The Rise of the European Emperor

"Pay with salt?" The representatives of Bremen and the two speakers of Lübeck and Hamburg were all stunned.

Afterwards, Heinrich, the speaker of Lübeck, changed his face and said:

"Could it be that you want to pay with salt from the salt mine in Lübeck?"

Marin nodded and said:

"That's right, I plan to pay with Lübeck's mineral salt!"

"I don't agree, you paid the salt to the people of Bremen, what should we Lübeck merchants do?" Heinrich's face changed drastically.

You must know that the salt trade in the Baltic Sea region is one of the core interests of the city of Lübeck. Heinrich's family relied on Lübeck's salt even more. If Marin gave the salt to the Bremen merchants, the Lübeck salt merchants would suffer heavy losses.

Marin waved his hand and said:

"Don't get me wrong, I'm not selling the salt to the Bremen merchants, I'm using the salt to pay for the purchase of real estate."

"Is there any difference?" Heinrich was puzzled.

Marin explained:

"What I mean is to use Lüneburg's salt as collateral for the house purchase funds. However, I will not hand over the salt directly to them. In order to protect the interests of Lübeck, my plan is this--Next, I will There will be a certificate called 'salt guide' issued. If you want to sell salt in the Lüneburg Salt Mine, you must rely on this certificate to get the salt."

"However, even if they get the salt, they can't transport the salt away. I plan to only allow the salt merchants in Lübeck to transport the salt. In other words, this certificate called 'Salt Citation' can only guarantee the certificate holder Get the salt from the Lüneburg Salt Mine. But if you want to transport the salt from the salt mine, you must be transported by the Lüneburg Salt Merchant. For this reason, I will provide the Lüneburg Salt Merchant with a bill of lading. At that time , a salt merchant in Lüneburg, holding a bill of lading, finds a Bremen merchant holding a 'salt lead', and buying salt from them is..."

Heinrich's mind was a little short, he scratched his bald hair, thought for a long time, and then said:

"You mean, you can only pick up salt from the Lüneburg Salt Mine with that 'salt guide' and the bill of lading?"

"That's right, 'Yanyin' is actually a certificate of asset substitution. However, this certificate is not qualified to sell salt. After all, this certificate is what I use to offset the account. In the end, the distribution of salt is still Give it to friends in Lüneburg to sell. To put it bluntly, let the merchants of Bremen ask you to cash it with salt."

Heinrich asked again:

"Then is there a limit on our bill of lading?"

"Of course there is,

I will provide bills of lading for equal amounts based on the previous purchase accounts of each Lübeck salt merchant. Of course, Your Excellency the Great Speaker, as the leader of Lübeck City, I will give you some extra bills of lading for you to distribute freely. After all, I also plan to expand the salt production in Lüneburg..." Marin said with a smile.

Heinrich immediately burst out with severe golden light, yes, it was golden light. Salt, that's white gold. Marin provided himself with more bill of lading quotas, which clearly made him rich! Moreover, even if he can't eat it himself, he can use those quotas as favors to win over political allies.

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Seeing that Marin and Heinrich were singing together and flirting with each other, the Bremen businessmen next to them were all depressed...

Originally, they were happy when they heard that Marin was going to give them salt. Because, if you sell salt to the Baltic Sea region, you will double your money. However, in the end, the salt was only passed through their hands, and it was still sold to Lübeck merchants, which disappointed them...

In fact, they didn't even think about it, would the Lübeck people allow others to intervene in such a big business as selling salt to the Baltic Sea region? This is the core interest of Lübeck becoming the leader of the Hanseatic League. If others dare to hand out their paws, they will definitely attract crazy blows.

In addition, it should be pointed out that the people of Lübeck transported the mineral salt from Lüneburg to the Baltic Sea region, and most of the time it was not for sale to people in the Baltic Sea region, but for pickling salted fish.

Yes, marinated salted fish and fresh meat. According to historical records, the top three commodities of the Hanseatic League are salt, herring (herring) and fresh meat. Among them, herring does not refer to live fish, but to pickled herring. Specifically, salted fish.

