[1287 British Prime Minister Disraeli]
"Your Majesty, the British government only asks Your Majesty to bring ten guards, and is not allowed to bring guns. I am afraid that your Majesty's safety will not be guaranteed." Wang Zhankui said to the Emperor of China with concern.
Princess Katrina Kaif was also worried, "Your Majesty, my right eyelid has been pounding so hard these two days. Moreover, according to the information sent by the British Bureau of Statistics, some militants from Britain and France may have planned to assassinate Your Majesty. Otherwise, Your Majesty would not have to go to celebrate your birthday in person. Anyway, the Queen of England did not intend to meet Your Majesty, so let the diplomats represent Your Majesty and let us leave Britain as soon as possible."
"I've come here, just leave like this? So how do the international community think about China? Is there any problem with security work now? Don't you find a way to strengthen security measures? They said they can't bring guns, isn't there any local statistics bureau? I don't know how to arrange for secret protection?" The cute president said angrily, "If there is danger, you must go. This is politics. Besides, I don't believe that the British dares to let me die in the UK."
Princess Katrina Kaifu wanted to say something, but knowing that Emperor Hua had made a decision, and Emperor Hua never changed what he decided, so she had to say to Wang Zhankui: "Think more about how to improve protection measures, Your Majesty must go."
Wang Zhankui could only bow his head and said, "Yes, madam."
Although Emperor Hua and Princess Katrina Kafu have not officially gotten married yet, Princess Katrina Kafu's status has long been determined, just lower than Princess Jane. She has not officially gotten married. She is waiting for Zeng Siping to be 15 years old. At that time, Emperor Hua will marry Princess Katrina Kafu and Zeng Siping.
The cute CEO guessed that it was not wrong. Of course, the British government would not be unclear about such a big thing, but he did not think about implementing higher-level protection against Emperor Hua.
Although the Emperor Hua was treated coldly in many countries, these countries would still provide certain protection in secret. Whether it was about protection or surveillance, it was impossible for an emperor or an emperor from a big country to ignore it. What's more, the scale of the British and French radical organizations this time was relatively large, so it was even more impossible for the British government to not hear the news.
The British royal family cannot be said to be a decoration. There is power. If the consequences are ignored, the queen can still fire any minister of her own government, designate a new minister, issue administrative orders directly, and have the power to mobilize the army.
As for the consequences caused by this situation, it is called a constitutional crisis. It is okay to force this to do so, but the political situation will be in chaos.
The Queen has the power to prosecute, so the Prime Minister who was dismissed immediately had to contact Buckingham Palace to request confirmation, while the Queen expressed her position of non-interference.
The royal power belongs to the part that is habitually shelved. The queen has a lot of power, but without causing social unrest or political crisis, the queen's power is firmly limited.
In terms of political influence, there is no doubt that the British royal family has its own means of "treating" the prime minister and its own government. As for this indirect command-type influence, it will definitely not be as good as the Tsar or the German Emperor, the Austro-Hungarian Emperor, and even more so as to the Emperor of China.
The constitutional monarchy of China is the most powerful political system in the world.
From a legal perspective, the British royal family has power and is very large. The queen can decide the term of all the prime ministers under her rule (and government), and she can dissolve the parliament (not only British but also Canadian), but if she really does this, it will be fun next. Secondly, the queen has the right to be a knight, the highest-ranking Kathar Knight, the Thistle Knight, was personally designated by the Queen, and the government has no right to interfere (the lower-level British Empire Order was "suggested" by the government). Thirdly, the queen can award the title of "royal", even for institutions and regions that have nothing to do with the royal family. In addition, all documents signed by the Queen are at the constitutional level (the British constitution does not have a written constitution, and the "Edict of the British King" belongs to the constitution).
However, on most issues, whether the British Prime Minister has great power depends on the number of more than half of the party members and whether the party members are obedient.
Also, it is the personal prestige of the current prime minister.
If the Prime Minister is very supportive, then the cabinet will be basically useless, and it is all his words.
The current British Prime Minister is Benjamin Disraeli, a Jew. He is also the first Earl of Beaconsfield, leader of the British Conservative Party, and three-term Secretary of the Entrepreneurship of the Cabinet. He served as British Prime Minister twice (1868, 1874-1880).
