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"My Majesty, you can really take my daughter captive for two years, and do you still have the qualities of a king?"

Queen Mary approached Edward step by step, and her tone became more and more aggressive, and the whole Queen Mother was full of power and began to oppress Edward.

However, Edward did feel oppressive, and the two mountains were like Tarzan pressing on the top, and his eyes were staring at the majestic mountains that were getting closer and clearer, and the color was obvious. Edward didn't let himself lose his temper.

Edward was thirteen years old and was about 1.5 meters tall, while Queen Mary was about 1.65 meters tall, just enough for Edward to reach her neck.

He took a few steps back with some natural reaction, and his mouth felt dry.

"Dear Her Majesty the Queen Mother, the marriage between me and Mary has been agreed upon before, and you have chosen to repent, which has to make us act like this!"

"What's more, I have heard that you are preparing to send Mary to France to be betrothed to the Dauphin of France, and your actions are in themselves a betrayal of the agreement, and it is necessary for me to bring Mary back to England."

Looking at Queen Mary, whose red lips were slightly open, ready to retort, Edward didn't give her a chance.

"Are you saying that the Greenwich Treaty was not ratified by the Scottish Parliament?"

"But the fact that the treaty not only bears your signature but is also recognized by France is of factual significance, and a reason for the refusal of parliament to approve it will not work!"

Edward seemed to be stating a fact, it was reasonable, the head was the way, and the queen mother was speechless, so she could only put on her face and look at Edward quietly.

"Alright, little king, you are not welcome here, I have something to say to Mary, please go out!" As soon as Edward's words fell, Queen Mary turned around, leaving a plump figure for him, and then dropped a word of expulsion, and hugged little Mary and said happily.

Little Lori grimaced at Edward, and then happily chatted with her mother.

Edward was bored with himself and left the room with an ugly face.

"Remember, don't let the people inside run away, keep an eye out!" Looking at the few guards who were standing still, Edward commanded in a deep voice, and then led the team to meet the Scottish ministers.

As he walked along the road, Edward pondered the historical causes of England and Scotland.

According to people's fixed thinking, if the Stuart royal family settled in England, then Scotland and England should be considered a merger, but in fact, this is not the case.

The two countries share a monarch and have the same royal family, but they each have a parliament and a privy council, and they maintain an independent status in politics, religion, law, economy, etc., and they are still wary of each other.

And after the Glorious Revolution, the Scots also hooked up with the French from time to time and plotted against England. Later, there was an opportunity for a merger.

In 1695, the Scots established the "Scottish Trading Company for Africa and the East and West Indies". Shortly thereafter, the Darien Scheme, which colonized the Isthmus of Central America, was adopted by the company.

Located in what is now the Panama Canal region, the artery of North and South America, the vision of the project was to establish a colony on the Isthmus and make it a commercial transit point connecting the Pacific and Atlantic trade circles.

In the spring of 1696, the propertied classes, as well as most of the aristocracy, in places such as Edinburgh and Glasgow, poured all their money into this venture.

In July 1698, the Scottish Company's colonial fleet set sail with the hopes of the whole country, and the following year arrived at its destination and succeeded in establishing a settlement, to the delight of the whole country. But then disaster ensued: the isthmus was densely forested and crisscrossed by rivers, making it difficult to create trade routes. Hunger and rampant tropical diseases kept the death rate high in the settlements, and the Spanish attack and the inaction of the English made the disastrous failure of the venture even more irretrievable. In 1700, the Scottish company had to terminate the plan.

The failure of the Darien plan was a fatal blow to Scotland's already fragile economic system. Scotland lost 2,000 men and £153,000, or about one-quarter of Scotland's total working capital. (When the monetary system was changed in 1707, the total circulation of Scottish domestic currency did not exceed 411,000 pounds) Scottish hard currency had already been consumed in times of famine, and the disaster brought the economy to the brink of collapse.

At this time, England took advantage of the situation and spent a lot of money to buy the aristocracy, and in the end, the two countries reached an agreement that England would compensate 400,000 pounds sterling in a lump sum to the investors of the Darion plan. However, the Scottish Parliament passed the Act of Merger of the two countries despite the opposition of the people.

In this way, England only spent 400,000 pounds to merge Scotland, the two were merged into one, the Scottish Parliament was abolished, and England formed a parliament, and Scotland lost diplomatic, military, legislative, judicial and other rights, equivalent to a province of England.

Edward admired the Scottish nobles' behavior of selling the country for money, but Edward remembered another time when the Scottish nobles did not want the king for money, and felt very disgusted.

During the civil war of Charles I, the king could not bear it and went to Scotland for help, but the Scottish nobles reached an agreement with the new army in England to sell their king to the English parliament for 100,000 pounds, and indirectly sent him to the guillotine.

For this strange Scottish aristocracy, Edward thought of a good way.

Come to a large guild hall, where all the Scottish nobles and councillors in Edinburgh are located, a full two hundred and thirty-two nobles and councillors.

Pushing open the door, Edward's eyes were imprinted with such a scene: a dozen Scottish masters led by the Earl of Allen stayed in a corner with serious faces, not knowing what they were discussing; The clergy councillors stayed together and prayed; Young and bored aristocrats have nothing to do, drinking tea, chatting, playing games, boring and boring.

The sudden opening of the gate attracted everyone's attention, and when a young man wearing a crown and a purple cloak entered, all the faces flashed with surprise, some happy, some angry, some not sad or happy.

And the regent of Scotland, Earl Aaron, had a complicated look on his face at this time, and gradually, the sad aura on his body became stronger and stronger.

As the leader of the aristocracy, he can't help but say.

"Good day! Your Majesty the King of England! (Good day, Your Majesty the King of England...... ）

As Count Aaron bowed, the other nobles put away their expressions and saluted.

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