Isle of Wight.
This is a county in England.
Next to the English Channel.
It is separated from the island of Great Britain by the Solent Strait.
There is a natural harbor here.
The scenery is very beautiful.
Now this place belongs to Ming Dynasty.
The dazzling "Ming" flag like a flame was now flying at the highest point of the island, guarded by a small group of Ming soldiers.
At this moment, He Lian, a soldier belonging to this group of Ming troops, couldn't help but glance at the British barbarians on the island that had just belonged to the subjugated slaves of the Ming colonial area.
These British barbarians were naturally very afraid of the sudden arrival of this group of Orientals.
They were afraid of the Ming Dynasty's powerful ships and cannons.
But there was also a trace of anger hidden under the fearful eyes.
Anyone else would be angry at someone trespassing on their home.
The British barbarians on the Isle of Wight were no exception.
The property owners on the island even organized their serfs into soldiers after learning that their king had ceded the Isle of Wight to the Ming Dynasty, and prevented the Ming army from landing.
But they didn't succeed.
Their serfs were not determined enough to defend the island, and were unwilling to use their bodies to confront the Ming army's guns for the sake of their manor landlords.
Therefore, the manor landowners and serfs on the island had to accept the rule of the Ming Dynasty.
The island has a ready-made royal castle called Carisbrooke Castle. Charles I was imprisoned here more than 20 years ago because of the Glorious Revolution.
Now, this place has become the official residence of Ming Dynasty White Province.
Tang Bin, who was appointed governor of White Province, and General Tan Qian's troops of a thousand headquarters were temporarily stationed here.
There are eight towns on the island, namely Ryde, Newport, Cowes, Sandown, Ventnor, Shanklin, Yarmouth and Bembridge.
Now these eight towns have been merged by Tang Bin into one prefecture and two counties, and he has asked the imperial court to send officials to govern them.
The adult British barbarians on the island were ordered to build a port to facilitate the docking of Ming ships in the future.
As for the young Yingyi, they were all driven into the temporarily established Confucian school.
These young Yingyi had to study the "Disciple Rules" and other Confucian enlightenment textbooks with fear.
Although the Ming Dynasty no longer only followed Confucianism, in terms of cultural promotion, Emperor Zhu Youxiao of the Ming Dynasty still insisted on promoting Confucianism. He had to make other subspecies of human beings gentle, thrifty, and learn to obey.
Otherwise, once the wind of freedom is allowed to spread in these places, if we encounter a 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 very helpful for rulers to use to rule the people.
Therefore, Zhu Youxiao is still very committed to Confucianizing foreigners around the world, and even only allows them to accept Confucian Neo-Confucianism.
For this reason, Zhu Youxiao also specially wrote the "Disciple Regulations" that originally appeared in the Qing Dynasty based on his own memory, and ordered this to be used as an enlightenment textbook for foreign colonial education.
After all, the "Disciples' Regulations" have a stronger Neo-Confucian component than the "Three Character Classic".
It is easier for foreign children to be taught to be gentle, courteous and thrifty.
"Disciples' rules and saints' instructions. The first is filial piety, and the second is sincerity."
A group of white-skinned British and foreign children were also at the newly established Confucian school in London at this time. They followed Tang Ruoyu, a member of the Ming Dynasty who was hired by James II with a large sum of money, to read the "Disciple Rules". The sound of reading carried to the Thames River away from the school.
When the British Duke of Monmouth, who was walking by the river, heard these sounds, he felt harsh and clenched his fists. He thought to himself: "Our British Empire has fallen to this! We were ceded by the Orientals to pay compensation and asked for trade. , and now we have to let the descendants of our great Anglo-Saxons learn the knowledge of the East!"
"Mr. Kang, this is my sister. Do you think she can 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 Ming Han Chinese.
As a result, Frank became more and more willing to curry favor with Kang Qingchun. When he learned that Kang Qingchun wanted to take a concubine in England, he took the initiative to offer his beautiful sister, hoping to become a more trustworthy comprador of the Ming Dynasty, and invited him to meet on the banks of the Thames. .
