Daming 1805

Chapter 189 The King of America Is Officially Finalized

The current First Lord of the Admiralty of the United Kingdom is the second Earl Spencer, George Spencer.

He was the grandfather of the father of Charles' first wife, Princess Diana.

Clan brother of Winston Churchill's grandfather's grandfather.

Unlike history, George Spencer did not become Lord of the Admiralty in 1794, but entered William Pitt's cabinet in 1800.

The news that Spencer saw was not only from Libert and Wang Will, but also from naval intelligence personnel from other regions.

However, the overall judgment is similar to that of Li Bote and Wang Weier:
"Obviously there's going to be a full ... at least massive shift to fuel power.

"Your Excellency Nelson's judgment on the Ming Navy is still conservative...

"Is the Royal Navy responsible for the inefficiency of the British court?
"So that the order for the Navy's new experimental warship has not yet passed?

"Thanks for the ongoing bickering between the Cabinet and Congress over America?

"So much so that the question of naval development has been delayed and postponed?
"But...they can't let their endless quarrel go on."

So at the next day's internal cabinet meeting, Spencer spoke before anyone else:
"Before you continue to quarrel over the United States, please approve the Navy's new shipbuilding budget!"

Pete is now in a state of desperation. He frowned and said when he heard the Navy's budget:
"Your Excellency, we can't increase the budget now. We have to use the reduced military expenditure to pay Daming's compensation, otherwise we will have to pay additional taxes."

Earl Spencer said at once:

"That should also be deducted from the amount of indemnity for the construction of at least one newest experimental warship.

"We have to do corresponding research and development of Ming's new naval guns and tactics that we saw in Cape Xiyang.

"Otherwise, our navy will be an era behind by Da Ming.

"We don't have an advantage in terms of size. If there is a significant difference in technology, the result will be to completely give up the command of the sea!"

Pete frowned.

Earl Spencer continued:

"This is the request of the admirals of the navy. The follow-up shipbuilding plan can be ignored. A test ship must be built first."

Pete sighed and said:
"I have no objection to the experimental ship, but now the parliament is not completely under our control, otherwise there would be no such chaotic state."

British partisan politics in this era was not perfect, and even the electoral system was still not very perfect.

For example, Pitt was forcibly appointed by George III, rather than being held by the head of a party with a majority of seats in Parliament as in later generations.

After the peace talks ended, the proportion of Pete's supporters in the Tory Party has dropped significantly, and he no longer has a majority in Parliament.

So there is no way to directly promote the passage of budgets and other matters. In fact, this is not a particularly rare situation.

Now it is necessary to rely on speeches (quarrels) to win the support of centrist MPs.

Spencer said with a wry smile:
"At least we should try to change the subject in parliament instead of arguing about the United States every time we meet."

Pete sighed again:

"Then try it, how much budget do you need?"

Spencer already had plans:
"£250."

Pete was taken aback:
"Why is it so expensive? The previous capital ships cost no more than 200 million!"

Spencer explained:

"In order to develop and verify new technologies, we need more funds. This is not just to build a boat, but to do a lot of experiments."

Pete nodded slowly and said:

"I get it, take it to parliament and try to convince as many MPs as possible.

"But the really effective way is to compromise with Fox and the others..."

Peter's cousin Grenville immediately asked:
"How to compromise? What else can we compromise? Could it be... the abolition of slavery?"

Pete nodded and said:
"Yes, we can support abolition in exchange for Fox, these Whigs, supporting the Act of Union and the new battleship budget."

Grenville did not continue to speak, but Men Roman from the Yinzhou colony said:
"We are selling slaves from India to Africa and the Americas, if we now support the abolition of slavery, how can the New India plan in Africa be implemented?

"The plantations of the American South were highly dependent on slaves, and if the United Kingdom abolished slavery, it would be to the detriment of American interests.

"The situation in the United States will become even worse, your Excellency the Prime Minister must think clearly!"

Pete went on to explain:
"So it has to be a partial abolition of slavery, for example, abolition of slavery in the local area, for example, granting colonial residency rights to Tianzhu people, just like Ming Dynasty.

"America will be a kingdom in the future, most of the laws of the United States will be decided by the American Congress, and the United States can keep slaves.

"Of course I don't want to abolish slavery, but if we want to maintain America, we must compromise with Fox.

"Abolition of slavery should be the option that can impress them more...

"It's useless to simply give in to one's own request, you must make concessions to the other party's request to be considered a compromise."

Monroe slowly understood what Pete meant:
"we can only do this……"

So, in the next few days, the British Parliament started a new round of quarrels.

But it was also the beginning of a tentative and substantive compromise.

The dispute continued for several days, and representatives of different factions also contacted and communicated in private for several days.

In the end, most lawmakers barely formed a weak consensus on recall.

First of all, the British mainland, that is, the archipelago where Great Britain and Northern Ireland are located, and the surrounding subsidiary islands, fully abolished slavery.

No one is allowed to sell any slaves to the British mainland again.

Strictly abide by the League of Nations convention on prohibiting the export of Mexican slaves.

