Ming Jiajing: Starting from Immortality

Chapter 323 God helps the Ming Dynasty, the art of defeating the enemy!
Guy Fawkes.

Born into a prominent family that converted to the church in Yorkshire, England, everyone says that all roads lead to Rome, but little Fox was born in "Rome" and was overwhelmed by the wealthy life since childhood.

Thanks to "my bishop father", little Fox always maintained excellent grades in the church school. All the priests and teachers believed that little Fox would be a devout believer in God in the future.

And young Fox did just that. Influenced by his family, he had been fanatical about the church ever since he began to think, and he was very dissatisfied with the situation in which Protestantism was gradually replacing the church in England.

As a devout believer in God, he refused to take over his father's position as Bishop of Yorkshire ten years ago and instead left Protestant-ruled England.

During this decade, he went to Spain, a country that rejected all Protestants and pagans, and joined the Spanish army and went to fight in America, where he earned a reputation for his courage and composure, and his explosives skills made the Indians terrified.

Little Fox got rid of the title of "Son of the Bishop" and changed it to "Demolition Expert". He had a great reputation in the army and even in Spain. Even the Emperor Felipe II of the Spanish Empire praised him.

It can be said that Little Fox has a bright future for making money, and this rising star in the Spanish military is about to emerge.

But at this time, Fox Jr.'s father died, and before his death he sent a message hoping that Fox Jr. could return to Yorkshire to take over the position of bishop of the church.

Little Fox was heartbroken, but for the sake of his father's wish, he resolutely refused the general and his comrades' attempts to keep him and embarked on the journey back home.

But the status and situation of the church in England today is even worse than it was ten years ago. Protestant-ruled England has completely suppressed the church.

As a result, church members became "heretics" in the eyes of Protestants, and Queen Elizabeth I openly denied and refused to give church members the same rights as Protestants in Parliament.

One of the conditions for Spain to become an empire from a kingdom was that the church in Spain severed ties with the Roman Catholic Church and became the New Roman Catholic Church that upheld all traditions. The Spanish imperial royal family and the New Roman Catholic Church established the Inquisition, which tried all Protestants and pagans in the country and burned them to ashes at the stake.

The differences between the two countries made little Fox feel as if the world was being torn apart when he returned to Yorkshire. The obsession in his heart and years of faith made it difficult for little Fox to even breathe.

What made young Fox most desperate was that when he returned to his hometown of Yorkshire, the original church had been "occupied" by a group of Protestants.

The Protestants expelled the original believers and converted the church into a Protestant church. As a demolition expert in the Spanish army, Little Fox had a very bad temper. He rushed forward on the spot and argued with the Protestants. In the end, he even started fighting with a group of Protestants.

The result is predictable. Outnumbered and no match for the Protestants, Little Fox was severely beaten up. If no one had stopped him, he might have been beaten to death.

The double suffering of mental and physical pain made little Fox almost lose hope of continuing to live. The church was occupied, and the original believers and clergy dispersed one after another, but some people stayed.

Robert Gatsby.

Thomas Ventour.

Robert Ventour.

Christopher Wright.

Thomas Percy.

John Grant.

Ambrose Lockwood.

Robert Keyes.

Francis Tresham.

Thomas Bates, Gatsby's servant.

and one Sir Everard Digby.

Gatsby told Little Fox that he had prepared a "Gunpowder Plot" to save the church in England and wanted to invite Little Fox to join.

Little Fox knew nothing about the plan, but after hearing the words of the Church of Salvation, he joined the plan without saying a word. Thus, this group of people formed the "Rebel Alliance."

The original plan was to blow up the English Parliament and kill Queen Elizabeth I, that is, to blow up the Palace of Westminster in an attempt to kill the king, in order to show the nation that the church would never give up and would never compromise.

At the same time, it was hoped that after the death of Queen Elizabeth I, her daughter Bohemia, who believed in the original church, would become a church queen.

The group arrived in London, and Sir Digby rented a house close to the Palace of Westminster with a cellar.

Through continuous excavation, the cellar was extended all the way to the underground of the Palace of Westminster.

With the joint efforts of everyone, a large amount of gunpowder was obtained, which was manufactured and processed by Fox into a powerful gunpowder barrel.