Kang Qingchun touched Frank's daughter's face: "She is a pretty girl! Send her to my place tonight."
It happened that at this time, the Duke of Monmouth saw this scene, and became even more angry: "I hate these shameless businessmen in the British Empire for starting to fawn over these Orientals!"
Duke Monmouth felt uncomfortably tight.
Xu Qianxue suddenly came across from the Duke of Monmouth at this time. He also saw the scene where Kang Qingchun, a Han Chinese, was being fawned over by Frank, and felt quite sad.
You know, he has never been so fawned over by Yingyi.
"Your Excellency the Duke!"
Xu Qianxue naturally saw Monmouth again and saluted him.
Monmouth smiled and asked: "Where did your Excellency come from?"
"Coming from Hampton Court Palace, His Majesty the King intends to request the Ming Dynasty to send officers to train his Royal Guards Division, and let me be the interpreter."
Xu Qianxue replied.
Monmouth's expression became serious after hearing this: "This shameless king! He wants to flatter the Ming Dynasty to ask the Ming Dynasty to support him in becoming a dictatorial king!"
Monmouth was indeed very dissatisfied with James II.
Because he was the son of Charles II, he could have become the king of England if he were not recognized by most of the nobles in England because he was an illegitimate son.
Although James II was legally regarded as king by the English nobles, many people were not very satisfied with James II's beliefs because his beliefs were different from those of other nobles and common people.
Now, Monmouth could see from the signing of the Treaty of London and a series of performances by James II that James II intended to use the power of the Ming Dynasty to suppress Parliament, which naturally made him even more dissatisfied.
"What the Duke said is that our king has the tendency to become a tyrant. He even said, 'God loves tyrants.' It can be seen that it will be a matter of time before the Parliament of the British Empire will be dissolved by him. , If this continues, it will be a matter of time before all the people in our British Empire will become its slaves!"
Xu Qianxue knew that he would never return to the Ming Dynasty, so he simply gave up and seriously became an aristocrat of England, and also wanted to prevent James II's ambition to turn England into the second Ming Dynasty.
"Our British Empire is truly in the midst of internal and external troubles. There are powerful enemies outside and weak kings inside. If this continues, how will we survive?"
Monmouth sighed and said: "It's a pity that I am an illegitimate son. If I were a legitimate son, I would not let James, a guy who likes to be a puppet, become the king!"
"This is a ridiculous view! No matter what you say, Your Majesty the Duke, you are also the blood of the original King, and the king will be chosen by virtue, and you have always been a virtuous person, so, from what I see, this position is originally It’s your turn to inherit!”
Xu Qianxue expressed different views on this.
As a native of the Ming Dynasty, he did not agree with the Yingyi throne succession system. When the previous king still had children, he could only let his younger brother inherit the throne because the children were illegitimate!
In addition, he was also dissatisfied with James II, so he said one more thing in front of Monmouth.
"That's just your opinion. Many members of Congress don't think that an illegitimate child has the right to inherit the throne!"
Monmouth replied helplessly.
"I will do my best to lobby for you, Your Excellency, the Duke! Let more knowledgeable people in our British Empire realize what the true legal system is!"
Xu Qianxue replied.
Monmouth was very grateful and said: "Thank you so much!"
James II's desire to strengthen his royal power by colluding with the Ming Dynasty indeed made the British and barbarian bourgeoisie uneasy.
And their uneasiness will become more and more serious as the Ming Dynasty plunders England, and turns into greater dissatisfaction.
The compensation of 21 million taels of silver was nothing to the Ming Dynasty, but for the British Empire, which was not yet an empire on which the sun never set, it would undoubtedly be a pain in the neck to come up with this amount of money.
James II therefore called Parliament to demand higher taxes.
What bourgeois MPs dislike most is tax increases.
He even beheaded the king for raising taxes.
Before James II received the Ming Dynasty's arms and strengthened the strength of his Royal Guards, he could not completely break up with the members of the House of Representatives in Congress, and said: "You may not agree to increase taxes, but You must be clear that this money is not wanted by me, but by the Ming Dynasty! If the Ming Dynasty does not get this compensation and raises troops again, your compensation will no longer be 21 million taels of silver. It will become 42 million taels, and we will even die without a place to die!"
