“Impossible, absolutely impossible!”

On the stone steps, Katarina, who was dressed as a man, was also shouting in her heart.

She also knew what the young and handsome oriental man in front of her thoughts was about her, but firstly, she had a deep prejudice against Truchen now, and secondly, she also had a deep resistance to pagans.

Even so, since she boarded Truchen's armored warship, she has been lamenting in her heart.

"Without twenty years, the entire European world of Christ may not be their opponent. At present, our country is also trying to introduce steam engines, but it is still an extremely simple primitive machine that can only be used in simple operations and on ships? It is said that the British have begun experimenting, but my dear motherland, Spain..."

However, as a Spaniard, she still has her own understanding of the true strength of her mother country. Before becoming a pirate, her footprints have traveled to every important place in the Spanish colony.

"Now, the total population of Spanish colonies totals more than 20 million, one-third of which are white. Although Spain only has six or seven million, if the colonies are added, the total population is close to 30 million!"

"The American colonies are rich in resources, including a large amount of gold and silver ore, as well as the most popular tobacco, coffee, sugar and coal and iron ore. If managed properly, Spain will still be the world's top power"

But she shook her head again in a flash.

"So what? Compared with Britain, France, and the Netherlands, Spain is still too conservative. It has a mountain of gold and silver, but does not know how to effectively increase national strength. Don't talk about Truchen at the moment, I'm afraid even the British are not an opponent"

When she thought of this, she couldn't help but stop. Chu Feng in front of her heard the movement and stopped.

He turned around and walked down, and then helped her up. Katarina was about to refuse, but suddenly she thought of Truchen's rise like a comet in recent years. There must be a big reason for this, so she did not reject him.

She asked, "You have suddenly risen in the past thirty years. What are the secrets here?"

Chu Feng couldn't help but feel a little funny. Does a pirate also care about national affairs?

Then he said: "The reason is very complicated, I can't explain it clearly in one sentence"

But Catalina was about to break the casserole and ask, "What do you think of our Spain?"

Chu Feng said: "I have some opinions on this section"

"Oh?"

"It is the colonial era now, and your country has the largest colonies, the largest population, and the richest resources. In particular, there are huge silver mines in Peru and Bolivia, which feed back to the country with huge amounts of colonial income. In theory, your country should be the strongest country in Europe."

"But you know that our country is the most powerful country now, and perhaps Britain is the second strong country. Why is that?"

"Your Majesty of our country has analyzed this issue specifically for us"

Speaking of this, Leonardo and others also stopped, Chu Feng smiled and said, "Don't stand here and talk. Apart from us, there are other people up and down. Let's talk while walking."

"There are roughly three problems"

"First, the colonies have implemented the cruel exploitation of black slaves and Indian slaves, and it is obviously huge profits, but only a few of this profits have been left locally for sustainable development"

"Most of them returned to the local area. After this part of the profit returned to the local area, the nobles and big merchants used their own squandering without exception. They had money and had nothing to buy, but they never thought about how to use these profits to create their own goods and sell them all over the world"

"Then the land became a purely veterinary class, and in addition to being church..."

He looked at Leonardo, and saw that he had not changed color, he continued, "Even the serfs who were double-squeezed by the church and the nobles, half-serfs. They could not create profitable commodities except farming and producing food."

"In contrast, people in the UK have already realized this deeply that industrial products are always more profitable than agricultural products, and have long started to drive a large number of farmers to factories. The facts have proved that what they are doing is right. Nowadays, the salary earned by a worker in a year is much higher than that of a farmer."

"So more farmers abandoned their farmland and went to the city to work"

"The quality of textiles in our country is similar to that in the UK. The reason why they sell well in Europe is because our cost control is better, but it is just slightly better."

"Textiles are just an example, other things such as metal supplies, gunpowder, weapons, etc. are roughly the case"

"Secondly, your country used to like to participate in the affairs of the Holy Roman Empire. Although you can't serve as the emperor of the Holy Roman Empire, your ambition to continue to participate in European affairs has not decreased at all. It will take a lot of money and energy. If you spend more money and energy on European affairs, you will naturally be less in your local area."

"Third, haha, it is because your country has vast colonies and huge amounts of supplies in the Americas, which naturally aroused the covetousness of European countries, especially the United Kingdom and the Netherlands. Why are there so many pirates in the Caribbean? Can they all take the initiative to be pirates?"

