In addition to the continuous introduction of advanced technology and abundant capital in Europe, there is also an indispensable point in the rapid development of Europe in recent years, that is, the squeeze of the big 6 in central and southern Africa.

After the Ming Dynasty destroyed the Qing Dynasty, he only occupied the North Africa area north of the Sahara Desert, and did not have the slightest interest in the Central and South Africa areas south of the Sahara Desert.

The place where the Ming Dynasty did not intervene was the happy land of colonization by European countries.

There are at least 100 million blacks in Central and Southern Africa, and possibly no less than 200 million!

Before the Ming Dynasty conquered the Americas 6, the colonists of European countries captured a large number of young and strong black slaves and sold them to the Americas 6 as slaves to create wealth for various countries.

Even if the American 6 is lost, the Ming Dynasty strictly ordered all countries not to sell black slaves to the Ming Dynasty, and black slaves seem to have lost the market!

However, this is not the case, and the European colonizers were not so kind to spare the blacks, let alone give up the extraction of wealth from Africa.

The size of the Big 6 in south-central Africa is roughly the same size as the Big 6 in South America, but there are probably 200 million black people living there. The black people are unsuitable for farming, keep livestock in captivity, and mostly rely on dense forests to feed, so they can reproduce such a large number of people, one can imagine how fertile and rich the land of the Great 6 in central and southern Africa is.

After the Great 6 of the Americas was occupied by the Ming army, the Great 6 of central and southern Africa was the last colony of European countries, and the only place where they could squeeze their wealth.

After the Ming Dynasty destroyed the Qing Dynasty, European countries formed the first anti-Ming alliance army, first defeated in the Aegean Naval Battle, and then defeated at Constantinople, and finally had to sign the harsh Vienna Treaty with the Ming Dynasty under the threat of the Ming Dynasty, 50 years, a huge indemnity with a total of 835 million silver coins in principal and interest.

Although it was a reparation for 50 years, it would cost nearly 17 million silver coins every year, which was too stressful.

In order to reduce the pressure of reparations and to get more money to show themselves, countries can only intensify their efforts to extract wealth from the big 6 in central and southern Africa, and never let go of everything valuable.

Not only were all kinds of minerals and arable land, but the black slaves were also a hugely lucrative asset.

In terms of minerals, including iron ore, gold and silver ore, aluminum ore, copper ore, etc., most of them were exported to Daming after the consent of the Ming Dynasty to be used as annual indemnity.

In terms of arable land, countries developed arable land as much as possible, and captured blacks as slaves for farming.

Blacks were not only captured by European colonizers and used as slaves in Africa, but also some were sold to the estates of European countries to become slaves, enslaved and oppressed by the owners of the estates.

In the process of crossing the sea from central and southern Africa to the European mainland, more than half of the black slaves would die of hunger and disease on the way and be thrown into the ocean.

If it weren't for the Ming Dynasty's ban on black slaves entering the Ming Dynasty, the colonies of various countries would still want to sell black slaves to the Ming Dynasty.

The territory of the Ming Dynasty is vast, there is no doubt that there is a large amount of arable land, and there are many landlords who have cultivated more than 1,000 acres or even 10,000 acres, because of the huge oppression value of black slaves, at the beginning, it is true that many black slaves were sold into the Ming Dynasty by slave traders from various European countries through illegal channels, but then Zhu Ci ordered a severe crackdown, and the arable land that dared to use black slaves was recovered by the imperial court, and the landlord also faced imprisonment, which can be described as almost ruined!

After a severe crackdown, coupled with the tragedy of a group of previous experiences, no one dared to buy black slaves from outside to enter the Ming Dynasty.

In addition to the punishment of the Ming people who violated the rules, the Ming also cracked down on those traders in European countries who dared to transport black slaves to the Ming Dynasty, and once it appeared, it would sink its merchant ships and hold the country where it was located.

