Chapter 899: The Battle of the Mandate of Heaven is coming
Like most people, Shi Tingge's understanding of the Lisbon Declaration is still very rudimentary, and even Wang Youdun, who personally participated in the battle, has not fully understood the impact of this declaration on the global trend and historical process, in fact, the emperor who gave him such an explanation did not expect too much, and only regarded it as a first move, after all, Chiguoguo's undisguised law of the jungle will run through history for more than 200 years, and it is not until the era of the United Nations in another plane that international morality covering all aspects of society is truly erected
At this time, most of the British and Chinese people felt that the emperor had begun to show a good name, and even compared the Song Xianggong in the Spring and Autumn Period, while the Europa people who had a good impression of Seris compared Emperor Seris to Don Quixote written by Cervantes, lamenting the noble character of Emperor Seris and the Serisians, they were also lamenting that this trip was out of step with the times, and they were even more worried about the outbreak of such a fierce conflict between Ceris and the Holy See.
As far as Stinge is concerned, his personal experience is still the story of him and Anson, even in the war, Anson tried to avoid harming civilians, which won his respect, and he did not kill in Baltimore, but also because he did not want to hurt the innocent......
Thinking of this, Shi Tingge is even more proud of the motherland's heavenly and human nature, this is the universal way of heaven! Whoever violates the righteousness of my Yinghua is against the morality of the world and the nature of man, and is not only the enemy of Yinghua, but also the enemy of the world!
Looking at the team that was about to return, Shi Tingge and his subordinate officers and soldiers felt more deeply.
The Xiangjiang was accompanied by envoys from Prussia, Sardinia, and other Mediterranean countries, as well as Poland and other Eastern European countries, who not only responded to this declaration, but also prepared to use this event to achieve further political and economic cooperation with Seris.
Seris had never entered the political field of these countries before, and it was only after the defeat of India that Britain began to pay attention to this mysterious eastern power, and when Seris threw out the Lisbon Declaration, they noticed the impact of this declaration on the existing pattern of Europa, through this declaration. Even on the other side of the world, Seris is no longer a political force to be reckoned with, and these are either emerging or reeling. For small countries with insufficient foundations, it is natural to strive for all external help that can be sought.
In addition to nearly 100 envoys from various countries, nearly 100 non-governmental figures accompanied the Xiangjiang to Seris, including the backbone of the "Médecins Sans Frontières Federation", as well as some political figures, such as Diderot, D'Alembert and Rousseau, who were later called the "Three Masters of French Freedom". All three young men were persecuted for their radical anti-religious rhetoric in France, inspired by the Lisbon Declaration. Simply accepted the protection of the Legation of Seris and embarked on a pilgrimage to Seris.
Seven ships from Britain, the Netherlands, France, Portugal, Spain, Sweden, Denmark and other countries will also accompany the Xiangjiang to Seris, which is the first multinational joint fleet in history.
These countries have their own demands, Britain hopes to reach further friendly cooperation with Seris, in addition to medical technology, British officials are more concerned about Seris's artillery technology. The Netherlands, on the other hand, want to reverse the bad relationship with Seris with the utmost sincerity, after all, in terms of territory. At present, the Netherlands is the closest to Seris. France and Spain, in addition to their focus on medical technology, also wanted to mediate the bad relations between Seris and the Holy See, while countries such as Sweden and Denmark used their support for the Lisbon Declaration as a ladder. On the one hand, we are exploring ways to join forces with Seris to contain Russia, and on the other hand, we are expanding trade between the two sides.
It is worth mentioning that the Swedish merchant ship "Gothenburg" is going to Seris for the second time, and in another plane, when the merchant ship completed its third trip to the East and sailed into the port of Gothenburg with silk, porcelain and tea, it ran aground outside the port and sank, only rescuing a third of the cargo, and still made 50% of the profit. In this plane, the "Gothenburg" can follow the Xiangjiang to Seris. Presumably there will be a different fate. β¦,
Before leaving, Shi Tingge was quite worried about the safety of Wang Youdun and other personnel of the Embassy, and suggested that the 50 Fubo soldiers who accompanied the ship should be left behind, and the Holy See's crusade against Seris also caused a certain degree of turmoil in Portugal, and there were Pietists demonstrating outside the Legation for many days in a row.
