Chapter 016: Pirates

After a fierce fight, the tigress and the tiger cubs were finally driven away, and the net profit was 1. 80,000 soft sister coins, we people, we are really happy today. The six-eared macaque was so happy that he whistled behind closed doors, opened the Douban FM in his copycat iPhone, clicked on the red heart, and enjoyed his treasured music.

Macaque-kun has always felt that music is like DNA, everyone has their own unique taste, and only those who have been certified by themselves are the best.

But you can't listen to hearts all the time, you always have the opportunity to discover a new world of music, right? So he likes Douban FM, and when he gets tired of listening to the collection, he will expand the boundaries of his ears in the plausible intelligent association.

And when he's happy and needs a boost, he'll tune in to Hearts, like now.

"If you can be a pirate, why join the Navy?" Macaque-kun's heart moved, and he thought of the next topic of 233BC.

When he thought of this topic, his ears rang with some majestic songs sung by the Kalafina Orchestra for FATE/ZERO, but the scene in his mind was the scene of the British Royal Navy led by the pirate leader Drake defeating the Spanish Armada, the sea supremacy at the time.

In the previous episode of "Heartland", it was mentioned that the Vikings went south and added fresh blood to Europe. At that time, I didn't go into detail about what kind of blood it was, but this issue is just going to talk about it in detail. The Vikings were a cruel, savage, and bohemian people from Scandinavia.

When ordinary people hear it, ouch, what are these unclear barbarians going to do? We are all civilized people!

Indeed, at that time, the mild-mannered Middle Eastern merchants went to the north to do business, and happened to see the Vikings making human sacrifices for their dead chieftains, and the strong executors poked and poked the beautiful slave girl in the stomach with daggers, and blood was splattered, which made the Middle Eastern merchants look stupid, and the whole person was not good. However, the evolution of society never looks at you differently just because you are a civilized person.

Northern Europe is a land of extreme cold, food is scarce, and the races that survive here are not good at stubble, just as you see a hungry polar bear with green eyes attacking a mother bear and cub, and the Norsemen often raid homes to fill the household. The once good Norsemen were extinct long ago due to cruel food scarcity.

One of the ones that stood out was the Vikings who invented the longship with their brains, which had sails and could reach speeds of up to 25 nautical miles, which could be said to have come and gone without a trace, which was the Mongolian iron horse on the sea. They also invented the use of smoked meat to preserve food, a technique that is better than using "precious" salt to treat food because of the convenience of obtaining it. This allowed them to sail long periods of time from their home to the Mediterranean without stress, and from time to time they would follow the great rivers into the densely populated areas of Europe.

A wave of powerful pirates attacked a corner of Europe called "Normandy" for a long time, and King Charles III of France had to allow the Vikings to live there permanently, and the Vikings became dukes of Normandy. In order to protect himself from the constant attacks of pirates, the king of England married the Duke of Normandy, and in the chaotic political and diplomatic entanglements, the Duke of Normandy had the opportunity to covet the territory of England, and successfully landed in England and became the ruler here, known as "William the Conqueror".

William the Conqueror had a tremendous influence on the politics, language, and culture of England. Later, Queen Elizabeth (I), the great monarch of England who was admired by the people of England for her time and later generations, knew the power of pirates, and in order to break the Spanish monopoly on the wealth of the Americas, she opened her mind to issue "privateer licenses" to pirates, and constantly plundered Spanish ships loaded from the silver mines of the Andes.

The rulers of the Spanish Empire finally got mad at the brazen British, sending the world's number one Invincible Armada to teach the queen a lesson. If the Armada is a terrifying king, then the Royal Navy, which is dominated by pirates, is the army of the mad devil, because its fighting spirit and energetic soul unleashes the demon of human greed.

The biggest characteristic of the mages is that they are small and flexible, and they found that the long and heavy artillery with less power but long attack distance represents the development direction of advanced productive forces in the long-term privateering, and they are basically armed with long and heavy artillery before the big war. The Imperial Spanish Navy, the old brand of "the country's war has nothing to do with me", is still in its former glory, and its high-powered heavy guns have only one-third the range of long and heavy guns, and they often have to rely on boarding ships to end the battle.

After the Great War officially began, the Royal Corsairs kept a safe distance from the heavy artillery bombardment of the Armada, let alone a hand-to-hand battle on board. The result of the great battle was a great defeat for Spain, with almost no losses for the royal pirates, and the Spanish monarch estimated that the face of the loss was green.

The British did not become strong only after the Industrial Revolution, and the blood of the barbarians brought England the demonic nature of the devil, which was essentially the release of human nature. After settling permanently in Europe, the Viking abandons his "Ragnarok" series of myths, in which even gods die, and converts to Christianity and becomes a civilized man.

However, the mixture of demonic nature and Christian civilization has taken on a new meaning, consciousness, form, and form, they no longer respect the Pope, Elizabeth founded the Church of England, appointed herself as the religious leader, and adopted reconciliation and tolerance for the religious factions in England, the Pope issued an Expulsion Order to Queen Elizabeth, and Queen Elizabeth executed Mary Queen of Scots who was loyal to the Holy See. This was the direct cause of the Anglo-Spanish War.