At the same time, the Tianzhu people who were "immigrated" to Southwest Africa can obtain the right of residence under the verified conditions.

Of course, it is the right of abode in the colonies, not the right of abode in the UK.

Then, it was determined to establish the Kingdom of America.

But the King of America is not King George III, nor the current Crown Prince, the Prince of Wales.

It is the only legitimate daughter of the Prince of Wales, Princess Charlotte Augusta, who is only nine years old.

Because of the influence of the Ming Dynasty, the royal families of the Thai and Western countries gained a lot of new rights in the new round of religious liberation.

The ability to allow illegitimate children to obtain inheritance rights is the most important one.

However, although the illegitimate child has obtained the right of inheritance, the order of inheritance is still very low.

The king has no legitimate legitimate children at all, and only illegitimate children have the opportunity to succeed to the throne, and they need to be specifically identified by the monarch.

Charlotte, daughter of the Prince of Wales, is now second in line to the throne.

If King George III dies first, there is no doubt that the Crown Prince, the Prince of Wales, will take the throne and Charlotte will become the Dauphine.

If the Prince of Wales died before his father George III, then Charlotte would succeed him directly after George III died.

According to Daming, Charlotte is now the "granddaughter of the Queen" in England.

Although King George III had nine sons, until the age of 80, there was only one legal grandchild, Charlotte.

The third generation of George III's family is the only one, and Charlotte has no competitive pressure.

However, in history, Charlotte not only did not live her father, she did not even live her grandfather.

Charlotte died in childbirth at the age of 21.

Otherwise, there would be nothing to do with Victoria after that.

The premise of Victoria's appearance is because the emperor's granddaughter Charlotte died.

Then his uncles immediately began to work hard to get married legally, or to make legal children.

Whoever can create legitimate children, whose children may eventually inherit the British throne.

It's just that among Charlotte's six uncles who lived to adulthood, the youngest was 43 years old at this time.

Victoria's father, the fourth prince Edward, is 50 years old and did not expect him to succeed.

His father Edward was 52 years old when Victoria was born.

Victoria was less than three years old when her father Edward died.

The daughter that Edward worked so hard to water, succeeded the eldest sister Charlotte as the granddaughter of the Queen of England.

And inherited the British throne after his grandfather and three uncles died in turn, and became the longest reigning British king before the Communist Party of China.

If Charlotte does not die, Edward sees no hope, Britain can live a few more years, and there will be no Victoria.

Now that Charlotte is only nine years old, the British royal family and members of parliament certainly cannot imagine that Charlotte might die in childbirth.

Letting the queen's granddaughter be the king of the United States now is just to postpone the time to decide whether the United States will merge with Britain.

Just postponing the "decision whether to merge" rather than the time to merge.

Even if Charlotte holds the British throne and the American throne at the same time, the relationship between these two regions can only be regarded as a confederacy in Western Europe.

The monarchs of the two countries are the same person, but the two countries are still independent of each other.

Unless, as in the case of Scotland and Ireland, the Act of Union is specifically implemented to merge the two countries into one country.

Until then, the United States will continue to maintain a relatively independent state.

Apart from having an exclusive little girl king on her head who can establish her own parliament, her actual status has not changed substantially.

This scheme gives people the feeling that two sheets of paper are going to be glued together, but they are put down after the glue is applied.

Prepare to wait more than ten years or even longer before deciding whether to formally put the two sides together.

God knows when the glue will still be useful.

That's certainly not what Pete and Monroe wanted.

However, under the current atmosphere of public opinion, it is impossible to further integrate immediately.

The concern of the United States about joining the United Kingdom is still secondary. The key is that the doubts of the United Kingdom about the integration of the United States have been strengthened.

A large number of MPs reject the proposal of direct integration in any case.

So in the end, we can only "prepare for alliance" in this way, observe the situation for more than ten years or even decades, and then decide whether to further alliance.

Anyway, at that time, it is not my group of people who need to make decisions.

For Charlotte, she was not able to become the Queen of England in history, but now she has become the Queen of America ahead of schedule.

Finally, a new capital ship design and construction budget of £220 million was approved.

At the same time, at the Jinzhou Guard Shipyard of the Liaodong Chief Envoy of the Ming Dynasty.

The first battleship Dreadnought to use all the same large-caliber main guns was launched before the Spring Festival.

Under the focus and urging of the old emperor Zhu Zhongliang, the construction speed of this ship has always been very fast.

The Dreadnought of Daming is larger in tonnage than the British Dreadnought in history, but the overall construction speed is a bit faster.

In history, the Intrepid was launched for six months, and continued to be outfitted on the pier for another six months before starting sea trials.

The Dauntless ship of Daming stayed in the dock for eleven months, and most of the weapons and equipment were installed in place when it was launched.

Only the luxurious hotel-style decoration requested by Zhu Jingyuan has not been completed.

If it weren't for the large tonnage and outrageous decoration requested by Zhu Jingyuan, the ship might have started sea trials by now.

In that way, the construction speed can be one month faster than the historical Dreadnought.

(End of this chapter)