Chapter 2138： Super huge wine market

In order to make money, Marin immediately asked Taylor to fudge and learn about the consumption of wine by church members. As a result, as soon as he understood it, Marin was taken aback. Because the consumption of wine is too great!

Before, Marin was mainly involved in the liquor industry. This thing is not very popular in Western Europe. If it weren't for Marin to reduce the degree blending to 40 degrees or even 20 degrees, it is estimated that there would be no market. Even so, the 20-degree royal salute has only a small market share among the nobles. The nobles and priests usually drink wine the most.

And priests, because of their religious beliefs, basically do not drink alcohol other than red wine. However, these priests are rich and consume a lot of wine. How big is it? The priests of the North Sea country consume about 500 liters of wine each year, which is almost 879 pints, which is close to 120 gallons.

Counting it down, the priests drink 2.4 pints of wine every day on average, which is 2.4 large glasses of wine, or 1.37 liters. Basically, it is drinking wine as water.

Of course, for the same drinking wine, priests and priests are of different grades. Top big guys like Archbishop Taylor, naturally drink 5 gold coins a gallon of top Burgundy wine. Church leaders in other suburbs, including some wealthy abbots, are at this level. Such people are not many in the North Sea country of two hundreds of thousands, only a few thousand.

And these characters are mainly small leaders and deputies of some churches, and poor monasteries in remote areas. They get less benefits in the church, and they can only drink second-class wine for 1 gold coin per gallon. There are probably close to 20,000 people in this category.

Then, there are probably more than 30,000 middle-level monks. Such people have a little power and benefits, but not many. They drank a worse mid-range wine of 20 shillings (one third of a gold coin) per gallon. This mid-range wine already has some bitterness. The first two gears have less bitterness.

Further down, there are more than 70,000 low-level priests. However, there is also a difference between the low-level priest and the low-level priest. For example, the low-level priest in a small church in a remote country is very poor, and can only drink one or two shillings per gallon of low-grade wine, which is a little better than the common people. The low-level priests in the affluent areas have more benefits, being able to drink about five or six shillings per gallon of medium to low-grade red wine.

Finally, to sum up, it is the top 3,000 bosses, each drinking 120 gallons of top wines each year, the total value is as high as 1.8 million gold coins! There are more than 19,000 people in the second-level church leaders, and each person drinks 120 gallons of second-level wine each year, the total value is about 2.28 million gold coins! More than 30,000 middle-class churches drank 20 shillings (one third of gold coins) of mid-range wine, worth about 1.2 million gold coins. The wealthy lower-level priests account for about 70% of the more than 70,000 lower-level priests (mainly Beihai is affluent, accounting for a little higher, and the lower-level priests in other countries account for more of the poor). Let (one tenth of a gold coin) per gallon of low- and medium-grade wine, the total value is about 590,000 gold coins. The low-level poor priests, who accounted for about 30%, could only drink one or two shillings of inferior wine, with a total value of only more than 80,000 gold coins.

To sum it up, Marin was surprised to find that every year more than 100,000 missionaries in the North Sea country would actually drink red wine worth 5.95 million gold coins, which was almost 6 million gold coins!

"I rub, the church is so extravagant!" Marin was shocked and exploded.

This is 6 million gold coins! Any king can raise 300,000 troops! And France, a powerful country in Western Europe, has annual fiscal revenue of only about 1.2 million, which is only one-fifth of the annual consumption of wine and water by church personnel in the North Sea country...

Of course, this is also because Marlin distributes some fertilizer to the church, and the benefits of the land given to the church are greatly increased. Change to another country, the same population, the same church population, the cost is not so big, it would be good to have half of it.

However, other countries have a large population base! The population base of the church is equally huge!

Generally speaking, the population of church members in each country is about 1 in 20. For example, in France, the clergy accounted for 1/20 of the total population, which is about 800,000, which is about eight times that of Beihai.

Other countries in the German region also have a population of nearly 10 million, and there are about 500,000 priests. The same is true in Italy, with a population of tens of millions, um... 700,000 priests... No way, Italy is the headquarters of the Holy See, the church must be stronger...

Then, there are 4 million people in the UK, and there are nearly 200,000 priests. There are six to seven million people in Poland and Lithuania, and one in 150,000... Wait, isn't it 1 in 20? Oh, there are many Slavs in Poland and Lithuania who believe in Orthodox Church, and non-Catholics account for more than half. Therefore, it is normal that there are fewer people in the Catholic Church.

However, there are priests in the Orthodox Church, who also drink wine. However, because the Orthodox Church does not occupy the dominant position of the two countries, the mixture is very miserable, and there is no income, so I can only drink inferior red wine to make a living, not to mention it.

Then, in the Nordic countries, there are tens of thousands of missionaries, and Hungary, there are more than 100,000 priests...

I almost forgot, Spain and Portugal have a population of about 10 million, and the priests have a total of about 700,000, which is almost the same as that of Italy. No way, the two countries are pious Catholic countries, and there are also the Inquisition, the church is naturally stronger.

Because the church respects red wine as the holy blood, and in the Middle Ages, people did not drink white water but only wine. Therefore, the more than three million Catholic priests in Europe basically use red wine as the rhythm of drinking water.

Of course, because of regional differences, churches in different regions are not even rich and poor, and there are also differences in spending power. With state-owned funds in Beihai, 100,000 priests can drink wine worth nearly 6 million gold coins every year. In other countries, there are no such tyrants. However, the population base is there, and the wine drunk every year is worth tens of millions of gold coins!

