Just as Marin selected a thousand elite soldiers and began training, Garland, the governor of Cape Breton Island, suddenly sent a ship back to report to Marin that they had contacted the Indians on Newfoundland Island...

It turns out that because the two sides have been fishing together in Newfoundland fishing grounds for a long time, they are inevitable to contact each other. However, because they are afraid of being hurt by the Indians, the fishing boats on Cape Breton Island are generally far away from the coast.

However, two months ago, a fishing boat on Cape Breton Island had to dock to replenish freshwater because it forgot to bring freshwater. Then, while replenishing freshwater, the boat was surrounded by local Indians.

The fishermen were frightened and thought the Indians were going to hurt them. However, the local Indians had no intention of hurting them. Through gesture communication, these Indians called themselves Beothuk people, and they envied the tools used by the fishermen on Cape Breton Island and even the glass beads used to decorate the fishing boats. So the Beothu people made a request for the transaction.

However, at the beginning, the Beotoks took out fish. But the fishermen on Cape Breton Island did not lack fish because they were fishermen. So the Beotoks thought about it and took out beaver skins to exchange...

Seeing the Beotuks' attitude of not trading and not letting go, the fishermen had to use the knife, harpoon, fishing net, glass beads on the boat... and even the pots, pots, jars and black bread used by the fishermen on the boat, and exchanged hundreds of beaver skins with the Beotuks'...

Then, the fishermen who had no tools had to return first...

Originally, the fishermen were very complaining and even felt at a disadvantage. After all, they were people at the bottom and did not know the preciousness of those beaver skins.

However, as a new nobleman, Garland was also very knowledgeable about luxury goods. When he heard that the fishermen had returned from changing hundreds of beaver skins with daily necessities on the boat, he was immediately shocked...

You should know that before Siberian mink appeared in Europe, beaver skin was always one of the most expensive furs in Europe. A complete beaver skin can be sold for 20 gold coins. Hundreds of beaver skin are worth several thousand gold coins.

The total price of the fishermen's ships in the market is no more than 20 gold coins...

In other words, the fishermen made hundreds of times the odd trade. Of course, the profit must have been confiscated by Garland. Anyway, these fishermen did not know the price of precious fur such as beaver skin.

However, looking at the Indians, it seems that there are more beaver skins there...

In fact, there are also many beaveres on Cape Breton Island controlled by Garland. However, Garland and the colonists were cautious and did not dare to go deep into the jungle easily before cutting down the trees to avoid being harmed by grizzly bears. Therefore, Garland did not get much beaver skin.

However, this trade with the Beotuks inspired Garland - we dare not go deep into the jungle and lacked manpower, but those Indians can...

Those Indians lived here for generations and had rich experience in catching beavers. If that is the case, why not exchange precious beaver skins with them with cheap goods?

So Garland sent someone back to Europe by boat to report the situation to Marin...

"Beaver skin..." Marin was stunned.

Suddenly, he remembered that in his original history, did the French man make his fortune by making his beaver skin trade?

Originally, in the seventeenth century, although the French navy was weak, they did not dare to send troops to occupy North American colonies to avoid stimulating the powerful Spain. However, there were still many French fur merchants who secretly ran to Newfoundland and Quebec and made a fortune by relying on the beaver skin trade.

At that time, French fur merchants sold intact beaver skin back to Europe, and the profit was as high as 200 times. Later, although the profit was not that high, there were still dozens of times the profit.

The French used some ordinary iron pots, axes, swords and glass beads to exchange them for a large amount of valuable beaver skins from the Indians and accumulated a lot of wealth.

"It seems that I can also make money by using this kind of trading method..." Marin thought.

You should know that in North America these days, there were at least tens of millions of beavers. Especially in the rivers and lakes of the Canadian jungle, beavers were everywhere. Until the 21st century, beavers were still a national beast in Canada.

"Wait...I really want to forget something..." Marin suddenly stood up from the office chair and began to walk around the room, thinking about what he had forgotten...

Half a day later, Marin finally remembered:

"Yes, Beaver Xiang, why did I forget this?" Marin slapped his head suddenly.

Previously, when a group of perfume mixers were introduced from Rome, those perfume masters told Marin that making high-end perfumes, especially perfumes with long shelf life, requires fragrance setting agents, such as musk, beaver fragrance and ambergris.

However, ambergris is too expensive, and musk is less than beaver fragrance. Therefore, the most commonly used one is actually beaver fragrance. However, in Europe, beaver skin has become very rare. Beaver skin has also become precious fur.

When beavers are rare, beaver fragrance has become an expensive luxury. Therefore, high-end perfumes also produce less. However, North America is different. There are so many beavers in Canada, as long as they teach the Indians to cut off the piriform sacs that secrete beaver fragrance from female beavers, dry them and hand them over to Marin, and extract the beaver fragrance with alcohol...

In that case, Marin will make high-end perfumes in the future, and the source of the fragrance fixing agent will be very wide. After all, there are tens of millions of beavers in Canada. Moreover, beavers breed every year. Europeans in Canada have tempted Indians to kill beavers for hundreds of years but have not been killed. It can be seen that beavers have a strong reproductive ability.

Once the Indians launched a mass acquisition, they would acquire beaver skin and female beaver beaver scent gland capsules in large quantities. At that time, not only can you make a lot of money on the beaver skin, but the perfume setting agent will also be extremely rich. In this way, Marin has the conditions to produce high-end perfumes in large quantities. With a large number of high-end perfumes, the trade with the Ming Dynasty can also proceed smoothly. Otherwise, how stupid would it be to spend money or exchange glass?

Even in Europe, high-end perfumes are in short supply. Because ambergris is extremely rare and musk and beaver fragrances are not much, so high-end perfumes are often rare and expensive.
Chapter completed!