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Chapter 2089, The Ambitious Charles V

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    Inside the Spanish Imperial Palace.

    Duke Brand is happily reporting the good news from the Ming Empire to the Spanish Emperor Charles V.

    "Your Majesty, the Emperor of Heaven has heard that the Spanish Empire is suffering from the Black Death. He is deeply sympathized with it and is willing to provide us with help and support. He is also willing to sell a batch of penicillin to Spain."

    Duke Brand feels that the Spanish Empire is still very respectable. The Ming Empire is worthy of being an ally all the time and is indeed very supportive of Spain.

    Whether it was the previous wars against England and the French or now, the Ming Empire has provided a lot of help to the Spanish Empire.

    Of course, the Spanish Empire also spent a lot of money on this, and it still owes a huge debt to the Ming Empire. The debt of tens of millions of taels of silver is like a heavy burden on the Spanish Empire.

    Fortunately, the Spanish Empire has huge colonies overseas and can reduce this burden by plundering the colonies. Otherwise, the annual interest alone would be enough to trouble the Spanish Empire.

    When the Ming Dynasty was good, it was really good. This food could be sold to Europeans at such a low price, but when it was time to make money, it was not worth it at all. People all over the world owed money to the Ming Dynasty.

    From the Spanish Empire to France and England, to the Ottoman Empire, the Persian Empire, Egypt, etc., almost every country owes a lot of debt to the Ming Empire, or has a large amount of standing indemnity that has not been paid.

    The scale of these funds is very large. Someone has calculated that the total may be hundreds of millions of taels of silver, and the interest generated every year is 20 to 30 million taels of silver.

    Of course, for the Spanish Empire, these debts are all willing, and they even think that the Ming people are interested in themselves. Otherwise, how could they sell you arms and weapons on credit and win several important foreign wars in succession?

    You must know that when the French wanted to borrow money from the Ming Empire to buy arms and weapons, the Ming Empire refused because of their relationship with the Spanish Empire.

    It¡¯s not easy to borrow money from people in the Ming Dynasty. It depends on the relationship. Only if you have a good relationship will they be willing to lend it to you.

    Just like now, this penicillin is in demand all over the world and it is hard to find a medicine. However, as long as the Spanish Empire opens its mouth, the Emperor of Heaven still gives the Spanish Empire face and agrees to sell a separate batch of penicillin to the Spanish Empire.  .

    "Haha, great!"

    "With this penicillin, we can treat many people."

    When Charles V heard this, he immediately laughed happily.

    "Yes, Your Majesty, with this penicillin, the Black Death is no longer a concern."

    Duke Brand also nodded and said.

    "Hurry up and remit the money and let the people of Ming Dynasty ship the penicillin over as soon as possible."

    Charles V was in a good mood. The Spanish Empire was flourishing under his governance. This huge empire was inherited from his grandfather.

    There is also the Holy Roman Empire inherited from his grandfather. At this time, the Holy Roman Empire was much worse than the Spanish Empire.

    Although the Holy Roman Empire was an empire at this time, it was actually divided into countless states. These states were very powerful. Even the emperor of the Holy Roman Empire was elected by electors.

    This is also a common phenomenon in Europe. An empire is often composed of many states. They appear to be unified, but in fact they are not unified and scattered.

    Charles V was the Emperor of Spain and the Emperor of the Holy Roman Empire. It seemed that the two countries were integrated and under the rule of the same monarch.

    But in fact, even if the emperor is the same person, the two countries are still different countries and cannot be merged into one country.

    Young Charles V inherited the ambition of his grandfather and grandfather, and his dream was to unify the entire Europe. Now his main task is to unify the Spanish Empire and the Holy Roman Empire first.

    But this met with strong opposition from all sides, especially the many princes and nobles of the Holy Roman Empire, who strongly opposed this.

    It does not mean that he is the Emperor of Spain and the Emperor of the Holy Roman Empire. Spain is unified with the Holy Roman Empire, and the two are still two different countries.

    It is just because of a series of complicated marriages between European monarchs and nobles that two countries share a monarch.

    "Your Majesty, maybe we can't afford that much money."

    When Duke Brand heard this, he immediately said awkwardly.

    &nbsnbsp; Charles V had great ambitions and great ideals. The influence from the East made him determined to a large extent to learn from the Ming Empire in order to build a unified and powerful European empire.

    "This thing must be done beautifully, and no one should know that I made the difference."

    King Charles V looked at Duke Brand and said.

    The meaning is very clear. Let Duke Brand not leak the news. Some things are better done in secret. Once you have money, you can secretly form the royal army. At the critical moment, you can turn the tide and win the battle.  burden.

    "I understand, I understand."

    Duke Brand nodded repeatedly, with cold sweat breaking out from behind. This Charles V was even more powerful than his grandfather. The price difference of 20 million taels of silver, such a huge amount of silver, was enough for Charles V to do many things, and  What he chose was to form a powerful army.

    Brand can even see the bloody storm in the future.  (Remember the website address: www.hlnovel.com
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