Four Chinese ships, encountered wind and waves at the Cape of Good Hope, and sailed into False Bay for refuge in danger.

When the wind and waves were a little weaker, they bypassed the Cape of the Storm and came to Cape Town, a Dutch colonial port.

Cape Town has hundreds of inhabitants, but there are only a few hundred Dutch, and the rest are all indigenous to Southeast Asia. There was no shortage of food here, but it was not yet possible to repair the ships, and with the help of a letter from the Dutch governor, some fresh water and food were provided.

In the Portuguese colonial port to the north, there was a month's delay, mainly to repair damaged ships.

At this moment, Cromwell had died of illness for three months, and his son Charlie Cromwell succeeded him as Lord Protector, and the British contradictions accumulated for more than ten years completely exploded.

It was mainly a struggle between the civilian and the military, and Charlie Cromwell tried to rely on civilian power, which the officers strongly opposed. The civilian officials are also extremely hostile to the military, believing that the military should not interfere in the operation of the parliament.

Parliament still exists, but only the House of Commons, and the House of Lords has not yet been restored.

The civil servants were basically the gentry from the House of Commons, who came to power through the Cromwell rebellion. Similarly, the army followed Cromwell's rise, mostly from the burgher and gentry classes. The two sides were once partners in the revolution, but after the execution of the king, they fell into a state of enmity.

The central contradiction is whether Britain should be governed by civilians or military officers, so that there will be a long-term struggle for power, so that Cromwell can still be suppressed while he is alive.

Charlie Cromwell was raised in a honeypot, he did not achieve an inch during the revolution, how could the army bird him?

When Charles arrived in Portugal by ship, the civilians of the British Parliament passed a resolution restricting the military from interfering in politics. Those high-ranking officers began to force Charlie Cromwell to dissolve Parliament.

Charlie Cromwell had no choice but to dissolve parliament and give more power to senior officers.

The senior officers have just stopped, and the junior officers are moving again!

After Cromwell's death, the treatment of the army became worse and worse, and the civilian and senior officers of the parliament did not care about the life and death of the low-level soldiers. So the junior officers joined each other and rushed into London with their soldiers, surround the Protectorate's mansion.

"What do they want to do? I've already dissolved the council! Charlie Cromwell was so frightened and angry that he hid in his house and shivered.

The adviser replied: "They demanded the reorganization of the parliament. ”

Charlie Cromwell didn't figure it out: "Didn't the army ask me to dissolve Parliament?" Why did you just dissolve and reorganize? ”

"It is the senior generals who are calling for the dissolution of the parliament, and the junior military officers are calling for the reconstitution of the parliament," the adviser said. Without parliament, it is impossible to improve the salaries of soldiers, and these low-ranking officers actually want to raise their salaries. ”

It is clear that the army created by Cromwell has been separated from the upper and lower levels of the army.

"You go out and tell them that I'll convene the council again." Charlie Cromwell said.

The parliament, which had just been dissolved for a month, was reconstituted in such a very outrageous way.

However, after the reshuffling of the parliament, the civilian officials once again suppressed the army and refused to raise the salaries of the soldiers. This move forced the senior and junior officers to unite and once again forcibly disperse the parliament to form a provisional military junta called the "Security Council".

Charlie Cromwell, Henry Cromwell, the two brothers were forced to swear that they would never be the British Protector again in this life, and that the military government would arrange a house and an annuity for them.

The Cromwells lost ground, and the seal of the Lord Protector was split in half.

The chaos has just begun, and the whole country is not satisfied with this military junta. And within the military junta, the officers also began to compete for power.

George Munch, who led his army to garrison Scotland, heard of the chaos in London, and under the pretext of defending Parliament, he marched towards London with his army. Originally a royalist, he took refuge in Cromwell after being captured, and he wanted to take advantage of the opportunity to capture London, and then welcome back the descendants of the British royal family, so that he could take advantage of his achievements and obtain a higher title.

The man moved his army to the banks of the Tweed, and did not go directly to London, stopping to issue a message, waiting for the royalists, capitalists, and civil officials to come and defect.

At this moment, Charles was in Portugal, reunited with his mother, who was also surrounded by the exiled royalists.

Four Chinese warships and more than a dozen Portuguese warships rushed towards London.

Before they could get close to the port, more than 30 British warships gathered around and prepared for battle.

"Raise the flag!"

Charles ordered.

The British royal flag, rising on the mast, immediately stopped the advance of those British battleships.

A naval officer came over in a dinghy and opened his throat and asked, "Which Royal Highness is on board?" ”

Charles leaned on the side of the ship and replied: "I am Charles II, the son of King Charles I of England, Scotland and Ireland, and the crowned King of Scotland!" I am now about to return to London and take back my rightful seat as King of England and Ireland. I'm back, and I'm going to give Navy officers and soldiers the treatment they deserve! ”

The officer was so excited that he immediately rowed back in the dinghy.

Soon, all the ships of the British Navy turned off their guns, withdrew their barrels, and lined up to meet the king.

