The Ming Dynasty established a new political system, mainly local, which allowed the empire to be stable and more clear.

It also directly promoted the development of new natural disciplines such as electromagnetism in the Ming Dynasty.

It seems that the Ming Dynasty has begun to enter the prototype of the second industrial revolution marked by electric steam.

But at this time in the West.

Most countries had not yet begun the bourgeois revolution, had not yet entered the era of the Industrial Revolution, and not only England, but also France was still under the rule of Louis XIV.

Gu Yanwu, the new governor of Xiyi of the Ming Dynasty, had already received an edict from the Ming Emperor Zhu Youzhen at this time, and began to decide to go to England.

Gu Yanwu, the governor of Xiyi in the Ming Dynasty, not only inherited the 300 young Western widows left behind by the death of the previous governor Li Mingrui, but also inherited Li Mingrui's policy of Sinicization in Xiyi Province, that is, the Netherlands.

Gu Yanwu invited the Confucian sect of the Southern Sect and many of the great Confucians who were still in the Ming Dynasty and were not popular, and built many Confucian schools here.

Now the imperial examination system has also been opened in Xiyi Province.

This is also Gu Yanwu's initiative.

Even if Emperor Chongzhen Zhu Youzhen asked Gu Yanwu to prepare to ask the English authorities to marry a princess as a concubine on behalf of the Ming Emperor, he was also preparing to propose marriage with Han etiquette.

Gu Yanwu took the dowry and sailed into the Thames River on the iron-clad super battleship "Kaiping Wang".

As a proud high-ranking official of the Ming Dynasty, he didn't think that the air with a strong fishy smell on the banks of the Thames would be better than that in his own Ming Dynasty.

When Gu Yanwu saw James II, he spoke directly: "Duke of York, this official heard that you are interested in marrying your daughter, the princess of your country, to a Protestant, this official wants to ask, is this out of your original wish?" ”

The current King James II of England is the Duke of York, who was in contact with the Ming Dynasty.

Therefore, Gu Yanwu still called the English King James II in front of him the Duke of York.

James II knew the strength of the Ming Empire, and he didn't dare to offend Gu Yanwu, and after respectfully asking Gu Yanwu to sit down, he said helplessly:

"The Protestants are not to be underestimated in England, they have their own army, and now that the royal palace is in London, England, the king has to treat them with courtesy."

"You are also the king of England, in your own territory, why do you need to look at the faces of others, you are not as comfortable as the governor of your own office."

Gu Yanwu said, and said, "This official wants to ask you now if you want to completely control the whole of England, ban the English Parliament, and do you want to reuse Catholics?" ”

"How can you not want to, this king is the king of England, how can he be willing to be swayed by the greedy and selfish merchants below!" This James II said:

"But we are not as good as the Ming Dynasty, since the rebellion of the thieves in Cromwell, many of the merchants in England have armies, and I have to prevent them from rebelling."

"Since I want to, I have a wish from my Emperor Ming here, please listen to it."

Gu Yanwu said as he spoke: "My Majesty the Emperor Ming has been in love with Princess Mary of your country for a long time, and I heard that her beauty is extraordinary, and I intend to accept Princess Mary as a concubine, so as to form a marriage country with your country. ”

"Bring the bride price!"

As Gu Yanwu spoke, he instructed someone to hand the gift list to James II: "An order for 1,000 Chongzhen 26-style rifled guns, 100,000 rounds of ammunition, an order for 100,000 rifled guns, and a military order aid plan in the scale of 100,000 silver dollars, and the Governor's responsibility to help your country put down any rebellion, I don't know if the Duke of York can still be satisfied." ”

James II was indeed very impressed, these military weapons were all his dreams, and even more happy to him was the military order and the Ming Society sent troops to support him.

This left James II with no reason at all to convince himself to refuse.

But James II was also a little reluctant to think that his only smart and beautiful daughter was going to marry the Ming Dynasty and become the Ming Emperor.

I even found it difficult to accept, after all, my daughter was going to marry someone who was not the same color as herself.

This is different from marrying into other royal families in Western Europe, which is not a single country but at least the same civilization.

But James II still agreed: "This king agrees to form a kingdom of marriage with the Ming Dynasty!" ”

Thinking that he could use the help of Da Ming to suppress the merchants in the country and consolidate his absolute power, he finally decided to agree.

So, Da Ming began the process of preparing to marry Princess Mary of England.

However, the English capitalists in the parliament were very angry when they learned about it, and asked James II to reject this idea, and directly told James II that this was a conspiracy of the Ming Dynasty and that the Ming wanted to interfere in the internal affairs of England.

But James II ignored it, and he understood the purpose of the Ming Dynasty to form a marriage with him.

However, James II now does not care whether the Ming will interfere in his internal affairs, he now only knows that as long as the Ming rule, he can consolidate his power in England.

And the Protestants, who thought they could marry Princess Mary, felt insulted and mobilized a large part of the Protestants to launch demonstrations.

Seeing this, James II even invited Gu Yanwu, and also wanted to see Da Ming's determination to support his rule in England.

At this time, Gu Yanwu, the governor of Xiyi in the Ming Dynasty, looked at the protestants demonstrating outside Buckingham Palace, and couldn't help but say: "Duke of York, as a king, you can't let the chaotic people come around, you have to be ruthless!" Got it? ”

"Come on, since we have received money from the English royal family, we will sweep the door of our house for them, and now this official has ordered all the guns to be fired, and they are shot at these Protestants, who dare to interfere with the order of economic life and intend to hold their own king hostage, which is really a great rebellion!"

As he spoke, Gu Yanwu fired a shot first, killing one of the Protestants outside on the spot.

"Hit!"

The other police soldiers who followed behind Gu Yanwu also opened fire, and the crackling bullets swept towards the Protestants below, and hundreds of Protestants fell to the ground on the spot.

At this time, James II had to follow Gu Yanwu and began to officially turn against the English Protestants and the capitalists behind them.

"Shoot!"

James II's royal army has also begun shooting.

A large number of Protestants immediately fell to the ground, and these Protestants, who were also afraid of death, immediately ran away in all directions.

"Rush out and pursue them all-out, these are all great rebels who rebel against the rule of the dynasty, and they should all be killed."

Gu Yanwu was born in the military, and he didn't have the idea of chasing after him, so many Ming troops rushed out, and James's royal army also chased them out.

But in this way, the interests of the English bourgeoisie and the royal aristocracy deteriorated further.

Soon after, the British bourgeoisie rebelled.

(End of chapter)