After repeatedly thinking about the pros and cons, Marin was surprised to find that using Sauron mercenaries to help him fight against the North American jungle was much better than using Cossacks.
The Cossacks are the king of the grassland and their combat effectiveness in the jungle is actually average. Later Cossacks were able to defeat the Sorens in Siberia because of the sharp muskets and the firearms that scare people.
Although the Sorens were brave, most of them had never seen the market. The Sorens in Heilongjiang were fine, and they fought many wars with the Qing Dynasty and were well-informed. The Sorens and the Yamaki wild people in Siberia had no knowledge at all. Even the barbaric Jurchens called them savages, which shows how barbaric and ignorant they were. The barbaric and ignorant people were not afraid of you being fierce, because they were even more fierce than you. However, the muskets that could make loud noises before were suppressed. Therefore, hundreds of Cossacks could capture a large area of ​​territory in Siberia, but on the Qing Dynasty territory, the Tsarist Russian Cossacks were repelled in Yaxa.
Many times, the Cossacks of Tsarist Russia actually hid in solid fortresses such as Yakutsk, and used muskets and artillery to counterattack the savages of the Beishan Mountain, rather than defeating the locals head-on in the jungle.
However, if the Sorens serve themselves, they will definitely be the one who has firearms, which can completely abuse the Indian natives. In addition, they can ride the Sorens horses, can quickly shuttle through the forest, and can also speed up the process of conquering the North American jungle.
The Soren people are said to have more than 100,000. If you include the wild men in the northern mountains and the savage Jurchens in the east, there are hundreds of thousands. Moreover, in addition to the Soren people, Marin can also hire the savage Jurchens close to the eastern sea. If Marin does not hire these people, he will be arrested by Nurhaci in a few decades and die as cannon fodder. It would be better to hire him to help him clear the jungle of North America.
Marin planned to introduce horses that adapted to the jungle when hiring the Sorens, so that the Sorens could fight against the North American jungle.
Don’t be too easy, as long as you can hire thousands of Soren Jungle Cavalry from the Sorens army, and add Shanghai Dongqing’s help, it’s not too easy to abuse hundreds of thousands of Indian natives in the North American jungle.
As for whether the Sorens will be out of control, Marin is not worried at all. As long as the Sorens do not change their habit of drinking strong alcohol, they cannot do without themselves. After all, the Beihai Kingdom has a lot of Erguotou, which is very attractive to the Sorens...
Malin believed that even the Qing Dynasty could control the Soren people for three hundred years without any problems, and he would not have any problems himself.
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In addition, in addition to recruiting Soren mercenaries, Marin also plans to take the opportunity to set up a castle at the former site of Yongning Temple as an important trade base.
What is Marin going to trade in the bitter and cold place? Of course it is the famous mink! Of course, wild ginseng is also the trade target.
How precious is mink? In places like the Ming Dynasty, where prices are very low, mink can be sold for more than ten taels or even dozens of taels of silver. In Europe, mink is even more expensive.
In Europe, a complete ordinary mink can be sold for 100 shillings, which is about 20 gold coins. In the current European gold-silver exchange ratio, 20 gold coins are about 22.9 taels of silver, which is about 23 taels of silver, which is more expensive than the Ming Dynasty.
However, this is not much more expensive. Because the price of mink fur rose rapidly since the Ming Dynasty lost its actual control over Nuergandus.
Because of the difficulty of communicating with the Northeast, the price of minks has risen very high. However, according to Bai Geri and others, minks are very common in the Sorens area. A small tribe with two or three hundred households can hunt more than a thousand minks a year. In the entire Sorens area, there are estimated that there are tens of thousands of minks produced a year.
However, because there is no way to sell these minks to the Ming Dynasty, most of them can only be idle. Or they can be sold at a low price to Mongolian nobles or nearby Haixi Jurchens in exchange for horses, bows and arrows and other supplies.
As for the relationship between the Jurchens and the Sorens, it's so complicated...
The Jurchens actually relied on hunting marten fur to go to Liaodong to trade with the Ming Dynasty. The main source of marten fur in the Ming Dynasty was the supply of Jurchens on the Liaodong Horse Market.
However, the Liaodong horse market mainly collected horses as national strategic materials. At this time, the Liaodong horse market was still under the control of the Ming court and had not yet become a place for private free trade during the Wanli period. Therefore, the official horse market, due to its rigid mechanism, only collected horses. It often restricted the acquisition of products such as minks and ginseng, and could only be used as a cover. After all, because of its hostility with Mongolia, the Ming Dynasty relied heavily on Liaodong's war horses, which was also a basic national policy. As for the trade of minks and ginseng, it was secondary.
Only a small number of wealthy merchants with background relationships can purchase minks and ginseng here. There are also merchants who are not afraid of death who sneaked across the border into the jungle of the Northeast and exchange minks with the Jurchens for huge profits.
Because of the contact with the Ming Dynasty, the Jurchens began to hunt minks very early to obtain minks. However, for a long time, the number of minks in Jilin and northeastern Liaodong occupied by the Jurchens was greatly reduced. Then, the mink trade began to start from the Heilongjiang region further north, and even the northeastern region further north. After all, there was no chance to trade with the Ming Dynasty, and there was not much demand for minks. Moreover, even if the local Soren people got minks, they had no way to sell them.
Because there was no way, the marten obtained by the Soren people could only be sold to the Korqin tribe of Mongolia in the west, or the Ula tribe of Haixi Jurchen in the south. These two tribes were relatively wealthy and powerful because they controlled the marten trade in the Soren area.
