Chapter 1412： It's time to capture Mexico!

In fact, the European money shortage is no longer a day or two. Since the beginning of large-scale trade in Europe and the Middle East, European coins have been outflowing.

For example, Europe sources large quantities of spices such as pepper from India. But they did not have enough attractive goods to exchange with the Arab merchants. In desperation, the Venetian merchants had to give the Arab merchants millions of gold coins every year in exchange for expensive spices and other supplies.

The Venetian merchants have been involved in trade with Asia since 687 AD, and have been engaged for eight or nine hundred years. Coupled with the participation of commercial republics such as Genoa, this has led to the outflow of gold and silver in Europe.

The main flow of European gold is probably India. Therefore, the Indian Asan have so much gold. The slightly rich Indian women are all covered with gold ornaments. Even, there are golden rings on the nose. Many Indian temples are filled with gold. For example, the Padmanabashwari Temple in Kerala, India, this temple built in the 16th century, has hidden a lot of gold for hundreds of years. When later generations were discovered, the inside room contained gold jewelry worth $ 11.2 billion. The gold ornament alone weighs a ton, and a small elephant is made of gold ...

Most of these golds are bought by Indians selling peppers ...

By the way, in Kerala, where the temple is located, there is a port city called Calicut and another port city called Cochin ...

Therefore, Europeans are very hard. It was easy to dig up some gold and silver from my own mine, and as a result, all the goods were exchanged for spices and other goods. Then, the enemy wanted to use money, but the gold and silver were not enough ...

To be honest, the reason why the local silver coins in Europe are so poorly casted, in addition to the monarchs wanting to earn a coinage tax, there is also the helplessness of a serious shortage of gold and silver!

Even the European voyage was forced out of money. Without money, Indians will not spice you. Therefore, we have to find gold and silver mines. Among them, India Asan likes gold the most. Therefore, the Venetian talents minted the Ducat gold coins, and the Florentines minted the Florin gold coins. Moreover, dare not adulterate. Because it is used in the spice trade. If they dare to adulterate, the Indian A3 will reject it. Assan refused, there would be no spices ...

The situation now is-Europe's economy has developed, but there is a shortage of coins, and it can't keep up with the economic development ...

Although by reducing the silver content of the currency, a lot of money can indeed be minted. However, the people are not fools. Do you lower the silver content? Yes, we also give less goods. In short, bad money will not be treated as good money.

Therefore, if you want to really promote the development of Europe, you still need a sufficient amount of gold and silver. After all, gold and silver are naturally currencies.

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As a result, after Marin flickered, Spanish and Portuguese talents would desperately jump into the trap and try their best to go to Timbuktu and Zimbabwe in the interior of Africa to grab gold. Up to now, the two countries are still spinning around the African coast. No way, the climate of tropical rainforests in inland Africa is too bad. It is not generally difficult to open up roads in tropical rain forests.

Right now, according to intelligence, both Spain and Portugal are vigorously building castles and strongholds along the coasts of West Africa and Mozambique. There is also-in all efforts to cut trees to build roads. When the road is repaired, it is time for the two countries to attack the two major gold nations.

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However, Marin also saw danger in it-the danger of devaluation of gold ...

He read the history of West Africa and knew that the golden sultan of the Mali Empire, Mansa Musa, had brought more than 33,000 pounds of gold to the pilgrimage to Mecca. As a result, because of the large purchases in Cairo, Egypt, halfway through, it actually caused Cairo's gold price to fall by one-fifth, only to recover after 12 years ...

Therefore, Marin realized that if Spain and Portugal really started to get a lot of gold from West Africa and Zimbabwe, European gold prices would definitely fall. Then, the entire financial system will shuffle and fall into chaos. After all, the turbulence in the value of money will definitely cause economic chaos.

The best way to solve this problem is to take out as much silver of equal value. In this way, the price of gold and silver will not be chaotic. With enough currency, the circulation of European commodities will also accelerate.

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Of course, the development of the European economy, Marin is actually not very concerned. He only cares about the North Sea, including England, who will succeed in the future.

But there is a problem-every year Europeans spend a lot of gold and silver to go to India and the Middle East to purchase all kinds of high-priced goods, a lot of gold and silver are lost. As a result, Marin will have difficulties in exchange for silver bars for Daming trade in the future.

For a moment, Marin wanted to learn the Song Dynasty and cast iron money ...

The Great Song Dynasty is a wonderful flower in history. This dynasty is a small dynasty with a small territory and lack of resources. If you want to make money, there is not enough copper. Because southern Yunnan, which is rich in copper, is not from the Song Dynasty, but a country called Dali.

However, the economy of the Song Dynasty was very developed, and various materials were extremely rich. If there is not enough money, there may be a very serious deflation in the Song Dynasty's economy ~ www.novelhall.com ~ Then, the Song Dynasty gods thought of various ways-first to get out the paper money "cross". As a result, due to misprints, Jiaozi depreciated significantly and was not recognized. Then, the people of the Song dynasty put their hearts to one side-don't want paper money, right? Okay, I made money with iron!

Then, the Song Dynasty began the history of casting iron money. It is said that there are seven or eight million catties of iron used to cast iron money every year.

Therefore, the consistency of the Song Dynasty is different from that of the Ming Dynasty. The consistent money in the Ming Dynasty was copper money, and the consistent money in the Song Dynasty was iron money ...

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However, Marin certainly cannot learn the cast iron money of the Song Dynasty. The reason is that the Song Dynasty was a centralized empire, and the court used iron money, which the people could only accept.

Marin is just one of many German princes. Want to promote iron money? Maybe in the North Sea, if you leave the North Sea country, the iron money is **** ... let alone the iron money, as Kohler reported before, the copper money people do n’t recognize it, only the silver coins ...

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So, speaking, Marin still has to find silver ...

Then Marin thought of the Rammelsberg Silver Mine near Goslar, the newly acquired Brunswick-Wolfenbiter Principality ...

"Expand the production scale of the Rammelsberg silver mine, launch multiple blast furnaces, and promote the" ash-blowing method ", and be sure to expand the silver output of the silver mine!" Marin ordered.

However, the Rammelsberg mine is also a silver mine that has been mined for hundreds of years. At this time, the easy-to-mine part of the surface has already been mined. Now, if you want to mine, you must let people go down to mine.

But deep well mining is not only dangerous but also inefficient. Moreover, it requires a lot of drainage, which is a mistake.

So, thinking about it, Marin made a decision--

"It's time to seize Mexico! Then, mine the massive silver there!"