At first, the English did not even know why they became rich and powerful, but Adam Smith summed it up to his country well: "The food and drink we need every day are not the favor of the butcher, the restaurant, or the baker, but the self-interest of them." "Through guò selfishness to achieve the creation of zào wealth, to make the whole country rich.

Wow, this summary is so special that the British high society has embraced this doctrine, so when Adam Smith went to the Palace of Westminster, all the high-ranking officials, including the Prime Minister, stood up and paid tribute to "their teacher". It is conceivable that starting with Adam Smith, the British people's awareness of the protection of personal property reached its peak.

The country's military is used to protect its citizens at home and abroad, and the Royal Navy will fight for the overseas interests of merchants. This is very different from the foreign policy of a large country in the Far East, in the Ming and Qing dynasties, a considerable number of Chinese went to the Philippines, Indonesia, Malaya and other places to colonize, and were slaughtered back and forth several times by the European colonizers there. Isn't it just for a few stinky money?

Raising profit-seeking to the height of the country is a major contribution of Queen Elizabeth, who is an excellent investor herself, has good risk control, and generally does not fight lightly, and will not fight when there is a conflict with the Holland, the coachman at sea, because the benefits are not large. France lagged far behind in this regard, until the time of Napoleon III, when it fought the Crimean War with the gray cattle army of Tsarist Russia in order to make overtures to the Pope.

Britain was the first country to realize that practical interests were more important than politics, religion, and face, and it was also the first country to achieve both strength and prosperity. Prosperity means "many", and the emergence of manyness is linked to the protection of personal freedom. Adam Smith's economics is known as "liberal economics."

Napoleon the Great was defeated by the N anti-French coalitions organized by the British, can you imagine? After the war, the country that made the most efforts to preserve the territorial integrity of France was England, and Napoleon III, the nephew of the Emperor, spent a long time in London to seek political asylum.

In the age of the international workers' movement, Marx and Engels had a stronghold of activity only in London, which regarded freedom as sacrosanct.

There is now a lot of speculation that Britain was the first country to enter the Industrial Revolution because it had a lot of coal, and it was mined close to the port, and even more beautifully, the coal mines were often mixed with a lot of water and needed a steam engine to pump water, so Watt had the opportunity to improve the steam engine.

They also compared China to China, saying that after the Northern Song Dynasty was destroyed by the Jin, the economic center of gravity moved south, and the cost of transporting coal from the north to the south was too high, so coal could not become the main energy source, and became the dead knot of the industrial revolution.

This is too underestimate the technical content of the steam engine, which is closely linked to the machine tool industry, otherwise it will not be possible to solve the problem of air tightness and machining accuracy.

The machine tool industry originated in the Middle Ages clockmakers, to the Renaissance, Da Vinci such a genius made an important contribution to the machine tool industry, and then after hundreds of years of evolution, there was a large wave of strange and ingenious gadgets brought by the British envoy Macartney when he visited Emperor Qianlong, including: breech guns, telescopes, globes and other astronomical instruments, clocks and a British most advanced model of 110 gunboats.

The Ming and Qing dynasties, which were locked in the Far East by the Pamirs, had no chance of developing a machine tool industry. In the heart of the earth, I forgot to mention that to the south of the Pamirs, there is the dangerous primeval jungle of Southeast Asia, and to the north is the climate of the subtropical high, which is dry, cold and barren. The desert in this region is very common, sparsely populated, and the vast wilderness is like a moat.

Watt's crucial progress in improving the steam engine came in 1765, after the British watchmaker Harrison's fourth marine clock, the H4, had been tentatively determined by the Royal Navy to meet the £20,000 standard of the Parliament's £20,000 bounty after an 81-day and five-hour voyage. The nautical clock needs to be calibrated by the astronomical means of the "moon angle method", and the old man Newton had a very important inspiration for the moon angle method, and the old man T Tun had already died in 1727.

In 1753, James Lind, a Scottish naval physician, discovered that scurvy was related to diet during a long voyage, which was later cited by Captain Cook.

With the accumulation of wealth, the emancipation of human nature, the soundness of the modern market legal system, the progress of science, and the breakthrough of mechanical technology, the British Empire, which was about to become a god, had already prepared for the industrial revolution in all aspects. Watt's patent for the steam engine earned him a huge fortune, and if it had been born in the Far East, it might have been regarded by a family as an ancestral secret recipe for passing on children to their daughters, and the so-called Industrial Revolution was absolutely in the air.

The "glorious tradition" and pioneering spirit of the Vikings were like the finishing touch before the rise of the British Empire, accumulating wealth materially, emancipating humanity ideologically, and perfecting the organizational form of self-interest and justice at the legal level.

Returning to the topic of this issue, Steve Jobs's famous quote: "If you can be a pirate, why join the Navy?" "The spirit of piracy represents freedom, pioneering, adventure, and profit-seeking.

Pirates are certainly not so magnificent, and even Queen Elizabeth has not publicly acknowledged her relationship with the pirate leader Drake. However, the view of history without moral criticism is a high aesthetic taste, and the brutality of the northern barbarians completely transformed the British, and also changed Europe and the world.

The British, who love their way of life, will never be conquered by collectivist and nationalist fascists, and even if London falls, it will only be temporary.