Chapter 1778： Barrel factory

Can get at least hundreds of thousands of pounds every day, and can extract one or two pounds of saltpeter, what a bright future? But Marin wouldn't say it, but pretend to be bitter, and cry to everyone.

"Alas, Your Majesty the Emperor, my business is not making money at all!"

Maximilian I was not so easy to fool, so he asked:

"Why are you so actively engaged in this without making money? Don't coax me ..."

At this time, many monarchs and big nobles on the side also raised their ears, want to hear how Marin explained ...

Marin naturally had a way to deal with it. He pretended to cough awkwardly and then explained:

"His Majesty the Emperor is really wise and sees the problem at a glance ..."

"Why, very profitable?" Maximilian I was interested. For the poor emperor, there is nothing more attractive to him than making money.

Marin shook his head and explained:

"Not for making money, but for another important material." After he finished, he gave the emperor a "you know" look.

"You mean ... peter?" The emperor really guessed the "answer" according to Marin's idea. Of course, that answer is not wrong.

Marin quickly coughed and motioned to the emperor "You talk too much" ...

But many nobles present heard that, being smart, immediately showed an expression of sudden enlightenment. If you do n’t understand it, ask your colleagues who are suddenly enlightened.

Elector of Saxony Frederick III explained to his colleagues:

"Marin means that he collected so much feces, not for profit, but to collect enough saltpetre ..."

"Why is this?" Anthony Duke of Lorraine asked puzzlingly.

Frederick III continued to explain:

"You may not know, I heard that Marin could have purchased hundreds of thousands of pounds of saltpetre from India every year (220,000 pounds equivalent to 100 tons). But later Spain and Portugal jointly divided most of the Indian saltpetre, only for Marin left a small share. "

"But everyone knows that Marin ’s army in the North Sea country has a high proportion of muskets and guns and consumes a lot. It is definitely not enough. Therefore, I guess that Marin ’s army should be very short of saltpeter, so it is not costly. Buy so much feces to extract enough saltpetre ... "

"It turns out so ..."

"Sir Frederick is really as bright as a torch ..."

The nobles who ate melon were immediately clear, but in fact, this is what Marin wanted them to know.

In fact, after the development of Chilean saltpeter and the beginning of the purchase of saltpeter from the Ming Dynasty, Marin was not short of saltpeter. However, Chile's saltpetre mines need to be hidden so as not to be united for competition.

Moreover, the cost of water transportation is not high, and you can get a lot of nitrogen fertilizer and saltpeter, why not do it?

In addition, this can also create an illusion to other countries-Oops, Beihai is now short of saltpeter, so those guns are not a decoration? So, do we vote?

But they didn't know that Marin wanted to make the outside world misunderstand his lack of saltpeter. Otherwise, other countries are frightened by his military strength and dare not take the initiative to provoke them. How can he stand on a reasonable side and annex other countries?

This is Marin's insignificant strategy—showing weakness to others and attracting others to provoke him. Then, they swallowed the territory of the provocateurs "righteously and eloquently".

There is no way. In these years, Germany is prone to group battering. If you want to annex someone, you risk being beaten by groups. Unless, you stand on a reasonable side, so that people can not find a reason to beat you ...

Of course, the following religious war need not be so troublesome. As long as you stand on the "orthodox" side of the Holy See, you can engage in those "rebellions" and annex them.

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While negotiating the purchase of "saltstone raw material" (dung), Marin also discussed transportation with many "customers". For example, the transportation container has become a very important issue ...

Marin painted on the spot, "designed" an oak toilet that resembled an oil barrel, used to ship "goods". In view of the amount of at least hundreds of thousands of pounds per day, Marin proposed that Party A Blackwater Company will provide Party B who provide "saltstone raw materials" with 10,000 oak toilets ...

For some ulterior purpose, Marin gave the orders for the 10,000 oak toilets to the Netherlands and France ...

Need to give orders to the Netherlands Needless to say, it must be to support the Emperor Poor. Thousands of oak toilets also have a lot of profits. Moreover, Marin guarantees that there will be follow-up.

The order for thousands of oak toilets in France, on the surface, is to please this "first power in Western Europe", in fact ...

The reason is very simple-Marin consumes the shipbuilding potential of the Netherlands and France ...

