Chapter 352: Edward Edward and Princess Margaret
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Just as Marin hid in Rome for conspiracy and conspiracy, a big event happened on the Irish island-Edward's wife Anna was born ...
As early as last year, in order to obtain more support from France, Earl Edward married the wife of French king Louis XII, who was a French noble girl, Anna.
Anna is the daughter of the Earl of Louis XII's favored court (earth without an enclave, generally granted to the king's close minister) Dult.
The Earl of Durte was originally a little country baron in the Principality of Orleans, and became a vassal of Louis XII by patting the farts of Louis XII who was then the Duke of Orleans. After Louis XII entered the Grand Order and became King of France, Durte also rose, and was promoted to Earl by Louis XII.
It's just that Louis XII is also very clear that Durte is a bullshit, nothing really learned. Therefore, the title he gave to Durte was an empty and titleless court ear (or a landless ear). The territory of the Dult family is still the original baronial territory in the Principality of Orleans. Louis XII simply gave the Duert family the place where the two barons led the border.
In other words, although the Durte family has the title of Earl, the territory is actually a relatively large baron. Therefore, the Duert family relies heavily on the rewards of Louis XII. Otherwise, the small site led by the three barons is simply not enough to maintain the expenses of an earl family.
In order to maintain the family's expenses, the Earl of Durte desperately begged Louis XII to please him. When Louis XII was worried that there was no princess of the appropriate grade to marry Count Edward, Count Duarte did not hesitate to launch his daughter Anna, let Anna marry Count Edward, who had a future, and asked Anna to take charge of Count Edward. The task of coming together with France.
In other words, in fact, although Anna is the wife of Earl Edward, at the same time, she is also a senior spy sent by France ...
Of course, Anna is not that kind of professional spy. Her main task was to persuade Earl Edward to be close to France and support Louis XII ...
On the 1st and 2nd day after the New Year in 1505, Anna gave birth to a daughter, named Margaret ...
Of course, this is not the most important. The most important thing is that on the same day, Earl Edward announced the throne and became the fourth king of the York dynasty in England (the first three were Edward IV, Edward V and Richard III), known as Edward VI. And the newly born Princess Margaret has also become a temporary crown prince (if Edward has a son, it will automatically replace Margaret as the crown prince).
However, this news did not come out. Mainly, the island of Ireland was blocked by the English fleet, and naturally no news came out. Therefore, Edward ’s enthronement ceremony did not involve any foreign guests. It was purely the participation of the military and civilians in Dublin.
The reason why Edward held this enthronement ceremony was mainly to find reasons to add officers and lords to his men, so as to attract them and help themselves through this difficulty.
After all, those mercenaries helped themselves to fight, except for money, but for the status of nobility. Therefore, although England has not yet obtained the ruling power, the territory of England has been divided by Earl Edward.
Several of his commanders were awarded the title of Earl of England. Even Margaret's men, Van Gore, were also named Baron of the Isle of Wight by him.
As for Van Gore's boss "Edison" (that is, Marin), he was also named a Earl of Devon ...
Of course, these are currently in the mirror, and there is no shadow yet. However, those real mercenaries were excited and half dead.
The mercenaries who were driven by Marin from Münster to Dublin, needless to say, must have died happily. Because they are pure mercenaries. Even those French mercenaries sent by French King Louis XII were very excited.
Why? If Edward really seized the throne of England, they would be real nobles with a seal ...
Those mercenary officers who worked for the French King were all born in aristocratic families, but most of them were non-eldest sons without inheritance rights. If the eldest son has the right to inherit, the ghost is willing to come out to take a life adventure ... Even if he comes out to take risks, he will also accompany the king to take risks, so as to gain greater credit. And like the 5,000 French mercenaries, the officers who were sent to take risks with the foreigner, Earl Edward, were basically noble children with no inheritance rights.
Without inheritance rights, it means there is no land. After they die, their children may have nothing, bearing the name of the noble descendants, and then decline from generation to generation. Even if the non-eldest son of the Earl's family, unless it is named hereditary baron, it will decline after two or three generations.
Therefore, after Edward ascended the throne, he praised these officers arbitrarily, even if he could not fulfill them yet, they were very excited. After all, Edward's strength is not small now, with tens of thousands of horses. If they really beat England, they would become big nobles ...
So, after Edward lavishly praised the soldiers, the military heart stabilized very quickly. Moreover, morale is rising. If it was not for the English fleet that could not be beaten at sea, maybe they all wanted to cross the sea and rush to England and the army of Henry VII to fight each other ...
Soon after Edward became Queen, the intelligence personnel sent by Marin had gone through all kinds of hardships and came to Dublin, where they presented Morris, the Earl of Desmond, to jointly seize the strategy of the Ormond.
Marin told Edward in the name of "Edison, President of the North Sea Chamber of Commerce" that as long as his army won the Ormond, the North Sea Chamber of Commerce's grain transport ship would bring in grain from the Shannon River to solve Edward's food crisis.
Moreover, the capture of the Omunde State itself would grab a lot of food to ease the current crisis.
After reading Marin's letter, Edward was overjoyed. Originally, he lavishly admired his men, but was forced to choose to die. Unexpectedly, the "President Edison" gave him a good suggestion that could save his life.
Moreover, Marin ’s intelligence personnel, while in East Friesland, also received information from Kohler ’s side-the Scottish army looted several counties in northern England, causing more than 300,000 people in several counties in northern England to become Refugees. The army of Henry VII is fortifying central England to prevent those refugees from going south to London.
Therefore, at this time, when sending troops to the Ormond, England could not vacate the army to attack Ireland.
These news made Edward very excited. So he quickly sent someone to contact Morris, Earl of Desmond, so that he could pretend to attack the country of Ormond on the southwestern side, attracting the army of Ormond. Edward himself, however, concentrated most of the army, intending to carry out a raid on Ormond, to fight for World War I.
As for the division of territory after the war, Edward did not care about the interest of Ormond. He only requested one-third of the land. The most important thing is to open the road of the Shannon River, so that Marin ’s grain-carrying ship can smoothly bring in the grain.
As long as Marin ’s Beihai Chamber of Commerce brought in food, all of Edward ’s problems would cease to exist.
Knowing the importance of food * Dehua gripped the hands of Marin ’s intelligence officers and said excitedly:
"If I can bring in the food, I owe Mr. Edison a life!"
"Nothing ~ www.wuxiaspot.com ~ My host is more interested in Newcastle, there are more coal mines over there ..." the intelligence officer said according to Marin's instructions.
"Understood, when things are done, in addition to the Earl of Devon, I will also seal Newcastle to Mr. Edison as the Count of Newcastle." After talking, Edward let out a sigh of relief as if the burden had been relieved.
In fact, this is exactly what Marin wanted. The reason he asked his men and Edward to ask for Newcastle was for Edward's heart.
Edward is very insecure now, and feels that everyone is counting him. Faced with the support of France and Scotland, Edward was also trembling. He was afraid that he would be picked by France and Scotland after he won England. As for the owner of the North Sea Chamber of Commerce "Mr. Edison", Edward is actually very wary.
However, after Marin asked his men to propose the Newcastle area and hinted that he was interested in those coal mines, Edward was relieved. Knowing the "bottom line" of the Beihai Chamber of Commerce, Edward relaxed his guard against the Beihai Chamber of Commerce. He will be afraid if he does not ask for help for free. Because, people like that have greater ambitions, probably for peach picking afterwards ...
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