Drinking afternoon tea can drive not only the sales of tea. After all, in addition to putting tea, you also need to put milk and sugar. Marin cannot take care of milk. After all, the black and white cows in his hand are only a few thousand, and they are slowly thriving, and the scale cannot be increased for the time being.
Moreover, although other countries do not have black and white cows, it does not mean there are no cows. Although the breed of cows in other countries is slightly inferior, they can also provide milk. For nobles, it should not be too easy to raise a few cows in the manor.
The nobles are going to catch the matter of sugar sugar. After all, Europe cannot grow sugar cane because of its high latitude. Of course, beets can be grown. But in order to sell sugar sugar, Marin will definitely not tell them that beets can also produce sugar.
In Europe today, sucrose is not a daily necessity. In various countries, although sucrose is no longer a rare item placed in pharmacies, it can only be enjoyed by the rich. After all, sucrose is not cheap now.
Currently, in the European market, the wholesale price of sugar is 1 shilling per pound, that is, 12 fenny per pound, which is 12 times the price of rye. Well, this is the wholesale price, retail price, and coastal transportation areas, 1 shilling and 6 pence per pound. In the inland areas, it can be as high as 2 shilling per pound... and 5 shillings is equivalent to a gold coin, which means that 2.5 pounds of sugar can be exchanged for a gold coin...
Moreover, the popular sucrose on the European market is basically black sugar, even brown sugar. At this time, Malin had brought back craftsmen who could use the yellow mud method to improve the white sucrose technology from Hu Jian of the Ming Dynasty...
This time the ship brought back a ship of white sugar...
Although it is not as white as the white sugar in later generations and is a little yellow, it is much more advanced than black sugar...
Marin rolled his eyes and ordered:
"From the future, this sucrose is called 'noble white frosting sugar' and is only sold to the nobles! The price is 5 gold coins (25 shillings) per pound!"
Kohler and Schwartz were stunned when they heard this - Nima, when we don’t know the cost of white sugar, it suddenly increased by 12.5 times. In their opinion, selling double price is considered a bad intention...
Marin looked at their expressions and naturally guessed what they were thinking. So he said to them:
"Don't spread the cost, just say it's a royal special frosting sugar imported from the Far East. Do you understand? Of course, you two and a group of old brothers want to buy it, but the price is still the price of ordinary sugar, which is more than 12 times the price, which is a slaughter of customer prices..."
The two of them immediately breathed a sigh of relief. Fortunately, they didn't have to be Kaizi...
After all, they are used to drinking afternoon tea now. How can they not have sugar? What? Do you think they are asking them to use black sugar? Please, they are the top nobles in Beihai. If they use black sugar for afternoon tea, will it not be reduced? Especially when drinking afternoon tea with other nobles, they add white sugar... Oh no, it is a noble white frosted sugar, you add black sugar... Are you still shameless?
Why are European spices so expensive? Isn’t it the hype of these nobles? You used 10 plates of pepper at your family banquet. Okay, I used 20 plates of pepper at my family banquet. The guests not only dipped in barbecue with pepper, but also dipped in bread...
In this way, in this trend of comparison, the aristocrats' finances were deficits, and the price of spices also rose to the sky...
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Of course, the nobles are not fools. If Marin ships this white sugar in large quantities and sets the price so high, it will definitely attract others' anger.
So, Marin ordered Kohler:
"Tell Cuba that there is a way to control the sugar production. Usually, brown sugar is the main focus, and brown sugar is used instead of black sugar. As for sugar, the production ratio is reduced to less than 10%, and the supply is limited to..."
"Limited quantity? Why do you need limited quantity?" Schwartz was puzzled. Shouldn't you produce more good things?
Kohler has a chamber of commerce under his command, but he knows something and explains:
"Scarcity is precious, this is what the lord said before..."
Schwartz nodded in confusion, but it had nothing to do with him, as long as it didn't affect him. Anyway, he didn't lack tea bricks, milk and sugar, and others were slaughtered, so that was not what he should worry about...
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Speaking of which, Marin was speechless. Europeans these days are cheap. They obviously have much nutritional honey than sucrose, but they just want to eat sucrose. If you eat too much sucrose, you will get diabetes, while honey is much better.
