Sail battleships and armed merchant ships lowered their sampans one after another, and more than a dozen sampans rowed towards the shore of the island. Soon, these people came ashore.
A middle-aged man with a medium build and a thin face came to the shore and looked around. Seeing that it was just a small desert island, he was obviously relieved.
He was wearing a gold-rimmed robe with lace on it. He was wearing high heels, tight pants, a complicated gold-encrusted shawl, a layered skirt, and complicated decorations on the cuffs. He was also spraying perfume on his body, and holding a diamond-encrusted bag in one hand.
with a cane and a wig on his head.
His attire fully demonstrated his aristocratic status.
"Dear Earl of Marsfield, this is the only island suggested on the treasure map that is most suitable." A rear admiral bowed slightly and said.
"Then search quickly. As long as you can find Gent's treasure, I will guarantee you the position of vice-admiral." Count Masfeld said with his face raised, looking aloof.
"Please rest assured, as long as the treasure is on this island, it must belong to the great King of England." Theodore said with confidence.
The Earl of Marshfield had just messed up a big thing, so he was sent by King Charles I to this inhospitable place to look for the pirate Gent's treasure.
Captain Gent has been hanged because he refused to reveal where the huge wealth he had robbed for four years was hidden. However, the British caught his mistress and seized the three treasure maps he left behind.
Captain Gent was caught because after four years of being a pirate, he began to yearn for a peaceful life again.
So he came to the port of Boston and prepared a ransom of 400,000 pounds. He found the governor, Lord Lomont. Lomont ostensibly agreed to him, allowing him to enjoy freedom in the United States and retire in peace.
But when William Gent and his men landed on land, they were immediately arrested. They were then extradited back to England and tried. Finally, they were sentenced to hanging.
At this time, the Tudor dynasty of England was replaced by the Stuart dynasty in 1603. The first king was James I. He died in 1625. His son Charles I succeeded to the throne until 1649, when he was promoted by the British Revolution.
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James I originally had an older brother who could not take the throne. But his older brother did not have this blessing. He died of illness at the age of 18. So, he picked up the Prince of Wales for nothing, which is equivalent to the prince.
Beginning in the later years of James I, relations between Britain, France, and Spain became tense.
In order to ease the relationship, Charles made friends with his father's favorite, George Villiers, Duke of Buckingham, and went to Spain together. Duke Buckingham helped him plan to pursue the Spanish Princess Maria Anna.
As soon as he met Spanish Princess Maria Anna, Princess Anna was fascinated.
However, at that time, Britain had converted to the Anglican Church (Protestant), and in the Thirty Years' War on the European continent, it supported the Protestant side (including Charles' sister and brother-in-law PFALZ (King Friedrich V and Queen of the Palatinate)
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He was an enemy of Spain, which believed in Catholicism (old religion). Therefore, the Spanish princess disliked him as a pagan and did not want to get close to him.
In 1622, King Felipe III of Spain proposed to King James I of England that he hoped to consolidate relations between the two countries through a dynastic marriage between his daughter Maria Anna and Charles, Prince of Wales (later King Charles I of England).
London and Madrid are in active talks over a marriage.
The marriage between the Prince of Wales and the Spanish Princess caused a domestic political crisis in England and Scotland. In 1623, the Prince of Wales, accompanied by George Villiers, the first Duke of Buckingham, visited Madrid and met with his future wife.
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However, Maria Anna did not want to marry a Protestant, and Charles was unwilling to convert to Catholicism.
Due to the dual factors of political affairs and the new Spanish king's unwillingness to marry with the Stuart dynasty, the marriage plan eventually fell through.
Anna is a figure who has a great influence on history. Her sister, Princess Anne, is the queen of Louis XIII. After her marriage to the British prince failed, she married back to the Habsburg family.
Her mother was the daughter of the Archduke of Austria. Eventually she became the wife of Ferdinand III, Emperor of the Holy Roman Empire, Queen of the Holy Roman Empire, and Queen of Hungary and Bohemia. At the same time, she also retained the right to inherit the throne of Spain.
Empress Anna served as regent of the Holy Roman Empire on several occasions during her consort's absence.
In Europe, there are many royal families, but there are only two royal families.
