Chapter 277 [European War]

Until the twenty-fourth year of Wanli in the Ming Dynasty, in 1596 AD, the Kingdom of Scotland (Duoduo Dynasty) was called in the Ming Dynasty; Queen of the Kingdom of Scozia: Elizabeth I, she hopes to make friends with the mysterious and powerful ancient Oriental country in Asia ~ the Ming Empire, so as to develop trade relations.

So she wrote a letter of friendship to Emperor Wanli Xian of the Great Ming Dynasty, Zhu Xujun, and wrote to him: "English: To His Majesty the greatest and most invincible Emperor, and this letter is presented to a faithful subject of our country: John Newberley, who has traveled to various parts of your country with my permission, and who is able to do this difficult thing because he has full confidence in His Majesty's magnanimity and mercy, and thinks that after going through certain dangers, he will be able to receive His Majesty's lenient reception, and not to mention that this trip will do no harm to your country, and will be beneficial to your people, and he has no doubt about it, I am more glad to prepare for this journey, which is beneficial to us, and I think that the benefit which my kings of the West have gained from mutual trade is available to Your Majesty and to all those who are subject to your Majesty, and that this benefit consists in the export of our riches and the importation of what we need, and that we are born to be in need of each other, and that we must help one another, and that we hope that Your Majesty will agree to this, and that my subjects will not fail to make such attempts, if Your Majesty may bring about it, and grant safe passage, and grant us such other privileges which are so much needed in the trade of your subjects, and your Majesty shall exercise the power of the Most Noble and Merciful King, and we shall never forget your deeds, and we shall earnestly that our request be permitted by the grace of Your Majesty, and that when Your Majesty's mercy extends to us and my neighbours, we shall seek to repay Your Majesty, and may Heaven bless Your Majesty, and in 1583 after the birth of Jesus, in the twenty-fifth year of the reign of our King, conferred upon the House of Greenwich. ”

The letter was written by John Newblay, the political secretary of the House of Dordor from the House of Dordor by sea along the west coast of Africa, around the Cape of Good Hope and across the vast expanse of the Western Ocean, plus the Ottoman Empire (Ming Dynasty called; Elezian Empire) and the Spanish Habsburgs (Ming Dynasty name; The kingdom of Ezechnia blockaded the Mediterranean, forcing the Parliamentary Secretary of the Duoduo and his party to take a long detour.

However, the long distance, the harsh natural conditions along the way, and the rudimentary means of navigation caused the ship of the Dordor envoy to cross the equator when it encountered an overwhelming tsunami storm, which overturned the ship, and the letter was buried with the ship at the bottom of the Atlantic! It also completely interrupted the cultural exchanges between the East and the West.

Many years later, in the fortieth year of Wanli in the Ming Dynasty, in 1612 AD, the Stuart Dynasty (England, the Kingdom of Great Britain) was called in the Ming Dynasty; The first monarch of the Kingdom of Elia: James I, and his brother, Henry, Prince of Wales, after his death, made his eldest son, Charles, the "Prince of Wales".

The Prince of Wales of the Stuart Dynasty: Charles, after becoming the prince, took the initiative to make friends with his father's favorite Duke of Buckingham of the Stuart Dynasty: George Villiers, and the two had nothing to talk about.

He also went to Madrid, the capital of the Habsburg Dynasty, with the Duke of Buckingham of the Stuart Dynasty, intending to ask for a Habsburg daughter-in-law to consolidate the Stuart Dynasty's power in Europe.

As a young man and ambitious ruler, he was indeed fascinated by the Habsburg princess, Maria Anna, who had converted to the state religion of the Stuart dynasty (i.e., Protestant Christianity) and supported the Protestant side in the Thirty Years' War on the continent, including the Stuart sister-in-law, brother-in-law PFALZ (both; King and Queen Frederick V of the Palatinate) and the Catholic (old-Christian) Habsburgs were supposed to be enemies, so the Habsburg princesses began to dislike him as a heretic and gradually refused to approach him.

The Habsburg king, Philip IV, who learned of the incident, asked the Prince of Wales of the Stuart dynasty to convert to Catholicism as soon as he heard that the Prince of Wales of the Stuart dynasty was going to marry his daughter, and in order to ensure that the Stuart dynasty complied with the terms of the treaty, the Prince of Wales of the Stuart dynasty must also live in the Habsburg dynasty for a year after the wedding.

Since a year was too long, the Duke of Buckingham of the Stuart dynasty thought backwards and said, "English: Your Majesty, why don't you marry the princess to the Prince of Wales of our country now, and wait for their son in the future, who is the future heir to the king, and change the faith to Catholicism, what do you think?" ”

After the translator's explanation, the Habsburg king immediately thought that the Duke of Buckingham of the Stuart dynasty was a big fool? How can you joke about a country's conversion? What's more, whether the child will be born in the future is male or female, even if a man becomes the crown prince, it is still very early to inherit the throne of the Stuart dynasty.

What's more, the Prince of Wales of the Stuart dynasty is not a king now! By the time his son or daughter becomes king, who knows what will happen in such a long time, considering that the life expectancy of a person at that time is estimated to be thirty or forty years later?

