The same nutmeg was very different in Europe and the Ming Dynasty. In the Ming Dynasty, no matter how expensive the spices were, they would not exceed 1 tael of silver per pound. After all, the overall price of the Ming Dynasty was so low. In Europe, nutmeg was sparse and the effect of hallucination, it could be sold for 2 gold coins per pound. According to the price of gold and silver of 1 to 12, it was equivalent to 2.29 taels of silver per pound. The price was several times that of the Ming Dynasty.

So, how could Marin give up the high-priced market in Europe? Not to mention that it is sold all in Europe, but it is necessary to cash out in Europe. The European spice market is worth millions of gold coins every year. If Marin doesn't want to get a piece of the pie, it's not him.

Of course, this also includes further enlisting the Medici family. After all, the Medici family will have two popes in the future. If Robert wants to get the support of the Medici family, it is useless to rely solely on the support of himself and the Pope's father-in-law.

At present, the support of himself and his father-in-law is of course crucial to Giovanni di Lorenzo de Medici. However, it is hard to say when the father-in-law dies. After all, there is a situation in politics called "people leave and tea is cold."

If Giovanni di Lorenzo de Medici took over as the pope, the other party might have been better to Robert in the first few years because of gratitude. But then, the favors will become less and less. By the time Giovanni di Lorenzo de Medici's cousin Clement VII took over as the Pope, the relationship between the two families would be almost the same. Because Clement VII had not received the favor of Marin and Julius II.

Therefore, if you want to ensure that Robert is best taken care of in Rome, it is best to further bind the Medici family to further benefit.

Previously, Marin had agreed to the Medici family to acquire shares in Siena Bank, but that was not enough. Because the Medici family itself had a bank. It was actually not necessary to operate the Medici bank with Marin to curry favor with Marin and Julius II.

When Giovanni di Lorenzo de Medici becomes the pope, people will definitely strongly support the Medici family's own banks, rather than the Siena Bank, where Marin accounts for the majority. Therefore, it is not reliable to tie the Medici family with the Siena Bank. Moreover, the returns are limited.

At present, the principal of Siena Bank is more than one million gold coins, and the annual income is only about 200,000 gold coins. Most of these 200,000 gold coins belong to Marin, and only a few tens of thousands of gold coins belong to the Medici family.

For the Medici family, the real role of Siena Bank is not that little profit, but the huge loans that can be provided during the Pope's campaign, which is the most important thing.

But when Leo X was really elected, the importance of Siena Bank became very low again. After all, the annual income of tens of thousands of gold coins is really nothing in the eyes of men who became pope. If Leo X was a conscientious person, it would be fine. If he was an ungrateful person, Marin's investment would be wasted.

Marin dared not bet on Leo X's conscience, but he knew that business families like the Medici family valued the most. As long as they could bring them benefits for a long time, they would have no reason to give up their support for Robert.

Just so happened that Marin felt that the millions of pounds of nutmeg produced in Grenada should take out part of it to cash out in Europe. So, the two sides hit it off.

Because he was trying to win over the other party, Marin gave a very large concession - he planned to provide nutmeg to the Medici family with a wholesale price of 1 gold coins per pound. Then, the Medici family sold it to the outside world at a price of 2 gold coins per pound...

In other words, Marin gave up half of the profit, which is very conscientious. Of course, the Medici family's commercial channels also have operating costs. They earn less than 1 gold coin per pound, but most of them can still be earned. After all, the Medici family's commercial channels were not established for selling spices. The spice trade was a pure surprise for them.

As for the quantity, Marin tentatively provides them with 200,000 pounds a year...

That is to say, twenty percent of the production of Grenada's nutmeg will be handed over to the Medici family and sold in Italy. Then, Marin will cash out 200,000 gold coins.

The other 800,000 pounds of nutmeg were mainly sold to the Ming Dynasty...

Although the price of nutmeg in the Ming Dynasty was low, it was only a few coins per pound. However, Malin did not intend to exchange nutmeg for money in the Ming Dynasty...

Those who take goods to the Ming Dynasty to sell money are definitely fools! When real merchants left the Ming Dynasty, they were definitely full of high-value specialties such as silk and porcelain.

For example, if Malin sent 800,000 pounds of nutmeg to the Ming Dynasty, he could sell 400,000 taels of silver. But if it was replaced with silk, porcelain and other Ming specialties and shipped back to Europe, the value would be at least several times, or even more than ten times.

Moreover, this saved Malin for 400,000 taels of silver in cash. Otherwise, Malin would have to send hundreds of thousands of taels of real gold and silver to the Ming Dynasty, and the money shortage in Beihai Kingdom intensified...

After all, even if Marin tried every means to expand the production of the Goslar silver mine, the silver mine only produced 729,000 taels of silver every year. Without nutmeg, Marin would have to send most of it to the Ming Dynasty, leaving only a small part of it for domestic use. But with nutmeg, these silver could be left to mint coins in the local area, and then minted into coins to promote commercial circulation.

In fact, Marin chose to focus on the development of nutmeg planting in Grenada. In addition to being influenced by later memories, there is another relatively secret reason - nutmeg planting technology is difficult...

When nutmeg was found to grow in the Malugu Islands, everyone was discomfort and did not think about introducing nutmeg to plant. Unfortunately, they all failed. It was not that they could not survive, but that they did not grow fruits. Nutmeg is the fruit of the nutmeg tree. Without fruits, the tree has no meaning... Therefore, for a long time, everyone thought that nutmeg would not be suitable for planting after leaving the Malugu Islands.

It was not until the 19th century that botanists unraveled the secret - it turned out that the nutmeg tree was strange. Its tree was divided into male and female, and the male and female trees had to be planted together to bear fruit...

This is just like the seeds of mate tea that need special birds to swallow and digest before they can germinate. They are all weird in the plant world. Even if ordinary people introduce them, they cannot make it. Only Marin, a time traveler from later generations, has seen this story, can he be confident. Moreover, he is not afraid of others competing - no one can plant it, so how can he compete?

Moreover, even if you find that Grenada produces nutmeg, Marin will fool you - nutmeg is probably only suitable for tropical islands with special environments like the Maluku Islands or Grenada...
Chapter completed!