"Monk is an outstanding military talent. What is even more commendable is that he has been helping the Netherlands fight independently for the past decade and has accumulated rich combat experience in fighting against the Spanish. The independence of the United Provinces of the Netherlands from the Spanish Empire is naturally a good thing for us in Britain and can weaken the influence of the Habsburg dynasty."

After the grand banquet of Charles I, Li Jinde had tea and Sir Greenville privately to talk about the situation in the city of London. Sir Greenville was a member of Devon and was once an officer in the expeditionary army of Spain. He knew the situation here well, and Li Jinde got a lot of information from him.

"But we helped the Netherlands resist the Spanish Empire, and the Netherlands became stronger and stronger. They competed for our fishing grounds in the North Sea and tried to monopolize overseas trade. When they defeated the Spanish, they were our enemies. This was the checks and balances of the continent, and no country would allow an empire here that was far stronger than their own." Sir Greenville put down his teacup.

"I listen to your conversation with Munch. Munch seems to be your relative. What does he have to do with Salina?" Li Jinde asked.

"He is the son of my wife's sister. He was under my command when he was expeditioning to Spain. Although the expedition failed quickly, he went to the Netherlands to help the Netherlands deal with the Spanish crusades, and he did not return to London until now." said Sir Greenville.

"My mother-in-law is also an aristocratic family?" Li Jinde felt deeply the complex marriage relationship between the British aristocrats.

"You should know that I am a squire of Devon and also own land in Cornwall. My wife Grace's father, Smith, was once the mayor and councillor of Exeter, the richest noble in Devon. He owned 25 large estates in Devon. However, he died more than a decade ago. As the youngest daughter, Grace inherited seven of the large estates and still had a considerable influence in Devon. After she separated from me, she moved back to her estate..."

"I originally promised Monk to arrange his marriage with Salina to strengthen our influence in Devon, but you disrupted my arrangements and I just hope he doesn't hold a grudge against me for this." Sir Greenville said.

"It turns out that there is such a complex relationship behind it... I just need to go to Devon with you to meet my mother-in-law?" Li Jinde patiently listened to the complex relationship between the nobles of Devon, Britain.

He was not worried that Munch would have any thoughts about Salina. Salina and him had cooked rice with them, and she was still in China, which was tens of thousands of miles away.

"Yes, Devon and Cornwall are the two southwest counties. I have estates in both counties. After your business is over, I will take you to Devon to find Grace. I hope she can forgive me after seeing the photos of her daughter and granddaughter." Sir Greenville said.

"I will complete the work at hand as soon as possible and visit my mother-in-law." Li Jinde said guiltily.

Sir Greenville and Grace lived in a different place, and the initiator was Li Jinde.

The Western trading company led by Li Jinde quickly established a relationship with the nobles and merchant groups in London under the bridge of Sir Greenville. The large sailing ships carried 100% of the "Chinese goods" and became a shortage of goods and sold quickly.

In order to continue dumping goods in the European market, the construction of factories on the royal land leased outside London also began.

In order to build several factories as soon as possible, Li Jinde and others recruited more than 100 carpenters, stonemasons and apprentices from the city of London, in addition to the carpenters and stonemasons he led.

It was snowing heavily over the city of London and the weather was a little gloomy, but this did not stop many carpenters and stonemasons from coming to apply for jobs. Western trading companies promised them to pay more than 20% of the market price.

"The structure of our textile factory should be like this, and the decoration of the eaves should be in the style of our Chinese..." A craftsman from China presented a simple factory structure diagram to the British craftsmen and stonemasons who came to apply for the job.

"It seems that there is no problem with such a structure, and we can handle it, but the materials we can find in the local area may not allow you to build wooden houses as you think. In my opinion, it is better to build a grand building like a church."

"There are also carvings with oriental colors, which we will find difficult to imitate without samples, because none of us have ever been exposed to these things before."

The British craftsmen and stonemason who came to apply for the job saw the design pictures of several factories and expressed their opinions one by one.

The Chinese craftsmen who were in charge of the construction of the factory selected some British craftsmen with grinding stone, wood, and construction experience, and began to build factories on the royal ground directly under the royal government leased by Western companies from Charles I. The first one to start building the textile factory, the most important factory. The order of sugar factories and smelting plants is slightly lower than that of textile factories.

During the factory construction, directors of Western companies such as Li Jinde were selling Chinese goods, recruiting textile workers and buying coal. For a time, the arrival of Chinese people became a topic of heated discussion among citizens on the streets and alleys of London City.

It is the cold winter, and only the temptation of money can make workers rush to build new factories.

A large amount of high-quality wood and high-quality stone were bought by the arrival of Chinese merchants and transported them to the land that Charles I rented to them by carriages and ships. Then, under the command of Chinese craftsmen, a factory with a Chinese style was established. Because Li Jinde and others brought steam engines from the local area, the textile mill established basically relied on steam power, a large number of coal mines were transported from the coal mine production areas in Britain.

The Chinese businessmen's spending a lot of money made the merchants, citizens and residents of London amazed.

Li Jinde and the others even proposed to Charles I that they wanted to purchase mining rights for certain mines!

However, Charles I was not a person who was easily fooled. He vaguely felt that it was a terrible thing to be controlled by Chinese merchants from raw material collection to finished products. So he politely declined Li Jinde and his request to purchase coal mining rights on the grounds of violating the protection clauses for the British side in the trade treaty signed with Chu Yun.

Because during the Ming Dynasty, a large amount of Japanese silver mines and Spanish silver dollars flowed into China, and China's silver reserves were very terrible. After Chu Yun came to power, the rate of silver inflow accelerated. What Charles I was most afraid of in the trade treaty was that Chinese merchants purchased a large amount of industries here, causing British merchants and handicraftsmen to go bankrupt, which would endanger his rule.
Chapter completed!