Isle of Wight.Ben was a county in England.Right next to the English Channel.It is separated from the island of Great Britain by a Solent Strait.It is a natural harbor.The scenery is very beautiful.Now this place belongs to the Ming Dynasty.The banner of the word "Ming", which was as dazzling as a flame, was already flying at the highest point of the island at this time, guarded by a small group of Ming soldiers.He Lian, a soldier belonging to this group of Ming troops, couldn't help but glance at the Yingyi people on the island who had just belonged to the Ming colonial area.These Yingyi were naturally very afraid of this group of Orientals who suddenly arrived.They were afraid of the Ming Dynasty's strong ships and cannons.But under the light of fear, there is also a trace of anger.Whoever it is replaced will also be angry because someone else has trespassed into their home.The Heroes on the Isle of Wight are no exception.The propertied people on the island even organized their own serfs as soldiers after learning that their king had ceded the Isle of Wight to the Ming Dynasty, and prevented the Ming army from landing on the shore.But they didn't succeed.Their serfs were not determined to defend the island, and were not willing to use their flesh to fight against the guns of the Ming army for the sake of their estate landlords.As a result, the manor landlords and serfs on the island had to accept the rule of the Ming Dynasty.The island has a ready-made royal castle called Carisbrook Castle, where Charles I was imprisoned more than 20 years ago because of the Glorious Revolution.And now, it has also become the official residence of Daming White Province.Tang Bin, who was appointed governor of White Province, and the troops of Tan Qianzong's 1,000 headquarters were temporarily stationed here.There are eight towns on the island, namely Ryder, Newport, Cowes, Sandown, Ventena, Shanklin, Yarmouth, and Benbridge.Now these eight towns have been merged into one prefecture and two counties by Tang Bin, and they have asked the imperial court to send officials to govern them.The adult heroes on the island were ordered to build a port so that the ships of the Ming Dynasty could anchor in the future.As for the young Yingyi, they were all driven into the improvised Confucian school.These young Yingyi had to work hard to learn the Confucian enlightenment textbooks such as "Di Zi Gui" with fear.Although the Ming Dynasty is no longer the only one who follows Confucianism, in terms of cultural promotion, the Ming Emperor Zhu Youxiao still insists on promoting Confucianism, and he has to make other subspecies of human beings become gentle and frugal and learn to obey.Otherwise, if the wind of freedom in these places is allowed to spread, if there is a real global plague in the future, I am afraid that the plague will bring great trouble to the already globalized world.After all, no one can deny that Confucianism is indeed a very good knowledge for rulers to rule over the people.Therefore, Zhu Youxiao is still very committed to Confucianizing the world's foreign countries, and even only allowing them to accept Confucianism.And because of this, Zhu Youxiao also specially wrote out the "Disciple Rules" that originally appeared in the Qing Dynasty according to his own memory, and ordered it to be used as an enlightenment textbook for foreign colonial education.After all, the "Di Zi Gui" is stronger than the "Three Character Classic".Waiyi children are more likely to be taught to be gentle and frugal when they learn."
Disciple rules, sage training.The first filial piety, the second sincere letter. ”A group of white-skinned Yingyi children were also in the newly established Confucian school in London at this time, following Tang Ruoyu, a Ming student hired by James II with a lot of money, reading the "Disciple Rules", and the sound of reading was wafting to the banks of the Thames River leaving the school.When the Duke of Monmouth, who was walking by the river, heard these voices, he felt quite harsh, clenched his fists, and said in his heart: "My British Empire has fallen to this point!
After being ceded by the Orientals and paying reparations and demanding trade, now they have to let their great Anglo-Saxon descendants learn the Orientals!
”"Mr.
Kang, this is my sister, do you see, can she be your wife?"
With the signing of the Treaty of London, Kang Qingchun became one of the first Han Chinese to appear in England as a Han of the Ming Kingdom.And Frank became more and more willing to marry Kang Qingchun, and because he learned that Kang Qingchun wanted to take a concubine in England, he took the initiative to offer his flowery sister, wanting to become a more trusted comprador of the Ming Kingdom, and invited him to meet on the banks of the Thames.Kang Qingchun touched Frank's daughter's face: "It's a beautiful girl!"
