Chapter 250 Reform of the Political Contribution System

Carlo just was happy that the gold rush brought more population to the Congolese territory. In a blink of an eye, Spain was facing a problem that made Carlo frown.

The problem arises from the French capital that pours into Spain, not all capital is willing to engage in activities within the scope prescribed by Spain.

The greed of capital is well known. Marx's theory of capital also mentions the greed and sin of capital: when facing 10% of profit, capitalists will be ready to move; when facing 20% ​​of profit, capitalists will become active; when facing 50% of profit When the profit is 100% profit, the capitalist will trample on the law; when the profit is 300% profit, the capitalist will even dare to commit any crime.

French capital in Spain has not yet reached the point of committing any crime, but they have indeed become active and want to gain more privileges and preferential treatment in Spain.

In order to expand their voice, some French capital began to invest in Spanish political parties, trying to use political parties to change the current situation of capital being unpopular in Spain.

Although French capital's actions cannot change the political situation in Spain for the time being, this is indeed something Carlo does not want to see.

Political activities require a lot of money, which is why most political parties cannot develop in Spain. The Spanish government does not have too strict requirements on the establishment of a political party. It only needs to have at least one seat for the parliamentary houses in each district to apply to the Senate to establish a political party.

Due to the lack of funds, most political parties are destined to be unable to develop even if they can be established.

Only political parties that truly gain public support can obtain political donations from the public and thus have the capital to engage in political activities.

Because Spain's domestic capital was not strong before, the parties that received more political donations were basically supported by the people. To put it bluntly, it was political cash accumulated by the amount.

But with the intervention of French capital, some political parties that are not supported by the public also have the opportunity to obtain more political cash and thus engage in more political activities.

Among the many parties in Spain, French capital first contacted the Liberal Party, which is also the party Carlo is most defensive among the existing parties in Spain.

The Liberal Party has a record of supporting the republic, and France is another republican country, which has to make people doubt and be prepared.

Carlo does not want French capital to interfere too much in the affairs of the Spanish government, so the best way to change the current system and relevant regulations for Spanish political parties to obtain political donations.

At present, Spain has no restrictions on the system of political donations. As long as someone donates political donations to a certain political party, the party can obtain a total amount of funds and use them in political activities.

If this system continues to be followed, French capital can easily cultivate a huge political party, posing a threat to Spain's current ruling Conservative Party.

The current slogan of the Liberal Party is to pursue democracy and freedom. If French capital intervenes, will it become a pursuit of democratic republic?

Carlo does not believe in capital integrity. If Spain becomes a republic, French capital will definitely do so.

Therefore, Carlo must reduce the opportunity for French capital to gain more political influence from the source, and avoid them gaining more political power by controlling a certain party.

The easiest way is to change the system of political donations and let the money donated by French capital enter the pockets of all political parties, rather than a party donated by French capital.

Once you have a plan, the next thing will be easier.

Kano and Prime Minister Kanovas discussed for several days and finally came up with a new political donation system plan.

Originally, the political donations donated by the people to political parties were directly entered into the pockets of the political parties, but according to the new system, the political donations donated by the people to political parties need to be handed over to the party management agencies of the House of Lords, and then the party management agencies will issue them to each party. .

This political donation will be divided into two parts, of which 40% are directly distributed to the donated political parties as funds for political activities. This part has no requirements or prerequisites and can be obtained as long as it is a legal political party.

The remaining 60% will be distributed to all political parties with seats in the proportion of seats in the House of Commons, achieving the goal of all political parties to divide political donations.

The advantage of such a system is obvious, that is, it can ensure that all political parties can drink a sip of soup and not be forced to disband because there is no donation from the public.

The disadvantage is also obvious, that is, a certain party cannot obtain all political donations, and the final proportion depends on the proportion of seats in the House of Commons.

Take the Conservative Party, the largest party in Spain, as an example. If someone donates 100 pesetas to the Conservative Party as a political donation, the Conservative Party can directly get 40 pesetas, and with the seats in the House of Commons they have won, they will get the remaining 60 pesetas. 49% of the seta, or 29.4 peseta.

According to the previous system, the Conservatives could obtain all 100 pesetta funds. But under the new system, the Conservative Party can only obtain 69.4 pesetas of funds, and the remaining 30.6 pesetas will be divided by other political parties in proportion.

This also means that for every donation the Conservative Party receives, 30.6% of it will be divided up by other political parties. Although it seems to be a loss, it also needs to consider the situation where other political parties receive political donations.

