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Chapter 1868: The Disappeared Nobility

Max is so depressed!

He really didn't want to kill anyone, he just wanted to escape, but for some reason, things turned out like this.

At this time, the female Spider-Man also joined the battle. Unlike Peter, Gwen was a rational person. Peter actually did not rely on strategy to fight, and he had no strategy at all. He just had one thing - quick reaction!

His reaction speed is even faster than his own thoughts, so when he is fighting, he will talk endlessly. It is not that he really wants to say those things, but he starts involuntarily. To put it simply, he is out of his mind.

The same goes for his fighting. He doesn't observe the enemy, formulate a strategy, and then start the fight. He always rushes forward and starts fighting! As he fights, he will naturally find a way. He is a purely talented player, and his talent is stronger than his consciousness.

Gwen, on the other hand, is relatively more stable. She does not have Peter's powerful reaction ability. She is just an ordinary girl. She also learned how to fight from Kingsman Agent. It is the most orthodox fighting method. She observes the enemy and analyzes the enemy's behavior.

Weaknesses, observe the environment, and find a way to fight that is beneficial to you.

Never reckless.

In fact, her training results are so good that Kingsman even hopes to recruit her to become a new gentleman... Kingsman has also been reforming in recent years. There is no way, Kingsman has to change.

Kingsman has been around for a hundred years. Since World War I, it has only attracted elites from the British aristocracy. It was okay at the beginning. After all, after World War I and before World War II, the British aristocracy was still very strong. There were many elites.

However, with the adjustment of the world structure before the Seventh World War, the British aristocratic class as a whole fell into decline!

How much impact did property tax and inheritance tax have on the British aristocracy? From 1809 to 1879, 88% of millionaires in the United Kingdom were landed aristocrats. Very slowly, by 1880-1914, the number dropped rapidly to 33%. During those seventy years

Less than half of the nobles died of poverty. At the very beginning of the Seventh World War, the income tax rate reached a terrifying 97.5%, and the inheritance tax was as low as 65%. Many old nobles went bankrupt immediately after the war.

Maybe no one has said that, is that right? Does it mean that inheritance tax is very difficult to collect? How did the UK do it? On the one hand, it has nothing to do with the fact that the British are serious about doing things. They have never had the determination and ability to dig deep when it comes to tax collection.

Motivation. (Who is serious about collecting money?)

First, the group was changed from aristocrats to all-class selection, and men were also included in the selection group.

How to cut the British's leeks? First, find a concept to issue bonds at a high price, such as issuing bonds to build a railway, and then fry the bonds yourself. When the British see that there is no profit, they rush back and speculate together, and then the Americans

To cash out and leave the market, the British found a taker and exploded. Before the explosion, the bonds became waste paper, and the Americans recycled them, converted the debt into equity, held it for a long time, engaged in value investing, etc., and held it for a hundred and forty years.

, when needed, those bonds cannot be used as mortgages or loans. Therefore, the United States has had a small financial crisis every few years in recent years, and a small number of stocks have fallen into waste paper. People thought that the United States was going to be poor, but in the end, the British died of poverty.

, Dier was cut off by Americans.

So in fact, the "noble generation" originally followed the old king in seven battles, and maybe they were still able to fight. But in the early stage, the nobles divided the territory and enjoyed themselves, and they didn't go too far in bragging about themselves. What about "aristocratic etiquette" and "chivalry"

, is just a circle culture compiled by the losers of the war. In the early days, the British knighthood had not clearly marked the price, so the content in it was not nutritious? What is hidden behind the bright surface of Western aristocracy and religion is the evil of human nature. So.

Legislating tax laws to cut off the wallets of nobles is what the people like to see. Cutting off a noble may benefit one party.

But he wants to give money to the poor, where does the money come from? As the aristocratic lords have less power to speak, the family is finally under our control. In 1894, the UK passed an inheritance tax, which required more than 1 million from these assets.

The 8% inheritance tax for British pounds has been rising to 15%, 40%, 50%, and was as low as 60% in 1939. That was all, and the land tax was also slightly increased. The bill mentioned in Parliament, the House of Lords

Of course, it was frustrating and passed quickly. The nobles in the House of Commons understood at a glance that it was sharpening their knives against us, so they decisively rejected it. The two houses fought back and forth over that matter, and these little intellectuals we are familiar with

, Adam Smith, Ricardo, etc., did not make a small amount of remarks praising the aristocrats as parasites. After a debate, the aristocrats finally lost the upper hand. Soon various taxes became more and more fierce. The aristocrats' main business is land. Now

The country keeps an eye on our land every day, so naturally it is extremely happy, running away and running away, paying taxes and paying taxes.

