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However, although the rest of the Sixth Division and the army personnel were tempted, they were still skeptical, and they still couldn't let go of the slave trade.

Gawain immediately relied on the funds of the Bank of Bari City to set up a large warehouse and a large trading company in the city of Ikonium, and allowed the leaders of the Brocade Brotherhood and the army Dughelius to buy shares for fifty, one hundred, and three hundred Byzantine gold coins. ”

"Agree, buy, buy, buy!" As soon as Gao Wen's words landed, this group of people instantly confirmed their position, and they couldn't wait to knock "Gao Wen's words" out with a stick and put them in their pockets.

Rumors of a trading company run by the Duck and Pisians in the Roman Empire were already rampant: the Duckmen bought the frankincense monopoly on the island of Caios, and the Pisians bought the Alum Mine in Smyrna. It is said that the Duck people hired the locals of the island to make frankincense, and later in the year when the time came, they would go to the island to buy it in a centralized manner, and if there was a bad harvest, they would hoard the goods and raise the price, and if there was a good harvest, they would buy all the frankincense at a high price and burn most of it, and the remaining small part would continue to be sold in Italy or Spain at ten times the price, maintaining a monopoly profit.

The Pisan people treated alum as an indispensable dyeing agent for fabrics in little way from the Hot Duck people - it is said that the stock price of the Hot Duck merchant on the island of Caios has risen tenfold, and may be fifty or even a hundred times higher in the future.

Now Gawain also had to "work for the welfare" of the people, and this group of officers and brothers had been with him for a long time, and they all knew a little bit of business knowledge, and knew that such an opportunity was unavoidable—not to mention that the saffron of Cilicia and the lake salt of Cappadocia were not covered, but were the standard source of great profit—and they now poured out their fortunes to buy ten or twenty shares, and the future return would be ten times and twenty times.

In this way, there is really no one who has any psychological burden, and Gawain promised on the spot that he could divide the shares of the three goods of crocus, salt, and honey (citrus, silk, etc., Gawain still listened to Zhao Zhao's letter and suggested that the future rights would be exclusive to the Tarsus royal family composed of him and Anna), everyone flocked to it, and the entire venue became an auction hall.

In the end, even His Excellency Anselm, who had been strongly opposed, crowded into the crowd and subscribed for a lot of shares, and the little hair left on the bald side stood up happily and excitedly because of the friction between his shoulders and hands and feet......

In this way, the meeting ended smoothly and successfully, and all the divisions "openly and honestly supported the national policy of the great lord and protector wholeheartedly, and did not hesitate to waver".

However, it was not made public in the whole kingdom, and Gawain privately made a plan with everyone like this: Zhao Zhao, the chief merchant of the royal court, as an envoy, went to the city of Amasya to discuss the opening of the "Iconium Trade Route".

At the same time, Gawain also promised everyone that no matter when this trade route was opened, or whether it could be opened, he would abide by the original order of "splitting shares".

Once opened, 1,500 slaves were to be purchased by sea from the Adigai region on an experimental basis for the operation of the "Alarmán Hydro Workshop", because it would probably be completed ahead of schedule in the summer of the following year, when there would be a shortage of manpower, so it would be necessary to buy them in the spring of the following year and gather them for training for three months.

About a month later, Zhao Zhao returned from the city of Amasya with exciting news: Theodoro, lured by lucrative profits, decided to cut off the Sivas trade route and switch to the Iconium trade route.

At the same time, the Brenus and his wife also secretly participated in it, secretly leasing the port routes of Atalia, Smyrna and Rhodes to Gawain under the auspices of Dedor, flying the flag of Venice or Amalfi to engage in land and sea transportation trade, and then sitting with Gawain to share the spoils - the Kurlamit merchants of Tarsus swaggered into the city of Atalia.

Bohemond's Antioch, Baldwin's Adana and Apsomartus' Cyprus were included, which already enjoyed reciprocal terms of trade.

According to Zhao Zhao, Gawain's business plan is actually the joint name of the "Iconium Trade Road" and the "Circum-Levant Sea Trade Belt", which was referred to by Zhao Zhao as "thebeltandroad", that is, relying on this bright and blind term, it completely shook the old general Theodoro, because he felt that under the stimulation of "thebeltandroad", the price of Trabzon nuts increased a lot......

Now, if a merchant ship pulls anchor from Egypt, it can be laden with spices, "Fustat linen", coral, oil, and then arrive at the port of Beirut and sell it to Syria, and then carry fish, asphalt, wine, and wheat flour to the port of Salamis in Cyprus, where it sells its goods in exchange for lime, copper, and bricks, and sails to Malrus or Seleucia, where it gets saffron, honey, salt, ash, wood, etc. The captain and the first mate had three options: they could send the goods to Italy (and then to the sulphur or nitrate of Apulia), or they could send them to Egypt (where timber was very welcome), or they could unload the goods and set off ashore along the Iconium trade route to the north, with the big hospital at the core, and at intervals there were inns and stations for loading and unloading, food and lodging, where the caravan could be easily replenished, and then cross the plateau to the sides of the Pontus mountain range, and finally to Trabzon. Sell some of the goods, replenish some nuts and raw silk that Governor Theodoro strongly recommended, and sail from the Hot-Duck ships of the Yukxing Sea (no way, some of the pragmatic Hot-Duck people have joined thebeltandroad to get a piece of the pie) to Adigay and Georgia, where all the industrial products, condiments, and extravagant foods are in high demand, and the lords and kings are happy to exchange beautiful young slaves, hard and fine birch, and even gold and silver from the Ural Mountains, The horses of the steppe and the nitrate soil in the valley were sent to the market in large quantities, and then gathered in the warehouses of the "Great Trading Company of Ikonium", where the popular wagons were distributed to various workshops, coinage furnaces, and docks for secondary processing.

By the time of the taxation and accounting of the month of September, the accounts of Tarsus had increased dramatically in green ink: on the basis that the burden on the peasants had not increased, and on the basis of the four pillars of finance, namely, the monopoly trade of trade routes, the leasing of warehouses, the pilgrimage business of the great hospital and post districts, and the salt tax (of course, there were also many war plunders), and after the various expenditures, the net profit of the entire treasury amounted to more than 280,000 Byzantit gold coins, which, together with the various annual tributes and taxes that had been levied, now amounted to nearly a million dollars! (To be continued.) )