Chapter 788: Revenge on the British
The weather in Beijing has been a bit hot this year. It's late August, and the autumn tigers are still raging.
The war in the Middle East has touched the hearts of millions of people in China, and the stock market has been wrinkled, and the loss of Haf-al-Abatin and the threat of Ahmadi have caused the stock of Kuwait Development Corporation to plummet below 3,000 yuan.
This emerging company, whose stock price exceeded 7 billion yuan at its peak, affected the interests of countless people. I don't know how many newspapers have been shouting these days to send troops to the Middle East and level the peninsula.
So much so that the next cabinet election, which has been carried out in a high profile, has been affected. It will be difficult for the candidates of the first and second assistants and cabinet ministers to win the support of the local representatives if they do not say a few words about their supporters' concern about the war in the Middle East and the punitive attitude towards the tribes of the peninsula at the local-provincial-level parliaments and provincial councils.
China's fourth cabinet is about to run out of time, and the development of 'constitutionalism' in the past 20 years, even if it has been moving forward slowly and slowly, looking back behind us, has come too far.
The entire Cabinet of the Fifth Cabinet was brought under the jurisdiction of the National Assembly's election, and was no longer limited to the first and second members of the Cabinet.
Every cabinet minister is an 'election', and every position can be said to affect the eyes and interests of countless people. This is because the number of voters in cabinet elections is still limited to the Diet, even though the size of the Diet has grown to more than 2,000 members in the past. But it's still very, very niche!
China's cabinet elections are still too far away from the whole people, and even after the next 100 years, it is impossible to achieve them. Because Liu Xian did not allow the emergence of Western-style political parties? The entire government is equivalent to an authoritarian political party, and China's current cabinet election model is very similar to that of Liu Xian's previous life, the Great Celestial Empire. It's just that the meaning of the word 'election' has been put into practice in one place. Congressional delegates are no longer holding up mobile phones, but real rights holders. Moreover, there are no less than three candidates for each position in the cabinet, and there will be no single candidate like the Celestial Empire, and the emergence of 'independent candidates' is also allowed.
Liu Xian is not denying the Great Celestial Empire in his previous life. But I really think that the Great Heavenly Empire is gradually a bit of 'both to be **, but also to set up the archway'.
They were originally one party, dictatorship, and governance, just like the Red Dynasty during the period of the great grandfather, who was concentrating on dictatorship and dictatorship with confidence and boldness. Pay attention to the cooking of hairy dishes?
As for the government in the previous life, Liu Xian felt that they were initially under the pressure of the West, so they had to take up the guise of 'cooking'. However, in the new century, more and more attention has been paid to the "opinions" of "cooking". At least in terms of the appearance of public opinion, this is the rush given to him.
On the Internet at that time, why did you talk about your grandfather. For example, China uses the Red Dynasty. And the time moved to the current world, which is a metaphor for China's use of the Great Celestial Empire. In addition to the increase in national strength and the sharp decline in the credibility of the government, a certain change in ideology is also considered to be one of the reasons. There are too many cents and lead parties in China.
Liu Xian had 'left' that era, and everything was meaningless to that era, and even he beat the old mother of the Cents Party to the point of dying, and it was useless to survive. The most sincere blessing is just that I hope that the heads of the Great Celestial Empire in another time and space will not be Chang Kaishen -- "Engage in immeasurable cooking, and be independent and courageless." It's really going to be a step forward. China is really dangerous.
This is the most firm concept in Liu Xian's heart -- a China where it is difficult to separate the military and the government, and a China where the party has the same cultural thinking and fights against each other, and political division means military division and national division! This thinking is deeply rooted. Unshakable. Therefore, he always believed that China should be ruled by autocracy and political parties should be eliminated.
However, there are no political parties in China, and there are still township parties and fellow parties. Each cabinet candidate has his or her own base. At the same time, in order to expand the chances of winning. It is necessary for the wings to disperse to gather support, especially those with great influence. Beijing, Tianjin, Shanghai, Guangzhou, Hong Kong, Wuhan, etc., which require a large number of manpower and a considerable amount of financial support. When you go to the place, you can't talk empty and white-toothed, just talk about it, you must make a certain promise, a promise that is beneficial to local development, otherwise why will people support you?
After a 'model experiment' with the Fourth Cabinet election, it seems that every target candidate has applied this model when the Fifth Cabinet election is widely expanded. It's just that the time is still short, and the interest groups have not been closely integrated with these candidates, so naturally they have not formed the same grand occasion as the presidential election in the United States in the previous life.
But this scene is destined to happen in the future. The combination of politics and interests, the combination of government and business, is the same not only in China, but also in the whole world. As long as the 'market' develops to that level, everything will fall into place.
