After saying goodbye to the Baron, William's face was not very good on the way back.

Yang Cheng asked, "What's wrong? It seems like someone owes you hundreds of millions."

William shook his head, "It's not a matter of money, there have been constant turmoil in Europe recently."

After hearing his feelings, Yang Cheng didn't know what to say. After all, this is not something a businessman should care about. Anyway, as long as he is affected in his business, he will make trouble no matter how he likes.

"Thinking of Scotland?"

William sighed, "Yes~"

Compared with Bavaria and Catalan, Scotland's independence problem is more serious. Not only Scotland, but other neighbors have a tendency to independence. The current situation in the UK can be truly called internal and external troubles. So I don't know what they are doing in their minds. They still have leisure to manage the internal affairs of other countries. Could it be that it has rained too much, was severely damp, and had hair on their brains?

As we all know, the full name of Britain is the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland.

In other words, Britain is composed of three regions on the Isle of Great Britain and the northern region on the Ireland, with a total of four parts and a kingdom.

It is equivalent to the past Goryeo to Country Z, which was just a suzerain country. Therefore, theoretically speaking, they cannot become a country. They are just a region, with independent internal affairs, just like Xiangjiang and Macau to Country Z.

So, if anyone dares to call Xiangjiang a country, it is the enemy of Country Z, and there is no need to hesitate!

If you have the ability to tell the British that Scotland is a country, will they be furious?

In several areas, including Scotland, the centrifugal force is very strong.

If you look outside the England region where London is located as the "native", you will find that Ireland has always wanted to merge Northern Ireland; if Wales had not been formed because of the custom of the successive crown princes as Prince of Wales, it would have been very fierce before; while Scotland in the north has been making independence to this day.

Since they are "living together", independence can only be regarded as "a couple in love and kill each other". However, from the perspective of historical process, Scotland and England have very little "love" and most "killing each other".

Before 1707 AD, Scotland was an independent country. Even if it was annexed England by the Roman Empire for more than 300 years, Scotland was still a strong country with independent diplomatic, economic, military and legislative powers!

In other words, it has only been three hundred years since the merger of Scotland and the United Kingdom.

Before this, we will recount the early indigenous peoples in England and Scotland, like many places in Europe, point to the Celtics. However, although they belong to the same race in macroscopic areas, the Celtics also had various branches due to their long-term living environment. In the Great British Isles, there are mainly three major branches:

One is the Gaelic people living in southern Great Britain;

The second is the Picketts who live in the northern part of the Great British Isle;

The third is the Buliton people living in the Ireland Islands.

At that time, the Gaelics and the Buliton people formed many kingdoms in southern Great Britain and on the Ireland Islands respectively. Although there were no unified dynasties, the scale of these kingdoms was no longer small.

The Picts in the north are still in a tribal settlement, but a very small kingdom has appeared just a little south.

While these branches were in a small-scale living state, the Roman legions of the European continent came across the sea. For these natives, they wore iron helmets, armor, spears, swords and shields, and stood in rows of troops in rows. This was the first time they saw them.

A strong Gaelic man suddenly cut off with an axe, and his companions found that he was already in different places.

In this way, the Roman Empire quickly annexed the southern part of the Great Britain Island, which is today's England and Wales. There was no such thing as Wales at that time.

After the baptism of large-scale war, the Gaelic people either died in war or lived in remote mountainous areas to receive Roman rule. Some of them fled to the west and lived in the northern part of the Ireland Islands. North and South Ireland were different.

As for why the Romans did not continue to move westward or northward? The answer is that when they are powerful, they are unintentional, and when they are mentally weak.

Originally, the British Isles had no strategic significance for the Roman Empire at that time. They did not even count the "border" in Europe, and could only be said to be an "overseas island".

It’s just that Caesar “simply” took southern Britain in the process of conquering the Gaul rooster, which was a useless person.

Then, several governors appointed when they were just set up as the province of Britannia wanted to continue their expansion, and even sent the entire Roman Ninth Army to the Scotland region, but the entire army was wiped out.

In the eyes of the Romans, the Picts in the north and the Bulitons in the west were "barbarians". The two places were indeed wilderness with jungle and wilderness at that time, and they could be said to be out of remote areas.

With the strength of the Roman Empire, it would be possible to capture it if the army was sent to it, but for a huge Mediterranean empire, there were still many places to be managed, and there were rebellions everywhere to be suppressed, and there was no intention to continue to chew on this "hard bone".

The subsequent governors did not receive strong support from the Imperial Headquarters and were determined to save their existing territory, and were constantly suffering from the invasion of the northern Picketts and the pirate robbery of the Buliton people on the Irish island.

All the governors of the provinces of Britannia were still in a state of "self-protection" because they were powerless, and they were constantly building some fortifications, such as the Andoning Great Wall.

But even so, we can still see the unyielding spirit of the Picts in the north. They were neither to avenge the Gaels in the southern part nor to devour the areas occupied by the Romans, but to some scattered tribes, who simply expanded their territory and plundered some materials and went south to slaughter the village.

In this way, the division between the north and south of Great Britain became more and more serious in the war. When the Andoning Great Wall was abandoned and could not be defended, Emperor Hadrian, the most centralized centralization in the history of the Roman Empire, came to power. The core of his ruling philosophy was to defend the world conquered by his adoptive father Trajan, rather than continue to expand.

During his reign, Hadrian's Great Wall, built in Britannia Province, became the geographical division line between England and Scotland, and was also the source of inspiration for the Great Wall in "Game of Thrones".

After more than three hundred years of rule on the Isle of Great Britain, the German tribes in the northern European continent went south to destroy the Roman Empire.

There were many branches of the Germans, and they rushed to various regions of Europe in the process of destroying each other. The route between the two branches, the Anglos and the Saxons, was to cross the sea and land on the island, and they quickly occupied the England region.

At this time, the Roman Empire had just been destroyed, and the island was still in a good opportunity to consolidate its regime. The pirates of Buliton, who had been plaguing the coast of Britain from the western Ireland Islands, began to land in large numbers and established several small kingdoms in southwestern Britain. Moreover, the Germans could not capture it for a long time.

This region has formed Wales, a different historical and cultural background from England.

Although the Germans failed to conquer the Wales region, they established small kingdoms in England. Through long-term mutual conquests and annexation, they finally formed seven kingdoms. Are they very familiar? It is the background structure of Game of Thrones.

The good times didn't last long. In Game of Thrones, the White Walkers came, and in reality, the Vikings came.

Their arrival is not like the Romans and Germans before. If you surrender, you can survive under their rule, although it is very miserable.

The Vikings practiced the "Three Lights Policy" very early, and they also had branches, among which the Norwegians occupied Scotland and the Danes occupied England, so the two places each launched a struggle to expel Viking pirates.

This Scotland was led by Kenneth, one of the Pict kings, and successfully expelled the Norwegians and subdued the previously divided Pictic kingdom, forming a unified Scotland kingdom, so the Scots are still Picts.

When Kenneth was crowned, he sat on a stone with iron chains. This stone was called the "Stone of Destiny", which later played a very important role.

The seven kingdoms of England were united under the leadership of Alfred, the king of the pink country of Wessex. His descendants led England to eventually expel the Viking regime, so Alfred was also considered England's first true king.
Chapter completed!