Chapter 1919： Profitable mink trade

After repeatedly thinking about the pros and cons, Marin was surprised to find that using Sauron mercenaries to help him fight the North American jungle was much better than eating Cossacks.

Cossacks are kings on the grasslands, and their fighting power in the jungle is actually average. Later Cossacks were able to defeat the Sauron of Siberia, relying on the sharpness of fire qiāng and the scare of firearms.

Although the Saurons are brave, most of them have never seen the market. The Sauron people in Heilongjiang area are okay. They have fought many battles with Manqing and they are well-informed. The Sauron and Siberian wild people in Siberia have no knowledge at all, and even the savage Jurchens call them savages, showing how savage and foolish they are. And savage people are not afraid of you being fierce, because they are more fierce than you. However, the fire qiāng, which had never seen before, made a huge noise, but calmed them down. Therefore, a few hundred Cossacks can lay large areas in Siberia, but in the Qing Dynasty, Tsarist Cossacks were repelled in Yaksa.

In many cases, the Tsarist cossacks actually hid in strong fortresses such as Yakutsk and used fire qiāng artillery to counter the savages of the northern mountains, rather than defeating the locals in the jungle.

However, if the Saurons serve for themselves, they must be the party with the firearms, which can completely abuse the Native Americans. In addition, they can ride the Sauron horses, can quickly shuttle through the forest, and can also speed up the process of conquering the North American jungle.

There are now hundreds of thousands of Saurons. If you count the northern savages of Sauron and the savages in the east, there are hundreds of thousands. Moreover, in addition to the Sauron, Marin can also hire savages near the sea to the east. These people are not hired by Malin, and they will be captured by Nurhaci as cannon fodder in a few decades. They might as well be hired to help clear the North American jungle.

Marin intends that when hiring the Saurons, even horses adapted to the jungle will be introduced together, so that the Saurons can fight in the North American jungle.

Don't do too much, as long as you can hire thousands of Sauron jungle cavalry from the Sauron Department, plus Shanghai Dongqing's help, don't be too easy to abuse hundreds of thousands of Native Americans in the North American jungle.

As for the question of whether the Sauron will be out of control, Marin has no worries. As long as the Saurons do not change their habit of drinking hard liquor, they cannot do without themselves. After all, Beihai has a lot of Erguotou, which is very attractive to the Sauron ...

Marin believes that Manchu can control the Sauron for three hundred years without problems, and he will not have problems.

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In addition to recruiting Sauron mercenaries, Marin also intends to take the opportunity to set up a castle in the former site of Yongning Temple as an important trading base.

What does Marin want to trade in such a bitter cold place? Of course it is the famous mink! Of course, wild ginseng is also a trade target.

How precious is mink? In places like Daming where prices are very low, mink can be sold for a dozen or even dozens of silver. In Europe, mink is even more expensive.

In Europe, an intact ordinary mink can be sold for 100 shillings, which is about 20 gold coins. With the current European gold-silver exchange ratio, 20 gold coins are about 22.9 two silvers, almost 23 two silvers, which is more expensive than Daming's price.

However, this is not much expensive. Because, since the Ming Dynasty lost the actual control of Nuergandusi, the price of mink has risen rapidly.

Because of difficulties in dealing with the Northeast region, the price of mink has risen very high. However, according to Berger and others, the mink is very common in the Sauron area. A small tribe of two or three hundred households can hunt more than 1,000 pieces of mink in a year. The entire Sauron area produces an estimated tens of thousands of mink fur a year.

However, these minks have no way to sell to Daming, so most of them can only be idle. Or, sell them to Mongolian nobles or neighboring Haixi Jurchens at low prices in exchange for supplies such as horses and bows.

As for the relationship between Jurchens and Saurons, that is a complicated ...

In fact, Jurchens also rely on mink skins to go to Liaodong and Daming for trade. The main source of mink in the Ming Dynasty was the supply of Jurchens in the city of Liaodong.

However, the horse market in Liaodong is mainly used as a national strategic material. At this time, the city of Liaodong Ma, still under the official control of the Ming court, had not yet become a venue for civil free trade during the Wanli period. Therefore, the official horse market, because of the rigid mechanism, only accepts horses, and often restricts the acquisition of mink and ginseng and other properties, only as an incidental. After all, because of the hostility to Mongolia, the Ming Dynasty relied heavily on the war horses in eastern Liaoning, which is also a basic national policy. As for the trade of mink ginseng, it is secondary.

Only a few merchants with background relationships can buy mink and ginseng here. There are also businessmen who are not afraid of death, sneaking across the border and sneaking into the northeastern jungle, exchanging mink and ginseng with Jurchens for profit.

Because of contact with the Ming Dynasty, the Jurchens began to hunt mink to obtain mink fur. But over the long term, the number of mink has greatly reduced in the Jilin region where Jurchens are predominant and in the northeastern part of eastern Liaoning. Then, the mink trade began since the northern Heilongjiang region, and even further northeast. After all, there is no opportunity to trade with the Ming Dynasty over there, and there is not much demand for mink. Moreover, even if the local Sauron get mink, there is no way to sell it.

Because there is no way out, the mink obtained by the Sauron can only be sold to the Mongolian Horqin Department in the west, or the Hercynian Ula Department in the south. These two tribes are relatively wealthy and powerful because they control the mink trade in the Sauron region.

