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Text 936 [England, your king is back]

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

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

    There are hundreds of residents in Cape Town, 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 succeeded him as the Lord Protector. The conflicts in Britain accumulated over the past ten years broke out completely.

    Mainly the battle between the civil service and the army, Charles Cromwell tried to rely on the power of the civil service, and the military officers strongly opposed it.  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 are basically the gentry class from 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 in politics.  Those senior military officers began to force Charles Cromwell to dissolve Parliament.

    In desperation, Charles Cromwell was forced to dissolve Parliament and give more powers to senior military officers.

    The senior officers just stopped, and the junior officers moved 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.

    The adviser replied: "They are asking for a parliamentary reorganization."

    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?"

    The consultant 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 salaries."

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

    "Go out and tell them I'll call Parliament again," said Charles Cromwell.

    The parliament that had just been disbanded for a month was reorganized in such a ridiculous 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".

    Charles 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 the army stationed in Scotland, heard that the situation in London was chaotic, so he led the army to London under the pretext of defending the Parliament.  This old man was originally a royalist, and after being captured, he defected to 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 them and prepared to fight.

    "Raise the flag!"

    Charles ordered.

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

    A naval officer came in a skiff and tore apart theThe Royal Army raided 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.

    Historically, Charles was invited back by the parliament, but now he came back with soldiers.

    He doesn't have to be careful to forgive everyone. After killing all the important officials of the military government, he arrested 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 body. Cromwell's two sons were all beheaded and killed.

    The exiled royalists he brought back, as well as the royalists who hid in England, 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 stabilized instantly 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
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