Losing power?

His son's question made Zhu Yifeng stunned at first, and then smiled slightly, he really hadn't thought about this problem.

He had worried about everything, but he didn't think about losing power, or rather, he didn't worry about it at all, because no one could take it away from him.

"Power ......"

After pondering for a moment, Zhu Yifeng, who even felt a little ridiculous in his heart, shook his head and said.

"To the Council, to the people to release power this is the inevitable development of the country, we must master the rhythm, now the domestic political environment is not mature enough, there is still to be further development, at this time, the royal must play a stabilizing role, this means that the emperor must hold a certain amount of power, well, I think this time should be another thirty to forty years, maybe by the time the empire is 90 to 100 years old, the time should be close to ripe, at that time, most of the power can be returned to the people. But even so, the royal family must play the role of the final arbiter at the appropriate time, and this role requires the royal family to hold power, no matter at any time, but in the future, the royal family can appropriately retreat into the background, but the substantive power must still be in the hands of the emperor, and even in the future, maybe whether or not to be the prime minister is through elections, but it still has to be supported by the emperor. Otherwise, when the party struggle is fierce, the emperor will not be able to act as the final arbiter, and don't forget that the emperor will die in the party struggle and internal friction! ”

When saying these words to his son, Zhu Yifeng's mind naturally thought of the Thai royal family in another time and space, on the surface, the Thai royal family is far away from politics, but in fact, the Thai royal family until the 21st century, still holds the absolute power of the country, especially in modern times, Thailand's political situation has been turbulent, from 1932 to 1992 In the 60 years, Thailand has had a total of 19 coups, of which 13 coups were successful, and 20 prime ministers have formed 48 cabinets. The King and the Thai people have witnessed and experienced 60 years of political and social turmoil together. The king acted more or less as the final arbiter, and repeatedly intervened at critical moments to save the day and shelter the Thai people from disaster after disaster. What would Thailand be like without the royal family in this role?

"As for the House of Lords, in the future, you or Xiaotang will face people advocating that power should be handed over to the people, calling for control and weakening of the power of the House of Lords, their reason is very simple, "they want to use a system based on the masses rather than on a hereditary basis", they will constantly try to weaken the power of the House of Lords in the name of reform, and finally they try to establish the status of the Council of Lords in a legal way than the House of Lords, and make the House of Lords lose all important powers such as financial bills, And constantly restricting the legislative and judicial power of the House of Nobles, Haier, do you think this change is beneficial to the Empire? ”

Faced with his father's inquiry, Zhu Fenghai couldn't help but fall silent, is this kind of change beneficial? He really didn't know, but if one day, the leader of the Council of Governors asked for the limitation of the power of the House of Lords in the name of the people, would he object?

The answer is yes, as an emperor, you must have the people in mind, otherwise you will definitely lose the hearts of the people.

"It is certain that at a certain stage it may be advantageous, but in the long run it is disadvantageous for the empire, the simplest - those politicians of civilian origin will never understand what imperialism is!"

Continuing to walk forward, Zhu Yifeng explained as he walked.

"For those party politicians, they always care about votes, just like the so-called clear stream, they only care about personal reputation, not the country, they have to think about the votes first, and then they have the possibility to think about the interests of the country, because if there are no votes, they have no chance to think about the interests of the country, and they can even do anything to get votes, for example, they are for votes, in Yunnan and Annam, they can advocate the right to give illegal immigrants the right to vote, Or demand a change in the nationality law, the implementation of the nationality of the place of birth, so as to obtain the support of illegal immigrants, and these illegal immigrants only need to come to China, through the birth of children, they can enjoy education, medical care and other benefits, of course, more importantly, they will rely on welfare policies to deceive the votes of the poor and minorities in big cities, especially the votes of minorities, such as Japanese and Koreans, they will even artificially create a barrier, if the gap is conducive to votes, for example, they can be in a few decades later, Under the pretext of our indentured servitude to the indigenous people of Africa, through affirmative action to force the government to apologize to the indigenous people and their descendants, and to give them more jobs and welfare opportunities, then we will definitely lose Africa, and we must not forget that of our 120 million immigrants in Africa, 50 million are the descendants of these minorities and their mixed race......"

When mentioning these, Zhu Yifeng thought of the era before he traveled to this era, the era of the flood of virgin was pathological, abnormal, and would cause a serious blow to the Juche nation, all of which of course was not what Zhu Yifeng was willing to agree with.

Subsequently, Zhu Yifeng and his son talked a lot, although in many cases, it was there that he talked about his internal worries about the future, especially the fear that the vote would become a tool in the hands of politicians.

“…… What do you say about the nobles of the world? They may not be perfect, they have shortcomings of one kind or another, but one thing is certain, they will never have to sell their votes to please the common people, of course, they will also sell their votes, for example, for profit, but each of them knows very well that the interests of the empire are closely related to their personal interests, and this determines that most of them will never take the initiative to sacrifice the interests of the country for their personal interests,"

Although he is very aware of the role of the aristocracy, Zhu Yifeng knows very well that the characteristics of the aristocracy - they will never deliberately please the people, and the votes in the hands of the people are never what they need.

"Therefore, in the future, the role played by the House of Nobles, more often, is a check and balance, a check and balance for the common people politicians to rely on welfare policies to absorb votes for the sake of votes, the reason why the empire has today is based on individual struggle, not social welfare, the empire will provide welfare policies to the people, but by no means implement the welfare policy of raising lazy people! Those politicians ......"

