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The parliamentary system of the Kingdom of Atlantis is really very similar to the cabinet system of the Ming Dynasty. The original intention of establishing the cabinet system was to strengthen the imperial power and the emperor's personal power! But as the prestige of the cabinet members grew, they naturally began to erode the authority that originally belonged to the emperor, and began to move towards the abolition of the power of the prime minister!

Like the original cabinet, the original parliament was nothing more than a transitional agency. They themselves were advisors, helping to handle national affairs when Aum was still young. The advantage of this is that it naturally prevents the country from falling into chaos, but the disadvantages also follow. Since the king was young and could not govern the country at all, those members who were originally used to assist the government began to accumulate a lot of prestige in the process of governing the country.

In the game of politics, prestige itself is a source of power.

Although Om is a bit naive and extreme, he is definitely not stupid. He noticed that the expansion of parliament's power had affected his power as king, so when he came of age, he decisively abolished parliament!

However, his mother was more naive than him, and she actually lifted up the parliament that Orm had finally suppressed.

After these political creatures regained power, the first thing they thought of was not to be grateful for Atlanna's generosity and tolerance. The first thing they thought of was how to avoid being deprived of their rights for the second time!

This is why they are so greedy to challenge the king's power again!

These are political creatures, and their way of thinking is fundamentally different from ordinary people. Instead of being grateful, they will only remember how they were ousted from the top of their power. At the same time, I am extremely afraid that this kind of thing will happen again.

Of course, they don't think this is repaying kindness with enmity, but...how should I put it, it should be called protecting the achievements of Disai.

But the political environment in Atlantis is obviously different from human society.

After the emergence of the cabinet system in the Ming Dynasty, didn't every emperor think about abolishing it? Or, why didn’t the British king abolish the parliamentary system? Do they really approve of this system?

of course not.

All this stems from the inertia brought about by the system!

Excessive inertia is actually a kind of path dependence. When a thing becomes a common convention among individuals, or something that is recognized ideologically, then the higher the recognition, the greater the inertia in its behavioral consciousness. This kind of inertia can still operate for a period of time even when the interest conditions that prompted its establishment no longer exist. Among them, there is not only the completeness of the pioneer's interest structure, but also the emphasis on various ideological and cultural levels. Therefore, to a certain extent, inertia is essentially a kind of dependence. Behind the dependence is the individual's high recognition of the interest structure. The length of dependence duration is mostly due to cultural ideas.

Therefore, the background of inertia must be interests. The reason why inertia can be formed must be that the thing can first gain support. Those who can gain support must represent the interests of groups within a certain range. As far as human society is concerned, the emergence of private property is a qualitative leap. Private property is individual interest. Later, group interests emerged, and therefore group theory emerged in both sociology and political economics. The so-called group refers to the interest structure as the basis for classification. Therefore, it can be roughly said that changes in the interest structure are an implicit but extremely powerful evolutionary clue to historical development.

From the perspective of economics, if you look back at history, you will find that the fundamental thing in classifying groups is based on economic levels. All other names and identities are just the appearance of this classification. The latter is said to use a more diversified description method to subdivide the group again. However, no matter how subdivided it is, it is still a subdivision of economic levels in the end. According to this logic, that is to say, as long as you can gain greater benefits by standing in a certain position on something with a distinct economic level segmentation, then this position will be more beneficial to people in the future. Will produce greater inertia.

When the cabinet and the British Parliament were formed, they were supported by an interest group that was not consistent with the interests of the imperial power!

In the Ming Dynasty, these interest groups were civil servant groups! The civil servant group actually represented the interests of the local gentry group and large landowners. They need someone to restrict the emperor so that he cannot do whatever he wants and disrupt the normal operation of the country. This in itself is also in the interest of the gentry group and the big landowners. After all, it is very easy for the emperor to collect taxes by messing around. Although everyone knows that the emperor's taxes cannot be collected from them, and they are transferred to the peasants and tenant farmers. The other thing is to prevent the emperor from hindering their land annexation. This is the most important thing. Taxation and so on are mostly excuses. For these local interest groups, as long as they do not prevent them from annexing land, they are all good emperors!

Just like Song Huizong, before he was captured by the Jin soldiers, he was always touted as the Ming Jun Holy Lord! Otherwise, this guy wouldn't have been so stupid as to do so many ridiculous things. You know, with Song Huizong's artistic attainments, his IQ was absolutely fine. But why do you do so many stupid things? It’s not like he’s so praised that he can’t find the north.

In Britain, the interest groups that support Parliament are the great nobles and nobles, clergy, knights and citizens! Except for the king, everyone at first glance supports the parliament. In this case, no matter who comes to power, who dares to abolish the parliament? Aren't you afraid of being kicked out? It’s not like I’ve never done it before.

In Atlantis, this was not the case.

First of all, the parliament is only supported by the nobles!

But in the Kingdom of Atlantis, the power of the nobles is not great. Even the power of the entire aristocratic class is not very strong. This has something to do with the social environment of Atlantis as a whole. They are quite open-minded, the common people are not without opportunities to get ahead, and class barriers are not that strong.

Moreover, there are no civilians participating in the parliament. They have not gained any benefits from the parliament. Why should they support it? In contrast, the royal family has extraordinary prestige among the civilian class! They have been following the royal family for tens of thousands of years. Without enough benefits, why should they change their ways?

And the power of the civilian class has a crushing advantage over the aristocratic class!

After all, the common people in the Kingdom of Atlantis not only live a good life, but are also full of martial virtue.

The nobles want to rebel. Have they asked the common people?

Once again, whether it is in terms of religion, customs or laws, the royal family has an absolute advantage!

