Marin continued to torture his soldiers and the trainee knights with high-intensity training. Although the training was hard, Marin prepared a lot of delicious food and did not treat them unfairly.

You should know that high-intensity training requires high-energy food to withstand it. Otherwise, if the consumption of light is not supplemented, the bodies of these guys will collapse.

However, Marin was still not very satisfied. Because these guys stumbled in broad daylight and were not messy until midnight? Of course, this took time. After all, practice makes perfect.

Originally, Marin sent a ship to Cork on the coast of Ireland, just to reconnaise casually and act. But more than ten days later, the reconnaissance ship brought back a news that shocked Marin - Cork City is an empty city...

Marin was puzzled, so he asked the captain to ask for details...

The captain was Kidd, a Friesian, the one who took the lead in surrendering in Harlingen. This time he was ordered to reconnaissance in Cork, Ireland. When he arrived at the coast, he found that there was no ship outside the Cork Bay on patrol.

Therefore, he felt very strange. Because Cork Bay is an important trading port on the Ireland Island. It can be said that many specialties on the Ireland Island are exported to the European continent through Cork Port. Many of the continental commodities also enter Ireland from Cork Port.

There is no reason not to send warships to patrol such an important business port to ensure safety.

Kidd had also been on merchant ships before. He knew that Cork Port was a very prosperous port, which mainly operates the export of wool and leather on the Irish island, as well as the import of salt, iron and wine from continental and British. At that time, the merchant ship that Kidd had mixed in also came to Cok for Flander's wool textile factory.

Kidd walked around Cork Bay for a few times, but didn't find a ship, and felt very strange. So he simply drove the ship into Cork Bay and entered Lake Mahong on the edge of Cork City along the Leigh River. However, he didn't see a ship...

Kid was surprised now. He hurriedly brought a few people to the bank and entered Cork City to find out the situation...

Cork City was an important stronghold for the Norman nobles of England in the 12th century, after conquering England, and another important stronghold was in the Dublin area on the east coast of Ireland.

Therefore, the people in Cork City understand English. Coincidingly, the medieval Frisians were very similar to English, so the Frisians could communicate with people who spoke English.

After Kidd brought his people to the shore, he saw a bleak scene - there were not many people on the street. Even if there were people, they were pale-faced and thin.

This puzzled Kidd. When he came to Cork ten years ago, at that time, Cork was one of the most prosperous cities in Ireland.

So he took out a few coins and asked about the situation like the locals...

What I found out surprised Kiddy...

It turned out that last year, the locals in Cork City defected to a young man who claimed to be the second son of Edward IV, Duke Richard of York. Moreover, this young man who claimed to be Duke Richard of York was recognized and supported by the two great powers of France and Scotland.

In fact, this young man who called himself Richard Duke of York was a fake. His real name was Perkin Warbeck, a French businessman. He was under the instruction of the French and pretended to be Richard Duke of York.

The real Richard was long ago, together with Edward V, who was crucified by Richard III in the wall of the Bloody Tower of London. However, outsiders do not know the truth. Because only Richard III knew about this. But in order not to bear the bad reputation of regicide, Richard III obviously would not admit it. The corpses of Edward V and Richard Duke of York were not discovered by craftsmen until the Tower of London was renovated in 1674.

Therefore, many people believe that Parkin Warbeck calls himself Richard Duke of York. The mayor of Cork and the powerful 15 powerful families decided to bet on everything so as to make a "god" of the dragon. Because Richard promised that as long as he "regained" the throne of England, the heads of these 15 families would be conferred as earls, and Mayor Cork would be directly conferred as prime minister...

With such a fool, the French and Scots testified to the fake Richard. So the powerful people in Cork, as soon as they were in a hurry, took all the men and ships of Cork, and as the fake Richard landed in England, and competed for the throne with Henry VII...

But in October 1497, the fake Richard was defeated by Henry VII. Then, the fake Richard was locked up in the Tower of London, and the unlucky powerful people in Cork were all cut off their heads by Henry VII. They didn't even go through the trial and dragged them out and chopped them out...

So, only the elderly, weak, women and children were left in Cork...

What's worse is that because the ships were taken away by fake Richard, Cork's foreign trade was paralyzed. Cork's local food did not produce local food and they all hoped to transport it from overseas. The trade was broken and the locals began to starve. In desperation, the elderly, weak, women and children in Cork had to go out to dig wild vegetables, and even eat bark and leaves to satisfy their hunger.

So, when Kidd landed, he saw a bleak city of Cork...

Cork is a very special city in Ireland. Originally, it belonged to the rule of the Desmondbön, a noble conquered by the Norman conquered nobles. However, because of its excellent port attributes, it was later granted the status of an autonomous trading city by the King of England and broke away from the rule of the Earl of Desmond.

However, because he was with the wrong master, all the main members of the 15 powerful families in the city and all the young and strong people in the city were killed by Henry VII. Therefore, the city is now in an extremely difficult situation.

Originally, someone in the city proposed to surrender to the current Earl of Desmond Morris. However, Morris has a very poor character. It is said that he became Earl of Desmond after murdering his brother James in 1487.

Therefore, many people are worried that after surrendering to Morris, they will be killed by this cruel count...

Moreover, in recent times, Morris has been fighting because the monarchs of the descendants of the Munster Kingdom were replaced in 1498. Morris wanted to annex the Brian Kingdom, but Brian definitely refused. Therefore, both sides put their energy into the fight and confronted each other on the border, so how could they have time to take care of others?

(Note: The forces in Ireland are intertwined at this time. They are mainly divided into three major forces: one is the territory directly under the British king in Dublin; the second is the nobles conquered by Norman, mainly including the Earl of Desmond, Earl of Ormond and Earl of Kildale. These Norman Counts not only recognize the rule of the British king, but also want the territory to be autonomous, and like the German princes; this third party's strength is the small kingdom in Ireland, such as the descendants of the Munster Kingdom established by the descendants of the Kingdom of Munster.

The Little Kingdom of Brian and the Little Kingdom of McCarthy established by the McCarthy family, etc.... These local small kingdoms did not obey the British kingdoms and occupied most of the Irish territory. However, they were divided into many small countries and were not unified. Therefore, it was difficult to fight against the British king. Of course, the British were also in a mess at the moment and had no time to manage Ireland. It was not until the late 16th century that they began to conquer the indigenous small kingdoms of Ireland, and they did not complete the conquest in 1609...)

Therefore, the Cork people did not look for Morris, and Morris had no time to care about other places. So, Cork became an empty city, and people had difficulty living.

Because there are no strong men, just an army can occupy this empty city...

After Kidd found out the news, he immediately boarded the ship and reported to Marin...
Chapter completed!