The Qing Dynasty is about to end

Chapter 640 This is the only way to make the British Empire great for another hundred years! (Please vote and subscribe)

The gilded gate of Buckingham Palace slowly opened, and Moore heard the echo of his leather shoes on the mirror-like marble floor. On the Indian mahogany cabinets on both sides of the corridor, the cloisonné vases presented by the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom were placed side by side with the portraits of British monarchs of all dynasties, and the words "All people in the world are brothers" written by Feng Yunshan were hung next to the portrait of Queen Victoria in her childhood.

At the end of the Persian carpet in the reception room, Queen Victoria sat on a Ming Dynasty Huanghuali armchair, while Prince Albert was reading a book, My Journey to Heaven, dictated by Emperor Xianfeng, and an English version of The True Covenant was placed on the table.

"Master Karl, please take a seat!"

Before Bonham began to introduce Moore and Friedrich, the Queen had already recognized "her teacher in heaven" - she had to know him! Yang Xiuqing, Feng Yunshan, Wei Changhui, Luo Yaoguo, Hong Xuanjiao, they all "knew" them, how could Victoria not know them? If she couldn't remember anything about heaven, wouldn't it make her look stupid?

Seeing the Queen’s attitude, Moore became more and more suspicious of his “previous life” - maybe it really existed!

Yang Xiuqing, Maria, Wei Changhui, Luo Yaoguo, Hong Xiujiao, Feng Yunshan, and now Queen Victoria!
These are all "living gods". Did they all conspire to trick him together? This is illogical.
After eliminating all impossibilities, the only possibility is that there really is a civilization unknown to mankind existing on this planet!

"Your Majesty, this is a joint letter from 3,000 workers in the East End of London." Seeing that Moore seemed to be lost in thought, Frederick placed a parchment scroll on the coffee table in front of the Queen and Prince Albert. "They hope to obtain the right to colonize North America and Oceania."

Prince Albert picked up his cane and tapped the ground three times. An attendant unrolled the scroll, and dense signatures appeared in front of him and the queen. The prince picked up his glasses and looked at it for a while, shaking his head repeatedly: "Asking for each person to be allocated 200 acres of land? There is no precedent for this in the British Empire!"

"But there are large tracts of unowned land in North America." Friedrich took a half step forward. "According to the data from the Royal Geographical Society, the Quebec region alone can accommodate hundreds of thousands of immigrants - provided that Her Majesty the Queen distributes the land there to civilians in the UK free of charge!"

"Teacher Carl, what do you think?" Victoria asked Moore with a smile.

Moore quickly retracted his thoughts and replied: "Your Majesty, if you don't want the poor people of Britain to go to North America and Oceania to cultivate, then the poor people of other countries will eventually fill up the land there!"

The Queen frowned slightly. She remembered receiving a report from the Governor of the Hudson Company not long ago: the missionaries of the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom led the poor Chinese to open up at least 200,000 acres of fertile land in the wilderness of the west coast, and more than 10,000 families of East Asian immigrants had taken root and settled in the jurisdiction of the Governor of Vancouver, establishing a "Heavenly City". The land of the British Empire was thus occupied by 10,000 East Asian immigrant families.

If she wanted to take back the land there, she would have to send troops to fight those armed Chinese immigrants. It was not worth fighting a costly war to turn a fertile land into a useless wasteland!
"But the population of Britain is not large!" Albert frowned. "If we encourage the poor to migrate to the colonies, there may be a shortage of labor in the mainland, which will cause considerable controversy."

The prince's words were very tactful - if the poor in Britain were to benefit, wages would rise, and the capitalists would be unhappy! In addition, Britain also had a developed "tenant farming" - that is, tenants rented the land of the master.

The land in the UK is highly concentrated. Thousands of landlords (including four hundred noble lords) control most of the land in the UK, and most British farmers are tenants.

If all the tenants ran to Canada and Australia to become rich peasants, the landlords would be unhappy!
The consequences of the capitalists and landlords being unhappy are serious!
How did Charles I lose his head?

"Your Majesty, Prince," Moore certainly understood Albert's thoughts, and he also knew that these British masters were hopeless, but he still laid out the correct way to "save the empire" in front of the Queen and the Prince, "In fact, encouraging the poor in Britain to colonize North America and Oceania and effectively developing these two empty colonies is the only way to keep the British Empire great for more than a hundred years!"

"What do you mean?" Prince Albert frowned.

