take it easy on this Industrial Revolution thing because he's actually going to have to explain where we got the the plans from can't keep it to himself he has people that have the higher authority than he does not to mention the church was not big on progress at this time it threatened them
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If the monarchs had private companies and their power was largely concentrated in private companies without depending on the state or taxes, they would last long
Just think about it, the umbrella corporation (from the movies) dropped a bomb in the city of raccon, then said it was a nuclear reactor failure and still got away with impunity, even though the government itself probably knows the truth, practically possess the power to influence the entire world at great levels
smart monarchs do that, they create private companies or super powerful conglomerates, they also create their own private armies without depending on the state, that gives them more power than anyone else, it should be noted that this practice cannot be done everywhere, for example in the The current British monarch cannot do this practice, because the sovereign's private assets are administered by others, in this case the " the crown state" and much of the money goes to the state, of course the British government does not know anything about this practice, they got avoid it due to the stupidity of one of the monarchs who decided that private goods are administered by the state, in fact the state of the United Kingdom does not know this practice, I am going to tell you a novel where the monarch uses this practice, where basically all great things are controlled by powerful private companies that are the private property of the protagonist , name is 我的帝国
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