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Chapter 113 Internal Contradiction(1/2)

Although the decision-making power is in the hands of the government, when it comes to war, we must listen to the opinions of the military. Tigala did not force it when the military generals firmly opposed it.

The meeting ended only after dawn.

Because no agreement was reached, Tigala announced that it would reconvene a high-level meeting in two days to continue discussing the issue of sending troops to the war.

After seeing off the officials and generals attending the meeting, Tigala did not go to rest, but made more than a dozen calls in succession.

To this point, it is impossible to reach an agreement within the government and the military, so you can only place your hopes on the parliament.

Actually, Tigala knew what the problem was.

If you want to say it, the foundation of Fanluo Kingdom is not bad.

Although the land area is not as high as that of the super hegemony of the Liangxia Empire, the Vanluo Kingdom has extremely ideal solar and thermal conditions and is extremely fertile. Even natural resources are not completely lacking, and some mining resources are still at the forefront and are not considered barren.

The key is to have the second largest population in the world.

Unfortunately, after independence and founding the country, even after two large-scale war baptisms, the Vanluo Kingdom was still unable to develop.

During this period, two prime ministers were also "sacrificed" by Tigala's father, former Prime Minister Niru Gambala.

If you want to say, it was only after his father was assassinated that Tigala entered politics.

From beginning to end, his purpose was to fulfill his ideal that his father had not been able to achieve.

Integrate the Kingdom of Vanluo into a truly modern country.

In fact, this is the problem with the Kingdom of Fanluo.

Although it has more than 700 million people and more than 3 million square kilometers of land, in history, the southern subcontinent where the Fanluo Kingdom is located has never been unified under a single regime.

For thousands of years, the entire Southern subcontinent has been composed of numerous national states, and each national state is an independent kingdom.

Even during several powerful imperial dynasties, such as the Mauryan dynasty more than 2,000 years ago, and the Timur Empire established by the cripple, did not achieve comprehensive unification, let alone the real centralization, the country under its rule is still an independent kingdom that does its own way of doing its own things.

Not to mention anything else, for thousands of years, the southern subcontinent has not even unified language and writing.

Almost all Tumen have their own languages, and some Tumen with strong and large populations also have their own writings.

Ironically, after being colonized by the Kingdom of Bran, various states accepted the rule of the Bran Colonial Government under the threat of guns and cannons, and regarded Bran as the official language, which unified the language and text for the first time. To be precise, it was an official language common throughout the country.

At this point, the Kingdom of Fanluo became a country in modern significance.

From this perspective, the Vanluo Kingdom inherited the mantle of the colonial regime of the Kingdom of Bran.

In fact, this is also the "destiny" of the Fanluo Kingdom, or it is regarded as the "destiny" by politicians like Gambala.

After independence, the top leaders of the Vanluo Kingdom have always regarded unifying the southern subcontinent and establishing a highly centralized central government as their number one mission.

The most representative of this is the Gambala family.

When we arrived in Tigala Gambala, the Gambala family had 4 prime ministers, more than 20 ministers, and nearly 100 members of the parliament!

In addition, for decades after the founding of the Vanluo Kingdom, the party commanded by the Gambala family was ruled, and for less than 10 years, the politicians from non-Gamala family served as prime ministers. For more than 30 years, the people who issued orders in the Prime Minister's Office were called Gambala.

In outsiders' words, the Prime Minister's Office has become the back garden of the Gambala family.

Tigala grew up in the Prime Minister's Office.

His father Nilu is a former prime minister, and his grandfather and uncle are also prime ministers. He has been in power for 20 years in a row!

What to say is also the problem.

In the southern subcontinent, in addition to the country that has been maintained for thousands of years, there is also a social system that complements it.

For example, Tigala was born in the Gambala family, so after birth, he not only received education, but also went to the Bran Kingdom to study, but also successfully entered politics after adulthood. With the support of the family, he became the Prime Minister of the Vanluo Kingdom without any suspense.

Of course, Tigala has been to more than the Kingdom of Bran.

During his study abroad, the Bran Kingdom had a very close relationship with the Liangxia Empire, and the first national independence movement had passed, so he went to the Liangxia Empire for two years as an exchange student, and had a very deep understanding of this neighboring country that was so powerful that he could only look up to.

The key is that in the past two years of the Liangxia Empire, he majored in history!

That is, by studying the history of the Liangxia Empire, Tigala gained a deeper understanding.

It is also very simple. The Liangxia Empire had a very glorious history, but before the founding of the Shiwu Emperor, the modern history of the Liangxia Empire was also full of humiliation.

However, in the hands of Emperor Shiwu, the Liangxia Empire not only washed away the shame, but also developed into the world's most powerful country.

The key is that not only Emperor Shiwu is powerful enough, but also Chen Bingxun, who is invincible, nor is he who has made outstanding contributions to the eight major pillars.

