Nan Ming Sun Never Sets

Chapter 414 The Dutch Merchant Ship Without Business

On the surface of the Indian Ocean, a Dutch merchant ship is sailing.Captain Hein Lambrent was drinking a can of beer, very refreshing.

Because it is difficult to keep fresh water at sea, many crew members drink beer. However, the brewing technology at this time can be regarded as a bad batch. The taste is not good at all, and there are many impurities.

What Captain Kelan Brent drank was a can of beer from Deming.This kind of beer is actually a very frank industrial beer. If Bai Mingxiu drinks it, he doesn't think it's very interesting.However, the industrial beer lager brewed by several breweries in Daming has a clear body and a good taste. Compared with ordinary beer, there are also specially designed canned beer and glass bottle beer. At first glance, it is better than those beer barrels. The crude goods in the packaging look much taller.

This will be in later generations, it will be completely reversed.

The beer produced in Daming is also very cheap, and it can be bought in large quantities in major cities of Daming.For Europeans, those beer bottles can also be used as containers, and aluminum beer cans are even more precious metals.When Lambrent discovered that the Ming people actually used aluminum to make beer cans, he wished he could buy them all and bring them to Europe for sale.

It's just that there are two problems here, one is a technical problem, that is, they are Dutch, and the Netherlands is at war with Daming, so there is no way to do business with Daming directly.Another problem is that the Portuguese and British of chicken thieves are already buying aluminum ingots produced in Ming Dynasty and transporting them back to Europe to produce various things. Other aluminum products produced in Ming Dynasty, including containers and materials, are very popular.

"China is really a treasure right now. There are so many things that can make us money. But damn, why are we fighting China?"

A crew member from Ming Dynasty on his ship said: "Because your motherland stole our Taiwan Island from Ming Dynasty, captain, it is very natural to be punished now. After all, the dignity of the Celestial Dynasty should not be easily offended."

The crew member's name is Ga Zai, and he has been working with Lambrent for almost ten years.Back then, Ga Zai went to Nanyang with his fellow countrymen, and by coincidence, he boarded Lambrent's ship and became a crew member on a Dutch merchant ship.This kind of thing is very common. As a sea coachman, although the Netherlands controls a large number of shipping ships, the crew comes from all over the world, not only from European countries, but also from different countries in Asia.

When Lambrent saw this guy, he became very angry and shouted: "Gazai, you still owe me 1 ducat (Dutch gold coin) and haven't paid it back, you gambler, you are paying off your debt Before, you couldn't get off this ship."

Ga Zai's status on the ship is not low, and sometimes he confronted Lambrent like this, he said: "Captain, are you crazy? You said I owe you a Ducat, where is the IOU, and, you I bought this wine for you! Without my face! Look, with the face of this noble Ming citizen, you can buy even a penny of Daming goods? Dream on!"

Lambrent is also extremely helpless. Merchant ships must choose the most lucrative business to do, and now there are no captains who are willing to give up all kinds of Ming products. Basically, as long as they can pull a ship of Ming products to Europe, they will definitely make a fortune. up.Since last year, speculators have chosen to come to the East one after another.The low price and quality of Ming Dynasty products will be sold out as soon as they go on the market.

This is not only the silk, jewelry and perfume that can only be used by nobles and rich people, but also various commodities that ordinary people can afford, from cotton cloth to matches and tea. The poor can also usher in life when they buy daily necessities of Ming Dynasty. Quality improvement.

It's a pity that Daming doesn't do exclusive distribution business here, and the products are all open for sale, and they seem to have a price alliance or an organization such as a chamber of commerce, which regulates their internal prices, so even different suppliers have different prices. It is rare to see each other's price cut in order to compete.

However, these things basically have nothing to do with the Dutch. The Netherlands and Daming are warring countries, so the port of Daming will directly detain the Dutch ships entering the port.The Dutch captain also thought of pretending to be a ship from another country, but Daming would require the ship to provide legal registration documents and related information.The most ridiculous thing is that a Dutch captain directly made up a non-existent country, sometimes saying it was in Europe, and sometimes saying it was in Africa. He was arrested for obstructing official duties.

Lambrent let Ga Zai and several crew members go to Singapore in a small boat, while he floated on the sea with his Iris.As a Chinese, Ga Zai bought some goods, including these beers, but they were driving a small boat after all, and they couldn't hold much.The Iris did not dare to stay longer in the Strait of Malacca, because this is already the sphere of influence of Ming Dynasty. Even those small gunboats are fatal to the Iris, so basically what Gazi purchases is unit value. Relatively high things, there are also a small amount of self-use items like beer.

Lambrent was very unhappy about this. He shouted: "Sooner or later the war will end. Sooner or later we can go to Singapore and Batavia to buy Chinese goods."

Ga Zai said sarcastically: "It's not called Batavia anymore, we Chinese call it Coconut City."

Lambrent is too lazy to argue with this guy, at least now the Dutch East India Company's business focus has been biased towards trade in the Indian region, and the Dutch East India Company is trying to establish a few more strongholds on the coastline of India.At the same time, his merchant ships also daily purchased coffee and cinnamon from Sri Lanka, and sent them back to Europe for sale.

It turned out that this is a very good business, the voyage is shorter than going to China, and the profit is good.But since Chinese goods became popular, the whole of Europe is waiting eagerly for merchant ships to bring more Chinese goods, and they are eager to spend money on these goods.Compared with those magical commodities, spices and so on, it makes people feel very boring.

"Okay, don't think about anything else, you're going to die on the Iris anyway, Chinese! We're about to reach Colombo, you go kick those niggas' asses and get them to work, we Loaded, corrected and going back to Antwerp."

Gazai snorted and said, "I'm telling you, Hai En, I went to Antwerp with you for the sake of those prostitutes with white butts, and I repeat, I don't owe you a penny!"

(End of this chapter)