The Conservatives can also receive a 29.4% share of funds donated by the people to other political parties. If other parties receive less political donations than the Conservatives, the Conservatives will lose some of the funds.

But if other parties receive more political donations than the Conservatives receive, the Conservatives will receive more funds.

In this case, if French capital still wants to fund the Liberal Party, they must invest more money.

Among the funds donated by French capital to the Liberal Party, the Liberal Party can only obtain 45.4% of them, and the remaining 54.6% will be divided up by other political parties. The Liberal Party will not gain any advantage in terms of funds.

After careful discussion and confirming that such a system was not very problematic, Carlo decided to implement the new system immediately to avoid French capital from overinvesting the Liberal Party before that.

With Carlo's order, the Spanish parliament was also efficient and soon passed this new proposal on the political donation system.

After the new political donation system was passed, French capital was stunned.

They had intended to gain more political power and influence by supporting the Liberal Party, but at this time they had to give up on such a thought.

According to Spain's new political donation system, they have to pay at least twice the price than before, and the results they have achieved may not be effective.

After all, these funds are shared by major parties. The Liberal Party that is truly invested can only get 45.4%, while the Conservative Party that does nothing can get 29.4%.

The new system is hopeless for French capital, but for some small parties with low approval ratings, it is indeed hope and dawn to keep them going.

Although Spain's per capita income has increased a lot compared to ten years ago, because there are still a large number of farmers in China, most people can only barely eat and wear and wear.

Under such circumstances, the political donations from various parties cannot be too much, even the Conservatives and Progressives.

As for those small parties that only have one or two seats, let alone, they receive only a handful of political donations every year, and if they want to engage in political activities, they can only rely on the donations of party members.

Under the new system, these parties can also receive some political donations. Although not much, it is definitely much better than before when there is no income.

It is precisely because of this that these small parties are quite welcome to the new political donation system. They will basically not lose much, but will get more financial income.

And for the three existing major parties in Spain, their losses are huge. In particular, the Conservative Party, as the largest party in Spain, is also the party that receives the most political donations.

Because the Conservative Party has many noble members, the Conservative Party’s political contribution amount is relatively large and the losses will be greater under the new system.

The Conservative Party is a party that is completely loyal to Carlo and will not express clear opposition to orders that are harmful to their own interests.

But it is precisely because it is completely loyal to its own party that it still needs to compensate the Conservative Party. Carlo's compensation is very simple, which is to donate 500,000 pesetta political donations to the Conservative Party every year in the name of a fast food company under the royal family.

The Conservative Party was able to obtain 347,000 pesetta's political donation. This fund is enough to make up for the losses caused by the Conservative Party due to the new system, and can also use the new system to allow more political parties to obtain funds for activities.

The reason why we donate in the name of a fast food company rather than in Carlo’s personal name is mainly because, as the king of Spain, Carlo cannot support a certain political party too obviously.

For Carlo, it is actually the same whether it is the Conservative Party, the Progressive Party, or the Liberal Party that is guarding.

These parties are political forces that Carlo can use when they are not clear against the monarchy. If you only support one of these parties, it means that Carlo is away from the remaining parties.

This is not wise, and Carlo is even more unlikely to let a certain party in Spain dominate.

A truly reasonable political situation should be the competition and cooperation between several parties and jointly for Carlo.

Only by doing so can Carlo be above several major parties, and he can easily use the competitive relationship between several parties to ensure that these parties are loyal to themselves.

In such a situation, once a party begins to oppose the monarchy, Carlo does not even need to take action, and other parties will unite to oppose the party for their own interests.

If Carlo clearly supports a certain party, the remaining parties may unite to oppose the parties that Carlo supports, or even oppose Carlo.

After the new system was promulgated and implemented, the problems existing in Spain were solved.

Without the support of French capital, the Liberal Party will not be able to pose a threat to the Progressive Party and the Conservative Party.

Carlo was also able to pay close attention to the population growth of the Congolese territory and the changes brought to the Congolese territory by the gold rush.

During this period, the war between Britain and Afghanistan officially ended, and the two countries signed the Gundamac Treaty, and Britain officially gained diplomatic control in Afghanistan and stationed troops in the Afghan area.

However, the British were not happy for long. Instead, the treaty aroused the Afghans' anti-British sentiment and evolved into a lasting uprising war.

The UK's deep quagmire in Afghanistan is actually good news for Spain, because Spain has enough time to develop the Congolese territory and does not have to worry about British intervention.

Later generations had the meme that oil breeds the US military, but in fact, there were also the meme that gold breeds the British military in this era.

