Start 1861: I just inherited the Dutch throne

Chapter 757: Disaster brings trouble to Europe
German Empire, Berlin.

"The British aristocracy has long controlled the House of Commons, which is closely related to the parliamentary electoral system of that period. From the beginning of the 18th century, the population of England and Wales was nearly 600 million. By the 20s (19th century), the population doubled to more than 1200 million. Voters have always been Swinging between 25 and 40 people, the distribution of voters is extremely unreasonable. Emerging industrial cities such as Manchester, Liverpool, Birmingham, Leeds, Glasgow, and Sheffield are not electoral areas, while some originally prosperous agricultural areas have lost power due to land enclosures. As the movement progressed, the number of farmers decreased, and the economy became very depressed. Some pocket constituencies and corrupt constituencies only had more than a hundred, dozens, a dozen or even fewer qualified voters. It is even ridiculous that Among them, Wiz's sprint and terrain changes have sunk to the bottom of the North Sea. There are still 30 voters who are nominally qualified to vote and have already moved to other places, but their parliamentary seats are still retained.

The Old Salam constituency has become a desolate mountainous area with only a few old houses and 7 voters, but it still elects 2 members to the House of Commons.There are only 2 voters in the Guyton constituency, and 2 members of Parliament are also elected. "

As the "European Times" follows this round of criticism of various "abnormalities" in the election of the British House of Commons, the above content is a severe slap in the face of Britain, which has always been known for its excellent system.

And these real cases were pulled out one by one, making it even more difficult to reconcile the relationship between the British aristocracy and the lower class.

But everyone has forgotten one thing, and that is that the British aristocracy and the British royal family originally had a falling out over Princess Beatrice's marriage, but now it is the aristocrats and the lower class who started fighting first.

It seems that the royal family has dodged a bullet.

Buckingham Palace.

Prince Alfred said with a wry smile: "Beatrice, in order to help you this time, my second brother has really offended the nobles."

Princess Beatrice said gratefully: "Alfred, thank you. If it hadn't been for you this time, my mother might have rejected my marriage to Prince Henry in the end."

After speaking, she secretly looked at Queen Victoria next to her.

At the same time, he was dissatisfied with the eldest brother, Crown Prince Edward.

When something like this happened to her, the eldest brother did not dare to offend the nobles, so he chose to ignore it. On the contrary, it was the second brother, Prince Alfred, who stepped forward and took the opportunity to spread the news after the New York Times broke the news. The net pushed the fire, and in the end it burned bigger and bigger, so that the nobles in the House of Commons had no time to care, and the royal family breathed a sigh of relief.

Crown Prince Edward snorted, and then said: "It's good to divert attention, but the price is a bit high. Alfred, now Britain and the Netherlands are competing in South America, but you are diverting the new aristocrats and old aristocrats within us." The expansion of conflicts is not in the interest of internal group unity to deal with the Netherlands."

Prince Alfred naturally did not look good on Prince Edward and said: "I don't care about the happiness of my own sister, what else can I do to safeguard the interests of the royal family? Or, my eldest brother thinks that the royal family should choose a marriage partner for the sake of the country. Transfer all power?"

He said angrily: "If this is the case, then it can only be true that the power of our domestic nobles has seriously affected the royal power. The royal family should beat them = they are the ones who took advantage of Beatrice's marriage this time. Isn’t it valuable to test the nobles’ loyalty to our royal family?”

Crown Prince Edward was speechless when he heard this. Not to mention, what this guy Alfred said really made sense.But the more this happened, the more his heart sank. Sure enough, when he looked at Queen Victoria, the relief on her face showed on her face, which made him feel jealous.

As expected, his brother, the biggest contender for the throne, is still so annoying.

He looked at Princess Beatrice and suddenly had an idea, and said to Queen Victoria: "Prince Henry and Ludwig, whom Beatrice likes, are father and son. I wanted to marry Ludwig before, but he But I like Prince Henry. This kind of relationship can easily cause opposition from the church. Mother, I'm afraid, even if our British royal family and the Duke of Battenberg's royal family don't object, our Anglican Church and Lutheran Church will block it. This marriage”

After Prince Edward finished speaking, even Alfred fell silent this time.

Although the Holy Communion is loyal to the royal family, it will never compromise on religious fundamentals.

The Lutherans were powerful in Sweden, Denmark, the Netherlands, and the German Empire in Northern and Central Europe, and had a wide range of beliefs, so one move would affect the whole body. If the marriage of Beatrice caused huge religious problems Waves, then for the interests of the British royal family, the gains are definitely not worth the losses.

Prince Edward: "Now that our nobles are making trouble, we can still clean it up, but if it expands, who knows what the final result will be."

"Okay," Queen Victoria said, "No one wants to do this. Listen to me. There is a commotion among the nobles now. Although Alfred is a bit arrogant, he also does it for the sake of his sister. Members of the royal family should not be emotionally cold. But how should we find ways to solve the problem of hunger?”

She said to Prince Edward: "As a prince, you should protect all members of the royal family, not the other way around. Tell me, what methods are you going to use to support the sequelae of Alfred's diversion? For example, how to calm down the new crown prince as soon as possible?" Conflicts among old aristocrats”

Crown Prince Edward's face changed slightly, but he soon showed a confident look and said: "Mother, since Alfred has already used diversion, why don't we continue to use this strategy?"

It has to be said that the 38-year-old man is a flower in middle age. Although Edward was a famous smoker in later generations, he still restrained himself during Queen Victoria's peak period, for fear that one day he would be revoked as crown prince, so Not a mouthful of smoke yet.

And this life may be because of the appearance of William IV. After being hit many times, he actually got his addiction under control. It has to be said that it was a blessing in disguise. Maybe in this life he will not just die in 1901 when Queen Victoria died. He died in 1910 and only served as King of England for 9 years.

Queen Victoria, Prince Alfred, and Princess Beatrice couldn't help but look at Crown Prince Edward.

The latter shrugged and said: "Since newspapers from all over the world are reporting on the distribution ratio of our members of the House of Commons, and all countries are watching the show, why don't we also publish the information about other countries and let this fire spread to other countries? How about allowing the nobles in our country to have inner balance?"

(End of this chapter)