Chapter 236： Time to go to India to buy saltpeter

While preparing for the takeover of the Bishop of Munster by force, Marin also wanted to find a way to help Earl Edward withstand the offensive in England. After all, Earl Edward was the pillar of trouble for England. If Earl Edward fails, Britain will rise steadily.

More importantly, once Britain defeated Earl Edward and recaptured the island of Ireland, the Talashan lead-zinc mine bought by Marin was not his own.

Therefore, regardless of political or economic considerations, Marin must help Count Edward. To this end, Marin ordered the arsenal to produce 2,000 matchlock guns with calibers different from those of the East Frisian army to support Earl Edward.

The matchlock gun, although powerful in position battles. However, if a matchlock is approached by enemy forces during a positional battle, it will be easily slaughtered. In the battle of defending the city, there is no such danger. Because there is a tall city wall as a cover, the matchlock gunman can safely and easily load ammunition. Then he aimed at the enemy who attempted to climb up the city wall and shot him to death. No matter how fierce you are, once caught by the matchlock gunman while climbing the city wall, only the life of the blast is flying, and the survival rate is very low. Even if they are lucky, they will lose their fighting power for a long time.

Therefore, the matchlock gun is definitely an artifact used to defend the city ...

Marin asked the arsenal to provide Count Edward with 2,000 muskets, which would definitely be able to fire the British siege. Because, at the financial level of England, the British army mobilized a maximum of 20,000 to 30,000 Malay siege to Dublin.

If there were 2,000 matchlock guns in the city, it would easily cause thousands of casualties to the British army. If there are a lot of casualties, the British offensive will be contained and the army's heart will be shaken. In this way, the British siege of Dublin will be gone.

In addition, Marin also intends to buy sheep this time and use rye for replacement. Earl Edward now has 8,000 troops and is said to expand to 10,000. Such a huge force requires a lot of military supplies.

As it happens, Marin has a lot of food, and Earl Edward is short of food. Therefore, Marin planned to buy English sheep at a reduced price of rye. At most, the price is low and it is calculated to Earl Edward at the price of 1 Finney per pound. In this way, it also supports him in disguise. After all, Earl Edward may be more expensive if he buys food elsewhere.

Even, for the cost of buying 10,000 gold coins from Mount Tara, Marin also intends to convert it into rye and ship 600,000 pounds of rye to Earl Edward. I believe that Earl Edward will not refuse this method when there are too many people and little food.

According to Marin ’s estimate, Count Edward ’s 10,000 army needs at least 1.825 million pounds of rye in order to hold on for half a year. However, according to Van Gore, the food seized by Count Edward was only 700,000 pounds, and the gap was still large. Moreover, the siege of the British army may be more than half a year, and may be as long as 1 year. Therefore, for Earl Edward, the more grain, the better.

In addition, Marin also intends to send Earl Edward 4 large iron doors to prevent the British from learning the siege tactics of shelling + gunpowder barrel blasting.

As for the gunpowder and lead ammunition needed for the 2,000 matchlock guns, Marin did not intend to provide them. why? Because Marin's own gunpowder is not enough.

Last year's naval battle with the Danish fleet, the crazy shelling consumed half of Marin's gunpowder. Coupled with the regular use of volleyball tactics, Marin now has less than 200 tons of gunpowder left.

Right now, taking over the Bishop of Münster may trigger a war, and Marin dare not guarantee that gunpowder is enough. Coupled with the Principality of Schleswig, a large amount of gunpowder is also needed to prevent a possible counterattack by the Danish army. Therefore, Marin now has no extra gunpowder to support Count Edward.

However, another patron of Earl Edward, King Louis XVI, was able to provide a lot of gunpowder support. Because France is also a big artillery country in Europe. Before Marin equipped the Navy with hundreds of heavy artillery, the French's hundreds of army light artillery were the largest artillery group in Europe.

In order to provide enough gunpowder for these artillery, the French naturally made a lot of pits to collect nitrate. France is so large and has a large population. Although the extraction rate of soil and nitrate is not high, the number is also amazing.

