Turning back, because of the huge profits brought by the opium trade, the major opium companies in the Ming Dynasty did not succumb to Cromwell's notes and continued to carry out the opium trade.

Seeing this, Cromwell had to take tough measures and decisively sent troops to surround the institutions of major opium companies in the Ming Dynasty in London, Liverpool, Manchester and other places.

Seeing this, Wang Guangting and Cao Shiwen, the general manager of Meisheng Company in England, had to ask for Cromwell in person.

Cromwell also had some concerns and met Wang Guangting and Cao Shiwen in his manor.

Because the taste of Chinese tea is elegant and peaceful, it is more of a strong national cultural influence. Even in a Western manor like Cromwell, Cromwell's drinks that entertain two Ming officials (although Cao Shiwen is from Meisheng Company, he also has the loss of Rulin Lang) are also a fragrant tea.

However, like many royal nobles, Cromwell prefers to soak light green tea leaves in clear and colorless glass cups to taste the fragrance, while Wang Guangting, two Ming officials, still use white porcelain to cover the bowl and drink slowly and peck lightly.

"I don't know what the general is about, why did he send your army to surround our shopping malls? Did our shopping malls not pay taxes, or would interfere in the internal affairs and violate the criminal law?"

Wang Guangting asked this first, while Cromwell said politely: "You two priests must have known that the Emperor of the British Empire has issued an edict that will prohibit the Ming Dynasty from selling opium to its own country. The unsold opium must be handed over as much as possible, otherwise they will use force to drive away from you and others. Now that the two of you are asking, are you still unwilling to admit that the edict is not fulfilled or do not want to hand over the opium?"

"If your country considers smoking ban for the physical and mental health of its own people, it is your internal affairs. We should not interfere, but we will always be unfair. Since we want to ban smoking, why only our opium ore in the Ming Dynasty, but we can't ban our country's tobacco merchants? This is probably not banning smoking but banning our Ming Dynasty's tobacco and implementing trade protectionism."

Cao Shiwen graduated from the Department of Economics and Trade of Peking University and was already very familiar with "trade protectionism". Not only him, but Wang Guangting also knew the meaning of these words because of the Daming Daily and the Daming Business Daily. The translation next to him could also be translated appropriately.

Wang Guangting admired Cao Shiwen, who had become the chief officer of Meisheng Company in England at a young age, spoke in a silence, and Cromwell also sneered: "No matter what you think, now the king of our country has decided to ban smoking, you should obey the emperor's edict, why bother with it!"

Cromwell continued to drink tea as he said nothing.

He was just a politician, not an economist, and did not know much about the advanced economic term for trade protectionism, and he never thought of banning cigarettes from the Ming Dynasty. As a mature politician, he knew that if he wanted to successfully ban smoking, he could not kill him with one blow. After all, there were many domestic businessmen who were selling opium, including many royal members. If the direct ban on smoking was directly and completely, it would inevitably be opposed by most nobles. In that case, even Charles I might not dare to support him.

Therefore, in order not to break completely with these nobles and hope that they will remain silent considering the long-term interests of the British Empire, Cromwell only targeted foreign opium companies like the Ming Dynasty.

Of course, Cromwell was too lazy to explain to Ming officials like Wang Guangting that although he was afraid of the strength of the Ming Dynasty, he was not afraid. After all, in his opinion, no matter how powerful the Ming Dynasty was, it was far away, and it was difficult to pose a fatal challenge to the British Empire.

Seeing this, Wang Guangting couldn't help but ask coldly: "Aren't you afraid of the anger of His Majesty the Emperor of Ming?" As he said that, Wang Guangting snorted and was about to leave Cromwell's manor with Cao Shiwen.

But at this time, a group of British soldiers holding firearms ran out of the diagonal thorn, and pointed directly at Wang Guangting and Cao Shiwen.

Wang Guangting and Cao Shiwen stopped at the same time and turned around, looking at Cromwell: "Earl Cromwell, what are you doing?"

"You have refused to pay the remaining opium, which is contrary to the laws of the British Empire. You will seize and detain you until you are willing to pay the opium!"

As he said that, Cromwell directly ordered his soldiers to detain Wang Guangting and Cao Shiwen, thus creating a situation where the entire Ming Dynasty's opium company in Europe was headless. Next, it would be possible to force the Ming Dynasty's opium company to pay the opium and continue to implement a smoking ban trade.

Cromwell was also decisive and detained Wang Guangting and Cao Shiwen immediately ordered his army to rush in and out of major opium companies to directly seize the opium opium from the Ming Dynasty.

Because Meisheng Company and other Ming Dynasty opium companies did not receive unified command from Wang Guangting and Cao Shiwen, and this place is a British territory after all, Cromwell is prepared, so Meisheng Company and other Ming Dynasty opium companies were forced to pay a lot of opium.

Even a bloody incident occurred in the branch of Meisheng Company in Liverpool. Meisheng Company’s deacon Dong Chuanzhu was directly beaten to death, and three Meisheng Company employees were beaten to death.

Dong Chuanzhu was the eldest son of Dong Chehu, who was the rickshaw driver for Zhang Dai, but unexpectedly became the first victim in the Cromwell ban campaign.

When he opened the bow and did not turn back, Cromwell saw that he had killed people, so he became even more unscrupulous, so he continued to increase his efforts and forced all the opium companies in the Ming Dynasty in England to hand over one million kilograms of opium, and the total economic losses of the Ming Dynasty reached hundreds of millions of silver dollars.

However, the British Empire made a fortune because of this, and the opium worth hundreds of millions of silver dollars was divided up by it. In an instant, Charles I also had enough military expenditure to launch a sectarian war.

But for the proud Ming Dynasty, this was a great shame. No one expected that these Western fans would be so bold and do business with you. These English-Chinese Western fans did not follow the rules and insisted on being domineering.

Of course, Cromwell also knew that this move would completely anger the Ming Dynasty. In order to avoid excessive dependence on the Ming Dynasty in the future, he simply asked Charles I to agree to close the major ports, stop trade with the Ming Dynasty, and drive away the people from the Ming Dynasty.

Meisheng Company and other companies' professions and the open Jinyiwei had to return to China.

After the news was transmitted back to China, it was a sensation. No one expected that the distant little British Geely would dare to be so bold, which violated the majesty of the Celestial Kingdom and even caused human lives.
Chapter completed!