The Rise of the European Emperor

After discussing the relevant matters, a deacon of the Lateran Temple came over and reported to Julius II that the bishop from the Bishopric of Fulda on the edge of the Duchy of Saxony had come to see the Pope.

The Bishopric of Fulda was just an ordinary bishopric, and was naturally ineligible to receive an invitation letter from the Holy See. However, after hearing that the new Pope was enthroned, Bishop Fulda rushed to Rome without stopping to meet the new Pope. After all, that is the boss of his own boss. However, it was still a day late and missed the enthronement ceremony...

Julius II expressed that he knew, and asked the deacon to take Bishop Fulda to wait in the reception room, while he waited for a while before going there. After all, he is the chief boss of the Catholic Group and a regional manager of the Fulda Diocese.

When the deacon left, Marin couldn't help sneezing. Julius II hurriedly asked:

"What's the matter? Got a cold?" The word "cold" was taught to him by Marin when he was a guest in East Friesland.

And Marin also attaches great importance to the health of his father-in-law, the Pope, and specially selected two Mongolian doctors with excellent medical skills from the group of court doctors from the Golden Horde, as the special doctors of Julius II, so as not to avoid Julius II was killed by superstitious doctors with two knives in the Holy See. With those two Mongolian doctors, Marin estimated that the old man should live a few more years...

"No, it's just, why did the deacon smell like pepper just now? My nose is a little allergic to pepper..."

"Oh, Deacon Kelly likes to put pepper-scented perfume on his body, so he smells of pepper." Julius II was probably familiar with the deacon and introduced him casually. It's no wonder that Julius II didn't dare to keep him by his side if he wasn't a familiar deacon. What should he do if he was assassinated?

"Peppery perfume?" Marin was completely shocked...

Marin has heard of lavender-scented perfumes, rose-scented perfumes, and fruity-scented perfumes... But I've never heard of such peppery perfumes...

"What a fuss,

Every spice can be formulated into a perfume. Pepper, cinnamon, cloves, ginger, etc. can all be extracted from essential oils to make perfumes. In the Holy See, all priests have to wear perfume, otherwise it is rude! "Julius II disdainfully gave Marin a popular science.

Indeed, the archbishops of the Holy See, because of their religious beliefs, are not very fond of bathing. If you don't put on some perfume, you won't smell bad? A group of cardinals have a meeting together. If everyone smells bad, what kind of majesty is there? Wouldn't it be similar to the beggars' meeting of the Beggar Gang?

Therefore, the priests of the Holy See will choose to apply perfume on their bodies to cover up the odor. Over time, it became a practice—that missionary would be rude if he didn't touch the perfume...

Only then did Marin notice that his father-in-law also wore lavender perfume...

However, Julius II was different from other bishops. During his stay in East Frisland, under the "bewitchment" of Marin, he had become accustomed to taking a hot bath, and no longer insisted on not taking a bath for a long time like some stubborn old bishops. The main thing is that if Julius II, who was the Archbishop of Rovere at the time, didn't take a bath, Marin wouldn't let him hold his grandson Caesar...

Later, over time, Julius II also got used to bathing. However, after returning to the Holy See, Julius II would not persuade others to fall in love with hot baths too. Because, not bathing has always been advocated by the Holy See. As Pope, he cannot all at once advocate the opposite. Therefore, Julius II could only take a bath secretly by himself. Whether other people wash or not is none of his business...

But even after taking a bath, Julius II still wore a lavender-scented perfume to cater to the public and avoid "disrespect"...

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"So, the thousands of priests in Rome are all perfumed?" Marin asked in surprise.

"Of course, everyone in the Holy See wears perfume, and when the ceremony is held, incense is lit in the hall. It can be said that Rome is the city that consumes the most perfumes and spices in Europe." Julius II continued to give his family The hairy-footed son-in-law Kopp said.

"Perfume... Perfume... So, Mr. Yue... Pope, there must be many perfume makers in Rome?" Marin's eyes flickered, not knowing what to think.

"Of course, most of the best perfumers in Europe are currently in Rome," said Julius II proudly.

Of course, he didn't brag. Before the advent of "Cologne" in the 18th century, Italy was indeed the most developed region in Europe's perfume industry, and it was also the region with the largest consumption of perfume. Even Giovanni Maria Farina, the artisan who made "Cologne Perfume" in Cologne, Germany in 1709, is also a perfumer from Italy.

In this era, the best perfumers are indeed in Italy. As for France, it has to step aside at this point. One thing that needs to be popularized is that whether it is the famous French perfume or the French feast, it was brought by Catherine de Medici of the Medici family who married King Henry II of France in 1533. The first perfume shop in Paris was also supported by the Italian perfumer brought by Catherine de Medici. The famous French dinner was developed by several Italian chefs married to Catherine de Medici.

Therefore, it is very low to want to brag about French perfumes and French meals with beauties.

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"Your Excellency Pope, can you reward me with dozens of perfumers?" Suddenly, Marin changed his face a lot, and with a flattering expression, he circled around Julius II, asking for perfumers...

