In addition to being the combat troops attacking Annan, the Ming army also accompanied them as the Jinyiwei, the anti-smoking officer in charge of Wuxiang.

Unlike other Jinyiwei, these Jinyiwei wore an extra armband with a smoking-free sign.

Here, when other Ming troops began to set up beachhead positions after landing, a team of such Jinyiwei came to Frank, Ruan Wei and others.

When Frank saw this kind of Jinyiwei, he opened his eyes wide on the spot.

He is not unfamiliar with this kind of Jinyiwei who has not been released for a long time.

Because he knew that this type of Jinyiwei had recently emerged and was responsible for smoking bans, and he was very cruel and ruthless. Many of his friends who smuggled Wu Xiang were destroyed in the hands of these people.

The same is true for Ruan Wei.

Therefore, when the two men saw the Jinyiwei who was responsible for smoking ban, they were both trembling.

"Who are you and what do you do?"

Lu Ting, a Jinyiwei family who was in charge of smoking ban, asked Ruan Wei, Frank and others.

Ruan Weixian replied tremblingly in Chinese: "Your official, we are all businessmen. I am a local businessman in Saigon. I am a porcelain businessman and I am ready to sell it to the West."

"porcelain?"

Lu Ting asked, then gave his subordinates a wink: "Open it!"

"yes!"

So, the Jinyiwei was about to open the cargo boxes that had just been unloaded.

The Ming Dynasty annexed Annan did not choose to attack from land because it was not convenient for the mechanized infantry regiment of the Ming army to march from the mountainous areas formed by tropical rainforests in the north of Annan.

It is also easy for Annan local soldiers who are more familiar with the local area to launch sneak attacks.

Therefore, the Ming Dynasty now took advantage of its powerful navy and made breakthroughs directly along the Annan coast from multiple points.

Annan has limited troops and is in a state of division, so he naturally cannot stop the Ming army attacking from the sea.

The Jinyiwei, who was responsible for banning smoking, would enter Annan with the field troops responsible for attacking Annan to investigate whether Wuxiang was smuggled.

Now Ruan Wei and Frank are not lucky, and they actually encountered the Ming army who were about to land and the Smoking-Breaking-Breaking-Breaking-Breaking-Breaking-Breaking-Breaking-Breaking-Breaking-Breaking-Breaking-Breaking-Breaking-Breaking-Breaking-Breaking-Breaking-Breaking-Breaking-Breaking-Breaking-Breaking-Breaking-Breaking-Brea

"Slow down!"

Therefore, Ruan Wei hurriedly shouted at this time and said to Lu Ting with a smile: "Official, these are really just porcelain! I wish to give you 30,000 silver coins, so please give me your best!"

As a small household, Lu Ting was not moved when he heard the 30,000 silver coins.

Because they were strictly selected by the Jinyiwei who was responsible for smoking bans and were strictly tested by the internal factory in terms of work style, Ruan Wei's direct bribery method did not make him stop. Instead, he was more convinced that these people were doing illegal activities.

"Head, it's Wuxiang!"

"It's all!"

At this time, the Jinyiwei, who had already opened the wooden box, reported to Lu Ting.

After hearing this, Lu Ting immediately ordered: "Break all these people, including their black slaves!"

In this era, because the Western family had a relatively small population, they often hired black slaves to do their work when doing colonization and smuggling trade.

Nowadays, Frank, as an English smuggler, will naturally bring black slaves.

Frank wanted to resist, but he knew how to resist, because their muskets were not as fast as the Ming army's guns.

Like Frank, there are many British people who were arrested for smuggling Wuxiang.

After Zhu Youjiao issued an order to draw the elite forces from the Jinyiwei to specifically investigate the cases of smuggling Wuxiang to the Ming Dynasty for trafficking, the number of British people arrested increased dramatically.

You should know that many of these Jinyiwei were backbone forces who were engaged in intelligence work in Mongolia, North Korea, and Japan before. They were only investigated for Wuxiang smuggling because many people are inconvenient to invade the white world. They are considered to be useless and the case is naturally excellent.

Bang!

Bang!

Bang!

On the execution ground, rows of British and black slaves who helped them smuggle, merchants and civilians knelt on the ground in prison uniforms, and were shot one by one by one by the patrol soldiers of the Ministry of Justice who were responsible for the execution.

The prisoners who were not shot were naturally trembling because of this. Some of them shouted God, and some begged for forgiveness.

However, there are also British people who are not disposed of.

These British people agreed to cooperate with the Ming Dynasty to smuggle Wuxiang into their own country in order to survive.

Although the British had already born national ideas in this era.

But this does not mean that the British are unwilling to choose to sell their country for the sake of survival and the benefits brought by the smuggling of Wuxiang in their country.

