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Chapter 198 Constitutional Monarchy
[After the death of the Queen of Britain, a young king, Charles I, came to power.]
[Unlike the Queen, Charles I believed that he was the highest authority sent by God to the world and had supreme power.]
【But he ignored the support of the people and the interests of the nation. 】
【After Charles succeeded to the throne, the wars with neighboring countries caused the treasury to be empty. The finances were tight. So he wanted to increase taxes, but the tax authorities did not say that he could increase taxes whenever he wanted. According to their laws, the power to levy new taxes belonged to the parliament. If the parliament did not agree, the king could not implement his policies.】
Ying Zheng: This is equivalent to mutual restraint between the two, and no one can dominate alone.
But wouldn’t both sides want to completely suppress the multi-party?
Who wants to decentralize power?
Liu Bang: No, no! We absolutely cannot do this!
Liu Che: Just watch the fun.
Of course, there were people who were ready to make a move, but when they thought about the environment of their own dynasty, they gave up.
Li Shimin didn't understand, the king and the parliament restrained each other, so who controlled the military power?
Once a conflict occurs between the two sides, the person who holds the force will have absolute suppression.
[Parliament rejected the king's request, so the king bypassed Parliament and directly imposed new taxes on merchants and forced loans on gentry.]
【So began a fierce contest between the king and the parliament. 】
【The king sent troops to forcibly dissolve Parliament.】
【The British Civil War breaks out.】
Zhao Kuangyin: This is the result of decentralization.
Who wants to be restricted in doing things?
But if the parliament wins, will they still share power with the king? If so, what is the point of fighting this war?
Conflicts will still break out in the future, and wars will still occur as a result.
[The result of the civil war was that the king was captured and a new country was established. ]
【Charles I was declared a tyrant, murderer and enemy of the state by Parliament. He was beheaded in the street in front of the public.】
This development made all the dynasties startled. How could they be beheaded?
He was chopped off in front of the public!
Qianlong trembled again, and he thought of Louis XVI again.
What kind of monsters are these foreign nations? They actually like to chop off the emperor's head!
Kangxi was shocked and dropped the memorial in his hand.
This is the advanced Western country, so advanced that the emperor’s head was chopped off without any dignity!
Will he continue to innovate?
But this incident happened just five years after the Qing Dynasty entered the Pass!
This means that the countries surrounding the Qing Dynasty are all rising. Thinking of this, Kangxi's inner clothes were soaked with cold sweat.
Once people become more enlightened, what will the Qing Dynasty face?
If it is not opened, it will definitely result in invasion...
For a moment, Kangxi wished there had never been a skylight.
Zhu Yuanzhang shuddered. The Ming Dynasty could never learn this trick from foreign countries!
Kublai Khan: The king does not have complete control over the force, otherwise the parliament would be dissolved.
It all comes down to who has more power.
[This event shocked the European continent, as most of their countries were either under absolute monarchy or were aspiring to be so.]
【Britain's approach went beyond the prevailing political ideas of the time.】
"It's really beyond belief..." Zhao Kuangyin couldn't believe what he saw.
“So this country is closer to future generations…” Zhao Pu shook his head. The Song Dynasty could not do that.
Even the power in the hands of military generals had to be taken back, not to mention setting up a parliament to restrain the emperor and share his power.
【During the reign of Charles I, Parliament handed over executive power to the Council of State, headed by the general who had defeated the king.】
[However, the good times did not last long, and the general began to implement military dictatorship. ]
Various dynasties: Indeed, who can resist the temptation of supreme power?
Who got beheaded this time?
[As a result, after the general's death, Parliament brought back the dynasty they had overthrown, and James II, the son of Charles I, whose head they had chopped off, succeeded to the throne.]
Emperors of all dynasties: Are you kidding me?
Now is the time to choose someone from among your own people to be the king!
Why put the enemy’s son on the stage?
Aren’t you afraid that the other party will stab you in the back?
The behavior of these foreign countries is really puzzling.
[After James II ascended the throne, he did not want to repeat his father's tragedy, so he wanted to expand the army and consolidate his rule. ]
Emperors and ministers of all dynasties: …
The consequences are easy to imagine. Is there no one in Parliament who could have foreseen them?
Is this because he likes fighting and is addicted to it?
I can't figure it out, or do they need a king to share power with them to feel comfortable?
【However, this time, the tyrannical James II was forced by the British people to adopt another way to end the tyranny of the monarchy. 】
[This method was later called the Glorious Revolution.]
[The social aristocracy said that it was time to change the rules, and the people sitting at the table should be replaced, but not through bloodshed.]
[They wrote to James II's son-in-law, King William of the Netherlands, inviting him to come over and rebel against James II's rule.]
【William then invaded Britain peacefully, without war.】
[The final meeting decided that William and his wife would become the King of Britain. ]
It’s so magical——
If your own king cannot rule well, then replace him with a king from another country to rule!
This kind of thing would only happen in foreign countries. If it happened in the dynasties of the Central Plains, they would be regarded as traitors and nailed to the pillar of shame in history for thousands of years.
However, Ying Zheng thought of one thing: the royal families of these countries obviously have more or less connections, and the people have no objection at all to the kings of other countries ruling them. This is a natural advantage of unification!
Then why doesn't one person come out to unify all the small countries into one big country?
It's really puzzling.
Isn't a unified big country better than scattered small countries?
Other dynasties; look! They can only watch the rise of these countries.
It's impossible to imitate anything!
【The king is elected by the parliament, which means that the royal power has changed from divine right to popular right. It fundamentally changed the nature of the royal power that had existed for thousands of years.】
[It also established the political principle that parliament is superior to the royal power, and later gradually established a constitutional monarchy. ]
【From then on, the monarch of Britain is the head of state, the head of government, the head of the church, and the commander-in-chief of the national armed forces, but he cannot directly manage the country. He must appoint a prime minister, who then directly manages the country. The prime minister must be the leader of the majority political party in parliament. This is the constitutional monarchy.】
[Its essence is to govern the country according to law. No one can be above the law. It marks the end of the era of one person ruling a country forever. ]
All the emperors: ...
It seems that in this country, the king is just a puppet, a mascot that looks good.
It is the Parliament that is in power, but who makes up the Parliament?
They are the elite aristocratic class, which means that these people are the ones who rule this country!
What about ordinary people?
How do they get into this council?
Can the elite aristocracy monopolize this parliament?
But no matter what, such a thing is not suitable for the Central Plains Dynasty...
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