Chapter 1087： British No. 1 Coal Owner

In addition to several high-ranking generals such as Saqqara and Siwag, many middle- and lower-level officials also need rewards. The people of the main British army led by Sivag were naturally rewarded by Edward himself. However, the rewards of the middle and lower rank officers under Marin's staff appeared very interesting.

First of all, there are two kinds of rewards this time, one is the reward of property, which is a routine; and the other is the most important reward of the land.

The rewards of property are borne by Edward, which is not wrong. After all, the battle was fought for him. Fortunately, before Edward killed all the great aristocrats in England, the copycat had a lot of benefits, but it was a bit of a family.

As for the rewards of the fiefs, especially the rewards of the fiefs of the 4th and 5th Legions under Marin, there are some special situations ...

All the rewards for the victorious soldiers of the Fourth Legion of Saqqara were handed over to Marin for arrangement. This is no problem. The problem is that the officers of the Fifth Army Corps of Permanent Residents in London have different situations in the rewards of the fiefs-Edward actually bypassed Marin and rewarded a dozen of them with very good fiefs, all near London ...

Marin's eyes suddenly narrowed-this is to dig me in the corner ...

In fact, Edward wanted to dig Marin's corner, and Marin had long known about it. While Syvag led the Fifth Army in London, Edward was secretly trying to win over the officers of the Fifth Army, seeking them to work for himself. At this point, Siwag had reported on the situation long ago.

Sivag himself was not tempted (in fact, worried that he was not an Englishman and could not be truly reused), but the composition of his Fifth Corps officers was more complicated.

At the time when the Fifth Army was formed, only a dozen Frisian officers brought by Sivagg and supported by Marin were sent by Marin. Other officers, especially middle- and lower-rank officers, are mainly native English.

However, a 10,000-man corps is divided into 8 square formations, each of which has a head and a deputy head, so there are 16 heads and deputies. Then, every 250 people is a company, so there are 40 companies with a total of 80 captains. As for the 400 25-player teams, there is no need to talk about it. The 800 team leaders and deputies are ...

Of course, Edward will not be condescending to win over the captains. What he attracted were basically 16 chief and deputy heads of the Fifth Army and 80 captains and deputies. In addition, it also attracted Siwag and his deputies ...

However, Siwag and his deputies, including the Frisian officers sent by Marin, basically did not agree to Edward's co-op. However, there are English officers in the Fifth Army. These native English officers had a stronger sense of belonging to Edward than Marin. Therefore, in the end, there were still more than a dozen square heads and company captains who accepted Edward's co-op and secretly turned to Edward. Of course, it is now on the bright side.

The dozen or so officers of the Fifth Army Corps are not chief officers. They are all deputy heads and deputy captains. Mainly, the Fifth Army ’s middle and high-level positions were occupied by Frisians. Well, those locals in England, even if they are excellent, can only serve as deputies. This is also one of the important reasons why those English officers fell to Edward. Because, Marin trusts the Frisians even more.

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After the closure of the award, Edward found Marin again and made a request that Siwag should be stationed in Edinburgh with half of the Fifth Corps soldiers.

This requirement is normal and abnormal. Normally, after taking away Scotland, England must always have enough troops stationed in Scotland in order to guarantee its rule in Scotland. The Fifth Legion had good combat effectiveness, and was sent to Edinburgh. It seemed no problem.

What is not normal is-why is it half ...

You know, the Fifth Legion has 10,000 people. Although the fighting power is the bottom of Marin ’s five legions, it is stronger than Edward ’s own King Legion. If you really value the combat effectiveness of the Fifth Army, you should send them to Edinburgh.

But the next personnel arrangement, Marin saw Edward's idea-he wanted to swallow the other half of the Fifth Army ...

According to Edward's arrangement, Siwag was stationed in Edinburgh with 5,000 Fifth Corps soldiers. But at the same time, Edward also selected 5,000 people from the recruits, added to Siwag, and stationed together in Edinburgh.

Because there were 5,000 new recruits, Edward asked him whether to arrange experienced military officers to train them? Then, the other half of the Fifth Legion, who belonged to Siwag's trusted officers, were all awesome. And the dozen deputy heads and deputy company captains who were surrounded by Edward, all stayed ...

Obviously, Edward wanted to devour half of the Fifth Legion through a series of means. And those 5,000 recruits are regarded as compensation for Marin ...

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Marin was very upset, and his face was a little bit down. Seeing this, Edward only needs to appease himself. The reason given by Edward is also very simple-he is the king of England, a powerful European country, and he cannot help without a strong and trusted legion.

Then, Edward also confessed his next plan-he planned to use these 5000 soldiers of the Fifth Legion as the theme, and then the most elite 5,000 people from the existing British Legion, and regrouped together The new British Legion. As for the other half of the soldiers who were eliminated from the former British Legion, they were reduced to local troops and were responsible for stationing in various important cities in England.

In fact, the foundation of the British Legion that Edward had originally formed was not bad. Especially the quality of soldiers is better than the Fifth Army. But the problem is mainly with the officers.

Strictly speaking, the British Legion was trained with the help of officers of the Fifth Legion such as Siwag, and everyone's training methods were very good. However, the officers of the two legions are different ...

