However, Marin's decision made Manager Thomas, who was in charge of the sales of ginger and black sugar, cry without tears. Why? Marin spent 30,000 pounds of ginger and 60,000 pounds of black sugar to make Manager Thomas so distressed that he wanted to cry.
You know, because Marin used ginger sugar water to save Juan III, ginger has now become a famous European medicine. Its value is as famous as pepper and it was fryed to 10 shillings per pound. Marin spent 30,000 pounds of ginger, which is equivalent to wasting 60,000 gold coins! As for the 60,000 pounds of black sugar, although it is not as expensive as ginger, it is also worth 2 shillings per pound. In other words, Marin also wasted sugar worth 24,000 gold coins... If all these were sold, it would be 84,000 gold coins. How could Manager Thomas not cry?
Marin was also a little stunned by Manager Thomas' cry. He didn't expect that he would spend 84,000 gold coins by just moving his mouth, which made him feel extremely distressed. However, after thinking about it, he did not regret it. Because as long as he helped the Holy See take over the Republic of Siena, Julius II would have reason to grant him the colonial rights on the east coast of America. At that time, if he obtained the legal colonial rights, Marin would have reason to publicly drive away any ships that attempted to explore the Americas. Moreover, he would not have legal disputes with other countries in the future. Because he had obtained the legal right to colonize America. If other countries wanted to get involved, it would be illegal, and Marin had the right to attack him.
In this era, Europeans were not as shameless as those in later generations of the United States. Under normal circumstances, everyone would still abide by the basic rules. Unless a large amount of gold and silver from Mexico and Peru were leaked, those countries would rob them at all costs. If it were just some land, everyone might not rob them. Why? Because in this era, the land in Europe has not been developed yet, why should countries not be able to fight with Marin for the sake of land?
People in later generations valued territory so much because there was too much population in later generations, and every inch of territory was precious. But in this era, there was very little population and a lot of land. Because of the small population and lack of labor, even if they occupied a lot of land, they could not be developed. Unless it was the tropical territory that could be planted with sugarcane to obtain sugar sugar, the goal everyone pursued.
Even England, in its original history, colonized North America in the 17th century, was not for farming at first, but for gold and silver. However, they did not find gold and silver later, and there were black slaves who could help them farm, and then they began to pay attention to the development of North America.
For example, Spain and Portugal never paid attention to farming in colonies. They had no other agricultural development activities except for planting sugarcane in some areas. The rest were all about finding gold, silver and trade profits...
In other words, in this era, simple land was not attractive. Only gold and silver deposits and profitable spice trade were the things that European countries were closely watching. Marin was lucky and could find a bargain in this era. If it was delayed by two hundred years, in the 18th century, countries began to pay attention to land development, and the competition would be fierce at that time. Just like the "Seven Years' War" between Britain and France and North America, the battle was very fierce.
In short, farming in the colony was still the first of the British. But in fact, the British did not think about farming in the colony at first. However, the east coast of North America occupied by the British was really suitable for farming. When the thirteen states of North America developed, everyone saw that farming in the colony was quite promising! Then, everyone rushed forward and began to compete for and re-dividate the colony... Before the British successfully farmed, everyone was looking for minerals and snatching trade interests, and they did not realize the importance of farming...
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Moreover, there is an important premise for farming in colonies - having enough labor. Before the rise of the black slave trade, this condition was not met. As for the native Indians, the spirit of resistance is too strong. If you enslave the Indians, you might be killed the next day, which is unsafe. Unlike black slaves, the first generation of black slaves were very obedient (the disobedient ones were killed long ago). With black slaves, the agricultural prosperity of the thirteen states in North America was achieved.
But in this era, the Holy See banned the sale of black slaves. In history, the rise of slave trade only began to rise after the Catholic Church was defeated by Protestantism. As of now, the Holy See is quite authoritative.
But who is Marin? The Pope's son-in-law. Moreover, this guy is very cunning. When buying black slaves with the Duke of Coimbra, Marin used the name of "hiring". Even every black slave, Marin would pretend to get an employment contract. If you go to investigate, Marin would take out an employment contract to deal with you. You can't refuse to hire workers, right? This matter cannot be investigated. But in fact, those so-called "black laborers" are all working on chains, and they are black slaves...
Moreover, this guy also had the idea of ​​Japanese and Indian labor. Therefore, he could obtain enough labor when developing America. When other countries wanted to develop colonies, they had to wait until the black slave trade was revealed. As for now, unless they could learn the shameless ability of Marin to forge labor contracts, or do it quietly...
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Because of the cost of ginger and sugar worth 84,000 gold coins, Marin felt heartbroken for a long time. You should know that 84,000 gold coins, in later generations, were worth 80,000 to 90,000 soft sister coins based on the gold price of the gold coins themselves. After this calculation, Marin felt even more painful...
However, when Marin thought of the safety of 15,000 soldiers, he still didn't regret it. However, it was still painful...
He began to complain in his heart that Maximilian I did not send troops earlier. If it were the warm weather in September, there would be no such a lot of trouble.
However, Maximilian I also had his difficulties. Because of the instigation of Marin, a devilish ghost, he sent troops to occupy the eastern half of Switzerland. However, he was caught in a tug-of-war with the Swiss resistance. Now, Maximilian I must maintain more than 10,000 troops stationed in Switzerland for a long time to guard against the Swiss counterattack.
Therefore, Maximilian I was unable to draw enough standing troops to Italy. If he wanted to send troops to Italy, he had to recruit civilians from the people. However, Austrian agriculture cannot be separated from those civilians, especially in the autumn harvest season. If it affects the autumn harvest, it will lead to a sharp decline in the financial income of the Habsburg family. For the poor Habsburg family, this is unbearable. Therefore, Maximilian I could only choose to lead the army south after the autumn harvest ended. Unless he was willing to risk the collapse of Austrian financial...
So, every family has a difficult sutra...
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Later, Marin changed his mind and no longer focused on how much the batch of ginger and sucrose could sell, but calculated how much it would cost to grow those ginger and sucrose...
So Marin was surprised to find that the cost was only a few thousand gold coins...
Chapter completed!