Chapter 1411： European money shortage

While Ma Lin was busy plowing and planting wheat, the auction of rare goods such as silk, porcelain, tea bricks, etc. brought back from Daming was in full swing.

Worried about someone taking advantage of the opportunity to participate in the auction to spy on the North Sea agricultural secrets, Marin simply moved the auction in North Germany to Cologne, a Hansa city to the south. Then, it was the outfield in Nuremberg, Paris, London, Rome, Barcelona and other places.

This time Marin used two fleets, up to 18 ships. Therefore, there are more cargos than the last three or four ships in Columbus.

Moreover, in addition to the rare goods such as normal silk, porcelain and tea bricks, Marin also purchased a lot of spices such as pepper, cinnamon and cloves in Daming. Such as pepper, this thing is so expensive in Europe, it can reach 10 shillings per pound, which is the super high price of 2 gold coins per pound.

However, in Daming, this thing only needs 130 jin a catty, that is, 013 two silver. And a gold coin is equivalent to 114 two silver. In other words, in Daming, the price of a pound of pepper (more than a pound) is only equivalent to one-eighth to one-ninth of the price in Europe. And the transportation of spices such as pepper back to Europe from Daming can also benefit seven or eight times. Moreover, this also bypasses the agreement reached with Spain-I bought it in Daming, not in India, it is not a violation ...

In this way, when the spring cultivation ended, the results of several auctions were also aggregated-these auctions, the goods brought back by Marin, sold at a sky-high price of more than one million gold coins, a total of 1.09 million gold coins ... …

However, what made Marin depressed is that many nobles could not get the money, they could only use the goods to pay off ...

According to statistics, this round of auctions, a total of 300,000 gold accounts, are offset by goods. Asked the reason, the nobles said one after another-domestic coins are not enough ...

In fact, not to mention that the nobles of various countries feel that the coins are not enough, and Marin also thinks that the coins are not enough. Especially silver, in the process of going to Daming, a lot of money was spent, leading to some shortage of silver in China.

No way, the Ming dynasty was too rich in materials and lacked nothing. Do you want to go shopping in the Ming Dynasty? Okay, take the silver! Moreover, Europe's self-used broken silver coins doped with too much copper are not needed, as long as they are pure silver. Even if the Spanish silver dollar with a silver content of 90% was later recovered, it was melted to make a silver ingot ...

If you use gold, Marin is too disadvantaged. The price of gold and silver in the Ming Dynasty was only 1 to 6, which is only half of that in Europe. Use gold to go shopping in the Ming Dynasty and lose half of the currency first ...

Therefore, before going to the Ming Dynasty, Marin traded all gold coins for silver bars with higher purity. But the money is more expensive, it seems that domestic is not enough. Now, the North Sea market is flooded with silver coins of other countries.

The most embarrassing thing about Marin is that this time at the Paris auction, many of the coins received were fake nickel silver copper coins secretly made by himself.

The person in charge of the auction did not know that he had made French fake silver coins privately, so he collected all the money. Moreover, it seems that France's currency is more popular because of its strong national strength. Although the silver content of French real silver coins is a bit low, only less than a quarter. But is that also a silver coin? With the endorsement of a big country like France, people actually like to use it.

Therefore, not only many French nickel silver nickel silver coins were found in the auction, but also a lot of Malin private nickel silver nickel fake French coins appeared in the foreign trade market of Emden.

Why did you ask Marin that it was fake? Because the fake nickel silver bronze fake silver coins of the North Sea State are of better quality than the authentic French silver coins ...

The authentic French silver coins were hand-beated by the craftsmen of the Tour Mint, and the workmanship was a bit rough and not beautiful enough. Moreover, the corrosion resistance of copper and silver alloys is lower than nickel white copper.

Then there is the nickel-copper-coin fake silver coin pressed by the Marlin's mint with a spiral coin press, which is still very bright after a few years of use, while the French real silver coin is slightly bleak. As for the text pattern pressed by the spiral coin press, it is also more delicate and detailed than the authentic French silver coins ...

In this Paris auction, Marin's men actually received nickel silver copper fake silver coins minted in the North Sea country worth 50,000 gold coins.

Looking at these "silver coins" that are absolutely free of silver, Marin wants to cry without tears--why are you pitting yourself? How many French nickel silver copper fake silver coins worth 50,000 gold coins? 5.4 million Dnier silver coins ...

Looking at the pile of Dnier silver coins, Marin called a depressed and vomiting blood. You know, the Beihai Mint produces 10 million nickel-nickel-copper fake French Dnières silver coins in a year ... these have returned in more than half a year ... and, it is said that there are now millions in the Beihai country Nickel-nickel-copper fake Dnier silver coins are in circulation ...

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Marin approached Kohler and commanded feebly:

"You send the men of the Chamber of Commerce to go to France to buy Pershma and Charolais cattle, and go to Switzerland to buy Simmental cattle ... Well, those fake French silver coins circulating in the country, you also send people secretly not Redeem it vividly, and take it to France and Switzerland to spend ... "

Kohler hesitated and said:

"Princess, all the good horses in the Persh area have been bought for us. We purchased a total of 2,400 good horses there, and the rest are all bad horses. Are you sure?"

Marin was stunned, and immediately reacted-it looks like the nickel nickel copper fake Dnier silver coins cast in the past few years are all spent on buying these, and I must have bought a lot. So he said:

"Since the good Pershma is gone, then buy Charolais and Simmental."

Kohler added:

"The Simmental cattle have basically been bought by us. The Simmental plain is just a small plain in the Swiss mountains, and there are only a few thousand cows. We bought 3,000 heads, and there are basically no good cattle over there ..."

Marlin was speechless:

"What about the Charolais? Will it not disappear?"

"That's not true. Charlotte Province is much larger than the Simmental Basin ~ www.novelhall.com ~ But the locals attach great importance to this kind of cattle. After we bought 4200 heads, the locals said they would not sell anything, but Organize and boycott us. When our people go to Charolais, they will be beaten with sticks ... "

"Okay, then forget about it. You can let the Peersma, Simmental and Charolais cows be bred well. As for those nickel-nickel-copper fake Dnier silver coins ... so you send them to take it France, give priority to the purchase of sterling silver bars. After all, I ’m going to take Daming to buy the goods ... "Marin's plan is very good-fake French Dnier silver coins made of nickel white copper, go to France for real high purity silver bullion. Then, I took it to the Ming Dynasty to purchase various rare goods, and then took it back to Europe for big money ...

But Kohler said:

"Princess, if we spend more than ten million fake French Dnier silver coins in France, we will be able to exchange a lot of valuable things. However, in this way, the domestic currency of the North Sea country is short. If you do n’t, there will be a shortage of money in the country. You have been working hard to promote the economic development of the North Sea country. Without enough coins, the economy cannot grow! "

"Then cast more brass coins first to top it!" Marin remembered that it seemed that the Beihai Mint had cast a lot of brass coins and it seemed to be very popular.

Kohler shook his head and said:

"Brass coins are quite popular inside the North Sea country, but no one admits once they get outside the North Sea country. Many people in other countries think that only silver coins are real coins, copper coins are not ... "

"What's this ... what's this ..." Marin was angry.

"There is so little silver in Europe, how can there be so much silver to make money? In addition, I spent a lot of money on Daming, Mad, this is a money shortage! And it is a money shortage in Europe! No, I You have to think of a way! "