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Or rather, the British government has no choice.

After all, it was actually the British who dug their corners and partnered with the Ming people to pit the East India Company, and it was only the interests of the British royal family and government that harmed them, and of course a large number of aristocratic capitalists.

But they really can't help it.

The easiest way is to flatten the new Bocheng, and the British government absolutely does not have the guts, they can only protest in a weak tone at most, and they dare not make a loud voice, because they are afraid that Yang Feng will trouble them, of course, such a protest is meaningless. It was no longer possible to provoke the Indians to be guns, in fact the Indians were now enjoying the benefits of the arrival of the Ming Dynasty in a carnival, exchanging their grain and meat for weapons from the Ming army, and at the same time providing protection for the smugglers. The East India Company hired pirates, and this trick was useless. After a period of rest, especially after refueling through the subsequent arriving transports, the four Ming cruisers sailed directly south of Nova Scotia, lured Roberts's pirate fleet with a merchant ship as bait, and then, like an autumn wind sweeping away leaves, sank twenty pirate ships in less than half an hour with those terrifying five-inch guns, Roberts desperately managed to escape back to shore with less than ten pirate ships with his cunning mind.

All attempts have failed.

The British government could only continue to toss their common people, and finally the most ruthless trick was used, they granted the East India Company the franchise of cotton export and the import of cotton cloth, and the merchant ships of other countries could export to Britain if they wanted, plus 50 percent tariff, and those colonial cotton traders who wanted to export to others also added 50 percent tariff.

"It's madness."

Zhang Cheng said indignantly: "Dictatorium, Ducai, treat the people like grass mustard, this is the result of your lack of freedom, you are in the eyes of the politicians in London, in the eyes of your king, in fact, there is no difference between you and those black slaves, only the color of your skin is different, your existence is only to use your hard-earned money to enrich their pockets, you are still no different from the Middle Ages in their eyes, just a group of low-level pariahs who can be slaughtered by them." ”

At this time, his identity has become the governor of the colony of Yinzhou in the east of the Ming Dynasty.

For the time being, Xinbocheng was not part of any province, but was a colony under the direct jurisdiction of the royal family, and the supreme governor of the colony, also known as the governor, not only had the power to administer the affairs of the government, but also had the power to mobilize troops as he saw fit.

And sitting in front of him was the Mr. Hancock, a young man who was not yet thirty years old, who became a well-known figure in Boston by virtue of smuggling, slave trade, and of course legitimate trade, but now Britain handed over all the cotton and cotton franchises to the East India Company, which dealt a heavy blow to him, and of course it was not only him, all the merchants in the North American colonies who operated such businesses were dissatisfied and angry, but they were helpless, after all, their arms could not be twisted.

"I don't understand why you have to endure the rule of London?"

Ming Army Brigade Commander Feng Kai said.

"This is not England, this land is not England, it is you, it is your ancestors, not the King of England who opened up this land, this has never belonged to the British royal family, this is your land, you are indeed from England, but what is it? It can only be said that you were once British, do you have to be British here for generations? What about immigrants from other countries to the Americas? ”

He continued.

"We need protection."

Hancock leaned on the table, drinking wine and said melancholy.

"You need to be free."

Zhang Cheng said disdainfully.

"What you need is freedom, because you don't need protection at all, you have enough to protect yourself, how many people are there in New England and other British colonies, as far as I know it will not be less than 700,000, and how many young men are there? One hundred and fifty thousand? I'm afraid there will be more, most of the new immigrants over the years are young men, and even if you only maintain a fifth of the army, you can have 30,000 real soldiers, and you can buy as many weapons as you want.

So who else do you need protection?

Can the Indians threaten a country protected by 30,000 real professional soldiers? With their tribal armament, 3,000 men could sweep away the Indians of the north.

So who else do you need protection? ”

Then he said.

"What about the French?"

Hancock said.

"French?"

Feng Kai said: "Your life under British rule now seems to be inferior to the French, right?" At least Louis didn't hand over any cotton, cotton, sugar, and sugar to the French East India Company, and the French didn't need to get a marriage license and have to pay taxes first. Besides, if the French really want to rob your place, why wait until now, how many good places are waiting for them on both sides of the Mississippi River? Is it easy to grab New England from you, or is it easy to grab territory from those Indians? Besides, I just heard that a few months ago a large amount of gold and silver was discovered in the heath region of the eastern Rocky Mountains, and I guess the French will have to attack desperately westward, and Louis has no interest in worrying about your cotton. ”

"What you said is true?"

