Chapter 487 Is this legal? (Please subscribe, please vote)

"Will we lose industrialization?" Princess Victoria looked at her most respected political teacher with some confusion, "Viscount, after we lose 30%, won't we still have 70%?"

Viscount Melbourne shook his head and said: "No, after we lose 30% of India, we will lose our scale and cost advantages, and the 30% sold to India is still the most profitable and least competitive 30%. If we lose

This 30%, our industry is likely to suffer due to rising costs and declining gross profit margins

, and eventually lose all profits. The industrial products produced by the German Customs Union, the United States, and France will gain greater advantages because of lower costs and a larger market. Sooner or later, their products will squeeze out ours bit by bit.

In the markets of the United States and continental Europe, our products were completely squeezed out.

At that time, our industry will only be able to serve the more than 20 million people in the mainland and the millions of people in Canada."

Although the United Kingdom is the first industrialized country in the West, it is, after all, an island country with a narrow territory and a limited population. The resources, markets, capital, and even talents for the development of its industrialization all come from overseas. In addition to having an island that is far away from the chaos of the European continent

Although it has a geographical advantage, other aspects seem to be disadvantages. If it were not for the huge and rich colonial market of India, Britain's local industry would be incompetent with those of other continental industrialized countries such as Germany, France, and the United States, whose territories are much wider than Britain's.

In competition, there is almost no possibility of winning.

You must know that the population of the UK today is only over 20 million, while India has a population of as many as 200 million!

Although 200 million Indians do not have very strong purchasing power due to the brutal exploitation by the British, the middle and upper classes in India are still rich! They are very willing to pay for British industrial products with low quality and high price. And British industrial products are almost monopolized

In India's industrial products market, there are no competitors for British industrial products in India, so it's just a matter of making money! Even the UK itself doesn't have such good things going on.

"Your Highness," the Duke of Wellington added, "in addition to the export of industrial products and the purchase of raw materials, we can also extract tens of millions of pounds of wealth from India every year. In the period from 1757 to 1815 alone, we obtained

up to £1 billion

Wealth. Before the outbreak of the war, the East India Company and the Indian Imperial Government received as much as 44 million pounds in net income from India every year, of which 16 million pounds were remitted back to our country in the form of taxes and interest, accounting for 10% of our country's fiscal revenue before the war.

16% of!”

The benefits of British rule in India were really huge! Even after the Indian Empire nominally separated from Britain, she still had to pay 16 million pounds to London every year in the name of repaying the interest on the loan - this so-called loan is the Indian Imperial Government."

The debts formed by acquiring the assets of the East India Company had a book value of several hundred million pounds, and the annual interest payment alone would cost 16 million pounds!

In addition, the Indian Empire has also issued bonds worth 1 billion pounds in London, Paris, and Frankfurt in recent years to support the British Empire and the Ming Dynasty. Even before the British Empire officially declared war on the Ming Dynasty, the Indian Empire relied on high levies in India.

Taxation, the apportionment of war bonds and the issuance of bonds in Europe raised most of the military expenditures against the Ming Dynasty.

It can be said that Indian Asan has dedicated everything to the prosperity of the British Empire for more than a hundred years!

How could Father Ying be willing to let go of such a filial godson?

As for the serious consequences of losing India, you can imagine it with your heels. Britain will embark on the road of gradual de-industrialization and never look back. Although Britain can still take advantage of the special terrain of the British Isles to take advantage of the unrest in Europe.

There are opportunities to absorb capital to avoid risks, but if you want to rely on a market of more than 20 million people to compete with large-scale opponents such as the German Customs Union, France, and the United States, you have no chance of winning.

Without industrialization, Britain's national strength will further decline, and it's unclear whether Europe can continue to be a troublemaker!

"Your Royal Highness," Viscount Melbourne said in a very worried tone, "the consequences of losing India will be very painful, and the consequences of losing industrialization will be extremely fatal. If we lose 80% of industrialization, it will mean 80% of London's industrialization."

The population will lose their source of income! In a city of 200 people, 1.6 million people will have no food to eat, no clothes to wear, and no house to live in. This means that the great revolution that once happened in Paris will also sweep through London and even the entire UK!"

"Oh, God!" Princess Victoria suddenly became "fat and discolored", and her baby-fat face was full of fear.

"We can't hand over India!" Victoria's mother, the Duchess of Kensington, screamed, "Britain must not be like France. And the king has no power to do that!"

Duke Wellington and Viscount Melbourne glanced at each other. Duke Wellington said: "Madam, whether the king has the right to do this depends on whether anyone is willing to stand up and stop him!"

"Stop?" Princess Victoria was startled by the suggestion, "But he is the king! Who can stop the king?"

The Duke of Wellington said: "In fact, in 1640 and 1688, someone stopped the king from trying to do something wrong!"

"Oh my God!" Princess Victoria looked at the Duke of Wellington, "Duke, you don't want to be Cromwell, do you?"

"Your Royal Highness," said the Duke of Wellington, "I am loyal to the royal family but my loyalty is to the King or Queen of the United Kingdom, not to the Emperor of India!"

Princess Victoria was still trembling, looking at the Duke of Wellington like a frightened chubby little animal, "The Duke. The King is also the Emperor of India!"

"No," Viscount Melbourne reminded at this time, "it was actually the Emperor of India who also served as the King of the United Kingdom! Emperor William first became the Emperor of India, and then became the King of the United Kingdom and the Kingdom of Hanover. And after becoming the king, he

Still issuing edicts in the name of Emperor William rather than King William IV! This is like Nicholas I usually calling himself Emperor Rakshasa or Rakshasa

The Tsar rarely calls himself the King of Poland, the Grand Duke of Lithuania or the Grand Duke of Finland. People only know that Napoleon is the emperor of the French Empire, and few people remember that he is the king of Italy. So legally speaking, Emperor William is first and foremost the emperor of India.

, and then the King of the United Kingdom and the King of Hanover! And most people in England now view Emperor William the same way!"

The words of Viscount Melbourne did not offend Emperor William. Emperor William indeed preferred to be the Emperor of India. If he was asked to choose between the two crowns of the Emperor of India and the King of England, he would definitely choose the Emperor of India.

And the Indian emperor can be passed down. To Emperor William’s own heirs!

The king of the United Kingdom can only be passed down to Princess Victoria in the future!

Under these circumstances, it is not surprising that Emperor William wanted to keep India and gave up the idea of ​​a United Kingdom.

"But, but this, is this legal?" Although Princess Victoria is only 15 years old, she grew up in an imperial family and received British imperial education since she was a child. Of course she knows what it means to seek the throne and usurp the throne!

However, the rules of the game for British usurpation are different from those of Chinese usurpation. Only by following the law can the usurpation be justified!
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