Disraelli played a major role in transforming the Tory Party into a Conservative Party. During his tenure as prime minister, Disraelli was an active advocate and defender of British colonial imperialism. During his tenure as prime minister, he vigorously promoted foreign aggression and colonial expansion policies. His name was closely linked to the British colonial empire.
In addition, Disraelli's reputation also makes him occupy a special position among his successive British prime ministers because of his reputation as a novelist, social and political reputation.
Disraelli was born in London in 1804. His parents were both Italian Jews and moved to England with his family in the 18th century. His father, Isaac Disraelli, was an accomplished writer. He had traveled to the European continent. He was a believer of the famous French Enlightenment thinkers Voltaire and Rousseau. He also followed the domestic Enlightenment romantic poets George Gordon Byron, Robert Sauser, and historical novelist Walter Scott. Under their influence, his thoughts tended to improve.
Isaac was not a devout believer in Judaism. Later, because of a quarrel with the Jewish Marcos, he withdrew from the Judaism assembly since 1817 and allowed his children to convert to the Anglican Church.
Disraelli received a special education in his youth, which may have had no effect on the formation of his character and thoughts in the future.
Although Disraelli was baptized by the Anglican Church at the age of 13, in fact, he still grew up under the influence of Judaism.
Disraelly was educated in some smaller private schools when he was young, using Hebrew (i.e., Jewish language) during school. He had never entered the Anglican church before the age of 12. At the age of 13, his father sent him to a school run by Dr. Erickon, a pastor who did not believe in the state, and learned limited classical knowledge. This kind of education, somewhat unique, cultivated the unique character of Disraelly, a Jew who converted to Christianity.
Disraelli is accustomed to acting alone, and has a sense of arrogance and strong desire for leadership in his heart, and sometimes he takes risks to achieve his goals.
"Adventure is arranged for adventurers," which was his creed of action in his youth. He was quite proud of his Jewish race. Until his old age, he once said to a young Jew: "You and I belong to the same race, and this race can do everything without failing."
Disrael dropped out of school at the age of 15 and went home. During his homeschooling, he dreamed of becoming a great man in the future and being famous all over the world like Homer, Gaius Julius Caesar, William Shakespeare or Napoleon.
When Disraelli was 17 years old, his father sent him to a law firm in Friedlic, a Jewish settlement, as a trainee. He started literary creation activities here and had dates with the literary world. In 1824, he went abroad to Germany for the first time with his father, and made a short trip along the Rhine River, which greatly broadened his horizons. Later, in a letter to his friend, he said: "When I went down the river along this wonderful and moving river, I decided not to be a lawyer."
After returning from Germany, he left the law firm and decided to do a big business. In 1824, he participated in the speculation business of an American mining company and was responsible for writing a booklet introducing the mining company. A friend of his father, John Mare, a publisher of his father, admired his talents and asked him to jointly run a daily newspaper and named it "Representative", and he agreed with pleasure. Unexpectedly, half a year later, the company went bankrupt and Disraelly took a huge debt, which became a heavy burden on his entire first half of his life. Running a newspaper also became empty talk, and he even had an argument with Mare.
After the speculative career was frustrated, Disraelli continued to engage in creation. In 1826, an anonymous political satirical novel "Vivian Grey" was published. The novel attacked Mare, and his authorship was quickly exposed, and was coldly treated by Mare and his friends in the literary world. This series of changes was an unbearable and heavy blow to a young man who was just a young man who had just started to develop. He was almost mentally ill. In order to recover his health, he traveled to Italy and Switzerland. During his recovery, he wrote works such as "The Travel Notes of Captain Popanila" and "The Young Duke".
From 1830 to 1831, Disraelli made a 16-month trip to the Mediterranean coast and Near Eastern countries, traveling to Spain, Albania, Greece, Turkey, Palestine and Egypt.
This trip was of a turning point in Disraelli's life and his health was completely restored. His visit abroad, especially in the Near East, aroused his strong interest in politics and diplomacy, and he felt that in order to make achievements in his career, he must devote himself to political struggles.
