Holding the Japanese mission in his hand, the sharp blade, the blade is richly decorated with the sword, looking at the Tianzhu and Tianfang princes who paid tribute, and the orchids with bewitching waists like spiritual snakes, Zhu Yousong couldn't help but feel a little dizzy. Pen × fun × Pavilion www. ｂｉｑｕｇｅ。 ｉｎｆｏ

"Your Majesty, the unicorn offered by the wooden bone bundle is currently being trained outside the city, and you can enter the city in a few days."

"Huh! My general, this outside matter is handed over to you and Lao Ma, what do I have to worry about?! Just do it! I'm a little tired, so stand down! "Zhu Yousong, a famous drunken and lustful emperor, saw so many novelties, and was both beautiful and famous, he couldn't help but be a little hungry and eager to get on the horse and gallop. Therefore, he made a look of "I'm drunk and sleeping, and I'll go".

If Zhu Yousong and Ma Shiying knew the real reason and purpose of these foreign envoys coming to Nanjing, they were afraid that their noses would be crooked.

Since the five towns welcomed the dragon, the military ministers and nobles led by Li Shouhan took Zhu Yousong from Huai'an into Nanjing City and became the Ming Dynasty, Li Shouhan has been operating in secret, worrying about the orthodox and legal status of this Hongguang Emperor.

The plan for the coming of all nations is one of them. For this plan, Li Shouhan planned for at least half a year, and ordered various trading companies to order local princes to come to Nanjing.

Matsudaira Nobutsuna, the old man of Japan, originally had the most important task of coming to Guangzhou to greet Liang Guogong on the orders of the general and the emperor's edict, and at the same time, he would settle the 20,000 mercenaries recruited in Japan with the Dutch, the English, and Li Shouhan's fifth son, Li Huachen.

Among the 20,000 mercenaries, 8,000 were recruited in Japan by Li Huachen with the consent of his father and the shogunate, the Japanese general of the Japanese conquest. Because, our fifth son conquered cities in Morocco, Lijiakou, Mugudushu and other places, using both soft and hard, and the progress was very smooth. In the past few years, it has owned dozens of large and small cities, and the place is thousands of miles. However, the territory is larger, and the officials, soldiers and horses under his command are becoming more and more stretched. Li Huachen asked his father to assign officials and graduates of the academy to come to work, and at the same time recruited natives to serve as soldiers. However, the local natives are much less cost-effective than those Japanese volunteers.

Therefore, Li Huachen ordered people to load a few unicorns, flower blessings, long-horned spirit cows and other wild beasts and send them to Guangzhou, hoping that his parents could allocate them to the soldiers and horses as soon as possible or issue an approval for recruiting Japanese volunteers. (The so-called unicorn, Hua Fulu, is actually the giraffe, zebra and wildebeest common in the East African savannah.) Of course, in addition to these, there were also several cabins of gold and ivory gems and other valuables, and East and North Africa are rich in gold and gemstones.

Gold, silver, ivory and gems were naturally included in the accounts of the inner government by Li Shouhan, and as for those rui beasts, they were sent to Nanjing City to offer treasures.

As an encouragement to his son's filial piety, Li Shouhan allocated 1,000 official graduates to Li Huachen, the fifth child, from the village chief to the county-level government. At the same time, he was allowed to recruit 20,000 horses in the Wa Kingdom. However, the Tokugawa shogunate, who received this approval, was also very melancholy. It's not that you can't find those ronins who are willing to work hard overseas and use their lives to give their families a good life. It's because several of them are recruiting cannon fodder in the Wa Kingdom, oh no, mercenaries. The Dutch, the English, and the Ottomans all felt that the value for money of the Japanese mercenaries was too good.

"Please be considerate for a while, take away the 8,000 people who have been recruited, and the rest of the soldiers and horses, we will definitely send them to the fifth prince within a year." Matsudaira Nobutsuna is only lower in Japan than His Majesty the Emperor, the son born to His Majesty the Emperor, and the Tokugawa Shogun. However, in front of Li Huachen's envoys, he had to explain in a low voice.

