The second prince adopted Ma Wei's plan, and announced the end of the pilot as soon as possible, and the policy was tried out in the cities and towns in the southern part of the kingdom.

This was a very bold move, which had previously been confined to London and that Arthur's dismissal of public school teachers and principals was only a nobleman in a city of London, but now it was expanded to cause an uproar in the south of the kingdom.

This behavior also angered many nobles who were not native to London.

Within a week, the rebuke poured into London, with countless people writing to the king demanding an end to Arthur's decree, and the mailbox at the Prime Minister's residence at 9 Downing Street was full.

Even the church received an anonymous letter reporting Arthur.

It was as if the malice of the whole world was concentrated on Arthur, and a storm of public opinion was converging, but surprisingly, the king and the cabinet did not take any action, and were unmoved by the report letter, pretending to be dead.

Seeing that many people were attacking Arthur, the second prince came to his senses, and invited Baron Frederick and Marvey to Kensington Palace early in the morning, asking if they should fall into the well at this time and beat Arthur, the 'water dog'.

Baron Frederick hesitated, unable to give a definite answer, but Mavi spoke:

"Your Highness, I don't think this is a good time to make a move against the fourth prince."

"What better time than this? Arthur is being besieged by out-of-town nobles! ”

"Most of the nobles who besieged him were involved with the Conservative Party."

Ma Wei said: "Those people are all people who support the eldest prince, and the decree implemented by the fourth prince has made them lose their original lofty status, so they are angry and angry to attack the fourth prince."

"That's the problem!" The second prince quickly said: "If we add a fire to this moment, won't we be able to give Arthur a head-on blow?" ”

"Theoretically, it is possible, but have you thought about it, Your Highness, so far, neither the king, nor the cabinet nor the church have expressed any opinion about the four princes, and they are silent, isn't this a tacit approval of the behavior of the four princes?"

Reaching out to take the cigar handed by Baron Frederick, Mavi continued: "What's more, it's the eldest prince, he doesn't make any moves! If Your Highness were the first to jump out, wouldn't it have helped him? The eldest prince doesn't have to do anything, just watch you and the fourth prince bite into it! ”

"In the end, it is the eldest prince who benefits the most, not Your Highness!"

Hearing this, even if the second prince was no longer upset with Arthur, he also regained some of his senses.

Oh, yes

Charles, who is the biggest beneficiary, doesn't say a word, and he pretends to be dead with the king and the cabinet, why should he jump out like a clown?

Isn't this a gun for someone else!

"Your Highness, I think Nicholas is right." Baron Frederick said in a deep voice: "Although the fourth prince is under siege by public opinion at the moment, he is only attacked by the decree implemented by the "Education Reform Act", in short, if there is no "Education Reform Act", there will be no new decree, and the "Education Reform Act" was passed by everyone together, and the king also signed and agreed, which was supported by many people."

"It's the Liberal Party that proposed the Education Reform Act, if we fall into the trap at this moment and attack the fourth prince with this, isn't it equivalent to slapping ourselves in the face? The image you have built up in the hearts of the people with the "Education Reform Act" has been shattered all at once! ”

"Again."

After a pause, Baron Frederick added: "Even if the fourth prince withdraws the decree, this matter will only affect his status as president, he is now not only the president of the Educators' Association, but also the leader of the Labour Party!" Compared to the leader of the Labour Party, what is a junior president? Since the relationship between the fourth prince and the eldest prince is very stiff, we should seize the opportunity instead of pushing the fourth prince back to the eldest prince! ”

The second prince nodded again and again when he heard this: "This public opinion dispute was provoked by the Conservative Party, we should take the opportunity to continue to split the relationship between Arthur and Charles, if it falls into the ground, it will become a glue and let Arthur return to Charles's arms again." Is that right? ”

"Yes, Your Highness, this is politics."

"So what do we do now?"

"Do nothing." Ma Wei said: "Wait for others to make the first move, in short, we can't be the first bird." ”

"Won't this make Arthur's power even stronger?"