After returning from abroad, Disraelli decided to run for parliament. In early 1832, he moved into the West End of London (a bourgeois settlement area), began to go in and out of luxury residences, visited well-known political figures, and published his new work, the biographical novel "Contellini Fleming", and launched an active campaign. Disraelli was inclined toward the Tory Party in thought, but it was around the time when the first parliamentary election reform in 1832, and the Whigs had the advantage in domestic political life. This made him feel embarrassed.
Judging the situation, Disraelle was determined to appear as an independent radical. In an election speech, he said: "I don't care about the party or not, I have no support from the party, and stand here independently." He also said: "I am also a Conservative Party, conserving all the good in our system; I am also a fierce party, and eliminating all the bad ones."
However, without a clear party background, he did not receive trust and support from all parties, so his first few campaigns in Waikangbu town near his hometown were defeated.
Disraeli joined the Conservative Party in 1835, but it was not until his fifth campaign in 1837 that the two entered the parliament together as Conservative MPs in Maidstone, Kent.
Soon, Levis died. In 1839, Disrari and Levis' widowed wife, 12 years older than him, got married.
Although this marriage was criticized and ridiculed in the upper class, it was considered that both men and women were not a match in all aspects, but the Disrari couple lived happily until they grew old together.
Disraelli's activities in parliament began with leading the Youth Britain. After the 1841 general election, Robert Peel organized his second Conservative Cabinet. Disraelli was very dissatisfied with Peel. During this period, he led the activities of a small Tory group called "Youth Britain" in the House of Commons. The group's initiator and organizer were three young people, and Disraelli was its real leader.
The propaganda of "Young Britain" beautifies medieval feudal society and advocates restoration of all privileges of the nobles. In order to deceive the masses, they deludedly declared in the parliament that they agreed with the bill to protect child labor and oppress Ireland, etc.
In fact, the idea of "Young Britain" reflects the growing dissatisfaction of the land aristocracy with the growing industrial bourgeois power. They opposed both the Peel government's concessions to the bourgeois free traders and the real labor movement charter movement. Therefore, Marx pointed out that "Young Britain" advocated "feudal socialism". Disraeli's trilogy "Conningsby (Young Generation)," "Sybil (Two Nations)" and "Tancredid (New Crusade)" clearly expressed the view of "Young Britain" through literary language. The book "Sybil" more directly wrote: "My wish is to see with your own eyes the king who can have freedom again... "Young Britain" believes that industrial cities, mines,... industrialization has brought distress and poverty to the people."
Due to the lack of a mass base, the "Young Britain" quickly collapsed in organization. By the late 1940s, this reactionary trend became a historical record.
The abolition of the Cereal Law prompted Disrael and Peel to break the final break.
In the 1840s, Britain completed the industrial revolution and its economy developed rapidly. The bourgeoisie demanded that tariffs be lowered and free trade were implemented. Driven by the free bourgeoisie, the Peel government decided to abandon the policy of protecting tariffs, abolished the Cereal Act in 1846, and opened up free trade in food.
This decision aroused strong dissatisfaction among the Tories, and Disrael took the opportunity to organize an opposition against Pierre's cabinet in the House of Commons. He delivered a series of eloquent speeches against Pierre. Pierre was disheartened and resigned and the cabinet fell.
In 1848, Disraelli was officially elected as leader of the Conservative Party, and he held this position until his death.
In the early days of Disraelli's tenure as party leader, the Conservative Party was not only divided and had many difficulties, but also faced a new era of major transformation.
By the mid-19th century, the Tories had adopted the name of "Conservative Party" and had been expanded into a national party with central and local organizations; however, they had not completed a political change to adapt to the new situation.
The political line of the British Conservative Party can no longer meet the new needs of the land aristocrats and the big bourgeoisie under the new situation where capitalism has developed greatly.
In the nearly 30 years from the fall of Peel's cabinet in 1846 to the formation of Disrael's cabinet in 1874, the Conservative Party had only three opportunities to rule (i.e., the three derby-Disrael Cabinets from 1852, 1858-59, 1866-68), and the total time was less than 5 years.
