A huge feeling of despair shrouded the English court.

No matter how good the court did to the continental intelligence, it could not make up for them that they had not heard about Ireland and Cornwall for six months.

It was not anyone's idea to watch Wales on the wall. There is no king now, and the nobles are all trying their best to recruit soldiers, but they cannot recruit more soldiers, especially those who are willing to support the Queen of England with dry bread on their backs.

The Welsh people have strong national identity. Although the two sides signed a joint agreement decades ago, it was based on the strength of England. Now you need us to protect you, can we still take care of you?

In fact, not receiving the news is the best news for the English court.

According to the Ming calendar, on the eighth day of the 12th year of Wanli, London received news from the border.

The news came from a nobleman named Henry, who was called one-eyed Henry because he won many times in the martial arts competition and was blinded by wood chips.

One-eyed Henry looked very embarrassed when he entered London. He came to the minister William Cecil and asked to meet the queen immediately. This request was approved in a very short time. The queen summoned the ministers at the Richmond Palace and received him with very high standards.

"I believe that your Majesty and all the ministers have learned that the Ming army has been relaxed recently, but I want to tell you not to be careless. The Ming army is creating the illusion of looseness on the outside and tightness on the inside."

One-eyed Henry took a shower at William Cecil's official residence and changed into new clothes. His face was still fleeing for six hundred miles. His deep eye sockets stared at Yang Gao, whose eyes were closed, with his face closed, and frowned.

As if he noticed the pause of his speech, Yang Gao, whose eyes were closed, naturally drooped with the years, and his mouth was not angry and powerful. He shook his head left and right, paused in the direction where the queen was, and said: "Your Majesty, please leave for the time being."

"No, Mr. Yang Gao is my confidant, you can stand here."

The queen, who is 50 years old, looks very trusting Yang Gao. She held her scepter and dressed in thick makeup to attend, raised her hand and pointed at Henry, one-eyed: "Continue."

One-eyed Henry sighed, obviously not what he could decide, and took two steps in the hall and said: "Although the Ming army has fewer troops on the border and has withdrawn Puli on a large scale, they are preparing for war."

"A month and a half ago, Puley County, sorry Your Majesty, I'm talking about Plymouth. Bulk gunpowder has already started selling on the street. I brought a little sample in the lower book. It was a gunpowder that contained the amount of medicine required for a shooting in a paper case, but was lost on the road to avoid the Ming army checkpoints."

"They also purchased live chickens, pigs, cattle and sheep from all over the country, and the number was so huge that it was terrifying," he said.

Speaking of this, One-eyed Henry raised his hand and took out a pair of things that looked like drawings from his body, saying, "They made this very fine paper, just like Makinoyan's paper, and the gunpowder shells were also made of this."

"General Ying Ming personally ordered to send drawings to every household, and let someone make a lamp made of red-colored white paper for them to prevent wind and lights. The lights are not easily discovered in the distance. I guess the Ming army may plan to use a large-scale night attack in the next battle."

One-eyed Henry sighed, “There are too many lights.”

"These intelligence is very useful. The Earl of Essex sent back the intelligence from the front two days ago. The Ming army conducted a large number of muskets and artillery training at night. It was speculated that they were training a new army and hoped that London could allocate more gunpowder."

The Queen said this, but in fact she was just to make the loyal ministers feel disappointed. In fact, even if she obtained this information, the court could not make any useful decisions.

They could only maintain one thousand eight hundred troops around the castle in Winchester on the front line, and many registered sailors who lost their jobs due to the destruction of merchant ships were distributed to weapons and gathered in Reading, Brighton and other places. As long as the kingdom was in charge of food, they could strengthen the city defense.

But to be honest, the eight thousand registered sailors, because the kingdom also had to reserve the finances of mobilizing aristocrats on a large scale to fight, just by caring for food, could bring huge pressure to the finances of the kingdom after losing commercial income.

The war entered the city almost left them helpless, but the palace did not dare to discuss peace.

Although their subscription of private government bonds was not smooth, some of the most loyal nobles and merchants paid for it. Now the military affairs have not eased at all, but they have to negotiate peace with the Ming Dynasty. No one dares to make such a proposal.

Once mentioned and discussed, the most loyal people will feel that they have been deceived. They spend money to get Irish land, not to spend money to the royal family.

Now that the fundraising is not going well, it is impossible to form an army for a long expedition. It would be fine if you don’t send troops, just surrender directly?

I'm afraid the nobles will really invite Philip of Spain to be the king.

"So how much do you know about the land in Puley County, West Winchester?"

This is actually the situation that the English court most urgently wants to understand. For example, the local area did not obey the Ming Dynasty and rebelled, and the nobles raised their troops intermittently. How many people could win over... This information was crucial to them.

One-eyed Henry shook his head, and a brief silence.

Perhaps from his perspective, using one word can clearly express his thoughts on that land: the rituals and music are broken.

After silence, when one-eyed Henry spoke again, he did not use the name Plymouth: "People are migrating to Puley County."

"In Cornwall to the west, nine Ming nobles led Irish troops into the country to plunder. The knights and jazz from all over the country fought to the death, but there were fewer victories and more failures."

"In Ireland, there was an indigenous savage from the New World named Bai Laohu, a descendant of a tribal barbarian. The shameless Ming government handed him over the minerals in Ireland to dig. He lacked manpower, so he asked the Ming army in Puli County to send the prisoners to him."

"Once the army is defeated, the captives will be escorted to Fuyi County by these nobles and soldiers. According to their words, this pronunciation means happiness. What an ironic name, it is at the mouth of Fuyi River in Cornwall."

"At the mouth of the river, there was a Ming man named Liu Ruguo who used to lead the people to rebel against the governor in Ireland. He had many subordinates and more than a dozen ships, specifically escorting prisoners to Ireland as slave mining. I heard that there were many prisoners but few ships, and many people were suffocated to death on the ship."

These words made the queen and the ministers frown, and they were in dire straits.

“Then why do people still migrate to Puley County?”

"Because Puli County is different, many people regarded themselves as Puli people at the beginning. The Ming army was very tolerant of them. The wealthy nobles and merchants could still do business in Puli County. Many people betray their beliefs and did not care about anything in order to eat at the same table with the Ming merchants."

One-eyed Henry said this with a complicated expression and said, "We don't eat blood, but now Prie County is the old Catholic Old Qiao in the past. After he converted to the Ming Dynasty, he used the view that the Catholic New Testament can eat blood to restrain the people. The restaurant opened by the Ming people in Prie County was called Duck Blood Vermicelli Soup."

The queen narrowed her eyes, squeezed her mouth slightly, and looked at the one-eyed Henry and repeated: "Duck blood, vermicelli soup?"

"Well, in order to escape from Puli, I sat with their little flag when I bribed the Ming officers and ate them."
Chapter completed!