Chapter 542
The Kingdom of Scotland's Highlands - It is often believed that there was a kind-hearted knight baron here in England once upon a time, and there are still stories of this man doing good deeds within a hundred miles of the vicinity.
The manor of the old man has also become a treasure trove full of gold and silver coins in people's legends, but what happened in that manor has also become a famous local horror legend - I heard that a devil broke into the manor and killed all the people in the manor. And they also confirmed that the knight lord had become a headless horseman, and that the manor had been reduced to ruins. No one dared to enter it for more than a hundred years, and the hills and fields within the manor were forbidden. Even during the day, it was windy, and few dared to take the shortcut path near the edge of the manor, and anyone who dared to do it would surely finish it before sunset during the day, because as soon as the sun went down, the legend had it that the knight with his head cut off would wander the territory with his retinue, cutting off the head of every unlucky man he met and bringing it back to try to stick it in his neck to see if it was his own.
Legend has it that for more than 100 years, there have been at least dozens of unlucky people who had their heads cut off, but how many exactly? No one can tell what the headless horseman and his entourage looked like? There are all kinds of theories, from riding a ten-foot-tall horse to a huge headless horseman standing at least fifteen feet, but when someone asks, "Isn't everyone who sees that headless horseman beheaded?" People like "Lord", "Uncle", and "Brother-in-law" were lucky enough to climb "on the tree", "on the roof", "in the tunnel" and so on
Naturally, the local Church also had detailed records—although they were not handed over to the Holy See, the Holy See still obtained them by some means. The local church also organized exorcisms. But a group of heavily armed knights and priests searched the place for three days and three nights. Except for the discovery of the manor, which had become a ruined and wasteland, nothing was found. In the past thirty years, there has not been a single person killed by the so-called "Headless Horseman", so the Headless Horseman has basically become a local ghost story and legend, and the road on the edge has become busy again.
And on the icy seabed of the North Sea, less than a nautical mile off the coast of England. There was a cut into the bottom of the sea, about six hundred feet deep, and there were crumbling reefs everywhere, and some of them were so large that some of them were just a small head out of the sea. The bad weather and poor hydrological conditions mean that no boats will pass by in this place at all - because the people who have not had the brains to pass here have all smashed into the reef and gone to be the fish and shrimp. About 300 feet from the shore is a large outcropping reef island more than 10 feet high. Measuring about 3,000 square feet, the uneven surface has been smoothed by the North Sea breeze and waves. On this reef island, local residents have carved out a small pier and then carved out a step of steps. Stone and wood were brought from the mainland to build a small two-room house, and a ninety-foot-foot lighthouse was built on one side of the house. During the summer months, a father and son stand guard at the lighthouse to warn ships of the passing boats, warning them not to go near the coast, and in the harsh winter months, the father and son leave the island and return to the mainland. As for the guys who are still sailing here in this kind of North Sea winter, let them die
Between the reefs at the bottom of the sea. Stuck in a ship full of barnacles and other attachments, the wreck, which looked tattered, was lifeless on the reef at the bottom of the sea. It's just that there is still a terrifying image - every now and then a huge tentacle sticks out from the hatch below the deck of the ship, groping between the reefs, sometimes rolling up a large fish and retracting it
In the sailor's cabin below deck was a huge octopus, so large that it took up the entire space on the lower deck, and among the reef pillars in the distance, there was a huge figure swimming in the dim waters - the towering dorsal and crescent-like tail fins, the protruding pointed nose and gray-white skin, all indicated that it was a great white shark. But the shark was just as big as it was, at least sixty feet long, comparable to its extinct relatives in Earth's history
The shipwreck sank year after year, and several huge sea monsters swam around the ship day after day.
In the Far East, this year is still the year of Wanli Tianzi in the dynasty, and it is also the year of the extremely prosperous Ming Dynasty. A few years ago, in Liaodong, there was a former Li Chengliang's godson, a soldier named Wild Boar Skin, who called himself the Great Khan, and sacrificed to the heavens to read out the words of the Seven Great Hatreds, and started a rebellion. However, the flying clipper boat of the Liaodong Navy Division traced up the Liao River, and a few cannons scattered more than 100 wild men riding and wielding knives, and captured the Great Khan back to Beijing. There are fools who rebel every year, and ordinary people are called such and such a country and a certain son of heaven by the village husband and god Han, and then they are ordered by the county officials to be arrested locally, and then there are at least a dozen people who are punished every year. This kind of thing is no longer even bothered to pay attention to the bigwigs of the imperial court, that is, the annual evaluation of magistrates is so much, and a little narration can be regarded as a reduction in a year's grind. And the same is true of the Great Khan, who led more than 100 savages, who was arrested and taken to Beijing, and there was not even a so-called sacrifice of prisoners, so the military department, together with the criminal department and Dali Temple, sent a tie and cut it at the entrance of the vegetable market
At this time, the navy of the Ming Dynasty was extremely prosperous, and there were hundreds of sailing ships of large and small flying scissors. All of them are made of bronze or cast iron artillery, and there are even thirty-two giant ships of great generals. The maritime merchants and navy of the Ming Dynasty have pocketed all the seas of the entire Asia, and countless gold and silver flow into the Ming Dynasty every year due to foreign trade.
But the Ming bandits have also become the climate, this group of guys do not dare to rob in the East China Sea and the Yellow Sea, and the Bohai Sea does not dare to think about it, they are only active in Malaga and the Indian Peninsula to play hide and seek with the Ming sailors, and from time to time secretly rob a foreign merchant ship - the ship of the Ming merchants is not very dare to rob, they still want to return to their hometowns to sell the stolen goods, but in this way, the Indian maritime merchants and Arab merchants are unlucky, and now they have almost given up the sea route. Indian merchants traveled by land along the Burmese route and Arab merchants on the western route of Central Asia.
At this time, there was already a new capital in the north, the jurisdiction of the Nuergandusi was repeatedly expanded, not only Sakhalin, but also the Kamchatka Peninsula and the Chukotka Peninsula in the future, and even people had crossed the strait to reach the new continent
Japan's Warring States period is almost over, since the inconsiderate monkey smashed his head in Korea, buried his own army, and almost decided the unfortunate fate of his family, the man known as the old turtle has also approached the peak of power after the monkey died of anger, but his pace ends there. Just as his army was overpowering Osaka after breaking the army left behind by the monkeys in Sekigahara. Seeing that the army of monkeys outside Osaka Castle is about to fall apart - the banner of the sun and the moon appears on the Seto Inland Sea (to be continued......