Although British farmers also have the "glorious tradition" of using explosives to bomb Congress, no one will launch an attack when protesting, especially before there is a result.

However, Churchill cares about it now, but what the result is. After the explosion, Churchill sent people to the parliamentary site and reported that the king's carriage was blown up, with at least more than 40 casualties at the scene, including six of them killed. Witnesses said that the king was dragged into the parliamentary building by the guards.

But the answer given by Tory MPs made Churchill feel at ease. James II was not killed. Even after the explosion, he gave a speech in Parliament as planned. The two young MPs came here to report the news after the speech.

According to the members of the parliament, when the king arrived at the gate of the parliament, the carriage had just stopped. Someone among the protesters threw three explosives at the king's convertible carriage. One of them fell on the king. James II quickly grabbed the explosives and threw them behind him. He was not injured, but he exploded the carriage in the guards into the sky. The guards were full of cars killed and injured on the spot.

The other two explosives landed near the carriage, one of which did not explode, and the other had a long fuse, which only occurred ten seconds after the first explosion. Because of the first explosion, the horses in the king's carriage were frightened and pulled the king to run wildly on the road, and instead avoided the second explosion.

The gunshot was the King's Guard, responsible for security, opened fire on the attackers. Some people may have fired at the King's carriage, but the King was not injured.

"The king insisted on giving the speech, but the people in Parliament were panicked, and the speech lasted for about twenty-five minutes..." the young MP told truthfully.

Churchill suddenly interrupted him: "Twenty-five minutes?"

"Yes, Lord Duke, I remember it very clearly twenty-five minutes." said the MP.

The elders of both parties also realized that something was wrong. This time James II wanted to persuade Congress to agree to allocate funds to expand the standing army. He came forward in person and was bound to win. It was absolutely impossible to speak for only twenty-five minutes.

“What about the voting results?”

“No vote was initiated.”

Churchill was even more suspicious. He felt something was wrong, so he asked again: "Are you sure the king was not injured?"

"I believe that the king's clothes are intact, without any signs of damage, but the wig is a little scared..."

"The king's face was pale," another MP suddenly interrupted, and after obtaining permission he continued: "Yes, the king's face was pale, like a frightened child, but it was also different, his lips were blue..."

Churchill nodded slightly and asked again: "Didn't the king's speech end a bit abruptly, and did the content end in a hurry?"

The two members of parliament looked at each other and shook their heads to express their unawareness. The fact is that the explosion scared many members of parliament. Everyone listened to the speech in fear. As for the details of the speech, most people did not listen to it.

Although no one can answer the last question clearly, Churchill already had an answer in his heart. He was once a friend of James II. He knew that James II had heart problems, his face was pale and his lips were purple. It was obviously caused by problems with the blood supply to the heart.

"Okay, you guys go, the king is safe, I'll be relieved." Churchill put on the Duke's posture and asked the two young men to retreat.

"Duke, do you think this is a good opportunity? Is the plan possible?" asked the Tory veteran.

Churchill shook his head: "I can't explain clearly. We must at least wait for the result to come out. Who is going to blow the king to death? This must be known. Also, what is the situation of the king."

Churchill waited in London for three days and met James II on the third day after the attack on the king. He was weak and pale, but one thing is certain that he was really not injured.

However, the identity of the attacker was still a fog. The king's guards caught many people, but thousands of people protested that day. After the explosion and the shooting, they scattered. It was impossible to determine who threw the bomb.

After the interrogation, only a few people saw that a woman took out a bomb from her skirt and handed it to another man for execution. But the problem was that the guy who threw the bomb was killed on the spot, and there was no woman among the people arrested.

In a few days, rumors in London were flying everywhere. Many people rumored that it was a conspiracy of Protestants. Some said that it was carried out by Williams who fled to the Netherlands, and some said that it was carried out by Protestants in China. There were also rumors that the attack had nothing to do with politics, but because James II seduced someone's wife, which was a revenge of the cuckold man.

The guy who was beaten to death was confirmed to be a Protestant or Catholic, but a Puritan. His family all died in the civil war.

However, the actual bombing was meaningless, because on the seventh day after the bombing, King James II died in Hampton Palace.

The people of London only heard an explosion from the direction of the palace that night. It is said that James II shouted after the explosion. When the servant rushed in, the king rubbed his chest hard and finally died of stiffness on the bed.

But this is the public statement from the Hampton court. According to the servants of the palace, the fact may not be so, because the public information of the court lacked a key figure, that is, the mistress of the king. The servants could be convinced that the mistress was present on the night the king died, but no one had ever seen the mistress outside of this.

The bombing at the gate of parliament was not a good opportunity for Churchill and others, but the death of a king from a myocardial infarction was indeed an opportunity, and a great opportunity, because the designated heir of James II just set off from London half a month ago to visit Louis XIV in the Palace of Versailles.

Churchill disappeared the day after James II's death. When he appeared again, he had arrived in Scotland. When the news was passed to Versailles, Louis XIV immediately supported James II's son to become the new king, calling him James III, but the British "rebel" acted faster.

On April 20, James II passed away. On the evening of April 21, the news spread to Amsterdam. On April 22, Princess Anne appeared in the Grand Plaza in Amsterdam and delivered a political speech. The British fled to the Netherlands, whether nobles or civilians, whether Protestants or Puritans, whether they were Tories or Whigs, all attended the meeting. Princess Anne's speech had only one theme, that is, Britain would restore the system after the Glorious Revolution and restore the status of Protestantism.

