In fact, Marin was completely overwhelmed. How many of those ship owners of the Five Ports Alliance are fools? Responding to the imperial court against the French, that was a national feud, and they naturally actively participated. However, the struggle for the throne between Edward and Henry VII was an internal contradiction, but any shrewd shipowner would not have time to hide, so how could he easily get involved?

Of course, there are also a small number of shipowners who are willing to gamble to seek a higher position. For example, like the Wallace family, in order to obtain a noble status, it is completely desperate. But that's too dangerous. If it fails, the whole family suffers. Let's just say that when Henry VII took the throne, the owner of the ship who stood on the wrong line, although the whole family may not be killed, but the decline of the whole family is certain. Henry VII was not a good stubble, and he was quite ruthless.

However, if it is neutral, neither side will be embarrassed. Why? Because in order to guard against the French, no matter who is in power, they need the support of these shipowners, especially the shipowners of the Five Ports Alliance.

Therefore, there must be shipowners who will help Henry VII for the sake of wealth, and there will also be those who will take refuge in Edward in advance. But more often than not, they choose to wait and see.

But there is also a difference between watching and watching, watching by oneself and persuading the sailors under his command to wait and see neutrally, that is a completely different concept.

In order to keep the elite sailors of the Five Ports Alliance, which has the strongest combat effectiveness, to remain neutral, Marin suggested that Edward give Edward a very generous condition - to help persuade the sailors to be exempt from tax for five years. Those who perform well will be knighted......

Tax exemption for five years, which is a very generous condition. In this era, the king's taxes were mainly collected from merchants. And the tariffs on the import and export trade operated by ship owners are the lion's share. Therefore, the tax exemption for five years is definitely a very generous condition. Moreover, Edward's request was only to persuade his hired sailors to remain neutral in this battle for supremacy, and it cost almost nothing......

Edward was not very happy with this high price, but Marin reassured him and said - kill Henry VII and those big nobles, their property and fiefs are all yours, are you short of money?

Edward thought about it, those big nobles were all very rich. Killing them in the name of killing the king, confiscating their family property, is absolutely a big deal...... Then, Edward agreed......

This is easy to do, because Marin has long been deployed in England, and there are secret agents of the Beihai Chamber of Commerce in the five major ports of the Five Ports Alliance. In the past few years, I have long been familiar with the situation of the five major ports.

The spies of the Beihai Chamber of Commerce in the five major ports know very well which shipowners have a good relationship with which famous and powerful sailors. As long as the owners of ships who have great influence on the powerful sailors with relatively strong combat effectiveness are brought over, they can have a profound impact on those powerful sailors.

The so-called great sailors are actually those sailors who often make cameo appearances as pirates and serve the British king in wartime. These people are all old oilmen who beg for a living at sea, bloodthirsty and warlike, and have strong fighting ability, and they are the main force in the naval war of England. As long as they were appeased, Henry VII would only be able to recruit ordinary sailors. And ordinary sailors, about the same as the militia, are much easier to deal with.

Moreover, Edward's co-opting of those shipowners and powerful sailors also meant to plan for the future. Because, in the future, Edward still counted on them to stabilize the coastal defense.

However, while Marin and Edward were busy co-opting and threatening the shipowners and sailors, the French were moths again......

Once again, the French envoys came to the camp, this time with the intention of taking all the French soldiers with them......

The last time the French envoy came to Edward's army to incite the French army to make trouble, it was defused by Marin with the method of "borrowing your head", and the real spy was blown up. In front of the "ironclad evidence", the French envoy could not say anything, so he had to go back and almost Louis XII to death.

When Louis XII came to his senses again, he plotted how to take revenge on Edward. But at this time, news came from Scotland - King James IV of Scotland led an army of 10,000 to the south......

Louis XII suddenly came to his senses, and in the midst of this, he sensed an opportunity......

Of course, the French don't have much of a chance now. Because, the French navy was completely destroyed, and it also lost thousands of infantry and a lot of property. So, the French have now lost the opportunity to participate in the struggle for hegemony in England.

However, Louis XII was not willing to let the 7,000 French troops continue to serve Edward, he was afraid that Edward would use the 7,000 French troops as cannon fodder to attack the fortified city of London...... In fact, Edward and Marlin did intend to do so......

So, Louis XII finally thought of a trick - I won't get involved in your hegemony, can't I? So, he sent an envoy and decided to bring all 7,000 French troops back to France......

What, you say the French are out of boats? This is not a problem, Louis XII has already sent someone to the Netherlands to hire merchant ships......

Worried about the English intercepting the convoy? No, when Henry VII heard that the French army was going to evacuate, he would probably wake up laughing, so how could he object?

As for Edward's objection not to let him go? That's no problem, because Louis XII has already made an excuse - France is in turmoil, and this army needs to return to the country, online, etc., in a hurry......

Edward is not in France, how do you know if there is civil strife in France? Anyway, let's find an excuse to trick the 7,000 French troops back.

Even if Edward wanted to stay, the French soldiers wouldn't buy it. After all, they are all French. If you are forced to stay, you will deviate from morality, your heart is not here, and you won't work hard in the war, so it's better to let it go.

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As for why Louis XII took the 7,000 French troops? In addition to the stop loss (that is, the fear that Edward would exhaust this group of people), there is also the meaning of muddying the waters of England.

The English army was defeated, and if it was a head-to-head, Henry VII would certainly not be Edward's opponent. However, with the Scots on board, it's different.

With the Scots behind, Edward will not be able to attack Henry VII with all his might, and will have to defend behind the point. According to Louis XII, Edward's army consisted mainly of 7,000 French troops, 3,000 German mercenaries and 20,000 Marin. If the 7,000 French troops retreated, then Edward would have only 20,000 men left.

But at the same time, Henry VII had more than 10,000 capable sailors under his command. And in the north, there were also 10,000 Scottish troops who had a grudge against Edward......

In such a situation, the three parties will form a delicate balance and completely muddy the waters of England......

In this way, Edward's hands and feet will be tied, and some of them will not be able to be used. And if these 7,000 French troops were there, Edward might have more capital. But if the 7,000 French troops were gone, Edward's forces would be overstretched...... To deal with two major forces at the same time, more than 20,000 people is not a lot...... In this way, England may blow up......

When the French envoy took the Dutch fleet around the North Sea and found the port of Grimsby to pick up the 7,000 French troops, Edward and Marin were a little confused - the other party said that there was a rebellion in the country, and you could not let those French troops go? So, Edward was depressed for a moment......