Before, Marin sent people to the Netherlands to build a furniture factory, consuming oak resources in the Netherlands and reducing the shipbuilding potential of the Netherlands. At the same time, John Lafite was sent to France to promote oak barrels and wine, also to consume French oak resources and reduce its shipbuilding potential.

But those were not enough, Marin later realized that oak barrels are not only used for wine, but also used for other things. Such as flour, sugar, table salt ... even feces-such as toilets ...

Moreover, the demand for these wooden barrels for daily supplies can be much greater than in the furniture and wine industries.

It should be noted that in this era, Europeans used to use barrels for stuff. Not only bulk wine such as wine, salt, grain, and sugar can be used in oak barrels, but also used to hold salted fish, bacon, ash, whale oil, resin, and mineral sand.

Only those products that can be bundled and stacked without risk of leakage are shipped in wooden boxes and bags. For example, wool and fur ...

For trade, bulk materials such as grain and salt are very dependent on barrel transportation. Even in this era, Europe did not measure food by weight, but by volume. Inferior, both quart and bushel are used to measure food. Because, people ship materials and often use barrels to measure directly, and are too lazy to weigh.

Of course, that is a bulk transaction, and the retail of scattered commodities, such as grain retail, is often measured in pounds. After all, ordinary people buy less and don't need to weigh containers as much. However, some wealthy households with better economic conditions also use volume to measure food when they buy food. When buying grain in bushels, they use containers to measure the volume.

In fact, even the Eastern China of the same era, it is customary to use containers to measure food. For example, use a bucket to measure rice. Rice shops sell food, often for a few dollars. Of course, there are also called by the catty. But in ancient China, food was cheap, and even ordinary people could buy rice under conditions.

In Europe during the same period, because the price of food was too expensive, the bottom-level people survived a day, and the wages were only enough to buy two or three pounds of food, which is not comparable to that of China in the same period.

However, the transportation of bulk goods in the West still relies heavily on wooden barrels. Even if ordinary people don't use that much, many merchants still use a lot of wooden barrels for transportation. Therefore, the barrel business is a big business.

This time, when Marin ordered thousands of oak toilets from the Netherlands and France, he had long been eyeing the barrel industry in two countries (regions).

In ancient Europe, after all, wooden barrels were very versatile. Marin planned to invest heavily in the establishment of barrel factories in these two countries and regions, specifically harvesting local oak for the manufacture of oak barrels in large quantities. Moreover, staring at the tall old oak tree suitable for keel to start. As long as they are willing to give money, there is no old oak tree that cannot be cut ...

Her Majesty the Emperor and the French envoy did not know that Marin purchased oak toilets from the two countries (regions) as a good behavior. Any idea that Marin is digging the foundation of their sailing ...

"Your Majesty, I will definitely send someone to invest in the Netherlands, and build a few more barrel factories to produce oak barrels. At that time, the barrel factory will actively pay taxes to the government!" Marin solemnly told Maxim Lean I said.

"Okay ~ www.novelhall.com ~ Okay, okay!" Maximilian I was also very happy to hear it. Although most of the Dutch tax was squandered by his uneasy son. However, it was still possible to provide some support for the hegemony of the Habsburg family. Marin has this heart, and he is also pleased. Although for Marin at the same time please France. But he also knows that this is the way of survival for a small country-to meet every source ...

Turned his head, and Marin clashed with French envoy Dolby, saying:

"Baron Dolby, please believe that the United States of America and the Grand Duchy of the North Sea are very happy to establish a good relationship with the powerful Kingdom of France. These thousands of wooden barrels are just the beginning. At that time, after these barrel factories sell wooden barrels to create value, they will actively pay taxes to the French royal family ... "Marin looks very friendly and looks like a friend.

The French envoy Dolby was also very useful. He said "France's powerful is really useful", and then reserved:

"For the goodwill of His Majesty Marin, I will convey it to His Majesty Francois, and wish the friendship between the two countries forever!"

It's just that he didn't know that Marin had been cruel, and he planned to establish a number of oak barrel factories with large output in France. God knows how many old French oak trees will be affected ...

By the end, the French were still very happy. Because these barrel factories did pay a lot of taxes to the French finance ...

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