Barrel after barrel, Little Fawkes hid thirty-six barrels of gunpowder in the cellar, disguised with winter fuels such as coal and firewood.

The Embroidered Uniform Guard made a rough calculation and based on the Ming Dynasty's counting method, the total weight of the thirty-six gunpowder barrels was about five thousand kilograms.

However, it is inevitable that some people would be afraid of such a heinous act as to blow up the Queen, all the peers and members of the House of Lords and the House of Commons.

Last night, Francis Tresham, one of the twelve, secretly sent a letter to a noble in the House of Lords, detailing the plan of the rebel alliance and hoping to be forgiven with the help of the noble.

If that noble saw the letter, all the efforts of the rebel alliance would be wasted. Unfortunately, the noble's steward was one of the secret envoys of the Imperial Guard.

The Jinyiwei have always been kind-hearted and did not want people to do useless work. After reading the letter, the butler burned it.

On the second day, which is today, within the rebel alliance, Gatsby, Little Fox and others also discovered Terry Sam's betrayal. After knocking him unconscious, they checked the cellar and found it was intact.

Thinking of the Great Council being held in the Palace of Westminster by Queen Elizabeth I and the nobles and members of the House of Lords and the House of Commons, Gatsby and Little Fox finally decided to continue with their plan.

When Gatsby and Little Fox escaped from the cellar and came to the street in a panic, they witnessed the collapse of Westminster Palace. The powerful explosion even caused the nearby London Bridge to collapse.

"Win!"

"Win!"

"..."

Gatsby and Little Fox were shouting as if no one was around, celebrating the success of their plan. Behind them, Lu Bing and Chen Ping were standing there, looking at the revelry of Gatsby and Little Fox, the chaotic streets of London, and the distance.

There are hundreds of thousands of Irish troops there.

Without the Queen, the nobles and members of the House of Lords and the House of Commons, and without a leader, how long can the English Royal Army resist?
For the sake of their beliefs, they destroyed their motherland with their own hands. Lu Bing and Chen Ping did not comment on the behavior of Gatsby and Little Fox.

……

Queen Elizabeth I died.

Most of the nobles in the House of Lords and members of the House of Commons also died, and English politics immediately came to a standstill.

The royal family started a big fight for the royal power.

Meanwhile, the English royal army on the battlefield was caught in civil strife, with some generals advocating surrender. The Irish army's leader, Caesar (Chen Weimin), at least met the requirements to become king and could help England stabilize quickly.

Some generals advocated continuing the resistance. Not to mention the issue of Caesar (Chen Weiming), the British islanders had used all kinds of immoral means to rule the Irish island. Now, if the Irish islanders were to rule the British island in turn, even without exaggeration, the British island would not be able to bear the same immoral means.

Exploitation of land, property, economy and other aspects, discrimination based on religion, and the most brutal one, the Great Irish Famine twenty years ago.

Also known as the Great Sweet Potato Famine.

The large-scale cultivation of potatoes and sweet potatoes has benefited countless people in the world, but due to the different habits of the two, it is destined that the European continent is more suitable for growing potatoes than sweet potatoes.

But compared to sweet sweet potatoes, potatoes that have no taste are not very popular, especially in England, a food desert, where potatoes are even less popular.

Twenty years ago, in order to increase sweet potato production and enrich the food variety for the people, the English royal family decided to actively promote sweet potato cultivation in the country.

Of course, the English royal family was not foolish enough to plant sweet potatoes all over the country. They first found a test field in the south. That year was the warmest year in decades. By chance, although the sweet potatoes, which like warmth, did not have a bumper harvest, the yield was still one or two thousand kilograms per acre. Compared with other crops, the yield must be much higher.

Despite the initial success, the English royal family still did not blindly plant sweet potatoes all over the country, which inevitably led to protests from some nobles in England who planted other crops.

Since it was impossible to grow sweet potatoes on the main island, the English royal family simply issued a royal decree to move the crops to the northern island of Ireland. A strict royal decree was issued to eradicate all crops on the island of Ireland and replace them with sweet potatoes.

Warmth-loving crops were grown in places where it was cold all year round. In addition, the Little Ice Age was still ongoing, and the sweet potato harvest on the island of Ireland was almost a total failure that year.

