Chapter 377 The Harvest of the Opening of the Business Road
Caravans are out.
There are conservative ones who continue to walk the 6th route, and there are also more adventurous ones who take the newly opened waterways.
Which one is better, you will only know after you have walked through.
Many of the militiamen who have retired from the army over the years have been called up by caravans as accompanying escorts.
It's a win-win situation, the militia gets the money, and the caravan is safe.
Seris was stable, but Guderian was not.
Many mercenaries and adventurers are not recommended to act as robbers when they have no business.
But this was not easy for Seris, and as more and more soldiers returned home, militias were scattered all over the country.
The robbers can't get along.
The larger ones will be surrounded by the army, and the smaller local militia will be solved.
Now there are messages outside, in Seris, if you don't have the strength of a knight, you can't even be an adventurer!
The border between Ceris and Guderian, which was originally the junction of the central and northern counties of Peiyan, but is now divided into two countries.
In a market town under the common administration, caravans from north to south stopped here, exchanged with each other, and then staggered by.
There are also people who don't want to enter other countries and simply trade here.
At the border between the two countries, caravans entering and leaving the country entered and exited through the two gates, and Loze was endless
Of course, spies sent by both countries must also be indispensable......
Pablo, a salt merchant, rode a mule and looked at the wide river across the embankment, "What a magnificence! He sighed in surprise.
I saw that on the water surface two hundred meters wide, merchant ships of all sizes full of goods shuttled through, which was much faster than them on 6 grounds!
"A few years ago, when I last passed through here, there was no such river." He introduced what he had seen to the juniors next to him.
"At that time, the road was not so good, there was only a ditch next to it, no more than ten meters wide, and you could see the bottom at a glance, which was completely incomparable with now......"
"The Seris are amazing!" The young man beside him looked amazed and yearning.
"It's not that the Seris are powerful, I heard that they have a monster with a giant octopus that can help with the work, otherwise it would take a lot of manpower, material resources and time to complete such a project?"
"If you can ambush such a big monster, then they are even more powerful!" The young man's face was even more yearning.
The river and the road are running north-south, and as the caravan moves forward, it will be far away, sometimes closer, and sometimes even crossed by bridges, like two great dragons entangled with each other.
Looking at the boats wandering on the river, the people on it are talking with their hands behind their backs, facing the river breeze, and some are raising their arms and pointing the rivers and mountains, all of them are relaxed and leisurely.
Looking at himself again, covered in a layer of ash and smelling of wind and sand, the relatives couldn't help asking: "Old man, why don't we take a boat, is it because we don't have enough money?" ”
Knocking the smoke pot on his hand and shaking off the dust inside, Pablo was also a little helpless, shook his head and explained: "It's not a matter of money, this north-south communication canal has just been opened, and there are not many boats with Ben, we are late, so naturally there is no place." ”
"Then why don't they get more boats?"
"It's too short! It is said that the three goblin shipyards, the two human shipyards, a total of five are in full supply, and every ship built, regardless of size, will be bought at the first time, and reservations will not be accepted......"
"If only we had a ship!" The young man looked at Jiang Mian with envy, "It's not too big, he looked at the several truckloads of goods behind him, just enough to pull our own things." ”
"Don't think about it." Pablo cracked his mouth and laughed: "Now the ship, even if we have money, we can't buy it." ”
"Why?" The young man was puzzled and asked, "Won't the Seris sell us anything?" ”
"I didn't say I wouldn't sell it." Pablo smacked his lips and said, "But they will give priority to the Cerys's natives." ”
"Is that so?" The young man felt a little lost in his heart, and for the first time thought: If only I were from Seris......
"Your Majesty......"
In the main hall of the royal palace, Malone is on the throne.
Sitting on the highest chair in the kingdom, he naturally gave people a sense of grace and atmosphere.
The ministers below were solemn, although they did not dare to come out, but no one dared to be presumptuous.
Malf was mindful of the situation in his hand and reported on the situation since the reopening of the trade routes.
"In recent months, there has been a total of more than 90,000 gold coins in tax revenue alone, a large part of which comes from border import and export."
"Ninety thousand gold coins?"
Listening to the figures that Malf said, even in the solemn hall, many ministers exclaimed, this result is really too amazing.
Seris encourages business exhibitions, and the tax is not high, and the fact that there is so much tax shows that the transactions are frequent during this time, and the amount is not small.
Before everyone could recover from their surprise, they heard Malf drop another bomb: "And these are not the main things, the big head is actually the asset of our country itself." Whether it's salt, sugar, or the dwarven equipment we have stockpiled before, or the equipment we produce ourselves, after these stocks are sold, we have recovered about half a million dollars......"
"Five hundred thousand!"
Not to mention the other ministers, even Malf's own voice trembled slightly.
It's not that I've never seen so much money, whether it's the treasure sent by the barbarians at the beginning, or the value of the seizures after cleaning up the nobles, it's a lot more than that.
But it's all a windfall, it belongs to a wave of streams, and it's gone after use, so no matter how much it is, it is difficult to change a country's cost.
But now it's different, as long as the trade route is well maintained, this continuous financial route can input a huge amount of power for the Kingdom Exhibition!
To be honest, Ma Long was also very surprised, he didn't expect that a few years later, the restrictions on the border between the two countries would be lifted, and such a boom would be formed!
He had estimated it at the beginning, but the extent was also greatly out.
That's why it's hunger marketing, right?
Under the throne, the ministers whispered about where the money should go.
Some people say that infrastructure construction should be vigorously carried out, just like the current north-south canal.
It is also said that more scientific and technological research should be invested, and a few pillar industries such as salt and sugar should be added.
It is also said that because more troops should be invested, such a big benefit will inevitably cause others to be jealous, and stronger military strength is needed to ensure the security of the kingdom.
Although their voices were not loud, there were many people, and the hall was still buzzing.
The guards outside the hall were deeply surprised, what were these big people doing inside?
Several captains glanced at each other a few times, and were thinking about whether they should go in to see the situation, but they didn't know if something had changed, but they heard that the sound had returned to normal.