Chapter 49

The mucus on the gold coin was not a bit dirty. In order to finish it for the king, the Duke of Buckingham pondered for a moment, and then reluctantly called in the royal guards again.

At first, the royal guards who received the order of cleaning thought they were going to carry out some assassination mission, and they all looked solemn. As a result, after a look, I found that this cleaning command is really the literal "cleaning".

The Duke of Buckingham stood majestically in front of the warehouse, nodding to them without a smile, indicating that they could start.

Royal Guards

They feel that their careers have started to decline step by step from being the cold supervisors of officials.

But soon, the royal guards found that not everyone could handle the mucus on the gold coins. They are highly corrosive. When they drop to the ground, the stone surface is corroded out of small holes. They had to carefully scrape the mucus off the gold coin before cleaning it.

The king didn't leave. He watched with the Duke of Buckingham.

"By the way, don't throw these things away." The king thought for a moment, "keep it and send some to our pharmacist for him to analyze the ingredients."

The king was very interested in the biological composition of hell. From the mucus of the Lord of "greed and ill gotten gains", we may be able to analyze the difference between human and non-human.

After all, the mucus, like gold coins, is hard won to some extent. Even if you want to throw it, you have to wait for the king's group of scientists to judge that it has no use value.

Can the collision of science and mystery bring something different?

The king had some expectations.

The wealth in the palace of the Lord of hell piled up like a mountain. Unfortunately, as the devil said, these gold coins had been piled up in hell for too long and were deeply branded with hell. If too much is removed at one time, it will cause unnecessary trouble. Even the current gold coins can not be used directly after the mucus is removed.

We must let the former Knight of the Templar dispel the evil breath of the gold coins.

It's a bit of a hassle, but it's all worth it.

They eased the king's immediate need.

"Count it, and then give me the exact number."

The king told him that he had to start thinking ahead of time about how the gold coins would go down.

With the Navy as the main force, he also took into account the construction of the new army and the castle, as well as the early investment of the southeast free chamber of Commerce he planned to launch.

The exact number will not be known until the inventory is completed, but the preliminary estimate is that it is enough to provide the initial funds for the Royal Navy construction that the king intends to carry out - only preliminary. The price of a Royal Navy is high enough to drive any royal family crazy.

Today's Royal Fleet of Legrand was formed in the period of Mad King Henry.

After the Mad King Henry removed the privileges of the monastery to the five port alliance, there was also a turmoil. Although it was finally pacified, the rebellion undoubtedly left a deep impression on the mad king. After that, the royal family invested to buy more than 50 oar sailboats, which were organized into three teams, and the managers were known as "oar sailboat pipe belt" [1].

In the early days of its establishment, the powerful Royal Navy did play a great deterrent role. But soon, the royal family found that they could not afford to maintain this fleet. Therefore, in the later stage, two thirds of the ships were sold, and they continued to use large tonnage merchant ships as wartime armed warships. [2]

this phenomenon of merchant ships and military warships merging into one lasted for a long time, so that the five port alliance was so arrogant. It was not until William III unified the thirty-six states that the number of Royal fleets increased steadily.

Just look back at this period of time, but the slow progress of the Royal Navy development history, you can understand how a big hole this is.

The king could hear the sound of his throwing gold coins into the sea.

He sighed helplessly.

This is true of military affairs. Only by burning money can we build a daunting army.

"Won't you meet Charles?"

Said the Duke of Buckingham to the king.

"He has arrived?" The king was a little surprised.

He remembered that he had allowed captain Hawkins to give Charles the right to visit William III's sleeping place. But just one night later, Charles had already arrived.

The Duke of Buckingham nodded slightly.

The king understood that the Duke had seen Charles.

A dead king roglan, a present-day Royal Duke, a crazy captain, and a legendary first mate in charge of the whole pirate Such four people are maintaining a deep friendship which is hard to imagine.

"I'll see him."

The king took the cloak from the housekeeper.

………………

St. Louis Cathedral, the cemetery of William III.

The king, in his red cloak, stood outside the place of his deep sleep.

The tomb of William III does not seem to fit in with his status as a brilliant king of the Legrand generation. Although the style, but to the specifications of the Wang family, is undoubtedly simple. On the tall tombstone, the relief head of William III coexists with the cross.A man stood in front of the tombstone.

First mate of Warwick pirates, Charles.

His gray hair was combed back, his eyes were as blue as the sea, and he was wearing a black coat. His temperament was mild, which could even be called "elegant". It's hard to imagine that he is the famous pirate in charge of haworthy from the appearance alone - he is more like an old professor of royal college than a pirate.

"Good day, your majesty."

