437 The British, who do not surrender
"Now that the whole of Europe is subjugated to Hong Tiancheng, we continue to resist, sooner or later we will fail, and now the Han people have put forward preferential conditions, as long as we lay down our arms, Hong Tiancheng is willing to treat the royal family and dignitaries well, our parliament can also be retained unharmed, and operate as the highest administrative body at the national level, except for military power, our loss is not great.
What's more, even if it is an active force, Hong Tiancheng is not completely dismantled, except for the recruits we temporarily recruit and train, the original regular army can be retained and used as a local garrison and security patrol in the British Isles.
Hong Tiancheng will not even interfere with the profits of our trade with the colonies, only need to pay regular and full taxes, I don't understand, why should we continue this war that we must lose?
For the glory of the white man?
Now that the whites of all Europe have been conquered by Hong Tiancheng, do we still have glory to speak of? ”
At the British Parliament, the representatives of the capitulation faction made a lot of nonsense.
After the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom conquered all of Europe and the anti-Han alliance existed in name only, the original declining capitulation faction of the Kingdom of England increased rapidly and already occupied one-third of the seats in Parliament!
You must know that before the fall of the Kingdom of Portugal, the capitulation faction in the British parliament accounted for less than one-tenth, and the British dignitaries who supported the royal family insisted on the war.
"We can have no glory, but England needs freedom! It's not the first time that Hong Tiancheng has reversed himself, he is only promising favorable conditions now because he is not sure to cross the English Channel, once we lay down our arms, the Taiping army will land on the British Isles without damage, and whether Hong Tiancheng will fulfill his promise at that time is not a matter of his words?
Even if the Taiping Army allows us not to dismantle the regular army, do you think that our existing regular army can deal with the Taiping army of several divisions?
The greatest guarantee of the Kingdom of England is not the benevolence and righteousness in Hong Tiancheng's mouth, but the English Channel and our naval fleet!
Although the Taiping army occupied the whole of Europe, the war between the Han and the Ottomans was not over, except for the Russian Empire, almost all countries were enemies of the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom, and the occupied areas of the Taiping army were not peaceful, even if Hong Tiancheng gave the local full autonomy, there were still many scattered bandit guerrillas against the Taiping army.
How long do you think it took for the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom to rule the whole of Europe with a population of more than 100,000?
Don't forget, Hong Tiancheng did not conform to the public opinion of the occupied areas, but vigorously promoted the Han culture and Taiping teachings, and even semi-compulsory popularization of Chinese learning, Hong Tiancheng This is to forget the roots of white Europeans, how can we, as the last bunker to resist the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom, surrender to Hong Tiancheng!
As long as we hold the English Channel, time will eventually be on our side, and such a big Europe is not something that Hong Tiancheng can rule if he wants to. ”
The remarks of the main war faction were immediately warmly responded to by the members of the royal family and dignitaries, the surrender of the Kingdom of England, the biggest damage to the interests of the British royal family is undoubtedly the British royal family, although the Kingdom of England implements a constitutional monarchy, but it is not a complete constitutional monarchy, but the British royal family and the parliament rule the world together, in order to control the parliament, the British royal family also established the parliament as the upper house and the lower house by amending the constitution, the lower house is the world of the bourgeoisie, and the upper house is controlled by the traditional dignitaries and the royal family through strict control of the origins of the members.
The House of Lords is the political force of the confrontation between the English royal family and the civil bourgeoisie, not to mention, the British royal family also has a transcendent status in the English Kingdom, and has a lot of convenient veto power.
The Kingdom of England seems to have great power as the prime minister, but the prime minister is subject to many constraints by the British royal family.
After the end of World War II, the ouster of British Prime Minister Winston Churchill was driven by the British royal family, and even in the 21st century, the power of the British royal family is far from being comparable to rubber stamps, and the British royal family has never been a puppet, but a compromise with the bourgeoisie and retreated into the background.
Therefore, although the call for the capitulation faction is very high, and the reasons sound somewhat reasonable, under the strong interference of the British royal family, the main battle faction, which already occupies the majority, completely suppressed the surrender faction with a crushing advantage.
After determining the future national policy, the British royal family and the main battle faction in Parliament joined forces to kick the main representatives of the capitulation faction out of the House of Commons one by one, completely controlling the power of the British Parliament.
The Kingdom of England once again stood resolutely on the opposite side of the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom, and even the banner of the anti-Han alliance that existed in name only was not lowered, but still held high.
Gathered under the banner of the Anti-Han League of the Kingdom of England, there was the free regime in exile led by the escaped Portuguese royal cousins, and after the fall of France itself, the French liberals led by the French liberals who fled to the British Isles again.
The most interesting thing is that the Kingdom of England found a small nobleman with a little blood relationship with the Spanish royal family out of nowhere, and then gathered a group of angry Spanish youths who were unwilling to be ruled by the Han Chinese, and established a free Spanish regime in exile......
The English kingdom established these exiled regimes not on a whim to make money, but to control the kingdom's colonies overseas.
Overseas colonies will not admit that they are slaves of the Han Chinese!
It doesn't matter if the local can't fight and surrender, how can the white armies who are used to being uncles in the colonies bow down to Hong Tiancheng thousands of miles away?
Does Hong Tiancheng really have the spirit of a tyrant?
If it weren't for the fact that the Taiping Army was too strong, the white guys who surrendered under Hong Tiancheng would have dared to start a rebellion immediately!
The spirit of the king does not exist, the only thing that works is guns!
The Kingdom of England took in the fleets that had fled from the Spanish mainland, and then incorporated the overseas colonies of the Kingdom of Spain into the system of the anti-Han alliance by forming a Spanish free regime in exile.
The two sides were not subordinate, but close allies, otherwise the Spanish colonies would not have agreed to join the anti-Han alliance.
They were unwilling to submit to the Han, let alone the British, the Spanish Armada was destroyed in the hands of the British, and if they didn't hold grudges, they would already give face to the British.
In the same way, the Portuguese regime in exile also incorporated Portugal's overseas colonies into the system of the anti-Han alliance, but when the Kingdom of England inserted its hand into the French overseas colonies, there was an accident.