But days like these would not last forever. In fact, to shift the economic crisis elsewhere, the British had been frantically dumping goods into their occupied territories in North America, even doing business with the US Army.
Yet the Americans' capacity to endure was ultimately limited. In particular, what the British wanted from their occupied zones in North America were sources of raw materials and markets for dumping goods—interests that ran directly counter to those of the Americans living under occupation.
As the dumping intensified, the comprador agents' lies collapsed of their own accord.
Logically speaking, the comprador agents had already seized power, and they had both money and troops. Even if the Americans in the occupied zones wanted to resist, they had little chance to do much—at most, spit a few mouthfuls of saliva.
But even those comprador agents had underestimated just how inhuman the British Empire could be.
The British directly copied the East India Company's system, forcibly levying land and mineral taxes at rates exceeding 50%, just as they did in India.
At the same time, they placed all mineral resources under the British Mining Association and forcibly conscripted local residents to extract them.
They imposed a zero-tariff policy on British goods while slapping high tariffs on American products.
They abolished the US dollar and forcibly exchanged it for Pound Sterling.
In people's fixed impressions, currency unification was normally supposed to be a magnificent thing—benefiting both country and people, with merit lasting through the ages.
But in reality, there was an enormous amount of room for manipulation. For example, if the original exchange rate of one to five was changed to one to six, they would immediately pocket a clean 20% profit.
Do not think 20% was insignificant. The British colonial system was a combination punch; its