As the saying goes, "When it rains, it pours; when the ship is late it encounters headwinds."

Some extremely hardy sweet potatoes finally grew, but just before the harvest, they were hit by late blight, rotted and subsequently failed.

A great famine occurred.

Great Britain imported large amounts of grain from other European countries and even from American plantations, but the hungry and poor Irish could not afford the grain. The English royal family refused to pay for its mistake and provided very little even for basic assistance, and people began to die.

During those five years, the Irish population decreased by nearly a quarter. This number included not only those who died of starvation and disease, but also about one million Irish people who emigrated overseas due to the famine.

Natural disasters, man-made calamities, and royal oppression caused the Irish to rise up repeatedly, but they failed again and again under the suppression of the English royal army.

The tragedy of more than one million Irish people dying of famine was remembered by the people of the entire island of Ireland. This was the real reason why Caesar was able to easily raise an army of 100,000 or more on the island of Ireland with the cooperation of the Royal Guards.

The attack on Great Britain was just to avenge the sweet potato famine twenty years ago.

The hatred between the two islands was irreconcilable. These generals in the English royal army firmly opposed surrendering to the Irish army. They advocated continuing resistance and waiting for news of the birth of a new king or queen in the royal family before counterattacking the Irish army.

But in the English royal army, the above two types of people were in the minority. The mass deaths of the royal family, nobles, and parliamentarians made most Irish military generals realize that the "clouds" above their heads had disappeared.

No general could predict the outcome of England, but as a general, his own army is the basis for advancement or retreat.

Just as the pro-surrender and pro-war factions were arguing fiercely, many generals of the English royal army led their troops to evacuate the front battlefield and hide far away.

The English Royal Army had already been losing ground against the Irish Army, and now most of the troops had withdrawn. On the front battlefield, the absolute defeat was irreversible.

The pro-war generals, either voluntarily or forcedly, surrendered to the Irish army and its leader Caesar (Chen Weiming) together with the pro-surrender generals.

After accepting the surrender of the English army, Caesar did not stop for a moment, but instead accelerated the advance of his army and "marched towards London."

Lu Bing and Chen Ping had already foreseen the end of the Kingdom of England. On this chessboard of the European continent, they never thought that the Kingdom of England would become the first kingdom actually occupied (controlled) by the Ming Dynasty.

This can be said to be huge good news for the Ming Dynasty's global strategy.

The Kingdom of England is an island country surrounded by the sea, which provides it with a natural barrier against foreign invasion.

Its suitable geographical conditions make it possible to build large and medium-sized ports in many coastal areas of England, which are very suitable for both maritime trade and troop transportation.

Moreover, the Kingdom of England is located between the European continent and the Americas. Such a geographical location is undoubtedly an important strategic location.

God help the Ming Dynasty!
And all this originated from the "Gunpowder Plot" of Gatsby, Little Fox and others.

In order to thank Gatsby and Little Fox, the Royal Guards informed Caesar in advance of the specific information and location of the twelve members of the rebel alliance, and only waited for Caesar to attack London, completely overthrow the Tudor dynasty of England, and complete the restoration of the Norman dynasty. Then they would reveal the crimes of Gatsby, Little Fox and others, and execute them in order to win the hearts of all those who were loyal to Elizabeth I and the families of the deceased.

Show kindness to your enemies.

This is probably something that ordinary countries cannot understand, but this is the "art of subduing the enemy" in China's 5,000-year history.

Acknowledging the enemy’s strength is not denying yourself, but highlighting your own strength!

On the chaotic streets of London, Lu Bing and Chen Ping walked slowly. Anyone who tried to rush in front of them would be dealt with. Chen Ping said, "A few months ago, the emperor sent ten fleets of treasure ships to the South Asian subcontinent. Now, it is appropriate to send two fleets of treasure ships to the West."

Caesar's performance was outstanding, but it was destined to be just a transition for the Ming Dynasty to control England. The royal power of the kingdom under his feet could only be in the hands of the Ming Dynasty's own army.

As for who will be the Governor-General of England in the future, it will be decided by His Majesty and the Cabinet.

(End of this chapter)