Chapter 159: Open business roads

Now that Prince Philip has succeeded in the campaign, it is time for Marin to harvest the fruits of victory. First of all, Marin took out more than 80,000 gold coins signed with Marin and began to change the sign.
Marlin is a contract-oriented person. He believes that verbal commitments are all false, and especially for politicians, there is not much difference between verbal promises and release. Therefore, the signing of a black and white agreement is the guarantee.
王子 After the successful reception of Prince Philip's campaign, Marin waited for Prince Philip to wake up the next day and began to sign a specific treaty with him.
First, it's the commercial treaty. Marin smashed more than 8 gold coins to help Prince Philip win the post of chief commander. It was not for nothing, but in return.
Of course, Prince Philip himself had no money, but when he was the head of the group, he was able to provide services for Marin to make money in Teutonic country. After all, the Grand Head is the supreme leader of the Teutonic state.
To this end, Marin and Philip signed an agreement stipulating that the two parties jointly establish a chamber of commerce in the name of Prince Philip. The Chamber of Commerce is in the name of Prince Philip, but the management rights belong to Marin. The investment of the Chamber of Commerce is also fully borne by Marin. The final gain was eighty-two percent, Marin was 80 percent, and Prince Philip was 20 percent. Of course, this is a preliminary division. After Marin made enough 90,000 gold coins, the agreement was automatically modified to 60% for Marin and 40% for Prince.
This chamber of commerce mainly deals with salt trade in the early stage. To this end, Marin plans to add a batch of salt pots in Yancheng, and let Huffman Manor increase coal production. He also intends to submit a part of the order to the family's in-law Hamler Manor to supply the need for salt. Although the bituminous coal produced by the Knights of Hamler burned up with a large amount of smoke and polluted the environment, he did not care about it. Anyway, the downwind of Yancheng is Tholencher, not Dengbao ...
卖 Selling salt in the Teutonic Order is completely different from selling salt in the German region. Marin sells salt in the German region for a wholesale price of only 4 shillings per quart. This is because Marin's salt has no bitterness and is a good salt.
盐 This kind of salt can be sold to more than 10 shillings per quart at the wholesale price alone. Its profit more than doubles its sales in Germany.
The country of the Knights of Teutonic Order is about 36,000 square kilometers, which is nearly a hundred times larger than the face value of all the islands in Marin. The population is also very large, with a population of about 300,000. In addition to the native Prussians and Poles, there are many homeless knights who come from the German region every year.
Fortunately, the eastern part of the Baltic Sea, that is, the three Baltic countries in the later generations, has a higher proportion of women here (probably because of climate issues, and there are more girls), so there is no imbalance between men and women. Basically, all the wandering knights who come to Teutonic country can find their wives, unless they can't find something to do.
Of course, selling salt here does not mean that it must be sold only to Teutonic people. Instead, Hansa merchants in the Teutonic state can also sell these salts to nearby Poland, Lithuania, and even Russia's Novgorod ...
Although the Teutonic Order is hostile to Poland and Lithuania, it does not prevent people on both sides from doing business. In addition, salt is a scarce material in the Baltic Sea. Therefore, merchants of the two countries often buy salt from Hanse merchants in the Teutonic Order and ship it back to China.
Poland is okay because they are close to Germany in the west and they can import (relatively) cheap salt from Germany. But Lithuania is not so lucky, and it can only rely on the salt sold by the Teutonic Order. It's not that no Polish businessman can bring salt. However, land transportation costs far exceed sea transportation. The table salt of the Teutonic Order was shipped by Hansa merchants through the Kattegat between Denmark and Sweden and arrived directly at Königsberg with low transportation costs.
If a Polish businessman brought 5 shillings per quart of salt imported from the eastern region of Germany to Lithuania, it would cost more than 10 shillings per quart.
Because in addition to the high cost and small volume of land transportation, the numerous tax collection points on land are also an important reason for the high cost of land transportation.
So, to buy salt on the east coast of the Baltic Sea, you still have to find the Teutonic Knights and the Livonian Knights. Because the salt in these two places was transported by merchant ships from Hansa. On the way, merchant ships only need to pay taxes once in Danish waters, and they do not need to pass tax checkpoints on land.
Alas, not everyone can sell salt in the Teutonic Order. Strategic materials such as salt are licensed in the Teutonic Order. No one is allowed to operate salt without permission.
