Daming Town Haiwang

Chapter 2088, the ambitious Charles V
Inside the Spanish Imperial Palace.

Duke Brand is happily reporting the good news from the Ming Empire to the Spanish Emperor Charles V.

"Your Majesty, the Son of Heaven is deeply sympathetic to the Black Death that our Spanish Empire is suffering, and is willing to give us help and support, and is willing to sell a batch of penicillin to us in Spain."

Duke Brand felt that the Spanish Empire still had a lot of face. The Ming Empire deserved to be an ally all along, and it really supported Spain.

Whether it was the previous wars against England and the French, or now, the Ming Empire has provided a lot of help to the Spanish Empire.

Of course, the Spanish Empire also spent a lot of money for this, and it still owes a huge debt to the Ming Empire. The debt of tens of millions of taels of silver is like a heavy burden on the Spanish Empire.

Fortunately, the Spanish Empire has a huge overseas colony, and this burden can be reduced by plundering the colonies. Otherwise, the annual interest alone would be enough for the Spanish Empire.

When the Ming people are good, they are really good. The food can be sold to Europeans at such a low price, but when it is time to make money, it is not ambiguous at all. The whole world owes money to the Ming people.

From the Spanish Empire to France, England, to the Ottoman Empire, the Persian Empire, Egypt, etc., almost every country owed a big debt to the Ming Empire, or had a large number of standing reparations that had not been paid.

The scale of these funds is very large. According to statistics, it may add up to hundreds of millions of taels of silver, and the interest generated every year is [-] to [-] million taels of silver.

Of course, for the Spanish Empire, these arrears are all willing, and they even feel that the Ming people are good enough for them. Otherwise, how can they sell you arms and weapons on credit and win several important foreign wars in succession?
You must know that the French wanted to borrow money from the Ming Empire to buy arms and weapons, but the Ming Empire refused because of their relationship with the Spanish Empire.

Daming people's money is not so easy to borrow, it still depends on the relationship, and only if the relationship is good, they will be willing to lend it to you.

Just like this penicillin now, the whole world needs this penicillin, and it is hard to find a medicine, but as long as the Spanish Empire opens its mouth, Da Mingzi will still give the Spanish Empire face and agree to sell a batch of penicillin to the Spanish Empire alone .

"Haha, that's great!"

"With this penicillin, we can save a lot of people."

When Charles V heard this, he immediately laughed happily.

"Yes, Your Majesty, with this penicillin, the Black Death is no longer a concern."

Duke Brand also nodded.

"Hurry up and send the money over there, so that the people of Daming can bring the penicillin here as soon as possible."

Charles V was in a good mood. The Spanish Empire was thriving under his own governance. This huge empire was inherited from his grandfather.

There is also the Holy Roman Empire inherited from his grandfather. The Holy Roman Empire at this time is much worse than the Spanish Empire.

Although the Holy Roman Empire was an empire at this time, it was actually divided into countless states. These states were very powerful, and even the emperor of the Holy Roman Empire was elected by the electors.

This is also a common phenomenon in Europe. An empire is often composed of many states. It looks unified, but in fact it is not unified and scattered.

Charles V is the emperor of the Spanish Empire and the Holy Roman Empire. It seems that these two countries are one and under the rule of the same monarch.

But in fact, even if the emperor is the same person, the two countries are still different countries, and it is impossible to merge into one country.

The young Charles V inherited the ambitions of his grandfather and grandfather. His dream was to unify the whole of Europe. Now the main task is to unify the Spanish Empire and the Holy Roman Empire first.

But this has met with strong opposition from all parties, especially the princes and nobles of many states on the side of the Holy Roman Empire, who strongly oppose this.

It doesn't mean that he is the emperor of the Spanish Empire and the Holy Roman Empire. This means that Spain is unified with the Holy Roman Empire, and the two are still two different countries.

It is only because of a series of complicated marriages between European monarchs and nobles that two countries share one monarch.

"Your Majesty, maybe we can't afford that much money."

When Duke Brand heard this, he immediately said in embarrassment.

"I heard that penicillin is very expensive, but it doesn't mean that we, the Spanish Empire, can't afford a batch of penicillin, right?"

When Charles V heard this, he immediately frowned and said.

"Your Majesty, the price of this penicillin is very expensive. Even if it is compared to gold in the Ming Empire, the price is even more expensive when it is exported to Europe. A box of penicillin in Europe has reached the terrifying level of thousands of taels of silver. .”

