Which business is the most profitable in the world? Of course it is a monopoly business! Just like Venice, a mere mercury tin foil glass mirror with very low technical content, because it is an exclusive business and confidentiality work is in place, it dares to ask for 10,000 or 20,000 gold coins per side. It is so dark.

Marin, who came from later generations, also knew how profitable the monopoly companies such as the "momentary" and "two barrels of oil" were. Moreover, although Mobile Telecom started to play dog ​​brains and brought benefits to the people, they didn't know who came up with the idea. After changing the leaders of several companies, the price war stopped because they were all "people" and no longer played dog brains. The original split was a competition, and they began to join forces to make a fuss...

Not to mention those, if Marin wanted to gain the greatest benefit in the silk and porcelain trade in the Ming Dynasty, he would not allow Portugal and Spain to enter.

Portugal has committed suicide by itself and has offended the Ming Dynasty greatly. It is difficult to get the opportunity to trade with the Ming Dynasty in a short period of time. However, Spain has not offended the Ming Dynasty and plans to copy its own methods. How can this be done?

You know, Spain had already snatched half of the huge profits from the spice trade from Portugal. If they were to get a piece of the pie in the trade with the Ming Dynasty, then Spain would not have been able to fly?

In particular, Spain is still a maritime power. If it shares the huge profits of trade with the Ming Dynasty, it would be a disaster. Because they will have more strength to compete for the Americas.

Therefore, although the two countries have a good relationship on the surface, Marin did not allow the Spaniards to get a share of the Ming Dynasty trade. The back stabbing or something is just a basic operation...

This is not just a simple dispute over interests, but a dispute over national destiny! You should know that in history, after Spain occupied the Philippines, relying solely on the smuggled Manila sailboat trade, the silver dollars flowing into the Ming Dynasty alone were between 1 million and 3 million each year. But did the Spanish lose? Not a loss! They made more!

In other words, on average, the benefits obtained by the Spanish from the Manila sailing trade every year are at least worth more than one million gold coins...

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

According to the daily salary of a German mercenary of 3 Finney, the annual salary of an ordinary German mercenary is around 1825 gold coins. And 1 million gold coins can hire 54,700 mercenaries for a year...

In other words, if Spain can obtain channels for trade with the Ming Dynasty, it can have money to support tens of thousands of troops a year. It is used to build ships and develop navy, and the scale is also very considerable. You should know that now a Spanish Carac warship cost only a few thousand gold coins (excluding copper cannons). The annual income of 1 million gold coins can maintain a powerful fleet...

Therefore, whether in terms of interests or from the perspective of the country's future, Marin could not allow Spain to get involved in trade with the Ming Dynasty. As long as he dared to stretch his claws, he would cut it off...

For French missionaries, Marin planned to send people to the Roman Catholic Church to find them. There are many French missionaries there, and there are also those who do not love their motherland France very much. As long as the money is given, they will be bought to preach in the Ming Dynasty, and then, at the right time, stabbing Spain, there is no problem.

Of course, loyalty is a problem for those who spend money to buy. For example, he can go to the Ming Dynasty 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 generous rewards.

There were too many good things in the Ming Dynasty, including the production secrets of porcelain, more advanced papermaking techniques, and advanced agricultural technology with a yield of hundreds of kilograms per mu... These are very important to France and are of great value...

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

If this man stayed there honestly preached and stabbed Spain as planned, Marin would not make things difficult for him. However, if he revealed his skills he wanted to use in the Ming Dynasty and exchange for the idea of ​​François I of the last time, Marin's men would kill him immediately.

You should know that Kong Tai bribed many subordinates in the Ming Dynasty, all of whom were locals in the Ming Dynasty. Among these people were resourceful scholars, robbers and dogs, and some were outlaws. Once the French priest showed signs of something wrong, the outlaws could take action to kill him...

As for whom the Holy See sent to replace him after killing him, he must have sent missionaries from Beihai Kingdom to Guangzhou. His own missionaries don’t have to worry about betraying him at all. After all, before he was selected to come to the Ming Dynasty, Marin would definitely choose reliable ones.

In short, French missionaries are easy to buy and kill. Kong Tai now spent a lot of money in the Ming Dynasty. Perhaps his eyeliner could not be spread throughout the Ming Dynasty, but it is still enough to install enough eyeliner in several cities such as Guangzhou, Fuzhou, Xiamen and Ningbo. After all, it is more than enough to hire a smart intelligence officer and give 1 tael of silver a month. After all, it is an annual income of 12 taels of silver. For many gangsters in the market, this is a very high salary. You should know that many skilled craftsmen can get a salary of only 300 cents a month.

As for the outlaws responsible for killing people, they didn't need much money. A few taels of silver was enough to hire them to kill the disobedient French priests. You know, during the Battle of the Liaoluo Bay, Zheng Zhilong offered his soldiers an incentive reward of only 2 taels of silver for each person, which made his soldiers scream in excitement. Killing a missionary in Western countries would probably take ten taels of silver to hire a deceased soldier who was willing to work...

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However, what after destroying Spain's plan to "fake tribute"? What will Spain do?

Marin fell into deep thought. After thinking for a long time, Marin felt that the Spaniards might choose to reuse the same trick, go north from the Spice Islands, occupying the Philippines. Then, he once again used the Philippines as a base to express his surrender to the Ming Dynasty for the second time... If the surrender was rejected, it might be that the Spaniards would follow the old path of history in the future, and use Manila as a base to welcome the Ming smugglers to go...

Marin remembers 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 260 taels of silver in Japan. In the Ming Dynasty, a tumble of raw silk was sold for a tumble of raw silk, even the best Huzhou silk was sold for no more than 100 taels of silver. Ordinary raw silk was only 50 taels of silver per tumble in the Ming Dynasty.

In other words, even if Marin tried every means to destroy Spain's way of defrauding the tribute trade qualifications, the Spaniards could still occupy the Philippines and use it as a base to smuggle it.

There seems to be no country on the Philippine Islands, only the small Sulu Islands in the southwest. Luzon Island and other places in the north are still homeless...
Chapter completed!