Queen Elizabeth never imagined that war would break out in her own land.

Even if it's just a tiny rebellion.

The queen had many wise decisions, but her kingdom also had many problems, and in fact later people had a generally wrong impression of her, that she was the lucky one of history, extremely long-lived, and was resurrected and deified again and again after her death.

It has been said that all history is contemporary, and this could not be more appropriate for Queen Elizabeth.

England was in the worst of times at this moment, with insufficient royal taxes, local corruption, and a lack of royal finances leading to weak national defense.

The kingdom did nothing to achieve stability by relying on the power of the traditional nobility or the formation of a national army, and relying on pirates and privateers at sea, and the Puritans became more and more extreme under her rule.

People always try to find an objective reason for the victory of the so-called Anglo-Spanish naval battle from multiple angles, but that is mostly just far-fetched, what was the greatest result of the first Anglo-Spanish naval battle for England? It was eight fireships that swept into the port of Calais, where the Armada was anchored, with the help of the full moon 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, hitting the reef and being scattered by the wind, and the large force never waited for the wind to blow them back, and could only return to Spain, which still retained two-thirds of its combat strength and returned to Spain.

It was the successive Stuart dynasty that reversed its poor finances and made people mistakenly believe that the Elizabethan era was the golden age of England; During the Napoleonic period, England was invaded by foreign enemies, and Elizabeth undoubtedly became a symbol of resistance to foreign threats; And in the Victorian era, England finally became an empire on which the sun never set, and Queen Elizabeth was also the most in line with the ideology of the empire.

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

William Cecil in charge of finance, Robert Dudley in charge of charisma, Francis Walsingheim in charge of intelligence, and Hawkins in setting out to build the Royal Navy of England.

If there is anything to list, if the above people are Wang Chonggu, Fang Fengshi, Wu Dui and Ma Fang in Europe, the staff of Philip in Spain is at best Zhao Quan, a White Lotus disciple of Altan Khan.

Especially Walsingheim, who was in charge of intelligence, knew even more about the process of the Ming-French war on French soil, the strength of the two sides, and the battle situation than Chen Mu.

Because Walsingheim persuaded the pirates of the French port of La Rochelle to kidnap the Pope's ambassador to Paris, obtained all the letters from Fergus to the Catholic League in Paris, and he also sent people to blackmail the valet who had access to the Pope's secret room in order to obtain the letters sent to the Pope from Spain, almost what Philip knew, England knew.

Chen Mu can't do it, because of the plague Chen Mu closed the port...... Fu Yuan, Chen Jiujing, Yuan Zizhang and others have done something in France in the past six months, and he doesn't know anything.

But what happened in Plymouth, the English royal family knew nothing, just as the brocade guards could not be used against the Spaniards, and Walsingheim could not find any useful information from the Ming people who lived in England.

Yang Gao, the fake blind man in the palace, was pushing the queen to repair the Irish Bridge, but he didn't know how to build the bridge, and even after the Plymouth rebellion, Yang Gao was very calm, as if he had nothing to do with it, even if he was imprisoned, he didn't take it seriously - just kidding, this old blind man was not even afraid of Chen Mu, who insisted on killing people and setting fire to half the world, and he had never seen any battles, and he would be afraid of the black prison in England?

In particular, Yang Gao really didn't know anything about this rebellion.

However, the arms dealer Tang Er, a habitual thief, was extremely sensitive to being caught, and Walsingheim bought his maid on the front foot, and he found that there were foreigners in the all-Chinese mansion, and the back foot bribed the news of the Plymouth rebellion, noticed that the wind was not right, sneaked into the London Royal City Guard arsenal and set fire on the same day, took advantage of the chaos to take the escort to jump on a woolen ship originally planned to go to the Netherlands, and after going to sea, he knocked out the captain and gave the sailors a high price to hijack the merchant ship and sail to Ireland to bring rescue troops for Plymouth.

Everything is an afterthought for the English royal family, Hawkins has thought a lot in the past, thinking about the Mingxi coalition army taking advantage of the fleet to expedition to Plymouth, thinking about the French sabotaging and destroying the military port, but he never thought that the military port is still there, Plymouth changes hands, and the new navy is also in vain.

Of the seven new Galen ships that were built, only Drake came back in one boat, and he really wanted to drive them all back, but he didn't have anyone left.

In this world, only eight people are needed to start the lucky ship, and the other ships, whether they are Western-style Galen, British Galen or Nanyang Canton Ship, refer to the Western-style Galen hull combined with Chinese sails, and the number of sailors required to start is far more than this number.

Here I have to say that Hawkins was very envious after getting the Spanish royal family's information about the Ming Dynasty from Walsingheim.

The most envied of the commander in charge of naval logistics was naturally the ship of the Ming Dynasty.

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

The complex sail outfit of the Galen ship made it necessary to have a large number of sailors, and the need for more sailors meant that when the cargo was transported as a merchant ship, there were more sailors on board, more water and food, and the cargo was relatively smaller, and the goods were less profitable, which meant huge losses in the long run.

But this problem seemed insurmountable, and at this moment, Philippe wrote a letter to the Pope and learned that there is a kind of ship in this world called the Happiness Ship, a merchant ship of one hundred and fifty or sixty tons, and as long as twenty or thirty people on board can carry thirty or forty tons of goods for supply to sail to the sea day and night, and there is still room for a few maneuvers on this ship—that is really happiness!

It is said that the happiness ship is generally a little slower than the armed merchant ship when the wind is downwind, but the big fool in Spain has never got even a happiness ship, firstly, as an official Chen Mu is not allowed to sell ships to foreigners, and secondly, other ships do not retreat against the wind, do not spin, do not capsize, it is not bad, and the happiness ship can still turn and move forward, and the speed is not slow.

However, this ship does not seem to be difficult to build, Philip said in the letter that Spain already knows how to build it, and the rest is to find a way to communicate with Chen Mu to borrow some boatmen.

Hawkins didn't care if Spain would build it, how he cared most about how the ship would be built - Philip didn't tell the Pope in his letter, you said it was not angry!

The Plymouth rebellion, instigated by the merchants of the Ming Dynasty, was an opportunity in Hawkins' eyes, a great opportunity for England to get the ship of happiness.