The Rise of the European Emperor

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Just when Marin was hiding in Rome to engage in intrigue, a big event happened on the island of Ireland-Edward's wife Anna gave birth...

As early as last year, in order to gain more support from France, Earl Edward married the wife of the previous French King Louis XII arranged for him - a French noble girl Anna.

Anna is the daughter of Duarte, a court count of Louis XII's favorite court (an earl without a fief, generally granted to a close minister promoted by the king).

Count Duarte was originally a small country baron in the Duchy of Orleans, and became a close minister of Louis XII by flattering Louis XII, who was still the Duke of Orleans at the time. After Louis XII became the king of France, Duarte also rose and was promoted to count by Louis XII.

However, Louis XII also knew very well that Duarte was just a sycophant with no real talent. Therefore, the title he gave Duarte was a vacant title, a court earl without a fief (or it could be called a landless earl). The Duarte family's territory was still the original baroniality in the Duchy of Orleans. Louis XII just gave the two baronies on the side to the Durtes family.

In other words, although the Duarte family has the title of earl, the territory is actually a relatively large baronial. Therefore, the Duarte family relied heavily on the bounty of Louis XII. Otherwise, with the small territory of the three baronies, it is simply not enough to maintain the expenses of an earl family.

In order to maintain the family's expenses, Count Duarte tried his best to curry favor with Louis XII. When Louis XII was worried that there was no suitable princess to marry Count Edward, Count Duarte did not hesitate to launch his daughter Anna, let Anna marry Count Edward with an uncertain future, and asked Anna to take on the responsibility of winning Count Edward The task of coming together with France.

That is to say, in fact, although Anna is the wife of Earl Edward, at the same time, she is also a senior spy sent by France...

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

On the 1st and 2nd day after the New Year in 1505, Anna gave birth to a daughter named Margaret...

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

However, the 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, without any foreign guests, was purely attended by the military and civilians of Dublin.

The reason why Edward held this enthronement ceremony was mainly to find a reason for his subordinates to increase their ranks, so as to win them over and help him get through this difficult time.

After all, those mercenaries are fighting for themselves, not only for money, but also for aristocratic status. Therefore, although the right to rule England has not yet been obtained, the territory of England has been divided by the Earl of Edward.

Several of his army commanders were awarded the title of Earl of England. Even Marin's subordinate Van Gore was named Baron of the Isle of Wight by him.

As for Van Gore's boss "Edison" (that is, Marin), he was also named an earl of Devonshire...

Of course, these are all flowers in the mirror at present, and there is no shadow. However, it made those real mercenaries excited to death.

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

why? If Edward really took the throne of England, they would be real nobles with fiefs...

Although the mercenary officers who served the French King were also from noble families, most of them were non-eldest sons without inheritance rights. If the eldest son has the right to inherit, the ghost is willing to come out and risk his life... Even if he goes out to take risks, he will accompany the king to take risks, so as to obtain greater fame. And like these 5,000 French mercenaries, the officers who were sent to follow Count Edward, a foreigner, were basically children of nobles who had no right of inheritance.

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

Therefore, after Edward ascended the throne, he gave these officers a lot of rewards, and they were very excited even if they had not been able to fulfill them. After all, Edward's current strength is not small, there are tens of thousands of horses. If they really conquered England, they would become great nobles...

Therefore, after Edward lavishly rewarded the soldiers, the morale of the army stabilized very quickly. And, morale is high. If it wasn't for the English fleet that could not be beaten at sea, maybe they would all want to cross the sea and rush to England to fight with Henry VII's army...

Not long after Edward became queen, the intelligence personnel sent by Marin to offer a plan also went through all kinds of difficulties and came to Dublin to offer a plan to join Morris, Earl of Desmond, to jointly seize the Counties of Ormond.

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

Moreover, capturing the county of Ormond will itself snatch a large amount of food to ease the current crisis.

Edward was overjoyed when he read Marlin's letter. Originally, he wanted to reward his subordinates, but he had to choose as a last resort. Unexpectedly, the "President Edison" gave him a good suggestion that could save his life.

Moreover, Marin's intelligence personnel, when they were in East Friesland, also received information from Kohler - the Scottish army sacked several northern counties of England, resulting in more than 300,000 people in the northern counties of England. refugees. And Henry VII's army is in the middle of England, fortifying to prevent those refugees from going south to London.

Therefore, at this time, when troops were sent to the Earl of Ormond, England could not spare an army to attack Ireland.

The news made Edward very excited. So he hurriedly sent someone to contact Maurice, Earl of Desmond, and let him launch a feint against Ormond County in the southwest to attract the army of Ormond County. Edward himself, concentrating most of his troops, planned to conduct a surprise attack on the Counties of Ormond, and it was up to him to fight for a battle.

As for the territorial division after the war, Edward did not care about the interests of the Counties of Ormond. He only asked for one-third of the land, and the most important thing was to open up the Shannon River, so that Marin's grain ship could bring the grain in smoothly.

As long as the North Sea Chamber of Commerce in Marin brought in the grain, all of Edward's problems would cease to exist.

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

"I, Edward, owe Mr. Edison his life if he could bring in the grain!"

"It's nothing, my master is more interested in Newcastle, where there are more coal mines..." The intelligence officer said according to Marin's instructions.

"Understood, after this is done, in addition to the Earl of Devonshire, I will also confer Newcastle to Mr. Edison as the Earl of Newcastle." After speaking, Edward sighed in relief, as if some burden had been lifted.

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

Edward is very insecure now and feels like everyone is trying to figure him out. In the face of the support of France and Scotland, Edward was also trembling. He was afraid that after he captured England, he would be picked by France and Scotland. As for the owner of the Beihai Chamber of Commerce, "Mr. Edison", Edward was actually very wary.

But Edward was relieved when Marin asked his men to claim the Newcastle area and hinted that he was interested in those coal mines. Knowing the "bottom line" of the Beihai Chamber of Commerce, Edward relaxed his guard against the Beihai Chamber of Commerce. If he helps for free and doesn't ask for it, he will be afraid. Because, such people have greater ambitions, most likely to pick peaches afterwards...

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