The short days and months are merciless, and the cycle repeats.

Huang Zongxi looked up at the sky outside the window and wrote these eight words on a piece of paper.

It was with a sense of joy that he wrote these eight words, as would anyone who could finally return to his hometown after eight years away from him.

The gray mist outside the window made the sun in the sky pale and weak, Huang Zongxi stood up, stretched, and then heard the noise outside.

He frowned: Here we go again.

It was March of the eighth year of China, and it was a spring day in the northern hemisphere, and the Europa city, known as "London" by Huaxia, was shrouded in damp fog all day long. Six years ago, Huaxia's gunboat fleet arrived in Europa for the first time and established the first Confucius Academy in Lisbon, Portugal, Huang Zongxi became the first head of the academy, and Ma Shiying, who was accompanied by Ma Shiying, was the vice consul of Huaxia in Portugal - in fact, he was a spy under the Ministry of Military Affairs of the Huaxia Cabinet, responsible for reconnoitring the relations between the countries of Europa.

One of the two is Donglin and the other is a eunuch, who originally did not share the sky, but now they were both sent to Europa. When they were on the boat, the two argued fiercely all the way, from scolding each other, to almost fighting, to ignoring each other, and then only talking about poetry and writing to each other...... And today, six years later, the two have some sympathy for each other.

Over the past six years, the two have traveled all over Europa, first in Lisbon, then in Seville in Spain, then in Marseille in France, and then in Emerald on the Apennine Peninsula. Four years earlier (1656), the second group of gunboats from China arrived in Lisbon, so they built a Confucius School in London, Britain.

But everything has changed in just four years, Cromwell is dead, and his son Richard = Cromwell does not have the talent and courage of his father, which makes the call for the restoration of the Stuart dynasty very loud, and not long ago Charles II returned to the throne, Richard = Cromwell had to go into exile in France. This great upheaval also affected the Confucius Academies in China, most notably the daily arrival of people from outside to try to seize the property of the Confucius Academies.

Behind it, there must be the support of Charles II.

At this time, Huang Zongxi had accumulated enough political wisdom for seven years overseas, so he could see at a glance that the English kingdom inherited by Charles II was not stable, and he could not resolve the many contradictions in the country. What's more, Huang Zongxi studied the history of this country in England and found that this country's methods have always been despicable, and he is accustomed to fanning the flames and sowing discord, and is good at plundering and pirating, which can be said to be the most cunning and ferocious among the countries of Europa, and even the Spaniards, who have fought with China more than once, have to bow down to them.

Now this is the case, Charles II tried to transfer the domestic contradictions abroad, especially the Chinese who had traveled across the ocean to set up the Confucius Academy.

As if the Chinese were the best scapegoats. The English people have no food to eat and complain about the Chinese people, the English people eat too many potatoes and support the Chinese people, the English people have no clothes to wear and complain about the Chinese people, and the English people have a large number of cheap and gorgeous cotton silk cloth and flannel clothes in the English market or complain about the Chinese people - eat and sleep and complain about the Chinese people, this is almost the daily life of the English people after Charles II took office.

Huang Zongxi also understood Charles II's wishful thinking, since the original British fleet was completely annihilated by the South China Sea Fleet in order to compete for the Toad Island, the English people have become disgusted with China. During the period when Cromwell was the protector of the country, the English people needed cheap goods from China to eliminate some of the people's dissatisfaction, and Cromwell himself also needed to use the Chinese people to stabilize his rule, so the marketing of Chinese goods for a while, the result was that the original relatively developed textile industry in England completely collapsed, and the rest of the handicraft industry, from iron smelting to shipbuilding, was also affected by the Chinese industry, and was almost on the verge of bankruptcy.

If you can drive the Chinese people out, at least the Chinese goods out of England, then ......

"Mountain chief, mountain chief, something is wrong today." Huang Zongxi walked out of his office with his hands behind his back, and originally wanted to go to the school gate to see the situation, but someone rushed over to him halfway through.

"What's wrong?"

"There were a great number of English people gathered this time, and some of them had come to London from other places, and the soldiers who had been in front of the gate were nowhere to be seen today. Mountain chief, if it goes on like this, I'm afraid...... There will be changes! ”

"Where's the surrounding naturalized colonies?" Huang Zongxi heard the news and knew that it was not good, and the first person to ask was the student.

The so-called naturalized students are naturally those alien races who are willing to come to the Confucius Academy to study Chinese and Confucian classics. Although the Huaxia Dynasty drove these rotten Confucians to Europa, in order to allow them to better "educate" the Europa, they were not stingy with material security. There must be everything that should be given, such as beautifully printed books, and corresponding supplies - after all, these will also help to open up the market for Chinese goods. With sufficient supplies, the Confucius Institutes have developed not slowly in recent years, and hundreds or even thousands of indigenous Europa students have studied in each place.

Huang Zongxi felt a little emotional in his heart every time he saw these red-haired and blue-eyed guys dressed in robes, pacing in square steps, saluting and saying "how are the students": The first saint said that no, he would float overseas, and he would not be deceived by me.

These people are Confucian seeds, although they grow a little crooked, but the seeds are seeds, and Anzhi will not hatch dragon seeds when he plants flea eggs! Huang Zongxi was very concerned about their safety. "Most of the naturalized students didn't come today, only Luo Gaoshou, Qiao Anhan, Li Ang and others came, they said...... The surrounding barbarians all said that they would break into our academy, steal our things, and burn our books......"