Today, the situation in Japan is at peace and prosperity in history. The daimyo everywhere put away the ambition of fighting on the battlefield and becoming a man of the world, and they were bent on making money within their own vassals. The ronin wild cubs who were originally rampant in urban and rural areas suddenly became fragrant and sweet. These unstable factors were recruited in batches as mercenaries, and the whole ship was transported away. The guy who was originally a headache for the daimyo has become a stable source of remittance income in the blink of an eye. This surprise turn made the Tokugawa shogun and the daimyo wake up laughing from their dreams. The more this is the case, the more they dare not offend the largest mercenary employer, the Liang Guogong Mansion.

Regarding Matsudaira Nobutsuna's apology, Li Shouhan was very generous. "No big deal. After you go back, you can give birth to the fifth child and make up the soldiers he wants. The reason why he was so lenient towards Matsudaira Nobutsuna was that Li Shouhan had another intention in addition to letting him represent Japan at the enthronement ceremony of Emperor Hongguang.

"Matsudaira Laochu, 6,000 of the other 12,000 mercenaries you recruited this time were recruited for the Dutch, in order to support the royal family in England to quell the civil strife and eliminate the powerful ministers. Did my father say yes or no? ”

Li Shouhan's words were light and light, but when he heard Matsudaira Nobutsuna, his ears were full of thunder and lightning. Everyone knows that on that day, the English had a big battle with the Nanyue army at the mouth of the Pearl River, and Liang Guogong even ordered someone to write an article to King Charlie of England, and blamed him for the big thing. Now, he is recruiting soldiers and horses for the Dutch in Japan to support the English royal family, isn't this looking for death?

What's more, for the sake of these thousands of people, he also delayed his son's affairs, this Lord Liang Guogong is a famous calf protector! Thinking of this, Matsudaira old Nakashin Tsunabe Rao is also a trembling figure in Japan who stamped his feet on Mishima, and he couldn't help but weaken his knees, and almost knelt on the ground to plead guilty.

"Actually, my father came to you today to discuss how to support the royal road within the four seas and crusade against the unsubordinate." Li Shouhan's words, at the most critical moment, saved Matsudaira Nobutsuna.

Under the lights, Matsudaira Nobutsuna saw that the blond Dutch, French, Portuguese, and Spaniards were wearing thick turbans around their heads, golden feather headdresses, high-nosed and deep-eyed Tianzhu people, Tianfang people, and a few black people who were as black as the bottom of a pot, just like several blacks from Mukudushu and other places similar to the description of Li Kui in the Water Margin.

"I've seen Grandpa Guo!" Under Li Peilin's loud salute, this group of people from almost the entire Eurasian and African continents gave a big salute to Li Shouhan in a very standard manner. However, I don't know if Li Peilin didn't teach them the etiquette rules well, these people knelt down and bowed to Li Shouhan three times and nine times. This is clearly the etiquette of the emperor.

The Europa led by Van Basten and the envoys of several East Asian countries represented by Matsudaira Nobutsuna were all uneasy. In recent years, the power of the Liang Guogong Mansion of the Southern Guangdong Army has developed rapidly with the routes of the naval division and the merchant fleet, from Lijiakou to Manraka, connecting the eastern and western trade routes, and there are strongholds, customs, and naval anchorages of the Southern Guangdong Army everywhere. It can be said that without the support of food, gunpowder, and weapons from the east, the war in Europe would not have been able to continue. Without these materials, these merchants, led by Van Basten, would have no money to make. From this point of view, it was an excellent thing for the merchants that such a powerful force of the Nanyue Army was stationed at various points on the trade route. Of course, if you have to pay taxes.

"Matsudaira, I know that your 6,000 soldiers and horses were recruited on behalf of the Dutch for the English royal family to use against the traitors. Basten, uh, should I call you count or marquis? For Basten, Li Shouhan snorted. This long-sleeved guy who is good at dancing left and right, taking advantage of the war in Europe, has earned himself countless wealth, and even has several imperial titles and fiefdoms. "You recruited these centaurs, right?"

