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Chapter 940 – 936 [England, Your King Is Back]

Chapter 940 936 [England, your king is back]

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

After the wind and waves were weaker, we went around the Cape of Storms and came to Cape Town, a Dutch colonial port.

Cape Town has hundreds of residents, but there are only a few hundred Dutch people, and the rest are all natives of Southeast Asia. There is no need to worry about food here, but it is still impossible to repair the ship. With the letter from the governor of the Netherlands, everyone has supplied some fresh water and food.

In the Portuguese colonial port in the north, it was delayed for a full month, mainly to repair damaged ships.

At this moment, Cromwell had died of illness for three months, and his son Charlie Cromwell took over as the Lord Protector. The conflicts in Britain accumulated over the past ten years broke out completely.

It was mainly a struggle between the civil servants and the army. Charles Cromwell tried to rely on the strength of the civilian officials, and the military officers expressed strong opposition to this. And those civil servants are also extremely hostile to the army, and believe that the army should not interfere with 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 basically come from the gentry class in the House of Commons, and they came to power through the Cromwell rebellion. Similarly, the army followed Cromwell, mostly from the bourgeoisie and gentry. The two parties were once revolutionary partners, but after the execution of the king, they fell into a state of fierce hatred.

The core contradiction is whether Britain should be governed by civilian officials or by military officers, and thus the long-term struggle for power can only be suppressed when Cromwell is alive.

Charlie Cromwell grew up in a honeypot. He didn’t make any achievements in the revolution. How could the army ignore him?

When Charles arrived in Portugal by boat, the civil servants of the British Parliament passed a resolution restricting the military from interfering with politics. Those senior military officers began to force Charles Cromwell to dissolve Parliament.

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

The senior officers just stopped, and the junior officers acted again!

After Cromwell’s death, the treatment of the army became worse and worse. The civil servants and senior military officers of the parliament did not care about the life and death of the soldiers at the bottom. So the low-ranking officers connected with each other and rushed into London with soldiers, surrounding the Duke Protector’s Palace.

“What are they trying to do? I have already dissolved the Parliament!” Charlie Cromwell was shocked and angry, hiding at home and shivering.

Advisor replied: “They asked for a reorganization of Parliament.”

Charlie Cromwell didn’t think about it: “Didn’t the army ask me to dissolve the parliament? Why did it just dissolve and then reorganize?”

Advisor said: “It is the high-ranking generals who demand the dissolution of the parliament, and the low-level military officers who demand the reorganization of the parliament. Without a parliament, the treatment of soldiers cannot be improved. These low-level military officers actually want to raise their wages.”

Obviously, in the army created by Cromwell, the upper and lower ranks of the army have been separated.

“You go out and tell them that I will convene Parliament again.” Charlie Cromwell said.

The parliament that had just been disbanded for a month was reorganized in such an outrageous way.

However, after the reorganization of the parliament, the civil servants once again suppressed the army, and did not give the soldiers a raise. This move forced senior and junior military officers to unite, forcibly dispersed the parliament again, and formed a temporary military government called the “Security Committee”.

Charlie Cromwell, Henry Cromwell, the two brothers were forced to swear that they would no longer be Lord Protector of the United Kingdom in this life, and the military government would arrange houses and annuities for them.

The Cromwell family lost power, and the seal of the Lord Protector was split in half.

The chaos has just begun, and the whole country refuses to accept the military government. Inside the military government, officers also began to fight for power.

George Monk, who led an army stationed in Scotland, heard that the situation in London was chaotic, so he took the army to London under the pretext of defending the Parliament. This man was originally a royalist, and after being captured, he took refuge in Cromwell. He wanted to take the opportunity to capture London, and then welcome back the descendants of the British royal family, so as to obtain a higher title with his support.

This guy led the army to move to the banks of the Tweed River, and did not go directly to London. He stopped and issued a call, waiting for the royalists, capitalists and civil servants to come and join him.

At this moment, Charles was already in Portugal, joining his mother, who was surrounded by royalists in exile.

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

Before approaching the port, more than 30 British warships surrounded and prepared to fight.

“Raise the flag!”

Charles ordered.

The flag of the British royal family was raised on the mast, and those British warships immediately stopped advancing.

A naval officer came over in a small boat and asked loudly, “Which Royal Highness is on board?”

Charles leaned on the side of the boat and replied: “I am the son of King Charles I of England, Scotland and Ireland, and the crowned King Charles II of Scotland! I am about to return to London now to take back my title of King of England and Ireland. I am coming back I will give naval officers and soldiers the treatment they deserve!”

The officer was very excited when he heard this, and immediately rowed the boat back.

Soon, all British naval ships closed their guns, retreated their barrels, and formed formations to meet the king.

