In November 1658, four months after the Battle of London, even in the most remote parts of Europe, people knew the result of the battle. When they were stunned by Cromwell's crushing defeat, they were even more shocked by England's surrender to China.

The shock of the world did not stop England's surrender. This surrender was not only reflected in the text of the treaty between the two sides, but even in England's surrender to Chinese culture.

In the past few months, with the intense construction, a new city has begun to take shape!

London, a city burned to the ground by a fire bomb, is rapidly rebuilt. Unexpectedly, although after the fire, the Londoners chose brick and stone buildings, the buildings were not European style, but strange oriental-style buildings. These buildings were designed by engineers accompanying the Ming delegation. They were different from traditional Chinese architecture, but were built with brick and stone concrete structures, but they had new Chinese-style buildings. For Europeans, such buildings were full of exotic styles, from various official halls in London to the royal palace, without exception.

What Baroque and what Rococo-style buildings have completely disappeared in London, replaced by a "Chinese-style London".

Pushing open the doors and windows and staring at London outside the window, Hu Lianghuai said excitedly.

"Xicun, look, in a few years, this place will not be London in England, but London in China. Even ourselves, we may not be able to tell the difference between this place and the outer city of Nanjing."

As a construction engineer, Hu Lianghuai has set up as many as six large buildings for London, all of which are Chinese. This new building has just emerged in the Ming Dynasty and is most common in the outer city of Nanjing, but it is definitely not as dense as London.

"Apart from the people here, don't forget that these are all bought with money, 1 million pounds, a full 3 million taels of silver!"

The one million pounds Qian Xi mentioned was a loan provided by the Ming Dynasty to England. According to the agreement between the two parties, the loan will be completely used for the reconstruction of London. As a condition of the loan, the Ming Dynasty will fully participate in the reconstruction of London.

To this end, Zhu Youbin even instructed the delegation to set up a "Muhua Company" specializing in reconstruction in London. In fact, it is real estate development in bluntly.

"It is true that we lent 1 million pounds, but don't forget that this is a loan, which requires interest payment. After 20 years, they will need to return more than 3 million pounds. Moreover, we actually only need to take out 300,000 pounds. The remaining 700,000 pounds are issued by Sino-English Union Bank in the form of bonds. These bonds are issued in London and other European countries. In other words, we are using other people's money to make money..."

In the past decade, based on the modern banking industry, Daming has established a complete modern banking and financial system. Even the personnel accompanying the delegation have talents in finance. The so-called "Chinese-British Bank" was actually temporarily established. As for the capital of the bank, it is gold and silver seized from the fort.

According to Zhu Youbin, the reconstruction of ***ton was a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity, so the Ming Dynasty had to seize this opportunity, penetrate all aspects of England, and then turn England into the Ming Dynasty's England!

This kind of penetration is in all aspects. It controls a country's finance and influences their politics through loans. These are the things that these Anglo-Salsons in the 19th century are best at. Now the Ming Dynasty has just returned it as it is two hundred years in advance.

Of course, for the English, they had no other choice. After all, the current Kingdom of England has faced serious economic difficulties since its establishment. They must rely on the financial support of the Ming Dynasty to maintain the operation of the government and rebuild the city.

In history, the reconstruction project after the London Fire caused the British economy to begin to improve by leaps and bounds, so Defoe said that if there were no such fire, the economy of London and the entire UK would not have improved so quickly. But now it is different. The Ming Dynasty's mission quickly established more than a dozen enterprises and monopolized the reconstruction of the city with the help of loans. They not only purchased quarries and established large wheel kilns, but also prepared to introduce cement plants and production equipment from the Ming Dynasty. In the next few decades, no one knows whether England's economy will improve by leaps and bounds, but one thing that is certain is that even if it makes rapid progress, their economy will be controlled by the Ming Dynasty and controlled by the Ming Dynasty.

The process of building London is itself a kind of economic comprehensive penetration and comprehensive mastery. Just like in another world, the United States mastered Western Europe through the "Marshall Plan", sometimes, economic mastery is even more deterrent than military flags.

These Anglo-Salsons conquered most of the world with this move in another world, but now they have become "conquerors", but history has only experienced a small deviation here.

"Three million taels, and, this is just the beginning, I heard, they planned to provide them with more than 30 million taels in loans over the next ten years."

Qian Xi didn't know much about economy and finance. However, the huge sum of 30 million taels was enough to shock anyone. This was a huge sum of astronomical money.

"Thirty million taels? Is it more?"

Hu Lianghuai laughed.

"To be honest, let alone 30 million taels, or 50 million taels. As long as they need it, the United Bank will lend them. Besides, these 30 million are not the money we took out, but the money of the English themselves. You see, the real estate investment we are doing has huge returns. The banks lend these income to the English, and then the English try hard to make money and repay the debts. In fact, we didn't pay a penny from beginning to end. After all, we are a mission, not a consortium... Uh, it's wrong!"

As if he remembered something, Hu Lianghuai said with some regret.

"We did not ask the English to compensate for military expenses. After all, our shells cost money. When the Navy set fire to London, rockets alone were a considerable expense. What a pity, what a pity..."

Unfortunately, he said again.

"However, there is no way to do this. After all, England is our vassal state of the Ming Dynasty. It is always inappropriate for us to help them restore the royal government and collect military expenses. However, this battle was not in vain. After all, this concession is ours."

Then he said proudly.

"The concession is important, but London is more important. Europeans like to describe cities with pearls or something. In the future, this city is the pearl of the Atlantic in the Ming Dynasty. For the Ming Dynasty, this city will inevitably become the eternal glory of our Celestial Empire, because this is the first time, the first time, a Chinese have conquered this land."

When he said this, his expression seemed a little excited. How could he not be excited? Perhaps there was a coincidence in the conquest of England, and this increase was just England's surrender to the Ming Dynasty, not a real conquest, but one thing that is certain is that this will surely open a new history.

From then on, the Chinese civilization will have an unprecedented impact on the entire Europe. It will not even be just an impact. After all, this road to conquest has just begun.

Just as Caesar said back then, I come, I meet, I conquer.

In the past, the Ming Dynasty did not understand this land, and even knew nothing about it, so the Ming Dynasty was just trapped on the continent there. But now, history will open a new chapter.

They didn't even know that the newly rejuvenated Western civilization would undergo earth-shaking changes. Those so-called "ordinary and great" Anglo-Saxons - well, ordinary people became the lackeys of the great Ming Dynasty.

"By the way, Xicun, there will be a military parade tomorrow. At that time, you have been there. I heard that all the ladies of the English nobles will be there."

"Miss Noble..."

Qian Xi sneered.

"It's just a group of barbarian women!"
Chapter completed!