Marin didn't know how much reserves were for the silver mines in the Harz Mountains. However, he knew that Leibniz was an engineer at the silver mines in the late 17th century. The Lammersberg mine was mined until 1988.

Therefore, Marin is sure that the reserves of the Haz Mountain silver mine must be very large. Although I don’t know the specific amount, the amount is definitely not small. According to the reports of the spy sent by Kohler to the Harz Mountains, the ore produced locally contains about 140 grams of silver per ton. If calculated based on 27 million tons of ore, the total reserves of silver can be estimated to reach 3,780 tons, which is 100 million taels of silver.

However, this mine has been mined for more than 500 years, and now it is only more than 2,000 tons at most. However, this is also a very terrifying number.

In the future, Marin needs a large amount of silver and Ming Dynasty to trade and purchase. Therefore, Marin is now short of silver.

Although Marin had already had a plan to capture Ishimi Ginshan, the problem was that it would take several years to truly attack Japan. First, he had to send troops to help Ganfu Mizuko seize Osumi Kingdom and fight against Shimazu clan. Then, after the Shimazu clan was solved, he could free up his hands to seize Ishimi Ginshan. Moreover, even if Ishimi Ginshan was seized, he would need to organize manpower exploration, and then recruit enough personnel and add enough equipment to develop Ishimi Ginshan... and even, he needed to repair the mountain road leading to the outside world...

This whole set was not done in a few years. When Shi Jian Yinshan really produced a large amount of silver, it was probably seven or eight years later, and it was too late.

The silver mine in Harz Mountain is different. It has been developed here for hundreds of years. It is limited to technology and scale, and the output has not increased.

But one thing is that the silver mine in Harz Mountain has a complete set of facilities, and the road to the mountain is not a problem. Marin does not need to spend time building those infrastructures.

In other words, the mine can continue to produce silver after it is obtained. If Marin increases its investment, the output can be larger.

For example, Marin could use more efficient blast furnaces and fully apply the ash blowing method (Japan started to be applied to Ishimi Silver Mountain in 1533) to increase the production of silver. (In fact, Marin didn't know that there was ash blowing method in Europe. However, he had never operated a silver mine and did not know this secret. After all, in this era, the ash blowing method could also be said to be a "high technology" kept secret by silver mine owners.)

But at this time, other countries in Europe did not have more efficient blast furnaces. Marin putting blast furnaces into them would definitely improve production efficiency and obtain more silver. Then, they would use them for trade.

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In fact, before Spain mined gold and silver from the Americas in history, Europe not only had an extremely low grain output, but also had a serious shortage of precious metals such as gold and silver.

At present, the reason why many European countries are desperately trying to mix copper in silver coins is not only the intention of making huge profits in minting bad coins, but also the helplessness of insufficient silver production.

It can be said that in this era, Europe was a poor world that lacked both materials and gold and silver for minting coins.

If Marin announced the secret of high grain yields at this time, then for Europe, the consequence is that prices plummet. Because grain production is high, but the amount of money is insufficient, the only consequence is that prices plummet.

This was the case in the Ming Dynasty. The Ming Dynasty had extremely rich products, but gold and silver were scarce. Therefore, silver was very valuable, and you could buy a lot of things for a tael of silver.

However, don’t think that low prices are a good thing. Because, low prices are very difficult for ordinary people to make money, it is good to make a few taels of silver a year. Moreover, those who can make a few taels of silver a year are farmers with land at home. The tenants are even worse because most of the income has to be handed over to the landlords, and it is good to be able to leave one or two taels of silver a year.

Therefore, for the development of society, it not only requires sufficient materials, but also sufficient currency. Only with money and goods can society truly prosper.

Moreover, Malin learned the text "Carrying Three or Five Dolls in his last life, which talked about the problem of low grain and injuring farmers. Therefore, although the Beihai country has a bumper harvest of grain, Malin has been deliberately suppressing and not selling grain in large quantities. Otherwise, the price of grain would have collapsed long ago, which might cause great unrest. Fortunately, he later started a large-scale winemaking business and dealt with the backlog of grain. Otherwise, the nobles in the country would definitely be dissatisfied.

In short, governing a country is not that simple. Not only should you worry about increasing grain production, but you should also pay attention to issuing enough currency. Otherwise, economic development will definitely be restricted.

Of course, this is not a problem in later generations. Because later generations use paper money, there is no cost. Officials from all countries want to issue paper money indiscriminately, and they are not worried about not enough money or enough goods.

But in this era, because of immature anti-counterfeiting technology, we cannot mess with paper money. Otherwise, counterfeit money will fly all over the sky. Or, like the Ming Dynasty, treasure money will become straw paper...

In this case, what Marin can do is to increase the output of gold and silver to meet social needs. In addition, it is to promote and issue copper coins to meet the needs of social trade. After all, it is really impossible to find out if you use silver coins to buy small groceries...

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Of course, Marin was worried about the supply of silver, but on the other hand, he was constantly casting fake silver coins of nickel and copper, impacting the French market.

In the past two years when Marin went to the Ming Dynasty, the Beihai Mint actually minted 100 million French Transnier silver coins worth 833,000 gold coins.

After Marin came back, he waved his hand - these fake Transnier silver coins made of nickel and white copper were immediately sent to France for large-scale purchases.

As for counterfeit money, you will naturally have to spend it and replace it with goods...

Then, a large amount of French livestock, grain, and oak were purchased by the Chamber of Commerce under Marin...

There is no need to mention the animals, they can eat meat and use it for service. For example, many mules in France were bought by Marin's fake silver coins made of nickel and copper and sent to America for service.

This chapter is not over, please click on the next page to continue reading! As for grain, Marin is actually not short of it. However, because the mining of nickel and the smelting cost is much lower than that of silver, it is very low for coins. The use of large quantities of French grain is actually mainly to raise the price of French grain and make the French hungry.

You should know that in ancient times, grain production was not high. Once a country lacked food, it was easy to have an unstable situation. Although Marin's procurement of these grains was not enough to cause turmoil in France, it was enough to make the French people frightened and afraid something happened.

As for purchasing French oak, we have to mention Marin's sinister intentions...

Marin has always been worried that France will participate in the voyage because France has very strong manpower and material resources. Once the French join the game, Marin will be under great pressure.

Therefore, Marin has been suppressing France's nautical potential...

Previously, he had suggested that Edward instruct English merchant ships to pretend to be pirates to rob the French coast, plunder ships, and attack France's nautical potential when they were fine.

But this is not enough. As long as someone in the French has shipbuilding materials, they can build ships...

Therefore, Marin specially sent people to France to buy oak for shipbuilding with nickel, white, copper and fake silver coins, so that the French would lack shipbuilding materials.

Of course, this little money is not enough to make the French lack oak. Therefore, Marin asked his subordinates to use fake silver coins to purchase tall oak logs suitable for keels in France. Especially those tall oaks that were old were Marin's targets. As for those short ones, Marin looked down on them. Because even if such oak was used to build ships, they could not make big ships and could not be used as ships for sailing...

This is probably the first time in human history that currency (and counterfeit currency) has been used for such a strategic purpose...
Chapter completed!