Chapter 369: European Influence
The biggest loss in the anti-Han alliance is undoubtedly the British Empire, which has invested the most forces, but the British Empire has a strong foundation, and there are a large number of colonies that can be exploited to make up for its own financial losses, even if it owes a butt of national debt, as long as it is collateralized with future trade profits, it can be easily repaid!
Of course, in the end of the war, so many British people died and lost so much money, so naturally there must be a 'man behind the pot' to carry it, which highlights the superiority of the British political system - the constitutional monarchy!
Although the British royal family still has a lot of rights, but in the eyes of the British people and even foreign people, the British government still has the final say on the prime minister and the ruling cabinet, it can be said that the anger of the lower class people, as long as the British government impeaches the prime minister of the current cabinet, and then carries out a large-scale propaganda criticism and education, and pushes all stupid decisions to the unlucky ones who have stepped down, it can be perfectly solved!
Although the British royal family hidden behind the scenes will also pay some price in the exchange of interests at the top, it is not a problem at all to keep it!
This is the superiority of the constitutional system of hypocrisy!
It is also the reason why the British royal family is willing to compromise with Parliament!
Unlike the hypothetical constitutional system, which is generally recognized by the people of later generations, the members of the royal family are just rubber stamps, which is actually just the external propaganda of the hypothetical constitutional system, and the prime minister and the cabinet are indeed in charge of things on the surface, and the British royal family seems to be really a mascot without rights in the propaganda agency!
How can it be!
The dumping of political power has always been the most cruel, if the British royal family does not have any power to maintain its imperial power, should all those big capitalists be good people, and kindly keep their glorious glory?!
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That's just to promote the benevolence of the capitalists, the power of the British royal family is far less than that of the dictatorial monarchy, but the energy at the national level is still quite strong!
Even, in some respects, it is possible to suppress the entire core of state power - parliament!
As for the Prime Minister and the Cabinet, they are just the front-facing figures launched by the Parliament and the British Royal Family to work, if the Prime Minister and the Cabinet do a good job, then they will naturally be rewarded by the Parliament and the Royal Family secretly and openly, if they do not do their job well, they will be ready-made perfect 'back-up man'!
No matter how many cabinet prime ministers are replaced, the rights of the British royal family will not be shaken at all, it is not only the protection of the constitution, the royal family has real power, whether it is the army or assets, the British royal family is not as simple as it seems!
To put it bluntly, the whole of Britain is jointly controlled by the capitalist class and the British royal family, and the power of the British royal family is more concentrated than the loose big capitalists, after all, there is only one king, but there can be many big capitalists!
Therefore, on the surface, after the end of the American War, the political situation in Britain was the most intense, and even the Prime Minister's cabinet collapsed, and there was an overall transfer of rights, but in fact, the real hidden political entities in Britain were not fundamentally affected!
As long as the turmoil stops after a while, the royal family and the big capitalists behind the scenes who are really in power in the British Empire will still be stormy and rainy!
Unlike the British royal family, which looks like a mascot and does not have much responsibility, the other countries of the anti-Han alliance are all proper absolute monarchies!
In other words, even an illiterate farmer knows that the war was defeated, many people died, and a lot of money was lost, all of which were the fault of the faint king!
If you want to talk about the guilt of defeat, it is not to let the white people who are used to being oppressed feel bad, the real bloody white people either go to be pirates or go to colonies to fight the world by themselves, and the white people who stay in Europe are relatively mild tax lambs. Pen | fun | pavilion www. biquge。 info
But even the weakest lamb must be able to eat!
Those who borrowed the debts of bankers and big capitalists are not a sentence of 'I have no money' for the kings of various countries, if an ordinary person really has no money, maybe the debtor has no choice but to kill him to vent his anger, but if a king has no money, no one dares to kill him!
Rebellion or something, is not something that big capitalists and big bankers like to do, at most they will add fuel to the fire, but also pay attention to the control scale, after all, once the rebellion, the social system will inevitably be broken, at that time not only the aristocratic royal family is at risk, but also their fat tyrants!
Therefore, for the bourgeoisie, the problems that can be solved with money will never be solved with guns, and only a group of mud-legged people who have nothing will shout the slogans of revolution and freedom all day long, because they have nothing but slogans......
The king has no money, which is easy to do, and the king has one of the world's largest collaterals - the state!
What kind of tax power, coinage power, judicial power, etc., just a little bit of it is enough for the bourgeoisie to open champagne to celebrate!
What's more, there is also the cheapest noble title!
It's just that because the war has been fought for too long, there is no actual fiefdom of the noble title, and the value of the one that has been depreciated should not be wanted......
And the nobles who really have fiefs can't be sealed by the kings, unless they cut off their direct territories, there is no land to seal at all!
The kings wished to co-opt all the nobles of the territory, how could they cut their own flesh?
I don't want to cut meat, I can't help but repay the debts of the more and more powerful capitalists, it is natural to repay debts, and if the debtor has no power and no power, he can still rely on the debt, but then again, where do the powerless and powerful people get the money to lend to the government of a country to fight?!
Therefore, this money has to be repaid, and the interest must be added to delay the repayment for a period of time!
There is one of the simplest and most direct ways for the king to repay the money - to raise taxes!
Anyway, the whole country is mine, and those untouchables should pay more to pay off the debts of the state!
As a result, the European countries that participated in the anti-Han coalition were in mourning, and white civilians became the biggest victims after the defeat!
However, the kings were also well aware of the terrible rebound of the untouchables after being oppressed, and the army was always on high alert, so that any civil unrest would disappear in the bud!
Naturally, those rich tyrants who are expected to be able to recover their debts do not want the country to mess up and become accomplices of the king and nobles!
If the king is overthrown, who will pay them back?!
Except for the British who relied on the exploitation of the colonies, and the native people did not suffer too much, the civilians of the rest of the European countries who participated in the anti-Han coalition caused a large-scale famine crisis!
It was during this period of boiling resentment that something began to flourish!