Liu Xian doesn't care how the people under him turn upside down, as long as he doesn't resort to assassination and other means, he doesn't care. Even if a candidate is intimidated, it is difficult to believe that he can take on the responsibility of the entire country if he is not able to handle the matter if he is elected to become one of the brightest people on China's political scene.
As a matter of fact, all kinds of vicious attack methods in the election campaign are also a kind of survival of the fittest. Politicians are not really innocent, and the dark methods of ruthlessness are another layer of protection for them.
A true politician should stand out in the face of all-encompassing swords, not a smooth ride on the road, which is just a peaceful prime minister in a greenhouse who can't withstand the wind and waves.
China's political power is very scattered, and with the gradual retreat of the older generation, the connection between the 'second generation' and the attendant department, and many officials, has also greatly weakened, because without strong external pressure, the attendant department has largely maintained this name in the officialdom, but in fact it has been divided.
The members of the cabinet, together with the leaders of the Han provinces, were able to summarize seven or eight factions by category, and there were small hills below the factions, and now they were all moving, and all the connections were used. Dozens of 'propaganda teams' have traveled to major cities across the country.
Even when China's domestic 'propaganda war' was raging, the normal operation of the country was always stable. The domestic public opinion propaganda that has just had a little bit of the scale of the Wanwan votes in the future will not affect the overall situation at all.
On August 20, China announced a 35% increase in tariffs on British trade goods, many of which were small items with low trading volume, and there was only one real major item, but this alone made the British feel real pain - India's cotton exports were increased by 15%!
This, of course, is the Chinese government's retaliation for the war in the Middle East.
The message was clear.
All European countries have ushered in a wave of tariff increases to a greater or lesser extent, but the most of them are Britain and France.
The French had very little direct trade with China, but the British were different. With the exception of a few years of interlude during the previous war, trade between China and Britain has always been in the top five, if not the third, in terms of value.
While the tariffs on Indian cotton may seem like a punishment, the British know that cotton cultivation is booming in northwestern China, Central Asia and Xinjiang, where cotton is of excellent quality, especially Xinjiang. It's only been a few years? The whole world has made a name for itself.
As China's self-produced cotton increases, the amount of cotton imported from abroad naturally decreases. And in the past two years, cotton production in North America has also recovered, although the transportation cost is much higher than that of Indian cotton, but the changes in North America do not require tariffs. That's China's internal exchange. are constantly squeezing the market share of Indian cotton, and now they are raising tariffs on Indian cotton, which really makes the British people think of the entire cotton market. It is very likely that the Chinese are taking the opportunity to raise the price of Indian cotton and reduce the market share of Indian cotton.
If the British, because they are angry or short-sighted and arrogant, think that China cannot do without Indian cotton, so as to start a trade war with China, what is the prospect of other commodity types, no one has said accurately, but India's cotton, once it leaves the Chinese market at this time, it is difficult to imagine whether they can return to this country.
At present, there are still many, many people in Britain who are unwilling to formalize China's strength and status, but in Whitehall, such people are definitely a minority. The Marquess of Salisbury, Prime Minister of the British Empire, was a sober-minded politician, and even though he was determined to support Russia and the United States in previous battles, and was the enemy of China, no one could say that he was a clear-headed man.
The brain of the British Empire, which maintained a sober and sane mind, clearly realized that Indian cotton stood at a dangerous crossroads, and in the parliament he used sharp words to criticize the proposal of a small number of parliamentary representatives to launch a counterattack against China, and firmly passed the bill to reduce the export tax rate of Indian cotton, reduce costs, and do its best to maintain their market in China. On the other hand, the British ambassador to China, Sir Saudie, lodged a diplomatic protest with the Chinese government.
China was unmoved, and on the 25th, it once again imposed restrictions on some of China's exports to the UK, including raw silk, Coptis chinensis, quinine, loquat drugs that clear the lungs and relieve cough, and aspirin, an emerging miracle drug.
The role of raw silk needs no more words. Now there are so many things that the military and civilian have to use it. In addition to China, several other raw silk producing countries, such as Japan and Persia, either want to tie up with China, or are China's younger brothers, and their output together is less than one-third of China's output. China is definitely the master of the raw silk world.
Coptis chinensis is one of China's traditional exports to Europe, but the quantity was not large before. But since this drug and berberine showed obvious therapeutic effects at the Panama Canal construction site, the Europeans checked the news again and found that Coptis chinensis was also an essential medicine for China's invasion of the South Seas and the rainforest, and it immediately became famous all over the world. (To be continued......)