Kerch, or as it is called, Panjikape, is a peninsula sandwiched between the Sea of Azov and the Black Sea.

A month of development, in addition to making the place more prosperous, also turned this weak kingdom into a huge and strong military fortress.

The towers are almost as dense as a forest, and people lose the confidence to attack this place just by looking at it.

Tens of thousands of army troops were stationed in this small kingdom, and the towering walls enclosed almost all of the kingdom's territory.

However, in addition to this powerful ground defense, Qi Lin's strength at sea is not much worse than that.

Because the Bosphorus kingdom has no mineral veins in its small territory, but the capital city of Panjikape is sandwiched between two inland seas.

The Sea of Azov covers an area of about 37,600 square kilometers and is rich in marine life, especially sardines. With an average depth of 8 meters and a maximum depth of only 14 meters, it is the shallowest sea in the world and the safest natural fishing ground in the world.

The Black Sea covers an area of 420,300 square kilometers, with an average depth of 1,271 meters, and the upper layer is from the surface to a depth of 200 meters, where almost all marine life is concentrated.

With such abundant marine resources, it can be said that even if Qi Lin only engages in marine industry, it is enough to feed the lives of this city.

But if that's all there is to it, then I'm sorry for the merchant ships in the Imperial Age docks.

That's right, merchant ships.

Under the construction of Manid, the first NPC summoned by Qi Lin a month earlier, dozens of docks and docks were built along the coast of the Bosporus Kingdom.

After that, the dockyard was almost around the clock, and in addition to the fishing boats that were rented and sold to the local population on a daily basis, hundreds of commercial ships were built, and almost three times the number of transport ships carrying tons of high-quality grain sailed to the prosperous ports around the Black Sea under the escort of several warships, and exchanged a large amount of gold for Qilin.

Although after some experimentation, Qi Lin found that the gold could not be directly converted into system RMB. However, whether it is the development of the imperial system or the summoning of the riding and slashing system, you need to have 'money' to use it.

And this 'money', in this world, is not limited to the system currency RMB.

At Manid's warning, Zilin did not send troops to attack the surrounding cities that seemed to be breached, nor did he send a fleet to attack the unusually prosperous ports.

In addition to occasionally sending a few warships to serve as raider ships to fight tooth sacrifices, that is, to take those newly recruited cavalry and slash units, under the leadership of the cavalry veterans, to find some scattered barbarian tribes around. It's just a matter of brushing up on combat experience.

It can almost be said that Qi Lin has had an unusually peaceful month.

But it was precisely because of this that when his merchant fleet loaded with goods entered the Mediterranean Sea from the narrow Black Sea strait, it was not intercepted by the Roman naval fleet.

In addition to doing business at sea, Manid, who had a talent for merchants, also took his peasant uncle and Bosphorus with him to make sea salt in pots on the beach.

This also reminded Qi Lin, so on the same day, he returned directly to the real world, looked up the process of making sea salt on the Internet, and then wrote down some modern salt making methods, and came back to sue Manid.

And so it didn't take long. In the manifests of Qilin's merchant fleets, there was one more kind of cargo - salt.

However, Rome was clearly different from the Eastern Han Dynasty in that the Roman Empire was built around the Mediterranean Sea and did not restrict people from making their own salt. Therefore, in this country, salt is not as scarce as in the Eastern Han Dynasty.

So although the salt in Qi Lin's hand looks better than the salt here, no one will buy it in this country where there is no shortage of salt.

And compared to salt. On the contrary, grain is more valuable and sells well here.

So Qi Lin asked the farmers and uncles to cultivate hundreds of acres of land, and set aside some for sale in reality and the development of the base. Most of the rest were pulled down by cargo ships and sold at various docks.

As for the salt, Qi Lin went to another place.

Of course, it is also a place that Qi Lin has long wanted to go.

Eastern han dynasty.

In fact, as early as a month ago, when he had just left the town of Calradia, Qi Lin thought about directly leading his troops to the Eastern Han Dynasty, occupying a piece of territory and then starting to fight the world.

But at that time, Qi Lin felt that he was too tired to command an army of more than 50,000 people by himself, so he wanted to summon an NPC from the horse slash to help him command the team.

As a result, I didn't expect that this first summoning, the NPC drawn out turned out to be Manid, who had the talent of a businessman.

Under the other party's suggestion and flickering, Qi Lin agreed to Manid's simplicity in a daze, which was to establish a foothold in the vicinity now.

In fact, the original purpose of Qilin's establishment of Calradia was the same, but after being driven away by the Romans, he was upset for a while and forgot about it.

Later, Qi Lin thought about it, just his 50,000 horses, if he blindly rushed into the Eastern Han Dynasty, it is estimated that he would have a bubble and save a sense of zài, and then he would be destroyed by all kinds of capable people.

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Now, with Manid's help and planning, Qi Lin has saved up enough funds and soldiers in his hands.

After a month's accumulation, the number of Zhuge crossbowmen in Qi Lin's hands alone is now as high as 50,000, which is equivalent to all the troops in his hands a month ago.

Of course, the reason why the number of Zhuge crossbowmen is so large is because Qi Lin wants to produce Jinyi Guards, after all, there will be 1 Jinyi Guard after every 100 Zhuge crossbowmen, and these 50,000 Zhuge crossbowmen are only 500 Jinyi Guards for Qi Lin.

As for why Qi Lin worked so hard, he also wanted Jinyiwei.

In fact, it's not just for the three words Jinyiwei.

After all, these three words were given by Qi Lin to this class.

The most important thing is that in this world, Qi Lin can't borrow the spies and 'dragonflies' in the Red Police to obtain information, and Jinyiwei is extremely important here.

Today, 300 of these 500 brocade guards have been sent by him, and most of them have entered the Roman Empire to monitor the movements of the Roman high-ranking for himself.

The remaining 200 people will follow Qi Lin into the territory of the Eastern Han Dynasty.

As for the 50,000 Zhuge crossbowmen, Qi Lin didn't plan to bring much, most of these people would stay here to guard this foothold for him, or board a merchant ship to provide a certain amount of self-defense for the fleet.

The main force of this trip to the east will be trading wagons loaded with grain, Roman artefacts, and refined sea salt.

That's right, the carriages that could be built from the market during the Imperial Age.

15,000 trade carriages, 3,000 Zhuge crossbowmen, 6,000 archers, 3,000 heavy cavalry, 1,000 reconnaissance cavalry, 5,000 swordsmen and spearmen, plus 500 peasant uncles, this is all the configuration of Qi Lin's 'Eastern Crusade'.

After handing over the development of the Bosphorus kingdom to Manid, Zilin set out with his team.

In order to avoid complications, after leading his team to cross the Kerch Strait by boat and reach the opposite Taman Peninsula, he did not turn south into the territory of Armenia.

After all, even if Qi Lin's current team has been slimmed, there are still more than 20,000 soldiers in addition to the trade carriage.

With so many people, if you want to enter other people's territory, even if you borrow it, it is impossible.

Moreover, it may cause unnecessary misunderstandings, and it will inevitably delay more time at that time, and even the other side is likely to directly raise troops and attack themselves directly.

So to be on the safe side, Qi Lin chose another path.

Proceed to the northeast until you reach the northernmost point of the Great Force, and then follow the Silk Road and enter the Eastern Han Dynasty. (To be continued......)