"Even if the power of the fourth prince expands more than ten times, it can't be compared with the eldest prince, on the contrary, why do you regard the fourth prince as the number one enemy, Your Highness? Our biggest enemy should be the Great Prince! ”

With a shock to his body, the second prince suddenly woke up.

I don't know when the battle between him and Arthur has entered a white-hot stage, not the white-hot stage that he thinks alone.

In fact, he doesn't need to be antagonistic to Arthur at all, what Arthur is doing so far is harming the interests of the Conservative Party.

Baron Frederick was right, this is the political game.

The second prince touched the cold sweat on his forehead, and was afraid for a while: "I almost fell into Charles's trap, but fortunately, I have your reminder." ”

Ma Wei smiled, "This is what we should do, Your Highness. ”

On the other side, Clarence Palace.

"Your Highness, are we going to stop them?" Earl Austin asked.

The eldest prince standing in front of the window took a sip of red wine: "Stop? Why stop it? ”

"Didn't you make a deal with the Fourth Prince and agree to help him deal with the impact of the Education Reform Act on the Conservative faction?"

"Earl Austin, Arthur is a very ambitious man, and when I look at him, I find that it is a pair of eyes that will never give in, and his independence is expected by me."

The eldest prince said quietly: "Whether we help him or not, he will not take refuge in Shukri, not to mention that we can take advantage of this opportunity to force Shukri to make a move, Shukri's temperament is very anxious, as long as he can't hold back. Here's our chance to turn over. ”

"There are a lot of powerful people around the second prince, I'm afraid it's not so easy to take the bait."

"Yes, the real masters, the competition is all hard power, because each other rarely makes mistakes, and once they make mistakes. It's deadly. ”

The eldest prince's eyes narrowed: "I was just waiting for Shukri's chance for them to make a mistake." ”

The public opinion turmoil failed to suppress Arthur's momentum, and he had already made up his mind to take this opportunity to completely reform the rotten education system in the Kingdom of Windsor.

Staring at the pressure of public opinion, Arthur continued to implement the new decree, expelled the old school, and started the evaluation of new teachers, except for some small towns and towns that were difficult to implement, and the slightly larger cities were carried out relatively smoothly.

For the small towns with very strong resistance, Arthur was not busy purging, but quickly carried out the school district housing system, the implementation of the same rights for rent and sale, as long as the vast majority of areas are controlled, the small towns will compromise sooner or later, it is only a matter of time.

In the office, Arthur looked at the newspaper nervously, he has been paying attention to the house prices and rents in London and the surrounding areas since the implementation of the Education Reform Bill, and surprisingly, since the bill was fully implemented, the rate of house price growth in London has slowed down significantly, and has remained at the same level for several days, with very small fluctuations.

This is good news, absolutely good news, and it means that the amount of capital pouring into London has decreased a lot and the situation has stabilized.

Arthur breathed a sigh of relief that as long as capital stopped pouring into London, it would be much easier to solve the problem of enrolment.

In the afternoon of the same day, Arthur took Sean Rickman and other Labour MPs to visit the Newham district, and their sudden arrival surprised the owner of the house, and when he learned that Arthur and others had come to visit for the sake of their children's schooling, the owner of the house also gave a frank answer:

"It's not that we don't want our children to go to school, and who wouldn't want their children to be literate if they can? It's just that the family is really difficult, although the rent is stable, but I still have to spend a lot of money every week, and if I want to fill my stomach, I can only let my children go out to work."

"Won't the company provide you with room and board?" Sean Rickman asked.

"Room and board."

The owner of the house said with a wry smile: "The so-called working meal, in fact, also need us to spend money to buy, although it is cheaper than outside, but the daily expenditure has not changed, at most the food is better, as for the accommodation, I work in the steel mill, if you want to live in a free dormitory, you have to move to the suburbs, and you can only live with other workers in a room for 8 people, if you want to bring your wife and children over, you have to pay 2 shillings a week in rent." ”

"The rent is really cheaper than in the city, and the daily expenses of moving to the suburbs are less, so I thought that when the house was built, I would move in with my family."

