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Author: Linjiangjun

After the finance minister finished speaking, Louis XIV's face became extremely gloomy.

He gritted his teeth and said: "Despicable Ming people, they want to build their own sugar cane plantation and produce pure French brown sugar. They cannot be controlled by others!"

"So now, if we purchase all the brown sugar in Europe, how many rockets like that can be made?"

"Not too much!" said the Chancellor.

Because brown sugar is considered a luxury product, no European merchants would stock too much goods for fear that they would not be able to sell it.

Compared with durable materials such as silk and porcelain, brown sugar is gone once you eat it.

Therefore, the brown sugar reserves in Eastern Europe are really limited.

"Purchase as much as possible, buy at the high price in the market, and be sure to purchase more brown sugar!"

Louis XIV's Eastern Order said.

"In addition, before the despicable Akito reacts, we should send a French merchant ship to purchase brown sugar. Buy as much as you can, at least ten ships worth!"

Ten ships of brown sugar sounds amazing, but the merchant ships in those days were not big, and they only had a few thousand tons coming from the east.

Of course, in Louis XIV's view, if there were 5,000 tons of brown sugar made into gunpowder, it would be 8,000 to 10,000 tons of sugar gunpowder.

How many rockets can be made with 10,000 tons?

Even excess gunpowder can be used in cannons and guns to increase their power.

After hearing this, the finance minister nodded slightly, "Is your Majesty right? No, you need a reason to purchase such a large amount of brown sugar, and you need a lot of money..."

Well, there must be a reason for purchasing such a large amount of brown sugar.

This reason can be used to prevaricate the Ming Dynasty, and secondly, it can deceive other countries in Europe.

Well, the most powerful country in Europe suddenly spent national funds to purchase thousands of tons of brown sugar. If anyone is wondering about the conspiracy of cocoa in it, and then thinks about the gunpowder in it, won't they discover the secret of sugar and gunpowder?

"Let him think about it!"

Louis XIV thought for a moment, then he grabbed the dessert on the table with a smile, "That's the reason, they romantic French people like to eat sweets!"

"Of course, while buying sugar, they also want to plant sugar cane on the African continent and produce cane sugar!"

Louis XIV reminded the finance minister next to him.

It's better for me to have it if my father has it and my mother has it.

However, Louis XIV thought very well, but he could not implement the matter from the east in a short while.

Purchasing brown sugar from Daming, let alone whether the purchase can be successful, just whether it will take at least half a year!

And growing sugar cane in Africa is a long process.

It is the spring of 1694, and there is not much time left for France to sow seeds next year!

Sugarcane planting time is generally no later than April!

For sowing, you have to prepare seeds, plantation land, and black farm tools for planting. How can it be so easy to prepare them?

So, I guess it will be a blessing to be able to plant it next year.

Do they know the most basic method of making yellow mud sugar?

Although the method of making brown sugar is clearly written in Tiangong Kaiwu, the question is, did anyone in Europe at that time read Tiangong Kaiwu?

Even if you have read it, do you really think you can make sugar by reading a few books?

Did you learn it just by reading the text tutorial?

The video tutorials of later generations are so vivid and vivid that the author of the video can't wait to explain the details clearly and clearly. Is it as difficult as trying to copy a cat or a tiger?

What's more, can you be the east?

Without the masters of the two great Ming Dynasties to teach and impart the know-how, they were left to figure it out on their own.

Bu Nao, history is here, Tiangong Kaiwu spread to Europe in the 18th century, and it immediately caused a stir in Europe. Only that scientific work directly promoted the agricultural revolution in Europe. The French scholar Julien praised Tiangong Kaiwu as the 17th century The most authoritative encyclopedia of industrial production!

It's outrageous. The scientific work "History on Tiangong Kaiwu" was very popular in Europe, Japan and Korea, but Tiangong Kaiwu was banned by Emperor Qianlong of the Qing Dynasty for 200 years!

Regarding whether to consolidate the Qing Dynasty, Qianlong sent more than 400 civil servants to sort out the books of the Chinese dynasties and compile the Sikuquanshu. When the civil servants were sorting out the books, they discovered that the appearance of Tiangong Kaiwu was suspected of being anti-Qing. Qianlong decided to refuse to compile the Sikuquanshu. Tiangong Kaiwu is compiled into Sikuquanshu.

Not only that, Qianlong sent Qing soldiers to search libraries and publishing houses across the country and banned the publication of Tiangong Kaiwu. Tiangong Kaiwu almost disappeared in China, which is a pity.

From this point of view, Europeans are very discerning.

As Louis XIV's order arrived, the French state machinery acted according to his instructions and began to secretly purchase brown sugar from the entire European continent.

That's not an easy task, as long as you are willing to bleed, there are always all kinds of Europa profiteers who will give you candy at your door.

And just when Louis XIV was having a headache for sugar, the Ming Dynasty in the Far East.

With the arrival of spring, the weather in Yingtiancheng begins to warm up.

At the end of the 17th century, the entire world was plunged into a frenzied atmosphere of war, but with the end of the Ming-Xi War, the Ming Dynasty ushered in a rare peace.

Even if there was no war, relying on the dissemination of newspapers by government-run and private newspapers, the people of the Ming Dynasty truly achieved "a scholar can know the affairs of the world without going out".

Outside a teahouse, I saw a customer holding a newspaper on his legs, and then he slapped the table and exclaimed.

"The Dog Tartars have invaded Persia. Should they form a volunteer army to fight against the Qing Dynasty and aid Persia?"

"Brother, are you right? His country has a piece of land in the Persian Gulf. We should not watch Persia become a tributary state of the Qing Dynasty!"

"Wrong head, the Persians are stupid and don't know how to come to the Ming Dynasty for help. The Ming Dynasty reluctantly accepts a dog. We don't care about things that are not in Persia. We just need to offer beautiful women to the Ming Dynasty on a regular basis!"

Obviously, those Ming literati did not know the horror of Persian "beauties".

"Everyone, compared to Persia, isn't the Empire's "Zhongyinzhou Development Strategy" worthy of more attention?"

"No! Huangming Yuebao once said that if you stand in the wind, even pigs can take off. Zhongyinzhou will not be the wind in the Ming Dynasty!"

"Not to mention, he has already bought a land parcel in Zhongyinzhou, and he can exchange it with the government for 100 acres of fertile land in Zhongyinzhou."

For a moment, there was a great deal of noise outside the teahouse. The ordinary citizens outside Yingtian City were sipping herbal tea and spitting all over the sky, discussing military and civil affairs.

Their posture has something in common with the scenes of idle villagers discussing military and national affairs in various countries in later generations.

While the guests at the east end of the teahouse are boasting about their cowhide, they are located on the second floor of the teahouse.

The Netherlands, Spain, Portugal, HRE, Britain, and almost all European countries' envoys established in the Ming Dynasty all responded in the same way.

Submitted a request for an audience with Zhu Kezang, in order to see if he could purchase the latest and most advanced weapons from the Ming Empire!

After all, the example of Ottoman is too clear. I bought a little bit of Venice and HRE before, but it was completely ineffective!

Now all Europe is collecting money, notes and gold to buy Ming Dynasty’s arms!
Chapter completed!