[Henry VIII] Tudor Crown

Thomas Cromwell's black-and-black proposal was very effective. At least the Duke of Suffolk and Edward Seymour had a good harvest once they went to sea. They not only brought back a lot of money and food, but also intercepted a batch of the latest arms.This made Henry VIII very happy, because domestic suppression activities are facing a shortage of manpower, and the new weapons intercepted by the Duke of Suffolk can make up for this shortcoming to a certain extent.

"Gentlemen, let us toast to the victory of England." Henry VIII, whose coffers were full again, held a grand banquet in Hampton Palace, hoping to sweep away the haze of famine and death in the past few days, by the way He also showed his new queen, Jane Seymour, to the courtiers, as well as two new favorites, Thomas Cromwell and Edward Seymour, who were about to be canonized as earls.

William Tudor sat closest to the king at the banquet, and even received a higher treatment than Jane Seymour.

The drunken Henry VIII patted the shoulder of his only son, who was already ten years old, so Henry VIII was also considering the wife of William Tudor. It was a pity that in the era he was born, it was difficult to meet To an Anna of Brittany, or a Mary of Burgundy.

"Father, please allow me to send the French ambassador and the Spanish ambassador away, so that Mary may have the opportunity to communicate with the Lorraine envoy." William Tudor did not like the wine of this era, but considering the ordinary drinking well The water wasn't very clean either, so he managed to drink some to moisten his throat and try to stay away from the band that was near the king.

"Well! Go! Go!" Henry VIII nodded without thinking too much, motioning for Jane Seymour to fill his glass.

Jane Seymour, who has been to the Tower of London, has settled down a lot recently, and she even intentionally kept away from court guests other than her relatives. This made Henry VIII a little more satisfied with her, so he quickly restored his favor to the queen .

Seeing that William Tudor intends to communicate with the envoys of Catholic countries, Jane Seymour's eyes lit up, but she didn't say much, but hoped that William Tudor could believe in Catholicism, and one day he could Correct his father's mistakes.

The blushing Princess Mary was pulled away from the upper seat by William Tudor, and then watched her younger brother order the king's secretary to send the Spanish ambassador and the French ambassador away so that she could communicate with the Lorraine ambassador for a while.

Seeing this, Thomas Cromwell, who was standing aside, hurried to William Tudor's side.The two had a brief private communication through the blocking relationship between the curtains and the pillars.

"Remember to remind my father to let those pirates go, and let Suffolk and the others control their efforts a little bit, so as not to drive all the pirates out." William Tudor stretched out his hand and took a sum from Thomas Cromwell's cloak Qian: "If there are pirates who want to surrender to England, remember to appease them privately and report to my father. As long as those pirates are willing to pay two-fifths of the interest, then they are allowed to rob foreign merchant ships in England's sea territory .”

"Yes." Although Thomas Cromwell did not participate in the extermination of the pirates, as the chancellor of the exchequer, he was in charge of the distribution of the spoils, so he opened the back door for the Prince of Wales: "I have asked Richard to Your share was smuggled to St. James's Palace. Escorted by the Duke of Suffolk's guards, no one will know that it went into your pocket."

"Well!" William Tudor never doubted that Thomas Cromwell would betray him. After all, apart from the trust of Henry VIII, the only thing Thomas Cromwell could rely on in Whitehall Palace was the influence of the Prince of Wales. .

"If my father is going to make you a knight this Christmas, you'd better not accept anything but an earldom." William Tudor swore, when he said this, Thomas Cromwell There was a noticeable change in his breathing, and even the veins on the back of his hand clutching the briefcase bulged, as if forcibly enduring it.

"You are not of noble origin. If you stand above countless people at once, more people will want to pull you down." William Tudor motioned Thomas Cromwell to look at Edward Seymour not far away , the latter was proudly holding his wife to communicate with others, and even introduced his younger brother Thomas Seymour to dignitaries.

"Just let the queen's brother be the one to be hated. Dear Lord Seal, you should understand how many people around the king are dissatisfied with you, and how many people want to see you beheaded." William Dou Duo remembered that Thomas Cromwell in history was brought down by various forces.

Regardless of the later period of Henry VIII's reign and the beginning of Edward VI's reign, Bishop Gardiner and Edward Seymour were torn apart, but before Thomas Cromwell fell completely, they all tried to pull the Lord Seal Dismount and shake hands to make peace.

"I don't care what the ants think."

"But dear sir, it's not the ants who want to chop off your head, but the powerful nobles." William Tudor smiled ironically: "Envy is a human instinct, the original sin of human beings. Those people imitate human beings. Such fellows will allow you to serve His Majesty the King like a dog, but they will not allow you to be their equal as a man."

"Not only the Duke of Norfolk, Bishop Gardiner, but also those supporters of Catholicism. Even the Duke of Suffolk or those little nobles under your command will be happy to see you beheaded." William Tudor smoothed Thomas Cromwell's stiff shoulders, and comforted him: "The status of a nobleman requires at least three generations of accumulation, and the Howard family is a good example. And you, a man who has not entered the court for a few years The Keeper of the Seal suddenly became the number one minister after the Duke of Suffolk, and even obtained a wealth even greater than that of the hereditary nobles, which will frighten those arrogant nobles."

"So they can let me go only if my pay is not proportional to what I get, right?" Thomas Cromwell was a businessman, so it is the businessman himself to seek advantages and avoid disadvantages.

"It depends on your choice." William Tudor said bluntly: "Whether to be a 'poor' powerful minister with a long life and a hundred years, or a short-lived nobleman with a lot of money."

Thomas Cromwell took a deep look at William Tudor, and left a plausible sentence before leaving: "I have never seen a poor minister of power."

"Oh!" William Tudor knew that he had persuaded Thomas Cromwell, so he returned to his seat and ate something in a good mood, but when he turned his head, he found that Princess Mary on the right was slightly red. Looking carefully at something in the palm of his hand, he stretched his head and found it was a locket with a small figure.

"Is it the little Duke of Lorraine?"

William Tudor's voice frightened Princess Mary's shoulders, and then she put the locket in her arms with embarrassment, and said solemnly: "This is... the item given to me by the Ambassador of Lorraine to prevent me from getting along with my fiancé. familiar."

"Only the most blind man in the world would reject the most beautiful and richest princess in Europe." William Tudor teased Princess Mary, causing the latter to stare at him angrily, which made William Tudor Duo suddenly thought of something.

The Duke of Guise, a relative of the little Duke of Lorraine, seems to have been a fanatical Catholic, and urged Catherine de' Medici to be more cruel to the Huguenots during the two religious tragedies in France.

Um!This is a bit difficult.

William Tudor glanced at Princess Mary, who was in love, and decided to step up her ideological transformation to prevent Princess Mary from being affected by the French Reformation, and directly set a fire in the Duchy of Lorraine.