The port of Ceuta, at this time belonged to the Almohads dynasty of North Africa, which ruled the western side of North Africa and belonged to the Berber regime. Pen | fun | pavilion www. ｂｉｑｕｇｅ。 To the east of it is the Hafsid dynasty, which ruled the region of Tunis, and was also the power of the Berbers. These two regimes included most of the Berbers in North Africa, from which the Berbers who invaded the Iberian Peninsula came from. At the same time, they were also affected by the floods, and they were originally enemies of each other, but in the battle for the Iberian Peninsula, the two Berber regimes temporarily abandoned their internal strife and joined together to a limited extent to resist the southward movement of Christianity.

After years of continuous investment in human and material resources, the situation in the Iberian Peninsula has gradually become clearer. The two Berber dynasties from Toledo south were largely occupied, with the Almohads controlling the area west of Córdoba and the Hafsidian dynasty occupying the east of Córdoba.

Seeing that the Christian crusaders had begun to withdraw from the peninsula, and there was little external pressure, the two dynasties began to feel at ease with each other again. In order to avoid the possibility of a mismatch over the territorial issue, the two dynasties were clever enough to plan ahead and have an informal meeting between the religious leaders of both sides, and then the kings of both sides formally discussed the issue of their respective territories on the peninsula. And it is a good time to take advantage of the opportunity of the Holy Age Festival to go to the peninsula and celebrate the festival with the believers. It's normal for religious leaders to be on a religious festival together.

The Iberian Peninsula is a country of Muz\rin that has a long history, and its inhabitants are not all North Africans, but also Arabs, Egyptians and many Europeans. Basically, as long as you are willing to convert to Islam and abide by the rules, you can be considered a resident here, and it is not too limited to human race or anything.

It is precisely because of the Berber territory on the Iberian Peninsula that the status of the small fish port of Ceuta has also risen in recent years, because it is located in the south of the strait, whether it is from all over North Africa to the peninsula of daily necessities, or goods from the peninsula, through this port.

In addition, whale oil, whale baleen, iron, and sugar transported from Karlburg, as well as daily necessities sent to Karlburg, generally stop at the port of Ceuta first, which has become an important commercial port city on the coastline of Northwest Africa. Many caravans from Northwest Africa came here to sell and buy goods, and inns and warehouses became a very popular service.

The Artsa Hostel is not big and the location is average, but it is famous in the port of Ceuta because the owner of this inn is a very coquettish young woman, and the name of the inn is the name of the hostess. But few people know where she came from, let alone why her vicious black slaves are so powerful. But there is one thing that everyone knows, if you want to drink the strongest rum and smoke the most mellow cigar, you can't go wrong with Artsha's hotel. As long as you have enough money in your pocket, not only do you have good wine, but there are also a few young girls upstairs to enjoy.

Of course, it wasn't that no one wanted to fight this single woman's idea, but when they saw the Golden Eagle Banner and the Black Eagle Flag hanging in front of Artsha's Inn, they immediately put away all their thoughts. The Black Eagle Flag is the flag of Fort Karl across the Strait, and all merchant ships and warehouses that hang this flag are regular customers of Fort Karl, and it depends on whether the owner is the owner or not. The Golden Eagle Banner is even more remarkable, the emblem of a noble and beautiful Oriental woman whose castle is right next to Karlburg.

If Fort Karl is a land of North West Africa that is revered, Fort Baron is synonymous with vipers. When you mess with Karlburg, there is still a time when you are lucky, after all, the owner of Karlburg is a knight, and his heart is not so small-minded. But if you provoke the one in the Baron's Castle, you will wait to die, if the woman is vicious, ten men tied together are not one. As for why a small inn is protected by the double protection of the castle of Karl and the castle of the Baron, who knows, there is nowhere to ask.

Don't look at the Berbers who have been fighting on the Iberian Peninsula for so many years with the entire European coalition, but fighting is war, doing business is doing business, and it does not affect each other. Dates, salt, camel hair, and wool from North Africa are still bought by European merchants, and European goods are also brought over for exchange.

The people on the merchant ships were not all Jenaa merchants, and their composition was complex, some from the north of the Alps, some from France, and some from other parts of the Italian peninsula. The reason why we have to go to sea on the merchant ships of the city-states of Rena, especially to North Africa, is only one reason, safety. If you come by merchant ships from other regions, you will be robbed by the pirates here, as for why the pirates don't rob the ships of the hot \ Na \ sub-city-states, the pirates haven't said why, guess slowly.

