1825 My New Daming

Chapter 487 Is This Legal? (ask for subscription, ask for monthly pass)
"Will it lose industrialization?" Princess Victoria looked at her most respected political teacher with some confusion, "Viscount, won't we still have 30% after losing 70%?"

The Viscount Melbourne shook his head and said: "No, after we lose 30% of India, we will lose the advantages of scale and cost, and the 30% sold to India is still the 30% with the most lucrative profits and the least competitive pressure. If we lose With this 30%, our industry is likely to lose all profits due to rising costs and falling gross profit margins. However, the industrial products produced by the German Customs Union, the United States, and France will have lower costs and a larger market. Gain a bigger advantage. Sooner or later, their products will gradually crowd out our market in the US and continental Europe, and finally completely exclude our products.

By that time, our industry will only be able to serve the 2000 million people in our country and the millions of people in Canada.”

Although the United Kingdom is the first industrialized country in the West, it is an island country with a narrow mainland and a limited population.The resources, markets, capital, and even talents for her development of industrialization all come from overseas.In addition to having a geographical advantage away from the chaotic situation in the European continent, other aspects seem to be disadvantages. If it hadn't won the big colonial market of India, which is rich and oily, the British industry would be compared with Germany, France, and the United States. Britain has little chance of winning in the competition of the continental industrialized countries with too much vastness.

You must know that the population of the United Kingdom is only over 2000 million today, while India has a population of as many as 2 million!
Although 2 million Indians do not have much purchasing power because of the brutal exploitation of the British.But the upper middle class in India is still rich!They are very willing to pay for British industrial products of low quality and high price.Moreover, British industrial products have almost monopolized the Indian industrial product market. In India, British industrial products have no competitors, and that is to make money!Even the British mainland, there are no such good things.

"Your Royal Highness," the Duke of Wellington said again, "in addition to the export of industrial products and the purchase of raw materials, we can also grab tens of millions of pounds of wealth from India every year. Only during the period from 1757 to 1815, we obtained from India Before the outbreak of the war, the East India Company and the Indian Imperial Government obtained a net income of up to 10 million pounds a year from India, of which 4400 million pounds were remitted to our country in the form of taxes and interests, accounting for 1600% of our pre-war fiscal revenue!"

The benefits of British rule in India were huge indeed!Even after the Indian Empire nominally broke away from Britain, she still had to pay London 1600 million pounds a year in the name of repaying the interest on the loan—the so-called loan was the debt formed by the "acquisition" of the assets of the East India Company by the Indian Empire government .The book value is hundreds of millions of pounds, and the annual interest payment alone will cost 1600 million pounds!
In addition, the Indian Empire has also issued bonds worth 10 billion pounds in London, Paris, and Frankfurt in the past few years to support the British Empire and Ming Dynasty. Taxes, apportionment of war bonds, and issuance of bonds in Europe financed most of the anti-Ming military spending.

It can be said that Indian Asan has dedicated everything to the prosperity of the British Empire for more than 100 years!
How could Father Ying be willing to let go of such a filial godson?

And the serious consequences of losing India can be imagined with your heels. Britain will embark on the road of gradual de-industrialization, and it will never look back.Although the United Kingdom can still take advantage of the special terrain of the British Isles to absorb capital to avoid risks during the turmoil in Europe, but it wants to rely on a market of more than 2000 million people to compete with large-scale opponents such as the German Zolnik Union, France, and the United States. That has no chance of winning at all.

And without industrialization, Britain's national strength will decline further, and it is not known whether the European shit-stirring stick can continue to be!

"My lord princess," said the Viscount Melbourne, in a tone of extreme concern, "the consequences of losing India would be very painful, and the consequences of losing industrialization would be extremely fatal. If we lose 80% of industrialization, it will mean 80% of London. The population of 200 people will lose their source of income! In a city of 160 people, [-] million people will have no food, no clothes, and no houses to live in. This means that the Great Revolution that once happened in Paris will also sweep London and even the whole of Britain!"

"Oh, God!" Princess Victoria suddenly became "fat and discolored", and her baby-fat face was full of frightened colors.

"We can't give India over!" screamed Victoria's mother, the Duchess of Kensington. "Britain must never be like France...and the king has no right to do that!"

The Duke of Wellington and the Viscount of Melbourne glanced at each other, and the Duke of Wellington said: "Madam, whether the king has the right to do this depends on whether someone is willing to stand up and stop him!"

"Stop?" Princess Victoria was taken aback by the proposal, "but he is the king! Who can stop the king?"

The Duke of Wellington said: "In fact, in 1640 and 1688, there were people who stopped the king who tried to misbehave!"

"God!" Princess Victoria looked at the Duke of Wellington, "Duke, don't you want to be Cromwell?"

"My Princess," said the Duke of Wellington, "I am loyal to the Royal Family but to the King or Queen of the United Kingdom, not to the Emperor of India!"

Princess Victoria was still trembling, looking at the Duke of Wellington like a frightened chubby animal, "Duke. The king is also the emperor of India!"

"No," Viscount Melbourne reminded at this time, "actually the emperor of India concurrently served as the king of the United Kingdom! Emperor William first became the emperor of India, and then became the king of the United Kingdom and the Kingdom of Hanover. And after becoming king, he The edict is still issued in the name of Kaiser Wilhelm and not in the name of King William IV! This is like Nicholas I who usually only calls himself Rakshasa Emperor or Rakshasa Tsar, and rarely calls himself King of Poland, Grand Duke of Lithuania or Grand Duke of Finland. People Everyone only knows that Napoleon is the emperor of the French Empire, and few people will remember that he is the king of Italy. So in terms of jurisprudence, Emperor William is the emperor of India first, and then the king of the United Kingdom and the king of Hanover! And most of the The English people now view Kaiser William in the same way!"

What the Viscount of Melbourne said did not wrong Emperor William. Emperor William did prefer to be the Emperor of India. If he had to choose between the two crowns of the Emperor of India and the King of England, he would definitely choose the Emperor of India.

And the Indian emperor can be passed on. Passed on to Emperor William's own heirs!
And the king of the United Kingdom can only be passed on to Princess Victoria in the future!
Under these circumstances, it is not surprising that Kaiser Wilhelm wanted to keep India and abandon the United Kingdom.

"But, but this, is this legal?" Although Princess Victoria is only 15 years old, she grew up in the emperor's family and received British imperial education since she was a child. Of course, she knows what it means to usurp the throne!
However, the rules of the game of British usurpation are not the same as those of Chinese usurpation. Only by usurping the throne according to the law can it be justified!
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