"What do you want the perfumer to do?" Julius II was a little puzzled.

"I plan to open up a trade route with China in the future, and plan to use perfume as my main product..." Marin said quietly to Julius II.

"There is no perfume in China?" Julius II didn't quite believe it. Perfume thing, is it strange?

"Yes, but they are all shoddy goods." Marin is right, Daming also has perfumes, most of which are inferior perfumes from the Middle East passed down from Persia and Arabia. The concentration of these perfumes is not enough, and because of the lack of distillation technology, high concentration of alcohol is not used, resulting in very average quality, at most the level of later toilet water. Moreover, even such a tattered Middle Eastern perfume of the "toilet water" level is priceless in Daming and cannot be bought at all.

"Then you want to..."

"That's right, you give me a group of top perfume craftsmen, mix top-level perfumes to sell in China, you won't have to worry about getting exquisite silk and porcelain!" Marin said with bright eyes, as if he saw gold coins and silver coins like a torrent. roll over...

"Can't you exchange other goods for silk and porcelain?" Julius II was a little puzzled.

"Boss... You don't know, the Ming Empire in China has no shortage of materials, and the price of everything is several times cheaper than in Europe. You let me pull materials to trade? Then don't look for losses?" Marin said silently.

"Is that so?" Julius II was a little surprised. At this time, Europeans only knew about Huaxia through Marco Polo's Travels of Marco Polo, and no one had been to China specifically, and they knew nothing about the situation there.

However, Marco Polo's Travels is a bragging novel, and it is seriously untrue in many places. It cannot be used as a reference book, but can only be used as a children's book...

"Well, do you know that I did have a teacher who taught Einstein, and he really went to China. He said that the prices there are generally only a fraction of those in Europe..." After the "price revolution", It will become tenths and tenths...

"Ah... Then go there to trade, wouldn't it make a lot of money?" Julius II said in surprise.

"Of course, keep your voice down, and don't let others know. Remember to leave Huaxia's trading rights to me in the future. Leave it to me is to leave it to Caesar, your own grandson..."

"Okay, I'll keep it for you. When Spain and Portugal re-sign the treaty, I'll find a way to deliberately remove the Huaxia from their partition agreement and keep it for you. However, when you arrive You have to have enough strength to protect such a big interest, don't be smashed by others... Perfume artisan, I'll find dozens of them when I'm free..." Julius II said deeply After taking a deep look at his hairy-footed son-in-law, he went to see Bishop Fulda...

In fact, Marin said that the use of perfume to trade with Daming is only one of the uses. Another function of perfume, Marin hasn't said yet...

The toilet water I mentioned before is actually a weakened version of the perfume. The fragrance content of perfume is about 1525, while the fragrance content of toilet water is only about 3.

Can make perfume, making toilet water is naturally a piece of cake. Perfume can be traded with Daming. However, it will take a long time to wait until the opening of the Daming route.

And toilet water is what is urgently needed now...

Because, Marin remembered, in the past life, many parents used toilet water to prevent their children from being bitten by mosquitoes. The famous "Baby Jinshui" toilet water is said to be prepared from the liquid soaked in wild chrysanthemum.

Marin estimated that the composition of this wild chrysanthemum water is somewhat similar to that of pyrethrum, which can achieve the purpose of repelling mosquitoes.

If perfume craftsmen are used to soak the chrysanthemums of pyrethrum, extract the worm-killing ingredients, and mix them into toilet water, then this toilet water, used in tropical colonies, has an extremely powerful effect.

The ingredients of pyrethrum are not poisonous to people, but mosquitoes are finished when they touch it, and they dare not spray. If pyrethrum is used to make toilet water, then when colonizing in tropical areas, the colonists will not be bitten by tropical poisonous mosquitoes, which will lead to malignant diseases such as yellow fever.

Previously, Marin's vision of planting wormwood and pyrethrum to repel mosquitoes was far from perfect. Because, there are always mosquitoes that will bypass the defenses of wormwood and pyrethrum and bite some unlucky egg. However, if the mosquito repellent toilet water is applied to the body, then the mosquitoes will not be able to start, and they will not even dare to approach...

In this way, Marin can emigrate to Cuba and Panama on a large scale with peace of mind, without worrying about mass deaths. Of course, the premise is that the amount of mosquito repellent toilet water is sufficient...

Moreover, Marin knew that wormwood also has the effect of repelling mosquitoes, and it is non-toxic. If it is said that pyrethrum flower dew water should be used with caution on babies, then the toilet water made of wormwood is much safer.

Therefore, Marin needs a team of perfumers to develop toilet water containing pyrethrum or wormwood to supply the needs of the tropical colony and avoid a large number of deaths. After all, tropical poisonous mosquitoes are too scary. Thinking of the tens of thousands of people who died because of poisonous insect bites during the construction of the Panama Canal, Marin was frightened...

But with mosquito repellent toilet water, Marin's road to conquer the tropics will be a smooth one. And countries that have not mastered this "artifact" will die in tropical colonies...

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