Today's maritime hegemon, colonies all over the world, Spain, known as the empire on which the sun never sets, will have no money, this is really a little unbelievable, Zhu Cijiong estimates that even if they don't count their local income, the wealth plundered by the colonies alone is at least hundreds of millions of taels of silver a year, how can there be no money!

Zhu Cijiong asked in surprise: "The Spanish Empire has no money?" Are you sure you're not kidding me, do you know how much wealth they plundered from the colonies in a year? “

The same colonizers, now nominally a country, of course, Schvera knows how much wealth they can plunder from the colonies in a year, he calculated: "This Weichen knows, not counting the gold and silver they plundered from the Gold Coast of South America and Africa, they can probably earn fifty or sixty million taels a year, and the income from the cash crops planted by the natives in various places has even exceeded fifty or sixty million taels, and the plundering of our Portuguese mainland and colonies can also earn twenty or thirty million taels a year, just counting these." , their annual income is about 150 million taels! “

The annual income is at least 150 million taels of silver, and there is no money! What kind of logic is this! If it weren't for the Chinese New Year, Zhu Cijiong really wanted to drag this goods out and play a few boards to make him sober up.

With so much money, how did they spend it, Zhu Cijiong said angrily: "The annual income is at least 150 million taels of silver, you say they have no money, my Daming now has no income of 150 million taels of silver a year, so isn't I even less rich, do you think it's possible?" “

When Shi Weila heard this, he smiled bitterly: "Your Majesty, they really have no money, this Weichen knows very well that their annual income is very amazing, but they spend money even more terrifying!" “

No matter how scary it is, it is impossible to spend 150 million taels a year, Zhu Cijiong doubted: "150 million taels of silver, do you know how much it is, even if they cast the silver into cannonballs and smash people, they can't finish it, like the muskets and artillery they bought with me, they only spent less than 50 million taels in total on the two occasions, just like this, their army has almost finished redressing, how can they spend money?" “

Schvera hurriedly explained: "Your Majesty, you don't know, the equipment of the army is nothing at all, and the navy spends a lot of money, like the naval battle between Spain and England, between 1588 and 1601 alone, the king of Spain formed five armadas to expedition to England, but their luck was very bad, and they suffered heavy losses due to storms five times, resulting in the failure of the expedition." Your Majesty, do you know how much an Armada costs to build? “

How much is an invincible armada, this Zhu Cijiong really doesn't know, because he doesn't know what size of fleet is an invincible armada! So he asked curiously: "How many warships does an armada have, and how much does it cost Spain to build an armada?" “

Schwila introduced in detail: "An invincible armada has about thousands of large and small warships, at that time there were no super battleships, a battleship is equipped with more than ten guns at most, the entire armada has about 3,000 guns, many of these warships and artillery are purchased from the Dutch through our Portuguese merchants, and the Dutch also know that it is Spain who wants it, so the price is particularly outrageous, a battleship is priced at 5 million taels, a gun is priced at 50,000 taels, and this battleship and artillery alone will probably cost more than 300 million taels!" “

Nima, 5 million taels of silver for a battleship, 50,000 taels of silver for a gun, this Spain is really rich, and the Dutch are typical of asking for money and not dying, they know that it is sold to Spain, and they still sell!

If the money is spent like this, Spain really has no surplus in those ten years, and the five invincible armadas are enough to exhaust their income for more than ten years. But isn't there more than thirty years behind this, what about their money, Zhu Cijiong couldn't help asking: "That's all in 1601, they haven't built an invincible armada every year for more than 30 years, right?" “

Schwila shook his head and said: "It's not, but the Spanish royal family's consumption is also scary, and most of the luxury goods around the world are used by them, like coffee, which is known as "black gold", which is more expensive than gold, and a cup is gone for dozens of taels of silver, but the people of the Spanish royal family drink it every day, and even use it to entertain guests, and they don't know how much silver they have to drink just to drink coffee a day, and the royal family's luxury consumption is at least more than 50 million taels a year, sometimes even more than 100 million taels! ”

Nima, what a tyrant! Spend 50 million to 100 million taels of silver a year to consume luxury goods, no wonder they have no money, spend like this, give them a few mountains of gold and silver so that they can't afford to dig it!

Zhu Cijiong couldn't help but sigh: "If you want to spend money like this, no matter how much money you have, it's not enough to spend!" “

Schwila couldn't help reminding: "Your Majesty, you have to be careful, they not only spend money ruthlessly, but also have a bad problem, that is, they love to rely on the account, and the most common method they use is to declare the country bankrupt, and the money owed before will not be recognized, only the new loan!" For example, Philip II declared the country bankrupt three times in 1557, 1575 and 1598, and the current king, Philip IV, declared bankruptcy in 1627!

Nima, if you don't have money, you can go bankrupt, this is too ruthless, no wonder the whole world is against them!

Of course, now it's not about discussing whether he still hasn't paid back the money, but to sabotage their peace talks, as for how to sabotage the peace talks, it depends on why they don't want to fight, now it seems that money is a problem, I don't know if there are other reasons, Zhu Cijiong couldn't help asking: "Do they don't want to fight just because they have no money, and are there any other reasons?" “

Schwila shook his head and said: "No, they just don't want to fight because they have no money and can't afford weapons and equipment." “

Still buying it, aren't they all bought? Zhu Cijiong couldn't help but wonder: "Aren't they all buying the equipment of their army, do they really have to buy 8,000 cannons with me to win?" “

Schvilla shook his head again and said: "It's not a problem with the army, now that the land forces on both sides have suffered heavy losses, it is estimated that there will be no large-scale battles on land, and then there will be naval battles, because the plundered wealth of various countries will be transported back to the mainland by sea, especially Spain, if the Protestant alliance is eyeing their treasure ships, it will be troublesome, as long as they are robbed a few times, it is estimated that Spain will go bankrupt again." Spain doesn't have the money to expand its navy at all, and its sea power is not even as good as that of the Netherlands, so they don't want to fight. “

It turns out that this is the case, it doesn't matter if you don't have money to buy ships and artillery, I can give it to you on credit, and it doesn't matter if you pay the bill, as long as you continue to fight, Daming can easily snatch the colony, and the money owed can be earned back from the colony.

As for how many warships and artillery to give to Spain on credit, it depends on how much difference the naval strength of the two sides is, as long as they maintain a relative balance in their naval strength and keep fighting.

Perhaps, it is time for me to go to Europe, no matter what, they must not be allowed to succeed in the peace talks, as for how to sabotage the peace talks, only when the time comes, we can only take one step at a time.