Drinking afternoon tea can drive more than just the sale of tea. After all, to drink milk tea, in addition to tea leaves, you also need to put milk and sucrose. Milk is not available to Marin, after all, there are only a few thousand black and white cows in his hand, which are slowly multiplying, and the scale cannot be increased for a while.

Moreover, although other countries do not have black and white cows, it does not mean that there are no cows. Other people's cows, although the breed is slightly inferior, can also provide milk. For the aristocracy, it is not too easy to keep a few cows on the estate.

And the cane sugar thing, those nobles are going to be blind. After all, Europe's high latitude makes it impossible to grow sugarcane. Of course, it is possible to grow sugar beets. But Marin, in order to sell cane sugar, would certainly not tell them that sugar beets can also produce sugar.

In Europe today, sucrose is not a daily commodity. In various countries, although cane sugar is no longer a rarity in pharmacies, it can only be enjoyed by the wealthy. After all, cane sugar isn't cheap right now.

At present, the wholesale price of cane sugar in the European market is 1 shilling per pound, which is 12 pfennig per pound, which is 12 times the price of rye. Well, that's the wholesale price, the retail price, the coastal transport developed area, is 1 shilling 6 pence per pound. In the inland, it can be as high as 2 shillings per pound...... And 5 shillings is equivalent to one gold coin, that is, 2.5 pounds of cane sugar can be exchanged for one gold coin......

Moreover, the sucrose that is popular in the European market is basically black sugar, and even brown sugar is not as good. At this time, Ma Lin had already brought back craftsmen who knew how to extract white sucrose from Hu Jian in the Ming Dynasty......

This time, the ship brought back a boatload of white sugar......

Although it is not as snow-white as the white sugar of later generations, and it is a little yellowish, it is much more advanced than black sugar......

Marin rolled his eyes and ordered:

"In the future, this cane sugar, called 'noble white frost sugar', was only sold to nobles! Selling price, 5 gold coins (25 shillings) per pound! ”

Kohler and Schwartz on one side were dumbfounded when they heard - Nima, when we don't know what white cane sugar costs here? The price has risen by 12.5 times all at once? In their opinion, selling for double the price is considered blackhearted......

Marin looked at their expressions and naturally guessed what they were thinking. Then he said to them,

"Don't tell the cost of this, just say that it's a royal special frosting imported from the Far East, understand? Of course, if you two and a group of old brothers want to buy it, it's still the price of ordinary cane sugar, more than 12 times the price, that's the price of stealing customers......"

The two of them immediately breathed a sigh of relief, fortunately, they don't have to be Kaizi......

After all, they are also used to drinking afternoon tea now, how can they do without sugar? What the? You said you also let them use brown sugar? Please, they are the top nobles of Beihai Country, if they drink afternoon tea and use black sugar, won't they lose their share? Especially when drinking afternoon tea with other nobles, people add white sugar...... Oh no, it's noble white frost sugar, and you're adding swarthy black sugar...... Do you want to lose face?

Why are European spices so expensive? Isn't it hyped up by these nobles? Your banquet uses 10 plates of pepper, and my banquet uses 20 plates, and the guests not only eat barbecue dipped in pepper, but also eat bread......

In this atmosphere, the aristocracy ran a deficit and the price of spices skyrocketed......

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Of course, the nobles are not stupid, if Marin ships this white sugar in large quantities and sets the price so high, it will definitely attract the anger of others.

So, Marin instructed Kohler:

"Tell Cuba and let it control sugar production. Usually, brown sugar is mainly used, and brown sugar is used instead of black sugar. As for white sugar, the production ratio is pressed to less than 10%, and the supply is limited to ......"

"Limited? Why is it limited? Schwartz wondered, shouldn't more good things be produced?

Kohler has a chamber of commerce under him, but he knows a little bit and explains:

"Scarcity is precious, this is what the lord said before......"

Schwartz nodded confusedly, but it had nothing to do with him, as long as it didn't affect him. Anyway, he is not short of tea bricks, milk and sugar, and others are slaughtered, so it is not for him to worry about......

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Speaking of which, Marin was also speechless. Europeans in these years are cheap, and they obviously have honey that is much more nutritious than sucrose, but they want to eat sucrose. If you eat too much sucrose, you will get diabetes, and honey is much better.

