Reborn Ming Dynasty as Emperor

Chapter 545 Killing Cromwell
Yang Sichang and Hei Wa first went to the Ottoman Empire, where the Minister of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of the Ming Dynasty had formally reached a deal with the Governor of Egypt of the Ottoman Empire. The Ming Dynasty would provide technical support and the Governor of Egypt of the Ottoman Empire would provide labor and funds, and the two sides would jointly develop the Suez Canal. After the development of the Suez Canal is completed, Daming will be leased to operate the Suez Canal for 100 years at a price of 99 million silver dollars.

And now that Yang Sichang came here, he wanted to directly use the indemnity from England to pay this part of the rent, hold joint military exercises with the Ottoman Empire, and prepare to sign a military arms transaction agreement and alliance treaty with the Ottoman Empire.

Because Wen Tiren, a diplomat, has successfully made the Ottoman Empire realize that cooperation with Ming, a distant super empire, will be of great help to him in resisting the expansion of the European powers and occupying the interests of the Mediterranean, which also prompted the Ottoman Empire to be willing to cooperate with Ming Carry out in-depth cooperation.

At this time, Ming Dynasty’s ocean combat capability is not improving, and it can’t compete with other countries around the world. Having the Ottoman Empire as an ally will also help Ming Dynasty obtain more overseas benefits at a relatively small cost. Of course, the basis for cooperation between the two is also the same as Both are related to monarchical empires.

After a three-month official state visit to the Ottoman Empire, Yang Sichang finally set off to return to China in the autumn of A.D. 25, and returned to the capital in the summer of A.D. 26.

This can be regarded as the first-rank official who has traveled the farthest on behalf of the Chinese Empire since 5000 years ago in the diplomatic history of the dynasties of China, and Yang Sichang was therefore praised by "Da Ming Daily" as "Zhang Qian of the present age".

Zhu Youxiao made an exception and personally went out of Miyagi to meet Yang Sichang, and accepted Yang Sichang's offer of prisoners at the Meridian Gate, and now he has named Yang Sichang as a young master.

In Zhu Youxiao's view, Yang Sichang's trip to England has successfully fulfilled his expectations. He not only opened up the opium trade, but also successfully established a colony of Ming Dynasty near England. After setting a nail, Da Ming will be able to influence the situation of Europa in the future.

Zhu Youxiao personally summoned Cromwell, and he was somewhat interested in this hero who would later become a hero of the British bourgeois revolution.

"Your Majesty!"

After Xu Xianchun took over Cromwell from Yang Sichang, in order to prevent Cromwell from acting excessively in front of His Majesty, Xu Xianchun specially starved him for three days, whipped him with an iron whip for a whole day, and then handcuffed him for a whole day. A hundred-pound shackle.

Therefore, Cromwell was extremely exhausted when he was escorted in front of Zhu Youxiao, and he was about to breathe his last breath. When Xu Xianchun yelled, he pressed the shackles, and he had to kneel down.

Zhu Youxiao smiled slightly, and couldn't help thinking to himself that this is the person who had to remember his name more important than Zhang Juzheng, the chief assistant of Wanli, in order to prepare for the high school entrance examination when he was studying in his previous life. Now he is just his own prisoner. , can only be slaughtered by oneself.

With a clatter, Zhu Youxiao pulled out an Xiuchun knife that he had already ordered someone to prepare, and holding the handle with both hands, he raised the Xiuchun knife and danced it at Cromwell's neck, and then made sure After getting it right, he decisively slashed down!

Like a stone falling into a clear spring, after a muffled sound, Cromwell's head fell directly to the ground like a kite with a broken string. His fair face was covered with blood stains, his eyes were wide open, and his yellow curly hair It was directly soaked in a pool of blood, and blood was still gurgling from the neck that hadn't fallen down yet.

It has been a long time since Zhu Youxiao killed a human being, but now that he cut off Cromwell's head, he still doesn't feel unfamiliar.

Zhu Youxiao picked up the Xiuchun knife, took the handkerchief from the eunuch, and wiped off the blood on the blade.

"Take it out, chop it up and feed it to the dogs, find a few people to wipe the floor clean, and divide the other criminals into pieces. Anyone who bullies me on the heavenly power of the Shang Kingdom must be severely punished!"

As he said that, Zhu Youxiao put away the Xiuchun knife that beheaded Cromwell's head, and ordered: "Display this knife for future generations to admire!"

Cromwell's death, coupled with the further consolidation of the Stuart dynasty with the support of Ming Dynasty, means that the British bourgeois revolution will be delayed, and in the next few decades, there will be no other country with the same power. The potential opponent of Ming Dynasty to compete for the qualification of world supremacy.

Naturally, Daming can use this to further recommend the comprehensive promotion of the steam industry, vigorously develop the application of electricity, and at the same time speed up the training of the standing army, especially the further expansion of the navy.

What Zhu Youxiao can foresee is that as Ming Dynasty exploits and suppresses the development of England and other colonies, the manulife brought by the opium trade will definitely reach its maximum value in the future, and the domestic capitalists who are desperate to increase productivity will not be able to satisfy their desires. Let the entire empire fall into economic crisis again. If Ming wants to get out of the predicament at that time, it can only expand further, and even launch a large-scale war on a global scale. Just like in the original history after the [-]th century AD, capitalist empires will have to continue Like starting two world wars.

With the development of productive forces and the expansion of global economy and trade, the obstacles caused by geographical isolation will become less and less, the contradictions and frictions between countries will definitely become more frequent, and the possibility of wars will increase.

If Ming wants to compete for the world, it must participate in the competition for the interests of the world, and even take the initiative to launch a war. That is to say, from now on, Ming must continue to increase military expenditures and arm its own fangs.

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"Your Majesty, this is bright, it really is bright!"

Liu Rushi clapped his hands excitedly, jumped up, and immediately pulled Zhu Youxiao over and shouted, pointing to a light under the beam of the house that had just been built by the newly established Royal Power Company.

Zhu Youxiao just smiled faintly. This kind of ordinary tungsten lamp with only faint yellow light is a rare thing in this world, and it does have a much wider lighting range than candles, but to Zhu Youxiao, it is naturally not unusual things.

Seeing that Liu Rushi was naughty and wanted to step on the stool to touch the light bulb, he immediately hugged Liu Rushi down and squeezed her buttocks: "It's disobedient, it can be touched, be careful it's hot. Hold your hand, even if it is not hot, what if there is a leakage of electricity."

"No, they said that the wire wrapped is made of natural rubber, which is an insulator," Liu Rushi pouted.

"You can't touch that, even though it's less than three thousand watts, if there is an electric leakage, it can save you from death and make you crippled!" Zhu Youxiao patted Liu Rushi on the shoulder: "Go and call all the queens and ladies here." , Let them also look at this new thing."

Liu Rushi hurriedly ran out excitedly. After a while, all the concubines, eunuchs and maidservants in the palace came to observe this new thing. Behind the electric lights under the beams, they just yelled: "Electricity, electricity! So this is electricity!"

(End of this chapter)