The north bank of the River Thames, England, the Palace of Westminster.

Drake, who had returned to England in the dust, had not had time to rest, and was about to enter the palace to meet the queen, but was told that he had been called by Parliament to attend the meeting as an envoy who had been to the New World and had some knowledge of Chang Sheng.

In 1258 after the birth of Jesus, Simon de Montfort, the sixth Earl of Leicester and brother-in-law of King Henry III, led the nobles to fight the Earl's War, and armed into the palace to force Henry to sign the Oxford Agreement.

Without the consent of the Parliament, the king could not confiscate land or go to war with other nations.

The Oxford Statute lasted for a while, and then it was repealed, and the royal family regained power and compromised with the nobles to deal with state affairs together, divided into the House of Lords composed of nobles and the House of Commons composed of merchants and commoners, but at this time the House of Commons was basically the same as non-existent.

They can petition, but it's another thing to allow it.

Just like Drake, a commoner, he can only enter parliament if the House of Lords deems him needed.

"It can't go on like this!"

No sooner had the door to the council chamber been opened by guards clad in chainmail and cross-plate armor than a cacophony of roars hit his ears like the long-lasting clatter of Changsheng, and Drake frowned at the poor etiquette of the nobles of the House of Lords.

He saw Count Robert Dudley roaring in Parliament, accusing the two fleets he had financed of being raided by Han pirates and encircled by Spanish fleets while sailing off the west coast of Africa and Portugal respectively.

The complex external environment caused the investment of the queen's favored courtiers of England to be wasted, and she called for war in anger.

In the past, Drake's first voyage was sponsored by this earl, he was approachable and had many friends, liked to collect, pay attention to food, but lacked military knowledge, but served as the queen's chief of guard, and it was rumored that he had a good chance of becoming a prince.

On the other side was Bacon's uncle, Earl William Cecil, the Queen's erudite Chancellor of the Exchequer, who had few faults other than a nephew who did not like himself.

Almost all of England's political initiatives to encourage the people to produce and to fight for the national interest in the international arena came from him.

In other words, without his more than a decade of hard work, England would have collapsed at this very moment, let alone the glory of the future.

"Who do you want to go to war with? Spain? Or the so-called Han Kingdom? William Cecil was very calm, even in the restless atmosphere of the parliament, and said: "You are going to lead your army to Madrid?" ”

England could not afford to wage war, this is a reality, they did not even have a fleet directly subordinate to the state.

The Counts do have some fleets and troops in their hands, but if they do gather this force, it is good to win, and if they lose the war, they will have nothing.

The Irish barbarians can make it to London.

"No, we have to punish Spain, not necessarily just declare war on Spain." Robert was only stunned by the clamor for war, and he said: "We can help the Netherlands to put down the rebellion, and we must strongly support William...... Drake is back! Let him tell us if the Chinese monarch can be our help! ”

The so-called William, known as the Silent One, Prince of Orange, led the Dutch rebels to defeat and fight.

As for the strange title of Chinese monarch...... To tell the truth, he didn't call the Great Khan, and he was already a well-informed and well-informed talent in England, after all, they didn't know much about the New World, let alone the Great Ming.

The eyes of the earls, knights, monks, and fifteen members of the Council looked at the door, and Drake, who had just wanted to find a place to sit and watch the counts bicker, stopped in embarrassment, looked down at his mud-stained shoes, clapped his hands and took off his hat, and saluted to the crowd.

Earl William also followed everyone's gaze, he first looked at Drake fixedly, and then asked, "My nephew, he didn't come back with him?" ”

Your nephew is addicted to being a lumberjack in Changsheng!

But of course Drake wouldn't say that, little Bacon was very good to him, he put his dirty hat on the seat next to him, and said with a smile: "Mr. Francis thinks that staying in Changsheng can better understand the whole picture of the Ming Empire, and in order to better serve Her Royal Highness, he did not come back." ”

"Life in the New World is not easy, they don't even use knives to eat, but they eat well and sleep soundly, please rest assured."

"Victory?"

Earl William frowned and chewed on this place name, which did not look like a place name, and asked, "Does this name have any meaning?" And what do you call them...... The Ming Empire? ”

Because Drake is speaking paraphrased, always victorious, which really doesn't sound like a place name.

"Their country is called the Kingdom of Light, claiming to be a superior country given by God, others can call them the Celestial Empire or the Ming Empire, but we have not seen their monarch, only the supreme commander sent by the emperor to the New World, his name is Chen Mu, there is an official position called the Minister of the Oriental Ocean, who holds the institution called the Great Oriental Military Government, and rules everything in the New World."

Drake was a soft-spoken man in the council, and the nobles laughed as he walked forward, and the nobles laughed at things like 'the Land of Light', 'the Great Oriental Military Government', and 'everything that rules the New World'.

"They've only landed for a year, and they're talking about everything that rules the New World, hahaha!"

But Drake didn't laugh, nor did the two counts, William and Robert, who were standing in the middle.

William motioned for Drake to continue.

Drake looked at the members of the House of Lords on several floors of ring seats around him with a blank expression, and waited for them to calm down before continuing: "They don't seem to have a good impression of us, although I brought back the trade contract, they seem to have all our goods, and they don't plan to sell the raw materials we need, I can't guarantee how many goods there will be next year, and...... They asked merchants to buy and sell goods in England. ”

"In addition, Chen Mu, the Oriental Minister of the Ming Empire, said that our queen has not been canonized by the emperor, and she cannot say on the letterhead that Fengtian is carried by heaven, that is, the divine grace we wrote."

Earl William gritted his teeth in the face of this foreign humiliation, and the letter was written after he and the queen had consulted word for word.

As for why they dare to say this, it stems from the name Chang Sheng, Chen Mu's subordinates started a war with Spain within a year of landing in the New World, and defeated the Spanish legions on land with weak forces three times; And before I went to Changsheng, they had already made peace and made an alliance with Spain. ”

"Last year, their emperor sent more than 20,000 soldiers and more than 70,000 citizens to the New World with 1,500 warships and merchant ships, and Spain ceded the northern part of the New World, the western part of Mexico City, and Chile to the Ming Empire."

Syllable!

Drake clapped his hands together, and then slowly spread out, looking at the nobles of the House of Lords who were silent because of what he said, and said: "Everyone should not quarrel over Han and Spain, because as far as I know, Han seems to be a country established on the sea by pirates expelled by the Ming Empire." ”

"And Spain, after the end of the war, seems to be under the protection of the Ming Empire, and everyone still wants to ...... What the? Are they Protestant or Catholic? ”

Drake covered his mouth and laughed halfway through, "This is the most difficult part to understand, they don't believe, they don't believe in Protestantism or Catholicism, they believe in ancestors and emperors, the Minister of Oriental specifically mentioned this, if there are monks who try to convert them during the trade, they will definitely let us convert." ”

"He said it was called "do unto others as you would have them do unto you," Drake laughed, ......"I think it's really changed by them, maybe it's not a bad thing for England now." ”