Daming Town Haiwang

Chapter 2085 Penicillin ten times more expensive than gold

As the Ming Empire began to dump food at grain prices to the whole of Europe, the European countries that were originally in the middle of the famine suddenly felt like rain.

All grains from England, France, Spain, and Portugal are transported through Hong Kong. These grains come from the Great Plains of the Golden Continent, mainly wheat and corn.

The grains from Italy, Venice and other Mediterranean regions were transported through Daming’s overseas territories in the Mediterranean Sea. These grains mainly came from Daming’s Hezhong area and Nanyun Province, and were transported by sea from the Black Sea of ​​Nanyun Province.

As for the grains of the Ottoman Empire, Austria, the Tatars, Poland, Lithuania, and the Holy Roman Empire, they are sold through Houzhao City in the Black Soil Province, and the main producing area is the Black Soil Province.

The grain from the three Ming Dynasty grain producing areas was continuously shipped to all parts of Europe, and fell to European countries like timely rain. It was also the first time that Europeans who had been starving for a long time felt the friendship from the Ming Empire.

The price of grain is extremely cheap. Even the black-hearted nobles and businessmen from all over the world still do not forget to make a fortune from it. The price is also very cheap. Even ordinary people can grit their teeth and spend some money to buy these grains.

Compared to the past, when the price of grains skyrocketed, the prices of these grains from the Ming Empire were really too cheap.

It is so cheap that people from all over Europe are wondering if the people of Ming Dynasty are out of their minds, that such a great opportunity to make money sells grain so cheaply.

Not only the Europeans, even countless Daming people felt that the Son of Heaven was too kind to these Europeans. This should be a good opportunity to make money, but they sold food to the Europeans so cheaply.

If I want to have such a good opportunity in the future, I don't know when it will happen.

The Europeans sang the name of the Son of Heaven, and thanked the Son of Heaven for his support and sympathy. The grains from the Ming Empire were of much better quality than those produced locally.

Especially the flour, the flour of Daming people is very finely ground, it is the best for making bread, the bread is fragrant and soft, very delicious.

Of course, the Europeans at this time were not so extravagant as to directly use flour to make bread. They knew that food was precious, and ordinary people were used to eating black bread and horse bread, and habitually added some miscellaneous things to it, so as to To increase the weight and reduce the consumption of fine and expensive food.

The quality of the wheat grown by the local people is not as good as that of the Daming people. The weight of the wheat in Heitu Province is one of the best in the world, and it is as famous as the wheat in the Liaodong Province of the Ming Dynasty.

In addition to the quality of the wheat that is not as good as that of Daming, the locally grown wheat is often not so fine in the stage of shelling and grinding, which not only consumes a lot of labor and causes an increase in cost, but also contains a lot of of impurities.

This is why Europeans really can't figure out why the flour of Daming people can be so fine and the price can be so cheap.

If you can't figure it out, you can't figure it out, but it doesn't prevent Europeans from enjoying the cheap food from the Ming Empire. The Ming people have already said that they are open to supplying to Europe.

It is completely possible to eat with an open belly, and keep eating until the new grains are released next year. There is no problem. The people of Ming Dynasty have a lot of grain, which is enough to easily supply the food demand of the whole of Europe, and even the whole world.

Even the Ming people said that they will provide Europe with a steady stream of cheap food in the future, which is cheaper and of better quality than the food grown by the Europeans themselves.

The reason is that there is too much grain in the Ming Empire, so much that it rots in the warehouse and becomes moldy, so selling it to Europeans at a low price has already made a profit for the Ming people.

The Europeans quickly believed what the Ming people said, because according to the information that the Europeans knew, the grain output of the Ming people was really very high, and the grain produced in a year was enough for 2 million people of the Ming Dynasty to eat several times. year.

The [-] million people in Europe are nothing at all. Even if they are like the people of Daming, they have three meals a day, and there is no problem with eating fine grains for each meal.

Europeans can also enjoy the same cheap and high-quality food as Ming people, because Ming people care about their farmers and are sympathetic to Europeans.

I hope that I can sell the grain in the hands of my farmers, even if I don't make money, I want farmers to make money.

The food problem has been alleviated, but the epidemic in Europe is blazing like a prairie fire, and it is spreading extremely fast.

The Black Death appeared one after another in many countries and places in Europe. Suddenly, the whole of Europe changed color. The Black Death spread very fast, and cities quickly turned into dead cities.

People scrambled to flee the city, to remote countryside and mountainous areas, to hide in sparsely populated places, to avoid the terrible black death.

Here in a manor, several nobles gathered to discuss the current matter.

"This Daming man is really surprising. This high-quality grain is sold to us at such a low price. What a great opportunity. I don't know how much money I can make just by selling grain."

