While Marin was hiding in Rome to engage in intrigues, a major event occurred on the island of Ireland - Edward's wife Anna gave birth......

As early as last year, in order to gain more support from France, Count Edward married the wife arranged for him by the former French king Louis XII - a French aristocratic girl Anna. Pen @ fun @ pavilion wWw. ｂｉｑUｇE。 ｉｎｆｏ

Anna was the daughter of Louis XII's favored courtier, the Count of Court (counts without fiefs, generally granted to close vassals promoted by the king).

The Count of Durte was originally a small country baron in the Duchy of Orleans, and became a close vassal of Louis XII by patting Louis XII, who was still the Duke of Orleans at the time. After Louis XII succeeded to the throne and became the king of France, Durte also rose to prominence and was promoted to count by Louis XII.

It's just that Louis XII also knew very well that Durte was a sycophant and didn't have any real talent. Therefore, the title he gave to Durther was that of a court earl (or landless count) with no title and no fief. And the territory of the Durt family is still the original barony of the Duchy of Orleans. Louis XII simply gave the two baronies on the side to the Durts.

In other words, although the Durt family has the title of earl, the territory is actually a relatively large barony. As a result, the House of Durte relied heavily on Louis XII's bounty. Otherwise, with the small territory of those three baronies, it is simply not enough to maintain the expenses of an earl family.

In order to maintain the family's expenses, the Count of Durt desperately tried to curry favor with Louis XII. When Louis XII was worried that there would be no princess of the right grade to marry Count Edward, Count Durte did not hesitate to introduce his daughter Anna, asking Anna to marry the uncertain Count Edward, and asked Anna to take on the task of bringing Count Edward and France together.

That is, in fact, although Anna was the wife of Count Edward, at the same time, she was also a high-ranking spy sent by France......

Of course, Anna is not that kind of professional spy. Her main task was to persuade Count Edward to draw close to France and support Louis XII......

On January 2, 1505, after New Year's Day, Anna gave birth to a daughter named Margaret......

Of course, this is not the main thing. The main thing is that on the same day, the Earl of Edward announced his accession to the throne as the fourth king of the York dynasty of England (the first three were Edward IV, Edward V and Richard III), called Edward VI. And Princess Margaret, who had just given birth, also became the temporary crown prince (if Edward had a son, he would automatically replace Margaret as the crown prince).

However, this news did not come out. Mainly, the island of Ireland was blocked by the English fleet, and naturally no news came out. Therefore, Edward's enthronement ceremony was attended by no foreign guests, purely by the military and civilians of Dublin.

The reason why Edward held this enthronement ceremony was mainly to find a reason to give his subordinates a knighthood, so as to win them over and help him through this difficulty.

After all, those mercenaries help themselves to fight, not only for money, but also for nobility. So, although he had not yet gained the right to rule England, the territory of England was divided by the Earl of Edward.

Several of his legionnaires were awarded the title of Earl of England. Even Marin's subordinate Van Gorey was made a Baron of the Isle of Wight by him.

As for Van Goley's eldest "Edison" (that is, Marin), he was also made a Count of Devon......

Of course, these are currently the moon in the mirror, and there is no shadow yet. It's just that it excites those real mercenaries half to death.

The mercenaries who were driven from Münster to Dublin by Marin will, needless to say, must have died happily. Because, they are pure mercenaries. Even the French mercenaries sent by King Louis XII of France were thrilled.

Why? If Edward had indeed seized the throne of England, they would have been real nobles with fiefdoms......

The mercenary officers who served the French king, although they were also from aristocratic families, were mostly non-eldest sons who had no inheritance rights. If it is the eldest son who has the right to inherit, the ghost is willing to come out and take risks...... Even if he went out to take risks, he was accompanying the king on adventures in order to gain greater fame. And the officers like these 5,000 French mercenaries who were sent to follow Count Edward, a foreigner, on adventure were basically the children of nobles who had no inheritance rights.

