Absolute monarchy is a symbol of oppression and slavery in Chinese memory.
It has ruled us for thousands of years and single-handedly blocked the development of society and the progress of the nation.
For example, during the Qing Dynasty, the Qing court closed the country to its own selfish desires, stuck in its own ways, and treated the state warehouse as personal property, "preferring to be with friends than with domestic slaves."
It eventually fell under the clarion call of the Xinhai Revolution, but there are still monarchical states in the world today.
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There are very few countries in the world that practice absolute monarchy, only Brunei, Oman, Qatar, Saudi Arabia, etc., and they have a common label, that is, money.
These countries, without exception, are rich oil producers, and they can earn a lot of money every year based on oil revenues alone.
These funds are the basis for the royal family to maintain their rule, as long as part of the wealth is distributed to the people and let them live and work in peace and contentment, naturally no one will come out to oppose the monarchy.
The smallest of these countries should be Brunei, whose full name is Brunei Darussalam.
It is located on the northern shore of Southeast Asia's Borneo, bordered by the South China Sea to the north and Malaysia on land.
This small country with an area of only 5,765 square kilometers is extremely rich in Southeast Asia.
Brunei has the second largest oil reserves and production in Southeast Asia, and it exports the second largest natural gas in the world each year.
As a result, a country with a weak industrial base and weak scientific and technological strength, the per capita GDP can reach as high as 19,000 US dollars.
Of course, the wealth created by oil and gas belongs to the royal family.
They can allocate funds to civilians for welfare, but the people cannot fight for themselves.
In the eyes of the Brunei royal family, all this is taken for granted.
After all, he does not levy a penny of tax on citizens, and the national treasury has nothing to do with the people, it is his own warehouse.
The people there did not feel that there was anything wrong with it, they lived and worked in peace, whether they were sick and hospitalized or received education, they did not need to spend money, and the pressure of life was very small.
Relying on his wealth, Brunei's king, Haji Hassanal Borkiah, once topped the world's rich list, becoming the world's richest man.
Back in the late '90s, his assets had exceeded $40 billion.
Of course, with the development of society and the rise of a number of technology giants, the king of Brunei is no longer the richest man in the world, but he is still ranked 177th on the rich list with a net asset of 70 billion yuan.
Hassanal is world-famous for spending money.
Perhaps out of a "gentlemanly complex", he loved to collect Aston Martins and parked hundreds of cars in the warehouse.
At the same time, he had great relations with the British royal family, and he often played golf and polo with Crown Prince Charles.
Once, when the two were playing polo, Hassanal forgot to bring his polo shoes and let his men drive a helicopter to the palace.
Of course, in terms of living standards, Hassanal has long surpassed the entire British royal family.
The Nuru iman Palace where he lived alone was four times larger than Buckingham Palace.
In addition, on his fiftieth birthday, he directly invited international superstar Michael Jackson to the scene, and in the same year his daughter got married, and Hassanell invited Tiff Wanda and Whitney Houston to hold a week-long concert in Brunei.
By the time of his sixtieth birthday, it was even more unique.
The more than 10,000 guests invited to attend were all big figures in Southeast Asia who are not rich or noble.
Such as Singapore's Lee Hsien Loong, Cambodia's Hun Sen, Thailand's Thaksin and the Philippines' Arroyo, as well as high-level officials from various countries, all attended the scene, which showed Hassanar's courage.
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Although Hassanal has tens of billions of wealth, he is the head of a country after all, his style cannot be too high-profile, and he is also too busy with government affairs and diplomacy to spend all his time on pleasure.
His younger brother, Prince Jeffrey, was very different.
Jeffrey is the youngest son of Seftin, and as the youngest brother in the family, he has been pampered since childhood.
His parents took great care of him, and his brothers, including Hassanal, took great care of him.
As a result, Jeffrey developed an arrogant, arrogant and lavish personality.
After Hassanal succeeded to the throne, Jeffrey became the prince of ten thousand people under one man by virtue of his close brotherly relationship.
Hassanal was so optimistic about this brother that he simply put the financial power of the country in jeffrey's hands.
In Jeffrey's view, the brother has it, and he must have it himself.
He saw his brother singing and dancing in the Nuru imman Palace, and also built more than 10 palaces in various parts of Brunei, each of which was extremely luxurious and magnificent, and the rooms were more than 500.
The palaces all have their own characteristics, some in the traditional Style of Southeast Asia, and some borrow from the characteristics of Gothic architecture.
The floors of these palaces are made of gold, and the columns are also made of jade.
