Of course, it will take many years for "Master Hans" to become famous. Now is not the Internet era. If something happens to a certain brand, the people who eat melons can know it as soon as possible. At present, due to the serious lag in message transmission, even if something happens, it will take several years for the news to spread.

Even some places with inconvenient transportation may never be able to hear the news of the accident. Even in areas with convenient transportation, only nearby areas will know it quickly. Then, foreign countries, the transmission time is in years. Even in the country, the transmission speed is in months, and it must be in areas with convenient transportation.

Therefore, a few months or years ago, Marin could produce the inscription "Hans" and harm his opponents. Among them, the ones Marin focused on France and Germany were hostile to Marin. Among the princes who were hostile to Marin, the Duke of Lorraine was the representative of it. Well, it is reasonable to sell the coercion made of inferior steel produced from Lorraine iron ore to the Principal of Lorraine.

But in the future, Marin may not be willing to buy Lorraine's garbage iron ore. Because the high-quality iron ore of Hilkanes in the north of Norway is already under development. When it is developed there, it can be transported back to the North Sea by ship in large quantities, thus getting rid of its dependence on Lorraine's iron ore.

However, there are also many buyers of Lorraine iron ore. After all, this is an era when pig iron ingots are rare, and iron ore is naturally a popular material.

In Western Europe, there is a lack of iron ore, and the well-known ones are Lorraine iron ore, as well as some iron ore in the UK. There are very few iron ore on the continent of Western Europe. Of course, there are also iron ore in Luxembourg and the Liege iron ore in southern Netherlands. However, no one has noticed these two iron ore before.

The Luxembourg iron ore was developed in advance under the guidance of Marin, but the scale was not large. In addition, transportation was inconvenient. After all, transportation was too troublesome in the deep inland mountains of Luxembourg iron ore, and it was far less convenient than that of Hilkness, which was right by the sea.

The Liege iron mine has not been developed yet. Moreover, Liege is located in the southern part of the Netherlands, but it is not under the rule of the Habsburg family, but is under the rule of the independent vassal state, the Bishop of Liege. Marin was unwilling to provoke the princes of the church, so he did not remind the Bishop of Liege.

The South Netherlands where Liege is located later belonged to Belgium. Liege was also the most important industrial area after Belgium's independence, and the arms industry was extremely developed. In the 19th century, Tsarist Russia ordered standard rifles in Liege. Later, the world-recorded military-industrial enterprise, FN, appeared in Liege. Its abundant FN assault rifles were famous.

In addition, there are coal mines in the Liege area, including coal and iron, which established the foundation for the rise of Liege's industry later. Even not only Liege, but also the southern part of the Liege area, which is the long-shaped area south of the Liege province in the Netherlands, but also coal mines, which is also the only coal mine area in the Netherlands.

Of course, these are small mines. By the 21st century, whether it was Belgium or the Netherlands, coal and iron ore had been dug and they all began to rely on imports. But then again, the demand for steel in this era was so small that if these small coal mines were used well, there would be great potential.

However, because Marin kept the technology strictly confidential, other European countries have not yet obtained good steel smelting technology. Even artillery is generally copper cannons. Only England has started to cast artillery, but it is not mainstream. Mainly, England is not very good at iron smelting technology now. Cast iron cannons are easier to explode than copper cannons. But England has no choice but to do so, mainly because England lacks copper ore and the copper price is very expensive. In desperation, they had to try to use iron instead of cast cannons.

In the early 16th century, England used pig iron cast guns, so their quality was very poor and their toughness was poor. It was probably until the mid-to-late 16th century that after the advancement of iron smelting technology, the quality was much better.

What we are talking about is the original historical event. Marin, a time traveler, was directly launched by the British in the 18th century and had been secretly secreted from France for many years. He directly used steel cannons, and the quality was not much better. In other words, saltpeter was short of before, which restricted the use of cannons. But now, due to the great progress in earth-normal extraction technology, the artillery of the Beihai Kingdom will be further unblocked and released powerful power...

...

On this day, Marin was instructing Kohler to send someone to the southern German region to promote the "Hans" mesh gun, but after giving the order, Kohler did not leave, but wanted to speak but stopped.

"What's wrong, Kohler, just say something!"

"That's right, Your Majesty, you ordered to build ships by drying and to urgently create a large number of ships... Well, there is a little problem..." Kohler thought for a while and said.

"Small question? What's the problem? Is it a timber problem? Didn't I arrange for North America to send a batch of timber back? Moreover, the shipyards in New York can also use this method to produce a batch of 250B ships."

"It's not a problem with wood, on the contrary, wood is not the problem. Even if it's inconvenient to ship the wood from North America, there are still wood from Norway and southern Sweden in Danes. If not, we can also buy wood from France and the Netherlands."

"What's the problem?" Marin was puzzled.

"It's a sailor problem. There are not enough sailors in our country. Hundreds of ships, one of which costs 40 sailors, and 100 ships means 4,000 people. We can build the ships quickly, but sailors can't find 4,000 people at once!"

Marin was stunned. He had only considered that he could build ships quickly, but he didn't expect that so many ships would require a lot of sailors. As for drawing from other ships, don't joke. Once the war breaks out, all ships are operated at full capacity and there are no idle ships. Therefore, 4,000 new sailors need to be recruited. But the newly recruited sailors are not able to get started so quickly. If there are hundreds of people, it would be easy to solve. If other ships squeezed, they can also withdraw some of their staff. 4,000 people... It's difficult... Especially, this newly built ship must be operated at full capacity when it comes up, and it does not give the novice sailors time to adapt. If the novice makes a mistake in operating and makes the ship hit the reef and sink, hundreds of people will die if it sinks...

"Or what if we go to England to recruit sailors? We should be able to recruit 4,000 sailors for a high price!"

England is a major sailor, with a total of tens of thousands of sailors. These sailors are not at full capacity and have a lot of free time. Because of their limited income, these sailors often play pirates and rob French merchant ships.

Of course, English merchant ships have been very uncomfortable in recent months. Because the French created the Calais ship, it poses a great threat to the English Channel. Many English merchant ships dare not take the English Channel route. Many sailors have nothing to do for the time being and often drink in the pier and tavern to cause trouble.

If you go to recruit at this time, you can recruit enough people. At worst, you can hire them at a high price. At present, there is no price revolution, and the prices in England are not high, and the daily salary of sailors is only two or three pennies. Marin pays a daily salary of 4 pennies, plus providing some alcohol, which will definitely attract many sailors.

"It's just...our rudder technology..." Kohler reminded that the ships of the North Sea have been completely replaced with easy-to-operate rudders, while ships from other countries still use crowbars to drive the tail rudders. Moreover, these English sailors have also adapted to crowbar operations and may not be suitable for the rudders.

"Then let the shipyard know that all the rudders will be replaced with old-fashioned crowbar tail rudders!" Anyway, they are consumable ships with very short lifespans, and it doesn't matter whether they are advanced or not. Perhaps, after this round of transportation, these ships can be dismantled as firewood.
Chapter completed!