Chapter 1390： Salt lead and salted fish

"Pay with salt?" The representative of Bremen and the two speakers of Lübeck and Hamburg were stunned.

Later, Luebeck ’s Speaker Heinrich ’s face changed, saying:

"Do you want to pay with salt from the Luebeck salt mine?"

Marin nodded and said:

"Yes, I just intend to pay with Lübeck's mineral salt!"

"I disagree, you pay the salt to the Bremen, what about our Lubeck merchants?" Heinrich's face changed drastically.

You should know that the salt trade in the Baltic region is one of the core interests of Lübeck. Heinrich's family relied on Lübeck's salt. If Marin gave the salt to the Bremen merchants, the Lübeck salt merchants would have suffered heavy losses.

Marin waved his hand and said:

"Don't get me wrong, instead of selling salt to the Bremen merchants, I use salt to pay for the purchase of real estate."

"Is this any different?" Heinrich puzzled.

Marin explained:

"I mean, the salt of Lüneburg is used as a mortgage for the funds to buy a house. However, I will not give the salt directly to them. In order to protect the interests of Lübeck, my plan is this-next, I A certificate called 'Yin Yin' will be issued. If you want to sell salt at Lüneburg Salt Mine, you must rely on this certificate to get the salt. "

"However, even if they get the salt, they can't take it away. I plan to only allow salt dealers in Lübeck to transport the salt. That is to say, this certificate called" salt lead "can only guarantee the holder Get the salt from the Lüneburg salt mine. If you want to transport the salt from the salt mine, it must be carried by the Lüneburg salt merchant. For this, I will provide the Lüneburg salt merchant with a bill of lading. , A salt merchant in Lüneburg, holding a bill of lading to find a Bremen merchant holding a "salt lead", buying salt from them is ... "

Heinrich was a little bit out of mind. He scratched a little bald hair. After thinking for a long time, he said:

"You mean, can you mention salt from Lüneburg Salt Mine only by holding the" salt lead "with the bill of lading?"

"Yes," Yin Yin "is actually an asset replacement certificate. However, this certificate is not qualified to distribute salt. In the end, this certificate is what I used to offset it. And the final salt distribution link is still Give it to friends of Lüneburg for sale. To put it bluntly, let the Bremen merchants take the salt and find it for you. "

Heinrich asked again:

"So are there any limits on our bill of lading?"

"Of course, I will provide the same amount of bill of lading according to the previous purchase accounts of each Lubeck salt merchant. Of course, Your Excellency, as the leader of the city of Lübeck, I will give you some extra bills of lading Free distribution. After all, I also intend to increase the salt production of Lüneburg ... "Marin smiled.

Heinrich suddenly had a golden spout, and yes, it was a golden spout. Table salt, it's white gold. Marin provides more quotas for the bill of lading for himself, clearly making himself rich! Moreover, even if he can't eat it himself, he can use those quotas as human relations and win over political allies.

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Seeing that Marin and Heinrich sang there, the brows were brows, and the Bremen merchants on the side were depressed ...

Originally, they heard that Marin was going to give them salt, and they were still happy. Because, if you sell salt to the Baltic region, it will double your money. However, at the end of the day, the salt was only changed by their hands, and it was still sold to the Lubeck merchants, which disappointed them ...

In fact, they do n’t think about it. Will the Lübeck people allow others to intervene in big businesses like selling salt to the Baltic region? This is the core interest of Lübeck to become the leader of the Hanseatic League. If others dare to hand over their paws, they will surely attract crazy blows.

In addition, it should be pointed out that the Lübeck people transported Lüneburg's mineral salt to the Baltic region, often not for sale to people in the Baltic region, but to pickle salted fish.

Yes, marinated salted fish and fresh meat. According to historical records, the top three commodities of the Hanseatic League are salt, herring (herring) and fresh meat. Among them, herring does not refer to live fish, but refers to pickled herring. Specifically, salted fish.

In this era, the Beihai Fishing Ground, one of the four major fishing grounds of the later generations, was not actually formed. At this time, the Baltic region is the fishing center in the northern waters of Europe. The Baltic region was rich in herring in this era. The herring is a sea fish, which will die soon after leaving the sea water, and will rot and deteriorate. Therefore, a lot of salt is needed to marinate herring to make salted fish.