Frank chose to do so.

He is afraid of death.

He admits that he is sorry to God for doing so.

But he believed that God would forgive him and blame all these sins on the Ming people.

Frank, accompanied by several Ming merchants, went to St. Petersburg first, where they would take a boat to England and smuggle Wuxiang.

The Ming Dynasty wanted Frank and other British people to smuggle Wuxiang back to China, so they also used some means, that is, they also became addicted to powder absorbents purified by chemical institutions under the Jinyiwei. This kind of thing is the top secret medicine made by the Jinyiwei to control prisoners, and the addiction produced is many times that of Wuxiang. Therefore, if Frank wants to get this thing from the Jinyiwei, he must see that he was selling Wuxiang to his own people as an Annan person.

Frank did it more successfully. As soon as he returned to England, he used various methods to make hundreds of British people addicted to black fragrance.

At this time, King Charles II of England was planning to ask his royal family to invest in a company specifically responsible for smuggling Wuxiang to Asia, because he had to admit that the Ming and its vassal states in Asia were too rich, and his people had already made huge profits by smuggling Wuxiang.

Because of this era, the Ming Dynasty grabbed most of the global interests in its own hands, which accelerated the British's attempt to make huge profits by smuggling Wuxiang. Even the king was stimulated to use the company's method to carry out organized commercial activities to smuggle Wuxiang to Asian countries such as Ming.

However, what Charles II didn't know now was that the Ming Dynasty was already strictly banning smoking and was willing to draw the most capable Jinyiwei's power to do this.

On the contrary, his own country is being eroded by this thing because of the despicable nature of his own country.

"His Majesty the King, we must ignore the threat of the Ming Kingdom. We must establish close cooperation with the countries of the mainland (European continent) as soon as possible to resist the invasion of the Eastern people in the future, because the terrible Eastern Empire had destroyed the Rakshasa Kingdom and severely defeated the two powerful countries of Sweden and Poland. Their battle flags have already fluttered along the Baltic Sea coast, and the Netherlands has also become their jurisdiction. This Eastern Empire is increasingly stepping up its expansion to the west!"

But the rulers of England were not ignorant of the Ming Dynasty. They had rich information channels with their relatives all over Europe. James, Duke of York, mentioned the Ming Dynasty again to Charles II.

Charles II said, "You are right. You are considering the candidates for missions to various countries. Maybe you, the great nobleman, will go there in person!"

As Charles II said, he walked into a large spinning mill belonging to his king's industry. Looking at the Ming multi-spinning spinning machine that was constantly being produced inside, he suddenly asked Xu Qianxue, the Ming consultant, who was beside him: "Mr. Xu, how many years have this spinning machine been around in Ming Dynasty?"

"About fifty years! It's been almost thirty years since Ming Dynasty spinning with pure machines."

Xu Qianxue replied.

Nowadays, global trade is becoming more and more prosperous, and the Ming Dynasty also had its own sphere of influence in the Atlantic, many Western nobles began to pay attention to contacting the literati and officials of the Ming Dynasty, and even took the initiative to recruit some literati and officials who were dissatisfied with the current administrative system of the Ming Dynasty to do their own work.

Xu Qianxue, who smuggled into England from the Ming Dynasty, is one of the representatives of these people.

Moreover, because he was born in a prominent family in Jiangnan and had a clear understanding of the prosperity of Ming Dynasty's industry, he was considered a relatively outstanding representative of these people and has always been trusted by Charles II.

Charles II also gave him a title and married his favorite daughter to him.

This is undoubtedly an exceptional act in Europe, which attaches great importance to aristocratic bloodline, and it also shows that Charles II attaches great importance to Xu Qianxue.

Of course, the deeper reason is that the Ming Dynasty's strong international influence allowed every Han person to have a noble halo, even if it was a Han person like Xu Qianxue who had chosen to betray his motherland.

Xu Qianxue was naturally very grateful to Charles II and worked hard for Charles II.

However, after listening to Xu Qianxue, Charles II was very disappointed, but he still smiled slightly and said, "Even the gap in spinning is so big, no wonder the parliament agreed to prohibit trade with the Ming Dynasty!"

Although Xu Qianxue was reluctant to see that the arbitrary Emperor Tianqi, the Ming Dynasty ruled by him, was much more advanced in technology and industry than his favorite free England, he had to admit that the Ming Dynasty did crush his father-in-law England to the level of development of technology and industry.

"The machine that the Count said must be a steam engine. We also got some steam presses from Ming from Japan. We are also trying to imitate it. Perhaps we can catch up with Ming in the future. This requires us to pay great attention to our researchers."

James started talking at this time.