"They dare!" Huang Zongxi's eyes widened: "We are the envoys sent by Huaxia, if they dare to do this, they will ......"

Before he finished speaking, he heard a bang outside, and then the walls of the Confucius Academy were torn down, and hundreds of heroes armed with sticks, knives and forks broke in.

At the head of the group is a priest dressed in black, holding a large wooden cross in both hands, and chanting words in his mouth, nothing more than God's blessing. Beside him, another man in tattered leather armor held a rusty spear.

"What's going on?" Huang Zongxi opened his arms and wanted to stop it.

A man grabbed him with his hand and pulled him back, and Huang Zongxi looked back, but it was a sergeant named Bu Xiuqiu.

The identity of this person, Huang Zongxi, is very clear, he is a naturalized Chinese citizen. His father, Bu Mid-Autumn Festival, was considered by some Japanese people to be the number one traitor in the Japanese Kingdom, and his father and son had changed their surnames to Han, and Bu Xiuqiu even went to school with Yu Xiang when he was young.

If it weren't for his background, this person's future would be bright, but according to the Chinese system, the first and second generations of naturalized citizens are not allowed to hold high-level positions, so Bu Xiuqiu's achievements are likely to end in Yifu.

He was a military attaché at the Confucius Institute in England. According to the agreement reached between China and England, the Confucius Academy** could arrange for twenty-five military attachés, all of whom had the right to carry weapons. But in fact, Huang Zongxi knew that their weapons were definitely not only armed with twenty-five "Huangshan Chief, you take people to retreat first and retreat into the teaching building." ”

Bu Xiuqiu's face was murderous, and he raised the gun in his hand as he spoke.

Naturally, he used a short musket, and it was a relatively new type of short musket with a magazine, which could have six projectiles in one magazine, and could fire non-stop.

Huang Zongxi was shocked when he saw him raise his gun: "Don't ......"

But it was too late, Bu Xiuqiu was not a good man and a woman, he pulled the trigger and a gunshot rang out, and the heroic man holding the cross in front suddenly fell to the ground.

"Ah, Father Paul has fallen ......"

"Isn't he clinging to the Holy Cross, why was he still shot by those heretic muskets?"

The heroes who broke into the academy were stunned, and some thought about turning back, but most of them looked at the man who was clinging to the tattered spear.

"Don't be afraid, what I have in my hand is the spear of Longinus brought from the Vatican, it is stained with holy blood, and the magic of the Huaxia people is of no use in front of it!" The man with the tattered spear stepped forward: "You are all my Knights of the Round Table, and you follow me...... Yes! ”

Another gunshot rang out, Bu Xiuqiu's marksmanship was very accurate, and at a distance of less than twenty meters, a shot hit the leg of the unashamed hero. He shouted, and the spear stained with "holy blood" that had been raised high almost escaped and flew out, and immediately turned into a crutch, supporting him to turn around and flee.

The rest of the barbarians fled one after another, but they did not flee far, standing in the distance, cursing the Chinese people in the Confucius Academy in all kinds of vicious language. Huang Zongxi thought that things had calmed down, but Bu Xiuqiu turned his face to him and said, "Mr. Huang, you and them quickly withdraw to the teaching building, and we will guard the building!" ”

"Didn't they retreat?"

"It's not that easy, this barbarian was instigated and provoked, and only one or two people were brought down, they won't learn a lesson."

"Ah......" Huang Zongxi hesitated a little, and at this moment, he saw the people on the other side separate, and several bloody corpses were thrown out.

From the clothes on the corpse, Huang Zongxi recognized their identities: naturalized students of the Confucius Academy.

This made Huang Zongxi angry, he is the head of the Confucius Academy, although he is still dissatisfied with Yu Guozhen, but being this head still makes him feel a sense of achievement.

As the head of the mountain, he should protect his students, but these naturalized disciples who followed the academy to learn the etiquette and benevolence of Confucius were killed by a foolish barbarian who believed in the evil god, is it tolerable?

"Where's Huaqing! What about Zheng He! Where are our ironclad gunboats? Huang Zongxi shouted loudly.

Even he himself was frightened by the scream.

The Huaqing in his mouth is already the second generation, the first all-steel steam ironclad ship in China, both in terms of speed and firepower, it is at the top of this time. He saw in the newspaper that this warship was officially put into use at the beginning of this year, and it was said that it might be used to directly attack the Rakshasa country through Europa - the war between Huaxia and the Rakshasa country has lasted for eight years, although the Huaxia country has an absolute advantage, but the tundra and the severe cold have a greater impact on the Huaxia army, which is heavily dependent on supplies, than the Rakshasa people, and it is far away from the Rakshasa itself, so it has not been able to give the Rakshasa country a decisive blow.

Zheng He is the flagship of the Chinese Western Fleet, which will come to Europa once a year, one is to escort the merchant fleet, and the other is to show off the prestige of the Chinese National Fleet, the cruise fee of the Western Fleet, which does not need to be paid by the Chinese court at all, and those caravans that come to operate from the ocean will pay the escort fee, and the general Chinese merchant ships need to pay one-tenth of the total value of the goods transported, and the foreign merchant ships are two-tenths. Even so, Chinese and exotic merchant ships were still in high demand, simply because the profits brought by this ocean-going trade were so great. (To be continued)