In order to get out of the predicament, Disraelli proposed to transform the Conservative Party's program. There are two main points: implement more active and flexible policies internally and carry out a certain degree of social reform; externally, he shoulders the mission of establishing a huge colonial empire.
Due to the poor health of Edward Smith-Stanley, Earl of Derby, the burden of the three-term cabinet was mainly borne by the Chancellor of the Chancellor of the Certificate.
In 1859, Disraelli proposed a new election reform bill to the parliament, requiring the expansion of the number of voters and the reduction of the electoral qualifications of rural land renters from 50 to 10 pounds, with the aim of winning the support of these people. However, Conservative MPs believed that this request was too much, and the Liberals were not satisfied, so the bill failed to pass.
In February 1867, Disrael learned from the failure of Gladstone in 1866, and, driven by the people, proposed a new parliamentary reform bill that was slightly further than the Liberal Party's 1866 bill. Parliament passed in August 1867. The new bill stipulates that in cities, all land owners who pay the poor tax and tenants who pay no less than 10 pounds of rent and live for no less than one year have the right to vote. In each county, land owners with an annual income of no less than 5 pounds and land operators who pay 12 pounds of rent a year have the right to vote. Some skilled workers also obtained the right to vote. The new bill doubled the voters to 2.5 million.
The success of the parliamentary reform in 1867 not only consolidated the Conservative Party's ranks and improved the prestige of the Party, but also greatly increased Disrael's personal reputation.
In February 1868, Derby was dismissed due to illness, and Disraelli took over the position of prime minister. As he himself said, he finally "climbed to the top of the oil slide rod."
However, because the government was still unpopular in Ireland and some other issues, the Conservative Party failed in the late 1868 general election and Disraeli was forced to resign.
In the process of rebuilding the Conservative Party, in addition to some internal reforms, Disrael also took active foreign aggression and expansion, and established a powerful British colonial empire that dominated the world as his struggle program.
During his opposition period from 1868 to 1874, Disraelli vigorously attacked William Yult Gladstone's Liberal Cabinet without foresight and ignored the interests of the empire.
In February 1874, the Conservatives won the general election, and Disraelli was ordered to organize his own first cabinet at the age of 70.
Disraelli was in power when the situation had improved greatly: the Conservative Party has gained reputation at home and the cabinet has been supported by the majority of parliament.
Therefore, although he was old and in poor health, he spared no effort to implement colonial aggression and expansion policies during his tenure, making great contributions to the construction of the British Colonial Empire Building.
Disraelli first seized control of the Suez Canal. The Suez Canal was opened to navigation in 1869. Before that, Britain had no investment in the construction of the canal, and this route was completely jointly organized by the French and Egyptians. However, the huge income brought by the canal after it was opened to the navigation made the British bourgeoisie salivate.
In 1875, Egyptian Governor Ismail Pasha encountered a financial crisis and planned to sell the canal stocks he held. However, the French were greedy and planned to suppress the price. After hearing the news, Disreyri privately borrowed money from the Rothschild family overnight and bought all the shares of the Egyptian government at a low price of 4 million pounds (about 45% of the total shares of the canal). In addition to some small stocks, the UK controlled the lifeline of the east-west sea transportation. Once this incident was reported, the whole country was very excited.
Secondly, in 1876, Disraelli suggested that the parliament passed a decision to award Queen Victoria the title of "Queen of India" and a grand coronation ceremony was held in Delhi, the capital of India, on New Year's Day 1877.
Victoria's dream of empress finally came true. Disraeli's move was not simply to repay the queen's support for him, but more importantly to show off the greatness of the empire to the British and Indian people and incite chauvinism among the people.
The title of "British Empire", which was originally used only verbally, has since become one of the official names of Britain and has been found in official documents.
In recognition of Disraelli's achievements, Queen Victoria promoted him to the Earl of Biconsfield.
Disraelli was most concerned about and interested in the so-called Eastern issue. In the mid-1870s, the Balkan peoples under the enslave of Turkey launched a massive uprising, the Bulgaria national independence movement rose, and the situation in the Near East became tense again.
Because of its huge economic interests in Türkiye, Britain tried its best to support the Turkish Sudan and oppose the Balkan national liberation movement.
