After Becoming The Tyrant

"The ancient holy fire, the ancient holy fire."

The Duke of Buckingham muttered to himself as he watched the fire burn up on the icy lake.His pale hair was blown into the air by the wind, and his steel blue eyes were moist at that moment.

"1000 years."

Why did the so proud Qiangwei family bow down to the gods for a full 1000 years?

They are clearly lunatics who dare to build a mortal palace in the heart of a dragon!

Everything was ultimately attributed to the "God's Punishment War".Legrand's warship was burned in the hymn of the Holy Court, and since then mortals have been marked as servants of the gods.

That war nearly destroyed Legrand.

Before the Battle of God's Punishment, Legrand was a unified and powerful empire, and wherever the badge of the Qiangwei family passed, all people were subject to it.When other countries are afraid of the power of the Holy Court, they can proudly refuse to accept the charity of the gods.Legrand's warships could go across the sea—in those days, it was Legrand who launched the expedition to Blacy.

Nearly a thousand warships were burnt on the sea, destroying Legrand's most important military force, and the most elite knights of Legrand at that time died together with the three princes.After the "Battle of God's Punishment", Legrand split, and when the Qiangwei family was at its weakest, the lords from all over the country rebelled—there were shadows of the Holy Court and other countries behind it.

The empire fell apart overnight.

At the most tragic moment, the members of the Qiangwei family took the palace as their last castle and fought for three days before they received reinforcements from the guards of the North Land.

In that case, being able to guarantee Legrand's existence was already an incredible achievement.

The empire is divided.

There are many countries, and the land of Legrand has been drawn into the long chaos again.

"At that time, many people thought that the Rose family would gradually disappear after that, but we survived." The Duke of Buckingham put his hand on the king's shoulder. At this moment, he was like the king's father. The history and grievances came slowly to his children, and then he handed over the responsibility, "The Qiangwei family has kept the throne... with blood and bones."

Get over it, and work your way back to that glory bit by bit.

Conquering those divided states little by little, at first there were more than 100 states, then gradually became less than 36, then [-], and finally completed the initial unification during the period of William III.

A full 1000 years of humiliation and bowing, a full 1000 years of accumulating strength.

"The end of the traitor will come, and the Qiangwei family will regain its glory."

The Duke of Buckingham knelt down in front of the fire burning on the water surface, and he put his head close to Legrand's land, and the blood dripping on the land from his ancestors for generations gave off their hot temperature.

The king stood behind him, gazing silently at the rising fire.

"In the future, we will rule the oceans."

He took what the Duke of Buckingham delivered.

A tooth for a tooth, an eye for an eye, the Holy Court used this fire to hurt the pride of the Qiangwei family, so now they will use a new flame to burn the glory of the statue.

eye for eye.

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After the king and the Duke of Buckingham witnessed the ancient sacred fire ignited in the hands of mortals, they also observed the research results of the two chemists by the way-changing the gunpowder from powder to granule.

As the two chemists said, the gunpowder changed into granules is much more powerful than before.

"Still unable to breach the castle's stone walls."

The Duke of Buckingham thought for a while, then shook his head.

The king was not disappointed either: "But they are right, aren't they? As long as we find the direction and walk step by step, we will finally get what we want."

"You are right. Your Majesty." The Duke of Buckingham laughed. After seeing the ancient sacred flame, he relaxed a lot, like a dark cloud that had been suppressing in his heart was dispelled, and he was radiant. "It is not necessary now, but it will definitely be used in the future Yes. If you really want it to be able to exert its power on the battlefield, then you have to solve a problem..."

"Okay, I know what you're going to say."

The king sighed.

Saltpeter, saltpeter, that damn expensive saltpeter that needs to be imported...and sulfur.

"Now I think it's understandable that the Five-Port Alliance often engages in robbery." He had a headache, "Rooting is much cheaper than importing."

"It seems that you already have an idea? About the Five-Port Alliance." The Duke of Buckingham asked.

"It's hard for Port Capital to accept our regulations - the Free Trade Act simply doesn't leave them open."

The king and the Duke of Buckingham returned to the Rose Palace together, and the chemists had already left with the research funds approved by the king with smiles on their faces.

"so……"

The king paused.

"Get rid of them."

The Duke of Buckingham was not surprised by this answer.

"You intend to start a war?"

"Yes."

The king conceded.

This idea was born after seeing the ancient sacred flame.

The king's previous thinking was more inclined to disintegrate the commercial foundation of the Five-Port Alliance and force them to be defeated by invisible wars.But judging from the reaction of the patriarch of the Guros family during this period, this path was finally resolved by force.It's just that the buffer period is longer.

But if you use the ancient sacred flame, things will be different.

"What are you going to do?"

The Duke of Buckingham did not object to the king's decision.

"Let's mobilize the royal family's fleet first... After the rest of the Chamber of Commerce withdrew from the Five-Port Alliance, the number of ships owned by the first port has been greatly reduced. Kossoya Port is the only place where they can defend. Arrange ships to arrive there. Let the southeast Customs Governor Search their ships and seize their merchant ships for smuggling wool."

