The Rise of the European Emperor

In the city of London, the Garden Tower in the Tower of London, a terrible thing is happening here, someone is poisoning the Spanish princess - Catherine of Aragon...

This bodyguard named Robinson happened to be similar to Coster's pseudonym, a very English name. In England, Johnson, Robinson, etc., not too much.

Robinson was born into a family of knights, neither prominent nor wealthy. He was lucky to get a job guarding the Tower of London. After all, the Tower of London is the current royal palace. The Tower of London lost its function as a palace, or because Henry VIII went on a killing spree and killed a large number of people such as two queens and Margaret County in the Tower of London, and most of them died unjustly , so the Tower of London has the legend of the ghost. Then, Henry VIII built other palaces and gradually moved to other places to live. Later, the Tower of London became a prison for high-ranking prisoners.

Although Robinson is also the palace guard of the Tower of London, he is not engaged in the top-level job of guarding and guarding the royal family members such as the king and queen, but is responsible for guarding senior prisoners in the Tower of London. Of course, this kind of errand is enough to make those poor knights who didn't get good errands envious. After all, as a palace guard, the salary is relatively sufficient, and he never defaults. After all, it would be a shame for the royal family to be in arrears with the salary of the palace guards...

In fact, guarding prisoners also has a certain amount of oil and water. For example, a nobleman committed a crime and was imprisoned in the Tower of London. If the nobleman's crime is not too big, then the guards in charge of guarding him, especially the captain-level figures like Robinson, can receive bribes from the nobleman's family.

This is because those family members definitely hope that their relatives will not be guilty in it. But since he is in prison, the treatment is definitely not good. So, if you want to eat a good meal, or read a book or something (this is an important recreational activity for senior prisoners, after all, being in prison is too lonely), you need to pass the guard, especially a guard like Robinson who has a little say. team leader. The guards are responsible for bringing in the delicacies and books and other recreational items sent by the noble family members, but if the guards want to do this, they need to pay enough money before they can do it.

Therefore, many people are still very envious of Robinson's errand...

It's just that Robinson is in charge of watching Princess Catherine this time, but it's not a beautiful job. why? Because Princess Catherine was detained by Henry VII's order, it was carried out in secret, and it was impossible for the Spanish royal family to know.

The prisoner's family did not know about it, and as the captain of the guard, Robinson would not receive any benefits. After all, as a knight with a small fief, Robinson didn't have much money either. This is also an important reason why Robinson was bought by the Lord Margaret, because the Lord Margaret gave out hundreds of gold coins...

And this time, poisoning Princess Catherine, Robinson didn't want to do it. However, since the Princess Margaret secretly cooperated with Marin, she was rich and rich, and offered a huge reward of 5,000 gold coins, which directly stunned Robinson. In addition, after receiving the support of Marin's North Sea Chamber of Commerce, Lord Margaret had a way to kill the chef and help Robinson to incriminate, so Robinson finally made up his mind to do this vote.

Of course, Robinson is a very cautious man. He decided to poison after he found out that the ghost cook named Jason happened to be at work that day.

Because, after he made his move, he needed to kill Jason as a scapegoat to confuse the enemy's sight. Then, if Jason did not go to work that day, but he poisoned him, even if Jason was killed, it would be impossible to help him divert his attention.

So, when only Jason was at work, and he was at work these two days, Robinson shot to poison Princess Catherine,

To put the blame on Jason's head...

That day, Jason happened to be the chef who was cooking for Princess Catherine. He made a pot of dark and dark dishes, and then handed it over to the guards for Princess Catherine to eat.

England is a country with very backward culinary skills, until later generations. In this era, basically everyone in England eats dark food. After Catherine arrived here, she could only follow the local customs and eat dark food every day. In fact, Catherine wanted to leave England after Prince Arthur's death, and there were reasons why she couldn't stand England's dark food.

However, Henry VII is more ruthless. In order to keep Catherine, she directly forcibly detained the other party and imprisoned in the Garden Tower of the Tower of London.

According to the procedure, after Chef Jason prepares the food, the tasters in the kitchen confirm that it is non-toxic, and then the members of the guard class bring the food to the prisoners to eat.

After all, the people imprisoned in the Tower of London are all high-ranking nobles. Although they are prisoners, their lives must be guaranteed.

Upon learning of this, Robinson personally went to the kitchen to receive the food that day. In the name of going to the kitchen to find something to eat, he went to the kitchen to eat in advance, and also drank with the chefs such as Jason.

While Jason wasn't paying attention, Robinson put the chronic poison into the pot...

When the tasters ate it, because it was a chronic poison, and the smell of the poison was relatively light, it was also covered by the strange smell of the dark food, so naturally there was no problem in tasting it. Even if he were to die from the poison, it would take three days...

This is a major loophole discovered by Robinson after careful thinking - if the taster is not dead, but Princess Catherine is poisoned. At that time, there will still be suspicions on the bodyguards who deliver the food.

Moreover, in order to avoid contact with food, Robinson pretended to drink too much, lying on the table and pretending to fall asleep. Jason had no choice but to call another guard and give the food to Princess Catherine...

The next night, the hapless Chef Jason was killed in his own home. And on Jason's body, the killer deliberately left a copper button engraved with French words...

However, the death of a cook had little impact on the court and opposition in England. It was not until three days later that the poor Princess Catherine and the taster both died of poisoning, and everyone paid attention to Jason's death...

Henry VII sent investigators to investigate the cause of Jason's death. As a result, in the corner of the scene, a copper button with a French inscription was found...

"Hmph, it must be the French who instructed Jason to poison Princess Catherine." Henry VII slapped the table angrily and said.

It was clear that with the death of Princess Catherine, the alliance between England and Spain was bound to break down. And in the end who benefits the most? Obviously French! Because, the alliance between England and Spain, is to deal with the French. Although Scotland is an enemy of England, it is not an enemy of Spain. There is no reason or motive to poison Princess Catherine of Spain...

In general, this inference is not a problem. Because, if you sleep, you will be full and you will have nothing to do to poison someone who has nothing to do with you?

However, none of them knew that there was a well-fed Marin standing behind him. Of course, there is also a Princess Margaret who thinks of her younger brother. In order to destroy the alliance between the Tudor Dynasty and Spain, these two people made a ruthless hand...

On the surface, Marin and England could not get along with each other, and they were no longer within the range of English suspicion. But in fact, Marin is the most important promoter.

Because, the rich financial resources of Margaret County come from the support of Marin. Previously, the hundreds of gold coins that Princess Margaret spent in order to win over Knight Robinson were all the private money she had secretly hidden for many years.

Because her husband Richard Ball was very strict in financial supervision and did not give her too much money, lest she make waves and cause trouble for the Tudor dynasty.

However, after contacting the Beihai Chamber of Commerce, Marin privately handed over a large amount of the profits from the grain trade to the Margaret County Lord through the Beihai Chamber of Commerce, which made her money abundant and bought many people to work for her in private.

Without being aware of Henry VII and Richard Pohl, with the strong financial resources in his hand, the Margaret County Lord has the ability to influence the overall situation of England. For example, this time I bought Robinson Knight and poisoned Princess Catherine...

Speaking of which, Catherine of Aragon was really unlucky. Originally, although she was not poisoned to death, she was abandoned by her husband Henry VIII and died of depression. This life is even more miserable. At a young age, he was killed by the two conspirators, Margaret County and Marin... Moreover, these two have no grievances with Princess Catherine...