Chapter 316: Empire
With the end of the surrounding war, the Black Dragon Emperor tried to loosen the control of some of the territories under his rule, canceled the blockade of the original Rhine border, and no longer restricted the entry and exit of people - that is, people living in this area can now freely enter and leave the territory of the empire.
It is impossible for the country to maintain a high-pressure posture permanently, especially for a nascent empire, from the general direction, the policy must be gradually relaxed, Caesar needs the country to remain alive, not always like a pool of stagnant water, after nearly ten years of integration and cultivation, as the ruler of the black dragon feels that the time has come, the right time to deregulate in time.
Deregulation of the Rhine region alone was actually a test to receive feedback from Caesar and observe the reaction of the people under his rule before considering the next strategy.
If there are a lot of Northland residents fleeing at that time, it means that the Black Dragon Emperor has misassessed it, and he will immediately choose to stop in time, and if the effect is satisfactory, Caesar will continue to consider liberalizing the control of each region in turn.
The Northlands should now be called the Blackwing Empire...... Here, the old nobles have been suppressed to the maximum, the new blackwing nobles must also be subject to the strict supervision of the royal court, and the Black Dragon Code also has a basic bill of rights, and the oppression of the common people and taxes have been reduced by more than one level, so to speak, this new kingdom does not have the bad habits that the other city-states of Eladia are used to, at least for now.
All kinds of guarantees and advantages are the fundamental reasons why the royal court is confident that even if the regulations are relaxed, there will be no outflow of people, and what happened in the next period of time also confirmed the suspicion of the Black Dragon ruler, except for a few normal population flows of adventure and trade, the scene of people fleeing the clutches of the Black Dragon on a large scale did not happen.
Soon, as the Black Wing Empire was fully on track, the vibrant kingdom immediately couldn't wait to stretch out its tentacles, and with Caesar's permission, Hogg began to send troops into the Tuhala Desert, incorporating the Great Desert that had long been cleared into the empire's territory, and at the same time building more than one trade route in the desert and building post stations along the way for development.
Since then, this mixed empire has opened a new chapter of trade with other countries and cities in Eladia.
In the west, the Wyvern and the Shadow Minterlion drove away the indigenous primitives of the Narrow Sea Islands, and ships with black sails appeared on the Narrow Sea, and in order to solve the embarrassment of the mineral and precious metal resources in the Northland, the mercenaries hired by the Empire began a new adventure, and they tried to sail westward in an attempt to open up more and more vast islands.
But on the other hand, the fledgling empire did not yet have the ability to carry ocean voyages, so Caesar did not pay attention to this at this stage, but only arranged forces along the coast, and if he really wanted to open the Age of Discovery, he still needed a certain amount of technical reserves.
What he didn't expect was that after the expulsion of the captives of primitives, the territorial waters of the empire soon welcomed new visitors, and there were Woking goddess believers on the sea who were trying to do business with the Blackwing Empire, and these merchants who came with the smell of the smell of course knew that this was a country ruled by a black dragon - their god had already told them, but even if they were afraid, the power of money and wealth was far and wide, and for the sake of money, these guys even dared to make a deal with the demons and demons of the bottomless abyss and Bato Hell, so to speak, A mere black dragon is really nothing.
Caesar, who had been lazily paralyzed, finally got a little interested after knowing this, and let Hogg warmly receive these visitors from other places, and after doing his homework on hundreds of famous and surnamed true gods, Woking, the goddess of wealth, became one of the few gods that Kai was willing to deal with, she was not a primordial god like the nine-faced dragon god and the black-blooded beast, but a derivative god after the emergence of civilization.
Woking is an absolutely neutral deity, the priesthood is trade and money, such a god will not pose a real threat to Caesar, whether he likes or dislikes, and dealing with Woking and her followers is a good choice for the Northland to develop at this stage - although the goddess is always ridiculed as a "rich bitch".