In this era, the Beihai fishing ground, one of the four major fishing grounds in later generations, has not actually been formed. At this time, the northern seas of Europe and the Baltic Sea were the fishing centers. In this era, the Baltic region was rich in herring. And herring is a sea fish, and it will die soon if it is out of the sea, and it will rot and deteriorate. Therefore, a large amount of salt is required to pickle herring into salted fish.

And pickling salted fish obviously does not need too high-grade salt. As long as the salt is non-toxic and non-bitter, it can be used to marinate salted fish and bacon.

Therefore, although the mineral salt produced by the Lüneburg Salt Mine is not as pure as sea salt (a small amount of mineral salt is also of good quality, but it is a high-quality product, which is supplied to nobles and wealthy businessmen), it is more than enough to pickle salted fish.

Coincidentally, because of the existence of the Stecknitz Canal, the mineral salt from Lüneburg can be easily transported to the Baltic Sea region. Therefore, such unique conditions have led to the rise of Lübeck and the prosperity of Lüneburg.

However, Cheng also salted fish, worship also salted fish. When the herring production area shifted from the Baltic Sea region to the North Sea region after 1560, Lübeck and Lüneburg declined together. And because of the arrival of the herring producing area, another area has risen completely - that is the Netherlands...

If the herring fishing grounds are not transferred to the North Sea, it will be very difficult for the Netherlands to rise. Moreover, you have to ask Lübeck if he agrees. However, with the transfer of the herring production area to the waters near the Netherlands in the North Sea, the "sea coachman" has the conditions to rise.

Therefore, history chose the Netherlands, not the Netherlands made history... Don't listen to the nonsense in "The Rise of Great Powers" that the Dutch invented a fish knife and then rose...

Really Nima nonsense, the Dutch invented the fish knife in the 14th century. However, the real rise of the Netherlands was in the late 16th century. Because, after 1560, the herring fishery came near Holland. There are only fish-cutting knives, there are not enough fish, and a G8 rises... If only fish-cutting knives are used, the Netherlands should have risen in the 14th century...

However, this can't be blamed on Yang's mother's ignorance. Because, this is what the Dutch themselves advertised. In order to show the superiority of their own nation, the Dutch must brag about the superiority of the Dutch people, such as the invention of the fish-cutting knife or something. As for the transfer of the herring production area to the North Sea in 1560, they deliberately ignored it. Otherwise, how could it appear that their ancestors were better than each other? It seems that the Dutch nation is tall?

Of course, although the main production area of ​​herring is currently in the Baltic Sea, there are actually a lot of fish in the North Sea. The main reason is that there are too few fishing boats in this era and the degree of sea development is low. Therefore, Marin's fishing volume in the North Sea is actually considerable.

In particular, Marin vigorously promoted the modern fishing technology of winch trawling, which made the North Sea country's fishing volume still considerable. Moreover, Marin also implemented a system of loans to buy large and medium-sized fishing boats, which greatly facilitated the fishing industry in the North Sea State. You must know that with the large and medium-sized fishing boats and the winch "V" type trawl, the fishermen of the North Sea State have the ability to fish in the deep sea.

In the Baltic Sea area, there are mainly too many herrings, and people can get a good harvest by casting nets casually. Moreover, herring has the habit of migrating intensively to the offshore sea during the spawning season. Experienced fishermen don't need to go deep into the sea at all. They just need to wait at the beach during the fishing season and cast their nets directly when they see migrating herring.

The so-called rise of the Dutch means that herring came to the North Sea after 1560. During the fishing season, they waited at the beach and waited for the herring to be delivered to their door for fishing... It took two hundred years for the fish-cutting knife to show its skills...

Of course, the fish-cutting knife was not useless. At least, it is indeed convenient for Dutch fishermen. However, because there were not many herring before 1560, the Netherlands has also been tepid. It wasn't until the fishing ground was moved to the door that this small knife played a role and made Holland soar into the sky.

Marin is much more advanced than them. When Europeans were still waiting for herring to migrate offshore, Marin had already let fishermen drive large and medium-sized fishing boats and use winches to trawl deep sea fishing. Because of the high efficiency of the winch trawl, the North Sea has never been short of salted fish. The serfs in the farms under Marin's command can get a lot of salted fish as nutritional supplements every year. After all, bread alone is not enough for nutrition.