Prince Edward personally sent the eight terms of negotiation to the royal palace of the English Stuart, and personally handed them over to Charles I, the king of the Stuarts.

Charles I's performance after seeing the content of these eight articles can be described as thunderous, although he didn't dare to do anything to Yang Sichang, the representative of the Ming Dynasty, but he could still lose his temper in front of Prince Edward.

Therefore, this Charles I directly scolded Prince Edward with a scolding face: "Fake! You bastard, you negotiated such a result with that group of Ming people, and gave up the Isle of Wight, and asked me to take so many silver dollars out to pay compensation, what kind of heart are you, or are you not the prince of my Stuart dynasty! ”

Prince Edward did not know that he had privately reached a deal with Yang Sichang to sell the weapons of the Ming Kingdom, in order to persuade his king to accept this treaty, he could only explain with tears in his eyes: "Your Majesty, it is precisely because I am the prince of the British Empire that I have to agree to this clause, and now the enemy is strong and I am weak, and because of the intervention of the Ming Empire, the heretics who do not obey the rule of our Stuart dynasty are already ready to move, and now we can only promise the Ming Kingdom first and send away this plague god, In order to take a break to stabilize the domestic situation, and then Xu Tu develops, one day, our Stuart dynasty will also bring back these shames! Moreover, it was only under my many mediations that the Ming Kingdom reduced the conditions again and again, and the Ming Kingdom originally wanted the Isle of Man, and the indemnity would also be 60 million silver dollars. ”

"Hmph, 60 million silver dollars, that's 21 million silver dollars, and this king doesn't have it!" Charles I still couldn't help but roar angrily, although he didn't need Prince Edward to explain, he also understood the truth, and he also knew that he didn't have any hole cards to bargain with the Ming Empire, but as a king who was once a hegemon in Europa, it was really unacceptable for him to admit this treaty so aggrievedly, and once he accepted this unequal treaty for his British Empire, it would not only make him lose face in front of the other countries of Europa, It's a shame in the whole of England.

"Your Majesty, after the negotiations, His Excellency Yang Sichang of the Ming Kingdom also said that as long as we recognize the validity of this treaty and are willing to maintain friendship and trade between the two countries, their Ming Empire will be willing to maintain the rule of the Stuart dynasty all the time, and recognize the legitimacy of the Charles family in England, and can provide military assistance if necessary."

When Prince Edward said this, the English king Charles I couldn't help but light up, and his heart finally felt better, because after all, his ruling interests were still not damaged, although it did cause the entire national interests to suffer, but if the loss of this part of the national interests was exchanged for the support of the Ming Empire for his dynasty's rule, it would be a good deal.

Because of his obsession with power, Charles I unknowingly became a lackey of the Ming Empire, of course, he himself was unaware, just like in the original history there was a woman named Cixi who said the measure of China's material resources and the joy of the country, he couldn't help sighing: "You go and sign, tell them that the Ming people, my British Empire is willing to make friends with the Ming Empire forever, and use the material resources of the British Empire to form the friendship of the Ming Empire!" ”

After hearing this, Prince Edward hurriedly flattered Charles I with a few words, and then received the decree and personally came to tell Yang Sichang's people that he could go to the "Yu Qian" tomorrow to sign a treaty.

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The "Yu Qian", which has experienced no less than 100 naval battles, can be regarded as one of the most advanced capital warships of the Ming Dynasty, and the original history book of the Qing court and the British in the forties of the nineteenth century signed the first humiliating "Treaty of Nanjing" on the British ship, and now, also on the ship of the Ming Dynasty, Prince Edward will represent the British government to sign the first unequal treaty that humiliates the British Empire, that is, the "Treaty of London".

The reason why it is called the Treaty of London is that Gaine was signed near London, England, and the core condition that promoted the formation of this treaty was that London, the capital of England, had been threatened by the army of the Ming Empire, forcing it to sue for peace.

Prince Edward also had to sigh at the advanced ships of the Ming Empire when he boarded the "Yu Qian", in his cognition, he never thought that the warship could be made of iron armor, and even without human traction, he did not expect that there was a machine in this world that could replace manpower to achieve higher efficiency, nor did he expect that so many guns could be installed on the entire ship.

Prince Edward's memoirs later mentioned his feelings on this day, and in his opinion, the gap between England and the Ming Dynasty at this time would be no less than a hundred years.

In fact, Yang Sichang invited him to come to the "Yu Qian" to sign the "Treaty of London" in order to show the military strength of the Ming Dynasty and further deter Prince Edward, so that through the feelings of Prince Edward and others, the entire English gave up resistance to the Ming Empire.

Although it is a warship, now that it is the place where Yang Sichang is stationed, it is deliberately decorated to a higher standard, so when this Prince Edward enters the cabin hall, he feels that this place is even more gorgeous than the royal palace.

By this time, however, Prince Edward was clearly in no mood to admire the Oriental decorative art in the cabin, and he was already a little uneasy at realizing that he was about to sign the first unequal treaty in the history of England on behalf of all of England, and he knew that he would soon become the first historical sinner.

Yang Sichang was in a good mood at this time, he thought that the king of the English Empire, Charles I or other nobles, would refuse because his conditions were too harsh, and then he would have to force himself to use force again, but now he didn't expect that Charles I and Prince Edward agreed so happily.

At one time, the incense case had been arranged, the cross had also been arranged, Yang Sichang and Prince Edward sat on a long table covered with red silk cloth at the same time, a total of two documents with various terms and remarks written first in Chinese and then in English were bound in fine ivory wood and placed in front of the two, and Prince Edward signed with a quill pen, and Yang Sichang wrote his name with a brush, Prince Edward wrote very heavily, and Yang Sichang wrote very elegantly and freely, and the two finally exchanged documents and re-signed. Finally, they handed over the signed treaty documents to their staff, and then shook hands with each other.

The two then signed a secret agreement with each other, a supplementary agreement that would benefit the Edwards but not England.

At this point, the first Opium War between the Ming Dynasty and England, which lasted for more than a year, ended.

Since it is specifically stated that it was the first Opium War, there was also the Second Opium War.

Of course, that's just for later.