The disputes between countries are very time-consuming. England did not decide to send people to cross the Calais Strait directly to do business, and they had to wait for the reply from France.
Of course, there is definitely no problem with Robinson going to Calais. Because Baron Robinson's good friend Baron Marquez is currently in France and is treated by the French court. As long as Marquez helps speak, it means that Robinson is "his own person", then it will be no problem to allow him to enter Calais.
The only problem is probably the problem of the army landing...
After all, that was a landing of 20,000 troops! The Strait of Calais is indeed very narrow, less than 30 kilometers. However, it is very troublesome to land in large numbers. If you use the commercial terminal of the Port of Calais, you can only land a few hundred people at a time. The 20,000 troops will probably take several days to complete the landing. Moreover, the premise is that the French do not stop them.
However, because of the raid, 20,000 British troops were required to quickly land and surround the Calais Fortress, and seize the fortress before the French army sent reinforcements. Therefore, the landing speed was very important.
So, these days, Edward's soldiers have been training to land. But after practicing, they cannot change the big problem of insufficient berths at the Port of Calais.
Marin actually wanted to recommend the "beach landing" method used by Beihai Kingdom to let the army wading in the water. However, the sea water was a little cold in spring, so I was afraid that the English soldiers would not get used to it.
Fortunately, among the 20,000 troops, 5,000 soldiers from the North Sea Kingdom were used to wading landing. Many of them participated in the wading landing in Edinburgh, Scotland a few years ago. Moreover, most of them were equipped with the magical artifact of wading landing - long leather boots.
Long leather boots are not afraid of tide, and the beaches by the sea are not as easy to sink like the silt in the swamp. Therefore, wearing these shoes is very convenient to log in.
This is made of rain boots imitating later generations, but the barrel is longer. Moreover, the materials of the two are also different. Rain boots in later generations are all rubber products and are cheaper. However, in this era, the output of Cuban rubber plantations in Marin was still very small. Rare things are precious, and rubber is obviously more precious these days! Therefore, it is better to use leather to make leather boots! In this way, these 5,000 people equipped the first batch of leather boots in Beihai Kingdom, most of which were made of animal leather exchanged from North American Indians.
In addition, since it is a "beach landing", there is definitely a small boat that can directly rush to the beach. There is no rubber boat, and it can only be made of wood. However, normal wooden boats seem to be inconvenient to stack on the boat, and there are at most two or three small boats on a large boat.
So, after thinking about it, Marinsi might as well make a raft...
In fact, bamboo rafts are better and have greater buoyancy. After all, bamboo is hollow. But Europe does not produce bamboo, so rafts can only be used.
Rafts have average buoyancy, not as good as bamboo rafts. However, they are easy to manufacture and can pile up many on the deck of the ship, which facilitates the need for soldiers to land on the beach. Therefore, simple and inexpensive rafts have become the most important tool for soldiers on most ships to land on the beach. These days, British soldiers have been practicing how to use rafts to row from the boat to the beach and land on the beach.
As long as the raft landing and practiced, most of the soldiers can be sent ashore in one night without delaying the raid. In this way, even if the French send reinforcements from Paris, they will not have time to support Calais...
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While the British were busy negotiating with the French, the spring plowing of the two countries was not over yet. At this time, most of the spring plowing of the two countries had come to an end. That is, the land plowing has basically ended, and now it has entered the stage of sowing.
But these two countries do not have the vestibule introduced by Marin from the Ming Dynasty, sowing can only be done manually. It is the cooperation of men and women. The male farmers are responsible for digging a small hole in the ground, while the woman is responsible for scattering the seeds into the hole, and then fill the small hole buried in the seeds with soil with the feet. Then, they gently step on it with their feet. Of course, they cannot step too hard, otherwise the seeds will not be able to break through the confinement of the land and sprout. This is also a technical task. The land is too tight and the seeds are difficult to germinate. It is not enough to be too loose, which affects the seeds taking root. Of course, farmers who are mature do not need to think too much, and a light kick can solve the problem. This is an empirical problem...
However, this sowing efficiency is very low. You can only sow one or two acres of land a day, usually no more than 3 acres, which is half an acre.
Of course, there is another option, which is to sow directly - after the ox plows the ground, sow seeds directly into the ground. Then, use a wooden pickaxe to simply smash and turn the soil plowed by the plowhead, break the soil and peel it off to cover the sowed seeds...
But this kind of sowing effect is not very good, especially the randomness is very high. In some places, there are many seeds, while in some places, the seeds are not sown. Moreover, multiple seeds germinate in groups, resulting in competition for nutrients. Then, no one can grow well in a few crops...
Therefore, Europeans now prefer on-demand technology that cooperates with men and women. Although it is slower, the effect is much better than the extensive spreading. In terms of output, the per-amount yield is sometimes less than 100 pounds. On-demand, the per-amount yield has basically exceeded the per-amount yield of 100 pounds...
At this critical moment of sowing in spring, in the castle of a large manor near the capital of Dijon, the former capital of the Principal of Burgundy, a group of nobles from the Burgundy region were gathering in the banquet hall of the castle...
Of course, they were not holding a banquet, but holding a secret meeting...
The owner of this castle is Paul Lizarazu, a viscount in the Burgundy region. Originally, the Lizarazu family was mixed with the bold Charles, but after the bold Charles died in battle, Louis XI took the opportunity to annex the Duchy of Burgundy. Seeing that the situation was not good, the Lizarazu family changed to surrender to the French royal family.
However, after all, it is a fence-bearer. The Lizarazu family never regarded the French royal family as the monarch they had to be loyal to. Instead, they had to surrender because they could not resist the power of France. In the eyes of Paul Lizarazu, it was obvious that the interests of the family were more important...
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And the theme of this secret meeting is also very interesting - this is a private gathering of nobles who released usury in Burgundy...
Since he came up with a way to cheat French farmers by using profit-making, Marin secretly sent a large number of spies to enter the disaster area of ​​France, secretly contacted the local French nobles, and bewitched them from usury who made profit-making money from the victims in order to ultimately deprive farmers of cultivated land and property.
The Burgundy region has only been in favor of the French court for decades and has not yet completely returned to France. After all, Charles, who had been bold before, has always been seeking to establish the Burgundy Kingdom alone, and its internal propaganda has always been de-Frenchized. Paul Lizarazu, who came from that era, naturally could not be said to be very loyal to France. Similarly, many nobles in the Burgundy region did not have a strong sense of belonging to France.
When Marin's spies entered the Burgundy region, Paul Lizarazu saw the huge benefits, so they were the first to stand up to respond. Then, all the responding nobles formed a group led by Paul Lizarazu, which specifically targeted the victims of the Burgundy region to issue profitable usury. This group was also called the "wealth group" by Marin.
Chapter completed!