Chapter 100: Small Things Now, Big Things in the Future (3)

This discussion of sovereignty or something else is just a dessert for the future melee in Europe. The people of the republic don't take anything seriously at all, they just want to be the rule-makers.

Whether it was the fleet that sailed or the "volunteer mercenaries" who were later sent to the Netherlands, they were like a stout young man, showing off his muscles in the simplest and roughest way.

The chaos in Europe is no stranger to these people in the republic, and the war of unification at home has only passed for a few decades, and the previous hundreds of years have been a combination of vertical and horizontal dynasties: just like after Zhou Tianzi's prestige was discredited on the other side of the world, the old system was broken, and the new system had not yet been established, so a war or even a war that lasted for hundreds of years was urgently needed to establish a new system that was agreed upon, whether voluntarily or forced.

While the meeting and discussion were still going on, something big happened in Paris, France. It wasn't because of the meeting, but it was the trigger.

King Henry IV of France went from being the monarch of a small country to being the king of France, experienced the massacre of Protestants in Paris, and himself experienced the change from Protestant to Catholic, taking advantage of the domestic religious wars to weaken the power of the aristocracy, and also issued the Nantes Amnesty, which greatly displeased Catholics.

No matter what France believed, it would inevitably clash with Spain if it wanted to gain hegemony in Europe. The Habsburgs claimed to be the guardians of Catholicism, fighting the Ottomans in Austria on land, fighting the Sultan's navy at sea in the Mediterranean, and as for the peoples of the region, this concept was far less intimate to many French Catholics than to the Lord.

The king was a heretic, the king was once a heretic, the king went to war with the guardian of God, the king sent people to meetings that were unfavorable to Spain, the king sent people to learn agricultural techniques in pagan countries...... So the king should die.

There was a Joan of Arc in France, and a man suffering from migraines and paranoia decided that he was the chosen one, like Joan of Arc.

Because of this sickness, he often felt the song of heaven and God bathed in holy light. Since he is the chosen one, he must complete a major mission. He always thought of himself as another Joan of Arc, sent by God to save Catholics.

To fulfill this grand mission, he came to Paris from his hometown. Before he made up his mind that I would defend God with my blood, he found a priest to complete his final confession.

The priest told him that it was not right to do so, but he only excused him, and told a few people who should have been told by the way. He was soon approached by several men, who gave him a delicate flintlock pistol and a bomb, as well as a poisonous, wax-like pill, and convinced him that the king was now sending people into contact with the infidels, and that if he continued like this, he would go to war with Spain, the spiritual motherland of the Catholics.

So on the streets of Paris, there was an ingenious car accident. The gentleman, who thought he had chosen by God, took advantage of the confusion to rush to Henry IV's side, shot the king in the chest, threw the powerful bomb, and then shouted: "I am a righteous act called by God!" Judge heresy! ”

After chanting the slogan of righteousness, he bit through the pill wrapped in paraffin wax and died. The pro-Spanish Empress Dowager and the nobles wept while quickly taking regency and setting up a special censorship team, ready to find a Spanish wife for the enthroned Louis XIII.

The result of the examination was that the bombs and flintlock pistols used by the murderers were from the republics, which had just appeared on the European stage. The poison taken is also a novel and incurable poison.

The whole country was in mourning, and there was a deep suspicion that the Habsburgs had done it, just as the conspiracy to get rid of the king and parliament had recently taken place in England, and it could not have been without them. This blaming is too obvious, but there is enough excuse.

Some aristocrats declared flintlock pistols hoodoo and used this as an excuse to strongly oppose the use of flintlock pistols in France. As soon as Henry IV died, the power of the aristocracy, which had been greatly weakened by the religious civil war, was rapidly rising, and various policies close to Spain were also in full swing: our aristocracy did not want a strong France, because it had nothing to do with us, we wanted a France with a weakened feudal royal power.

France was once again in the shadows, and just three months after the king's assassination, thousands of Puritans fled to Holland or sailed to the New World Islands.

They had to be afraid, in Geneva they killed Catholics in a variety of ways. Similarly, in Paris a few decades ago, the Catholics were killing them in a variety of ways. Kill behind closed doors, kill while doing mass, kill with bells, and kill with marks on doors. After killing the poets, they wrote sonnets in praise, the city of Rome rang the bell to thank the Lord, and issued silver coins to commemorate the ......

The Puritans in France remembered that Henry IV fled as soon as he died, and for the time being it seemed that the Netherlands was a pure land of Puritan existence.

However, with the signing of the Truce between Spain and the Netherlands, the internal power struggle was also unfolding in the Netherlands as external contradictions were suddenly eliminated, and a dispute over doctrine among Protestants swept through the Netherlands in full swing: Is God foreknowledge? Or is it predetermined? Does human free will make sense? Or is man's so-called "free will" also God's predestined will, which makes you think that it is free, but in fact it is predetermined?