The main reason is that the military government is too unprestigious, the civilian officials have always been uncooperative, the military government cannot even collect taxes, and the military salaries of the navy and army are naturally in arrears. Historically, no one has fought the junta, and the guys themselves dissolved the junta because there was really no money to pay the salaries of officials and soldiers.

"What, the prince is back?" Frywood was shocked.

This man was only a mid-level military officer, and he took control of the junta through a bloodless coup d'état by repeatedly tossing the parliament and by connecting the middle and lower ranks of the army.

What prestige can a mid-level officer have?

The civil officials did not like him, the senior generals did not like him, and the burghers did not support him. Because he could not pay his salary, even middle and low-level officers began to oppose him.

Frywood did not even dare to carry out purges, and when he came to power, he did not kill a single person, and there was nothing he could do about civil servants who could not collect taxes. When he heard that Charles had returned with his troops, his first reaction was to run away, but he felt that there was nowhere to run.

This guy immediately summoned the top brass of the military government and threatened and intimidated: "Everyone, we have killed the king, and now that the king's son has returned, will we still be able to live?" He's going to put us all to death! The only way now is to gather soldiers and defeat Charles, who is about to land! ”

An officer named Eder said, "But the soldiers have not been paid for two months, so how can they be obedient to the war?" ”

"Tell the officers and enlisted that if they defeat Charles, they will not only be paid back but they will also receive double this month," Flewood said. ”

Where does the money come from?

Of course, it's to rob, to rob those civil officials who don't want to cooperate!

The junta's order to gather troops was issued, but it was obviously ineffective, and Charles's side had landed, and they had only gathered more than 2,000 soldiers. Even the artillery of the harbor batteries had already surrendered to Charles.

The Praetorian Guard, trained by two thousand Arakan pirates, under the leadership of Charles, marched towards the city of London step by step.

Charles said to these soldiers in Portuguese: "As long as I am king, I will keep my promise." Each of you will get a wife and own a small piece of land. Those who have made meritorious contributions, I will give you a knighthood! ”

"Kill! Kill! Kill! ”

The two thousand Arakanese pirates are in full swing, and they have traveled to Europe across the ocean, and it is certainly impossible to return, and only Charles's loyalty can survive.

As for women, there are so many in Ireland that you can get two thousand girls to marry at will.

During Cromwell's 12 years of British rule, the population of Ireland plummeted from 1.46 million to just 610,000. About 550,000 people were killed, and 300,000 Irish were sold as slaves, mainly to British estate owners in the West Indies.

Other countries engaged in the slave trade, but Britain was engaged in the Irish slave trade, and Ireland at its own doorstep was a colony.

"Boom, boom, boom!"

The Chinese, British, and Portuguese fleets shelled the shore.

The junta summoned the more than 2,000 soldiers, who could not withstand the artillery bombardment, and soon after leaving the city, they were taken back to the city by the officers, as if to fight Charles in the streets.

However, as they ran, the soldiers scattered, and no one wanted to fight at all.

The Arakan pirates took the opportunity to storm the city, and Charles led them straight to the parliament building, which was now the office of the junta.

After seizing the documents, Charles asked the soldiers to search for the junta's dignitaries.

Then London suffered, and these Arakanes pirates, ignoring Charles's orders, began to burn and loot everywhere. The citizens of London and the British soldiers spontaneously organized themselves to fight, so that Charles could only come forward to appease him in person.

After a day and a night, the situation was finally completely settled.

Charles first recruited British soldiers and citizens to form a temporary Royal Army. Then the Arakanese pirates were counted, and two died of illness at sea, but now only 1,746 people remained, and the remaining 200 or so died in the street battles of the robbery.

"How many times have I said that? Don't loot the city, this is my capital! Charles was furious.

He identified ten officers who led the robbery, and let the newly provisionally formed British Royal Army plunder the formation, and execute all of them in front of the citizens of London. Then a general amnesty was announced, and the citizens and soldiers of London were acquitted, and then led the troops to raid all the homes of the top officials of the military government.

Historically, Charles was invited back by Parliament, but now he is back with troops.

He didn't have to be careful to forgive everyone, and after killing all the dignitaries of the junta, he arrested the civil servants in the House of Commons. In another time and space, he executed only nine people, all of whom were officials who personally signed his father's death warrant. And now, Charles killed 65 civil servants in one go.

Cromwell was dug up and whipped, and Cromwell's two sons were all beheaded and killed.

The royalists in exile he brought back, as well as the royalists hiding in England, were promoted to knighthood one by one. Then the parliament and the upper house were reorganized, and then the obedient squires formed the lower house, and issued orders to pacify the garrisons in various places, and in just half a month, they controlled the whole country.

Immediately, a proclamation was issued to Ireland and Scotland, saying that Cromwell was a big villain, and that he would treat the Irish and Scots well as king as king.

When the news broke, Ireland and Scotland instantly stabilized, and saw Charles as a benevolent monarch.

This benevolent monarch intercepted the ships that were about to sail for the Americas, and gave them all the thousands of Irish slave girls on board to his men.

(End of chapter)