Chapter 1620： 1 pit is deeper than 1 pit

Regardless of Portugal ’s tragic reminders, Spain earns nothing. However, one thing is certain-the large amount of African gold flowing into Europe can greatly alleviate the problem of gold shortage.

Right now, Marin has vigorously supported the expansion of the Tyrol silver mine and the Saxony silver mine. At the same time, tens of thousands of Hungarian prisoners of war were allowed to develop the Goslar silver mine. It is foreseeable that silver production in Europe will definitely skyrocket in the future. At that time, if the output of silver soars and the output of gold remains the same, it is almost inevitable that there will be large fluctuations in the price of gold and silver.

Right now, the price of gold and silver is about 1 to 12. If the output of silver increases sharply, the price of gold remains the same, and the price of silver will inevitably fall. Historically, from the 16th century, the comparison between gold and silver fell to 1 to 15 and continued until the 1870s.

Then, the United States discovered the Nevada Super Silver Mine, which produced silver worth $ 6.45 million that year (the United States implemented a gold and silver standard system at the time, $ 1 = 24 grams of silver). Two years later, the annual output of silver doubled 25 times, reaching terror. The amount of about 161.25 million US dollars is equivalent to 387 tons, equivalent to 3.87 million kilograms, which is 276 times the total annual output of the Tyrol silver mine and the Saxony silver mine at their peak. In addition to the Nevada Super Silver Mine, the United States also discovered many new silver mines in the western region.

This directly led to the plunge in the price of silver in the 1970s and 1980s, and the price ratio of gold and silver fell from a stable 1 to 15 to about 1 to 20.

Then, the plunge in silver prices led to the collapse of the US gold and silver standard. At the same time, in the next 20 years, various developed countries in Europe and America have abandoned the gold and silver standard system and chose to study the United Kingdom and pursue the gold standard. And with gold as the currency, paper money is issued. Subsequently, only Eastern countries such as the Qing Dynasty and India still used silver as a currency worldwide, while European and American countries entered the era of banknotes.

In the past, Marin had actually been worried that silver prices fell due to the outbreak of silver production in the three major silver mines, the Tyrol Silver Mine, the Saxon Silver Mine and the Goslar Silver Mine. But now, with the inflow of African gold, it has maintained the price of silver to a certain extent.

As for the increase in prices due to the increase in gold and silver? It is not yet possible. Because in Europe, there is a serious lack of gold and silver. These gold and silver, just filled the huge vacancies before, and will not cause a substantial price increase.

This is because Europe spends millions of gold coins every year to buy oriental products such as spices and silk. Even if the silver produced in the Mars Goslar silver mine, a large part of it is going to be traded in the Ming Dynasty. Therefore, there will be no hoarding of gold and silver in Europe, and it is naturally difficult to raise prices.

But this is also limited. As in the original history, a large amount of silver was produced in Potosi, Mexico, and Peru. In addition to the great development of the Ishimi Silver Mountain during the Warring States Period in Japan, it caused a serious surplus of gold and silver production, and then there was a price. The skyrocketing crisis.

In fact, if there was not so much silver digested by Europe in the Ming Dynasty, God knows how European prices will rise. Gold and silver are not as good as possible. Only when they are used to buy the required goods, it has its own value. Otherwise, it's just metal bumps.

Therefore, Marin will deliberately suppress the development of gold and silver in the Americas, to avoid excessive output of gold and silver, exceeding the value of total social commodities. Once this happens, the economic crisis will come.

As for whether Japan's silver will allow prices to rise, Marin never worried. Because the market of the Daming Empire is too large, that little silver is simply not enough for the Ming Empire to absorb. The Ming Dynasty was a superpower with a population of hundreds of millions, and its grain output far exceeded that of Europe. The silver output in Japan cannot be turned up against the huge Ming market. Unless the large American silver mines such as the Potosi silver mine and the Japanese silver mine develop explosive production together, it is possible to cause huge fluctuations in world prices.

