Yang Sichang and Heiwa went to the Ottoman Empire first. Here, the Minister of Foreign Affairs of the Ming Dynasty had officially reached a deal with the Governor of Egypt of the Ottoman Empire. The Ming Dynasty would provide technical support. The Governor of Egypt of the Ottoman Empire provided labor and funds. Both sides jointly developed the Suez Canal. After the Suez Canal was developed, they would lease the Ming Dynasty to operate the Suez Canal for 99 years for the price of one million silver dollars.

Now that Yang Sichang is here, he wants to directly use the compensation from England to pay this lease, hold a joint military exercise with the Ottoman Empire, and prepare to sign a military weapons trading agreement and an alliance treaty with the Ottoman Empire.

Because Wen Tiren, a diplomat, has successfully made the Ottoman Empire realize that cooperation with the Ming Dynasty, a distant super empire, was of great help to his resistance to the expansion of the European powers and occupying the interests of the Mediterranean, which also prompted the Ottoman Empire to be willing to cooperate deeply with the Ming Dynasty.

At this time, the Ming Dynasty's long-distance combat capabilities were not yet improved, and it could not be related to the nemesis of countries around the world. The Ottoman Empire was an ally, which would help the Ming Dynasty gain more overseas benefits at a smaller cost. Of course, the basis for the cooperation between the two was also related to the fact that both were monarchical empires.

After a three-month official state visit to the Ottoman Empire, Yang Sichang finally set off for his return home in the autumn of the 25th year of the Apocalypse, and returned to the capital in the summer of the 26th year of the Apocalypse.

This is the first-rank official who traveled the farthest in the diplomatic history of dynasties in China for 5,000 years. Yang Sichang was praised by the Daming Daily as "Zhang Qian of the current generation".

Zhu Youxiao made an exception and went out of the palace to greet Yang Sichang himself, and accepted Yang Sichang's prisoner from the Meridian Gate, and now he has granted Yang Sichang the title of Young Tutor.

In Zhu Youxiao's view, Yang Sichang's trip to England successfully fulfilled his expectations. Not only did he open up the opium trade, but he also successfully established a colony of the Ming Dynasty near England. This was like putting a nail in the entire Europe. In the future, the Ming Dynasty will be able to influence the situation in Europe.

Zhu Youxiao personally summoned Cromwell and was somewhat interested in this hero who became a British bourgeois revolution in later generations.

"Kneel down!"

After Xu Xianchun took Cromwell from Yang Sichang, in order to prevent Cromwell from doing anything extreme in front of His Majesty, Xu Xianchun specially hungered him for three days, and whipped him with an iron whip for a whole day, and then handcuffed him a hundred pounds of shackles.

Therefore, Cromwell was extremely tired when he was taken to Zhu Youxiao, and he only had his last breath. When Xu Xianchun shouted loudly, he had to kneel down and finish the next period.

Zhu Youxiao smiled slightly and couldn't help but think that this is the person who had to remember his name when he was studying in his previous life than remembering the name of Zhang Juzheng, the chief assistant of Wanli, to prepare for the high school entrance examination. Now he is just his own prisoner, and in this time and space, he can only let himself slaughter.

With a loud bang, Zhu Youxiao pulled out an embroidered sword that he had already ordered to prepare, held the handle of the knife with both hands, raised the embroidered sword and danced at Cromwell's neck. After confirming the accuracy, he decisively slashed it!

Like a clear spring, after a muffled sound, Cromwell's head fell directly to the ground like a kite with a broken string. His white face was covered with blood stains, his eyes widened, and his yellow curly hair was soaked in a pool of blood, and his neck that had not yet fallen was still gushing with blood.

Zhu Youxiao has not killed anyone for a long time, but now he still has no sense of unfamiliarity when he cuts Cromwell's head.

Zhu Youxiao picked up the Xiuchundao, took the handkerchief from Neihuan and wiped the blood from the blade cleanly.

"Put it out and chop it up and feed it to the dog. I found a few people to wipe the floor clean. The other criminals dismembered the body of five horses. Those who bully me to the power of the country must be severely punished!"

As he said that, Zhu Youxiao put away the embroidered spring knife that cut Cromwell's head and ordered: "Preveal this knife for future generations to admire!"

The death of Cromwell and the further consolidation of the Stuart dynasty with the support of the Ming Dynasty meant that the British bourgeois revolution would be postponed, and in the next few decades, there would be no more potential opponents with the Ming Dynasty for the qualifications to compete with the Ming Dynasty for the world hegemony.

The Ming Dynasty can naturally use this to further recommend the comprehensive promotion of the steam industry and vigorously develop the application of electricity, while accelerating the training of the standing army, especially the navy, the scale of the navy should be further expanded.

Zhu Youxiao could foresee that with the Ming Dynasty exploiting and suppressing its development of England and other colonies, the manulife brought by the opium trade will definitely reach its maximum in the future, and the desires are so unsatisfactory that the domestic capitalists who are desperately trying to increase productivity will put the entire empire in an economic crisis again. At that time, if the Ming Dynasty wants to get rid of the predicament, it can only expand further and even launch large-scale wars on a global scale, just as after the 20th century AD in history, the capitalist empires would have to launch two world wars in succession.

With the development of productivity and the development of global economic and trade, the obstacles formed by geographical isolation will become less and less, conflicts and frictions between countries will definitely become more and more frequent, and the possibility of war will become greater and greater.

If the Ming Dynasty wants to compete for the world, it must participate in the struggle for world interests and even take the initiative to launch a war. In other words, the Ming Dynasty must continue to increase military expenditures from now on and arm its own fangs.

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"Your Majesty, this is bright, it's really bright!"

Liu Rushi clapped his hands excitedly, jumped up, and then pulled Zhu Youxiao over and pointed at a light just built by the newly established Royal Power Company under the beam.

Zhu Youxiao just smiled faintly. This kind of ordinary tungsten wire lamp with only faint yellow light is a rare thing in this world, and it is indeed much wider than candles, but it is naturally not a rare thing for Zhu Youxiao.

Seeing that Liu Rushi was naughty and wanted to step on the stool to touch the light bulb, she hugged Liu Rushi directly and pinched her butt hard: "I'm disobedient, this can also be touched. Be careful to burn your hands. Even if it's not hot, what if there is electricity leakage."

"No, they said that the wire is wrapped in natural rubber and is an insulator," Liu Rushi pouted and said.

"You can't touch it either. Although it's not three thousand watts, if there is a leakage, it will make you die and become disabled!" As he said that, Zhu Youxiao patted Liu Rushi's shoulder: "Go and call the queens and let them see this new thing too."

Liu Rushi ran out excitedly. After a while, all the concubines, eunuchs and maids in the palace came to watch this new thing. Some people could not distinguish between electricity and lights. When they saw the light hanging under the beam of the room, they just shouted: "Electricity, electricity! So this is electricity!"
Chapter completed!