Xinshun 1730

Chapter 844 Demolition of the Roof and Opening the Windows ([-])

Since Anthony waited until Earl Bentinck took the initiative to find them, and after defining those people as mobs, the initiative actually rested with the Regents.

Because, Anthony can call those people a mob casually.

Anyway, even if the Regents come to power again, the real person in front of the stage will not be Anthony.

However, Earl Bentinck can only look for Anthony now, because he knows that Anthony is the real boss of the Regency.

Therefore, Anthony doesn't have to care about defining this incident as a riot in front of Earl Bentinck.

If the Orange faction wants to harm him, cheat him, and use this sentence to make trouble, then it is his personal meaning and has nothing to do with the Regency faction.

He personally had to say this.

Because, Verselin Grant, who chose his successor, also believed that the Netherlands should centralize power.

Is there anything wrong with him, the successor, defending the teacher from a personal point of view?
Even if the Netherlands does not have the order of heaven and earth, relatives and teachers, and there is no principle of mutual concealment between relatives, but defending the teacher and the person who chooses one's successor is still a morality, not a black spot.In theory, Jesus was also Judas' teacher.

However, in addition to his personal identity, he also has the identity of a behind-the-scenes leader of the Regency faction.

This sentence came out of his mouth, and it can also be said to represent the attitude of the conservatives in the Regency.

That is to say: if the Orangemen approve of this statement, it is the unanimous opinion of the Conservatives of the Regency.

If the Orange faction just wanted to use this sentence to trick the Regency faction, this sentence was Anthony's personal idea.

Of course, he is behind the scenes of the current chaos in the Netherlands.

He also has his own ideas about the future of the Netherlands and how to deal with the Orange faction.

Judging from the current situation, a scene similar to the British "Glorious Revolution" can easily be facilitated-since your Orange family did it in England, the Dutch will naturally do it in the Netherlands.

However, Antony would never accept the British regime.

His bottom line is that William IV will either go into exile in England, or go back to dormant in his manor in the northern agricultural provinces.

As for imitating the British system, letting the Orange faction continue to be in power for life, and only limiting the power of the consul, he would not accept it at all.

Because in the United Kingdom, England was basically Protestant.

Most of the Jacobites are in Scotland. The reason why the rumor that the little usurper is going to land in Scotland can scare the Earl of Cumberland back to defend is that the original matter has not been resolved yet.

As an outsider, William II needed a long process to gain power in the UK, and the British Parliament was very powerful.

However, the Netherlands is different.

The Orange faction is a very powerful political force in the Netherlands.

With such a strong political force and the British model, can William IV really be a consul with no power at ease?
I'm afraid that once the limelight passes, he will seize power.

Moreover, although Britain is a constitutional monarchy, is the power of the monarch very small?
Others don't know, but Anthony still understands.

A monarch who can control the power of the parliament, who can control the candidate for the prime minister, who can personally lead troops to fight, whether the old George can speak English or not and still control the government, is not a so-called mascot.

William II was originally an outsider in England.

But William IV was in the Netherlands, but he was not an outsider.

Not to mention the faction of the Orange faction, even if the title of consul was removed, William IV was still the richest man in the Netherlands and the largest landowner in the Netherlands.

Even if the richest man and the largest landowner are excluded, they are still consuls of the hardcore Orange faction of Friesland, Groningen, and Gelderland.

Now that things are getting serious, if you don't take the opportunity to drive William IV away, if you want to engage in the British model, you are really wrong.

Then it is purely looking for trouble, and making trouble for yourself.

But if the title of consul is completely overthrown, and all the foundations of the Orange family in the Netherlands are overthrown, will it work?
That's not OK.

Not to mention doing so, civil war will inevitably break out.

Just to say, in that case, it will be really difficult to complete the great cause of the unification of the seven provinces and the construction of the nation.

In countries with non-mother culture and self-born culture, sometimes, the country is really built by the feudal jurisprudence of the monarch.