The Netherlands is religiously free, and any faction in its own parish should have its own armed forces to protect its freedom! Such slogans circulated in some cities, and flintlock pistols, which were best suited for civilian riots, and perfectly formulated black powder, copper wire, glass powder, cable grenades, or explosive detonators, were shipped in batches to the Netherlands and sold everywhere.

The arquebus era was not suitable for riots at the bottom; The era of breech guns was not conducive to bottom riots. The era of the flintlock pistol, in which the bottom riots and liberalism were most prevalent, came, and with the flintlock pistol there was an inextinguishable flame of liberalism.

A large number of Practical Handbooks of Barricade Warfare, printed in Flemish script, were widely circulated in some Arminian parishes. The prestige of the Speaker, who supported or sympathized with the faction, grew after the signing of the truce, and Morris was extremely dissatisfied, one with prestige, one with military power, one for free United Provinces, and the other for centralized Holland.

France was in turmoil, Spain was instigated, the Netherlands was about civil strife, and the Protestant and Catholic leagues in Germany had been formed......

In the clouds of chaos, a clear stream quietly appeared.

Just before the signing of the Truce between Spain and the Netherlands, after a battle between the West and the Netherlands, a group of men carrying black and white flags with the words "Save the Lives and Help the Wounded International" written in square letters, Latin and Flemish script, crossed the battlefield, treating some wounded soldiers on both sides, but giving priority to the nobles, as Chen Jianlin said when he left Amsterdam.

A large number of surgeons hired from the Republic or who really want to save lives use the wounded soldiers on the battlefield to continuously improve their amputation, suture, and blood transfusion. After a few times, he accumulated valuable experience that could not be experimented with in vivo.

Civilian female nurses, who had been trained for two or three years, looked after the wounded soldiers on the battlefield, and in accordance with the Regulations on the Management of Wounded Soldiers, the mortality rate of the wounded soldiers on both sides dropped dramatically, and in the course of communication they learned a lot of square words and language that sounded strange to them, as well as some terrible "reactionary propaganda" for the liberation of women.

The wounded mercenaries never thought that they would be able to reduce the mortality rate so much without much medical advancement, just some careful care and attention, and they called these people in white angels in white, and for the first time, the mercenaries had respect for women.

However, the death and death of the wounded soldiers did not have much effect, and it was the nobles who were given priority treatment that were important, and they recognized their actions.

Finally, in The Hague, after a truce was signed between the two sides, representatives of the Netherlands, Britain, France, Spain, and the Republic recognized the existence of this organization, and promised not to shoot or attack this group of people, who could move freely through the battlefield, and who would not be robbed by the soldiers.

There is still a long way to go before Jian Chen's planned trial of the massacre is either a crime or a crime or at least the mainstream perception that it is incorrect, but the first step has been taken. When the time is ripe, powerful and can intervene, you can take the moral high ground and arrest some people for trial, and use this as an opportunity to involve the country on the other side of the world, get involved in the development of international law, and complete the trial of the Manila massacre.

The organization was initiated by Chen Jian, and the internal management is naturally also the people of the party, which is closer to the homeland, and it is easier to send additional personnel.

The first cultural export was carried out in such a strange way, some of the nobles who were treated donated their possessions, and some of the nobles also received the title of "honorary members of the committee" because of the large amount of donations. This title is not too expensive at this time, but it will become more valuable over time.

This clear stream flowed slowly through Europe, and by violating the behavior of the doctors, regardless of the rank of the patient, it gained a foothold in this place where the nobility and the commoners were two peoples, and a most primitive spirit of internationalism began to spread quietly around it, and the entrained propaganda about freedom, who to fight for, and the slaughter was wrong began to spread slowly in the wounded barracks, infecting the hearts of these people like smallpox.

And just like that, after a nobleman whipped a nurse on horseback for blocking the way, a strange mutiny broke out among the mercenaries in Spain.

It is normal for mercenaries to mutiny, because the military pay is not in place, because robbery is not allowed, because they are stationed for too long, etc. But for this reason – someone who was insulted and mutinied – has never been the case.

The soldiers who returned after recovering from their wounds and some soldiers who feared that they would be injured on the battlefield cried out about their anger and dissatisfaction, not because of military pay.

The eugenians personally intervened to pacify the soldiers and symbolically "punished" the nobleman, which calmed the turmoil.

The real bigwigs are actually dissatisfied with this life-saving organization, and if one more person dies, one less severance pay will be paid, and now there is no battle to fight for the time being, and there is no chance to transfer these soldiers to the rest of the nobles. However, it is not easy to oppose it openly, so he can only silently accept the activities of this group of hateful people holding the yin and yang flag.

This is the reality at this time, everywhere on the earth, the mainstream values that Chen Jian believes are non-mainstream. including the massacre, which was a grand ceremony in which commemorative coins could be issued; Including wounded soldiers, that's a figure on paper that can save some of the severance pay......