That is obviously logical. In fact, if you understand the Western war model, you will know where the problem lies. One hundred years after the First World War, the main form of Western warfare was "line infantry", and it was also

Commonly known as "queue to shoot". The rifles at that time had high accuracy and fast shooting speed, so they needed numbers of people. The soldiers walked back in a row, and the commander controlled the speed behind them. When both sides approached within the shooting range, they held their guns level.

Follow the command of the commander and shoot at the opponent. Whoever suffers the kind of casualties first will get out first, and the other side wins.

So the rule of "killing officers only" has been maintained for a hundred years, so that you now seem to think that fighting at this time is very strange. In modern war, officers are afraid of being seen by others and become targets. At that time, it was just the opposite.

The officers were ostentatious because they were afraid that the other party would see them. If they saw them, it would be bad to shoot them as civilians. Until the First World War, the situation suddenly changed. When it was just over, it was still the same as ever.

, the aristocratic officers rode behind on ponies dressed like mighty roosters, leading the soldiers from their hometowns to the rear line. When they arrived at the rear line, small families lined up in chaotic queues to march towards the front line.

They pushed back, and the noble officers walked behind to control the retreat speed of the queue. But it was the same at that time, and when they saw where the enemy was, they saw bullets falling from the sky like raindrops, and those walking at the back fell on them one after another.

Kingsman was running out of people to recruit from that group, but it became increasingly stretched, so the reform ended long ago.

As the British government and the Americans continued to encroach on the nobles, the old nobles were also looking for a way to survive, but only a very small number of them successfully transformed. I should also have thought that the nobles were worried about their livelihood at this time, and worried about the legacy of their ancestors every day.

The little bit of wealth that I came up with was completely established. That matter became an entertainment topic in the British. It was often not revealed that Baroness So-and-so’s castle was rented to a porn company for filming and paying property taxes. A very small number of wealthy nobles are still there.

If you don't become a special person, you might brag about your lack of a title or family crest when picking up girls. At other times, I would just move bricks with my family.

Without castles, manors and servants, elegant and rude, these are people's impressions of British aristocrats. British aristocrats have always been the favorites of pretenders, but no one should have noticed. There are basically fewer of them now.

The nobility. There is a theory that the nobility took the lead and were wiped out during the First World War. But this is not the case. The reason why the nobility disappeared is actually-taxation. That is actually a widely circulated joke, saying that the British

The nobles have no sense of honor, are very heroic, and fight at the end, so the casualties in the war are minimal, so that they were wiped out in the first world war. Judging from the statistics, in the first world war

, 6 million people participated in the war, 720,000 died, and the civilian mortality rate was 12.5%. The mortality rate of the officer class was as low as 20%. Before the war, the British directly attributed this to the fact that the officers were mainly from aristocratic backgrounds, had no sense of honor, and fought bravely, so

Few people died. But if you think about it, the British have fought countless wars, and in almost all of them, the civilian casualty rate was low. Why did the casualty rate of the nobility suddenly drop during the "World War I"? In the past, the nobility had a low casualty rate.

Do you have a sense of honor? In the "World War I", your sense of honor suddenly exploded?

Therefore, in the early days of the war, the officer casualty rate was extremely low. When the news spread back to China, everyone was stunned. According to Western tradition, every family member of a fallen soldier would be told, "His child fought very bravely." The real situation is fundamentally

If you see someone, you will fight. (In the First World War, a small number of dead soldiers died when they saw each other).

On the other hand, it has nothing to do with whether there was "globalization" at that time. A small part of the assets were movables, such as manors, farms, mines, and castles. You could run away or run away if you wanted. There were also tax havens, tax planning, and tax saving programs.

, so tax evasion was possible, and tax saving was studied by some (philosophy and art were even less popular at that time).

It stands to reason that the rifle should shoot straight, but why are the bullets coming from all over the world? That is not a feature of the "World War I". At that time, the rifle was not a high-precision breech-loading gun like the Napoleonic era, but was updated to have an outrageous range.

Muzzle-loading rifles (the rifles at that time are still used as sniper rifles in the Middle East) did not have the latest small-scale equipment, the Maxim. At that time, the range of the rifle had not yet reached the terrifying one kilometer. You can’t try it and see what is beyond one kilometer.

Is it true that the things in this book are clearly visible at all? A hundred years later, of course, they will still be clear at all. In fact, it is just a matter of seeing.

