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 at the situation around him. Seeing that this was just a small desert island, he was obviously relieved.
He wore a gold-trimmed robe with lace trim. Wearing high heels, tight pants, a complicated gold-encrusted shawl, a layered skirt, and complicated decorations on the cuffs. He was also wearing perfume, holding a diamond-encrusted cane in one hand, and wearing a wig on his head.
His outfit fully demonstrated his aristocratic status.
"Dear Earl 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." Earl Masfeld said with his face raised. A condescending look.
"Please rest assured that as long as the treasure is on this island, it must belong to His Majesty the Great King." 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 place where birds lay no eggs to find the treasure of pirate Gent.
Captain Gent had been hanged because he would not reveal where the vast wealth he had robbed for four years had been hidden. However, the British have captured his mistress and have 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. Romont ostensibly agreed to let him enjoy freedom in the United States and retire in peace.
But as soon as William Gent and his men landed on land, they were immediately arrested. He was later extradited to the UK and put on trial. Eventually he was sentenced to death by hanging.
At this time, in 1603, the Tudor dynasty of England was replaced by the Stuart dynasty. The first king was James I. He died in 1625. His son Charles I succeeded to the throne until he was guillotined by the British Revolution in 1649.
James I had an older brother, but it was not his turn to take the throne. But his brother did not have this blessing. 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 relations, Charles made friends with his father's favorite, George Villiers, Duke of Buckingham, and they went to Spain together. The Duke of Buckingham helped him plan his pursuit of the Spanish princess Maria Anna.
As soon as he met the Spanish Princess Maria Anna, she 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's sister and brother-in-law PFALZ (King Friedrich V and Queen of the Palatinate) ).
It is an enemy of Spain, which believes in Catholicism (old religion). Therefore, the Spanish princess disliked him as a pagan and did not want to approach 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 actively negotiating a marriage.
The marriage of the Prince of Wales and the Princess of Spain caused a domestic political crisis in England and Scotland. In 1623, the Prince of Wales, accompanied by George Villiers, 1st Duke of Buckingham, visited Madrid to meet his bride-to-be.
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 had a significant impact on history. Her sister, Princess Anne, was Louis XIII's queen. After her marriage to the British prince fell through, she married back into the Habsburg family.
Her mother was the daughter of the Archduke of Austria. Eventually she became the wife of Holy Roman Emperor Ferdinand III, Holy Roman Empress, and Queen of Hungary and Bohemia. At the same time, she also retained her right to the Spanish throne.
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. The two entire families are millennium royal families. Branches of the family control the thrones of multiple countries at the same time. The surname of the Capetian family in France is Bourbon.
Later, the famous War of Spanish Succession lasted for thirteen years. Ultimately, it was a war between the Capetians and the Habsburgs for Spain. If the Capetians had won, the Spain and France we see today would be one country.
But Britain cannot tolerate the emergence of a behemoth on the European continent. The British organized an anti-French alliance to unite with the Habsburg family to prevent Louis XIV from gaining Spain.
Eventually the Sun King drained the treasury and became heavily in debt. Britain lost its fleet and was financially bankrupt. The Habsburg family suffered heavy losses and were 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.
Charles succeeded to the throne in 1625 after his failed proposal that year. He married Princess Henrietta Maria, sister of King Louis XIII of France.
The Duke of Buckingham was criticized for not completing the marriage with Spain. James I asked him to attack the Palatine territory, and the leader of the army was the Earl of Masfield.
The Palatine territory is located between Germany and France. Currently belongs to Germany.
In German history, it was the fiefdom of Count Palatine. It is divided into upper and lower parts: the Upper Palatine Territory includes the land on both sides of the middle reaches of the Rhine River; the Lower Palatine Territory is in northern Bavaria and owns 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 bastion of German Protestantism. This was during the Thirty Years' War, and the area was severely damaged.
In 1625, Duke Villiers of Buckingham sent Earl Marsfield to lead an army to recapture Palatine. As a result, Earl Masfield's command was poor, and the British army was quickly overwhelmed by hunger and disease. Because of this defeat, the Duke of Buckingham became president of Cambridge University in 1626 and temporarily left politics.
But the king still favored him very much and gave him another chance.
In 1626, he expedition to Cadiz. In order to intercept Spanish treasure ships, nothing was found. 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 England 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. All due to financial constraints. At this time, the Thirty Years' War was in full swing. Almost all the forces in Europe were involved.
British finances are bankrupt. The king was anxious to find money everywhere to fill the huge hole in military expenditure.
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 fighting on two fronts in France and Spain. Parliament did not trust the Duke of Buckingham and refused to grant him war funds.
To this end, he had to take extreme measures: selling his wife's dowry. (Waging war with the French king’s brother-in-law and selling the dowry of the French princess’s wife is really shameful.) Forcibly borrowing money from wealthy subjects and imprisoning five knights who refused to borrow money. Let the soldiers live in private houses and eat and drink for free. imposition of tariffs without parliamentary approval, etc.
The two 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 financial methods.
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 House of Commons
The speaker was pinned to his seat, and Charlie adjourned the meeting again.
For the next 11 years, Charles no longer convened Parliament, and Charles ended wars to save money.
Therefore, Earl Masfield was sent to find this huge sum of money at the expense of crime. If it could get this money, Britain would fight the war. Without this money, Britain would inevitably withdraw from the war, because domestic tax resistance was already in full swing and they had no choice.
Historically, they failed to pry Captain Gent's mouth open. No treasure was found either.