If the power of Orange is completely wiped out, or the title of Consul is abolished, and the Regency wants to centralize power, it will be ugly.

Abolish the word "king", "centralize power", control the parliament, and may even directly supervise the provinces in the future, build ships... Doesn't it look familiar?

From the perspective of the radicals and decentralization factions among the republicans, isn't this the Dutch version of Cromwell?

And Anthony defined the current chaos, the definition is "absolute freedom, the next step is to produce a Cromwell".

He didn't dare to touch these politically correct things, let alone let people look "familiar".

The watershed between what the Dutch elite hated and loved about France was the guillotine in Paris.Before that, France was a beacon of monarchy; after that, France was a beacon of liberty, equality, and fraternity.

The Netherlands, a country built on the basis of "the bastion of freedom in Europe", of course has a deep hatred for the beacon of the monarchy; it also hates Cromwell's "more arbitrary than the monarchy" protectorate government to the extreme.

If the Orange faction is driven away, and the Orange faction forces are eliminated by taking the opportunity, continue to engage in inter-provincial nonsense.That's the end of Holland.

But if you don't do that, you'll be called like Cromwell.

Nor can we learn from the British constitutional monarchy, at least not now.The Orange family is so powerful, it would be a counterattack once the limelight passes.

Therefore, from the very beginning, when Kang Bushao found him and handed over the details of the Hague tragedy to him, he thought that he could not use the ideas Kang Bushao gave him, and that the Netherlands had its own national conditions.

That's why he used the most indecent means to treat people wrongly and create tabloids to attack people personally.

The purpose is one:
I, Antony, and the conservative wing of our Regency, strongly support Dutch traditions.

Resolutely support the Utrecht Charter, the foundation of the Netherlands, and will not make any changes to the legal content and documents stipulated in the charter.Including the federal and provincial parliaments, they have no right to amend some things stipulated in the charter. They can be reformed, but they cannot deny the cornerstone.The power of the Inter-Provincial Assembly comes from Utrecht. In terms of legal logic, the son cannot deny the father, because there is no son without a father.

The conservatives in the Regency faction recognized the political concept of the former speaker of the House of Representatives, Fanseling Grant, and would unswervingly promote the centralization of the Netherlands.

The conservatives in the Regency will defend the traditions of the Netherlands and the foundation of the country, firmly support the existence of the position of consul, and firmly believe that non-Orange people cannot be called consuls.

However, William IV suffered from intermittent mental illness and married a British princess who seriously endangered the interests of the Netherlands.

So, either, William IV divorced.

Or, we, the Conservative wing of the Regency, will staunchly defend the Consul system, but, in view of the serious mental problems of His Royal Highness William IV the Consul, we will have to choose an interregnum.We are not opposed to the consul system, it just happens that there are no suitable consuls at this time.

If the son of His Royal Highness William IV is recognized by the Federal Parliament after he becomes an adult, and he declares that he will resolutely defend the interests of the Netherlands, he can be considered as a consul.

however……

First of all, William IV has no males so far.

His wife has given birth to three so far, two dead and one alive.The first two were stillborn, and the latter was alive but a girl.

Secondly, with regard to the body of William IV and the fact that his wife gave birth to two stillbirths, whether he can still give birth is also a question.It is normal in this era for children to die and not grow up; but if two consecutive stillbirths are stillborn, it is mostly the parents' fault.

Again, does William IV dare to divorce?
Britain was William's greatest reliance and back-up. At the beginning, he was quite the Consul's route, and he was preparing to join the army. Following the Roman Consul's military route, he was preparing to command the British army to gain prestige.

Without the support of the UK, the Orange faction would have no foreign aid in the Netherlands. William IV's reputation has been discredited. Will another divorce at this time completely annoy the UK?
In the end, even if William IV showed his power, or asked others for help, he gave birth to a boy.As far as the smallpox infection rate is concerned, even if the gods bless Orange and the child lives to 18, it doesn't matter if the parliamentarians who have completed the reforms come back.