This time, the caravan of Woking believers did not bring much, basically some alchemy and catalysts, as well as various books and magical curiosities, for some poor and remote places, these things can always be very popular, and the status of the nascent Black Wing Empire in the eyes of the mainlanders is self-evident.
After that, the royal court chose to suffer a small loss and eat the goods happily, so that these merchants who had traveled thousands of miles would not return in vain, and then the royal court began to negotiate with the Woking followers about cooperative trade.
These merchants did have a use, not only for imports, but also for the empire to carry out export trade.
The assembly line factory, which covers a wide area, is the second set of giant buildings built after the royal court in the northern land of the black dragon, and now all of them have been completed and put into operation, and the royal court excavates and imports iron ore, and transfers it to the goblin workshop for smelting, and then the assembly line factory carries out mass processing and production.
Under the leadership of the newly formed Ministry of Commerce, the Northlands began to do business with the other cities of Eladia using mass-produced military supplies, and the Empire exported swords, weapons, armor, crossbows, and some refined enchanted products.
To be honest, when he saw tens of thousands of ordnance materials, Woking was already in love with this black dragon, no matter which material plane in the astral plane, war is an eternal theme, and in a low-productivity material world like Eladia, these military consumables are absolutely not sold.
Although it is not known what water Caesar Targaryen has in his head as a ruler and will use these precious materials for sale, there is no doubt that this will bring her excessive trade volume and profits, and she has no reason not to love this big black dragon.
In terms of imports, in addition to the aforementioned minerals, the royal court relied on caravans to import a large number of purple seed seeds to the western Zedi kingdom, and began to cultivate them on a large scale, and the very famous pasture of Aelladia, which was used to breed cattle, sheep, pigs, and some birds in the dwarven kingdom, and by the northland, they had become an alternative grazing food for giant creatures such as mammon lizards, steel cattle, and chimblied goats.
It is worth mentioning that the Black Dragon Emperor's original policy orders on logistics have now begun to bear fruit, and the banks of the Rushing River, including the newly opened Rhine River, are green wheat fields, and now the northern land not only produces a large amount of wheat and flour, but also potatoes, oats and barley.
Due to the particularity of the scarcity of resources in the Northland, most of the grain output at this stage is used for self-sufficiency, most of which is digested by the Northland, wheat, flour, especially meat, was very scarce food in the Northland before, although it has been greatly improved, but the current situation is still not optimistic, not to mention that the Northland also has to support a terrifying monster - Caesar Targaryen, the king of the Black Wing.
The black dragon's appetite is very terrifying, this guy has not yet reached the point where he can survive just by absorbing the supernatural elements of this world (the ancient dragons are probably like this), it is estimated that it is unlikely to reach this step with his law blind attribute from beginning to end, and the huge body of thirty-five meters long, the daily consumption is not a small amount.
Therefore, depending on the situation, in terms of logistics support, the Black Wing Royal Court has to further expand production, and if it wants to have the ability to export to foreign countries, it will have to wait for a long time.
The trivial matters continued one after another, Caesar patiently dealt with them for a while, and soon he couldn't hold on anymore, so he left the matter to Hoggar and other decision-makers in the royal court, and he returned to the hot spring lake sanatorium, ready to carry out a deeper level of cultivation.
The reason for his decision was that the black dragon's body surface temperature had been completely disturbed, at least ten degrees Celsius higher than usual, and it looked like it was sick with a fever, but dragons seemed to be naturally immune to epidemics, and Eladia had no concept of disease.
In addition to this, there were other anomalies in his body, Caesar was eating a lot more than usual, he now had to eat at least twelve special Bais ergot oxen a day to barely get hungry, and the bigger problem was that he was eating metal again.
After the power core absorbed Marat's godhead fragments and transformed them into fission furnaces, Caesar had abandoned the need for metal minerals and no longer needed to rely on metal minerals for energy, but during this time, the painful hunger pang returned, and it was even stronger than before.