In exchange for sending troops to help occupy the entire island of Ireland, Edward made the territory near Port Cork in the southern part of the island a county, and gave it to Marin in the name of County Cork. At the same time, Marin added another title of "Earl of Cork of Ireland" on his head.

In fact, Cork City was given to Marin by Edward as a reward for sending troops to help him seize the throne at the beginning. However, at that time, apart from County Wicklow, Marin had only one separate city, Cork City, including nearby Cork Bay, with limited territory. The last time he sent troops to help conquer the entire island of Ireland, Edward assigned him about 2,000 square kilometers of territory around Cork City, and named it County Cork as a reward.

This County Cork is not as large as the more than 7,000 square kilometers of County Cork in later generations, mainly because most of the territory of County Cork in later generations was the territory of the Norman nobleman Desmond County. The Count of Desmond did not oppose Edward, and Edward could not remove the Count of Esmond. The fact that more than 2,000 square kilometers of land was cut out from the hands of Desmond was because Edward took the territory of the O'Brien indigenous family in the north of Desmond in exchange for more than 2,000 square kilometers of land and gave it to Marin.

Now, after County Wicklow was given to Adler as a feudal state, this miniature version of County Cork has become Marin's main control area in Ireland.

And Cork Bay, just outside Cork, is also a good harbor that Marin values very much. Sending a ship from here to the Americas will be much closer than sending a ship from the mainland to contact North America.

As for how Port Cork contacted the mainland, it was naturally a carrier pigeon......

Cork Harbour has a pigeon route to London, and London, and the NorthSea country's home Aurich, also has a pigeon route. Therefore, to order Cork Harbor to send a ship to North America, it is only necessary to release carrier pigeons from Aurich to London, and then London to Harbor Cork, and the order can be conveyed.

What the? You say you're worried about being intercepted? That's not a problem. Because Marin's secret information is generally written in Chinese, other European countries do not know Chinese at all, and only Marin and a few high-ranking spies in Beihai Country know Chinese. Even if the carrier pigeon is intercepted and killed, the enemy intercepts the information, it is completely incomprehensible. Moreover, some encrypted intelligence will also use more advanced Morse code, and others will only be confused when they see it, it is all Arabic numerals......

Thus, by these measures, Marin could confidently and boldly use the carrier pigeon communications, the Clippers of Cork Harbor, and the Clippers of Cork Harbor to contact the North American colonies.

Due to the abundant forest resources near Port Cork and the need to repair ships, Marin simply ordered the construction of a shipyard in Port Cork, mainly responsible for the construction and maintenance of ships to contact the North American colonies. This shipyard, its mission, is to build and repair messengers to quickly contact the North American colonies.

Why did Marin go to such great lengths to build this port and shipyard in Port Cork on the island of Ireland? This is where one of Marin's plans comes in......

"It's time to build clippers!" After hearing that the shipyard in Port Cork was built, Marin finally made up his mind......

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Yes, Marin intends to use Cork Harbour on the island of Ireland as his home port to build and moor the strongest ship to deliver the message - clippers......

Anyone who knows a little bit about the history of navigation knows that clippers are the fastest type of ship in the sailing era, and there is no one! This kind of boat, which can run at an ultra-high speed of 17 knots on the sea, is a sharp weapon for drag racing (boats) on the sea.

Once, in the 19th century, the famous clipper ship "Cutty Sark" (also known as the Short Shirt) ran a record of 100 days from Guangzhou to the Cape of Good Hope back to London. And now, even if the Galen ship is used to return to Europe from Guangzhou via the Cape of Good Hope, it will take more than 10 months, that is, more than 300 days. In other words, the time spent on a clipper ship is only one-third that of an ordinary Galen ship. In other words, the average speed of a clipper is three times that of a Galen......

Triple the speed! What is this concept? This means that Marlin's colonization and trading activities can be a huge time saver!

Not only to and from China, but also across the Atlantic, the speed of the clipper ship is also comparable. Originally, it took more than a month to use a Galen ship to cross the Atlantic Ocean and take the route from west to east with the tailwind and the current (North Atlantic Warm Current), and even more than two or three months from east to west.

But if you use clippers, it will take you 13 days to cross the Atlantic, which is more than twice as fast as nearly three times!

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But why didn't Marlin use clippers before? Because he's afraid of leaks! The principle of the clipper boat is simple, Marin can build it, and others can build it when they see it!

If the clipper passes through the English Channel in a grand manner, it will inevitably be seen. If you look closely, you will definitely be able to find the reason for the high speed of the clippers.

In this way, it is not good to be copied by others!

In particular, Marin was afraid that the Spaniards and Portuguese would get the technology of flying clippers. Therefore, he would rather hold the clipper technique in his hand and refuse to take it out.

Before, even after getting Cork City and Cork Bay, Marin did not think about building and mooring clippers in Cork Harbour. Why? Because at that time, Cork City was surrounded by the territory of the Desmond Count, and it was easy to be monitored by the Desmond Count.

If they find out about the characteristics of the clipper and tell other countries, it will be easy to leak secrets!

Therefore, Marin did not act until last year, when Edward thanked him for sending troops to help occupy the entire island of Ireland and gave him more than 2,000 square kilometers of land near Cork City, that Marin had the idea of building a shipyard in Cork Harbour to build and dock clippers......

It should be pointed out that in this era, the island of Ireland was an out-and-out "backcountry" in Europe, and there were no foreign ships coming at all, so there was almost no possibility of leakage.

Moreover, after the clippers at Cork Harbour went to sea, they went directly into the Atlantic Ocean and galloped towards the North American colonies, without passing through the waters of any other European country, nor on the trade routes between England and other European countries. In this way, no one can see how the clipper waves and speed are on the Atlantic.

At the same time, after obtaining more than 2,000 square kilometers of territory near Cork City, Marin can put a guard post at a great distance from Cork City on land to prevent Desmond spies from seeing the situation in Cork Harbor.

In addition, Marin also ordered the blockade of Cork Harbor, strictly prohibiting ships from other countries and forces from approaching. If discovered, the vessel will be seized and confiscated. In this way, it is also cut off from the possibility of ships from other countries and other forces coming to Cork Harbour.

In this way, in Cork Harbor, Marin's men can wave at will. Build whatever ship you want, drag whatever you want......

As long as it doesn't hit the rocks, it's basically a casual clipper ship that travels between here and the North American colonies......