When Zhu Houzhao arrived in the port of London, it was early summer, the warm breeze was warm, and the whole port was filled with the smell of fish and rust, and there were endless ships and capitalists and dock workers coming and going.

Henry VIII's reforms made England at this time already see the first signs of capitalist development, and the complete system of shipbuilding and developed seafaring trade made Zhu Houzhao deeply feel all of them.

For the appearance of the Han people of the Ming Dynasty, the citizens of England in the port of London were no longer surprised.

Just as the citizens of Rome were still amazed by the wealth of the Han Chinese when they saw Xia Yan and other Han Chinese.

For ordinary citizens of England, they welcomed the arrival of the Ming Han people, because the arrival of the Ming Han people often meant that there were high-quality and inexpensive industrial products, such as cheaper textiles, edible and edible perfumes that could improve freshness, and perfumes that could make people more hygienic and fragrant.

What's more, the current king of England is still a member of the royal family of the Ming Empire, and it is undoubtedly an honor for the citizens of England to be able to marry the rich and powerful Eastern Empire.

Including some of the great nobles of England also thought so, otherwise they would not have agreed to the Ming royal family to become the king of England.

But the local bourgeoisie in England is naturally hostile to the Ming Dynasty, after all, after the Ming goods entered the United Kingdom, it had a great impact on the local industry and commerce in England, but because England was far away from the Ming Dynasty and because of the cheap labor, its local industry and commerce were not completely bankrupt.

In any case, the arrival of Zhu Houzhao is a big event for the whole of England.

The British King Zhu Zaiyuan and the British King Changshi and the Ming Shao Zhan Shi Xu Wei and the Shao Zhan Shi and Speaker of the Privy Council of England Roger and other English nobles were already standing in the port at this time waiting for Zhu Houzhao to appear.

As soon as Zhu Houzhao boarded the port, he saw these people, but these people had Hanfu and Western clothes, and when they stood together, Zhu Houzhao also felt very weird.

The army accompanying the British king on the port is still the army of the Ming Dynasty, the elite of the guards of a regiment, about 2,000 people, is the military force selected by Zhu Houzhao to volunteer to defend England, and it is also the guarantee that the British king Zhu Zaiyuan can have the status of king in England.

"Father, why did you think that you suddenly came to Erchen, and Erchen thought that he would never see you again in this life."

After the salute, King Zhu Zaiyuan asked about Zhu Houzhao with some joy.

Zhu Houzhao walked towards the carriage that had been prepared in front of him while being supported by the King of England: "I heard that your king is no different from a puppet, and my father naturally wants to help you, otherwise in the future, maybe your mother's family will be killed." ”

When King Zhu Zaiyuan heard Zhu Houzhao say this, he couldn't help but smile: "My father is too worried, although the parliamentary system has repeatedly hindered his sons, but it has not yet reached the point where he wants to get rid of his sons. ”

"Don't underestimate this sectarian struggle, fighting will turn into a struggle for secular power, since you are the king of England, you must have the appearance of a king, and you can't let others steal your power."

Zhu Houzhao got into the carriage and watched the streets of the entire city of London while educating his son.

Zhu Houzhao could see that the whole city of London was naturally not as orderly as the city of Beijing, and seemed to be more free and casual, with wealthy aristocratic merchants hiding in the colorful castle peeking at Zhu Houzhao's guard of honor, and many poor people hiding in ragged clothes and munching on black and hard bread.

The whole city is obviously much dirtier and messier than the city of Daming, and there are many slums, Zhu Houzhao couldn't help but ask Zhu Zaiyuan: "It can be seen that among your people, the people who are not very rich still account for the majority." ”

"My father didn't know that this was mainly because of the land enclosure movement, in which many landlords drove peasants who had usufruct rights from the countryside to the cities in order to develop their farms, and these peasants were driven to the cities to become vagabonds, or to work for the rich in the cities."

King Zhu Zaiyuan analyzed.

Zhu Zaiyuan, who had been king in England for many years, naturally knew England well, otherwise he would not have found that his royal power was obviously constrained by Parliament.

Zhu Houzhao nodded, he was no stranger to the enclosure movement in England, knowing that this was the "sheep eating people" incident that occurred in England in the primitive accumulation stage of capitalism, specifically, because of the rise of the textile industry and the rise in wool prices, the bourgeoisie in England found that it was more cost-effective to give land to farmers than to use it for animal husbandry and planting and then trade, so they forcibly took the land used by the peasants to their own, used violence to drive these peasants to the cities, and then made them exploited workers.

"You are the king of England and the master of all the people of England, and you should liberate them!"

Zhu Houzhao said to Zhu Zaiyuan.