One is the Capetian family and the other is the Habsburg family. Both families are royal families for thousands of years. Family branches control the thrones of multiple countries at the same time. The surname of the Capetian family in the French royal family is called Bourbon.
Later, the famous War of Spanish Succession lasted for thirteen years. In the final analysis, it was a war between the Capetian family and the Habsburg family to fight for Spain. If the Capetian family had won, the Spain and France we see today would be one country.
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But Britain could not tolerate a behemoth appearing on the European continent. Britain organized an anti-French alliance to unite with the Habsburg family to prevent Louis XIV from acquiring Spain.
In the end, the Sun King spent all his treasury and was heavily in debt. Britain lost all its fleet and was financially bankrupt. The Habsburg family suffered heavy losses and was unable to fight anymore.
In the end, the two sides negotiated peace, and the Habsburg family obtained Spanish colonies around the world. Louis XIV's grandson inherited the Spanish throne, but he had to change his surname to Alfonso and was not allowed to merge with France.
After Charles's proposal failed that year, he succeeded to the throne in 1625. He married Princess Henrietta Maria, the sister of King Louis XIII of France.
The Duke of Buckingham was criticized for failing to achieve a marriage with Spain. James I asked him to attack the Palatine territory, and the leader of the army was the Earl of Masfield.
This chapter is not finished yet, please click on the next page to continue reading the exciting content! The Palatine territory is located between Germany and France. It currently belongs to Germany.
In German history, it was the fiefdom of the Count Palatine. It was divided into upper and lower parts: the Upper Palatine Territory included the land on both sides of the middle reaches of the Rhine; the Lower Palatine Territory was in northern Bavaria and owned the land on both sides of the Naboo River.
The people in this area originally believed in Catholicism, but during the Reformation, they became a stronghold of German Protestantism. This was during the Thirty Years' War, and the area was severely damaged.
In 1625, Duke Villiers of Buckingham sent Earl of Masfield to lead an army to recapture the Palatine. As a result, Earl of Masfield did not command well, and the British army was quickly overwhelmed by hunger and disease. Because of this defeat, Platinum
The Duke of Han became president of Cambridge University in 1626 and temporarily left politics.
But the king still trusted him very much and gave him another chance.
In 1626, he made an expedition to Cadiz to intercept Spanish ships carrying treasures, but found nothing. The Duke of Buckingham was murdered in 1628, the first year of Chongzhen.
After the death of the Duke of Buckingham, Earl Marshfield lost his backer and his position in Britain was in jeopardy.
The reason why the King of England asked him to go to sea to rob Spanish treasure ships, including this time to find Captain Gent's treasure, was because of financial constraints. At this time, the Thirty Years' War was in full swing, involving almost all the forces in Europe.
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The British finances were bankrupt. The king was eager to find money everywhere to fill the huge hole in military spending.
Gent's wealth, which was said to be worth one billion gold marks, almost drove the King of England crazy.
In the first few years of his succession, Charles was at war on two fronts in France and Spain. Parliament did not trust the Duke of Buckingham and refused to grant him war funds.
For this reason, he had to take extreme measures: pawn and sell his wife's dowry. (It was really shameful to go to war with the French king's brother-in-law and sell the dowry of the wife of a French princess.) Forcibly borrowed money from wealthy subjects and imprisoned those who refused to borrow money.
5 knights. Let soldiers live in private houses and eat and drink for free. They impose tariffs without parliamentary approval, etc.
Both parliaments in 1625 and 1626 expressed distrust of the king and the Duke of Buckingham. When Charles I convened the third parliament in 1628, just after the defeat of Spain, the leader of the House of Commons severely criticized the government: he did not agree with the royal family's finances.
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In 1628, a fanatic assassinated the Duke of Buckingham. In August 1629, when Parliament unanimously passed bills condemning "new inventions" in religion and illegal imposition of tariffs, the Speaker of the House of Commons was pinned to his seat, and Charles once again prorogued the meeting.
For the next 11 years, Charles no longer convened parliament, and Charles also ended wars to save money.
Therefore, the Earl of Masfield was sent to find this huge sum of money. If this money could be obtained, Britain would continue to fight the war. If it did not have this money, Britain would inevitably withdraw from the war.
Because domestic tax resistance is already in full swing, they have no choice.
Historically, they failed to pry Captain Gent's mouth open. They also failed to find the treasure.
