"Your Highness, this confirms Yang's speculation, there is indeed an excellent dragon vein under Windsor Castle, and the previous kings of the dynasties slept on the dragon vein, which can keep England prosperous forever. It's just that the dragon's tail was cut off by the strait, and there are more variables...... The dragon has a grudge and turns into a soldier. ”

Nestled in the palatial royal palace of London's Richmond Tudor style, the green bamboo blind cane tapping on the red-textured carpet and the muffled sound of the stone floor under the carpet, Yang Gao wandered aimlessly through the Whitehall, his steps were astonishing—as a blind man, he could accurately avoid any obstacle and talk eloquently, even though his eyes were closed.

He was a rookie in London, known as 'Mr. Wise Lamb', and was introduced to the palace by Robert Dudley, Earl of Leicester, the Queen's favourite

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The Earl reigned supreme in England for having the Queen's love, and was present in any royal ceremony with the courtesy of a royal husband, and at some times, the Queen would call him another monarch in public – and he also sponsored Drake's voyages.

At this time, the Earl of Leicester was standing beside the queen, and explained in a whisper the fortune teller's origin, saying: "Mr. Lamb's name is derived from a storm that occurred in Southampton and is related to prophecy. ”

"The second time the Ming merchants arrived in England, there were six ships docked in Southampton, and the lamb wanted by Chen Mu was hidden in one of the ships full of porcelain." The Earl of Leicester described softly: "He was so lonely and embarrassed, with nothing but this green stick and a stinking blanket, and he looked like he was dying when he was thrown off the ship." ”

The queen did not seem interested in the secrets of the babbling of the god of the lamb, but only as an unexpected pastime of rare leisure, and asked lightly: "And then you saved him?" ”

"No, no, no, it's another Daming captain from the New World, his name is Second Tang, and he is a very methodical person."

The Earl of Leicester winked at the queen and said, "General Chen's outlaws. ”

Elizabeth straightened her wig and was absent-minded: "A thief, a liar, or a robber?" ”

According to Drake, the people of the New World called him Tang Er, perhaps the thief was more accurate, and he was indeed imprisoned by General Chen for this, but because he bribed an important official surnamed Fu under General Chen, he was saved from death...... Your Royal Highness, what are you loaded on the ship worthy of the second soup? ”

"Seaweed egg drop?" The queen fanned the feathered fan, and smiled exaggeratedly with a pale face: "I like to drink that, just like those who call themselves Hui merchants bring cigarettes, they are good trade goods." ”

The earl also laughed panderingly, and finally shook his head solemnly: "No, he stole General Chen's arsenal, which was loaded with three hundred Ming arquebuses and twelve large bronze boom cannons, and the Ming army defeated the Spaniards with these. ”

Hearing this, Elizabeth finally raised some interest and asked, "Is that his trade goods?" Or his weapon...... Three hundred arquebuses, doesn't he sell crossbows and longbows? ”

Not to mention England, a small country and a widow, 300 arquebuses, especially open-made arquebuses, even Fei Laoer, who ruled half of Europe, could be happy for a while - this means that the equipment of the entire musket company is standard.

At this time, there was no concept of standard in Europe, let alone weapons, and even military uniforms did not form a standard, which could not be compared with ancient China, and they almost did not belong to the country's professional army.

But Spain is already showing signs of a professional army and equipment.

What would a musket be like if it wasn't a standard? Just like what Chen Mu captured in Haojing in his early years, arquebuses, early flintlock pistols, and large arquebuses are varied, of different lengths, and different calibers, and the key England is even more backward.

Their arquebuses and snake shaft muskets without crosshair doors and reeds were arranged together with arquebuses, and their range, lethality, and accuracy were much smaller than those of arquebuses.

Even so, this number did not surprise Elizabeth, and Britain had its own national situation here.

Almost all of the lords' subordinates were longbowmen and crossbowmen, and few lords were willing to spend money on gunpowder for their levies.

This is not because muskets are difficult to make, there are many craftsmen and apprentices in England, who have built a dozen warships of more than 100 tons in three years, and it is not difficult for them to make iron pipe muskets that can make wrought iron furlong cannons.

What is difficult is the country's ever-increasing gunpowder shortage and the increasingly complex international situation at sea...... Urine nitrate taken from church chairs was bought by merchants engaged in overseas trade, and the price of nitrate skyrocketed, and the army could not afford to consume it.

Why was Gustav II able to sweep through HRE with muskets decades later? Because people have mines at home, Swedish saltpeter mines.

England can't do it, England doesn't have anything, just a lot of velvet factories.

There were only two ways for gunpowder to come from, either from the continent at a high price, or in the dung pits, in the stables, and on church chairs.

Church chairs are also a high producer of nitrate, because people have three urgencies, and church services can not get up - this already shows that England is more enlightened than France, France does not know the high-end technology of collecting urine and urine and feces, and England's maritime overlord is pulled out of church chairs.

The people of the whole country pulled for half a year, and the pirate Drake went out to fight.

What kind of arquebus, the longbow is good.

Elizabeth was a little disappointed when she received an answer from the Earl of Leicester that there was no longbow, but soon moved on to the twelve large bronze cannons, which the Spaniard had always wanted to beat herself, and which the queen saw as the only way to defend herself.

"Did we buy them?"

"Tang Er did not sell his musket and cannon, although his cannon and musket were very good, but they were too expensive, so expensive that no one would accept his price; But he saved Mr. Lamb, and in return, Mr. Lamb uttered his prophecy for the first time in England - that if he went to sea, he would return in vain. ”

The Earl of Leicester tilted his head and said: "As a result, they went to sea and encountered a storm, and many people died on board, and in return for the warning, Tang Er gave one hundred muskets and six cannons to the black sheep, and I bought these weapons from the black sheep at a lower price." ”

Speaking of this, the Earl of Leicester's expression became serious, and he whispered: "He also prophesied that I would be assassinated by assassins from the east, you know, Anjou of Valois, France, he wants to be the king of England. ”

Elizabeth's expression when she looked at Yang Gao also changed, she knew that the assassination that happened not long ago, a Catholic from France mixed with the Duke of Anjou, hid in the attic and used a French arquebus to shoot at the Count of Leicester, after the assassination failed, a second gunshot rang out in the attic, and when the palace guards went upstairs to find that the assassin had shot himself in the heart with another flintlock pistol.

It was a bizarre assassination, but there was no evidence that it came from a frame-up.

"He also told me that there would be food shortages in Ireland." The Earl of Leicester seemed to have faith in Yang Gao, and said: "I think it is a good thing that there is a rebellion in Ireland at this time, and if all this really happens, Her Royal Highness must send me to quell the rebellion, and I will use honor to crown you Queen of Ireland." ”