Religiously, the royal family of Atlantis is recognized by Poseidon, God of the Sea, and they are of the bloodline of Poseidon! He is the spokesperson of Poseidon in the mortal world. In a sense, the nobles competing against the royal family are competing against the Poseidon.

This kind of religion is not the vague and unknown gods of Christianity, but the sea god Boston is a real god who has existed. The existence of the Atlanteans themselves is the biggest evidence. They originally lived on the land, but the land fell. , they all went to the sea, but they were able to survive well at the bottom of the sea. If it wasn't the blessing of the sea god, what else could it be?

Not to mention customs and laws.

Not to mention the Atlantis Empire, even the current structure of the Seven Kingdoms was founded by the seven royal families back then. They also write the laws.

Legally, no one can disobey the king!

So Aum was able to abolish Parliament without any consequences!

What Meila did today was equally legal and reasonable, and would still not cause any consequences.

These members of Parliament were too anxious. They did not have broad support and wanted to launch an attack on the royal power. They just didn't understand it at all. They thought that with the support of the nobles, they could compete with the royal power... Until they were imprisoned, they didn't even understand why things turned out like this.

At this point, they are indeed lagging behind the mainland. It does not mean that they have strong politics because of their long history.

The underwater world is too stable. It has remained the same for thousands of years, with no changes at all. Society is developing, but their level of political struggle is only at the level of some palace intrigues. If they had gone to the political school of any mainland university to study for a period of time, they wouldn't have been dealt with so quickly.

"Solved?" Kai walked out.

Mela smiled brightly: "Of course!"

"Then why does Atlanna look so bad?" Kai asked curiously, looking at Atlanna's livid face.

"You shouldn't do this. They have contributed to the kingdom! The stability of the kingdom over the years is inseparable from them!" Atlanna is indeed a good person... but as we all know, it is best for good people not to get involved in politics. Until now, Atlanna still felt that Mela's decision was too ruthless.

Of course, neither Mela nor Kai would say anything about this kind of thing. "Unless you want to see Om die without a burial place!" Mela said unceremoniously: "Aunt, you are too soft-hearted. What they did today was to force Om to deal with what happened during this time. Do you know what it means to be connected?"

Atlanna's face looked better: "Then we should give them some dignity! This will take a hit to the reputation of the royal family. They are all highly respected nobles and have been very effective in governing the country in recent years. If we treat them like this now, everyone will I thought that our royal family would repay kindness with enmity."

Kai and Mela looked at each other, a little speechless.

How did Atlanna's father teach her back then? Are you actually worried about something like this?

It can only be said that Atlanna's father protected her very well.

Isn't it the basics of a politician to burn bridges and repay kindness with hatred?

Atlanna must have never seen what Liu Bang and Zhu Yuanzhang did. Compared with them, Mela's method is simply refreshing.

But considering Atlanna's extreme white left attribute, the two of them still didn't say any unpleasant words.

"Aunt... you have to be clear. Civilians don't care about anything other than their immediate interests. They don't care who the officials are, they only care about three things, gods, income and death!" Mela said very helplessly.

"Indeed, before, I didn't even know the name of our mayor."

Kai told the truth.

Before traveling through time, he really didn't know what the mayor was called, and knowing the names of senior political and legal officials was his limit. That's because he is a policeman, otherwise, he wouldn't even know this. If it weren't for the news network, he wouldn't even know the name of the national leader.

(The same is true for the author. Who would care about that? They are not my relatives)

"But..." Atlanna was very frustrated. She felt that she was a bad woman. In order to protect her son, she actually watched something unfair happen... Well, she wasn't just pretending, she really thought so. The point was, she really felt that Aum was related to this series of things! So I feel bad!

Kai could only function as a lover. He went up and hugged Atlanna: "My dear, you are right. You are just... not suitable for politics. Your world is too beautiful. This is not your fault. You It’s just... I’ve never seen darkness.”

To be honest, Atlanna's experience is really rich, but she has little insight into human nature.

This is similar to many real white lefts.

Baizuo is also divided into true Baizuo and false Baizuo.

What is fake white left? In fact, it is a group of talkers. These people actually don’t care much about environmental protection, animals, or human rights all over the world. They don’t care at all. They shout loudly on the Internet and pretend to be themselves. He looks noble, but in fact, if you ask him to donate the money for a cup of coffee, they will consider it carefully.

This kind of person is actually just making fun of people and pretending to be cool online. Or simply to conform to social trends and pretend to be in line with the mainstream opinion.

There are many people like this online, and what they think in their hearts is absolutely different from what they express.

Just like those clips of interviews with Bai Zuo, the reporter asked Bai Zuo, do you support refugees?

support! Of course I support it!

So do you think refugees who come to our country should receive benefits, have a house to live in, and should be accepted and cared for?

certainly! I strongly support it!

So would you like to take the refugees into your house and live with you?

What? NO! I have something else to do, so I’m leaving first!

why?

Because I really have a house!

Of course it's okay to be generous to others, but when it comes to your own interests... these people can run faster than anyone else!

Just look at the trend in this regard in reality.

But some people really feel that way, and they are really left-wing!

They live a prosperous life, have never experienced any setbacks since childhood, and receive formal white left education. They indeed have a superior moral outlook!

There are still examples in the news.

There was a rich girl. Her mother was burglarized and killed by a robber.

As a result, the woman forgave the murderer in court.

Everyone thought she was putting on a show, but in the end she not only visited the murderer in prison, but also hired him to work at home after he was paroled, and then she was killed by the murderer...

This rich girl is definitely not pretending. The person who pretends is already at her limit in court!

What happens next cannot happen!

But she still did it.

This kind of person... you can't say she is stupid, you can only say that her moral standards are indeed very high! Higher than the acceptance capacity of the entire society... This is the kind of person who does not live in the world!