The Rise of the European Emperor

Drinking afternoon tea can drive more than just tea sales. After all, to drink milk tea, in addition to tea leaves, milk and sucrose are also required. Marin can't take care of milk. After all, the black and white cows in his hands are only a few thousand, and they are slowly multiplying, and the scale will not increase for a while.

Moreover, although there are no black and white cows in other countries, it does not mean that there are no cows. Although the breed of other people's cows is slightly inferior, they can still provide milk. For nobles, raising a few cows in the manor should not be too simple.

As for sucrose, those nobles will be caught blind. After all, Europe cannot grow sugar cane because of its high latitude. Of course, beets can be grown. But in order to sell sucrose, Marin would definitely not tell them that beets can also produce sugar.

In Europe now, sucrose is not a daily commodity. In various countries, although sucrose is no longer a rare item placed in pharmacies, only the rich can enjoy it. After all, sugar isn't cheap right now.

At present, the wholesale price of cane sugar in the European market is 1 shilling per pound, which is 12 pfennigs per pound, which is 12 times the price of rye. Uh, this is the wholesale price, the retail price is 1 shilling and 6 pence per pound in areas with developed coastal transport. In inland areas, it can be as high as 2 shillings per pound...and 5 shillings are equivalent to a gold coin, that is to say, 2.5 pounds of sucrose can be exchanged for a gold coin...

Moreover, the sucrose popular in the European market is basically black granulated sugar, not even brown sugar. At this time, Marin had already brought back craftsmen who knew how to extract white sucrose by the yellow mud method from Hu Jian in the Ming Dynasty...

This time the ship brought back a whole load of white sugar...

Although it is not as white as the white sugar of the later generations, it is still a little yellowish, but it is also much, much higher than the black sugar...

Marin rolled his eyes and ordered:

"From now on, this kind of sucrose will be called 'Noble Frost Sugar', and it will only be sold to nobles! The price is 5 gold coins (25 shillings) per pound!"

Kohler and Schwartz on the one side were dumbfounded when they heard this—Nimma, when we don’t know the cost of this white sucrose? The price increased by 12.5 times all of a sudden? In their view, selling at double the price is a black heart...

Marin looked at their expressions and naturally guessed what they were thinking. So he said to them both:

"Don't spread the word about the cost. Just say that it is royal frosting sugar imported from the Far East, understand? Of course, if you two and a bunch of old brothers want to buy it, it is still the price of ordinary cane sugar, which is more than 12 times the price. , that's a rip-off price..."

The two of them breathed a sigh of relief, fortunately, they don't have to be a kid...

After all, the two of them are used to drinking afternoon tea now, how can they do without sugar? What? You said let them use brown sugar? Come on, the two of them are the top nobles in the Beihai Kingdom, if they use brown sugar for afternoon tea, won't they lose their reputation? Especially when drinking afternoon tea with other nobles, what they add is white granulated sugar... oh no, it's noble icing sugar, what you add is dark black granulated sugar... Don't you want to lose face?

Why are European spices so expensive? Wasn't this gang of nobles comparing and hyping up? You used 10 plates of pepper powder at your banquet, okay, my family banquet used 20 plates, and the guests not only eat barbecue with pepper, but also dip bread...

In this way, in this atmosphere of comparison, the nobles' finances are in deficit, and the price of spices has also skyrocketed...

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Of course, the nobles are not fools. If Marin ships this kind of white sugar in large quantities and sets the price so high, it will definitely attract the anger of others.

Therefore, Marin told Kohler:

"Tell Cuba to control the production of white sugar. Brown sugar is usually the main source, and brown sugar is used instead of brown sugar. As for white sugar, the production ratio is reduced to less than 10%, and the supply is limited..."

"Limited? Why is it limited?" Schwartz was puzzled, shouldn't more good things be produced?

Kohler has a chamber of commerce under him, so he knows a little bit, and explained:

"Things are rare and precious, this is what the Lord said before..."

Schwartz nodded in confusion,

But it has nothing to do with him, as long as it doesn't affect him. Anyway, he has no shortage of tea bricks, milk and sugar, and if others are being slaughtered, then he should not worry about it...

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Speaking of which, Marin was also speechless. Europeans these days are cheap. They obviously have honey that is much more nutritious than sucrose, so they want to eat sucrose. Eating too much sucrose can cause diabetes, but honey is much better.

