The reason why Marin was able to handle a lot of old grains for the Spaniards was mainly because the production of spirits was suspended this year...
In the past few years, Beihai Country was fully engaged in firepower and produced too many spirits. After all, Beihai Country has produced so much grain, it can make wine vigorously. But the problem is that the price of spirits is so expensive and the market capacity is limited...
In this era, the price of grain in Europe was extremely expensive, and the spirits made from grain were naturally very expensive. However, Europe in this era was very poor. Especially in the Eastern European region, which likes the most, it is the poorest among the poor areas...
In the richest Italian region, people there do not like spirits, only like wine... So, after producing a lot of spirits with full power, the spirits are now a bit unsold.
After the spirits were unsalable, the brewery under the name of Marin, Beihai Kingdom, was filled with oak barrels filled with liquor. Fortunately, the spirits were not afraid of expired and deteriorated, and even the longer the time, the better. Otherwise, Marin would not have time to cry. This is also the reason why Marin chose to produce Erguotou in large quantities instead of beer in large quantities - Erguotou is resistant to preservation... and even beer, even cooked beer, can only be stored for 6 months. Draft beer can only be stored for a few days...
What? Do you say that the spirits are difficult to sell in Western Europe? Marin has already made a countermeasure to this point - as long as there is an order, you can blend it on site. Use strong Erguotou, combined with boiled water and maple syrup, and blend it with "royal salute" at about 20 degrees on site. Then, use canning technology to steam the packaged "royal salute" and sell it as a top noble wine...
Originally, Beihai Guo Brewery could continue to brew Erguotou. Anyway, Erguotou is not afraid of being stored for a long time. But the problem is that it seems that Beihai Guo Brewery has accumulated too much rye Erguotou. Even the oak barrels for wine are not enough...
With the grain failure last year, Marin simply suspended the production of Beihai Country Brewery this year. Just in time, a batch of old grain was left. Seeing that Spain was short of grain, it was given to the other party as favors. Of course, it was not for nothing. Although the price was not high, it was old grain. The old grain that would almost deteriorate next year... It just so happened that Spain made a lot of money because of monopolizing the Indian spice trade, and Marin now needed a lot of money. Then, the two sides hit it off...
However, Marin didn't know that at this time, Ferdinand II and his son Juan III were discussing a major issue of coin minting in the Palace of Toledo...
Juan III and the Queen looked at each other and said:
"Father, I discussed it with Margaret. I decided to use the cheap copper ingots imported from India to mint a batch of Malawi copper coins..."
Ferdinand II frowned and said:
"Juan, I know that using cheap Indian copper coins can make a huge profit. But the problem is that most European countries do not recognize copper coins now. What they want are gold and silver coins! No matter how many copper coins you mint, no one will admit it when you leave Spain!"
Juan III glanced at his wife and said confidently:
"It's nothing. At worst, we only use the newly minted copper coins for the domestic market. Then, exchange copper coins from the private sector for gold and silver coins for international trade!" Obviously, he had discussed this issue with the queen and had mature ideas.
"Then how much do you plan to cast?"
"Let's get 3.4 million first, it's worth 100,000 Riyals (1 Riyal = 34 Malawi)! When I ship more copper back from India next time, I plan to mint 34 million Malawi copper coins..."
"Puff--" Ferdinand II sprayed out a sip of tea. However, there was no one in front of him, so he didn't spray anyone.
"Ahem - you have a big appetite..."
Juan III smiled:
"This was also inspired by Marin. Since he gave us the right to trade spices, he has sent a ship to India every time with our fleet. Although he can only buy tens of thousands of pounds of spices, his ships have purchased a lot of saltpeter and copper ingots from India every time. Moreover, the Beihai Kingdom has also issued a lot of copper coins. The price of Indian copper is several times cheaper than that of Europe. We use Indian copper to cast copper coins, and the profit is very high! However, I have seen the copper coins of Beihai Kingdom. Their copper coins are very shiny and look a bit like gold coins. I don't know what they did..."
Of course he didn't know that the copper coins minted by Beihai Kingdom were zinc brass. Europeans didn't know what zinc was, so how could they cast copper coins that looked like gold coins?
With the order of Juan III, the Royal Mint of Toledo began to mint the 1513 Malawi copper coins day and night.
In fact, Juan III and Austria's Margaret have been discussing the issue of coin for a long time. Austria's Margaret is a very sensible woman. He believes that copper coins will definitely be an indispensable part of trade in the future. Because it is too inconvenient to trade with silver coins. Ordinary people only earn one or two small silver coins for a day. However, some small commodities cannot be found with silver coins... Therefore, there are still widespread barter among the people now...
After marrying into Spain, Austria Margaret was surprised to find that the Malawi copper coins created by the Spanish seemed to be very useful in private trade. At least, they are very useful in small commodity trade. Although the copper coins for bulk goods trade seem too bulky, copper coins are very convenient for small commodity trade.
What made Austrian Margaret even more tempted was that if you learn from Marin to buy copper ingots from India, it seems that the cost can be reduced by several times. Using Indian copper to mint Malawi copper coins can earn several times the profit of seigniorage...
In addition, Austria's Margaret also discovered a serious problem - every time the Spanish fleet goes to India to buy spices, it costs a lot of gold and silver. In the long run, Spain will be short of gold and silver. Even if it can use spices to earn gold and silver from European countries, then in this way, the gold and silver in Europe will become less and less... In the end, Europe will have a shortage of money...
Therefore, Austrian Margaret encouraged her husband Juan III to promote low-cost copper coins minted by Indian copper ingots in Spain. The currency minted by Indian copper ingots was used to make up for the currency shortage in the country and avoid the money shortage in Spain.
Moreover, she has a longer-term plan - to allow all Europe to accept copper coins and Spanish copper coins...
In fact, she wanted to suggest that his father, Maximilian I, promote copper coins in Austria and the Netherlands. However, Maximilian I and Prince Philip were worried about this. The main reason was that he was afraid that the blessing would come out early and no one would accept it.
Therefore, Queen Margaret simply suggested that her husband increase the issuance of Malawi copper coins in Spain. On the one hand, he used the low cost of Indian copper to make huge profits in coin minting. On the other hand, he spread the Malawi copper coins in the Kingdom of Castile, the Kingdom of Aragon and the Kingdom of Naples. Then, he spread it to the entire Italian Peninsula. Then, it affected the German region...
When people in Germany also accepted copper coins, her poor father, Maximilian I, could mint copper coins to improve the poverty of the Habsburg family. After all, there are still quite a lot of copper mines in Austria. Although many of them were mortgaged to the Fuger family, the Habsburg family and the Fuger family can still use minting copper coins to make a lot of profits. If it really doesn't work, you can also buy some cheap Indian copper through Spanish relations. To mint copper coins, it's urgent to save the emergency...
Even at the instigation of Queen Margaret, Juan III wrote a letter to Marin asking whether Marin would accept Spanish copper coins as a means of payment for food...
After receiving the letter, Malin almost vomited an old blood - Damn, do you think I didn't know that you just bought a ship of copper ingots from India and went back? Let me accept your copper coins? It's so beautiful that you...
Chapter completed!