Ming Zuo

Life is as gorgeous as summer flowers, and death is as swift as epiphyllum.

It is the best portrayal of Cromwell in this time and space.

A figure who was supposed to be glorious through the ages suddenly fell away.

While giving a speech in the Grand Place, a drunk Hans Bilcock suddenly pulled out a musket from his arms and hit Cromwell in the chest.

Everything happened so suddenly that the guards didn't react at all.

Even worse, the projectile hit the heart.

Before Cromwell was sent to the hospital, he closed his eyes forever.

As the spiritual leader who rebelled against the king, Cromwell's sudden fall had immeasurable impact.

Hans Bilcock, who assassinated him, was tortured and tortured, but the conclusion he finally reached made people laugh and cry.

The fellow had been a worker in the London Ironworks and had made a good living.But then as the war progressed, the parliament's finances began to have problems.

The higher-ups have been asking workers to work hard, but they have never been paid.

His wife couldn't bear it and chose to divorce.

The good family fell apart, and Hans Bilcock became demoralized and began to drink and hold a grudge against Parliament.

This time he finally found the opportunity to assassinate the famous Cromwell as a small person.

As for where did his gun come from?
According to his own account, he picked it up on the street.

Very speechless, but also normal.

During the war years, it was normal for weapons to be left outside.

In the city of London alone, there are not many deserters.

In the end, after the court pronounced a sentence, Hans Bilcock was executed by hanging.

But there are different opinions about Cromwell's death, and there are various conspiracy theories behind it.

But in any case, with Cromwell's death, the situation in the parliamentary army took a sharp turn for the worse.

When Charles II heard the news, he looked up to the sky and laughed, crazy as if he was insane.

He personally rushed to the front and ordered the various armies to march towards London.

The parliamentary army on the road to Fairfask has collapsed and is powerless to stop it.

Although the other parliamentary army was intact, Cromwell was dead, the dragons had no leader, and they were in chaos, so they could only retreat.

Ten days later, Charles II arrived in Manchester, where he had betrayed him.

Before entering the city, there was already a group of people waiting here.

The representatives of the Presbyterian Church quickly held negotiations with the king.

If the king can maintain the power and status of the parliament and guarantee their interests, then they will firmly stand on the side of the king.

At the critical moment, the traditional aristocracy and the emerging bourgeoisie showed a compromising side.

Faced with the overtures of the Presbyterian Church, Charles II wisely did not become tough.

He also knew that Britain had been fighting civil wars for so many years, and its national strength was already weak, especially since it could not keep up with the age of great voyages.

The next situation facing the United Kingdom is no longer a struggle for ocean hegemony, but to ensure that its interests will not be lost.

The independence of Scotland, Ireland, and Wales has done too much damage to Britain.

Facing the favor of the Presbyterian Church, Charles II's mentality began to change.

In his mind, the roles of the Empire, the Netherlands, and Portugal are transitioning from friends to rivals.

This is what politicians think about when and what kind of issues.

Of course Liao Zhongjian didn't know the subtle psychological activities of Charles II, even if he knew, he didn't care.

Already independent Scotland, Ireland and Wales, with the support of the empire, will never be annexed by Britain.

As long as it cannot absorb nutrients from these three regions, Britain will not have a strong soil.

Another one, you, Charles II, a feudal monarch, regained control of the country. Although it could end the civil war, it also interrupted the development of Britain.

What threat is there to Britain, which has always been under feudal rule?

So Liao Zhongjian readily agreed to the adultery between Charles II and the Presbyterian Church.

With the rebellion of the Presbyterian Church, the parliamentary army quickly collapsed.

Charles II carried out a bloody massacre in Manchester, and all the people who opposed him suffered disaster.

In the vigorous British bourgeois revolution, with the rebellion of the upper classes of the new aristocrats and the bourgeoisie, only ordinary people suffered all the suffering.

Fairfask brought the two parliamentary armies together at Birmingham, but to no avail.

Although his prestige is also very high, he is not Cromwell after all, so that the thoughts in the parliamentary army are surging and crumbling.

Just when Ruprecht led his army to pursue, many officers in the parliamentary army chose to mutiny.

In the Coventry battle, Fairfax played well, but Northampton's third guard division mutinied behind the defense, causing a loophole in the defense.

The Earl of Essex quickly seized this opportunity and led the Scottish cavalry to the artillery positions of the Parliamentary Army.

After all the artillery was wiped out, the parliamentary army was gone.

Fairfask fought while retreating, with fewer and fewer troops at hand.Finally, on the outskirts of Chernatium, the last of the Parliamentary Army was surrounded.

Facing an enemy ten times larger than himself, Fairfax knew that failure was inevitable.

He knew better what would happen to him if he fell into the hands of the king, so he shot himself.

Following Fairfask's suicide, the rest of the parliamentary soldiers laid down their arms.

The British Civil War lasted seven years longer than the original time and space, and the whole of England was riddled with holes, and the people were in dire straits.

The most deadly thing is that the sea power developed by Britain after a century of accumulation was completely destroyed.

It is conceivable that the Netherlands, France, Portugal and others will not allow Britain to create a powerful navy in the future.

As an island country, it cannot dominate the oceans, so what future does Britain have?

The civil war was over, Charles II was victorious, and he entered London with the proudest pomp.Facing the volcanic eyes of the people, he didn't care at all.

The Great Purge also unfolded in London, and many stalwarts of the Parliamentary Army were physically eliminated.

Instead, the Elders who chose to betray gained greater power.

Of course, Charles II, who regained power, must also reward his allies.

Britain paid 500 million and 300 million pounds in military expenditure to the Netherlands and Portugal respectively.

The most important, of course, is the Empire.

On behalf of the British government, Charles II signed a series of treaties with the empire.

The empire is allowed to establish an embassy in London, the empire is allowed to trade freely in the UK, the imperial goods are allowed to enjoy tax exemption after entering the country, and the imperial merchants are allowed to invest in the UK.

Besides that, there is one more important thing.

Britain transferred Dominica and other Caribbean islands to the empire free of charge as a reward for the support of the empire.

All of a sudden, the empire has a unique geographical location in the middle of the New World and the Atlantic Ocean, and can deeply influence various affairs on the entire Atlantic Ocean.