Start 1861: I Just Inherited the Dutch Throne

"Although we in the UK are in an economic crisis, there is one thing I think you may have set your horizons too low and too narrowly."

Robert Gascoigne Cecil revealed his edge and opened fire at Gladstone.

No way, who told him that he had just taken over the British Tory Party less than 24 hours ago.

The first thing a new official does when he takes office is to establish his authority, but it is better to attack his own people than the Whigs.

Born in February 1830 in Hertfordshire, England, he was the only surviving second son of the 2nd Marquess of Salisbury. He studied at the aristocratic Eton College in primary school, and entered the Christian Studies Party of Oxford University at the age of 18.

In 1853, under the arrangement of his father, he was elected as a member of the House of Commons. It is different to have a backing, isn't it?

From July 1866 to March 1867, he served as Secretary of State for India when Disraeli first formed the cabinet. However, due to dissatisfaction with Disraeli's leadership of the Conservative Party, the Tories supported the social reform of 1867, and did not agree with the Conservative Party. Trusting Conservative leader Disraeli, he resigned from the cabinet government.

The next year, in 1868, he inherited his father's title and became the third Marquess of Salisbury.

Because of the falling out, he began to use his father's influence to cultivate and develop his own power within the conservative Tory Party. Within the Tory Party, he was openly opposed to Disraeli many times, and he also received support from the Conservative Party. The support of the former leader of the Liberal Party and former Prime Minister Peel (ousted by Disraeli) almost reached the point of confrontation with the Disraeli Chamber within the Conservative Party.

It's just that compared to Disraeli, Cecil's relationship with the bourgeoisie was not that good, so his influence was not as good as that of Disraeli.

Now that Disraeli has passed away, it is natural for him to take charge of the Tory Party.

Therefore, Gladstone had to pay more attention to opponents different from Disraeli.

Gladstone: "What does the Marquess of Salisbury mean?"

Cecil: “We can vigorously develop technological advancements in metallurgy and machinery manufacturing. As a result, railway construction and operating costs will be greatly reduced, and a new round of railway construction boom will emerge.

Advances in textile machinery manufacturing technology will further reduce the cost of the textile industry, thereby expanding demand, increasing profits, and further improving competitiveness with foreign countries. "

To put it bluntly, Cecil's meaning is to improve the technology of his original advantageous subjects, reduce costs and expand competitiveness.

"In addition, we can also work hard to expand foreign markets. In order to further open up the markets of our main trading partners, we in the UK can promote free trade. We are not afraid of competing with the Netherlands because our two countries have no diplomatic relations and it is impossible for the two countries to communicate with each other. If we enter the other party’s domestic market, we can exclude Dutch industrial products from entering.”

Seizing the overseas market, several people couldn't help but nod, and Gladstone also had a clearer understanding of Cecil.

This man will definitely be a powerful enemy of the Whig Party in the future.

"So we were originally excluded from Dutch industrial products in a third country, so now we are competing with the Netherlands in a third country. In fact, we are treating a dead horse in disguise. If we give the third country one more opportunity to choose, we can add more Intensively lobby third-country governments and influential people in the private sector.

What I mean is not that not everyone is happy with low-cost industrial products. For example, some people like to get benefits from imported industrial products. I don’t know if the Netherlands is doing some public relations, whether it is or not.

The UK can start this, and our industrial products can benefit from this. How many orders we get depends on the level of public relations."

"Also, we can be more thorough by abolishing the "Corn Law" that levies import tariffs on farmers' products in our country, thereby reducing food prices and expanding domestic market demand on the one hand, and on the other hand requiring other countries to open their markets."

"In this way, our national income will decrease, but the decrease in daily necessities such as food will also increase their income in disguise, and dissatisfaction will naturally decrease."

When Cecil said this, Gladstone's expression changed drastically and he immediately looked at Queen Victoria. Sure enough, the Queen showed satisfaction on her face.

He even nodded. Obviously, the Tories, who had been unpopular in the past, were about to change because of Cecil's coming to power.

This will definitely make Gladstone's Whig Party's status in the heart of the Queen lower in the future.

What could be worse than this?

Cecil had no idea what Gladstone was thinking.

He continued: “Besides the above, the most important thing we need is to find new export targets, especially expanding exports to Asia and South America.

In 1840, three years after Her Majesty the Queen took office, we used gunboats to open the door of the Qing Dynasty. In 1842, we forced the Qing Dynasty to open five treaty ports and exempted our British goods from tariffs.

I have a set of data here for everyone to listen to.

Starting from that time, our British exports to the Qing Dynasty were 500,000 pounds in 1840, which increased six times to 3 million pounds in 1845. In 1870, the highest value of our exports to the Qing Dynasty reached 35 million pounds.

But starting in 1871, our share became smaller.

I observed carefully that it was because the Netherlands moved its capital to the Far East Australian continent, where both light industry and heavy industry blossomed.

German businessmen and the government purchased Dutch goods from the Far East Netherlands in a nearby way, which dropped to 33 million pounds in 1871.

Then it gradually decreased. When the Netherlands surpassed our total economy in 1876, our exports to Germany only had 15 million pounds left. By 1881 last year, there were still 3 million pounds left.

Surprisingly, in just 10 years, the amount dropped from 35 million pounds to 3 million pounds, returning to the amount it was 35 years ago, and even the decrease has not yet reached the bottom. "

Queen Victoria also looked very ugly.

She naturally knew the importance of trade with the Qing, but the rise of the Netherlands cost her a lot of energy. Originally, she had many plans to deal with the Qing and squeeze the other party, but the rise of the Netherlands was so fast that she couldn't distract herself.

Even last time because of the colonial war launched in Myanmar, the relationship with the Qing Dynasty became even worse, and the latter became more wary of the British.

Not to mention, in order to deal with the Netherlands, Britain had no choice but to form an alliance with Japan, a rising country in the Pacific, which made the Qing Dynasty even further away from Britain.

At present, almost 60% of the people in the Qing Dynasty are anti-British, while more than 70% are friendly to the Netherlands.

It has to be said that the Netherlands is much better than the UK in terms of public relations.

Cecil: "In the 1940s our exports increased by 567 million yards of cotton, 22 million of which were in Europe and 72 million in the United States.

Asia and South America accounted for 362 million yards. This is why we in the UK began to prosper after the first economic crisis. "

"Also, our British capital has been a huge boost in the past, but now we are too poor in this regard. Not to mention the Netherlands, it is worse than the German Empire or the United States."

“The Netherlands did engage in foreign capital speculation as a means of deepening prosperity, and it worked.

That is the payment for goods to the United States, Germany and the entire European continent, not to mention South America. Even Germany received nearly 50 million guilders in the Dutch loan wave, which is 5 million pounds when converted into pounds.

The money was said to be used to purchase Dutch weapons and ships. In short, these payments enabled these countries to have the financial ability to purchase Dutch railways, locomotives, ships, and military weapons.

Your Majesty, I feel that our financial capital has been too settled in recent years, and that the British branch of the Rothschild family has invested too little in our British mainland."

The expressions of the people present changed drastically. The leader of the new Tory Party seemed to be well prepared?

The target is not just Gladstone and the Whig party behind him, but he also targets the Rothschild family?