One handful, one pull, one dozen!
These are the three powerful medicines Xiao Letian has given to the UK. The entire strategy clearly outlines the current political landscape of the UK, and the elites present can easily understand it even if they do not have a deep understanding of the UK.
Under Xiao Letian's introduction, a vivid picture of British political changes slowly unfolded in front of everyone.
In the earliest times, there were no political parties in Britain. During the feudal dynasty, all the rights of the country were concentrated in the hands of the king and the downwardly enfeoffed nobles. The people first loyal to the lord, then the lord loyal to his direct management nobles, and those big nobles paid allegiance to them. King's allegiance.
Layer after layer, the country was built like this!
But everything started to change with Charles I. In 1649, Charles I, the ruler of the Stuart dynasty, was tried by Cromwell and those parliamentarians who supported capitalism, and was eventually guillotined.
Since then, the power of the feudal aristocracy has suffered a heavy blow, and Britain has entered the era of the rise of capitalism. The power of capitalists has begun to seize power in the political arena. The most representative one is the expansion of parliamentary power.
At that time, the British Parliament was powerful enough to vote on the king's succession. The most typical example was the fierce debate and quarrel over the succession of James II.
It was from that time that the British Parliament officially split into two groups. One group opposed James II's ascension to the throne. These people were called Whigs by their opponents, which translated into Chinese means Scottish robbers.
The congressmen who supported James II to come to power were called tori by their political opponents, which means gangsters in Chinese.
The two groups were yelling at each other like this. It can be imagined that once the British Parliament had a quarrel, it was no different from the wet market, with the same profanity.
As a result, these two names spread more and more widely. Gradually, not only people in the parliament called each other this way, but also the common people began to use these two words to describe the two groups of people. Gradually, these two curse words became With some neutral connotations, it finally became the self-proclaimed name of members of both parties.
Hearing Xiao Letian say this, Luo Huo couldn't help but scratch his head and said one of the most classic curse words for men outside the customs: "Damn it, this is really interesting! You actually used a partisan name to curse someone?"
"Hahaha... If there was such a scolding war in the Manchu and Qing court, would the party in later generations be called... your party is a Bazi party... Hahaha, it's really funny!"
Luo Huo's words amused both Sima Yun and Wang Huaiyuan who don't like to joke, "That's right, if the northwest party is probably called Guazang and Donkey Ridi... If the Shanghai party is called Little Red Party..."
With a bang, everyone in the cabin laughed!
Xiao Letian also laughed loudly, and then pressed his hands on everyone, "The situation you mentioned may not happen. After all, the English vocabulary is not large in the first place. Many words have multiple meanings, and our Chinese language is broad and profound, and Confucian scholars We will not allow our party to use dirty words as its name..."
"In fact, what does it mean whether a name sounds good or not? From this point, we can also see the pragmatic characteristics of Westerners. Europeans don't pay much attention to face. In their eyes, getting actual benefits is more important, so It doesn’t matter to them what your name is!”
"Later, the Whigs and Tories came together again because of the Glorious Revolution. That is, during the struggle to overthrow James II, a constitutional monarchy emerged, and the Constitution became the foundation of the British state!"
"Then there was a long period of alternation between the two parties in power. Generally speaking, the Whigs tended to favor free trade and the interests of large factory owners, while the Tories tended to favor the interests of the traditional aristocracy, financial owners, and large landowners... …”
"You can also see from diplomacy that most of the people who support the war of aggression against China are members of the Tory Party, while the Whigs maintain neutral and conservative views on the war of aggression against China. This is caused by the different ideological positions of the two groups. !”
"Who in Britain benefited from the two Opium Wars? You need to carefully analyze the details of the trade between the Qing Dynasty and Britain. In fact, it was not the factory owners who reaped the most war dividends in China, because British industrial products Qing Dynasty didn’t sell much at all, and China’s internal self-sufficient economic circle is still very stubborn!”
"The most goods imported from Britain to the Qing Dynasty every year are not imitations and industrial products, but opium and various financial products! We all know that opium is a profitable business, and financial products are even more terrifying. You must know that the Manchus' treaty reparations are all You first get a loan from a British bank and then pay interest every year!”
"The customs in Qing Dynasty have all been mortgaged. Do you think they are making money or not?"
"After these British people have become accustomed to the huge profits from opium and the easy profits from financial products, do you think they are still willing to do those tiring and dirty primary industrial products business?"
"The answer is of course no. Nowadays, more industrial products in the Qing Dynasty are produced in our Northern Special Zone, and a large part of them are made in the United States... These British guys have become accustomed to being civilized people! They have begun to use their meager profits and The painful and tiring business gradually gave up!"
"It is precisely because the Tories represent the interests of the aristocracy and financial capitalists, and these two groups of people are the two groups of people who can benefit the most from the war of aggression against China, that they actively launched two Opium Wars!"
"Now, it's time for them to eat the bitter pill! We Chinese are indeed not the opponent of the UK at the moment, but why should we position the enemy in front of us as the entire country of the UK?"
"No! What we want to attack now is the Tory Party, or rather Benjamin, the representative of the Tory Party!"
"Don't look at the commotion they are having now, I have already pulled out the list for him... Let's calculate it bit by bit. Supporting the Whig Party now is equivalent to giving us Chinese time to fight for peaceful development! "
"Once the Liberal Party of Gladstone takes power! It will be a golden moment for the peaceful development of our Chinese nation!"
Everyone became excited after what was said, and the last trace of worry about the head of state's strategy had completely disappeared at this moment.
Britain is an inevitable obstacle to the rise of the Chinese nation. Everyone has worries in their hearts. Everyone is afraid that Britain will stab them in the back. In fact, Xiao Letian is also afraid.
Xiao Letian knows that Britain's influence on the world at this moment is no less than that of the United States at its peak in the previous life. Basically, Britain can fight anyone it wants in any country in the world, and it is sure to win.
For such a giant that cannot be circumvented, we must pay attention to strategies and methods. It is not possible to act recklessly, or even use a golden finger, because no matter how powerful the golden finger Xiao Letian brings, with the industrial strength and technological level of the United Kingdom, , you can basically copy it just by looking at it twice, and you can even catch up from behind.
For example, the Zhiyuan can be regarded as the most advanced warship in the world for the time being, but at most the British imitation warship will be launched in the next year. By then, warships with equivalent performance will be launched into the sea like dumplings.
Such terrifying national strength cannot be limited! We can only use the strategy of removing the firewood from under the cauldron!
