I also ask for a report of the invincible General Chen, I am Drake from England, and I have had the privilege of meeting General Shao Tingda, and I bring with me a letter from the Queen. ”

In the square in front of the Yamen of the Oriental Military Mansion, a middle-aged man in a sleeveless jacket looked up at the scorching sun in annoyance, cursing something silently with his mouth opening and closing, and finally could only unbutton his body and walk towards the pavilion in the corner of the square with a young man.

"Xiao Fu, go over there, if you wait any longer, you will suffer from heat stroke, but don't expect the arrogant Ming people to help us."

His name was Francis Drake, and he was a dangerous man in both old and new Spain.

The young man named Francis Bacon entered Cambridge at the age of twelve, served as an envoy attaché to France at the age of fifteen, and returned home this year for the funeral of his father's illness, and was later assigned as an envoy attaché to the Ming Kingdom, accompanying Drake to the New World.

Two men of the same name came from England and endured the difficulties of the Spaniards and the Ming army along the way.

That's not right, the Spaniards didn't make it difficult for them, because the Spaniards didn't find them, otherwise there would have been no trouble at all, they would have just shot.

It's the Ming army, Drake is not a messenger sent by Queen Elizabeth, he just uses the fleet to provide escort, but in the West Indies, Li Dan's ships do not allow the English to enter the sea, after all, Drake is one of the most notorious pirates in this sea, even Li Dan and Chen Jiujing have heard of it.

The Spaniards' treasure ships have only been successfully robbed twice in the past ten years, once in Manila, by the expeditionary Chen Mu from the sea, because the deal has been completed, so Chen Mu grabbed the goods.

The other takes place on the Isthmus of Panama, and the main character is Drake.

Even after presenting evidence of the Queen's letters and previous friendly dealings with Shao Tingda, Li Dan still did not allow the envoy fleet to be fully released, and he seized six large and small ships of the English, brought them to the port of Kirin, and allowed only two men to carry the letters to Chang Sheng.

This situation was dangerous for Drake, and he and his cousin Hawkins began to take revenge on the Spaniards because they had been tricked into a port by the Spanish governor in the Gulf of Mexico, and the fleet was subsequently slaughtered.

After deliberation, the real emissary, Edward Fenton, was left behind in the port of Kirinwei, and Frederick the Elder and Verbacon, escorted by the Ming army, landed in the Gulf of Mexico, crossed the Condominium all the way to the border, and were taken to Changsheng County.

Although the road was safe and not bullied, the psychological pressure was not small.

Even now, the sound of popping beans could be heard not far from them, and they couldn't even hear it without paying attention to it, because it had lasted so long that it would be ignored by their heads like white noise.

The long, rhythmic sound of muskets of the Ming army could be fought from morning to night.

Little Verbacon sat dignified in the gazebo, since his father died he had lost his source of livelihood, and the opportunity to study with the envoys in France was gone, if it were not for the opportunity to go to the Ming Kingdom, he would have wanted to go to Grey's Law School to study, after all, he was in charge of food and shelter.

It is true that there are many universities in Europe, but this university is different from the concept understood by later generations, first of all, those schools are generally theological schools, mainly studying theology, and secondly, universities in this era are more like schools, because there are no primary schools, there are no secondary schools, although these schools later became universities, it does not mean that they were universities in the past.

Because if there is no primary education, then there will be no relative higher education, only education.

One big and one little Francis sat in the shade of the pavilion, irritable by the hot and humid air, which gave the impression that a downpour was about to fall, which did not bode well for the two of them.

Bacon looked cautiously at the architectural style he had never seen in the distance, the tall eaves on the rows of houses, the white walls and green tiles and tiles of all kinds of birds and animals, the trees that grew over the courtyard walls in full bloom, everywhere there was beauty and divinity.

The people who walked the streets were dressed in very different costumes from those of Europe, he could not see any poor people in the European sense, some of them wore loose clothes with relatively monotonous colors, but the fabrics were beautifully made to make them look clean and decent, and some of them had more complex patterns, but they were far away from each other to determine whether those dark lines existed, but more colors and ornaments made them appear luxurious but not kitsch.

Everyone has a healthy complexion and a comfortable look.

Walking on the official roads far from the towns doesn't make a difference, but the horse-drawn carriages carrying goods far more than the suburbs of London or Paris are indicative of extraordinary prosperity, and every country road leads them to the wrong for the road to the town, but the road leads to the end.

The crowds were getting denser and denser, and there were more inhabitants of a village than a town in Europe, and the towns that would have been given excellent names in Europe were just villages without even a name, and Bacon found that the key thing was that there were no churches.

Where tens of thousands, if not hundreds of thousands, live, there is not a single church.

When he mentioned this to Drake, the old pirate leader showed a mocking look: "Haven't you noticed that the land of the Ming Empire is extremely prosperous, I have begun to believe that their native roads are paved with gold, if we can trade with them, we can make a lot of money, your life is no longer unsettled, I can also add a few ships soon, no, I will have a large fleet of twelve ships!" ”

"England will soon become rich, no longer afraid of the Spanish threat, and we will be free to sail the seas."

Drake touched his chin with the beard he had shaved to avoid the Spaniards, and his eyes showed extraordinary longing: "Who cares if there is a church?" I only care that their towns don't have walls, what kind of people wouldn't build walls for their own towns? ”

"Maybe they're idiots, maybe the people who want to attack them are idiots." Verbacon the Younger stated this sentence very seriously, and then reminded: "Whereas, they founded the town within a year of landing in the New World, and defeated the Spaniards in the same year...... I think the Ming people are the latter. ”

Drake pursed his lips and sighed softly for some reason: "Let's call them the Ming Empire, the generals of the West Indies seem to like people to call their country that—that person, are those people who came out of the town hall Spaniards?" ”

A few Spanish soldiers with high helmets walked out of the yamen of the Oriental Military Palace, and in their flock, the extremely richly dressed people bowed to the young men in the military palace who were wearing long robes and standing sideways, received their swords and muskets from the flag guards in front of the yamen, and gradually left in the direction of the port.

This scene made Drake suddenly want to stand up, but he stopped alertly halfway through his movements, carefully looking left and right to try to find a way to escape.

"They were still fighting the last time I came here, they shouldn't be as friendly as they seem!"

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