Speaking of money, the Beihai Kingdom is really not short of money now. Not to mention the large amount of cheap brass used to cast brass coins, even silver coins are not short of them. The most vulgar thing is that Marin used nickel and white copper to France and exchanged it for real gold and silver. The most unfair thing is that the French did not see it at all, but they liked the fake Transnier silver coins cast by the Beihai Kingdom with nickel and white copper.
And Marin also discovered a very interesting thing - French Transnier silver coins, which are also hard currency in Italy.
It is not difficult to understand that France is the largest country in Western Europe and the largest agricultural country. Italy has a large population, but it is mainly mountainous, so it needs to import a large amount of wine and grain from France every year. Although the soil of Italian volcanic ash is fertile and suitable for growing wheat. However, there are not many wheat fields in the valleys and valleys. Italians eat more food made from barley. They also import French barley and German rye as supplements. Therefore, Italian grain prices have always been expensive.
Since French agricultural products are imported in large quantities every year, the French currency is of course good in Italy. After all, you can directly use French currency to buy food in France.
Similarly, Italian coins are very popular in France. After all, France also imports a lot of handicrafts and art from the Italian region every year, and the two sides are closely connected.
So, now Marin has a new idea - he plans to spread the fake silver coins of nickel-shaped copper cast in northern Italy first. Then, through the direction of Italy, flow into France. In this way, even if something happens in the future, Marin can guide public opinion and turn the blame on the Italians. Anyway, the reputation of Italian merchants is not very good, and it is very suitable to take the blame. Don’t you see, Shakespeare’s comedy "The Merchant of Venetian" is an outstanding work of satirizing Italian profiteers.
In addition, Venetian merchant Sherlock also has a particularly important identity as a scapegoat - the Jew.
The Jews can be said to be the "monarchic scapegoat" in Europe for thousands of years. As long as there is a problem with the economy, the Jews will always be pulled out and beaten up and become excellent scapegoats.
In short, before the end of World War II, the black Jews were politically correct in Europe and were in line with public opinion...
Marin had asked the Beihai Mint to mint more than 100 million fake Transnier silver coins, and it was still in the process of explosive production. It would be fake to say that he was not guilty. Therefore, while making a fuss, Marin was also trying to find someone to take the blame.
Obviously, Italian merchants are very suitable for taking the blame. The Jewish merchants among Italian merchants are even more suitable...
But how can we let the Italian Jewish businessmen take the blame? If there is no evidence, it will be refuted. Moreover, Marin does not want to expose the fact that the French Transnell silver coins have counterfeit coins. After all, he still has to make a fortune by using this. Now revealing it is equivalent to destroying his own way of wealth.
Therefore, Marin planned to use subtle means to hack a wave of Italian merchants and Jewish merchants among the Italian merchants. First, they will make their reputation smell bad, and then, even if the fake silver coins incident breaks out, with just a little guidance, you can turn the blame on the Italian Jewish merchants.
How to subtly influence it? Marin has ready-made experience to learn, this is Shakespeare's "The Merchant of Venice"...
Needless to say, Shakespeare's influence, and the representative work of this comedy, "The Merchant of Venice", is also one of the most outstanding dramas. More importantly, because this drama is so popular, it has been darkened by Jewish merchants for hundreds of years since its birth, and is an important theoretical basis for Jews to be attacked...
Therefore, Shakespeare also had a share in the suffering of the Jews. His "The Merchant of Venice" was too popular, which also led to people who have read "The Merchant of Venice" having a very poor impression of Jews. As long as people incite, they are easily exploited.
Legend has it that when Xiaomoushi was anti-Semitic, "The Merchant of Venetian" focused on promoting the play. Some people even say that Xiaomoushi had seen this drama when she was a child, and she had a prejudice against Jews since she was a child...
Of course, Marin didn't care what he was doing. He knew that there was no better person to take the blame than the Jewish merchant. Moreover, the image of the Jewish merchant Sherlock in "The Merchant of Venice" was not entirely fabricated, but there were many prototypes.
As far as Marin knew, the Jewish merchants of this era had no morals.
Of course, as merchants, most of the merchants of this era have no moral integrity. However, Jewish merchants are the best and are more prominent. People are unwilling to criticize their fellow merchants, and then, Jewish merchants who have no motherland and are pagans take the blame...
Marin did not discriminate against Jews, but instead valued Jews. For example, in his Ministry of Finance, there were many Jewish college students working and helping him manage his finances, and they did a good job.
Therefore, although Marin had established the theater in Orich and had copied Shakespeare's plays, he had never copied "The Merchant of Venice". The main reason was that he had to consider the feelings of his Jews. In addition, he had to consider the feelings of his quasi-ally-allied country Venice.
But now it is different. Marin needs to find someone to take the blame for him. It is not that Marin is afraid of France, but that he cherishes his reputation. If a dignified king is exposed to cast fake silver coins, he will be despised by everyone. Therefore, he must find a scapegoat. Moreover, he is the one who takes the blame. Otherwise, he will find a passerby to take the blame and others will not believe it.
Obviously, this dual identity of the Jews in Venice is very suitable as a target...
The Venetians monopolized the spice trade for hundreds of years and made shocking profits. They had long been envied by Europe. The Jews also made great profits and their reputation was even more stinking. The two were combined and no one believed that they were innocent...
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What Marin had to do was to bring the Shakespeare drama "The Merchant of Venice" into the stage, which he participated in the drama club on a university campus, and spread it throughout Europe, making people automatically think that the Jewish merchants in Italy were unreliable and unethical...
This chapter is not over, please click on the next page to continue reading! However, in order to make the blame for minting fake silver coins, Marin specially modified the original "The Merchant of Venice" and added a plot where Sherlock and a group of guys grind gold coins and minted fake silver coins.
In this way, with this plot, as the drama became popular in Europe, people would subconsciously believe that minting counterfeit coins must be the work of Jewish merchants... and then, they made no sense to defend...
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However, as a quasi-ally of Venice and the need to take care of the feelings of Jewish officials in the Beihai Kingdom, Marin decided that the Beihai Kingdom could not be dealt with, and he had to find a "small trumpet" to do this...
Marin thought of John Lafite, who was a spy in France, and originally wanted to perform the drama in Paris. But when he thought that France is an ally with Venice, he should take into account the face of the Venetians, so it is inappropriate.
Then, we can only choose Spain and Britain. Both countries are mortal enemies of France, and their relationship with Venice is naturally very poor. It is very appropriate for them to blackmail the Jews in Venice and Italy.
However, Marin is weak in Spain and has great resistance to promoting the drama "The Merchant of Venice" without realizing it.
Therefore, we can only promote this drama in England first. Moreover, Marin also planned to leave a name for Shakespeare. Then, the author of the new "The Merchant of Venice" was Shakespeare. Although Shakespeare was not born, he got the signature rights for world-class dramas...
Marin plans to use various channels of the North Sea Chamber of Commerce in England to first fully launch the new comedy drama "The Merchant of Venice" in London. Then, let the subordinates from England go to Spain to find performance partners, and translate the script into the Spanish version, so that the powerful Spanish players can help promote it. As long as the drama becomes popular in England, the powerful Spanish people will be happy to help promote it. After all, they also make money.
Then, this new "The Merchant of Venetian" that was added with Marin, depicting the plot of Jewish merchants minting counterfeit coins, will successfully turn the blame on the poor Jewish merchants, and put Marin, the real culprit, out of the matter...
By the day when the incident happened, people had watched too much of "The Merchant of Venice", and their first reaction was that the Jewish merchants were making trouble again...
Chapter completed!