This is the first time Isabella II has encountered someone who analyzed national affairs for him like this. No one has ever described complex political, military, colonial and other matters so easily... so easy to understand!

Of course, she received a very good education and received a top-level palace education, but one of the big drawbacks of this kind of education is that it is too high-level and not down-to-earth enough.

From ancient times to the present, the education of emperors and generals has been very separated from the masses. They always stand on human society when analyzing problems, put themselves into God's appointed rulers and look down on the world.

They never care about the joys, angers, sorrows, and pursuit of interests, but the operation of all things in the world is still driven by these ants. This is a contradiction.

The palace education is too gorgeous and lacks contact with the people. The slanderous ministers have to whitewash the peace intentionally or unintentionally, so the queen will not hear the truth.

Xiao Letian once said a very rebellious sentence to Emperor Tongzhi, "In fact, 90% of the foolish monarchs in history are deliberately created by civil and military officials!"

"Why do you say that? That's because a real British master is not easy to cheat and is very difficult to serve. Not only does he have no benefits, but he is even in danger of his life!"

"It is a matter of cultivating a foolish monarch who looks like a nerdy person. A foolish monarch will definitely bring about a collective carnival of the bureaucracy of the entire country!"

"The monarch is easy to cheat and fool, so the people below can do whatever they want. Whether you are forming cliques for personal gain or corrupt, or even powerful officials conspiring to collude and prepare for a yellow robe, it is easy!"

"There are so many benefits, so who is willing to give the emperor real things and useful information?"

"Why not eat meat minced meat. This is a ridiculous saying in China that has been passed down for thousands of years. But in Europe, there are also queens who once said the same thing. When someone reported that the people could not even afford the dirtiest black bread, the queen said why didn't they eat cream cakes?"

"Are the monarchs who say such words really fools with negative IQ? In fact, it's not all. Many of them are not really having brain problems, but they really don't know what the people look like!"

"The ministers have compiled a beautiful dream for them to play and enjoy wealth...or it can be said..."

"Or it can be said that these monarchs are just fat pigs raised by the bureaucratic class. On the surface, everyone is afraid of you when the country is eaten by worms, when the revolution occurs, these fat pigs will be launched to take the blame!"

"Isn't it a bit absurd? The entire bureaucratic class who plundered an empire was a hundred times the wealth they plundered was a hundred times the royal family, but in the real revolution, the king and queen were beheading!"

Xiao Letian said that this theory is common in both the East and the West, and only one-tenth of the wise monarch can see through this scam and become the hero!

It is obvious that Isabella II is not one of the tenth ones. She was too young when she ascended the throne, and her power was controlled by powerful officials. Those people were obviously unwilling to cultivate a smart monarch who knew the truth of the world.

So Isabella II didn't know how to govern the country at all, and she had never even heard of the data analysis that Xiang Ying mentioned.

In Xiang Ying's explanation of breaking apart, a vivid Philippines appeared before the queen. She had never been to the Philippines. All his impressions of the colony came from blurry travel photos and distorted copper prints created by crappy landscape painters.

Today, the real presentation of the Philippines gave the Queen a sudden feeling, and she suddenly understood a lot of the truth that was blurred by window paper before.

The truth is extremely cruel. It turns out that the colony I governed was like this. According to an example of a company, this is a company that is insolvent and about to go bankrupt.

In this era, the Europeans ruled the colonies very barbaric, backward and cruel. Except for the British who were interested in making a slight limited investment in the colonies, the remaining Europeans basically dominated the colonies with plunder.

Especially early colonists such as Spain, Portugal, and the Netherlands made money by human trafficking and resource plundering as their main economic means.

Since the Spanish occupied the Philippines, they have focused on resources that can be directly exchanged for wealth, such as gold and silver, minerals, spices, rubber, gems...especially non-renewable resources.

They snatched these resources and then transported them to Europe for trafficking, while collecting taxes on all ships and people of the colonies.

This primitive method of rule was still very effective at the beginning, but as time passed, three hundred years passed, no matter how rich the colony was, it could not withstand such plunder.

The Philippines' mines are exhausted, and gold and silver production is getting worse every year!

Oceanwide has also reduced commercial taxes because it can replace them with better markets, and the Chinese have already appeared!

All non-renewable resources and traders' tax revenues have dropped sharply, which used to account for 51% of the entire colonial government's revenue, but now it has dropped sharply to 37%.

What's even more serious is that the administrative expenditure of the colonial government is increasing, the institutions are becoming more and more bloated, and there are too many people eating idle food. Madrid's powerful officials have to squeeze into the colonial family almost every year.

The economy gets worse and worse, social security will become worse and worse. This is inevitable!

If the public security is corrupt, the number of police and military forces will be increased, and this is another big expense!

This is how the financial crisis came. It cost money like flowing water, but there were fewer and fewer ways to make money. In the end, the Spanish regular army was unable to afford to install a rifle after the colony.

Xiang Ying sighed and took a small sip of red wine. "Dear Queen, do you understand the seriousness of the problem now? I tell you a real Philippines, just to let you know that what we are talking about is not lying to you, but what is really happening!"

"The island you ruled is so poor now that it is really poor. The financial crisis has reached the verge of bankruptcy!"

Just when the queen was shocked, Susan, the female attendant, asked back, "What you said may be true, but under three hundred years of rule, the population of the Philippines has grown countless times!"

"How much has the civil tax increased? What about those renewable resources? Rubber fields, spice farms, grain industries... can't these fill the gap?"

"Haha, Mr. Xiang, your eloquence is really good, but the wise queen is not that easy to cheat!"

Hahaha... Xiang Ying laughed heartily, "Yes, I'm about to talk about this most important issue!"
Chapter completed!