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Sunday, June 8, 1625.

The anthrax pandemic, which has been going on for a month, has killed more than 4,000 people across the city of London, and judging from the epidemic, there is probably no end in sight. With a total population of more than 250,000, the once prosperous and busy capital of England fell into a cold trough this summer, and rumors of plague had long since spread with merchants everywhere, and there were significantly fewer merchant ships and land caravans arriving in London.

However, in the lavish palace of the Tower of London, the banquets have not stopped for several days, and it seems that the life and death of the commoners should not be a topic of discussion at all. With the medical protection of "infinite proximity to God" in China and the United States, many of London's magnates and billionaires have successfully escaped from the hands of death. Villiers, Duke of Buckingham, naturally took all this great achievement of victory over the plague on himself, and it was with his strong support that England's relationship with Huamei was able to produce such a result.

What's more, the Duke of Buckingham finally found a breakthrough in Sino-American diplomacy, a beautiful girl who always seemed to have a different opinion from the Chinese magnates.

Privately rumors were already circulating in the Tower of London that Minister Su and Miss Dai Lin would quarrel fiercely every night, and Miss Dai Lin became more and more self-explanatory, leaving aside others and frequently attending banquets held by various nobles in England. Even the beautiful foreign minister could not stop the strong, pious and upright "Miss Daline" from being partial to England. In the process, the Duke of Buckingham finally understood Miss Dai Lin's background.

A man of great status in China and the United States, whose maternal grandmother was a descendant of the German Bavarian aristocracy of England, was also a Christian. What could be more gratifying? The family fortune of the beautiful Miss Dai Lin is obviously a huge energy that can influence this new oriental country in North America!

Sought after by a group of English aristocrats and wealthy businessmen, Miss Dai Lin, known as the "Angel", spent a lot of money and directly bought a noble manor on the outskirts of London for $150,000, and then feasted in this manor within a few days. At the instigation of the Duke of Buckingham, intentionally or unintentionally, invitations were even delivered to Frederick.

At night, escorted by a large group of English guards and agents of the Intelligence Department disguised as employees of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, Su Zining finally arrived anxiously at the aristocratic manor in the western suburbs of London, which had changed owners.

A feast seemed to have just ended, and the servants were quietly tidying up the scraps in the living room, a feast of extreme luxury and waste that cost more than £1,000. Even if it is the royal family of England, it is rare to hold a banquet of this level. Many servants secretly put some untouched food into their pockets when they were cleaning.

Exhortation and resistance reappeared in the manor's study, and the closed door could not stop Miss Dai Lin's sharp and disdainful quarrel.

“…… If this continues, I will report it all to your guardian in the country, Miss Dai Qingqing. Su Zining sat on the sofa angrily, his face solemn, "Your behavior has crossed the government's diplomatic threshold. Even if the Duke of Frederick is related to your family, he can't be touched! ”

"For God's sake. I was just giving Uncle Frederick a little care as much as I could. He's lost territory, and he's just trying to get back what rightfully belongs to him. The entanglement of Bohemia and Vienna has already hurt too much! Dai Qingqing said English coldly and turned around.

"A little? You're a Catholic, but you're going to give the English thousands of 21b flintlock rifles! Su Zining touched his forehead, feeling weak, "NORINCO will very much welcome the contract from Banco Nacional, but this will affect the diplomatic relations between the government and the Kingdom of Spain!" ”

"I'm sorry, but this is an ordinary loan business of Banco Nacional Ultramarino, with the Duke of Buckingham as a guarantor, purely private. Didn't Banco Nacional Nacional support Spanish trade in the Caribbean? Seeing Su Zining's bitter appearance, Dai Qingqing smiled instead, sat back in her seat and shook her small fan, "I will complete this commercial loan through the business channels of the Portuguese, and I will not shake the neutral position of the Congress, I believe that the members of the Congress will understand me." ”

After speaking. Dai Qingqing flicked the tail of her skirt and walked out of the study. When the door was opened, Zhou Kemin, who was dressed in the uniform of a naval captain, was standing at the door in a daze. Just smiled at her "boyfriend", and Dai Qingqing turned the hallway.

