Chapter 568: Britain Becomes a Semi-Colonial and Semi-Feudal State

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

English government officials and troops in the Isle of Wight, the Isle of Wight, were also evacuated from the Isle of Wight.

On the 25th day of May in the 25th year of the Apocalypse, the Ming army officially entered the Isle of Wight.

Because it was far away from the Ming Dynasty, it was too late to wait for the instructions of His Majesty Zhu Youxiao, the Emperor of the Ming Dynasty, so Yang Sichang first deported the contents of the "Treaty of London" and the Song Shu for the establishment of the White Special Administrative Region into Beijing, and first appointed Li Dingguo as the governor of the White Dynasty.

At the same time, Yang Sichang also directly allocated a part of the first indemnity paid by the English Stuart Dynasty to Li Dingguo to establish the Ming Dynasty and establish the Ming ruling system on the Isle of Wight.

Li Dingguo is a graduate of the Royal Military Academy and studied at Beijing Normal University, both military and political ability is relatively strong, in the inner factory these days also related to the opium trade, according to the mainland newspapers and periodicals seem to be the shareholder of the Yang Opium Company, now as the governor of Wright, naturally also to maintain the Ming Dynasty's opium trade in England.

The first thing Li Dingguo did after taking charge of the Isle of Wight was to remove all the emblems of the English government and transform the residence of the county warden of Wight County into his own governor's yamen.

Then, the Yellow Dragon Banner of the Ming Dynasty was also erected.

Yang Sichang gave some of his staff to Li Dingguo as an official of the governor's yamen, assisted Li Dingguo in reorganizing the existing English residents of the Isle of Wight into the Ming household register, issued Chinese teaching materials, established a Chinese language school, and ordered that from now on, the official language of Wight County will be changed to Chinese, and other written forms of contracts and tax payment certificates will not be recognized.

Li Dingguo's administrative measures to forcibly sinicize the Isle of Wight made the original residents of the entire Isle of Wight very uncomfortable, but fortunately, Li Dingguo, the governor of Wight, promised to protect their private property and lives from infringement, and enjoyed the same welfare treatment as the people of the Ming Dynasty, so that the residents of the entire Isle of Wight did not show discomfort when they suddenly became the people of the Daming Dynasty, and the resistance was not very fierce.

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

In fact, the English people are even more numb to the sense of national belonging than the Chinese.

Even, hundreds of years later, there are still many people in English on the Isle of Wight who are extremely grateful for the rule of the Ming Dynasty, and even think that the Ming should colonize them for hundreds of years, and that the Ming should turn the whole of England into a colony.

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

Without further ado, Yang Sichang received a decree from Zhu Youxiao in the twenty-sixth year of the Apocalypse, agreeing that he appointed Li Dingguo as the governor of White, and at the same time ordered the first branch of the ocean-going fleet to stay on White Island to assist Li Dingguo in maintaining the rule of the Ming Empire on White Island, and Yang Sichang and Heiwa returned to China immediately.

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

Wang Guangting was appointed as the commander of the Jinyi Guard, temporarily in charge of the general affairs of the five trades.

Cao Shiwen became the first customs and revenue officer in England, responsible for drafting English tariffs, which was also the first foreign official position held by a Ming person.

However, because of this, the entire English tariff and the trade of the five ports were directly controlled by the Ming Dynasty, which was more conducive to the further expansion of the Ming opium trade.

A year after the signing of the Treaty of London, the Ming Dynasty's opium exports to England directly exceeded twice that of previous years combined.

That is to say, Cromwell's anti-smoking campaign failed completely, and the opium trade in England became more widespread, more English families went bankrupt, and the Stuart dynasty became more and more corrupt and expropriated, less enterprising and more selfish.

The whole of England completely lost its vitality and momentum, the industrialization that was about to rise directly declined, and the military strength also declined seriously, and no English ruler still wanted to revive the national prestige, and even Charles I began to be intoxicated.

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

Although Charles I hated this traitor who betrayed his English interests, and also wanted him to carry the black pot on his back to appease the anger of the domestic nationalists, he couldn't do anything to Prince Edward now, after all, getting rid of Prince Edward directly now would also be a slap in the face, and he was afraid that the Ming Empire would not agree.

Although Charles I was not yet able to do anything about Prince Edward, many of the country's emerging bourgeoisie had begun to show great dissatisfaction and strongly demanded that Charles I execute Prince Edward, who had brought great shame to England.

And Prince Edward and his family were also criticized, but because of the support of the Ming Dynasty, Prince Edward did not suffer any losses, but the English criticism made him start to make a large profit after the first transaction with the resale of weapons with the Ming began to make a large profit, and became the first English surrenderer.

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

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

Moreover, because the "Treaty of London" greatly stimulated the nerves of many low-level English nobles, so that the Scottish rebels gradually became larger and larger.

After negotiating the price, Li Dingguo still let part of the troops of the Neichang Brigade participate in the counterinsurgency war of the Stuart Dynasty, 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, any one of the current Ming Dynasty has left a deep impression on many English people in England, and any Ming person can run rampant here, because the laws of England cannot control them, and they also have an army stationed on the Isle of Wight to protect them.