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To be honest, when Marin was a hanger in his last life, he never expected that one day he would worry about excessive gold and silver production.

For ordinary people, this is a very nonsensical idea. But as a state manager, he had to think about it. Otherwise, whether it is a shortage of gold and silver, or excessive gold and silver, will cause economic turmoil in the country.

In modern times, the consequences of the economic crisis have been that many people are unemployed, but few people starve to death. Because the state will intervene. But in this era, once an economic crisis occurred, feudal monarchs could not control it at all. By that time, hungry people are just normal operations. Many immigrants from the Americas had to go to America to ask for life because of the economic crisis and famine in Europe. Otherwise, after a good life, who wants to leave the country?

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In order to maintain the stability of European gold and silver prices, Marin even sent troops to help Portugal and seize Timbuktu even when the time was right ...

Why? Only when Timbuktu is obtained will a large amount of gold flow into Europe. When the output of silver in Europe exploded, only the introduction of a large amount of gold can maintain the stability of the price of gold and silver and maintain the stability of the market.

Moreover, Marin will never do nothing. Because, he had planned for a long time-using the troop to help Portugal seize the opportunity of Timbuktu, and ask for the colonial power of South Africa as compensation ...

This is a very frivolous requirement. The Portuguese probably do not know that there are tens of thousands of tons of gold on the inland plateau of South Africa ...

The gold that a Timbuktu can get is not suitable for shoes in the rand area of ​​South Africa ...

Of course, Marin does not immediately develop South African gold, but hoards it deliberately. Even, he did not plan to develop South African gold while he was alive. Because if South Africa ’s gold is really developed, it is estimated that the price of gold will fall miserably.

After all, this is an era when gold and silver can be used directly as currency. If there is too much gold, the price of gold will definitely fall.

How much gold is in the South African Rand? That's more than 50,000 tons! Gold coins cast into 356 grams are more than 14 billion gold coins. The question is, are there so many products in the world right now? Even if part of the gold is developed, the world market is somewhat unacceptable.

Only in the 20th century when the gold mine was developed, the world ’s productivity has been greatly improved, so that South Africa ’s gold will not impact the world economy. Because the volume of the world economy in the 20th century was too large.

However, in the 16th century, this gold mine could not be developed ~ www.novelhall.com ~ because, at this time, the world economy is still very small, can not withstand the impact of so much gold.

Therefore, Marin intends to temporarily seal the South African gold, and then take up the land first. Otherwise, it would be awful if the Spaniards crossed the Linhe to explore the gold mine southward. Zimbabwe and South Africa are separated by a forest river. If Spain occupies the entire territory of Zimbabwe, it is easy to cross the forest river to the south. Therefore, Marin must win the South African region before the Spaniards go south, and station troops on the south bank of the Lin River to prevent the Spaniards from going south ...

Then, each generation of the Huffman family owner will be informed of the existence of the South African gold mine. Only after the development of social productive forces reached a certain height, and the Beihai Kingdom was still strong at that time, could this gold mine be developed. Otherwise, it is either social and economic turmoil, or it is destroyed like the Transvaal Republic ...

"People are not guilty, they are guilty of guilt!" Marin wrote eight vigorous and powerful Chinese characters and sent them to be framed and hung in his study.

Caesar's face was dumbfounded. He was still a child. Where can he perceive a profound truth? Moreover, Marin did not tell him about the South African gold mine ...

Figured this out, Marin blushed a little. However, in order to maintain the image of his strict father, he pretended not to know anything, and continued to let Caesar learn about the eight inexplicable Chinese characters.

Of course, he did n’t pervert to strictly require Caesar to stare at those 8 words, but put a lot of novels in the study, and deliberately put it there to pass time to Caesar ...

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In short, the pit king Marin dug more than one pit for the Portuguese, but the pit is connected to the pit, one pit is deeper than the other!

After a few hundred years, when the Portuguese look back on history, they will find that they were so miserable by the Marin Pit ...