"Sir Ji Dabao and Sir Newton are here!"
As the palace attendants sang, Ji Dabao and Newton followed a young attendant wearing a wig and walked into the spacious audience hall of Hampton Court Palace. Queen Anne and her husband George sat on the two thrones, with only three ministers and a few attendants standing on both sides. The three ministers are Charles Viscount Montague, the finance minister whom Queen Anne most relies on, Robert Harry, the minister of state, and Sidney Godolphin, the foreign secretary.
Sir Ji Dabao and Sir Newton walked to the throne of the Queen and Prince George, bowed respectfully, and then stood up straight again, smiling and looking respectfully at the rulers of the British Isles.
Queen Anne was wearing a golden dress and a purple shawl. She was very fat, with large features, and her skin was white but very loose. Her Majesty the Queen looked at Isaac Newton who had just been knighted not long ago with big eyes and said: "Exar, at the suggestion of Viscount Mengguta, I read the proposal you submitted about changing Yin's title to The gold standard proposal. Well written, clear and well-argued. But there is one thing I still don’t understand. I hope you can help me, Sir."
"Excuse me, Your Majesty."
"Exar," the Queen asked, "why can't we seek a trade balance or a surplus? Don't we have anything to sell to China?"
"No," said Sir Newton. "With all due respect, Your Majesty, we Europeans have had nothing to sell to China and India since ancient Rome. Not for two thousand years... If a This phenomenon has not happened in two thousand years, so even if it happens once or twice, it is unlikely to become a norm. So I don’t see any possibility of maintaining trade balance in the long term.”
Ancient Rome and Europeans after the great geographical discovery were engaged in the same business, and that was zero-dollar shopping!
Since you regard zero-yuan shopping as your main business, it is of course impossible to maintain a long-term trade surplus unless you engage in unequal trade. For example, historically, the trade between the British and Indian colonies was a kind of unequal trade - even though they colonized India, they could still do whatever they wanted with this trade? But that's it, the British also spent a lot of effort, relying on black whistles to restrict the Indian textile industry, steam engines, Jenny spinning machines, and black slaves growing cotton to defeat the Indian cotton textile industry.
The competitiveness of the British in manufacturing is also evident.
But they are really good at fighting, and they are good at making trouble, and they are also good at sizing up the situation.
"In other words, gold and silver will continue to flow from England to China and India?" asked the Queen of England.
"That's the theory," Newton said.
"In other words, even if we implement the gold standard, it can only temporarily alleviate the currency shortage problem?"
Newton nodded: "Yes, Your Majesty, if our trade is in a large deficit for a long time, the problem of currency shortage will not be completely eliminated because of the gold standard."
"Then what should we do?"
"We..." Newton took a breath, "Your Majesty, if we study history carefully, it is not difficult to find that there is only one way to solve the problem...that is to rob!"
This is what the university asks!
If you look through the history books, you will know the solution to Europe’s long-term trade deficit! Historically, ancient Rome relied on robbing. By robbing North Africa and the Middle East, and robbing money, the ancient Roman civilization became brilliant.
Later it became impossible and everything that was easy to grab was taken away. The rest are either too far away to grab, or they are too poor and unruly to grab them. Later, various barbarians came to rob Rome... The dark Middle Ages came to be when they were scrambling to rob Rome. Then the Tianfang Sect rose up and directly cut off the way for Europeans to rob eastward. I couldn't fight again and again, and I couldn't grab it, so I had no choice but to take a detour. This detour would lead to a new world where a person's stupid money is so easy to grab.
So the good old days of European civilization are back!
Under the leadership of Zhu Heji, the Ming Dynasty not only achieved revival, but also reversed the style of the past one or two thousand years. It also joined the competition in overseas zero-dollar purchases and began to grab the money that should have been robbed by Europeans, leaving the Europeans with no money. So easy to grab.
So life in Europe has been a bit difficult in the past two years...but they still have places to grab, and they haven't reached the point where they can't grab them anymore.
Queen Anne thought for a while and nodded, agreeing with Newton's view. She then looked at Ji Dabao, who had just returned from France, and asked, "Sir Dabao, did you see the Sun King at the Palace of Versailles? Is his health okay?"