Moreover, the nutrition of brown sugar is higher than that of brown sugar, and white sugar is the worst. However, the price comparison is reversed. Perhaps, in this era, there is also a concept in Europe that "foreign monks like to chant scriptures". Obviously local honey is better and healthier, but I want to eat sucrose...

Well, Marin doesn't care. He is too lazy to popularize health knowledge, and even, he will take advantage of this situation to make a lot of money. As for himself...

When entertaining guests, he always uses sucrose to make milk tea. In the future, there will definitely be a wave of advertisements for Baishatang.

However, when drinking tea from home behind closed doors, Marin was not allowed to use sucrose, but honey. At most, maple syrup is used instead of honey. Sucrose or something, let's harm other people's homes. Especially for his own children, Marin strictly forbids Caesar, Robert and Ma Yun to eat sucrose. If they want to eat sweets, they can only eat honey, and at most maple syrup. Sucrose or something, it’s not good to eat too much...

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While Marin was worrying about the "sweet" problem, a major event happened in England - the rebels were completely wiped out...

After the news came, Marin was taken aback—when did Edward become so powerful? Aren't the rebels fighting guerrillas in the mountains? So easy to be wiped out?

So, he hurriedly asked Kohler to release the pigeons and go to England to inquire about the details...

A few days later, detailed information came back...

It turned out that it was a coincidence that Edward eliminated the rebels. Originally, the remnants of the Tudor dynasty supported by the French did cause a lot of trouble in the mountains of Wales and the mountains of eastern Lancashire.

Later, Edward made a decisive decision and invited Marin's family to come to London, dispelling the rumors of his discord with Marin and stabilizing the morale of the army.

Subsequently, Edward did not manage the rebellion in Wales for the time being, but first concentrated his forces to Lancashire in the northwest to suppress the local rebels first.

The western and central parts of Lancashire are plains, and only the eastern part is mountainous with the Pennines. Unlike Wales, there are large areas of mountains, only a small part of the east is mountainous.

Based on the principle of "easy before difficult", Edward gathered 20,000 troops to encircle and suppress the eastern mountains of Lancashire, and even set fire to the mountains and sent people to cut down trees. In the end, the rebels in Lancashire were finally wiped out.

Subsequently, the army marched into the Welsh area. But Wales is much bigger than Lancashire. Lancashire covers an area of ​​only 3,075 square kilometers, with only a small amount of mountainous land. The area of ​​Wales is as high as more than 20,000 square kilometers, but the sad thing is that most of it is mountainous.

This kind of place is the most suitable for rebel activities. Under normal circumstances, it would be difficult for Edward to wipe out the rebels here. But, this time, the leader Coster sent by the remnants of the Tudor dynasty is a stick, and he cannot live without a woman. Moreover, this guy likes to go to the city to find girls...

You say that you can grab a village girl in the mountains to have a good time, but this guy just doesn't like the rustic mountain girls, but he likes the girls in the city who dress up in a foreign style...

Therefore, when fighting guerrillas in the mountains, this guy would disguise himself every other week and go to the city to find a lady...

But when people walk by the river, how can anyone not get their shoes wet? No, when Coster was looking for the local top Miss Monroe happy in Cardiff, a big city in Wales, he happened to be discovered by an enemy of the year...

This enemy is now serving in Edward's army, and this time he was sent to Cardiff to encircle and suppress the Welsh rebels. After seeing Coster, his enemy Captain Doron didn't shout. After all, he knew Coster was a master with a knife. Moreover, Coster came this time and brought seven or eight followers, all of whom were masters.

Captain Duo Lun's eyesight is not bad, he knew that if he stepped forward rashly, he would definitely be hacked to death. So, he quietly left from the women's branch, summoned hundreds of soldiers, surrounded the largest women's branch in Cardiff, and captured Coste and his entourage in one fell swoop...

Then, after being tortured, Coster didn't say anything, but one of his subordinates was a softie, who said everything and gave the hiding place of the rebels.

The next step is simple. The whole city of Cardiff was dispatched, entered the mountains and surrounded the small village where the rebels were hiding, and wiped out the Welsh rebels...

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Knowing such a dramatic plot, Marin looked at the information in his hand and was stunned for a long time...