Zhu Youxiao laughed after getting the report from Kang Qingchun.He naturally remembered the impact of England on China in the original history.And this life.Zhu Youxiao didn't expect that he would have the opportunity to treat others in his own way.Da Ming didn't really like the small benefits brought by smuggling black incense to England.Even the entire English merchandise market.Da Ming didn't even look at it.But since he wants to unify the whole world, Zhu Youxiao naturally can't allow any local forces to work against the Ming Dynasty.Zhu Youxiao had to give the soldiers of the empire more opportunities to make meritorious contributions."
The majesty of the empire is inviolable, since the Yingyi do not know how to lift, engage in double standards, and strictly prohibit smoking in their own country, but do not prohibit or even encourage the smuggling of tobacco and soil to our Ming Dynasty, it needs to be dealt with."
After Zhu Youxiao said this to the auxiliary ministers, he asked Zhang Tongchang, who was in charge of the Privy Council, and asked: "How is the British army transferred to the Netherlands going, and when can a war against Britain be organized at the earliest?"
”Zhang Tongchang replied: "Five steam warships have been transferred!"
About 20,000 officers and soldiers, Liu Zhaoji, the general in charge of the British expedition, has arrived in St.
Petersburg, and it is estimated that he has already gone to the Netherlands. ”After hearing this, Zhu Youxiao pondered for a moment and said: "Tell Liu Zhaoji to capture Charles II, the king of Yingyi!"
I want to be strict, and I dare to smuggle black incense to Daming!
Not to be severely punished, sorry for those compatriots who were killed by them!
”"This Charles II has been enthusiastic about Confucianism all these years, and almost all the power is handed over to their parliament, so that he did not carry out reforms like Louis XIV, so he also lost many colonies in the Americas, and his domestic situation has not improved much, and the enclosure movement is still serious, and the number of landless peasants is increasing, and now it is the first time that he has spared the parliament to directly enact a law."
Lu Xiangsheng spoke at this time.And Wen Tiren followed and said: "In this way, once our army defeats him and forces his king to be sent back to the country and sentenced to death, then the king behind is only afraid that when he thinks of Charles II because he bypassed the parliament once, he will not dare to bypass the parliament again, and act arbitrarily." ”"This forced him to be more like a puppet of the English king, and it also inspired some liberals in England to limit the power of the monarchy."
Zhu Youxiao also said with a smile.And Wen Tiren put away his face at this time and said: "But Your Majesty, speaking of liberals, the minister thinks of a problem, we have to pay attention to the problem of many scholars and doctors in the country who want to restrict the monarch's power to defect to these places, as far as the minister knows, the person who is now spreading Confucianism to Charles II is a Han man named Xu Qianxue." ”"There's nothing to pay attention to, it's good that they can go out to spread Confucianism for my Ming Dynasty, I hope that they can make the foreign monarchs who have not yet been annexed by my Ming Dynasty become benevolent monarchs and sages who go by force, in this way, it will be convenient for my Ming Dynasty to completely unify the world."
Zhu Youxiao replied accordingly.......
"This time the king had to bypass the Congress, the harm of Wuxiang is obvious, I believe that the Ming Emperor Zhu Youxiao also knew the harm of Wuxiang, so he dispatched his most powerful army to investigate this matter." ”Charles II took the initiative to explain to Xu Qianxue why he spared the parliament this time and directly promulgated the bill, as a king, he naturally did not need to explain to Xu Qianxue, and the reason why he did this was naturally because he didn't like to do this in his own heart, so he would take the initiative to explain these things to Xu Qianxue.Xu Qianxue naturally understood, and he could also perceive that Charles II was really willing to be a monarch as required by Confucianism.Therefore, Xu Qianxue respected Charles II even more in his heart, and comforted Charles II and said: "Your Majesty doesn't have to mind too much, this matter, my son-in-law understands!"
The son-in-law also knows that Your Majesty, you really want to be a virtuous lord who is as good as a stream and has unparalleled benevolence, but he has no choice but to be hateful, and the traitors in the court and China are troubled, so the good government has to be promulgated by the king's decree!
But the son-in-law believes that as long as Your Majesty is close to the virtuous ministers and far from the traitors, the national government will eventually be renewed, and the current situation will not appear!
”When Charles II heard this, he could not help asking: "How can we tell who is a virtuous minister and who is a traitor?"
”"Naturally, he is a virtuous gentleman and a virtuous minister."
Xu Qianxue replied.Charles II nodded.Xu Qianxue now really thinks that Charles II is his ideal king.Because, in his opinion, it is really rare for a king to be annoyed by his own decision, and he has never seen the Emperor of the Apocalypse of the Ming Kingdom blame himself for making a decision alone.Based on this alone, Xu Qianxue felt that Charles II was more worthy of his allegiance than the Emperor of the Apocalypse.Thinking that he could freely annex the fields in England, enclose the land of the public land as his own land, and then drive away the peasants, force them to become his own serfs, or become workers in his own factory, and even if he was in arrears of taxes, there would be no national tax collection agency like the West Factory to strictly urge him, Xu Qianxue felt even more that this place was really free and beautiful.Xu Qianxue also has a lot of friends who belong to the nobility here.The gentle and humble character developed by years of studying Confucianism made him very popular with English gentlemen.Therefore, not only King Charles II, but also many British aristocrats were also influenced by the Confucian culture brought by Xu Qianxue, and when they began to practice elegance, they thought that they were humble gentlemen and models of morality.What's more, Xu Qianxue in history was good at speculation, and it can also be said that he was good at socializing, and became friends with many Manchu Eight Banner nobles who entered the customs, and became a Mingzhu sworn party, the official to the criminal department, and even Kangxi himself was extremely lenient to him, even if there was clear evidence that he wanted to kill his life, he was only ordered to return to his hometown and enjoy the treatment of a big man.Therefore, Xu Qianxue is now just as good at forming parties in the UK.Under his influence, the English gentry were ten times worse than in the past, and they also came up with all kinds of tax evasion methods, such as sprinkling and trickery.After all, what Xu Qianxue brought was the means that Huaxia scholars had accumulated for thousands of years.The Anglo-Saxons, who had just entered the era of absolute monarchy from a primitive state, did not have much experience in being in charge and standing up, so they were naturally shocked after learning something from Xu Qianxue.But because of this, England's national power is declining day by day, although it is located in the center of the Atlantic trade route, and there is a lot of trade income, but because most of the income goes into the private treasury of the great English nobles, it becomes the capital for annexing land and raising slaves and maids, so the treasury income of England is becoming less and less day by day.Even the navy's military spending is gradually insufficient, and in the end only half of it can be disbursed.In this context, the Ming army had already begun to cross the North Sea between England and the Netherlands, heading for England.