The War Court and Lap Pillow, Austria's Mandate of Heaven

Chapter 636 Robert Peel's Helplessness
British "Times":
"We regret to say that we have learned from several well-informed reporters that there is a strange disease in the cursed land of Ireland.

Those potatoes were neither fit for human consumption nor for livestock.What a shame, but it happened and there is nothing our government can do about it.Let's pray for those less fortunate. "

In fact Robert Peel didn't want to meddle in Irish affairs just now, but as luck would have it, Prince Albert plans to visit Dublin next year, and perhaps elsewhere.

This is not good news for the cabinet. At this time, the United Kingdom is facing internal and external troubles and is besieged on all sides. If the royal family launches another attack at this time, the whole country may fall into greater chaos.

In fact, cholera was rampant in London at this time, and a large number of people died every day, and the bodies were randomly discarded in the Thames River, which triggered a new round of cholera epidemics.

With regard to what was happening in Ireland at this time, Robert Peel's opinion was to repeal the Corn Laws and let the laws of the market come to the rescue there.

The repeal of the Corn Laws was intended to allow cheap wheat and corn from America to enter Ireland, but this was strongly opposed by cabinet members and Irish landowners.

Because the most direct result of the abolition of the "Corn Law" is the drop in grain prices, which is obviously not in the interests of merchants and landowners.

Of course, doing so also offended the "free trade" principle that the British have always followed.

But in fact, even if the "Corn Law" is abolished, it will not help the Irish region much. After all, you can't expect a group of people with an annual income of only two pounds to be able to afford those expensive grains.

O'Connell is uniting the Whig Party to protest against the British government. For this reason, he has planned dozens of large-scale demonstrations, hoping that the government can introduce solutions to the problems on the island of Ireland as soon as possible.

At the same time, O'Connell was doing his best to prevent those Irish landowners from transporting grain out of the island of Ireland.

But this approach has had little effect. After all, the price of grain trading in London has hit a record high at this time, and even if it is sold to France and the Netherlands, it can still make a lot of money.

Louis-Philippe is very good in that he never clings to the past.Facing the problem of food shortage, France immediately opened up tariffs, and then dealt a severe blow to its own farmers.

On the other hand, O'Connell repeatedly emphasized to Irish farmers not to be greedy for pleasure and not to use grain to make whiskey, which is not only illegal, but also immoral during the famine at this time.

Food is for eating, not for pleasure.But in fact, a group of people who can't even eat enough to eat, how can they be in the mood to make wine and drink.

At the same time rumors about the prophecy of the Austrian missionaries also spread to London, and Robert Peel's first reaction was that maybe the Austrians knew something?
But soon he thought of a better way, maybe this is the conspiracy of the Austrians and the Catholic Church.

After all, the French and the Spaniards have done this before, and Ireland is just a pawn.

It's just that Britain at this time cannot choose to go to war with the Austrian Empire, because Britain has enough troubles of its own.

In the rainforest of southern Brazil, the Sequoia Army and its servants made no progress. Someone proposed to attack from the sea, but it was immediately rejected.

Because Brazil has close trade relations with Europe and is also the main source of British quinine.

The British could not gain a foothold in Africa without quinine, the Ashanti wars in West Africa, the nomads in South Africa and the Boers were all threats.

In fact, the resistance of the Ashanti people lasted until the beginning of the [-]th century before being completely defeated. At this time, the Ashanti people just bordered the Austrian Togo colony.

It is normal for the two parties to exchange information in private. After all, one party wants gold and the other party wants weapons.

In fact, the Austrians are very generous, they can work without gold, and Austria will not directly enslave those Ashanti people, but will only settle according to the employment relationship.

In terms of credit, the Austrians are much better than the previous colonists. At least they will not buy and sell by force, and they will not exhaust their wealth and catch the weak.

The only fly in the ointment is that the Austrians do not accept the slave trade, but this will not trouble the wise chiefs, they can send some trusted people to act as supervisors.

In this way, the problem of the source of weapons is perfectly solved. The British ration of quinine is very limited and can only guarantee the amount used by those high-ranking officers, so it is impossible to pursue the aborigines in depth.

The result is that the British are becoming more and more passive, and the power of the Ashanti natives is growing.

Otalo Akua Addo is the ruler of Ashanti at this time, the most powerful pole in the tribal alliance.

Otalo Acua Addo's ambition is not just to drive out the British, he also wants to annex Dahomey, the Danish Gold Coast, and even the Austrian Togo region.

Franz knew this kind of people well, but he was not worried, because the British were not so easy to deal with.

After all, the Ghana region is considered a good colony, with rich products and sufficient population. It has everything needed to become a powerful colony.

It is not for nothing that this land is called the Gold Coast. In 1840, the British earned nearly 40 pounds from the local area.

Of course, this is only superficial income. In fact, the local governor married several ladies as wives in succession, including the famous London actress Letitia Elizabeth Landler.

However, most of these people will not survive a year on the Gold Coast, but Governor George MacLean's marriage advertisement is still a hot topic in London social circles.

Some people said that George McLean was illegal by buying and selling black slaves in private, but several investigations failed.

It's just that George McLean didn't have a comfortable life in history at this time. After all, the natives no longer used the Dutch guns and guns, but the same weapons as the British soldiers.

This directly raised the intensity of the war by several steps, and the number of casualties every month made him feel uneasy.

Closer to home, the British cannot pass on the contradictions, so they can only solve those who raise the problem. This has caused some mainstream media to smear and bombard Catholicism by the way.

At the same time, associations on the island of Ireland exploded as more and more people believed that only Irish people cared if Irish people lived or died.

In the village, men in twos and threes are often seen gathering together. They are not as peaceful as those "drinking parties" held by Young Ireland.

They would resort to violence, attacking wealthy merchants and landowners on remote country roads, using agricultural implements such as hoes and sickles.

As for how to deal with the Brazilians, in 1845, the British Parliament passed a bill authorizing the Royal Navy to intercept, search, seize, and investigate suspicious slave ships in the South Atlantic, and hand them over to the Maritime Court for trial.

This is undoubtedly a heavy blow to the Brazilian Empire, which relies heavily on the plantation economy.

(End of this chapter)