In the palace of Ningguo's Anning City, King Ning was listening to Li Shishi and Liu Yangzheng reporting on Ningguo's treasury income last month.
"Your Highness, last month our Ningguo tax revenue reached 860,000 taels of silver. In addition, there was a large amount of tax revenue in kind such as grain, cloth, tea, spices, etc."
Li Shishi reported to King Ning with a smile on his face.
After these years of hard work, Ningguo is also thriving and developing very well. The income of Ningguo's treasury has also been growing continuously. It is as high as 860,000 taels of silver a month. After all, this year, it is almost tens of millions.
Two silver dollars of tax revenue.
This is a huge amount of wealth. You must know that the Persian Empire and the Ottoman Empire have almost this number. The previous Ming Empire received only more than 3 million taels of silver in taxes a year. From here, it is
It can be seen that Ningguo is indeed running a very good business and is worthy of being the number one vassal state now.
“Not bad, not bad~”
After hearing this, Prince Ning nodded with satisfaction, feeling quite good.
In establishing a vassal state overseas, and being the boss himself, it was a very comfortable life. Ningguo's business was booming, and his own private slave trade was also booming.
The land on the Tianzhu side has been divided up by everyone, but on the African continent, the Ningguo land is also spreading deeper into the African continent.
Now Ningguo is powerful, has a huge territory, a large population, and a strong army. It is the first vassal state.
"Your Highness, news just came from Egypt. After the opening of the Egyptian canal, you can collect 1.5 million silver just by collecting money this month, and about 18 million taels of silver throughout the year."
Just as King Ning was smiling happily, a minister hurriedly came to report the news about the Egyptian Canal to King Ning.
"You can collect 18 million taels of silver just by sitting at the cash register in one year?"
When Prince Ning heard this, he immediately felt as if he had lost something most important.
"My king's 1 million shares of Egyptian Canal stock~"
Then, Prince Ning couldn't help beating his chest and wailing.
At first, there were 1 million shares of Egyptian Canal shares placed in front of me, but I thought they were few and did not take them. Now these 1 million shares of Egyptian Canal shares are worth more than 200 million taels of silver. The key is that I can get a considerable sum of money every year from now on.
Dividend income.
"1 million shares of Egyptian Canal stock~"
"My king's 200 million taels of silver~"
Prince Ning beat his chest and stamped his feet, his intestines turned green with regret, and he suddenly felt unhappy.
Compared with one million shares of Egyptian Canal stock, this month's income of several hundred thousand taels of silver is just drizzle. You can earn a lot of money by selling slaves in a year, but you can only earn 200 million taels of silver in the Year of the Monkey.
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"Mom, I really want to send troops to knock down Egypt~"
Prince Ning cursed and looked at Egypt on the map, his eyes spitting fire. It was obviously his minister Liu Yangzheng who was the first to propose the Egyptian canal, but he didn't get anything out of it.
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At the junction of Asia and Europe, in the palace of Istanbul, the capital of the Ottoman Empire, Bayezid II was silently calculating his small treasury.
Since losing to the Ming Empire, not only has the Ottoman Empire lost all its money, but it has also owed huge war indemnities. It needs to pay five million taels of silver in war indemnities to the Ming Empire every year. This is a huge and
The heavy burden made Bayezid II unable to breathe.
He wanted to tear up the agreement countless times and refuse the war reparations.
However, the Ming Empire is getting stronger and stronger. There are 200,000 troops stationed here in Nanyun Province, which have been eyeing the Ottoman Empire. The Black Sea Fleet and the Mediterranean Fleet have even blocked the Ottoman Empire's maritime routes.
He has the confidence to face the entire European coalition, but he does not have the confidence to fight another war with the Ming Empire, because he clearly knows that if he loses to the Ming Empire again.
It is really possible that the Ottoman Empire will fall apart. Not only the Ming Empire, but also the Ottoman Empire and the Europeans will add insult to injury and wait to carve up the Ottoman Empire.
So even though the war compensation was huge, he could only grit his teeth and persist.
Fortunately, the rise of the slave trade allowed the Ottoman Empire to take a breather.
The continuous demand for slaves in the Ming Empire caused the price of slaves to continue to rise, and also made the slave trade in the Ottoman Empire continue to be popular.
The Ottoman Empire's expansion and plunder in Europe was mainly about plundering slaves. Millions of people were sold to the Ming Dynasty by the Ottoman Empire, which brought huge wealth and income to the Ottoman Empire.
Not only was it able to pay the war indemnities of the Ming Empire, but it also had excess funds to rearm a powerful army.
But such good things would not last forever. At the first stop of the European Allied Forces in Vienna, the Ottoman Empire was defeated, and the European Allied Forces achieved victory at a heavy price.
The momentum of expansion of the Ottoman Empire was suppressed, and it could no longer plunder white slaves and sell them to the Ming Dynasty through massive expansion as before.
