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Chapter 1434
"Your Majesty, please forgive us for refusing your request to hire us to attack Scotland." Zheng Zhibao rejected Charles I's request.

"I am willing to spend more than 10 pounds to hire you to fight, no, even if I hand over all the compensation to the Scottish Covenant Army to you, I am not willing to hand it over to them. If you can send the Covenant Army from the territory of England I can even give you trade privileges in Scotland in addition to all the compensation I originally gave to the Scots. Or are you unable to defeat the Scottish Covenant Army?" Charles I saw the Fourth Fleet The officer couldn't help being surprised at the refusal of his request.

The Fourth Fleet has a navy that can pose a threat to Edinburgh from the sea in the North Sea, and there is also a far west dispatch army that can fight on land. If thousands of militiamen are added to dig fortifications, Charles I believes that the mercenaries in the east Should be able to defeat the Covenant.

As a mercenary, he received a commission of more than 10 pounds, as well as trade privileges in Scotland. Charles I thought that Zheng Zhibao and other soldiers from the East would never refuse!After all, when they were in the Mediterranean, they launched an attack on the Ottoman Empire in order to plunder their wealth!
Unexpectedly, Zheng Zhibao still shook his head: "We love peace and are unwilling to participate in the internal struggles between England and Scotland. The clauses of mutual advance and retreat in our alliance treaty are only applicable to dealing with foreign enemies, and wars between England and Scotland are not consistent foreign."

"Well, I'll just sign a loan agreement with a Western company." Charles I certainly wouldn't believe Zheng Zhibao's statement that he loved peace, but the other party was an upright standing army of the Eastern Empire with its own source of income and some needs. The mercenaries who live on commission are different, and money may not be easy to use in front of them.

Charles I signed and sealed a secret treaty with the Western Company, and Huang Xiushan also signed the treaty on behalf of the Western Company.

"We need a period of time to prepare 20 pounds as the first loan to His Majesty the King." Huang Xiushan put away the secret treaty.

From then on, they can rely on this treaty to openly open Chinese schools, newspaper offices, and mining farms in Britain.Newspaper offices do not seem to be able to make much profit in this era when printing technology is still relatively backward, but Western companies can ship printing machines from the mainland and produce tens of thousands of newspapers.

"Thanks to you, I avoided convening a parliament, otherwise it would be unbearable to face a group of people who opposed me." Charles I was relieved after signing the treaty.

In his opinion, the interest-free loans of Eastern businessmen are undoubtedly a timely help.

"We will always be your most loyal and reliable friends, the king. If you have other matters, please feel free to discuss with us." Huang Xiushan still enthusiastically said to Charles I before leaving.

"I'll take you out." Charles I was in a good mood and led the crowd out of the palace himself.

"Your Majesty, what do you plan to do with the parliamentary affairs?" Zheng Zhibao, as one of the representative officers of the Kyushu Army here, also kept a high degree of attention to Charles I's next thoughts.

"With a generous amount of aid, there is no need for Parliament to be reconvened. I need a Prime Minister with an iron fist like the French Cardinal Richelieu to establish a centralized state like France in England. As for the Parliament , when the dissolution time is long enough, people will forget this tradition." Charles I said.

The directors of Western companies, including Huang Xiushan, were puzzled by Zheng Zhibao's refusal to hire Charlie. After leaving the palace, they couldn't help asking Zheng Zhibao: "The king is willing to pay commissions and at the same time obtain trading privileges in Scotland. In the end, I expect our reward to be at least 30 pounds. This reward is probably higher than the reward for attacking Algiers. From this point of view, it is really not right to refuse King Charles’ request. The Fourth Fleet plus The Far West Expedition should be able to defeat the Scots with relative ease."

Zheng Zhibao shook his head again and again: "Our Fourth Fleet must also act in the interests of our Fourth Fleet. It is true that if our Fourth Fleet and the Far West Expeditionary Force participate in the war, we may be able to get paid and obtain trade privileges in Scotland for your Western companies. But You should also see that the English and the Scots don't want to fight to the death at all, and the two sides only have minor frictions. If we act as the king's thugs, it means that we have to stand on the opposite side of the English and the Scots. No Even if we gain trade privileges, once the king is overthrown, they will definitely liquidate these privileges as soon as possible... Now you should know what our military thinks. At the critical moment, I would rather sacrifice the king than stand Against ordinary people."

Huang Xiushan and other directors of Western companies nodded.It is true that many things cannot be viewed from a purely commercial perspective, otherwise many things will be ignored.

For example, in this conflict between England and Scotland, because the Chinese army maintained a neutral stance, it did not stand against the king, nor did it stand against the common people or the opposition, so the industries of Chinese merchants in the city of London were not affected. Many members of the opposition even discussed in the teahouse opened by the Huaxia merchants, thinking that the Huaxia merchants maintained a neutral attitude in this incident.

If ordinary Londoners were offended, the teahouse might be burned down by angry citizens.

Try not to offend ordinary people in England, this is the common concept of Kyushu Army officers and Scottish Covenant Army Leslie.

King Charles became more confident after receiving the promise of the Western Company, and rejected the idea of ​​some ministers and nobles to reconvene the parliament, and never mentioned it.

After becoming rich, Charles I was no longer troubled by the restoration of parliament. He appointed his favorite, the Earl of Stratford, as Chancellor of the Exchequer, and continued to collect ship taxes across the country to establish the Royal Navy and collect national protection taxes to save money for the royal family. The expenditure of the army, I hope that the Earl of Stratford can turn England into a highly centralized kingdom like the French Cardinal Richelieu.Although the establishment of the Royal Army was shattered due to the defeat of the Battle of Newcastle, Charles I still did not give up on building an army loyal to him. He temporarily set the establishment at the size of a Royal Guards.

As for the final armistice agreement that should have been negotiated by the English Parliament and the Scottish Committee, Charles I also planned to personally negotiate with the Scots and fully grasp the power of diplomacy.

(End of this chapter)