Gladstone can already feel that victory is just around the corner. In fact, politicians of their level know very well that the outcome of a war is often decided before the war begins.
War is just a process of releasing conflicts. As long as you smooth out all the key nodes before starting the war, victory will be a matter of course.
In the final analysis, Britain is still a group of businessmen. Profit-seeking is their essence. Businessmen are greedy and calculating. They will link anything in the world to their interests, even wars.
In the First Opium War, the British Parliament actually passed the war resolution with a very weak advantage, and that very weak advantage was obtained only through the Queen's influence.
To put it bluntly, what they love is to make money, and the first thing to do when making money is to avoid risks, and war is always full of uncertainty. Except for arms dealers who must rely on war to make a fortune, other industries Businessmen still prefer to make a fortune peacefully.
As for the people, they are naturally opposed to war. They like the illusory sense of glory brought by victory in war. At the same time, they also hate their children leaving their lives in a distant foreign country. They know very well that when a real war breaks out, the dead will still be civilians. The children of nobles and big capitalists have many ways to save their lives.
This is a concept, and this concept is a kind of power. Gladstone actually borrowed this power for the Liberal Party to develop to this point.
Use moderate mercantilism to replace radical colonialism, and let the British national policy invest as much as possible in domestic affairs. According to the Chinese, it is to practice internal skills first. Only when the internal skills are strong can we achieve more glorious external colonization in the future.
Therefore, Gladstone's success actually lies in two points. He promised to build a large amount of infrastructure for the people at the bottom, universalize compulsory education, and even give the colonies more autonomy in exchange for a period of peace and stability. This is the development of internal affairs. , cultivate internal strength.
The second point is another argument for those elites. Gladstone is not opposed to colonialism. On the contrary, everything he is doing now is actually for better colonial expansion.
In the bugged hotel, Xiao Letian had actually clarified the key to the problem, especially the close relationship between technology and compulsory education. He even foresaw that Britain would slip from its position as the largest technological power in the future.
why? Because Prussia has had compulsory education for decades and has an extremely large educated population base, based on the same proportion of elite productivity, the total number of high-tech talents in Prussia in the next 40 to 50 years will be no less than Britain even surpasses it.
There is another special case in the United States. Although the United States has not implemented compulsory universal compulsory education at the moment, it is about to begin.
Moreover, America's isolationism has resulted in a very stable political situation in the country, and its great tolerance for immigrants has allowed the country to absorb many of the excluded national elites in Europe.
Coupled with the advantage of the United States' own population base, the rise of science and technology like Prussia in the future is absolutely foreseeable.
On the contrary, look at the UK. If these top-level companies continue to be like this for a short period of time, the upgrading factories in the future will not even be able to recruit qualified operators. Look at the development of mechanical processing equipment in the past few decades. The latest machine tools require It is operated by highly educated workers.
At this moment, Britain is in a dilemma. A large number of uneducated people are unemployed and can only engage in the simplest and most low-end hard work.
However, those high-paying positions cannot be filled at all. The salaries of senior blue-collar technicians have continued to increase many times, but there are still huge vacancies.
How to solve this social contradiction? By war? In the final analysis, it still depends on Gladstone's method.
With the support of many forces, especially the help of Xiao Letian, the confident Gladstone has successfully dealt with the top elites in the Empire on which the sun never sets.
A secret meeting in the Berkeley restaurant has left the political and business leaders speechless. Under the mediation of the royal family, the top leaders of the empire pyramid have actually reached a secret consensus. At this moment, it is actually only the middle-level politicians who are stubbornly resisting. .
Although Benjamin didn't know what Gladstone had done, the sense of smell of political animals was extremely keen, and they could smell the smell of danger. This was the most critical reason why he responded appropriately today.
Such a veteran politician failed to control his emotions during the debate and knocked down a whole bunch of people in one fell swoop? Isn't this hysteria?
Gladstone focused his fire on Benjamin alone from beginning to end, but Benjamin scolded all politicians who supported Gladstone, including those who wavered in neutrality, as idiots.
The expressions of countless people became weird, and many people secretly said angrily, "What is it? I have my own judgment. Don't we have something wrong with our minds if we don't accept your judgment?"
"What Gladstone said is right. No matter how ambitious Xiao Letian is, he is not aiming for the British Empire. The merchant ships under my command can get four or five shipments of valuable goods from the Chinese every year. I and I It’s obvious that people’s cooperation is to make money, okay?”
Some congressmen looked at the Duke of Newcastle and said, "I have invested a lot of money in you. Don't mess up the business of the high-end Chinese restaurant... Oh my, when I think of the Chinese food I ate that day, why do I salivate?" The flow can’t be stopped!”
Too many people have selfish thoughts. No matter how noble a businessman pretends to be on the outside, it is impossible to change what is deep inside!
Of course, there are also some politicians who have abandoned their own interests and are really considering the future of the empire. These political elites with high morals have to admit that Gladstone's remarks are very reasonable.
Moreover, these elites can obtain certain information passed down from the top through many channels, especially some remarks that are said to be related to Xiao Letian.
Those deafening arguments kept them awake all night, and they smoked one cigar after another, but in the end they all came to the same conclusion.
This oldest empire really needs to adjust its national policy. Even if the general direction of colonialism never changes, in the next ten years or so, it will have to look inward to some extent and manage its internal affairs properly.
To put it bluntly, we have really owed a lot of debts in domestic affairs in recent years. Since we owe debts, we always have to pay them back!
Of course, these politicians do not want a big earthquake to occur in the domestic political arena, and they are even emotionally unwilling to let the Chinese people watch the joke.
Therefore, they hope to see Benjamin realize his mistakes, adjust national policies independently, and try to reconcile with Gladstone and govern together.
This debate is actually the last chance these people give Benjamin, but now it seems that Benjamin is a stubborn donkey that no one can stop.
He has gone further and further down the road of failure!
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