The Rise of the European Emperor

As batches of spies spread out, all kinds of news came back from the island of Ireland with carrier pigeons. Marin frowned after reading the information...

Speaking of which, the situation on the island of Ireland is actually not very complicated. Now, there are only a dozen or so indigenous forces. Each of its forces is similar to a Japanese daimyo. To put it bluntly, he is a more powerful "village head". Among them, the most powerful O'Neill family has only one or two thousand soldiers in their hands.

However, the Irish of this era still have some barbarian features. In other words, ordinary residents can also go to the battlefield. Unlike the mainstream serf society in Europe, serfs had little fighting power.

The difference between serfs and barbarian people is that serfs were domesticated into sheep by nobles and had no spirit of resistance. And the barbarian people are more aggressive because they like freedom by nature.

For example, the O'Neill family, which is close to the territory directly under the King of England, is estimated to be able to raise thousands of soldiers during the war...

Others, such as the Dempsey family, the O'Reilly family, the Brooks family, and the O'Connor family, can each raise two to three thousand troops.

(Irish people seem to have more surnames starting with O and Mike. If you encounter a name that starts with O and mac\\\\mc, they are generally of Irish descent. Of course, the fat man O'Neill is not counted, it is a black imitating a white Take the name. For example, McDonald’s was founded by Irish descendants. The English name of McDonald’s is Mc. McCarthy is also a surname from Ireland. As mentioned earlier in this book, the McCarthy dynasty was destroyed by the protagonist.)

But the problem is that it is generally difficult for these natives to gather together to fight. They are more used to fighting in their homeland rather than uniting with other clans.

Thanks to this, the English were able to defeat each one. Otherwise, England's dispatch of 30,000 troops may not be enough.

Marin was not worried about the military strength of the Irish natives. In front of the powerful North Sea Army, the Irish natives were all scumbags.

However, the intelligence sent back by the spy made Marin frown. For, spies report, the west of the island of Ireland is perennially rainy. Fighting there, the use of firearms is very affected.

Of course, this refers to the arquebus, but it also includes artillery. After all, the current cannons are still lit with matchlocks. When it rains heavily, don't even think about firing.

The wind-up flintlock can be used, but when reloading, it must be hidden in the rainproof shed to reload to prevent the gunpowder from getting wet. Only when shooting can you not be afraid of rain.

Thanks to the Beihai country, all the gunpowder of the musketeers is sealed in oiled paper bags.

Not afraid of wet weather. If an old-school musketeer puts gunpowder in a copper pot and stirs it before the battle, the gunpowder must be damp.

But since the artillery is ignited by the fire door, there is really no way. Encountering the weather in the west of Ireland, it is called a blind eye.

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What is even more confusing is the question of how these 25,000 soldiers, including almost 20,000 civilian husbands, can shelter from the rain...

Speaking of it, ordinary soldiers are actually very easy to handle. Because, the Beihai state owns the rain-proof artifact such as the coir raincoat. But the trouble is with those nobles, including Edward himself.

It’s no problem for ordinary soldiers to wear straw raincoats woven with straw grass, but let those nobles, including the king Edward, wear straw clothes... It seems that they can’t save their face...

But these people don't wear coir raincoats, how can they protect themselves from the rain? Should military operations be stopped when it rains? These noble gentlemen are all commanders. Without them, the soldiers couldn't attack alone...

"Do you want me to get a raincoat for them?" Marin muttered depressingly.

In fact, it is not impossible to make raincoats these days. For example, using tung oil produced in the Ming Dynasty to soak cotton cloth can make waterproof oilcloth.

However, while this tarpaulin is waterproof, it is very afraid of fire. If they were shot by the opponent's rockets, the soldiers would roll in the fire. After all, tung oil is also oil, and cotton cloth is inherently flammable...

Moreover, Marin doesn't have enough tung oil and cotton cloth to make oilcloth at this moment...