"Damn Ming Guo! Don't we have any other way!"
Councilor Duke Monmouth, who was very reluctant to pay more taxes, spoke at this time.
"There's no way around this without raising taxes."
Coleman replied.
"Okay! I agree to the tax increase!"
Monmouth replied.
Next, other members of Congress had to agree to the king's tax increase.
As a result, the taxation of the entire country in England has increased, and the domestic bourgeoisie will naturally transfer the increased tax burden to hired workers and serfs, which has made social conflicts in England begin to become acute.
But this was just the beginning. With the influx of a large number of cheap goods from the Ming Dynasty, a large number of local goods in England were unsaleable, and the entire market was soon occupied by the Ming Dynasty.
As a result, the income of the British bourgeoisie has been greatly reduced.
However, the Ming Dynasty also took advantage of England's permission to trade with the Ming Dynasty and opened some primary factories to trading ports such as London and the Ming Dynasty's colonial area - the Isle of Wight.
Therefore, many serfs who were driven to the cities by the British bourgeoisie through the land enclosure movement were attracted by the better treatment provided by the Ming Dynasty factories.
The reason why Ming Dynasty's factories gave these serfs better treatment was naturally because they had technological advantages and could create better economic benefits by attracting more labor.
But the English bourgeoisie therefore had no market to sell their goods, and there was not much cheap labor available.
As a result, the entire English bourgeoisie suffered serious losses.
England is not the Ming Dynasty. It is a maritime country with a commercial civilization rather than an agricultural civilization.
Therefore, its domestic business bourgeoisie accounted for a large proportion of the entire British and foreign population.
If merchants in the Ming Dynasty do not make enough money from doing business, they can go home and become landlords.
But the Yingyi can't do it. They don't have so much land that they can become landlords. If they can't make money through business, they can only sit back and eat.
Therefore, the British bourgeoisie were naturally more and more dissatisfied with Ming Dynasty. They resented everything about Ming Dynasty.
Some radicals among them even attempted to launch a riot and attack the Confucian Academy in London, but James II took the initiative to send troops to suppress it bloodyly.
James II even loudly rebuked the members and ministers in Congress for this, saying that if these people did not want England to perish, they should not try to offend the Ming Dynasty, but should maintain some sense.
The bourgeoisie in power, that is, the British barbarians belonging to the aristocratic class, still maintained great restraint like James II. They knew that they could not show any disrespect to the Ming Dynasty, and they also took the initiative to suppress those who were dissatisfied with the Ming Dynasty. Common British and foreign merchants and craftsmen, but special preferential treatment to Ming people.
The Ming Dynasty's invasion of England naturally curbed the development of capital in England, and it lost the opportunity to strengthen its bourgeois power through Atlantic trade.
Even the entire country faces the possibility of being completely assimilated by the Ming Dynasty.
Although this is just the beginning, no one can guarantee that Ming will not annex other civilizations after seizing the commercial market.
The compensation 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 for expansion for the government and private capital that refused to stop extracting profits.
Therefore, many young and middle-aged Ming people who have been middle-level managers in major factories for a few years will receive career promotions and go to England to become independent high-level managers.
The same goes for military and political circles.
Naturally, consul officers and officials from White House and two counties must be selected from among the younger generation in the country.
Of course, in addition to these places, Ming Dynasty also needed to send military, political, and business talents to manage the territory gained from its expansion in other places.
Therefore, in the Ming Dynasty, which is currently in a state of expansion, its people no longer seem to have to worry about unemployment, nor do they need to worry about struggling for many years without being promoted.
Just like the Great Qin Empire in the process of sweeping Liuhe, people don't have to worry about their lack of hope of advancing to the nobility. It seems that as long as they don't die and 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 like mushrooms after a rain.
Even poetry and poetry are in a state of explosion.
At this time, Zhu Youxiao, who was sitting in the steam car incognito, saw the people of the Ming Dynasty smiling and laughing outside the car window, who seemed to have no worries or pressure, and knew that the state of his people was because of his correct governance over the years. The best proof!
