The English Revolution of 1640 and 1648 was characterized by the history textbooks of some later countries as a bourgeois revolution aimed at opposing the absolutism of the monarchy.

However, the bourgeoisie of later generations would certainly not want to live in a country like the Republic of England, which is said to be a dictatorship of the bourgeoisie, after making money, because there is no "life" in this country at all!

In this country, you are not allowed to smoke, drink, go to the theater, dance, play games, dress up beautifully, eat and drink, sleep lazily, and spend money lavishly. As for engaging in the third and fourth children or something, it's almost a capital crime! As for same-sex love, hehe, do you want to know what is the wrath of Christ?

In England today, you are only allowed to work hard, work hard, work hard, preferably eight hours a day for resting, eating and drinking, producing little Puritans and praying to God, and the rest of the time for work! Even the religious services on Sundays should be as economical as possible......

The "996", which was sprayed into slag by later generations, in the eyes of the British workaholic Puritans, was simply lazy to the point of moral decay!

And what's even more terrifying is that after working hard to earn money, you are not allowed to spend lavishly, three meals a day, coarse tea and light rice are fine. All the money saved is invested in reproduction, and there is no need to consider whether consumption drives the economy or anything...... If consumption is insufficient, then engage in capital construction and wage war!

What capitalist in the future would yearn for such a life? It's a good place to invest in the manufacturing industry.

As for opposing the absolutism of the monarchy...... Although England now has no royal power, it is certainly the most authoritarian country in the world, and there is no one!

Even Zhu Cihong, the despotic monarch of the East, is not as autocratic as him, and he can't do the things he did in England.

And the dictator, who had absolute authority in England and had reached the point of contempt for the king, now felt that the occupation of the great territory of the Americas by the Kingdom of Spain must not have been God's will...... It is simply a blasphemy against God to let the Spaniards, who will not build and only waste such a good territory, as the most devout believers in God, how can the Puritans in England tolerate such a betrayal of God to continue?

However, England's strength was still a little worse than that of Spain, which had a world empire - although Spain itself was depressed and could not be compared with the rich and developed England, Philip IV also owned the southern Netherlands (Belgium, Luxembourg) and northern Italy, centered on Milan, which were quite wealthy, very developed in industry and commerce, and had a developed financial industry that could provide huge usury to the king of Spain to support Spain's huge military spending.

Moreover, the Spanish world empire was huge, and it also had a vast territory and a large population in the Americas, as well as gold and silver income.

In addition, the Holy Roman Empire, which was also ruled by the Habsburgs, was able to provide a steady stream of German mercenaries to Spain.

In other words, the credit supported by gold and silver from the Americas could finance Spain a huge amount of military spending, and the borrowed money could buy weapons and equipment produced in Milan, the South Netherlands, and other German industrial and commercial cities, and even the Netherlands, and then hire some German mercenaries to form an army that could fight for the Spanish kingdom.

Whether the population of Spain itself is large or small, and whether industry and commerce are developed, are not particularly important factors for the world hegemony of King Philip IV of Spain.

Faced with the huge size of the Spanish world empire, which could also obtain war resources from Italy, Germany and the South Netherlands. Although the small but strong England, France and the Netherlands could defeat Spain again and again, they did not have the ability to give Spain a real fatal blow - Spain's army and navy were not weak, and no matter how strong the armies of England, France and the Netherlands were, they were not capable of killing Philip IV from the throne in Madrid.

Therefore, whoever fights with Spain cannot expect a quick victory, but can only make long-term plans!

And a long-term protracted war is more advantageous for the large Spanish world empire.

With the strength of Britain and France, it is unrealistic to drag down Spain, which is still relatively powerful, in a protracted war, unless they can find a great power about the size of the Spanish world empire to act as an ally......

And the big country had to be rich enough to salivate over the "possessions" of the Spanish world empire.

Looking at the world, there are not many countries that meet this condition!

