The Rise of the European Emperor

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It's just that Marin's decision made Manager Thomas of the Beihai Chamber of Commerce in charge of ginger and brown sugar sales want to cry. why? Marin used 30,000 pounds of ginger and 60,000 pounds of brown sugar to make ginger slices this time, which made Manager Thomas feel distressed and wanted to cry.

You know, because of Marin's feat of rescuing Juan III with ginger syrup, ginger is now a famous European medicine. Its value, which has become as famous as pepper, has been fired to 10 shillings per pound. Marin spent 30,000 pounds of ginger, which is equivalent to wasting 60,000 gold coins! As for the 60,000 pounds of brown sugar, although it is not as expensive as ginger, it is worth 2 shillings per pound. In other words, Marin also wasted sugar worth 24,000 gold coins... If all these were sold, it would be 84,000 gold coins. Can Manager Thomas stop crying?

Marin was also a little dumbfounded by Manager Thomas's cry. He didn't expect that he would spend 84,000 gold coins just by moving his mouth casually, which made him extremely distressed. However, after thinking about it, he didn't regret it. Because, as long as the Holy See wins the Republic of Siena, Julius II will have reason to give him the colonial rights on the east coast of America. At that time, when the legal colonial rights are obtained, Marin will have reason to publicly drive away any ships that attempt to explore the Americas. Moreover, there will be no legal disputes with other countries in the future. Because, he has obtained the legal right to colonize America. If other countries want to get involved, it is against the law, and Marin has the right to do it.

In this era, Europeans are not as shameless as the old Americans in later generations. Under normal circumstances, everyone will still abide by the basic rules. Unless the massive amount of gold and silver in Mexico and Peru leaked out, those countries would desperately come to grab it. If it's just some land, everyone may not grab it. why? Because in this era, the land in Europe has not yet been developed, why should countries have trouble with Marin for the land?

People in later generations value territory so much because there are too many people in later generations, and every inch of territory is precious. But in this day and age, there are few people and a lot of land. Because of the small population and lack of labor force. Even if it occupies a lot of land, it cannot be developed. Unless, it is the kind of territory in the tropics where sugar cane can be grown to obtain sucrose, which is the goal everyone is pursuing.

Even England in the original history, the reason why it colonized North America in the 17th century was not for farming, but for finding gold and silver. It's just that they didn't find gold and silver later, and there were black slaves who could help them farm, and then they began to pay attention to the development of North America.

Like Spain and Portugal, they never paid much attention to farming in the colonies. Apart from planting sugar cane in some areas, they have no other agricultural development activities. For the rest, it is only to find gold and silver and trade profits...

That is to say, in this day and age, pure land is not attractive. Only gold and silver deposits and the lucrative spice trade are what European countries are staring at. Marin is just lucky, and he can pick up leaks in this era. If it is delayed for two hundred years, in the 18th century, countries began to pay attention to land development, and the competition would be fierce at that time. Just like the "Seven Years' War" between Britain and France for North America, the fight was very fierce.

After all, the British started farming in the colonies. But in fact, the British never thought about farming in the colonies at first. However, the east coast of North America occupied by the British is really suitable for farming. When the thirteen states in North America are developed, everyone will see that there is a bright future for farming in the colonies! Then, everyone swarmed up and began to fight and re-divide the colonies... Before the British succeeded in farming, everyone was looking for ore and robbing trade benefits, and did not realize the importance of farming...

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Moreover, an important prerequisite for farming in the colonies is sufficient labor. Before the rise of the black slave trade, this condition was not met. As for the native Indians? The spirit of resistance is too strong. You enslave Indians, maybe they will be killed the next day, not safe. The black slaves are different. The first generation of black slaves were very obedient and those who were disobedient were killed long ago.

With black slaves, there was agricultural prosperity in the thirteen states of North America.

But in this day and age, the Holy See forbids the sale of black slaves. In the original history, the rise of the black slave trade really began to rise only after Catholicism was defeated by Protestantism. For now, the Holy See is quite authoritative.

But who is Marin? Son-in-law of the Pope. Moreover, this guy is very cunning. When buying black slaves from the Duke of Coimbra, Marin used the name of "hire". Even, for every black slave, Marin would pretend to get an employment contract. If you check, Marin will come up with an employment contract to deal with you. You can't stop people from hiring workers, can you? There is no way to pursue this matter. But in fact, those so-called "black laborers" are all working in chains, they are black slaves...

Moreover, this product also has the idea of ​​​​Japanese and Indian labor. Therefore, he can obtain enough labor force to develop the Americas. However, if other countries want to develop colonies, they have to wait until the black slave trade is made public. As for now, unless you can learn Marin's shameless ability to forge labor contracts, or do it quietly...

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Because of the consumption of ginger and sucrose worth 84,000 gold coins, Marin's heart ached for a long time. You know, 84,000 gold coins, calculated according to the gold price of the gold coins themselves in later generations, are worth 80,000 to 90,000 soft sister coins. After such a calculation, Marin is even more painful...

However, thinking of the safety of 15,000 soldiers, Marin still has no regrets. It's just that it still hurts...

He began to blame Maximilian I in his heart, why he didn't send troops earlier. If it had been a warmer September, there wouldn't have been so much trouble.

However, Maximilian I also had his difficulties. Because of the instigation of Marin, a wicked ghost, he sent troops to occupy the eastern half of Switzerland. However, it has since fallen into a tug-of-war with the Swiss Resistance Army. Today, Maximilian I must maintain more than 10,000 troops stationed in Switzerland for a long time to prevent the Swiss from counterattacking.

Therefore, Maximilian I was unable to mobilize enough standing troops to go south to Italy. If you want to send troops to Italy, you must recruit people from the people. However, Austria's agriculture is inseparable from those folks, especially during the autumn harvest. If it affects the autumn harvest, the Habsburg family's financial income will be greatly reduced. For the poor Habsburg family, this was unbearable. Therefore, Maximilian I could only choose to lead his army south after the autumn harvest. Unless, he is willing to risk the financial collapse of Austria...

So, every family has a hard-to-recite scripture...

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Later, Marin changed his mind and stopped worrying about how much the batch of ginger and sucrose could sell, but calculated how much it cost to grow those ginger and sucrose...

So, Marin was pleasantly surprised to find that the cost was only a few thousand gold coins...

Then, Marin's heart disease healed immediately, his waist didn't hurt anymore, his legs didn't hurt anymore, and he could climb the 10th floor in one breath...

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