Arthur frowned when he heard this, and the owner of the house explained very clearly that the free food and lodging promised by the bosses and the capital were just a disguise, in fact, they were earning money from the pockets of the workers in disguise, and the money earned by the workers needed to flow into the market through the landlord and small traders, and if they moved to the suburbs, the money would flow into the pockets of the capital.

The money earned by the workers is eventually used to pay rent and food, and the house and food are provided by capital, in the end.

The workers have nothing left but to give and survive.

Isn't this exploitation?

It's like eating people without even scum!

Arthur's face tightened, his fingers rubbed slightly, and Sean Rickman, who was next to him, saw this scene and immediately understood that Arthur was angry.

"If you continue to raise salaries, will you send your children to school?"

"Definitely!"

Receiving an affirmative answer, Arthur left with Sean Rickman and the others, and after an afternoon of visiting, they got much the same answer.

In the end, it's because there is no money.

With money, who wouldn't want their children to be educated?

Who doesn't want to live the life of a rich man?

But Arthur was angry, he couldn't understand why people could be so greedy that they would exploit others like slaves and satisfy their horrible appetites.

But their stomachs are bottomless, and they will never be able to fill them.

Although angry, Arthur did not take the liberty of acting, he knew who his enemy was and how powerful he was.

In essence, he is not hateful to the rich, wherever there is civilization, there must be a gap, and it is difficult to achieve a society of great harmony and complete equality, at least not for now.

As long as there is a gap, there will be poor, a society cannot be full of rich people, if everyone has money, then there will be no concept of 'rich', there is a gap between contrasts.

The existence of rich people is certain, they are a group, killing wave after wave, and will never be extinct.

What really makes Arthur angry is that the rich use capital to build classes and block the way for the poor to become rich!

People who get rich first, in order to stabilize their position, will try their best to set up thresholds to make themselves rich forever, and this process is unscrupulous.

As long as the class is mobile, then the society is healthy, as long as the poor can become rich, it means that there is still hope for change, and the terrible thing is that the upward channel is blocked and the opportunity is monopolized.

When there are enough rich people, when there are enough rich people who want to stabilize their position, the resources of society will be seriously displaced, and there will be an excessively large gap between the rich and the poor, resulting in the extreme phenomenon of freezing bones on the stinky road of Zhumen's wine and meat.

And once this phenomenon occurs, it often means that the class is solidified and the resource allocation reaches the limit.

Order will collapse, like dominoes, creating a chain reaction that will shuffle everything and redistribute resources.

Isn't every change of dynasty a redistribution of resources?

Power and lack of power are two extremes, when a person has power and wealth at his fingertips, can he suppress his inner greed and stick to his heart?

On the carriage, Arthur glanced vaguely at Sean Rickman and the others, and already had the answer in his heart.

The Knights of the Round Table he formed was originally united by interests, and the Knights of the Round Table were loyal to him because they shared common ideals and ideas, and if there was a conflict of ideas one day.

Loyalty is also tested.

In order to eliminate the risk, the day of success seems to be the best way to eliminate the threat, but Arthur does not think so.

He believed that the Knights of the Round Table, as chivalry proclaimed, were eternally hot and eternally religious.

Only then can you sail through the clouds and reach distant Avalon.

"A true king will be considerate of his people," Arthur muttered.

"Your Highness, what did you say?" Sean Rickman didn't hear clearly.

"It's fine."

Arthur raised his head and said with a blank face, "I understand a friend more and more. ”

Sean Rickman heard the deep meaning of the words, and asked sideways, "Is it him?" ”

"Hmm."

"If it's him."

Sean Rickman took a puff of his cigarette and said with a smile: "He has always been a visionary and has a good vision, and he chose your Highness." ”

"We should also respond to his expectations." Arthur said: "Inform the other parliamentarians that a second strike is being prepared. ”

"The second time?"

Sean Rickman was surprised: "Is the strike going to continue so soon?" What is it for this time? ”

"This time is different from last time, this time, we need to plan and target action."

Arthur spoke slowly, "The time has come to go to war with Shukri. ”