If you think about it carefully, Malin feels that it is very necessary to open up the route of the Ming Dynasty as soon as possible. There is no need to mention wheat with a shorter growth cycle, this is necessary. Also, Taihu pigs with more cubs and fast growth are also needed by Malin.
In addition, tea marin is also very needed. Most European nobles are carnivorous animals, and they eat greasy food and need tea to clear oil and relieve greasy. Moreover, the English milk tea made by Marin, that is, sucrose and milk, is simple but delicious, suitable for the tastes of all kinds of people. Moreover, it can be sold with sucrose, which can be said to kill two birds with one stone.
As for silk and porcelain, although it is not urgently needed, it cannot resist Europeans' preferences. As long as it is shipped back, you can make a lot of money.
The only thing Marin was worried about was whether there was so much gold and silver in Europe to buy high-end consumer goods such as silk and porcelain from the Ming Dynasty. You should know that there was no goods in Europe that were urgently needed by the Ming Dynasty. Therefore, if you want to buy silk and porcelain from the Ming Dynasty, you must spend real money and silver, and pay a large price.
Although Marin came up with a way to open up the Ming market with perfume, the production of perfume is limited after all. If you don’t have serious entry into the Ming Dynasty, you have to think of other ways.
At the beginning, the British solved this solution by using the evil method of selling ruffles. But Marin would definitely not do this. Moreover, the Ming Dynasty was not the Qing Dynasty, and it was impossible for foreign countries to do this.
So, Marin took his mind to Japan. It was a coincidence that Japan is now in the Warring States Period, and the country is in chaos. The famous Ishimi Yinshan has not yet been developed.
Marin's plan was to take advantage of the opportunity of civil strife in Japan to send troops to capture Ishimiji Yinshan in the Kingdom of Ishimiji. As for those village heads of the Warring States Period in Japan, Marin believed that as long as there were a few thousand musketeers, it would be enough to defend Ishimiji Yinshan.
Although the Japanese warriors have good martial arts skills and can go to the southeast coast of the Ming Dynasty, it is useless because, "No matter how good the kung fu is, you can knock it down with one shot"...
Even Ip Man, who "I want to fight ten", had to bow his head and admit defeat when facing the Japanese's 38th gun. Otherwise, no matter how good the kung fu is, he would be killed by one shot.
If there is a melee battle, those musketeers will definitely not be able to defeat those Japanese samurai. However, the function of the musketeers is to prevent the opponent from approaching. Facing the rogue, no matter how high the martial arts are, it will be useless. If a castle wall can be built, thousands of musketeers will be enough to withstand the attacks of tens of thousands of samurais and will definitely gain the upper hand. After all, the musketeers are best at defense...
As long as the Shijian Yinshan, which has extremely rich reserves are developed, Malin will not be short of silver. In the Ming Dynasty, silver was scarce and valuable. At that time, Malin could spend the Japanese silver to buy the goods he wanted in the Ming Dynasty, and also had a large amount of surplus. At that time, the merchant ships under his command could not only transport a large amount of silk and porcelain, but also transport a large amount of silver produced from Japan to meet the needs of European coins.
In addition, Japan's copper mines were also very rich. Since the late Ming Dynasty, Japanese copper began to become an important commodity for Japan's export trade, and was sold to various places by Japanese red seal ships and Dutch merchant ships. If the copper produced by Sweden's Ferylón copper mine caused the first sharp drop in European copper prices, Japanese copper was brought back to Europe by Dutch merchants, causing the second sharp drop in European copper prices. From then on, European copper prices gradually decreased, gradually approaching the eastern level, and no longer high.
Of course, the output of gold in Japan is also amazing. For example, the gold in Sado Island and the gold in Kagoshima are also very large, with hundreds of tons. However, the Ripekale gold mine in Kagoshima is under the control of the Satsuma family, the most powerful Satsuma family in Japan, and is much more difficult to seize than Sado Island. But the Ripekale gold mine also has its advantages, that is, the gold content of this gold mine is very high, reaching an amazing 80 grams per ton (or).