But who is Prince Philip? After the coronation, he is the chief of the Teutonic Knights, he can not grant himself a license for the salt trade? Therefore, Marin is considered to have entered the Teutonic salt trade system. After that, profits will be rolling.
The port of Königsberg can basically be said to be a big port for re-export of salt trade in the eastern coast of the Baltic Sea. As the head of a group, managing salt here is extremely simple.
Of course, this simple is to say that Prince Philip, as the head of the group, can easily obtain permission. However, it's not that you can easily engage in this area with a license.
You know, you have to have a permit and you have to be able to import salt. In this era, European salt production was low, so prices were high. In Britain, salt production is quite high because of the large amount of coal used to cook salt. However, British salt is not only supplied to Eastern Europe, but also to England, Scotland, Ireland, France, the Lowlands, and northern Germany. In short, there are many buyers of salt in the UK and they are not worried about selling.
Moreover, because the Hansa businessmen set up a license system to suppress competitors, they blocked the possibility of others to intervene. Although, selling salt to the east coast of the Baltic Sea is very profitable. However, without a permit, the British could not get involved in the salt trade here.
Marin had previously thought of selling salt to the Baltic region where the price was high, but upon inquiring, a permit was needed over there, so he stopped.
But now it's different. Marin spent a lot of money and took Prince Philip to the top of the Teutonic Head. In his position as Prince Philip, he was able to give Marin a license to sell salt. Well, Marin can finally get involved in the huge salt trade in the Baltic Sea now.
Despite the fact that the former Hansa merchants set up shops in the UK and monopolized the import of British salt. However, Marin's Yancheng is an emerging salt production base, which is not under the jurisdiction of those established Hansa merchants. Therefore, Marin can safely transport salt to the Teutonic Order and sell it, and he is also sheltered by the new leader.
Of course, Marin also needs to guard against competitors who hijack his salt ship. Therefore, Marin transports salt, and needs to use armed merchant ships with self-protection capabilities to protect their own interests.
For this reason, Marin plans to order several armed merchant ships and collectively dispatch salt to ensure the safety of the ships ...
Of course, the Teutonic Order is not the only commodity in salt. For example, when the ship returns, Marin can also allow merchant ships to bring some specialties such as grains, fur, wood, linen, and other specialties of Eastern Europe, and bring them back to Western Europe for sale. These products are very cheap in Eastern Europe, but in Western Europe they are quite expensive. Although it is said that the profit is not as high as salt, but when the ship returns, it always comes to the cargo in the voltage cabin. After all, no matter whether you have cargo or not, empty ships return to the sea, and you also have to pay taxes in the Kattegat. And ~ EbookFREE.me ~ The Danish way of taxing is very special, not depending on the quantity and value of your goods, but on your deck area ...
Even if it is an empty ship, others will still measure the deck, and you will be taxed seriously ... If you dare not pay, the powerful Danish Navy will teach you how to be a human ...
After Marin and Prince Philip signed the Mutual Aid Treaty, they talked about Marin's uncle Jule. Originally, Marin wanted to take Jule to the Wadden Islands. After all, Yule has more than a decade of civil servant experience and can help with government affairs.
However, considering that the interests of the Teutonic Knights are too great, Marin is also afraid that Prince Philip will pit him in the future. So Marin decided to leave the honest and capable uncle in the Teutonic state, while helping Prince Philip to handle government affairs, while watching the trade situation for himself.
Furthermore, Prince Philip is very understaffed now, and he can be reused by arranging Ulle under him. A few years later, it is possible that Yule will also become a minister of the Teutonic Knights, helping him even more ...
Thinking of this, when exchanging the contract, Marin wrote the contract with Jule's arrangement, asking Prince Philip to reuse it. In this regard, Prince Philip agreed. Because, Prince Philip was assured of honest people like Le. For another sly, Prince Philip himself was uneasy.
Alas, although the treaty has been signed, Marin is not ready yet. First of all, the pot for cooking salt in Yancheng has not been added yet. The vessels and manpower involved in trade transport were not in place.
However, with the support of the new Teutonic Chief, this business road has been opened up. The specific other steps can be completed sooner or later ~ EbookFREE.me ~ Welcome the book readers to read, the latest, fastest and hottest serial works are all in ~ EbookFREE.me ~ Mobile users please read.