William has always been a gardener at the home of an actor and old theater owner James.

He is also a versatile person in life, planting lettuce, planting hyssop, and pulling thyme. In addition to watering and turning the soil, he is also a versatile person in life.

His father, Shakespeare, was a peasant and grocer who ran the wool, leather and grain business. He also worked as the mayor for three years and was a decent gentleman in his hometown.

However, the leather shop in the inner world also did some shameful activities. When William was a child, he was very wealthy and allowed him to study for six years and learn Latin and Greek.

Later, Shakespeare was punished to go bankrupt for tax evasion. William dropped out of school before graduation. He taught in the village, worked as an apprentice in the butcher shop, and was able to do the job of doing things such as the market, gardeners, and secretary.

Therefore, during his time living outside London, he was very popular with James. This young man was quick-witted and flexible. He only needed one morning to prepare the garden, entered the wilderness with a longbow in the morning, and returned with his processed meat and fur in the afternoon.

The most important thing is that mathematics is an annoying thing. William can handle some arithmetic matters with timber merchant Zhao En.

By the end of May, they learned from Zhao Enna, who stepped up the acquisition of timber, that while they were enjoying the pastoral life under the war, there had been a huge change in the city of London.

The Ming army was building a large-scale construction in the west of the city that was destroyed by the war. It is said that because the great nobles sent to London by the Eastern Military Office were dissatisfied with the streets of London, they set aside a large area of ​​land for reconstruction, and included a large number of noble manors outside the city into the city of London.

Timber merchant Zhao En made a lot of profits because of this. The Ming army ordered him to host the county government office, the residence of officials, the temples of the government offices, and many buildings. It was an unprecedented huge project.

There are two ritual gates in the Shan County Government and the Prefectural Government, including the lobby, the Dianshi Hall, the six rooms, and the back hall, and dozens of other official houses.

The official temples also include City God, Land, Chinese Literature Hall, Changping Cang, Yin-Yang Science, Medicine, Huimin Pharmacy Bureau, Yangjiyuan, Luozeyuan, Mayi, Shiyun Office, Hebo Institute and other hundreds of building complexes.

It is said that this is just a preliminary building. Even Hampton Palace on the western suburb of the south bank of the Thames River is in the later renovation plan and is intended to be used as the palace of the Ming Dynasty vassal kings.

There is also an extremely depressing news. By the end of May, Baron Charles, who was sticking to the Tower of London, and his remaining troops collapsed their final fighting spirit under the threat of famine and disease. After six failures in breakthroughs, they finally surrendered with more than 200 defeated soldiers.

This was the last resistance force south of Yorkshire after the great defeat of the Scottish Legion led by Earl Robert.

The stingy William took out eight treated furs and exchanged them with Zhao En for three bottles of the best Sherry wine in Europe in this era, and was drunk with James. He said that from now on, the throne of England will no longer belong to the English.

James felt more deeply about this. Without Queen Elizabeth, who would still need these actors?

However, after the two of them woke up, everything that was sad about spring and autumn ended. Timber merchant Zhao En sent someone to invite James to perform in London. It is said that the master from the Ming Dynasty was very interested in the theater.

"He thought it was necessary to fund the government to repair the old theater that was burned to death. And I heard from Mr. Liu of the prefectural office that if you perform well, the great nobles from the Ming Dynasty even plan to set up a theater in the city."

"The first theater in London, and tours including England and Ireland."

This has nothing to do with William. It was all Zhao En told to James. That was the actor. William Shakespeare was the little follower behind the popular actor.

Although there are only two people, they can also be called James et al.

At this time, London was no longer the London of the past, but for him, if he wanted to make a name for himself, he could only prepare for the performance with James, who was determined to be the number one player in the City Theater.

Now everything is in a mess. The repair work of the old theater has not been done yet, there is insufficient staff, and there is no new script. James doesn't know what he can perform after he arrives in London.

However, Zhao En was very concerned about what the government ordered and even asked the Dongyang Banner Army to name James, Kimmie.

The young follower William planned to take him to the old theater to do some miscellaneous work to make a living, and he could do all the tasks of watching the horses, slipping horses, and sweeping the floor for the gentlemen who listened to the theater.

Jinmi even began to imagine the days when he opened a new theater in London after being recognized by Tang Xianzu.

It seems that the acting career has greatly improved his mood. On the way to London, he told William more than once that as long as his performance goes well, he will not forget William's support, and these inferior work will soon end.

When the old theater holds a few performances and earns some money, he will hire two more people, and then he will let William take the job of calling the actors to appear on time.

"William, you are smart and erotic. You will soon become familiar with these things. Then you will play a supporting role and help actors make comments. Maybe you can become an actor or a qualified script doctor in two years."

Zhao En found not only actor Kimmie, but also found an atheist from Cambridge, Christopher Marlow, who claimed to be the Night Sect.

This young man is the same age as William, but his cultural level is higher than William's octave. According to Zhao En, rather than saying that he is interested in the script, he is deeply interested in the Ming people's attitude of not believing in gods.

Zhao En found this person so that he could try to write a script.

The real playwright is Robert Green, an equally young but poetic talent who has experience in writing scripts.

Through his connections, Kimmy also found several old actors outside London to help him regain his reputation as the old theater.

When they arrived at the old theater, many workers invited by the government through merchants were busy repairing the looted old theater, and they could be put into performances in one month at most.

The difference between people is sometimes greater than that between humans and dogs.

Kimmy, Christopher, Robert and others were busy choosing new scripts to please the prefect. William was not qualified to get involved in their discussions, so he could only sweep the floor, prepare costumes, props, or help people run around and do some miscellaneous work.

Besides, I can only walk my horse. Fortunately, there is a boxing ring next to the old theater. It seems that the big guys from the Ming Dynasty are very interested in the urban entertainment activities in London slums.

He often saw those big, fair-skinned and strong-jawed soldiers in the boxing ring beaten London gangsters and veteran boxers to their heads and blood.

However, with the actors and screenwriters preparing for work in a intensive manner and excluding William, who was not very educated, William still found a secret in his heart.

Those literary youths who grew noses into the sky and tails on the ground always ordered him to buy wine but didn't give him drinks, believed that Latin and Spanish could be used to please the adults from the Ming Dynasty.

But a Spanish veteran who likes boxing learned while drinking that the prefect does not understand Spanish at all.

To this end, he would pass the horses leading Christopher across the bridge and three streets every day to attend classes at Westminster's current Chinese literature school.
Chapter completed!