The British Empire had the vastest colonies in the world, which were not obtained from peace, but were colonial wars and wars of aggression again and again.

The gold rush in the Congolese territory has been formed. If the British were not stumbled by Afghanistan, they might find ways to cause some trouble for Spain, or send colonial teams to establish their own colonial strongholds in the Congo River Basin.

Now, the British were tripped and Spain had enough time to complete their plans.

In fact, the British have a lot of trouble. As early as January, a war broke out between Britain and Zulu, an indigenous country in South Africa.

The 13,000 British colonial army led by Lord Chelmsford crossed the Tugra River and launched a large-scale attack on the Zulu Kingdom.

The arrogant British underestimated this indigenous country and eventually paid a heavy price. The Zulu took advantage of the night to surround the British army and launched a night attack.

In the surprised eyes of British soldiers, the Zulu people rushed into the British army's camp under the fierce British artillery bombing and had a fierce hand-to-hand battle with the British army.

More than 3,000 soldiers were killed or injured in Zulu, but they also caused more than 1,600 casualties to the British army.

The main reason was that the Zulu soldiers rushed into the British camp, turning the battle between the two armies into hand-to-hand combat. If the Zulu soldiers did not rush into the camp, the British army could easily crush the Zulu army with firepower.

Britain lost more than 1,000 rifles, 500,000 bullets and several cannons in the war, and returned most of the occupied land.

But Zulu did not end the war with this victory, and Britain rejected any negotiation requests made by Zulu and continued to increase troops to South Africa.

As the most powerful country in the world, when the British were determined to invade a country, few countries could defeat the British attack.

Although the Zulus caused heavy casualties to the British army in the war and even killed Louis, the son of Napoleon III, none of this changed the end of the war.

In July 1879, the British army easily defeated the Zulu army with its firepower advantage. Because of the experience in long-term combat with the Zulu people, the British army prepared a large supply of bullets and shells to suppress the Zulu people tightly outside the position.

Because the Zulu were unable to get close to the British position, they naturally could not engage in hand-to-hand combat with the British army.

In the case of long-distance war between the two sides, the Zulu were forced to accept the fierce firepower of Britain, and the outbreak was the ending.

With the Zulu people being suppressed, the British cavalry moved in a mighty manner and easily defeated the Zulu army.

This victory also laid the foundation for Britain's advantage in Zulu, which was divided by Britain into 13 small emirates and was all included in its own ruling sphere.

Of course, the full occupation of Zulu did not mean the end for the British, but rather a new conflict.

The British South African colony was established by the Dutch, and Dutch immigrants established Cape Town, which later developed into a Cape colony.

But with the British invasion, the Cape colony was eventually occupied by Britain. The descendants of local immigrants were called Boers and were forced to flee north under the oppression of British colonists.

The destination of the Boers' escape was the Zulu Kingdom. It not only has an estuary, but also a relatively fertile land, with a large number of indigenous peoples who can serve as slaves.

The British also set their sights on this land and eventually gained control of this land.

But this actually deepened the conflict between the Boers and the British, where there was no buffer zone between the Boers controlled land and the British controlled land.

Compared with indigenous countries with backward technology, the Boers evolved from European immigrants are obviously more advanced and their combat effectiveness is also stronger.

The conflict between the British and the Boers will inevitably make competition in South Africa more intense.

The Boer War in history also proved that the British army could only bully the colonial indigenous peoples, and when facing more advanced troops, it was not as great as expected.

Carlo certainly understood that the Boer War was a major opportunity for Spain, and even had the hope of taking this opportunity to annex Portugal and recover Gibraltar.

But the problem is that there were two Boer Wars in total, and the second one was the real war. The First Boer War was not so much a war as a skirmish between the British and the Boers.

The Second Boer War broke out between the late 19th and early 20th century, and it is almost 20 years away.

This also means that Spain is at least 20 years away from the goal of annexing Portugal and regaining Gibraltar.

Of course, it is still early, which is good news.

Spain can complete its layout in these 20 years. The British won the Second Boer War in history. Although they won the victory, they also paid a very heavy price.

If we can make arrangements in advance, even if the outcome of the war cannot be changed, the British will definitely pay even heavier prices.

The greater the losses the British were, the greater the chances that Spain would have to take the opportunity to annex Portugal and recover Gibraltar. Even if the British were deeply trapped in the quagmire of the Boer War, Spain would have the opportunity to annex Portugal and Morocco and take the opportunity to establish a great empire across Europe and Africa.

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