Send it to me tonight. ”Coincidentally, at this time, the Duke of Monmouth saw this scene, and became more and more angry: "I hate these shameless merchants of the British Empire, and they have begun to slap these Orientals!"
”The Duke of Monmouth's heart tightened uncomfortably.Xu Qianxue suddenly walked across from the Duke of Monmouth at this time, and also saw the scene of Kang Qingchun, a Han man being stammered by Frank, and his heart was quite sour.You know, he has never been so stammered by Yingyi."
Your Excellency!"
Xu Qianxue then naturally saw Monmouth again, and then saluted him.Monmouth smiled and asked, "Where did Your Excellency the Earl come from?"
”"From Hampton Court Palace, His Majesty intends to ask the Ming Kingdom to send officers to train his Royal Guards Division, and let him be the translator."
Xu Qianxue replied.When Monmouth heard this, his expression became serious: "This shameless king!
He wanted to ask Ming Guo to support him to become a dictatorial king by offering favor to Mingguo!
”Monmouth was indeed very dissatisfied with James II.Because he was the son of Charles II, he could have been king of England if it had not been for the fact that he was not recognized by most of the nobility in England because he was an illegitimate child.Although James II was legally more willing to be enshrined as king by the English aristocracy, because James II's beliefs were different from those of other nobles and commoners, it was also a reason why many people were not very satisfied.Now, Monmouth can see from the signing of the Treaty of London and a series of performances of James II that James II intends to use the power of the Ming Kingdom to suppress Parliament, which naturally makes him even more dissatisfied."
What Your Excellency the Duke said is that our king has a great desire to become a tyrant, and he even said something like 'God loves tyrants', so it can be seen that it is only a matter of time before the parliament of our British Empire will be dissolved by it in the future, and if this continues, it will be a matter of time before all the people of our British Empire will become its slaves!"
Xu Qianxue knew that he would never return to the Ming Kingdom, so he simply gave up, and seriously became a nobleman in England, and also wanted to stop James II's ambition to turn England into a second Ming Dynasty."
Our British Empire is really in the midst of internal and external troubles, there are strong enemies outside, and there are faint kings inside, so if this continues, how can we survive ourselves."
Monmouth sighed and said: "It's a pity that I am an illegitimate child, if it is a sister-in-law, I will not let him, a guy who likes to be a puppet, be the king!"
”"This is a ridiculous view!
No matter what you say, Your Excellency Duke, it is also the blood of His Majesty the original King, and the King's Choice will be chosen by virtue, and you have always been a virtuous person, so, in the following view, this position should have been inherited by you!
”Xu Qianxue expressed a different view on this.For the Ming Dynasty, he did not agree with the Yingyi throne succession system, and when the previous king still had children, he could only let his younger brother inherit the throne because his children were illegitimate children!
In addition, he was also dissatisfied with James II, so he said one more word in front of Monmouth."
It's just that you see it this way, many councillors don't think that illegitimate children have the right to inherit the throne!"
Monmouth replied reluctantly."
I will do my best to lobby for Your Excellency the Duke!
Let more people of insight in the British Empire know what true legal unity is!
”Xu Qianxue replied.Monmouth said gratefully, "Thank you so much!
”James II's desire to strengthen his royal power by colluding with the Ming did unsettle the bourgeoisie in the Yingyi.And their uneasiness will become more and more serious with the next plundering of England by the Ming Dynasty, and turn into greater dissatisfaction.The indemnity of 21 million taels of silver is nothing to the Ming Dynasty, but for the British Empire, which is not yet the empire on which the sun never sets, it will undoubtedly be nerve-wracking to come up with this money.James II therefore convened Parliament to demand a tax increase.The last thing that parliamentarians who belong to the bourgeoisie like is to raise taxes.He even cut the king because of the tax increase.Before James II received the arms of the Ming Dynasty and strengthened the strength of his royal guard, it was not good for him to completely tear his face with the members of the House of Representatives in the Congress, so he said: "You can not agree to raise taxes, but you must know that this money is not wanted by the king, but by the Ming Kingdom!"
If the Ming Kingdom does not get this indemnity, and if the army is raised again, what you will compensate will no longer be 21 million taels of silver, but will become 42 million taels, and even let us die without a place to bury ourselves!
”"Damn Mingguo!
Don't we have any other way!
”Duke Monmouth, a councillor who was very reluctant to pay more taxes, spoke at this time."
