"My wife, Lily, is a distant cousin of His Majesty the King, who died two years after we were married, and she and I have never had children, which is why I agreed to take this trip, but in order to fulfill my responsibilities to the Reska family, I have chosen my nephew as my future heir."

In the Chinese military tent, Reska and I began to talk about our personal lives, and I learned that Reska is thirty-two years old this year, and his ancestors are the first Duke of York who belongs to the British royal family, which is later a branch of the English royal family, and his ancestors took his subordinates to Milton, where they settled down, and the title has changed from the original duke to an earl, so Reska's full name is Milton Leska, Earl of Milton of the British royal family blessed by God.

Reska's father was once a general of Queen Elizabeth, and later participated in the famous Battle of the Armada, killed in the battle, and Reska, who was a child at the time, inherited his father's title, because of his father, Reska was received to the royal castle for education since he was a child, and the current King James I was trained in the British royal family, and participated in several British military operations on the continent as an adult, and later went to the Americas to participate in several naval attacks on Spain, until last year he was commissioned by the King of England and the King of Sweden, As an envoy to a Protestant state, he came to the East to ask for help.

And Reska's deceased wife Lily Stuart, born more prominent than Resca, she is the distant cousin of James I of the current King of England and Scotland, the Stuart royal family, the niece of Mary, the Queen of Blood, she and Reska met and grew up together in London at a very young age, in 1602, under the auspices of Queen Elizabeth, Lily Stuart, who originally believed in Catholicism, converted to Protestantism and married Reska, the two sides are also childhood sweethearts, the door is right, but two years later, Lily died in a great plague that swept through London. Since then, Resca has not married, and in order to inherit the Resca family, he adopted his nephew as an adopted son, and if the trip to the East fails or he is unable to return to China, his nephew will inherit his title.

Rescar also introduced some of the situation in England, and he was very surprised to know about Shakespeare and Bacon, especially Shakespeare, who had always been very fond of Shakespeare's plays and had seen Shakespeare himself in London as a child. Of course, as a history student, I don't know anything about the UK.

It was only then that Reska talked about the trip to the East.

"The war between the Bourbon family of France and the Habsburg royal family of the Holy Roman Empire has gradually spread from the land of the original Holy Roman Empire to the whole of Europe. Reska drank a glass of wine, his slightly flushed face rippled with a little comfort, these days in Dengzhou made him very comfortable, he had not lived such a comfortable and quiet day for a long time.

"As a Protestant country, the kingdom is naturally on the side of the Bourbon royal family, but to tell the truth, since we defeated the Spanish Armada in 1588, we have rarely defeated the Spaniards in naval battles, fifteen years ago, the Spaniards even landed in the Conwall area of the kingdom island, turning it into a ruin, on land, the Spaniards and the Holy Roman Emperor ** two fronts attack, although the French army is tenacious, but the two-front battle is reluctant, and now it can only be defeated and retreated, because of this, His Majesty the King had only discussed with His Majesty the French King to bring more Protestant countries into the war. ”

Reska raised his neck and drank the red wine in the cup, he came to the East on the way, brought more than a dozen barrels of red wine given by the king, to be honest, compared with the elegant red wine made by various processes in modern times, the taste of these dozen barrels of red wine simply made me speechless, although it is not to the point where it cannot be swallowed, but in general, the taste is still far from the red wine made by modern technology, but Reska is still not used to drinking our liquor, the first time I drank liquor in Lingfu, I almost didn't choke this foreigner half to death, of course, there is a gap between the brewing of ancient liquor and the brewing of modern liquor, but surprisingly, the taste of ancient liquor is much better than that of modern liquor.

"I have to say that Her Majesty Queen Elizabeth was able to win the Battle of the Armada at the beginning of God's blessing, the Spanish army is still the most powerful military force in Europe now, compared to our England is still far behind!"

I nodded while listening, I didn't expect that the British Empire, which would be extremely beautiful in the future, would also have such an embarrassing time, and the impression I had in the history books was that the British Empire should not have lost a few naval battles since the Battle of the Armada in 1588, but I didn't expect to be beaten so badly by Spain after that.

"Zhang, to be honest, I didn't have any hope at all on this trip to the East, you know that on the Eurasian sea, it is still the Spaniards and the Portuguese who hold the sea power, and even the Swedish ship I am on can only fly the Spanish flag to disguise itself as a Spanish merchant ship to reach the East smoothly. At sea, at least for now, no one can challenge their power. Reska was slightly drunk, and even stood up a little staggering, he pointed to the outside of the Chinese military tent and said: "Of course, there is an exception, your motherland, the Ming Empire could have controlled the sea power of the entire Asia, but you are too lazy, you have the strength to build super warships, but you have been staying on the mainland, you could have dominated the whole of Asia and even the whole world!" ”

I just smiled, and then I could only nod, he was right, for an empire with such a vast territory and flourishing power, it was only easy to build a strong navy, just like the Ottoman Empire, when he wanted to develop a strong navy, his investment quickly paid off, and almost overnight, these barbarians on land had the naval power to dominate the Mediterranean.

The Ming Dynasty was larger than the Ottoman territory, more populous, economically prosperous, and dominated Asia at the height of its national power, but it did not have a fleet so powerful that it was terrifying.

"Reska, my country is just too big, we have conquered the conquerable lands on this continent, and for many people, these fertile lands are enough!" I stretched my waist slightly, after thousands of years of development, the Chinese have created too many miracles, for an empire rooted in agriculture, they have conquered all the lands they can conquer.

Reska nodded, as if he understood my words, and then he poured another glass of red wine, drank it down, and when he was done, he looked at me as if he were looking at Satan, the demon mentioned in the Bible, with fear and doubt.