More than 20,000 British people shouted long live the queen at the scene, and the Dutch in Amsterdam not only did not feel the quarrel, but joined in. On April 22, Amsterdam held a "Queen Parade" in full dress, Princess Anne, and regardless of her fat figure, she walked all over the main streets of Amsterdam.

On April 25, Queen Anne appeared in Scotland and announced her march to London with Churchill. On the entire British Islands, from nobles to merchants, from citizens to farmers, and Princess Anne’s arrival was known, especially in the areas close to Scotland, where the people spontaneously welcomed Princess Anne, and the nobles joined the army of their own tenant farmers. Even the merchants mobilized their subordinates to waving flags and cheering for the army and transporting materials.

When he set out from Edinburgh, Churchill had only an army of 27,000. It was mainly because James II had interrupted a lot of military pay in the past few years. He could only maintain so many people, but when he headed south and arrived in London, there were already 120,000 troops. Of course, this was no longer an army, but an armed parade.

The battle broke out all the way south, and the army loyal to James II along the way did not take the initiative to attack or even resist. Wherever this team went, Protestants in the British army often spontaneously walked out of the barracks and joined the castle. Even the most loyal army evacuated the base and returned to London before the army arrived.

On May 1st, James III returned to Britain, but the situation was completely out of control and the army was in chaos. Only the two thousand French troops originally stationed in the local area welcomed him, and the rest of the troops refused to be dispatched for various reasons, because London was also cooperating with the armed parade.

The merchants and workers in London, led by MPs from both parties, held various weapons, including but not limited to guns, spears, shovels, hoes and forks, occupied the main streets of London and released the nobles and officials imprisoned by James II in the Tower of London. Although they claimed to protect the parliament and the charter, these people combined exceeded 100,000.

When James III's army arrived in the suburbs of London, the first line of defense he faced was composed of women. These people were holding pots and pans, knocking the lids or bottoms of the pots on both sides of the street to protest hunger. This alone was enough to make James III retreat. He retreated to Dover Port. Although he publicly stated that he wanted to regain his legal throne, he looked like he was retreating to France at any time.

Only the army from Ireland was determined. Fitz James, who received the news in Ireland, immediately led his troops across the Strait and landed in Britain. Eight thousand troops directly controlled the Port of Liverpool and marched into Manchester in the inland area. The main force of the army went south all the way to control the entire Welsh area, but encountered obstacles.

Fitz James is not his "heroic" younger brother. He directly shot the blockers and successfully occupied the main traffic routes in the Wales region. However, due to the resistance of various places, Fitz James did not want to create blood, so he failed to achieve his rule for the time being.

On May 15, Princess Anne entered the city of London with cheers. Then, the newspaper spread the word overwhelmingly to promote James III's "diplomacy achievements" in France. In this newspaper, James III formed an alliance with France to invade the Netherlands together, and agreed to exempt the textile tax, and hand over Britain's interests in the Mediterranean to France in exchange for an annuity of one million pounds given by France.

Such content made the British people angry. James III was forced to disclose the agreement he reached with France. Although it was not as powerful as the newspaper said, in order to obtain France's support for his throne, James III did agree to many clauses that would harm the interests of Britain.

In this regard, the British Parliament declared that James II had treason and lost the right to inherit the throne of the United Kingdom. The British Parliament represented all the people and supported Anne as the queen.

At the coronation ceremony, Anne announced that Protestantism would be restored to the state religion, but a policy of religious tolerance was implemented, tolerating Catholics and Puritans, and restored the Bill of Rights passed twelve years ago to limit the royal power, and agreed to the Act of Succession proposed by Parliament, which determined that the British king must be Protestant, because Queen Anne had no descendants, so it was determined that the Elector of Hannover of the Holy Roman Empire, who was the great-grandfather of Queen Anne, the granddaughter of James I, and the son of Sophia, was the first heir to the British throne.

The announcement of these policies allowed Queen Anne to quickly gain support from the whole of Britain. In the Port of Dover where James III is located, the Wales, Liverpool, Manchester and other places occupied by Fitz James, and Northern Ireland, marchs supporting Queen Anne broke out. Especially the citizens of Dover Port, surrounded James III's residence and sang and celebrated day and night. After five days, they took a day off, deliberately gave James III a flaw. The French garrison rescued James III and fled back to France.

Ceuta.

"This is a dereliction of duty. In Amsterdam, I heard that Heinsius and Bohard had close contacts. I thought it was just a discussion on dealing with France, but I never thought that the two countries were planning to plan for Britain..." Duan Yi rushed back from Amsterdam, extremely frightened, and knelt directly in front of Li Junwei.

Li Junwei pinched the headache-inducing forehead and said, "Get up, things have happened, and the focus is now on how to deal with it."

In Li Junwei's view, Duan Yi is responsible, but no one would have thought of such a thing. In recent years, the issue of inheriting the Spanish throne has been the main issue in the diplomatic field. The second glorious revolution in Britain was completely shrouded in this issue. All parties involved can deal with France as a cover. What is even more surprising is that the two empire friendly partners, the Netherlands and Prussia, actually left the empire alone, which Li Junwei had never thought of.

"The transfer of troops must not allow Britain to fall into the hands of the Protestants. After the Lille Conference, even if France merged with Spain, France had already fallen at a disadvantage due to its poor finances. If Britain is lost again and Britain is also enemies of France, the balance will be completely broken." Duan Yi said.

Li Junwei shook his head and it took time to dispatch troops, but the constant news from London has proved that the new regime is more popular. Time is no longer on the side of the empire, unless it is an alliance with France immediately, but the problem is that this is contrary to the empire strategy.
Chapter completed!