Chapter 2084 North and South Great Britain

Some people say that Britain is a small place, but its history is very complicated.

In fact, it is not complicated at all. Basically, if you can understand Game of Thrones, you can understand the history of Britain.

England in the south has experienced the annexation of the Romans, Germans and Vikings, and finally fell into the hands of the Duke of Norman; and Scotland has been the home of the Picts from the beginning, and the Romans failed to break in. The Germans came in a little bit, and the Vikings were beaten away by the warlike Picts as soon as they arrived.

So the Scottish blood is more pure, and now the British are basically mixed Saxon Anglo.

After the death of Kenneth, the first king of Scotland, his grandson Duncan succeeded to the throne, and Macbeth, who also had the right to inherit, launched a rebellion and ascended the throne after killing Noken. Mu killed and took back the throne.

A descendant of Alfred, the former leader of the Seven Kingdoms in England, fled to Scotland after being defeated by William I, and married his sister to Malcolm.

William I used this as an excuse to send troops and defeat Scotland. Malcolm surrendered, but Scotland was still an independent country.

But from then on Scotland was halfway ahead of England.

Later, the English throne was passed on to Edward I. He was a king who was vigorously expanding, because he made territorial claims to surrounding Scotland, Wales, Ireland and even France.

During his reign, he successfully annexed Wales and named his son, the first heir to the British king, the Prince of Wales. Since then, the British royal family has turned this canonization into a tradition.

He rules Northern Ireland, and the rest of the island of Ireland is called the Kingdom of Ireland. Although it remains independent, it respects the same king and is a commonwealth.

That is to say, at this time, England, Wales, Northern Ireland and the Kingdom of Ireland have become a unified whole, but each still has different degrees of autonomy.

There is only one Scotland left in this archipelago that has not joined in. At this moment, the Scottish throne has passed to Queen Margaret. Edward I wanted to bring Scotland into his jurisdiction through "blood infiltration", so he asked Queen Margaret to Marry his son, the Prince of Wales.

The queen had to agree due to the disparity in national power, but died of illness on the way to England.

Because the two royal families had a marriage contract before, the headless Scottish nobles invited Edward I to arbitrate Scotland and elect a new king.

Edward I saw that the marriage failed,

I just want to take this opportunity to support a puppet who obeys my orders.

As a result, his calculations were emptied, and the newly established King of Scotland didn't listen to him at all, and he was against him everywhere. Edward I finally decided to "get tough", sent troops to defeat Scotland, abolished the new king, and set aside the Scottish throne. The symbol "Stone of Destiny" was brought back to London.

Originally, when the change of the royal family was controlled by the King of England, the people of Scotland did not show much, but when the "Stone of Destiny" was taken away, a large-scale uprising broke out against the actions of the King and restored Scottish independence.

Here was born Wallace, the most famous national hero in Scottish history, who was made into a movie "Braveheart".

During the uprising, Edward I just passed away, and his successor was not as tough as him. In the end, Scotland won and restored its own completely independent status. prelude.

Although Scotland has maintained its independence firmly, its strength has never been comparable to that of the Kingdom of England.

For a long time, the British royal family has been using pressure and marriage to "dilute" the blood of the Scottish royal family, and finally this quantitative change has accumulated into a qualitative change.

When the British throne passed to Elizabeth I, the famous "Virgin Queen" was never married and had no heirs. The closest blood relative was King James VI of Scotland. Their relationship is: James VI His grandfather is the Queen's cousin.

In this way, James VI inherited the British throne, and the title also followed the Romans, because the British royal family had never been called "James" before, so it became James I.

Scotland was united with the Kingdom of England for the first time, under the same Stuart king.

But it was also during the Stuart dynasty that the Glorious Revolution broke out in Britain, and Parliament replaced the king as the country's highest authority.

It's as if the south is saying to the north, "Your king will be our king, shall we join?"

North said: "Good!"

As soon as the result was merged, the South said, "Our parliament leads everything, and the king is just a symbol."

Three black lines descended from Beibei's forehead, "...".

Anyway, the Glorious Revolution broke out. Although the Scottish nobles thought it was a pit and strongly supported the king's rule, they were eventually defeated.

So in order to maintain their independence, the Scots set up their own parliament, but in 1707, the British Parliament passed a joint act, and all parliaments merged, and their arms failed to twist their thighs after all.

After the Scottish Parliament was merged, the Scots broke out three uprisings in succession, all of which failed. Later, Queen Victoria came to power and led the entire British Isles to the "peak of life".

The Scots have since called themselves "Northern Brightonians", which is a transliteration of Scots, and is actually "Northern Britons", which means that we are a family with you in the south, but we live in the north.

At the peak moment of the British Empire's dominance of the world, the voice of Scotland's independence became smaller and smaller.

But after two world wars and the glory of the empire no longer existed, Scotland saw the power model of the states in the United States. In 1997, it won the right to organize their own parliaments together with Northern Ireland. Since then, Scotland and Northern Ireland have become the United Kingdom. The "constituent countries" of the United States have a relatively high degree of autonomy in local internal affairs, economy, culture, religion, etc., which is only slightly inferior to the "state rights" of the United States.

Until now, when the British referendum decided to withdraw from the European Union with a narrow vote margin, most of the Scots wanted to stay in the European Union, so the independence sentiment was once again high, hoping to take this opportunity to become independent from the United Kingdom and become a sovereign state. Continue to stay in the EU to enjoy the resulting economic benefits.

So is this history complicated? It’s really not complicated, just look at Game of Thrones with a drama mentality and you’ll understand. After all, Scotland looks like the northern border in “Game of Thrones” in terms of race, and most of them are “ancestors” Celts.

Whether it is the original Anglo-Saxon Seven Kingdoms or William the Conqueror, they are all branches of the Germanic people. In the long historical process, they did not come together until 1707. It can be said that there are more divisions and less divisions.

After talking about history, let’s talk about modern times. Scotland’s independence is much stronger than Catalonia and Bavaria.

Why do you say that? The answer is simple, because of money!

Scotland is very developed in industries such as oil and gas, optoelectronics, fishery, animal husbandry, tourism, and finance, and even accounts for a considerable proportion of the British economy. It has enough strength to ensure better development after Brexit.

Not to mention, first of all, Scotland has very rich oil resources. In 1978, the United Kingdom discovered oil on the North Sea continental shelf, with reserves as high as 2.3-4.5 billion tons, which is enough for the development of a developed industrial country. North Sea oil has driven two countries or For regional development, one is Norway, and the other is Scotland. Of course, this North Sea is not the other North Sea. What Yang Cheng and the others built is at most a small branch of North Sea oil, which is enough to feed them.

Aberdeen, a city in northern Scotland, is located on the northwest coast of the North Sea, where many large international oil companies have settled, so it is known as the "European Oil Capital".

According to the survey, there are about 24 billion barrels of crude oil stored in the sea near Scotland, and the annual oil revenue peaked at 11.6 billion pounds, accounting for more than 75% of the UK's total oil revenue.

Therefore, the Scots always believe that England took away the oil that originally belonged to them, and this has become the greatest confidence for Scotland's independence.

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