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Chapter 2095: 'Santa Claus' steals the show at the throne ceremony

If we count the fake "French silver coins" that were forged before, and after the batch of "silver coins" were minted, Marin would mint more than 300 million fake French silver coins. According to the standard of 1 standard silver coins (50% silver content) = 2 French Transnier, 120 Transnier = 1 Gulden gold coins. Then, 300 million Transnier is equivalent to 2.5 million Gulden gold coins, which is almost enough to pay for immigration fees.

Even if the other party's lion speaks big, at most, it's impossible to add some goods to compensate. For example, get some Cuban cane sugar, dried ginger, etc. Moreover, Cuban pepper has been produced, and nutmeg on Grenada Island has also begun to grow. At that time, a portion of the pepper can be paid as funds.

In fact, France is also a huge market for spice consumption, and it is a large market with extremely strong financial resources. After all, it has the largest population in Western Europe. Moreover, there are many French nobles and strong consumption power. Even the lowest-level fief knights have 1,500 acres of fiefs, which is much richer than the 1,000 acres of German Knights and the English Knights with only 600 acres of fiefs.

In the farming era, the aristocrats of the French Kingdom, which were the best in agricultural conditions, were the strongest consumption capacity in Europe.

At first, the source of spices such as French pepper was mainly Venice. However, after the rise of the Great Voyage, Portugal (forced) joined forces with Spain to divide the Indian spice market. The spices that Venice can only be used for their own use and exports become very small.

Therefore, France can only obtain spices from Spain or Portugal now. But Spain and France are mortal enemies, so France can only purchase spices from Portugal.

Portugal has a bad relationship with the North Sea, so Marin has no psychological burden at all to grab the Portuguese market. Just when pepper planting on Cuba Island has reached a scale, Marin is ready to secretly seize the French spice market.

Now, the only limiting the scale of pepper planting in Cuba is actually plowing oxen. After all, pepper trees are relatively low and are as suitable for field planting as tea trees. However, planting in the field requires plowing oxen land. Due to the hot weather in Cuba, Eastern European cattle bought by Crimea are not suitable for the local climate. Before the arrival of Indian numb cattle and buffalo, the speed of sugarcane and pepper planting on Cuba was slowed down. At present, pepper planting on Cuba Island even adopts a tree planting model of digging one person and planting one person, which is very slow. Therefore, the scale cannot be increased for the time being.

Once the scale is increased, with the agricultural technology of Beihai Guo Sanguo, the yield per unit will definitely be much higher than that of India. At that time, it will definitely create amazing value.

At that time, Marin could also make more money from the French nobles. However, the court of the French Kingdom was very useless and there was not enough silver, so he specially reduced the silver content of silver coins, resulting in the French coins being very unpopular in the market. So much so that Marin made the counterfeit nickel, white and copper fake silver coins made by the Beihai Kingdom more real than the authentic French silver coins and more popular in the market.

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In order to avoid the long nights and dreams, Marin directly sent people to Paris to pick up the refugees, first moved to the coastal areas of West Friesland, North Sea, and then slowly transported them away in batches. After all, what is the case with the ships of North Sea to run to French ports to transport people?

France also recognizes Marin's plan. After all, for the French court, the will of 300,000 victims entrenched outside Paris is also a big hidden danger. Moreover, it also wastes food. The two sides hit it off.

As for the "agent fee" paid to Baron Adale, Marin proposed a batch payment method, which is to pay in two years, pay once every two months, and pay 300,000 gold coins. Then, pay on a monthly basis. Moreover, it is calculated to be 10% of the annual interest.

In response, Baron Adale agreed to this payment plan after obtaining the consent of François I. In fact, Marin was waiting for the North Sea Mint to mint counterfeit French silver coins. After all, 100 million fake silver coins need time to be minted. After the minting is made, it also needs to be washed away through secret channels.

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In fact, Marin was anxious to bring the people back, because he was afraid that after the war broke out in Eastern Europe, he would bring hundreds of thousands of Ross people, which would arouse dissatisfaction from France and detain the French victims. Therefore, these people would have been brought back to China and have good peace of mind. As for transportation, if the people were all in the Beihai Kingdom, there would be no need to be so anxious. Even the priority would be lower than the transportation of Ross people to St. Petersburg.

In addition, Marin also planned to identify the immigrants. After all, it was sent by the semi-hostile Kingdom of France, and Marin was worried. So, he suddenly needed to bring it back and observe it to see if there were any spies inside. At the same time, he needed to identify the scum and patients in it, and try his best to avoid the spread of infectious diseases.

Marin wanted healthy immigrants, not virus carriers. He didn't want these French victims to bring smallpox and other diseases to the American colonies and harm the local natives. After all, they are all laborers.

Therefore, Marin planned to build a huge refugee camp on the beach in West Friesland, first gathering people together. Then, divide the areas and organize the victims to take a bath, wash their hair and disinfect their clothes. Even when taking a bath, use sulfur soap to avoid carrying unclean things such as bacteria and lice. Clothes are the simplest to disinfect. Just boil them directly in lime water. If they are cooked, they will be given new clothes and wool textiles.

Moreover, all ships in Beihai Kingdom are disinfected regularly. They even mandatory for each ship to keep a cat near the granary to catch mice professionally to avoid the spread of plague and other things. Whenever the ship docks, the cabin is covered with lime powder, which is used to kill viruses and bacteria, so that the germs have nowhere to hide.

In this way, these French immigrants will basically not bring any diseases when they are sent to North American colonies. Moreover, during the period of renovation of the refugee camp, spies can be sent to observe secretly to clean up all French spies to avoid the possibility of leaks. As for France's dissatisfaction? Anyway, everyone has obtained it, so what the French think? Moreover, these days, the sanitation conditions are not good, and "death of illness" makes people feel ordinary...

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A few days later, on New Year's Day in 1517, Marin held a grand coronation ceremony for the Chief of Lapland in the square in front of the Palace of Orich.

The weather on that day was very proud, and it actually snowed. Marin wore a black helmet of dominance, wore a black armor, a black cloak, and held the "Sadness of Frost" that depicted an unknown rune. Standing in the wind and snow, he looked lonely and mysterious.

Four tenor boys sang the part of the teenager's high notes in "Arthas my son" in Friesian (English):

My king will live forever!

May he rule,

Forever.

May his strength,

Forever.

...

Four people sang it once, repeating it over and over again, like a repeater...

The high-pitched and sad tune caused shock to everyone present... and sympathy - what are you doing, you have to do with the barbarians...

Yet, Marin was the king of the "Wild Continent" (America) before, and was the leader of the barbarians. Now, as the chief of Lapland, he is still a leader of the barbarians. After all, the Lap people also belong to the northern barbarians in the eyes of Europeans.

Most of the guests present today were envoys from various countries, and they could send a crown prince to give face. After all, this was just a ceremony for a barbarian chief. Only a few families would give face, the monarch or the crown prince would come in person. For example, John, Duke of Cliffer of the Lamarck family, and Prince Philip, the young master of the Habsburg family. Other allies, such as Sigmont I, the King of Poland, were too far away and were worried that his wife and children would travel a long distance in the cold winter, so he sent ministers to congratulate him.

So, speaking of this, the level of guests present today is not high, but there are many people coming. After all, the strength of Beihai Kingdom is recognized by all countries. Even if they do not deal with it, they will send envoys to show off.

Under the background music of the high-pitched teenager and under the gaze of the guests, Marin pulled up the "Sadness of Frost" inserted on the ground, and followed the stairs, braved the wind and snow, and climbed the frozen throne in the shape of an iceberg. Then, the style suddenly changed...

A group of Lap chiefs wearing red Santa Claus outfits and white beards drove a reindeer cart to the front of the palace. After half-kneeling, they swore allegiance to Marin, they suddenly took out many small gifts from the deer cart and threw them to the children watching the fun on the street. They also shouted "Happy New Year" in unfamiliar German. We are "Santa Claus". We came a few days late, just to celebrate the ascension of the "King of the North"...

Then, the original solemn and sad King of the North became sculptural...
Chapter completed!
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