Chapter 1461: The fall of the English rebels
Afternoon tea can drive, but not just the sale of tea. After all, to drink milk tea, in addition to tea, milk and sucrose. Marin couldn't take over the milk. After all, he had thousands of black and white cows in his hand, and he was slowly multiplying.
Moreover, although there are no black and white cows in other countries, it does not mean that there are no cows. The cows of other people can provide milk even though the breed is slightly worse. For nobles, it is not too simple to raise a few cows in the manor.
As for sugar, those nobles are going to be blind. After all, because of the high latitudes in Europe, sugar cane cannot be grown. Of course, it is possible to grow sugar beets. However, in order to sell sucrose, Marin will definitely not tell them that sugar beets can also produce sugar.
In Europe today, sucrose is not a daily necessity. In various countries, although sugar is no longer a rarity in pharmacies, only the rich can enjoy it. After all, sucrose is not cheap now.
At present, in the European market, the wholesale price of sucrose is 1 shilling per pound, which is 12 fenny per pound, which is 12 times the price of rye. Uh, this is the wholesale price, retail price, coastal transportation developed areas, is 1 shilling 6 pence per pound. In the inland area, it can be as high as 2 shillings per pound ... and 5 shillings is equivalent to a gold coin, that is, 2.5 pounds of sucrose can be exchanged for a gold coin ...
Moreover, the sucrose that is popular in the European market is basically black granulated sugar, not even brown sugar. At this time, Marin had brought back the craftsmen who could use the yellow mud method to extract white cane sugar from Hu Jian in the Ming Dynasty ...
This time, the ship brought back a white sugar ...
Although it is not as white as the sugar of later generations, it is a little yellow, but it is too much higher than black sugar ...
Marin's eyes rolled and ordered:
"In the future, this kind of sucrose, called" Noble White Frost Candy ", will only be sold to nobles! Price, 5 gold coins (25 shillings) per pound!"
Kohler and Schwartz on the other side were stunned-Nima, when we don't know what the cost of white cane sugar is? The price increased by 12.5 times at once? In their view, double the price is considered a black heart ...
Marin looked at them and naturally guessed what they were thinking. So he said to them:
"Don't you tell us about this cost, just say it's royal frost candy imported from the Far East. Do you understand? Of course, you and a bunch of old brothers want to buy it, or the price of ordinary cane sugar, more than 12 times the price. , That ’s the customer price ... "
The two of them suddenly breathed a sigh of relief. Fortunately, they didn't need to be Kaizi ...
After all, the two of them are used to drinking afternoon tea now, what can they do without sugar? what? You said to let them use brown sugar? Please, these two are the top aristocrats in the North Sea. If you drink black tea with afternoon sugar, do n’t you lose? Especially when drinking afternoon tea with other nobles, they added white granulated sugar ... oh no, it is noble white frosted sugar, you added black granulated black sugar ... why don't you have a face?
Why are European spices so expensive? Isn't this aristocratic hype? You used 10 plates of pepper powder and banquets at your banquet, and 20 plates at our banquet. Guests not only ate barbecue with pepper, but also bread ...
In this way, in this atmosphere of comparison, the nobles have deficits, and the price of spices has risen ...
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Of course, nobles are not fools. If Marin sells such white granulated sugar in large quantities, and sets the price so high, it will definitely arouse the anger of others.
Therefore, Marin told Kohler:
"Tell the Cuban side, let the other side control the production of white sugar. Usually, it is mainly based on brown sugar, and brown sugar is used instead of black granulated sugar. As for white sugar, the production ratio is reduced to less than 10%, limited supply ..."
"Limited? Why limit?" Schwartz wondered, shouldn't good things be produced more?
Kohler had a chamber of commerce, but he knew something and explained:
"Things are rare, this is what the protagonist said before ..."
Schwartz nodded forcefully, but it had nothing to do with him, as long as he didn't affect him. Anyway, if you do n’t lack tea bricks, milk and sugar, and others are slaughtered, then he should n’t worry about it ...
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Speaking of it, Marin is also speechless. Europeans this year are cheap, and they obviously have honey that is much better in nutrition than sucrose, but they are going to eat sucrose. If you eat too much sugar, but have diabetes, honey is much better.
