Guo Supernatural also thinks it is very important.

East India should be the number one supplier of oriental spices. This is why Liu Zheng suggested that Ling Chen temporarily stop conquering other countries.

Control the spices from India, control the spices from Central Asia, and then go for the spices from Southeast Asia on your own side...

in addition.

Liu Zheng’s suggestion, and tea.

Speaking of tea.

Let's talk about this era. When the maritime hegemony of Portugal and Spain began to decline, the rise of the sea coachmen, the Netherlands.

The rise of the Netherlands has nothing to do with its strong military strength.

It truly thrives on trade.

The rise of the Netherlands, a small country in Western Europe with a population of only one million at that time, is quite interesting. It is because of a kind of fish, herring. At that time, almost the entire country's income depended on catching herring, and 80% of the Dutch people were

Fisherman. However, fish resources are natural resources after all. If you can fish, others can also fish.

At that time, three wars broke out between the Netherlands and Scotland because of herring fishing.

So, a Dutchman stepped forward and invented a method that could remove the belly of fish with one knife. This began to make Dutch herring very popular.

Later, in order to gain an advantage in trade competition, the Netherlands refitted its merchant ships, allowing them to disassemble the cannons and increase the warehouse space. As a result, their shipping costs began to become low. Among European countries, low-cost

The herrings are starting to stand out.

From then on, the Netherlands began to rise.

The so-called tea trade was invented by the Dutch.

After they used their money to build military power and occupied Portugal's former colonies, at the end of the 16th century, the Dutch navigator Van Lins Thorton published "Traveler's Miscellaneous", which described a Portuguese colonial empire in the east.

Tea is introduced in detail.

The Dutch, who are good at doing business, seized this business opportunity.

They began to publicize the healing, health-preserving and health-preserving functions of drinking tea, emphasizing that tea is a healthy drink and drinking tea is a healthy living habit. They also began to advocate that the health and longevity of Eastern people should be attributed to tea.

Chinese people rarely suffer from swelling, neuralgia, and bladder stones, precisely because of long-term tea consumption.

Suddenly, Europeans flocked to it.

The Netherlands also became the largest tea dealer in Europe, almost monopolizing the tea trade for eighty years.

And they don't know.

At this time, on the other side of the world, another East India Company was also slowly rising, that is, the British East India Company.

If this trend continues, and according to the trajectory of historical development, the British East India Company will soon replace the Dutch East India Company and become the ruler, propagandist, and monopolist of the tea trade.

Their propaganda even surpassed that of the Dutch. It even caused a beverage revolution in Britain, causing the British to abandon coffee and become addicted to drinking tea.

Some even said.

"Tea revenue was almost all of the East India Company's profits, and even became the reason for the East India Company's existence."

"Tea is God, anything can be sacrificed in front of it."

certainly.

Tea trade.

It also directly triggered the greatest humiliating war for Liu Zheng's motherland in his previous life.

Tea Wars.
Chapter completed!