The Rise of the European Emperor

Obviously, Ismail I was unwilling to be slaughtered by the Beihai family. When the Portuguese expressed their willingness to save 50 gold coins each, he decisively bought 40 cannons from the Portuguese. Moreover, it was dismantled from the Portuguese warship in the Port of Hormuz.

Ismail I intends to let the Beihai State deteriorate the Portuguese to compete with each other, and then lower the price, so as to save him a large amount of money for gun purchases.

But Bernard Shaw, the representative of the North Sea State, did not appreciate it and insisted on not lowering the price. Moreover, he also told Ismail I that the Portuguese's artillery is not as good as ours.

Ismail I didn't believe it, but the Persians had to believe it after the Portuguese Fran cannon arrived in the port of Hormuz and tested.

From the appearance point of view, there is no difference between the French machine guns of the North Sea and the Portuguese. However, in terms of the quality of the child guns and the gap between the mother gun and the child guns, the quality of the Frang machine guns in Beihai is much higher.

Therefore, when shooting, when aiming and shooting, Beihai's Fran cannon is obviously better. With the contrast, Ismail I had to compromise. After all, as the overlord of the Middle East, he can't be greedy for cheap and buy inferior goods. Therefore, the next 220 orders were taken by Beihai State.

Then, Bernard Shaw also sold the swords and armors made in Beihai to Ismail I. However, the Persian cavalry only likes to use the Safi scimitar with a large curvature. Because this is conducive to the light cavalry cleaving the enemy.

As for plate armor, the Persians don't like it either. After all, Persian horses are about the same size as Arabian horses, which are medium-sized horses. If the rider wears plate armor, the stables will not be able to run.

Therefore, in the end, the Persians were only willing to buy light chain mail from the North Sea country. As for swords, they are only willing to import steel ingots, and then make them themselves.

Bernard Shaw was a little helpless, the chain mail was okay, and the profit was okay. However, selling steel ingots is much less profitable than selling finished swords. However, the Persians are so stubborn, and he can't help it.

The most pitiful thing is that according to the agreement reached by the North Sea State and the Portuguese, the North Sea State can only sell weapons and armor to Persia, and civilian use is not allowed. But if the Persians do this, the profits from selling weapons and armor in the future will hardly support the cost of buying horses and cattle from Persia. At that time, Beihai will have to pay cash to buy Persian cattle and sheep, which is too bad...

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After some deliberations, Ismail I basically agreed to purchase Frang machine guns, matchlock guns, chain mail and steel ingots from Beihai. As for the purchase of cannons, although he agreed to the price of 650 gold coins each, he requested to replace them with commodities. Among them, the Persian horses...

In fact, Bernard Shaw was about to open his mouth to use livestock instead.

Hearing that Ismail I offered to mention it, he pretended to reluctantly agree. Then, he began to severely lower the price...

A batch of war horses cost at least dozens or even hundreds of gold coins in Europe. But George Bernard Shaw frantically lowered the price on the grounds that "Persian horses cannot carry knights wearing full plate armor". War horses can still be sold for 20 gold coins in Turkey, and George Bernard Shaw offered Persia 10 gold coins each. As for the ordinary Persian horses (don't use the ones that are too bad), the price is only 3 gold coins.

The price of Persian horses was cheap. Although he knew that the price had been lowered, Ismail I had nothing to do. After all, Bosmado lacks a market.

Although the Mamluk dynasty of Egypt formed an alliance with Persia and was willing to buy Persian war horses in large quantities, Ismail I was not very happy.

Because, in the eyes of Ismail I, the Mamluk dynasty of Egypt is also a potential enemy. Therefore, although he agreed to sell war horses to the Egyptians, he did not want to sell too much, lest Egypt become too powerful and threaten the safety of Persia.

On the contrary, the North Sea country has no conflict of interest with Persia, and Ismail I can sell horses with confidence. Anyway, Persia doesn't have to worry about the cavalry from the North Sea Kingdom coming to Persia. Because, Turkey and many countries are separated between the two sides.

As for sea invasion? At least Ismail I knew that it was difficult to transport horses by sea ships. The possibility of transporting cavalry on a large scale is very low. It is very scary to be able to transport thousands of cavalry at a time.

There are also many cattle and sheep in Persia. For example, Persian sheep are very famous. It is, after all, the source of raw materials for Persian rugs. But Marin was not very interested in Persian cattle and sheep, and only asked for some cattle symbolically. Then, I asked for a batch of Persian black-headed sheep. Because this kind of sheep is the female parent of the famous Dorper sheep in the future. Marin was not willing to give up the famous meat sheep Dorper sheep in the future, so he naturally introduced this kind of sheep.

In this regard, Ismail I was a little puzzled. Because the Persian carpet is made of Kirk wool, not the Persian black head sheep. Strictly speaking, the Persian black head sheep is a fast-growing meat sheep, not a wool sheep. Therefore, Ismail I was a little surprised by the choice of the North Sea country.

In his opinion, the best choice is to introduce sheep for Persian wool and then learn how to weave Persian carpets. However, Beihai State wanted meat sheep instead of wool sheep, which surprised Ismail I a little.

How did he know that Beihai already had Merino sheep, the best wool sheep, and Beihai sheep, whose wool quality was slightly inferior but better adapted to the environment. Therefore, the Persian wool sheep is really not very attractive to Marin.

As for the Persian cow, Marin didn't want it originally. After all, this Persian cattle is not a good breed.

However, the purchase of zebu from India was in trouble, and Marin had to compromise...

It turned out that Marin's purchase of zebu from India was nothing at first. After all, at the beginning, the purchase volume was not large, and the Indian market could accept it.

However, with the expansion of Marin's procurement scale, it became more and more difficult to buy zebu!

why? Because India is also an agricultural country, cattle are a strategic resource. In ancient China, it was illegal to kill cattle. Although India is not so strict, it will not sell cattle casually. After all, if the cattle are sold to you, what kind of land will they get for themselves?

Later, Dekara, who was in charge of Indian trade, thought of a way - he introduced dozens of African cattle from the west coast of Africa, brought them to India, and was willing to give more money, so he managed to get the same amount from local farmers of Zebu.

It is too difficult to buy cattle from Africa. The main reason is that the level of civilization of Africans is low at the moment, and it is difficult to buy enough cattle.

But buying cattle from Persia is different. Although the proportion of Persian cattle is not large, the total number is also quite a lot. Also, Persia is close to India. It is more convenient to buy cattle from Persia, then transport them to India, and exchange zebu with Indians.

The climate in southern Persia is also relatively hot, and the local cattle are also very heat-tolerant. Shipping to India is also adaptable. Even if you don't adapt, it is acceptable to die a batch. Even if two for one, Marin is willing. After all, the zebu is the overlord of tropical rainforest survival. Use cheap Persian cattle to exchange for the most suitable Indian zebu in the tropics, this wave is not a loss!