Having said this, the king smiled sarcastically.

"They strictly prohibit other chambers of commerce from engaging in wool trading, but they themselves smuggle tons of wool... Is the royal family blind? Thanks to them, Legrand's customs wool regulations are a laughingstock."

"What if they refuse to search? Your Majesty."

"That is treason," replied the king grimly. "Death to the treason."

"I think someone can help you." The old prince smiled.

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The foreign aid mentioned by the patriarch of Gurus comes from overseas.

The Holy See and the Holy See Empire directly controlled by the Holy See.

If we discuss it carefully, the Five-Port Alliance and the Holy Court still have a certain relationship.Because the preliminary stage of the five-port alliance was established with the support of the local monastery.But in the later period, the mad king thought that the influence of the monastery was too great, so he withdrew their privileges and replaced them with local nobles.

Some of the earliest monastic documents are still stored in the archives of the Federation of Five Ports.

One of the files records that when the monastery controlled the port area, it has been trying its best to collect the holy relics of the temple.But before they finished collecting, the Mad King canceled their privileges, and even found an excuse to move them to another place.

The Guros family has such a sacred object that they got by chance.

He is willing to take it out for the five-port alliance and give it to the holy court in exchange for military assistance from the holy court.But the relic had previously belonged to the Gross family, so he asked the other three families - the Dawson family has been silent so far - to join him.

"The Holy Court has rarely dispatched their warships directly."

The poisonous spider in a black dress still raised his doubts unhurriedly.

"At the beginning, the Pope's special envoy landed at the port controlled by Kossoa." The patriarch of Guros did not answer directly, but instead talked about the civil war launched by Grand Duke Grace before, "He is only 27 years old, but he is already in control of one of the cardinals. Cardinal, do you think this is normal?"

"Maybe he's gifted."

"He is the most beloved illegitimate son of the Pope." The head of the Guros patriarch said lightly the forbidden secret that no one dared to reveal. "His mother has part of the blood of the Guros family."

Everyone looked at Patriarch Guros in astonishment.

Some clues were finally pieced together completely.

The people connecting the Grand Duke Grace and the Holy Court... are the Guros family.

They have a certain blood relationship with the most beloved illegitimate son of the Pope, and they have turned to the Grand Duke Grace early. Only the Guros family can understand the needs of the Holy Court and the Grand Duke Grace at the same time, and build a bridge in the middle.If Grand Duke Grace really succeeds, then they won the bet!

The Holy Court will never forget the contribution of the Guros family, and Grand Duke Grace will not forget their contributions.

An inexplicable chill slid down everyone's backs.

How long has the Guros family been preparing for this plot?

This is definitely not a recent decision.It is very possible... the Guros family began to look for such a path when the cardinal was born.That's why the ancient Ross family in the Five-Port Alliance will be the toughest one against the royal family.

They were making a statement.

To the Holy Court, to Grand Duke Grace.

"The Holy Court affects the trade of the most important harbor on the Abyss Sea. Sanling Bay is known as the Pearl of the Abyss, the bridge between the continents. As long as we can get the support of the Holy Court and rely on the entire Abyss Strait, no one will be able to seize it." Go with our things." The patriarch of Guros said in a deep voice, "Make a statement, if you agree, we will form a true alliance."

"When will the fleet arrive?"

Patriarch Nius, whose symbol was a flamingo, asked in a deep voice.

"I have already sent someone to deliver the holy object." Patriarch Guros showed a stern smile. "At this time, it should have been sent to the Pope, and the fleet should arrive in a week at most."

"Allying with the Guros family doesn't sound like a good idea."

Mrs. Poisonous Spider sighed faintly.

"But who made me have no choice."

She stood up, her figure shrouded in a black dress was slim and glamorous, this lady known as a "snake and scorpion" smiled slightly: "Then so be it."

The abyss strait is shrouded in wind, and the waves are rolling.

The King's Viceroy is demanding a search of the merchant ships of the Cinqueport Alliance, while the Royal Fleet is quietly gathering.

The storm is coming.

The author has something to say: Here are some questions about the Mad Academy.

To answer most people's doubts first:

The ancient sacred fire has already mentioned the prototype Greek fire.Although the main raw material of Greek fire is oil, asphalt, sulfur, turpentine, etc. were also used at the same time, and the recipe of Greek fire was lost later.It's not as simple as being able to equate oil with Greek fire... saltpeter is the main ingredient in gunpowder, but is it possible to point to saltpeter and say that's gunpowder?

The recovery of chemists means that they have completed the recovery of Greek fire, including the proportion of various raw materials and the process of refining methods.It is an accidental product in the process of improving gunpowder. They are trying to use various materials and methods to reform the composition of gunpowder.This is the same as the nature of gunpowder created by ancient Chinese alchemists.

Secondly, they are not "researching the achievements of the century in one month".