As Cromwell's confidant and successor to Milton, a diplomat of the British Protestant regime, Thomas Murphy was the successor of Milton. Marville realized early on that China, which had gone to the sea, would help England defeat Spain and become the hegemon of the Western world, and that China was England's only option!

The Ottoman Empire and India, while large enough, were not close to Spain's American colonies, so it was difficult for them to benefit from the war that shattered the Spanish world empire.

The Mughals and Spaniards in India have never had a lot of troubles, and they have a lot of trouble to deal with.

Although the Ottoman Empire was at odds with Spain, if they made a move, it was likely to raise concerns about the eastward expansion of the Celestial Church throughout the European continent, and the Habsburgs would be able to step up and act as defenders of Christ......

And when the war between England and Spain was about to break out, Thomas. Marville submitted to Cromwell the idea of uniting the Ming Empire in the East to tear apart the Spanish world empire, and obtained the post of ambassador to the Ming from the head of the country.

Now the ambassador of the Republic of England to the Ming Empire stands on the Sanshan Gate in the west of the inner city of Nanjing, overlooking the busy Qinhuai River in the outer city of Nanjing.

The Qinhuai River in Nanjing at this time was not a river, but a small water system with many bifurcated tributaries, which flowed from the east and west of Nanjing to the west of Nanjing, and finally emptied into the Yangtze River. One of the sections located in the inner city of Nanjing, which was quite decadent and extravagant, was very inconsistent with the Puritan worldview, so Thomas. Marveille wouldn't have looked at it.

He now observes the area along the Qinhuai River in the area of Sanshanmen (Inner City Gate) and Jiangdongmen, which is a handicraft area in Nanjing, where at least 200 "machine rooms" or textile factories have been opened. A considerable part of the Chinese silk sold in Europe is produced here.

Nanjing's "Qinhuai computer room" has been in a period of rapid growth in the past ten years. The scale of the machine room continues to expand, and large machine rooms with hundreds or even thousands of looms continue to appear. At the same time as the expansion of the machine room, there was also a printing and dyeing workshop and a silk reeling workshop.

The former is mostly located between the southern moat of the inner city of Nanjing (which is actually part of the Qinhuai water system) and the large and small mahout gates of the outer city.

The latter were all located in the eastern part of the outer city of Nanjing, which was inhabited by northernite refugees and military dependents, which until a decade ago had been large tracts of farmland that belonged to Lingwei, and later Emperor Zhu distributed the land to the soldiers and volunteers who followed him.

In order to increase their income, these military dependents and righteous people planted mulberry trees and silkworms on the allocated homestead land. At the beginning, the silkworms they raised were not competitive, and many of them lost money. In order to buy people's hearts, Zhu Cihong had to find a way for them, hired experienced silkworm farmers from all over the south of the Yangtze River at a high price to teach their skills, and also set up a silk reeling workshop in Dongcheng, Nanjing, with his own pocket to support retired military officers.

However, most of these silk reeling workshops opened with the support of Emperor Zhu were difficult to operate, wasting a lot of real money and silver of Emperor Zhu. It wasn't until five years ago that a shopkeeper who retired from the army and engaged in the silk reeling industry defied the industry's condemnation and adopted the "killing method", which put the collected live pupae directly into hot water to boil...... So as to get the complete silk! This method was soon imitated by a group of northerners who were not afraid of killing, so in a short period of time, the silk reeling workshop in the east of Nanjing rose rapidly, dominating the southeast, and also promoted the development of Nanjing's machine workshop and printing and dyeing workshop.

Now appears in Thomas. The outer city of Nanjing in front of Marvell is like a fiery capitalist capital, a busy and wealthy city, which makes Marveil feel a little cordial, and at the same time perceives a little danger!

There is no decay and malaise here that an ancient country in the East should have! Although it can't be compared with Puritan England, it can't stand the number of people and the breadth of the land!