In addition, he has his own properties in major cities, with a total of more than 600.
And what's the use of Jeffrey buying so many properties? The answer is: Kanaya Zojiao.
Jeffrey's straight posture, deep eyes, towering nose bridge and his waist are simply the representative of the rich and handsome.
Without his call, there were also a large number of beautiful people of national color and heavenly fragrance flocking to it.
Jeffrey does not refuse these beautiful women who take the initiative to lean forward, and he will also order his men to go around, and if they can get into his eyes, they can all be taken to the palace.
At his peak, Jeffrey was even more crazy than king Tai, and alone, there were more than 40 beautiful ladies in the harem, which was even worse than his brother Hassanar.
The mercurial Thai king Maha Vajiralongkorn is also a witch compared to Jeffrey.
After all, when he went on vacation to the Alps when the outbreak broke out, he also "only" carried more than 20 "female warriors".
Of course, in addition to the number of harems, Maharuo and Jeffrey are more luxurious than they are, and they are also lamenting.
Jeffrey owns more than 2,000 luxury cars, as many as 21 warehouses to fit.
At that time, the dream of many young Brunei people was to become Jeffrey's warehouse keeper, even if they didn't want a salary.
Because their daily task is to drive a million-dollar sports car or high-end car out of the market, called a "hot car", and then return to the warehouse to wipe it, change into another one, and continue to drive through the streets of Brunei.
In addition to luxury cars, Jeffrey owns 5 superyachts and 17 private jets.
Their management fees and oil money alone are a lot of expenses.
Jeffrey is also an avid collector, and he bought a seemingly simple pen for $1.3 million.
If compared to Vajiralongkorn, Jeffrey is clearly better.
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In the 1990s, Jeffrey achieved a "good record" of spending an average of $750,000 a day.
His money was either spent building, buying, or decorating houses; it was spent buying luxury cars, watches, cruise ships, airplanes; or it was spent on his own collection.
Of course, the most expensive is still on those women.
As soon as Jeffrey had free time, he would flip through the magazine, no matter which model or star, can make his eyes shine, he will immediately order his men, carry heavy money to visit.
Of course, Jeffrey, like many people, has a problem with the new and the old.
As long as he is tired of his lover's appearance, he will generally give them two choices:
First, take a break-up fee, and then roll up and leave;
Second, take a sum of money and go for a facelift.
Sometimes, he would gather his colleagues or a group of stupid children to set up a feast in his big palace, drink three times, and cook five flavors, and Jeffrey would generously distribute the lovers to the male guests present.
The reason those women put up with Jeffrey was nothing but that he gave too much.
Jeffrey would pay them on time every week according to his "attendance" and would take them on a private jet to the Champs Elysées for a shopping spree.
Whether it is jewelry or expensive clothes, as long as there is a picture, Jeffrey will not blink an eye, directly swipe the card.
This makes some people wonder: Jeffrey spends all day, where did his money come from?
Brunei's treasury, of course.
In Jeffrey's view, the so-called treasury was nothing more than his own family's private account.
The ancestors created so much wealth for their own pleasure. Since you don't spend it, then others will also covet it, but it is better to "start first to be strong".
Jeffrey is like a "child who steals his parents' money", more and more wanton, and more and more unscrupulous.
When the day things were revealed, when the assets of the Brunei royal family fell from the world's first to the world's third, Jeffrey's first thought was not how to recover the loss, but how to cover up reality.
He lost the mess to his brother, and he got on a plane to Europe.
Today, Hassanal has forgiven his younger brother Jeffrey's "youthful ignorance", and the brothers have released their previous suspicions and reconciled as before.
Of course, this is only for the outside world to see, after Jeffrey's such nonsense, how can Hassanal not have a disagreement with it.
The Jeffrey incident also gave Hassanar a wake-up call, that is, to attach importance to the education of royal children, especially to the cultivation of successors.
Crown Prince Bira is hassanal's eldest son, and Hassanal has high hopes for him and keeps a close eye on him.
During Crown Prince Bira's trip to Oxford and Cambridge, Hassanell imposed strict restrictions on his living expenses, fearing that he would catch bad habits in the casino or the Wind moon place, and end up like his uncle Jeffrey.
With Jeffrey's lessons in mind, Hassanell decided to let Bira start at the grassroots level and then rise through his own efforts.
Otherwise, Jeffrey's mistakes could be repeated.
As for how Jeffrey is now, he is still the prince of Brunei, living a carefree life, free and happy, without any punishment, but in a much more low-key style than before.