On the island of England, a massive war preparation began with London as the center.

First, the Church of England made new lead blocks and printed brochures to promote news that a large number of English colonists were brutally killed in Ireland and a large number of noble merchants died in Plymouth.

And it spread the news throughout the streets and alleys of England, the countryside of manors.

Then the parliament began to condemn the "thugs of Ireland and Plymouth". News that merchant ships belonging to England were sunk by Ming fleets at sea and that crew sailors were wantonly massacred.

When public opinion breaks out and everything becomes natural, the parliament finally throws out the most important issue - borrowing!

After all, it was for money, because Robert Dudley, a radical Puritan around the Queen, planned to lead the army to fight in person, but he could not leave London. As long as he left London for a few weeks, the affairs of England would be completely inoperable.

The Chancellor of the Exchequer, Lord Burley, William Cecil, also calculated that he had actually started a war with Plymouth, and their treasury was only enough to convene 30,000 troops for a week.

In other words, if the army was summoned to London and walked to Devon, where Plymouth was located, their troops would have no military pay and no supplies.

With Plymouth's past, no one dared to let the nobles from all over the country summon troops to gather on the front line. No one knew how far their small elite troops would cross the front line once the Ming army attacked.

As early as the Plymouth War, Marquis Winchester, four hundred miles away from Plymouth, saw a cavalry wearing cotton armor feeding horses by the stream and drawing out something with stones, but when the guards went out of the city to search, they found no trace.

There were only a few pools of warm horse manure and the hoof prints that suddenly disappeared somewhere to prove that someone had come.

The situation forced them to fight, but the reality was that in the face of a strong enemy, the nobles in loose alliances were unwilling to continue the war out of their own pockets, and the court needed to raise a lot of money for the war.

The Queen had already negotiated with the merchants to use the profits of Levant this year to prepare for war, but the ships had to go but never return, forcing them to spread fear and hatred to the people of the country, and to launch a government bond worth 1.5 million pounds when the time is right.

Under the operation of Chancellor William Cecil, the bonds will be secured with land in Ireland covering the Kingdom of Ayland and the six counties in the central region that live up to discipline, with a total of three million acres of land guaranteed.

The lands will follow the war, be confiscated to bondholders and become private land.

The Queen was reluctant to hand over the land to others, but this was the only way Congress thought it was possible to raise enough funds for the war, and finally had to agree with blood inside.

But... the subscription was not going well, and the people were indeed incited, but the people had no money and were not willing but had enough strength.

The incitement effect is much worse for merchants. Most merchants do not care who Plymouth is in. In fact, the Ming Dynasty Hall in Puley County is now dispatching ships to England ships, allowing them to trade silk and porcelain in Wenboli next to Plymouth.

The large amount of land in Ireland does have an amazing appeal to people, but for smart people, it is something that can only be achieved after winning. The power of Puli County is stretching longer and longer. The navy that was established in the country did not even have a warship. All those who gathered in the port were armed merchant ships.

The Navy has become a Marine Corps, and I still want land in Ireland?

As for the nobles, let alone the nobles. They all have to send troops at the request of the king. They all work hard and want my money?

It would be strange if the subscription goes smoothly!

I wasted my old nose and the subscription was only 190,000 pounds. The question for those who spent money: I spent all the money on buying public debts, will the queen send troops?

If you send troops, the subscription money will be spent quickly; if you don’t send troops, it will not be fair enough to those who buy public debts.

For General Priscendant, it is also necessary to fight back during the confrontation.

The Ming army's use of printing presses was not limited to printing scriptures like the European countries. The church could print pamphlets, and they could do it too.

The loyal and virtuous Master Wei Si became a master of improved printing presses in Puli County, which made him highly admire the prostitutes in Puli County.

The truth is that he went to the carpenter with the drawings drawn by an old Taoist priest who was still cultivating and customized a batch of wood movable type. In fact, there was a set of lead movable type printing equipment in the church not far away, but it was useless... No one had seen it before.

Lead movable type is a very ironic thing in Wei Siye's mind. He is not like Chen Ju. When Chen Ju saw lead movable type printing scriptures in the Vatican, the first idea was to take it back. When Wei Siye saw lead printing here, his first idea was that the church was really stupid.

There are two common printing techniques in the Ming Dynasty. One is woodblock printing, which carved out a large amount of printing on the whole page; the other is movable type printing, which is made of various metals such as wood, copper, iron, etc., and printed in large quantities.

The former is used more, while the latter is used less, and of course the most used is handwriting.

Even Wei Si, a little slut who only knows how to read, knows that printing is related to culture, knowledge, and the church has forced this thing to hide. Everyone he knew in Puli County was almost illiterate.

Of course, this result is the most likely because of war. Literacy often means more property and higher status, and they all run out of the city when the plague is in trouble.

Wei Si didn't think this technology was so awesome, because he didn't think it could be applied to the Ming Dynasty. In fact, except for Chen Mu, who had a lot of money and had no missions, others used carved plates to print with movable type.

Why?

There are twenty-six Latin Roman letters here, each letter is prepared with 100 copies, and basically a small printing factory can start.

In the Ming Dynasty, if you want to print books, you often use tens of thousands of characters. Each character is prepared with tens of thousands of pieces of printing. There are many craftsmen and practitioners of all kinds, skilled, cheap, and high literacy rate. Why don’t you put them on the carving board directly if you have the skills?

With this printing difficulty, it is outrageous that Wei Si saw that the low literacy rate in England was low.

Of course, if you take a step back, the literacy rate is 100%, and for Wei Si, they are all illiterate. They don’t understand Chinese. Isn’t they illiterate?

Originally, Wei Siye could still be a vanguard in public opinion, but he was illiterate. Ying Ming could only do this job with his bare hands and printed a large number of newspapers that he promised to the people of England.

Ying Ming promised that when the Ming army launched a general attack eastward, as the highest military commander of the Ming Puli County, as long as the people did not participate in the fight against the Ming army, soldiers would be strictly prohibited from looting, and land occupied by wealthy and unkind merchants and nobles would be distributed to the poor people and protect their lives.

Moreover, on the way to march, anyone who has opened a city before he has captured the city will receive rewards from the Ming Dynasty, perhaps property or hereditary aristocratic status.
Chapter completed!