And Nurhachi also confiscated and controlled the Ula Department early after the anti-Ming Dynasty, just to control the mink purchase of the Sauron Department on the north side of the Ula Department. Because at that time the mink trade was very profitable. As long as there is mink in his hand, it is equivalent to having a mine at home.

In the Ming Dynasty, the ability to wear mink coats was definitely a symbol of cattle ratio. Many people like to show off their rich mink coats and wear them on hot days. The strange book "Jin Pingmei" written in the year of Long Wan also recorded a certain process of fighting for wealth. Among them, Li Ping'er has a mink coat worth 60 two silvers, which makes Pan Jinlian very jealous. When leaving the Simon's house, Pan Jinlian also stole the mink coat. At that time, I bought a maid, but only four or five silver. A mink coat can buy more than a dozen mammoths ... And if it is sable, the value is even more inestimable ...

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In addition, the reason why Tsarist Russia sent Cossacks to Siberia was not for land, but for collecting mink and selling it to Western European countries.

According to historical records, during the Tsarist Russia period, before the 19th century, one-third of its fiscal revenue relied on reselling reselling mink from Siberia. Because Tsarist Russia is located in a bitter cold place, there is nothing that Western European countries can afford. Only minks from Siberia are favored by Western European countries.

Therefore, Tsarist Russia sent Cossacks to the East, not for any land, but for mink trade. After all, the world did not yet have the concept of territory, and Siberia could not farm, and mink became the most important pursuit of the Russian authorities. Even Yaksa's World War I was not caused by land, but to compete for the origin of mink fur. Because Lake Baikal is eastward, and the Xing'an Mountains and Daxing'an Mountains are the important mink fur producing areas at that time.

While Russia relies on mink to change hands, Manqing also attaches great importance to the supply of mink. Therefore, the two sides did a fight in Yaksa. At that time, neither side felt the value of the frozen ground there, but only valued the mink there.

The final result of this battle was that Manqing preserved the mink origin south of Waixinganling. Tsarist Russia, however, controls the area of ​​savage activities in the northern mountains north of Waixinganling, as well as the mink producing areas such as the Nibuchu area.

After that, Manqing and Tsarist Russia each made their own mink fur. Even, because the demand for mink fur in the Qing Dynasty was too large, he also imported mink fur to Russia. Tsarist Russia also needed tea from the Qing Dynasty and was willing to exchange some mink fur. The important trading port at that time was called Chaktu ...

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Marin intends to control the area around Yongning Temple, where he intends to purchase mink fur along Heilongjiang. Then, sell to Daming or Europe.

He was worried that he didn't have any goods that the Ming Dynasty people could see. It was also a very good choice to set up a trading point to buy mink fur at Yongning Temple in Miaojie through Hai Road.

Marlin also intends to use woolen wool and woolen sweaters made from European coarse wool as the main products for trading with local Saurons, savage Jurchens, and even Beishanye people.

Marin has planned to engage in an industrial revolution and is ready to intervene in the wool industry. However, he doesn't have much fine wool, so he can only temporarily purchase cheap coarse wool. The woolen woolen sweaters made of coarse wool are of average quality, durable and warm, and are absolutely needed by the Saurons, Jurchens and Beishan Savages who live in the bitter cold.

In addition, ironware, iron pots, swords, bows and arrows are also important exchanges. As long as there are these things, there is no worry about not getting enough mink from Sauron, Jurchens, and Beishan Savage.

After switching to mink, it is a good choice whether it is shipped there and sold to Ming people, or shipped back to Europe to sell at a high price.

According to Bai Geri and others, every year, the entire Sauron headquarters area can produce tens of thousands of mink skins, and there are thousands of rare sable skins alone. But because there was no way, they had to sell to the Mongolian Horqin Department at the southern foot of the Greater Xing'an Mountains and the Hercynian Ural Division to the east of Horqin. Later, after the rise of Hou Jin, he started the Ula Department very early ~ www.novelhall.com ~ just to **** the mink resources. At the same time, during the Emperor Taiji period, the Horqin Department was conquered and the monopoly on mink resources was completed.

In addition, five people also told Marin that if they set up an acquisition point at Yongning Temple in Nuergan City, they could not only acquire the mink of the Sauron but also the mink of Beishan Yeren north of Waixinganling. As long as Ken sends a boat to the coastal area of ​​northern Shanxi in the summer, at least thousands of mink can be harvested ...

Marin heard that the saliva was almost running down. You know, mink fur was at least a dozen or two silver pieces in Daming. However, when you exchange with the local area, you can change it with iron or cotton robe worth one or two silver or two or two silver. Moreover, those who sell mink are grateful. Because mink has no market at all.

In this way, if we can monopolize the mink trade in the northeast, at least 10,000 pieces of mink can be harvested in one year!

What is the concept of 10,000 mink? Shipped to Daming, you can sell at least ten thousand two hundred silver! This is ordinary, not counting the price of those sables. If you count those high-value sables, the total value should be more than 200,000 two silver. And in exchange for these mink, the materials needed to pay are at most 12 thousand or two ...

"It's worth buying and selling, it's dry!" Marin wiped the drool from his mouth and made up his mind.