Whether it's lining up to be shot or shot, that's not the most important thing. At the moment, the most important thing for Marin is to prepare a rich dowry for Anne......

Yes, a rich dowry! Because she is going to be the queen, and Anne is the princess of the Grand Duchy of Beihai, this dowry must not be shabby. Not only must it not be shabby, but it must be abundant. Otherwise, it's a shame. A queen with no dowry, but one to be despised by her subjects.

Back then, when the King of Denmark married his daughter Princess Margrethe to King James III of Scotland, because he could not afford a rich dowry, he finally gave the Shetland Islands, which originally belonged to the Kingdom of Norway, as a dowry...... It can be seen that the cost of marrying a princess is also quite high......

After all, the Hoffman family is a "nouveau riche" family that rose later, and Anne is called a princess, but she is actually just the daughter of a poor knight. Now that the Hoffman family is developed, it is natural to decorate the façade. Therefore, the Hoffman family had to pay a more dowry than ordinary vassal states when they married their daughters, otherwise, they would be despised.

Old Hoffman naturally couldn't afford this dowry, so it was natural for him to put the burden of preparing the dowry of the future queen on Marin......

"Nima, it's so expensive to marry a sister. If you want to put it aside in the 21st century China, even if your daughter marries you, even if it is a great gift, what dowry do you dare to ask? Marin said he was also depressed......

However, he could not fail to obey such rules. Otherwise, it will also be a shame for the family. In desperation, Marin had to do everything possible to prepare for the dowry.

After careful consideration, Marin believes that the dowry is mainly used to show the strength of his mother's family. Therefore, it must be high-end and atmospheric. When it is lit up, the eyes of the onlookers must be blinded......

Therefore, Marin's decision was to raise the most visually striking materials to use as props to brighten the eyes of the Polish aristocracy......

First of all, silk is a must. Therefore, the first thing Marin prepared was a large amount of silk to make silk clothes. There is no silk produced in the Ming Empire, so now we can only buy a large number of European native silk produced in Lyon, France.

However, Nimad's native silk in Europe is so expensive, and a silk garment is calculated according to gold coins. A cart of silk, Nima actually asked for 5,000 gold coins! However, in order to support the façade, I bought it! Moreover, as soon as you buy it, you will have three major cars!

Seeing that 15,000 gold coins were spent so easily, Marin was distressed. Nimad, the same era of the Ming Dynasty, only about 50 taels of silver for a load of raw silk. Even if a cart is loaded with 10 loads of raw silk, it will only look like 500 taels of silver, which is equivalent to 436 gold coins. And Nimade French Lyon silk, the quality is not very good, and he dares to ask for 5,000 gold coins for a car, which is more than ten times the price of silk in the Ming Dynasty. Although the price of finished silk is higher, it is not so outrageous, right? No wonder the Ming silk trade was so prosperous later, it turned out that the French asked for silk that was too dark, and the quality was not good......

Next, it is natural to prepare some utensils for daily use. For example, golden bowls, golden plates, etc. I'm going to be a queen, and I'll definitely be able to use it in the future.

Originally, Marin didn't have any luxury goods such as gold bowls and gold plates. Marlin only likes cutlery made of silver, because silver can test for poison. But Anne was the one who would become queen, and old Hoffman and Lady Mary agreed that the cutlery made of gold should be married......

Fortunately, when Marin sent troops to England, he led his troops to loot the mansions of several great nobles in London. Therefore, there is a lot of gold tableware and utensils in the collection. In addition, Marin ordered several sets of gold chopsticks and knives and forks to be made for Anne. The chopsticks were naturally prepared for Anne, because Anne had been accustomed to Chinese food over the years and could use chopsticks very skillfully. However, Zygmunt I certainly did not know how to use chopsticks. Therefore, Marin ordered the knives and forks that were popular in Europe in later generations, made of gold, and the forks were four-pointed, unlike the current two-pointed forks. Of course, the four-pointed fork fork food is more handy......

