The Rise of the European Emperor

The reason why the devil's height is so low has already been said before, that is, he has eaten vegetarian food for thousands of years. It was not until after the Meiji Restoration that Ito Hirobumi was the first to eat beef in Japan and discovered the famous breed of Wagyu.

But the change was not drastic at that time. It was not until the devils suffered too much in the fight against assassination in World War II that the officials learned from the pain and ordered the whole people to drink milk and eat meat to increase their height. This is not for appearances, but practicality is a problem. You must know that the northern militia composed of untrained peasants was able to deal with the old devils who had been trained for many years, which was really shocking.

Many people say that old devils are powerful, but they haven't seen him training for ten or eight years. But what about the militia in North China? Not long after he dropped the hoe, he was able to rely on his height advantage to fight back and forth with the old devil. Even if the old devil has a slight upper hand, the devil will suffer a big loss. After all, the cost of cultivating an old devil is very high. Just like in Europe in this era, a knight was trained for more than ten years, and the result was evenly matched with the opponent's peasants. As a result, people would vomit three liters of blood.

This is also the reason why muskets replaced longbows in England. In fact, the range and power of the longbow exceed that of the musket. However, the training cost of longbowmen is high. A longbowman has been trained for more than ten years, and his spine is bent. As a result, a musketeer recruit who had been training for two weeks across the street was on par with you. The longbowmen are hard to replenish when they are dead, and the musketeers can just catch some peasants for training...

The advantage of height and arm length was also very obvious in the Battle of Zhenjiang in the First Crow War. During the Battle of Zhenjiang, most of the defenders of the Qing army were not killed by muskets, but were stabbed to death by bayonets.

At that time, Britain had already completed the industrial revolution, and the people in the country were well-fed and well-nourished, and the soldiers were naturally tall and strong. The Qing Dynasty was in a dark age at that time, and there were people with yellow faces, thin bodies and short stature everywhere. Even the bannermen guarding Zhenjiang are average in height. Even if they have practiced martial arts, they can only drink hatred in the face of the long-armed bayonet array of the British army.

Of course, the Swiss of this era are more chicken thieves-I am not tall enough, but I use a five or six-meter long spear to make up for the shortcomings of height and arms with weapons...

Relying on the ultra-long spear, the Swiss are often invincible in the wild. But then everyone was not stupid, and they all started to learn from the Swiss, and they all switched to very long spears. Then, the Swiss advantage was reduced. Although it is still very powerful, it is not an absolute advantage.

Then, Marin became more chicken thieves and popularized the use of muskets. No matter how long your spear is, it cannot reach the range of a musket. Therefore, the Swiss mercenaries who used super long spears were gradually eliminated. Even without Marin, he would be eliminated by the original German mercenaries with matchlock guns.

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Just as spring plowing was about to end, a major event happened in Calais, France—an English businessman named Wilson and another English businessman named James were both killed in their home in Calais. and,

The whole family was poisoned, and no one was spared...

The nature of this kind of extermination case is very bad, and there are two cases in one case, which immediately caused a sensation. At this time, King Edward of England also protested to the French side, believing that the French officials had failed to protect the English expats in Calais. Then, Edward expressed his intention to send envoys to Calais to help investigate the case and appease the English in the city.

King Francois I of France was 100% unhappy that the English wanted to intervene in the investigation. However, at this time, the English people in the city were really panicked and needed someone to comfort them.

Therefore, Francois I agreed with England to send envoys to appease the English in the city so as not to panic. Of course, it would be even better if all these Englishmen could be brought back to the UK.

After all, Calais has been ruled by England for more than a hundred years, and there are many English people in the city. Although many Englishmen chose to return to China after being conquered by France, many people stayed. Despite France's efforts to increase the number of French, nearly half of Calais' residents are English.

Therefore, in order to ensure the stability of Calais, those English people also need to appease. Therefore, Francois I allowed Edward to send envoys to help appease. However, the emissary is not allowed to intervene in the investigation.

And Edward didn't even think about really getting involved in the investigation, after all, he was the one who sent the perpetrator. All he wanted was to send that hapless emissary to Calais...

Therefore, Edward agreed to the request of Francois I, but requested that he could observe the results of the investigation in order to fulfill his duty of protecting the people...

In fact, Edward didn't even want to bargain, but if he obeyed the French, everyone would feel that there was a problem. Therefore, he intentionally made a small request to confuse everyone.

The French were obviously confused and allowed the English to observe the investigation, but they were not allowed to intervene. In this way, England obtained permission to send envoys to Calais.

Then, Edward chose a hapless guy named Robinson, went to Calais to appease the English in the city, and watched the results of the investigation.

Robinson, Edward's opponent, was an established baronet in Cornwall. This guy is not a remnant of the Tudor dynasty, so it was not killed by Edward when he was cleaned up.

But after Edward came to the throne, Robinson became Edward's opponent because he disagreed with Edward on many things.

Under normal circumstances, Edward would tolerate him. However, last year, this guy actually harbored an important remnant of the Tudor dynasty. The man's name was Marquis, who was Robinson's former friend and was once a baron. The two were colleagues during Henry VII's time and had a very close relationship. Even, the two almost got married.

But after Edward overthrew Henry VII, Robinson was neutral and escaped. Marquis, on the other hand, fled England with his family and went into exile in France. Later, Margaret of Tudor and Margaret's false son Henry took the lead, and actively planned and participated in activities to subvert Edward's rule.

Marquis was once also the Baron of Cornwall, so he was naturally sent back to his hometown for activities. Last year, because he was worried that England would attack France from behind, while Louis XII sent people to Wales to plan an uprising, he also sent Marquis back to Cornwall to plan an uprising to hold Edward back.

At that time, Marquis lived quietly in Robinson's country manor, sleeping during the day and going out to find people to move around at night, bewitching everyone to rebel...

However, the unexpected capture of the leader of the Welsh rebel army led to the bankruptcy of Marquez's rebellion career before it even started. In desperation, Marquis had no choice but to board a fishing boat at night and smuggle back to France...

Later, this incident was inadvertently learned by Edward's undercover agent. However, the spies did not get specific information and could not convict Robinson. However, since then, Robinson has been labeled a "rebel" in Edward's heart. Although Robinson did not directly participate in the rebellion, he could be regarded as an accomplice of the rebels if he contained the rebels and allowed them to contact and rebel everywhere.

But Edward had no evidence, so he had to replace Robinson from the position of Sheriff of Cornwall first, and transferred him to the foreign affairs department in London to raise him.

You know, the sheriff is the absolute authority in the local area. If the sheriff participates in the rebellion, the success rate is very high and the consequences are very serious.

Edward transferred Baron Robinson to London to serve as the adjutant to Howard, the foreign secretary. He was promoted in name, but he lost his real power. After all, there is a big gap in real power between being a local prince and being an adjutant to a minister.

Robinson also complained about this, and then often found fault with Edward in official meetings, which made Edward very annoyed.

It just so happened that a nobleman was needed to go to Calais to die this time, so Edward thought of the unlucky Robinson...