Chapter 1779： Deliberate

The French did not know that the reason why Marin had the confidence to start a large-scale barrel factory in France, in addition to the intention to consume French oak resources, there is also that Marin has enough confidence to open a barrel factory in France!

Why? Because the Beihai Mint can cast fake French Dnier small silver coins on a large scale! Marin's silver-free "French Dnière small silver coin" cast with nickel, copper, lead and other metals is very low in cost.

Thanks to the laterite nickel mine in Cuba, Marin can obtain nickel metal ingots that are much cheaper to mine and smelt than copper. The use of nickel and copper, as well as the use of lead for balanced density, are not high in value, and the overall cost is lower than that of pure copper.

That is to say, the nickel-nickel-copper "French Dnier silver coin" cast by Marin may cost no more than one tenth of the Dnier silver coin cast by France, or even lower.

However, Marin made the "Dernier Silver Coin" minted by the Beihai Mint almost to the point of being fake, so that the French could not distinguish between true and false. Even, because it is a machine mint, the quality is much better than the manual mint of the official French mint. This is the reason why Marin deliberately used inferior molds. If the water is not deliberately released, the mint is estimated to be very beautiful, hanging French genuine Denier silver coins.

That is to say, Marin wants to spend money to build a barrel factory in France and purchase wood. The cost is very low, just let the North Sea Mint cast more fake French Dnier small silver coins.

So far, Marin has ordered the casting of tens of millions of fake nickel-nickel-copper-made “French Dnière small silver coins” with a total value of millions of gold coins. The casting cost is not even one tenth of France.

That is to say, Marin casting this bad currency recognized by the French market can earn more than 90% of the huge profits! If the production capacity cannot keep up, and the supply of nickel metal ingots is limited, Marin wants to cast more nickel "nickel silver" "Dnier small silver coins". At the very least, it is necessary to complete the small goal set at the beginning-to mint one hundred million French fake silver coins!

Think about it, assuming that the average daily wage in the German area is 2 Finney, which is equivalent to 100 yuan in later generations. The small silver coin of French Dnier is estimated to be discounted because of its low silver content, but it also has a value of about 25 yuan. And casting 100 million fake "Dernier Silver Coins" is equivalent to casting nearly 200 billion worth of currency!

Using this money to purchase wood-made oak barrels in France, not only is the cost low, but it can also be sold to make money, which not only suppresses the shipbuilding potential of France, but also makes a lot of profits.

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As for the establishment of a barrel factory in the Netherlands, the harvest of local oak resources is not very profitable. Because, without the huge profits of counterfeit coins, the profitability of the barrel factory is very limited.

However, because the furniture factory has been established in Amsterdam and other places, Marin's spies have long discovered that there are not many oak resources in the Netherlands!

Is different from France, which is rich in land and resources. The Netherlands is already small and densely populated. Therefore, in the Netherlands, like the Central Plains in China, trees have been cut down a lot. Although it is not as exaggerated as it is difficult to find trees in the Central Plains, the area of ​​domestic forests is far from comparable to that of France.

Therefore, Marin does not need to invest too much, it can fully consume the local oak resources and combat the Dutch shipbuilding potential ...

Moreover, Marlin clearly remembered that the oak and pine wood used for shipbuilding in the Netherlands during the “sea coachman” period were not domestic, but wood harvested mainly from forests in southern Norway and southern Sweden.

Originally, there is no decent shipping industry in the Netherlands, and few commercial ships. At the earliest, the Dutch region mainly relied on the wool textile industry in the Flemish region. Later, in the middle and late 16th century, the Dutch nautical industry was able to develop for many reasons.

For example, England's suppression of the Dutch wool industry! Because the United Kingdom strictly restricts the export of British wool to the Flemish region, forcing the decline of the wool industry in the Netherlands, local capital has to shift its investment direction. The highly profitable sea trade has become an important choice for the Dutch.

Of course, this cannot be supported by external conditions ...

First, around 1500, the Portuguese chose Antwerp in the Netherlands as the wholesale center of the North Sea region of Indian spices, which greatly stimulated Antwerp's economic development. At the same time, it also promotes the development of the local shipping industry. After all, the transportation of spices is also a good business!

Not only that, the Hanseatic League, which had dominated the maritime trade in the North Sea and the Baltic Sea, also died on its own.

At the same time, the British also turned their face with the Hanseatic League, depriving the Hansa merchants of their privileges and competing with them ...

In this way, in the military conflict with Denmark and the trade conflict with England, the former North Sea Hanseatic Union gradually declined in the 16th century. Of course, Denmark, which is fighting against the Hanseatic League, did not benefit, and the result of the two confrontations was to decline at the same time. And this happened to be cheaper for the Netherlands, which was just beginning to develop maritime trade.

Or, the important trade routes of the North Sea and Baltic Sea areas that the Dutch later controlled were taken from the decline of the Hanseatic League.

Of course, there was also the reason that the herring resources of the 16th century were transferred from the Baltic region to the Netherlands near the North Sea region. In short, there are many reasons for the rise of the Dutch nautical industry, full of chance.

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In other words, it was not the Dutch who wanted to dominate the ocean from the beginning. It was because the opponents of the Dutch had killed themselves one after another, and finally the Dutch were cheaper.

If we talk about the shipbuilding potential itself, the oak resources alone will make the Dutch unqualified!

Not to mention oak, other wood resources are also scarce. As a result of the scarcity of wood, not only is shipbuilding restricted, but even cooking salt is also restricted.

Just like when Marin had just crossed the border ~ www.novelhall.com ~ The Netherlands is obviously close to the sea, but because there is not enough firewood to develop the salt industry, it can only choose to import salt from England across the sea. Alternatively, import the mineral salt of Lüneburg from the German region.

Due to the lack of firewood as fuel, the Dutch even have a tradition of eating herring raw. Even in the 21st century, the Dutch have a brutal way of eating a whole mouth of herring after removing the head and bones, which is much more fierce than the Japanese eating sashimi.

And this is also related to the lack of firewood fuel in the Netherlands. Who can eat cooked, who wants to eat raw? Or swallow it whole ...

No way, the price of firewood is higher in the lowland areas, and the fishermen at the seaside are very poor and cannot afford too much firewood. Therefore, sometimes I was hungry, and I directly scraped off the internal organs with a Dutch fish-cutting knife that was blown to heaven by future generations, and after removing the head and bones, I swallowed the whole fish raw, very fierce.

Therefore, Marin wants to restrict the development of the shipbuilding industry in the Netherlands, but the difficulty is much smaller than in France. Because there are really not many local forest resources!

Also note that the Dutch import timber from Norway and southern Sweden under Danish control to build ships. This is not difficult. Marin only needs to suppress any shipyards that appear in the Netherlands in a timely manner. In addition, those local shipowners must be suppressed. In particular, the merchant ships of the Dutch cannot be allowed to open routes between Norway and Sweden, lest they get the source of timber for shipbuilding ...

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