Hancock said with a shocked look on his face.

"Of course it's true, it was discovered by one of our expeditions, and it was published in the national newspapers, and it was said that there were gold and silver mines everywhere, and they also found a huge mixture of gold, silver, and copper, which was said to be fine for hundreds of years. They also want to raise shares to form a company to develop in the past, but no one in our country wants to, after all, to go there you have to climb over the Rocky Mountains, and you have to go inland at least thousands of miles, and there is no waterway, it is better to go there than to go to Zhaonan Province, to Jinzhou, even to Borneo there is gold.

But the French are simple.

They went straight down the Colorado River, and when I came, I heard that the French had begun to contact them, and it was said that they were hired at a high price to take them to find gold mines, and once they really found them, they were given a share, and our government did not stop them. ”

Feng Kai said.

This is indeed true, the Ming expedition team in the upper reaches of the Colorado River, found a large number of gold and silver mines, originally wanted to use this as a shareholder to invite Yin Zhou Company to open mines, but Yin Zhou Company after calculating the difficulty, directly gave up, after all, from the Golden State across nearly a thousand miles of primeval forest, there is also a towering mountain range, the cost of panning for gold in a semi-desert area is too high, and no one is willing to endure that kind of hardship, and then this expedition team publicly published to raise funds, but basically no one cared.

Even Yinzhou Company doesn't do it, who will go to other domestic investors?

But the French were tempted.

The French control the Colorado River waterway, there is no need to climb over the Rocky Mountain, the only one is the Indians, but at this time, Louis, who wants to think of gold, cares about this little thing, and besides, there are not many Indians in the wasteland there, and his people can march upstream along the Colorado River from northern Mexico, which is currently controlled by Spain, although the Colorado River is fast, it is not navigable.

And the gold and silver obtained by the French after obtaining gold and silver mines must have also gone to Daming to purchase materials, so no one in the Ming cabinet and the two houses interfered.

In this way, the French must go all out to open the Colorado River, and then develop gold and silver mines, and their colonies in Louisiana and New England are separated by the Appalachian Mountains, and the colonies of Canada and New England are separated by Indians, and the population of these colonies is not large, not to the point where they must expand outward, that is to say, Louis will not be interested in New England in a short time, in fact, if New England rebels against England, Louis will definitely be very happy, It was always a pleasure for him to see the English unlucky, and he was thinking about taking Portugal for his grandson, but Portugal was under British protection, and if the British were caught up in colonial civil strife, he could take advantage of it.

Hancock's mind certainly understands this.

"Is there really gold there?"

He said with a look of yearning.

"Don't think about it, it's Louis XIV's, if you have a country, maybe in a few decades, you can still fight for it when you are strong, but now let's think about how not to let yourself go bankrupt!"

Feng Kai sneered.

Hancock drank melancholy.

"Why don't you protest anymore?"

Feng Kai said with a smile.

"Haha, they will tremble under the guns of His Majesty the King, and the death of five people in total will make them pee their pants in fright!"

Zhang Cheng said with a smile.

Hancock angrily slammed his glass and got up and walked away.

Then Zhang Cheng and Feng Kai laughed happily in the back, of course these two bastards did it on purpose, their task is to stimulate these guys, Xinbocheng is not only used to act as a cancer on the British colonial economy, in addition, he is also a cancer on the British colonial order, those smugglers who have been made into vain by the strict policies of the United Kingdom, here are not only to obtain all kinds of goods that can increase their wealth, but also to obtain ideological things.

The merchant ships that kept calling at this port brought them news from all over the world, including newspapers and books, such as Voltaire, Montesquieu, and of course some Ming scholars, as well as newspapers such as the People's Daily, and even a special newspaper called New Youth, and a bookstore, which was like a kaleidoscope of ideas, which made them dizzy, and their ideas were also sublimated here, and it became like a holy place for them.

Of course, for the British government, this is a cancer of sin. (To be continued.) )