I don't know what your definition of "cross-century" is. In my opinion, there have never been—or very few—everything in history that really suddenly appeared across the century.All the "cross-century" in the eyes of latecomers are actually brewing after a long period of development.

I don’t know if you have such a stereotyped impression. When you mention gunpowder, you subconsciously think that it came to the end of the era at the end of the Middle Ages. Before that, it did not appear on the stage of the Middle Ages.As soon as the heliocentric theory is mentioned, it is considered to be produced in the period of Copernicus.

In fact, the concept of the heliocentric theory has a long history, and the concept of the movement of celestial bodies in history is by no means a single geocentric theory. Here I recommend a book "A Brief History of Space", which introduces the entire context of the development of human space concepts.Historically, the scholars of Aristarchus, an ancient Greek, had already put forward the heliocentric theory.Since then, discussions on the heliocentric theory have always existed, and more recently, 15th-century Latino scholars have rethought the heliocentric theory. The scholar Kuss, who was born in Germany in 1401, re-proposed the heliocentric theory at that time.After that, in the 16th century, Copernicus began to study and complete his "On the Movement of Celestial Spheres".

At that time, the church’s attitude towards the heliocentric theory was not as usual... Copernicus even presented his works to Pope Paul III. Galileo’s opponent, the cardinal, identified his works and believed that there were no heresies . The work was published after the death of Copernicus in 1543.

see it?

There are more than one or two people behind the great things, but we only remember those few people.

Let's turn our perspective back to the scientists in the madhouse.

I myself don't like the kind of plots where guns and shells are created without any background, and people haven't discovered them before... that often carries a kind of preconception and arrogance of the latecomers (I have already written before The king personally observed the war at that time in order to avoid the arrogance of the latecomer).

I don't like that, and naturally I don't write like that.

Let me explain a little bit about the chemist brother.Their research results do not span centuries and eras, but in that context, they have reached the final moment.In the last chapter, I introduced the background of Legrand’s use of gunpowder at that time, just to prevent you from feeling that your achievements are progressing by leaps and bounds.

Take a look at the history of the Gunpowder Revolution in the Middle Ages.

It is still unclear when gunpowder first started in Europe, but Byzantium had already used "Greek fire" in 678 AD

Although Greek fire has not spread, it can already show that the history of using gunpowder in Europe is longer than we are used to knowing.However, it was not until the 34th century that it really began to be commonly used. Gunpowder was introduced into Islamic countries after 1255, and gunpowder trebuchets were used when Muslims besieged Yaga in 1290.

The gunpowder revolution was carried out in the 14th and 15th centuries. It was not until the end of the Middle Ages that Europeans noticed the potential power of gunpowder. Since the 14th century, many saltpeter production plants appeared in Europe, because they were used to the high proportion of saltpeter. Gunpowder thus increases explosive power - see?Technological improvements have been going on since very early on.

In order to increase the power of gunpowder, people have tried various methods at that time. The experiment of the chemist in the madhouse was one of the common attempts of people in the 15th century.Granular gunpowder was part of a technological revolution that came into use after the 15s.In every change, people will adopt various methods, but the correct method cannot be recognized and fully utilized by people as soon as it appears.Many will get swamped by the rest of the wrong ways and wait for time to pass before people find out.

Granular gunpowder, while a step in the right direction, also took time to pick up.The time of acceptance is not the same as the time of appearance. The chemists of the Mad Academy of Sciences have tried the correct method at such a time when they are making various attempts, and the king, who is a latecomer, can affirm this method.

They tried right and got lucky, that's all.

It is far from being a cross-age era.

If you don’t have an understanding of these histories, and your understanding of gunpowder is limited to it blasting open the castle gate and ending the Middle Ages, it’s indeed easy to have the impression that they “researched across the century in a month”...

But that's not the case. They can't even be called cross-generational achievements. They just increased the power of gunpowder, but this improvement is also limited-this is why it is said that the king chose to witness the power of gunpowder with the Duke of Buckingham.In order to truly complete the whole gunpowder revolution, there are still countless problems that must be solved, such as the price of saltpeter, the production process, how to use it, and so on.

Why else would the king raise his standing army?With long guns and cannons, wouldn't it be possible to rush and kill all the way?

——Because the whole change requires the cooperation and time of all parties.

Of course, I can also write casually about the war mode in which the king has gunpowder for three days and can complete the gunfire for one year.

But is that still the Legrand world I want?no.

The same is true of other people's achievements. They are making their choices in the trend of the times.

Finally, what is the so-called cross-century and breakthrough era?

From my point of view as a history student, it is a long series of efforts, with key developments at the right time and background.It never comes out of thin air.What future generations will remember are the most famous figures, but behind them are the shadows of more people.

The dark Middle Ages is not completely dark. In the long river of time, there are always countless flames of wisdom flickering. Nothing suddenly rises and tears the era, and some are the final results of step-by-step efforts.

What history can do is to try its best to listen to their voices, so that all those who work hard will not be drowned in dust.

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