Chapter 268 How can you build a good Mediterranean world when you are with these barbarians!

Author: orthodox sweaty Ali does not pigeon

Chapter 268 How can you build a good Mediterranean world when you are with these barbarians!

"It's not impossible." Theodora was not too worried about this: "If we find a way to master Egypt, it's basically okay. It doesn't matter if we compete for the other party for a while. We can pass the cost on the barbarians and take it in the middle.

Just profit."

"This is not possible." Guo Kang shook his head: "You probably have no idea about the amount of maritime trade, right?"

"Why is there no concept? I often deal with documents on this aspect." Theodora asked in confusion: "What you said is too exaggerated. Is the wealth of the entire Europe not enough to maintain trade?"

"I guess it's a big deal in the whole of Europe, plus Wenlan is almost the same." Guo Kang said bluntly.

"How much gold and silver are there?" Theodora was so surprised that he didn't believe it. He didn't know if he didn't believe in the scale of the trade or if he didn't believe that Wenlan was richer than here.

"I don't know how much the total amount is, but the gold and silver that can be obtained after mining is probably several times that of Europe," said Guo Kang.

"Holy Virgin..." Theodora widened his eyes: "Who else knows this?"

Guo Kang pointed to the two of them, and pointed to the heavens: "The Father of Heaven knows, the Virgin knows, you know, I know."

"I didn't even dare to tell Tuo Huan, for fear that he wouldn't be able to control his words when bragging."

Theodora said nothing and nodded. They knew each other well, but they were not worried that they would say it out in an inappropriate occasion.

"How much financial support is needed for Oriental Trade? Is Wenlan's gold and silver enough?" She continued to ask without any worries.

"When the Ming Dynasty was unhappy with trade and mainly relied on smuggling, it was probably half of Wenlan's gold and silver." Guo Kang thought for a while and said.

"Then, wouldn't that be..." Theodora was already a little stunned.

Guo Kang just shrugged, after all, he said it based on conservative data.

He hadn't explained the route from America to Asia in detail to Theodora, so she might not have any idea. But in the history he had learned before, Spain received one-third of gold and silver in the Americas and had never been to Spain.

——They are shipped directly to Macau through the "Manila Sailing Boat" in exchange for Chinese goods. These "Spanish Wealth" have never been to Spain.

Most of the goods purchased by these gold and silver did not flow into Spain, but directly entered the American colonies. As a result, because the Spaniards were not good at operating, the already fragile local market was severely impacted by a large number of cheap Ming Dynasty commodities.

The final result is that the industry on the entire route is destroyed.

In the Philippines, the Governor reported to the king that the locals no longer textile cotton. Because selling cotton to Ming Dynasty merchants and purchasing the cotton cloth they shipped was the most cost-effective way;

In Mexico, the Governor was surprised to find that more locals wore silk than cotton: because even when traveling across the Pacific Ocean, the Ming Dynasty silk was cheaper than Spanish cotton;

In Peru, the price of silk in the Ming Dynasty was only one-third of that of Spanish products, which not only made the local silk industry go bankrupt, but also continued to spill out. Because even if these Ming Dynasty silks were transported back to Spain, these textiles that circled most of the earth were textiles.

, when facing the poorly competitive Spanish local products, they are still profitable.

The Spanish paid a huge price for this. Over the past hundred years, they had a very high mortality rate, opened up new continents and discovered mineral deposits, but they did not leave anything, and even half of the money went to the Ming Dynasty, which was called the Age of Discovery.

The biggest injustice...

Since then, America has also imported a large amount of oriental cotton cloth and silk. It was not until the mid-to-late 19th century that the United States reversed this trend through extremely low cotton costs.

Moreover, there is also a point worth noting: these results were caused by the Ming Dynasty's official unfavorable trade and did not organize trade with national power. If it were serious there, what would it look like?

Guo Kang couldn't even think of it himself.

"I'll know if you guess. The gold and silver in the whole Europe are not enough to fill this pit." He shook his head and told Theodora: "That's why I said that it's useless for us to be middlemen-

If you sell all the downstream barbarians, you can't afford the difference."

"Then, what should we do?" Theodora couldn't think of a solution now: "Why do you make an advance arrangement and find a way to develop Wenlan as soon as possible?"

"This is too expensive." Guo Kang told her: "The early development was very difficult, and half of the people often died on the road. The barbarians who could not survive could bear this loss. If they were people from other places, they would rather choose to rebel directly.

”

"So, the best way is to do the idea of ​​Tuohuan - wait for the barbarians to slowly explore the west, and then we will come to the stage and harvest their pioneering achievements. In this way, the price may be much smaller."

"But even so, I don't know if it's enough. The Ming Dynasty was the 'silver pump' of this world, almost a bottomless pit. If they opened up the naval battle with Java Yuan and learned to take the initiative to trade to supplement the naval funding, there might be a gap.

Get bigger.”

"Can Europa and Venlan be combined together..." Theodora lay on the table and said weakly: "What is this true or false? How could it be so exaggerated?"

"This is all normal." Guo Kang was not very surprised.

"The people in the Central Plains like to call themselves "Zhuxia", and the corresponding one is "barbarian". The place where Zhuxia lives is called China, and the corresponding one is "foreign countries". "Guo Kang told her: "In the ancient worldview, it is generally

There are only these two parts.”

"They often don't bother to distinguish and like to treat "barbarians" or to be tactful, "foreigners" as one. But what's more embarrassing is that most of the time in history, "China" does add up with all other "foreigners" together.

almost."

"This is so arrogant..." Theodora sighed.

"There's no way. After a long time, everyone has become accustomed to it." Guo Kang shrugged.

In the world he lived in before, even those who despise Ceris like to use "China" and "foreign" to make binary comparisons, proving that the Central Plains civilization was backward.

This leads to a very strange phenomenon: even when a Serris despises the Central Plains civilization, his subconsciously still adopts a very ancient and arrogant standard, treating "foreign countries" as the disdain of ancient times.

The "barbarians" who distinguish them - even if their own subjective intentions are completely opposite, they are still in performance.

Therefore, the core of a civilization is extremely difficult to change - perhaps it cannot be changed. This conceited mentality of comparing oneself to the whole world every day may be a habit accumulated over a long time, even if it is unrest and decline, it cannot be eliminated.

"To be economically back and forth with such a giant, we need a group of at least about the same scale. Otherwise, the Ming Dynasty might not take us seriously." He explained his point of view: "That's why I think

, We must at least work hard to integrate the Mediterranean world to reach this threshold."

"Just being a middleman can obviously not meet the requirements. Because the management of the barbarians is too backward and the efficiency is too low. Only when we manage it ourselves can we realize the potential of this land."

"How can we build the Roman hometown with these guys?" he asked back.
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