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Chapter 1428 Fight to the last... (Second update, please subscribe)
what does that mean?
7.5 tons of saltpeter!
It means that tens of thousands of tons of nitric acid can be extracted, which is 10,000+ tons of explosives!
With those saltpetres, Britain can continue the war and beat the French and Russians to pieces!

The question is...is the profiteer Santos willing to sell?

"Will you sell them?"

"How much are you willing to buy?"

Santos asked.

"all!"

"Haha, you are greedy..."

Making a grimace, Santos said simply:
"But the problem doesn't seem too big. As long as the price is right, I can sell you 70% of the saltpeter."

Why 70%, because he needs to sell saltpeter as part of fertilizer in the market, thus concealing the fact that most of the saltpeter fell into the hands of the British.

"It's absolutely correct. Each of us does business for money. This business can be our start. In this transaction, you will get unimaginable returns."

Santos shook his head and said.

"The return is inevitable. The question is, how much are you willing to pay for these saltpeters? We all know that saltpeter... this is a very sought-after item in the market!"

"Oh, yes, that's true,"

After thinking about it, Stan said,

"120 million pounds! This is the quotation on the "Mermaid". As for the remaining saltpeter, I guarantee that it will not be lower than this price. If the market price rises, my purchase price will also follow the market price."

Listening to the other side's bid, Santos laughed.

"Sixty million pounds!"

He knew in his heart that the other party would definitely not be able to refuse the temptation of saltpeter. After all, saltpeter is the key material for the British to win this war, and now after the outbreak of the war, the Ming Empire imposed an embargo on Britain and Germany. Suspicious materials at the border are strictly guarded against.

Since then, the United Kingdom has tried every means to obtain saltpeter. The easiest way is to purchase saltpeter through a neutral country, but because the empire's saltpeter is a long-term contract, they can only buy it from traders like Santos at a higher price.

As for whether Portugal's agricultural production would be affected after Santos sold the saltpetre to the UK, it has nothing to do with Santos. After all, he is just a businessman, and the businessman's duty is to make as much money as possible.

Then they discussed a series of issues such as how to deliver, and finally finalized the deal.

In war, this kind of thing is simple and common.

However, when Stan happily sent a telegram back to London, telling London the good news, what he didn't know was that Santos also sent a telegram, and the recipient of the telegram was Yingtian, a trading company in the Ming Empire. The company seems to be just an ordinary business telegram.

But soon this telegram was sent to Qian Zizhuang's desk in the Imperial Investigation Department of the Central Capital, and soon he took several telegrams to the palace.

"The British are getting what they need."

Standing in front of His Majesty, Qian Zizhuang said.

"According to the information we have, the British bought more than 4 tons of saltpeter from a third country at a high price, and Germany bought 3.2 tons, including their pre-war reserves of saltpeter. They have about 20 to 30 tons of saltpeter in their hands, enough to manufacture 10,000+ tons of explosives.”

In fact, all big countries will consider their own security issues. Since the empire controls more than 90% of the world's saltpeter resources, as early as ten years ago, major powers including the United Kingdom have established saltpeter reserves one after another. It can be tens of thousands of tons, or at most hundreds of thousands of tons of saltpeter, which is enough for them to carry out a medium-scale war.

It's just that it's hard for them to imagine that this war will last longer than they imagined, and it will also consume astronomical amounts of ammunition.

Of course, if they wanted to continue the war, they had to import saltpeter from Daming, otherwise they would have no raw materials to produce nitric acid, and without nitric acid, it would be impossible to produce explosives, and without explosives, it would be impossible to wage war.

"Oh, that's millions of tons of ammunition."

Emperor Zhu nodded and spoke.

"With these materials, they can almost continue the war. Well, there is no need to consider embargoing saltpeter on neutral countries in the last two years. We need them to continue the war."

While speaking, Emperor Zhu quickly calculated in his mind that millions of tons of ammunition may be more or less, but for a world war, this is just the "starting price".

Why let them continue the war... because the Europeans must shed blood!

Even France, as an ally of the empire, also needs to shed blood!

As for the "Pseudo-Roman Empire" that claims to be the largest country in the world, there is even more need for bloodshed!Especially the puppet Luo, their strength will be weakened only if they bleed dry.

Fighting to the last European is not a bad option for the Ming Empire.

After all, the goal of this war itself is to fight to the last European!

In order to achieve this goal, selling saltpeter, which is closely related to the war, to the countries participating in the war, and of course the enemy country, Britain, is the best option.Of course, this kind of business definitely cannot be done by Daming himself, and can only be handed over to middlemen.

The so-called "middlemen" are actually agents established by the investigation department many years ago. The huge profits from smuggling saltpeter must not be allowed to others.

Since you have money to earn, of course you should keep it for yourself!After all, the gold pound and the gold mark are all gold!
Someone loves white silver, let alone yellow gold.

As for betrayal, it's out of the question.

Business, making money, not shabby.

"Your Majesty, selling saltpeter to the British and Germans can indeed weaken the Europeans to a certain extent, but the United States also needs saltpeter. Although DuPont in the United States bought the saltpeter mines in India many years ago, if the British The official requisition will definitely affect the supply of saltpeter in the United States. For every ton of saltpeter we sell to the United Kingdom, the United States can get an extra ton of saltpeter from India, and they will definitely be turned into explosives and used in the western battlefield. It will cause our casualties."

Qian Zizhuang's worry caused Emperor Zhu to nod his head, and then said.

"There is no way to do this. There are gains and losses in everything. The harm between the two powers is the lesser!"

Of course, Emperor Zhu knew that selling strategic materials to the enemy during the war would bring unnecessary losses to one’s own side, but sometimes this kind of transaction is unavoidable, that is, in another world, during World War II, Da Mao didn’t wait until the small day Before the declaration of war, he still exported oil, coal, iron ore and other materials to Xiaotian by land and water. Even 42 years later, he did not hesitate to transport materials from Europe to the Far East and sell them to Japan. For his own benefit, Da Mao was very close to the devil.

Allies' interests?
What counts?
It's just the casualties of our own side... This problem is really not easy to deal with!

But many things are like this, a double-edged sword, if you are not careful, you will hurt yourself.

After thinking about it, Emperor Zhu said.

"Well, I will instruct the navy to increase the interception at sea."

For the empire, the only thing it can rely on is the navy's interception at sea.

After Emperor Zhu hung up the phone to the Ministry of the Navy and asked them to increase their efforts to search and intercept at sea, the attendant came in and sent a telegram from France. After receiving the telegram, Emperor Zhu couldn't help being stunned. , and muttered to himself.

"The Marne . . . the Marne! . . . "

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