This made everyone in the Ottoman Empire anxious. The lack of slaves meant that the Ottoman Empire's income would be greatly reduced, its own expenses would be huge, and it would have to pay war reparations from the Ming Empire.
It is simply difficult to maintain the Ottoman Empire's fiscal revenue alone. Taxation will definitely be significantly increased by then, which will intensify internal conflicts.
For the Ottoman Empire, slaves were the lifeblood of the empire and the treasury of the empire, and were absolutely indispensable.
"It seems that we can only expand and plunder the territory of the northern Slavs."
"If there is really no other way, we can only think of ways to rob Italy and France. We must support the pirates."
"If we don't seize hundreds of thousands of slaves this year, we won't have enough funds to compensate the Ming Empire."
Bayezid II secretly planned that it would be impossible to give up plundering slaves.
If we can't defeat the European Allied Forces head-on, then we'll have to drag it with you. Anyway, as long as it doesn't show the momentum of continuing to expand westward, the European Allied Forces are not monolithic and will slowly disband soon.
At that time, I can still use various methods to harvest grass and grain in various European countries, and pirates will also need to be supported. In the past, pirates would bring me considerable profits every year.
However, since the Ming Empire and the Spanish Empire eliminated pirates, the piracy industry of the Ottoman Empire has been severely damaged. However, in recent days, with the popularity of the Black Sea trade route, a large number of ships need to pass through the territorial waters of the Ottoman Empire, and the pirates of the Ottoman Empire have become active again.
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"The great Sultan~just received news from Egypt~"
"With the opening of the Egyptian Canal, the annual navigation fee is expected to be as high as 18 million taels of silver!"
When Bayezid II was thinking about how to make money, Ali Pasha hurriedly came to report.
"Can I receive 18 million taels of silver from navigation fees in one year?"
When Bayezid II heard this, he stood up immediately. How could he sit still here?
I worked hard to plunder slaves everywhere and earned hard-earned money. I lived on a knife's edge and left a bad reputation. Egypt is better. Why should I just sit and collect money? Once the canal is opened, I can collect 1,800 yuan a year.
Ten thousand taels of silver.
This is so unfair.
Bayezid II suddenly became jealous.
For Egypt, the Ottoman Empire has always been eyeing Egypt and wants to annex this piece of fat. However, the continuous wars in the past few years have left the Ottoman Empire with no time to estimate the land of Egypt.
Who would have known that they would quietly build a canal with the Ming Dynasty people and bring in a huge income of 18 million taels of silver a year.
"Summon all ministers and nobles immediately to discuss matters~"
"We, the Ottoman Empire, must swallow Egypt. With this canal, we won't have to worry about war reparations in the future."
With almost no hesitation, Bayezid II immediately ordered the convening of ministers to discuss attacking Egypt, hoping to swallow this piece of fat.
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In the palace of Great Brisbane of the Persian Empire, Ismail I was also thinking about the affairs of his country.
"It is absolutely impossible not to have your own warships. The army of the West African colonies has always been isolated and helpless. These trading houses in the Ming Dynasty are all cannibals, and their asking prices are getting higher and higher."
"What pirates, what Spanish, European interests are all excuses, how dare these pirates attack their Ming Dynasty ships?"
"What benefits Europe can have for them, the only thing that matters is the slave trade."
"We asked them to transport some food and weapons and equipment to West Africa, and they asked for two million taels of silver. Why didn't they grab it~"
Ismaili was so angry that he was half dead.
The war between the Persian Empire and the Spanish Empire was still going on, and the fight for the West African colonies was in full swing. The coalition forces of the Persian Empire and North Korea could not defeat Spain and were miserably suppressed.
Thinking that tens of thousands of his new troops might be in danger here in West Africa, Ismail I could not sleep well or eat well.
"You need money to buy a boat, you need money to buy weapons and equipment, you need money everywhere~"
Ismail I was really worried. Compared to the Ottoman Empire, the Persian Empire was in a more difficult situation. There were no objects to plunder, and there was no slave trade or trade. It relied on the domestic tax revenue to sell some local products.
How many coins are there?
"Your Majesty, good news, good news~"
At this time, his teacher and prime minister Challand walked over with a smile on his face.
"The news just came from Egypt. After the Egyptian canal is opened to navigation, the Ming Dynasty estimates that the Egyptian canal can receive 18 million taels of navigation fees a year."
"The navigation fee of 18 million taels of silver?"
When Ismail I heard this, he immediately stood up and became energetic.
With such a huge amount of wealth, you can just sit back and collect money. How could such a good thing happen to the Egyptians? It makes me angry just thinking about it.
"Bring the map and summon the ministers to discuss matters."
"I'm really pissed off that Egypt can be so easily deceived by the world~"
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