Chapter 1939: Flying Shear
As a reward for sending troops to help occupy the entire island of Ireland, Edward divided the site near Cork Harbour in the southern part of the island into a county. In the name of County Cork, Marlin was awarded as compensation. At the same time, Marin added a title of "Count of Ireland Cork".
In fact, Cork City had been sent to Marin by Edward as a reward for sending troops to help him seize the position. However, at that time, except for Wicklow County, Marin had only a separate city of Cork City, including nearby Cork Bay, with limited territory. The last time he sent troops to help conquer the entire island of Ireland, Edward classified all of the more than two thousand square kilometers of land around Cork City as his reward and named it County Cork.
This County of Cork is not as large as the County of Cork over 7,000 square kilometers. Mainly, most of the territory of the County of Cork is the site of the Norman noble Desmond. Desmond has no objection to Edward, and Edward is not good at withdrawing this country. Can more than 2,000 square kilometers of land be cut from the hands of Desmond, or is it because Edward took the site of the O'Brien indigenous family in the north of Desmond, and exchanged for more than 2,000 square kilometers of land? , To Marin.
Today, after County Wicklow gave Adler as a feudal kingdom, this small version of County Cork has become Marin's main control zone in Ireland.
The Cork Bay outside Cork City is also a good port that Marin values very much. Sending ships from here to contact America will be much closer than sending ships from home to North America.
As for how Cork Port connects with the mainland, naturally it uses homing pigeons ...
The Port of Cork has a pigeon transmission route that connects to London, and London, and Aurich, the homeland of the North Sea, also have a pigeon transmission route. Therefore, to order Cork Port to send a ship to North America, just send the pigeons from Aurich to London, and then let the pigeons from London to Cork Port to communicate the instructions.
what? Are you worried about the news being intercepted? This is not a problem. Because Marin ’s secret information is generally written in Chinese, and other European countries do not know Chinese at all. Only Marin and a few senior spies in Beihai can understand Chinese. Even if the carrier pigeons were intercepted and the enemy intercepted the intelligence, it was completely incomprehensible. Moreover, some encrypted information will use more advanced Morse code. Others have looked at it, all of which are Arabic numerals, and they will only be confused ...
Therefore, through these measures, Marin can confidently use the pigeon communications to contact the Clippers in Cork and the North American colonies.
And because of the abundant forest resources near Cork Port, and the need to repair ships, Marin simply ordered the construction of a shipyard in Cork Port, mainly responsible for the construction and maintenance of ships that contacted the North American colonies. This shipyard's mission is to build and repair express ships and quickly communicate with North American colonies.
Why did Marin spend so much money to build this port and shipyard in Cork, Ireland? This will involve a plan by Marin ...
"It's time to build a flying shear boat!" 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 the Port of Cork, Ireland as the home port, the strongest ship to build and berth to convey the news-flying shears ...
Anyone who knows a little about the history of sailing knows that flying shears are the fastest ship in the sailing era, and there is no one! This kind of boat, which can run at a super high speed of 17 knots in the sea, is a weapon for drag racing (boat) in the sea.
Once, the famous 19th-century flying shear ship "Carty Sark" (also known as the short shirt) ran out of 100 days from Guangzhou to the Cape of Good Hope and returned to London. At present, even if the Galen boat is used to return to Europe from Guangzhou at the Cape of Good Hope, it will take more than 10 months, that is, more than 300 days. In other words, the time spent on flying shears is only one-third of that of ordinary Galen ships. In other words, the average speed of the flying shears is three times that of the Galen ship ...
Triple speed! What is this concept? This means that Marin ’s colonial and trading activities can save time!
Not only travels to and from China, but even across the Atlantic, the flying shears are faster. Originally, the Galen boat was used to cross the Atlantic Ocean and take the westward-to-eastward and downwind (North Atlantic Warm Current) route.
But if you use flying shears, it will take only 13 days to cross the Atlantic, more than twice as fast and nearly three times faster!
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But why didn't Marin fly the shears before? Because he is afraid of leaking! The principle of flying shears is simple, Marin can make it, others can make it!
If the flying shears pass through the English Channel, they will inevitably be seen. If you are careful to observe carefully, you can definitely find the reason for the high speed of the flying shear.
In this way, it is not good to be copied by others!
In particular, Marin was afraid that the Spaniards and Portuguese would get the flying shear technology. Therefore, he would rather hold the flying shears technology in his hands and would never take it out.
Previously, even with Cork City and Cork Bay, Marin had never thought of building and mooring flying shears in Cork Harbor. Why? Because Cork City was surrounded by Desmond territory at that time, it was easily monitored by Desmond.
If they discover the characteristics of flying shears and tell other countries, it will be easy to leak!
Therefore, Marin did not act. Until last year, Edward Huawei thanked him 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 Port Cork. The idea of building a shipyard, building and docking flying shears ...
It should be pointed out that ~ www.wuxiaspot.com ~ In this era, the Irish island was a "backcountry" in Europe, and no foreign ships came at all, so there was almost no possibility of leakage.
Moreover, after flying out of the sea, Cork ’s flying shears directly entered the Atlantic Ocean, drove towards the North American colony, and did not pass through the waters of any other European country, nor on the trade routes between England and other European countries. In this way, no matter how the flying shears wave in the Atlantic and how fast they fly, no one sees.
At the same time, after obtaining more than 2,000 square kilometers of territory near Cork City, Marin can place a warning post on the land at a long distance from Cork City to prevent Desmond Despider from seeing Cork Port Case.
In addition, Marin also ordered the closure of the Port of Cork, prohibiting the ships of other countries and other forces from approaching. Once found, all vessels will be seized and confiscated. In this way, it also cut off the possibility of ships from other countries and other forces coming to Cork Port.
In this way, in Cork Harbor, Marin's men can just wave. Whatever ship you want to build, just go sailing ...
As long as it doesn't hit the reef, it's basically how the flying shears flew between here and the North American colony ...
