Chapter 1582 Pig raising
"I swear I don't want the council to be held so long for the first time!"
The members of the parliament were all full of eyes and exhausted. They had been quarreling for the details of the change for a month, exhausted.
Queen Sofia and the Privy Council have proposed a proposal for radical change, which has tortured the members of the serious MPs.
Each proposal is enough for them to argue for several days in a row!
Especially Queen Sofia has many ideas, which makes this change seem so comprehensive and long.
For example, when establishing the Bank of England, it was to issue government bonds to the people to prepare military expenses for the navy. They are not unfamiliar with the concept of banking. The first bank in the modern sense, Amsterdam Bank, was established in 1609. The business it operates includes currency exchange, payment and settlement, and with the guarantee of Amsterdam municipality, it vaguely became the bill settlement center for European international trade. The interest rates in the Netherlands are also much lower than those in other European countries. The bank not only supports commodity trading, but also stock trading.
The Netherlands, known as the "sea coachman", even established the Amsterdam Stock Exchange, which can be said to be ahead of financial change.
However, Amsterdam Bank is not the first central bank. Its service is emerging international commerce, including the Netherlands East India Company. The real first central bank should have been the Bank of England.
After Chu Yun arrived, the Bank of England, which was originally established in 1694, was no longer the first central bank, and the first central bank was Kyushu Bank.
Inspired by his experiences during his travels in the East, Queen Sophia planned to prepare for the Bank of England in advance to gain financial system advantages over the European continental kingdom.
Now the question is who will guarantee the Bank of England?
The royal guarantee should be the most appropriate, but Charles I had overdrawn the royal family's credit, owed many businessmen's debts and was shameless. Even if Sophia took over her brother's mess, it would not be possible to recover the lost credit of the royal family for the time being.
Who else operates this important bank to ensure the interests of shareholders and the kingdom without giving up on your own pockets?
These details are all solutions that need to be drawn through arguments that most people can be satisfied with.
There are many other debates like this.
The MPs were able to negotiate day and night for the sake of the kingdom and their own interests.
This fatigue tactic has caused the MPs torture. They used to want the king to convene a parliament, but now they are suffering from it. Since the second month, they have no longer cared about some details, but have focused on the main matters. For some relatively unimportant matters, they have not had any unnecessary disputes and passed them easily.
Even so, the long comprehensive change plan is only discussed for three months, with an unprecedented scale and time span.
Almost all the ambassadors of the European kingdom were watching the change in England, they felt a little uneasy about their overseas neighbors, and England became strangers to them.
Sun Chuanting, Sun Xu, Zheng Zhibao and other officers gathered in London. In order to ensure their own interests, they were also paying close attention to the results of the negotiations between the king and the parliament. Huang Xiushan and others directly participated in the drafting of this change.
"The Queen obviously wants to imitate the system on our side while retaining the English tradition. She also needs to keep the tradition as much as possible to make it easier for Parliament and civilians to accept change. This is a compromise." Huang Xiushan and several other Chinese directors obviously know the full content of Sophia's reform.
"Their traditions are indeed different, and even as kings, they have to compromise." Sun Chuanting lived a relatively leisurely life after the war.
During the British Civil War, he was the deputy commander of the King's Army. After the war ended, the Congress planned to give him the honorary title of lieutenant general of the Royal Army. However, Sun Chuanting not only rejected the title of lieutenant general, but also resigned a series of identities such as military adviser.
He was the commander of the Far West Expeditionary Army and was loyal to the Eastern Empire. He could not stand the bad performance of the King's Army, so he helped.
"I think if this change is successful, England may become a first-class country in the West, surpassing the Netherlands and Spain. They are alone overseas and have unique advantages. For us, we don't know whether this is a good or a bad thing." Huang Xiushan knew the content of the change, and he was still looking forward to this change.
"If England becomes stronger, it may become more difficult to control." Sun Xu said.
"But it may not be. There will be no conflict between the relationship between the military leader and the queen for at least a few decades, and the crown prince is the son of the military leader... If more coal can be provided here and our industrial products are accepted, it may be a good thing for us. We chose this place as a bridgehead, which has the largest coal production in the entire West, and we cannot do without coal." Huang Xiushan and several directors have different views from the officers as merchants.
The officers consider the comparison of military strength, while the merchants consider the raw materials and markets.
An empire with a large population like the Mughal Empire will never make them stronger, otherwise the population advantage will be too large and exploding 100 million farmers will be the big rent.
But Mughal farmers have difficulty in consuming industrial products. Just like countries without electricity cannot buy electrical products. To sell electrical appliances locally, they must first build power stations and lay wires for them.
Now China can still make profits by exporting tea, spices, porcelain and some simple industrial products, but what about the future? In the future, it will export more expensive industrial products such as automobiles and electrical appliances. But no country overseas can afford these products. What if?
Therefore, businessmen such as Huang Xiushan definitely do not look at this from the perspective of an officer. Even if they raise pigs, they must be fattened and slaughtered. Just ensure that the pigs raised will not turn their backs.
With the size of millions of people here, Huang Xiushan and others would not think that England would come from behind if they had gained a first-mover advantage of hundreds of millions of people.
In the future, we can also take over some local low-end industries and provide upstream and downstream for the industry.
"This is their own trouble. No matter what the result is, we just need to ensure that our own interests will not be lost." Everyone finally reached a general consensus.
Chapter completed!