Chapter 2323 petermnnchen(5)

The speed at which the Netherlands accumulated wealth in the 17th century was a wonder of the world, especially in Amsterdam, which resisted the Spanish until 1578 and was one of the last towns in the Netherlands to fall.

Immediately after the war, refugees poured in, seeking a more stable environment. They brought wealth, connections and technology from Antwerp and other places. Within a few decades, Amsterdam became the commercial and financial center of Northern Europe. From a global perspective

It has become the center of European trade.

The same pattern played out in America in New Amsterdam, now New York, when a Dutchman named Peter Stuyvesant led a failed raid on the island of St. Maarten in 1643, which was still occupied by the Spanish.

He lost a leg in 1647 and was appointed governor of New Netherland and the Leeward Islands in 1647. In order to attract people to immigrate, he introduced a new system called "patron". Anyone who could bring 50 adult males to

When you become a tenant farmer, you can get a piece of land from the company.

The company mentioned here is not the company he runs, but the Dutch West India Company. Compared with the East India Company, it has no sense of existence, but they did bring a lot of wealth to the Netherlands.

The company's main business is the trade of slaves and precious metals. Before Georgiana got angry, Farron added that 75% of its trade comes from precious metals and 13% from the slave trade.

They transported slaves from the Gold Coast of Africa to Suriname, and then sold them to middlemen at a price of 200 guilders. Then they returned to the Netherlands with sugar from the New World for trade, and then went south to Africa to form a triangular route. However, in 1792, due to the Dutch nationals

Falling incomes led to lower demand for heavy metals and slaves, and the West India Company was dissolved due to a debt crisis and reopened in 1800.

The reason for this has a lot to do with the French Revolution. France is a country with a big demand for tobacco and sugar. And with the death of the king, a lot of money lent to him became bad debts, and banks collapsed one by one. This period coincided with the Terror.

During the reign, there was almost no other consumption except military orders. The Third New Netherlands West India Company chose to use military work as a way to reverse its disadvantage.

But now there is a new turning point for them. Napoleon is obviously looking for a substitute for Saint-Domingue. However, Belgium can grow sugar, but they cannot produce coffee. Coffee is a tropical plant that is grown in greenhouses.

It's possible, but the cost is a bit high. There is another way.

The name of Mocha coffee comes from a port called Mocha. Throughout the 15th century, almost all the coffee beans in the Red Sea were concentrated in the port of Mocha and then exported. Therefore, it was collectively called Mocha coffee. At that time, it was the person who monopolized this business.

The Dutch, they pushed out the Portuguese who originally occupied the place, just like other trading posts.

And they lost this business not because they were squeezed out. Coffee beans are both the fruits used to make coffee and the seeds of coffee. Coffee beans need to be roasted before grinding coffee powder, but it was not necessary in early ancient times.

Roasted coffee can no longer grow into coffee trees.

With the rise of the Ottoman Empire, coffee came to Austria with the Turks who conquered the West, and was then brought to Western countries. The first coffeehouse in Europe was opened in Vienna, Austria. The coffee at that time also had a strong Middle Eastern flavor.

That is to say, add ground coffee powder and sugar to a copper kettle and boil it. Stir and add water repeatedly. After about twenty minutes, a small cup of coffee will be brewed.

Its taste is no different from herbal medicine. It is bitter and "refreshing". It was originally used as a stomach medicine and a refreshing medicine. When Georgiana was in Italy, she saw locals drinking espresso, and they were all in cups the size of a thumb.

, just drink it in a small amount, and it won't add a lot of auxiliary ingredients like latte, cappuccino, and "mocha".

In fact, many people add these "seasonings" just because they can't stand the bitter taste of espresso. This actually masks the original aromatic substances of coffee. Different roasting processes will have different tastes, but this taste is very light. Adding milk

It can no longer be tasted.

Coffee is actually just like flowers, it is not a necessity of life. You can go without drinking coffee for a month, but you cannot go without eating for a month.

Saint-Domingue produces half of the world's sugar and coffee, and originally accounted for one-third of France's total foreign trade, with the remaining share divided between tobacco and other trade.

In other words, France suffered heavy losses in this defeat, but most people have not yet reacted because the royalists had ceded all overseas colonies in order to gain British support.

If you don't have it at the beginning, you will be afraid of losing it again. With Napoleon's current prestige in the Arab world, it is not impossible for him to reopen the "Oriental Trade" in Mocha Port.

It's not the Middle Ages anymore, and the church has been secularized, who cares about pagans.

As for why it was the Dutch West India Company that found Georgiana instead of the West India Company, it was also because of the "Tobacco Group".

After Napoleon took away the properties of French private tobacco merchants, he used the newly received territories in exchange. In these places, they could become "lords" and "counts", live in the same castles as the nobles, and could continue to work in French tobacco.

Company position.

Even if Napoleon did not threaten the guillotine, most people would actually be willing to do so. Otherwise, why would the Rothschild family buy the forest of Chantilly?

The rich have so many hidden assets that they may have forgotten about them. Sometimes the housekeeper will not tell the young master how much your father left for you, but will ask him to sign. Once the young master signs the name, the asset is not the young master’s.

Yes.

In order to avoid this situation from happening, it is important to find a trustworthy person to take care of you. Generally speaking, it is a trustworthy friend, brother or business partner with good conduct. In the story of "Pride and Prejudice", Mr. Bennett is so

Although he had many daughters, his everything was still inherited by a nephew, and then the "old girl" Charlotte took advantage of him. After Mr. Bennett dies, can Mrs. Bennett and other unmarried daughters continue to live in her own house?

The family also wanted to see Charlotte's face, so there was a plot to force Elizabeth to agree to Collins' proposal.

For the sake of sisters and mother-daughter love, Elizabeth will not drive away her mother and sisters. Madame de Staël said that she does not want a marriage without love, but no matter how much love she has, she will lose her mother and sisters in a poor life.

It is ground into powder and disappears with the wind.

In fact, even if Napoleon gave his partner status to Georgiana as a gift, Georgiana found a "next home" to change hands, and she didn't have to worry about taking risks. Farron and the others had found their targets. After all, everything seemed to be right now.

It is thriving, and there are still many people who want to join this "quasi-central bank".

As long as Georgiana is not afraid of being unable to sleep for the rest of her life, and her sleep quality has always been very good, her biggest hobbies are sleeping and dreaming.

People will eventually live in the way they hate the most. How did she treat those people who wore luxury goods and bought vegetables at the market in the past?

Georgiana needed to "quiet and quiet", although her solution was to go to the noisy vegetable market opposite to buy food for the evening.

Bonaparte's French may not be very good, because the dish called "Viennese fried chicken" is pronounced Milanese "à la milanaise" in French. Where did he eat this dish?

If it were Milan, it wouldn't be called this.

Or is this just like the oranges shared by the Queen of Spain?

"It's time to change your eating habits, Leon." After saying this, she picked up the vegetable basket, wrapped herself in a cloak, and left the palace.
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