Spring is the season when camel hair and wool are at their highest, and every week or so, a convoy of merchant ships docks at the port of Ceuta, and the big merchants on board unload their goods while looking for familiar warehouses, and go to familiar taverns and inns for a few drinks and a full meal, and then find a North African woman to go into the room with them.

The small traders were not so happy, they formed small groups in twos and threes, rented a corner of the warehouse to store their goods, and then went into the city together, found a cheap tavern to have a full meal, and the rest of the show was not to be remembered. Retail investors like them who operate with a small capital, without slaves and bodyguards around them, have to watch out for thieves every minute, and if they are not careful, the capital on their bodies will disappear without a trace.

"Pierre, now tell poor Galliani what goods you have brought, right? Did you come empty-handed? Then you will lose money, and you will not make much money just by transporting the goods here back to Re/Na\Ya. "On the streets of the port of Ceuta walked two European merchants, both of them with dark chestnut hair and dressed similarly, looking like twin brothers from behind. But the face is completely different, one has a serious expression, with a faint aristocratic style between gestures, and the other has a lewd demeanor, and two gray-yellow eyes keep rolling around.

Combinations like theirs are common in the port of Ceuta, and many small European merchants have noble knights and the like in their families, but for various reasons they are down. But the emaciated camel is bigger than the horse, and the family can always come up with some capital to start some small business. If you can't find a suitable opportunity in Europe, you will run to Renaia and Venice, and follow the ships there to the ports of Greece, the Crusader States, and even North Africa to see if you can get lucky.

This kind of person is generally hung up, and it is easy to be seen, so he will be favored by some old fritters who run the business road. These guys scurry from port to port in search of business opportunities, keeping an eye on everyone around them, and once they spot a fledgling mallet, they will come up like a locust and look for an opportunity to take a bite.

"You can see my goods, but keep them secret." Pierre, who had a serious expression, was obviously a fledgling mallet, and through a simple chat on the ship, he probably had already figured out the details of this senior businessman who claimed to be from Rena, so he became Pierre's business adviser, and indeed told a lot about doing business in North Africa, and won Pierre's initial trust.

"I swear to God that this is a secret for both of us. As an honest businessman, I'm not trying to snoop on your secrets, just because it's the first time you're here, and you're going to leave empty-handed if you don't bring the right goods, and I'm worried about your future. "What Galliani said made God a little embarrassed, and Mr. Galliani took care of everything that his old man didn't have time to take care of.

"No, no, no, I didn't mean that, it's just that the source of my goods is too sensitive, and I'm afraid of causing unnecessary trouble. If it weren't for the fact that my family was in trouble last year and owed a lot of debt, I wouldn't have taken the risk. Look, Mr. Galliani, and use your professional eye to help me assess whether these things can be sold for a good price. Pierre was also bewildered by the performance of the would-be angel Galliani, and even felt a little apologetic. He has helped himself a lot along the way, he should be a good person who can be trusted, and he should not be suspected.

"It's ...... God, where did you get these things? They...... They're more valuable than gold, so you'll just fit them into this bag! When Pierre opened the whale skin bag he was carrying, Galliani's eyes instantly straightened!

The leather bag contained a number of small bottles tied with strings of fine straw, and the corks of the bottles were sealed with thick cetacean wax. You don't even need to look at what's in the bottle, just these beautifully made, highly transparent bottles and thick cetacean wax are enough to show how valuable the contents are. On the European continent, there is only one thing worthy of this package, it comes from the university of the emperor, a miracle medicine that can cure malaria, called quinine.

This medicine has not been around for a long time and works very well, but the number is very small and it is difficult to see it on the market. Even if they do, they are not allowed to buy or sell privately, because they are classified as sacred by the church as holy water, and cannot be bought and sold as a commodity, so they must pray to the church with sufficient devotion. Of course, this sincerity is generally equal to money, plus status.

But this is only a theoretical limitation, and when their lives are almost gone, some people don't care about whether the church is holy or not. The smuggling of quinine through various channels has become an extremely lucrative underground trade. Although the danger of this business is very high, once it is discovered by the church, the end is death, and it is not a good death. But there are still some people who are willing to risk themselves for a good return, and there are quite a few of them. It's a pity that if you want to do this business, in addition to guts, you also have to have the ability to go through the sky, how to get quinine is a very high threshold, and most people can't get this medicine.

(To be continued.) )