The main reason is that the military government is too prestige, the civilian officials have always been uncooperative, the military government can’t even collect taxes, and the navy and army are naturally in arrears with their salaries. In history, no one attacked the military government, and those guys disbanded the military government themselves, because there was really no money to pay officials and soldiers.

“What, the prince is back?” Fleetwood was shocked.

This person is just a mid-level military officer. He took control of the military government through a bloodless coup by repeatedly tossing the parliament and linking up the middle and lower levels of the army.

What kind of prestige can a mid-level military officer have?

Civilian officials don’t like him, senior generals don’t like him, and citizens don’t support him. Because he couldn’t pay his salary, even the middle and low-level military officers began to oppose him.

Fleetwood didn’t even dare to clean up. He didn’t kill anyone after he came to power, and he couldn’t do anything about civil servants who couldn’t collect taxes. Hearing that Charles came back with troops, his first reaction was to run away, but he felt that there was nowhere to run.

This guy immediately summoned the high-level members of the military government, threatening and intimidating: “Everyone, we killed the king. Now that the king’s son is back, can we survive? He will execute us all! The only way now is to call soldiers , Defeat Charles who is about to land!”

An officer named Edel said: “But the soldiers have not been paid for two months. How can we make them obedient to fight?”

Fleetwood said: “Tell the officers and soldiers that as long as Charles is defeated, not only can the military salary be repaid, but also double this month!”

Where does the money come from?

Of course to grab, grab those civil servants who are unwilling to cooperate!

The military government’s order to gather troops was issued, but it was obviously not effective. Charles had already landed, and they only gathered more than 2,000 soldiers. Even the artillery of the port battery had surrendered to Charles.

Two thousand Arakan pirates organized the Guards, led by Charles, marching towards downtown London step by step.

Charles said to these soldiers in Portuguese: “As long as I become king, I will keep my promise. Each of you will get a wife and own a small piece of land. Those who have done meritorious service, I will reward you with titles!”

“Kill! Kill! Kill!”

Two thousand Arakan pirates are so imposing. They traveled across the oceans to Europe, and it is impossible to go back. Only loyal to Charles can they survive.

As for women, Ireland is plentiful, and you can easily get two thousand girls to marry.

During the twelve years when Cromwell ruled Britain, the population of Ireland dropped from 1.46 million to only 610,000. About 550,000 people were killed, and 300,000 Irishmen were sold as slaves, mainly to English estate owners in the West Indies.

Other countries are engaged in the black slave trade, but Britain is engaged in the Irish slave trade, and regards Ireland at its doorstep as a colony.

“Boom boom boom!”

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

The military government summoned more than 2,000 soldiers, but they couldn’t bear the artillery bombardment. Not long after they left the city, they were taken back to the city by the officers, as if they were going 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 rush into the city, and Charles led them straight to the parliament building, which is now the office of the military government.

After the documents and materials were seized, Charles ordered the soldiers to hunt down the important officials of the military government.

Then London suffered. These Arakan pirates, disregarding Charles’ military order, began to burn, kill and loot everywhere. London citizens and British soldiers spontaneously organized to fight, so that Charles could only come forward to appease him.

After a full day and night of tossing, the situation was finally completely stable.

Charles first recruited British soldiers and citizens to temporarily form a Royal Army. Then they counted those Arakan pirates. Two of them died of illness at sea, but now there are only 1746 people left, and the remaining 200 people died in street fighting during the robbery.

“How many times have I said this? Don’t loot the city, this is my capital!” Charles cursed angrily.

He identified ten officers who led a robbery team, let the newly formed British Royal Army raid the formation, and executed them all in front of the citizens of London. Then an amnesty was announced, and the citizens and soldiers of London were all innocent, and then led troops to ransack the homes of all the senior officials of the military government.

In history, Charles was invited back by the parliament, but now he is brought back with soldiers.

He doesn’t have to be careful to forgive everyone. After killing all the key officials of the military government, he arrests the civilian officials of 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 order. Now, Charles killed 65 civil servants in one go.

Cromwell was dug out and flogged his corpse. Cromwell’s two sons were all beheaded and killed.

The exiled royalists he brought back, as well as the royalists who hid in the UK, both were promoted to nobles. Then the parliament and the House of Lords were reorganized, and the obedient squires were allowed to form the House of Commons, and orders were issued to appease the troops stationed in various places. In just half a month, they took control of the whole country.

Immediately afterwards, an announcement was issued to Ireland and Scotland, saying that Cromwell was a big villain, and that he would treat the Irish and Scots well if he became king.

When the news came out, Ireland and Scotland instantly stabilized and regarded Charles as a benevolent monarch.

This benevolent monarch stopped the ship that was about to leave for America, and rewarded all the thousands of Irish slave girls on board to his subordinates.

(end of this chapter)