Why was France rich in the Middle Ages? Because more than half of the wines were produced in France. Then there are southern European regions such as Italy and Spain. Napo, England, does not produce wine because of the rainy weather and the temperature is not high. It mainly imports wine from Bordeaux, France. Despite being poor in England, most of the Bordeaux wines imported every year are inferior wines of three or four pennies per gallon. However, it can't stand the big demand!

English people consume less wine, but the population base of 4 million people is there, plus the church’s rigid demand, the annual wine imports also amount to 20 to 30 million gallons. Even if it is 4 pence a gallon of inferior wine, the total value is as large as one hundred and hundreds of thousands of gold coins!

Because they basically relied on imports, the English priest did not drink wine as water, but also paired it with beer. Otherwise, I can't afford it... For the English priest, drinking a little wine every day is a sense of religious ritual. And thirsty, mainly drinking beer to quench thirst...

There are wine producing areas in the German region, mainly in the Rhine Valley. However, the output is not large. Therefore, the demand for wine in the German region is large, but the output is small. As a result, a gallon of low-quality wine in Germany is worth 6 to 8 pence, which is twice the price of English wine. There is no way. England is close to the sea and it is convenient to import wine from Bordeaux. Most parts of Germany are deep inland, and at the cost of land transportation in this era...transportation only doubled the price, which is already considered conscience...

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It should be pointed out that these three million priests are not the only ones who drink wine. European nobles mainly drink wine. After all, drinking wine, in addition to religious significance, is also a symbol of compulsion. The European aristocrats of this era like to banquets and eat and drink. Moreover, for aristocratic banquets, bad wine cannot be used. So, beer can't be on the table, it must be high-end wine. Of course, the "Royal Salute" launched by Marin is also a good choice. However, the Royal Salute is a bit expensive, more expensive than high-end red wine. Therefore, in addition to the wealthy nobles, most nobles used wine to support the scene.

In general, in this age of drinking wine and beer as white water, the value of wine that Europeans drank every year is very high, at least tens of millions of gold coins, or even more than 100 million!

This is an extremely huge market, and Marin must not be able to swallow it. However, he didn't even think about swallowing, but wanted to get a piece of the pie.

The top red wine, Marin is not touched, mainly by the large wineries in the Burgundy region and part of the Bordeaux wineries. Even if it is blended with glycerin, Marlin cannot blend the taste of top wines.

Even the taste of the second grade wine is difficult to blend. However, he can produce wines of middle and upper quality in the third and fourth grades.

Just buy cheap, inferior wines and use glycerin to remove the bitterness. Although not as good as the top wines, it is enough when used as middle-to-upper-grade wines.

In addition, if you take a medium-grade wine and use glycerin to remove the astringency, you can also use it as a second-grade premium wine.

After all, the brewing technology of this age is backward and cannot remove the bitterness in the wine. Only the top wines, or white wines with the skin and seeds removed, have no astringency.

Therefore, Marlin can buy inferior wines processed and used as middle-to-upper-grade wines, which is about one-third of the gold coins per gallon. At the same time, I bought mid-range wines, and after the glycerin removed the astringency, they pretended to be the second-grade premium wine for 1 gold coin per gallon...

4 pennies per gallon of wine can be sold as one-tenth of a gold coin to one-third of a gold coin after processing. On the cost of materials alone, the profit is ten times or even thirty to forty times huge profits!

The mid-range wines are processed into sub-premium wines after removing the astringency, which can be sold for 1 gold coin per gallon. Although the profit margin is not high, only two or three times. But because the price is high enough, the profit per gallon is higher than the processing of inferior wine into mid-range wine!

After some calculations, Marlin suddenly became a little dizzy-this Nima, I knew that this method could make a lot of money, I still make a ball of grain wine? Waste more food...

Moreover, UU Reading Marlin does not need to produce grapes on its own, and make wine on its own. Just wait for the French to produce the wine, buy it directly, unplug the barrel, add a little glycerin, and remove the astringency, then increase the price and sell it...

Even, Marin planned to sell wine imported from France to the French after adding glycerin to remove the astringency, so as to make French money!

In this way, a large amount of gold and silver can flow from the hands of the French church to Marin. However, it seems that the French church and the court are very lacklustre, the coinage is not real, and the silver content of the currency continues to decline...

Therefore, if you want silver, or... forget it, Marin found that it seems that all countries in Europe are not very real, so they have tried their best to reduce the silver content of silver coins. Especially in France and Italy, silver coins are about to become copper coins...

No wonder the Venetian launched the 999 gold coin Ducat, as the standard currency for international trade. In fact, all countries like to cut corners in the silver coin minting, which makes the merchants have a lot of headaches in the settlement.

However, Marin can choose to barter. If you don't look down on French silver coins, you can buy supplies in France on a large scale. Anyway, using glycerin to process the inferior French wines and sell them back to the French at a price increase of more than ten times, at no cost.

Do you ask if the cost of glycerin is high? Let me tell you this. This glycerin is a by-product of soap making. Do you think the cost is high? Moreover, it can be mass-produced. Only by digesting dry oil, because of the low production of nitric acid, mass production is impossible. The soap production process is simple, the output is large, and glycerin is easy to obtain, and it is also cheap. So, don’t worry, you can’t circulate money crazily.

In short, it is not only the French, but also the people of the churches all over Europe have a problem with their wallets...including those nobles and merchants who love to drink wine...

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