King of German Mercenaries

Now that Prince Philip has achieved a successful campaign, it is time for Marin to reap the fruits of his victory. First of all, Marin took out the IOU of more than 80,000 gold coins signed with Marin before and began to change the signature.

Marin is a person who is very particular about contracts. He believes that verbal promises are false, especially for politicians, there is not much difference between verbal promises and P. Therefore, signing an agreement in black and white is guaranteed.

After Prince Philip's successful campaign ended, Marin waited for Prince Philip to sober up the next day and began to change the specific contract with him.

First, there are commercial treaties. Marin smashed more than 8 gold coins to help Prince Philip win the post of the chief, not for nothing, but to repay.

Of course, Prince Philip himself has no money, but after becoming the head of the regiment, he can provide escort services for Marin to make money in the Teutonic State. 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 sides jointly established a chamber of commerce in the name of Prince Philip. The Chamber of Commerce is under Prince Philip's name, but the management is owned by Marin. The investment of the Chamber of Commerce is also fully borne by Marin. The final income is 82%, Marin 80%, and Prince Philip 20%. Of course, this is an early share. After Marin earns enough 90,000 gold coins, the agreement is automatically revised to change to 60% for Marin and 40% for Prince.

This chamber of commerce mainly engaged in the salt trade in the early stage. To this end, Marin plans to add a batch of salt cooking pots in Yancheng, and let Hoffman Manor increase coal production. He also intends to hand over part of the order to the family's in-law Hamler Manor to supply the needs of cooking salt. Although the bituminous coal produced by the Hamler Knights is relatively smoky when burned, it pollutes the environment, but who cares. Anyway, the downwind of Yancheng is Thorencher, not Deng Bo...

Selling salt in the country of the Teutonic Knights and selling salt in Germany are two completely different concepts. Marin sells salt in the Deutschland at a wholesale price of only 4 shillings a quarter. This is also because Marin's salt has no bitter taste and is a good salt.

This kind of salt, pulled to the salt-deficient Teutonic Knights, and even the entire Baltic Sea, can be sold for more than 10 shillings per quarter at the wholesale price. Its profits are more than double the sales in Deutsche.

The Teutonic Knights are about 36,000 square kilometers in size, nearly a hundred times the face value of all the islands of Marin combined, and the population is also very large, with a population of about 300,000. In addition to the Prussians and Poles who originally lived there, there are also many wandering knights who come from the German region every year.

Fortunately, in the east coast of the Baltic Sea, that is, the three Baltic countries in later generations, the proportion of women here is relatively high (there are more girls born here probably because of the climate problem), so there is no imbalance between men and women. Basically, all the wandering knights who came to the Teutonic country, as long as they can't find work, most of them can find a wife.

Of course, the fact that salt is sold here does not mean that it must only be sold to the Teutonic people. Instead, the Hanseatic merchants in the Teutonic state can also sell these salts to nearby Poland, Lithuania, and even Novgorod in Russia...

Although the Teutonic Knights were hostile to Poland and Lithuania, it did not prevent people on both sides from doing business. In addition, salt is a scarce material in the Baltic Sea region, so merchants from the two countries often buy salt from Hanseatic merchants in the Teutonic Knights and ship it back to the country to sell.

Poland's situation is better, because they are close to the German region to the west, and can import (relatively) cheap salt from the German region. But Lithuania was not so lucky, and could only rely on the salt re-exported by the Teutonic Knights. Not that no Polish merchants could bring salt. However, land transportation costs far more than sea freight. The salt of the Teutonic Knights was shipped directly to Konigsberg by Hanseatic merchants through the Kattegat Strait between Denmark and Sweden, and the transportation cost was low.

If the Polish merchants took five shillings per quarter of salt imported from eastern Germany,

It would definitely cost more than 10 shillings a quarter to bring it across Poland to Lithuania.

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.

Therefore, 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 brought by Hanseatic merchants by merchant ships. On the way, merchant ships need to collect taxes once in the Danish waters, and they do not need to pass through the tax collection checkpoints on the land.

