Taking over the Qing court's tattered mess with nothing, and the Hua Emperor now wants to divert a large amount of military funds from Huaguo, which is in the stage of recuperation, it is tantamount to killing chickens and eggs.And the countries of Western Europe are now fat and strong, especially the rising stars, such as the Kingdom of Italy, in order to compete with the old powers for colonies, they are all sharpening their knives and making great efforts.The "Black Triangle Trade" that began in the 16th century was the slave trade, in which European slave traders loaded salt, cloth, rum, etc., from their own countries, exchanged them for slaves in Africa along the so-called central shipping routes, and in the Americas they traded for gold, silver, and industrial raw materials such as sugar, tobacco, and rice.Between western Europe, near the Gulf of Guinea in Africa, and the West Indies in the Americas, the shipping route roughly forms a triangular shape, and is also called the "black triangle trade" because it is trafficked by black people.It lasted 300 years.In the 1719th century, after the opening of new shipping routes, European and American merchants transported cheap industrial products and guns to Africa in exchange for slaves, transported black slaves to the Americas and sold them, bought back the production raw materials of gold and silver, and industrial raw materials from the Americas, made them into commodities and transported them to Africa in exchange for slaves.Because its trade involves Europe, the United States, and Africa, it is called.In the past, Europe engaged in large-scale triangular trade with the Americas and Asia; Atlantic triangle trade refers to trade between Europe, West Africa, and the Americas.Trade between the three regions to maintain a trade balance.The first countries to start the triangular trade were Portugal and Spain, followed by the United Kingdom and France.The American colonists carried out a policy of extermination of the Indians, which led to a large shortage of labor in the Americas.At the end of the 15th century, with the discovery of the New World by Christopher Columbus, new routes between Europe and America were opened.At that time, commerce was developing, trade was expanding, from a world perspective, Europe and Asia were developed in commerce, for the countries of Western Europe and Northern Europe, Asia was undoubtedly thousands of miles away, and the Americas and Africa were much closer, which provided favorable factors for the "black triangle trade".As a result, Portugal, Spain, Britain, France, and so on began to colonize and expand.They created plantations and exploited gold and silver mines in the Americas, and because of the need for a large amount of cheap labor, driven by profits, the colonists turned their greedy eyes to the unexplored African continent and began the criminal slave trade.In 1562, Sir John Hawkins of England shipped slaves from Sierra Leone in exchange for hides and sugar in Haiti, and became the richest man in Portsmouth after returning home.Because of the staggering profits, Queen Elizabeth and the Privy Council officers also invested in his second voyage.He followed the steps of the previous and returned with a shipload of silver, becoming the richest man in England.It was the government's acquiescence to the slave trade that made the slave trade more and more rampant.The European colonial powers were all involved.Some Europeans, seeing that it was profitable, also joined the ranks.Thus, the triangular trade began.At that time, capitalism in the European colonial countries was developing rapidly, and the large amount of products determined that they could exchange them for blacks.The slave ships followed the ocean current to Africa, one is the Canarian cold current, which is located on the northwest coast of Africa and belongs to the compensation current; The second is the Guinea Warm Current, which flows along the coast of Guinea in Africa and is also a compensation current.When slave traders arrived in Africa, they exchanged low-value goods for young and strong blacks with the chiefs of black tribes.The black tribes and their tribal leaders, who were still in a state of barbarism and ignorance, were bought by slave traders like commodities under the sowing of discord and coercion by the slave traders.These great powers set out from Europe and sailed to Africa, carrying guns and miscellaneous goods in exchange for black slaves.Then, slave ships laden with blacks crossed the Atlantic along the central passage to the Americas, which was called "medium haul."
