Since Prince Philip has achieved success in the election, it is time for Marin to harvest the fruits of victory. First, Marin took out the IOU of more than 80,000 gold coins signed with Marin and began to change the signs.

Marin is a person who pays great attention to contracts. He believes that verbal promises are false, especially for politicians, there is not much difference between verbal promises and vocational promises. Therefore, signing a black-and-white agreement is guaranteed.

After Prince Philip's successful election, Marin waited for Prince Philip to sober up the next day and began to sign specific treaties with him.

First of all, it is the commercial treaty. Marin spent 8000 gold coins to help Prince Philip take over the position of Grand Head, which was not for nothing, but for reward.

Of course, Prince Philip himself had no money, but after becoming the leader of the great regiment, he could provide escort services to Marin to make money from the Teutonic Kingdom. After all, the leader of the great regiment was the supreme leader of the Teutonic Kingdom.

To this end, Marin and Philip signed an agreement, requiring both parties to jointly establish a chamber of commerce in the name of Prince Philip. This chamber of commerce is under Prince Philip's name, but the operating rights belong to Marin. The investment of the chamber of commerce is also fully borne by Marin. The final income is 82% share, 80% share, and Prince Philip's share 20%. Of course, this is the early share. After Marin earns enough 90,000 gold coins, the agreement will be automatically modified and changed to Marin's stand 60% share and the prince's share 40%.

This chamber of commerce mainly engaged in salt trade in the early stage. To this end, Marin planned to add a batch of salt boilers in Yancheng and ask Hoffman Manor to increase coal production. He also planned to submit a part of the order to the family's in-law Hamler Manor to supply the needs of boiling salt. Although the bituminous coal produced by the Hamler Knights burned with a lot of smoke and polluted the environment, it doesn't matter. Anyway, the lower air outlet in Yancheng is Thorenche, not Denburg...

Selling salt in the Teutonic Knights country is a completely different concept of selling salt in the German region. Marin sells salt in the German region, and the wholesale price is only 4 shillings per quart. This is because Marin's salt has no bitter taste and is a top-notch salt.

This kind of salt can be sold to the salt-deficient Teutonic Knights and even the entire Baltic region, at the wholesale price alone, for more than 10 shillings per quarter. The profit is more than twice the sales in Germany.

The Teutonic Knights Country is about 36,000 square kilometers, which is nearly a hundred times the combined price of all Marin Islands. It also has a large population, with a population of about 300,000. In addition to the Prussians and Poles who originally lived in the local area, there are also many wandering knights who come from the German region every year.

Fortunately, in the eastern coast of the Baltic Sea, which is the area of ​​the Three Baltic Kingdoms in later generations, the proportion of women here is relatively high (there are probably more girls due to climate problems), so the men and women are not imbalanced. Basically, all the wandering knights who come to Teutonic countries can find a wife as long as they are not unable to find anything to do.

Of course, selling salt here does not mean that it is necessary to only sell it to the people of the Teutonic Kingdom. Instead, the Hanseatic merchants of the Teutonic Kingdom can also sell this salt to nearby Poland, Lithuania, and even Novgorod in Russia...

Although the Teutonic Knights were in a state of hostility with Poland and Lithuania, it did not hinder the people on both sides from doing business. In addition, salt was a scarce material in the Baltic region, so merchants from both countries often bought salt from Hanseatic merchants of the Teutonic Knights and transported it back to the country to sell.

The situation in Poland is not bad, because they are close to the German region in the west and can import (relatively) low-priced salt from the German region. But Lithuania is not so lucky, and can only rely on the salt sold by the Teutonic Knights. It is not that there are no Polish merchants who can transport salt. However, the cost of land transportation is far greater than that of sea transportation. The salt in the Teutonic Knights is all Hanseatic merchants who use sea boats to cross the Katgart Strait between Denmark and Sweden and ship directly to Cornisburg, with a lower transportation cost.

If Polish merchants brought 5 shillings per quarter of salt imported from eastern Germany through Poland and delivered to Lithuania, the cost would be more than 10 shillings per quarter.

Because, in addition to the high cost of land transportation and small transportation volume, the numerous tax checkpoints on land are also an important reason for the high cost of land transportation.

