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Chapter 1583 Pig Raising
"I swear for the first time I don't want Parliament to last so long!"

Members of Congress are red-eyed and exhausted. They have been arguing over the details of the change for a month, exhausted.

Queen Sophia joins the Privy Council in a proposal for sweeping changes, tormenting serious MPs.

Every proposal is enough for them to quarrel for several days before they can settle it!
In particular, Queen Sophia has many ideas, which makes this change seem so comprehensive and long.

For example, the establishment of the Bank of England, the issuance of national debts to the people, and the preparation of military expenditures for the navy.They are no strangers to the concept of banks. The first bank in the modern sense, the Bank of Amsterdam, was established in 1609. Its businesses include currency exchange, payment and settlement, and it is guaranteed by the municipality of Amsterdam. The clearing center for trade, the Netherlands also has much lower interest rates than other European countries.The bank supports not only commodity trading, but also stock trading.

Known as the "Sea Coachman", the Netherlands even established the Amsterdam Stock Exchange, which can be said to be at the forefront of financial reform.

However, the Bank of Amsterdam was not the first central bank. It served emerging international businesses, including the Dutch East India Company. The real first central bank should have been the Bank of England.

The Bank of England, which was originally established in 1694 after the arrival of Chu Yun, is no longer the first central bank. The first central bank is the Bank of Kyushu.

Inspired by what she saw and heard during her travels in the East, Queen Sophia planned to organize the Bank of England in advance to gain an advantage in the financial system of the Kingdom of Continental Europe.

Now the question is who will guarantee the Bank of England?
The royal family's guarantee should be the most appropriate, but Charles I has already overdrawn the royal family's credit, defaulted on the debts of many merchants, and has the cheek to let it go. Even if Sophia took over her brother's mess, it is temporarily impossible to restore the lost credit of the royal family.

And who is going to run this important bank, to keep the interests of the shareholders and the kingdom safe without enriching their own pockets?
These details need to be debated to come up with a plan that is satisfactory to most people.

There are many other debates like this.

For the sake of the kingdom and their own interests, the MPs can only negotiate day and night.

This fatigue tactic is tormenting the councilors, who previously wanted the king to hold a council, and are now so distressed by it that from the second month onwards they don't even care about some details, but concentrate on the main Regarding matters, they did not engage in unnecessary disputes about some relatively unimportant matters, and passed them relatively easily.

Even so, the scale and time span of the lengthy comprehensive change plan, which was discussed for as long as three months, is unprecedented.

The ambassadors of almost all European kingdoms are paying attention to the changes in England. They feel a little uneasy about this overseas neighbor, and England has become strange to them.

Military officers such as Sun Chuanting, Sun Xu, and Zheng Zhibao gathered in the city of 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, and Huang Xiushan and others directly participated in the drafting of this reform.

"The queen obviously wants to imitate our system while retaining England's traditions. She also needs to preserve traditions as much as possible to make it easier for the parliament and the common people to accept changes. This is a compromise." Huang Xiushan and several others Director Huaxia obviously knew all about Sophia's reform.

"The traditions on their side are really different. Even as a king, they have to make compromises." 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, the Congress planned to give him the honorary title of Lieutenant General of the Royal Army, but Sun Chuanting not only rejected the title of Lieutenant General, but also resigned a series of military advisers identity of.

He is the commander of the Far West Dispatched Army, and he is loyal to the Eastern Empire, but he really can't stand the poor performance of the King's Army, so he helps.

"I think that if this reform can be successful, England may become a first-class country in the West, surpassing the Netherlands and Spain. They are isolated overseas and have unique advantages. This is not good for us. Know whether it is a good thing or a bad thing." Huang Xiushan knew the content of the change, but he still had some expectations for this change.

"If England becomes stronger, it may become more difficult to control." Sun Xu said.

"But not necessarily. With the relationship between the military lord and the queen, there will be no conflicts for at least a few decades, and the crown prince is the son of the military lord... If more coal can be provided here and our industrial products can be accepted, maybe It is a good thing for us. We chose this place as a bridgehead because it has the largest coal output in the entire Western Ocean, and we cannot do without coal." As a businessman, Huang Xiushan and several directors had a relationship with military officers. different views.

Military officers think about the comparison of military strength, but merchants think about raw materials and markets.

An empire with a large population like the Mughal Empire can never make them stronger, otherwise the population advantage will be too great, and [-] million farmers will be squeezed out, and the land rent will be huge.

However, it is difficult for Mughal farmers to consume industrial products. Just like countries without electricity, it is impossible to buy electrical products. To sell electrical appliances locally, they must first build power stations and lay wires for them.

Now Huaxia can still make profits by exporting tea, spices, porcelain and some simple industrial products, but what about the future?In the future, more expensive industrial products such as automobiles and electrical appliances will be exported, but no overseas country can afford these products, so what?
Therefore, Huang Xiushan and other businessmen definitely did not look at this matter from the perspective of military officers. Even if they raised pigs, the pigs had to be fattened and then slaughtered.Just make sure that the pigs raised will not turn against customers.

With the scale of several million people here, Huang Xiushan and others do not think that England will come from behind on the premise that they have gained a first-mover advantage with hundreds of millions of people.

In the future, it can also undertake some low-end local industries and provide upstream and downstream industries.

"It's 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 consensus.

If Chu Yun had been there, he would have told them that there was no need to worry. Dongfang had even researched four-wheeled vehicles and early aircraft, and this side couldn't compare to Dongfang's crazy climbing of the technology tree.

(End of this chapter)