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    An inland ship, carrying a British mission to China, came.

    The British envoy is relatively shabby, with only a dozen people in total.  And it didn't come by warship, because the British mainland was planning a sea battle with the Netherlands, and there was no warship to escort the envoys.

    They traveled on a merchant ship of the British East India Company, resupplying at Portuguese colonial ports along the way.  After arriving in India, they heard that Malacca had been captured by China. The British cheered and immediately went to Malacca for exchanges.

    Then, the British merchant ship docked in Banten to do business, and the British mission was escorted northward by the Datong Navy.

    The representative of the British Mission is called John Milton, whose works include: "Paradise Lost", "On Freedom of the Press", "On Education", "On the Powers of Kings and Officials" and so on.

    Milton was Cromwell's master and actively promoted revolution and democracy.

    After Cromwell came to power, Milton served as his Foreign Affairs Secretary.  Milton was in charge of all the British diplomatic correspondence, and by the way he was writing with the aristocrats who opposed Cromwell.

    Britain's mission to China this time was somewhat personal, and Cromwell directly threw over his foreign secretary.

    "Mr. John, the Chinese came and said that Nanjing is coming soon, let us prepare." Deputy envoy Andrew Marvell knocked on the door and entered.

    Andrew Marvell, a famous poet of the British metaphysics school, was a tutor in Cromwell's boyhood, and currently serves as Milton's Latin secretary.

    Milton put down his quill, hung up his glasses and said, "Then get ready to disembark."

    Marvell said with a smile: "The mission of this mission is to persuade China to go to war with the Netherlands, weaken the strength of the Netherlands in Asia, and order the Dutch headquarters to send more warships to support Asia. This mission is over before it starts. China and the Netherlands have already  After two games, the strength of the Netherlands in the Far East has been weakened to the extreme. The two of us only need to meet the Chinese emperor, and we can concentrate on enjoying exotic customs.¡±

    Milton shook his head: "Our navy is still too weak. It is best to provoke another war between China and the Netherlands."

    "I'm afraid this is unrealistic," Marvell said, "China and the Netherlands have just signed a ten-year truce, and neither side will take the risk of tearing up the contract."

    "Try it." Milton is a workaholic. If he is not sent to China, he will be blinded by working day and night next year.

    ?The Yangtze River Navy sent the British mission to the pier, and someone went to the city to report to Honglu Temple, and the officials of Honglu Temple would take the foreign envoys into the city.

    Before the officials from Honglu Temple came, Milton and others were waiting at the pier.

    More than a dozen dock cranes are working, and workers pull pulleys and drag heavy objects onto the ship.  There are more dock coolies behind, carrying boxes of goods, and there is a busy scene everywhere.

    "Everyone, please wait in front, don't block at the pier." Said the translator of the Navy.

    Everyone then continued to move forward, and there were many people carrying sliding poles here.  In fact, it is a "taxi", and the "drivers" are gathering together to wait for business.

    Where is bragging and laughing from time to time.

    There is a sliding pole to carry passengers from the city to the pier.

    The guests get off the sedan chair to pay, and go straight to the riverside to wait for the boat.  The two lifters also got together with other "drivers".  Due to the relatively crowded surroundings, they can only wait there to pick up customers, and they will be fined for staying outside the border to entertain guests.

    "Here comes the little scholar, read the newspaper to us!"

    One of the two people who lifted the slider just now was a teenager in his teens, and he immediately became the center of attention.

    The boy took out a newspaper from his pocket and rented it for a penny a day.  After carefully unfolding, the boy began to shake his head and read the newspaper: "The big news in this issue is that Young Master Yang Er, the head of the young troupe of the Chunlan Club, insisted on marrying Xiao Hongtao, a famous actor in the Kun troupe of his own drama club. Even taking concubines, it is very  To be married as a regular wife. Master Yang was not happy about it, so Second Young Master Yang eloped with Xiao Hongtao. The two had eloped for almost a month before the news came out, and no one has been found yet."

    This young man obviously belongs to the cattle herding class. He is the kind who doesn't study hard, and even reads newspapers and has to guess.  Otherwise, graduates from elementary school would not be able to earn a living carrying a sliding pole.

    When the "taxi drivers" heard the news, they immediately talked about it:

    "Master Yang is also a respectable figure, and his son elopes with the opera singer, this time he will be ashamed."

    "Hey, then Young Master Yang is still a lover."

    "I've heard of Little Hongtao's play. Last year Li Yuanwai had his birthday, so he invited Little Hongtao to sing. Liu Er and I took Mr. Zhang to Li's Mansion, and I listened to it for a while.sp; "We seem to be in an ocean of literature and art, with books and paintings everywhere. For European scholars, this street is heaven,

    They must have never dreamed"

    "I asked a Chinese official, and he said that the best-selling book in China, in addition to the ancient Four Books and Five Classics, is the "Datong Ji" compiled by the Chinese emperor today. I asked a Chinese friend to translate a few articles for me to read, so I can be sure  , the Emperor of China was a democratic revolutionary"

    "The Chinese emperor's legitimacy does not come from the church, but from the 'sky'. The sky is not only the sky above our heads, but also the origin of all things. The Chinese regard it as the master of everything. Heaven and earth, derived from human beings and all things, human beings are  The elves in the world form the country of China. The country needs a leader, so there is an emperor. The emperor who is kind to the people will be recognized by the sky and become the son of heaven. The emperor who is cruel to the people will be disgusted by the sky.  He will be overthrown"

    "Everything is people-centered. Isn't that what democracy is?"

    Milton has been pursuing natural human rights, freedom of the press, freedom of religion, freedom of education, and freedom of marriage all his life.  Totally obsessed with this stuff

    "Datong Collection" and believed that the Chinese emperor was a revolutionary.

    It's just that when he finishes reading "The Collection of Datong", he probably won't be so happy.

    Zhao Han's theory of dividing land conflicts with Milton's democracy.  Because it was the landowner's field, and Milton believed that personal property was sacrosanct.

    Of course, Milton can also ignore it. He has decided to translate "The Collection of Datong", and then delete the theory of dividing the land.

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