Chapter 2051 You May Make Money, but I Will Definitely Not Lose!
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What Marin didn't know was that after the evening banquet, he left, but the Portuguese monarchs held a temporary meeting. Mainly, for the sale of ships.
The Portuguese Navy Minister Vittorio made a very unkind suggestion to Manuel I in the past——
"Your Majesty, since Grand Duke Marin is in a hurry to ask for more than 100 ships, or we..." Before he finished speaking, he laughed, looking very wretched.
"What do you want to do?" Manuel I asked nonchalantly after taking a sip of wine. He is also very happy to pit Beihai country.
"It's like this, Your Majesty, in our great Kingdom of Portugal, every year in the dockyard, a large number of ships returning from long voyages will be overhauled. This year, there are more than 60 caravel sailing ships in the dockyard for overhaul. During the overhaul process, the hull needs to be dismantled and replaced. A lot of wooden boards. Because of the corrosion of sea water, most of the formwork covering the outside of many ships has to be replaced. The mast and other things are often replaced. Only the keel and the wooden boards in the cabin, the replacement cycle is longer."
"And after replacing all the wooden boards covering the outside of the hull, it looks like a new ship from the outside... Moreover, the time for overhauling the ship is much faster than building a new ship..."
Manuel I suddenly became interested:
"You mean—to refurbish those 60 overhauled Caravel ships and sell them as new ships to the North Sea? That's not good. If we pass off old ships as new ones, we will be accused of fraud , has an impact on reputation."
Vittorio waved his hand:
"It's definitely not possible to pass off a ship that has undergone major repairs as a new ship. However, we can pass off a ship that has undergone major repairs as a ship that is 80 to 90% new. You know, the price of an old ship that is 80% new and used for decades It's completely different."
A sailboat that costs three to four thousand gold coins is worth four thousand gold coins when new, and more than three thousand gold coins if it is 80% new. But if it is an old ship that has been in service for more than 20 years, even if it is refurbished, the price will not exceed 2000 gold coins, or even lower. After all, old things are old, even if they are renovated and used like new ones, they cannot be compared.
Vittorio's opinion is-to overhaul and refurbish a batch of older ships, and then sell them to Marin at an 80% new price. And for these refurbished ships, there will be no major problems within ten years. It will take a long time to see the problem. And when the time comes, the Portuguese can completely say that the people in the North Sea Country will not maintain ships, and it has nothing to do with them...
But with this operation, the profit that each ship can earn will exceed 1,000 gold coins.
More than a hundred ships, is a profit of more than 100,000 gold coins...
Manuel I was very tempted, but also afraid of bad reputation. After thinking for a long time, he finally came up with a solution - find someone to do the job...
Specifically, the Portuguese court outsourced this matter to the merchants in the shipyard below. On the bright side, let these merchants supply the goods, the royal family just picks up the goods, and then sells them to Marin. In this way, even if the North Sea country finds something is wrong in the future and the service life of the ship does not meet the requirements, it can ask the merchants to take the blame. And he is the majestic king of Portugal, he is not notorious...
The Minister of the Navy, Vittorio, understood in seconds. He immediately handled the matter and selected Leon, a bankrupt shipowner, as a puppet, and asked him to come forward as the general contractor to contact various Portuguese shipyards and ask them to overhaul and refurbish more than 100 shipyards. Caravel. The requirement is that it looks at least 80% new. Of course, the keel had better not be injured. Otherwise, it won't take long. Although Portugal wants to cheat Marin, it can't do it too obviously. Otherwise, people will be criticized.
What the Portuguese have to do is to let the problem explode ten years later, not immediately. As time goes by, they have more reason to shirk. Moreover, Leon, the shipowner who was withdrawn as a puppet, is in his 50s and still childless. In ten years, this guy might be dead. At that time, even if there is a problem, there will be no proof.
Then, before Marin left. Vittorio personally came forward and took the old Leon who was selected as a puppet to visit Marin. And proposed—since the North Sea State is in a hurry to get a ship, Old Leon can help him get hundreds of probably new Caravelle sailboats within a few months...
Marin is a social person. Looking at the false smiles on the faces of the two, a year flashed through his mind—these two grandsons wanted to refurbish the battery car to pass off as a new car... No, they refurbished an old boat to pretend to be a new one... That's not right, it's a refurbished and older ship, pretending to be a new one...
Marin reckoned that the Caravel sailboat they refurbished would be good for more than ten years. But after thinking about it, Marin suddenly smiled...
why? Because Marin didn't expect these boats to be used for more than ten years!
To be honest, Marin really looked down on the Carrack and Caravel sailboats. If he was not in a hurry to use it, he would not even bother to buy it. Isn't Galen ship fragrant? If it weren't for the tight time, Marin would definitely want the Galen ship, who would want the Caravelle sailing ship that was doomed to be eliminated?
Therefore, the Caravel sailboat that Marin bought this time is destined to be abandoned after over-response. Even, it will be chopped up and burned as firewood. After all, over there in America, there is a mountain of new lumber waiting to be built for new ships.
However, the necessary guarantees are still required. Marin said that it is possible to buy a "80% new" caravel sailboat, but it must be guaranteed to be used for more than ten years. If there is a major problem within ten years (except for hitting the rocks or being sunk), Portugal will have to compensate.
Portugal, on the other hand, happens to be pursuing ten years of use. Therefore, I am not afraid of Marin's claim at all. Even, the two parties signed an agreement, stipulating that if there is a major problem within 10 years, they will be compensated...
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Then, Marin went overland to Spain. The young Spanish king Juan and Marin are good friends, so naturally they would not cheat Marin. The two parties signed a purchase agreement for more than 100 Karak sailing ships at normal prices. There are new ships and old ships among these more than one hundred ships, but Spain did not shoddy the old ones for the new ones, but gave real quotations. Of course, as a middleman, King Juan still made a profit, but there were not as many unscrupulous Portuguese monarchs and ministers.
The old King Ferdinand II wanted to win a batch of orders for the shipyards of the Kingdom of Aragon, but most of the ships of the Kingdom of Aragon mixed in the Mediterranean, like Venice, were galleys suitable for the Mediterranean. But too many paddlers are needed on the galley, and too few immigrants can be shipped, so Marin can only refuse.
However, Aragon's shipyards are not incapable of building Karak sailboats. For this reason, Marin still saved face and ordered more than a dozen "new" carrack sailboats, which did not make Ferdinand II lose face.
But the father and son didn't know that when Marin returned to the North Sea, he ordered a large number of Malawi copper coins circulating in Spain to be minted...
Marin knew about the news that Spain used cheap copper ingots imported from India to make red copper coins. Moreover, he also ordered a batch of imitations before. The price of Indian copper is several times cheaper than that of European copper, and the use of Indian copper to mint coins made the Spanish royal family earn a fortune. After all, even if minting coins does not make money, just saving more than half of the raw materials is enough for the Spanish royal family to make a lot of money.
Is Marin the one willing to suffer? Before buying the ship this time, Marin made all the money back by secretly minting coins...
This is still Spain, Portugal did not run. Portugal also promoted copper coins, and also imitated Spain to use Indian copper coins, which happened to give Marin a chance. In short, this time Spain and Portugal are selling Marin's money on the ship, and Marin will earn it back in copper coins...
There is no way, there is a large mint and minting machine with strong technology, so confident...
You may earn, but I will never lose!
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