The Rise of Iceland - Vol 3 Chapter 406

Outside the house, heavy snow flies, lakes, rivers and the North Sea are all frozen like mirrors, the world is vast, and the cold wind roars like a witch crying, which makes people tremble.

However, in Reykjavik’s Grand Duke’s Fort, there was endless laughter, the fireplace and the corner charcoal basin were full of charcoal fires, and the atmosphere inside the fort became even more hot and extraordinary.

Food and spirits are placed on a long table. Hadar, Olaf, Ulav, Half and Song Qinghe, as well as several Ming literati with large sleeves, are writing and painting on a large table with a brush. A few comments from time to time drew bursts of laughter.

After two years of studying Confucian classics and poetry, calligraphy and painting techniques, Olaf and his sons gathered today the staff from Mingguo to study together and hold a poetry and painting meeting.

Since the West used oriental silk, porcelain, and tea, “China fever” has existed in various European countries to varying degrees. After Marco Polo returned, Europe started the era of great voyages in search of China.

At this time, it was the early 17th century. Europe generally believed that there were two civilization centers in the world. One was Mingguo, the country of porcelain and tea in the East, and the other was Europe. This consciousness was also passed on by the Latin area where European civilization is most prosperous. It is said to be because The rich civilization of the East is better than the West, and it is also a country of etiquette. What is more important is that the Ming people are also fair-skinned civilized people, not the brown savages of South Asia and Southeast Asia, the black cattle of Africa and the livestock of the Americas.

Olaf’s fondness for Eastern culture seems to be an elegant thing in European upper-class society. Almost all court nobles like Eastern culture. As the Duke of Iceland, Hadar is naturally unwilling to follow.

In the summer of 1638, several juniors from Qinghe Academy sent by Li Sheng returned to Europe with hundreds of artisans, doctors, and scholars who claimed to be literati from Ming Dynasty. Olaf and Hadar sent the artisans to Wenland, The doctor and literati stayed with him.

In the past few years, Hadar and Ulav have also learned a lot of Chinese, but most of them are Cantonese vernacular, and they have also learned calligraphy and painting. They always show one or two things when they communicate with other European aristocrats. They are stunned and admired.

This year, December 24th is Hadar’s 55th birthday. Because he recovered from an illness some time ago, all his relatives will celebrate this birthday. Olaf also brought five or six children with him before the winter. Sally, Freda, and Laura hurried back.

Because he was accompanied by oriental literati, Hadar had another habit of writing poetry and singing. After lunch, the family invited the literati staff and musicians from Dagang to the Ducal Fort and held a poetry meeting.

Hadar himself wrote a poem crookedly with a brush.

The Ming Dynasty was led by Song Qinghe. He picked up Hadar’s manuscript and exclaimed in a loud voice in the Zhongzhou Mandarin with a serious accent: ”

Wong Vatna Glacier

Looking at the glacier from a distance,

Covered with white cloud tops.

I don’t know if the white clouds are enclosing the mountain,

The tip of the mountain pierced the white cloud top. ”

“Okay! The vivid image written in this poem has the style of Doctor Sanlu’s “Heavenly Questions”.”

“The thousand-year-old master has a brilliant literary talent…I admire it…”

Olaf watched his father write a jingle and was stunned by the crowd. He couldn’t help but laugh, but he also knew that it is good for foreigners to learn this way. Ulav and Half scratched their heads and cheeks only with a brush. Circle, I can’t even write a jingle.

After a while, Olaf thought that the war in Europe had ceased, and the Protestant League and the Catholic League were in peace talks in Bavaria. It was estimated that although they had changed because of their appearance, it would be normal to end five years earlier. Wrote a Chinese poem.

“Title of the 25 Years’ War in Europe

Time flies like a rush to grow old, and will not take care of occasional losses.

A hundred years of looking back and sighing, the success or failure of the rise and fall is mostly foolish.

