Chapter 2154: "Gothenburg" cargo
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By collecting taxes on the merchant ships of the Swedish East India Company, the country’s finances can be enriched;
The goods must be auctioned upon arrival in Gothenburg, which can prosper Gothenburg’s economy;
The company’s ships must be manufactured and assembled in Sweden, which can greatly promote the development of the Swedish shipbuilding industry.
The company has the right to issue shares to finance trade ships, which can boost the development of the Swedish financial industry!
In addition, the officers of the company have equal powers to the Swedish navy officers. The company has the right to self-defense. “Through violence against violence” means training troops. Commanders on merchant ships can easily become commanders of warships. They naturally navigate long distances. Just got exercise.
The development of an ocean trading company has brought many benefits under the chain reaction. Countries like the South China Empire, the Netherlands, the United Kingdom, Spain and Portugal have already tasted a lot of sweetness and can't stop it.
The Swedish East India Company quickly raised funds from people from all walks of life, bought ships, built ships, and recruited ships.
The boat arrived in Alexandria first to buy the goods and ship them back to Sweden, and it made a profit that year!
When the big ship "Gothenburg" was built, he set about sailing to China.
The Gothenburg is a three-masted sailing ship with square cross-sails hung on three upright masts. The foremast and the mainmast each have lower girder sails, the middle mast and upper mast three sails, the rear mast is hung with a middle mast sail and a slanted spinnaker. The bowsprit and the second rake connected to it are also hung with two horizontal sails, the rake sail and the rake sail. The ship with this kind of sail is called a three-masted **** ship, which is equivalent to a large Chinese cruise ship. The ship has multiple crews and is equipped with a cannon. The maximum caliber is pound. There are a total of doors, and the rest are pound and pound guns. .
Its artillery is not worth mentioning for the warships of the maritime powers, but it is powerful to deal with pirates. Corsairs will avoid gunboats like the "Gothenburg".
The Gothenburg plus aileron sails can hang up at the same time, and the total area of the sails is square meters. Under normal circumstances, Zhang Fan’s set of sail gear is used, which also has an area of square meters, and the running speed is not slow.
The captain was called Eriksson Radman. He was a blond, blue-eyed, and white-skinned 35-year-old. Although he was young, he had been employed on a Dutch ship to reach the east, and then lived in the Baltic Sea and was skilled in maritime operations.
If you are unfamiliar, you must have a solid foundation in discussing life at sea. Otherwise, the wind and waves on the sea can lead people to be called upon, or encounter hostile forces and pirates, and you will almost be unable to escape.
The Gothenburg is now sailing, and the ship is full of crystals, amber, and silver.
Sweden produces crystals. The crystal clear crystals are almost the national stone of Sweden. They are of high quality and are well received by people.
Crystal culture has a long history in China, and people have given it a string of beautiful and elegant names such as water jade, water essence, and water green.
The oldest Chinese name for crystal is water jade, which means jade that resembles water. Jade is beautiful in China. If there is jade in the country, it is the country.
It is also said that crystal is "turned by the ice of a thousand years." In Tang Dynasty poet Wen Tingyun's "Ti Li Chushi Secluded Residence" wrote that "water jade hairpin head and white horned scarf, Yaoqin lonely calendar whisks light dust".
The term "water jade" came from the "Shan Hai Jing", "three hundred miles east, the mountain of the sun court...more water jade"; "Danshan comes from Yan, the southeast flows into Luoshui, and there is a lot of water jade"; "driving water out Yan, the north flows to Wei, where there are many jade."
Sima Xiangru said "Shui Yulei River" in "Shanglin Fu". Crystal gets its name from water jade, and the ancients valued the texture of "its luminescence is like water, and its firmness is like jade".
Amber is also a specialty of Sweden. Amber is the resin dripping of coniferous, leguminous, araucaria and other plants from ten thousand years ago, buried in the ground for tens of thousands of years, and petrified under the action of pressure and heat.
Amber has a variety of shapes, and the surface often retains the lines produced when the resin flows, and air bubbles and ancient insects, animal or plant debris are often seen inside.
Common amber types: gold amber, golden blue amber, green tea amber, black tea amber, blood amber, amber, flower amber, brown red amber, blue amber, green amber, insect amber, beeswax, amber root, Burmese amber, etc.
Think about it, there is an insect in a piece of golden amber. It is delicate and vivid, and it is ingenious!
The ancients did not know the formation principle of amber, and they could not imagine how insects were so in ancient China. Amber was once called Tiger Soul, Yupei, Animal Soul, Dunmou, Jiangzhu, Yiyu, etc. "Or think that amber is the tears shed by tigers. These legends contain ancient Chinese speculation and pursuit of amber, suggesting that people believe that amber has the function of seeking good fortune and avoiding evil and calming the nerves of the house.
Seeing the above explanation, you will know the status of crystal and amber in Chinese cultural traditions!
There is also Swedish silverware that is second to none in the production of Swedish artificial products. There are a wide variety of silverware here ~www.wuxiaspot.com~ including decorations and utensils, with exquisite patterns and beautiful colors, bright and elegant colors, and excellent selling.
In order to prepare for this trade voyage, the Swedes spent a lot of thought to prepare the goods in order to impress the hearts of the Chinese!
Now China is a big trading country, rich in products, and has become very picky. Europeans were able to open the market in China with firearms, iron, gunpowder, clocks, etc. before, but not now. For example, the Spaniards have long been kneeling and patronizing gold and silver It is difficult to barter for Chinese goods.
Other European white skins are not much better. Every year, a large amount of silver and gold flows out to China. The Chinese earn so much silver, whether they are in or out, and how much they receive, so that Europeans think that the Chinese emperor is using silver to build a palace. !
To a certain extent, it is correct to say that the Chinese are descendants of the dragon. The dragon loves wealth the most. People from all over the world earn money. However, the income of the two Chinas in the century is so much gold and silver that it is simply unimaginable.
The Swedes still have the brains and prepare those goods so as not to exchange all precious metals for Chinese goods.
However, they were also afraid of insufficient cargo, and also prepared a large number of gold coins, silver ingots and copper coins. Among them, the large silver ingots were spherical and placed in the bottom tank as ballast!
"Set sail!" Captain Erickson exclaimed.
With the sound of the sailing bell, the "Göteborg" left the cheering crowd, the jib was full of wind, and the bow had fallen to the sea toward the south, slowly accelerating.
This is a young and vigorous ship that has been inspected, filled with water, and is about to embark on a long voyage. Everyone on the ship is very excited. Some young trainee sailors are full of energy and seem to have inexhaustible physical strength.
They are about to reach the country of Eastern wealth, and we are all going to get rich!
If it goes well, even trainee sailors can get double pay, let alone others.
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