Reborn Ming Dynasty as Emperor

Chapter 544 Britain became a semi-colonial and semi-feudal country

After the negotiations, the Ming Ocean Fleet withdrew from the city of London, and Li Dingguo's Inner Factory Brigade also escorted war criminals such as Cromwell and Tom to the Daming Ocean Fleet and evacuated London.

British government officials and troops on the Isle of Wight also evacuated the Isle of Wight.

On May 25th, the 25th year of Tianqi, the Ming army officially entered the Isle of Wight.

Because it was far away from Ming Dynasty, Yang Sichang deported the content of the "London Treaty" and the memorial to Beijing for the establishment of the White Special Administrative Region together with the request from His Majesty Zhu Youxiao, the Emperor of Ming Dynasty, and appointed Li Dingguo as Governor of White.

At the same time, Yang Sichang also allocated a part of the first batch of indemnities paid by the English Stuart Dynasty to Li Dingguo's expenses for establishing the Ming Dynasty on the Isle of Wight.

Li Dingguo is a graduate of the Royal Military Academy and studied at the Capital University. He has strong military and political capabilities. The inner factory has also been involved in the opium trade these days. According to the mainland newspapers, he seems to be a shareholder of Yang's Opium Company. Now that he is Governor White, he naturally wants to maintain Ming's opium trade in England.

The first thing Li Dingguo did after taking charge of the Isle of Wight was to remove all the signs of the English government and transform the residence of the Sheriff of White County into his own governor's office.

Then, the Yellow Dragon Flag of Ming Dynasty was erected.

Yang Sichang gave some of his staff members to Li Dingguo to serve as officials in the governor's office, and assisted Li Dingguo to reorganize the existing English residents on the Isle of Wight into the Daming household registration, and issued Chinese language teaching materials, and established a Chinese language school. The county's official language will be changed to Chinese, and contracts and tax payment vouchers in other languages ​​will not be recognized.

Li Dingguo's administrative measures to sinicize the Isle of Wight made the original residents of the Isle of Wight very uncomfortable, but fortunately, Li Dingguo, the Governor of Wight, promised to protect their private property and lives from infringement, and enjoy the same rights as the people of Ming Dynasty It was the welfare benefits that made the residents of the entire Isle of Wight not feel uncomfortable when they suddenly became citizens of Ming Dynasty, and the resistance was not very intense.

Although the English on the Isle of Wight, the main island of Great Britain across the sea, thought that these white people who were colonized by the Ming Dynasty would have a very bad life and would be in dire straits, but for the white people on the Isle of Wight, they As long as there are jobs or fields to grow, they don't care whether they are from the Stuart Dynasty or from the Ming Dynasty.

In fact, people in England are even more numb in their sense of national belonging than Chinese people.

Even hundreds of years later, many of these English people on the Isle of Wight are still extremely grateful for Ming's rule over them, and even think that Ming should colonize them for hundreds of years, and think that Ming should turn the whole of England into a colony. good.

This phenomenon exists today, and it is not uncommon in this world.

Gossip less, Yang Sichang got Zhu Youxiao's order in the 26th year of Tianqi, agreeing to appoint Li Dingguo as Governor of White, and at the same time ordered the first sub-ship of the ocean fleet to stay on White Island to assist Li Dingguo in maintaining the rule of the Ming Empire outside of White Island. He urged Yang Sichang and Heiwa to return home immediately.

Therefore, Yang Sichang took the first batch of compensation and returned to Daming with Heiwa.

And Wang Guangting was appointed as the commander of Jin Yiwei, and he was temporarily in charge of the general affairs of the five-port trade.

Cao Shiwen became England's first customs tax officer and was responsible for drafting the English tariffs. This is also the first person from Ming Dynasty to hold a foreign official position.

However, because of this, the tariffs of the whole of England and the trade of the five-port trade are directly controlled by Ming, which is more conducive to the further expansion of Ming's opium trade.

One year after the "London Treaty" was signed, Ming's opium output to England directly exceeded twice the sum of previous years.

That is to say, Cromwell's anti-smoking campaign failed completely, and made the opium trade in England more rampant. More English families went bankrupt as a result, and the Stuart dynasty became more and more decadent and extortionate. More and more selfish.

The whole of England has completely lost its vitality and momentum. The industrialization that was about to rise has directly declined, and its military strength has also declined seriously. None of the rulers of England wants to revive the country's prestige, and even Charles I has become obsessed with sensuality.

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Prince Edward was also heavily rewarded by Charles I after completing this task.

Although Charles I hated this traitor who betrayed his interests in England, and wanted him to take the blame for himself to appease the anger of nationalists in the country, he couldn't do anything about Prince Edward now. Getting rid of Prince Edward was also a slap in the face, and even the Ming Empire would not agree.

Although Charles I can't take any measures to deal with Prince Edward for the time being, many domestic emerging bourgeoisie have begun to show great dissatisfaction and strongly demand that Charles I execute Prince Edward, who has brought great shame to England.

And Prince Edward and his family were also criticized, but because of the support of Daming, Prince Edward did not suffer any losses, but England's criticism made him start to earn money in the first business of reselling weapons with Daming. After a large profit, he began to completely fall to the side of the Ming Empire, and became the first English capitulator.

The Edward family simply became more and more courageous, not only smuggled weapons with Ming Dynasty but also smuggled various other goods, so that in just a few years, the entire Edward family had mastered enough wealth to rival Charles I, and enough to shake Charles I dominance.

In this way, Charles I, the king of the Stuart dynasty, was even more afraid to touch Prince Edward.

Moreover, because the "London Treaty" greatly stimulated the nerves of many lower-level English nobles, the Scottish rebels gradually became larger and larger. Seeing this, Charles I also asked White Governor Li Dingguo to send troops to rescue according to Edward's opinion.

After negotiating the price, Li Dingguo still allowed some troops from the Inner Factory Brigade to participate in the Stuart Dynasty's counter-insurgency war, and successfully stabilized the situation for the Stuart Dynasty.

It seems that the Ming Empire is very friendly to the Stuart Dynasty, but in fact, anyone in the current Ming Dynasty has already left a deep impression on many English people in England, and anyone from the Ming Dynasty can run rampant here. Because English laws can't control them, and they are protected by a permanent army on the Isle of Wight.

(End of this chapter)