In order to gather more aid, the Portuguese exiled king Antonio landed in England, hoping to get help from the newly built navy in England.

But at this moment, Elizabeth, who was in a state of turmoil, had no choice.

Because the Governor of Ireland, Earl Grey, was unwilling to make himself seem too incompetent, it was not until this year that the British royal family knew that there was a war in Ireland. Sean O'Neill, Earl of Tyrone, who had surrendered to the English royal family in the past, changed his name to Zhu Xiaoen, and claimed that King Alan of the Ming Dynasty led his strong army to flatten the north and drove the nobles who still surrendered to England to escape into Dublin.

The news of the defeat on the front line was spreading with the defeated soldiers and bandits and robbers roaming in the forest, and the nobles from all over the country rose up.

The blessing of the Ming merchants, there is a legend about King Ailan circulating on the island from south to north. People say that when an army raises the dragon flag and advances, they will be invincible.

In just one month, three rebellions started by the Celtic nobles in the south were killed to the suburbs of Dublin. Compared with the English knights and elite entourages, their troops were vulnerable, but they made the defenders exhausted.

The situation is becoming more and more serious for the British Irish Secretary of State.

When the parliamentary nobles in London wanted to settle the score with merchants from the Ming Dynasty, they had already run away without a trace with the iron ore they purchased at high prices. On the contrary, several mines in Ailan and Cotalon started construction vigorously.

Although Zhu Xiaoen, King Ailan, wanted to imitate the system of the three major military weapons bureaus of the Ming Dynasty to form a state-owned weapon manufacturing factory, the number of iron ores in the Ailan Kingdom was sparse and there were many copper ores. On the other hand, these minerals were all part of the Ming Dynasty, which made it impossible for him to open his own factory.

Even so, seven iron plants for smelting copper ingots were established in Donegal County, a harbor village on the west side. Merchants from Makino completely occupied the seven-month route, transported the copper ingots, brought axes, spearheads, a few armors and thousands of kilograms of gunpowder, and sometimes brought some food.

Large maritime blessed ships have become a symbol of hope here. Each blessed ship can bring weapons to the Kingdom of Ayran that can easily arm eight hundred to one thousand farmers and herdsmen.

Compared to the early plans of the Oriental Military Palace on this land, the Kingdom of England was slow and careless. Although Drake lobbying among the people, he was just a maritime leader who did not even have a title, and could not make the English nobles determined to fight to the death for Ireland.

It was a useless land.

When Zhu Xiaoen was ready to fight against a rabbit, England sent fleets to transport more than 20 nobles and recruited civilians to reinforce Dublin in three times in the six months of the tenth year of Wanli. But that was all, and they did not intend to do any more measures.

The result is naturally obvious. In six months, half of these nobles died, and died in the rebellion that suppressed the nobles in the southern part of the country... It was not because of the regular army fighting, but they would not lose when the regular army fighting.

If the Mongolian army led by Genghis Khan came from the 13th century with a complete system, and with the tactics of relative advantage such as food cuts, perhaps the same number of troops might be able to defeat the 16th century army in the war; but by the 16th century, the chaotic charge method was used that was more backward than the Norman Knights, and why did the southern Irish nobles who used mixed arms in the 13th century defeat the 16th century army?

Only by attacking, attacking when the enemy is relaxed, can it be possible to kill the nobles from England.

They were weaker than the English nobles, but more than the English. Under this offensive, the English nobles could only hold in the castles around Dublin. Seeing the letters of help from the north flew back like snowflakes, they submitted them to the Governor Earl Grey and handed over to London.

At this critical moment, Antonio, who had a glimmer of hope to restore the country, wouldn't mention that the palace had many headaches.

On the one hand, Britain and Portugal had an alliance treaty, and England had to send troops for it; on the other hand, it had to completely break up with Spain, and there were also assistance from the Ming Dynasty from afar.

Elizabeth has no choice whether to send troops or not.

Just like the worrying situation of the newly crowned Queen of England in the face of a religiously divided country, whether to choose Catholicism or Protestantism, now the feeling is coming back.

John Hawkins, the naval financial support officer who was entrusted by the Queen, insisted on the war. However, when the Queen asked him whether the newly built navy in England was ready to deal with the war, Hawkins could only shake his head: "We only have twelve warships over 100 tons, but if the court issued an order to the merchants and nobles, I would probably be able to raise sixty armed merchant ships."

"Why should England participate in this war? I can send a warship and six armed merchant ships to support Antonio. Are you optimistic about this war that Antonio started to restore the country?"

Elizabeth, wearing a wig, frowned, leaned back, raised his hand holding Makinoyan and said, "I trust you very much, but sending troops will definitely stimulate Philip in Habsburg. He is a lunatic. Once he has the chance, he will keep his energy attacking England without any effort, and we can't stop him."

"Queen, I agree with you very much." John Hawkins nodded in agreement, but then walked forward and walked forward: "But will we send out one warship and six merchant ships not stimulate Philip? Spain is much richer than England."

"Philip possesses silver mines in the New World, and trade in the Ming Dynasty. In recent years, the Ming Dynasty sold silk, porcelain, and even velvet, wool, cotton and linen to Spain, as well as Wanli Match Rope from the Ming Dynasty. Our merchants were unable to buy enough wool from Spain, and the large wool workshop went bankrupt."

"I heard that every year, Spain came from the Great East and the Ming Dynasty called the Atlantic Ocean the Great East and the Spain traded a lot, and after the annexation of Portugal, the domestic shipbuilding industry flourished. Last year, twelve large Garen ships began to be built on the shore, and Spanish warships, which were originally intended to be used to deal with the Ming Dynasty. They started building a few years ago. Last year, they had seven warships launched, all of which were more than a hundred tons."

"Our war with Spain has been inevitable. Now we try to stimulate them as little as possible, just to delay the war." Hawkins said, spreading his hands and said, "But what situation can be a better opportunity to send troops than now? The Portuguese exiled army, France also intends to send troops with the support of Catherine, and the Dutch Dutch opposes Spain's army, I think."

"The best time to delay the war is now, lobbying France, the Netherlands does its best to send troops, defeat the Mingxi joint fleet in the East and make Portugal a battlefield for multi-national competition. Only by relying on the advantages of the island, we can stay away from the center of the war, and send trade to them in exchange for wealth to strengthen the maritime military power."

"At the same time, if we win, the Irish problem can be solved, defeating the Ming fleet, and then getting time to clear the rebels to cope with the war that follows."

The cigarette was crushed in Elizabeth's hand, and she leaned back again and took a deep breath: "Is war inevitable?"

“Inevitably.”
Chapter completed!