Chapter 352 In fact, there is a precedent in the UK of selling a king for glory! (Please subscribe, please vote)

When Grand Duke Mikhail was aboard the world's most advanced hybrid armored cruiser Rurik (this is an armored cruiser with a 13,250-horsepower steam engine and a sail, and it is only 7 years old)

When the new ship of 2010 was heading to England for a goodwill visit, his little sister, Grand Duchess Natalie, took a train across the vast plains of Eastern and Central Europe and arrived at Versailles, the spiritual home of the Rakshasa nobles.

Natalie's purpose in coming to Versailles was, of course, to fulfill the important mission entrusted to her by her husband Zhuge Weidao - to ask Mr. Zhuge Weidao to support King Xiaolu of the Ming Dynasty in marrying into the British Hanoverian Dynasty and becoming the husband of the British prince.

When Natalie arrived at the Grand Trianon Palace where Zhuge Wei had lived for a long time, the old man was worried about the intensifying Yellow Peril theory on the European continent. He was not worried that the war situation in the Indian Ocean and Pacific Ocean would be unfavorable to the Ming Dynasty.

We are worried that the Zhu Ming Dynasty and the eight great families, especially the Zhuge family, have purchased a large number of properties in Western Europe that have been frozen or confiscated by various countries.

The Zhu Ming Dynasty and the Eight Great Families began to purchase a large number of properties in Europe after the French Revolution. At that time, the European continent was in chaos. Rich and powerful owners were worried that the revolutionary trend in France would spread to their own countries, so they were eager to sell.

The property fled to England. The Zhuge family took the opportunity to buy at bargain prices and purchased a large amount of real estate in the Rhineland, Austria, the Netherlands, Switzerland, Italy and other places. Later, after the Bourbon Restoration, a large amount of real estate was purchased in France.

Purchase properties. The other seven aristocratic families and the royal family of the Ming Dynasty have always followed the Zhuge family's tradition, so they also followed suit. Because asset prices were very low during the chaos in Europe, the royal family and the eight major aristocratic families of the Ming Dynasty took advantage of the situation.

However, these assets are mainly large real estates, which are not easy to realize. They can only be shipped slowly, and sometimes large pieces of land must be cut into small pieces and then sold.

As the Ming Dynasty royal family and the eight major aristocratic families slowly shipped goods, European asset prices rose again due to the second industrial revolution. Therefore, the market value of the European assets held by the Ming Dynasty royal family and the eight major aristocratic families decreased even more.

The more you hold, the more comfortable it is to cut leeks.

But now, the Yellow Peril theory in Europe is getting more and more intense, and politicians in many countries are already clamoring to confiscate Ming Dynasty assets within their borders.

Although the royal family of the Ming Dynasty and the eight major aristocratic families had already had expectations and began to sell off assets at a faster pace, they unfortunately had too many assets in their hands. The gold and silver on the market in European countries were generally tight. After the war between the Ming Dynasty and India,

Control over the export of gold and silver began to be implemented.

Therefore, the Ming Dynasty royal family and the eight major families could only ask their agents in Europe to transfer the funds obtained from the sale of assets to the relatively safe Netherlands and Switzerland through Jewish channels.

Among them, the Netherlands has always been famous for protecting private property, and the country still has "hostages" in the hands of the Ming Dynasty. The Dutch East Indies of the Netherlands are territory that the Ming Dynasty can seize at any time!

Switzerland was recognized as a permanently neutral country at the Congress of Vienna in 1815.

Putting money in the Netherlands and Switzerland is theoretically very safe. But when the Yellow Peril theory spread in Europe, Zhuge Weijiu knew that the trouble might be a bit big.

Because he knows that the British government cannot control public opinion at all. They cannot even control public opinion in their own country, let alone the direction of public opinion in Europe. Of course, the reason why the British government cannot control public opinion is not because they do not control it, but because they do not control it.

Their method of controlling public opinion is very absurd, which is to raise prices!

The British government levies "stamp duty" on legally issued newspapers, thereby raising the price of legally issued newspapers. So that in the UK, those who can afford to read legal "big newspapers" such as The Times must have parliamentary elections.

