Whether it is a line-up shooting or a cannon execution, that is not the most important thing. For Marin, the most important thing is to prepare a generous dowry for Anne...
Yes, a generous dowry! Because she was the queen and Anne was the princess of the Great Duchy of North Sea, this dowry must not be shabby. Not only can it not be shabby, but it must also be extremely generous. Otherwise, it will be embarrassing. A queen who has no dowry will be despised by her subjects.
When the King of Denmark married his daughter Princess Margaret to King James III of Scotland, he was unable to provide a generous dowry and finally used the Shetland Islands, which originally belonged to the Kingdom of Norway, to the Kingdom of Scotland as a dowry... It can be seen that the cost of marrying a princess is also quite high...
After all, the Hoffman family was a "nova" family that rose later. Anne was named Princess, but in fact she was just the daughter of a poor knight. Now that the Hoffman family has developed, they naturally need to decorate their appearance. Therefore, the Hoffman family would have to pay more dowry than ordinary vassal states to marry their daughters, otherwise they would be despised.
Of course, Old Hoffman could not afford this dowry, so he naturally put the burden of preparing for the future queen's dowry on Marin...
"Damn, marrying a sister is so expensive. If you want to put it in the 21st century, even if your daughter marrys you, she will dare to ask for a dowry?" Ma Lin said that she was also very depressed...
However, he had to abide by such rules. Otherwise, the family would be embarrassed. In desperation, Malin had to do everything possible to prepare for the dowry.
After careful consideration, Marin believed that the dowry is mainly used to show off the strength of her mother's family. Therefore, it must be high-end, elegant and upscale. When it is revealed, it must blind the onlookers' eyes...
Therefore, Marin's decision was to raise the most visually impactful materials as props to blind the eyes of those Polish nobles...
First of all, silk is a must. Therefore, the first thing Marin prepared was to make a large amount of silk for silk clothes. There was no silk produced by the Ming Empire now, so now we can only buy a large amount of European soil silk produced in Lyon, France.
However, Nimad is so expensive in Europe now. A piece of silk clothes is calculated based on gold coins. A cart of silk actually costs five thousand gold coins! However, in order to support the store, I bought it! Moreover, I bought it for three big cars!
Seeing that 15,000 gold coins were spent so easily, Marin felt so distressed. Nimad, in the Ming Dynasty, a scoop of raw silk was only about 50 taels of silver. Even if a cart was filled with 10 tons of raw silk, it was only 500 taels of silver, equivalent to 436 gold coins. Nimad French Lyon silk was of poor quality, and he dared to ask for 5,000 gold coins per cart, which was more than ten times the price of silk in the Ming Dynasty. Although the price of finished silk was higher, it was not so outrageous, right? No wonder the silk trade in the Ming Dynasty was so prosperous later. It turned out that the price of silk from the French man was too dark, and the quality was not good...
Next, we naturally need to prepare some utensils that we usually use. For example, we have to be the queen of the meal, so we will definitely be able to use it in the future.
Originally, Marin didn't have any luxury items such as gold bowls or gold plates. Marin only liked silver tableware because silver could be tried. But Anne wanted to become the queen, and Old Hoffman and Mrs. Mary agreed that the tableware made of gold should be entitled to dowry...
Fortunately, when Marin was sending troops to England, he led his troops to loot the mansions of several great nobles in London. Therefore, he collected a lot of gold tableware and utensils. In addition, Marin also ordered several sets of gold chopsticks and knife and forks for Anne. The chopsticks were naturally prepared for Anne, because Anne has been used to Chinese food over the years and can use chopsticks very skillfully. However, Siegmont I definitely did not use chopsticks. Therefore, Marin customized the popular knife and fork in Europe in later generations, made of gold, and the forks are four pointed, unlike the two pointed forks now. Of course, the food with four pointed forks is more convenient...
So, there were a lot of knives and forks made of gold, dining plates, wine glasses, etc., plus a bunch of silver utensils, and some exquisite copper basins and other utensils. There were also a large cart of them... Fortunately, there were many silver and bronze utensils, otherwise the cost of this car would be amazing...
These are all big heads and the most expensive parts. The rest are not that expensive. However, they are not cheap. In order to get the amount, Marin also made several trucks of wool fabrics to make up for the numbers. However, these are not used for clothes, but for carpets. In addition, there are also some wool coats and quilts for keeping cold in winter.
In addition, Marin ordered the tailor to process the beaver skin that Garland bought from Newfoundland and made several sea lime coats for Anne to keep warm in winter.
Then there are some bottles, bottles, jars and other things. Of course, they are all fine products made of colored glass produced in Venice. As for porcelain, Marin does not. After all, the route of the Ming Dynasty has not been opened yet, and porcelain is a rare thing in Europe. Marin, a noble nouveau riche who has no background, has no porcelain collection.
It was a coincidence that the ship from Grenada returned to China and transported a large amount of black sugar. So Marin simply asked someone to pack a lot of black sugar in an oil paper bag and loaded three trucks as dowry.
If you were to use sugar as a dowry in later generations, you would probably be criticized to death - would such things be on the table?
Even in the Ming Dynasty of the same time, sugar was an ordinary cargo that could not be used on the table. However, this was in Europe. Sugar here is still a rare thing now. The price of sugar per pound is shillings, not Finney. Therefore, the three carts of black sugar are definitely high-end things.
Moreover, although the three major cargoes of sugar cane are more than three tons, they are nothing to Ma Lin. Because the sugar cane in Grenada is now very large. With the role of fertilizer, the yield of sugar cane per mu is more than one ton, and it can even reach 2 tons per mu. At a sugar yield of 15%, there is also a yield of one or two hundred pounds of sugar sugar. More than three tons of sugar cane is only the production of thirty or forty acres of sugar cane fields.
Of course, this is nothing to Marin. But for Europe, which is lacking in desserts, the three major carts of sugar are definitely considered big money.
Since even sugar was used, Marin didn't care about shamelessness. So he also loaded three trucks of paper produced by the Cape Breton Island paper mill as a dowry. It was called "convenient cultural dissemination...
However, because of the confidentiality of papermaking technology, Anne didn't know how low the production cost of the Cape Breton Island paper mill was. Although she knew it was definitely lower than other paper mills, Anne couldn't imagine a dozen times the gap.
Anne doesn't know, so no one else in Europe knows it. Nowadays, because papermaking technology is extremely backward, Europeans still use hemp paper made of rags, fishing nets, hemp skins, etc., and the price is very expensive. Therefore, to outsiders, the three major trucks of paper are definitely very sincere...
Then, Marin thought of the habit of Eastern Europeans who like to drink strong alcohol. So several large trucks of whiskey (rye Erguotou) were also ready.
Then, there is the important material that Marin's subordinates are very short of - salt. If you didn't say anything, put a few big trucks before talking about it...
In addition, it is spices, which are a necessity for European noble families. Just so happens that the remaining part of the quota of 50,000 pounds shipped back from India last time in the Marin warehouse, which also loaded three cars, weighing about five or six thousand pounds. According to the European market price, it must be very expensive. But in India, the purchase price of these spices is no more than 2 Finney per pound...
Finally, there were some miscellaneous items, including a lot of exquisite wooden furniture and various supplies... In the end, Marin gathered up the dowry items of fifty carts, which looked very large...
Moreover, if you don’t look at the actual cost of sugar, paper, whiskey and salt, but instead look at the European market price, this batch of dowry is simply valuable. If you take it out, it will definitely be a symbol of the rich...
Looking at the dowry of 50 trucks filled with them, Marin swallowed and said hatefully:
Chapter completed!