Chapter 794 Found that Da Ming was stuck in the neck (please subscribe!)

Author: Linjiangjun

Louis XIV, the filial son of God, as the defender of the old religious forces and the spokesman of the old forces, he certainly could not watch the fall of Rome!

"The brave French will never allow that to happen. Now, I will send a fleet carrying the new weapons we have made to fight against the infidels at sea!"

"In addition, don't France just want to punish the Ottomans at sea? The army continues to strengthen their legs. They want to recover Constantinople!"

All right!

Was Louis XIV really crazy?

Although France had a strong army before, it was wildly fishing in the Eight-Nation Army.

Because France is on the west side of the European continent, the Ottomans will not come here in another hundred years, unless the Ming Dynasty goes to war in person.

Now that he has a new weapon, he naturally wants to do something to improve his reputation as the Sun King.

Of course, Louis XIV wanted to rely on rockets to make a lot of money.

Didn't you see, the Ming and Qing people were relying on new weapons to make money everywhere, which made Louis XIV jealous, and he also wanted to be an arms dealer!

Although France's self-produced rockets are not as good as those imported from Ming Dynasty, their performance is somewhat inferior.

But at least, the Europeanization of national defense has been achieved.

If the rockets were independently produced in Europe and were labeled as European, they would be sold at a much higher price than the rockets of the Qing and Ming dynasties!

What?

I would rather buy the Ming Dynasty than the French?

Then why don't you support the Eight-Nation Allied Forces and go to supervise the cause? First give me a big hat, and then beat me!

Let’s look at the Ottoman state again. It is a comprador state!

I will just keep buying and buying.

Moreover, how far is the Ottoman state from the Ming Dynasty?

How inconvenient it would be to go to the distant East to buy more rockets after we have used them up!

It’s not bad that it’s made in Europe!

Just as Louis XIV was feeling proud, France's finance minister had an anxious look on his face.

After the ministers retreated to the east, he lowered his voice and whispered to Louis XIV: "My dear King, I am afraid that the number of their rockets will not be as high as you expect."

"what's the situation?"

Louis XIV, who was wearing high heels, frowned slightly. He walked on the soft chair, picked up a piece of Western pastry with a lot of brown sugar, stuffed it into his mouth, and asked doubtfully: "Isn't that right? Isn't he already?"

Dong Ling, please let us hurry up and produce?"

"Bidong, are the raw materials really good?"

The Finance Minister then smiled bitterly, spread his legs and explained: "Your Majesty, Your Majesty, you should know that brown sugar is a commodity that is in short supply!"

"That's always been the case in Europe and even the world!"

"And the rockets they made required a large amount of brown sugar, so the local raw materials in France were completely used..."

Well, brown sugar was not easy to get in those days.

There is not much brown sugar in Europe, and brown sugar has always been considered a luxury product in Europe.

Because Europe did not produce brown sugar in those days - there were no sugar beets in those days, so the whole of Europe did not produce sugar. All brown sugar was shipped from Nanyang, which was controlled by the Ming Dynasty, or from Cuba.

The use of beets to make sugar in Europe had to wait at least until March 1747, when the Prussian chemist Margraf discovered sucrose in beets, which started the history of human beings using beets to make sugar.

The production areas of Yandong brown sugar are all located outside the Ming Dynasty's sphere of influence, and they will not be able to spread out for a while.

Even if they have sugar cane, Europeans are not very good at making brown sugar - the technical content of brown sugar is very high, and the quality of the brown sugar they make is also very poor.

There is a saying that even if the Ming Dynasty did not have the sulfur-smoked sugar technology brought by Zhu Kezang's time travel, its own sugar-making technology would be one of the best.

The yellow mud sugar making method invented in the Ming Dynasty produced brown sugar of very high quality. Although that technology was recorded in Tiangong Kaiwu, Europeans and Tiangong masters even learned a little bit about it.

But the Chinese are the ones who really master that technology.

Therefore, the "brown sugar export" business of the Qianming Dynasty became a hot industry catching up with silk and porcelain. After the "Longqing Switch", the Qianming Dynasty exported tens of thousands of tons of brown sugar every year to the Dutch fleet, known as the "Sea Coachman"

, and also earned the price difference by reselling Daming brown sugar to Europe.

Later, the British fleet, which bypassed the "middlemen", was able to purchase tens of thousands of tons of goods every year starting from the Chongzhen period.

Brown sugar, which was no longer "priced as a red vegetable" in the Ming Dynasty, became so popular in Eurasia that "there are traces of Chinese sugar even as far away as the British Isles."

The sugar from safflower flowers makes enough money from safflower flowers in the Western world.

Even the plantations in Nanyang in the New Ming Dynasty had to hire those "senior and experienced sugar-making technical experts" from Hu, Jian, Guangdong and Guangxi to make brown sugar!

The yellow mud slurry sugar making method has been around for hundreds of years, and it is not considered a high-tech method.

The high technology of sulfur-smoked sugar is controlled by the factories run by the Ming government.

Of course, although the yellow mud sugar making technology is old, it is still useful. That thing is not like making CPUs in later generations. I will come up with a few nanometers, and they will come up with a new architecture.

The replacement cycle of that thing is hundreds of years and thousands of years.

Moreover, Biluolao's silk and porcelain have been exported for more than a thousand years, aren't they still being exported?

Is the price of brown sugar exported by the Ming Dynasty rising year after year? Nonsense, the things imported from the Ming Dynasty, the world's most powerful lighthouse, are not sold at a higher price?

The secret of whether Zhu Kezang got the sugar and gunpowder right was discovered sooner or later, and the leader of his industry could make a lot of money by monopolizing brown sugar.

Poor imitators in Europe and India also tried to imitate Ming Dynasty's brown sugar, but they were not very patient and their technical level was insufficient.

Therefore, the brown sugar that has been imitated is not only inferior in quality, but also very expensive.

Now that Tianzhu has the Qing Dynasty technology of injecting yellow mud to make sugar, it will be better!

But no, in the northwest Tianzhu occupied by Kangxi, there were not many places where sugar cane could be grown, and the industry had just begun to develop.

Under such circumstances, Daming Brown Sugar would find excuses to increase its price from time to time. For example: The sugar cane forests in Nanyang were on fire, so the price increased!

However, the price of brown sugar in continental Europe is not a luxury at all. There are not many people who can devour pastries with brown sugar like Louis XIV!

"Has the brown sugar been used?"

After hearing the words of the Chancellor of Finance, Louis XIV racked his brains, "Then go buy it, buy it all over Europe, and try to buy as much brown sugar as possible!"

"Bidong, he thinks they should plan to plant sugar cane in West Africa, produce their own brown sugar, and realize the Frenchization of brown sugar!"

France has colonies on the west coast of Africa, and Africa is very suitable for growing sugar cane.

That finance minister is quite smart.

"Currently, all the brown sugar in Europe comes from the East, and the brown sugar in the East is controlled by the Ming Empire. Once the Ming Empire discovers that they have mastered sugar gunpowder, then they will definitely embargo or raise the price of brown sugar.

, when the time comes, it will be their nightmare!”

The Chancellor reminded Louis XIV.

Louis XIV was not a fool, he had fully realized that sugar and gunpowder was a conspiracy.

If I don't do research and development, I'll be beaten if I fall behind.

Let me research and develop it, that thing was stuck in the neck by Ming Dynasty.

In future generations, will China be the one they choke?

If you can be in charge, Zhu Kezang will have his neck stuck.
Chapter completed!