"Zhang, I know you know more than the rest of this empire, you know what the world is like, and I can see great ambition in your eyes!"

"Lake, you've drunk too much!" Ryker is Reska's nickname, and he's asked me to call him that ever since Resca started calling me a friend.

I don't know why Reska has such a judgment, a 17th century British royal earl would give such an evaluation to a young Chinese in the 21st century, I don't know whether to cry or laugh, at one point I even want to tell this person that in 1640, 22 years later, there will be a revolution in his homeland that will change the entire history of the world, and he has been babbling "bad crown prince" Charles, the future King Charles I of England will be guillotined by his people.

"Zhang, who the hell are you? In this day and age, there should be no one like you, you are very familiar with everything in England and the West, you know Her Majesty Queen Elizabeth, even you know Queen Mary, you know the Protestant and Catholic wars, you know English, you use tactics that are out of step with this era. Zhang, in this world, there is no such person, you can't run the whole world in just 20 years! ”

I don't need to run the whole world, because in four hundred years, you can sit at home and look up all the knowledge in the world by browsing, and I can have an overwhelming advantage in this era, not because of how powerful I am, how terrible I am, but because I can use this unparalleled information advantage to suppress everything I can.

Of course, it can only be some of these things, after all, this is four hundred years ago, my information advantage can overwhelm Reska, overwhelm Li Guangzhong, and may even overwhelm the Ling sisters, but information superiority is not omnipotent, there are many things, can not be solved with information superiority, I should be glad that whether it is Li Guangzhong or the Ling sisters, they accepted my ideas, accepted my advanced ideas, otherwise my fate will be the same as most of the people in history who carried out advanced reforms, and there is no place to die. Even whether I can survive and take advantage of it is a huge question.

If it was not Ling Yuruo who appeared in front of me at that time, but another person from this era, I am afraid that I, a young man dressed in strange clothes in the eyes of the Ming Dynasty people in this era, would be arrested as a monster, and it would be a problem to even survive at that time

"Lake, some things are so magical, even I sometimes wonder if this magical fate is good or bad for us people!" I picked up my wine glass, drank the wine in one gulp, in order to save Xinnan, I came to 17th century China, and what's worse, as if everything was arranged, I actually became the general of the Ming Dynasty, and my former swordsmanship instructor turned out to be the father of two girls in this era.

Can time really be so wild?

For some reason, Dereska nodded knowingly at this time: "God is everywhere, he is watching from our side, and is always ready to give us a chance, I believe that God arranged for you to come here, there must be his arrangement, I always believe this, whether it is when Lily leaves me, or when I meet you in this far east." ”

"Lake! Chinese don't believe in God! I laughed and instilled in him the atheism of the Chinese, but he just shrugged his shoulders and said that it did not prevent him from believing in God.

"Zhang, Daming may have done what is really in line with God's teachings, and those of us who claim to be God's people have not followed God's teachings at all, we are cruel and murderous, suspicious of each other, we kill infidels in the name of God's people, but in Daming, whether it is Catholics or Protestants, even Christians and Muslims can coexist peacefully, this is the paradise that God said all people can coexist peacefully!" The more Reska spoke, the more drunk he became, shaking his hand and his gaze all scattered.

"No, we are not heaven here, we also have all kinds of human shortcomings here, and we are also full of strife, even Da Ming has his enemies." With this sentence, my mind immediately popped up with the black letters in the history books, and in those few short lines, it was full of killing and betrayal, regret and helplessness, which were also things that I had imagined to be able to change.

"If there is, it will only be considered unlucky for him, because he will soon learn what true horror is!" After Reska finished speaking, he raised the wine glass in his hand high: "I, the plenipotentiary representative of the Kingdom of England and the Protestant countries in the Ming Empire, Milton Reska, wish Zhang Ziyun, the general of the Ming Empire, defeat all his enemies. ”

Looking at Reska, who was starting to get a little excited, I had to smile bitterly, this fierce and bold Englishman had no idea what he was doing!

Wait, Milton Reska, I thought the name was very familiar before, and it seems that I had seen the name Milton somewhere.

I searched for the words that kept coming out of my head, and the earl in front of me began to sing English folk songs, melodious and melodious, as if to transport one back to the island nation bathed in the humid Atlantic breeze.

I suddenly remembered.

It was a book I read about the bourgeois revolution in England when I was in high school, and there was a small note at the bottom of the book:

Legend has it that during the Battle of Marston Moorland, the Earl of the Milton family, one of the commanders of the Royal Army, was surrounded by the Parliamentarian Army after the Commander-in-Chief of the Royal Army, Prince Rupert, fled, and finally died in the battle, and his body was buried in Manchester after the battle.

Reska, who was killed at the Battle of Marston Moor in the English Civil War in 1644!!

appendix

The English bourgeois revolution: the first bourgeois revolution in the history of the world, the end of the Tudor dynasty Stuart King James I and the successor Charles I because of domestic financial problems conflict with the English Parliament, which eventually led to a civil war, under the command of the famous British military dictator Cromwell, the parliamentary army finally defeated the royal army, Charles I was guillotined, and the rule of the bourgeoisie was established in England, which was regarded as a revolution that changed history.

Battle of Marston Moor: A battle fought in 1644 on Marston Moor, near Yorktown, England, between the royal army under the command of Prince Rupert and the parliamentary army under the command of Cromwell, and the royal army was defeated, which is considered a turning point in the war. Interestingly, another Yorktown in North America is also very famous in history, in 1781, the American Continental Army led by George Wah Fullon, the leader of American independence, and the French army led by Count Rochambeau, surrounded the British ** team here, and finally forced the British General Cornwally and his British troops to surrender, ending the American Revolutionary War.

(The author complained: Hua-Shengton turned out to be a forbidden word)