Moreover, brown sugar is more nutritious than brown sugar, and white sugar is the worst. However, the price is reversed. Perhaps, in this era, Europe also had the concept of "foreign monks chanting scriptures". Obviously, the local honey is better and healthier, but I have to eat sucrose......

Well, Marin doesn't care. He is too lazy to popularize health knowledge, and he will even take advantage of this situation to make more money. As for himself......

When entertaining guests, he uses sucrose to make milk tea. In the future, it will definitely be indispensable to advertise white sugar.

However, when drinking tea from home behind closed doors, Marlin is not allowed to use cane sugar, but honey. At most, replace honey with maple syrup. Sucrose or something, let's go to other people's homes. Especially his own children, Marlin strictly forbade Caesar, Robert and Jack Ma to eat cane sugar, and if they want to eat sweets, they can only eat honey, and at most eat some maple syrup. Sucrose or something, it's not good to eat too much......

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While Marin was worrying about the "sweet" question, a major event happened on the side of England - the rebels were completely wiped out......

When the news came, Marin was taken aback - when did Edward become so powerful? Didn't the rebels fight guerrilla warfare in the mountains? So easy to be wiped out?

So, he hurriedly asked Kohler to release the carrier pigeon and went to England to inquire about the details......

A few days later, detailed information came back......

It turned out that Edward's elimination of the rebels was actually a coincidence. Originally, the remnants of the Tudor dynasty supported by the French did make a lot of waves in the mountains of Wales and the eastern mountains of Lancashire.

Later, Edward immediately decided to invite Marin's family to London, which dispelled the rumors of discord between him and Marin and stabilized the morale of the army.

Subsequently, Edward did not take care of the rebellion in Wales for the time being, but first concentrated his forces on Lancashire in the northwest to suppress the local rebels.

The western and central parts of Lancashire are plains, with only the eastern part being mountainous in the Pennines. Unlike Wales, where there are large areas of mountainous terrain, only a small part of the eastern part is mountainous.

Edward, in line with the principle of "easy first, then difficult", concentrated an army of 20,000 to encircle and suppress the mountainous areas of eastern Lancashire, and even set fire to the mountains and sent people to cut down trees. Eventually, the rebels in Lancashire were finally destroyed.

Subsequently, the army marched into Wales. But Wales is much bigger than Lancashire. Lancashire is only 3,075 square kilometres in size, with only a small amount of mountainous territory. Wales covers an area of more than 20,000 square kilometres, but sadly – most of it is mountainous.

This kind of place is the most suitable for rebel activities. Under normal circumstances, it would have been difficult for Edward to destroy the rebels here. But this time, the leader sent by the remnants of the Tudor dynasty, Coster, is a wreck, and he can't live without a woman. Moreover, this guy likes to go into the city to find a young lady......

You said that you can grab a village girl in the mountains to cool off, this guy just doesn't look down on the rustic mountain village girl, but likes to dress up the female branch girl in the city......

Therefore, when fighting guerrillas in the mountains, this guy would dress up in disguise every other week and go into the city to find a young lady......

But when a person walks by the river, how can he not get his shoes wet? No, when Coaster was looking for the local top Miss Monroe Happy in Cardiff, a big city in Wales, he happened to be discovered by an enemy back then......

This enemy, who is now serving in the Edward's army, has been sent to Cardiff's side to encircle the Welsh rebels. After seeing Coaster, his enemy, Captain Doron, did not shout. After all, he knew that Coaster was a master with knives. Moreover, Coaster came this time with seven or eight retinues, all of whom were masters.

Captain Duolun's eyesight is not bad, and he knows that if he rushes forward, he will definitely be hacked to death with a knife. So, he left the women's branch without a sound, gathered hundreds of soldiers, surrounded the largest women's branch in Cardiff, and captured Coster and his retinue in one fell swoop......

Then, after being tortured, Coaster didn't say anything, but one of his men was a soft egg, and he said everything and explained the hiding place of the rebels.

The rest was simple, the whole city of Cardiff troops went into the mountains and surrounded the small village where the rebels were hiding, and wiped out the Welsh rebels......

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Knowing such a dramatic plot, Marin looked at the information in his hand and was stunned for a long time......