Because the Portuguese are not very familiar with the value of mahogany at this time, and there are many types of mahogany in Brazil, which is a certain difference from the mahogany produced in Nanyang.

Some of Brazilian mahogany is relatively brittle and cannot be used for furniture or anything else. It can only be ground into powder to make dyes.

As for these relatively solid ones, they are very good materials for the decks used for ships.

This is the era of great navigation. Many countries in the continent are building ships crazily, and the demand for deck materials is naturally very large.

Moreover, the price of deck materials is not low and the profit is very large.

Therefore, the Portuguese are crazily mining Brazilian mahogany and transporting it back to Europe to process it into deck materials, so the business is simply too good.

The mahogany of the Ming Dynasty was all derived from the roots. A mahogany that was thick with thighs could be worth thousands of taels of silver.

The Portuguese mined mahogany in Brazil in terms of tons, and they had to transport thousands of tons to the continent to process it into deck materials at a time!

Originally, there were a lot of mahogany in Brazil, but Portugal was crazily logged for more than a hundred years, and cut the mahogany everywhere here into rare wood.

The problem is that they used it to make high-end furniture, but to make deck materials.

Luo Sigong knew that they were wasting precious mahogany so much that they would probably feel distressed.
Chapter completed!