Chapter 1404: Layout England

Not to mention how Edward sent someone to contact Maximilian I, and not to mention that Marin secretly drugged Louis XII, Marin was in England, but waited for the commander of the Fourth Army stationed in Newcastle, Sakala, and the commander of the Fifth Army, Sivarg, stationed in Edinburgh, the capital of Scotland.

According to the agreement with Edward, Marin openly led the two into the Tower of London Palace, and at a royal dinner where most of London's nobles were invited, Saqqara and Sivarg publicly stated that the two legions would fully support Edward in suppressing the rebellion at home.

The news spread quickly, and many of the local powers in England died down, with the exception of Wales and Lancashire, who continued to rebel because of their deep feud with Edward and the entry of French troops.

But with no worries, Edward was able to concentrate on dealing with the rebellion in Wales and Lancashire. And Louis XII, who got the news, did not say anything about it. Although he was annoyed that Marin had come out in support of Edward again, he had no intention of taking the opportunity to overthrow Edward, but only hoped that England would stop for a while and not affect his march into Italy. And it was estimated that it would take a long time for Edward to quell the rebellion in Wales and Lancashire. Because, Wales is mountainous, making it easy for rebels to hide. Although Lancashire has more plains, there are also mountainous areas of the Pennines in the east. By the time Edward had cleared up the rebellion at home, the French had pretty much taken care of the Italian side.

All in all, the rebellions in Wales and Lancashire were clearly Louis XII's time to waste England's time. Although he will definitely not be able to defeat Edward, he will definitely be able to hold out for a long time by relying on the hiding in the mountains.

After the banquet, in the name of "caring for the health of a possible future daughter-in-law", Marin left Dr. Matthew, who was proficient in pediatrics, and left a translator who knew Frisian to communicate with the English and learned Chinese with Sconda. But Marin emphasized at the beginning that this man was only proficient in pediatrics, and he was afraid that Edward would come to him for treatment of infertility.

And Dr. Matthew is also happy to be idle, usually pretending to be stupid, only when Princess Margaret is sick, will she use all her skills to deal with it......

Marin then took his family to Newcastle and then to the Isle of Wight and Southampton, across from the Isle of Wight. The Isle of Wight is also a fief of Marin, while Southampton is a fief of Schwartz and others, which is indirectly under Marin's jurisdiction.

Driven by the need for great navigation, Marin ordered the construction of a shipyard in Southampton, employing English craftsmen to specialize in the manufacture of armed merchant and fishing vessels.

In fact, in terms of cost, shipbuilding in the Americas seems to be more cost-effective. The problem is that the Americas have abundant timber resources, but there is a shortage of skilled shipbuilders.

Although Marin dug up a few shipbuilders from Daming, it would take several batches to be shipped to the Americas. Moreover, the habits of those Ming shipbuilders are different from those of Europe, and even if they come to the shipyard in New York, it is estimated that it will take a long time to adapt to it before they can learn to build European-style ships.

Moreover, Marin originally planned to let the shipyards in New York go all out to build 500-ton warships, and not waste craftsmen to make any armed merchant ships and fishing boats.

So, the manufacture of armed merchant ships and fishing boats, Marin intends to put in Europe. Mainly, Marin intends to take advantage of the abundant resources of shipbuilders in Europe.

For example, England, as a traditional seafaring nation, has many ships and many shipyards and shipbuilders. Ma Linxin said that in any case, the Beihai country also needs a large number of armed merchant ships and fishing boats, and it is better to build and anchor a large number of armed merchant ships and large and medium-sized fishing boats in Southampton, a very good freshwater estuary harbor.

At the moment, Marin has no shortage of money or timber at all, because he will send people to Norway and Sweden to buy timber. Now, what Marin feels the most is that there is an urgent shortage of skilled shipbuilders......

In the Beihai Kingdom, almost all the craftsmen who can build ships have been recruited by Marin. Moreover, those experienced shipbuilders brought thousands of apprentices. But it will take at least several years for an apprentice to become a teacher, and Marin can't wait. So, he began to poach people in other countries.

For example, after Marin used capital to acquire more than a dozen shipyards in the Amsterdam area of the Netherlands, and deliberately transformed furniture production, destroying the shipbuilding industry in Amsterdam, he hired thousands of experienced shipbuilders from more than a dozen shipyards in Amsterdam.

However, Marin is afraid that these shipbuilders from the Netherlands will turn against him in the future. So, these people were mainly responsible for the manufacture of fishing boats in the shipyard he ran.

It just so happened that Marin vigorously promoted the policy of lending loans to fishermen to buy large and medium-sized fishing boats in the North Sea Country, which made the demand for fishing boats in the North Sea Country very large, and these people also came in handy.

In fact, the fishermen of this era were very poor. Before, because there were no big boats, they didn't dare to go deep into the ocean to fish. At the same time, because there is not enough salt to marinate salted fish, they do not dare to catch more fish. Because, even if they catch a lot of fish, they don't have enough salt to make salted fish. Like the fishermen in Sweden, because of the lack of salt, they invented the foul-smelling "stinky canned herring", which stinks in the wind......

Marin not only promoted the system of official loans to buy fishing boats in Beihai countries, but also promoted the policy of purchasing salt on credit, so that fishermen in Beihai countries now dare to catch many fish at a time, and are not afraid of salting salted fish without salt. For this reason, the production of salted fish in the North Sea has skyrocketed more than ten times, and it has been able to supply the whole North Sea country. And as fishermen take out loans to buy more large and medium-sized fishing vessels, the production of salted fish in the North Sea country will increase significantly in the future, and it may become an important export commodity......

Of course, in addition to the policy of providing loans to buy fishing boats and buying salt on credit, Marin also vigorously promoted the "V" shape of modern trawls and winches with pulleys, which greatly improved the efficiency of fishing.

Today's Beihai country, with the intentional support of Marin, fishermen have become a high-income group, and their lives are better than ordinary inland serfs. Because, these fishermen can have meat (fish) to eat. Unlike the serfs in the inland areas, they can only eat Kohler bread with grass bran, and occasionally eat salted fish to improve their lives.

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It just so happened that Marin intended to rule England in the future. So, he's starting to lay out in England now.

First, he decided to recruit thousands of skilled shipbuilders from England to build a large shipyard in Southampton and build four dockyards. So that 4 ships could be built together.

He would then promote in his own territories in England the system of loans for fishing boats and salt on credit in the North Sea countries. In this way, a large number of English fishermen will be willing to join their command.

Of course, Marin's loan was not taken for nothing. In addition to paying the normal interest, Marin would make a special provision that a man from the fisherman's family must serve in his own fleet, or join the navy, or serve as a sailor on Marin's armed merchant ships......

In this way, Marin could obtain a large number of English sailors to serve himself. England is different from Germany, where only parts of the northwest and northeast are coastal, and the number of fishermen is really small.

England is very different, it is surrounded by the sea, and there are many fishermen who rely on the sea to eat the sea. As long as Marin's loan bundling policy continued, Marin would have no difficulty recruiting tens of thousands of sailors in England.

When the warships on the American side really start to explode, England will soon be able to provide tens of thousands of sailors to dominate the seas and block the English Channel.

All in all, although he did not yet formally control England, Marin had already begun to make a long-term plan in England to train the sailors and sailors needed for the future of full-scale voyages......