To be honest, Marin is not short of money now. He has reached the realm of "money in my eyes is just a number". Therefore, what he calls "cutting off" does not want more money, but wants to extend his hands into all aspects of England, especially in the Navy.
Although Marin is now confident in dispatching the North Sea Fleet to defeat the English fleet and enter England strongly. However, this is also very expensive. The most troublesome thing is probably that many sailors will run to France because of confrontation and be accepted by France.
If France suddenly had a large number of sailing talents and experienced sailors, it would definitely be a big threat to England. Moreover, this threat would be long-term.
Therefore, Marin tried his best to reach into the coast of England to suppress possible resistance in the future. In addition, he also tried his best to win over England's maritime forces.
However, Edward VI was not a fool. Marin had long wanted to interfere in the maritime affairs of England, but Edward was only willing to let Marin intervene in the sea transportation of Newcastle and the Isle of Wight. In addition, Southampton, on the other side of the Isle of Wight, also accused Marin of partial intervention because it was too close to the Isle of Wight. Other places, especially strategic locations such as Plymouth and Dover, were determined not to let Marin get involved.
But now that England has asked Marin to ask, Marin will naturally make a request. But Howard Jr. is not qualified to agree to the conditions, so he used the pigeons from the North Sea Special Training and contacted Edward VI of London to explain Marin's requirements.
Marin's requirement is very simple - allowing the North Sea forces to establish dedicated terminals and offices in seaports such as Dover and Plymouth...
This is somewhat similar to the institutions of the Qing Dynasty's consulates later, and will affect England's 100% control over these ports.
Edward was very dissatisfied with the conditions. Although his only daughter now had a engagement with Caesar, he was still young and did not think that he would have no children in the future. If it really doesn't work, he could change to a queen. He didn't know that it was him who lost his fertility, not Queen Anna who he suspected.
In particular, having given birth to Princess Margaret before, and being able to do that with the queen normally later, he never doubted the loss of his fertility. If he hadn't been afraid of angering France, he would have started to change the queen now. You should know that men's fertility cycle is very long. At the age of 80, as long as they marry a young man, they can still give birth to children. And women, who are over 40 years old, can still have children.
It is precisely based on this idea that Edward did not regard Princess Margaret as his heir, but was just a spare tire. In this way, he naturally refused to let his future son-in-law's family be too strong in England.
But at this time, the coastal areas of England were in crisis, and he could not completely reject Marin...
After thinking for a long time, Edward gave an answer - agreeing to hand over the entire Southampton Port to Marin. At the same time, Marin was allowed to expand its interests on the Ireland Island. The Ireland Island is not local, and no matter how strong Marin is there, it will not endanger London.
After Edward's reply was delivered to Orich through a carrier pigeon, Marin was also a little dissatisfied. Although he just spoke up in front of him and allowed the other party to bargain, the price was too ruthless.
In this way, the two monarchs conducted air-to-air price cuts. After several rounds of negotiations, Marin won more conditions.
For example, in addition to obtaining all the ports in Southampton, Marin also obtained the right to use the port town of Liverpool in northwest England.
Liverpool is not the metropolis of later generations, but just a small town with a population of less than 500. But it is a port near England to Ireland.
Now, half of the two 10,000-man legions of the Marin 4th and 5th Legion were sent to the Ireland Island and could not "go to Beijing to serve the king" in England. Therefore, Liverpool, a port near the Ireland Island, has become a good landing point.
But in fact, Liverpool is just a trick. If you really want to attack London, Marin's first choice would definitely be to use a powerful fleet to directly break into the Thames River and go directly to the city of London, rather than landing from other places.
The reason why he wanted Liverpool was to attract Edward's attention on the one hand, and on the other hand, he was to make plans for the future entry into England. After all, Liverpool Port is a very excellent port and is very suitable for the development of maritime trade.
Edward was indeed deceived and turned his attention to the west. In order to curb Marin's possible landing operations in the future, Edward planned to set up a military camp near Liverpool Port in the future to specifically guard against possible landings in Liverpool Port...
In addition, Marin also asked for some coal mines in Lancashire near Liverpool. These coal mines in Lancashire have considerable reserves, and it is also the birthplace of the British Industrial Revolution and are a good coal field. However, because it is too remote (mainly far from London), the development level is not high at present. Unlike coal mines in Newcastle and Nottingham, large-scale development has begun.