Ships carrying black Africans to the Americas were often overloaded, and ships with four or five hundred men were crammed with nearly a thousand.When a black man gets on a ship and enters a warehouse, it is equivalent to entering a living coffin.The air in the cabin was filthy, and the food was so bad that it was easy to contract all kinds of diseases, and the blacks who died of illness or epidemics were thrown into the sea and suffered quite miserably.Upon arrival, blacks were again sold into slavery in mines or plantations.Just like the voyage, the slave ships sailed along the current, which was the North Equatorial Current, which was a wind-swept current that crossed the Atlantic Ocean and reached the West Indies.The southeastern part of North America has a typical subtropical monsoon and monsoon humid climate, which is affected by cold and dry air currents from the continent in winter, and does not receive much precipitation.
In summer, due to the influence of warm and humid air currents from the ocean, there is a lot of precipitation, which is suitable for the cultivation of rice and tea.Central America and the West Indies have a tropical rainforest climate with high temperatures and rainfall throughout the year, which is suitable for the growth of sugar cane.Due to the favorable climate and the hard work of the black slaves under the oppression of the colonists, the plantations developed rapidly, and the plantation owners obtained a large amount of sugar, tobacco, tea and other raw materials, and earned huge wealth.While developing plantations, the colonists also plundered a large number of precious metals such as gold and silver in the Americas, and Latin America produced gold, silver and precious stones.The Mexican highlands and the Andes are rich in precious metal minerals.Around 1550, Mexico provided one-third of the world's silver, and Peru produced one-half of the world's silver.This became one of the important sources of the primitive accumulation of bourgeois capital.Finally, the ships laden with gold, silver, and raw materials returned to Europe, which was called the "return journey".On the return trip, the ship still sailed with the current, and the ocean currents were the Mexican Warm Current and the North Atlantic Warm Current.The Mexican Warm Current is a compensation current that runs from south to north along the Florida Peninsula to compensate for the loss of sea water caused by the North Atlantic Current, which is formed by westerly winds.The gold, silver and raw materials brought back played a great role in the development of capitalism, which was an important reason for the smooth progress of the slave trade.Europe set sail to Africa to rob black slaves, and then went to the Americas to sell black slaves, making huge profits, so as to obtain: silver, tobacco and other cash crops, and then returned to Europe to develop capitalism.Although the means are very bad, people have easily accumulated a good family foundation from this set of routes.The black trade promoted the development of British capitalism, brought great wealth to Britain, promoted the development of British industry and commerce, and fully developed European capitalism, which was an important step in the primitive accumulation of capital.At the same time, the slave trade provided a large number of cheap labor for the development of the American colonies and promoted the formation of modern American capitalist culture.However, the devastation of Africans and the socio-economic damage caused by the slave trade was immeasurable, depriving Africa of nearly 100 million able-bodied laborers.Let European capitalism be fully developed, economically, it is the primitive accumulation of capital.The development of capitalism and the acquiescence of the government, the frenzied pursuit of profits by the European colonizers, and the ignorance of the African people due to the primitive social structure were the main historical reasons for the smooth progress of the "black triangle trade".The triangular circulation composed of the Canary Cold Current, the Guinea Current, the North Equatorial Current, the Mexican Current, and the North Atlantic Current provided extremely favorable shipping conditions for the "Black Triangle Trade", which made the slave traders smooth sailing on the outbound, medium, and return journeys, and the speed of the slave trade was accelerated.Therefore, under the historical trend of capitalist development, under favorable geographical conditions, and driven by huge profits, the "black triangle trade" has been carried out smoothly for hundreds of years.Emperor Hua still remembers that he was reborn in later generations, and many people who don't know what they are doing close their eyes say that the Qing court is actually not poor, and the GD is the first in the world, and Emperor Hua still doesn't understand where these data come from.The Huaguo Bureau of Statistics assessed that China's current national strength can enter the world's top ten, and the Chinese emperor felt that it was enough, not to mention the Western European powers, even in the Balkans, China may not have much advantage, not to mention that outside Europe, there is also the United States, which has been making a lot of money quietly.Hua Huang and Jie Gege laughed softly, and suddenly a young and beautiful foreign woman entered the sight of the two of them.t1706231537: