Halfway through the way out of Cork City, Marin looked at the boundless sea and felt that he had few ships. This time he landed in Cork, because there were no big ships, he actually used dozens of small fishing boats. It looked huge, carrying only 1,000 people and 100 horses in total.

Of course, if you are landing on the beach, small fishing boats also have the benefits of small fishing boats. For example, the smaller the boat, the easier it is to get to the shallow water area on the coast, making it easier to land on the beach.

However, if it is transported remotely, it will be inconvenient. For example, on the way to Cork this time, two small fishing boats were almost overturned by the wind and waves.

So, after thinking about it, Marin decided to buy a few large ships. The so-called large ships are actually 200-ton ships. In the later generations, they would definitely be a small boat. Even if they were changed to the 16th century decades later, 200 tons would be considered a small boat. Because such a small boat is OK to run on the North Sea, but when it runs to the Atlantic Ocean, its wind and wave resistance is a bit weak.

Of course, Marin does not need too much ship now, because his sphere of influence extends to Ireland at most. Moreover, on the Ireland, Cork is more regarded as a trade transfer station. Before he did not have enough power to fight against Henry VII, Marin did not intend to show his own flag.

Even if the Irish princes such as Desmondb were easier to deal with than the East Friesland, Marin did not plan to go to Ireland for the time being. Because the East Friesland was an isolated country in Germany, no one would help the East Friesland when Marin attacked it. Although Desmondbb was a disinterested person from the British king, he was nominal British princes after all. If he touched the Irish princes, he would be nominal. As the British monarch, it would be fine to use tens of thousands of troops. Therefore, Marin is no match for the East Friesland now, so it is more practical to engage in the East Friesland.

However, Marin did not intend to give up Cork. Because Cork City is the number one trade portal of the entire Ireland Island. Mastering this place means mastering most of the foreign trade of Ireland, and the profits are very rich. Moreover, one day Marin has enough strength to wrestle with England, Cork is the bridgehead for Marin to attack the entire Ireland Island, and its location is important.

To control Cork more firmly, a batch of ships must be needed. After all, controlling most of the foreign trade in Ireland will definitely be quite a transportation volume. The ships needed are by no means a problem of three or two ships. At least, more than a dozen ships have to be needed, and they have to be armed merchant ships.

A 200-ton armed merchant ship costs one or two thousand gold coins. A 10 boat costs twenty thousand gold coins. This is just the cost of the ship. In addition, it also requires hiring a large number of sailors, as well as highly skilled captains, first mates, etc.

In addition, several forts are needed to be built in Cork Bay to prevent pirates and other forces from coveting this place...

In short, we have to count it. To restore Cork City's status as a trading port, we have to spend tens of thousands of gold coins first...

Marin was not too worried about money. Not to mention that the opening of the trade routes of the Teutonic Knights will bring huge profits. In Venice, there is still 250,000 gold coins to withdraw...

"Oh, why did you forget this?" Marin patted his head.

Last year, in Venice, although the Venetians were cheating, they still agreed to withdraw another 250,000 gold coins. This year, Marin was busy and almost forgot to withdraw money...

Last year, after withdrawing the money, Marin signed a document with the Venetians, agreeing to withdraw 500,000 gold coins in two years. Then, another 250,000 gold coins were counted as commodities and craftsmen, and 60,000 gold coins had been consumed.

In other words, when Marin goes this time, he can directly get 250,000 gold coins in cash and buy goods or craftsmen worth 190,000 gold coins.

After returning to Texel Island, Marin thought about it and decided to let Kohler lead the team and take the remaining two warships to Venice from the sea to withdraw money. Along the way, Marin lined up the most reliable 100 soldiers guarding ships.

Because of the death of Charles VIII, the blockade of the French at sea has been automatically lifted. Therefore, Marin can now send ships to Venice with confidence.

As for the pirates? That's not a problem. Although the two warships are not big, they are all equipped with artillery. With 100 veterans in the market, they can still deal with pirates.

After all, pirates are not yet in scale. At most one or two pirate ships are slaughtered. In front of artillery and professional army, these pirates are all trash. Only British pirates equipped with "Red Cannons" can truly threaten the warships. However, those pirates were actually secretly supported by the British royal family and were considered British reserve naval forces. How could truly pure pirates get naval combat weapons like "Red Cannons"?

As of now, because of the popular bronze cannons and the price of copper is so expensive, most countries rarely equip cannons, let alone pirates.

This time when I went to Venice, Marin specifically told Kohler that in addition to withdrawing money, he would buy some intimidating supplies...

For example, soda, there are many things in Venice. Because Venice controls trade in the central and eastern Mediterranean region. Egypt is the famous source of natural soda. Therefore, this thing is many things in Venice and is not expensive.

However, this thing is very important for glass manufacturing. So Marin is planning to buy Kohler back to make glass.

With glass, Marin can build a glass greenhouse. In addition, glass windows can be promoted...

Nowadays, glass in Europe is not cheap, so what can really afford to use glass as windows is either aristocratic castles or church buildings...

It's not bad in Italy, close to Venice, the origin of glass. Therefore, glass is used more frequently. Larger churches in Italy use stained glass produced in Venice as the church windows, which is very dazzling.

In the Northwest Europe, because it is far from Venice, the Venetian glass manufacturing is hand-made and has little output. Therefore, in the North Sea region, even if you have money, you cannot buy good glass.

There are some glass craftsmen in Germany and England. However, the glass they make is of poor quality and can only produce green glass...

Unlike Venice, we have mastered the technology of adding manganese dioxide to neutralize green colors. Therefore, in this era, whether it is colorless glass or colored glass, it is only produced in Venice. In other regions, the most common green glass can only be used. Moreover, because of the lack of soda, the soda used to make glass in other regions is actually obtained by extracting wood ash water, and the cost is relatively high. Therefore, the price of glass in other regions is not low. Fortunately, the production capacity of glass in Venice is limited. Therefore, these craftsmen who produce high-cost green glass also have a taste of food...

This time, Marin sent Kohler to Venice. In addition to buying soda, another task was to buy manganese ore. Manganese ore was mainly produced in Hungary and Romania areas of the Balkans.

The Venetians needed a lot of manganese ore to make glass, which was an important additive to neutralize green. Marin needed manganese ore, not to make colorless glass.

In fact, Marin needs manganese ore to make spring steel. For example, the most common 65Mn spring steel requires some manganese. As long as there is manganese (manganese dioxide), Marin can ask craftsmen to extract manganese. Or, simply throw the manganese ore directly into the steelmaking furnace and add a reducing agent to directly obtain manganese steel. Of course, if manganese ore is added directly, the manganese content is difficult to control. Therefore, it is better to reduce manganese metal first, and then add a certain amount of manganese metal to the steelmaking furnace to obtain the manganese steel with the corresponding manganese content...

Of course, Kohler's mission is not to ask the Venetians to buy manganese ore. Who are the Venetians? He is a profiteer...

If the Venetians were asked not to be killed by them? Marin gave Kohler the task was to find a way to find merchants selling manganese ore in Hungary and Romania, and join them to buy cheaper and larger amounts of manganese ore...

With spring steel, it is convenient for Da Vinci to do clockwork and rotor fire a musket... So, this matter is very important for Marin...
Chapter completed!