It's funny to say that Old Taylor, the first disciple of Cao Daochang and the owner of the lumberyard, even knew what he believed, and he believed it anyway.

For Taylor, the carpenter, this act was not a proselytism, but treason.

It was much easier than a conversion, and he didn't know what a country was, only a kingdom.

It's like a sitting carpenter, becoming a hired carpenter, and the person who hired him is the Ming Empire, this preconceived fact makes him gladly accept.

Old Taylor's father was a timber master in a Catholic monastery near London, and he prepared timber for the monks of the monastery for a living, and during the reign of the Eight Lords of England, all the estates, domains, schools, farms, houses, houses, pastures, pastures, land, chapels, inheritances, tithes, and all other powers belonging to the church were confiscated to the king.

"At that time, my father was trying to get me a chance to go to university at the church, so that I could become a respected monk and give alms to the suffering people. You also saw that England was full of landless people, wandering everywhere, and the forests were full of robbers. ”

Speaking of this, Old Taylor took a deep breath of the Daming Muye yellow cigarette in his hand, and the light from the cigarette made the cracked ravines on his hands very conspicuous.

Pan Sheng followed his eyes to the lumberjacks working in the forest not far away, including men, women, and children, all of whom had been outlaws in the forest earlier.

They made a living by plundering passing merchants with knives and wooden bows, and planted them on Tang Er, but instead of killing them, Tang Er introduced them to a job - to come here to cut wood.

"Later, I had to go to the port to move goods, otherwise I had to work in a woollen mill, which is not very decent for a man to weave, but many people have no other way. A timber merchant who fled here from Spain hired me, so I could know you, but it's a shame if he were still alive. ”

There were Spaniards all over the world in those years, and Philip's policy of domestically concealing the country led many capitalists and intellectuals to flee Spain, but they did not want to stay on the home soil at any point - Spain was indeed the most powerful country in Europe in this era, the richest country in Europe, and the most enjoyable country in Europe.

A pearl is also readily available to the merchants of the Ming Dynasty and the merchants of Spain, but a few stones of rice and millet a year, all kinds of vegetables and meat are also at the fingertips of the people of the Ming Dynasty, but it is difficult for the Spanish people to ascend to the sky.

Spain is where sheep eat people.

Pan Sheng nodded in understanding, if old Taylor didn't speak fluent Spanish, it would be difficult for them to communicate directly.

At the same time, after assessing in his heart, he thought that old Taylor was no threat to them, and nodded: "If you need it, in a year or two, I can help you get a piece of wood that only the people of the New World have, to prove that you are a common man of the Ming Dynasty, and the nobles of England can't control you." ”

Old Taylor nodded, but his eyes showed uneasiness and confusion, and after a long pause, he raised the cigarette in his hand and asked, "I still don't understand, you have the best goods, why do you want me to run a lumber yard here?" ”

"It's always going to make them notice that it's unprofitable, and I need an explanation to deal with the possible danger."

Looking at the unwarranted worry of old Taylor, Pan Sheng smiled lightly, and said firmly: "It's profitable, you give the lumber yard to one of your four sons, and when the church's money comes next year, you can go to the port to open a shipyard and hire a shipwright from Daming to repair the ship." ”

"As long as the trade is prosperous, I can guarantee that Ming Ship will be more willing to come to your shipyard to repair ships than other shipyards, and with the best place and merchants, you can even open a shop selling wild tobacco next to the shipyard."

"If there is no war, you will be a man."

Old Taylor's concerns were legitimate, in fact his logging site employed enough Ming guards to worry the local lords at all levels, his lumberjacks came from the mountains and forests, the guards had a mature and experienced warrior aura, and there was no shortage of muskets in the lumberyards.

In this concept, old Taylor could organize more than one noble knight by simply riding a horse.

However, in the general English concept, the Ming was not an imaginary enemy, but a helper in the face of Spain.

This is just the opposite of the concept of the Ming people.

Pan Sheng patted old Taylor on the shoulder and said with a smile: "Let's go, go and prepare, let's visit the baron to sell muskets, if there is a chance, I want to see his soldiers." ”

Each of them has their own mission, and after setting the name of the church as Sun and Moon, they also added the totem of the dragon at the suggestion of old Taylor, so that the full name of the church is the Sun and Moon Dragon Worship Sect.

The Taoist chief and the holy maiden went out to hang out, and they brought a few guards and prepared a few sets of words such as 'the yellow dragon descends to earth, and all the people turn over', 'the sun and the moon return, and the world is peaceful', and they want to go to the surrounding villages to try what the people are most sensitive to.

Let's see how Yang Gao's children will make up nursery rhymes and spread prophecies when the time comes, and which of these jobs is more appropriate in this land, such as persuasion table, fox barking, cloth belt edict, fish belly book, and buried stone man.

As for the little flag officer, Pan Sheng, who was not trained in these more specialized tasks, was of no use, and one of the flag soldiers who accompanied him was packing up his backpack, putting away all the necessities such as notebooks, and asking the lumberyard workers to help put two boxes of arquebus guns on the four-wheeled wagon.

The steering of the carriage was very interesting, Pan Sheng studied it for a while before setting off, and drew a sketch on the small notebook, but he didn't look too much, his main mission was not like this.

Rather, it was an assessment of the combat effectiveness of the aristocratic army of England.

The same report was on their ship, prepared by Cao Daochang before he went to sea, and Pan Sheng looked at it over and over again during the voyage, remembering that the melons were ripe, but when he arrived in England...... He felt that the report was wrong in its assessment of England's forces.

The author of that report, Chen Mu, assessed that England's army was unknown in size, that its naval combat capabilities were superior to those of the Spanish navy, that its land combat capabilities were weaker than that of the Spanish New World Legion, and that of the French army.

Pan Sheng didn't believe it.

He disembarked at Southampton, where the local nobles boasted to Tong Er that England's most powerful warships were parked at sea, similar to them.

But the problem is that they are all lucky ships, and there are only two 400 shark ship frigates.

And what about them? There are more than 20 boats, four of which are a little bigger than the Fu boat, and the others are all gadgets that are not as big as the 400 Fu boats.

With these things, can you fight with the Spanish regular army?

In the opinion of Pan Sheng, the small flag officer, if the maritime merchants of England rose up, they might also fight with the Spaniards, and the navy of this country was too weak, so weak that Zeng Yiyi, who was killed by his marshal in his early years, could directly claim the title of king and emperor if he led his troops to appear on the coast of England.

The young banner army that followed him checked the bird gun at the end, and with a clang, the copper falcon that had fastened the bar underneath fell to the ground.

The flag army said with a bitter face: "Xiaoqi, this problem can't be repaired, these batches of bird guns have this problem, they can be installed, but as long as they are released, they will definitely fall off." ”

The little flag officer Pan Sheng didn't seem to care, and waved his hand and said: "After all, it is a refurbishment of the guns collected from the Guangdong Dusi, and the new parts used for the old guns are not the same size...... When I sold it, I told them that it was a fake. ”