Lin Daojing sat in front of the window on the second floor of a hall of the Women's Normal School in Jinling City, taking advantage of the early morning sun to revise her unfinished drawings.

Accidentally, a little light ink dripped on the corner of the paper, looking for absorbent paper can not be, worried about the painting damaged, busy lying on the paper with his mouth to suck the ink, the secret road is really bad, accidentally there will be a mess.

Fortunately, the painting was not damaged, Lin Daojing breathed a sigh of relief, stood up and rinsed his mouth, and then walked to the window. There are two old locust trees in the courtyard of the hall, the leaves are brushed by the breeze, the sound is monotonous and meaningless, lonely and stuffy, symbolizing the life of young people, who have nothing at present and hope for the future.

In another ten days and a half months, clusters of catkins and white flowers will appear throughout the city, and the fragrance of flowers will be carried by the wind, and bees will be attracted. These little things buzz all day long, and I don't know where they came from or where they flew to, and they are full of life.

The people who are on the street opposite the gate of the hall will make a bamboo pole with a rope to make a circle to pick the flowers from the trees, and put a large handful into a vase and place them by the front door and window as decoration.

Lin Daojing's gaze is extremely far away, this is a great city, there are 1.5 million residents living inside and outside the city, unimaginably big, she is afraid that she will accidentally get lost and will not find the direction to come back.

The hall is located in the former Lion Street Xu House, since the death of the eldest son, Princess Lin'an did not move the place, but Xu Cuitao and his wife moved back, the inner house has not changed, the area near the market has been converted into a normal hall, for female students to enter the city to have a place to stay, or a temporary residence after graduation.

Lin Daojing visited the garden, shocked by the luxury of the powerful, and was relieved when he thought that this was given by Emperor Gaozu, Mr. Xu would never spend the people's fat and people's cream.

When she went to school, she earned her daily expenses by painting or teaching music to elementary school students, which was small but enough to spend, and she often walked around Lion Street, not far from Gongyuan. Look at those antique shops, bookstores, painting shops, paper shops, etc., look at them one by one, admire the work of the primary school apprentice in the shop, although her paintings are not valuable, but they can be sold for some copper coins, enough to exchange for pen, ink and paper.

The life of a female teacher is undoubtedly happy, compared with the news of suicide due to poverty in the Beijing tabloids, in the pen of some literati, the situation of those who committed suicide is very miserable. Most of them are young people from all over the world who have no ambition to come to Beijing, some jump into the royal river and drown, run to the woods and forests to hang themselves with belts, and commit suicide by taking poison in the burrow.

Suddenly, Lin Daojing held his breath and condensed, his breathing became a little short, staring at Mr. Xu who rode in on a horse, and his whole face suddenly radiated. But her footsteps didn't move, and she looked at each other stupidly, because she knew that the object of her crush was already a middle-aged man with a family. Even his son is about to start a family.

Xu Hao didn't know that he had another crush girl, and he came here to catch up with Zhang Hai and take a walk in his former residence.

At the same time, today comes a different guest, Princess Blanche, sister of King Henry V.

Banquet for Princess Blanche. Xu Hao was slightly disappointed with the other party's appearance, his almost pale face was a little freckled, and his figure was a little short and fat. It's not the blonde stunner of the imagination, which may be why King Henry is relieved that she is far away in China.

Although many ministers did not know what kind of barbarian country England was, since ancient times, China was a state of etiquette, and they still gave Blanche and other members of the flattering treatment. Because of the strong national strength of the Ming Dynasty, they were able to cross the ocean on Chinese warships one or two hundred years in advance, and they learned the strength of the Ming Dynasty everywhere they went.

A bowl of lion's head, a bowl of red stewed elbow, a bowl of braised shark's fin with shrimp, and a bowl of roasted duck with green onions, these are four large bowls; A plate of spicy chicken, a plate of eel paste, a plate of fried meat with leeks and spicy seeds, a plate of shrimp, and the rest of the eighteen exquisite side dishes, what three fresh fairy chicken bean curd and milk fried sauce noodles and the like, there is no special luxury, it is completely an authentic home-cooked dish.

The British guests went crazy, and after eating and drinking, they burst into tears one by one, admiring the deliciousness of the food, which is not comparable between the two countries in the present and in the future.

Xu Hao was very satisfied with the chili peppers he planted himself, needless to say, the British guests were tricked, and even the officials of Honglu Temple and the Ministry of Rites couldn't stand it, but they couldn't help but talk about it, the taste of spicy seeds was too exciting.

Henry V sent Blanche to China because he wanted to find a strong ally and wanted to buy some advanced firearms.

Henry V was the eldest son of Henry IV, and his father was only the Earl of Derby when he was born, and when the Earl of Derby was exiled, Henry was adopted by King Richard II and received a good education.

After the Earl of Derby usurped the throne, he made Henry the Prince of Wales. In March of this year, Henry had just been crowned King of England.

As mentioned earlier, Henry IV was supported by Parliament, which set a precedent for kings to respect parliament's opinions.