Although the casualties are smaller, they are only 20%, and they are not broken at all. The British will be like the Americans in the future. The lower class will give birth to children like cubs, and eight is the standard. It is precisely because they give birth to fewer children, the larger ones will

Sons often have no inheritance rights, are extremely poor, and then run away (in the end they are often less promising than the eldest son who has nibbled on his old age). It was not mentioned in the "Desileter Report", and at that time there was probably not one in ten sons.

The nobles lost their first heir and had to give way to the seventh heir. Yedier said that the impact of the war on the inheritance of property and title was too small.

Moreover, each noble does not have a huge fixed expenditure. Servants need to be hired, castles need to be repaired, and various social activities are required. Now coupled with less and less tax expenditures, a small number of nobles have to make ends meet.

The manors were sold, the slaves were laid off, and the scale of the industry was getting bigger and bigger. The most severe thing was the inheritance tax. The property of a small number of noble manors existed in the form of land. Every time a noble died and the inheritance changed outside the family, there would be

Not a few properties were sold to raise low inheritance taxes.

Excellent people like Gwen will naturally be included in the selection target.

I pay attention to the man on horseback at the end. I am an officer, especially a noble. When the troops retreat, I walk behind to control the speed. During the retreat, the soldiers carry their guns under their shoulders. When the troops are slow, I

When retreating into the shooting range, I would sneak to the edge of the queue, and the soldiers would lay their guns flat, and then follow the commander's orders to fire. After the First World War, Europe was a "noble war" between each other.

Very decent. In battle, you will directly aim at the commander, so even if the commander is wearing a very cool uniform and riding a horse to give orders, I will still shoot me, but the soldiers attack each other. Nobles are killed,

It is used to capture. Xiaojia knows from watching the TV series "A Song of Ice and Fire" that before the nobles outside are caught, Xiaojia's first reaction is to ask for ransom, but to kill them directly. Among the nobles in Europe

A small number of them are not related by blood. Even if they are not by common blood, they still share a mistress. They look up to each other because they meet each other. In a society of acquaintances, rules are very strict.

All he had to do was wait for the opponent's army to retreat to the predetermined position, and before the commander observed it with a telescope, Xiaojia adjusted the ruler, raised his gun and fired into the sky, and countless bullets roared to the end to harvest lives. Yes, that is, that's right

The most important thing, the most important thing is that at the end of the war, the officers continued the spirit of "classical war" as before, continued to dress up in fancy clothes, and walked at the back of the queue. Every time there was a sudden barrage, they often walked at the end.

The people on the other side were all beaten up, and the officer was there. The confrontation between the two sides was the same, and the officer continued to walk behind as usual. He originally thought that the other side was hitting him, but he opened fire when he was only a kilometer away. He could see everything from each other, so he walked away

Those at the back were immediately defeated. When they came to the front, the British officers also left behind and hid in the middle. They must have seen that the situation was good and hurriedly moved up.

This chapter is not over yet, please click on the next page to continue reading! Where did this British aristocrat die? He was so poor. With the development of the economy, the British civilian class quickly awakened and stopped uniting to make trouble. So the government

Fewer and fewer commoners came to be admitted to the parliament. Speaking of which, I may be wondering, is it okay to admit civilians? It is also not possible, but at that time, revolutions were raging in Europe, and the king and king of France next door had not yet been chopped off.

If he loses his head, are you worried if he is definitely a king or a noble? So all countries are quickly accepting and withdrawing the common people - don't say bad things, don't revolutionize our lives. In the first half of the 19th century and the 20th century

In the second half of the century, power gradually slipped away from the House of Lords. Up to now, there is still nothing to do with the House of Commons. The debates in the British Parliament we see on TV are actually not debates in the House of Lords. By the early fourteenth century, British society

The movement was in full swing. In order to resolve social conflicts and prevent the people from living a better life, the government stopped improving social welfare, such as providing pensions, medical insurance and other things for the people. The bill was also relatively boring, called the "People's Budget Act"

.

As a result, the quantity and quality of the nobles dropped directly to a very pitiable level.

The nobility made their fortune through military exploits and lived under the influence of the land. Not a part of the nobility clung to the land and was harvested by inheritance tax and income tax; not a part of the nobility invested in minerals and cotton textiles and barely survived the first industrial revolution.

The Seventh Industrial Revolution broke out in the United States. Some nobles came over and were harvested. Not many British nobles and financiers invested in the United States and prepared to continue to be parasites in the new continent. Did they think of Americans and

We are playing dirty tricks. Americans are very good at playing bonds. In the early days, they mainly used bond issuance to extract money from the British.

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