The price of the same nutmeg in Europe is very different from that of Daming. In the Ming Dynasty, no matter how expensive spices were, they would not exceed 1 tael of silver per catty. After all, the overall price of goods in the Ming Dynasty was so low. In Europe, nutmeg can be sold for 2 gold coins a pound because of its rarity and hallucinogenic effects. According to the ratio of gold to silver at 1 to 12, it is equivalent to 2.29 taels of silver a pound. Its price is several times that of the Ming Dynasty.

So, how could Marin give up on the high-priced market of Europe? Not to mention that all of them are sold in Europe, but that part of them is necessary to cash out in Europe. The European spice market, worth millions of gold coins every year. If Marin didn't want a piece of the pie, it wouldn't be him.

Of course, there are also reasons for further wooing the Medici family. After all, the Medici family will have two popes in the future. Robert wanted the support of the Medici family, and it was useless to rely on himself and the support of the Pope's father-in-law.

At the moment, the support of himself and the pope's father-in-law is certainly very important for Giovanni. Advance. Lorenzo. Morality. The Medici were crucial. However, when the Pope's father-in-law dies, it will be difficult to say. After all, there is a situation in political circles called "people go to tea and cool".

If you wait for Giovanni. Advance. Lorenzo. Morality. The Medici took over as pope, and in the first few years, the other party may have been more kind to Robert because of gratitude. But then, the favor will become weaker and weaker. Wait until Giovanni. Advance. Lorenzo. Morality. When Medici's cousin, Clement VII, took over the papacy, the relationship between the two families was pretty much the same. Because, Clement VII did not receive the favor of Marin and Julius II.

Therefore, to ensure that Robert received the best possible care in Rome, it was best to further tie up the interests of the Medici family.

Previously, Marin had agreed to the Medici family taking a stake in the Bank of Siena, but this was not enough. Because, the Medici family itself had a bank. Cooperating with Marin to run the Medici Bank was actually for the sake of marin and Julius II, and it was not necessary.

Wait until Giovanni. Advance. Lorenzo. Morality. When the Medici became pope, they would certainly have strongly supported the Medici family's own bank, not the Bank of Siena, which was dominated by Marin. Therefore, it is unreliable to use the Bank of Siena to tie up the Medici family. Moreover, the benefits are also limited.

At present, the principal of the Bank of Siena is more than 1 million gold coins, and the annual income is about 200,000 gold coins. And most of the 200,000 gold coins belong to Marin, and only a few tens of thousands of gold coins belong to the Medici family.

For the Medici family, the real role of the Bank of Siena was not that little profit, but the huge loan that could be provided during the papal election, and that was the most important thing.

But when Leo X was elected, the importance of the Bank of Siena became very low again. After all, the income of tens of thousands of gold coins every year is really nothing in the eyes of a man who becomes a pope. If Leo X was a man of conscience, that's fine. If he is ungrateful, Marin's investment will be in vain.

Marin didn't dare to gamble on Leo X's conscience, but he knew that a business family like the Medici family had the most important interests. As long as it can benefit them in the long run, there is no reason for them to give up their support for Robert.

It just so happened that Marin felt that some of the million-pound nutmeg produced in Grenada should be cashed out in Europe. Therefore, the two sides also hit it off.

Because he was trying to win over the other party, Marin also gave a very large margin of concession - he planned to use the wholesale price of 1 gold coin per pound to provide nutmeg to the Medici family. The Medici then sold it for 2 gold coins per pound......

In other words, Marin gave half of the profit, which can be described as very conscientious. Of course, the Medici family's business channels also have operating costs, they don't earn 1 gold coin per pound, but most of them, they can still earn. After all, the Medici family's business channels were not established to sell spices. For them, the spice trade was a pure surprise.

As for the quantity, Marlin tentatively gave them 200,000 pounds a year......

In other words, 20 percent of Grenada's nutmeg production will be given to the Medici family to be sold in Italy. Then, Marin will cash out 200,000 gold coins.

The other 800,000 pounds of nutmeg are mainly sold to Daming......

Don't look at the low price of nutmeg in the Ming Dynasty, only a few dollars a pound of silver. However, Marin didn't plan to take nutmeg to the Ming Dynasty for money......

Those who take goods to the Ming Dynasty to sell for money are absolutely fools! When a real merchant left the Ming Dynasty, he took with him a load of high-value specialties such as silk and porcelain.

For example, if Ma Lin sent 800,000 pounds of nutmeg to the Ming Dynasty, he could sell it for four or five hundred thousand taels of silver. However, if it is exchanged for silk, porcelain and other Ming specialties and shipped back to Europe, the value will at least increase several times, or even more than ten times.

Moreover, this also allowed Marin to save four or five hundred thousand taels of silver in cash. Otherwise, Ma Lin would need to let people transport hundreds of thousands of taels of real money and silver to the Ming Dynasty, and in Beihai Kingdom, the money shortage will be aggravated......

After all, even if Marin managed to expand the production of the Goslar silver mine, the silver mine would only produce 729,000 taels of silver per year. If there was no nutmeg, Marin would have had to send most of it to the Ming Dynasty, leaving only a small portion for domestic use. But with nutmeg, the silver could be minted locally, and then minted into coins to facilitate commercial circulation.

In fact, Marin chose to focus on nutmeg cultivation in Grenada, in addition to being influenced by the memories of later generations, there is another relatively secret reason - nutmeg cultivation technology is difficult......

When nutmeg was discovered to be grown in the Maluku Islands, it was not easy for anyone to think about introducing nutmeg cultivation. Unfortunately, they all failed. It's not that they can't survive, it's that they don't bear fruit. And nutmeg is the fruit of the nutmeg tree, without which the tree has no meaning...... So, for a long time, everyone thought that nutmeg was not suitable for cultivation without the Maluku Islands.

It wasn't until the 19th century that botanists unlocked the secret - it turned out that the nutmeg tree was strange. Its trees are divided into male and female, and the male and female trees must be planted together in order to bear fruit......

This is just like the seeds of yerba mate need to be swallowed and digested by special birds before they can germinate, which belongs to the wonder of the plant world. Even if ordinary people introduce it, they can't do it. Only Marin, a time-traveler from later generations, has seen this story and has the confidence to do it. Moreover, they are not afraid of competition from others - others can't grow it, how can they compete?

And, even if everyone found out that Grenada produced nutmeg in the future, Marin would fool around and say that nutmeg is probably only suitable for tropical islands with special environments such as the Maluku Islands or Grenada......

If someone else wants to bring in seeds, Marlin will also enthusiastically provide them. But the mystery of the nutmeg tree male tree and the female tree planted together, Marin will never say. Asking is "not adapting to the soil and water......