Marin’s real intention is to get more coal fields. When honeycomb coal has been promoted, coal fields are a stable wealth guarantee.
As for infiltrating the maritime forces in England, Marin could only do this on the surface. But secretly, he still had a countermeasure. He was to let Kohler dispatch intelligence personnel to install offline in the coastal areas of England, so that the "informers" of the intelligence agencies of the North Sea Kingdom will control more of the British maritime forces and strengthen the North Sea Kingdom's influence on the coast of England.
In addition, some old maritime forces can also spend money to buy them. Give some small benefits first, and then give them great benefits when Marin takes over England. Those who don’t give face will of course be killed...
At the same time, in addition to the above benefits, money cannot be lost. You can owe credit, but you cannot refuse to give it to you...
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Because of the successful bargaining, Edward was in a good mood. When Marin signed with Howard, he deliberately pretended to be unhappy, so that Edward felt a little more happy.
This chapter is not finished yet, please click on the next page to continue reading the exciting content behind! Out of kindness, Howard, before leaving, Marin reminded:
"Mr. Howard, please tell Your Majesty that you must cooperate with the Spaniards to block the Strait of Gibraltar and prohibit any galleys not belonging to Spain from entering the Atlantic Ocean, so as not to fall into the hands of the French. You must know that if the galleys are modified, they will be Calais ships..."
Howard woke up as if he was a dream - Yes, the French built their own ships slowly, but there were so many Venetian galleys. If Venetian galleys were sold to France in large quantities, France would soon have a large fleet of Calais ships, which immediately threatened the coast of England.
As for skilled sailors? As long as the French are willing to hire Italian sailors, they are exempt from training...
Feeling that the situation was serious, Howard, before he could return to China, he passed the news back to China with a carrier pigeon.
After reading, Edward also felt the situation serious. So he immediately sent Foreign Minister Howard Lao, ordered him to go to Spain to discuss the issue of blocking the Strait of Gibraltar with Spain. In order to block the Strait of Gibraltar, England was even willing to send dozens of warships to station in Gibraltar for a long time, and cooperate with the Spaniards to block...
As long as the French did not immediately obtain the Venetian galleys and wanted to build them by themselves, it would take at least several years to increase the scale. And a few years later, England was ready.
As for Italian sailors, there is no way. After all, they can rush to the Atlantic coast of France from land. But as long as they don’t have ships and guns, no matter how good the sailors are, they will not be able to show their combat effectiveness.
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At the same time, Marin once again showed weakness and deliberately sent someone to make a noise, saying that the North Sea Kingdom did not dare to sell the large gunboat to England because it was concerned about the French. The news focused on spreading to France.
Why did Marin show weakness to France? It was because he recently wanted to obtain a large number of disaster victims from France and get it to North America. At this time, it was obvious that France could not anger, so as not to cut off the source of the disaster victims.
Sure enough, upon hearing this news, François I and the French courtiers were very satisfied with Marin's "knowledge". Naturally, they did not intend to find Marin to be unlucky recently.
But in private, the shipyard of the Beihai Kingdom is working hard to start construction to manufacture low-end Dover ships to supply England. In order to conceal the source of these ships, Marin also asked Edward to send people to Geneva, Italy to buy galleys...
Genea is a pro-Spain force, and is a mortal enemy of Venice. It is also one of the maritime powers in the Mediterranean region. Although it has begun to decline, it is also famous. It is very reasonable to buy a galley from Genea. Moreover, the Strait of Gibraltar is obviously open to the English.
In this way, the French would not have thought that the North Sea was secretly building galleys and supplying British people. But Lev had reminded Marin of the incident when he saw galleys. For this reason, he sent people to move all the equipment and workers in the Emden Shipyard to the relatively secluded military port of Wilhelmshaven. Here, the construction of ships is very quiet and will not be discovered. Unlike the trading port of Emden, which is crowded and eyes, it is easy to be seen.
At this moment, Marin still needs French disaster victims and is not suitable for engaging in evil with France. Therefore, secretly supporting England, clearing relations on the surface, and showing weakness on the public is the best way to deal with it...
Chapter completed!