open sea

Chapter 1355 Printing
On the main island of England, with London as the center, preparations for a massive war began.

First, the Church of England made new lead blocks and printed pamphlets to publicize the news that a large number of English colonists were killed in Ireland and a large number of noble merchants died in Plymouth.

And let these news spread throughout the streets and alleys of England, the manors and fields.

Then Parliament began to condemn the 'thugs of Ireland and Plymouth', and the news spread everywhere in the streets and alleys that merchant ships belonging to England were sunk by the Ming fleet at sea, and the crew and sailors were massacred wantonly.

When the public opinion broke out, everything became logical, and the parliament finally threw out the most important issue - borrowing!
In the end, it was about money, because Robert Dudley, a radical Puritan around the Queen, planned to lead the army himself, but he could not leave London. As long as he was away from London for a few weeks, England's affairs would not work at all.

The Chancellor of the Exchequer, William Cecil, Lord Burleigh, also calculated that in the real war with Plymouth, their treasury was only enough to summon [-] troops to fight for a week.

In other words, if the army is called up and set off from London to Devon, where Plymouth is located, their troops will have no pay and no supplies.

With the lessons learned from Plymouth, no one dared to let nobles from all over the country gather troops to gather at the front line. No one knew how far their small elite troops would cross the front line once the Ming army attacked.

As early as during the Plymouth War, the Marquess of Winchester, four hundred miles away from Plymouth, watched from a distance outside the castle, and saw cavalrymen in cotton armor feeding their horses by the stream, drawing something with stones on paper, but when the guards went out to search No trace was found.

Only a few pools of warm horse manure and hoof prints that suddenly disappeared somewhere proved that someone had been there.

The situation forced them to go to war, but the reality was that in the face of a strong enemy, the nobles in a loose alliance were unwilling to continue the war with their own pockets, and the court needed to raise a lot of money for the war.

The queen had already discussed with the merchants to use the profits of the Levant Company this year to prepare for war, but those ships never returned, so they had to spread fear and hatred to the people in the country. When the time came, they launched a war worth 150 million pounds of public debt.

Under the operation of William Cecil, the chancellor of the exchequer, these public bonds will be secured by the six counties of Ireland covering the Kingdom of Ireland and the Midlands, with a total of 300 million acres of land secured.

These lands would go with the war, be confiscated to bondholders, and become private land.

The Queen was reluctant to give these lands to others, but this was the only way Parliament thought it possible to raise enough funds for the war, and finally had to agree with bloodshed.

But... the subscription was not smooth, and the people were indeed incited, but the people had no money, and they had more than enough energy.

The effect of incitement is much worse for merchants. Most merchants don’t care who owns Plymouth. In fact, the Daming Guild Hall in Puli County is now sending ships to English ships, allowing them to trade silk in Wenboli next to Plymouth. And china.

The large amount of land in Ireland is indeed amazingly attractive to people, but for smart people, it is something that can only be achieved after winning. There is not a single warship, and all those gathered in the port are armed merchant ships.

The Navy has become the Marine Corps, and you still want the land of Ireland?

As for the nobles, don't mention it, they all had to send troops at the request of the king, and they all worked hard, and they still want my money?
No wonder the subscription went smoothly!
After losing the old nose, the subscription has only reached 19 pounds. For those who spend money, the question arises: I have spent all the money to buy public bonds. Will the Queen send troops or not?

If troops are sent, the subscription money will be spent quickly; if no troops are sent, it will not be fair to those who buy public bonds.

For Puli General Ying Ming, the same counterattack during the confrontation was also necessary.

The Ming army's use of the printing press was not limited to the printing of scriptures like the European countries. The church could print pamphlets, and so could they.

The loyal and virtuous Fourth Master Wei became a master of improving printing presses in Puli County again, which earned him the admiration of the prostitutes in Puli County.

The truth is that he went to a carpenter with the drawings drawn by an old Taoist priest who was still recovering, and ordered a batch of wooden movable type. In fact, there was a set of movable lead type printing equipment in the church not far away, but it was useless... No one has ever seen it.

Lead type is a very ironic thing in Wei Siye's mind. He is not like Chen Ju. When Chen Ju saw the lead type Gutenberg in the Vatican, his first thought was to take it back. Wei Siye saw lead printing here. , the first thought is that the church is really stupid.

There are two common printing techniques in Ming Dynasty, one is woodblock printing, which is engraved on the whole page and printed in large quantities; the other is movable type printing, which is made of various metals such as wood, copper, and iron, and printed in large quantities.

The former is used more, and the latter is used less. Of course, handwriting is the most used.

Even Wei Si, a bastard with little literacy and only knowledge of flying eagles and lackeys, knows that printing is related to culture and knowledge, and the church insists on hiding this thing. Almost everyone he knows in Puli County is illiterate.

Of course, this result is most likely due to the war. Literacy often means more property and higher status. When there is a plague, they all run out of the city.

Wei Si didn't think this technology was awesome at all, because he didn't think it could be applied to Daming at all—in fact, except for Chen Mu, who had a lot of money and didn't go on a mission to print novels with movable type, everyone else used movable type to print novels. Engraving.

why?
There are 26 Latin and Roman letters printed here, and one hundred copies of each letter are prepared. Basically, a small printing house can be opened.

If you want to print books in Daming, tens of thousands of characters are commonly used, and if you prepare ten for each character, you will get one hundred thousand printing blocks. There are many craftsmen and practitioners of various types, skilled in craftsmanship, cheap in price, and high in literacy. Engraving?

With this kind of printing difficulty, the low literacy rate in England seen by Wei Si is very outrageous.

Of course, taking a step back, the literacy rate is 100%, and Wei Si is all illiterate, and they don't understand Chinese. Doesn't knowing Chinese mean illiterate?
Originally, Fourth Master Wei could still be a vanguard in the public opinion war, but he was illiterate, so Ying Ming could only go into battle shirtless and print a large number of newspapers promised to the people of England.

Yingming promised that when the Ming army launches a general offensive to the east, as the highest military officer in Daming Puli County, as long as the people do not participate in the fight against the Ming army, he will strictly prohibit the soldiers from looting, and will distribute the land occupied by the rich and unkind merchants to the poor people and protect them. their lives.

Moreover, on the way to march, anyone who opens the city before attacking the city will receive a reward from Ming Dynasty, which may be property or hereditary noble status.

These papers blew England up.

(End of this chapter)