However, not everyone can sell salt in the country of the Teutonic Knights. Salt, a strategic material, has an operating license in the Teutonic Knights. Without permission, it is not allowed to deal in salt.

But, who is Prince Philip? After the coronation, he is the chief of the Teutonic Knights, can't he grant himself a salt trade license? Therefore, Marin is now entering the Teutonic salt trade system. After that, the profits are rolling.

The port of Königsberg can basically be said to be a large entrepot for salt trade in the east coast of the Baltic Sea. As the head of the group, it is extremely simple to manage salt here.

Of course, this simplicity means that Prince Philip can easily obtain permission as the grand leader. However, it does not mean that if you have a license, you can easily engage in this business.

You know, if you have a license, you also have to be able to import salt. In this era, the production of salt in Europe was low, so the price was high. In the UK, because of the extensive use of coal to cook salt, the production of salt is quite high. However, British salt is not only supplied to this side of Eastern Europe, but also to England, Scotland, Ireland, France, the Lowlands, and northern Germany. In short, there are many buyers of British salt, so there is no need to worry about sales.

Moreover, because of the licensing system set up by the Hanseatic merchants to suppress competitors, the possibility of others intervening was blocked. Although, it is very profitable to ship salt to the east coast of the Baltic and sell it. But without a license, the British could not interfere in the salt trade here.

Marin had also thought about selling salt to the Baltic region where the price is high, but when he asked about it, a license was required there, so he gave up.

But now it is different. Marin spent a lot of money to put Prince Philip in the high position of the Teutonic chief. With the status of Prince Philip, able to give Marin a license to sell salt. Well, now, Marin can finally get involved in the lucrative Baltic salt trade.

Although, the former Hanseatic merchants set up trading stores in England and monopolized the import of British salt. However, Yancheng in Marin is a new salt production base, not under the jurisdiction of those old Hanseatic merchants. Therefore, Marin could safely ship the salt to the Teutonic Knights for sale, under the protection of the new Grand Master.

Of course, Marin also needs to guard against the black hands of those competitors who hijack his salt boat. Therefore, Marin needs to use armed merchant ships with self-protection capabilities to protect their own interests.

To this end, Marin intends to order several armed merchant ships and collectively dispatch salt to ensure the safety of the ships...

Of course, salt is not the only commodity in the Teutonic Kingdom. For example, when the ship returns, Marin can also let the merchant ship carry some special products such as grain, fur, wood, linen and other special products from Eastern Europe and bring them back to Western Europe for sale. These products, which are very cheap in Eastern Europe, are much more expensive in Western Europe. Although it is said that the profit is not as high as selling salt, but the ship returns to the voyage, and the goods from the voltage tank always come. After all, regardless of whether you have cargo or not, you will also be taxed in the Kattegat Strait when you return to the voyage empty. Also, the way the Danes tax is very special, not by the quantity and value of your cargo, but by the size of your deck...  

Even if it is an empty ship, people still measure the deck and tax you seriously... If you dare not pay, the mighty Danish Navy will teach you how to behave in minutes...

After Marin and Prince Philip signed a mutual aid treaty, they talked about Marin's uncle, Jules. Originally, Marin wanted to take Jules to the Wadden Islands. After all, Jules has more than ten years of experience as a civil servant 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 trick him in the future. Therefore, Marin decided to keep this honest and capable uncle in the Teutonic Knights, while helping Prince Philip handle government affairs, while helping himself to watch the trade situation.

Moreover, Prince Philip is also very short of manpower now, and he can also be reused when Jules is placed under him. In a few years, Jules may also become a powerful minister of the Teutonic Knights, which will help him even more...

Thinking of this, when the contract was exchanged, Marin also wrote the arrangement of Jules into the contract, asking Prince Philip to reuse it for Le. In this regard, Prince Philip also agreed. Because, Prince Philip is very at ease with an honest man like Yule. For a cunning one, Prince Philip himself is not at ease.

However, although the contract has been signed, Marin is not ready. First of all, the pot for boiling salt in Yancheng has not been added. The ships and manpower engaged in trade and transportation are also not in place.

However, with the support of the new Teutonic chief, this trade route was opened up. Other specific steps can be completed sooner or later...

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