The strictness of the Ming court, even if the black slave trade was violent, no one dared to sell it to the Ming Dynasty anymore, but more and more black slaves were sold to Europe.

From the twenty-eighth year of the Ming Dynasty to the fifty years of the Ming Dynasty, in twenty-two years, the number of black slaves who were trafficked to Europe was more than 500,000!

There are more blacks who become slaves directly in Africa, and black Africans are like livestock kept in captivity by colonizers in European countries, without any human rights, and thousands of black tribes are broken up by colonial armies of various countries every year, and young and strong blacks are captured and sent to mining areas or estates.

Mainly in Britain, Spain, France, and Portugal, they can get a lot of wealth from the process of enslaving blacks every year, and just by selling the grain grown to Europe or the Ming Dynasty, they can easily earn more than 10 million silver coins for the five countries of Britain, Spain, France, and Portugal, which is enough for the five countries to pay their share of the annual indemnity to the Ming Dynasty.

The wealth plundered by the five powers from Africa undoubtedly made the other powerful kingdoms of Europe very jealous, among them the Kingdom of Austria and the Holy Roman Kingdom.

Austria's territory is similar to France, the population is also about the same, although in the first anti-Ming coalition army, Austria was under the Ming army under the city of Vienna, the entire kingdom was heavily damaged, but the Ming Dynasty did not occupy a part of Austria's territory in the end, after several years of recovery, Austria's national strength was slowly restored.

France is known as the largest power in Europe, relying on a large enough territory and a large enough population in Europe.

Austria's territory and population are half as good as France's, how can it watch Britain, Spain, the Netherlands, France and Portugal 'monopolize' the big 6 in central and southern Africa, and naturally want to have their own colony in the big 6 in central and southern Africa.

Therefore, in the forty-fifth year of the Ming Dynasty, Austria sent troops to the central and southern parts of Africa for the first time, successfully seized a colony that originally belonged to Portugal, and began to extract wealth from Africa.

Although the Holy Roman Kingdom is composed of many city-states and principalities, it is under the banner of the Holy Roman Crown, and its strength is not weak.

Since then, the big 6 in central and southern Africa has evolved from the original coexistence of five countries to the hegemony of seven countries!

In the forty-seventh year of the Ming Dynasty, due to the intervention of Austria and the Holy Roman Kingdom, and the fact that the English had a huge amount of gold mines in South Africa, it finally led to the first time in Europe that the seven-nation melee was dominated by the big 6 in central and southern Africa.

The Seven Kingdoms fought in Africa for six years, killed and wounded more than 500,000 troops, and finally the British kept South Africa, and the Kingdom of the Netherlands was attacked by France and the Holy Roman Empire on the European mainland, and the English interfered with it and fell, the Kingdom of the Netherlands fell, and all the colonies were divided among the countries.

With the fall of the Kingdom of the Netherlands, the Great 6 in south-central Africa left only six colonies to coexist.

Because of the whole six years of melee, the damage of various countries is not small, and they have to enter a period of recuperation.

Also because of the great losses of the six-year melee, Britain, Spain, France and Portugal, Holy Rome, and Austria intensified their efforts to extract wealth from Africa after the armistice, which indirectly caused more black deaths.

In the following four years, the six countries developed their own territories through the vast wealth squeezed from the big 6 in Africa! The national strength is increasing day by day, especially in terms of military strength, and it is becoming more powerful.

By the time of the 57th year of the Ming Dynasty, because of the pressure given by the Ming Dynasty and the promotion of the military exhibition by the African melee, the six countries had established a complete military industrial system, and the army's weapons configuration was comparable to that of the Ming army 20 years ago.

It has been 20 years since the Vienna Treaty of that year, and the day of the annual payment of indemnities to the Ming Dynasty is approaching, and the continuous strength of military power has begun to make the kings of various countries begin to think carefully about paying the indemnity to the Ming Dynasty.

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