It was indeed force majeure, and when François I learned the news, although he was extremely angry, he did not dare to really turn his face. Because, at this time, France had just undergone a change of monarchy, and the domestic situation was unstable, so it was not appropriate to make a big move. What's more, at this time the French and the Spaniards were fighting. It would be unwise to provoke England at the same time. Therefore, François I intended to endure for the time being, preparing to wait for a later opportunity to liquidate.

It is clear that François I made the right choice. Not only did he think so, but so did the French courtiers. After all, it is indeed too unwise to provoke two great powers at the same time. Moreover, the Habsburgs were not at odds with France.

But it doesn't work if you don't say it at all, after all, the first power in Europe still wants face. So, François I sent an envoy to London to express his anger.

Of course, they can only attack the fact that thousands of city guards have been poisoned. And the matter of Margaret's mother and son is not easy to openly bring up and question England.

Thousands of soldiers were killed, which is not a trivial matter, and it is completely enough to provoke a national war. But France could not fight on two fronts at this time, so even if it was extremely angry, it had to endure it. Otherwise, the consequences are unpredictable.

If England were to face France alone, it would have to rely on the Strait to protect itself. However, now the main force of France was at war with Spain. Therefore, the threat to the English was much greater.

In fact, the purpose of the French government and opposition was very simple: to send envoys to fight with England first and delay time. Moreover, seeking to get England to pay reparations. For example, if you pay 300,000 gold coins or something, 300 gold coins per person, you can also give an explanation to the family of the deceased, and France can also recover a lot of face.

Unfortunately, this idea was doomed to fail. Edward is not a tyrant like Marin, years of war, plus England has not yet set foot in ocean trade at this time, the country is very poor, how can there be so much money to compensate? Besides, the poisoning wasn't done by the English......

So, Edward said - the poisoning has nothing to do with England, we will not lose money, and we do not need to apologize.

Edward was telling the truth, but the French didn't believe it. The French insisted that England did it.

Then the two countries began a long tussle. At the same time, an enraged François I ordered to begin secretly building warships and train sailors with Marin's method of hanging oversized planks, preparing for the day a crusade against the odious British......

In order to avoid being attacked by the English navy, the French this time built ships and trained sailors, all on inland rivers. Wait until you are trained, and then pull it to the English Channel to fight......

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Originally, this plan was classified. But alas, François I did not know that he had a close nobleman under him. Rafi is simply a lurking enemy spy.

So, this plan has been leaked from the beginning. On the third day, Marin received a detailed plan for French shipbuilding and training of sailors on inland waterways.

"Yo, I've learned to be good this time! Inland shipbuilding is indeed a bit difficult to attack and destroy......"

France intended to set up three shipyards in the middle of the Seine, the middle Loire through Nantes, and the middle and lower Garonne (right in Bordeaux) through Bordeaux, to build two-hundred-ton warships for future crossings of the English Channel.

François I was very ambitious, and he knew that if he ascended the throne, it would be impossible to unite England. If you want to annex England, you can only take it by force.

And if France can win the Italian war and obtain a stable source of volcanic ash, in a few years, it will have the strength to annex England. The premise is that there will be enough warships by then!

It would be impossible to continue to build ships on the northern or western coasts, and the English would have seen it and destroyed it, and it would have been in vain.

Shipbuilding on the shores of the Mediterranean Sea also did not work, and the Spaniards did not sit idly by. They may follow the example of the British and destroy the shipbuilding centers on the Mediterranean coast. Even, the Rhône, a great river that flows into the Mediterranean, could not set up a shipyard. Because, even if a ship was built on the Rhône, it would not be able to escape the encirclement and suppression of Spanish warships when it sailed into the Mediterranean. Even if you are lucky enough to go out to sea and go undetected, it will be difficult to cross the Strait of Gibraltar and reach the northern coast. After all, the Strait of Gibraltar was too narrow, and it was easy for the Spaniards to blockade it.

Therefore, François I built only three shipyards on the Seine, which flowed into the English Channel, and the Loire and Garonne rivers, which flowed into the Atlantic, in order to avoid the English attack, and at the same time to have the opportunity to sail the ships to the northern coast to start a war.

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It is clear that the English did not know about the plans of the three shipyards because of the problems of concealment and secrecy of the location. Even if you knew, you wouldn't be able to go into the river and destroy the shipyard. After all, there was not much room for warships on the river, and the French also sent heavy troops to protect them, and they also planned to set up batteries to guard the shipyard. In this way, even if the British knew, they would not be able to destroy the shipyard.

But Marin already knew that for the safety of his son's future union in England, Marin felt that he should do something......

The best way to wreak havoc on a ship is to get more maggots to gnaw at the ship. But this time the shipyards of the French are in the inland river, and they can't use ship maggots, so ......

"By the way, with termites!" It suddenly occurred to Marin that termites were also a very harmful thing to wood.

After the boat is launched, it may be difficult for termites to dive to gnaw on the boat. But what about before the ship is built?

Before the ship was built, there must have been a large amount of timber piled up on the shore. At this time, if there are a large number of termites to gnaw on the wood......

"Haha, that seems like a good idea!"

So, Marin called Kohler and assigned him a task - to send people to various places and even other countries to secretly collect termites. Then, it is packed in a metal cage and fed with wood.

And then...... Quietly brought to the three French river shipyards that had not yet been built......

While the French were building ships, the North Sea Congress sent spies to infiltrate the shipyard where the timber was placed, and released termites in the cage at night to allow the termites to decay the stacked shipbuilding timber.

As long as there are enough termites, the timber piled up by the French will definitely be lost.

Shipbuilding timber is already difficult to collect, and in addition to strict requirements for size, it also requires at least one or two years of air-drying before it can be used as wood for shipbuilding.

If a large amount of shipbuilding timber is destroyed by termites, it will definitely not be able to be used for shipbuilding. When the time comes, François I will definitely be so angry that he vomits blood. After all, the price of wood for shipbuilding is not low. It has been damaged by termites a lot, and the loss must be astronomical.

Moreover, the French would not have imagined that there would be people in this world who would collect termites and use termites against their shipyards......