Moore asked, "Prince, have you ever heard of overproduction?" The charcoal fire in the fireplace crackled, and Prince Albert pushed his gold-rimmed glasses up his nose. "Overproduction? Are you trying to tell me that production is growing too fast with the advancement of technology, and the workers' wages are too low to consume all the goods they produce? You call this surplus value, right?"

Moore took out the draft of Red Star Over China, which he and Friedrich had compiled on the ship back to England, from his briefcase and placed it in front of Prince Albert: "Your Highness, this is what I saw and heard in Southeast Asia, China, and the United States. Do you know what I saw there? I saw two countries that are rapidly industrializing! The size of these two countries is much larger than that of the United Kingdom! Among them, China has a population of more than 400 million, a land area larger than the entire Europe, and sooner or later it will take Southeast Asia into its hands.

Although the territory of the United States is not as large as that of China, it has vast plains! And there is almost no country on the American continent that can be compared with the United States! In addition, although the population of the United States is far less than that of China, it continues to attract immigrants from Europe and will surely grow into a populous country that can support a large scale of industrial production in the future.

The industrialization of these two countries is unstoppable, and they will definitely become powerful industrialized countries in the foreseeable future!

In addition, Russia is currently carrying out reforms to abolish serfdom. It is a country with a population of more than 6000 million and a territory equivalent to two European countries. Once serfdom is abolished, its industrialization trend will be unstoppable.

If Britain only guards the basic base of the British Isles and waits until China, the United States, and Russia are all industrialized, will Britain still be as great as it is now? And if China, the United States, Russia, and countries such as France, Prussia, and Austria all complete industrialization in the future, how much overproduction will there be? Your Majesty, Prince, have you ever thought about it? Once industrialized countries such as China, the United States, Russia, France, Prussia, and Austria face serious overproduction, how will they solve the problem? How did Britain solve the problem of overproduction in the past and now? "

"When the factories of the three continents roar at the same time, the current global market will not be able to absorb so many surplus goods," Friedrich said, taking over Moore's words. At that time, the great powers will go to war for the last undeveloped land - it may be the wild land of Africa, or the uncultivated land of North America and Oceania. And the small size of the British mainland will have to face the industrial monsters of three continents at the same time."

Prince Albert stood up suddenly, poking a dent in the carpet with his cane: "This is horrible"

"So we must prepare for a rainy day." Moore began to "paint a rosy picture" for Prince Albert. "Large numbers of immigrants to the North American colonies can not only solve the livelihood of the poor in Britain, but also compete with the United States for European immigrants, turn more French, Prussians, and Austrians into British citizens, and even absorb some immigrants from East Asia!"

"The benefit of doing this is that it can provide cheap food for the local area and absorb excess production capacity - this is creating a huge market!" Moore said excitedly, taking a few puffs of cigarettes. "More importantly, there are huge amounts of gold, silver, brass and other resources buried under those undeveloped lands. Developing these resources will greatly enhance Britain's industrial and financial strength."

The Queen suddenly remembered Luo Yaoguo's prediction of "South African gold mines and Australian gold mines".
"Will this allow the Empire to fight against the three industrialized powers of China, the United States, and Russia in the future?" Prince Albert frowned and expressed his concerns, "Perhaps, the developed Canada and Australia will become the second United States!"

"But this is the only way!" Moore looked at Prince Albert. "In two generations, we can increase the population of the Canadian and Australian colonies to 50 or 60 million. Together with India, we can establish an internal market spanning three oceans. By then, even if war breaks out in Europe, the imperial economy will still be able to maintain its own system."

Queen Victoria suddenly stood up and walked quickly to a global map. The territory of the British Empire was extremely vast, but most of the land was empty and uninhabited!

"Your Majesty," Moore's voice suddenly deepened, "When one day in the future, the population and resources of the United States, Russia, and China all serve the war machine, only the vast empire can stand firm in the storm."

Queen Victoria turned around and looked at her husband: "Dear Albert, what do you think of Mr. Karl's suggestion?"

The suggestion sounds good and reasonable but it is impossible to do it!
Prince Albert actually knew very well the character of the British gentlemen. They were unwilling to give even a bite of food to the starving Irish, and they did not allow him and the queen to be good people. How could they be willing to promote such a grand imperial development plan now?
"Teacher Karl's suggestion is very good, we must study it carefully!" Albert said carefully, "But we can't just consider how to develop ourselves, we should also consider how to slow down the development of our competitors. Now we know which countries are most likely to challenge the empire in the future. It's time to consider formulating targeted containment policies!"

As expected, Moore thought to himself, "England is still the same as before. It hasn't changed much just because the Queen has transformed into Jesus' sister!"

(End of this chapter)