Van Basten's heart saw a million South American alpacas gallop by. "Your grandma's legs! If it weren't for the fact that Winstanley guy came to Canton and signed a pig tea trade contract with you, one of the four ships would be full of tea, one full of silk, one full of porcelain, and the last one full of munitions. The crew was so crowded that they could barely stand and sleep! If it weren't for the help of these materials and property, how could those guys from the Council defeat the royal army in the Battle of Marston Wasteland?! ”

As a natural supporter of royal power, Earl Van Basten has always been haunted by the defeat of the English royal army in the Battle of Marston Moor.

After the Battle of Mount Edge, a number of young generals emerged in the English Parliamentary army, and Cromwell was one of them. Under Cromwell's organization, the five eastern counties of Norfolk, Suffolk, Cambridge, Essex, and Hereford formed the "Eastern Alliance" to jointly deal with the royal army. Subsequently, Lincolnshire and Huntington County joined the alliance. It also established a disciplined, heroic and warlike Eastern Alliance army composed of yeoman farmers and craftsmen, with more than 10,000 elites. While the Parliamentarian army suffered repeated defeats in the north, west, and southwest, the Eastern Confederates were defeated in Grantham, Gainesboro, and Winsby in Lincolnshire in May~October 1643.

After reaching an agreement with the Scots, the strategic situation of the Parliamentary Army was greatly favorable. The two sides began to fight over York City, an important city in the north of England. Tens of thousands of troops were invested. At the height of the tension, Winstanley's fleet rushed back to England to bring back the much-needed munitions for the Parliamentarians. At the same time, the arrival of large quantities of tea, silk, and porcelain boosted morale and alleviated the financial difficulties of the parliamentary army. For a time, there was already a rush of eagerness in the parliamentary army camp.

The armor, knives, guns, gunpowder and other materials that Winstanley brought back were naturally obtained by the thousands of cavalry commanded by Cromwell, the main force of the parliamentary army. Overnight, Cromwell turned his Iron Cavalry, which had been ridiculed as hillbillies by the royal nobles, into real Iron Cavalry. Everyone wears helmets and armor, and all of them have sharp knives and guns.

After replacing and upgrading the equipment of Cromwell's cavalry, the desire to fight was high. As the left flank of the Parliamentarian army, this 3,000-strong cavalry was the first to attack, and condescendingly rushed down the Marston Moor. With the cooperation of dragoons and Scottish cavalry, a total of more than 4,000 people launched an attack on the right flank of the royal army. Cromwell led the way, and despite the brave resistance of the royal forces, with the support of the other generals of the parliamentary army, he quickly routed the first and second lines of cavalry of the royal right wing in the wasteland, and Rupert fled. An hour and a half later, the left flank of the Congressional Army was victorious. It was a brutal hand-to-hand combat, in which Cromwell was partially blinded by a bullet in the neck and passed through his eye, but he continued to fight on the battlefield. Although the cavalry attack was successful, the other parliamentarian forces were defeated, with more than half of them suffering casualties. The infantry in the center and the cavalry on the right flank were fiercely counterattacked by the infantry and cavalry of the royal army, and they retreated step by step, and were in a critical situation.

The cavalry led by Sir Fairfax attacking the left flank of the royal party was almost completely annihilated, because when his cavalry won a swift victory, the troops that followed him could not support in time due to the thorns and bumps in the moor, but were crushed by the royal army. The Chinese army was also crushed by the royal forces, and several generals were unable to organize their troops for a second battle, and even gave up the battle. The Scottish infantry of the Parliamentarians held their ground and fought under siege from the royal army.

Without hesitation, Cromwell crossed the rear of the Central Royals from the right flank of the battlefield and rushed to the left flank to save his Scottish comrades. Three battalions of infantry were also re-engaged with Cromwell's cavalry. The royal army was pursuing the two generals who had been defeated by the parliamentarian army, and when they saw Cromwell's army on the battlefield on the left flank, they immediately led the royal cavalry to meet them. The two armies met in the place where the cavalry of Parliamentary General Fairfax had just been defeated, but they were met by Cromwell.