"My Majesty, the Sun King is in good health..." Ji Dabao said, "I specifically asked the Chinese medicine doctor who served him. Everything is fine with the Sun King. His pulse is stable, his heartbeat is very strong, and his body shape is... .....Very well-proportioned.”
Hearing Ji Dabao talk about the Sun King's body shape, Prince George glanced at his wife and whispered: "Our palace Chinese medicine doctor also said that you are very fat and need to lose weight. How about you only drink tea for afternoon tea from today on?" , no more cream cake..."
Nowadays, those who serve the courts of various European countries are basically Chinese medicine doctors who graduated from the Nanjing University of Traditional Chinese Medicine and the Guangzhou University of Traditional Chinese Medicine. These Chinese medicine doctors are very powerful. There are allicin, cinchona, digestive glycerin, and high purity in the medicine box. Alcohol, of course, there are also pain-relieving tablets. Moreover, they cut off hands, feet, and diarrhea, delivered babies to women, and even mastered the secret technique of inoculating people with pox! Of course, they also know how to sterilize and prevent infection, they can also bleed people, relax blood vessels, and even perform simple blood tests and blood transfusions.
In addition, they also know how to prevent the three highs, and they are also very good at treating infertility and preventing childhood dementia and death... This technology is simply a miracle doctor in Europe!
Therefore, monarchs from various European countries who love God but do not want to see God so early will send envoys to the Ming Dynasty to hire Chinese medicine doctors at high prices to be court doctors... Queen Anne also has a miracle doctor from Xinsu in her court. , and he is also a miracle doctor who can cure infertility.
This miracle doctor Su was hired by Queen Anne at a high price after Queen Anne's prince William Henry, who had a brain disease and had convulsions at random, died of convulsions in 1700.
And this miracle doctor hired at a high price studied the cases of many of the Queen's children who died early, and after carefully examining the Queen's body, he prescribed the prescriptions of "losing weight" and "trying to find another man"!
Of course, the latter was a "secret recipe" that could only be shown to Queen Anne... Well, they gave birth to more than a dozen children, only one of whom survived infancy and suffered from convulsions. Based on the knowledge he learned at the Nanjing University of Traditional Chinese Medicine, Dr. Su concluded that at least one of the Queen and his wife had some ancestral disease, maybe both of them had it!
So changing to a healthy man should be a good idea!
Moreover, Doctor Su also gave specific suggestions - the man must have no blood relationship with the queen, be in good health, and have several healthy children. Of course, it must be Caucasian, otherwise it will be easy to get pregnant if you are born with a wrong race.
However, Queen Anne did not accept Doctor Su's suggestion... Queen Anne's surname was Stuart after all, and the Stuart family was the most powerful family in Europe, with strong ancestral strength. Although Queen Anne was not as religious as his father and grandfather. But the question of who to have children with is still very ambiguous. If it were Henry VIII of the Tudor Dynasty, Prince George would have been pushed out and beheaded!
When Queen Anne heard that her beloved husband wanted her to follow the "doctor's advice" to lose weight, she glared at George angrily and said, "Don't believe that quack doctor's nonsense!"
Queen Heart said: "That Dr. Su wants me to have a baby with another man behind your back! He also said that maybe it's because we are too close by blood, or because your genetic material is not good, so you can't be healthy. I gave birth to a healthy child. This is wrong at first sight!”
Prince George, who was scolded by his wife, had no choice but to shut up and act as a listener. The scene in the audience hall immediately became a bit awkward.
"Your Majesty," Foreign Secretary Sidney Godolphin said at this time, turning the topic back to the lifespan of Sun King Louis, "The Sun King is a 68-year-old man after all. How long can he live? As long as he Once dead, the Frankish Empire may fall into fragmentation and be besieged by Rakshasa, Sweden, Ottoman, Netherlands, and Spain... In fact, it would be better for the Sun King to support it for a few more years. If he supports it for a few more years, then The Devil King in the East may also return to his own hell. As long as the Sun King and the Devil King in the East die, our Kingdom of England will have a chance to become great again."
"Okay!" Queen Anne nodded, "I am still young and I will definitely live longer than the Sun King and the Devil Emperor!"
Queen Anne has been in good health these past two years - when she becomes a queen, she is in a good mood, can eat and sleep well, and is fat and healthy. She can live a long life at a glance.
