Having said that, but with such a huge benefit from the Kingdom of Ghana, how could William take it all out and share it with these people, in fact, he had planned it a long time ago, and those benefits were just some scraps and cold burns, all of which were hard to gnaw bones, and when they encountered setbacks in the development of the Kingdom of Ghana, they would think of him as a king.

You must know that the Kingdom of Ghana is not a soft egg to be bullied at this time, the army of the Kingdom of Ghana has as many as 200,000 people, including 40,000 archers and some cavalry.

If William remembers correctly, a decade later, the Moroccan regionalized Murabit dynasty arose, and in 1062 they marched south to invade the Kingdom of Ghana, but were easily repulsed.

Later, in 1076, the Murabit kingdom finally captured the capital of Ghana, Quimbi, and forced the local people to convert to *** religion, but soon regained their independence.

This shows the strength and difficulty of the Kingdom of Ghana, to say several times that the Berbers of Murabit have geographical advantages, military advantages, plus the Kingdom of Ghana has 44 Berber monarchs who have ruled the country one after another, and they have more leading parties, even so, the Murabit Sultanate still suffered defeat, not to mention those Norman adventurers and merchants who were scattered all over the world.

These men were destined to serve as the vanguard and cannon fodder for William's development of the kingdom of Ghana, and only God knows whether they will ultimately reap the benefits.

After they had suffered setbacks and failures, when they asked for William's help, the previously agreed terms would have to be changed, and most of the benefits would not be taken away by William, and the remaining benefits would be nothing more than scraps.

In the future, the gold and trade of the Kingdom of Ghana would be in William's pocket, and he had the confidence to capture these benefits, as all of his East India Company discovered the Kingdom of Mali, a small kingdom in the eastern part of the Kingdom of Ghana, while exploring south.

This Mali kingdom was the predecessor of the future African empire, the Mali Empire, and William knew the history and future of the country well.

The Kingdom of Mali was originally a small emirate in the Sankarani River region, a tributary of the Niger River, consisting of the Mandingo-speaking Keita clan, which had always been part of the Kingdom of Ghana and was known for its gold trade.

By the middle of the 11th century, however, the Kingdom of Mali had grown stronger and had become an independent kingdom away from its vassal relationship with the Kingdom of Ghana.

According to William's understanding of the history of the Kingdom of Mali, in 1235, about 200 years later, in the process of resisting the invasion of the Susuets, Sundiata defeated the army of the Susu king Sumanguru by uniting the Mandingos, inherited the territory, gold, commerce and everything else of the Kingdom of Ghana, and finally became the Great Empire of Western Sudan.

Over the next 100 years, through the continuous development of nine generations of kings, during the reign of the ninth king, Mansa Musa, its territory was unprecedentedly vast, and it became a veritable African empire, and the Mali Empire also entered the golden age of the empire.

Of course, there has been no immortal empire since ancient times, and hundreds of years later, in the 16th century, the Malian vassal state of Gao developed into the powerful Songhai Empire, defeated the Kingdom of Mali, and replaced the Songhai Empire as the master of this golden country.

Whether it is the Ghana Empire, the Mali Empire, or finally the Songhai Empire, these black African empires that ruled Western Sahara are all called the Golden Nation by the people of the time, which shows how rich Western Sahara is.

At this time, at the stage of the rise of the Kingdom of Mali, and it was just when they were ambitious to replace the Kingdom of Ghana, William sent an envoy to King Ninta Sannay of Mali. Zuva, with whom he reached an agreement on an offensive and defensive alliance, prepared to jointly deal with the powerful kingdom of Ghana.

In addition to this, William has another trump card in his hand, and that is the support of the imam Karabi, the court of the Kingdom of Ghana.

William used bribes and other means to win over the imam, who was in charge of the affairs of the Green Church in the Kingdom of Ghana, and after receiving his support, he was able to establish a river port and trading post in Bambula, the Kingdom of Ghana, and open up trade routes with the Ghanaian Empire.

William learned from the imam of the court of the Kingdom of Ghana that the Kingdom of Ghana was not monolithic, and that perhaps the biggest contradiction in the country at this time was the contradiction between the Sunni Sect of the Green Religion and the Animism of West Africa.

Especially after their king embraced the Green Religion, the situation in the entire Kingdom of Ghana suddenly boiled, and the Animistic states of Ghana and Buro in the east of the kingdom were extremely hostile to their king, and the centrifugal force of the kingdom was greatly strengthened under the influence of the priests.

The intransigence of the imams and priests led to the de facto division of the Kingdom of Ghana, which may have been the root cause of the subsequent invasion of the Murabit Sultanate in the north of the Kingdom of Ghana.

Because it was so rich, and the gold was so abundant, and a country divided by religion seemed so easy to conquer, at least it seemed.

However, when the Sultanate of Murabit invaded the Kingdom of Ghana in the south, perhaps before the Kingdom of Ghana had completely broken out in civil strife, the invasion was declared a failure.

William was prepared to use the gold of the Kingdom of Ghana to lure the Sultanate of Murabit to invade south, to find a way for him, and if the Sultanate of Murabit suffered a defeat, it would be up to the situation, and if Murabit defeated the Kingdom of Ghana, he would join forces with the Kingdom of Mali to fish in troubled waters.

Of course, these are the things to be done in the next ten years, so don't be in a hurry, it's better to let these restless guys in the country go to the Kingdom of Ghana in Western Sahara to explore the way for him.

William's calculations crackled, but the Norman nobles and merchants were not stupid, and according to William's information, they decided to unite to form an adventure group to expedition to the Kingdom of Ghana after receiving their respective interests.

William didn't care whether their colonization of the Kingdom of Ghana would succeed or fail, sooner or later the fruits of their colonization would be spit out to him one by one.

The most important thing for William at this time was that the new version of the currency, the Norman Pound Gold Coin and the Norman Sue Gold Coins, were successfully issued and became the new legal tender of the Norman Kingdom.

At this point, the once popular gold William and silver shilling coins were withdrawn from the currency market, and most of the old gold and silver coins on the market were successfully recovered and reminted by William, and the remaining old gold coins were left for their collection.

Norman pound gold and silver Norman Suss coins were now widely circulated throughout the kingdom, and even if people didn't like them, they had to be accepted.

With these new versions of gold and silver coins, the continuous loss of precious metals in the Norman Kingdom has come to an end, and relying on the strong competitiveness of Norman goods, the future trade will be surpassed, and the continuous inflow of precious metals such as gold and silver coins will not be far off.