The facts were indeed as Marin expected. His behavior of condolences to the families of migrant workers quickly spread throughout Italy and to other countries. But what Marin did not expect was that the comments on this matter were polarized.
Most civilians recognized Marin's behavior of condolences to the families of migrant workers and believed that he loved the people. However, the nobles looked down on Marin's behavior of self-destruction. The nobles believed that nobles were nobles and had a fundamental difference from the untouchables. Therefore, it was crazy to rashly reduce their identities to please them. Moreover, it was very embarrassing to the nobles. In this way, Marin's behavior was mainly welcomed by most of the lower classes, but it was disgusted and despised by most of the nobles.
Many nobles even spread rumors that Marin wanted the Italian migrant workers to work for him, and that his life was in danger. Otherwise, why did people come to comfort your family? Maybe, those migrant workers will die for Marin... Moreover, they asserted that the first batch of 500 migrant workers to Beihai would not have the chance to return to their hometown alive...
Sure enough, these rumors caused a certain degree of panic, and Marin's subordinates could not calm the rumors. But Marin was very calm because as long as the group of Italian migrant workers returned one by one on Christmas, the rumors would be self-defeating. And Christmas didn't take long. Instead of wasting time and energy to defend themselves, it would be better to wait for the first batch of Italian migrant workers to return to their hometowns and let them explain themselves. It is much better to show up and say things casually than to say it casually.
On the way back, Marin also turned to Venice. Mainly, the spy reported through the North Sea in Italy that the shipyard in Venice could also make the ships needed by Marin.
Although Venice shipyards mainly manufacture paddle boats, they also produce pure sailboats. Moreover, they can also make medium-sized ships that reduce paddle positions and enhance sails. This kind of ship is very suitable for Marin to take both sea routes and inland rivers such as the Neva River and Volhof River.
The most important thing is that there are many shipyards in Venice! There are only a dozen shipyards in the Netherlands, most of which are smaller in scale. Venice has seventy or eighty large and large shipyards. Marin's spies have inquired about it. Except for more than 20, they can only build sailboats, other companies can make modified ships, that is, sailboats. As long as they place an order, they will be fine to build 100 or even more sailboats in a year. Marin came to Venice to place a shipbuilding order and ordered 100 sailboats.
In addition to 100 sailboats, Marin also placed a large number of orders, ordering a large number of flashy and beautiful glass products. Marin planned to use these things to fool people from the Aztec Empire of Mexico, who had little knowledge. After all, Marin wanted to stimulate them to take the initiative to develop silver mines.
Because he placed a large number of orders, Marin was a boy who gave money and walked gold coins in the eyes of the Venetian business community. Therefore, he and Caesar were warmly welcomed by the Venetian merchants.
However, these Venetian merchants didn't know that Marin had already secretly arranged for spies to rehearse the adapted version of "The Merchant of Venetian". This "The Merchant of Venetian" made the Merchant of Venetian merchants very badly and nailed to the pillar of shame. If they knew this news, it would probably be that those Venetian merchants had the intention to beat Marin. Of course, Marin used the pseudonym of "Shakespeare" and was premiered in London, and the Venetians would not find him.
In addition to ships and glass products, Marin also ordered a large amount of manganese ore, that is, manganese dioxide ore. Venetian merchants agreed and would go to Hungary and Romania to purchase goods. They thought Marin wanted manganese ore to make glass, but in fact, Marin was used to make high manganese steel and spring steel. In this era, the production of manganese ore was very low. Otherwise, Marin would want to popularize high manganese steel breast plate armor in the army.
In addition, Marin also purchased a large number of copper ingots in Venice. These copper ingots were purchased by Venetian merchants from Arabs, and the cost was much cheaper than European copper.
Although the price offered by Venetian merchants is much more expensive than purchasing from India, it is at least cheaper than the local copper price in Europe. At present, because Turkey has not yet destroyed the Mamluk dynasty of Venice, the two countries have not completely turned against each other. Many commodities can be circulated from the hands of Turkish merchants to Venice. For example, copper ingots, Turkey's copper price is not as cheap as India, but much cheaper than Europe. The Venetians can make a lot of money by purchasing copper ingots from Turkey and then selling them. Of course, they can also use it to mint coins by themselves. After all, the Venetians now also circulate copper coins themselves and have a lot of copper demand.
Why did Marin buy copper ingots from Venice? Of course, he brought them back to mint coins! Now, European copper coins are valued at 1/15 of the silver price. And Marin buys copper ingots in Venice at 1/25 of the silver price. Although it is much more expensive than 1/80 of the Indian copper price, in Europe, the profit of copper coins is still very high at 1/15 of the silver value.
And it happened that Marin was lacking copper ingots to cast copper coins from Spain and Portugal. This batch of copper ingots just solved the urgent problem. Although the profit was a little less, the profit was also very large, but it was not as profitable as Indian copper and Ming Dynasty copper.
The most important thing is that Venetian merchants have enough stock!
Why are the Venetians able to spend more than 7,000 pounds per slaughter to cast so many jaundice guns? Isn’t it because they have enough copper?
Before they completely turned against Turkey, the entire eastern Mediterranean, all the way to the Black Sea coast, was the trade scope of Venetian merchant ships. Therefore, it is no surprise that they can buy enough cheap copper.
Historically, the decline of Venetian navigation industry began after Turkey occupied the land of the Egyptian Mamluk dynasty and completely cut off the onshore spice trade route of Venetian merchants. Then, the two countries turned against each other and fought in the Mediterranean. In the end, the Venetians lost control of the Eastern Mediterranean because of their decline in trade and lack of financial resources.
This chapter is not finished yet, please click on the next page to continue reading the exciting content behind! However, due to Marin's intervention, the Mamluk Dynasty did not collapse, and the Sultan of Garygur was not dead. The Turks lack confidence, so there is no need to provoke the powerful Venice. Therefore, Venice's current trade with Asia is still very developed.
There is plenty of copper, and the cost is still low, so they naturally try hard to make copper coins. Then, they still have the spare time to create a lizard monster cannon weighing more than 7,000 pounds.
This time, Marin gave them all the packs. This generous aura shocked the Venetian merchants. You know, they offered a price of 1/25 in silver, which was at least twice as high as their purchase price. But Marin had to pack all without blinking. It was so rich and inhumane!
How could they know that these coppers were to be minted into copper coins from Spain and Portugal, at the value of 1/15 of the silver price. In general, Spain and Portugal were the ones that ended up suffering losses.
Chapter completed!