There is actually only one thing that makes the Liangxia Empire dominate the world.

During the decades when Emperor Shiwu was commanding, the Liangxia Empire experienced a drastic change like a revolution. Not only did it win a great victory in foreign wars, but it also abolished the old order that had existed for thousands of years through internal reforms, laying the foundation for the new world through almost revolutionary reforms.

To put it more directly, it is to reshape the entire country through revolution.

This is not a simple reform, but a sacrifice, a bloodshed, a destined to die, and a lot of revolutions of the traditional powerful class!

In other words, in the past few decades, not only has the foundation of industrialization been laid, but a new class of powerful people, that is, the current industrial capitalists, have also been born.

Of course, the price must be very tragic.

In just a few decades, many large families that have existed for hundreds or even thousands of years have been destroyed in the wave of revolution.

According to folk legend, during the reign of Emperor Shiwu, the number of people who died directly or indirectly in wars and turmoil in the Liangxia Empire exceeded 15 million!

At that time, the population of the Liangxia Empire was less than 400 million.

In all future wars, the total number of officers and soldiers of the Liangxia Empire was less than 10 million.

From this we can see how tragic internal changes the Liangxia Empire had experienced in order to embark on the road of industrialization.

In comparison, what Fanluo Kingdom lacks is this tragic internal change!

Because the Kingdom of Fanluo did not experience such tragic internal changes, after the founding of the country, it was not able to eliminate the old powerful people who relied on land to survive.

On the road to industrialization, you will inevitably encounter a lot of resistance.

Those powerful and powerful people who control the land have been able to gain rich harvests through the land and live a happy life far exceeding the civilians. There is no problem of improving the quality of life through changes. So what reason is there to give up the vested interests in your hands?

Looking around the world, all industrial powers actually completed the industrialization process through reform and liberating workers tied to the land.

There is no exception to the "sheep eater" land encirclement movement in Bran's demise, the Civil War in Newland, the centralization of the Liangxia Empire, etc.!

The key is that these changes all happen before the process of industrialization begins, preferably after the founding of the country.

Unfortunately, the country of Fanluo has missed the best opportunity.

In fact, this "time" has never come. Don't forget that the Fanluo Kingdom has not unified the southern subcontinent so there is no talk of land reform.

It was after seeing through this that Tigala returned to the Kingdom of Varo and joined the government led by his father.

Unfortunately, a few months later, Neru was shot at a campaign rally, and the murderer was a landlord from Madhya Pradesh.

As for the motivation, Tigala knew very well.

Under his persuasion, Neru agreed to start implementing the "new policy" after the election, and its core content was to implement land reform nationwide.

According to Tigala's idea, it is to deprive the powerful and powerful class of control over the land through reform, thereby liberating the population from the land.

This is actually imitating the Liangxia Empire.

The difference is that Tigala chose a more moderate legislative reform, not a radical revolution.

The assassination of Neru proved that through moderate reforms, it was impossible to fundamentally solve the stubborn disease that had existed in the Southern Subcontinent for thousands of years.

If you want to say it, this is the foundation of the ruling class. It would be strange if others don’t fight for their own efforts!

But things are far from that simple.

After investigation, it was not because of the luck that the assassin was able to approach Neru, but because the captain of the guard in charge of the Prime Minister's security at the time deliberately put the assassin in.

Since then, hundreds of guard officers and soldiers, including the guard captain, were implicated.

The relevant investigation work was not promoted and it was left alone in the end.

It’s not that there are no clues, but that there is no way to investigate, because if you follow up again, a military coup will probably occur.

To be honest, the captain of the guard, the implicated guard officers and soldiers, and even the assassins who committed the murder are actually tools of the real murderer.

Obviously, it is not only the big landlords who want to get rid of Nelu, or the assassination of Nelu is just the easiest way to maintain the dominance of the powerful class.

In fact, it is also the least expensive method.

The key is that all the generals, all the senior officers, and most of the grassroots officers come from the powerful class.

Neru wants to reclaim the land that has been controlled by the powerful for thousands of years through reform. Will they agree?

From the perspective of time, if the assassin fails, a military coup will inevitably break out in a few months, and then it will not be the only one who is unlucky at that time.

Judging from the situation at that time, if Neru insisted on promoting land reform alone, the entire Gambala family might have been uprooted.

It was this point that made Tigala depressed for several years and even planned to leave the Kingdom of Fanluo for a time.

What made him change his mind was not a sense of mission, but the life and death of his family.

During his two years of depression, the Gambala family was not only excluded in the political circle, but also threatened its core interests, which was also the land!

In just two years, the land mastered by the Gambala family has shrunk by one third.

According to this trend, the Gambala family will disappear in less than ten years.

In addition, in the past two years, Tigala's sister and several other relatives either died of sudden disasters or disappeared suddenly.
To be continued...
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