Therefore, to buy salt in the eastern coast of the Baltic Sea, you still have to find the Teutonic Knights and the Livonian Knights. Because the salt in these two places was transported by Hanseatic merchants by merchant ships. On the way, the merchant ships only need to draw taxes once in the Danish waters, and do not need to go through the land-based tax collection checkpoints.

However, not everyone can sell salt in the Teutonic Knights Kingdom. Strategic materials such as salt have business licenses in the Teutonic Knights Kingdom. No salt is allowed to be operated without licenses.

But who is Prince Philip? After being crowned, he was the leader of the Teutonic Knights, and he could not grant himself a license to trade salt? So, Marin was now considered to have entered the Teutonic salt trading system. From then on, the profits would be rolling.

The port of Cornisburg can basically be said to be a re-export port for salt trade in the eastern coast of the Baltic Sea. As the leader of the group, it is extremely simple to operate salt here.

Of course, this simply means that Prince Philip can easily obtain a license as the leader of the group. However, it does not mean that you can easily engage in this business with a license.

You should know that if you have a license, you still have to be able to import salt. In this era, the salt production in Europe was relatively low, so the price was relatively high. Because of the large amount of coal to cook salt in the UK, the salt production was quite high. However, British salt was not only supplied to Eastern Europe, but also to England, Scotland, Ireland, France, the Lowlands, and northern Germany. In short, there are many British salt buyers and there is no need to worry about sales.

Moreover, because the license system set up by Hanseatic merchants to suppress their competitors blocked the possibility of others' intervention. Although it is very profitable to transport salt to the eastern Baltic region for sale. However, without a license, the British could not interfere in the salt trade here.

Marin had also thought about selling salt to the high-priced Baltic region before, but after inquiring, he found that a license was needed there, so he gave up.

But now it is different. Marin spent a lot of money to hold Prince Philip to the high position of Chief Teutonic. With Prince Philip's status, he could give Marin a license to sell salt. Then, Marin can finally intervene in the profitable salt trade in the Baltic region.

Although the former Hanseatic merchants set up trading houses in the UK and monopolized the import of British salt. However, Marin's Yancheng is an emerging salt production base and is not under the jurisdiction of the old Hanseatic merchants. Therefore, Marin could safely transport the salt to the Teutonic Knights' country for sale, and was also protected by the new leader.

Of course, Marin also needs to be on guard against those competitors and hijack his salt ships. Therefore, when Marin transports salt, he needs to use armed merchant ships with self-protection capabilities to protect his own interests.

To this end, Marin planned to order several armed merchant ships and collectively dispatch salt to ensure the safety of the ships...

Of course, the Teutonic Knights is not the only commodity. For example, when the ship returns, Marin can also let merchant ships carry some specialties such as Eastern European products, fur, wood, linen, etc., and bring them back to Western Europe for sale. These products are very cheap in Eastern Europe, but in Western Europe, the prices are much higher. Although the profit is not as high as salt, when a ship returns to sail, there will always be cargo from the voltage compartment. After all, no matter whether you have cargo or not, the empty ship returns to sail, there will be taxes in the Strait of Katgart. Moreover, the way the Danes taxes is very special, not depending on the quantity and value of your cargo, but on the area of ​​your deck...

Even if it is an empty ship, people will still measure the deck and pay you a serious tax... If you dare not pay, the powerful Danish navy will teach you how to be a human being in minutes...

After signing the trade mutual aid treaty, Marin talked about Marin's uncle Yule. Originally, Marin wanted to take Yule to the Waden Islands. After all, Yule had more than ten years of experience as a civil servant and could help with government affairs.

However, considering that the Teutonic Knights had too much interests, Marin was also afraid that Prince Philip would do his tricks in the future. So Marin decided to leave this honest and capable uncle in the Teutonic Knights, helping Prince Philip handle government affairs while helping him watch the trade situation.

Moreover, Prince Philip is now very short of staff, and he can also be reused by placing Yule under his command. In a few years, Yule may become a powerful minister in the Teutonic Knights and help him more...

Thinking of this, when exchanging the contract, Marin wrote Yule's arrangement into the contract and asked Prince Philip to reuse it for Le. Prince Philip also agreed to this. Because Prince Philip was very relieved of an honest person like Yule. If he replaced him with a cunning person, Prince Philip himself was not at ease.

However, although the treaty was signed, Marin was not ready yet. First of all, the salt-boiled pot in Yancheng had not been added yet. The ships and manpower engaged in trade transportation were not in place.
Chapter completed!