——Olav Hadarsson written in the winter of December 1643 AD”

Song Qinghe walked up to Olaf and read it again. Although he felt that Olaf’s limericks were barely enough, but they were more than a hundred times stronger than the old Qiansui, so he couldn’t help but praise.

Many literati poems even praised the appearance of Olaf’s poems, which made Olaf complacent and thought that his poems were comparable to “perfect”.

This year is the winter of 1643. The war between the Catholic League and the Protestant League has been fought off and on for 25 years, and finally peace talks have been reached this summer because of nothing.

The Protestant coalition was led by Denmark, led by Sweden, led by Britain and France, and finally led by France. As the main battlefield, the whole of Germany was beaten into a pot of porridge. There were countless deaths and injuries among the people, and countless losses of soldiers, money and food from various countries.

It can be said that the truce is not because the Protestant Union or the Catholic Union defeated the other side, but that both sides need to cultivate and live their lives and are unable to fight again.

Because Sweden rejoined the warband last year, leading the Protestant coalition forces to take advantage, so after retaking the northern part of Magdeburg and the northern part of Sax, the two sides conducted armistice negotiations in Würzburg and signed the “Wurzburg Peace Treaty.”

The Catholic League recognized Sweden’s suzerainty over all city-states in northern Magdeburg and northern Sax, but Palatinate was returned to the jurisdiction of the Holy Roman Empire, and the Duchy of Upper Lorraine and some of its neighboring cities were ceded to France. Recognized by the Holy Roman Empire and completely independent.

On the whole, the Catholic League regained part of the German territory, but France also gained part of the German territory. Sweden saved 70% of the land laid down by the first emperor. Except for the money and efforts of the United Kingdom and Denmark, nothing was gained. The Protestant League’s Sweden, France is fairly satisfied.

The civil war broke out in Britain since 1638. This civil war broke out ahead of schedule because of Olaf’s disturbance and micromanagement, but the result was not much different from the English Civil War in the historical line.

In the first year, the King’s Army had the advantage, and the Parliamentary Army only controlled the area around London. However, after 1640, due to the sudden emergence of Cromwell, he led the newly-trained cavalry to defeat the King’s Army’s several attacks. , The power of the parliamentary army has gradually grown, and it has been able to divide and rule the king’s army from east to west in England.

The southwest corner of Great Britain is Wales, the headquarters of the Royal Party army. With Wales as the center, Charles I is still sending troops to try to sweep the parliament army and unify the country.

However, in 1639, the Irish and Scottish Rebels also revived and expelled most of the Royal Party. In the end, only Dublin and Edinburgh were still in the hands of Charles I. ~www.mtlnovel.com~ At this time, the Royal Party Army’s territory and strength Although the population is dominant, the parliamentary army that controls the London area is easier to recover quickly by controlling the commercial port.

If this civil war continues, it will be endurance. Whoever can survive to the end will be the head of the UK in the future.

Cromwell has become the deputy commander-in-chief of the parliamentary army and the cavalry commander-in-chief this year.

In the past few years, Olaf has been busy opening military academies to train talents and sending talents and German population to Wenlan, all he has to do is enjoy life.

Because of the annual population of tens of thousands and the addition of arms, equipment and military talents, Vinland’s situation has become more and more stable, and its territory has become larger and larger. According to Heine, in addition to retaining Virginia and New Netherlands, Now they have controlled the entire western part of North America. As for the French colonists who jumped around before, they have been destroyed by the Greenland Legion of Pikku in the Hudson Bay in the western part of the Labrador Peninsula. The entire Vinland except last year Suffered from a cold current and disaster, the rest is a peaceful atmosphere.

Throughout the winter Olaf was reunited with his family and lived a very comfortable life. When the spring came the next year, Olaf suddenly became alert in his sleep that it was 1644. In the year of Guan, although he did not intend to help the Ming Dynasty expel the Tartars, he even knew he did not have this strength, but he felt that when he was sleeping, it might be the time when Emperor Chongzhen went to Meishan. This kind of walked into history The feeling made him feel unspeakable.

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