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Chapter 143 Britain has its own national conditions here (please subscribe!!!)
  Seeing Shi Jintang's puzzled face, Prince Leopold smiled, then leaned back on the chair, picked up a cup of Indian black tea and took a sip. He put down the tea cup only after his lips were moist.

"Do you know anything about the history of our British Empire?"

Shi Jintang nodded: "Of course, Your Highness."

Prince Leopold smiled, "You, a Qing native, are certainly not as proficient as I am."

Shi Jintang nodded again, "Of course, Your Highness."

"My ancestor, Queen Elizabeth I, came to the throne in 1558.

At that time, the British Empire was just a maritime country with exhausted industries, an empty treasury, and being despised by all major European countries.

But my ancestor was undeterred and first reiterated the Supreme Act.

Do you know about this bill? "

“Our Sovereign, the King, and his heirs and successors as kings of this kingdom, shall be established, acknowledged, and called the sole and supreme earthly head of the Church of England.

Shall receive and enjoy all the honors, majesties, superiorities, and jurisdictions associated with the imperial dignity of this kingdom, with its titles and honorifics, and which belong to the said dignity of the Supreme Head of the Church of England. "

Prince Leopold was a little surprised to hear Shi Jintang skillfully reciting the contents of the bill, and his impression of Shi Jintang improved a lot.

"This plan gave Her Majesty Queen Elizabeth the theoretical basis for turning to Protestantism and thus completely breaking with the Roman Catholic Church.

Since then, the British royal family has mastered the supreme power of the country. Since then, Her Majesty Queen Elizabeth has begun drastic reforms. She reiterated that the "spirit of contract" is our founding capital and encourages monopoly businessmen to occupy various industries.

As a result, a large amount of tax revenue was obtained, which accumulated strength for the country.

Later, in order to compete with the Spanish, Her Majesty Queen Elizabeth allowed the pirates to land and awarded them titles and honors. Only then did they have the courage and courage to fight the Spanish to the death.

In order to encourage her subjects to obtain resources from foreign continents and transport them back to their homeland, Her Majesty Queen Elizabeth created the system of the 'Royal Chartered Colonial Company'.

And this system is just a variant extension of feudal lords.

Therefore, as long as every feudal lord is willing to be loyal to the monarch, no matter how powerful his territory is, it will be beneficial to the empire. "

After listening to Prince Leopold's words, Shi Jintang seemed to understand a little bit.

During the long Middle Ages, European countries were truly in a feudal society. The monarch entrusted lords to their lords, and the lords were loyal to the monarch. This was a purely contractual relationship.

Ancient Chinese society cannot be considered a feudal society at all.

Because ancient China was a unified dynasty for most of its time, there was no emperor to divide the ministers into independent states.

The Chinese people formed the concept that ancient China was a "feudal society", which was the result of the indoctrination and introduction of Western ideas. This is wrong.

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Hearing this, Shi Jintang felt a sudden realization. He himself and many netizens in later generations had a stereotype of European and American powers, thinking that they were greedy and arrogant.

But I have never thought carefully about why the Anglo-Saxons, the same greedy and arrogant race, were able to create an industrial revolution and colonize the world, while the Manchus only fooled and enslaved the Han people.

Of course, there are still many people on the Internet in later generations who very naively equate personal behavior with national will.

You must know that a country is composed of many people, and the person who leads the country is not an independent individual.

Rather, it is a collective or a will.

This kind of will and collective consideration of issues will be at a higher level and care more about national interests rather than personal gains and losses.

Therefore, Shi Jintang used his personal thoughts to speculate on the behavior of cabinet ministers, which is a typical example of equating personal thoughts with the will of the country.

The foundation of Britain's founding is the 'spirit of contract'.

The Queen of England issued a royal charter to Shi Jin Tang, so Nanhua Company became part of the British Empire.

Whether you want to immigrate to fill the country or use the indigenous people to transform it, these are all your internal affairs and are not within the jurisdiction of the British Empire.

Unless the colonial companies openly rebelled against the British Empire, just like the United States did.

Thirteen colonial companies united and, with the help of France, fought off the British government troops and gained independence. Otherwise, the Queen of England and the British government have no reason to go to war against the colonial companies or colonies under their rule.

As for why Britain is not afraid of colonial rebellion and independence, the first is the powerful Royal Navy, the second is the British government's loose governance method for colonial governors and colonial companies, and the third is that the British Empire is the number one in the world.

After you become independent, the lives of your subjects will not be as good as those at home, and they will naturally be unwilling to follow your independence.

Of course, there are too few special cases like Nanhua Company, but Nanhua Company is too small. The more land it occupies, the easier it is to deal with, and the rebellion will only be wiped out by thunder.

Unless the South China Company has grown to the point where the thirteen American colonies have a population of more than 300 million, it will not be too late to take it seriously.

Looking at the colonial era before World War I, among the colonies under the British Empire, only the United States truly achieved independent statehood, while the others only had limited autonomy.

"Your Highness, I should understand what you are saying. I shouldn't bring the 'bad habits' of the Qing officialdom into the British Empire, right?"

Hearing what Shi Jintang said, Prince Leopold nodded.

"Yes, your officials in the Qing Dynasty are corrupt and ignorant. They are greedy and demand money donated by their subordinates. This is a very backward and unhealthy official custom."

Shi Jintang was secretly ashamed, taking it for granted that he only had to offer gold and diamond mines.

The British government will treat itself equally. It turns out that the problem lies in its own subjective wishes.

Contribution to the Queen is loyalty, and contribution to the cabinet is bribery. This is rough and direct in the UK.

"Then if I don't contribute to the cabinet, what should I do with those gold and diamond mines?"

After listening to Shi Jintang's question, Prince Leopold was silent for a while and continued to answer: "You can hold an auction, invite interested parties to the auction site, and then auction it publicly.

That would be both legal and popular with nobles and high-ranking officials.

Because you have brought them new investment opportunities and ways! "

This kind of answer is really timely for Shi Jintang.

If he hadn't wanted to dig into the camp and come to the prince specifically, he wouldn't have had the opportunity to deeply understand the thinking and way of doing things of the elite British class.

This harvest was an extremely valuable experience for him, and it also improved his thinking pattern a lot.

Since Prince Leopold was so friendly, there was no need for Shi Jintang to hide things, it was better to get straight to the point.

"Your Highness, I am here specifically to see you."

"Looking for me? Let me tell you first, my relationship with my mother is not harmonious.

So if you want to ask me, you may have to suffer the consequences of failure. "

His Royal Highness is quite good at shirk.

"You misunderstood. I came here to try to treat you."

"Treat the disease, what disease?"

When Prince Leopold asked questions, he was obviously excited, and his breathing became rapid, and there was a hint of madness in his eyes.

Shi Jintang sighed secretly, it seemed that the rumors that the prince suffered from epilepsy were true.

No wonder he fell to his death alone.

It is estimated that he suffered a seizure in the middle of the night, fell down, and died of cerebral hemorrhage.

"Your Highness, please don't get excited. The treatment I'm talking about can only be said to be an attempt. I'm not really sure whether it can cure your blood disease."

The excited Prince Leopold regained some composure, he reached out and took Shi Jintang's arm, pleading: "You can try it, you can.

Can you tell me exactly how you plan to treat my blood disease? "

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