Wang Youdun rejected Stinge's suggestion, explaining: "The world of Europa is no longer the era of the Crusades ruled by the Holy See, and the Holy See is like a reservoir dog. We, Seris, came to fight this reservoir dog, and I don't know how many European countries are secretly happy. β
Most politicians in Europa, seeing the violent reaction of the Holy See, began to interpret the Lisbon Declaration as an opportunity for Seris to step on the Holy See and hope to form a broader and deeper alliance with the anti-Catholic forces with the background of Protestantism, which are the emerging Europa countries led by Britain and the Netherlands, which are basically correct in terms of the influence of the first two decades of the Declaration.
Wang Youdun was also quite disdainful: "The 'excommunication' of the Holy See is a vicious curse on my Yinghua, Your Majesty is old and tempered, and there are more hardships waiting for the Holy See to suffer." β
With a heavy harvest and infinite expectations, Stinge set out on his way home in February 1741, and along the way, a series of stories occurred in Africa and the Indian Ocean, including encountering pirates near the Red Sea, organizing a multinational coalition to eliminate pirates, and mediating a dispute between the British East India Company and the Dutch East India Company in Ceylon, until the beginning of 1742, when he sailed to the port of Huangpu in Nanjing.
What awaited Shi Tingge was a grand welcome ceremony, as well as the glory of being promoted to the title of major general by two ranks, which was also the first time that the Anglo-Chinese army and navy had been promoted to two levels since the founding of the country. More than a decade later, when George Anson was promoted to Admiral of Britain and commanded the Mediterranean Fleet, Stinge was already an admiral in command of the Western Fleet. Across the ancient canal, between the Mediterranean Sea and the Red Sea, the two joined hands to conquer Egypt under the rule of Ottoman Turkey, and the proposal to dig the Suez Canal was first jointly proposed by them.
Anson's adventure is over, Stinge's voyage around the world is not over, and there is a more magnificent life waiting for them. And Wang Youdun's Lisbon Declaration is like a breath of fresh air, and the grass and trees in the field are just low. The escalating war of words between Minister Cyris and the Holy See provided Europa with a steady stream of after-dinner chatter, and Seris's name was no longer unfamiliar to Europa, not only familiar to ordinary people, but also an object that was difficult to ignore in the political operations of the upper echelons of various countries. The world doesn't seem to have changed much.
Only time knows all this, and every time people look back more than 10 years, 20 years, or even 1 or 200 years later. It will be found that it was in 1740 that the breeze of the Lisbon Declaration blew up countless dandelions, scattered everywhere towards the field, regenerating roots and sprouts, slowly but surely changing the whole field. More than 100 years later, international organizations that transcend politics and countries, such as the Red Ribbon Society, the Joint Maritime Tribunal and the Laws of War Commission, which were born from the "Borderless Federation", were established one after another based on the concept of natural and human ethics in Lisbon. The creation of the United Nations, which is different from another plane, originally evolved from Europa alone, has become a fusion pattern of East and West where the backbone originates from the Oriental Seris.
Of course, from 1740 to 1741, Europa history as a whole continued to evolve along a well-established course, and the War of the Austrian Succession began just after the combined fleet led by Stinger departed. Maria? Queen Teresa wanted to protect her throne and maintain the decaying Habsburg Empire. resolutely dragged Europa into the whirlpool of war again, laying another brick for the Destiny War that determined the general trend of Europa. β¦,
At the same time, far to the east, Seris. also ushered in its own battle of destiny.
In February of the 23rd year of the Holy Dao, that is, when Shi Tingge had just set off from Lisbon, Li Xi was still concerned about the situation in Japan and Europa in the Weiyang Palace, and he used a red pen to sign the word "Li Shi" on the Indian peace treaty brought back by the cruise ship Weak Water, and subconsciously touched his belly, feeling that calligraphy and fat went hand in hand.
The whispering of the chamberlain interrupted his worries: "Your Majesty, do you want to have a supper?" β
Turning his head to look at the wall clock, it was already eight o'clock in the evening, Li Xi was used to eating some Jiangnan snacks at this hour in the past, but at this time he frowned and said: "Don't eat ......"
Thousands of miles away. Luntai County under the rule of the Western Regions Metropolitan Protectorate [1], the ancient city of Luntai, which has been transformed into a military fortress, is still dyed with the golden light of the setting sun, a tall tower stands in the center of the city, the length and width are four or five zhang, and the tower base is as high as ten zhang, and the black iron frame has set up a triangular platform that is also nearly ten zhang high. At the top is a narrow round platform, like the one at the top of a battleship's mainmast.
