Chapter 561: Marin's Requests and Suggestions
Before the autumn harvest was over, Marin received a secret letter from Edward from the North Sea Chamber of Commerce in Dublin. Moreover, the representative of the North Sea Chamber of Commerce in Dublin also found out a very secret news - Edward seems to have made this decision after receiving a secret letter from his sister Margaret County Lord, and wrote this secret letter.
"What a smart woman, you can actually guess that it's me!" Marin actually overestimated his own hidden methods. His only flaw was the use of 10,000 English mercenaries in the Great War. And it just so happened that the intelligence officers under the Margaret County Lord had learned that the "Morgan Chamber of Commerce" had recruited 10,000 troops in Newcastle. Therefore, this army of 10,000 is undoubtedly the group of people from the Morgan Chamber of Commerce. Moreover, the Morgan Chamber of Commerce's methods are also mysterious, very similar to the Beihai Chamber of Commerce, which aroused the suspicion and speculation of Lord Margaret.
Marin didn't know, and thought that Lord Margaret was very clever and saw his flaws in some clues. So, Marin didn't plan to hide it anymore and decided to admit it altogether. Of course, this matter should not be made public, but quietly told to Edward.
Coincidentally, now Marin can't make waves in Germany for the time being, and it is just right to line up the army to go to England to make waves. Moreover, it can also make the German princes more reassured - I have gone overseas, you can rest assured of me......
Of course, Marin was unequivocal about the request. According to a secret letter from a subordinate of the North Sea Chamber of Commerce, Edward seems to suspect that he is interested in minerals. So, Marin simply expanded this......
So, in a reply to Edward, Marin stressed that he wanted to monopolize the coal mines in Newcastle (ancient European minerals generally belonged to the royal family). In addition, in addition to Northumberland in the north, Marin also wanted the Isle of Wight in the English Channel as a fief and allowed it to garrison a fleet to protect its shipping interests.
In addition, since the other party suspected that he was interested in minerals, Marin simply proposed to ask for the right of first refusal to buy tin ingots from tin mines on the Cornish peninsula......
If you want to operate tin mines on the Cornish peninsula, that's impossible. Because, that is the reserved interest of the English royal family. Moreover, it is impossible for Cornwall to be sealed out. Because, the Duke of Cornwall is the title of the crown prince of England, and the Cornish tin mine is also an important interest of the royal family. Therefore, Marin only asked for the right of first refusal, not the right to operate the tin mine.
Before the tin ore from the East was obtained, the tin ore in Cornwall, England, was obviously an important source of tin metal in Europe. Therefore, it is also good to get the right of first refusal to buy tin mines in Cornwall.
You know, the role of tin metal is great. First of all, tin is used in bronze. In the future, Marin would keep bronze cannons (mainly Napoleonic cannons) and make tinplate, which naturally required a lot of tin metal. In addition, tin sulfide is also a golden dye, and generally gold paint is passed off with tin sulfide. If the color is darker, you can pass it off as copper.
Before, Marin had people paint copper on the outside of his cast iron cannon, which was actually tin sulfide. The purpose is to mislead people that they use copper to cast their cannons, and deliberately mislead others. Now that the price of copper is so expensive, if others are really stupid to use copper to cast heavy artillery, the cost will be completely unbearable for ordinary princes......
Therefore, before getting cheaper tin on the Datong Eastern Route, it is also a very good choice to contract the export of tin metal from the Cornish Peninsula in the United Kingdom.
Of course, these are secondary. On top of that, Marin asked Edward to marry Princess Margaret to Caesar the Younger if the French royal family failed to give birth to a prince within ten years......
Marin remembered that Louis XII apparently died ten years later. It seems that His Majesty the King, in order to give birth to a son, did that for many years, and as a result, he died in his newly married wife, Princess Mary of England. Tudor's belly. At that time, Louis XII was only 52 years old, and he had not yet reached the age of retirement at 60......
In fact, Marin felt that Louis XII might not have lived to 1515 in this lifetime. Because, now the truffles provided by the fat brothers to the royal couple for a long time have an aphrodisiac ingredient. As a result, His Majesty and the Queen are now very interested in doing it, and they often come to it......
However, there is no ploughed land in this world, only tired oxen. Queen Anne was not in good health. But in the case of not being pregnant, she is only 28 years old, and she is at the age of the tiger and wolf in the peak of the Spring and Autumn Period, and she is not afraid of being cultivated. Louis XII, on the other hand, was not strong in the first place, and he was already 43 years old. At this age, in ancient Europe, it may hang up at any time, and it is estimated that it will not live to 1515 years in the original history......
But no matter how hard Louis XII worked, there would be no result in Queen Anne. Because, Queen Anne takes birth control pills all day long......
Although Louis XII worked on other women, it may have borne fruit. But that's useless. Anne of Brittany was the queen, not the queen's child, she was an illegitimate child without any inheritance.
Moreover, Louis XII did not dare to divorce Queen Anne. Because, Queen Anne has the title of Duchess of the Duchy of Brittany on her head. If the crown prince of France was not born to Queen Anne, then, with the marriage of Princess Claude born to Queen Anne, after the crown prince succeeds to the throne, France may lose the Duchy of Brittany again.
Therefore, Louis XII now had no choice but to work on Queen Anne every day in order to give birth to a crown prince who could inherit both France and the Duchy of Brittany. As long as the crown prince is born, according to the Salic succession law on the European continent, the Kingdom of France and the Duchy of Brittany are both male crown princes, and Princess Claude cannot rob them.
Marin also knew that Louis XII and Edward had a private agreement - if Louis XII and his wife gave birth to a crown prince, Edward's daughter Marguerite would marry the French crown prince......
But Marin also knew that there was a fat brother sent by himself who was serving as the queen's imperial cook, and Queen Anne did not want to give birth to a prince. Not to mention princes, princesses can't be born......
Therefore, he put forward this condition. It seems that the opportunists are behind France, but in fact, Princess Margaret is the daughter-in-law of her own son Caesar...... When the time comes, little Caesar will be the future co-monarch of England...... Special meow, it seems that the son is the protagonist......
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In the end, Marin also gave Edward a suggestion - he hoped that Edward would gain the support of most of the European monarchs in order to obtain the legal right to send troops. In this way, it is easy for me to send troops. After all, Marin is now in the period of pretending to be a dove of peace, and sending troops should also pay attention to "justice and legitimacy".
Henry VII sent troops to attack Richard III on the grounds that Richard III "killed the king". Although his reasons were very good, and Richard III did kill the king. But the problem is - until now, Edward V's body has not been found.
In other words, Henry VII's dispatch of troops without sufficient evidence may not be just. Edward V's body could not be found, and he could now be considered a "monarch killer".
Of course, Marin knew where Edward V's body was, and wasn't it inside the walls of the Garden Tower in the Tower of London? However, it was only removed from the wall in the 17th century when the King of England renovated the Garden Tower. As long as Marin doesn't say anything, no one knows where Edward V's body is at this time.
Therefore, Marin suggested that Edward could seize this point and appeal to the Holy See, saying that Henry VII was the murderer. In addition, Marin can say that the Pope will be moved, and at that time, Edward will be on the side of justice, and Marin can also send troops to help Edward overthrow Henry VII "just and legally......