The Southeast Fleet retains a tradition that each new class of ships is designed with a solid model to make a full-scale model to enhance convincingness.

This tradition comes from Master Phineas Pate, when he was young, he was not famous, once he made a large ship model of 8.5 meters long and 3.6 meters wide, dedicated to the ten-year-old Prince Henry, this move was appreciated by King James I of England, since then Phineas Pate has stepped on the road to the clouds, after that, his new design of the battleship always has a real model, so that people can see at a glance, and it is very atmospheric to say, we made a battleship like this!

Phineas Pate is very hands-on, and his success is not without reason.

The battleship "Sovereignty of the Sea" is the new capital ship of the British royal family, which was decided to be built in August 1634 by Charles I with the support of Admiral John Pennington, and the chief designer of the ship is Peter Pate, the genius son of Phineas Pate, in May 1635, the "Sovereign of the Sea" was officially started, and Peter Pate completed the design of the battleship with the assistance of his father.

From the ship model, it can be seen that this is a beautiful battleship with a streamlined hull and a slender gun deck, and its tail is burdened with staggered and complex carvings, and the battleship of the Southeast Province has long since lost this kind of decoration, and Yan Dashao has no money to do that thing, but in Europe, this kind of decoration is very popular, and Pate is not exempt from vulgarity, and there is still a gun door in the carving group, and there is no waste of position.

Having said that, the sovereignty of the sea from bow to stern is covered with gilded ornamentation on a black background, and carved with the portraits of Saint John and Saint Matthias, whom its enemies awe call "the Golden Devil!" ”

The ship models are exquisitely made, the details are lifelike, and even the guns on the ship are small models!

"There are a total of 118 gun emplacements, and 102 guns are actually installed." Seeing that the guests were counting the gun positions with great interest, Peter Pate opened the Gu directly.

"The largest artillery is a 42-pounder gun!" Peter Pate reveals a shocking revelation that makes the guests realize that our guy is still not big enough!

After covering it with a cloth, they said goodbye to Phineas Pate and his sons, and they found that the door of the carriage they called was too narrow to be installed, and if they were forced to do so, they were afraid of damaging it.

The ship model is made of exquisite materials, very heavy, the road is too far, and it is not easy to walk, they are walking from one end of London to the other, pressing everyone with soreness in their arms and sweating!

The British on the road saw this strange group of people carrying things, and if they hadn't brought weapons, they almost wanted to rob them!

Yes, some mounted police officers came forward to ask, but they knew that they were visiting Chinese, so they let them go.

Finally carried it back, everyone was panting and tired and became dead dogs, lamenting that they had been on the boat for too long and lacked exercise!

The hard work was not in vain, when everyone looked at the ship model in the living room of the hotel, they were all excited.

With it, the new first-class battleship of the Southeast Province should be a matter of course.

The southeastern province has a certain technical force, but it is not as good as Europa, and the battleship model is taken back, and with a reference, it can't be said if it can't be done.

Even though they were physically tired, the officers were still interested in taking rulers to map and notebooks to record parameters and draw sketches as backups.

There is also a family of acquaintances in London that needs to be visited, that is, the family of Mr. David, a senior official of the Southeast Province and deputy chief of the General Staff, needs to be visited.

They went to London's famous Fleet Street, a famous street named after the neighbouring Fleet River. Fleet Street crosses the border of the City of London to the west and becomes Strond Street; To the east, after passing through the Lutheran Gate Circle, it becomes the hill of St. Paul's Cathedral, St. Pride Cathedral, Tambo Church, etc.

The characters who can afford to live on Fleet Street naturally have origins, but when the officials arrived at No. 16 Fleet Street, they found that the gate was closed and the house was empty.

Knocked on the door, no response.

They got the address right and the right one, yes, this is it.

asked the person next to him, but he was met with a cold eyebrow, and the other party didn't pay attention to them, which made them baffled!

After all, they were told about the situation, and it was an elderly English gentleman they had met, who told them the details.

His father, the Earl of Thomas Wentworth Stratford (1593~1641), was a representative of the monarchy during the 17th century English bourgeois revolution.

In 1614~1624, he was a member of the National Assembly, and was one of the leaders who opposed the king's prerogatives, for which he was arrested.

In 1629~1640, he became a privy adviser and became a royalist, and was a confidant of King Charles I of England. In 1633 he was appointed Lieutenant Governor of Ireland. In 1639, he led an army to quell the Scots uprising. Promoted to Acting Governor and defended the absolute monarchy. He was made an earl in 1639. In November 1640, he was accused by Parliament of treason for attempting to use the Irish army against England and was executed in May last year!

The Earl of Stratford was Charles I's most able minister, and he and Archbishop Lauder were recognized by Parliament as the King's "dog-headed military advisor", while the Earl of Stratford, the Governor of Ireland, was chosen as a scapegoat by the House of Commons.

The atmosphere in London was now tense, and the subjects were divided into royalists and anti-royalists, first quarreling and then fighting, and civil war was imminent.

The Englishmen found by the Hung Siguan before were anti-royal parties, and when he heard that he was asking about the owner of the house, the Earl of Stratford, he was naturally not polite to him, but now the English gentleman asked was a royalist, and the Hung Siguan thanked him, and asked about the family of the Earl of Stratford, and fortunately, the gentleman knew that his family had moved to live in the countryside of Cambridge.

After bidding farewell to the enthusiastic English gentleman, Hong Xuguan did not hesitate at all: "Go to Cambridge!" ”

The icing on the cake is good for sending charcoal in the snow, this truth is very well understood by Hong Xuguan.

A group of sixteen of them took three carriages out of the city of London, which is the suburbs, and at the foot of the Son of Heaven, there are still large areas of primeval forests in the suburbs of London, and the clothes of the people who cultivate them are not very good, so that the Chinese people can understand that the degree of development of Britain is only so.

On the carriage, Yan Zhang, who was in the same carriage, chattered endlessly about the unpredictable world, the high earl, the king's favorite retainer fell into hell at once, in contrast, it was the master shipbuilder who took the professional road who needed the ruler of which side, although there was no great wealth and nobility, but it was peace.

Hong Xuguan dealt with him absentmindedly, but what he was thinking about was one thing: a tip given to him by the leader.

It's really similar to the trick made by Brother Zhu Liang, no one knows, Gan Hui secretly gave it to him, and asked him to open it again when he arrived in England, when Hong Xuan opened it, it was the leader who said that he told Mr. David's family, one is to go to France, and the other is to follow Charles I's eldest son!

Hong Xuguan compared the current situation and was shocked in his heart!

The leader has "cleared" or "foreseen" the current situation in England and is not optimistic about the current king, Charles I?!

While they were thinking about their minds, they came back to a deeper understanding of the British environment.

They met the robbers!