Chapter 28: The King-Killing Race between East and West
History is accumulation, and every descendant of later generations can hardly imagine what the ancestors of the previous generation paid for this day, but they are only proud of their own progress and advancement.
In ancient times, the emperor, the king must have the power to say the same, to use the simplest analogy, the border is going to war, the emperor naturally has to recruit soldiers, at this time, there is a person who said that he is sick and can't go, so what should you do?
Sending someone to check him up, which usually takes a few days, a doctor's examination, receipts, and someone to guard against the doctor's collusion to evade military service.
So this process is busy to survive, how to look at it will take a week, if it is in modern times, it can be faster, but in ancient times, the exchange of information itself is a very troublesome thing, communication basically relies on the era of roaring, and there is not a lot of paper for you to reserve.
It is only in the era of modernization that there will be humanity, consciousness or something, not the cause of development, but the result of development.
The tragedy of our Charles I is that in a state of confusion, the bourgeoisie gradually gained great wealth from overseas, and the Portuguese king who pioneered all this left his descendants with a sea of gold, and they found that the overseas natives were so depressed that they simply did not need any reserves, they just needed to push all the way through, compared to the hard work day and night in the local soil to make money, those who are ignorant, but have countless wealth, can be used at a very low cost to get the scissors poor, it is better to bully.
The "people who got rich first" who grew strong did not lead the first to get rich, and they have an inexplicable hatred for the poor ghosts, just as the Japanese in the 21st century hate the Chinese the most, even in the face of the king, they are very contemptuous, at least compared to the Ming Dynasty purely because they can't collect taxes, the British are willing to hold a little parliament to discuss how to pay taxes.
But what Charles I couldn't think about was that the reason why he couldn't collect taxes was because the previous level of hierarchy of kings, lords, knights, and dicks was no longer suitable to rule the country, and under the original system, it was impossible for anyone to obtain the power to resist the king, because your power could only come from within the system, and the people in the system naturally had to do things according to their rules, so everyone was happy for hundreds of years, and they were all right.
But what no one could have imagined was that the Age of Discovery did gain great wealth, but after these rich people returned to their hometowns, they did not want to hand over their wealth to the emperor, but began to plan for a future.
At this point, my Qing Dynasty has always been very strict with the sea ban, and it can be regarded as extremely smart, and it has lasted for two hundred years, but it is just very cheating.
In England, this series of changes because of the sudden appearance of the elders, although unexpected, but absolutely reasonable, itself has lost all kinds of reliance on the king, has already reached the moment of running out of oil, everyone lost confidence, they all abandoned it, although after getting the Mauser gun afterwards, with this advanced arms to maintain morale, but in the end that layer of window paper has been pierced, everyone found that if the king loses support, then the guise of royal power will be shattered, and the nose and face will be swollen.
The so-called people closest to God don't believe in God, and the people who meet the king every day naturally know that this person will fart, shit, and be excited when he meets beautiful women, and he is really just an ordinary person, and he doesn't have the feeling of the emperor's golden hoe at all, so after losing power, the king is often abandoned.
The East and the West, at a similar point in time, were the death of two rulers, they had different experiences, different abilities, and even one committed suicide heroically, and the other was aggrieved by the vote of the parliament he convened, and the fate of their children was also very different.
In addition to the few who disappeared, most of Chongzhen's children had a bleak background, and the last son was found after dozens of years old, and the Kangxi Emperor was really honest and trustworthy, and just said that he hoped to find the children of the Zhu family to raise them well, he received the defendant, so he happily cut his whole family alive, which was really good.
Compared to them, Charles I's children were also smoother, Cromwell was troubled and troubled, how could he have time to arrest the prince, even if it was a little prince who had nothing, he also slipped smoothly to the Netherlands to meet his mother, and then went south to France and other countries to seek the help of relatives, considering that the terrain of Britain and Hebei Province is similar, that is, the way from Hebei to Shandong, and then although he has been living in a bad place, but in the end it is a relative, not to mention his younger brother James, Military talent is still there, you know, James was highly praised in the French army, and after returning home, he was also used as a loyal son, and the New York we know today is named after the title of the Duke of York, the future king, New York.
However, this feeling of displacement is similar, compared to the situation in history where there are still some loyal ministers who protect and follow, due to the accidental death of Charles I, these three children suffered three years earlier than in history, at least the father died two years earlier, and they were not very old years later, and began to live like this.
Of course, they don't have to be too upset for too long.
"God, am I going crazy, I actually believed the words of an artifact, and ran to the beach."
Charles II had come out of his father's pain in the city at this time, and began to learn the real affairs of power, as the first heir, although he had not yet become king, but it did not prevent a few last loyal ministers from following, Charles I's death was too sudden, and various arrangements had not yet begun, and he could not imagine that he would die at the hands of his men.
The reason why he traveled more than ten miles to get here on a cold day was because the thing that was originally offered by foreigners suddenly spoke and told them that someone would come to pick him up at a location on the west coast of the west.
Charles II became vigilant, his current situation, if he was caught, it would really be a family of three to be taken as prisoners, Cromwell had been shouting, asking Charles to return to London to be king, of course, he was probably the idea of trapping, and Charles II was not stupid.
However, I can't stand my sister's instigation, and where I go, there are really no people, and it's far away from London, it seems, there's no danger.
There is really no danger, there are not many people on a cold day, and there are few people around for more than ten miles, but Charles II feels ridiculous.
After a long time, he gradually understood that this tablet, that is, a product from a foreign country, is artificially made, without any mystery, although he is very curious about that magical country, he will not change his choice because of this, the process of his father's death is sad, dying at the hands of a villain, is probably the most wronged choice.
