C2191 Representative of the British aristocracy (1/2)

Duke of Newcastle was a representative of the British aristocracy who was very good at management. No one knew how much his family property was, but his extravagant life was extremely famous in the circle of British aristocracy.

There were more than a dozen estates in England alone, and there were many estates in London, not to mention the lands purchased in other European countries.

In India and the North America both had Duke's own manor, with countless slaves growing cotton, spices, wheat, corn, and even opium for him. Duke's own family's fleet was extremely busy just selling the goods they produced every year.

Not to mention that he also had a large amount of internal shares in many companies, with countless dividends every year.

This was a true lord of wealth. He was the typical representative of the transition aristocrats in the Victorian era.

Yes, the nobility in Britain were the first aristocrats to undergo the transformation in Europe and even in the world. The main feature was that they had abandoned the old mode of earning money, and their allocation of assets completely exceeded that of all the aristocrats of this era.

For example, the Great Qing, Sha Russia and even feudal dynasty, those noble rulers still relied heavily on the land, such an extremely primitive method of wealth creation.

The princes of Great Qing had countless of farms under their command. Every year, they would produce large amounts of food and sheep from the livestock, which was also very suitable for them.

Of course, there were also some nobles who bought shops such as stores to rent, or directly invested with the Han Chinese to open up all kinds of trading houses.

For example, the famous restaurants and merchants of the Beijing actually all had shares of the noble clans of the Manchu behind them.

The aristocrats in Europe were doing better than the Great Qing. They all had some factories and workshops, and could more or less enjoy the benefits of the Industrial Revolution.

However, compared to the British aristocracy, these people were too lacking. Britain, the first constitutional monarchy in the human world, had awakened all of the nobles after many years of fighting.

They had given up on the backward mode of earning money from the original land output and had upgraded to commercial aristocracy.

That's right, the land nobles in the past were no longer adapted to the development of the times, and the group of British aristocracy s had already become commercial nobles.

Basically, all the British aristocracy s agreed that they could not rely on the land to create wealth anymore, because the land held the benefits of countless small citizens.

Ordinary citizens did not have much capital, did not have a very high level of education, and did not have a wide range of connections and information.

The ocean-going merchant fleets that cost millions of pounds, the railway systems that cost millions of pounds, including the textile mills of the big ironworks, were out of the ordinary.

Therefore, the people could only rely on the land, this meagre production, or the cheapest wages they could earn from the factories to survive. Under this kind of background, the British aristocracy chose to retreat.

Retreat from the industries that the people depend on to survive, and stop fighting with the people for it … Of course, even if they made a lot of money, they wouldn't be able to look down on this small amount of money. The nobles, including the royal family, started to transform into commercial nobles one after another.

Not only did they give up the interests of the farmers, the nobles also stopped relying on taxes. It was possible that they were intimidated by the tragedy of the decapitated Charles I.

That year, the Charles I had a fierce conflict with the council because of the power to collect taxes, and in the end, there was even a war!