Stopped the laughter of the two, Scott looked at Andrew: "Then do you think we are so sure we can get Iceland?"

Andrew quickly closed the smile on his face and replied seriously: "From our current conditions, we cannot get Iceland. After all, the navy of the Kingdom of Denmark is still relatively strong! Of course, I have told the Count before that I already have some troops. If we add the warships in Norfolk, I believe we can definitely get Iceland."

Leo quickly added to the side when he heard this: "I remember that last time you didn't say that in addition to us, you also have to add the power of the Royal Navy in order to compete with the navy of the Kingdom of Denmark? Why are you changing your words so quickly now?"

Andrew replied: "I said that last time that I was worried that the Kingdom of Denmark would send all the naval forces here, but now the Kingdom of Denmark should not send all the naval forces, otherwise, their battle with the Hanseatic League would have to be quickly defeated. Once the Denmark Eastern Front was defeated, not only the land of the Kingdom of Denmark would be threatened by the Hanseatic League, and even the Russian navy would take the opportunity to enter it. So I boldly estimate that under the circumstances, the Kingdom of Denmark would give up Iceland."

After listening to Andrew's analysis, Scott nodded.

As Andrew said, the Kingdom of Denmark was under great pressure to fight against the Hanseatic League on the Eastern Front. Once it was a last resort, the Kingdom of Denmark might really give up Iceland in order to protect the interests of the Eastern Front.

Leo said worriedly: "If this is the case, that's good, but once the Kingdom of Denmark successfully resolves the conflict with the Hanseatic League, will they immediately turn around and take revenge on us?"

As soon as these words came out, Andrew immediately lost his voice.

After all, he didn't know how long the battle between the Kingdom of Denmark and the Hanseatic Alliance would last!

Andrew may not be sure, but Scott was very sure.

Because according to historical records, the Hanseatic League organized by the northern Prussian city is still very powerful. At least at this moment, the development and operation of the Hanseatic League is like a rising sun, striding towards its own prosperous period.

Even if the Hanseatic League is about to decline, it will be more than two hundred years later. Therefore, in the next two hundred years, the Hanseatic League will still lead the way in the Baltic Sea and other regions, and will continue to cause trouble for the Danes in the eastern part of the Denmark Kingdom.

Therefore, Scott was not worried that Leo's crow's mouth would come true.

Clapping his hands to stop Leo's crow's mouth, Scott said loudly: "Okay, don't think about these empty things anymore. The most important task at the moment is to quickly build the Norfolk navy, so that we can better protect the interests of our merchants."

During these days, the number of Norfolk merchants has been growing geometrically, of course, more of this is attributed to the joining of North Netherlands merchants led by Afreud and the joining of the London Chamber of Commerce led by Bard. After these two large groups joined Norfolk, the number of shops on Norfolk's streets was growing rapidly in an instant.

In addition, influenced by these two major merchant groups, other scattered small merchants also joined Norfolk. In addition, many small merchants naturally emerged in Norfolk, so the number of merchants in Norfolk has almost occupied half of the entire Kingdom of England.

Of course, there are many people and many troubles. For example, business disputes are likely to occur between Norfolk merchants and businessmen in other regions. At least in the past few days, local merchants have had dozens of business frictions with businessmen in other regions of England.

For example, pirates in the surrounding areas have also looked at the merchants in the Norfolk area. In recent times, several pirate incidents have occurred at sea, and the business of dozens of merchants has been more or less affected.

And these problems need to be solved by Scott himself.

But the fundamental solution to these problems is that Norfolk must have strong force. However, from the reality, Norfolk has no formal naval power except for the fishing army led by Simon.

Due to the actual situation, and Scott himself has been on the road of rising to fight for maritime power, building a navy has become the most urgent and important thing in the Norfolk region.

Now that Andrew and others are coming, Scott naturally wants to put this matter on the charter.

"Andrew, hurry up and organize your people to build a navy. I will give you the privileges that allow you to recruit sailors and naval soldiers in the Norfolk area. In addition, Leo will be responsible for assisting you in other things. In short, you two must develop the Norfolk Navy to me as quickly as possible. Do you understand?"

"Yes, Lord Earl." Andrew and Leo looked at each other, then nodded quickly and agreed.

Seeing that Scott was in a good mood, Andrew said again: "By the way, Lord Earl, there are some people under me who are proficient in ship construction. Do you want to take time to meet them? Then they will report to you about the construction of shipyards. I think there should be shipyards in our Norfolk area, and then we will build ships belonging to our Norfolk. Otherwise, if you always buy ships from other countries, you will be restricted by them. Maybe they will do whatever they want on the ship, and we will suffer."

Before Scott could speak, Leo said first: "Building a shipyard is very expensive. You should know that there are not many shipyards in the Kingdom of Denmark, and even shipyards in the Kingdom of Denmark are sometimes forced to shut down due to money issues. This shows that the cost is too huge! So I think this thing cannot be done at the moment and must be continued later!"

When Andrew heard this, he shook his head: "What you said is wrong. Although the shipyard is very expensive, once it is built, it will be very beneficial to the development of our Norfolk. So this matter really cannot be postponed. In addition, I have been walking on the sea all year round. I know more about how important the role of the shipyard is than you, so I have a more say in this matter than you!"

Leo said helplessly: "Of course I know that the shipyard is important, but Norfolk's finances really cannot support this matter. After all, the excavation of the canal has consumed a lot of money."
Chapter completed!