Chapter 57： ireland for me

"I'll sell it to everyone here. I don't talk about Europe, but only Ireland on the British Isles."

Seeing the expressions on everyone's face, Jonrell suddenly did not publish the data directly as they thought, but chose to take Ireland as an example. Although it was dissatisfying, he did not object to stopping it.

William IV couldn't help but think of a record of European immigration history he had seen later, in which Ireland is called the history of immigration, blood and tears, as a microcosm of a classic case.

In later generations, Ireland was a country with a per capita income of US$80,000, a small part of the highest-income country.

However, the population is only 4 million, and the population around the world is as high as 70 million. This is all due to immigration.

In addition to being rich, Ireland is also regarded as one of the few livable countries. Dublin, the capital, has been ranked among the best livable cities for many times. At that time, I was very puzzled when I saw the previous life of William IV. The population of Ireland What happened? Why are there such unusual fluctuations and proportions of the population?

The Irish in later generations were basically descendants of the Celts. From the 10th century, the Celts from the European continent landed on the island of Ireland for the purpose of developing and expanding the territory. Soon after, the Celtic culture here became the local. mainstream culture.

"St. Bode has a very high status in the hearts of the local people, and his Catholic culture is even more deeply rooted in the hearts of the people. This is also an important reason why Ireland has not carried out reforms with the rise of Protestantism, which has always been a Catholic country."

Speaking of which, everyone in the room couldn't help but change their faces. This is a sensitive topic although it is not taboo.

The Netherlands used to be like that.

The battle between Catholicism and Protestantism in Europe has never stopped. The Netherlands used to be the front line. Why?

Because Luxembourg belongs to Catholicism, France also belongs to Catholicism, the Austrian Empire, Spain, Portugal, etc., all belong to the sphere of influence of Catholicism, especially the many principalities around Rome.

In contrast, the Netherlands and the German Confederation, Sweden and its direct state Norway, and the British Isles except Ireland are Protestant.

Note: The French-speaking part of Belgium is Catholic and the Dutch-speaking part of the north is Protestant.

This is the Alliance of Faith, which led to the famous Thirty Years War in Europe from 1618 to 1648.

This was a large-scale European melee that evolved from the civil war of the Holy Roman Empire, and it was also the first war in history that all Europe participated. The Habsburg dynasty headed by Austria was defeated and signed the "Contract of Westphalia", which ended. After the Middle Ages, the Holy Roman Empire gradually declined, and the vassal states continued to have disputes. After the Reformation, Catholicism and Protestantism have developed sharply. Opposition, coupled with the rise of neighboring countries, so from 1618 to 1648, a large-scale international war broke out in which major European countries were involved in the German Union Civil War, which is now called "religious war" by European countries.

The war was basically fought between the Protestant vassal states in the northern part of the German Union, Sweden and Denmark, and was supported by the Netherlands and the British Empire, both of which were Protestant. The Eastern Orthodox Tsarist Russia also came out to support it in order to compete with Vienna.

France also supports this side. Although France belongs to Catholicism, in order to dominate Europe and fight back against the rule of the Austrian Empire, it is willing to stand with these Protestant countries. It can be said that France has always been called the most unreliable country. This is not without reason. .

On the other side, the Holy Roman Emperor, the Catholic princes in the German Union, and Spain and Portugal are the other side. And with the support of the Pope and Poland.

This war burrowed into the formation of European nation-states and was the beginning of modern European history. This war caused the disappearance of about 40 people from the population of the states of the German Union.

Even the Catholic Kingdom of Bavaria 70%. 65% of the population of the Pomeranian kingdom was killed, 25% of Silesia was killed, and nearly half of the men of the German Union states were killed.

Therefore, whenever someone talks about this history, no one in Europe or even the entire Western Hemisphere does not talk about it.

Therefore, when Jonrell said it, it is no exception that everyone here has read that history.

Jonrell said indifferently: "Since the Middle Ages, the religious control of people's minds has aroused strong public anger, and the German Union and the United Kingdom and other European regions have carried out internal reforms of their own culture. This led to the birth of the conflict between Catholicism and New Friendship.

Due to its geographical location and natural proximity, since the 16th century, the Protestant forces in the United Kingdom have infiltrated the Kingdom of Ireland through various infiltration methods, intervening in its political direction. The discriminatory treatment of Catholicism has aroused the dissatisfaction of a large number of Catholics in Ireland, and this has also caused an important reason for the frequent conflicts within Ireland.”

In 1800, swallowed up politically and coerced militarily, the Irish Parliament finally reluctantly passed the law of merger with the United Kingdom and announced the establishment of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland. This history is the beginning of the official opening of the Irish immigration, social unrest, forcing the Irish to go to other places to make a living, including the European continent and the emerging Americas.