The Russian Empire was the opposite. The Tsarist Russian Empire tried to lie with the Slavs' liberation struggle, destroy the rule of the Turkish Empire, and thus weaken the power of its rival Britain in the Near East.
The two sides refused to give in, and the conflicts and struggles became increasingly fierce, which finally led to the re-explosion of the Russian-Turkish War in 1877.
After four Battles of Preven, the Russian army finally crossed the Carpathian Mountains, and the vanguard arrived at Fort Adria. The news reached Britain, and he publicly expressed doubts about the correctness of the government's Eastern policy. Dissatisfaction was also reflected in the cabinet. Foreign Minister Lord Derby asked for a re-examination of the government's traditional Eastern policy. Disrael could not tolerate Russian forces approaching the Mediterranean, dismissed Lord Derby and ordered the British Royal Navy to enter the anchorage of Istanbul.
He was willing to fight to defend the Ottoman Empire. Russia had exhausted its combat power, and was afraid that it would be beaten by Western countries like the Crimean War in 1853, so he had to retreat. At the Berlin Conference held in 1878, after Bismarck mediated, Russia forced to make full concessions to Britain and gave up most of the results. However, Britain obtained Cyprus Island as collateral to defend Russia's southward journey without a fight. Disraelli's prestige reached its peak when he returned to China.
In addition to Türkiye, Disrael is also actively expanding to Iran and Afghanistan.
After the Russian-Turkish War, the struggle between Britain and Russia in Afghanistan became fierce again.
In order to occupy Afghanistan as soon as possible, Britain launched the Second British Afghan War in 1878. At the beginning, the British army defeated the resistance of the Afghan army and captured the Afghan capital Kabul, forcing Afghanistan to accept humiliating peace conditions.
However, Britain's victory did not last long. An anti-British uprising broke out in Afghanistan, and the British invading army was hit hard by the Afghan people.
Emperor Hua is now involved in the war between Afghanistan and Britain, and is directly against Disrael.
In addition to the Afghanistan issue, the Emperor of China also interfered in African affairs in order to put pressure on the British government.
Britain had long been planning to invade two Boer countries in South Africa - the Free State of Orange and the Republic of Transvaal, but it has not succeeded.
In the late 1860s, diamond mines were discovered on the territory of the Boer state. In order to occupy these treasures, the Conservative Government of Disraelli announced the occupation of the Boer Republic in 1877.
The Boers were fighting against the Zulus indigenous South Africans and were in a very difficult situation. The British immediately entered the battle against the Zulus.
Disraelli was highly praised by the British bourgeoisie in history and is considered one of the most outstanding figures to rise to the culmination of British politics.
Even Disraelli's political rival Gladstone praised: "Lord Biconsfield's career is in many ways the most commendable in parliamentary history."
This kind of praise is not difficult to understand. As a representative figure of the bourgeoisie, he did his best to consolidate the British capitalist system. His history of political success can be said to be a microcosm of the development of British capitalism in the mid-19th century and in the late nineteenth century.
In the early days of his political career, Disrael firmly upheld the old Tory stance that represented the interests of British land nobles and senior priests in the 18th century. Later, he broke up with Pierre because he opposed the abolition of the grain law and the opening of free trade.
But Disraelli was a bourgeois political practitioner with vision.
When Disraelli himself became the leader of the Conservative Party and began to rectify the party, which was divided and narrowing in political foundation, he gradually realized that the most fundamental thing to revitalize the Conservative Party is to transform it, innovate it, and make it meet the needs of the new era.
In the late period of Disraelli's political activities, especially during his tenure as prime minister, he carried out some reforms within and colonial expansion outside. His activities were highly praised by the bourgeoisie, won honors for the Conservative Party, and made contributions to the establishment of the British colonial empire.
Disrael herself was granted the title of Queen Victoria, wearing the title of Earl of Biconsfield, and was sideways among the nobles.
Before Emperor Hua came to the UK, he had a systematic impression of Disraelli's past. He was indeed commendable to stand out in the British society where the big bourgeoisie was in power with his talents and the middle class, and to revitalize a traditional political party.
The establishment of the Huacui Party from scratch was much easier than Disraelli to change the British Conservative Party from the old to the new.
Chapter completed!