The battle ended at about 10 p.m. The royal forces were quickly routed. Cromwell's victorious division rushed at the King's infantry with the Scottish infantry non-stop. One of the generals of the royal army, second only to Prince Rupert, was killed in battle, and most of the royal army fled and withdrew in the night. Wang's army invested 15,000 men (7,000 cavalry), killed more than 3,000 people, and captured more than 1,600. In this battle, Wang's army can be said to have suffered heavy losses.

After the war, for the royal army and the parliamentary army, both sides needed to reorganize their troops and prepare for another big battle. With the momentum of the victory in the Battle of Marston Heath, Cromwell and the others are alone! Officers were sent to attack the generals of the Elder faction, Manchester and others, who held military command. Eventually, the parliament was forced to decide to reorganize the army. The House of Commons first passed the Self-Restraint Act, which prohibits members of Parliament from holding military posts. As a result, Essex, Manchester and others were forced to surrender military power. Immediately afterwards, the House of Commons passed the New Model Army Act, which provided for the establishment of a new model army of 22,000 men, of which cavalry accounted for about one-third, determined that 45,000 pounds per month should be allocated from the state budget for military quarters, and appointed Thomas? Fairfax was the commander-in-chief, commanding the whole army; The whole army implements a unified uniform, a unified discipline, and a unified establishment; In order to ensure a sufficient number of soldiers, it was decided to implement the principle of forced conscription. Both bills were subsequently approved by the House of Lords. Cromwell, who was a member of parliament, should have resigned from the military, but should have been the commander-in-chief of the military, Thomas? At Fairfax's insistent request, the parliament agreed to appoint him deputy commander-in-chief and commander of the cavalry. From then on, Cromwell served two terms, representing parliament in the army and the army in parliament. The independents, led by him, seized real power in the army.

However, it costs money, and a lot of money, to form an army. Unified uniforms, flags, equipment, military salaries, and cavalry, which occupy one-third of the army, are even more expensive money. The procurement, breeding, and maintenance of war horses on weekdays require a lot of money to be invested in every link. A rough calculation shows that there is no money of 100,000 pounds a month to support it. Where does the money come from? You know, isn't it because of taxes that the parliament and the royal family are torn apart?!

Thus, the question of taxation was again put before the parliament. Ancient and modern Chinese and foreign gentry are the same, and they are not willing to lose their own interests. If even one more copper plate is taken out of them, they will be in pain. Over the years, the Western media, which have taken over the discourse, and their domestic agitators have turned the rich and wealthy Western bureaucrats into selfless saints. What princess hits the searchlight, and the jokes of the horse being the death squad are endless, and in turn, they sneer at the martyrs who died in the battle for the founding of the country.

At Winstanley's suggestion, Cromwell, as a member of Parliament, made a proposal to Parliament to pass the Navigation Regulations. The Regulations provided that only ships owned and manufactured by the United Kingdom or its colonies could carry goods belonging to the British colonies. The government designated certain colonial products to be trafficked only to the British mainland or other British colonies, including tobacco, sugar, cotton, indigo, furs, etc. Products manufactured in other countries must pass through the British mainland, and cannot be directly sold to the colonies, restricting the colonies from producing products that compete with the British mainland, such as textiles. Otherwise, heavy taxes will be imposed. Its purpose was to monopolize and control trade in England and to obtain military spending through the profits of the trading system.

In the same way that the parliament reorganized the troops and horses, and straightened out the command system, the royal family was also reorganizing the army on a large scale. In several battles, the Japanese volunteers showed excellent cost performance. Of course, their looting and massacres were also in full swing. However, this does not hide the royal family's affection for them! Anyway, those who killed those chaotic parties, burned and robbed were also those chaotic parties!

It was in this context that our Royal Highness the Count Van Basten helped his friends of the English royal family to recruit at least fifteen thousand mercenaries in Japan.