Moreover, the nutrition of brown sugar is higher than that of brown sugar, and white sugar is the worst. However, the selling price is reversed. Perhaps, in this era, Europe also has the concept of "foreign monks are good at chanting". Obviously local honey is better and healthier, but I want to eat sugar ...
Well, Marin can't control it either. He is too lazy to go to science health knowledge, even, he will use this situation to make more money. As for himself ...
When entertaining guests, he uses sucrose for milk tea. In the future, there must be a wave of advertising for white sugar.
However, when closing the door to drink tea from home, Marin is not allowed to use sugar, but honey. At most, use maple syrup instead of honey. Sucrose or something, let's harm others. Especially for their own children, Marin strictly forbids Caesar, Robert, and Xiao Mayun from eating cane sugar. If they want to eat sweets, they can only eat honey and at most maple syrup. Sucrose or something, it ’s not good to eat too much ...
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Just when Marin was troubled with the "sweet" question, there was a big thing happening in England-the rebels were completely wiped out ...
After the news came, Marin was taken aback-when did Edward become so powerful? Did n’t the rebels fight guerrillas in the mountains? So easy to be eliminated?
So he hurriedly let Kohler release the pigeons and went to England to find out more ...
A few days later, detailed information came back ...
It turned out that Edward's elimination of the rebels was actually a coincidence. Originally, the Tudor dynasty, which was supported by the French, really caused a lot of waves in the mountains of Wales and the eastern mountains of Lancashire.
Later, Edward took the opportunity to make a decisive decision and invited Marin's family to come to London to break the rumors of his discord with Marin and stabilize the military.
Subsequently, Edward did not temporarily control the rebellion in the Welsh region, but first concentrated his troops to the Lancashire County in the northwest to suppress the local rebels.
The western and central parts of Lancashire are plains, and only the eastern part is a mountainous area belonging to the Benning Mountains. Unlike Wales, there are large mountains, only a small part of the east is mountainous.
Based on the principle of "easy first, hard second", Edward gathered 20,000 troops to encircle the eastern mountainous areas of Lancashire and even set fire to the mountains to send people to cut trees. In the end, the rebels of Lancashire were finally destroyed.
Subsequently, the army marched into the Welsh region. But the Welsh region is much larger than Lancashire. Lancashire is only 3,075 square kilometers, with only a small portion of mountains. The area of Wales is more than 20,000 square kilometers ~ www.wuxiaspot.com ~ but sadly-most of them are mountains.
This kind of place is most suitable for rebel activities. In general, it is difficult for Edward to destroy the rebels here. But by all means, the leader of the Tudor dynasty, Coster, was a wand and could not live without a woman. Moreover, this guy likes to go into the city to find a lady ...
You say you just grab a village aunt in the mountain area and just forget it. This guy can't look down on the rustic village aunts in the mountains, but she likes to dress up the women in the city ...
Therefore, when fighting guerrillas in the mountains, this man will pretend to be dressed every other week and go into the city to find a lady ...
But people walk by the river, how can there be no wet shoes? No, when Coster was looking for the happy local Miss Monroe in Cardiff, the largest city in Wales, it happened to be discovered by a Chou family back then ...
The Chou family is now serving in the Edwardian army, and this time he was sent to Cardiff to prepare to encircle the Welsh rebels. After seeing Coster, his captain Doron did not yell. After all, he knew that Coster was a master with a knife. Moreover, this time, Coster brought seven or eight followers, all masters.
Captain Doron's eyesight is not bad, knowing that he has stepped forward, he must have been hacked to death. So, he left the Women's Branch without a word, summoned hundreds of soldiers, surrounded Cardiff's largest branch, surrounded Coast and his followers in one fell swoop ...
Then, after severe torture, Coster didn't say anything, but one of his men was a soft egg, who said everything and explained the hiding place of the rebels.
The next step was simple. Cardiff's entire army was dispatched, and in one fell swoop, they surrounded the small village where the rebels hid.
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Knowing such a dramatic plot, Marin looked at the information in his hand and froze for a long time ...