"Brother Su. Qingqing may just prove that she is a qualified heir to Banco Nacional Ultramarino. Zhou Kemin glanced at the dark night outside the window and whispered unnaturally.

"Well, maybe I should talk to the Duke of Buckingham too, at least this kind of thing must be distanced from the government." A hint of pride flashed in Su Zining's eyes, and he deliberately let out a long sigh in English.

A drama that was so realistic that Zhou Kemin was amazed ended again, and Su Zining left the manor with an angry face. Just as the carriage left the gate of the manor, a dark figure flashed out from the back of the manor building, dressed as just an ordinary servant. This level of voyeurism and spying cannot escape the eyes and ears of several agents trained by Homeland Security Minister Liu Yun to secretly protect the manor.

On June 10, Dai Qingqing, in her capacity as chairman of Banco Nacional Ultramarino, signed a loan contract with the Duke of Buckingham. With the strong intervention of the Chinese and American Foreign Minister Su Zining, the Duke of Buckingham, on behalf of the English royal family, will provide a total of $2 million in "commercial loans" with the Caribbean islands of St. Kitts and Barbados as collateral, with the principal plus three years of interest eventually reaching $2.6 million.

With this loan, the Duke of Buckingham ordered 8,000 21b flintlock rifles, 24 12-pounder cannons, and a large number of cold weapons and armor directly from Dai Qingqing. There is no semicolon except for expensive muskets, and compared with the military manufacturing costs of Europe, the cold weapons and armor products of China and the United States are cheaper.

The loan funds handed back from his left hand back to his right hand in this minute made Su Zining secretly surprised. The domestic purchase price of this batch of arms is less than $600,000, and not only domestic arms enterprises will make a lot of money this time. Including the three-year interest, Dai Qingqing's "extra profit" alone exceeded 2 million US dollars.

According to the Duke of Buckingham's own calculations, this batch of munitions will be used to form two armies. Some were used to equip the army belonging to the Crown of England, while others were transported with Frederick V to the north coast of Germany, where they were united with the local Protestant cities to form a new Protestant mercenary army. The Kingdom of Denmark was now in full swing, and the local Protestant aristocracy in northern Germany was historically associated with the Danish royal family, and many of the Protestant nobles who had followed Frederick V and the Holy Roman Empire had taken refuge there.

But in Su Zining's eyes, Duke Buckingham, a tactical idiot, supported Frederick V's counterattack on the mainland, which was destined to be crushed by the two god-killing commanders of the Holy Roman Empire. In this era, the military talents who could be compared to Count Tilly or Wallenstein were not born except for King Gustav of Sweden. As long as the war continues to expand, the English royal family will go bankrupt in a few years, and the English royal family will have to pay more in order not to lose the islands of St. Kitts and Barbados in the Lesser Antilles.

In the process, the representatives of the National Assembly of England expressed their opposition, and even suggested that the loan in the name of the Crown of England must be approved by the National Assembly. But the Duke of Buckingham's assertive attitude also makes sense. After all, the current colonies of St. Kitts and Barbados belong to the English crown, and the National Assembly has no right to intervene.

The Earl of Mansfield's defeat two months earlier had long since been reported back to London. It caused a great shock to the upper echelons of England, and the national finances were once again facing a continuous deterioration situation, and the National Assembly was even more opposed to the royal family's expansion of the war, especially the strong resistance to the royal family's position of openly supporting Frederick V.

In the end, Dai Qingqing also negotiated with the Duke of Buckingham to reach an intention to lease a royal estate in Munster Province in southern Ireland. According to Dai, her grandmother had lived in County Kerry, Munster, for some time, although she had never met her and had never been to Ireland. But she was willing to build a farm there.

Renting a royal estate? The Duke of Buckingham was left in the air. Although England invaded Ireland hundreds of years ago and moved in large numbers to suppress the native Irish, the predominantly Catholic province of Munster in Ireland has always been a restless place.

