However, before opening a Persian route, Marin must do one thing - negotiate with Portugal to get the other's permission.

Why? Judging from the arrangements of the Holy See, Persia belongs to Portugal's sphere of influence. Moreover, the warships of Portugal and Spanish are still wandering on the Arabian Sea.

Of course, Marin was not afraid of the Portuguese. Instead, he didn't want to break the rules...

Why did Marin maintain this "rule"? Because he is the biggest vested interest in this "rule". For example, if the Americans follow the rules, Marin will naturally occupy them all. But if the rules set by the Holy See are broken, and if the Holy See is not good-looking, others will have reason to covet America - if you don't follow the rules yourself, we will learn from you...

Therefore, in order to prevent others from breaking the rules and fighting against America, Marin must take the initiative to uphold the nonsense rules set by the Holy See.

In this case, even if Marin looked down on Portugal, he had to say hello to the Portuguese first. Moreover, Marin was not worried that the Portuguese would disagree.

Because, Marin will clearly say-I don't buy carpets and silk in Persia, I only buy livestock, and... black oil for treating skin diseases for livestock...

Well, this black oil is naturally oil. Of course, no one has noticed the value of oil now. In addition to using it as fuel to burn it out in vain, the biggest function of oil is to apply it to the appearance of skin diseases in the animal and use it to treat skin diseases in the animal.

Petroleum contains multiple hydrocarbon organic matter, and some hydrocarbon organic matters contain certain toxicity and have a bactericidal effect. Therefore, petroleum can be used to treat skin diseases of animals.

Most of the hundreds of ships of oil produced in Baku, Azerbaijan, are sold to herders to treat skin diseases of animals. After all, most of the Middle East are nomadic peoples, and not many others, even if there are many animals and a large market.

The Portuguese and Persia have been in contact for a while and will naturally know that oil can treat skin diseases in animals. Marin used the excuse of "treating skin diseases in animals" to import a large amount of oil from Baku, Persia, and the Portuguese would not doubt anything.

Speaking of which, Baku Oilfield is probably the world's early oil-producing area. The local oil reserves are extremely rich, and oil seedlings have already emerged. In the area where the local oil seedlings are exposed, you can dig a well several meters deep and you can gurgle out oil. Bad has also visited Baku and saw hundreds of small oil wells like water wells dug by local herders. Each oil well is not high, but the total annual output is hundreds of ships.

Marin planned to establish a good relationship with the Persian Safavi Empire by providing guns, cannons, weapons, swords and armor. Then, he sent a chamber of commerce to settle in to control the oil wells in Baku and sent people to dig deep oil wells to expand production.

In this way, the Beihai Kingdom will not lack gasoline in the future. When fighting with people, the incendiary bombs can be thrown to the fullest. Especially the warships used to burn opponents, it will definitely be very pleasant.

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After Marin sent Kohler as an envoy to Lisbon, Portugal, to express his intention. The Portuguese did not know what happened in Persia at this time and was not happy. But after Kohler told the Portuguese king that Persia was defeated by Turkey and was stunned by artillery, Manuel I urgently summoned the ministers to discuss countermeasures. Because, if Turkey annexed Persia, then the entire world pattern would usher in major changes.

In order to protect Persia, a potential ally that could contain Turkey, the Portuguese official finally agreed to the trade between the North Sea and Persia. However, in the treaty, the Portuguese strictly stipulated that the North Sea can only sell weapons goods to Persians and must not involve other things. At the same time, the goods purchased from Persia can only be livestock and black oil... Moreover, in the waters near Persia, the North Sea merchant ships must undergo random inspections of Portuguese warships at any time to prevent the North Sea merchant ships from carrying "illegal goods"...

This condition was very harsh, and it was even a bit slap in the face. But after Kohler asked Marin for instructions with a carrier pigeon, Marin agreed without hesitation. Because he had never thought of buying anything else from Persia. Therefore, this condition seemed harsh, but it was nothing.

However, it is too much to be inspected by Portuguese warships at any time at sea. Therefore, Marin proposed an alternative - when the North Sea merchant ship passed through the Strait of Hormuz, it must dock in the Portuguese Hormuz Colony for "supply". Then, Portuguese personnel will be invited to board the ship and "visit"... This sounds much better...

Although they are all under inspection, one is to not give face-to-face inspections, and the other is to "invitation to board the ship to visit". Although the actual situation of the two is the same, it sounds too good to say.

After discussion, the Portuguese agreed to this plan. After all, it is indeed insulting to have another country's merchant ship undergo inspection of warships at any time. Anyway, the purpose has been achieved, so there is no need to be too embarrassed.

In this way, Marin obtained a license from the Portuguese to trade limited varieties of goods from the limited variety from the Portuguese...

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After the agreement was reached, Marin immediately sent a ship to the shipyard in Long Island, New York, and ordered the shipyard to develop a merchant ship specially used to hold livestock. Moreover, the requirement was 500 tons.

The reason why people from New York Shipyards were asked to develop this kind of ship was because New York Shipyards had treasure ship craftsmen dug from Longjiang Shipyard, Nanjing, Daming. Among the treasure ships, there were horse ships specially used to load horses.

Marin hopes that the experience of craftsmen in Longjiang Bao Shipyard can be combined with the European keel shipbuilding method to create a European-style 500-ton horse ship for transportation of Persian war horses.

Moreover, Marin hopes that the horse and ships will be double-deckers. In this way, more horses, or cattle and sheep from Persia can be loaded. Persia was originally a major animal husbandry country, and the livestock could not be sold in the Middle East, a place where all animal husbandry countries were, probably only Marin, the "subordinate", was willing to buy it. Therefore, the price would definitely not be expensive at that time.

This chapter is not finished yet, please click on the next page to continue reading the exciting content later! It is also quite tragic to say that Persia is located in central Asia. In addition to India, almost all neighboring countries are mainly livestock. Therefore, even if there are a large number of livestock in Persia, it cannot be sold. Even if it is an agricultural country, India, the western states are also important horse-producing areas, and Mawari horses are exported to Egypt.

In addition, because Persia is the only Shiite country in the entire Middle East, its relations with the surrounding Sunni countries are very bad, and if they want to trade with others, they may not be willing. Only the Portuguese go to the fore and want to trade with Persia.

However, the Portuguese's thinking was obviously very European and did not look down on the Persian medium-sized horses. Because medium-sized horses are only suitable for light cavalry riding, not for plate-armored knights. Portugal is a typical European country, and its thinking is also European, so naturally it looks down on the Persian "ponies". Therefore, the Portuguese have no feeling about Marin's wanting to buy a horse from Persia, and even feel that Marin is full...

How could they know that when the European knight class was completely declining and lagging behind, medium-sized horses such as Arabian horses would become popular in Europe. Many famous horses in later generations had mixed the blood of Arabian horses. Persian horses, because Persian was ruled by the Arab Empire for a long time, had long been mixed with the blood of Arabian horses and belonged to very excellent light cavalry war horses.

Of course, another important reason is that nomadic horses are cheap, and mainly eat grass and have low feeding costs...

In addition to horses, there are many Persian cattle and sheep, especially sheep. The famous Persian carpet is made of Persian wool. Moreover, the famous meat sheep breed Dupo sheep, a famous Persian blackheaded sheep, was used as the mother body to introduce British Taosette sheep to breed.
Chapter completed!