The Rise of the European Emperor

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What makes Marin laugh or cry is that because the tinplate is so shiny, it makes people who don't know it think it's made of pure silver. Therefore, there was an incident in the shipyard where someone stole the tinplate in the middle of the night. A gangster near the shipyard sneaked into the shipyard in the middle of the night and pryed off a few tin sheets from the boat wrapped in tin sheets...

The next day, the craftsman in charge of remodeling the ship was surprised to find that there were a few tin sheets missing on the ship... So, this matter was quickly reported...

Marin dispatched a simple-trained Alsatian wolfdog and quickly found the gangster near the shipyard. Then, the kid was sentenced to two years...

However, this incident also gave Marin a wake-up call. Tinplate is too similar to silver, which can easily lead to misunderstandings. If it is stolen as a silver skin, the previous efforts to protect the sea maggots will be in vain. Moreover, the silver shiny tinplate is indeed too ostentatious.

In desperation, Marin ordered—paint each piece of tinplate with black or red paint to cover the surface of the tinplate. While covering the silver light, a protective layer was also added to the tinplate. At the very least, the tinplate will not corrode until the paint layer is damaged. In this way, the use time of tinplate is also longer.

It's just that there is no lacquer tree like Daming in Europe, and the paints are all compound coatings prepared, which are expensive. Therefore, it is not cheap to paint all the tinplate.

Therefore, it is necessary to introduce lacquer trees from the Ming Dynasty to further reduce the cost of paint. As for the location of planting sumac, it is naturally in the subtropical regions of the Americas.

In addition, the economic tree species of tung oil also needs to be introduced to the Americas. Because, tung oil is also a very important raw material for shipbuilding. In other words, almost any woodworker can use tung oil. For example, when making wooden barrels, after hooping the barrels, you need to brush dry oil such as tung oil to prevent moths and waterproofing.

In general, tung oil is probably the best quality drying oil and has many uses in woodworking. Moreover, because the tung tree has strong vitality and is easy to serve, it does not need to be carefully served, and the fruit can be picked every year to extract oil. Of course, with fertilization and careful serving, yields are higher.

In ancient China, tung oil has the advantages of fast drying, moth and moisture resistance, which makes it widely used, and it is widely used in woodworking fields such as shipbuilding and furniture making. At the same time, Huaxia's oil paper is also made of tung oil, which is much better than the oil paper made of semi-dry whale oil that Marin is currently using.

Most importantly, it's cheap...

Now, when European craftsmen built ships and furniture, they also used linseed oil and olive oil as coatings, which were expensive. Moreover, linseed oil and olive oil are both very good edible oils, used to coat boat hulls and woodworking products, it feels so extravagant and wasteful...

In order to prevent water and moths in shipbuilding, it is necessary to use a lot of paint and dry oil. If the cost is too high, the manufacturing cost will be too high. If Marin imported sumac and tung from the Ming Dynasty on a large scale, the cost of building ships in the future will certainly be greatly reduced. Moreover, the climate in the southeastern and southern regions of North America is very similar to that of Huaxia, and both sumac and tung tree grow well.

Because it is already the end of the year, and spring ploughing will be ushered in soon after the year. Therefore, after careful consideration, Marin decided to send troops to England after the end of spring ploughing next year. In this way, the domestic spring ploughing will not be delayed. After all, those tens of thousands of soldiers are all male laborers, and they can still help out. Malin used to annihilate a merchant, and used the army to help with spring farming and autumn harvesting. As long as these soldiers are given extra meals, they will be willing to work hard to help the spring and autumn harvests. It's really simple...

However, there is a problem that Marin chose to send troops to England after the spring ploughing, and at that time, the English people were also idle. Chances are, more ships will be sent to the Irish Sea. In this way, it would be much more difficult for Marin to annihilate British ships in the Irish Sea. If you are not careful, if you annihilate the main force of the English navy, it will be equivalent to making a wedding dress for the French.

So, Marin needs to come up with a complete solution,

In order to hold back the main force of the English navy, that is, the English merchant ships of the Five-Port Alliance (you can also be a guest on a warship, and occasionally a pirate ship)...

After thinking about it, Marin suddenly thought that since the five-port alliance's reserve warships are all merchant ships, they must like to make money by pulling goods. If the shipping fee is higher, it is estimated that they will be happier...

If you place an order for them and let them go out to sea to pull goods... Hey, wouldn't there be fewer ships left to patrol the Irish Sea?

As for the King Henry VII will stop? It certainly will. However, the British navy is now purely composed of five-port alliance merchant ships. Henry VII was able to order them to go to war, but not all the time. After all, they are merchant ships, so they have to do business, right?

You, Henry VII, want those merchant ships to serve you all the time, okay, pay! How could Henry VII have any money? He was not his son Henry VIII. Henry VIII made a reformation and robbed the property of the British Catholic Church to get rich. Henry VII came to power through the civil war, plus the previous war with Edward, and now he is poor, how can there be money for those merchant ship owners? Moreover, isn't it because there is no money to support the navy when recruiting merchant ships to participate in the war?

Therefore, Marin doesn't need to do anything. As long as he hires those merchant ships from the British Five-Port Alliance to help him pull goods at a predetermined time at a high price, he can spend a lot of merchant ships. In order to support those ships farther, Marin can pay a high price for them to pull goods to the Baltic Sea region and the Mediterranean Sea. In this way, those ships would not be able to return for a month or two, just in time for Malin to clear the British ships in the Irish Sea and transport Edward's army to England.

At the same time, Marin will also send his own ships to transport his own troops to the port of Newcastle, which is under his control. When it joins with Edward's army who landed on the west bank, they can go south together, go straight to London, and seize the kingship...

This method, in Huaxia, is obviously a classic trick of turning the tiger away from the mountain...

In this day and age, Europeans have not yet seen any intrigue. Obviously, it's easy to get caught. Moreover, merchants seek profit. As long as the shipping cost from Marin is high enough, there is no need to worry that the merchant ships of the Five-Port Alliance will not take the bait.

Moreover, Marin did not intend to pay the full amount. He plans to only give 30% of the deposit, and after the goods are shipped, he will take care of the rest...

Of course, this kind of thing is too discredited. Therefore, Marin intends to do it in the name of other countries' chambers of commerce. For example, get a Dutch Chamber of Commerce, an Italian Chamber of Commerce, etc...

After the other party got 30% of the deposit and delivered the goods, and they came back to ask for the remaining money, the so-called chamber of commerce was already empty. Then, deliberately left some French books, etc., to make them think it was the ghost of the French.

In this way, the merchant ship owners of the Five-Port Alliance who did not receive the full amount will definitely hate the French. If the French go out to invade England like picking peaches in the future, they will definitely be met with desperate counterattacks from these merchant ship owners...

In short, this method not only has the strategy of turning the tiger away from the mountain, but also contains the elements of framing the French and framing the French, which can be said to kill two birds with one stone. Of course, you have to plan in advance, don't expose yourself, it will damage your reputation...

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