Under the tower, the red-clothed officers and soldiers were lining up with enamel jars to get meals, and a bronze star non-commissioned officer covered two jars full of food and stuck them in the net pocket card seats on the left and right of his backpack. The bag was empty, so I brought a blanket, not a padded jacket? Not afraid of freezing to death? Twenty zhang high, the wind is not something that two layers of cotton clothes can block. β
The young non-commissioned officer said: "I'm new here, and the Wang Lou official is afraid that I will not be able to move with a padded jacket on my back, so I will take it upstairs first." β
The chubby chef looked at the young man with pity: "The people above are really ruthless, if you don't practice first, you will be stuffed directly to the wheel, this is the front line." β
The young man smiled smugly: "I am the champion of the current light class, of course I have to put it in the most important place." β
The chef also smiled: "Ambitious, worthy of our red clothes!" β
He said again: "Shaanxi people, how much do you drink?" β
The young man replied, "Not much, a pound." β
The chef threw over a palm-sized flat glass bottle, and the word "army" was written on the paper cover of the bottle: "Sichuan multigrain wine, two taels, no violations, bring it to warm up." β
The young man thanked him, loaded his backpack, and hurried to the tower.
The officers and soldiers next to him were dissatisfied: "How can he have wine?" β
The fat chef sneered: "People are trumpeters, and you are willing to climb to a height of twenty zhang to blow the wind all night, and I will give it too!" β
The clamor suddenly stopped, and everyone swallowed their saliva when they looked at the tower.
After getting on the base of the tower made of bricks and wood, and then climbing in the simple iron ladder between the iron frames, Wei Zhenhua's confidence fell step by step with the height. He desperately suppressed the urge to look down, and muttered "You can do it, you are not afraid of height", but the backpack on his back, which he didn't think was heavy, was getting heavier a little, and when he felt the iron ladder begin to sway slightly, the backpack was even heavier as if someone was pulling him off the ladder.
"Ouch mom hey......"
He still couldn't help but look down, and suddenly felt dizzy, the comrades-in-arms who lined up to eat were already as small as rats, even if he didn't have that fear of heights, he felt that a heart was about to split into two petals, and he was going to sink towards his legs.
Although I have trained many times, every time I go up to the tower, it is a life and death grinding, no wonder the light trumpeters have subsidies in peacetime......
Wei Zhenhua followed the method taught by the instructor during the training, grasped a thought, and no longer cared about the height, nor the increasingly obvious swaying feeling, just climbed up step by step.
But he grabbed it too tightly, and when he reached the last stage, he didn't let go of his thoughts, he reached out and grabbed the air, his body was instantly unbalanced, and in extreme panic, his other hand was also loosened. β¦,
Just as his eyes widened and his exclamation reached his throat, a large hand stretched out, grabbed him firmly, and then pulled him onto a high platform so narrow that neither of them could turn away.
A deep voice sounded: "Do you want to report your death on the first day of work?" β
Wei Zhenhua was frightened, and his words made him depressed again: "Wang Louguan, I was wrong......
The person who was called Wang Louguan was a middle-aged man, and the epaulette showed that he was a sergeant major, patted Wei Zhenhua on the shoulder, and he comforted: "Okay, this kind of thing is also called the ghost gate, you have passed it once today, and you must not be confused again after that." β
The young man's heart was high, and the horror of walking on the edge of life and death quickly dissipated, and he took out a wine bottle and gave it to Wang Louguan: "Wang Louguan is really right, the old fat man is very good-hearted, and what he gave is not rice wine, but Yizhou multigrain wine from Sichuan." β
Wang Louguan took it with a smile, and said with a smile on his eyebrows: "That fat man knows that I am a wine worm, so I will give boring rice wine when I go, and you have made meritorious service today!" β
The two of them huddled together with rice bowls, leaning on the large objects covered with canvas on the stage, looking at the sunset that was sinking down the horizon, and chewed heavily.
"The west of the garrison is dark and dusty, and the Han soldiers are in Luntaipei, we are really doing the work of our ancestors."
"Do you know the origin of the wheel? Why didn't you kid go to the imperial examination, and came to be a trumpeter, it's really a condescension. β
"A good man is hot-blooded, and he should win wealth on the battlefield, woo...... I didn't get into the county school for two years, and the salary of the light bugle soldier is so high......"
"Hot blood, you can still hold it after a few nights, and then the blood can really heat up."
The two were chatting while eating, the vast earth stretched out in front of their eyes, and when the sunset sank, at the turn of heaven and earth, a fine line of dust was vaguely stretching out. (To be continued.) If you like this work, you are welcome to vote for recommendation and monthly passes, and your support is my biggest motivation. )
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