Zhu Houzhao knew that although the "enclosure movement" was cruel and tragic to the English peasants, it was beneficial to the fate of the English nation, after all, he made the bourgeoisie in England further strengthened, and then enabled the later period to resist the monarchy and carry out constitutional monarchical reform.

Zhu Houzhao had to stop this process because he didn't want England to rise again.

Zhu Zaiyuan was also impulsive, and when he heard his father say this, he also nodded: "The sons naturally want to liberate them, but the sons have limited powers, and if the sons and daughters do not pass the parliament, the edict issued will not be recognized." ”

This is the biggest problem that Zhu Zaiyuan is encountering now.

Although he is the king of England, he is a descendant of the Zhu family who was educated in the Ming Dynasty, and he has the ideal of becoming a saint of England in his bones, and at the same time, as a king, he naturally wants to strengthen the royal power and expand his interests.

Today's England is not the original historical England, which can participate in foreign plundering to increase the king's interests, in addition, the king of England can also strengthen the royal power by buying off nobles and capitalists through the interests of foreign plunder.

Therefore, Zhu Zaiyuan also knew that he could only win over the low-level commoners to take away the interests from the nobles and capitalists and increase the power of benefit distribution.

It was for this reason that he said that he also wanted to liberate the peasants of England.

"What are you afraid of, you have your father behind you, and the entire Ming Dynasty!"

Zhu Houzhao also analyzed for him as he spoke: "The first thing we need to do now is to strengthen the royal power, and to strengthen the royal power, we naturally have our own supporters, these aristocratic capital merchants are definitely unwilling to become vassals of the royal power, they are destined to become our enemies, and we can only unite the peasants of the whole of England now." ”

"Please show me my father!"

Zhu Zaiyuan saw that Zhu Houzhao seemed to have a way, so he hurriedly asked.

"First issue an edict to the Privy Council, ordering it to draw up a draft of the "Anti-Enclosure Ordinance", and then rush to the Parliament, asking it to deliberate and amend it, and require that the anti-enclosure decree must be strict!"

Zhu Houzhao said.

When Zhu Zaiyuan heard Zhu Houzhao say this, he couldn't help but look embarrassed: "My father doesn't know anything, the sons have proposed, but most of the parliament vetoes, unless the edict of the sons meets their wishes, they even pass a bill, before the sons become completely religious, the bill of the parliament can be implemented without passing the sons and daughters!" ”

Zhu Zaiyuan didn't expect that when he became the king of England, he couldn't give an edict at will.

"Ridiculous! What a system this becomes! You do what I tell you, and if the council doesn't listen, you will send the army and dissolve the council! ”

Zhu Houzhao said very seriously.

Seeing Zhu Houzhao say this, Zhu Zaiyuan couldn't help but hurriedly say: "But father, not all the armies in England are royal armies, and the royal armies are also nobles and propertied people, and many of them are also supporters of the enclosure movement. ”

"I naturally expected this, I brought a Praetorian Guard from the British Guards this time, more than 20,000 officers and soldiers, they have no interests here, they and I are your battle against the parliament and strengthen the royal power!"

Zhu Houzhao smiled and said, the countless Ming warships in the port of London were like huge mountains in Zhu Zaiyuan's eyes at this moment, which did give him a lot of confidence for a while, Zhu Zaiyuan nodded: "Since this is the case, Erchen will do it!" ”

Zhu Houzhao smiled and nodded.

Father and son formalized the goal of liberating the peasants of England.

But the most important issue at the moment is the placement of Zhu Houzhao, his Praetorian Guards, and his entourage.

The nobles of England never imagined that their king's father would come to England as a guest, so they didn't really know how to face Zhu Houzhao.

Of course, they didn't think that Zhu Houzhao was here to invade them.

Zhu Houzhao naturally stayed in the royal palace, and his daily expenses were temporarily borne by the royal family, even including the logistical supply of the 20,000 officers and soldiers he brought.

20,000 officers and soldiers were also stationed directly on the land near the palace and on the king's territory, and the royal family hired craftsmen to build the barracks.

But when Zhu Houzhao lived in this England palace, he couldn't help but dislike the crowding of this England palace, so he began to ask his son Zhu Zaiyuan to build him a palace in England, and he was going to name it Buckingham Palace, which is located in today's Westminster area.

But his son Zhu Zaiyuan, the king of England, couldn't help complaining: "My father doesn't know, although the son is now the king of England, but the tax collection is not what the son says, it has to pass a parliamentary resolution, the total annual income of the royal family is only six or seven hundred thousand pounds, Mary's period, and France fought a war not only lost Calais, but also lost millions of pounds in military spending, and the income is also less, now you are here, and you have to supply 20,000 imperial Janissalines, it is really stretched, if you build a palace again, You can only borrow money from the Central Empire. ”

Therefore, Zhu Houzhao also asked the English King Zhu Zaiyuan in detail about the long history Xu Wei, only to learn that in the entire Tudor Dynasty today, the king's income is mainly only customs income in addition to his normal land income as a feudal lord.

