Yermak was not the only one who was frightened by firecrackers.

Far away in another corner of the world, the supplier of Tsar's exquisite equipment, the Englishman was also frightened by firecrackers.

Years ago, according to Worthingham's intelligence, England, which was fighting against the Ming Dynasty's Eastern Expeditionary Force, became more and more popular. In order to avoid further stimulating the Ming army stationed in Devon, the army had been gathering, but never dared to attack.

On the one hand, the Ming army's actions in the English Channel were frequent dispatches, two Roche fleets that could compete with first-class warships, avoiding their warships but fond of intercepting merchant ships, almost intercepting trade channels between England and the United Kingdom of Netherlands, Denmark, Norway and Tsarist Russia.

England's lack of finance made them unable to open up two fronts, and they could only dissolve some of the army's recruitment, recruit pirates to protect the route, and attacked the Ming fleet that appeared in the strait.

But this seemed to cause even more tragic losses to the kingdom.

In half a year, the Ming army fleet followed the pirate ships to break through the coastal defense of the Dover Port twice. Although it failed to break through the port castle, it caused great damage in the areas where the port defense artillery could not radiate.

After breaking through the port for the first time, the six hundred Ming army landed, and after failing to siege the castle, he collected his corpses and plundered all villages, farmland, monasteries, livestock and property within a radius of twenty miles.

The ones that could be taken away were taken away, the ones that could not be taken away were burned, and even buried underground. The fires that could be seen everywhere burned for a full twelve days. The surrounding area of ​​the port was destroyed for a hundred years, and twelve armed merchant ships were also carried on pirates.

When they broke through the port for the second time, the defenders and pirates learned their skills. They rely on castles and towns to block the streets, intending to avoid the Ming army's advantages in shooting wars and engage in street battles with them.

However, the Ming army used artillery on both sides of the street to bombard the houses, opened the way with axes, entered the houses, and once again plundered the homes of the villagers and left.

I didn't meet them from beginning to end.

The court did not even want to consider the rebellion in Plymouth and even Devon. It was still far from London, and Dover was only 200 miles away from London. William Cecil even believed that if the Ming army accumulated strength and, according to the broken defense of the port, they could enter the city of London within three days.

But they were really helpless. They had no money, no army, no ship, and even the pirate ships they could hire were almost wiped out by two Liujia fleets, and they could no longer cope with the endless sea attacks.

There was no way for me to provoke Erlangzi. The second lance in the eyes of this intelligence minister Worthingham was the King of France, Hum.

Common sense, the enemy is my friend.

France was also deeply troubled by the Ming army. The difference was nothing more than that England's confidant was called Ying Ming, and France's top enemy was called Chen Jiujing.

In England's eyes, they are the same and should be united. The English Channel is also the Strait of Calais in France, which is only more than 400 miles from Paris.

Some time ago, Catherine wrote to Elizabeth, saying that in order to deal with the common enemy, they should form a coalition force to deal with Chen Jiujing.

Unfortunately, England didn't know Ying Ming at that time, so they were not interested.

But now they were interested, and the envoy sent to Paris was turned away. Catherine and the third brother were no longer interested in the Ming army.

Worthingham's intelligence spies investigated from multiple sources and received a shocking news that the French Valois royal family and Chen Jiujing were discussing peace.

Worthingham looked at the letter and his forehead was hot. He could not think of why things would go forward according to this situation: Are Chen Jiujing and Heng Laosi good brothers? Didn’t he agree to fight for the Protestantism? Why did he suddenly turn around and negotiate peace with the Valois royal family?

With the intercepted seven letters of communication between the Pope and the King of France, which were intercepted by Worthingham's intelligence personnel, everything became clear in England's eyes, but the truth made their spine cold.

Chen Mu, the minister of the Eastern Military Office of the Ming Dynasty, had some knowledge of when he got involved with the Roman priest Ge Laoqi and mediated with Paris and Chen Jiujing, Baishan City.

Gregory VII mentioned the strategic situation of both sides in his letter. After Chen Jiujing's Ming army captured Povadir, he advanced towards the Loire River as if it were unstoppable, further threatening Nantes, a commercial city.

The French royal family asked Chen Jiujing to retreat south and return Bovadir. The French king He Lao San considered retaining Chen Jiujing's jurisdiction over Baishan City and granting him the Duke of Baishan in France, including the southwest of Aquitaine, the former land of Bordeaux, to grant him the fiefdom.

Chen Jiujing had no objection to all this, whether it was withdrawing troops to the south, returning Povadir, or being canonized. His letters were sent to the French court through the Roman priests, with only two sentences on it, and a long rope and two Spanish half taels were given.

‘I followed the order of the Minister of the East and the People and I discussed with you and others that I would withdraw my troops. The rope was a clear length of a small village and two silver coins were a clear and two weights of a clear and two silver coins.’

‘Give me five thousand taels of gold or four thousand taels of silver, and my troops retreated for a mile, and two thousand taels of silver were sent to Baishan City. I immediately took my troops on the boat back to the Eastern Army Mansion and never came to France again.’

It’s true that the English court looked at the first few letters of exchange between the two sides and the sky-high demand for the two sides to pay back the money, and I felt full of envy.

If the same price is placed in front of the English court, they will not even be able to pay it back, so what can they pay it back? Twenty million taels of silver is the ten-year output of the Potosi Silver Mine. The English court does not have that much money, not even a fraction of it.

France actually has the courage to bargain!

Everyone discussed several letters and discussed it, and finally made an agreement that the Valois royal family would pay 800,000 taels of compensation in one lump sum in exchange for Chen Jiujing's front-line troops retreating 80 miles from the Loire River, no longer threatening Nantes, the two sides ceased to fight and no longer attacked each other.

In the next five years, Chen Jiujing paid a total of 2 million taels of silver as ransom for Povadir, Rochefort and other places. In the end, both sides used Angulaim as the boundary.

At the same time, the Dharma King Heng Lao San sent envoys to Beijing with local goods, and the emperor sent envoys to Baishan City, enthroned the Dharma King and issued an imperial edict.

In order to maintain his face, the King of Dharma also conferred Chen Jiujing as Duke of Baishan and his territory as the land in southern Angkulam. This territory still belongs to France in name, but the appointments of officials, tax rates, and military garrisons were all under the responsibility of the Ming Dynasty.

However, Chen Jiujing, Duke of Baishan, still had to pay 4,000 taels of silver to the Valois royal family every year. This number will be increased to 8,000 taels when France encounters war. He can also choose to send troops to serve in the military to offset taxes.

The contract looks like...it's like the Valois royal family intends to earn back the ransom in seven hundred years.

Now all the terms have been agreed, and what the two sides are still arguing about is nothing more than the ritual system when Chen Jiujing went to Paris to accept the canonization. The Dharma King thought he had spent so much money. What happened to you, Chen Jiujing, kneeling in my palace?

Chen Jiujing said that if you want me to kneel down, it won’t work unless you pay another 50,000 taels of gold to put under my knees.

Therefore, the agreement was not successfully signed for a while, but there was a small matter in the letter that Gregory inadvertently mentioned, which even attracted England's attention than Chen Jiujing's acceptance of the canonization.

Gregory called for Chen Mu to send envoys to Havana as a member of the Catholic world, to participate in the first meeting of all countries of the world chaired by the Ming Dynasty's Eastern Ministers.

A meeting of all countries in the world?
Chapter completed!