Cromwell's anti-smoking campaign is still ongoing, not only the tobacco of Daming has been confiscated, but also the tobacco of tobacco companies from countries such as Francophone and the Netherlands.

Nationalists throughout England could not help but cheer, believing that this was Cromwell's anti-smoking campaign and a great event worthy of being remembered by history.

Liverpool was originally a small town with a population of several hundred, but because of the rise of the opium trade from the Ming Dynasty to England, it has become an important transit point for goods throughout England.

On this day, Cromwell also wanted to do something of great significance in this place of great significance, he ordered people to carry more than 100,000 catties of opium to a deserted outskirts, and in the deserted suburbs by the sea, he ordered people to dig dozens of large pits and ponds, and a cadre of English soldiers and civilians came to watch, for a time it can be described as a sea of people, lively and extraordinary.

Cromwell ordered people to lay stones under the big pit pool, and then nail wooden planks around it, and also dug a ditch, poured salt water into the ditch and flowed into the pool, divided the opium tobacco into several pieces and then fell into the salt water, soaked for half a day and then added quicklime, quicklime boiled in water, will quickly dissolve the tobacco soil, and then by people keep stirring, so that the tobacco soil is completely dissolved in the water, when the tide is low, the pool water is sent out of the ocean, and the pool is washed with clean water, leaving no residue.

This is Cromwell's Liverpool cigarette sales, in this world, he did not become the leader of the British bourgeois revolution, but because of Liverpool's tobacco sales, he also became a national hero in England.

It seems that awesome people will be awesome no matter what historical plane they are.

Maybe Cromwell himself didn't know that he had copied a Han official named Lin Zexu for this behavior, but in fact, there was still a gap between his Liverpool tobacco sales and Lin Zexu's Humen tobacco sales, he only destroyed more than 100,000 tobacco soil, which was not as generous as Lin Zexu, and millions of tobacco soil were directly destroyed in Humen.

Charles I was also excited, and Cromwell's act was very exciting, and it also gave him a taste of the good taste of royal dictatorship, which could easily make an empire's trade suffer.

Of course, Cromwell's actions raised his prestige among the lower classes and craftsmen, and his Stuart rule seemed to have been strengthened by this.

Cromwell was also crowned Marquis of Liverpool by Charles I, which was a compliment to his Liverpool cigarette sales.

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"I just got the news, England, it is this small island country, and it is actually forcibly confiscated a total of millions of catties of tobacco soil from my major tobacco companies in the Ming Dynasty! He also killed my Ming people and injured several people! ”

Zhu Youxiao specially called a big start on this day, and hung a huge global map on the Jinluan Hall of his Qianqing Palace, and ordered Lu Xiangsheng, the first assistant of the cabinet, to personally point out the location of England to these court officials in front of him, and then sat back with a wave of his sleeves: "Everyone, Aiqing, how to deal with this matter!" ”

In fact, many officials have learned that the tobacco of the major tobacco companies in the Ming Dynasty was forcibly confiscated and destroyed by England, so no one was surprised at this time, and they couldn't wait to express their opinions.

In addition to the Meisheng Company is the royal capital, there are also several tobacco companies that are private capital, most of these are the companies of the cabinet scholars present, otherwise it is impossible to get the right to operate, Zhu Youxiao allowed them to also go overseas to make money from the opium trade, but also to let them and the Meisheng Company form a competition mechanism, after all, the Meisheng Company can not be allowed to be a monopoly and lose the enterprising spirit, and at the same time, it can be regarded as a courtier, so that many officials stand on their side because of their interests, and support further overseas colonial expansion.

But what Zhu Youxiao didn't expect was that it was Cheng Jiming, the leader of the old school, who stood up and spoke first.

Cheng Jiming picked up the elephant wat and saluted Zhu Youxiao, and said: "Your Majesty, Yingli's move is detrimental to the majesty of our great country, but since ancient times, this kind of overseas barbarian state has been arrogant and unruly, and the sea is thousands of miles away. ”

"Ge Lao is wrong about this, what is the internal affairs of other countries, a small English is clearly deliberately provoking my Ming, if it is a domestic policy to ban smoking, it should be a complete ban on smoking, why only start with my Ming Ming, this is clearly to see that the quality of my Ming tobacco is good, for the sake of its own tobacco merchants, the implementation of trade protectionism, in the past, constantly increase tariffs, can also bear, and now it is blatantly robbing my Ming businessmen's tobacco soil to destroy it directly, this move depends on the majesty of my Ming Dynasty!"

It was Yang Sichang who stood up to speak, after getting Zhu Youxiao's permission and investment, Yang Sichang's father Yang He also ran a tobacco company after retiring to Zhishi, and thus became the top wealthy family in the Ming Dynasty, and now he has lost a lot because of Cromwell's anti-smoking campaign, plus he himself is a hawk in charge of the military department, so he is more radical, and directly stepped forward to admonish: "Your Majesty, Weichen believes that we must give England a heavy blow in order to demonstrate the prestige of our Ming Dynasty and protect my Ming business dealings. Otherwise, in the future, all countries will follow the example of England, and our Daming Maritime Trade will be greatly damaged, the treasury revenue will also be sharply reduced, and the pockets of the princes here will also be deflated a lot! ”

As soon as Yang Sichang's words came out, the court officials present couldn't help but blush, although it was difficult to say clearly, but they had to admit in their hearts that what Yang Sichang said was the truth, because of the rise of the tobacco trade, all the Ming officials were stained with light.

For a while, Chen Zilong, the young official in the matter of the current Hu Kedu, who was the protégé of Cheng Ji's life, also stood up: "Your Majesty, Weichen has the courage to advise Your Majesty to raise the king to crusade against Yingji!" ”

"The minister also seconded it!"

"The minister also seconded it!"

The ministers were indignant.

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Seeing this, Zhu Youxiao couldn't help but sigh secretly, when did the court ever work together like this, it seems that it is unreliable to talk about loyalty and righteousness with these officials, as long as it involves the damage to this common interest, everyone can hold it together, now it looks like where there is any reformist conservative party, except for a few cowering old guys such as Cheng Jiming, almost no one raised objections, and even the old people with Cheng Jiming kept their mouths shut, not daring to speak again, and they didn't want to offend all the officials.

Zhu Youxiao immediately made an order, ordering Admiral Yang Sichang to supervise the military affairs of England, and go to England with the first branch of the Nanyang Fleet, and fight against England on behalf of Zhu Youxiao.

However, according to Zhu Youxiao's instructions, the battle against Britain will be directly commanded by Li Dingguo, and Yang Sichang is only in the middle of the dispatch.