John Churchill looked out at the blue sea and was in a good mood.

The psychological pressure caused by going to Calcutta to face the tyrant Zhu Fugui was swept away, and replaced by a yearning for a beautiful new life in South Africa.

South Africa is a lot more interesting than Ireland.

What is made in Ireland?

Potato!

What is made in South Africa?

Diamonds, gold, ivory!

From the perspective of the "Civilization" series, South Africa is a treasure of three luxuries, while a broken place like Ireland does not even have fast wheat fields, it is full of trees and hills!

Of course, in addition to this, the weather in South Africa is also a treat for the people of the British Isles, which have suffered from the rain.

In short, it's a lot better than hellish hot India.

Moreover, both of John Churchill's hobbies were fulfilled in South Africa.

The first is hunting.

Needless to say, both India and South Africa are hunters' paradises.

It is nothing more than the original plan to fight tigers, Asian elephants and white-limbed bison, but now it has been changed to fight lions, African elephants and giraffes.

It's not bad.

John Churchill's second passion, women, was very different.

As the ultimate old pervert who can hook up with the crown princess, has both a thief's heart and a thief's guts, John Churchill is now also a big fan of Hebrew secret medicine.

What the situation of the Irish wives was, John Churchill already knew.

Indian Woman's Words......

Although he did not have an Indian mistress, he did have several gypsy mistresses.

Gypsies are Indians, and they are not bad.

But because there were few blacks in England and Ireland was even more none, John Churchill had a bold idea that he had never tried.

So this time he plans to study the customs of Bosnia and Herzegovina.

It is also worth mentioning that the flagship of John Churchill is now called the Prince of Wales.

As a man who has greened the Prince of Wales, and now stands on the warship named after him, John Churchill has a sense of complacency that he is already at the top of the world, so why bother to go to the sky.

"Lord Marquis, Cape Town is almost here!"

The soldiers reported to him.

John Churchill nodded and said with a smile: "Let's see what interesting welcome ceremony Sir Henry Buckley has prepared for us."

By the way, you can bring me the gift I brought, it was specially prepared by my father. ”

This Sir Henry Buckley was an old friend of old Churchill.

John Churchill should have called him uncle.

But John Churchill was well aware that the old fellow, like himself, was an adventurous and inquisitive gentleman with a wide range of common hobbies.

This time, he became the governor of India and led the war against the Boers, and he needed the help of this old gentleman.

With a valuable gift and a buff from his peers, John Churchill believed that he would be able to gain the friendship of Sir Barkley.

Soon, the soldiers carried up a beautiful wooden box.

John Churchill opened the box and looked at the fine porcelain inside.

As the saying goes, a mother is more expensive than a son, but in fact, a father will also become precious because of his son.

The most typical example is the founding emperor's various posthumous seals of his ancestors, as well as the great rite dispute of the Jiaqing Dynasty.

For today's world pattern, because of the rebirth of the new Ming Dynasty led by Zhu Fugui, it has objectively led to the rise in the value of Chinese cultural relics.

The price of Chinese cultural relics with the same artistic value and historical research value is far less than that of European cultural relics.

But now these European robbers are talking about the punishment of heaven and tyranny, but the price of Ming cultural relics has been rising.

Even the dead Manchu artifacts were stained with light.

The most typical is that at the end of last year, an auction house in London auctioned off a quilt that the British and French forces had stolen from the Forbidden City, which was said to have been covered by the Qianlong Emperor.

As a result, it was sold for a sky-high price of 300,000 pounds.

You know, this isn't the first time this thing has been on the auction house.

But before the rise of the Ming Dynasty, Qianlong's quilt was auctioned for a fraction of the dress worn by the Sun King Louis XIV, and was only worth 2,000 pounds, which was not even as good as a pair of panties from the mistress of Charles II, the happy king.

And now, although Qianlong's quilt is not as good as Louis XIV's skirt, it has surpassed the underwear of the mistress of the King of Happiness.

