The Rise of the European Emperor

Marin is now waiting for the autumn harvest. Once the autumn harvest is over, he can send troops to Ireland. Of course, in fact, Marin's preparations are very good, so there is no need to wait for the autumn harvest. After all, the mainland only needs to send a Sixth Army mainly composed of Scottish Highlanders to fight with Edward. The other legions didn't have to move at all.

Therefore, this actually has no effect on the autumn harvest in Beihai. However, the impact on England is still quite large. Among other things, Edward is counting on this autumn harvest to provide the military rations for this dispatch. What's more, there are 20,000 to 30,000 strong people accompanying the army, and they are also the main force in busy farming. If the troops were dispatched before the autumn harvest, those peasants who participated in the war would definitely delay the farming season. In this era without machines, people are the most valuable labor force. If troops are dispatched before the autumn harvest, it may lead to insufficient labor in England for the autumn harvest...

Moreover, this issue is particularly important for England! why? Because England is an island country with a humid and rainy climate!

Although most of the North Atlantic warm current is blocked by the island of Ireland, England is inevitably affected by the North Atlantic warm current, and the climate is warm and rainy.

If it is normal, it is nothing to be warm and rainy, but it will make people feel that the climate is suitable. However, if it rains during the autumn harvest...it would be very scary. In the absence of modern harvesters with drying equipment, in rainy England, it is necessary to race against time and hide from the weather during the autumn harvest. cat cat. Otherwise, the crops that have not been harvested in time will easily rot in the field!

Therefore, it is unlikely that Edward will waste his labor doing other things before the autumn harvest is over. Because, at the time of autumn harvest, the more labor force here in England, the better... It is better to use one word to describe the autumn harvest in rainy England-grab the harvest! Harvest before it rains...

Therefore, whether to fight Ireland is not on Marin's side, but on England's side!

In fact, there is also a reason why the English did not send troops to unify Ireland for hundreds of years. Because it was rainy there, and there were no raincoats and umbrellas in ancient Europe, it was very inconvenient for a large army to march.

Fortunately, this problem is a piece of cake for Marin. He not only introduced Huaxia's coir raincoat, but also made the raincoat of later generations, which perfectly solved the problem of rain protection.

In fact, if the rubber production is not high enough now, Marin plans to sell raincoats on a large scale. For now, because of limited rubber production, Marin only intends to sell his tunic-style raincoat among the aristocracy. When rubber production increases, selling raincoats will surely become a big business in the future. Among other things, in the rainy islands of Ireland and the British Isles, sales of raincoats are definitely not bad. The only problem is the threat of the coir raincoat. After all, the cost of coir raincoats is lower and more economical. But the only problem with the coir raincoat is that it looks too ugly and shabby, and no one with a little money will be willing to wear it. And ordinary people in this era certainly don't have the money to buy raincoats. So, I'm not worried that the raincoats won't be sold...

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And before the arrival of the autumn receipt, there was good news from Kiev, Ukraine - the city walls of Kiev and the old palace in the city were almost repaired and could be used...

Prior to this, Marin sent a more professional engineering team from Beihai to Kiev to repair the city walls and the old palace in the city in preparation for Simon's arrival.

The city of Kiev used to be the capital of the Grand Duchy of Kievan Rus hundreds of years ago, so naturally there is an old palace. But after the Grand Duchy of Kievan Rus fell to the Kipchak Khanate, the old palace in Kiev became a decoration and began to decay.

Fortunately, most European royal palaces are made of stone, which will not break down for hundreds of years. The only problem is that it needs to be repaired and refurbished.

Therefore, the engineering team sent by Marin actually did not have a large amount of work. It just cleaned up the old castle covered with moss, and then repaired the walls and ground with the cement it brought, which was almost the same.

The same is true of the city walls, and the situation of the city walls is much better than that of the old palace. Because, the walls of Kiev have been in use,

Used against the Crimeans to the south and the Muscovites to the east. Therefore, the city wall is usually maintained by people, and its usage is much better than that of the old palace. The energy and material resources spent by the engineering team on repairing the city wall were actually not too great. The main thing is that the outside of the four city gates are covered with galvanized white iron to enhance the defense.

In addition, at the city gate, the design of the bastion was added. That is to say, two protruding bastions were built on both sides of the city gate. The protruding bastion, the city gate can be seen on the battlements. When an enemy attacks the city gate, the defenders can attack the enemy who destroys the city gate on the protruding bastion. Because there are protruding bastions on both sides of the city gate, they can form a crossfire attack on the enemies who destroy the city gate. Therefore, the chances of the city gate being destroyed by the enemy are greatly reduced.

In fact, this design has already been applied in the city of Aurich. For the safety of the capital, Marin added bastions protruding from both sides of the gates to the four gates of Aurich City to better protect the gates.

With the bastion structure protruding on both sides, it is quite difficult to send people to rush under the gate to destroy the gate. Because the defenders on the bastions on both sides of the city gate will use muskets to clean up the enemies who rush to the city gate. No matter who smashes the door, or blasts the door with a gunpowder barrel, they will be taken care of by the musketeers!

In addition, Marin also remodeled the city gate of Aurich, adding the urn city, which further increased the difficulty of attacking the city. The urn city designed by Marin was not added outside the main city gate, but inside, that is, an additional city gate was set up. In this way, the difficulty of breaking through the city gate has greatly increased.

Moreover, because there are other gates inside the city gate, it is difficult for the enemy to cooperate from inside to outside. After all, if you want to seize the main entrance, you must first seize the inner door. But once the inner gate is attacked, the defenders at the outer gate will definitely be alarmed. It is not so difficult to continue to attack the outer city gate. In this way, the existence of two city gates prevents the danger of being stolen by a small group of enemy elites.

However, the design of the small urn city inside the city gate has not been done in Kiev City for the time being. The main reason is that the construction of the Wengcheng is a bit large, no less than the construction of a small castle. Moreover, the amount of demolition is a bit large. Therefore, Marin was not in a hurry to build an internal small urn city in Kiev.

In addition, the old Hoffmans were very pressed for Simon's marriage. In order to speed up the construction period, Marin planned to give up the construction of the inner small urn city in Kiev first, and let Simon take office and get married first. Then, slowly build four small urn cities...

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Simon obviously couldn't wait, because he really wanted to leave Marin and have a taste of being the boss himself.

In recent years, Marin has been affected by the death of Edward V by his uncle, and has never dared to let his brothers take control of the military. This doesn't make much sense to someone who is partial to literature like Albert, but it is uncomfortable for Adler and Simon, two militants.

Therefore, when Adler heard the news that he had the opportunity to lead the army alone on the island of Ireland, he accepted the title of Earl of Wicklow without hesitation, and went to become the toubob on the island of Ireland.

Simon is also very envious, but unlike Adler, he has the credit for giving way to Marin. Therefore, he could only stare blankly. Fortunately, Marin recently gave him a chance to be an earl there because he wanted to deploy in Ukraine, which made Simon very excited. What he is excited about is not that he can become an earl, but that he can become the commander of thousands of troops...

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After hearing that the city walls of Kiev and the old palace had been repaired, Simon excitedly came to Marin to ask for soldiers and horses so that he could escort him to Kiev to take up his post. So, Marin sent thousands of soldiers and horses to escort the elated Simon, and went to Kiev first to take office...

And once Simon is in Fan, the next step is to arrange his marriage with Princess Anna of the Lamarck family. After Simon left, the old Hoffmans also rushed to Cliff City, and began to discuss the wedding date of Simon and Princess Anna with King John II...