In the sound of firecrackers, the spring breeze sends warmth into Tusu. Thousands of households always replace the new peach with the old one.

Firecrackers are set off on festivals every year, and this custom has existed since ancient times and has continued to this day. Tu Su refers to the wine brewed with Tu Su grass or several herbs drunk during the Spring Festival in ancient times. According to custom, on the first day of the first lunar month every year, the whole family drinks Tusu wine, and then wraps the dregs in a red cloth and hangs it on the door frame to ward off evil spirits and avoid the plague.

Gao Pragmatic had never drunk Tusu wine in his previous life, but he had it every year in this life. Of course, in the past, when I was young, every time I celebrated the New Year, I just meant it, I took a sip and tasted it, although I was not very old this year, but my identity was somewhat different, and I was allowed a cup by Zhang.

However, Gao Pragmatic himself has no hobby for drinking, even if he was a secretary in his previous life, he often had to help the leader block the wine and practice a good amount of wine, but the amount of alcohol does not mean that he likes to drink.

After all, he is a cautious person, and he has never liked the activity of drinking, which is easy to get confused and lead to mistakes.

To his surprise, the Gao family may have a "massive" family inheritance. These people in the Gao family, up to the five uncles and high talents, down to their younger brothers Gao Wuguan and Gao Wuqin, are actually quite able to drink - Gao Cai does not refuse to refuse the toast of the younger generation, even Gao Wuguan and Gao Wuqin, two little children, after drinking a small glass of their own, actually looked at Gao Shishi's wine glass, which made Gao Shiyu roll his eyes in his heart.

But he rolled his eyes a little earlier, because his youngest brother, Gao Wujian, who was still only two years old and could barely walk on the ground, also ordered a few drops of Tusu wine with chopsticks for him to drink under the teasing of the fifth uncle. After Xiao Wujian drank those few drops, he actually pestered Gao Cai to drink again, which made the house laugh.

The fifth year of Longqing has officially arrived.

In the original history, the Ming Dynasty in the fifth year of Longqing had only one major event in the real sense: the official completion of the tribute. In addition, only Li Chunfang, Yin Shidan and others Zhishi and Gao Gong became the first assistant and thoroughly mastered the cabinet can barely be compared with it.

But as a traverser, Gao Pragmatic's eyes will never be limited to the corner of the world of Daming.

He knew that the real worldwide impact of the five years of Longqing actually took place in the Mediterranean, that is, the Battle of Lepanto.

The Battle of Lepanto itself needs no more introduction (no wind note: mainly...... Interested friends can Baidu on their own), but the impact of this battle is very far-reaching, and it is even related to Gao Shipra's future "going to the blue ocean" plan, which I really have to say.

Later generations have introduced the Battle of Lepanto, and the most said is nothing more than the loss of more than 200 warships and more than 20,000 naval soldiers in this battle, resulting in a great loss of its maritime power. It is even said that the Ottoman Empire temporarily lost its maritime supremacy, and the myth of invincibility was shattered. After the victory in the Battle of Lepanto, the combined navy led by Spain and Venice became more active against the Ottoman Empire, and the situation in the entire Mediterranean was reversed.

But Gao knew that things were not so simple, because in fact, after only one winter, the Ottoman Empire had re-established its maritime power, and the number of warships continued unabated. The Ottoman Empire, from the sultans to the common people, believed that they had only "lost their beards" in the Battle of Lepanto, and that they had not suffered any fatal blows, and that the foundations of the empire had not been shaken in the slightest.

The Ottoman Empire certainly did not win this battle, but it was certainly not a loss.

King Philip II of Spain by this time had already defaulted on a large amount of debt, and his attention was distracted to the west and north - the conquest of Catholic Portugal and the proposed invasion of Protestant England. His peace with Turkey confirmed that he would set a fixed border between *** and Christendom in the Mediterranean.

After the capture of Cyprus, the Ottoman Turks had almost complete control of the eastern Mediterranean, although Crete was still under Venetian control. However, the defeat at the Battle of Malta and the disaster at Lepanto shattered the hopes of the Ottoman Empire advancing on Rome. After the reconquest of Tunisia by the Turks, Spain became clear that North Africa was firmly part of the Ottoman Empire, and that Charles V's dream of conquering Constantinople was long gone.

The two naval powers, representing the two major religions, were thus at an impasse.

The Ottomans did not win, but they did not lose much, but if Christendom did not win the Battle of Lepanto, it would have lost the whole Mediterranean.

A year after the end of the campaign, the aged Don García de Toledo was still pale at the great risk of the Battle of Lepanto; Don Juan was a desperate gambler in that battle; Don Garcia knew that defeat would bring disaster to the coasts of the Christian Mediterranean, and that despite the glorious outcome of the battle, victory was a fluke.

If the campaign is lost and there is no fleet to defend against, all the main islands of the Mediterranean - Malta, Crete, the Balearic Islands, which are the last line of defense of Venice - will quickly fall into the hands of the enemy; The Turks were then able to use the islands as a springboard to attack the Italian hinterland all the way to Rome, Suleiman's ultimate goal.

If Shuruch Muhammad succeeded in destroying the Venetian wing; If the heavily armed ships of Calaise fail to disrupt Ali Pasha's Chinese army; If only Uluki Ali had been able to penetrate Doria's front an hour earlier...... The map of southern Europe as a whole will be very different from what it is today.

The containment of the Ottomans at the Battle of Malta and the victory of Lepanto halted the expansion of the Ottoman Empire in the heart of the Mediterranean.

And the Spanish colonial empire, which no longer had hope of taking Constantinople, turned its attention to the East.

In the near future, Spain and Portugal, the two pioneer colonial empires, will jointly launch a new round of expansion into the East, and this is the challenge that Gao Shishi must face in the future "towards the blue ocean".

Of course, this is only the political impact of the Battle of Lepanto, but it also has an equally crucial impact in a purely military sense: the Battle of Lepanto was the last large-scale use of the oared warship in the history of world warfare.

After the Battle of Lepanto, people no longer debated the merits of sail warships and row warships, and began to fight entirely with sail warships as the main force of the fleet. It is already convinced that ships powered by the wind are more combat-ready. In addition, the importance of firearms in naval warfare was also convinced. This allowed the European fleet to develop the tactics of using artillery as the main force, which affected the development of naval warfare.

The only good news was that, after all, Spain had won the Battle of Lepanto, and still did not pay enough attention to naval artillery, especially long-range heavy artillery, which largely contributed to the tragedy of the subsequent defeat of the Armada to England.

However, this is good news for Daming, at least Gao Pragmatic believes that at least he will not have to face Spain, which is in the strongest state.

Your Virgin Queen of England, don't let me down...... Let's beat Spain and Portugal even worse!