Gladstone could already feel that victory was right in front of him. In fact, politicians of their level knew very well that the outcome of the war was often decided before the war began.

War is just a process of releasing contradictions. As long as you sort out all key nodes before the war begins, victory will come naturally.

After all, Britain is still a group of businessmen above and below. Profit is their essence. Merchants are greedy and good at calculating. They will tie everything in the world to interests, even if it is a war.

In the First Opium War, the British Parliament actually passed the war resolution with a very weak advantage, and that very weak advantage was obtained by the Queen's influence.

To put it bluntly, they still love to make money, and the first thing they need to do to make money is to avoid risks. War is always full of uncertainty. Except for arms dealers who have to make money by war, merchants in other industries still prefer to make money peacefully.

As for the people, they naturally oppose war. They like the illusory sense of glory brought by victory in the war. At the same time, they also hate their children who throw their lives in distant foreign countries. They know very well that when a real war breaks out, the children of civilian families will die, and some children of nobles and large capitalists can save their lives.

This is an idea, and this idea is a power. The Liberal Party has been able to develop to this day, and Gladstone actually borrows this power.

Replace radical colonialism with moderate mercantilism and let Britain's national policy be as much as possible in internal affairs. According to the Chinese, it is to practice internal skills first. Only when internal skills are strong can there be a more brilliant external colonization in the future.

So Gladstone's success is actually two points. He has to promise a lot of infrastructure construction to the lower class people, comprehensively popularize compulsory education, and even give the colonies more autonomy in exchange for peace and stability for a period of time. This is to develop internal affairs and cultivate internal strength.

The second point is another way of saying that those elites are. Gladstone is not against colonialism. On the contrary, everything he is doing now is actually for better colonial expansion.

In that eavesdropping hotel, Xiao Letian had actually clarified the key to the problem, especially the close relationship between science and technology and compulsory education. He even foreseeed that Britain would slide from the throne of the most powerful technology country in the future.

Why? Because Prussia has been conducting compulsory education for decades now, and the number of educated population base is extremely large. According to the same proportion of elite productivity, the total number of high-tech talents in Prussia will be no less than that of Britain in the next forty or fifty years, or even surpass it.

Another exception is that it is America. Although America does not implement mandatory compulsory education for all at this moment, it is almost about to begin.

Moreover, American isolationism has created a very stable political situation in the country, and has great inclusiveness for immigration and can allow this country to absorb many national elites that are excluded from Europe.

Coupled with the advantages of America's own population base, the rise of technology like Prussia in the future is absolutely predictable.

On the contrary, if these top floors continue to be so short-term, those upgraded factories will not even recruit qualified operators. Let’s take a look at the development of mechanical processing equipment in the past few decades. What the latest machine tools require are highly educated workers to operate.

At this moment, a dilemma occurred in the UK. The uneducated people were unemployed in large quantities and could only engage in the simplest and lowest-end hard work.

However, those high-paying positions cannot recruit all of them. The salary of senior blue-collar technicians has continued to rise many times, but the vacancies are still very large.

How to resolve this social contradiction? Does it rely on war? After all, it depends on Gladstone's method.

With the support of many forces, especially with the help of Xiao Letian, the confident Gladstone has successfully settled the top elites in the Empire of Sun Bang.

A secret meeting at the Berkeley Restaurant has left the political and business tycoons speechless. Under the mediation of the royal family, the top leaders of the Empire's Pyramid have actually reached a secret consensus. At this moment, the middle-level politicians are actually the ones who are stubborn.

Although Benjamin didn't know what Gladstone did, the political animals had an extremely keen sense of smell, and they could smell the danger, which was the most critical reason why he responded to the right today.

Such an old politician actually failed to control his emotions during the debate and actually knocked down a bunch of people in one fell swoop? Isn’t this hysteria?

Gladstone focused his firepower on Benjamin from beginning to end, but Benjamin called all the politicians who supported Gladstone, including neutral and swinging politicians, as idiots.

The expressions of countless people became weird, and many people said in anger, "What? I have my ability to judge. If we don't accept your judgment, we have a brain problem?"

"What Gladstone said is right. No matter how ambitious Xiao Letian was, he didn't come for the British Empire. My merchant ships can get four or five precious ships of goods from the Chinese every year. Is it obvious that I can make money by working with them?"

Some members of the parliament looked at the Duke of Newcastle and said, "I have invested money in you for a long time. Don't mess up the business of high-end Chinese restaurants... Oh, when I think of the Chinese food I ate that day, why can't I stop drinking!"

Too many people have selfish thoughts. No matter how noble the businessman is, the things in his bones cannot be changed!

Of course, there are also some politicians who abandon their own interests and are truly considering the future of the empire. These political elites with noble morality have to admit that Gladstone's remarks are very reasonable.

Moreover, these elites can obtain some information conveyed from the top level from many channels, especially some remarks that are said to be related to Xiao Letian.

Those deafening arguments made them sleepless all night, and cigars were smoked endlessly, but in the end they all came to the same conclusion.

This eldest empire really needs to adjust its national policy. Even if the general direction of colonialism will never change, in the next ten years, we will have to look back and manage our internal affairs well.

To put it bluntly, I have really owe a lot of debts in domestic internal affairs over the years. Since I owe the debts, I always have to pay them back!

Of course, these politicians do not want too much earthquake in the domestic political arena, and they are not even emotionally willing to let Chinese people come to see jokes.

So they hope to see Benjamin realize his mistakes, adjust his national policy independently, and try to reconcile with Gladstone to jointly govern.

This debate was actually the last chance these people gave Benjamin, but now it seems that Benjamin is a stubborn donkey that no one can stop.

He is already moving further and further on the road to failure!

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