The upper class of people with the right to vote. There are probably hundreds of thousands of such people in the UK. Therefore, the circulation of legal newspapers in the UK is pitifully small.

But at the same time, there are still many illegal newspapers in the UK that are difficult to regulate, and their circulation is at least dozens of times that of legal newspapers. Because they are illegally published, the British government cannot control what news is published in these newspapers.

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With this ability to control public opinion, how could the British government set off a "yellow peril trend" throughout Europe? So behind this matter, there must be other forces cooperating with the British authorities.

These "other forces" are probably the Jewish consortium. And the Netherlands and Switzerland, like the United Kingdom, are paradises for European Jewish capital. If Jewish capital and the British Empire join forces to deal with the Ming Dynasty, then the Ming Dynasty exists in the Netherlands, and Swiss money may be in danger.

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Just when Zhuge Weiji was having a headache over this matter, Natalie brought the news that Empress Dowager Zheng wanted Xiao Lu to marry into the Hanover Dynasty.

"What? Grand Duchess, what did you say?" The old man looked at Natalie in surprise, "Is this what your Zhuge Daozi meant?"

This matter is definitely not the decision of the military division, because Zhuge Weijiu doesn't know about it at all. And it is unlikely that it was thought up by people from the official party of the old Zheng family. This group of people has always been short-sighted and will not think so much at all.

"Yes!" Natalie blinked her big eyes and smiled, "Grand Army Strategist, when the war started, you should have considered how to end it. But how should the war between us and the British Empire end? We really

Are we going to bomb London and land on the British Isles? Is this possible?"

Zhuge Weijiu considered it for a long time and said: "Bombing London is possible, but landing on Ming Dynasty alone is impossible. It is too far."

There is something in what the old man said - it is impossible to rely on the Ming Dynasty alone, but what about adding France?

If the British Royal Navy was destroyed by the Ming Dynasty, would Louis XVII and the black-haired Louis be able to rise up and lead the French army to land in England? If these two brothers could accomplish such a feat, then the threat of the Bonapartists would

Lift it immediately. They will become heroes of France!

Natalie did not hear what Zhuge Weijiu said, but followed what Zhuge Weidao said: "If we cannot land in England, there is no possibility of completely destroying the British Empire. Then the end of the war will

The solution must be to compromise. Britain will continue to exist as an important part of the world order after the war. She will also have a decisive influence on European affairs, North American affairs and North Atlantic affairs. If the Zhu Ming Dynasty can be allowed to take over the British

, turning Britain into 'Xiao Ming' and becoming the brother country of Ming Dynasty is undoubtedly the most ideal ending.

Moreover, if we can now turn this expectation into a clear sign and let every British person know that the ultimate goal of the Ming Empire is not to destroy their empire, but to get their queen! Then when they feel difficult,

It is very possible to make a compromise. And in British history, there is a precedent of bringing in the royal family of a hostile country in order to seek compromise."

"That's right!" Zhuge Weijiu clapped his hands, "How could I forget that the British once sold their king for glory in the 17th century? Their Glorious Revolution didn't mean they betrayed the Stuart dynasty and introduced enemy countries.

The Dutch House of Orange?”

Natalie smiled and said: "That's right, there were several wars between Britain and the Netherlands, and there was even a Dutch fleet entering the Thames River to bombard London. In the end, the British betrayed the king and lured Dutch soldiers into the country.

They sold the British throne to the Orange family of the Netherlands in exchange for an Anglo-Dutch compromise, and put Britain on the road to the Industrial Revolution. They can definitely do the same thing again!"

This event, called the Glorious Revolution by the British, was actually neither glorious nor revolutionary. It was an event in which the Protestant nobles betrayed the Catholic king. The "switch" led to the invasion of Dutch soldiers and helped William III of the Orange family take over.

British treason.

And the one who played an important role in this incident was the one who defected on the battlefield and led the Dutch troops into London. He was the famous Duke of Marlborough, John Churchill. The ancestor of the later British Prime Minister, Fatty Qiu.

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This is how the Qiu family's prosperity and wealth came about!
Chapter completed!