"If I can imitate it, tell me in time that I will give you significant research results in natural science in the future, and I will reward you with great rewards, just like the Ming Dynasty!"

Charles II couldn't help but say.

When Xu Qianxue heard Charles II say this, he couldn't help but say: "Your Majesty the King, although skills are very important, they are just skills. They are not for the great way of governing the country. There is no way to dominate the country, and the skills are still available. But if there is no way, it will be stopped by skills! The Ming Dynasty can be as strong as today, and it is on the surface that it is advanced in machines and advanced in skills. However, from the bottom, it is not the case."

After hearing this, Charles II was quite surprised and curious and asked, "Is that true?"

The same is true for James. He and Charles II, Western nobles, dare not question Xu Qianxue's words in this era.

Because they all saw with their own eyes how powerful the Han country where Xu Qianxue was born and raised was, so he asked modestly like a primary school student: "Then, what is the real reason for the Ming Dynasty to be strong today?"

"Is it related to the emperor himself?"

Charles II asked.

Xu Qianxue hurriedly denied: "It has nothing to do with this only husband! He can be said to have hindered the Ming Dynasty from becoming stronger!"

Then, Xu Qianxue used his own set of rhetoric to teach these Western nobles, saying: "The strength of the Ming country is that China has been abiding by the Zhou rituals and benevolence for thousands of years, and has an ethics. Those who are kings need to be benevolent in politics, and respect wise men, lenient punishment, light taxes and levy taxes, and do not seize profits from the people. Only in this way can the world's wealth be rich in the people, and the people are rich in the country will be strong!"

"Although I don't like the Ming Dynasty Emperor Zhu Youxiao, I have to admit that he was also influenced by benevolence and directly exempted from the world's corsage and land tax. This is the original reason why the Ming Dynasty has become stronger today! The benefits of the machine are just his powerful skills, or it is a product that will inevitably appear after the wealth of the people and the greater demand."

Xu Qianxue received several years of education under the Ming Dynasty's new education system, so he was able to integrate Confucianism with the people-oriented ideas demonstrated by the Ming Dynasty's new education. After all, he was a juren in the Ming Dynasty and was in the high school for the imperial examinations in the Qing Dynasty. He was at the forefront of the imperial examinations and was very talented.

Charles II, who has been suppressed by the British Parliament in history, could not tell the fault in his words after hearing this, and looked at his son-in-law with appreciation.

However, the Duke of York, who inherited the throne of Charles II in history, frowned slightly. He always felt that what Xu Qianxue said seemed to make sense, but he didn't seem to have the point, so he asked: "It's probably not conducive to the prosperity of the empire by blindly lightening taxes and expending taxes?"

"This is necessary to try to reduce taxes and taxes as much as possible, and not compete for profit with the people! Mencius said: The old man wears silk and eats meat, and the people are not hungry or cold, but there is no such thing as king. If the people are rich, they will naturally make the empire strong!"

Xu Qianxue continued.

Of course, Xu Qianxue was not without selfishness. While Charles II was granted his Count, he also gave him land. He is now a proprietor in England, so he naturally hopes to pay less taxes.

Charles II could not hear any mistakes and agreed with him: "It makes sense! This Confucianism in the East is indeed the right way to govern the world! It should be carried forward. In the future, you have to explain this Confucian classics carefully to me."

"Son-in-law receives the order!"

Xu Qian learned to reply.

James glanced at his brother, but couldn't help asking, "Earl, what I'm curious about is why the emperor of the Ming Dynasty, Zhu Youxiao, had to let officials and gentry pay food together at the beginning of his administration? Is there any more to be studied behind the four words "light taxes and low taxes", or in other words, the essence of Eastern learning is not simply based on the people, but the world is for the public?"

Xu Qianxue discovered that James, Duke of York, was not as easy as his father-in-law, and couldn't help but say: "Uncle, you don't know that although the Ming emperor Zhu Youxiao later often did good governance and benefit the people, he often carried out evil governance and harmed the people in the early days of his administration. The officials and gentry paid food together to make the evil politics he performed in the early days! However, the Ming emperor did not completely change it, and now his ambitions are expanding. With the support of a group of slander ministers, he expanded wildly, using troops everywhere, regardless of the difficulties of people's livelihood, and refused to continue to make concessions to the people. It can be said that it has become worse again. And this time, the one who is affected by his evil politics will be the global nobles!"

Xu Qianxue said again: "If I want England to become strong, surpass Ming Kingdom, and become a new empire that never sets! I have to implement benevolent government and will all be submissive in the future! And because of its ambitions, Ming Kingdom will use troops around the world and will surely enter a recession, and sooner or later it will surpass my Great Britain!"
Chapter completed!