What made Marin laugh and cry was that because the white iron sheet was so silver and shiny, people who didn't know it thought it was made of sterling silver. So, there was an incident in the shipyard where someone stole the white iron sheet in the middle of the night. A thug near the shipyard sneaked into the shipyard in the middle of the night and pried off a few sheets of white iron sheets from the ship wrapped in white iron sheets......

The next day, the craftsman in charge of renovating the ship was surprised to find that several white iron sheets were missing from the ship...... As a result, the matter was quickly reported......

Marin sent out the lightly trained Alsatian wolfhounds and soon found the gangster near the shipyard. Then, the kid was sentenced to two years......

However, this incident also gave Marin a wake-up call. The white iron sheet is too much like silver, and it is easy to cause misunderstanding. If someone steals it as a silver skin, then the previous efforts to protect the sea maggots will be in vain. Moreover, the shiny silver white iron sheet is indeed too ostentatious.

In desperation, Marin ordered that each piece of white iron should be painted with black or red paint to cover the appearance of the white iron sheet. While covering the silver light, it also adds a protective layer to the white iron sheet. At the very least, the white iron sheet will not corrode until the paint layer is damaged. In this way, the white iron sheet can be used for a longer time.

It's just that there is no lacquer tree like Daming in Europe, and the paint is a modulated composite coating, which is expensive. Therefore, it is expensive to paint all the white iron sheets.

Therefore, it is necessary to introduce lacquer trees from the Ming Dynasty to further reduce the cost of paint. As for the location where the sumac trees are planted, it is naturally in the subtropical region of the Americas.

In addition, tung oil, an economic tree species, also needs to be introduced to the Americas. Because tung oil is also a very important raw material for shipbuilding. In other words, almost all carpentry can use tung oil. For example, to make a wooden barrel, after the barrel is hooped, it needs to be brushed with dry oil such as tung oil, which is moth-proof and waterproof.

Overall, tung oil is probably the best quality dry oil and is very versatile in woodworking. Moreover, because the tung tree has strong vitality and is easy to serve, it does not need to be carefully served, and the fruit can be picked every year to extract oil. Of course, with fertilization and careful serving, yields are higher.

In ancient China, the advantages of tung oil's rapid drying, moth-proof and moisture-proof made it very widely used, and it was widely used in shipbuilding, furniture building and other woodworking fields. At the same time, Huaxia's oil paper is also made of tung oil, which is much better than the oil paper made of semi-dry whale oil that Marin now uses.

The most important thing is that it's cheap......

Today, when European craftsmen built ships and made furniture, they also used flax oil and olive oil as paints, which were very costly. Moreover, flax oil and olive oil are both very good cooking oils, and it feels like a luxury and waste to coat the hull and woodworking products of boats......

In order to prevent water and moth, shipbuilding needs to use a lot of paint and dry oil. If the cost is too high, the manufacturing cost will be too high. If Marin had introduced lacquer and tung oil from the Ming Dynasty on a large scale, the cost of shipbuilding would have been greatly reduced in the future. Moreover, the climate in the southeast and south of North America is very similar to that of China, and both sumac and tung oil can grow well.

Because it is already the end of the year, and the spring ploughing will be ushered in soon after the year. Therefore, after careful consideration, Marin set the time of sending troops to England after the end of spring ploughing next year. In this way, it will not delay the spring ploughing in China. After all, those tens of thousands of soldiers are all male laborers, and they can still help. Ma Lin was already a businessman, and he used the army to help with spring plowing and autumn harvest, which was very convenient...... Moreover, the soldiers under his command are basically from the countryside, and they are also very proficient in field work. As long as they add more food to these soldiers, they will be willing to work hard to help with spring plowing and autumn harvest, which is really simple......

However, there is a problem that Marin chose to send troops to England after the spring ploughing, and at that time, the English were also idle. Perhaps, more ships will be sent to the Irish Sea. In this way, the difficulty of Marlin to annihilate the British ships in the Irish Sea will be greatly increased. If you are not careful, if you annihilate the main force of the English navy, it will be tantamount to making a wedding dress for the French.

Therefore, Marlin needs to come up with a complete way to hold back the main force of the English Navy, which is the English merchant ships of the Five Ports Alliance (which can also make cameo warships, and occasionally as pirate ships......

After thinking about it, Ma Lin suddenly thought that since the reserve warships of the Five Ports Alliance were all merchant ships, they must like to pull goods to make money. If the freight is higher, it is estimated that they will be happier......

If you place an order for them, let them go to sea to pull the goods...... Hehe, wouldn't there be fewer ships left to patrol the Irish seas?

As for King Henry VII of England will stand in the way? That definitely will. However, the British Navy now consisted purely of merchant ships of the Five Ports Alliance. Henry VII was able to order them to go to war, but not to order them to go to war all the time. After all, people are merchant ships, so they have to do business, right?

You Henry VII want those merchant ships to serve you all the time, yes, pay for it! But how could Henry VII be rich? He was not his son, Henry VIII. Henry VIII made himself rich by a Reformation and the seizure of the property of the Catholic Church in England. Henry VII ascended to the throne through the civil war, plus the previous war with Edward, and now he is poor, how can he have money to give money to those merchant ship owners? Moreover, isn't it because there is no money to feed the navy when merchant ships are recruited to participate in the war?

Therefore, Marin didn't need to do anything, as long as he hired those merchant ships of the British Five Ports Alliance to help him pull goods at a scheduled time at a high price, he could get a lot of merchant ships out of the way. In order to give those ships to the far side, Marin could have paid a high price for them to haul goods to the Baltic and Mediterranean regions. In this way, the ships did not return for a month or two, just in time for Marin to clear the British ships in the Irish Sea and to transport Edward's army to the English mainland.

At the same time, Marin will also send his own ships to transport his own troops to land in the port of Newcastle, which he controls. When they joined up with Edward's army, which had landed on the west bank, they could march south together and go straight to London to seize the king's power......

This method, in China, is obviously a classic strategy to divert the tiger from the mountain......

In this era, the Europeans had not yet seen any intrigues. Obviously, it's easy to get hit. Moreover, the merchants are profit-seeking, as long as the freight of Marin is high enough, they will not worry that the merchant ships of the Five Ports Alliance will not take the bait.

Moreover, Marin did not plan to give the full amount. He planned to give only 30% of the deposit, and when the goods were finished, he would rely on the rest......

Of course, this kind of thing is too discredited. Therefore, Marin intends to do it in the name of the chamber of commerce of other countries. For example, get a Dutch Chamber of Commerce, as well as the Italian Chamber of Commerce......

After the other party gets a deposit of 30% and arrives the freight, he comes back to ask for the rest of the money, and the so-called chamber of commerce has gone to the empty building. Then, deliberately left some French books and so on, so that they thought that the French were doing it.

In this way, the merchant shipowners of the Five Ports Alliance, who did not get the full payment, will definitely hate the French to death. In the future, if the French were to invade England like picking peaches, they would definitely be desperately counterattacked by these merchant shipowners......

In short, this method not only has a plan to divert the tiger from the mountain, but also contains the element of framing the French, which can be described as killing two birds with one stone. Of course, you have to plan well in advance, and don't expose yourself to it, which will damage your reputation......