Chapter 1391： Betray a little Hansa merchant

For coastal residents, fish is probably the easiest meat to eat. After all, the cost of fishing is very low, as long as a boat, a net, and the labor of the fishermen are enough. Unlike meat, even lambs that graze, lambs cost money to buy.

Moreover, it takes a long time to raise sheep. Moreover, it is necessary to send people to take care of the sheep in the middle, so that the sheep are not eaten by the beasts or stolen by the beasts. The fishermen don't need to control the growth of fish. Their task is to run to the fishing area and cast a net.

Of course, fishing is also risky. For example, fear of encountering a storm at sea. However, the North Sea in Europe is relatively calm. Unlike the South China Sea in China, typhoons blow in the summer. Therefore, as long as the ship is larger, fishing in the North Sea is relatively safe.

Fish is very nutritious, and it has almost all the nutrients of meat. The only thing lacking than meat is probably fat. But Marin has already promoted the cultivation of soybeans in North America. When soybean oil begins mass production, fat is not something that people particularly need.

Overall, such things as salted fish are not only durable but also fully nutritious. Moreover, because it is marinated with salt, it is equivalent to adding salt when eating salted fish.

Therefore, for Europeans, salted fish is really a kind of god-level food that can provide sufficient nutrition, supplement salt, and is also resistant to preservation.

Not only do coastal fishermen use salted fish as an important food, but inland Europeans also use salted fish as an important food. After all, salted fish is durable and easy to transport.

But the price of salt is too expensive, so the Swedes invented the notorious canned herring. The reason why it stinks is that Sweden ’s Baltic Sea region does not produce salt, and the price of salt is too expensive. Therefore, in order to save salt, Swedish fishermen directly boiled the fish in concentrated brine, and then directly packed it. Because of the insufficient salt content, the herring fermented in the container and became smelly, resulting in the infamous canned Swedish herring. If not considering the cost of salt, the correct curing method should be to use salt to rub the inside and outside of the fish vigorously until the salt penetrates into the fish meat. Then, air dry. In this way, it is not easy to be too stinky. If you want to save salt, you will make something like the canned herring in Sweden.

Fortunately, there is no shortage of salt in Lübeck, and there is an adequate supply of mineral salt in Lüneburg. The salt used for salted fish made in Lübeck is enough, which is very popular among consumers everywhere.

However, Marin knew clearly that Lübeck's good days are running out. By 1560, when herring production areas moved to the North Sea coast, Lübeck was destined to decline.

Marin was wondering why the Hanseatic League would decline in the late 16th century. It turned out that the leader of Lübeck had declined. Hamburg, the "Queen" in the Hanseatic League, failed to take on the important task of revitalizing the Hanseatic League. Then, the Dutch took advantage of the situation and replaced Lübeck. Later, the trade of salt and salted fish in the Baltic Sea appeared to be snatched by the Dutch ...

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Regarding Yan Yin, Hector and several other Bremen representatives were very satisfied, but Hector thought of a serious problem:

"Princess Marin, does this salt lead have a cashing date? One million gold coins is not a small number. I heard that the annual salt production of the Lüneburg Salt Mine is only worth six or seven hundred thousand gold coins. Even if you take With half of the shares, the annual salt production is not more than 300,000 gold coins, which is not enough to pay the bill. And, if the delivery is delayed for one year, we will also lose a lot. "

Marin thought for a while, and it was true that he could not change the salt worth millions of gold coins at once. So he decided:

"If the delivery is delayed, I will pay the interest, or use salt to pay off. The old rule is that the annual interest is 10%, the half-year is 5%, and there is no interest for less than half a year! In addition, I promise to get enough salt in one year. If I do n’t come to pick up salt, I wo n’t pay more interest, up to 10%! ”Marin is afraid that these people will put salt in their hands when the stock is going to rise. Therefore, he gave the latest cashing time. It will be useless to hold for longer than time.

Hector thought about it and agreed with Marin's method.

But in fact, Hector and other Hansa businessmen would not even see the 10% interest in the previous year. Because, if you can use the cash to do business, the profit you get will be much higher than the interest. Therefore, several representatives such as Hector demanded that their housing expenses be paid first.

Marin pretended not to be happy, and, Marin deliberately proposed-to depreciate the house of the Hansa merchants worth more than one million half, and only give half price.

Several representatives of Bremen were in a hurry, they were all big Bremen households, and their property values ​​were very high. If the depreciation is half, the loss can be large. For example, if the villa of the Hector family is depreciated by half, it is equivalent to a loss of 2,500 gold coins.

As a result, several people began to fight for their reasons. But Marin believes that the more houses live and the older they must be depreciated. As a result, the two sides stalemate.

Finally, the next morning, Hector put forward a new plan--

"Master Marin, otherwise, let's take a new plan ..."

"What's the new plan? It's not possible to depreciate!"

Hector exhaled and said the method negotiated by several representatives of Bremen last night ...

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"What? You said you would help me persuade other Hansa merchants to sell me the house at half price?" Marin was dumbfounded. He offered half of the depreciation, just asking for the price, waiting for the other party to bargain. His bottom line is actually a 30% off price acquisition. As a result, the opponent directly agreed to this outrageous price ...

"Yes, if Master Marin agrees to buy the properties of our 23 members and 30 large households in Bremen Council without depreciation, we would be willing to cooperate with you, and convince other Hansa merchants to accept the 50% off purchase price!"

Malin thought about it and asked:

"So, what is the total value of your 53 properties?"

"Probably around 200,000 gold coins. For the remaining 800,000 properties, if you calculate half of the depreciation, you can save 400,000 gold coins!"

"Okay, do it!" Marin accepted decisively.

After thinking about it, Marin asked again:

"How do you cooperate with me to persuade the little Hansa merchants?"

"Even scaring!"

"Even coaxing? How to do it specifically?" Marin was interested.

Hector replied:

"This is simple, it means that we were threatened by your knife holder on your neck during the negotiation, and you have to agree to depreciate half ..."

"Wait ..." Marin interrupted him without a good breath:

"What if the ordinary Hansa merchants were completely irritated? What if they took the Bremen stubborn resistance?"

Hector shook his head and said:

"No, because the food in the city will not last for many days. In addition, we parliamentarians and big households are going to pretend to take the lead and escape, and spread the news that you will send troops to loot the Hansa merchants in the city ..."

"You might as well say I want to slaughter the city!" Marin didn't have a good air ~ www.novelhall.com ~ Who knew Hector shook his head:

"It is useless to say that the slaughterhouse is useless. For us businessmen, the loss of money will be painful. As for the slaughterhouse, it may not be more deterrent to steal their property."

"Oh ... Merchant ..." Marin didn't know what to say.

Hector continued:

"You are worried that those small businessmen will encourage the Bremen citizens to resist, then it is not necessary. Because in Bremen City, only we have the right to speak for more than fifty of us. As for other Hansa businessmen, basically nothing The chance to speak, do n’t worry about leading their people against you. As long as more than 50 of us take the lead to run away, other Hanseese merchants will be scared to follow and run away ... "

"Very good, just do it!" In order to save the demolition compensation of 400,000 gold coins, Marin could not care about his face. As for Hector and others, for their own benefit, they did not hesitate to betray the little Hansa merchants in Bremen ...