Princess Blanche was named in honor of Blanche, the grandmother of the Henry family, Henry IV was the only surviving son of his father John and his first wife Blanche, while John was the third son of Edward III, and John was a cousin with Blanche, as Blanche was the fourth granddaughter of Henry III. Well, the family relationships of European royalty have always been so complicated.

Anyway, Blanche brought her husband a huge fortune and the title of Duke of Lancaster, as well as the counties of Derby, Lincoln and Leicester, which were the capital of Henry IV's usurpation, but Blanche died when he was twenty-five years old.

Henry IV, who lost his mother at an early age, was stout and energetic, and is said to be a martial artist, pious, erudite, talkative, and a musician, as most Chinese emperors are described in history books.

At the age of fourteen, Henry IV was made Earl of Derby and married Mary of Beauham, the dual heir to Hereford and Exece. Xu Haoxin said that the Henry family is really well versed in the way of marriage, not long after Henry V was born, Mary died in her twenties.

Henry IV was a bit of a medieval legend when he was young, and he was accompanied by a bard to Lithuania, without which it was unthinkable, because there were no newspapers in Europe at that time, and they all relied on bards to build their reputation.

He also went on an expedition to Jerusalem, where he visited European monarchs along the way, making him a famous knight and a good diplomat.

Traveling all over the world has too much effect on the growth of young people, if it weren't for the fear of illness and other reasons, Xu Hao really wanted to send his son to travel around the world.

From the date of the accession of Henry IV to the throne. In his life, he was busy with civil strife and frequent foreign wars, as if he had leprosy and was tortured by a strange disease. Due to the constant wars and heavy taxes, Henry IV had to bargain fiercely with the parliament every year to obtain enough taxes, and the parliament criticized the king's policies.

Henry IV, who had lived half of the Hundred Years' War between England and France, died at the age of forty-seven, and Xu Hao admired him for writing in his will: "I, Henry, am a guilty and unfortunate man, and I ask my ministers of civil and military affairs and sincere people to forgive me if I have wronged them in any way." ”

Those who could be crowned kings in times of turmoil were very prominent, and there were frequent noble rebellions. The public resentment in the country boiled, and the parliament blamed him, and Henry IV took it all on, not as incompetent as Shakespeare's Henry IV. Under his rule, England remained largely intact, Wales regained allegiance to England, and Scotland and France did not dare to act rashly, which is a remarkable achievement.

When Henry V was a prince, he was wounded in the Great War with Henry IV. He showed great military talent and played an important role in political affairs, but the relationship between the younger generation and the older generation, led by Henry V, was very tense.

The main contradiction is in the question of France since the accession of Henry IV to the throne. France was openly hostile to England, and King Charles VI of France at the time did not recognize Henry IV and reasserted his claim to the Dukedom of Aquitaine.

History says that Charles VI suffered from snake spirit disease, and that his younger brother, the Duke of Orleans, had a bad relationship with his nephew, the Duke of Burgundy. Year 1407. The assassination of the Duke of Orleans at the behest of the Duke of Burgundy gave the British an opportunity.

At that time, Henry V preferred to ally with the Duke of Burgundy, while Henry IV wanted to ally with the Orleanists. Henry V sent an expedition to support the Burgundians on an expedition to count Arundel. But Henry V immediately relieved him of his position, and just when the relationship between father and son was extremely tense and even tense, Henry IV died, avoiding the division of the entire kingdom.

When Henry V ascended the throne, he extended an olive branch to those who had suffered under the old king, the estates of the Earl of March were returned, the Earls of Huntington and Oxford were re-favored, and the remains of Richard II were enshrined in Westminster Abbey.

When Henry V was a hostage, Richard II was very kind to him, so Henry V was very grateful to him.

Today, Henry V is committed to his ambitious goal of conquering the Kingdom of France, and the parliament has given him great support. Therefore, Henry V, who was ready to rekindle the flames of the century-old war, chose Princess Blanche to travel to China, hoping to get the support of the Ming Empire, which was becoming more and more influential in Europe, and sell him advanced arms or provide various assistance in all aspects to defeat the powerful knight legion in France.

Just as Princess Blanche was pestering the officials in blunt Chinese, Xu Hao hid in the corner and carried a wine glass, he knew that the imperial court would never interfere in the distant European continent, and he did not want to support Britain, whether it was from historical grievances or others, it was obvious that there was no benefit in helping Britain.

France will eventually become independent, the Silk Road to Europe will be monopolized by the Ottoman Empire, Britain at the beginning of the Age of Discovery is far from being comparable to Portugal and the Netherlands, and the British Empire, which has only become a world hegemon in modern times, will be a second-rate power on the world stage for hundreds of years to come.

There is no morality between countries, the Ming Dynasty helped the ancestors of the British, will they miss the Chinese in the future? It must not be.

Of course, appropriate support is necessary, relative to the repeated defeat of the French romantic rooster, it seems that maintaining a long-term friendship with Britain is obviously the best policy, Niu Niu is a winning general in history, but it is a pity that it is too far away from the blood-boiling World War I and World War II.

Lin Daojing also secretly watched him in the corner, but she didn't notice that she, who was plain white, was very dazzling in the whole banquet. (To be continued......)