After Nurhaci rebelled against Ming Dynasty, he also conquered and controlled the Ula tribe early in order to control the acquisition of minks from the Solon tribe in the north of Ula tribe. Because the mink trade was very profitable at that time. As long as you had minks in your hands, it was equivalent to having a mine at home, so you would not have to worry about not having any smugglers from the Ming Dynasty to trade.
In the Ming Dynasty, being able to wear sable coats was definitely a symbol of bull comparison. Many people like to show off their wealth with sable coats, and they also wear them in hot weather. The strange book "Jin Pingmei" written in the Longwan period also records a certain process of fighting for wealth. It said that Li Ping'er had a sable coat worth 60 taels of silver, which made Pan Jinlian very jealous. When he left the Ximen family, Pan Jinlian specially stole the sable coat. At that time, he bought a maid, but only four or five taels of silver. A sable coat could buy more than a dozen maids... And if it was sable, the value was even more immeasurable...
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In addition, the reason why Tsarist Russia sent Cossacks to expedition to Siberia was not for the land, but for collecting minks and selling them to Western European countries.
According to historical records, during the Tsarist Russia period, before the 19th century, one-third of its fiscal revenue relied on reselling minks from Siberia. Because Tsarist Russia is located in a bitter and cold place, nothing is favored by Western European countries. Only minks from Siberia are preferred by Western European countries.
Therefore, Tsarist Russia sent Cossacks to the east not for land, but for mink trade. After all, people at that time did not have a concept of territory, and Siberia could not farm, and mink became the most important pursuit of the Tsarist Russian authorities. Even the Battle of Jakar was not caused by land, but for the purpose of competing for mink production. Because the eastward of Lake Baikal, the area of ​​Daowai Xing'an Mountains and the Greater Khingan Mountains were important mink production areas at that time.
Tsarist Russia relied on mink fur to trade, and the Qing Dynasty also attached great importance to mink fur supply. Therefore, both sides fought in Jakarta. At that time, neither side felt that the permafrost there was of value, but just valued mink fur there.
The final result of this battle was that the Qing Dynasty preserved the mink production areas south of the Outer Xing'an Mountains. Tsarist Russia controlled the Beishan wild people's activity areas north of the Outer Xing'an Mountains, as well as the mink production areas such as the Nibchu area.
Afterwards, the Qing Dynasty and Tsarist Russia each made their own marten fur. Even because the demand for marten fur in the Qing Dynasty was too high, they also imported marten fur from Tsarist Russia. Tsarist Russia also needed the Qing Dynasty's tea and was willing to take out some marten fur for exchange. The important trade port at that time was called Chaktu...
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Malin planned to control the Yongning Temple area, and planned to purchase minks along Heilongjiang there and then sell them to Ming or Europe.
He was worried that he had no goods that the Ming Dynasty loved, so he set up a trading point for purchasing minks at Yongning Temple on Miao Street through sea route, which was also a very good choice.
As for the goods traded with local Sorens, Savage Jurchens and even the Beishan Ye people, Marin also plans to use wool velvet and sweaters made of European wool as the main products.
Marin had already planned to carry out the industrial revolution and was preparing to intervene in the wool spinning industry. However, he didn't have much fine wool in his hands, so he could only temporarily purchase cheap coarse wool. The wool velvet and sweaters made from coarse wool are of average quality, can be built and kept warm, and are definitely needed by the Sorens, Jurchens and the Beishan Wilds who live in the bitter and cold land.
In addition, iron tools, iron pots, swords, bows and arrows are also important exchange materials. As long as you have these things, you will not have to worry about not having enough minks from the Sorens, Jurchens and the Beishan Wild people.
After changing to mink, it is a good choice whether it is shipped there to the Ming Dynasty or shipped back to Europe for a high price.
According to Bai Geri and others, the entire area where the Soren headquarters is located can produce tens of thousands of marten fur in total every year, and there are thousands of precious marten furs alone. However, because there is no way, I have to sell it to the Mongolqin tribe on the southern foot of the Greater Xing'an Mountains, as well as the Haixi Jurchen Ula tribe on the east of Korqin. Later, after the rise of the Later Jin Dynasty, it took action against the Ula tribe very early in order to seize the mink resources. At the same time, during the Huang Taiji period, the Korqin tribe conquered and completed the monopoly on mink resources.
In addition, the five people also told Marin that if a purchase site is set up in Yongning Temple in Nurkan City, it will not only acquire the martened skins of the Sorens, but also the martened skins of the Beishan Wild people north of the Outer Xing'an Mountains. As long as you are willing to send a boat to the coastal areas of the north of the mountain in summer, you can at least harvest thousands of martened skins...
Marin was almost drooling when he heard this. You should know that minks were at least a dozen taels of silver per piece in the Ming Dynasty. However, when exchanging with the local area, they could exchange them with iron and cotton robes worth one tael or two taels of silver. Moreover, those who sell minks were very grateful, because minks had no sales in their hands.
In this way, if we can monopolize the mink trade in the Northeast, we can harvest at least tens of thousands of minks a year!
What is the concept of 10,000 marten fur? If you ship it to the Ming Dynasty, you can sell at least tens of thousands of taels of silver! This is still ordinary, and the price of those sables is not included. If you include those high-value sables, the total value should be more than 200,000 taels of silver. When exchanging these sables, the materials required to pay can be at most 10,000 taels of silver...
Chapter completed!