The salted salted fish obviously does not need too high-grade salt. As long as the salt is non-toxic and bitter, it can be used to marinate salted fish and bacon.

Therefore, although the salt produced by the Lüneburg Salt Mine is not as pure as Shanghai Salt (a small amount of salt is also of good quality, but it is a fine product, supplying nobles and rich merchants), it is more than enough to pickle salted fish.

As it happens, because of the existence of the Styknitz Canal, Lüneburg ’s mineral salts can be easily transported to the Baltic region. Therefore, such unique conditions have led to the rise of Lübeck and the prosperity of Lüneburg.

However, Cheng Ye salted fish, worship also salted fish. When the herring production area moved from the Baltic region to the North Sea region after 1560, Lübeck and Lüneburg declined together. And because of the arrival of the herring production area, another area has risen completely-that is the Netherlands ...

If the herring fishery is not transferred to the North Sea region, it is very difficult for the Netherlands to rise. Moreover, you have to ask Lübeck whether you agree or not. But as the herring production area moved to the waters near the Netherlands in the North Sea region, the "sea coachman" only had the conditions to rise.

Therefore, it was the history that chose the Netherlands, not the Netherlands that created history ... Don't listen to "The Rise of Great Powers". The Dutch invented a fish-cutting knife and rose ...

Genima bullshit, the Dutch invented the fish cutter in the 14th century. However, the real rise of the Netherlands was still in the late 16th century. Because, after 1560, the herring fish farm came to the Netherlands. There is only a fish splitter, not enough fish, the rise of a G8 ... really rely on the fish splitter, the Netherlands should rise in the 14th century ...

However, this should not blame Yang Ma's lack of knowledge. Because, this is the propaganda of the Dutch themselves. In order to show the superiority of the nation, the Dutch must have bragged about the comparison of the Dutch people, such as inventing a fish-sharp knife or something. As for the transfer of herring production areas to the North Sea in 1560, they were deliberately ignored by them. Otherwise, how does their ancestors compare? It seems that the Dutch nation is tall?

Of course, although the main production area of ​​herring is in the Baltic Sea, there are actually many fish in the North Sea region. Mainly because there are too few fishing boats in this era, and the development of the sea is low. Therefore, the fishing volume of Marin's North Sea countries is actually quite impressive.

In particular, Marin has vigorously promoted the modern fishing technology of winch trawl, which makes the fishing volume in the North Sea country still considerable. Moreover, Marin has also implemented a system of loans to buy large and medium-sized fishing vessels ~ www.novelhall.com ~ which greatly facilitates the fishing industry in the North Sea. It should be known that with the large and medium-sized fishing boats and the winch "V" trawl, the fishermen in the North Sea have the ability to catch deep-sea fishing.

In the Baltic region, it is mainly because there are too many herrings, and people can get a good harvest by simply casting their nets. Moreover, herring has the habit of migrating intensively to the offshore during the spawning season. Experienced fishermen don't need to go deep into the sea at all. They just have to wait at the beach during the fishing season to see the migrating herrings directly cast their nets.

The so-called rise of the Dutch means that herring came to the North Sea after 1560. During the fishing season, they waited for the herring to be delivered to the seaside for fishing ... The fish-slicing knife waited two hundred years to show its talent ...

Of course, the fish-cutting knife is not useless. At least, it is really convenient for Dutch fishermen. However, because there were not many herrings before 1560, the Netherlands has also been lukewarm. It wasn't until the fishing ground moved to the door of the house that this knife did its job, and the Netherlands flew into the sky.

Marin is much more advanced than them. While the Europeans are still waiting for herring migration in the offshore waters, Marin has let fishermen drive large and medium-sized fishing boats and winch deep-sea fishing with winches. Because of the high efficiency of winch trawl, Beihai has never lacked salted fish. The serfs of the farms under Marin can get a lot of salted fish as nutritional supplements every year. After all, it's not enough to eat bread nutrition.