Chapter 436 7.90 The Reign of the Empress (3)

The prosperity of the pillar industry can strengthen a city in all aspects.

When a large number of wealthy nobles began to visit the Conqueror's Fortress, they would walk on the shopping street while buying magic potions, and patronize other shops opened by merchants in the city.

These shops sell fox fur, bear fur, ferret fur and other furs that are rare in the Mediterranean region, as well as precious medicinal materials such as ginseng and matsutake.

In addition to goods, the food, clothing and housing of a large group of nobles and their accompanying guards will also drive the prosperity of the city. After smelling the business opportunity, a large number of French and Byzantine merchants poured into the city. They brought with them chefs with superb cooking skills and beautiful maids, and began to build one hotel, restaurant and fallen women experience hall after another.

These emerging high-consumption shops brought a lot of tax revenue to Mehrandin. Even though the Conqueror's Fortress was still snowing at this time, she could see that her treasury was quickly becoming full.

But this was only the first step in the Viking revival.

After the initial success of industrial transformation, the reconstruction of the two provinces of "Dragon's Breath Plateau" and "Frost Ridge" was immediately put on the agenda.

Mohrandin has profoundly summed up the lessons of the last failure. When the entire Western Continent abandons slave labor under the concept of "equality of all beings" of the Holy Bishop, it is very dangerous to continue to use a large number of Slavic slaves.

The only reason why Byzantine and Arab merchants came to this remote Jedi to open mines and build factories was that the labor here was too cheap. But in fact, if you calculate carefully, just like Loki, every household of workers will be given reasonable treatment, and the income obtained by the lords through mining and breeding is not low.

Now what he needs to do is to rebuild the abandoned city first. When the infrastructure is improved, some Vikings will be trained to become their own mine owners and farmers.

This is the long-term development plan.

However, it is not easy to accomplish all this. In the two abandoned provinces, she needs to build at least two docks, two main cities with markets, hospitals, and churches that can accommodate 10,000 people, and at least 10 castles belonging to vassals.

To accomplish this feat, it seems a bit inadequate to rely solely on the money from selling magic potions.

According to the general idea of ​​the Dark Ages, the best way to obtain a large amount of funds in a short period of time is to start a war. However, for Mehrandin at this time, the only troops he had were the 5,000 saber-toothed mercenaries that survived last year.

Such a small force is only enough to defend the homeland from invasion.

Giving up has never been the style of a Viking princess. After carrying the entire country on her shoulders, a fragile woman must also learn to grow quickly.

After a whole winter of brainstorming, she recalled the big ship owner "Gol Marash" she met at Loki's wedding. Two months ago, she sent envoys to fly across the frozen sea on a griffin and traveled a long distance to Constantinople to find his whereabouts.

Now, when the hard ice on the sea finally melted, old Gore, wearing a golden silk robe, finally stood in front of the Viking princess.

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"Your Highness, you just mentioned that there were monsters walking on the coast?"

"What kind of monsters are they? Are there any corpses or anything? Can you show them to me?"

The Viking queen smiled bitterly and shook her head. As early as last year when she first saw this old man at the wedding, Sartre and Wenzov had told her about it. Don't look at this old man in his fifties. He has a soul that wants to travel all over the world and be extremely free.

Sure enough, before he could say three words, he was immediately attracted by the "Monster Landing" incident that Mohrandin mentioned casually.

After coughing twice, the queen planned to continue to bring the topic back to "making money".

"Mr. Gore, I heard that you have an exclusive route to the 'New World'?"

"That's what I think."

"I have the complete potion from the 'Book of Saga' and various goods hunted by Slavic hunters. And you have a route from the New World"

"I want to go to 'Constantinople' in the Byzantine Empire, 'Paris', the capital of the French Duchy, and 'Sevia' in the Visigothic Free City this summer to buy three properties and build three shops."

"You also know that I was a partner of the Tang Dynasty's 'Izumo Trading Company' before, so I know the rules of the trading company's operation. I wonder if we can start a new trading company together. We sell these goods that only you and I can find."

Halfway through the words, Mehrandin found that the old guy sitting opposite her had his eyes rolling around, as if he didn't hear what she was saying at all.

Found that the face of the woman opposite was gradually getting colder, Old Gore blushed and waved his hand hurriedly.

"Your Highness, I didn't mean that."

"It's just that the thing you just mentioned, 'there are huge monsters that smash the ice all winter', is indeed of great importance!"

He took out a silver arm guard from the package and put it on the round table between the two of them with a thud.

"Your Highness, you must have known the story of Duke Loki, the explorer girl from Constantinople and I crossing the ice sea to explore the north three years ago."

"You personally sent the explorer girl to Hanshui Village, you must remember it."

Mahlandin nodded.

Old Gore's eyes were shining with stars, and he picked up the arm guard on the table again and put it in front of the queen.

"We found a sleeping giant beast as big as an island there. On the back of the beast, a Gorgon that had lived thousands of years ago crawled out of its body."

"After killing the Gorgon, we found this arm guard in her abdomen. After careful observation, the explorer girl said that this should be the protective gear worn by the chosen ones under the 'Temple of Zeus' during the Greek city-state period two thousand years ago!"

"Then we followed the cave on the back of the beast and went deep into the city on its back."

In that voyage, Loki brought a total of 2 ships of people, totaling more than 100 people. But among these 100 people, only Old Gore, Emma Waldorf, and Pastor Lawrence were able to go through the whole journey with him.

The other Viking pirates on the ship were all made up based on their adventure stories. A considerable part of the 'adventures' they said were drunken nonsense.

At this time, after hearing the story told again by Old Gore, the person involved, Mehrandin finally understood the whole story.

"Your Highness, I have entered the black pyramid before, and I know what is hidden inside!"

"There are dozens of gold coins piled up like mountains, and thousands of precious creations collected by the Illuminati from various human civilizations in the ancient times!"

"Various gems, crowns, weapons, ancient scrolls, and ancient books"

"It is a treasure house with everything!"