Valley Emperor

The marriage this time is extremely important for both countries, and it is also a matter of mutual benefit.

After the marriage, the Spaniards were able to obtain more support from the Tang Dynasty to fight against the Tatars while maintaining their colonization in the Americas.

In particular, it is very important for the current Spaniards to obtain financial support from the Tang Dynasty.

The loan negotiation between Spain and Datang has been going on for more than a year, and it has been procrastinating to no avail, which made Philip II very bad.

The long war for decades has already made the Spaniards financially unable to make ends meet. This situation is not caused by the arrival of the Tatars in Europe. In fact, before the Tatars entered Europe, the financial situation of the Spaniards was actually very poor. Oops, after the death of Charles V, the debt left to Philip II reached 37 million Dhaka gold coins.

The standard gold content of a Dhaka gold coin is 3.545 grams. These 37 million Dhaka gold coins are almost equal to 20 million Tang yuan. This is not a small number, but a rather huge number. .

Even in the early days of the Datang Empire's fiscal deficit, the debt was only tens of millions.

Philip II was also a master of tossing. Before the Tatars entered Europe, they had already started frequent wars, resulting in high debts, not to mention when the Tatars entered Europe.

Whether Spain is willing or not, it has armed a large-scale army against the Tatars. So far, the Spanish have used more than 300,000 troops against the Tatars on the French front.

In addition, the Spaniards also supported France, Austria and other regions against the Tatars in the early days, and the cost was huge.

So far, the Spanish royal family has owed a full 50 million Tang Yuan in debt, most of which are owed to local European bankers. As for the Tang Dynasty, there is not much, only more than 2 million Tang Yuan. , and the interest is also very low, because these loans are not pure loans, they are basically ordnance loans.

These ordnance loans basically belong to the category of military assistance, not pure loans.

With so many debts, apart from Datang people's slightly lower loan interest, which can be repaid in installments, other debts generally have high interest and short repayment time.

With so much money, the Spanish royal family can't afford to repay it with normal operations, even if it's just to repay the interest!

Therefore, Philip II did not play normal operations. He has already declared bankruptcy three times as a rogue!

Of course, bankruptcy doesn't mean that you can't pay it back, it just suspends debt repayment.

The main operation is to forcibly convert high-interest, short-term debt into long-term fixed-low-interest bonds. Such an operation has caused many European bankers to go bankrupt, and even the famous Fogel family in Europe is almost gone. Being bankrupted by Philip II, it was a wealthy family with assets of several million Tang Yuan!

However, after such a rogue operation, the financial pressure has also been reduced a lot, and it is barely able to afford it.

Even so, a considerable portion of Spain's current annual income is paid in interest.

Not to mention that there is still a war going on.

Today's Spaniards are particularly short of money, very, very short of money!

The loan with Datang has been negotiated for a long time, but because of the huge amount, the Spaniards hope to borrow at least 10 million Tang yuan to maintain, form a new army, build a permanent fortress defense line in Western Europe, and completely block the Tatars. Central France.

Such a huge loan is naturally negotiable.

Moreover, what Spain wanted was not just loans. Philip II also hoped to carry out some mutually beneficial industrial and commercial cooperation with Datang to make money.

After all, he is not stupid. He knows that borrowing money is an emergency, and making money is king.

The Spanish side hopes that the two sides can carry out deeper cooperation in the development and operation of the American colonies, and also hopes that Datang will play with them when they do business in Europe.

The Spaniards' large colonies in the Americas, and now the biggest harvest for the Spaniards is precious metals.

However, in addition to precious metals, with the development of these years, the Spaniards have also opened up a large area of ​​agriculture in the local area. The output of various crops, especially coffee, sugar and other economic crops is increasing, and these economic crops are not only shipped back to Europe. In addition, quite a few were acquired by Datang businessmen.

Now Philip II hopes that the two sides will carry out deeper cooperation in the American colonies.

Don't you Datang people buy all kinds of raw materials and agricultural products all over the world? We have some colonies in America, even if we don't have them now, but as long as the two sides negotiate, I will hire a large number of laborers for free to open up plantations!

In addition to the cooperation of the colonies, the Spanish side also hoped that Datang would play with them in European trade.

For example, in recent years, you Datang people have gone to Scotland to purchase coal in large quantities. This coal is not a rare thing, we have it too!

Not just coal, we have other things too.

These are all business, and business can be done!

In short, the Spaniards hope to reach a lot of business cooperation agreements with Datang, not just loans!

This is also the reason why the two sides have not reached a conclusion after more than a year of talks.

why?

Datang doesn't want to make similar agreements with an indigenous country!

How should I put it, Datang people are dying to save face, business can be done with you, but the agreement cannot be signed with you!

Why don't you want to sign these agreements, because Datang people always feel that it is a loss of face to sign similar agreements with these barbarians.

And another very important point is that when the agreement is not signed, the Datang merchants can come as they like, and they will not feel the binding force, but if an agreement is signed, then there are many rules that need to be followed.

This is even more disliked by the businessmen of the Tang Dynasty.

Datang people like to do business freely~www.wuxiaspot.com~ Especially those trading companies with overseas trade licenses like to do so.

You must know that although Datang has entered the era of steam and has begun to globalize, overseas trade is not the same as in the past, only a special few firms that have obtained overseas trade licenses can participate.

In fact, although Datang has not officially abolished the overseas trade license, it has actually become useless. Except for a few special industries, there are still strict prohibitions, such as arms trade, and trade involving sensitive materials such as machinery and equipment. The general trade of the company no longer requires an overseas trade license.

However, although this situation seems to be common, doing business overseas still requires force support. Armed merchant ships and armed sailors are still necessary. Otherwise, the indigenous people in many places still dare to use swords and spears as robbers, because They simply don't know the power of the Tang Dynasty.

Ignorance is fearlessness!

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