I have provided a matchlock gun and let the French provide ignition powder. I would not refuse to come to Louis XII. After all, Louis XII also hoped that the British would be out of luck.

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When Marin was worried that the gunpowder was not enough, the Spanish kings sent messengers ...

It turned out that the spices of the Spanish kings were sold out. So, they decided to organize the fleet again to buy spices in India, and asked the Marin faction not to send the fleet.

Marin thought-Oh, am I short of saltpeter? Sending a fleet to India to buy saltpeter is absolutely cost-effective and large.

So, Marin immediately replied to the messenger, saying that he would send several ships to go to India with the Spanish fleet.

In fact, Marin can also send his fleet to India. However, now Spain and Portugal are in conflict because of things in India, and they are also hated by the Portuguese. If the number of ships sent by yourself is small, it is easy to be beaten by the Portuguese fleet.

After all, the Portuguese fleet is different from the Danish fleet. In this era, the Portuguese fleet has been equipped with a large number of artillery. Although the caliber is not as large as the artillery equipment of Marin's warships, but the number is larger, it can also beating Marlin's warships.

Therefore, following the Spanish fleet is the most correct choice. This is not to say that the Spanish have better maritime power than the Portuguese. It ’s because, before, Marin gave the Spanish kings a trivial idea-the Spanish kings warned Portugal that if you dare to attack my merchant ship at sea, I will send troops to siege Lisbon from the land ...

Such rogue tricks left the weak army of Portugal with no choice. Even if the Portuguese extinguished the Spanish ships at sea, as long as Lisbon was breached by Spain, then Portugal was just as finished.

Therefore, Marin let some of his own ships follow the Spanish fleet, the Portuguese are afraid to do anything. Unless, those Portuguese nobles in Lisbon are tired. After all, the Spanish Army has just defeated the French army and is in the limelight.

Moreover, this time, Marin planned to send a few more ships to India to buy more saltpetre. After all, once the artillery fires, the gunpowder is consumed too much. The volley gun consumption is much smaller than the volley gun, but the more it is used, the total consumption is not small. Therefore, it is better to be able to store more ignition powder.

In this way, Marin planned to ship eight ships and follow the Spanish fleet to India. Of course, in order to reassure Spain, Marin asked the messengers to tell the Spaniards-allow the Spaniards to inspect their goods and never buy more spices. It was originally promised that the Spaniards would only buy 50,000 pounds of spices, and that would not buy an extra pound.

Then, the rest of the vacant positions were naturally filled with supplies such as saltpeter. At the same time, Marin also plans to purchase a group of Indian slaves for the management of sugar cane and pepper cultivation on the island of Grenada. After all, there are more Indians than Europeans in growing sugar cane and pepper.

In fact, if you choose a slave, Malin Tieding will not choose a black slave. Although the black slaves are healthy, they have a loose personality and do not work well. Don't look at the big size, the work is far worse than the thin Chinese ~ www.novelhall.com ~ It's not that the black people are not strong enough, but that the black people are only physically strong, but they don't have the skills of Chinese workers. force. Therefore, in the plantation, the labor efficiency of Chinese workers is higher than that of black people.

Of course, this is also because those Chinese workers are all from China, where agriculture is developed, and farming is born. The black people, of course, are under the command of Europeans who are not very good at agriculture.

Even the Indians, the agricultural skills have also blasted Africa's old black. Although the old men are strong, they are not good at using their brains. Therefore, in later generations, African industry and agriculture are very backward. Not that black people are inherently inferior, but because these old black people are used to solving problems with their bodies and not used to use their brains. It seems that the brain will die ...

The Indians, especially those with dark skin, are the so-called untouchables. Not only honest, but also good at farming. It is much better to introduce those Indian pariahs than to introduce Lao Hei. Because those Indian pariahs are not only familiar with farming, but also more honest than black people. After all, they have been untouchables for thousands of years and are used to being humble. Unlike those African blacks, they are used to racing antelopes on the grasslands and are not used to farming. If you want to work honestly, you must be fierce to them and shackled. The inferior Indian pariah do not need to be so fierce, they will honestly accept the rule, this is their habit ...