Volume 4: Hot! The whole world is a warring state Chapter 665: Not Too Late for Information
After Yuan Keli left, Zhu Youdong sat in the main seat in the meeting hall for a long time without moving.
To be honest, throughout history, there are really not many emperors who can toss around like him. Although his situation is a bit special, after all, there are too many problems within the Ming Dynasty, and the external competition is too fierce, so he has to toss around. But since he became the regent, in just twenty-four or twenty-five years, the political system, finance, taxation, military, economy, culture... almost all of them have been moved by him at least once. In such a short period of time, the Ming Dynasty has experienced such drastic changes, and the entire country has remained generally stable. The so-called good fighters have no illustrious achievements - this is the credit of people like Wen Tiren, Yuan Keli, and Sun Chengzong.
But now, these people will leave this stage and him in the next five or six years. He can't help but feel sad in such a situation.
However, after feeling sad, he still had to think about who should replace this group of imperial tutors after they retired. Time travelers often make decisions based on their own ideas. It is these imperial tutors who can really do things and turn their ideas into reality. Let's talk about Sun Chengzong. Old Sun doesn't seem to have done anything big in recent years, but the entire Ming officialdom has remained stable while undergoing drastic changes. The officials in the core departments are basically able to make the best use of their talents and their conduct is generally acceptable... Zhu Youdong has never worried about personnel, the most core power of the monarch, for so many years. If Sun Chengzong retires, where can he find a loyal and reliable personnel minister?
"Your Majesty? Your Majesty!"
"Hmm? Fang Zhenghua? What time is it? What's going on?"
"Your Majesty, it is now 1:30 pm. Commander Tian of the Imperial Guards requests an audience."
"Oh, let him in."
"Uh, Your Majesty, Commander Tian also brought a blonde white woman with him, saying that he wanted to bring her in to see Your Majesty."
"Hmm?" Zhu Youdong stood up and said, "Let them in!"
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Let’s go back to September 1637.
After a long journey of nearly a month, Professor Johannes Cape Town and his delegation finally arrived at the Port of Lima in South America.
Yes, it was the port of Lima. After the navy regained the upper hand, the Spanish army of 200,000 people (including three additional divisions sent by Spain and some local troops) could finally be quickly transported to the vicinity of Lima for landing. Facing the threat of the enemy's 305 naval guns and the obvious advantage in manpower, Sun Chuanting did not cling to the gains and losses of a city, and took the initiative to lead his troops to retreat into the Andes Mountains.
This retreat was a well-prepared retreat. Therefore, the newly born Inca Kingdom had already prepared a camp in the Andes Mountains, with food, munitions, and various fortifications. Even a simple gun repair shop and a mine production factory were built. At this point, the rebels were no match for the Spanish regular army, even though they were still no match for them in a head-on battle on the Great Plains. But in the mountains, they no longer had to be chased around by the Spanish, and could instead use the terrain to conduct mobile operations.
But none of this has anything to do with Professor Kepler. The old man, who has regained his second life, has only one mission this time: to inspect the Prince battleship that has been put into actual combat, obtain data, and then make adjustments to provide a better reference for Spain's next 10,000-ton battleship.
Gloria, who had been learning electrical knowledge with Kepler on the ship for nearly a month, consciously did not board the battleship Prince: at least at this time, she was thinking about how to return to Europe and then send intelligence from Europe. If she insisted on following the old man on the battleship Prince at this time, it would be too obvious.
But the old man had gotten used to her being around in the past month. When he boarded the warship alone, he became particularly anxious and his work attitude was not very good. So there was no other way. In order to get a better warship in the future, the commander of the Spanish fleet, Count Barudes, made an exception and approved Gloria to board the ship after learning the inside story.
However, the Navy Commander's move directly made Fernando, the intelligence officer who came to America with Kepler, want to kill Gloria. This woman knew too much. Just in case, she was absolutely not allowed to return to Europe! Because, even if she returned to Europe, as long as Professor Kepler protected her, she would at most be monitored - there were huge hidden dangers in doing so. In this world, only the dead can keep secrets forever.
At first, Fernando thought of poisoning her. But this woman lived and ate with Professor Kepler every day, so it was difficult to poison her alone - similarly, assassination was not easy without alerting the professor.
After much thought, he decided to create an accident.
On the evening of September 7, he took the initiative to invite the professor and Gloria to dinner. During the dinner, he proposed that since there were only men on the ship, the cleaning was not done well, and whether Ms. Gloria could spare a day to guide the black slaves on the ship to take care of the hygiene with her professional vision.