"Yes, you don't look like you are forty at all. You are only thirty-five at most. You can lead England for at least thirty to fifty years."
"Your Majesty the Queen, you must be the healthiest and longest-lived monarch in the world. You should be able to live to be eighty years old!"
"Yes, not to mention the Sun King, not even the Sun King's son, Prince Louis, can survive your Majesty."
The Queen's three most trusted ministers also made predictions about the Queen's lifespan... Needless to say, it was quite accurate. Prince Louis of the Sun King did not survive Queen Anne.
Queen Anne also felt that she must live a long life, and she should still have time to lead Britain to rob the world. Thinking of this, she said to Newton and Ji Dabao: "Sir Newton, Sir Dabao, thank you for answering my questions. Now you can leave."
Newton and Ji Dabao both bowed and then followed a palace attendant out of the audience hall.
Seeing the two people leaving, Queen Anne continued to discuss the situation in the world after the death of Louis XIV and Zhu Heji - this was something that would happen sooner or later. Now Louis XIV is 68 years old, and Zhu Heji is younger, so Almost 60 years old. In ten years, or even a few years, these two men who dominate the Eastern and Western worlds will pass away.
The Queen of England asked with interest: "If this day comes, what should we in England do to gain the greatest benefits?"
"Your Majesty," said Secretary of State Robert Harry, "I believe that the best interests now and in the future cannot be found on the European continent where there are many powerful countries, but can only exist overseas, in America, Africa and southern India in Asia. If England If you want to reap the maximum benefits, you should take advantage of the favorable opportunity when the European continent is engulfed in raging war to seize the Frankish Empire's territories in Africa and southern India.
At the same time, we should also incite the independence of the twelve French North American states! "
"Inciting those traitors to become independent? Are they worthy?" Queen Anne's words were full of contempt.
Obviously, she was quite dissatisfied with the white Indians in French America!
"Your Majesty," Foreign Secretary Sidney Godolphin bowed to the Queen, "They are not loyal subjects of the United Kingdom, and of course they are not likely to be loyal to the Frankish Sun King, so they are valuable. As long as they are loyal. If it’s valuable, we should make full use of it.”
The Queen frowned and said, "They are against the Sun King?"
"Compared with British rule, the Sun King is much stricter. Moreover, the Sun King is a Roman Catholic believer after all, and the Roman Church is also the state religion of Frank!"
The residents of the twelve states in North America are almost all Protestants or Puritans, and they are extremely hostile to Catholicism.
Secretary of State Robert Harry added: "Your Majesty, King Montezuma is 61 years old this year. It is said that his health is not very good and he should not live for a few more years."
At the beginning of the 18th century, even if a person had the best "new traditional Chinese medicine" to protect him, his life would not be considered short if he lived over 60 years old. Therefore, the 61-year-old Montezuma should not live long... and once Montezuma died, the Aztec Kingdom lost its hero. Maybe it will even fall into civil strife! By then the white Indians in the twelve states of North America would have passed their greatest crisis.
"Your Majesty," Foreign Secretary Sidney Godolphin added, "the population of the twelve states in North America has also grown rapidly in recent years. This is because there are still many persecuted Protestants in the empire under the rule of the Sun King. ...Every year, tens of thousands of people move into the Twelve States. If the Sun King's rule can continue for a few more years, the number of white Indians in the Twelve States may reach one million!"
Louis XIV probably never dreamed that instead of becoming a springboard for the European population to flow into New France, the twelve North American states would instead become a "sponge" for absorbing the Protestants within the Frank Empire who were dissatisfied with the Sun King. The population growth rate was even faster than Same period in history!
A large number of Protestant people are gathered in the twelve states of North America. Many of them are Protestants who came from England and can speak English. The rest are mostly German Protestants who are dissatisfied with the rule of the Sun King... If the Sun King, The three mountains of Zhu Heji and Montezuma are gone, and with the instigation of the secret agents of the Kingdom of England, how can we still fight for independence?
"Okay!" Queen Anne clapped her hands and said expectantly, "We can start planning now, and when the Sun King and Montezuma are both dead, we can start instigating forces. Once the twelve states in North America start to rebel, we will Provide aid to the English-speaking population in order to protect them...and join the war if necessary to defeat the Frankish Empire in North America!”
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