Nanming: I can build wonders

Louis XIV, the filial son of God, as the defender of the old religious forces and the spokesperson of the old forces, he must not sit back and watch Rome fall!
"The heroic French will never allow such a thing to happen. Now, I will send a fleet to carry the new weapons I made to fight against the heretics at sea!"

"In addition, we in France not only need to deal with the Ottomans at sea, the army continues to strengthen its manpower, and we want to regain Constantinople!"

Ok!

Louis XIV is really floating.

Although France had a powerful army before, it was frantically fishing in the Army of the Eight Nations.

Because France is on the west side of the European continent, the Ottomans will not be able to fight in another 100 years, unless the Ming people end in person.

Now that he has a new weapon, he naturally wants to do something to improve his reputation as the Sun King.

Of course, Louis XIV mainly wanted to rely on rockets to make a wave of money.

Don't you see, the Ming and Qing people relied on new weapons to collect money everywhere, making Louis XIV jealous, and he wants to be an arms dealer!

Although France's self-produced rockets are somewhat inferior in performance to those imported from Daming.

But at least, the European production of national defense has been realized.

This is self-produced by Ou Lu, with the title of Ou-made, he will sell it more expensive than the rockets of Qing Dynasty and Ming Dynasty!

what?
Would you rather buy something from Ming Dynasty than something from France?

That is, if you don’t support the Eight-Nation Allied Forces or the cause of Christianity, you will be labeled first, and then you will be beaten!
Look at the Ottoman country again, it is a comprador country!

Just blindly buy, buy, buy.

Moreover, how far is the Ottoman country from Daming?
How inconvenient it is to go to the far east to buy this rocket when it is used up!
It's still made in Europe!

Just as Louis XIV was full of ambition, the French Minister of Finance was anxious.

After the ministers withdrew, he lowered his voice and whispered to Louis XIV: "Your Majesty the King, the number of our rockets may not meet your expectations."

"what's the situation?"

Wearing high heels, Louis XIV frowned slightly, while sitting on the soft chair, picked up a piece of Western-style pastry with a lot of white sugar, stuffed it into his mouth, and asked suspiciously: "Shouldn't it? Didn't I already ordered , let you hurry up and produce?"

"Your Majesty, there are really not enough raw materials!"

The Minister of Finance immediately gave a wry smile, and spread his hands to explain: "Your Majesty, you should know that sugar is a commodity that is in short supply!"

"This has always been the case in Europe and the world!"

"And the rockets we make need to consume a lot of white sugar, so the local raw materials in France are not enough..."

Well, white sugar in this era is not easy to handle.

There is not much white sugar in Europe at all, and white sugar has always been a luxury in Europe.

Because there is no white sugar produced in Europe these days—there is no sugar beet these days, so the whole of Europe does not produce sugar, and all the white sugar is shipped from Nanyang under the control of Ming Dynasty, or from Cuba.

Sugar beets were used in Europe to make sugar, at least until March 1747, 3, when the Prussian chemist Magraf discovered sucrose in beets, which opened the history of human beings using beets to make sugar.

Right now, all sugar producing areas are distributed within Daming's sphere of influence, and they won't spread out anytime soon.

Even if they have sugar cane, Europeans are not very good at making white sugar - the technical content of white sugar is very high, and the quality of white sugar they make is also very poor.

There is one thing to say, even if Daming did not have the sulfur-smoked sugar technology brought by Zhu Kezang's crossing, his own sugar-making technology is one of the best.

The yellow mud sugar method invented in the Ming Dynasty produced white sugar that was already of high quality. Although this technology was recorded in Tiangong Kaiwu, although Europeans and heavenly masters learned a little bit, But it is the Chinese who really master this technology.

Therefore, the "sugar export" business of the former Ming Dynasty became a hot industry that directly followed silk porcelain. Earn the price difference by reselling Dabai sugar to Europe.

Later, bypassing the "middlemen" of the British fleet, since the reign of Chongzhen, the annual purchase volume has been tens of thousands of tons.

In Ming Dynasty, white sugar, which was already "cabbage price", became popular in Eurasia, and even "as far away as the three islands of Britain, there are traces of Huatang".

The vain candy earns a lot of money in the Western world.

Even in the plantations in Nanyang, New Daming, they had to hire these "senior technical experts" from Hu Jian, Guangdong and Guangxi to make white sugar!

The yellow mud sugar method has been born for hundreds of years, and it cannot be called a high-tech.

The high technology of sulfur smoked sugar is in the hands of the factory run by the government of Ming Dynasty.

Of course, although the technology of the yellow mud sugar making method is old, it is irresistibly useful. This thing is not like making CPUs in later generations. You can produce a few nanometers today, and I will produce a new architecture tomorrow.

The replacement cycle of this thing is about a hundred years and a thousand years.

Moreover, silk and porcelain that are older than this have been exported for more than 1000 years, so they are still being exported?

The price of Ming Dynasty’s exported white sugar is rising year after year. Nonsense, what can be imported from the world’s number one lighthouse power, Ming Dynasty, if it is not sold at a higher price?
Zhu Kezang is sure that the secret of sugar gunpowder will be discovered sooner or later, and the upstream of his industry can make a lot of money by monopolizing sugar.

The clumsy imitators in Europe and Tianzhu also tried to imitate the white sugar of Ming Dynasty, but their ability and technical level were not enough.

Therefore, the white sugar that has been imitated is not only inferior in quality, but also has a higher price.

But now that Tianzhu has the technology of injecting yellow mud into sugar from the Qing Dynasty, it will be better!

However, in Northwest Tianzhu occupied by Kangxi, there are not many places where sugar cane can be grown, and the industrial development has just begun.

Under such circumstances, Dabaitang would find excuses to raise prices from time to time, for example: the sugarcane forest in Nanyang caught fire, and the price was raised!
Therefore, the price of white sugar on the European continent is completely a luxury. Like Louis XIV, there are not many people who can eat pastries with added sugar!

"Is there not enough sugar?"

Hearing the words of the Minister of Finance, Louis XIV racked his brains, "Then go buy it, go to the whole of Europe to buy it, and try to buy as much white sugar as possible!"

"Your Majesty, I think we should plan to plant sugar cane in West Africa, produce white sugar ourselves, and realize the Frenchization of white sugar!"

France has a colony on the west coast of Africa, and Africa is very suitable for growing sugar cane.

The Chancellor of the Exchequer is quite smart.

"Currently, all the white sugar in Europe comes from the east, and the white sugar in the east is in the hands of the Ming Empire. Once the Ming Empire finds out that we have mastered the sugar gunpowder, then they will definitely impose an embargo on the white sugar or raise the price. , when the time comes, it will be our nightmare!"

The Chancellor reminded Louis XIV.

Louis XIV is not a fool, he has fully realized that sugar gunpowder is a conspiracy.

If you don't research and develop, you will be beaten if you fall behind.

You develop it, this thing was stuck by Daming.

In later generations, Huaxia was the one who was stuck by others.

But at the moment, there is only Zhukzangka's neck.

(End of this chapter)