Kepler agreed to this request: To be honest, over the past few days, every time he took Gloria on board, the way the soldiers on board, who had not touched a woman for almost a year, looked at Gloria made the old man feel very uncomfortable.
After separating the two, he took Gloria to the stern and said, "Madam, I regret to tell you that today will be the last day of your life."
"Lieutenant Colonel, it is your job to doubt everything. You can doubt me, but aren't you taking human life too much?"
"Too much? Humph. Ever since I entered the Intelligence School, I have had only one thought in mind: Spain's interests are above all else! For the safety of Spain, what is a life worth? To tell you the truth, we arrested your father Anthony not long after you boarded the ship. I guess he is now in the Intelligence Bureau's prison, and has become a corpse ."
Looking at the indifferent but absolutely calm Gloria, Fernando instinctively felt that something was wrong. He took a step forward and pulled the chain beside him: "Madam, in order not to make a hole in your beautiful body, I kindly prepared this. Please cooperate a little, so that you can feel more relaxed."
"Lieutenant Colonel, are you going to chain me and let me sleep in the sea forever?"
“Yes, isn’t this full of artistic beauty?”
"That's true, but I won't cooperate."
After saying this, Gloria jumped into the sea. Although Fernando quickly ran to the side of the boat and shot, he failed to kill Gloria.
As an elite spy trained by Jinyiwei Yangon Spy School for more than ten years, Gloria mainly relies on her beauty and body to obtain intelligence. However, she has also trained in grappling, swimming, and long-distance marches. So soon after entering the water, she held her breath and swam for a long distance...
Finally, she successfully entered the Andes Mountains, was discovered by the rebels there, and was received by Sun Chuanting after showing the Jinyiwei tattoo on the soles of her feet.
As Zhu Youdong said, although the Prince of Asturias was stationed in Lima, the Ming navy could not sail directly to Lima to supply the rebels. However, the Prince alone could not completely control the sea power. Therefore, the Ming army still had ships that could travel between Hawaii and South America at this time - even if they were discovered by the Prince, they were not afraid. Such a slow ship, I can't beat it, but can't I just run away?
So, after listening to Gloria's story, Sun Chuanting coordinated a speedboat for her as quickly as possible and sent her back to the Ming Dynasty.
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"Hmm..." After listening to Gloria's report in Chinese with almost no accent, Zhu Youdong clapped his hands gently: "Great! That?"
"Your Majesty, I have a Chinese name in Yangon, called Ge Sili."
"Very good, Ge Baihu, you said you have been studying electrical knowledge with Professor Kepler for nearly a month. What have you learned?"
"Your Majesty, this is a study record I wrote from memory while crossing the Pacific Ocean from South America. Whether it is correct or not, it still needs to be verified by the scientists of the Ming Dynasty."
"Don't bother, just show it to me."
"Huh?"
"Ge Baihu, our emperor is the reincarnation of the Azure Dragon, and he is empowered by the immortals, so he knows everything."
"Oh, thank you for the reminder, Commander."
After taking the notes from Ge Sili that Fang Zhenghua handed over to me and flipping through them twice, a familiar feeling of junior high school physics suddenly came to my mind.
It was like a poor student like him had no idea how to make phenolic plastic, but when Fu Shan took out the finished product and introduced the production process, he was sure that it was phenolic plastic. Fangshan Academy of Sciences had been stuck on current intensity, resistance and transformer for a long time, and he didn't know what to do. But when he got this note, he immediately identified the authenticity of the note: it was real, and it was extremely valuable!
"Captain Ge, your achievements are beyond my comprehension. Very good! Now, please tell me what kind of reward you hope to receive?"
"Your Majesty, before I heard about Anthony's accident, I had always wanted to return to Europe to continue serving the Ming Dynasty. But..." She smiled sadly, "Now my identity has been exposed, and I really don't like the days of having disgusting men throw themselves at me in exchange for information. So, can you let me not go back to Europe? If possible, can you let me be a teacher in Yangon School?"
"Commander Tian, what do you mean?"
"I will obey your Majesty's orders."
"Well... didn't I ask Wu Sangui to go to the Siberian desert to find some little girls for me some time ago? Let Captain Ge take over the follow-up work for this matter."
"I accept your order."
"Captain Ge." Zhu Youdong stood up and walked to a place about two or three meters away from the other party and stopped. "Your work is very effective, and I am very satisfied. Although due to environmental restrictions, your feat must be kept secret for a short period of time, and you will need to remain anonymous for a long time. But I promise that in your lifetime, you will see the legend you personally created being widely sung by the world!"
