After fleeing from Britain to North America, Charles II decided to regroup and prepare for a comeback by taking advantage of the North American territories where the climate and land were much better than the mainland.
After landing at Pamlico Sound, Charles II named a nearby land York County (east-central North Carolina) and gave it to his brother James, Duke of York, to manage.
In order to defend against possible attacks, the American Squadron led by Admiral Monk was also stationed in Pamlico Sound, and James, Duke of York, led 1,000 soldiers and 4,000 minions as coastal defense forces.
Charles II named the area near southern Yorkshire New South Wales (South Carolina) and gave it to Prince Rupert to manage, with the same troops and configuration as James's.
The remaining regular troops had to follow Charles II to protect the inland areas, and subsequently, counties such as Devon, Kent, Dorset, Norfolk, and Exess were born one after another.
Charles II gave enough land and positions to the officials who followed him to the North American territories, which gave everyone some comfort. Having land equaled new hope.
I have to say that almost everyone thinks that the climate here is much better than that in England. There is plenty of sunshine and many rivers, making it extremely suitable for farming.
The New World is really a livable place, and we should come here as soon as possible.
It turned out that there were about one million immigrants here, and Charles II brought about one million more here one after another.
But this is far from enough to build a new home. Although one million can be moved from the mainland, it is still not enough.
Therefore, in order to solve the problem of labor shortage, at the suggestion of his ministers, Charles II also began to allow merchants to traffic slaves from Africa to "work" in North America.
Charles II, who was almost bankrupt, had no money to do this, so he stipulated that trading slaves was entirely a market behavior, with no official restrictions on price and quantity, and they were completely tax-free for the first five years.
Charles II hoped to use this method to quickly increase the working-age labor force in the New World. France, the Netherlands, and Spain were all doing this, which showed that this method was indeed very effective, and he only had to copy it step by step.
It is planned to traffic one million slaves from Africa every year, which will be 10 million in ten years!
Although the number of slaves far exceeds that of the British, they are all slaves.
Under the shock of the heavily armed army, it is impossible to resist if you want to succeed.
I believe that in another twenty years, Britain will be even stronger than it was at home.
In order to increase the enthusiasm of the children to build new homes, Charles II ordered that each family can establish a private farm or manor.
If your own population is not enough, you can negotiate with ship owners to solve the problem of labor shortage.
The specific method was to use the harvest as a loan and loan slaves first.
Wait until after the fall harvest to repay the loan with crops.
The loan period is only seven or eight months, which is not too long.
If the slave dies or becomes ill during the loan period, and loses the ability to work, the loan farmer will use land to compensate the other party for the loss.
In fact, the farmers are not at a loss. If the ship owner encounters a Ming Empire warship while sailing and is unfortunately sunk...
So this is a typical gambling game, where time is used to bet on life to see whose life is harder and more valuable!
Of course, there are other ways to borrow money, such as marriage, which is equivalent to exchanging daughters for slaves.
It seems to be a very cost-effective thing to exchange a woman for a group of slaves.
Especially beautiful women can be exchanged for dozens or even hundreds of slaves.
So in the New World, there was not only the slave trade, but also the trade of beautiful women.
The father of several daughters thought he would be homeless if he left his hometown.
This time it was better, I suddenly turned over.
The more daughters and the more beautiful they are, the faster they will become rich.
Due to the serious shortage of girls of school age, families with many sons even went to Dutch businessmen to buy prospective daughters-in-law.
The result is that even the poorest women in the Netherlands can live a life of complete security after coming to the UK.
If you can basically give birth to and raise children, and cook two pots of random stew every day, then you are considered a very qualified wife.
Life in the early days of arriving in the New World was relatively difficult. You had to hunt and fish, or eat the potatoes provided by the government to satisfy your hunger.
Even on Charles II’s dinner table, the main dish was fish and chips!
Add in some wild ducks, wild boars, etc., and mix it with a salad at most, which is considered a rich meal.
Charles II would not complain. After all, he had already experienced all kinds of hardships when he ran away before.
I have slept in trees and in other people's yards. Life is much better now than before.
The only person to blame is his own father. Internally he was unable to deal with Cromwell's rebel traitor, and externally he took the initiative to provoke the Ming Empire.