There's no way to skip the tax."
Coleman replied."
Alright!
I agree to a tax increase!
”Monmouth replied.Then, other parliamentarians had to agree to the king's tax increase.As a result, the taxes of the whole country of England increased, and the bourgeoisie in the country naturally shifted the increased tax burden to hired workers and serfs, which made the social contradictions in England begin to sharpen.But this is only the beginning, with the influx of a large number of cheap goods in the Ming Dynasty, a large number of local goods in England are not salable, and the entire market is soon occupied by the Ming Dynasty.As a result, the income of the English bourgeoisie was greatly reduced.However, the Ming Dynasty also took advantage of the fact that England allowed trade with the Ming Dynasty, and also opened some primary factories to these treaty ports in London, as well as the Ming colonial area - the Isle of Wight.As a result, many of the serfs who had been driven to the cities by the English bourgeoisie through the enclosure movement were attracted by the better treatment offered by the Ming factories.The reason why the factories of the Ming Dynasty gave these serfs better treatment was naturally because they had technological advantages and could create better economic benefits by attracting more labor.But the bourgeoisie in England therefore had no market to sell their goods and little cheap labour available.As a result, the bourgeoisie of England as a whole suffered heavy losses.England is not a Ming Dynasty, it is a maritime country, mainly based on commercial civilization, not agricultural civilization.As a result, the bourgeoisie who do business in the country makes up a large proportion of the entire Yingyi population.If the merchants of the Ming Dynasty did not make enough money in business, they could go back to their local masters.But Yingyi can't do it, they don't have so much land for them to be the owner, if they can't make money through business, then they can only sit and eat.Therefore, the British bourgeoisie naturally became more and more dissatisfied with the Ming Dynasty, and they were disgusted with everything about the Ming Dynasty.Even some of them were radicals who intended to start a riot and attack the Confucian school in London, but James II took the initiative to send troops to suppress it bloodily.James II even rebuked the MPs and ministers in Parliament for this, saying that if they did not want England to perish, they should not try to anger the Ming Kingdom, but should maintain some sanity.The bourgeoisie in power, that is, the Yingyi who belonged to the aristocratic class, still maintained great restraint like James II, knowing that now they could not have any disrespect for the Ming Kingdom, and also took the initiative to suppress the ordinary Yingyi merchants and craftsmen who were dissatisfied with the Ming Kingdom, and gave special preferential treatment to the Ming people.The invasion of England by the Ming Dynasty naturally curbed the development of capital in England and deprived it of the opportunity to strengthen its bourgeois power by relying on Atlantic trade.Even the entire country is facing the possibility of being completely assimilated by the Ming Dynasty.Although this is only the beginning, no one can guarantee that the Ming Dynasty will not annex its civilization after seizing the commercial market.The indemnity of 21 million taels of silver allowed the Ming Emperor Zhu Youxiao and his courtiers to continue to invest heavily in technology research and development and engineering construction.The newly opened English commodity market gave the empire a new place to expand the government and private capital, which was unwilling to stop absorbing profits.As a result, many young and middle-aged Ming people who have not been middle-level managers in major factories for many years will be promoted in their careers and go to England to become independent senior managers.The same goes for the military and politics.Consular officers and officials from the two counties of the White Prefecture naturally had to be selected from among the younger generation in the country.Of course, in addition to these places, the territory obtained by the Ming Dynasty's expansion in other places also needed to be managed by sending talents from the military, politics, and business.Therefore, in the current state of expansion, the people of the country no longer seem to have to worry about unemployment, nor do they have to worry about how many years of hard work they will not be promoted.Just like the Great Qin Empire in the process of sweeping Liuhe, the people don't have to worry that they don't have the hope of advancing to the nobility, it seems that as long as they don't die, as long as they continue to struggle, their lives can be on the rise at any time.During this period, the people of the Ming Dynasty were full of vitality and vitality, and various innovative technologies and ideas from all walks of life sprung up frequently.Even poetry and poetry are in a blowout state.At this time, Zhu Youxiao, who was sitting in the steam car, knew that his people had such a state because he saw the people of the Ming Dynasty who were smiling and smiling outside the car window, and seemed to have no sorrow and pressure, and knew that his people had such a state, which was the best proof that he had been in power right all these years!