like a blizzard.

In 1823, the president of the United States of America was James Monroe. He issued the famous Monroe Declaration. In his consultation to Congress, Monroe declared: "In the future, no European power shall regard the country that has been independent and free on the American continent as the object of future colonization... The United States will not interfere in the internal affairs of the European powers, nor will it allow the European powers to interfere in the affairs of the American affairs." Since the independence of the United States, after two wars with the British, the US president has devoted a large amount of funds to industry and commerce, which has greatly developed capitalist industrial production in the United States. At the same time, the United States has vigorously introduced Western European science and technology to encourage creation and invention. As a result, a country that will become a global hegemon in the future began to emerge.

Britain in 1823 was the most dynamic region in the world, and the Industrial Revolution had grown up from a baby here. Nails produced in Birmingham were used by Mexican cowboys to nail the wooden boards of houses; farmers in India used hoes from London, and native Americans used axes made in Manchester; and so on.

Although Britain lost most of North America's colonies after the independence of the United States, it still had large colonies in Canada, Australia, New Zealand, South Africa, India, Iran and other places, and its national strength was in an upward period.

If we examine where the nutrients needed for the British Industrial Revolution came from, we can easily guess that it came from the British colonies, which provided markets and raw materials for the Industrial Revolution and brought generous returns to capital. During this operation, the East India Company undoubtedly played a "capable" role in it.

The East India Company was founded 1600 two years after the British defeated the Spanish Invincible Fleet.

In 1613, the East India Company established its first trading post in Sutra, western India. From then on, the British began their long colonial activities in India. The rich returns of the colonies made the Western powers jealous of each other. During this period, the British defeated the Dutch and French and protected their colonial achievements. By 1823, the East India Company had basically occupied the entire territory of India. With this bridgehead in the east, the British looked at the huge China, with a huge market, silk, porcelain, and tea that Europeans liked. In the eyes of the British, China at this time seemed like a piece of fat meat.

However, the Chinese dynasty was stronger than the natives encountered by the British in America, Australia, the chiefs encountered in Africa, and the kings encountered in India and Iran. This made the cunning "wolf" think about the risk of obtaining food. Without greater confidence, in order to recover the trade deficit, the British fought against other conspiracies. They asked Mumbai farmers to grow a large amount of opium under the guidance of employees of the East India Company. The British not only expected opium to be exchanged for the trade surplus, but also expected that the weak Chinese bodies knocked on China's closed doors.

In China, during the Yongzheng period, we realized the harm of opium and began to ban smoking. Later, Qianlong and Jiaqing also banned smoking, and in Daoguang, it was still banned smoking. Therefore, the opium ships of the East India Company could only secretly approach China's coast and bribe and collude with Chinese officials and illegal people to dump opium.

However, there is a saying, "Walking on a long night road, you will inevitably run into ghosts." This time, a ship owner who smuggled opium was killed by the Chinese. This was not a big deal, but the insignificant captain had something to do with Lord Mamesbury. This led to the Lord lobbying George IV to order the investigation of the matter. Soon the East India Company received an order to send a senior employee to China on behalf of the UK to question the Chinese emperor about the matter.

Thackeray is a top student at Cambridge University. His father was an executive of the East India Company. Not long ago, Thackeray went to India to study from the German Federation. His father intended to raise a son that made him proud, and he specially won something for Thackeray from the Governor Lord Auckland that others were unwilling to do.

From Madras, India to Guangzhou, China, through the comprador event of the East India Company in Guangzhou, Thackeray went from Guangzhou to Beijing. The Chinese style along the way opened his eyes, and this place was a completely different world. After waiting in Beijing for a short time, he finally got the news that he was received by the Chinese emperor.

The Forbidden City is the center of the rights of the Ming and Qing dynasties in China. This huge courtyard covering an area of ​​720,000 square meters is the center of Beijing. The center of the Forbidden City is the Hall of Supreme Harmony. Under the hall with two bright yellow roofs are white layers of marble foundations, and under the eaves in the middle are embracing vermilion red pillars. Looking at this magnificent palace on the square of the Hall of Supreme Harmony, Thackere not only wants to build such a majestic palace, China is a great country.
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