The Rise of the European Emperor

Due to the lack of metal in Persia, the price of metal is already expensive. Marin only helps mint brass coins at a slight premium based on the Persian market price. In fact, it is not much different from helping Persia mint money for free. It's just that the Persian court didn't enjoy the profit of minting. But the Persian court didn't have this business at all, so it didn't matter.

Moreover, a few hundred million brass coins sounds like a lot, but the value of copper coins is inherently low, and they belong to the least valuable low-level currency. It was exchanged for gold coins, but only a million gold coins. What's more, copper coins have value in themselves. Therefore, Marin's approach seems a bit shameless, but it helped Persia.

Persia is not a small country, but a regional power that includes later generations of Iran, Iraq, Azerbaijan and Armenia. Its status in the world is equivalent to the Three Kingdoms of later generations. It belongs to the kind of big country that is not very strong, but can not be underestimated. In such a big country, hundreds of millions of copper coins will not have much impact at all. What's more, copper coins themselves have a high value.

In addition, Marin thought he had no integrity, but the Persian businessman did not give up much. A Persian Jewish merchant, when doing business between Persia and India, found that the brass coins he used were often mistaken for gold coins.

Although the Indians can tell from the weight that this is not gold, but the appearance of the unstoppable brass is too similar to gold! Then, this guy did one thing...

What did he do? He melted the brass coins that Marin helped Persia mint, and then made them into gold jewelry and sold them to poor Indian women...

This brain hole is really strange, but really powerful!

What kind of country is India? It is a country where women like to wear gold jewelry all over their bodies. In later generations, even Indian women in the slums like to wear golden jewelry all over their bodies.

Of course, don't think that what they wear is real gold jewelry. In later generations, the gold jewelry worn by women in the slums of India was actually mostly fake gold jewelry painted with gold paint. Many are aluminum jewelry with a layer of gold paint on the outside. Those who have a little money buy low-purity low-quality gold jewelry, and the price is only half of ordinary gold.

These days, there are no high imitation gold lacquers. Therefore, there are very few fake gold jewelry with gold paint. And the gold jewelry worn by ordinary Indian women in this era is mostly low-purity low-quality gold jewelry, as long as the brightness is like gold.

This Persian Jewish businessman named Aned found that there was a market for melting brass coins to make gold jewelry, and then selling them to poor Indian women at a premium.

Women from poor families in India cannot afford real gold, but they are eager to go out with gold jewelry for comparison. Therefore, Aned's brass jewelry gave them the best choice.

Aned used several times the value of the brass coin itself,

Selling brass jewelry to poor women in India, especially those from upper caste Indian women who are economically disadvantaged, is very popular. Moreover, wearing brass jewelry all over the body is much lighter than wearing real gold jewelry. After all, copper is much lighter in density than gold.

In this way, Aned later made a lot of money by melting the brass coins that the North Sea State minted for Persia. Then, many Persian merchants started to imitate him.

It wasn't until the representatives of the North Sea State inquired about the news in Persia, and then, the unscrupulous Marin went off in person, and grabbed business with these Persian businessmen.

The Indian market is so big that using brass to make fake gold jewelry is actually very profitable. After all, there are far more poor people in India than rich people, and the needs are great. Then, Marin also obtained a channel to exchange commodities for Indian commodities, so as not to have to exchange real money for things...

In Indian society, the poor upper castes are a ridiculous group. They are as poor or not much better than the Dalits, but have a strong sense of self-esteem that the Dalits lack. In the words of the Chinese people, it is very good face, the good face of the level of "death to save face and suffer". If any woman goes out without wearing gold jewelry, it will appear that the man in this family is incompetent.

Coincidentally, the fake gold jewelry made of brass produced in Beihai can pretend to be gold jewelry. As long as you don't weigh it with your hands, you can't tell it's fake. Moreover, its price is affordable for ordinary people. Then, this market is huge... You know, Indian women even wear gold nose rings on their noses to show off their gold...

In other words, when the British colonial army of the East India Company attacked Indian cities, they would not let ordinary people go, except for the looting of the treasury. Because, at that time, there were no gold lacquer fake jewelry, and ordinary people also had jewelry made of low-purity gold. As long as you enter a house that is not too poor and open a woman's jewelry box, you can always find gold. There was an unlucky Indian woman who had a gold nose ring on her nose, but was immediately removed by the colonial army robbers, dripping with blood...

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Of course, that's for the future, and Marin doesn't know yet. He'd be jumping for joy if he knew. Because, this is a big business! All Chinese people in later generations know that women and children are especially easy to earn money. There are so many poor women in India, how much demand is there for fake gold jewelry!

This is a country that is morbidly obsessed with gold, even the poor. The fake gold jewelry and low-quality gold jewelry market in India in later generations is unbelievably large. When an Indian woman gets married, if it is not covered with a few catties of gold jewelry, she will not even be able to get married...

Later, Marin asked Kong Tai to choose a jeweler named Zhou Dafu in Daming, and took a large group of apprentices to India to make cheap brass jewelry for Marin's jewelry store. Then, a brass "gold jewelry" shop called "Daifuku" became a holy place for poor women in India. Because, there are dazzling and beautiful "gold" jewelry here, and the price is really cheap...

The most frightening thing is that Marin, the traveler, also copied the super-classic Indian song "The Bride Marries the Groom But Not Me" (actually it was a translation error, it should be called "The Burning Fire of Love"). Let a group of Indian men and women wearing "Daifu" jewelry dance in front of the jewelry store and sing "Burning Fire of Love" at the same time.

Don't ask Marin how he memorized this song, what the hell, Marin listened to this song too much in his previous life! This song is always played on any Indian dance show, whether it is in a university or a company annual meeting. This song is like the Divine Comedy of Phoenix Legend, brainwashing over and over again. Even if Marin doesn't understand Hindi, he just remembers how to sing and pronounce it...

Then, this song is a super classic Indian song. Once promoted by Daifuku Jewelry, it quickly became popular in the whole of India. And Daifuku Jewelry, following this song and the dance of the beautiful girl covered with Daifuku Jewelry, skyrocketed in India and opened many chain stores! Of course, it is not Master Zhou who makes a lot of money, but Master Ma (Ma Lin) behind it...