Chapter 1894: 10 Miles Red Makeup

After thinking about it, Marin finally decided to find a heir to a little prince's family who was not inferior in status but had poor family strength. In this way, the eldest niece can satisfy her parents' face and be a prince's wife without affecting the situation in Beihai.

However, in fact, Marin is too worried. Even if he wanted to find a strong prince for his eldest niece, no one would be happy. Just like the Spanish crown prince Ma Lin, the marriage partners are generally princesses of the major kingdoms. No matter how bad it is, it must be a princess of powerful princes. Where could it be the niece of a prince? Although Marin enrolled Adler as Earl of Wicklow, and gave Wicklow County to Adler as his earl, it was a division within the Hoffman family. Other countries did not recognize it, only Adler. Le is a high-ranking nobleman in the North Sea, but not a prince with independent sovereignty. Therefore, the identity of the eldest niece, Mary, is naturally much lower than the daughters of princes. Moreover, considering that the Huffman family belongs to the upstarts among the princes, there are very few people who can be regarded as her origin. Unless, it's the kind of humiliating little princes who need to hold the thighs of Beihai ...

Obviously, Marin thinks so. Therefore, he ordered Kohler to start collecting information on the weak princes and see if the other party intended to marry.

In any case, Mary is also the first person in the third generation of the Hoffman family, and will definitely get married earlier than Caesar. Therefore, it is indeed impossible to marry too coldly. Otherwise, his uncle has no face.

Therefore, Marin directly promised that-Mary's dowry standard, directly in accordance with very high standards. Its value, according to 200,000 gold coins, is paid by his uncle!

This decision shocked many people, and also moved the old Hoffmans and the little Mary. You know, in this era, France ’s annual fiscal revenue was only about 1.2 million gold coins. Marin gave away 200,000 gold coins to his niece as a dowry, equivalent to one-sixth of a year's fiscal revenue in France, the largest power in Western Europe. Those poor countries, when they marry Little Mary, will definitely be able to support them all at once.

Of course, it's not that Marin will pull out 200,000 gold coins in real money. He plans to use most of the goods such as silk satin and fine porcelain imported from Daming to cover it.

As a result, it is worth 200,000 gold coins on the surface, but in fact it costs tens of thousands of gold coins. After all, these things are actually cheaper in Daming. However, when it comes to Europe, it can indeed be worth 200,000 gold coins. Moreover, the dowry is all satin and fine porcelain, and has a special face. After all, in Europe, oriental silk and porcelain are the symbols of the trench. Who is really married to the Eastern silk and porcelain, it is estimated that people will be envious of death.

Things are rare, this kind of thing also happened in ancient China. During the Tang Dynasty, Huaxia pepper was very expensive. The prime minister Yuan Zai was corrupt and even gathered 800 stone pepper. The Tang dynasty learned that Yuan Zai's family had 800 stone peppers, and was so angry that he ordered to dig Yuan Zai's ancestral tomb as an extremely severe punishment. There was no way. During the Tang Dynasty, pepper was extremely cheap in Southeast Asia and India because of inconvenient transportation. The value in China was also very high. Like Europe at the time, it was more expensive than gold.

Of course, this was also the time when the Arab businessman slaughtered the Tang Dynasty. When they restocked from India, the price of pepper was very cheap. When it was shipped to the Tang Dynasty, the lion opened his mouth and sold the sky-high price. If anyone travels to the Tang Dynasty, as long as they can get through India's trade routes, engage in the pepper trade, and be sure to make a fortune.

Because, during the Tang Dynasty, Chinese people did not eat pork, but lamb. The lamb has a strong flavor and requires spices, so pepper is very popular among the rich. In addition, at that time, the Tang Dynasty did not produce pepper, and did not engage in big sailing, and could only rely on the arrival of Arab merchants, so it could only be slaughtered.

As for the price of pepper falling later, it has a certain relationship with the popularity of pork. After all, pork is not as sloppy as lamb, and you don't need to put too many spices. But the price of pepper really fell. It was after Zheng He's voyage to the West that he opened up the route of Southeast Asia.

Although later the Ming Dynasty no longer sent a fleet to the west, but after Zheng He opened the route, Manchuria and other Southeast Asian countries could not stop sending tribute ships to the Ming Dynasty for tribute trade. Then, the price of pepper really started to fall. In the early Ming Dynasty, pepper was still expensive. By the end of the Wanli period, there were only more than one hundred yuan per catty, and ordinary ordinary families could afford it.

For the same reason, at present, Europe has not yet fully opened Daming's market. Only Marin can trade with Daming, and the Portuguese have failed. Therefore, Eastern silk and porcelain at this time are naturally very rare luxury goods in Europe. In fact, if only the purchase price is considered, the silk degraded porcelain worth 200,000 gold coins might cost only a few thousand gold coins in the Ming Dynasty. This still doubles the far-distance freight and other additional costs, but only a fraction of the value.

Therefore, the boldness of Marin said that the cost is not very high. However, in the eyes of other Europeans, this is the real pride. Because the market value of this thing will not be fake.

However, because the value of dowry was "too high," Mrs. Mary was worried that others would only want to marry little Mary because she was greedy for dowry. Therefore, Mrs. Mary asked for concealment of the specific amount for the time being, and only claimed to be a "very rich dowry", not to mention the specific value of 200,000, so as not to scare others or attract money-seekers.

After listening to Mrs. Mary's concerns, Marin rolled her eyes and said, "What is this?" During the Western Jin Dynasty, Shi Chong and Wang Kai used expensive purple silk and colorful satin to lay a barrier of forty and fifty miles. Moreover, Chinese folks are known as "ten-mile red makeup". Although it is an exaggeration, in the Ming Dynasty, there are really many rich families who can afford silk porcelain worth thousands of two silver ...

But here is Europe ~ www.wuxiaspot.com ~ is not a productive China. Therefore, Mrs. Mary's concerns are somewhat reasonable. Therefore, Marin did not hype the richness of the dowry, but only vaguely said "rich".

However, at this time, Marin had a plan for her son Caesar's wedding ceremony-Shili Hongzhuang, no discount!

Caesar is also 14 years old, about to be 15 years old, but Princess Margaret of England is still young, only 10 years old. But in a few years, the two are almost married.

By that time, Marin, the father, must make Caesar's wedding a legend. There was no way for my wedding. At that time, it was still an entrepreneurial period, and the Ming Dynasty route was not opened. Without that condition, I could only make up the count with inferior Lyon silk.

But when Caesar and Princess Margaret got married, there was a lot of silk in Marin's hands. At that time, Marin intends to learn Shi Chong and Wang Kai, using red silk as a barrier on both sides, and really put on a posture of "ten-mile red makeup", shocking European turtles.

By that time, Marin should have foiled France ’s interference with his annexation of England, and would no longer fear the threat of others. So, what if Lu Chong was like Shi Chong Wang Kai?