It's just that Marin's decision made Thomas, the manager of the Beihai Chamber of Commerce, who is responsible for the sale of ginger and brown sugar, cry without tears. Why? Marlin spent 30,000 pounds of ginger and 60,000 pounds of brown sugar to make sugar and ginger slices this time, which made Manager Thomas want to cry in distress.

You know, because of Marin's feat of saving Juan III with ginger syrup, ginger is now a famous medicine in Europe. Its value, already on par with pepper, was fried to 10 shillings per pound. Marlin spent 30,000 pounds of ginger, which is equivalent to wasting 60,000 gold coins! As for the 60,000 pounds of black sugar, although not as expensive as ginger, it was worth 2 shillings per pound. In other words, Marin also wasted 24,000 gold coins worth of sugar...... If these are all sold, it will be 84,000 gold coins, can Manager Thomas not cry?

Marin was also a little dumbfounded by Thomas's crying. He didn't expect that he would spend 84,000 gold coins by moving his mouth casually, which made him extremely distressed. However, after thinking about it, he didn't regret it. Because, as long as he helped the Holy See to take the Republic of Siena, then Julius II would have a reason to give him the right to colonize the east coast of the Americas. When the time comes, having obtained the legal colonial rights, Marin will have a reason to openly drive away any ships that attempt to explore the Americas. Moreover, there will be no legal disputes with other countries in the future. Because, he has already obtained the legal right to colonize the Americas. If other countries want to get involved, it is illegal, and Marin has the right to do it against him.

In this era, Europeans have not yet been as shameless as the old United States in later generations. Under normal circumstances, people will still follow the basic rules. Unless, Mexico and Peru, when vast amounts of gold and silver leak out, those countries will be desperate to grab it. If it's just some land, people may not grab it. Why? Because in this era, the land in Europe has not yet been developed, so why should countries not get along with Marin for the sake of land?

The reason why later generations attach so much importance to territory is because there are too many people in later generations, and every inch of territory is precious. But in this era, the population was small and there was a lot of land. Because the population is small and there is a shortage of labor. Even if it occupies a lot of land, it cannot be developed. Unless, unless, it is the kind of tropical territory where sugar cane can be grown to obtain cane sugar, which is the goal that everyone is pursuing.

Even the original historical England colonized North America in the 17th century, not for farming, but for gold and silver. However, they did not find gold or silver, and there were black slaves who could help them farm, and then they began to pay attention to the development of North America.

Spain and Portugal, for example, never paid attention to farming in the colonies. They have no other agricultural development activities other than the cultivation of sugar cane in some areas. For the rest, it was only left to look for gold, silver, and trade profits......

That is, in this day and age, land alone is not attractive. Only gold and silver deposits, as well as the lucrative spice trade, were the things that European countries were eyeing off. Marin is also lucky, in this era can pick up the leak. If you delay it by 200 years, in the 18th century, countries began to pay attention to land development, and then the competition was fierce. It's like the "Seven Years' War" between Britain and France for North America, which was fought very fiercely.

After all, farming in the colonies was still the beginning of the British. But in fact, the British did not think of farming in the colonies at first. However, the east coast of North America, occupied by the British, was really suitable for farming. When the thirteen states of North America develop, everyone will see - yo ho, farming in the colonies is quite promising! Then, everyone rushed to fight for and re-divide the colony...... Before the success of the British farming, everyone was looking for mines and grabbing trade benefits, and did not realize the importance of farming......

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Moreover, there is an important prerequisite for farming in the colony - there is a sufficient labor force. Before the rise of the slave trade, this condition was not available. As for the Native Americans? The spirit of resistance is too strong. If you enslave the Indians, you may be killed the next day, and it is not safe. The first generation of black slaves were very obedient (those who disobeyed were killed long ago). With black slaves, there was an agricultural boom in the thirteen states of North America.

But in this day and age, the Holy See prohibits the slave trade. Originally, the rise of the black slave trade began after Catholicism was defeated by Protestantism. For now, the Holy See is quite authoritative.

But who is Marin? Son-in-law of the Pope. Moreover, this thing is very cunning. When buying black slaves from the Duke of Coimbra, Marin used the name of "hire". Even, for every black slave, Marin would pretend to get an employment contract. If you look it up, Marin will come up with an employment contract to deal with you. You can't stop people from hiring workers, can you? There is no way to pursue this. But in fact, those so-called "black laborers" are all chained to work, that is, black slaves......

Moreover, this product also started the idea of Japanese and Indian labor. Therefore, he can get enough labor to develop the Americas. Other countries wanted to develop colonies until the slave trade became public. As for now, unless you can learn Marin's shameless ability to forge labor contracts, or do it quietly......

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Because of the ginger and sucrose worth 84,000 gold coins, Marin's heart ached for a long time. You must know that 84,000 gold coins will be worth 80 or 90 million soft sister coins in later generations according to the gold price of the gold coin itself. This counts, Marlin is even more painful......

However, thinking of the safety of 15,000 soldiers, Marin still has no regrets. It's just that it's still more painful......

He began to complain a little in his heart about Maximilian I, why he didn't send troops earlier. If it were warm weather in September, there wouldn't be so much trouble.

However, Maximilian I also had his problems. At the instigation of Marin, a demon who lacked morality, he sent troops to occupy the eastern half of Switzerland. However, since then, it has been locked in a tug-of-war with the Swiss Resistance. Today, Maximilian I had to maintain a permanent garrison of more than 10,000 troops in Switzerland to guard against the Swiss counterattack.

As a result, Maximilian I was unable to draw a sufficient standing army south to Italy. If you want to send troops to Italy, you must recruit the people from the people. However, Austrian agriculture is also inseparable from those people, especially during the autumn harvest season. If it affects the autumn harvest, it will lead to a significant reduction in the financial income of the Habsburg family. For the impoverished Habsburgs, this was unaffordable. Therefore, Maximilian I had no choice but to lead his army south after the autumn harvest was over. Unless, he is willing to risk the collapse of Austria's finances......

So, every family has a scripture that is difficult to read......

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Later, Marin changed his thinking, no longer dwelling on how much the ginger and sucrose could be sold for, but calculating how much it would cost to grow those ginger and sucrose......

So, Marin was pleasantly surprised to find that the cost was only a few thousand gold coins......

Then, Marin's heart disease was immediately cured, his waist no longer hurt, his legs were no longer sore, and he was able to climb the 10th floor in one breath......

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