.The ore content of the Glasberg Gold Mine, the first of the top ten gold mines in later generations, is only 0.703 grams per ton. The difference in the gold content of the two reaches an astonishing 113 times. What does such a large difference in gold content mean? It means a huge difference in mining costs! In addition, if the Haruka gold mine is expended and the annual output of one ton of gold is paid for equal labor, the Haruka gold mine can reach 113 tons...
Therefore, for the current low mining process, the production efficiency of mining super rich mines such as the Hirakatsu Gold Mine is obviously much greater. Generally, gold mines, with a lot of manpower and material resources, the annual output of gold may only be one or two tons, but the Hirakatsu Gold Mine can also reach the level of one or two tons of gold annually without giving less labor. This is the gap.
Of course, this refers to the rich ore underground in the Rikura Gold Mine. In fact, there are two gold ore of the Rikura Gold Mine. One is the gold mine on the surface, which is an ordinary gold mine with a low gold content. The Rikura Gold Mine underground is the real super rich ore. As long as you find that surface mine, you can continue to dig holes and explore and find the rich ore underground.
As for the Satsuma clan, Marin was actually too worried. The powerful Satsuma clan in Marin remembered that it was actually the Satsuma clan after the development of maritime trade. Since the beginning of the trade of red seal ships and trade with the Dutch, the Satsuma clan relied on its location in the southeastern part of Japan to actively participate in maritime trade, accumulating a large amount of capital, and became one of the richest vassal states in Japan at that time. However, that was later, the trade of red seal ships did not start until 1592. The current Satsuma clan is just a village chief vassal state with a slightly larger land area, and its economy mainly relies on fishing. Marin thought about it and felt that it was not difficult to conquer the Satsuma clan...
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However, if you run Japan and beat those Japanese village chiefs, you have to wait for the cement road in Panama to be repaired. Otherwise, the transportation will not be convenient... Marin grabbed his hair in distress...
During lunch, Marin kept thinking about things and accidentally knocked over his golden food plate. So the servant helped Marin change another portion of food. However, this suddenly gave Marin infinite inspiration...
"Change another portion of food...change..." Marin murmured. After a while, Marin suddenly slapped his thigh and said:
"Yes, I'll try another way!"
Then, he pushed open the food plate and hurried back to the office to think about new methods...
Before, Marin was limited by the Panama road, and always felt that it would take until the Panama road was repaired before it could sail. However, with the technology of this era, it would be impossible to cut down forests and build a cement road of 60 or 70 kilometers in the Panama region. It is estimated that it would be impossible to handle it in less than two years, and maybe it would take longer.
However, if you really have to wait for two years, Marin felt that the daylily was about to be cold.
Moreover, no matter what, even if the cement road in Panama that crosses the isthmus and builds a port in Panama City in later generations, it is necessary to drive the ships from the Atlantic Ocean to bypass the Magellan Strait, the southernmost tip of the American continent, and then head north to reach Panama City!
So, no matter what, sending a fleet southward and bypassing the southernmost tip of the American continent is inevitable.
Since that's the case, it's better to act early than to act late. Marin decided to take some time after the New Year and send Columbus to lead a fleet along the east coast of the South American continent, directly to the Strait of Magellan, then go west and around the west coast of the South American continent. Then, head north and head towards Panama...
However, halfway through, Marin planned to find a large river outlet on the Chilean coastline and establish a transit port. This port will become a transit port for Marin's ships in the future, and at the same time, it will also be a freshwater supply base for the development of Chilean saltpeter.
Marin knew that Chilean saltpeter's outlet, Iquik, has not rained there for hundreds of years, and freshwater is also sent by ship by the outside world.
Therefore, if you want to develop saltpeter in the Chilean desert, you must first find a freshwater supply base in the central Chilean region. Then, load a large amount of fresh water with wooden barrels. After heating and sealing, it can be stored for several months and not damaged. Then send it to Iquik to provide enough fresh water for Iquik and the saltpeter mines in the inland.
After obtaining this transit port, the ship can also continue to head north to find the location of Panama City. In this way, you don’t have to wait for the cement road in Panama to be completed.
Chapter completed!