Today's maritime overlords have colonies all over the world. Spain, which claims to be the empire of the sun never sets, actually has no money. This is really unbelievable. Zhu Cijiu estimates that even if they do not count their local income, the wealth plundered by the colonies alone will be at least hundreds of millions of silver in a year. How could it be that there is no money!

Zhu Cijiong asked in surprise: "The Spanish Empire is out of money? Are you sure you are not kidding me. Do you know how much wealth they have plundered from the colonies in a year?"

Both colonists and are nominally still in the same country. Of course, Schvira knew how much wealth they could plunder from the colonies a year. He calculated carefully: "This minister knows, not to mention the gold and silver they plundered from the Gold Coast of South America and Africa, they could earn about 50 to 60 million taels a year. The income of economic crops grown by natives from all over the country has even exceeded 50 to 60 million taels. The plunder of our Portugal natives and colonies can also earn 20 to 30 million taels a year. Just counting these, their annual income is about 150 million taels!"

The annual income is at least 150 million taels of silver, and there is no money! What is this logic! If it weren't for the New Year, Zhu Cijing really wanted to drag this guy out to make some tricks to make him sober.

How could they spend so much money? Zhu Cijing said angrily: "The annual income is at least 150 million taels of silver. You said they have no money. My Ming Dynasty's income is not 150 million taels of silver every year. Then I have no money, aren't I even less money? Do you think it's possible?"

Upon hearing this, Schvira smiled bitterly: "Master, they really have no money. This minister knows very well that their annual income is amazing, but it is even more scary when they spend money!"

No matter how scary you spend money, you can't spend 150 million taels a year. Zhu Cijing suspected, "Do you know how much is 150 million taels of silver? Even if they cast the silver into shells and smashed people, they can't finish it. For example, the muskets and artillery they bought with me, they only spent less than 50 million taels in total. In this way, their army has almost been replaced, how can they spend money?"

Schvira quickly explained: "Master, you don't know, the equipment of the army is nothing at all, the navy is very expensive. For example, the navy's naval battles between Spain and Britain, from 1588 to 1601 alone, the Spanish king formed five invincible fleets to expedition to Britain, but they were very lucky. They encountered storms five times and suffered heavy losses, resulting in the failure of the expedition. Master, do you know how much it costs to build an invincible fleet?"

Zhu Cijing really doesn't know how much a fleet cost, because he doesn't know what size fleet is considered an invincible fleet! So he asked curiously: "How many warships does an invincible fleet have? How much does it cost to build an invincible fleet in Spain?"

Schvira introduced in detail: "A invincible fleet has about thousands of warships of all sizes and sizes. At that time, there were no super battleships. A warship was equipped with at most more than ten artillery pieces. The entire invincible fleet had about three thousand artillery pieces. Many of these warships and artillery pieces were purchased from the Dutch through our Portuguese merchants. The Dutch also knew that it was Spain's demand, so the offer was particularly outrageous. A warship priced at five million taels and a cannon of fifty thousand taels. This warship and artillery alone cost about three hundred million taels!"

Damn, I bought a warship of five million taels of silver and a cannon, and Spain is really rich, while the Dutch are typical for money and life. They know that they sold it to Spain and even sold it!

If the money is spent like this, Spain really has no surplus in more than ten years. The five invincible fleets are enough to spend all their incomes over the past decade. But aren’t there more than 30 years left? What about their money? Zhu Cijing couldn’t help but ask: “That’s all in 1601. In the next 30 years, they haven’t built in an invincible fleet every year, right?”

Schvira shook her head and said, "This is not the case, but the Spanish royal family's consumption is also very high. Most of the luxury goods around the world are used by them. For example, coffee known as "black gold", is more expensive than gold. It will cost dozens of taels of silver if you spend a cup of money. However, the Spanish royal family drinks it every day and even uses it to entertain guests. They don't know how much silver they have to drink just by drinking coffee. The royal family's annual luxury goods consumption is at least 50 million taels, and sometimes even more than 100 million taels!"

Damn, you are such a rich man! You spend 50 million to 100 million taels of silver a year to consume luxury goods. No wonder they have no money. If they spend this way, they can’t stand it even if they can’t dig them!

Zhu Cijiu couldn't help but sigh: "It's not enough to spend so much money!"

Schvira couldn't help but reminded: "Master, you have to be careful. They not only spend money hard, but also have a bad habit, that is, they love to pay for their debts, and they are very reasonable. The most common method they use is to declare the country bankrupt. They do not admit their money they owed before, but only accept the newly borrowed ones! For example, Philip II declared the country bankrupt three times in 1557, 1575 and 1598, and the current King Philip IV also declared bankruptcy in 1627!

Damn, if you don’t have money, you will go bankrupt. This is too cruel. No wonder the whole world wants to be enemies with them!

Of course, now it is not a discussion about whether he will pay back the money, but to destroy their peace talks. As for how to destroy the peace talks, it depends on why they don’t want to fight anymore. Now it seems that money is a problem. I wonder if there are any other reasons. Zhu Cijiong couldn’t help asking: “Do they just don’t want to fight anymore because they have no money? Are there any other reasons?”

Schvira shook her head and said, "It's gone. They just don't want to fight because they have no money and can't afford weapons and equipment."

I still bought it, haven’t I bought it all? Zhu Cijing couldn’t help but say, “Didn’t they buy all the equipment from the army? Do you really have to buy 8,000 cannons from me to win?”

Schvira shook her head again and said, "It's not a problem with the army. Now both sides have suffered heavy losses. It is estimated that large-scale battles will not occur on land anymore. If we want to fight, we will have naval battles, because the wealth plundered by various countries will be transported back to our homeland by sea, especially Spain. If the Protestant Alliance targets their treasure ships, it will be troublesome. As long as we are robbed a few times, Spain will probably go bankrupt again. Spain will have no money to expand its navy at all, and its maritime power is not even as good as the Netherlands, so they don't want to fight."

So that's how it is. It doesn't matter if you don't have money to buy ships and cannons. I can give you credit, and it doesn't matter if you keep fighting. As long as you continue to fight, the Ming Dynasty will easily snatch the colony, and the money you owe can be earned back from the colony.

As for how many warships and artillery are given to Spain on credit, it depends on how much difference in the strength of the naval forces between the two sides. As long as they keep their maritime strength in a relatively balanced manner and continue to fight.

Perhaps, it’s time for me to go to the continent. No matter what, I must not let them succeed in peace talks. As for how to disrupt the peace talks, I can only take one step at that time.
Chapter completed!