Anyway, it's all anyway, betting on the luck of the country.

Even if I asked someone to help me tonight, and I got a hit, and it happened to be a boy, and I didn’t die young, and I didn’t get smallpox, whooping cough, mental retardation, or deformity, that would be 19 years later.

How can it take 19 years to bet on the luck of the country?
If the bet is won, the prestige of the Orange faction is not worth mentioning, and it has been completely reduced to a mascot.

If the bet is lost, the Orange faction will come to take over the mess that the bet lost in the future. The mess is all the misery that Anthony can foresee. Britain controls the Netherlands, controls the financial industry that Britain most covets, and abolishes the Dutch business and transportation industries. , This mess requires a revolution, and the Orange faction will take over if they want to.

After solving the jurisprudential issue of the Orange family and consuls, the regime envisioned by Anthony is similar to "holding the emperor to order the princes".

The consul is vacant, but the consul position is reserved.

During the period without the consuls, the consuls transferred power to a new organization called the Council of Regency.

The Regent Council is not a consul, but has the authorization of the consul, controls the army and navy, and has the power to directly interfere in the politics of the provinces.

In order to attract the support of some people in the Orange faction, the number of the Regency Committee should not be large, but it must attract a few Orange faction advisers, especially those who support centralization but oppose excessive pro-British relations.

In this way, an alliance of the conservatives in the republic and the reformers in the oranges of the monarchy was quickly reached.

Is the Council of Regency a violation of the Utrecht Charter?There is no violation, but the consul is unable to fulfill the responsibilities of governing due to some factors, so he authorizes the Regency Council.

What is the relationship between the Council of Regency and the Federal Parliament?The Speaker of the Inter-Provincial Assembly must be a member of the Regency Council, and in fact, the power faction in the Netherlands Province controls the Regency Council.Moreover, what is the relationship between the Consul and the Federal Provincial Assembly, and the relationship between the Regency Council and the Federal Provincial Assembly.

Once achieved, what's the next step?
This is a political alliance between the conservative faction of the republicans and the reformist faction of the Orange faction.

We will take advantage of the opportunity of the French retreat to increase the prestige of the people: it was the Council of Regency who saved the precarious Netherlands from the looting and aggression of the Vandalist French, and defended Protestantism.

Take advantage of the opportunity of Sino-Dutch cooperation to increase the prestige of merchants: it was the Regency Committee that resolved the huge conflict between China and the Netherlands, and used superb negotiation skills and diplomatic means to obtain the right to sell East Indian goods from China to avoid all falling into French or British hands.

Using the possibility of cooperation and loans proposed by Dashun to build up the prestige of financiers: it is the Regency Council that has solved the problem of "too low interest and few local investment opportunities" that the Netherlands has been facing for a long time.

The general sentiment of the citizens, businessmen, and financiers, these three things held them in a short period of time, and with extremely high prestige and support, they completed the first centralization reform, changing the tax system and tax amount of each province, and strengthening centralization.

Utilizing the huge profit and return reputation of cooperation with Dashun to build the Central Bank of the Netherlands and realize the formalization of national debt lending.

then.

neutral.

trading.

smuggling.

shipbuilding.

Wait until the next European war breaks out.

Prepare for the possible, or inevitable, fourth Anglo-Dutch war caused by smuggling.

In the end, relying on the victory of the Fourth Anglo-Dutch War... Since it is a gamble on the country's fortune, it is assumed that the victory is won... With extremely high prestige and patriotic enthusiasm, the nation-building and national unity in the true sense of the Netherlands were completed.

Of course, the Orange family is indispensable for national unity and nation building, and the orange color of Orange is indeed the best totem of community building in the Netherlands.If they have reached that point, then it will not be impossible to establish the republic of Xujun.

(End of this chapter)