Chapter 673: The world is unpredictable
The Southeast Fleet retains a tradition, that is, when designing new ships of each level, a real model is required, and full-size models are made to enhance persuasiveness.
This tradition comes from Master Phineas Petr. When he was young, he was not well-known. Once he made a large ship model with a length of 8.5 meters and a width of 3.6 meters for a ten-year-old. Prince Henry, this move was appreciated by King James I of England. Since then, Phineas Pate has taken the road to the blue sky. After that, his newly designed warships always have real models, which makes people clear at a glance, and said with great enthusiasm. , The battleship we made is like this!
Phineas Pate's hands-on skills are very strong, and his success is not without reason.
The battleship "Sovereign of the Sea" is the new battleship of the British Royal Family. It was built in August 1634 by Charles I with the support of Admiral John Pennington. The main designer of the ship was the Philippines. Peter Petr, the genius son of Nias Petr, in May 1635, the "Sea Sovereignty" officially started. Peter Petr completed the design of this battleship with the assistance of his father.
From the model of the ship, we can see that this is a beautiful warship with a streamlined hull and a slender artillery deck. Its tail is carried with intricate carvings. The Southeast Palace warship has long lost this kind of decoration. Young Master Yan has no money to do it. But in Europe, this kind of decoration is very popular, and Pat can't avoid it. Artillery is still set up in the sculpture group, and there is no waste of space.
Having said that, the maritime sovereignty from the bow to the stern is covered with gold-plated decorations on a black background, and carved with portraits of Saint John and Saint Matthias, and is called "Golden Devil in awe by its enemies!" "
The ship model is exquisitely made and the details are vivid, and even the artillery on the ship is a small model!
"There are a total of 118 gun positions, 102 guns are actually installed." Seeing the guests count the gun positions with interest, Peter Pate opened the Gu directly.
"The biggest artillery is the 42-pounder!" Peter Pat revealed an amazing news that made the guests realize that our guy is not big enough!
The ship model sent by Phineas Pater was made according to the ratio of 25:1. It was more than two meters long and heavy. After covering it with cloth, he bid farewell to Phineas Pater and his son. They found that the door of the carriage they called was narrow and could not be installed. If they insisted, they were afraid of damaging it. Official Hong Xi was very reluctant, so they had to take turns to carry it back to the hotel.
The ship model was exquisite in materials, very heavy, and the road was too far to go. They walked from one end of London to the other, pressing everyone's arms numb and sweating!
Those British guys on the road saw this strange group of people carrying things. If they hadn't brought weapons, they would almost want to rob them!
Yes, some mounted police came forward to ask, but they knew that they were visiting Chinese, so they let them go.
After finally carrying it back, everyone was panting and becoming a dead dog, feeling that the boat was too long and lack of exercise!
The hard work was not in vain. When everyone was looking at the model ship in the living room of the hotel, they were all in full bloom.
With it, the new-tier battleship of the Southeast Mansion should be a matter of course.
The Southeast Mansion has a certain degree of technical strength, but it is not as good as Europa, the battleship model is taken back, and with the reference object, it can't be justified if it can't be done.
Even if they are physically fatigued, the officers still use a ruler to survey and map and use a notebook to record parameters, and draw sketches for backup.
There is another family of acquaintances in London that needs to be visited, that is, leaders and friends. The family of Mr. David, a senior official of the Southeast Mansion and the Deputy Chief of Staff, needs to be visited. This is a prominent figure in the Southeast Mansion and deserves official Hong Xi's visit.
They went to London's prestigious Fleet Street, a famous street named after the neighboring Fleet River. Fleet Street crosses the border of the City of London to the west and becomes Strander Street; to the east, it passes through Luther Gate and becomes Strander’s Hill Street. Nearby are St. Paul’s Cathedral, St. Pride’s Cathedral, and St. Pride’s Cathedral. Tambor Church and so on.
People who can afford to live in Fleet Street naturally have origins, but when officials Hong Xi arrived at No. 16 Fleet Street, they found that the door was closed and people went to the house empty.
Hitting the door, no response.
They got the address right and right. That's right, it's here.
When I asked the person next to me, I encountered a cold eyebrow, and the other party did not pay attention to them, making them inexplicable!
After all, someone told them the situation. It was an elderly English gentleman who had met and told them the specific situation.
Mr. David really comes from an extraordinary background. His father Thomas Wentworth Stratford (1593-1641) was a representative of the monarchy during the British bourgeois revolution in the 17th century.
Member of Parliament from 1614 to 1624, one of the chiefs who opposed the king's privileges, and was arrested for this reason.
From 1629 to 1640, he was appointed as the privy adviser, and he transformed into a kingly party, a confidant of Charles I of England. In 1633, he served as Lieutenant Governor of Ireland. In 1639, he led the army to quell the Scots uprising. Promoted to acting governor, defending the monarchy system. He was made an earl in 1639. In November 1640, he was accused of treason by Congress in attempting to use the Irish army against England. He was executed in May last year!
The Earl of Stratford was Charles I’s most capable minister. He and Archbishop Lauder were recognized by the Parliament as the king’s "dog head sergeant". The Earl of Stratford was the governor of Ireland and was chosen as a scapegoat by the House of Commons.
Nowadays, the atmosphere in London is tense. The subjects are divided into the royalist party and the anti-royal party. First there was a big dispute and then a big fight. The civil war is imminent.
Earlier, the British officials Hong Xi found were anti-royal. When I heard about the owner, the Earl of Stratford, he was naturally not polite to him. Now the British gentleman I asked was a royalist, Hong Xi’s official. I thanked him and asked about the family of the Earl of Stratford. Fortunately, the gentleman knew that his family had moved to the Cambridge countryside.
After bidding farewell to the enthusiastic English gentleman, Hong Xiguan said without hesitation: "Go to Cambridge!"
The icing on the cake is better than giving away charcoal in the snow. Official Hong Xi knows this very well.
The group of sixteen of them travelled out of London in three carriages, which was the outskirts. At the feet of the emperor, there were large tracts of virgin forest on the outskirts of London, and the cultivators were not dressed very well~www.wuxiaspot.com~ let The Chinese have some knowledge of the degree of development in Britain, but this is also the case.
On the carriage, Yan Zhang in the same carriage chattered about the unpredictability of the world. The lofty earl, the king’s favored subject fell to prison all at once. In contrast, the shipbuilder who takes the professional path is what the ruler needs Yes, although there is no great wealth, but it is safe.
Official Hong Xi dealt with him absent-mindedly, but what he thought was one thing: a kit given to him by the leader.
It is really similar to the kit made by Brother Pig. No one knows it. Gan Hui secretly gave him and asked him to open it again when he arrived in the UK. When Hong Xiguan opened it, it was what the leader said, asking him Tell Mr. David's family, one is to go to France, and the other is to follow Charles I's eldest son!
Hong Xiguan looked at the current situation and was shocked!
The leader has "know" or "foreseeed" the current situation in Britain, and is not optimistic about the current King Charles I? !
When they were thinking about things, they got a deeper understanding of the British environment.
They met a robber!
