The lord hunted down by the game

Chapter 125

If you want to say which country in the parallel world where Yuri lives has the most developed military industry, it is undoubtedly the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland, also known as the British Empire!
And none of them is a well-deserved leader in the military industry.

For no other reason, the British Parliament of the world may have been biased by the free trade brought about by the industrial revolution.

The British Empire is the only country in the world today where businessmen and capitalists can participate in and even decide on politics.

Of course, this is not to say that today’s British Empire is controlled by capitalists. It is a capitalist colonial empire with the advanced nature of the times. In name, the king... oh no, the British prefer to call it the emperor (the emperor of India) is still Master of the British Empire.

However, after several generations of hard work, the power of the British Parliament is now no less than that of the British royal family, and it is no exaggeration to stand against each other.

The most important thing is that the British royal family has become less conservative since I don’t know when, maybe they have seen through that they can’t fight against the British social elites in the parliament, so they simply joined the British nobles who opened their eyes to the world Into it, and the British royal family soon became the leader of the chamber of commerce!

In the British Empire, more than [-]% of the large chambers of commerce have shares of the British royal family, and nearly half of the large chambers of commerce are fully controlled by the British royal family!
As the first country to step into the industrial revolution, the British Empire naturally has a growing appetite for the market under the strong productivity of the industrial age.

How big is the British Isles, how many resources, how many people?
Therefore, the colonies and the Europa continent have become sharp money-making tools in the eyes of the British.

To put it bluntly, the purpose of Britain launching wars all over the world is nothing more than to establish a world-wide business circle dominated by the British Empire.

After all, trade protectionism is prevalent in this world, and the European powers have watched the rise of Britain. No matter how stupid the royal family is, they know that they must develop their own country's trade economy to catch up with the British.

Naturally, both the European dignitaries and capitalists opposed British products occupying the Europa continent.

After all, the British factories have completed the steam reform, and the European powers can't use the market rules to eliminate British products in terms of product cost and quality anyway, even with the consumption of freight!
As a result, the most prevalent trade protectionism of this era has continuously raised tariffs to keep British goods out.

The British government also knew that it had committed public anger. At first, it just plundered the colonies. After all, the colonies can provide a lot of cheap labor and raw materials. The Indian subcontinent has become a bright pearl on the head of the British royal family.

Even if the advanced Mughal dynasty has not been destroyed, the British royal family can't wait to declare themselves the emperor of India!
However, other countries on the European continent still call the United Kingdom the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland rather than the British Empire.

However, as time went by, British businessmen soon discovered a cruel fact.

Although colonies can provide cheap labor and raw materials, they have little productivity.

The British's rule over the colonies is oppressive. Even the colonies composed of immigrants from the same origin in the thirteen states of North America have to bear high taxes. What are the colonial civilians who are mostly aborigines exploited by the British? The appearance can be imagined...

It can be said that when the British drove the aborigines in the colonies to work, most of them would not pay wages. tool.

Therefore, after the arrival of the British, the colonies undoubtedly became poorer. Perhaps a few of them benefited a lot from being the "compradors" and younger brothers of the British, but these people were a minority after all. How much British goods could they consume?
As a result, the British had to turn their last eyes to the continent of Europe.

There is no East Asian continent in this world, and naturally there will be no rich and backward dumping grounds for industrial products. Therefore, if the British want to maintain the rapid development of the industrial age, they must find land with large purchasing power.

Compared with other parts of the world, Europa is undoubtedly the richest place, because they all entered the industrial revolution following the footsteps of Britain.

Although the wages of workers in this era are weak, they still have income anyway, which is much better than that of farmers.

And compared to the feudal society where the middle class was rare, there is no doubt that more middle classes can be born in the social environment of European countries.

These are all potential consumers!

It's a pity that the British can see this, and so can other European countries, and they have all witnessed the rise of the UK, so they naturally understand the importance of the Industrial Revolution!
Naturally, they still uphold tariff protectionism and firmly keep the British out.

The industrial strength of the European countries cannot be compared with that of the United Kingdom, but the resources and population of the big European countries far exceed those of the British Isles. Therefore, this period has not yet reached the point of overcapacity. rapid development.

After all, the path taken by the European countries is the same path that the British have taken.

It's just that the British are not willing to watch their neighbors slowly surpass themselves, but they have to slow down their development speed due to overcapacity!

The monarchy of the British government is weak, and only interests come first.

Those capitalists and businessmen may not care about national development issues, but they know that they are watching a huge consumer market next to them, but they are firmly blocked by tariff barriers!
Excessive productivity made the rich in Britain start to look for a breakthrough, and soon colluded with the British aristocrats who were eager for military merit and warlike.

Then, coupled with the willingness of the British royal family to expand abroad without much power but relatively rich and ambitious, the war between Britain and Europe broke out.

After the British launched the war, the problem of excess productivity was perfectly solved immediately. The materials consumed by a large number of soldiers and troops naturally rose sharply, and the arms industry doubled the British gdp.

In this way, the British capitalists and businessmen are naturally happy!

On the battlefield, the British army was at least trained in the colonial era, and they were able to gain the upper hand. All the territories they conquered became zero-tariff areas, and the British capitalists and businessmen had double happiness...

The victory on the battlefield gave birth to a large number of military nobles, so the British aristocracy was also happy, and the voice of anti-war was completely suppressed.

As for the British royal family, it has greatly improved its own prestige with the help of this war!
Defeating European neighbors to expand their territories and bullying the natives of the colonies is not a concept at all.

(End of this chapter)