The city of London is always so lively, so... dirty!

As a city, there are hundreds of thousands of people gather here, and every year thousands of poor people flock to the city to become beggars. These people live in the corners of the streets and alleys.

As a city, there are not even sewers or drainage facilities here. More and more people and horses leave thick mixtures of feces and soil on the streets. If you walk on the street, you may be soaked with shit, so that women's skirts and shoes are covered with feces. In order to walk on the dirty ground, high heels become popular.

The dirty streets are full of livestock, but the streets are covered with urination and feces, which is extremely dirty.

However, it is not to say that there is no better place in the environment, at least near the parliament, it is relatively clean, and it is actually similar.

After all, ordinary people will come here, and they will urinate and defecate anywhere.

On June 13, 1658,

In this London, the capital of the Republic of England, suddenly, a thunderous news came and the war broke out!

This war was not with the Dutch, but with the Ming Dynasty and the distant Eastern country.

When this news came, the citizens of the Republic were discussing the topic in a confusing tone. How could this be possible?

Ming Dynasty?

Which country is it?

Is it China?

This is even more impossible!

What?

They shelled Plymouth?

Where is China?

Of course, when many people discuss this topic in a confusing tone, almost everyone looks at the rumor with a gloating attitude.

Is this...real?

It's very suspicious!

But even if it makes people suspicious, even if it is a rumor, it is a time when people are very happy. At least someone has caused trouble to the Duke of the People.

Our Duke of Protecting the Country is so unpopular!

However, for the Duke of the National Guardian Cromwell, he never cared about all this, otherwise he would not have disbanded the Congress last year. He divided the country into eleven military regions and directly sent officers to implement military rule. In fact, to put it bluntly, this rule directly exposed that his ruling foundation was not stable, otherwise why should he implement such rule?

Perhaps, for many British people, Cromwell was a single husband and a tyrant, but compared to the king, he dressed very simply. As a Puritan, he was absolutely pious to God. After becoming the Duke of the Kingdom, he did not indulge in luxury, but maintained a Puritan life as usual, even a kind of ascetic life.

Cromwell is different from any king. In fact, he is not a king, and he has never been given the title of "King". He is "Duke of England"! However, his every move looks like a king. He moved his home into the royal palace. The ceremony of proclaiming him as a Duke of the Kingdom seemed to be a coronation ceremony. His advisers often called him "His Majesty". When the Council refused to act according to his orders, he rebuked the members of the Council and told them that he was speaking on behalf of God, and if they resisted the Duke of the Kingdom, they were resisting God.

"Why is this happening!"

Cromwell stared at Major General John Lambert in front of him.

"Your Majesty, according to the information we have at present, the attack on Plymouth by the Ming Fleet was completely unreasonable. In fact, when we received them, we gave them many conveniences, and even promised to purchase the goods they carried at a preferential price, but the barbaric Orientals attacked us without reason!"

As Cromwell's most trusted general, a few months later, in order to help Cromwell consolidate his power, John Lambert ordered the dissolution of the parliament, which became the last straw that broke the back of the Republic of England. Looking at the others, their expressions were also extremely annoyed.

I was beaten up in an unknown way. No one could stand this matter!

"Um……"

Cromwell asked, frowning.

"So, where have the Ming people gone now?"

"Your Majesty, they drove to the north. It is certain that they are very likely to have gone to the Netherlands. After all, in recent years, the Dutch have been buying Ming goods in Europe like their lackeys!"

John Lambert affirmed.

"And, the Netherlands is our enemy."

"Yes, Your Majesty, I believe that the Ming people are simply taking the initiative to provoke trouble. Perhaps this is their purpose in coming to Europe as an allies of the Dutch!"

Hearing their judgment on Mingguo, Cromway immediately showed a very rare disappointment and even some dissatisfaction on his face.

After an officer noticed his expression, he quickly continued:

"Maybe, there are some misunderstandings between us."

"Misunderstand?"

Cromwell said these two words again;

"What kind of misunderstanding?"

"Ah! Who knows? But I think that since they came here from Asia, they would never be for the Dutch to be enemies with England, otherwise they would not have visited England first. Perhaps when they were receiving them, some misunderstandings were created, which led to their firing..."

"But, they've fired!"

John Lambert said.

"If we do not retaliate, the whole of Europe will laugh at us, and the royalists, who will become more and more mocking!"

"actually,"

The officer whispered,

"We should probably send envoys first, and while questioning them, we should understand the specific reasons, and then respond."

Although Cromwell nodded in agreement, he said nothing.

As the "Duke of the Country", he knew very well how weak his ruling foundation was. There were too many royalists in the country. If this matter could not be handled successfully, it would definitely become a laughing stock among all royalists.

But on the other side, Cromwell envied the Dutch people very much, envied them for their unimaginable profits through trade with the Ming Dynasty. In his opinion, the most fundamental reason why the Dutch were able to persevere in the war was that they made huge profits in trade with the Ming Dynasty to help them support the war.

Compared with the Dutch, Britain was in financial difficulties. If it could become the trade spokesperson of Ming Dynasty in Europe like the Dutch, the continuous wealth could not only solve the financial crisis, but also rely on those money to buy those who opposed him.

At the beginning, when he learned that the Ming delegation was visiting Europe, Cromwell had been thinking about how to convince the Ming delegation that England was a better partner, but who knew that after waiting, he thought it was fake news. After all, this was not the first time similar fake news has been circulating in Europe.

After waiting for so long, I didn't wait for the Chinese mission. In the end, everyone thought that this was just a fantasy of some people.

But now... the Chinese delegation is really here. And they have not gone directly to Spain or Portugal. These countries they are most familiar with, who would have thought that they came to England all at once?

What's even more annoying? Something happened here.

Something went wrong?

It's totally confused!

Damn it!

Where did something go wrong?

Something went wrong?

In this regard, Cromwell's heart was like a mute eating coptis chinensis. On the one hand, he wanted to take revenge on the other hand, but on the other hand, reason told him that PoPP China does not seem to be the best choice, what is the best choice?

Of course, we can get some benefits from it.

But even if you want to get benefits, you must know why. You must know why the Chinese people bombard Plymouth.

In fact, everything is because I don’t understand it!

Whether it was Cromwell or British officials, they did not understand the Ming Dynasty at all. They did not know that for the Celestial Empire, sometimes the face of the Celestial Empire was often more important than the so-called economic interests.
Chapter completed!