Of course, in addition to the Ming effect, there is also the factor of "moderate inflation".

But in any case, today's Chinese cultural relics are becoming more and more precious.

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John Churchill opened the wooden box, which was lined with Antoli cashmere and a mixed porcelain vase.

This is that tyrant Zhu Fugui uncle Emperor · A blue and white Ruyi moon bottle used by Judy's court.

Even today, 500 years later, this crescent bottle still looks crystal clear and very beautiful.

John Churchill was not a playboy who was completely uneducated, only knew how to seduce women, and he also had a strong appreciation for art.

At the first glance of the bottle, John Churchill understood why his ancestors were fascinated by these porcelains from the East hundreds of years ago.

Beautiful, it's so beautiful.

Of course, Europeans had never seen porcelain of this caliber in the past.

During the Song, Ming and Qing dynasties, many of the porcelain sold to Europe were large-scale goods fired in large quantities for the tastes of Europeans.

And this moon bottle was put into the Forbidden City.

However, although it can't be bought with money, the zero-yuan purchase fourteen years ago made these long-coveted robbers get their wish.

Of course, from John Churchill's point of view, this is just the British gentlemen getting what should be their own interests from the perspective of strength.

It's a pity that now in order to be able to solve the Boers better and faster, this beautiful royal vase is going to be given away like this.

In fact, in John Churchill's view, the Boers of 200,000 did not need the help of the Governor's House in Cape Town.

It was a waste for my father to give such a big gift.

If it were John Churchill himself, he would have chosen to give Sir Barkley two bottles of the original Hebrew Elixir as a gift.

Maybe you can get more friendship with each other.

Although the elder Churchill said in Parliament that it would take only 20,000 men to conquer the Boers, it was his eldest son, and he still played a trick.

It was true that the army attacking the Boers was 20,000 men, but the army that ensured the appointment of the Viceroy of India and increased the Indian army was 30,000.

That is, in fact, the total number of troops in this batch reached fifty thousand.

And they are all serious British native soldiers.

Of course, the quality of these sources has actually declined dramatically.

Because Britain has successively invested 600,000 troops in the European theater.

Britain itself had a small standing army, and the battle had almost exhausted all its veterans.

Coupled with the fact that the thirteen states of North America have also reinforced some of the past troops, and now the second round of the British comprehensive conscription campaign is in full swing.

So being able to get 50,000 regular troops for his son, even if it was just a simply trained recruit, was enough to show the elder Churchill's affection for this eldest son.

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As the towering Cape Town lighthouse appeared on the horizon, the captain ordered the ship to slow down and slowly enter the harbor.

John Churchill opened his monoculars and looked in the direction of the pier, but the imaginary welcome ceremony did not appear.

This made him very dissatisfied.

Fortunately, however, he soon saw several sailors hurrying over.

"These slackers!"

The captain awkwardly explained to John Churchill, "Mr. Marquis, because Cape Town is so safe, the people here are used to the ...... of 'African Time'"

"It's okay, it's okay, I've seen even lazier guys in Ireland who don't want to grow two potatoes even if they starve to death."

John Churchill waved his hand and said disappretently, "Wave the flag and let them drive the navigation boat, or will you go straight to the shore?" ”

"I'm familiar with this route, just go straight to the shore."

The captain said and commanded the landing.

Subconsciously, he glanced at the lighthouse and couldn't help frowning.

Cape Town's army and officials were lazy, but they were diligent in collecting taxes.

On the lighthouse where ships pass by, there are always people waving flags urging merchant ships to pay taxes.

Why aren't any of these today?

The captain realized that something didn't seem right today, and was about to ask his doubts when a dense burst of gunfire rang out from the dock.

The sailors who had rushed to "greet" before were shot in the back and fell on their backs, and some even fell headlong into the sea.

But there were some lucky ones who jumped on board in a hurry.