Although Cromwell is dead now, the rest of the people are still causing trouble in Africa.
The Ming Empire united with France and the Netherlands and pushed itself into its North American territories.
It's equivalent to saying that the territory is revealed and everything has to start from scratch.
Not to mention anything else, military production alone has plummeted.
The scale of shipbuilding and artillery and gun manufacturing can only be equivalent to about a quarter of what it was before.
The scale of British military production has almost fallen to the same level as Portugal or Venice in a short period of time.
Fortunately, Carlos II's side wasn't much better, and we could be brothers in distress in North America...
Since we are short of cash and the other party does not accept credit sales, it will be impossible to even purchase from other countries in the short term.
Prince Rupert estimated that only about 20,000 people had hot weapons, and the others, including a large number of minions, used cold weapons.
After the expansion, the size of the British army has reached 50,000.
But this kind of weapon configuration is simply a bad joke!
Fortunately, Blake tried his best to hold on to the native fleet, allowing Charles II to save some face.
The British Royal Navy has hundreds of battleships on its books, which is almost as strong as the Spanish Armada back then.
Unfortunately, veterans all know that we have now entered the era of ironclads, and the good days of sailing battleships are gone forever.
As a large number of ironclad ships are built and launched, the British Navy's global ranking will slip at a speed visible to the naked eye.
Before moving away from the mainland, it was already inferior to the Ming Empire, France, and the Netherlands.
In a few years, it will even be inferior to the Swedish Navy...
This is by no means alarmist, because within ten years, Britain will not be able to build an ironclad ship that can fight the opponent.
After twenty years of rebuilding, how could the other side stay in the same place? They would have already built or purchased more advanced ironclads.
There is no doubt that the Royal Navy will be in a weak position for a long time.
what else can we do?
Chief Minister Hyde has no choice!
Finance Minister Danby can’t help it!
Foreign Secretary Pepys has no choice!
Britain and the Netherlands fought twice, and the other side was very vindictive!
Britain and France fought a Hundred Years' War and even hanged Joan of Arc. It's even more impossible for the other side not to hold grudges!
Britain dispatched a fleet to loot the Jiangnan region, the richest area of the Ming Empire, and now has no plans to compensate...
After offending France, the Netherlands, and the Ming Empire, Britain could only form an alliance with Spain.
It is also possible to ally with the Holy Roman Empire or Polly, but those two seem to be of little help to Britain, which has moved to North America.
Fortunately, the north of the new homeland is the Netherlands. If it were France, Prince Condé might raise troops to invade every day. Whether he can stop it is anyone's guess...
On October 15, 1667, Charles II and William II formally signed a peace agreement.
Within two years, he ordered the use of all means to move Zimin to the North American territories.
Because the supplementary terms of the agreement stipulated that the emigration from the British mainland to North America should not be later than Christmas 1669.
We only have two years and two months to spare. In fact, the time for moving is very tight.
As calculated based on the capacity of existing ships, it is impossible to transport one million people per year using all means.
Charles II could only send some more beauties and treasures, and asked William II to agree to extend the period for two years.
If it is reduced to transporting 500,000 people every year, it can barely transport 2 million people to the North American territories.
Charles II did not intend to take the remaining part, because it was all in the other party's pocket.
The coalition forces accounted for the largest share, and were estimated to occupy about three million Zimin.
Charles II, in the middle, was able to carry around two million people.
Little Cromwell was at the bottom and could move around half a million.
Not counting the total population of the UK, those who are old or sick are abandoned and left to fend for themselves.
Now even most of the nobles who followed Charles II felt that it was much better to grab some slaves from Africa and go to North America to grow cotton than to waste precious transportation capacity on transporting some dying people.
Everyone has learned to cater to this king, because in North America, I am afraid there will never be another Cromwell...
Only Hyde and others who took refuge first were pardoned by His Majesty the King, and most of the other members could follow Cromwell.
Charles II had no intention of taking them to North America. They had betrayed Charles I and were unruly and unwilling to formally apologize.
It’s okay not to apologize, but it’s okay to give enough money, but in the end, Charles II encountered a group of hard-core roosters who had nothing to lose!
I'm sorry, I heard Africa is a good place...
After learning about Charles II's destination, Cromwell and his group did not dare to go to America.
Their forces were mainly army and they did not control the navy at all.
