"Royal Navy defeated in the Pacific!"
"The Australian Legion has been defeated, Brisbane has fallen, and Sydney is under siege!"
"Cabinet resigns, the United Kingdom will no longer have a First Minister!"
"His Majesty Emperor William breaks convention and will directly lead the government! The United Kingdom has entered the era of monarchy!"
"Kaiser Wilhelm has mobilized troops from Germany. Fifty thousand German troops have landed at Dover and are marching towards London!"
All of the above were news that appeared on the front pages of major British newspapers such as The Times, the Daily Express, and the Daily Mirror within a few days at the end of January 1833. Each one was more exciting than the other. Each one shocked the people of England.
Contrary to what some people imagine, there was actually no legal freedom of the press in Britain after the bourgeois revolution. In fact, the mainstream newspapers in the UK must pay high stamp duty... Every newspaper must pay tax! Therefore, the price of legal newspapers in the UK is also very high, which is looked down upon by the working people. Of course, the circulation of legal newspapers is far less than that of those European countries across the English Channel.
Under such circumstances, all legal "major" newspapers in the UK have characteristics such as small circulation, few readers, poor hematopoietic ability, and dependence on the father, the financial backer, for support. As for the father who is the financial backer who can support a legal "big" newspaper, you can understand it just by thinking about it.
Therefore, the British cabinet and parliament have a very strong ability to control legal news... After the British Empire was actually at war with the Ming Dynasty, the legal "big" newspapers in the UK would never publish government news and news. The content that the parliament does not allow to be published is all very well behaved.
Of course, there are still many illegal newspapers in the UK... With the development of the British capitalist economy, the literacy rate of the British working people is not low, so the poor also have a demand for newspapers. The Mercury, which often publishes "saint articles" on another timeline, is such an "illegal tabloid", but it has more readers than any legal "major" newspaper!
However, in the past few days at the end of January 1833, Britain's legal "big" newspapers seemed to have changed editors overnight, and they all began to report bad news on the battlefield and at home.
The bad news was so terrible that it frightened the rich, upright, civilized gentlemen of England.
How could Britain, which had been peaceful for many years, become as terrible as continental Europe and North America overnight?
Oh, it wasn't the defeats on the battlefield that were terrible...the defeats in the Pacific and Australia weren't too bad for the rich men of the British Isles. What is really scary is the drastic changes taking place in the UK!
That Emperor William seems to have gone crazy! He actually dismissed all ministers, including the Duke of Wellington, and broke the practice since George I by no longer appointing a chief minister and began to govern!
Rubber stamp...going to power! The constitutional monarchy that made the wealthy British feel proud and at ease was abolished by Emperor William overnight!
Come and try it quickly. 】
What's worse is that the wealthy people in the British Isles hurriedly looked at the law and looked through it, trying to find the provisions of "a false monarch establishing a constitution". But sadly, that simply doesn’t exist.
That's just "custom" and not a written law at all.
In fact, the UK does not have a written "constitution" at all, so what kind of "constitution" would it have?
An even more terrifying thing was published on the front pages of mainstream British newspapers such as The Times, Daily Express, and Daily Mirror on January 31 - 50,000 heavily armed German troops Landed at Dover!
When they saw this news, the British gentlemen had a feeling of doomsday... German troops landed in Dover!
In the minds of British gentlemen, the English Channel is like a natural moat, protecting the islands they live in and remaining calm in the troubled times of Europe... Even if emperors like Charles V and Napoleon appeared in Europe, they would be This narrow, often fog-shrouded strait blocks the way.
But now...the Germans have landed at Dover!
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In the early morning of February 15, the song "God bless our Emperor William" sung in German rang out on the busiest streets in London. Wearing German-style pointed steel helmets (also known as spike helmets) and carrying Yeager rifles, German officers and soldiers sang the German version of the British national anthem; they lined up neatly and marched into London in a mighty manner!
This scene... those who didn't know better thought it was the German Empire that had captured London!
The gentlemen and working people watching on the streets of London also had some illusions... Is their motherland imperialist? Or a colony?
If we say it's imperialism, then why are so many Indian soldiers coming in the front and a large number of German troops coming in the back?
Emperor William has mobilized so many foreign troops. Who should London be guarding against?
Prevent the Ming Dynasty?
The Ming army is still in the Pacific! How could it be possible to come to Britain so quickly when India has not even been attacked yet?
Guard against Napoleon II of France?
It's not like that. The relationship between Britain and France is very good now, but the Ming Dynasty and Rakshasa are instigating an anti-French alliance to support the restoration of the Bourbon dynasty. However, the German duo are having a headache over who will be the future German Emperor... and have no intention of fighting against France. But Napoleon II of France was much worse than his father. His father came to power by relying on the prestige established with the barrel of a gun after a series of violent social changes. Napoleon II only succeeded in taking power by taking advantage of the contradictions among the royalists, republicans, and Bonapartists in France. He had not been tested by blood and fire, and he did not have a strong military group by his side.
So after Napoleon II came to power, not only did he not dare to offend Britain, but he also continued to show his kindness to the British Empire... Of course, it was impossible to declare war on the Ming Dynasty, and Britain itself behaved like a bear. , who would board her pirate ship? However, it is absolutely impossible for Napoleon II to land in Britain. Even if he had this intention, there would be no need to deploy German troops to defend him!
The Royal Navy's Home Fleet can still block the Navy of the Second French Republic, and the British mainland is very safe for the time being.
So these 50,000 German troops (actually not that many, only 20,000) are not defending against the Ming Dynasty, nor are they defending against France, so who are they defending against? It seems that the only thing left to guard against is the British people who oppose Emperor William's dictatorship!
Looking at the German troops marching majestically on the street, and then looking at the Gurkha troops guarding around St. James's Palace, Emperor William, standing on the balcony of St. James's Palace, breathed a sigh of relief, but then he felt that something was wrong. !
Although his approach of mobilizing German troops and Gurkha troops to protect themselves from British mobs was completely reasonable and in line with British practice - the King's German Infantry Regiment was not his first creation, it existed as early as the Napoleonic Wars. In the battle that finally defeated Napoleon, there were only more than 20,000 serious British troops participating in the battle, while the British King's German Infantry Regiment dispatched more than 7,000 troops, and the Kingdom of Hanover dispatched more than 13,000 troops. The two combined were indispensably more than the British army. A few, and a large number of troops from small German states, totaling twenty to thirty thousand... But can the British people understand the difficulties of his king? Didn't they mistakenly think that they were colonized by India and the Germans?
In addition, where have the Duke of Wellington, Viscount Palmerston, Viscount Melbourne, Lord Gray and Sir Robert Peel gone? Why don't they come to St. James's Palace to welcome the German troops loyal to the British King?
