King of Mercenaries Chapter 199

Published at 14th of June 2023 05:21:45 AM

On the way out of Cork City, Marin looked at the boundless sea and felt that he had few ships. Landing Cork this time, because there were no big ships, dozens of small fishing boats were used. It looked mighty, carrying a total of 1,000 people and 100 horses.

Of course, if it is to land on the beach, small fishing boats also have the advantages of small fishing boats. For example, the smaller the boat, the easier it is to reach shallow waters along the coast, making it easier to land on the beach.

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

So, after much thought, Marin decided to buy a few big ships. The so-called big ship is actually a 200-ton ship. For future generations, it must be a small boat. Even after switching to the 16th century decades later, 200 tons is still considered a small boat. This is because such a boat can run in the North Sea, and it has a weak resistance to wind and waves when it reaches the Atlantic Ocean.

Of course, Marin doesn't need a big ship now. Because, his sphere of influence extends up to the island of Ireland. What's more, here on the island of Ireland, Cork is more of a trade transit point. Until there is not enough strength and Henry VII to shake it, Marin does not intend to set his own banner.

Even though Irish princes such as Desmond and the State of East Friesland are better dealt with than East Frisian State, Marin is not planning to go to Ireland for the time being. Because the East Frisian Land in Germany is an isolated country. Marin went to attack it. No one would help East Frisian. Although the Desmond and the Kingdom of England were separated from the King, after all, they were nominal British princes. After moving the Irish princes, they were beating Henry VII's face. As the British monarch, Henry VII had no problem using tens of thousands of horses. Therefore, Marin is not an opponent at all now, or it is more practical to engage in East Friesland.

However, for Cork, Marin does not intend to give up. Because Cork City is the number one trade portal for the entire island of Ireland. Mastering here is tantamount to mastering most of the island's foreign trade, which is very profitable. Moreover, when Marin is strong enough to beat England's wrist, Cork is the bridgehead of Marin attacking the entire island of Ireland, and its position is important.

For a firmer control of Cork, a fleet of ships is definitely needed. After all, this is definitely not a small amount of traffic that controls most of the island's foreign trade. The ships needed are by no means a matter of three or two ships. At least, it needs a dozen ships, and it has to be an armed merchant ship.

For a 200-ton armed merchant ship, one or two thousand gold coins are required. For ten boats, 20,000 gold coins are required. This is only the cost of the ship. In addition, it requires the employment of a large number of sailors, as well as more skilled captains and chief mate.

In addition, several turrets need to be built in Cork Bay to prevent pirates and other forces from ravaging this place ...

To sum up, to restore the status of a trade port in Cork City, you must first drop tens of thousands of gold coins ...

With regard to money, Marin was not too worried. Needless to say, the opening of the trade routes of the Teutonic Order will bring huge profits. In Venice, there are still 250,000 gold coins available for withdrawal ...

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

Last year, in Venice, the Venetian agreed to take another 250,000 gold coins, even though he was in trouble. Marin was so busy this year that he almost forgot to withdraw money ...

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

In other words, Marin this time, can directly get 250,000 gold coins in cash, and can buy goods or artisans 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 to get money from the sea. Along the way, Marin lined up the most reliable 100 soldier **** vessels.

Because of the collapse of Charles VIII, the blockade of the French at sea has been automatically lifted. So, now Marin can safely send ships to Venice.

As for pirates? That's not a problem. Although the two warships are small, they are equipped with artillery. In addition, there are 100 veteran towns, and they can still deal with pirates.

After all, the current pirates are still not large enough. At most one or two pirate ships, the tactics are also used by the jetty to help kill. In the presence of artillery and professional armies, these pirates are scum. Only British pirates who were later equipped with "Red Cannons" could truly threaten warships. However, the kind of pirates was actually secretly supported by the British royal family and was regarded as the British reserve navy. Where can a truly pure pirate get a naval weapon like the "Hongyi Cannon"?

For now, because bronze guns are popular, and the price of copper is so expensive, most countries rarely have artillery, let alone pirates.

This time to go to Venice, Marlint tells Kohler that in addition to withdrawing money, he has to buy some urgent supplies ...

Such as soda, this thing Venice a lot. Because Venice controls trade in the central and eastern Mediterranean. Egypt is a famous source of natural soda. So, this stuff is a lot in Venice and not expensive.

However, this thing is important for glass manufacturing. So Marin was going to get Corrado to buy something for glass.

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

European glass is not cheap now, so if you really can use glass as a window, it is either aristocratic castle or church building ...

The Italian side is okay, close to the glass producing area of ​​Venice. Therefore, glass is used more often. Large churches like Italy use stained glass produced in Venice, as the windows of the church, very dazzling.

Northwest Europe, because it is far from Venice. The production of Venetian glass is manual, and the output is not much. Therefore, in Beihai, even if you have money, you can't buy good glass.

There are also glass craftsmen in the German and English regions. However, the glass they make is of poor quality and only produces green glass ...

Unlike Venice, the technique of adding manganese dioxide to neutralize the green color has been mastered. Therefore, in this era, whether it is colorless glass or stained glass, only Venice produced. The rest of Europe can only use the most common green glass. And, because of the lack of soda. The soda made in other regions is actually obtained by extracting the gray water from plants and plants, and the cost is relatively high. Therefore, the price of glass in other regions is not low. Fortunately, the capacity of Venice glass is limited. Therefore, these artisans who produce high-cost green glass have the same food ...

This time Marin sent Kohler to Venice, in addition to buying soda, another task is to buy soft manganese ore. Pyrite is mainly produced in Hungary and Romania in the Balkans.

Venetian manufacturing glass requires a lot of permanganese as an important additive to neutralize green. Marin needs permanganite, not for making colorless glass ~ www.novelhall.com ~ In fact, Marin needs permanganate for making spring steel. For example, the most common 65Mn spring steel requires some manganese. As long as there is permanganite (manganese dioxide), Marin can let artisans extract manganese. Or, simply throw the soft manganese ore directly into the steelmaking furnace and add the reducing agent to directly obtain the manganese steel. Of course, if manganese is directly added, the manganese content is difficult to control. Therefore, it is still necessary to reduce the manganese metal first, and then add a certain amount of manganese metal to the steelmaking furnace to obtain the corresponding manganese steel containing manganese ...

Of course, Kohler's task was not to ask the Venetian to buy soft manganese ore. Who is the Venetian? He's a traitor ...

If you ask the Venetian to buy soft manganese ore, wouldn't they be slaughtered? Marin's mission to Kohler was to find a way to find traders selling hafmanite in Hungary and Romania, and take over them to buy cheaper and larger amounts of hafnium ore ...

With spring steel, it is convenient for Da Vinci to wind up his clockwork and revolver rifle ... So, this matter is very important for Marin ...

In other words, although Marin sent Kohler to Venice this time, although he was under the banner of withdrawing money, in fact, he still needed to buy a large amount of soda and obtain import channels of soft manganese ore ...

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