"Although the Ming Empire promised to export a batch of penicillin to us, the price is cheaper than the market, but the price of a box of penicillin is still more than 100 taels of silver."

"If we calculate it, the total price of the penicillin we purchased will exceed 500 million silver!"

Duke Brand wiped the sweat from his forehead and said.

The things of Daming people are really the same as before, good or bad, but the price is really expensive.

"Five million taels of silver?"

"Is it too expensive?"

Hearing the figures reported by the Duke of Brand, Charles V was dumbfounded. Isn't it just a batch of medicine, which actually costs 500 million taels of silver, which is really more expensive than gold.

"Your Majesty, the 500 million taels of silver is still the friendship price given by the Ming Empire. If it is bought on the market, the price may be doubled."

Duke Brand quickly reminded.

"That's it~"

When Charles V heard it, he stood up immediately, rolled his eyes and said: "Go and inform all the nobles of the Spanish Empire and the Holy Roman Empire that we have a batch of penicillin at a low price. If they want to buy If so, a box of 500 taels of silver, let them remit the money first, through the Daming First Bank."

"Your Majesty, 500 taels of silver for a box?"

When Brand heard this, he was immediately shocked. He felt that Charles V, you are going to resell and make a lot of money. If you turn around and sell it to the nobles five times, this is equivalent to earning almost 2000 million taels of silver.

Penicillin is not worried about selling now, and there is not enough to sell. Those nobles are desperately trying to find a way to buy and prepare some.

Duke Brand immediately felt that this was really a good deal.

"if not?"

Charles V nodded and said.

"If I don't make a fortune, where can I get money to build my royal army?"

"Your Majesty is wise!"

Brand immediately understood.

Although Charles V was also very young, only in his 20s, he was a very ambitious, accomplished, and intelligent monarch. He inherited his grandfather's behest and wanted to unify Europe with the Spanish Empire as the core and establish a A great unified empire similar to the Ming Empire.

But this is obviously very difficult. Among other things, it is very difficult to unify the Holy Roman Empire.

The seemingly unified Holy Roman Empire is composed of many states. The nobles and grand dukes from all over the country claim to be a country, and they have the right to tax and levy troops in their respective territories. They are real princes.

They became the biggest obstacle to Charles V's unification of Spain and the Holy Roman Empire, and they are now the thorn in Charles V's side, and they are the first targets to be eliminated.

Charles V has been studying and researching the history of the Ming Empire and the history of the East, and he has gained a lot of inspiration from it.

He believed that the reason why the Ming Empire was so powerful was because the Ming Empire had started to build a unified empire a long time ago, and the books and the carriages were on the same track.

Abolish the system of feudal vassals and truly control every part of the entire empire, so the Ming Empire can concentrate its powerful forces to do some big things.

Europe is different here. They are very scattered. Even a short-term unification will soon be scattered, because the language and writing are not unified, and there is no strong system to maintain it.

Wanting to abolish the nobles and princes of this state, Charles V clearly knew that what he needed was a powerful army, similar to the army of the Ming Empire.

Only with a strong army in hand can I suppress all those who oppose me and realize my ambitions and aspirations.

He still has a lot of things to do, and the basis of all this is that he can truly control the power like the emperor of the Ming Empire, and he can have the strength to sweep away all opposing forces.

In the future, we need to learn from the Ming Empire, divide the provincial system, break the monopoly of the nobles, and abolish the princes; we must also learn from the official selection system of the Ming Empire to break the monopoly of the nobles. and many more.

Charles V had great ambitions and great ideals. The influence from the East made him determined to learn from the Ming Empire to a large extent, so as to build a unified and powerful European empire.

"This matter has to be done beautifully, and don't let people know that I made a difference."

Charles V looked at Duke Brand and said.

The meaning of it is very clear, let Duke Brand not leak the news, some things are more appropriate to be done in secret, if you have money, you can secretly form the Royal Army, you can turn things around at critical moments, and win a battle burden.

"I understand, I understand."

The Duke of Bland nodded again and again, cold sweat broke out behind his back. This Charles V is even more powerful than his grandfather. The price difference of 2000 million taels of silver, such a huge amount of silver, is enough for Charles V to do a lot of things, and What he chose was to raise a strong army.

Brand can see the bloody future.

(End of this chapter)