In fact, Marin's solution was not what he thought of, but learned from later generations. In the mid-19th century, European and American countries abolished slavery one after another. Then, the planters who owned plantations and slaves were stunned. Because the gang of black slaves said that they would not farm for them. Or, even if they were willing to help farm, they would fish for three days and dry the net for two days.
After the suppression of the whip, the unruly nature of the old blacks was exposed. As long as they made a little money, they would disappear, go to the city to have fun, eat, drink and have fun. Then, when the money was spent, they had to go find work again. As for the anger of the farmers, they had to do something? Anyway, they didn't have the courage to whip the old blacks again.
The black hired workers' behavior of coming and leaving as soon as they want to happen, if they happen during the spring plowing or autumn harvest period, they can make the farmer vomit blood. In desperation, many planters at that time learned from plantations in Southeast Asia and began to abduct honest and capable Chinese workers to help them work. It is called employment, but in fact, when Chinese workers arrive at the land, they will be strictly guarded, and the treatment is no different from slaves. However, because they signed an employment contract, they are indeed letting them go by the age of time, which also makes enthusiastic people who oppose the slave trade unable to find an excuse to object. Of course, if they are hired to the mine, few can survive after the employment expires.
It just so happened that Malin has been committed to suppressing the Russians and preventing the rise of the Russians. Therefore, this unethical trick happened to be used on the Russians.
Jacob Fuger contacted the Venetian branch with a carrier pigeon that day and asked them to inquire about the feasibility. As a result, the next day the carrier pigeon in the Venetian branch brought back the news - several Venetian merchants were willing to take over the business. But the requirement was that each Russian was rewarded with 5 gold coins...
In this way, if the 20,000 Russians were born, the Fuger family would have to pay an additional 100,000 gold coins. However, the wealthy Fuger family was nothing. In this era, the Venetians had not yet had a falling out with Turkey. They and the Genetian merchants were among the two major forces with the right to pass through the Turkish Strait. Even Marin sent a ship to transport Maomei, he had to hang the Venetian flag to gain the privilege of passing through the Turkish Strait. However, the Fuger family had no fleet and could only choose to be slaughtered by this knife.
Fortunately, the profit of developing the Tyrol silver mine is huge. Moreover, even if a Russian gives the Venetian 5 more gold coins, it will be only a dozen gold coins, which is extremely cheap. The strong one is only more than 20 gold coins per one. Twenty thousand Russian slaves are only hundreds of thousands of gold coins. For the Fuger family, which owns millions of property, it is simply not worth mentioning. Not to mention, just disposing of those small copper mines can allow the Fuger family to recover one or two million gold coins. Spending hundreds of thousands of dollars to buy mining slaves is simply drizzling.
Seeing that Jacob Fuger made up his mind to develop the Tyrol silver mine, Marin suddenly put forward a condition...
"What? Do you want to invest in technology? Lord Marin, this requirement...is a bit difficult..."
If it were copper mines, Jacob Fuger wouldn't mind Marin getting a share of the pie. However, the Tyrol Silver Mine is a famous large silver rich mine in Europe. Why should we share the profits to Marin?
Marin smiled and explained:
"Earl Jacob, let me explain first. What I call 'investment' is not to share shares of the silver mine, but to obtain the priority purchase rights of silver produced by the silver mine. You know, there is a shortage of money in Europe now, and whoever can get silver will take the initiative."
Jacob Fuger suddenly breathed a sigh of relief:
"So that's it... But I won't give you too many discounts. After all, this is silver, real money! The value is too high, and I can at most give you a low price in the market price, which will not be lower than the market price!"
Marin immediately agreed:
"I understand, I won't let you suffer. Moreover, I will only purchase silver from the Guiyin Mine for 30 years. After 30 years, I can almost control and mine the large silver mine in Japan!"
Jacob Fuger's heart was tightened. He knew that the Tyrol Silver Mine would usher in a strong competitor in 30 years. Therefore, he must explode the production capacity of the Tyrol Silver Mine as much as possible within 30 years and obtain sufficient benefits in advance.
You should know that gold and silver are naturally money. Once mined and smelted, they can be used directly as money. For the Fuger family, which is mainly based on the banking industry, the more silver mines are mined, the more capital the bank has, it means that the bank has more capital and can use it to lend.
In this era, the minimum interest rate for lending was 10% annual interest, and 20% or even 30% high-interest loans were everywhere. Getting this silver and then lending was the way for the Fuger family to get rich.
Jacob Fuger and Marin discussed that Marin's purchase of silver from the Tyrol silver mine accounted for no more than half. After all, the Fuger family was still counting on using the money to lend.
Marin naturally would not object. Even for Marin, purchasing a large amount of silver from the Tyrol silver mine was just a means of concealment. After all, he would definitely send troops to destroy the Aztec Empire of Mexico within 20 years. At that time, he would have a large number of gold and silver of unknown origin in his hands. If the source cannot be explained, it would definitely arouse suspicion from European countries. The silver priority procurement contract established with the Fuger family is a very good cover. By purchasing a large amount of silver produced by the Tyrol silver mine, he could take the opportunity to successfully whitewash the gold and silver stolen from Mexico and even the Inca Empire...
As for the technology he intends to use to "invest shares"...
"Mr. Marin, what are the techniques you mentioned for silver mining and smelting used to 'invest'? Can efficiency be greatly improved?"
Marin nodded confidently:
"Of course, that's a must!"
The technologies that Marin wants to provide to the Fuger family are mainly blast furnaces, track mine cars, and high manganese steel mills for grinding.
Rail minecarts are not a very advanced technology. In fact, in the mid-16th century, simple rail minecarts appeared in Europe. However, they were simple wooden tracks. In the 17th century, horse-drawn track minecarts appeared in Newcastle coal mines in the UK, becoming the prototype of railways.
Marin plans to provide rails with sleepers and hand-pushed minecarts with dumpers to facilitate the transportation of ore.
As for high manganese steel mill, there is nothing to say about this. Marin asked people to mix soft manganese ore with iron ore to smel high manganese steel with excellent wear resistance. It is best to use high manganese steel to make steel mills to grind the ore. At least, it is much better than the current grinding equipment, and it is also because of its wear resistance and durability. After all, abrasive tools of this era were used to grind metal ore and wear very quickly.
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Although the blast furnace and Malin's blast furnace have similar structures, its quality is actually far inferior to that of later blowers. The biggest problem is that there are no common blowers in later generations. If an ordinary bellows are used, it will not be much advanced compared to the smelting furnaces of this era.
Therefore, in order to improve the efficiency of blowing, Marin personally took action and "invented" the fan with the help of Leonardo da Vinci and other bigwigs. However, Marin had no electricity in his hand and did not want to expose the steam engine. Therefore, he took a compromise method - using the method of impacting the blades of high-level reservoirs, to drive the fan to rotate continuously and provide enough wind power for the blast furnace.
This requires building a dam and building a reservoir. Then, build one or several turbines under the dam. Then use the turbine to drive the fan to rotate continuously through the transmission belt.
After testing, the wind power of the fan driven by the turbine produced by Marin is much more than that of the hand-pulled bellows or water exhaust tanks of this era. After all, the speed of the water falling from a high place drives the turbine is much faster than that of the ordinary water exhaust tank. The water exhaust tank relies on the flowing river water to drive the wind direction, and the speed is not on the same level as the speed of the falling water from a high-level reservoir hitting the turbine. Moreover, the Tyrol Silver Mine is located at the foot of the Alps. It is easy to find a small river to build a reservoir. Even ready-made waterfalls can be found...
Chapter completed!