Chapter 1969: Philippines

What business is the most profitable in the world? Of course it is a monopoly business! Just like Venice, the mercury-tinned tin foil glass mirror with very low technical content is an exclusive business, and confidential work is in place. It dare the lion to ask for one or two thousand gold coins on the side, which is too dark.

Marin from later generations also knows how profitable the monopolistic enterprises are, the later generations, the freezing, the electricity, and the two barrels of oil. Moreover, don't look at mobile telecommunications, etc., at the outset, it has brought benefits to the people. But then I didn't know who came up with the idea above. After swapping the heads of several companies, because they were all "own people", the price war ceased, and they no longer wrestled with each other. Originally split up to be a few competing companies, and began to hang out, teamed up with wool ...

Regardless of those, Marin wants to get the most benefit from the silk and porcelain trade of the Ming Dynasty, he cannot allow Portugal and Spain to enter the market.

Portugal has already killed itself, greatly offended the Ming Dynasty, it is difficult to obtain the opportunity to trade with Daming in a short time. And Spain hasn't offended the Ming Dynasty yet, and intends to copy its own means, how can this be done?

You know, Spain has already robbed half of the spoils of the spice trade from Portugal. If they were allowed to share in the trade with the Ming dynasty, would Spain still have to fly?

In particular, Spain is still a maritime power. If you share the huge profits of trade with the Ming Dynasty, it is simply a disaster. Because they will have more strength to compete for the Americas.

So, although the two countries seem to have very good relations on the surface. However, Marin did not allow the Spaniards to take a slice of the trade in the Ming Dynasty. Stabbing in the back or something, basic operation ...

This is not just a simple battle for interests, but a battle for national games! You know, in the history of history, after the Spanish occupied the Philippines, relying on the smuggling of the Manila galleon trade alone, there were between 1 million and 3 million silver dollars flowing into the Ming Dynasty each year. But did the Spaniard lose? No loss! They earn more!

In other words, on average, the Spaniards get at least one million gold coins from the Manila sailing trade every year ...

In this era of mercenary rampage, gold coins mean military power!

According to the calculation of a German mercenary with a daily salary of 3 Finney, the annual salary of an ordinary German mercenary is around 1825 gold coins. And 1 million gold coins can hire 5.47 million mercenaries a year ...

In other words, if Spain can gain access to trade with the Ming Dynasty, it can have tens of thousands of troops in a year. If it is used to build ships and develop the navy, the scale is also very impressive. It should be known that the cost of a Spanish Karak warship of two to three hundred tons is only a few thousand gold coins (excluding copper guns). The annual income of 1 million gold coins can maintain a strong fleet ...

Therefore, regardless of the interests of China or the future of the country, Marin will not allow Spain to blend into the trade with the Ming Dynasty. As long as you dare to stretch your claws, cut him off ...

For French missionaries, Marin planned to send people to the Holy See. There are many French missionaries over there, and there are also those who do not love the motherland France very much. As long as the money is in place, buy them to go to the Ming Dynasty to preach there, and then, at the right time, stab Spain, there is no problem.

Of course, the loyalty of people who spend money to buy is very problematic. For example, he can go to Daming for money and stab Spain. But at the same time, he can also report the advanced production technology of the Ming Dynasty to the French royal family for money, in exchange for generous rewards.

There are too many good things in the Ming Dynasty, the secret of porcelain production, more advanced papermaking, and advanced agricultural technology with a yield of several hundred pounds per mu ... These are all very important to France and also extremely valuable ...

So, while buying this man to stab him in Spain, Marin is also ready to kill him ...

If this person stayed there and preached honestly and stabbed Spain as planned, Marin would not embarrass him. However, if he revealed that he wanted to use the technology obtained in the Ming Dynasty to exchange with the French King Francois I for the last idea, the Marin people would immediately kill him.

You know, Kong Tai bought a lot of men in the Ming Dynasty, they were all locals of the Ming Dynasty. Among these people are not only resourceful scholars, but also those who robbed dogs and robbed dogs, and some are desperate. Once the French priest showed signs of wrongness, the desperate can kill him ...

As for who will send him to replace him after the killing, it must be the missionaries of Beihai to come to Guangzhou. His own missionary has no need to worry about betraying himself. After all, before choosing to come to the Ming Dynasty, Marin must pick a reliable one.

In short, French missionaries and the like are easy to buy and easy to kill. Kong Tai now spends a lot of money in the Ming Dynasty. Perhaps his eyeliners cannot be spread all over the Ming Dynasty, but it is still enough to put enough eyeliners in several cities such as Guangzhou, Fuzhou, Xiamen and Ningbo. After all, it is more than enough to hire a clever intelligence officer to give one or two silver a month. After all, that's an annual income of 12 taels of silver. For many market scumbags, this is a very high salary. You know, many craftsmen with craftsmanship can only get a salary of 300 yuan a month.

As for those who are responsible for murder, they do n’t need much money. A couple of silver is enough to hire them to kill the disobedient French priest. You should know that during the Battle of Luowan, Zheng Zhilong gave his soldiers an incentive reward, but each rewarded two or two silver ~ www.wuxiaspot.com ~ made the soldiers excited and howled. After killing a Xiyi missionary, it is estimated that it will cost ten to two hundred and two dollars to hire the dead who are willing to work ...

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However, after destroying Spain's "fake tribute" plan? What will Spain do?

Marin was in deep contemplation. After thinking for a long time, Marin felt that the Spaniards might choose to resort to old tricks and go north from the Spice Islands to occupy the Philippines. Then, based on the Philippine region again, expressing surrender to the Ming Dynasty for the second time ... If surrender is rejected, the Spaniards will follow the old road of history and use Manila as the base to welcome Daming smugglers to ...

Marin remembers that in order to attract Daming smugglers to Manila in history, the Spaniards offered a high price of 240 ounces for each raw silk, which was only slightly lower than 260 ounces in Japan. In the Ming Dynasty, the burden of raw silk, even the finest Huzhou silk, did not exceed one hundred and two silver. And ordinary raw silk, in the Ming Dynasty only fifty or sixty two silver shoulders.

That is to say, even if Marin managed to destroy Spain's way of cheating on tributary trade, the Spaniards can occupy the Philippines and use it as a base to engage in smuggling.

It seems that there are no countries on the Philippine archipelago, only a small Sulu State over the upper Sulu Archipelago in the southwest. But Luzon Island and other places in the north are still unowned places ...

"Yes! The Philippines ... Ownerless ..." Marin was suddenly inspired ...