After the four major legions were arranged, Marin began to formally arrange the disguise of pretending to die.
In fact, rumors of Marin's death in a shipwreck have begun to spread in Europe. However, there is no conclusive evidence, so no one believes it.
Therefore, if you want to create the illusion that Marin died in a shipwreck, you need evidence. Just so happens that Marin has evidence...
What is the evidence? It is the ships of the fleet when Marin went public to sea!
Previously, although Marin went to the Ming Dynasty to take the 10 500-ton warships, when he set out publicly, Marin took 10 250-class armed merchant ships to sea. The team was Little Columbus. Moreover, Marin also visited Little Little Sponsored by Lisbon and signed a treaty on the division of the Far East territory with Manuel I.
Afterwards, after passing through the Canary Islands, Marin took two ships to turn west to Panama. The other eight ships were led by Columbus and continued on the African coastal route.
Moreover, when Marin returned from Panama this time, the four 250-class armed merchant ships included the two ships that sent him to Panama. Now, the two ships are secretly docked in Wilhelmshaven on the coast of Oldenburg Province.
So, Marin wanted to pretend to be dead, let the two ships return home, and then pretend that other ships had sunk...
In addition, Marin would also send a boat to the Canary Islands to intercept the fleet of Columbus who returned. After all, if that fleet comes back, it will be in trouble. At least, it will be appropriate to return after the show is over. The Port of Las Palmas in the Canary Islands is an important supply station for the fleet to return to China. Therefore, sending a boat can stop Columbus and delay his return.
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After all arrangements were made, the two 250-class armed merchant ships, the Denburg and Las Vegas, who were responsible for sending Marin to Panama and sent Marin back, publicly returned to Port Emden and brought back a news that shocked the North Sea - eight other ships, including ships carrying Marin and Columbus, disappeared during their return journey in a storm...
This news was too shocking, which led to many people being stunned after hearing it...
Most people know about the Denburg and the Port of Emden, Las Vegas. Because two years ago, Marin took 10 ships including these two ships to the Far East openly.
However, now the two ships have returned alone, but Marin has not come back... This is a big deal...
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Although the captains of the two ships said that the other eight ships were just missing in the storm and might come back, in this era, there were too few ships that could come back when encountering storms.
After all, there are no sea search and rescue planes in this era. If a ship encounters a storm, it will basically sink. Because European ships do not have a watertight compartment design in this era, and the probability of encountering a storm is very high. As long as water leaks, it will basically be done.
Therefore, in naval battles, as long as the iron ball shells can break the side of the opponent's ship, the enemy ship will basically sink. However, Chinese ships have watertight compartments, and even if they are fireboats, they will be difficult to sink. However, there are fireboat tactics in the east, which can solve the problem of enemy ships' difficulty in sinking. As long as it is a wooden ship, it will be done if it is a hit...
As for the issue of someone drifting on a deserted island with his deck in his arms after a shipwreck, this is not realistic. Because even if someone survives by chance, no one will save them. Because there are very few ships on the Far East route at present, and it is absolutely delusional to expect passing ships to rescue them.
Therefore, no one thinks that Marin and others have the chance to come back alive...
Of course, it is not ruled out that Marin's fleet deviates from its course. Therefore, everyone plans to wait for a few months to see the situation. Because if it deviates from the course, it is basically delayed that every month should come back. If it doesn't come back in a few months, it will basically not come back...
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The news reached Orich City, Schwartz, Kohler and Sauer all pretended to be incredible and came to the palace to persuade Angela.
And Angela, after hearing the news, must act, such as... crying...
But Angela failed to cry, so she had to use the props onion...
Then, Angela, who learned that her husband was missing, "cryed" with the help of onion...
After that, Angela began to officially use the Liu Tianxian brand and her face was paralyzed, and her look of "Don't be close to someone else", which made people mistakenly think that she was desperate...
But while showing off his face, Angela repeatedly emphasized that her husband is still alive and will definitely come back, and no one is allowed to curse her husband...
However, her statement was interpreted by outsiders as "Mrs. Angela is deceiving herself and refusing to accept reality"...
But no one knows that - Angela is telling the truth. She now meets her husband through secret passages every night...
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Then, the news began to spread to the entire Beihai Kingdom and even abroad...
After learning that his eldest son might have died and shipwrecked, Columbus, an old pervert who had been patrolling Maomei in Las Vegas, hurried to Orich to verify the authenticity of the matter.
In order to keep it a secret, Angela naturally could not tell Columbus the truth. This made Columbus very sad. After all, that was his eldest son as his heir...
Fortunately, Columbus had a son, so he was not worried about his successor. But Columbus made up his mind to never let his second son go on a voyage, so as not to have a grand grandfather of the Columbus family...
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The old Hoffman and his wife were also very sad when they heard the news. Mrs. Mary's eyes were swollen from crying, and the old Hoffman also sighed all day long. After all, Marin is the most promising child of the Hoffman family and led the Hoffman family to glory. Now, it suddenly disappeared, how can the old couple not be sad?
Angela was a little reluctant and almost wanted to tell the truth of the two elders, but was stopped by Marin. Because Marin wanted to know how old Hoffman arranged for the boss Adler afterwards...
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The Baudigard family (Karn and Kohler's family), Kahn and Kohler's parents and brothers, and Kahn's two wives were also extremely sad. Kohler could only try his best to comfort him because he could not disclose the secrets casually. Therefore, he could only make his family sad for a while...
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Beihai Kingdom was deeply saddened, and many officials and generals were extremely sad. Most of them were promoted by Marin himself, so they naturally felt sad about Marin's "die". But there were also people who were not sad, such as the old nobles who were suppressed by Marin before...
"Haha, that tyrant is finally dead. Now our chance is here!" A nobleman who lost his power smiled at a secret party.
"Yes, we must take this opportunity to put pressure on Mrs. Angela and force her to restore parliament. Without the surveillance of the parliament controlled by us nobles, the North Sea Congress was in chaos..."
"Yes, yes, yes..." a group of people echoed.
But they didn't think about it. Isn't it that there was no confusion in the past without the council they formed? They really would gild themselves on their faces...
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At the same time, some unsuccessful middle and lower-level officers in the Beihai National Army also began to panic. However, ordinary middle and lower-level officers from civilian origin were just a little panic, while some people from wandering knights began to make plans. Because some of them had been exposed to them long ago.
However, only a few people agreed before, but with the news that Marin might have really died, some fence-riding gangs that were originally swaying from side to side have officially begun to have other ideas...
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And the news came to Beihai Kingdom, except for a few of Malin's allies, most of the princes were filled with joy...
Chapter completed!