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"No, I seem to have the material to make a raincoat!" Marin suddenly remembered something, something he had abandoned before like a shoe - raw rubber...

Raw rubber is rubber that has not been vulcanized and is not practical. Generally, rubber vulcanization is best carried out after the rubber latex has just been cut from the rubber tree. Because, at this time of vulcanization, sulfur is easier to spread evenly in the rubber emulsion. It is more difficult to vulcanize with raw rubber. Because raw rubber does not melt into a liquid state, it is more difficult to process. Perhaps future generations of professionals will not find it difficult, but for Marin, a chemical half-assed, the finished raw rubber is really difficult to handle. So, he planned to cut the pile of rubber blocks brought by the boat into rubber balls and distribute them to the children. Of course, it hasn't been implemented yet.

But this time, when he thought of the raincoat, the memory deep in Marin's mind was turned out-it seems that the earliest raincoat was obtained by applying rubber emulsion to the fabric. Rubber is not flammable, and wearing it on soldiers will not be afraid of being dealt with by the enemy with the method of "burning rattan armor soldiers".

Of course, Marin's idea is not right. Oilcloth made of tung oil is certainly flammable. However, as long as you take it out to cover the rain on rainy days and put it away on sunny days, there is no danger. You still wear a raincoat made of tarpaulin on sunny days, are you sick?

It would be nice to have rubber for raincoats though...

Marin also recalled an anecdote - the earliest raincoats were made by the Indians, who directly applied rubber emulsion on the clothes to achieve the purpose of waterproofing. Later, the French Freno also used this method to make the earliest raincoat, but it was not made public. Later, a British worker named McGuindus accidentally rubbed the rubber sticky material on his clothes when he was processing raw rubber sticky material (natural rubber will not melt, but will soften into a solid rubber state after high temperature). . After it dries, he suddenly finds that the clothes covered with raw rubber are waterproof. Then other workers followed suit.

However, this method of sticking raw rubber to the surface of the clothes is not effective. Because, after the rubber dries hard, it becomes brittle and easy to break.

Later, an engineer named Parkes used carbon disulfide as a solvent to dissolve the raw rubber, and then soaked the clothes in the solution. After taking it out, after the carbon disulfide component volatilized, it was made into a raincoat...

But this kind of raincoat still has disadvantages, that is, the rubber on the clothes tends to become soft and sticky when exposed to high temperature... If you wipe it with your hands at this time, the clothes will be ruined...

Therefore, later generations solved this problem by dissolving vulcanized natural rubber and making raincoats...

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Marin now has neither vulcanized natural rubber nor carbon disulfide as a solvent. However, he knows that natural rubber is not only soluble in carbon disulfide, it is also soluble in gasoline...

Marin does not have carbon disulfide, but Marin does have gasoline. Right now, Marin can receive the oil mined in Galicia every month, allowing people to fractionate gasoline, which can be used as a sharp tool for the cost of burning wood in the future.

Now, just use it to make a wave of raincoats...

Although Marin now only has raw rubber that has not been vulcanized, the raincoat he made cannot be exposed to high temperatures. But Marin is not worried, why? Because of the high latitude of the island of Ireland, there is basically no high temperature exposure.

Therefore, the raincoat he made out of raw rubber generally does not encounter the situation of semi-melting and becoming sticky. Besides, Marin can entrust noble users such as Edward to take out raincoats on rainy days...

In this way, Marin took out raw rubber blocks and gasoline, and started making the original raincoat. These raincoats are mainly for the English nobility. After all, these aristocrats don't want to wear clothes that lose face like coir raincoats on rainy days. As for the military officers of Beihai, they didn't think so. After all, Marin himself took the lead in wearing coir raincoats.

However, Marin has enough raw materials this time, so he might as well get one for each of them. After all, it's a bit embarrassing for the British nobles to see their officers wearing grass clothes...

Wait until the next time Cuba gets back vulcanized natural rubber, and then produces cooked rubber raincoats that are not afraid of high temperature exposure...

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