So, knives and forks, dinner plates, wine glasses, and so on. In addition, a pile of silver utensils, as well as some exquisite copper basins and other utensils, a large cart was also loaded...... Luckily, there was a lot of silver and bronze in it, otherwise the cost of the car would have been staggering......

These are the big heads, and the most expensive parts. The rest, it's not that expensive. However, it's not cheap either. In order to make up the amount, Marin also got several carts of wool fabrics to make up the number. However, these are not used to make clothes, but carpets. In addition, there are some wool coats and quilts that are used to protect against the cold in winter.

In addition, Marin also ordered the tailor to process the beaver skins that Garland had purchased from Newfoundland, and made several fur coats for Anne to protect against the cold in winter.

Then there are the bottles and jars and the like, of course, all made of stained glass from Venice. As for porcelain, Marin does not. After all, the Ming route has not yet been opened, porcelain is a rare thing in Europe, and Marin, an aristocratic nouveau riche with no background, has no porcelain collection.

Coincidentally, the Grenada ship returned home and brought back a large amount of brown sugar. So, Marin simply asked people to pack a lot of black sugar in oily paper bags and load three carts as a dowry.

If you use sucrose as a dowry in the future life, it is estimated that someone will spray you to death - Nima is also on the table?

Even, in the Ming Dynasty of the same era, sucrose was also an ordinary commodity that could not be put on the table. But this is in Europe. Sucrose here is still a rarity. The price per pound of sucrose is measured in shillings, not finnigh. Therefore, the three major cars of black sugar are definitely high-end gadgets.

Moreover, although there are more than three tons of cane sugar, it is nothing to Ma Lin. Because, Grenada's sugar cane is now produced in large quantities. With the role of fertilizer, the yield of sugarcane per mu is more than one ton, and even can reach 2 tons per mu. At a sugar yield of 15 percent, there is also a yield of one or two hundred pounds of sucrose. More than three tons of cane sugar is only the output of thirty or forty acres of sugarcane fields.

Of course, this is nothing to Marin. But for the current Europe, which lacks desserts, the three major carts of cane sugar are definitely a big deal.

Since even the cane sugar is used, Marin doesn't care about being shameless. So, he loaded three truckloads of paper from the Cape Breton Island Paper Mill as a dowry. It is called "convenient cultural dissemination......

However, because of the secrecy of papermaking technology, Anne did not know how low the production cost of the Cape Breton Island paper mill was. Although she knew that it was definitely lower than other paper mills, Anne couldn't imagine the difference of dozens of times.

Anne didn't know, and the rest of Europe didn't know. In these years, because the papermaking technology was extremely backward, Europeans still used hemp paper made of rags, fishing nets, hemp skins, etc., and the price was extremely expensive. Therefore, in the eyes of outsiders, the three cars of paper are absolutely very sincere......

Then Marin thought about the habit of Eastern Europeans who liked to drink spirits. As a result, several large truckloads of whiskey (rye two-pot head) were also ready.

Then, there is the important material that Marin's subordinates are not lacking - salt. If you don't say it, put it on a few big cars......

In addition, there are spices, which are the necessities of the European aristocracy at present. It just so happened that there was still the remainder of the 50,000-pound quota that had been shipped back from India last time in the Marin warehouse, and it was also loaded with two truckloads, weighing about three or four thousand pounds. According to the European market price, it must be very expensive. But in India, the purchase price is no more than 2 pfennig per pound......

Finally, there are some miscellaneous items, including a lot of beautiful wooden furniture, and various supplies...... In the end, Marin made up fifty carts of dowries, which looked very large-scale......

Moreover, if you do not look at the actual cost of sugar, paper, whiskey and salt, but look at the market price in Europe, this dowry is simply worth a lot. Take it out, it is definitely a symbol of the local tyrant......

Looking at the dowry of the full 50 carts, Marin swallowed his saliva and said hatefully:

"What's more, Lao Tzu must have more sons and fewer daughters in the future. Otherwise, the dowry alone will make me bankrupt! ”