However, the good wishes of the beautiful Miss Dalin could not bear to be crushed, and the Duke of Buckingham, after careful consideration, agreed in the form of a memorandum to occupy about 500 acres (about 2 square kilometers) of land near Killarney Laune Lake in County Kerry for the purchase of a farm. The lease is 10 years and the annual rent is £1,500. Anyway, the land there is undeveloped and borderless, or it belongs to those pesky Irish peasants, just draw it. There is no need to rent royal land at all.

A signing meeting to get what each needs finally came to an end, and apart from the sullen foreign ministers of China and the United States and the representatives of the National Assembly, most of the people on both sides were in high spirits.

……

On the River Thames, a small boat sails slowly on the river. Beautiful parasols, beautiful tea sets, and fragrant green tea.

On both sides of the river is the old 17th-century landscape, and the city of London under the anthrax epidemic looks extremely oppressive, even in the unpolluted 17th-century Thames, Zhou Kemin seems to be able to smell the stench of corpses.

Dai Qingqing, who was sitting in front of her, seemed to be in good spirits, holding the teacup elegantly, and humming a song quietly in her mouth.

Dai Qingqing has an acting talent comparable to that of a movie queen, she and Su Zining sang and created the conflict between the Duke of Buckingham and the National Assembly perfectly, and Frederick V, a long-term big fish, has gradually approached the bait, and a "European agent plan" that has been carefully planned for many years has finally made a good start.

It is hard to imagine that Dai Qingqing, who is usually pure and lovely, would have such a sharp and mature appearance, which made Zhou Kemin feel very strange for a while.

"Zhou Kemin, listen to Su Zining, that Cromwell, who will make a revolution in the future, is as old as you this year! It would be nice to see each other. Just as Zhou Kemin continued to be in a trance, Dai Qingqing suddenly said.

"Huh?" Zhou Kemin was stunned for a moment, and didn't understand why Cromwell was mentioned at this time.

"Hehe, I'm thinking, if we ...... at this time" said, Dai Qingqing also gestured with her little hand on the side of her neck, and smiled mysteriously.

"......" faced the "girlfriend" who had entered the state of an agent again, and Zhou Kemin was speechless.

"What's wrong? Why do you always look unhappy? It's boring! Dai Qingqing couldn't help frowning when she saw that her "boyfriend" looked old-fashioned and cold all day long, "Are you thinking about your Dharma again?" ”

"I didn't!" Zhou Kemin shouted almost subconsciously, and suddenly saw Dai Qingqing's gaze that seemed to be able to penetrate his body, and quickly turned his head away.

"Am I getting in your way?" Dai Qingqing leaned closer, staring at Zhou Kemin's face reluctantly, and her voice was very low, "Or do you not like a girl who is too violent, and she is also an agent?" ”

"Qingqing, General Chen Liwen is right, you shouldn't do this...... I mean, you don't have to do what you do to make people like it. Zhou Kemin blushed and said, "I think it's better for you to go back to the Army Headquarters." ”

"That's so boring, why can't girls make earth-shattering careers?!" Dai Qingqing pursed her lips, looked blankly at the suburbs of London in the distance, and said to herself, "Who likes this era, no parents, no movie KTV, no cars and mobile phones, nothing ......"

"Qingqing, I'm sorry......" Zhou Kemin lowered his head slightly, muttering something that almost only he could hear.

"It's nothing, as long as you can be worthy of coming to this world for a while. I hate men and mothers-in-law the most, if you really like that Dama, why do you have to take into account other people's eyes? I can't be jealous of an Indian woman......"

After Dai Qingqing finished speaking, she turned her back, and then suddenly pulled out a revolver out of nowhere, raised it above her head, and actually pulled the trigger in front of the English boatman.

Dai Qingqing's feelings took a sharp turn for the worse, leaving Zhou Kemin speechless.

The crisp sound of gunfire not only frightened away a group of crows pecking at the carcass of a rotting goat on the riverbank, but also frightened the honest English boatmen. (To be continued)