And the Habsburg kings did not believe at all that a country that had long been a Protestant Christian, with nearly a hundred years of believers, could make the Kingdom of Great Britain and the Kingdom of Scotland in England (Ming Dynasty; Will Sikozia be so easily converted? It was a complete delaying tactic, the purpose was to marry his daughter, so he was sternly rejected by the Habsburg kings.

The Prince of Wales of the Stuart dynasty was not happy about this, and he didn't think there was anything wrong with it? On the contrary, the Habsburg king was vexatious and did not agree to this family affair, so that the angry Prince of Wales of the Stuart dynasty immediately decided to abandon the marriage.

After returning to the Stuarts on 20 October, they joined the Duke of Buckingham of the Stuarts to declare war on the Habsburgs.

How could the division send troops to land on the Habsburg territory several times, but they were defeated, so that the Stuart dynasty lost its troops and had to retreat! In order to preserve the dignity of the royal family, the Prince of Wales of the Stuart dynasty looked elsewhere for a bride.

In 1624, the Stuart kings sent Stuart emissaries to the Bourbons (Ming Dynasty; The kingdom of Elia, i.e., France under the rule of the Spanish Habsburgs, explored the possibility of a marriage and finally negotiated the marriage in the county of Paris.

The 15-year-old Duke of Bourbon: Louis XIII, the younger sister: Henrietta Maria, fell in love with the Prince of Wales of the Stuart dynasty at first sight, and the two met late to spark love, but for the royal princesses of that period, she was not particularly young at this age.

On September 10, the Dutch Kingdom (Dutch State) Dutch Army Commander: Song Ke, the Dutch armed fleet commanded by the Dutch Empire left the Ming Empire Fujian Chengxuan Political Envoy Department Taiwan Prefecture (Dongfan) Penghu Inspection Division, and later came to a coast south of the Taiwan Prefecture to borrow a large cowhide to build "Orange City" to the Dutch Kingdom to govern the eastern Asia Ming Empire Fujian Chengxuan Political Envoy Division of a state (Shazhou) under the Taiwan Prefecture, Dingzhou City named "Geranza City" is the Dutch Kingdom in Taiwan Province Governor's Office, also known as γ€ˆ Anping Castle〉.

Later, the Dutch built a second stronghold [Provencha City] next to it and later changed it to "Chi Ji City", by deceiving the Dutch people who occupied Taiwan, not only did not appreciate the indigenous people of Taiwan in the Ming Empire, but also brutally plundered and suppressed them to deprive them of their rights.

It also made the 25 regional merchant houses of the Dutch East India Company under the rule of the Dutch East India Company profitable, of which Taiwan Province ranked second, accounting for 25.5% of the total profit, and the average annual shipment back to the Dutch East India Company reached 400,000 Dutch Dongpiah, equivalent to the 4 tons of gold ratio in Asia at that time.

On May 1, 1625, the Stuart king died and was succeeded by Charles I, Prince of Wales, whose wedding to Henrietta Maria was solemnly held at Notre-Dame Cathedral in the county of Paris during the Bourbons, after which the queen was brought back to his home.

Of course, for the disputes of European countries and the fact that the Kingdom of the Netherlands extended its economy to the rich East, the Kingdom of Ezedaonia (the Habsburgs of Spain) also planned to send 500 troops by ship on the 7th of May to land on Sheliao Island in Jilong Harbor, Taiwan, and set foot on this imperial island full of gold. For the activities of the Ezedanians, the Dutch people have always been thorns in the back.

On June 13, the Stuart king of the Stuart dynasty again disputed the first "parliament", because the parliament was dissatisfied with the autocratic power of the Duke of Buckingham of the Stuart dynasty and the defeat of the war of the Spanish Habsburgs, and refused to levy customs duties on the king, forming a confrontation between the parliament and the king, and gradually touched the dissatisfaction of the Duke of Buckingham of the Stuart dynasty with the king.

On February 8, 1626, the sixth year of the following year, Charles I, the king of the Stuart dynasty, convened the second parliament, and had to impeach the Duke of Buckingham of the Stuart dynasty for his military ability because of the successive defeats in the war against the Spanish Habsburgs, which was rejected by a large number of clan officials.

On June 7, the angry Charles I ordered the dissolution of parliament for no reason, during which Charles I arbitrarily levied taxes and forced loans for military expenses without the consent of the members of the council, and the army could also be stationed in civilian houses at will, which led to public resentment, among which the members of the House of Commons: Oliver Cromwell, who opposed the rule of King Charles I, participated in the drafting of the "Great Protest" and other documents, and the parliament then filed a [Petition of Rights] on March 17, 1628, the first year of Ming Chongzhen, asking the king to improve his practices. But Charles I reluctantly signed it only for the sake of seeking parliament's consent to levy taxes.

However, a year later, in 1629, the second year of the reign of Chongzhen of the Ming Dynasty, Charles I, the king of the Stuart dynasty, felt that he could not collect too much tax by doing so, and that the dignified king had no authority to obey the instructions of the Parliament, so he violated the provisions of the petition of rights, and sent people to arrest the radical members of the parliament, and then dissolved the parliament, so that there was no parliament for the next 11 years, which is called the 11 years of cruel rule.

It was not until April 13, 1640, the thirteenth year of the reign of Emperor Chongzhen of the Ming Dynasty, that Charles I, who was in financial difficulties, had to convene a parliament that had been closed for eleven years in order to obtain the huge sums of money necessary to suppress the Scozian rebels.