Moreover, black sugar is more nutritious than brown sugar, and white sugar is the worst. However, the price is reversed. Perhaps, in this era, Europe also had the concept of "foreign monks are good at chanting scriptures". It is obvious that local honey is better and healthier, but I have to eat sugar...
Well, Marin doesn't care. He is too lazy to popularize health knowledge, and he will even use this situation to make more money. As for himself...
When entertaining guests, he uses sucrose to make milk tea. In the future, he will definitely be indispensable for advertising white sugar.
However, when drinking tea from home, Marin did not allow sucrose to be used, but honey. At most, maple syrup is used instead of honey. Sucrose or something, it is better to harm others' homes. Especially for their own children, Marin strictly prohibits Caesar, Robert and Jack Ma from eating sucrose. If you want to eat sweets, you can only eat honey. At most, maple syrup is not good to eat sucrose or something...
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Just as Marin was worried about the "sweet" problem, something big happened in England - the rebels were completely wiped out...
After the news came, Marin was shocked - When did Edward become so powerful? Didn’t the rebels fight guerrillas in the mountains? So easily destroyed?
So he hurriedly asked Kohler to release the carrier pigeon and go to England to inquire about the details...
A few days later, the detailed information was sent back...
It turned out that Edward's elimination of the rebels was actually a coincidence. Originally, the remnants of the Tudor dynasty supported by the French did cause considerable storms in the mountains of Wales and the mountains in eastern Lancashire.
This chapter is not finished yet, please click on the next page to continue reading the exciting content behind! Later, Edward made a quick decision and asked Marlin's family to come to London, breaking the rumors of his disagreement with Marlin and stabilizing the morale of the army.
Afterwards, Edward did not care about the rebellion in the Wales area for the time being, but instead concentrated his troops to Lancashire County in the northwest to wipe out the local rebels first.
The western and central areas of Lancashire are plains, and only the eastern areas are mountainous areas belonging to the Pennine Mountains. Unlike Wales, there are large areas of mountainous areas, and only a small part of the eastern areas are mountainous areas.
Based on the principle of "easy first and harder", Edward concentrated 20,000 troops to encircle and suppress the mountainous areas in the eastern part of Lancashire County, and even set fire to the mountains and send people to cut down trees. In the end, he finally destroyed the rebels in Lancashire County.
Then, the army entered the Wales area. However, the Wales area was much larger than Lancashire. Lancashire had an area of ​​only 3,075 square kilometers, with only a small part of the mountain. The Wales area was as high as more than 20,000 square kilometers, but sadly - most of them were mountainous.
This kind of place is most suitable for rebel activities. Generally speaking, it is difficult for Edward to wipe out the rebels here. But this time, Coaster, the leader sent by the remnants of the Tudor dynasty, was a slut, and he could not live without a woman. Moreover, this guy likes to go to the city to find a lady...
It would be fine if you say you can grab a village girl in the mountains. This guy doesn't look down on the rustic mountain girl, but he likes to dress up in a fashionable city girl...
So, when fighting guerrillas in the mountains, this guy would disguise himself every other week and go to the city to find a lady...
But when people walk by the river, how can I not wear my shoes? When Coaster was looking for the local leading Miss Monroe in Cardiff, a big city in Wales, he happened to be discovered by an enemy of that year...
This enemy is now serving in Edward's army, and this time he was sent to Cardiff to encircle and suppress the Welsh rebels. After seeing Coaster, his enemy Captain Doron did not shout. After all, he knew that Coaster was a master of swords. Moreover, Coaster brought seven or eight followers this time, all of them were masters.
Captain Doron had good eyesight and knew that he would have been killed by a random knife when he stepped forward. So he quietly left the female branch office, summoned hundreds of soldiers, surrounded the largest female branch office in Cardiff, and captured Coaster and his entourage in one fell swoop...
Then, after severe torture, Coaster did not say anything, but one of his men was a soft-boy who said everything and explained the rebels' hiding place.
Next, it was simple. The entire city of Cardiff was dispatched, and he entered the mountains and surrounded the small village where the rebels hid, and captured all the rebels in Wales...
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Chapter completed!