The last member to join the United Kingdom, Ireland was highly at odds with England on religious issues, because at this time Protestantism was the state religion of the United Kingdom, and the new home became the largest political center in the United Kingdom, while Ireland was a Catholic-dominated region. With the increasing penetration of Protestantism, dissatisfied Catholics began to get tired of the local life, especially the British government's policy favored Protestant areas, and even the starvation disaster in Ireland was ignored, and immigrants began to flow in large numbers. When they left, they originally wanted to go to Continental Europe, but finally found that even southern France could not guarantee themselves, and there were no new jobs to be provided to them, so these people were moved by the newly established situation of the United States.

After the introduction of potatoes from the Americas in the 17th century, Ireland experienced a prosperous economic and social period, with a substantial increase in population, but unfortunately the good times did not last long. Since 1802, potato planting in Ireland suffered from a large-scale plant epidemic disaster. Potatoes are rotten in the ground. According to British data, since 1728, there have been 24 disasters in Ireland, but the disaster officially reached its peak in 1802, and the previous ones were all insignificant.

Potatoes were the staple food of the Irish at that time, and the loss of income caused by the epidemic threatened their lives and health more seriously. The epidemic did not gradually ease until 1852.

However, the population of Ireland has dropped sharply, mainly because of the lack of supply of religion and food, but there is another main reason, which is the result of the ineffective leadership of the British Empire. On the contrary, it allowed the Protestant big landlord class to continue to impose compulsory crop expropriation on these Catholic farmers, and gave priority to supplying the already scarce food to England.

Even more outrageous is that Protestant merchants continued to use Ireland as a transshipment port for American grain, but were unwilling to sell them at low prices to poor Irish, which also contributed to the spread of Irish famine and the separation between them. . Foreshadowing of the hatred left in the future.

The Irish who were fortunate enough to survive began to seek a new way out, and North America became an important option for them. Since the British colonial power penetrated into the Americas, there have been many laborers and oppressed people at the bottom one after another. Coming to this new world to seek business opportunities, poor Irish people are naturally full of yearning for North America with many ethnic groups in the same situation.

"This series of reasons led to the unfolding of the tide of Irish immigration. From 1800 to 1810, there were 12,750 Irish immigrants to the United States, 25,800 immigrants from 1810 to 1820, 54,338 immigrants to the United States from 1820 to 1830, and 1830-1830 to the United States. 207,140 in 1840, 780,790 in 1840-1850, and 911,145 Irish in the last decade in 1850-1860."

With the emergence of sets of data from Home Secretary Jonrell.

Suck suck!

Everyone was breathing rapidly and looked at William IV anxiously.

"Ireland alone has so many immigrants to the United States, so how many people will be in the whole of Europe? Let me calculate, in the past 60 years, Ireland has immigrated to the United States to 1,991,963 people. Is this still there? The registered population should be at least 108,000 more on time, no problem. Your Majesty, it is no wonder that the population of the United States is growing so fast. Thinking that their population was only 4 million in 1800, which is similar to our population, but now it has reached More than 30 million, immigrants are among them, I think the composition is at least more than half.”

Industry Minister Wem Cotter sighed, and further said: "If there are so many immigrants in the Netherlands, then the country and other industrial systems will definitely be larger and more complete. With the Netherlands' economic strength and industrial level, if the population is large enough, , reaching 30 million gates, then, under the development of many new technologies, not to say that it has completely reached or even surpassed the scale and level of the British, but at least we are more confident than France "

The speaker was unintentional, and the listener was intentional. Foreign Minister Haysbert Feng moved in his heart. He couldn't help but think of His Majesty William IV, and was inexplicably horrified.

Because he thought of a question, that is, the heavyweight spy of William IV in the United States, Washburn, chairman of the US Congress Trade Committee and Appropriations Committee, is of Irish ethnicity. Did His Majesty have been a few years ago, I have seen the potential of the Irish ethnicity, especially the contradiction between the Irish and the English, so I dared to cultivate each other in this way.

He couldn't help but sigh: Sure enough, His Majesty is standing far and wide!

With hearing that the Irish currently make up 30% of Europe's population heading to the United States, the total population of European immigrants over the last decade is finally known. 2.7 million, which is the total number of immigrants, including refugees, in 1850-1860.

Although many people have guessed, they are still frightened by it.

Almost half the population of the Netherlands.

It's terrifying.

"Two years is equivalent to the relocation of a whole Netherlands to the United States, Your Majesty, we"

William IV stopped the Minister of Industry, Wem Cotter, ignoring the concerns of those people, but said to Tolbeck and Haysbert Feng: "This is the reason why I want to take Canada, The Netherlands is a treasure land of feng shui, but it is also a place of four battles, it is not a place suitable for our ambitions to grow, Canada, it is.”

"But Your Majesty, the climate in the United States has become a reality. If we join in, the United States will not be affected by it..."

"Good question," William IV praised Rude Bells, the Minister of Education.

(ps: I started to correct the typos in the previous chapters today)