The officers of the Fifth Legion were either cronies brought by Siwag or Marin who had drawn the most talented officers from the original army. Some phalanx leaders were originally only soldiers under Marin, but because of their good talents, they were discovered and promoted by Marin and his generals to become middle-level officers, and they were also awarded the title of knight.

The original British Legion was different. The officers of the British Legion were selected by Edward from the middle and lower noble families in England.

The problem is that Henry VII was originally a more promising monarch. Prior to this, the more capable aristocracy of the English aristocracy had basically joined the army of Henry VII. Then, because of the defeat, it was either killed or abandoned.

As a result, after Edward seized the position, the range of choices was very small-either incompetent or incompetent ... mainly because of the things that Henry VII could not see before ...

In this way, even if Edward copied the training methods of the Fifth Legion, he was still useless. One will be incompetent, exhausting the three armies. What's more, Edward's British Legion is incompetent?

Moreover, Edward had just succeeded in seizing the throne, and he did not dare to offend all the English nobility. He could only hold his nose to promote the noble children of his family to become officers.

But later, Edward also awakened-the officer is really important ...

But even so, Edward dare not easily promote talented civilians. Because, this will cause the nobility to centrifuge from him.

In the end, he could only hit Marin's Fifth Legion ...

Although it is said that many officers of the Fifth Legion were actually the migrants recruited by Marin to Siwag in England. The problem is that after Marin's promotion, they are no longer civilians, but officers who have proved their strength. In particular, as time went on, they also made achievements. If these capable officers were brought in from the Fifth Legion, those nobles would not be able to say anything. This is like a Chinese proverb-a foreign monk is good at chanting ...

If you promote civilians in England, those English aristocrats must have blown their hair-are you going to abandon the aristocracy?

However, digging people from the army of Marin in the glorious North Sea country, even the once English civilians, those English nobles are not easy to say.

Why? Because these civilians were no longer the original English civilians, they went to Marin's North Sea army and were gilded. This is equivalent to the children of a peasant family in later generations who went abroad to study at Harvard, Oxford and other universities, and it will be different when they come back ...

Moreover, if they can dig people out of Marin, those nobles can not only object, but also applaud-this is to take advantage of foreigners ... Then, the problem of those capable Fifth Legion officers was once an English civilian, but instead was Downplayed ...

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Edward verbosely said for a long time, and summed it up in one sentence-he did not dare to offend the English aristocracy and rashly promoted civilians to officers. Therefore, we can only find another way to dig people from Marin ...

Marin rolled his eyes when he heard it-Nima, if she didn't have the courage, would you harm me? Although what you said makes sense, I am unhappy. Because, my interests are damaged ...

Therefore, Marin expressed his dissatisfaction-that is not an ordinary veteran, that is, five thousand veterans who have seen blood after several wars! Uh, cough ... that ... a little less compensation ...

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Marin was originally very annoyed, but then thought about it-anyway, you made my son Caesar's wedding clothes, it would be fine for you to take advantage of it. Anyway, my son will be cheaper in the end ...

However, it would be impossible for Edward to take advantage. Therefore, it is necessary to compensate ...

Then, the two sides began to discuss how to compensate ...

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Re-enclosing the land is not feasible, because in general, the land can only be rewarded for its merits. However, if you give money, Edward can't afford it ...

How to do it? Marin left and right thought, always got enough benefits ...

Finally, he finally thought of a condition:

"Your Majesty, give me the ownership of all coal mines in England and Scotland!"

"Coal mine?" Edward was a little ignorant ...

In Europe, the land belongs to kings, nobles and churches. However, the mines are all kings. To open a mine, ordinary people must purchase mining rights from the king.

The most abundant minerals in England are probably coal mines. The Newcastle coal mine that Marin is getting is actually just an important source of British coal, not all.

Mainly, the Newcastle Coal Mine is close to the sea and has convenient sea transportation. It used to be the main source of coal in London. Therefore, it is particularly famous. Other areas, such as the steel center near Birmingham, are rich in coal resources.

Marin asked Edward for coal mines across England and even Scotland, and properly wanted to be the first coal boss of the British Isles ...

At this time, the industrial revolution has not yet begun ~ www.novelhall.com ~ Coal resources have not received much attention in the UK. Although coal cooking salt is an important industry in Britain, it is not in the hands of the king, but in the hands of local nobles. Therefore, Edward's understanding of coal is insufficient. So he nodded and agreed to Marin's request:

"Okay, I agree to give you all the coal mines in England and Scotland. Of course, the coal mines I sold before cannot be given to you. After all, that is all on file and I can't distrust the royal family."

Marin, the newly-promoted British No. 1 coal boss, waved his hand with a smile and said no problem. Of course, he had already made a plan-although those coal mines were sold, I can also withdraw them at a high price ...

Before the rise of the Industrial Revolution, the value of coal mines was not high and was not valued much. Marin intends to take advantage of the dip now and take all the coal mines in England under his ownership, and become an energy monopoly similar to Sinopec and Sinopec. When you start to promote the steam engine, you can lie in the coal mine and count the money ...

After receiving the power of attorney, Marin laughed:

"Ahaha, I am now considered the No. 1 coal boss in the UK. Resting in future generations is equivalent to an oil tycoon! In the future, I will live a luxurious life with money and cigarettes ... no, now there is no paper money ... um, Then take a bank check and light a cigarette ... "