No inheritance, which means no fief. When they die, their children may have nothing, bear the name of the descendants of the nobility, and then decline from generation to generation. Even if the non-eldest son of the earl's family is made a hereditary baron, after two or three generations, it will decline.

Therefore, after Edward ascended the throne, he rewarded these officers lavishly, even if they could not fulfill them, they were very excited. After all, Edward's current strength is not small, with tens of thousands of horses. If England is really conquered, they will become great nobles......

Therefore, after Edward rewarded the soldiers in a big way, the morale of the army stabilized very quickly. Moreover, morale is high. If it weren't for the fact that the English fleet could not be defeated at sea, perhaps they would all want to cross the sea and rush to England to fight against Henry VII's army......

Soon after Edward became queen, Marin sent an intelligence agent who also went through all odds and came to Dublin, where he offered a plan to unite with Maurice, Earl of Desmond, to seize the kingdom of Ormond.

Marin told Edward in the name of "Edison, President of the North Sea Chamber of Commerce" that as long as his army took Ormond Country, the grain ships of the North Sea Chamber of Commerce would bring in grain from the Shannon River Bar to solve Edward's food crisis.

Moreover, the capture of the country of Ormond would itself rob a large amount of food to alleviate the current crisis.

Edward was overjoyed when he read Marin's letter. Originally, he lavishly rewarded his subordinates, but it was just a last resort in his dying struggle. Unexpectedly, the "President Edison" gave him a good advice that could save his life in a blink of an eye.

Moreover, Marin's intelligence officers, while in East Friesland, also received information from Kohler's side that the Scottish army had sacked several counties in the north of England, causing more than 300,000 people in the counties of northern England to become refugees. And Henry VII's army is in the middle of England, fortifying to prevent those refugees from moving south to London.

Therefore, at this time, England could not spare troops to attack Ireland when they sent troops to the Ommond Country.

The news made Edward very excited. Therefore, he hurriedly sent someone to contact Maurice, Earl of Desmond, and asked him to launch a feint attack on the Count of Ormond in the southwest to attract the army of the Count of Ormond. Edward himself, on the other hand, concentrated most of his army and planned to launch a surprise attack on the kingdom of Ormond in order to win a war.

As for the post-war division of territory, Edward did not care about the interests of the Ormond Count. He only asked for a third of the land, and the main thing was to open the road to the Shannon River, so that Marin's grain ships could bring in the grain smoothly.

As long as Marin's Beihai Chamber of Commerce brought in the grain, then all of Edward's problems would be gone.

Because he knew the importance of food, Dehua held the hands of Marin's intelligence officers tightly, and said excitedly:

"If I can bring in the food, I Edward owe Mr. Edison my life!"

"It's nothing, my master is more interested in Newcastle, there are more coal mines there......" said the intelligence officer following Marin's instructions.

"I understand, after the deed is completed, in addition to the Earl of Devonshire, I will also give Newcastle to Mr. Edison, as the Earldom of Newcastle." With that, Edward let out a long sigh of relief, as if some burden had been lifted.

In fact, this is exactly what Marin wants. The reason why he asked his subordinates and Edward to ask for Newcastle was for the sake of Edward's heart.

Edward was very insecure now, and it felt like everyone was scheming on him. Faced with the support of France and Scotland, Edward was also trembling. He was afraid that after he won England, he would be plucked by France and Scotland. As for the owner of the Beihai Chamber of Commerce, "Mr. Edison", Edward is actually very wary.

However, Edward was relieved when Marin asked his men to ask for Newcastle and hinted that he was interested in the mines. Knowing the "bottom line" of the Beihai Chamber of Commerce, Edward relaxed his vigilance against the Beihai Chamber of Commerce. If he helps without compensation and does not ask for it, he will be afraid. Because, such a person is more ambitious, and it is likely that he is picking peaches afterwards......