Marin didn't know how influential the sailors' tournament he casually organized in order to show off his muscles. It is not that this sailors' tournament has shocked the Quartet, but the way in which the contest has caused countries to follow suit.

It is a great idea to simulate the conditions of a boat with a wide plank that swings from side to side like a swing. Hamburg's representative in Emden, Samer, immediately wrote home after watching the contest and asked to promote this method for the training of sailors.

In the past, when there were no large swing planks, sailors generally used small boats to train for onboard combat in order to train for naval battles. However, it is difficult for small boats to simulate sea conditions with strong winds and waves. After all, when training, it is impossible for a small boat to go to the middle of the ocean to train. Moreover, when training for combat, the loser is prone to being knocked out of the water. If you really run to the middle of the sea with strong winds and waves to train, the sailors who fall into the water will be easily swept away by the wind and waves.

Marin used an oversized swing plank to simulate the way the sea ship swayed violently from side to side under strong wind and waves, which not only simulated the scene at low cost. Moreover, the risk factor is very low. Because, during the jousting competition, Marin spread a very thick layer of hay under the planks of the swing. Even if you are knocked off the swing plank, you will fall on the haystack and will not be injured.

Of course, Summerer is not alone. Lübeck's representative in Emden also saw a little bit and wrote back to his homeland, suggesting that this method be used to train sailors in the martial arts of fighting on ships.

In the North Sea Country, the Admiral Baron Kidd, also went to Shumarin, and asked that this method be used in the future to train the sailors in combat skills, and the adaptability of the new sailors to the ship's rocking from side to side.

Even, Baron Kidd expressed his displeasure with Marin's public way of training sailors. He was mainly worried that if the French learned this way, naval battles would become fierce in the future. After all, what France lacks most is ships and training sites at sea. Nowadays, with this simple training method that can train the fighting ability of sailors on land, the French will not let go. In the future, the French will inevitably be able to train a group of skilled sailors who can adapt to the rocking of ships and are good at fighting on the decks of ships.

Marin did regret this. However, they don't really care. After all, he let his subordinates develop the Pexan Cannon. As long as that thing is made, it will still play with the hairy deck fight? After a few shots sank the opponent's warship, why did you have to draw swords and slash each other on the deck?

Also, Marin is getting shipyards on Long Island, New York, to try to build thousand-ton warships. The thousand-ton battleship is very high, and the enemy on the small boat, even if he wants to jump ship, he can't pick it up. Historically, the soldiers of the Indian and Egyptian coalition in the naval battle of Diu could not jump into the high ships of the Portuguese because of their small boats, and could not cut their opponents, so they could only be slowly beaten by the Portuguese warships with artillery, so they lost the naval battle. The thousand-ton warships that Marin tried to build were much taller than the Portuguese warships, which were several hundred tons smaller, had more guns, and had thicker broadsides. Combined with the extremely powerful Peksan cannon, it is absolutely invincible in naval battles.

Of course, whether it is a Peksan gun or a thousand-ton battleship, it is currently kept secret. In order to dispel Baron Kidd's doubts, Marin had to say that in the future, the naval soldiers would be equipped with clockwork short guns and fight with sailors' scimitars.

He'd seen "Pirates of the Caribbean", those 17th-century pirates, basically in addition to sailors' scimitars, they would have one or two flintlock pistols pinned to their waists. Once you encounter a ruthless person who is difficult to deal with, you can also pull out a short gun from your waist and shoot him.

Marin described to Baron Kidd the future battle of the sailors of the North Sea Kingdom with a scimitar in one hand and a clockwork short gun in the other, and finally fooled Kidd, who was worried about losing his superiority at sea.

In fact, before the advent of the heavy artillery of giant ships, the tactic of sailors' scimitars and muskets mentioned by Marin was indeed the mainstream naval battle tactics. For example, the famous British naval Admiral Nelson was killed by the muskets of French sailors when he was fighting side-by-side with French warships in the Battle of Trafalgar.

And after the appearance of the Pexan cannon, the wooden ship could not resist and was forced to withdraw from the stage of history. And then the armored ship was born. The so-called armored ship is to put a heavy iron hull on the outside of the wooden ship, so as not to be smashed through by the 68-pound iron ball shells of the Pexan gun.

However, after the wooden ship was covered with an iron hull, the sails could not be carried, and could only be propelled by a steam engine. Otherwise, such a heavy iron-hulled armored ship can only slowly "snail crawl" on the sea......

And now, other countries apparently do not have steam engines. As long as Marin makes a Pexan cannon, he can sweep through the navies of various countries and dominate the seas. Of course, it will certainly not dominate into the 19th century, as it was in the original history. After all, he made a steam engine, and even if other countries can't make it, they will steal technology. Just like the French, if they can't make a glass mirror, they send people to Venice to steal technology.

Unless, Marin and Marin's descendants do not spread steam engine technology. Otherwise, once it is put into civilian use, it will definitely be deprived of technology by other countries. So, it's just a matter of time. But before the steam engine technology was leaked, Marin intended to create a powerful state that included the British Isles, as well as the northern part of Germany. And, of course, the vast Americas. By the time other countries have caught up, the country of Marin's descendants has already gained a firm foothold. Once the land on the United States is developed in the future, France's land and population advantages will be lost immediately. Marin remembers very well how in the 19th century, after the United States completed the development of the central and eastern regions, its national strength rose rapidly, surpassing France and Britain one by one.

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Of course, that would take hundreds of years. After all, the biggest problem facing Marin now is a serious shortage of people. The population of the entire German region, including Austria, is only about 12 million. France's population is 15 million, which is simply crushed. As for Marin, there are only a pitiful more than 2 million in the territory. It is ranked first among the German vassal states, but compared with France, it is simply scum.

If Marin had started with the Kingdom of France, with a population of 15 million, he would have easily divided millions of dollars into the eastern coast of the United States to reclaim a large area of fertile land. Moreover, France is closer to the east coast of the United States.

And now, even if Marin annexed England, it would only add 3 million people, which is still far less than the population of the Kingdom of France. Combined, the population of Germany and England is barely equal to that of France...... Therefore, there is still a long way to go to develop the East Coast of the United States......

For the sake of the population, Marin is now all crazy. He decreed in the territory of the North Sea Kingdom that any manor, if a woman becomes pregnant, will be properly cared for. Not only can they take vacations, but they can also receive the same wages as men during their vacations. In normal times, the salary is only half that of men......

In addition to this, Marin also ordered the establishment of hospitals in various small towns. Among them, the obstetrics and gynecology department of the hospital is the focus. Every woman who is going to give birth can be sent to the obstetrics and gynecology department of the hospital two or three months before giving birth, and will be cared for by a special nurse until the baby is born. During this period, all expenses are borne by the respective estates.

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In the office, Marin looked at the map of Europe, hugged his head and said depressedly:

"I'm the world leader in everything, but I lost in the population......"

。 m.