What made Marin laugh and cry was that because the white iron sheet was too silver, the ignorant people thought it was made of sterling silver. Therefore, there was an incident in the shipyard where someone stole the white iron sheet in the middle of the night. A gangster near the shipyard sneaked into the shipyard in the middle of the night and pried off a few white iron sheets from the ship wrapped in the ship...
The next day, the craftsman in charge of renovating the ship was surprised to find that there were few sheets of white iron on the ship... So, this matter was quickly reported...
Marin sent the simple training Alsace wolfdog and soon found the gangster near the shipyard. Then, the kid was sentenced to two years...
However, this incident also reminded Marin. The white iron sheet is too similar to silver and can easily cause misunderstandings. If it is stolen as silver skin, then the previous efforts to protect sea maggots will be in vain. Moreover, the silver-shiny white iron sheet is indeed too ostentatious.
In desperation, Marin ordered that each piece of white iron be painted with black paint or red paint to cover the appearance of the white iron. While covering the silver light, a protective layer was also added to the white iron sheet. At least, the white iron sheet would not corrode after the paint layer was damaged. In this way, the white iron sheet would be used longer.
However, there are no sapphire trees like the Ming Dynasty in Europe. Paints are made of composite paints, which are expensive. Therefore, painting all the iron sheets is also expensive.
Therefore, we have to introduce sumac trees from the Ming Dynasty to further reduce the cost of paint. As for the place where sumac trees are planted, it is naturally in the subtropical areas of the Americas.
In addition, economical tree species such as tung 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, tung oil can be used almost all woodworkers. For example, when making wooden barrels, you need to brush dry oil such as tung oil behind the barrel to prevent moths and waterproofing.
In general, tung oil is probably the best quality dry oil and is widely used in woodworking. Moreover, because tung trees have strong vitality and are easy to serve, they do not require careful service, and they can pick fruits and squeeze oil every year. Of course, after fertilization and careful service, the yield is higher.
In ancient China, the rapid drying of tung oil and the advantages of moth-proofing and moisture-proofing made it very wide-purpose, and it is used in woodworking fields such as shipbuilding and furniture construction. At the same time, China's oil paper is also made of tung oil, which is much better than the oil paper made of semi-dry whale oil used by Marin now.
The most important thing is cheap...
Nowadays, when European craftsmen build ships and create furniture, they also use linseed oil and olive oil as coatings, which is very costly. Moreover, linseed oil and olive oil are both very good cooking oils. It feels so luxurious and wasteful to apply hull and woodworking products...
In order to prevent water and moth, shipbuilding requires a lot of paint and dry oil coating. If the cost is too high, it will cause too high manufacturing cost. If Marin introduced Suraki and Tung tung on a large scale from the Ming Dynasty, the cost of shipbuilding will inevitably be greatly reduced in the future. Moreover, the climate in the southeastern and southern regions of North America is very similar to that in China, and both Suraki and Tung tung can grow well.
Because it is the end of the year, and spring plowing will soon be welcomed after the New Year. Therefore, after careful thinking, Marin set the time to send troops to England after the spring plowing next year. In this way, it will not delay the spring plowing in China. After all, those tens of thousands of soldiers are all male laborers and can help. Marin is already annihilated merchants, and he uses the army to help with spring plowing and autumn harvesting. It is very easy to use... Moreover, his soldiers are basically from the countryside and are very proficient in the work in the fields. As long as they give these soldiers a meal, they will work hard to help with spring plowing and autumn harvesting. It is really simple...
However, there is a problem that Marin chose to send troops to England after the spring plowing ends. At that time, the English were idle. Perhaps, more ships would be sent to the Irish Sea. In this way, it would be much more difficult for Marin to annihilate the British ships on the Irish Sea. If he accidentally annihilates the main force of the English Navy, it would be equivalent to making wedding clothes for the French.
Therefore, Marin needs to come up with a complete way to hold back the main force of the English Navy, that is, the English merchant ships of the Five Harbor Alliance (can also play warships, and occasionally play pirate ships).
After thinking about it, Malin suddenly realized that since the reserve warships of the Five Port Alliance were merchant ships, they would definitely like to get goods and make money. If the freight fee was higher, they would probably be happier...
If they place an order for them and let them go out to sea to pick up goods... hehe, wouldn't there be even fewer ships staying for patrol in Ireland?
As for King Henry VII of England, he would definitely stop it. However, the British Navy is now composed purely of merchant ships from the Five Harbor Alliance. Henry VII can order them to participate in the war, but cannot order them to participate in the war 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, yes, pay! But Henry VII has no money? He was not his son Henry VII. Henry VII started a religious reform and robbed the property of the British Catholic Church, and became rich. Henry VII took office through the civil war, and with the previous war with Edward, he was poor now, so how could he have money to give money to those merchant ship owners? Moreover, recruiting merchant ships to participate in the war is just because they have no money to support the navy?
Therefore, Marin did not need to do anything. As long as he hired merchant ships from the British Five Port Alliance to help him pick up goods at a scheduled time, he could send many merchant ships. In order to support those ships farther away, Marin could pay a high price to get them to the Baltic and Mediterranean Sea. In this way, those ships would not be able to return for a month or two, which was just conducive to Marin clearing out the British ships on the Irish Sea and transporting Edward's troops to England.
At the same time, Marin would also send his own ship to transport his own troops to Newcastle Port, which he was controlled. When he met with Edward's army, who had landed on the West Coast, he could go south together, head straight to London, and seize the royal power...
This method, in China, is obviously a classic trick to lure the tiger away from the mountain...
In this era, Europeans had not seen any conspiracy. Obviously, it was easy to get caught. Moreover, merchants were pursuing profits, as long as Marin paid a high freight fee, they would not worry about the merchant ships from the Five Port Alliance not taking the bait.
Moreover, Malin did not intend to give the full payment. He planned to only give 30% of the deposit, and then he would lose the rest after the goods were shipped...
Of course, this kind of thing is too bad. Therefore, Marin plans to do it in the name of other chambers of commerce. For example, to create a Dutch Chamber of Commerce, Italian Chamber of Commerce, etc.
After the other party gets 30% of the deposit and ships the freight, they will ask for the remaining money when they come back. The so-called chamber of commerce is empty. Then, they deliberately leave some French books, etc., so that they think they are the tricks of the French.
In this way, the merchant ship owners of the Five Port Alliance who did not receive the full payment will definitely hate the French. If the French in the future, they will definitely be attacked by these merchant ship owners...
Chapter completed!