The pork butcher is smoother than a pig butcher!

Chapter 522 Barbary Pirates

"If you can't find your perfume, I can give you another five million taels of silver worth of perfume!"

"But, but I have no payment for the goods, and no collateral!"

"Don't worry, you can bring 'goods' to the autumn trade fair this year to pay off your debts."

Upon hearing this, Marcoli's spirits lifted.

On the spot, he demonstrated a fly rubbing its claws to Gan Minglan: "General, what other craftsmen would you like?"

Headhunting services propelled his family to become a Venetian powerhouse.

They're still searching all over Europe for talent.

Gan Minglan smiled enigmatically.
"Of the artisans you sent to the autumn trade fair last year, only the hand-cranked sock knitting machine was successfully produced. The glass workshop and the clock workshop have not yet yielded any results."

For the time being, we don't need to hire anyone in these areas.

I have heard that the Dutch province of the Netherlands and the Kingdom of Great Britain in Europe have unique expertise in the design and production of merchant ships and warships, respectively.

If you are capable of completing this deal, this general promises you exclusive distribution rights for five more new perfumes this year! You will have priority ordering rights for all the perfumes you distribute, with no quantity limit!

Marcoli was so scared by those words that he almost peed his pants.

First, they were astonished by this new ruler of the Western Regions' knowledge of the European continent.

Secondly, he was terrified by the audacity of the man.

Being able to "buy" artisans who make glass, watchmaking, and textile machinery is already like dancing on a knife's edge.

If those nobles who monopolize the high-end luxury industry find out, he and his family will definitely not have a good life.

However, those were still considered business matters.

Now.

This great general, who was supposed to protect the country, actually set his sights on the shipwright.

Where in the Western Regions is there a sea where ships can sail?
For whom did the shipbuilder buy it?

He dared not think too deeply about it!
The key is.

Designing warships requires a polymath who is proficient in naval warfare practices, mathematical knowledge, craftsmanship traditions, and emerging scientific methods.

If he dares to reach out to senior personnel of the Royal Navy of Great Britain, he will suffer a terrible fate if even the slightest hint of it is given!

Gan Minglan could easily read the man's ever-changing expression, so she simply resorted to bribery:
"For every merchant ship engineer from the Netherlands Federation you introduce to Kansai, I will pay you a referral fee of five thousand taels of gold, and I will give you fifty positions for this job."

As for the warship designers of the Kingdom of Great Britain, there are probably very few who have this ability! As for the referral fee, this general is willing to pay 100,000 taels of gold per person!
In addition, I need craftsmen with ten years of experience in building warships. There is no limit to the number of craftsmen needed for this position! As for the referral fee, let's set it at three thousand taels of gold per person.

We Han Chinese have an old saying: "The timid starve, the bold feast!" Marcoli, your audacity determines the total amount of your headhunting fees.

She refused to believe that a gold transaction worth millions of taels couldn't sway this Venetian swindler!
Of course, no matter how many millions of taels of gold it is, as long as the other party needs perfume, she can exchange it for someone else!
Marcoli's palms were soaked with sweat.

Feeling hot all over.

My heart was pounding in my chest!

He swore that even God would go crazy for it.

Do they not have these talents in their own talent pool?

It doesn’t matter!
We can place orders with the Barbary pirates, the biggest white slave traders in the Mediterranean.

It doesn't even require real gold or silver.

He only needs to give them half of the perfume share, and the entire Barbary pirate group will be at his disposal.

Perfume is the ultimate luxury item in Europe! The market is huge.

The profits are astonishing!

Thinking of this, Marcoli sucked the saliva back from the corner of his mouth.

Unable to resist, I asked Gan Minglan again to confirm:

"General, could you please include the exclusive distribution rights for the five new perfumes, along with unlimited orders, in the new contract?"

"Great! Oh, I have some good news for you! At this year's autumn trade fair, all the perfumes will be available in glass bottles, and they'll even have squeezing spray bottles!"

"Glass, glass"

"Yes! This general has found the most important sand and gravel material for making glass!"

Marcoli couldn't help but shiver.

Most of the merchants who came to Bagua City to sell glass products at this year's autumn trade fair will likely lose everything!

God, I am guilty!
“Marcoli, you should be grateful. Even without you, I could have bought these artisans through other merchants! Without this inside information, you might still be selling glassware and clocks! If your family’s wealth accumulated over decades or centuries were all poured into these goods, wouldn’t you be bankrupt?”

“Marcoly thanks God every day for the opportunity to work with you, General. You are a benefactor to my entire family!”

"There's no need for that. We call this cooperation a win-win situation!"

"So, what you just said, is there really no limit to the number of craftsmen with ten years of experience in building warships?"

"As long as you have ten years of experience in building warships, I don't mind having 30 to 50 people, 300 to 500 people, or even 3000 to 5000 people. As long as you can transport them, I will accept them after I have inspected and approved them."

Marcoli shook his head frantically:

“It would be very difficult to manage three to five hundred people, let alone three to five thousand. If Great Britain were to lose three to five thousand shipbuilding craftsmen, the whole of Europe would be in turmoil.”

Gan Minglan: "."

She was just saying it casually!
That shrewd businessman, Marcoli, really has a good appetite!

Watching him walk out as if he were on steroids, Lu Ye and Hu Tou, who were serving him in the reception room, finally couldn't help but mutter complaints under their breath.

"Master, these foreign merchants really dare to sell anything! They know perfectly well that the person designing the warship blueprints must be a high-ranking official in the Ministry of Industry or the Ministry of War of Great Britain, yet they still dare to accept the order."

"If this were in our Yongtai Dynasty, the punishment would be either the extermination of nine generations of their family or exile to five thousand li away!"

Gan Minglan didn't take it to heart:
"What's so bad about buying and selling officials? I once heard a foreign merchant say that there was an organization in Europe that specialized in selling white slaves, and the members of this organization were a bunch of pirates."

They often launch organized and premeditated attacks on small coastal countries, robbing them of their property, kidnapping their nobles, and even members of the royal family.

These captured nobles, if not released through ransom payments made by the church or their families, would be sold to the white slave market!
Can you imagine buying a princess or noblewoman from a small country as a slave for only a few hundred taels of silver?

The two exclaimed:

"My God! How can the pirates over there be so arrogant? Is there no government to control them? What are their naval forces doing?"

"Tragic! Terrible! The country is small and weak; even a royal princess could become a slave!"

Gan Minglan:
"These pirates are not ordinary human traffickers. They are backed by the Ottoman Empire, the most powerful empire in Europe, and are a semi-official pirate regime."

"As long as Marco is not stupid, he can pay some price to have these pirates do the work for him."

"Your master is wise!"

"Master's calculations are flawless!"

Gan Minglan: "."