Blake was originally loyal to Cromwell, but times changed.
On the premise that the interests of the fleet come first, it is obviously safer to choose Charles II as the new owner.
To move to Africa, they had to recruit some merchant ships and turn to France and the Netherlands for help.
North Africa and East Africa were the sphere of influence of the Ottoman Empire, while West Africa was divided between France and the Netherlands.
Only Central and South Africa is left on this continent. South Africa belongs to the Ming Empire, and the parliamentary army can only set foot in central Africa, that is, the Congo area.
Except for the language barrier, no stronghold, and some endemic diseases that cannot be cured for the time being, everything seems to be fine there...
After concluding the agreement, Charles II, in order to show his broad mind, did not intend to do anything to the Parliamentary Army and allowed it to move away some personnel and materials in the area under its control.
As long as he takes the majority, Charles II is also happy to see the other party go to Africa and have a hard time.
In this way, we developed in North America and Central Africa at the same time, and spent more than fifteen years peacefully.
Under the governance of Charles II, the United Kingdom in North America finally took advantage of its precious breathing space to breathe a sigh of relief.
The population has recovered to about five million, although industrial development lags behind countries such as France and the Netherlands.
However, plantations using large numbers of slaves could also achieve self-sufficiency and achieve financial surpluses year after year.
The standing army reached 50,000, supplemented by more than 100,000 minions.
As long as it was allied with Spain and France and the Netherlands had no intention of using force, Britain had no problem protecting itself.
But on October 20, 1685, a major event happened that affected the future of Britain and even North America.
That was when Zheng Chenggong led his fleet to bombard New Rotterdam (Virginia Beach), which was originally owned by the Netherlands!
This place was originally going to be handed over to the Ming Empire by the Dutch, but there was a time lag in the handover process between the two parties.
The Netherlands evacuated all residents and troops from the area three months in advance, resulting in a vacuum.
The Duke of York, instigated by his men, sent troops to occupy the area and even the entire western shore of the Chesapeake Bay.
The British army crossed the Roanoke River and marched northward, swallowing up an area of land approximately equal to half of Yorkshire in less than a month.
Seeing that the Ming army did not appear for a long time, the British army became even bolder. The cavalry troops even went all the way north and reached Delaware Bay.
Coupled with the coordinated actions of the inland British troops, this meant that nearly one-third of Dutch North America was eaten in a short period of time.
Now that the Dutch have given up voluntarily and the yellow-skinned monkeys have not appeared, the British can temporarily supervise this land.
Charles II was on his deathbed, and all major affairs were left to the Duke of York.
Everyone also knows that after His Majesty the King's funeral, James will be the one to ascend the throne, so they are doing their best to welcome him.
But this sudden incident shocked everyone in the UK.
Fortunately, the scale of New Rotterdam's fleet is not large, and it does not matter even if it is sunk by the enemy.
When Blake handed over the command of the main fleet to Monk, he gave him some precautions.
For example, do not locate the base of the main fleet in a certain bay. Once the enemy attacks, your own side will face catastrophe.
Abandoning the natural base of Pamlico Sound, she instead chose to be stationed at Georgetown, New South Wales.
What Blake feared most during his lifetime was that his fleet would be blocked in the bay and beaten by the enemy.
With the enemy possessing a large number of ironclads, the chance of the fleet breaking out from the bay was slim.
There is the mouth of the Broad River near Georgetown. If you go upstream, you will encounter some lagoons.
It was a good haven, and Blake relied on these lagoons to hide his fleet when necessary.
Because when the enemy ship has a high speed, even if our own fleet successfully breaks through, it will be overtaken and sunk when it enters the deep sea.
Fortunately, this situation did not happen before he died, and he did not want this to happen to Munch.
Monk understood Blake's painstaking efforts and has been following this instruction since taking over.
Before Monk closed his eyes, the successor he chose was Earl Torrington.
This guy's level of commanding battles is very average. His only advantage is that he can run fast!
Blake said during his lifetime that for other countries, warships may be more important than sailors.
But to Britain, sailors are much more important than battleships, because our battleships are outdated.
If we don’t have battleships, we can still buy them and build them ourselves.
Without skilled sailors, even if Britain is on the sea, it is equivalent to a landlocked country!