If Charles II was an adult at this time, there would still be some people who would be willing to bet on him and follow him, but now, it is the most chaotic moment, Charles II is to take his younger siblings out and see.
Princess Mary suddenly pointed and said, "Look. ”
In the distance, it was not the legendary giant ship that appeared in the city of London, but two ships, small in size, but very fast, even faster than the gallop of horses, charging against the sea breeze, appearing from a distance, and quickly approaching the coast.
Several knights around Charlie also became nervous, and sure enough, they appeared.
Although this kind of ship is novel, but in the end it is set up by people, so it is not so mysterious, as Li Qianqian lamented, the natives that Americans meet are all stupid natives who can treat war ships as gods, why do Chinese meet natives who are sinister and cunning and poor ghosts.
However, they were not British at first glance, they were very thickly dressed, and they were not tall, but they were very agile, and the coats they wore seemed to be waterproof, and it was okay to wade in the icy water.
"Who are you?"
After Charlie shouted, there was no answer, but pointed to the boat, as if to invite them to board, and tried to approach them, but was blocked by several knights, and seemed to have nothing to say.
At that time, it was cold, and at this time, the tablet that had been held in the princess's hand suddenly sounded: "Please board the ship, we are here to help you." ”
Charles II also noticed this, but he never moved.
The tablet spoke again: "If you stay in England, you can't take revenge, at least now you can't take revenge, and once you are caught, let alone revenge, you can't even protect yourself." ”
Charles II gritted his teeth and said, "James, take my sister back, I'll go up and have a look." ”
"No, Charlie, it's either together, we shouldn't be apart."
With a little hope and knowing that the younger siblings who had no one to protect were destined to fall into the hands of the enemy, Charles II gritted his teeth and was ready to go up.
There was no slipway to stop the boat, several Chinese pulled the assault boat to the beach, the sea water wanted to get some water, and then asked a few people to get on the boat, some people still wanted to hold the three princes and princesses up, but they were asked to go away on guard, three knights regardless of the cold water, stepping on the sea water to carry them, on the assault boat, fortunately, the small boat load of this characteristic is not small, more than a dozen people around Charlie stood up, although several knights were frozen to itchy teeth, but they had wine with them, and directly drank to warm up, the future of Britain, or the whole of Northern and Western Europe The problem of alcoholism, To a large extent, in ancient times, there was a lack of cold protection means, and only a wine glass could be used to hard top, and later, although all kinds of cold protection means were available, but the drinking culture has also been born, which is interesting, at least to the British students always find that the British students' alcoholism is really a problem.
However, after getting on the boat, it was quite smooth, Charlie paid attention to the boat, although there was no sail or oar, but it could move quickly, however, the sea breeze was so eager, he could only keep his head down, unable to observe the scenery outside, and there was nothing to say for a while, and soon, the speed of the boat was slowing down, at least he felt that the roar was gradually becoming smaller, and suddenly there was a black cloud overhead, and the assault boat gradually stopped at sea.
At this time, they had already arrived at the side of the Liaoning, because Charlie's people had such a thing as windbreakers, they had already been blown by the sea breeze and could not see the outside world, and when they arrived at a position to block the wind, they could see that they were all surprised, this ship is really big.
Several iron cables hung down from the boat, and several guards and soldiers hung up the hooks on the hook from the assault boat, and then struck on them a few times, and the iron ropes began to slowly pull up and pull the boat up.
This feeling of gradually rising into the air, the British on the ship have naturally never experienced it, although most of them have experience in going to sea, and they also have small wooden boats on board, but how can there be this automatic pull up quickly, let alone so high, naturally caused some commotion.
Fortunately, the boat quickly rose to the top, and a group of people were waiting, but a young woman standing in front ran over first, and saluted first: "Your Excellency Charlie, I'm really sorry I can't pick you up in person, are you okay, please go this way." ”
The woman still speaks English, naturally Christina, after she arrived on the Liaoning early, Xu Hao was in contact with the imperial capital for a long time, and took advantage of the night to sail away, and now, it can be regarded as really revealing their purpose.
Xu Hao stood aside, but did not speak, the reason why he refused to let Christina follow the assault boat to pick up people, is nothing more than the elders want to try the courage of this prince, although Charles II successfully restored the country in history, but this restoration relied on the young, and the old man Cromwell was killed alive, and his son could not control the situation, so the bourgeoisie felt that instead of everyone fighting each other, it was better to find an emperor to come back and provide for it.
If you don't even have the courage to avenge your father, in fact, there is really no need to choose this kid, and you like to pick a big one when you choose watermelons, let alone people.
This is a test, but also an invitation, I have to say, it is a pass, but it is only a pass.
In the room that had already been prepared, although she didn't dare to let the three children roast directly by the stove from the cold state, she also prepared hot soup to keep warm, watching her look gradually recover, and looking around with her spirit, Christina introduced herself as a "loyal minister", trustworthy, and naturally trusted them a little.
Xu Hao looked at Charlie, but remembered Zhu Cihong who was in the imperial capital, the kid's educational achievements are still there, at least under their education, they have gradually understood that it was not a simple Li Zicheng who killed his father, but a shameful system, very simple, even if Chongzhen really wanted to go south to Jiangnan to save his life, those so-called scholars would not let him get his wish, and the deaths of the Ming Emperors in the past dynasties were indeed very mysterious.
Killing the landlords and wealthy businessmen who refused to pay taxes, and the little officials who were more nourishing than the emperor in the imperial capital have made Zhu Cihong fully understand that the Ming Dynasty is really a point where everyone can kill ministers, in this case, people have long been loosened, and only the task of protecting their younger brothers and sisters remains.
(End of chapter)