The Rise of the European Emperor

As a reward for sending troops to help occupy the entire island of Ireland, Edward designated the territory near Cork Harbor in the south of Ireland as a county, and in the name of County Cork, sealed it to Marin as a reward. At the same time, Marin had another title of "Earl of Cork, Ireland" on his head.

In fact, Cork City was given to Marin by Edward at the beginning as a reward for sending troops to help him seize the throne. However, at that time, apart from Wicklow County, Marin only had a separate city, Cork City, including the nearby Cockle Bay, with limited territory. The last time he sent troops to help conquer the entire island of Ireland, Edward assigned the land of more than 2,000 square kilometers around the city of Cork to him as a reward, and named it County Cork.

This County Cork is not as large as the more than 7,000 square kilometers of County Cork in later generations. The main reason is that most of the territory of County Cork in later generations is the territory of the Norman nobleman Desmond. The Earl of Desmond did not oppose Edward, and it was not easy for Edward to withdraw the Earl of Desmond. The land of more than 2,000 square kilometers was cut from the Earl of Desmond because Edward exchanged the land of the O'Brien Aboriginal family in the north of the Earl of Desmond for more than 2,000 square kilometers of land. , sealed to Marin.

Now, after Wicklow County gave Adler as a seal, this reduced version of Cork County has become Marin's main control area in Ireland.

Cork Bay outside Cork City is also a good port that Marin values ​​very much. Sending a ship from here to America will be much closer than sending a ship from the mainland to North America.

As for how the Port of Cork communicates with the mainland, it is natural to use pigeons...

The Port of Cork has a pigeon route to London, and London, and Aurich, the North Sea country, also has a pigeon route. Therefore, to order Cork Port to send a ship to North America, you only need to send pigeons from Aurich to London, and then send pigeons from London to Cork Port to convey the order.

What? You said you were worried about the message being intercepted? This is not a problem. Because Marin's secret information is generally written in Chinese, no other European countries know Chinese at all, and only a few senior spies in Marin and the Beihai State understand Chinese. Even if the carrier pigeon is intercepted and the enemy intercepts the intelligence, it is completely incomprehensible. Moreover, some encrypted information will also use more advanced Morse codes. When others read it, they are all Arabic numerals, and they will only be confused...

Therefore, through these measures, Marin can safely and boldly use carrier pigeons to communicate, contact and only the clippers in Cork Port, and contact the North American colonies.

Because of the rich forest resources near Cork Port and the need for ship maintenance, Marin simply ordered the construction of a shipyard in Cork Port, which is mainly responsible for the construction and maintenance of ships that contact the North American colonies. The mission of this shipyard is to build and repair fast ships that transmit messages and quickly contact the North American colonies.

Why did Marin spend so much time building this port and shipyard in Cork Port, Ireland? This will involve a plan of Marin...

"It's time to build a clipper ship!" After hearing that the shipyard in Cork Harbor was completed,

Marin finally made up his mind...

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Yes, Marin intends to use Cork Port, Ireland as its home port, to build and berth the most powerful type of ship to deliver messages—the clipper ship...

Anyone with a little knowledge of nautical history knows that the clipper ship is the fastest ship in the age of sailing, bar none! This kind of boat can run at a super high speed of 17 knots on the sea, and it is a sharp weapon for drag racing (boat) on the sea.

Once, the famous clipper ship "Cutty Sark" (also known as the Short Shirt) in the 19th century set a record of returning to London from Guangzhou around the Cape of Good Hope in 100 days. But now, even if Galen boats are used, it will take more than 10 months, or more than 300 days, to travel from Guangzhou to the Cape of Good Hope and return to Europe. In other words, the time spent on a clipper ship is only one-third of that of an ordinary Galen ship. In other words, the average speed of a clipper ship is three times that of a Galen ship...

Triple speed! What kind of concept is this? This means that Marin's colonization and trade activities can greatly save time!

Not only to and from China, but even across the Atlantic Ocean, the speed of the clipper ship is faster than that. Originally, it took more than a month to cross the Atlantic Ocean by using a Galen boat, and take the downwind (North Atlantic Warm Current) route from west to east, and two to three months from east to west.

But if you use a clipper ship, it takes only 13 days to cross the Atlantic Ocean, which is more than twice as fast and nearly three times faster!

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But why didn't Marin use the clipper ship before? Because he is afraid of leaking secrets! The principle of the flying shear boat is simple, Marin can make it, and others can make it when they see it!

If the clipper ship passes through the English Channel in a stately manner, it will inevitably be seen. If someone observes carefully, he will definitely be able to find the reason for the high speed of the clipper ship.

In this way, if it is imitated by others, that would be bad!

In particular, Marin was afraid that the Spaniards and Portuguese would get the clipper ship technology. Therefore, he would rather keep the flying clipper technology in his hands than take it out.

Before, even if he got Cork City and Cork Bay, Marin never thought of building and berthing a clipper ship in Cork Port. why? Because the surrounding area of ​​Cork City was the territory of the Earl of Desmond, it was easy to be monitored by the Earl of Desmond.

If they discover the characteristics of the clipper ship and tell other countries, it will be easy to leak the secret!

Therefore, Marin has not acted until Edward thanked him last year for sending troops to help occupy the entire island of Ireland, and gave him more than 2,000 square kilometers of land near Cork City, so that Marin was born in the port of Cork. The mind to set up a shipyard, build and dock clipper ships...

It should be pointed out that in this era, the island of Ireland was an out-and-out "backcountry" in Europe, and no foreign ships came over at all, so there was almost no possibility of leaking secrets.

Moreover, after the clipper ship in Cork Port went out to sea, it directly entered the Atlantic Ocean and flew towards the North American colonies, without passing through the waters of any other European countries, and not on the trade routes between England and other European countries. In this way, no one will see the clipper ship's waves and speed in the Atlantic Ocean.

At the same time, after acquiring a territory of more than 2,000 square kilometers near Cork City, Marin can set up a guard post at a long distance from Cork City on land to prevent the spies of the Earl of Desmond from seeing Cork Port Case.

In addition, Marin also ordered the blockade of Cork Port, strictly prohibiting ships from other countries and forces from approaching. Once discovered, all ships will be seized and confiscated. In this way, the possibility of ships from other countries and other forces coming to Cork Port is cut off.

In this way, in Cork Harbor, Marin's men can roam freely. Build whatever boat you want, sail whatever you want...

As long as it doesn't hit the rocks, it's basically just how the clipper ship wandered between here and the North American colonies...