Emperor Chongzhen of the Ming Dynasty

Chapter 674 Gu Yanwu Went to England to Propose Marriage
The Ming Dynasty established a new political system, mainly at the local level, which stabilized the empire and made it clearer.

And it also directly promoted the development of new natural disciplines such as electromagnetism in the Ming Dynasty to start in full swing.

Daming seems to have begun to have the embryonic form of entering the second industrial revolution marked by electric vehicles.

But at this time in the West.

Most countries have not yet started the bourgeois revolution, and have not yet entered the era of the industrial revolution. Not to mention Britain, France is still under the rule of Louis XIV.

Gu Yanwu, the newly appointed governor of Xiyi in Ming Dynasty, had already received the order from Emperor Zhu Youjian of Ming Dynasty, and decided to go to England.

Gu Yanwu, the governor of Xiyi in the Ming Dynasty, not only inherited the [-] Western young widows left by the former governor Li Mingrui after his death, but also inherited Li Mingrui's policy of promoting Sinicization in Xiyi Province, that is, the Netherlands.

Gu Yanwu invited Confucians from the Southern Sect and many great Confucianists who remained in Ming Dynasty but 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 first creation.

Even though Emperor Chongzhen Zhu Youjian 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 still planning to propose marriage in accordance with Han etiquette.

Gu Yanwu took the bride price and sailed into the Thames River on the iron-clad super battleship "Kaiping King".

As a proud high-ranking official of Ming Dynasty, he didn't think that the strong fishy air by the Thames would be better than the air in his home country of Ming Dynasty.

When Gu Yanwu saw James II, he said straight away: "Duke of York, I heard that you intend to marry your daughter, the princess of your country, to a Protestant. I would like to ask if this is from you. original wish?"

The current King James II of England is the Duke of York who had contacted Daming back then.

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

Knowing the strength of the Ming Empire, James II did not dare to offend Gu Yanwu. After respectfully asking Gu Yanwu to sit down, he said helplessly:

"The strength of the Protestants in England should not be underestimated. They have their own army, and now the royal palace is also in London, England. This king has to treat them politely."

"You are also the king of England. In your own territory, why do you need to look at other people's faces? You are not as comfortable as the governor as a king."

As Gu Yanwu said, he said, "I want to ask you now if you want to completely control the whole of England, ban the English Parliament, and reuse Catholics?"

"Why don't you want to, this king is the king of England, how can you be willing to be swayed by the greedy and selfish businessmen below!" James II said and then said:
"But we in England are no better than Daming. Ever since that traitor in Cromwell launched a rebellion, many merchants in England have troops. I have to prevent them from rebelling."

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

Gu Yanwu said casually: "My Emperor Daming has been in love with Princess Mary of your country for a long time. Hearing that she is very beautiful, he intends to take Princess Mary as his concubine so as to form a marriage relationship with your country. If this is the case, my Daming is willing to help you. Provide military aid, maintain your absolute rule in England, and eliminate the reactionaries in your country."

"Bring up the dowry!"

As Gu Yanwu spoke, he ordered someone to hand over the gift list to James II: "One thousand Chongzhen Type 26 rifled guns, [-] rounds of ammunition, an order for ten rifled guns, and a military order aid plan with a scale of [-] silver dollars, and The governor has the responsibility to help your country put down any rebellion conditions, I wonder if the Duke of York will be satisfied."

James II was indeed very moved, these military weapons were all he dreamed of, and what made him even more happy was the military orders and the fact that Daming would send troops to support him.

This gave James II no reason to persuade himself to refuse.

But when James II thought that his only intelligent and beautiful daughter would marry far away and go to Daming to become the emperor of Ming Dynasty, he felt a little bit reluctant.

He even found it difficult to accept, after all, his daughter was going to marry someone who was not of the same skin color as her.

This is different from marrying into the royal families of other countries in Western Europe. Although it is not a country, it is at least the same civilization system.

But James II still agreed: "This king agrees to form a kingdom of marriage with Daming!"

Thinking that he could use Daming's help to suppress domestic businessmen and stabilize his absolute power, he finally decided to agree.

Thus, Daming began the process of preparing to marry Princess Mary of England.

But the British 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 by Ming, and that Ming wanted to interfere in England's internal affairs.

But James II ignored it, and he also understood the purpose of Daming to form a country of marriage with him.

However, James II doesn't care whether Ming will interfere in his internal affairs, he only knows that as long as Ming rules, he can stabilize his power in England.

The Protestants who thought they could marry Princess Mary felt that they had been 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 Daming's determination to support himself in ruling England.

At this time, Gu Yanwu, the governor of the Ming Dynasty, looked at the Protestants who were demonstrating outside Buckingham Palace, and couldn't help saying: "Duke of York, as a king, you can't let the rioters do whatever they want. Be ruthless! Do you understand?"

"Come on, since we have received money from the English royal family, we will sweep their own houses for them. Now I ordered that all of them be shot, and those Protestants should be shot. They dare to interfere with the order of economic life and intend to hold their own king hostage. It's really rebellious!"

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

"beat!"

The other policemen who followed Gu Yanwu also fired, and the crackling bullets swept towards the Protestants below, and hundreds of Protestants fell to the ground on the spot.

At this time, seeing this, James II had no choice but to follow Gu Yanwu, and began to formally fight against the Protestants in England and the capitalists behind them.

"shot!"

James II's royal troops had also begun firing.

A large number of Protestants fell to the ground immediately, and these Protestants were also afraid of death, so they immediately ran around when they saw this.

"Rush out and pursue them in all directions. These are rebels who resisted the rule of the dynasty. They should all be killed."

Gu Yanwu was born in the army, and he didn't have the idea of ​​being poor and not chasing after him. Therefore, many Ming soldiers rushed out, and James' royal army followed suit.

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

As a result, the British bourgeoisie soon launched a rebellion.

(End of this chapter)