Flanders took a sip of the black tea from the Ming Empire and said in a puzzled way.

"I heard that it was because Charles V personally wrote a letter to the emperor of the Ming Empire. The emperor of the Ming Empire loved his people so much that he couldn't bear to see Europe go hungry. It just so happened that the grain output of the Ming Empire was very large, and there was a lot of surplus food that could be sold to us in Europe. , so it was sold at a very low price.”

Joseph on the side thought for a while and said.

"I don't believe that Emperor Ming had such good intentions, most likely because he wanted to dump the grain produced by his own farmers."

Alexander shook his head and said: "Now is the time of the Great Famine, the price of this grain is already so low, and the Ming people also said that they will continue to sell us low-priced grain in the future, and I am afraid that there will be no income from farming in the future. gone."

"It's true. I don't plan to grow wheat next year. All my land is used to graze sheep. The price of wool has been stable. The demand from the Ming Empire is very strong. I've calculated it. The income from wool is much more cost-effective than farming.”

Flanders nodded and said.

These European nobles all owned a large amount of land, similar to the landowners and gentry of the Ming Empire, and used to largely rely on taxation on their own land to live.

The fiefdoms of the nobles are the tax lands of the nobles. The larger the fiefdom, the higher the tax revenue. Of course, sometimes it is related to the situation of one's own territory. Some territories are suitable for growing food, and this kind of territory is obviously the best territory.

Some territories are not suitable for growing food and can only herd sheep. This kind of territory belongs to general territory. There are also some territories that can be used to grow grapes and make wine. These are the sources of income for the nobles.

"If the situation continues like this, I'm also going to use my territory to raise sheep. The price of food is too low, so I can't make much money at all."

"The goods from the Ming Empire are very expensive, such as silk, porcelain, tea, spices, etc. I have always wanted to buy a Daming car, but I have always been reluctant."

Joseph thought for a while and nodded.

"Let's wait until next year to discuss this matter. The most terrifying thing right now is the Black Death, which is everywhere. Everyone should be careful. Once you contract this disease, you will definitely die."

Alexander looked at the two and shook his head.

In the past, these aristocrats had a lot of parties, receptions and so on every two days, and their lives were extremely comfortable, but now they can only hide in the castles in the countryside, and they dare not have parties anymore. They are very aggrieved .

"No, I heard that there is a drug called penicillin in the Ming Empire, which has a miraculous effect on the treatment of the Black Death. The effect is very significant, and it can cure the Black Death very well."

"I heard that the Grand Duke of the Netherlands was infected with the Black Death, so he urgently bought this penicillin from Hong Kong, and he was cured in just a few days."

Joseph said in a low voice.

"real or fake?"

"Can this Black Death be cured?"

Upon hearing this, Flanders and Alexander immediately asked in disbelief.

The death rate of the Black Death was extremely high. In this era, the death rate was more than half, and in some places it could even reach [-]% to [-]%.

The death rate of nobles is relatively lower when conditions permit, and the death rate of commoners is much higher due to lack of medical treatment and weak physical resistance.

Whether you can survive, in fact, depends on whether you can resist it. So far, there is no medicine that can cure this terrible plague.

"Of course it's true. You may not have read Daming's newspapers."

"Because I learned the language and characters of Ming people, I have the habit of reading newspapers often."

"The appearance of penicillin can be said to be an epoch-making drug, which caused a huge sensation in the Ming Empire. The inventor, Zhang Xingjian, was immediately made a nobleman by the Emperor of the Ming Empire."

"After research, this drug has a very miraculous effect on diseases such as pneumonia, tuberculosis, plague, viral colds, and many other inflammations. It has been widely used and proven in the Ming Empire."

Joseph nodded solemnly and said: "Now many nobles in Spain are hoarding this penicillin, in case they can be used to save their lives after being infected."

"But even in the Ming Empire, the price of this drug is more expensive than gold. Now in Hong Kong, it is said that the price of penicillin is ten times that of gold!"

"And even if you have money, you may not be able to buy it, because the demand is too great."

"If this medicine is really so miraculous, even if it is ten times more expensive than gold, it still needs to be prepared. Now that the Black Death is raging, no one knows whether they will be infected."

"Yeah, Joseph, do you have a channel to buy? If the price is more expensive, I will also buy some."

"Me too~"

"I'm also worried that there is no way to buy it. This item is only available in the hands of Daming people, and only a few people in Hong Kong have it."

"I know a Jewish businessman who often travels to and from Hong Kong, and I don't know if he has a channel to buy."

"Quickly go and ask, everyone must keep some of this penicillin at home. Not only can it be used to treat the Black Death, but it can also be used by children who have pneumonia and colds. "

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