Marin didn't know how much influence the sailor competition he had created to show his muscles. It was not that the sailor competition shocked all sides, but that the way of the competition attracted the imitation of various countries.
It is very creative to use wide wooden boards that sway left and right like swings to simulate the condition on the ship. After watching this competition, Sammer, the Hamburg representative in Emden, immediately wrote a letter back to his country and asked to promote this method for sailor training.
In the past, when there were no large swing boards, sailors generally used boats to train onboard fighting to train in naval battles. However, it was difficult for small boats to simulate the sea conditions of strong winds and waves. After all, during training, small boats could not train in the middle of the ocean. Moreover, during training, losers were easily knocked into the water. If they really ran to the center of the sea with strong winds and waves to train, the sailors who fell into the water would easily be swept away by the winds and waves.
Marin used an oversized swing board and swinging to simulate the sea boat shaking violently on both sides under strong winds and waves, which not only allowed the scene to be simulated at a low cost. The risk factor was also very low. Because, during the competition, Marin laid a very thick hay under the swing board. Even if it was knocked off the swing board, it would fall on the haystack and would not be injured.
Of course, there are more than a discerning person than Summer. Lübeck's representative to Emden also saw a little bit and wrote a letter to return home, suggesting that this method be used to train the martial arts of fighting on sailors.
In the North Sea country, Baron Kidd, a Navy General, also submitted a letter to Marin, requesting that this method be used to train sailors' combat skills and the adaptability of new sailors to shaking ships left and right.
Baron Kidd even expressed dissatisfaction with Marin's disclosure of the way of training sailors. He was mainly worried that if the French learned this, the naval battle would become fierce in the future. After all, for France, what they lacked the most is ships and sea training grounds. Now, with this simple training method that can train sailors on land, the French will never let it go. In the future, the French will definitely be able to train a group of powerful sailors who are adapted to the shaking of the ship and are good at fighting on the deck of the ship.
Marin did regret this, but he didn't care much. After all, he asked his subordinates to develop Pexan cannons. As long as he made that thing, he would still fight on the deck? He sank the opponent's warship in just a few shots. Why did he draw his sword on the deck with people?
Also, Marin is making the shipyard in Long Island, New York try to build a thousand-ton warship. The thousand-ton warship is very high, and even if the enemy on the boat wants to jump into the ship gang, they cannot take up. Historically, the soldiers of the Indian and Egyptian coalition forces in the Diwu Navy Battle were unable to jump onto the Portuguese warships because the boat was small and could not jump onto the Portuguese warships and could not cut off their opponents. They could only be beaten slowly by the Portuguese warships with cannons, so they lost the naval battle. The thousand-ton warships that Marin tried to build were much taller than the warships several hundred tons smaller than Portugal, with more cannons, and the ship side was thicker. Combined with the extremely powerful Pexan cannon, they were absolutely invincible in naval battles.
Of course, whether it is a Pexan cannon or a thousand-ton warship, it is currently kept confidential. In order to dispel Baron Kidd's doubts, Marin had to say that in the future, he would equip naval soldiers with short guns for fire and cooperate with sailor scimitars to fight.
He has watched "Pirates of the Caribbean". In addition to sailor scimitars, he also has a flintlock gun or two on his waist. Once he encounters a ruthless person who is difficult to deal with, he can also pull out a short gun from his waist and shoot it.
Marin described to Baron Kidd the future battle situation of the North Sea Sailors with one hand and a scimitar with one hand and a fire-firing short gun, and finally fooled Kidd, who was worried about losing his maritime advantage.
In fact, before the giant ship heavy artillery appeared, Marin said that the sailor scimitar combined with musket tactics was indeed mainstream naval combat tactics. For example, the famous British naval general Nelson was killed by the musket of French sailors during the Battle of Trafalgar.
After the Pexan cannon appeared, the wooden ship was unable to resist and was forced to withdraw from the stage of history. Then, the armored ship was born. The so-called armored ship was to put a thick iron shell on the outside of the wooden ship to prevent the hull from being smashed by the 68-pound iron ball shell of the Pexan cannon.
But after being wrapped in an iron shell by a wooden ship, the sails could not be carried away and could only be pushed by a steam engine. Otherwise, this thick iron shell armored ship could only slowly "climb" on the sea...
Now, other countries obviously do not have steam engines. As long as Marin creates a Pexan cannon, he can sweep the navies of various countries and dominate the sea. Of course, he will not dominate until the 19th century as in history. After all, if he creates a steam engine, even if other countries can't do it, they will steal technology. Just like the French, if they can't make a glass mirror, they will send people to Venice to steal technology.
Unless Marin and Marin's descendants did not spread the steam engine technology. Otherwise, once it was put into civilian use, it would definitely be technology-making by other countries. So, it was only a matter of time. But before the steam engine technology was leaked, Marin planned to establish a powerful country including the British Isles and northern Germany. Of course, it also included the vast Americas. When other countries caught up, Marin's descendants had already gained a foothold. Once the land in later generations of the United States was developed, France's tiny land and population advantage would be lost immediately. Marin clearly remembered how the national strength rose rapidly after the United States completed the development of the Central and Eastern regions in the 19th century, and surpassed France and Britain one by one.
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Of course, it would take hundreds of years. After all, the biggest problem facing Marin now is the serious shortage of people. The entire German region, including Austria, has a population of only about 12 million. The population of France has been crushed by 15 million. As for Marin, there is only a pitiful more than 2 million in the territory. It is ranked among the various German vassal states, but compared with France, it is simply a scumbag.
If Marin had started out as the Kingdom of France, he would have easily divided millions of people to dive millions to the eastern coast of the United States to reclaim large fertile soil. Moreover, France is closer to the eastern coast of the United States.
Now, even if Marin annexed England, it has only increased by 3 million people, which is still far from the population of the Kingdom of France. Even the population of the German region and England can only be as good as France... Therefore, there is still a long way to go to develop the East Coast of the United States...
Marin is now crazy for the sake of population. He ordered in Beihai that any manor woman will be properly cared for once she becomes pregnant. Not only can she take a vacation, but she can also receive the same wage as a man during her vacation. If she works normally, her wages are only half of that of the man...
In addition, Malin also ordered the establishment of hospitals in various towns. Among them, the hospital's obstetrics and gynecology department is the focus. Every woman who is waiting to give birth can be sent to the hospital's obstetrics and gynecology department for rest two or three months before delivery, and is taken care of by a special nurse until the child is given birth. During this period, all costs are borne by their respective manors.
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In the office, Marin looked at the map of Europe and hugged her head and said depressedly:
Chapter completed!