Hearing the king's footsteps, he turned and bowed to the king.

"Good day, sir."

The king came forward and stood in front of the tombstone like him.

"Thank you for your permission, your majesty."

Charles said that his attitude towards the king was respectful with more gentleness. He is about the same age as the Duke of Buckingham, but the Duke of Buckingham feels like a steel knife that can be pulled out at any time, and he is the wine precipitated by time.

"I think that's what he wants to see."

Answered the king.

"William I'm sorry. Please forgive me for my impoliteness. But, "Charles looked at the tombstone with his blue eyes," that's what he asked, and he wanted Hawkins and I to continue to call him William. "

"Please continue to call it that." The king said that he was not familiar with this friendship, so after a pause, he changed the topic, "your curse, I can forgive you at any time."

"Thank you for your kindness."

Charles put his hand to his chest and leaned over to thank the king.

"I don't think it will be easy for you to get along with Mr. Hawkins for many years." The king raised his eyebrows. It's hard to imagine how a man like Charles could bear the crazy pirate captain.

Charles had a complicated look on his face It is probably because of such a captain that I have to stay in Wolverine all the time. "

Like the Duke of Buckingham, he seems to have a headache for captain Hawkins.

"You've been a great help to walway to keep him as general of Legrand." Charles said sincerely, "I'm really worried that one day I'll wake up and find that the captain of walway has been hanged on the mast by his sailors."

Charles couldn't help complaining. Maybe he wanted to do something for the pirate captain, so he cut off the topic and talked about the Royal Fleet with the king.

The king was not surprised that he knew he was going to transform the Royal Fleet.

"Do you have any suggestions?"

"Your current warship should refer to the five port alliance." Charles came to the king with an eloquent suggestion, "represented by the" ravel ", a warship of the gurus family, merchant ships usually set up towering ship buildings on board. You know, this is to guard against the attack of pirates. When a freeboard battle occurs, it can shoot and defend with the ship building. [3] "

" but as far as I know, they didn't play a big role in the sea battle of kosiya, and walway's ships seemed to be faster. " The king asked questions.

"Yes."

Charles smiles.

"We took down the building and increased the speed. This is certainly a change made out of our identity, but it is not necessarily a train of thought for you. "

"Tell me about it."

"The gun your scientist brought." Charles replied, "if your scientist can constantly improve them, you may consider building a fast warship with guns in the future. I think that's what you need." [4]

"an ingenious and practical method."

The king thought for a moment and expressed his approval.

"It's a pleasure to have your approval, your majesty."

Charles seemed happy that he could help the king.

The king was acutely aware that Charles was too kind to himself. He said succinctly, "you don't need to transfer your friendship with my father to me."

Charles gave a gentle smile: "you are as sharp as Hawkins said, as William."

"So?"

The king looked inquisitively at the gentle old man.

"It may be presumptuous to say so." Charles was silent for a moment, but he had no choice but to smile. "He once wrote to ask me if I would like to be your Godfather He's a fool, isn't he? Let a notorious pirate be the godfather of a noble prince - now you are the king. "

"But I'm too slow to reply."

Charles looked up and the wind blew his gray hair.

"He didn't get my letter."

The person invited has passed away, so no pirate in the world can be the godfather of the king.

"Well..."

The king pondered for a moment.

"Maybe it's even worse to be the godfather of a notorious tyrant? Pirates will only be scolded for a lifetime, but tyrants will be scolded for hundreds and thousands of years. "

"You are not a tyrant, your majesty."Charles reached for William III's tombstone and turned to smile at him.

"You will be his pride."

The king did not answer.

"I have come here to convey a word to you, your majesty."

Charles stood in front of the tombstone of William III. he gazed deeply at the epitaph of William III. it only had a short sentence - for the glory of rose.

"Please."

"Please be careful of the Holy See."

The author has something to say: [1] the data and structure of Royal Fleet in the period of Mad King Henry refer to the Royal Fleet structure in the period of King John.

Because of the high demand for rowers and crew, crazy King Henry was forced to reduce the Royal Navy because of his inability to support the high fleet, and once again relied on the five port alliance.

[2] In order to encourage the construction of merchant ships suitable for war, Henry VII even set up a "shipbuilding bonus", stipulating that ships with a displacement of more than 100 tons should be subsidized by 5 shillings per ton - Liu Jinghua. The setting sun of "the sun never sets" [M]. Beijing: China literature and history press. 1999

[3] the structure of "ravel" refers to "King" and "Regent" for reference At that time, the sea battle was an extension of the land war, with the main form of "side to side warfare", and the ship building played an important role.

[4] The warship reform in Elizabethan period was based on this idea, and achieved remarkable results.