"Obviously not. Most of them are pirates who have obtained privateer permits issued by various governments. Their only target is Spain, the fattest. What you transported back from America, probably less than 60% of the things you can transport back from storms and pirates"

"That means that although you have made huge profits by vigorously squeezing slaves, you have lost 40% of them in the transportation process. After being transported to the local area, 40% of them are spent on their own squandering and European affairs"

"In the end, only 20% of it is used for local use. If you put aside the huge amount of normal fiscal expenditure, how much can it be used to revitalize local industry and commerce?"

Nowadays, Chu Feng was wearing a summer uniform commonly found in the Truqin Empire Navy. The upper body was covered with white linen short-sleeved and white linen trousers on his lower body. Unlike the tight trousers commonly found in Europe, it was straight trousers like later generations, and a pair of black cowhide shoes were worn on his feet.

Short sleeves are tucked into long trousers, a brown copper-buckle cowhide strap is tied around the waist, a command knife about one meter long on one side, and a new pistol is hung on the other side.

Wearing a big white hat-brim military cap on our head, the place where the military emblem is attached in the middle is blue, but the brim of the hat is black.

He had a buzz cut, the scalp beside his ears was clearly visible, and even the major arteries were clearly visible.

Originally, Katarina was disdainful of all this, but with Chu Feng's account, she now looked much more pleasing. Even the exposed large blood vessel made her feel a male charm that she had never thought of.

The narrative Chu Feng just said in Spanish is still ignorant for characters like her, but she was born into a family of merchants, and most of the Spanish merchants transport goods from their own country to their colonies, or purchase industrial products from other countries.

Like Chu Feng just mentioned, "industry and commerce" is indeed unheard of.

Chu Feng's words were like a chicken and a duck to Leonardo on the side, but for Giannis, the backbone of the mysterious society, it caused a huge wave.

For the Mysterious Society, they naturally have their own way of doing business, but the core is obviously finance and some commodities they like, but connecting commerce with industry to form a big industry is obviously something they have never thought about.

Of course, they are small in number and are all elites, and they can only focus on a few things. It is one of the reasons. But as Thanos' grandson, he obviously knows some of the inside stories of Truchen.

"It is said that the top European banks have the strongest capital, but these banks are not enough to compare with Truchen Bank. I guess the combined capital is not as good as this bank"

"In addition to the Amsterdam Bank they actually control, they have recently invested in the Medici Bank, which is facing bankruptcy. The former is facing Western Europe and the latter is facing the Mediterranean. I heard that they are planning to establish Slavic Bank in Poland with the Laziviu family. The ambition to take care of the Baltic Sea and the entire Central and Eastern Europe is obviously obvious."

"Of course, when it comes to private capital, it is obvious that our mystery will be stronger"

While chatting, a few people soon arrived at Pulaya City.

In the city, Chu Feng asked to the Chief Executive: "What's the situation recently?"

The man knew what he meant, "After learning that Santiago Island was transferred to our country, some slave ships traveling between Africa and America were a little ready. However, our country relocated the defense facilities of the City of Praia, replaced a large number of artillery, and with our country's great reputation, there is no one yet."

"But many slave ships came to us for supplies on their own initiative, and it seems that they wanted to investigate it well"

"You only have the power of one battalion, can you complete the task of defending here?"

"Don't worry, although there is only one battalion, they are all new weapons. There are two Saiyin ships here, which is enough. Unless pirates or slave ships come together to attack us, it will be useless."

"Well, how do you connect with the local area?"

"This place is only a thousand miles away from the west coast of Africa, and is completely within the transmission range of my country's new telegraph machines. There are Chinese trading stacks in a series of ports on the west coast. Through uninterrupted transmission, the situation here can be transmitted to Bogda within two hours"

Chu Feng remembered another question.

"If you start from Cape Verde and arrive at the Windward Islands, it will take 6,000 or 7,000 miles. During this period, the ships are drifting on the sea and cannot contact the local area. It seems that the Telecom Department of the Ministry of Industry needs to work harder and quickly develop a high-power telegraph machine."

"Senegal, closest to Cape Verde, is a French colony. Our country has good relations with France. We can set up a store in the port of Dakar, but it is not possible to do so for a long time. Senegal has two major ports, St. Louis and Dakar. How good would it be if there was a port directly controlled by our country"

"Also, Mauritania, north of Senegal, is now a homeless land. Although it is very deserted, it is worth it to have an independent port."
Chapter completed!