Chapter 1131 Craveyo's Journey to the East - The Significance of the Northern Route of the Silk Road
"In that case, Jihano, you will go on a mission to the Golden Horde with my envoy from the Ming Dynasty in a few days, and Claviyo will return to the Central Plains with me." said.
"Yes, Your Majesty." Claviyo and Quijano both bowed and agreed at the same time, with happy looks on their faces.
Seeing their happy expressions, Yun was also very happy. He did not expect that the newly planned northern route of the Silk Road would be effective so quickly, and not only economically.
Once the northern route of the Silk Road through the Black Sea is opened, the role of Constantinople will increase. In the past, Venice and the Genoese only went to the Black Sea through the Bosporus to do business with the Slavs or the Golden Horde.
Of course it is profitable whether it is profitable or not, but it is not much, so it is not very worthy of their attention. It is a trade route that can be abandoned. Therefore, when the Ottomans launched the final siege of Constantinople, the Venetians and Genoese did not invest.
Protect the Eastern Roman Empire with all your strength, because it is not economically feasible.
But once the northern route of the Silk Road is opened, Constantinople guarding the Bosporus will become very important. 8 He absolutely does not want this important city to be occupied by the rising and powerful Ottomans, and will do his best to help
The Greeks defended the city. Perhaps Constantinople would eventually be captured by 7, but it would at least be delayed for a few more years.
And the past few decades have been enough to allow, no, the Ming Dynasty to open up the northern route of the Silk Road. Starting from the Caspian Sea, using those big rivers, all the way to the northern route of the Barents Sea or the Baltic Sea.
Yun's real purpose was to delay the Europeans' opening of new shipping routes, but simply developing the Caspian and Black Sea trade routes would be difficult to delay their opening of new shipping routes.
Some people believe that the rise of the Ottomans in the Eastern Mediterranean hindered trade routes and forced Europeans to open new routes; however, research in recent decades has rejected this traditional view.
The merchants of the Tianfang Peninsula are not very capable of digesting goods. They only engage in transshipment trade and transport goods from the East to Europe. How could they hinder the trade route? They don’t want to make money. In fact, no matter which force controls the Mediterranean, it will not cause too much damage.
Big impact.
The real reason that led to the opening of new sea routes, apart from technical conditions, was that the Christians in the Mediterranean and the Tianfang believers east of Egypt controlled the normal trade of the trade routes, and the Portuguese and Castilians were unable to get involved. The original routes in the Eastern Mediterranean
Trade rules and "order" are what the Portuguese and Castilians want to avoid. For them, what really blocks the trade routes are the traditional trade rules and the original "order". From the perspective of the Portuguese and Castilians,
Judging from the various atrocities committed by the Tilians in the process of opening up new shipping routes, these adventurers were not businessmen, but robbers. They did not want to do business at all, and did not intend to obtain profits through normal commercial means, but wanted to
Directly plundering wealth. To take the initiative to directly obtain wealth, you have to find another way.
The opening of the northern route of the Silk Road opened up a 'new route'. Traditionally, commerce along the Baltic Sea coast was not developed. The Vikings, the maritime masters in this area, were originally mainly pirates, and there was nothing normal about it.
Trade rules and "order". Once the trade routes are opened, it will be a good way for emerging countries like Portugal and Castile to take the initiative to directly obtain wealth. They will definitely invest the resources originally invested in the south.
He fled to the north and fought fiercely with the English, Germans, and Slavs.
What's more, since the earth was technically considered to be a sphere at that time, and the northern route of the Silk Road was also opened, they probably thought that they could also bypass the land and take the sea route to the east from the north, which would make most ambitious people
People piloting ships want to take the Arctic Ocean route to the East.
With the level of shipbuilding technology at this time, the Arctic Ocean route was almost impassable. However, because news spread very slowly in this era, by the time the Europeans really discovered that this sea route was impassable, several decades had passed.
If we take the southern sea route to open up a new sea route, the time will be much later than the history of Yun's previous life. In this way, we will achieve the purpose of delaying the time for the Europeans to open up a new sea route.
The opening of new shipping routes is inevitable. With the development of human technology, it will be opened sooner or later. Historically, after crossing the Strait of Magellan and the Drake Strait at the southernmost tip of South America, Europeans tried to cross the Strait of Magellan and the Drake Strait from the north of Canada.
Go around. Although he failed shamefully, it was enough to prove the Europeans' spirit of exploration, or the spirit of risking life for money. This spirit will support them in opening up new routes.
But every night the Europeans open new routes for a year, it will be one more year for Ming Dynasty. The more Ming Dynasty will be able to take the initiative in the new international order in the future.
Of course Clavier and Quijano didn't know about Yun's thoughts. Quijano was immersed in the excitement that he could make a lot of money from it, and at the same time he was thinking about what else he could sell for money.
, in order to purchase goods from the Ming Dynasty.
'Sell this gorgeous outfit. This outfit is very novel in the Ming Dynasty, and there should be people willing to buy it. I also sold all the spare clothes I brought with me. I bought two clothes worn by the Ming Dynasty people and returned to Castile.
You can still make a fortune by selling the queen,' he thought.
After thinking about everything he brought, he even came up with the idea of his own sword. But this sword was passed down from his ancestors, and he was not willing to part with it, so he wanted to temporarily pawn it to Claviyo at a cost of two cents.
The price of ten gold coins was asked to be kept by him until he could redeem it himself when he returned to Castile. This was naturally rejected by Clavio.
Yun came back to his senses and was about to say something else when he suddenly felt very hungry. He turned his head to look at the window and saw that it was already the beginning of Haishi. He smiled and said: "It turns out that it's already this time. No wonder I feel hungry."
The two of them talked for too long."
He was about to tell Wang Gong to pass on the meal, but he paused again and said to him: "Go to the kitchen and let them prepare meals for eight people."
