Chapter 1443: New Malawi Copper Coin
The reason why Marin is able to process a lot of old grains to the Spaniards is mainly because-this year's production of spirits was suspended ...
In the past few years, the Beihai nation has been fully fired, producing too much spirits. After all, the North Sea has so much grain production that it can make wine vigorously. But the problem is-the price of spirits is so expensive, and the market capacity is limited ...
In this era, grain prices in Europe are extremely expensive, and spirits made from grain are naturally expensive. However, Europe in this era is very poor. Especially in Eastern Europe, which likes spirits the most, that is the poor areas of the poor areas ...
In the richest region of Italy, the people there do not like spirits, only wine ... so, after producing a lot of spirits at full horsepower, spirits are now a bit unsalable.
After the hard-to-market spirits were sold out, oak barrels filled with spirits were everywhere in the winery under the name of Marin in Beihai. Fortunately, spirits are not afraid of expiration and deterioration, even the longer the better. Otherwise, Marin was too late to cry. This is why Marin chose to mass-produce Erguotou rather than mass-produce beer-Erguotou is resistant to preservation ... And beer, even if it is a durable beer, can only be kept for 6 months. And draft beer can only be kept for a few days ...
what? You said that spirits are difficult to sell in Western Europe? For this, Marin has already done a good job-as long as there are orders, they can be mixed on the spot. With a strong Erguotou, matched with boiled water and maple syrup, a "royal salute" of about 20 degrees was blended on the scene. Then, using the canning process, steam the packaged "Royal Salute" and sell it as a fine noble wine ...
Originally, Beihai State Brewery can also continue to brew Erguotou. Anyway, Erguotou is not afraid to store it for a long time. The problem is-it seems that the Beihai Brewery has accumulated too much rye Erguotou. Even the oak barrels for wine are not enough ...
Coupled with last year's grain harvest failure, Marin simply suspended production at the Beihai Distillery this year. Exactly, there is a batch of Chen Liang. Seeing Spain's lack of food, it was a treat to each other. Of course, it was not given in vain. Although the price is not high, it is Chen Liang. After the next year, it will almost deteriorate .... It is true that Spain has made a lot of money because of the monopoly of India's spice trade. Marin also needs a lot of money now. Then, the two sides snapped together ...
However, Marin did not know that at this time the Royal Palace of Toledo, Ferdinand II and his son Juan III are discussing a major coinage issue ...
Juan III and the queen looked at each other and said:
"Father, I have negotiated with Margaret, and I decided to use the cheap copper ingots imported from India to add a batch of Malawi copper coins ..."
Ferdinand II frowned, saying:
"Juan, I know that using cheap Indian copper coins can make a huge profit. But the problem is that most European countries do n’t recognize copper coins now. They want gold and silver coins! You have mined as many copper coins as you are out of Spain , No one admits it! "
Juan III glanced at his wife and said to himself:
"It's nothing, big deal. We will use the newly minted copper coins only for the domestic market. Then, use the copper coins to exchange gold and silver coins from the private sector for international trade!" Obviously, he and the queen had discussed this issue and had mature ideas. .
"So how much do you plan to cast?"
"Come on 3.4 million first, which is exactly 100,000 riyals (1 riyal = 34 Malawi)! When I return more copper from India next time, I plan to mine 34 million Malawi copper coins ... "
"Poof—" Ferdinand II sipped tea directly. However, there was no one in front of him, but he didn't spray anyone.
"Cough-your appetite is not small ..."
Juan III smiled:
"It was also Marin that inspired me. Since he gave us the right to trade spices, he sent a fleet to India with our fleet every time. Although he could only buy tens of thousands of pounds of spices, the boat under his hands every time. I buy a lot of saltpeter and copper ingots from India. Moreover, Beihai has also issued many copper coins. The price of Indian copper is several times cheaper than Europe. We used Indian copper to cast copper coins, and the profit is very high! But, I have seen the copper coins of Beihai Their copper coins are very shiny, and they look a bit like gold coins. I do n’t know how they did it ... "
Of course, he did not know that the copper minted in the North Sea country is zinc brass. Europeans do not yet know what zinc is. How can they cast that kind of copper coins like gold coins?
With the order of Juan III, the Royal Toledo Mint began to fully open, casting the 1513 Malawi copper coin day and night.
In fact, the issue of coinage has been discussed by Juan III and Margaret of Austria for a long time. Margaret of Austria is a woman of great vision. He believes that the future of copper coins must be an indispensable part of trade. Because it is too inconvenient to trade silver coins. Ordinary people work for a day, but earn only one or two small silver coins. However, some small commodities can't be found with silver coins ... so now, there are still a lot of people who trade things for things ...
After marrying in Spain, Margaret of Austria was surprised to find that the Malawi copper coin made by the Spaniards seems to be very useful in private trade. At least, it is very useful in small commodity trade. Although copper coins for bulk goods trade are too bulky, for small commodity trade, copper coins are very convenient for settlement.
What makes Margaret of Austria even more tempting is that if you learn to buy copper ingots from India, it seems that you can reduce the cost by several times. Casting Malawi copper coins with Indian copper, you can get several times the mint tax profit ...
In addition, Margaret of Austria also discovered a serious problem-the Spanish fleet spends a lot of gold and silver every time it buys spices in India. In the long run, there is not enough gold and silver in Spain. Even if you can use spices to earn gold and silver from European countries, but in this way, there will be less and less gold and silver in Europe ... Eventually, there will be a money shortage in Europe ...
Therefore, Margaret of Austria encouraged her husband, Juan III, to promote low-cost copper coins minted by Indian copper ingots in Spain. The currency of India ’s copper ingots is used to make up for the shortage of currency in the domestic market and to avoid a shortage of money in Spain.
Moreover, she has a longer-term plan-to accept copper coins all over Europe and Spanish copper coins ...
In fact, she wanted to suggest that his father Maximilian I promote copper coins in Austria and the Netherlands. However, Maximilian I and Prince Philip have serious concerns about this. The main reason is that no one will accept Zhu Zhu's early arrival.
Therefore, Queen Margaret simply advised her husband to increase the circulation of Malawi's copper coins in Spain. On the one hand, take advantage of the low cost of Indian copper ~ www.wuxiaspot.com ~ to earn huge profits in minting coins. On the other hand, the Malawi copper coins were fully rolled out in the kingdoms of Castile, Aragon and Naples. Then, spread to the entire Italian peninsula. Then, affecting the German region ...
When the people in the German region also accepted the copper coins, her impoverished father Emperor Maximilian I could cast copper coins to improve the poverty of the Habsburgs. After all, there are still many copper mines in Austria. Although many have been mortgaged to the Fugger family, the Habsburgs and the Fugger family can still make a lot of profits by casting copper coins. If this is not possible, you can also buy some cheap Indian copper through Spanish relations and cast copper coins to save the emergency ...
Even with the encouragement of Queen Margaret, Juan III wrote a letter to Marin, asking Marin to accept Spanish copper coins as a means of payment for food ...
After receiving the letter, Marin almost spit out old blood-Nima, do you think I didn't know that you just bought a ship of copper ingots from India and went back? Let me accept your copper coins? You are so beautiful ...
Therefore, Marin directly rejected Juan III. Of course, the letter also said-unless Spain is willing to open the supply of merino sheep, this time he is willing to receive Spanish copper coins, and this is only this time ... In addition, Marin also requested that the horse Verdi copper coins to buy merino sheep ...
