2019 is an eventful year for the UK, first British Prime Minister Theresa May resigned, successor Prime Minister Johnson has not made progress in Brexit, his promised Goal of leaving the EU at the end of October has been empty, Johnson took the Queen of England as a life-saving straw, with the Queen's consent to announce the closure of Parliament, while the opposition Party of British Labour issued a statement in anger calling for the abolition of the British royal system.
But everyone knows that the Labour Party is talking angrily, because the Labor Party put forward such a bill in the 1980s, and as a result, the British parliamentarians did not agree to abolish the British Royal Family, and the recent polls showed that more than 90% of the British people did not agree to abolish the Royal Family, 5% of the British people said it did not matter, and less than 3% of the British people were in favor of abolishing the Royal Family.
We know that the royal family and the emperor are symbols of despotism, including China, many countries have long abolished the emperor system, as the vanguard of bourgeois democracy, why has Britain always retained the royal system?
First, the needs of the people.
Due to cultural reasons, the dictatorial power of emperors and kings in the West is not so concentrated, in ancient times, there were many restrictions on imperial power, the title of royal prince could not be arbitrarily deprived, and the property was sacred and inviolable, and could not be confiscated without a court ruling. Moreover, the king does not interfere in the judicial justice of the country, cannot convict people casually, and as long as the king eats well and drinks, he generally does not come randomly.
And the emperor of China has legislative, judicial and executive power, his will is the law, his words are the royal law, and the royal law is above everything. Life and death are all in the emperor's thoughts, at every turn is Ling Chi raiding the house, exterminating the Nine Tribes, killing the wrong people is also killing in vain, happy to give you a rehabilitation Zhaoxue, unhappy to know that you have grievances will also be wrong. Take the rulers of the Qing Dynasty, the last feudal dynasty in China, in the early stage, the blood debts were heavy, the late period was full of bad deeds, the people hated it to the bone, it did not have a little sacred meaning in the hearts of the people, and the people would not worship it like the Japanese to the emperor and the British to the queen.
Therefore, although the emperors of China and Britain are hated, the autocratic system is different, the degree of hatred is not the same, Chinese regard the emperor as the head of all evils, and when it comes to revolution, it is inseparable and exterminated. And what the British usually do has nothing to do with the emperor, the imperial power can not control their private life, the wind can enter the rain can enter the emperor and do not let in, it does not matter who loves who is the emperor.
Moreover, for thousands of years, the people have become accustomed to the existence of the royal family, which is the symbol of the state, the shadow of the nation, and a kind of spiritual sustenance of the people. Without the royal family, there will be no support, it will be very empty, and when you wake up in the morning without the royal family, you will be empty.
Moreover, the prince is married, the queen is born, the princess is cheating, and it is also the talking point after the tea and dinner, which is the material for gossip. It makes Britain lively every day, so they think it's worth spending only a few hundred million pounds a year to support the British royal family.
The royal family is the foundation of national stability.
The current British royal family is no longer an absolute monarchy in the sense of the past, and the queen is only a symbol. But with the queen and the royal family present, no one dared to mess around. The royal family plays the role of the cornerstone of national stability, and the royal family is the needle of the British sea god. There was a brief republic in British history, but it was a sheep's head selling dog meat, more despotic than the emperor, so everyone overthrew this fake republic, ushered in Charles II, and let the king return to power.
Many countries in the modern history of the world have abolished the king after the outbreak of "revolutions", but a considerable number of countries have established more brutal and arbitrary regimes after the abolition of the king, such as Saddam Hussein to Iraq and Khomeini to Iran. Therefore, the British people keep the royal family is the smartest choice, and with the nominal royal family, no one is doing anything wrong.
3. The spirit of the contract.
The counselor said that the agreement is a fart, and it is important to fight the country or the agreement is important.
Therefore, in ancient times, Chinese valued the thirty-six plans, did not emphasize the contract, and the ruler turned his face and did not recognize the account. At the time of the abdication of the Qing Emperor, Yuan Shikai signed a contract with the Manchu Qing royal family on behalf of the Republic of China government, and in the contract, the Manchu Qing promised to abdicate, and the Republic of China government gave preferential treatment to the Manchu Qing royal family.
However, Puyi did not take the contract seriously at all, first of all, he defaulted on it and restored it at the instigation of Zhang Xun. And Feng Yuxiang, who killed near Beijing, also came to you who was inhumane and unjust, and abolished the preferential treatment clause signed with the Qing imperial family.
And such things rarely happen in the West, Westerners are very serious about death, heavy commitment, the following will tell you a story about the spirit of the contract.
On July 15, 1797, on a farm in the United States, a young child unfortunately fell into a well and died, and the farmer, the child's parents, was sad and built a grave next to the well to mourn. Later, because of the family's fall, the child's parents had to go out of their own farms, and when they sold the farm, they attached a condition, that is, they could not move the child's grave at any time.
The buyer agreed to the request of the child's parents and wrote it into the agreement. Over the past century, the ownership of the farm has changed several times, but this agreement is constantly written into new contracts, and the children's graves are still intact after several storms.
In 1897, the land was purchased by the state as a mausoleum for the eighteenth President of the United States, General Ulysses Simpson Grant, and when the presidential tomb was built, the children's graves were preserved intact and slept with President Grant.
Time passed another 100 years, and in 1997, when the tomb of General Grant was built for a hundred years, the mayor of New York at that time came here to remember General Grant, and after hearing the relevant story, he was full of emotions, he paid for the repair of the child's grave, and also asked people to erect a monument next to the child's grave, and carved the story of the cemetery on the stone tablet, so that it could be passed on from generation to generation.
It was this spirit of contract that allowed the British to keep their promises and keep the royal family.