What is the most profitable business in the world? Monopoly business, of course! Just like Venice, the mercury tin-plated foil glass mirror with very low technical content, because it is an exclusive business, and the confidentiality work is in place, it is really dark to dare to ask for one or two thousand gold coins.

Marin, who came from later generations, also knew how profitable the monopoly enterprises such as freezing and provocation and two barrels of oil were in later generations. Moreover, don't look at the fact that mobile telecommunications and other mobile telecommunications played out at the beginning, which brought benefits to the people. But later, I don't know who came up with the idea, and after the heads of several companies were reversed, because they were all "their own people", the price war stopped, and they no longer played each other's brains. Several companies that were originally separated to engage in competition began to collude and join forces to gather wool......

Leaving that aside, Marin wanted to make the most of the Ming dynasty's silk and porcelain trade, and could not allow Portugal and Spain to enter.

Portugal has already committed its own death, greatly offending the Ming Dynasty, and it is difficult to obtain the opportunity to trade with the Ming Dynasty in a short period of time. And Spain has not offended the Ming Dynasty, and plans to copy its own means, how can this work?

You know, Spain had already snatched half of the windfall profits from the spice trade from Portugal. If they are allowed to get a share of the trade with the Ming Dynasty, then Spain will not be allowed to fly?

In particular, Spain is also a maritime power. If you share the huge profits from trade with the Ming Dynasty, it will be a disaster. Because, they will be more capable of competing for the Americas.

So, despite the fact that the two countries have a good relationship on the surface. However, Marin also did not allow the Spaniards to take a share of the Ming trade. A stab in the back or something, it's just a basic operation......

This is not just a simple battle of interests, but a battle of national fortunes! You must know that in history, after the Spanish occupation of the Philippines, relying solely on the smuggled Manila galleon trade, there were between 1 million and 3 million silver dollars flowing into the Ming Dynasty every year. But did the Spaniards lose? No loss! They earn more!

In other words, the average Spaniards received at least a million gold coins of profit from the Manila galleon trade every year......

And in this era of mercenaries, gold coins mean military power!

According to the daily salary of a German mercenary is 3 pfennig, the annual salary of an ordinary German mercenary is about 18.25 gold coins. And 1 million gold coins can hire 54,700 mercenaries for a year......

In other words, if Spain could obtain trade channels with the Ming Dynasty, it could have the money to raise tens of thousands of more troops a year. If it is used for shipbuilding and the development of the navy, the scale is also very considerable. You must know that now a Spanish Karak warship of two or three hundred tons costs only a few thousand gold coins (not including copper cannons). With an annual income of 1,000,000 gold coins, you can maintain a powerful fleet......

Therefore, in terms of Chinese interests and the future of the country, Marin could not allow Spain to be involved in trade with the Ming Dynasty. As long as you dare to stretch out your claws, you will cut him off......

As for the French missionaries, Marin planned to send someone to the Holy See to find them. There were a lot of French missionaries there, and there were also those who didn't love their homeland France very much. As long as the money is in place, it is no problem to buy them to preach in the Ming Dynasty, and then, at the right time, stab Spain.

Of course, the loyalty of people who spend money to buy is very problematic. For example, he can go to Daming for money and stab Spain. But at the same time, he can also report the advanced production technology of the Ming Dynasty to the French royal family for money, in exchange for rich rewards.

There are too many good things in the Ming Dynasty, the production secrets of porcelain, more advanced papermaking techniques, and advanced agricultural technology with a yield of several hundred catties per mu...... These are very important and valuable to France......

So, while bribing this man to stab Spain, Marin was also ready to kill him......

If this man had stayed there honestly and stabbed Spain as planned, Marin would not have embarrassed him. However, if he reveals that he wants to use the technology he acquired in the Ming Dynasty to exchange the technology he obtained for the last time with King François I, Marin's men will kill him immediately.

You must know that Kong Tai bought many of his subordinates in the Ming Dynasty, all of whom were natives of the Ming Dynasty. Among these people, there are resourceful scholars, roosters and dog thieves, and some outlaws. Once the French priest shows signs that something is wrong, the outlaws can take action to kill him......

As for who the Holy See will send to replace him after he is killed, he must have sent missionaries from Beihai Kingdom to Guangzhou. The missionaries of their own family do not have to worry about betraying themselves. After all, before he was sent to the Ming Dynasty, Marin must have chosen a reliable one.

In short, French missionaries are easy to buy and kill. Kong Tai is now throwing a lot of money in the Ming Dynasty, maybe the eyeliner can't be all over the Ming Dynasty, but it is enough to install enough eyeliner in several cities such as Guangzhou, Fuzhou, Xiamen and Ningbo. After all, it would be more than enough to hire a clever intelligence officer and give 1 tael of silver a month. After all, that's an annual income of 12 taels of silver. For a lot of thugs, that's a lot of money. You must know that many craftsmen with craftsmanship can get a salary of only 300 yuan a month.

As for the outlaws who are responsible for killing people, they don't need much money. A few taels of silver would be enough to hire them to kill the disobedient French priests. You must know that during the Battle of Liuluo Bay, Zheng Zhilong's incentive reward to his soldiers was only 2 taels of silver per person, which made his soldiers scream with excitement. Killing a Xiyi missionary is estimated to cost ten taels of silver to hire a dead soldier who is willing to work......

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But what about after the destruction of the Spanish plan for a "fake tribute"? What will Spain do?

Marin pondered for a long time, and after thinking for a long time, Marin felt that the Spaniards might choose to repeat their old tricks and move north from the Spice Islands to occupy the Philippines. Then, he used the Philippine region as a base again and expressed his submission to the Ming Dynasty for the second time...... If the surrender is rejected, it is possible that in the future, the Spaniards will follow the old path of history, using Manila as a base to welcome the smugglers of the Ming Dynasty......

Marin remembered that in history, in order to attract Ming smugglers to Manila, the Spanish offered a high price of 240 taels of silver for each raw silk, which was only slightly lower than the Japanese price of 260 taels of silver. In the Ming Dynasty, a load of raw silk, even the finest Huzhou silk, was sold for no more than 100 taels of silver. And ordinary raw silk is only fifty or sixty taels of silver in Daming.

In other words, even if Marin managed to sabotage Spain's way of cheating on tributary trade qualifications, the Spaniards could still occupy the Philippines and use it as a base for smuggling.

At the moment, there don't seem to be any countries in the Philippine Islands, except for a small Sulu country in the southwest of the Sulu Islands. And in the north, Luzon and other places are still unowned......

"That's right! Philippines...... "Unowned......" Marin was suddenly inspired......