Chapter 355 7.9 Past Events in England

The French ambassador is based in Southampton, the capital of the Kingdom of Wessex.

As one of the most distinguished people on the island, the French ambassador would not move around easily, let alone go to a "remote place" like the Kingdom of Kent.

The servant brought the ambassador's order, asking the King of Kent, "Lanshall", to open the shackles and release the prisoners.

Lanshall looked solemn and summoned the "Archbishop of Canterbury" to the royal city for negotiation.

Letty Evans had already known in advance that this man was just a viscount whose family had long been lonely. She expected that the "Plantagenet Family" might not take such a marginal figure to heart.

Therefore, she refused to compromise and resolutely executed the judgment.

"My Lord Bishop, I ask you again on behalf of the Minister, are you really not going to let him go?" The servant asked with a slightly playful look, "Don't say I didn't remind you that even if this man is poor and downtrodden, his knighthood was personally conferred by my king!"

"Under the king's power, no one is qualified to judge my French knights!"

"Therefore, I ask you one last time, are you really not going to let him go?!"

As the supreme faith disseminator of the English Isles, Letty Evans from the "Silent Sisterhood" was not scared since childhood.

As a demigod-level strongman under the "Faith Path", in her heart, the Pope is supreme. No one dares to blaspheme the tributes offered by mortals to the gods.

What's more, the French nobles have been rampant in the English Isles for a long time, and now they even dare to enter the sacred place of "Canterbury Cathedral" to openly steal gold tributes.

It would be fine if the Minister came in person.

After being threatened by a servant, he let the man go. Where is the Pope's face?

Letty said nothing and turned away.

The French servant in gorgeous clothes smiled and looked at her back and said loudly: "My Lord Bishop! I admire your persistence in personal principles."

"I hope you can keep your original intention and let all of us witness the style of the Archbishop of Canterbury!"

"If you can hold on for 10 days, you will have achieved a great victory!"

There was a burst of laughter in the Kent Palace. The Bishop is still trustworthy!

Nothing makes people happier than seeing the arrogant French suffer a setback.

However, just three days later, the same group of laughing nobles immediately took off their smiles and put on heavy masks of pain.

**

The white dove flew to Paris, delivering the news that the downtrodden nobles were about to be executed.

The next morning, the French Duchy across the English Channel immediately blocked all requests for English ships to enter the port. Seeing that the agricultural products, fruits and meat on the ship were about to go bad. English merchants could only sail to the neighboring Visigothic Free City-State.

However, even the Visigothic City-State, which has always been known for its "freedom" and "enlightenment", could not afford to provoke the powerful French Duchy.

The reason is simple.

France has better substitutes for all of England's export commodities, whether wheat, fruit, wine, cheese, or spices.

In the eyes of Visigothic merchants, the status of English merchants is even lower than that of Vikings.

After all, the Vikings have precious whale oil, seal skin, and cold-land biological leather. This series of goods cannot be replaced in the civilized society of the Western Continent.

The goods in the hands of English merchants are all common goods.

Even if the English Islands all sank to the bottom of the sea overnight, the lives of the French, Visigoths, and Bavarians would not be too significantly affected.

**

Export ban is only one aspect.

On the other hand, it is to increase export tariffs.

France does not rely on England, but this does not mean that England can not rely on France.

The high-quality steel, glass, pigments, graphite, papyrus, tea and other commodities that the English people urgently needed on a daily basis, which they could not produce on their own, all needed to be shipped to France through the "Byzantine Empire" and then sent to England through the "English Channel".

The day after the French Duchy blocked the Channel, merchants sensed the coming of the crisis and began to hoard supplies. The prices of steel, glass, tea and other necessities of life in the shops of the Kingdom of Wessex rose rapidly.

Three days later, it entered a terrible situation where there was no market for the goods.

The exasperated Ecbert hurriedly summoned the King of Kent "Lanshaur". In this conversation that would not be recorded in history books, he said a very important word.

"In everyone's life, there are bound to be moments when they need to be a grandson!"

"As the rulers of these islands, we can call the shots."

"However, when facing the 'Plantage Family', even if the other side is a servant delivering a message, they can still make us miserable!"

"Similarly, the 'Plantage Family' is arrogant in front of us, but when facing the Byzantine King 'Mikhail III', they also have to bow their heads and kiss his shoes!"

"Because the Silk Road ends in Constantinople!"

"All the East Continent goods they sell are distributed from the 'General Merchants' in Constantinople to other Mediterranean countries."

"Can 'Mikhail III' stand up straight and make money forever?"

"He can't either."

"Because there is also the 'Abbas Family' that rules the Arab Empire on the 'East-West Continental Bridge'. Further away, there is the 'Tang Li Family', the ruler of the Tang Dynasty in the East. He can't afford to offend either of these two giants."

Lan Shaoer's face was ashen. He wanted to speak, but couldn't say anything.

"The bastard you locked up just stole a golden apple. The total of that thing is only ten taels of silver. You have a thousand ways to get the golden apple back, but you have to choose the stupidest one. method."

"You have to tie this piece of shit to a cross and burn it."

"I'm so damn convinced. If you are really angry, why don't you find a killer to kill him secretly, and then claim to the public that he died of illness?"

"If you are stumped, you must tell the world: There is a thief among the French nobles?"

"You must slap the Plantagenet family in the face?!"

"It's fine now. If you send me a letter from the sea, our fleets from seven countries, plus the urgently needed goods, the delayed business opportunities can be exchanged for at least 10,000 golden apples!"

"Have you ever figured this out clearly?"

Lan Shaoer didn't reply because he really had nothing to say.

The next day, he let the down-and-out noble go.

But even so, the French Principality did not bypass the English.

They took this as an opportunity to impose permanently too high tariffs on 17 in-demand goods, with the highest increase even being as high as 7%.

Because of this incident, English merchants had to pay an additional purchase cost of nearly 30,000 gold pounds every year.

And all of this stems from this big hand that is always stuck around their necks——

The Duchy of France, "Plantagenet".