Chapter 1965： Dedicated glass mirror

The Spanish messenger Gonzalez felt strange when he saw that Marin had taken the big advantage. You know, Marin takes the goods at 90% of the market price, which is almost equal to not making money. God knows why Marin is so happy.

Because Spain and the North Sea have very good relations, Gonzalez asked curiously:

"Your Majesty, you take the goods at a high price and the profits are not high. Why are you so happy?"

Malin suddenly choked-yeah, why are you so happy? This is unreasonable ...

Marin rolled his eyes, then explained to Gonzalez "sincerely":

"It ’s like this, you know, I occupied a small island in the Far East and built a princehood to claim the empire of the Ming empire in the east. You said that if I present this mirror in the name of the servant, the Ming empire Will the emperor be very happy? If he is happy, will he reward me a lot of silk and porcelain? "Marin did not disclose that he was free to purchase in the Ming Dynasty, but said that he had obtained the" tribute trade "qualification, so as not to Stimulate other countries, especially Portugal ...

Gonzalez knows in seconds-

"I understand, this kind of magical glass mirror, the Emperor Ming definitely loved it. By then, according to the habits of the East, the rebate must be very rich ... Your Majesty is really brilliant ..."

It is different from the historical lack of understanding of the Ming Dynasty, because this time and space Spain participated in the Indian trade and occupied the Spice Islands. It has more contacts with the “Ming Dynasty dependent countries” in Southeast Asia, so the Spaniards also know what the “tribute trade” is. child. In short, it is the thing that you give one or two gold, and the Ming Empire rewards two or two gold.

So much so that the Spaniards now intend to build a country based on the Spice Islands, and then learn Marin to pay tribute to the Ming Dynasty.

However, the Spanish did not know that Marin had secretly bribed the ministers in the Ming Dynasty and spread the news. The core of the news was that there was no good thing in the Western world except the North Sea.

Therefore, it is still very difficult for the Spaniards to learn from the tribute of the Beihai Kingdom. Because, first of all, the people of the Ming Dynasty looked down on Pan Yi, and the shameful man Malin was behind it ...

Historically, the people of the Ming Dynasty could not distinguish the difference between Spain and Portugal, and they were all called Francis. This time, Marin also intends to mislead the Ming Dynasty and make them mistakenly believe that Spain is Portugal and not give them the opportunity to pay tribute ...

However, the Spaniard is clearly not clear that Marin has calculated them behind his back, and is still dreaming of succeeding in learning Marin tribute ...

After Marin's claim spread, the Portuguese who learned the news suddenly broke down ...

Why? Because the Portuguese really planned to please the young emperor of the Ming Dynasty with a rare item in exchange for the forgiveness and approval of the Ming Dynasty. Obviously, the glass mirror is a good commodity, which can be exchanged for the favor of the young emperor of the Ming Dynasty.

However, this time because of the lack of preparation of the Portuguese messenger and the hesitation, the 5 mirrors were not captured.

If the North Sea nation is the first to use the glass mirror as a tribute, then Portugal has little chance. So, when the Portuguese envoy José heard of Marin's plan, his face changed greatly ...

So, Ruo Ze immediately sent a book of flying pigeons to the local people, asking the local authorities to authorize him to buy a glass mirror from the other four people at a high price, and then, before grabbing the Beihai Kingdom, dedicated the glass mirror to the Ming emperor. In this way, the emperor, who was said to like novel things and was a bit of a mischief, might have allowed the Portuguese to pay tribute trade. Like now, you can only be a pirate ...

However, Jose did not yet know that the Portuguese fleet had been defeated at this time. It was discovered that the great hero of India, Dagama, also fled back to Malacca and was sick in Malacca. Because after the defeat of Dagama on Hong Kong Island, he vomited a lot of blood and was so mad that he could only go to Malacca to recover. Moreover, after losing so many battleships, Dagama did not know how to explain. You know, he was almost going to be Earl. Now this defeat makes his earl dream almost hopeless ...

A few days later, finally got the approval of Jose, and stopped the wealthy French envoy, and asked to buy a glass mirror at a high price ...

The French are rich and have a face, so they buy both mirrors. The Portuguese envoy José made an offer and took out the sky-high price of more than 30,000 gold coins before taking a mirror from the French.

Next, the glass mirrors were sent to the Ming Dynasty. However, Marin is very clear-the Portuguese cannot be the first ...

Why? If you take the normal route, the Portuguese must take at least 10 months to ship the glass mirror to the Far East. If the North Sea country takes the Pacific Ocean's smooth sailing route, the time it takes to cross the Pacific is about 5 months, which is twice the time of the Portuguese.

Therefore, no matter how the Portuguese think about it, they will not be faster than Marin. After all, the huge difference in time between four and five months is difficult to make up. What's more, the Portuguese are here, and it is very time-consuming to ship the glass mirrors bought from the French at a high price to the homeland.

So, before leaving Venice, Marin's eyes on the Portuguese were full of pity-compare with me? Noisy?

Since the upper edge truss sails were made, the time from the eastern Atlantic to the eastern coast of North America was shortened from two or three months to more than a month. Even, taking the time to go south into the Caribbean, it adds up to more than two months. There is no way, the upper edge truss sails are too good to run the north-south route, and ignore the headwinds at all, even if the headwinds run quickly. In addition, it only takes two or three months to cross the Pacific Ocean, and the total is no more than half a year, usually more than five months. The Portuguese used old-fashioned sails, and the fastest time from home to Daming was more than 10 months, which is really incomparable.

Before leaving the city of Venice ~ www.novelhall.com ~ Marin proudly greeted the Portuguese envoy José and openly provoked the agreement between the North Sea Parliament and the Portuguese, who would first send the glass mirror to Daming Dang Tribute ...

Looking at the pride of Marin, the Portuguese messenger, Joze, gritted his teeth ...

"Huh! Really treat my great Portuguese as a vegetarian? You wait ..."

Therefore, when Marin left Venice and returned home, Jose also sent a secret letter with a pigeon. He strongly recommended that the homeland send a fleet in the Cape Verde Islands and the Cape of Good Hope to find ways to intercept the transport ships of the North Sea. Nothing else, just to block the Beihai Kingdom and prevent the Beihai Kingdom from dedicating glass mirrors to the young and playful emperor of the Ming Empire before Portugal ...

However, the Portuguese did not even know that Marin contacted the Ming Dynasty, and instead of taking the Cape of Good Hope route, he quietly took the Pacific route.

However, in order to paralyze the Portuguese, Marin still decided to send several ships to take the Cape of Good Hope route. Then, deliberately detained and delayed by the Portuguese, used to paralyze the Portuguese.

Then, when the Portuguese “stood” the glass mirror to the Far East with satisfaction, they will find that the Beihai Kingdom has already presented the glass mirror ...