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Chapter 1284 Opportunity
Queen Elizabeth never thought that war would break out in the land under her rule.

Even if it's just a tiny rebellion.

This queen has made many wise decisions, but her kingdom also encountered many problems. In fact, people's impressions of her later were generally wrong. They were resurrected and deified one after another.

Some people say that all history is contemporary history, and this statement is very suitable for Queen Elizabeth.

At this moment, England is in the worst era. The royal family has insufficient tax revenue, local corruption is common, and the lack of royal finances has brought about a weak national defense force.

In order to pursue stability, the kingdom neither reused traditional aristocratic power nor formed a national army, and could only rely on pirates and privateers at sea. The Puritans became more and more extreme under her rule, but she did nothing.

People always try to find objective reasons for the so-called Great War between Britain and the West from multiple angles, but most of them are far-fetched. What is the biggest result of England in the first Great Battle between Britain and the West?It was with eight fireboats rushing into the port of Calais, where the Armada was anchored, with the help of the full moon and high tide, and burned one ship.

The rest of the ships encountered a hurricane in the ensuing battle, and the fleet scattered around the British Isles. Those that hit the rocks hit the rocks and were scattered by the wind. The large force never waited for the wind to blow them back. To be able to return to Spain, only two-thirds of the combat power is still retained to return to Spain.

It was the succeeding Stuart dynasty that reversed the bad finances and made people mistakenly believe that the Elizabeth era was the golden age of England; and during the Napoleon era, England was invaded by foreign enemies. At this time, Elizabeth undoubtedly became a symbol of resistance to foreign threats; and in the Victoria era, England has finally become an empire on which the sun never sets, and Queen Elizabeth is also the most in line with the ideology of the empire.

Of course, even if the queen is promoted, she still has a better staff than Fei Lao Er in this era.

William Cecil in charge of finance, Robert Dudley in charisma, Francis Walsingham in charge of intelligence, and Hawkins in charge of establishing the Royal Navy of England.

If one had to come up with a list, if the above-mentioned people were Wang Chonggu, Fang Fengshi, Wu Dui, and Ma Fang in Europe, Philip's staff in Spain could at best be Altan Khan's White Lotus disciple Zhao Quan.

Especially Walsingheim, who is in charge of intelligence, knows even more than Chen Mu about the progress of the Ming-French war on the land of France, the strength of the two sides, and the situation of the battle.

Because Walsingheim persuaded the pirates in the French port of La Rochelle to kidnap the Pope’s ambassador to Paris, and obtained all the letters Fei Laoer sent to the Paris Catholic League, and he also sent someone to blackmail him into the Pope’s secret chamber. In order to obtain the letter sent by Spain to the Pope, in contrast, almost what Philip knew, England knew.

Chen Mu can't, because of the plague Chen Mu has closed the port... He doesn't know anything about what Fu Yuan, Chen Jiujing, Yuan Zizhang and others have done in France in the past six months.

But what happened in Plymouth, the English royal family didn't know anything, just like the Jinyiwei couldn't use it against the Spaniards, Walsingham couldn't pry any useful information from the Ming people living in England.

Yang Gao, the fake blind man in the palace, kept running around to ask the Queen to build the Irish Bridge, but he didn't know how to build the bridge. Even after the Plymouth rebellion, Yang Gao was very calm, as if he had nothing to do with it, even if he was imprisoned. Going to prison is not a serious matter—just kidding, this old blind man is not even afraid of Chen Mu, who insists on murdering and setting fire to half the world, what kind of battle has he never seen, and he is afraid of the black prison in England?

Especially Yang Gao really didn't know anything about this rebellion.

But arms dealer Tang Er, a habitual thief, is extremely sensitive to being caught. Walsingheim bought his maid, but he found out that there were foreigners in the Chinese mansion, so he counter-bribed and inquired. When I heard the news of the rebellion in Plymouth, I realized that the wind was not right. I sneaked into the arsenal of the Royal Guards in London and set fire to it. Taking advantage of the confusion, I took the guards and jumped on a woolen boat that was originally planned to go to Holland. Merchant ships sailed to Ireland to bring reinforcements for Plymouth.

Everything was an afterthought to the English royal family. Hawkins had thought a lot in the past. He thought about the Minnesota Allied Forces expedition to Plymouth before the fleet was formed, and the French wrecked and destroyed the military port, but he never thought that the military port was still there. , Plymouth changed hands, and the new navy also disappeared from it.

Of the seven new-style Galen ships that were built, only Drake came back with one boat. He really wanted to drive them all back, but he had no one left.

In this world, only Fuchuan can start with only eight people. Other ships, whether it is a Western-style Galen, an English-style Galen, or a Nanyang Canton Ship, refer to the Liujia ship with a Western-style Galen hull combined with a Chinese-style sail. To start it, sailors are required Much more than this figure.

Here I have to say that Hawkins was extremely envious after getting the information about Daming from the Spanish royal family from Walsingheim.

Naturally, what this polished commander in charge of naval logistics envied most was Daming's ship.

Faced with the huge galleons that Spain spent a lot of money on, Hawkins chose to build relatively small galleons as standard armed merchant ships and warships, but even small galleons cost too much for a small country like England.

The complicated sailing of Galen ships requires a lot of sailors, and more sailors means that when they are used as merchant ships to transport goods, there are more sailors on board, more water and food, and relatively less cargo, less cargo and less profit. If things go on like this, it means huge losses .

It’s just that this problem seemed insurmountable, but at this moment, Philip wrote a letter to the Pope to let him know that there is a kind of ship in this world called the Happy Ship, a merchant ship of [-] to [-] tons, and only [-] to [-] people on board. To be able to carry [-] to [-] tons of goods in addition to supplies and sail the sea alternately day and night, and there is still room for a few swivel cannons on this ship-that is really fucking happy!

It is said that the happiness ship is generally a little slower than the armed merchant ship when the wind is down, but the big idiot in Spain has never obtained even a happiness ship. It is not bad if the boat does not retreat against the wind, does not spin, or capsizes. The happiness boat can still turn and go forward, and the speed is not slow.

But this boat doesn't seem to be difficult to build. Philip said in the letter that Spain probably knew how to build it, and all that was left was to find a way to communicate with Chen Mu and borrow some shipwrights.

Hawkins doesn't care whether Spain will build it, he cares most about how the ship is built-Philip didn't tell the Pope in the letter, you are not angry!
The Plymouth rebellion was instigated by the businessmen of the Ming Dynasty. In the eyes of Hawkins, it was an opportunity, and England had an excellent opportunity to get a happy ship.

　Good morning!

　　
　
(End of this chapter)