The Rise of the European Emperor

After thinking about it, Malin finally decided to find a heir to the little prince's family whose status is not low, but the family strength is relatively poor for the eldest niece. In this way, the eldest niece can satisfy her parents' face and be a prince's wife, without affecting the situation in Beihai Kingdom.

However, in fact, Marin is also overthinking. Even if he wanted to find a strong king and prince for his eldest niece, they would not be happy. Just like Marin, the crown prince of Spain, the objects of marriage are generally princesses from major kingdoms. No matter how bad it is, she has to be the princess of a powerful prince. How could it be the niece of a prince? Although Marin canonized Adler as the Earl of Wicklow and gave Wicklow County to Adler as the earldom, it was a division within the Hoffman family, and other countries did not recognize it, but only recognized Adler Le is a high-ranking noble of Beihai Kingdom, but not a prince with independent sovereignty. Therefore, the identity of the eldest niece, little Mary, is naturally much lower than that of the daughter of the princes. Moreover, considering that the Hoffman family belongs to the nouveau riche among the princes, there are very few people who can look up to her background. Unless, it is the kind of very down-to-earth little prince who needs to hug the thigh of Beihai Kingdom...

Obviously, Marin thought so too. Therefore, he ordered Kohler to start collecting information on the very weak princes and princes, and see if the other party intends to marry.

In any case, little Mary is also the first of the third generation of the Hoffman family, and she will definitely get married earlier than Caesar. Therefore, it is indeed not too shabby to marry. Otherwise, his uncle would have no face.

Therefore, Marin directly promised that little Mary's dowry standard would be directly based on a very high standard. Its value is based on 200,000 gold coins, and his uncle will pay for it!

This decision shocked many people, and also moved the old Hoffman couple and little Mary. You know, in this era, France's annual fiscal revenue was only about 1.2 million gold coins. Marin took out 200,000 gold coins as a dowry for his eldest niece, which was equivalent to one-sixth of the annual fiscal revenue of France, the largest country in Western Europe. Those poor countries, marrying little Mary, will definitely suffer all at once.

Of course, that's not to say that Marin will take out 200,000 gold coins of real money. He intends to offset most of it with goods such as silk satin and fine china imported from the Ming Dynasty.

In this way, it is worth 200,000 gold coins on the surface, but the actual cost is only tens of thousands of gold coins. After all, these things are actually cheaper in Daming. However, to Europe, it is indeed worth 200,000 gold coins. Moreover, the dowry is all silk satin and fine china, and it is also very face. After all, in Europe, oriental silk and porcelain are the symbols of the trench. Whose dowry is a carload of oriental silk and porcelain, it is estimated that others will envy to death.

Rare is precious, and this kind of thing also happened in ancient China. During the Tang Dynasty, Chinese pepper was very expensive. Prime Minister Yuan Zai was corrupt, and he had amassed 800 stone peppers. Tang Daizong was furious when he learned that Yuan Zai's family had 800 stone peppers, and ordered the digging of Yuan Zai's ancestral tomb as a very serious punishment. No way, in the Tang Dynasty, because of the inconvenience of transportation, the extremely cheap pepper in Southeast Asia and India was also very valuable in China, just like in Europe at that time.

more expensive than gold.

Of course, this was also the time when the Arab merchants slaughtered the Tang Dynasty. When they bought pepper from India, the price of pepper was very cheap, and when it was shipped to the Tang Dynasty, the lion opened its mouth and sold it for sky-high prices. If anyone travels to the Tang Dynasty, as long as they can open up the trade routes in India and engage in the pepper trade, they are guaranteed to make a fortune.

Because, during the Tang Dynasty, Chinese people did not eat pork, but mutton. The mutton has a strong smell and needs spices, so pepper is very sought after by the powerful. In addition, the Tang Dynasty did not produce pepper, and did not engage in major voyages, and could only rely on Arab merchants to transport them, so they had to be slaughtered.

As for the subsequent drop in pepper prices, it also has a certain relationship with the popularity of pork. After all, pork isn't as stinky as mutton, and it doesn't require a lot of spice. But the real drop in pepper prices was that after Zheng He went to the West, he opened up the route to Southeast Asia.

Although the Ming Dynasty no longer sent fleets to the Western Ocean, after Zheng He opened up the shipping route, Manciga and other Southeast Asian countries kept sending tributary ships to the Ming Dynasty for tributary trade. Then, pepper prices really started to come down. In the early Ming Dynasty, pepper was still an expensive thing. By the Wanli period, there were only more than 100 wen per pound left, which could be afforded by ordinary wealthy families.

In the same way, at present Europe has not yet fully opened the Daming market, only Marin can trade with Daming by trickery, and the Portuguese have failed. Therefore, at this time, oriental silk and porcelain were naturally extremely rare luxury goods in Europe. In fact, if only the purchase price is considered, silk worth 200,000 gold coins to deteriorate the porcelain will probably only cost a few thousand gold coins in the Ming Dynasty. This is still double the super long-distance shipping and other additional costs, but it is only a fraction of the value.

Therefore, Marin said that the cost is not very high. But, to other Europeans, this is real bluntness. Because the market value of this thing will not be fake.

However, because the value of the dowry is "too high", Mrs. Mary worries that others are willing to marry little Mary just because of the dowry. Therefore, Mrs. Mary requested that the specific amount be temporarily concealed, and she only declared that it was a "very generous dowry", without stating the specific value of 200,000, so as not to scare others or attract greedy people.

Marlin rolled his eyes after hearing Mrs. Mary's concern, and said to himself, what is this? During the Western Jin Dynasty, Shi Chong and Wang Kai used expensive purple silk and colorful satin to build barriers for forty and fifty miles. Moreover, there is a saying in Chinese folk that "Ten Miles of Red Makeup". Although it is an exaggeration, in the Ming Dynasty, there were really many rich families who could afford silk and porcelain worth thousands of taels...

But this is Europe, not China, which has developed productivity. Therefore, Mrs. Mary's concern is somewhat justified. So instead of hyping the richness of the dowry, Marin only vaguely said "rich".

However, at this time, Marin had a plan for his son Caesar's wedding -- ten miles of red makeup, no discount!

Caesar is also 14 years old, and will soon be 15 years old, but Princess Margaret of England is still young, only 10 years old. But in a few years, the two can almost get married.

At that time, Marin, the father, will definitely make Caesar's wedding a legend. There was nothing I could do at the time of my wedding. At that time, it was still in the entrepreneurial period, and there was no route to the Ming Dynasty. Without that condition, I could only use inferior Lyon silk to make up the number.

But by the time Caesar and Princess Margaret got married, Marin had plenty of silk in his hands. At that time, Marin plans to learn from Shi Chong and Wang Kai, and use red silk as a barrier on both sides to really put on the posture of "Ten Mile Red Makeup", which will shock the European turtles.

By then, Marin should have thwarted French interference in his annexation of England, and no longer fear the threat of others. So, what if you show your wealth like Shi Chong and Wang Kai?