Smiling sarcastically, Zhu Yifeng thought that after the 60s, those so-called politicians continued to absorb votes through welfare policies, and what did this welfare policy get in exchange? It is precisely because of the welfare policy implemented by those countries to support the lazy people, if they need to struggle and struggle all day long, how can they have time to march and demonstrate, and the reason why they can do nothing is to do that and cause things, precisely because there is a welfare policy to support the lazy.

"If the empire is given to them, the first thing they do is to dismantle the empire, like those members of the council, they don't see the billions of wealth that the empire acquires from the colonies every year, They see the 150 million military expenditures paid by the Imperial Army and Navy to maintain the colonies, and they see the huge bureaucratic expenditures of the Imperial Colonies, and they do not see the importance of the colonies and overseas provinces to the Empire, even if the Empire faces a possible economic crisis in the future, as long as it has a large number of colonies and overseas territories, it can be through the Imperial Preferential System, through the system of mutual preferential treatment between the mainland and the colonies in trade. High tariffs were imposed on imports from outside the empire to prevent other powers from infiltrating the market to quickly restore their own vitality, and in the empire, the internal self-economic cycle brought about by this trade protection was necessary to ensure the economic development of the empire. ”

When mentioning these, Zhu Yifeng naturally thought of Britain and the United States in another time and space in the face of the economic crisis, in the face of the heavy blow of the economic crisis, Britain's response was to abandon the free trade policy through the imperial preferential system, with the help of its own huge overseas territories and colonies, quickly recovered, as for the United States, which did not have colonies, fell into a long-term Great Depression.

But after World War II, the leader of the Labor Party, Elied, could not see this at all, without "imperial thoughts", he only saw the economic difficulties of Britain after the war, and did not see the importance of colonization to Britain at all, and finally, in the face of internal economic difficulties and pressure from the United States, he chose to give in, starting from India's independence, Britain's colonial empire was disintegrated, and from then on, Britain was only a second-rate country in Europe, and there was no possibility of any rise, even if Churchill returned to power, is also weak to return to the sky, and can only resign himself to acting as a follower of the United States, as a civilian politician, Elied does not know what an empire is at all, and does not know what the lifeblood of an empire is.

No!

How could Ally not know all this?

Of course he knew, but he had to think about the votes first, and he had to take into account that the British people at war were not willing to fight for India, and that the short-sighted people cared more about the bread in front of them than in the colonies, and of course more importantly they did not want to shed blood.

Therefore, the need for a huge garrison and the financial burden is just an excuse, the real reason is the votes! As the most successful white leftist in the early days, Eli decisively destroyed the possibility of Britain's post-war rise for the sake of votes. After all, will the British economy be more difficult than the USSR?

Why was Britain able to return to the position of world leader in a short period of time after World War I, and why did Britain completely become a second-rate country after World War II, and even slid into a third-rate country after the 21st century?

Also, why does the white left prevail? In the final analysis, the root of the problem lies in the desire of civilian politicians for votes! They can do anything for the sake of votes, at the expense of the country.

"Father, they can use welfare to buy ordinary people, but they can't use welfare to buy entrepreneurs and rich people, after all, the expenditure of welfare needs to be supported by finance and taxation, even now, the limited welfare implemented is a large expenditure for the imperial finances,"

As the crown prince, Zhu Fenghai naturally put forward his views, and his views were obviously somewhat different from his father's.

"Without the support of business owners and the rich, how can they hold the political arena for a long time just by relying on the poor?"

The son asked rhetorically, which made Zhu Yifeng smile, if it weren't for the fact that before coming to this era, Europe and the United States at that time were in the midst of turbulent changes, I'm afraid no one would have thought of the key.

"Actually, the poor, the rich can get some kind of balance in their interests! Under their deliberate manipulation, this balance is even in favor of those civilian politicians! ”

Thinking of this, Zhu Yifeng's mind immediately came to mind the Western world in another time and space, how those so-called civilian political elites slowly destroyed their countries step by step in order to gain power.

"How is this possible?"

looked at his father in surprise, this was the first time, Zhu Fenghai heard that the interests of commoners and rich people could reach some kind of balance.

"How could it not be?"

After an affirmative rebuttal, Zhu Yifeng continued to ask.

"Well, now the tariff system within the empire, have you noticed any difference?"

"The imperial tariff system is roughly divided into three categories, the first category is foreign countries, which implement special tax rates on foreign products, if our country needs products such as cotton and other products to implement low taxes, but foreign tariffs are generally subject to tariff protection, and higher import taxes are required for the goods produced by the country. Then there are the Imperial Overseas Provinces, which implement special tax rates on the customs duties of the Imperial Overseas Provinces according to the division of labor within the Empire, such as wheat and corn in the North American provinces, which are imported into the Empire with low tariffs or even zero tariffs, and the same is true for mineral resources. Finally, there were the Imperial Colonies, which tended to impose high tariffs on the export of consumer goods from the Imperial Colonies, in addition to the necessary resources......"

When mentioning the imposition of high tariffs on the export of consumer goods from the imperial colonies, Zhu Fenghai suddenly asked rhetorically as if he had suddenly realized.

"Father, you're the Colonial Tariff!"

Suddenly, all the things that he didn't understand seemed to understand at this time, Zhu Fenghai seemed to have suddenly figured out something, and some things that he couldn't understand in the past could be understood at this time.

"Not only the colonial tariffs, but also the local tariffs, the tariffs of the overseas provinces, plus the specific tariffs that the General Customs Administration adjusts from time to time, father, I understand, why did you order Hurd to formulate that extremely complex imperial tariff system, the purpose of this tariff system is to protect, to protect the domestic industry, to prevent the flow of local capital to the overseas provinces and colonies, right?"

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