Therefore, Zhu Houzhao couldn't help but say: "In this case, the expansion of the palace will be put on hold first, and it seems that we have to find a way to increase the income of the royal family." ”

Immediately afterwards, Zhu Houzhao asked Zhu Zaiyuan, Xu Wei, Luo Jie and others: "Has the edict drawn up the "Anti-Enclosure Law" been issued to the Privy Council? ”

"Back to the Emperor, the Privy Council has drafted the bill, and now we are waiting for His Royal Highness the King to convene a parliament," Roger replied.

Zhu Houzhao nodded, and said to Zhu Zaiyuan: "When the council is convened, I will also attend!" ”

Zhu Zaiyuan hurriedly said yes.

Thereupon.

Not long after, Zhu Zaiyuan issued an edict to convene a parliament, and the members of the upper and lower houses attended the parliament.

It was the first time for Zhu Houzhao to attend the parliament hall of England, and he felt fresh when he saw the leaders of all walks of life in England rushing in.

However, for the parliamentarians of England, it was clearly unseemly for the king's father from the East to attend parliament, so a bishop named Flooni was the first to question:

"This is the Parliament of England, please get out of here!"

"Yes, an emperor from the east, although he is the king's father, he is also a foreign race, not our monarch, let him get out!"

"Get out of here!"

Many parliamentarians echoed and even roared, and it was basically the British rulers who could participate in parliament, and naturally they were more hostile to the Ming Dynasty, which competed in global trade.

Roger, the Privy Council Speaker who presided over the meeting, hurriedly explained: "Everyone, please be quiet! This Emperor Taishang from the Ming Dynasty has been allowed by our king to go out of the Parliament, and he just wants to see how wise and decisive his children handle the affairs of the country! ”

"Your Excellency, I'm sorry, our parliament has not issued this bill, the king's relatives can appear in the parliament and observe the rules, he has illegally trespassed into the parliament, he should be expelled!"

Frogney continued to roar, seemingly unwilling to budge, and continued to threaten, "If he doesn't leave, I will refuse to participate in this council!" ”

Many parliamentarians in England could only accept Henry VIII's daughter Elizabeth to inherit the throne, but because Zhu Houzhao insisted on refusing to let Elizabeth return to England to inherit the throne, Roger, the envoy at the time, could only agree with other nobles to accept Zhu Zaiyuan as the king of England.

Originally, the Parliament of England did not agree to Zhu Zaiyuan to inherit the throne of the king, on the grounds that Zhu Zaiyuan was not a believer, but because in addition to Elizabeth, Zhu Zaiyuan was the most suitable, and the Ming Dynasty threatened to start a war and cut off trade, and asked England to let Zhu Zaiyuan be the king, which made the English Parliament finally compromise.

But the parliament also demanded that Roger must make Zhu Zaiyuan a believer as soon as possible, and even passed a bill of parliament that before Zhu Zaiyuan was baptized, the king could not approve it, and whether Zhu Zaiyuan could be baptized or not also required the consent of the parliament.

Now that Zhu Zaiyuan is convening a parliament, these British nobles and capitalists naturally have nothing to say, after all, Zhu Zaiyuan is the king, but when they saw Zhu Houzhao appearing here, they were naturally worried that the Ming Dynasty would interfere in their own parliament, which is why they reacted so violently.

Seeing that this Troni was so coercive to himself, Zhu Houzhao couldn't help but have a cold face, and looked at his son Zhu Zaiyuan: "Yuan'er, what are you doing with him, so disrespecting your monarch, so provoking your monarchy, daring to make a big statement in the parliament, if you don't kill him, how can you establish your authority!" ”

Seeing Zhu Houzhao say this, Zhu Zaiyuan also nodded hurriedly, and shouted: "Liang Menglong, shoot him immediately!" Mr. Luo, tell them why I killed Floni! ”

Liang Menglong was the chief of the guard who followed Zhu Zaiyuan, a Han from the Ming Dynasty, and immediately walked towards Frogney with a team of guards after receiving the order.

Roger also served as a chancellor, was in charge of justice, and had the power to pronounce executions.

Therefore, when Roger announced in English that Frogney had no eyes and did not respect the emperor, and should be executed, the guards led by Liang Menglong had already raised their rifles and aimed at Frogney.

At this time, Florny also saw the king's guards coming, and he was dumbfounded for a while.

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