After thinking about it in this way, everyone was shocked to find that Egypt, which was supposed to be an incomparably wealthy ancient country, was so barren according to the standards of modern shijie -- there was no timber, no minerals, no oil could be dug up, and grain could not be sold at a price......

In this case, it seems that the only way to count on being to loot some gold, silver and jewelry from Egypt was to be counted. And the place where Alexandria hoarded the most gold and silver must have been the treasure troves of the Ptolemaic dynasty...... So, Wang Qiu and the others invariably set their sights on the doppelganger who is the same soul as Queen Cleopatra, or the "past life" of Cleopatra, Miss Sanae Rika, a zombie witch from Fukushima, Japan.

“…… The treasure trove of the Ptolemaic dynasty? This one...... I'm afraid there's no way to count on it! In the eyes of everyone who looked like hungry wolves, Miss Sanae Rika said that she was under a lot of pressure with black lines on her head, "...... Damned Pompey, after capturing the royal palace, emptied Egypt's treasury in just one day, and it seems that it was transported to the provinces of North Africa (modern Tunisia, Algeria, etc.) to pay the republican army!

Huh! Wait, don't be angry! Even the sticks and sacks were taken out?! If you have something to say, why should you cover someone with a cloth bag if you are unhappy? Well, although the treasury has been emptied, I can still melt all the gold and silver decorations in the palace, and even give you the golden throne, and I will probably be able to make up a few hundred kilograms of gold and silver...... If I want more, I'm afraid it will be a little difficult for a while......"

All in all, under the repeated persecution of everyone who was eager to recover the capital, Sanae Rika had to fully use her brains. Exploring the potential, Zuihou finally remembered that in the palace in Alexandria, which had been bombed into ruins, there seemed to be a lot of precious wood used. For example, sandalwood and cedar imported from Lebanon, these precious tree species are extremely rare in modern shijie, so they are sure to sell for a good price......

It was soon unanimously decided that after returning to ancient Egypt, they would immediately organize construction workers to demolish the house of the Egyptian queen - the palace had been reduced to graves by cloudburst bombs, and then to rubble by thousands of rockets. No matter how you look at it, you can't live there.

However, even if the Egyptian royal palace is dug three feet into the ground, the value of the property that can be collected is still less than 200 million yuan. The chengguan still seem to be losing.

Moreover, as far as Queen Cleopatra herself is concerned, she does not really want a large outflow of gold and silver from Egypt. Because the financial and logistics industries in ancient times were not very developed, the amount of gold and silver circulating in a certain market in a certain period of time was limited. If Cleopatra is forced to teleport a large number of gold and silver coins back to modern Shijie at once. to pay off astronomical arms bills. Then there will be an immediate "money shortage" in the market in Alexandria. Serious disruption of the order of trade, and the government and the army will also have a broken financial chain - the hard currency of gold and silver has been sent to another shijie, what should Queen Cleopatra take to pay the officials and soldiers?

As a matter of fact, if one intends to dump a large number of modern commodities in a different time and space with a low degree of social civilization and take advantage of the scissors difference in industrial and agricultural products to make huge profits, it will almost certainly bring about a large loss of precious metals to the other world, thus seriously disrupting the order of the market economy. In order to prevent the market from collapsing, let the business last longer. The correct countermeasure is not only to absorb gold and silver from the other world, but also to purchase raw materials in large quantities. Or provide another general equivalent to the otherworldly market in place of gold and silver (Wang Qiu, who distributed glass beads to the Indians in ancient Mesoamerica instead of currency).

But the problem is that Egypt at that time really didn't have many decent resources other than sand, grain, and papyrus, and none of the above three goods could be sold for a price in modern Shijie. If they can't even collect gold, silver and jewelry, it will be Wang Qiu's turn to break their capital chain in modern Shijie.

In response to this problem, based on the previous experience of cross-time and space trade and the construction of commercial colonial bases in ancient Mesoamerica, Wang Qiu suggested that the indigenous employees could be given refined salt and white sugar instead of coins, and it seems that the ancient Romans also had a precedent of using salt to pay soldiers, which should be feasible. If it really doesn't work, you can try distributing food and cloth again.

In this regard, Sanae Rika said that she could give it a try, but she did not dare to guarantee that it would succeed - there was a world of difference between the Mediterranean Shijie, which had long been highly commercialized, and the ancient Mesoamerican civilization in a state of obscurantism. The Syrian mercenaries under Queen Cleopatra and the bureaucrats of the Ptolemaic dynasty may not be willing to accept salaries in kind.

What's worse is that Alexandria, which was once bustling and noisy and full of money, has now become a scorched earth ruin, full of corpses and dilapidated houses, more than 500 merchant ships have been burned and destroyed, all industrial and commercial operations have been suspended, maritime trade is not known how long it will take to resum, and the commercial tax and poll tax are not known how long to be collected.

This destructive catastrophe was not only the work of the Romans and the mob of Alexandria City, but also the indiscriminate carpet bombing carried out by Wang Qiu and his people with rockets and civilian missiles -- the use of missiles and rocket artillery to carry out a "decapitation operation" is definitely an extremely difficult task, and even the regular US army, which has satellites, reconnaissance planes, and ground-based laser guidance, and has experienced many special operations, may not be able to succeed in one attempt. Wang Qiu, on the other hand, not only did they not have a high-power fire control radar or satellite positioning, but the personnel in charge of the operation were also rookies who flipped through the manuals, and they did not even have a large-scale map of the combat area, but only sent a reconnaissance plane to go over and turn around a few times...... If you can hit with one shot, it will be a miracle.

Therefore, when the accuracy of the fire strike is insufficient, it can only rely on expanding the striking area to ensure the killing effect, simply put, it is to bomb indiscriminately, pour gunpowder, and compensate for quality with quantity -- as a result, under the covering blow of 18 cloudburst shells and more than 4,000 high-explosive rockets, several neighborhoods, including the royal palace, have been reduced to rubble, and the houses that are already on fire everywhere have been even worse, and at least tens of thousands of civilians have been injured and killed by mistake, and the shipyards and port warehouses have been burned to the worst of all. The direct economy alone is no longer counted......

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Seeing that in Alexandria, which is full of scorched earth, it seems that it is difficult to find anything good for a while, and the depletion of cash on her side is imminent, Senior Sister Ma Tong, who has always had no lower limit, rolled her eyes, and actually hit the idea of the ancient ruins abundant in Egypt, and began to fool everyone quite vigorously to make a cameo appearance in the West, or Indiana BC. Jones, go to the pyramids of Giza and the Valley of the Kings in Luxor to dig up the tombs of the pharaohs, and bring home all the precious funerary goods of the ancient pharaohs......

However, although the treasure hunters in the movie seem to be living a rather luxurious and chic life, for Wang Qiu and them, they may not be able to make much money by robbing the tomb alone - first of all, those burial goods in the ancient Egyptian pyramids have already been stolen and excavated in the era of Cleopatra. Secondly, the pharaohs lying in the Valley of the Kings are not yet visited by tomb robbers, such as the famous Tutankhamen. But the little funerary objects around the pharaoh are very valuable as historical relics, but if they are only natural gems and precious metals, they are not worth a few dollars.

To make matters worse, as things stand, the immoral tomb robber is still a source of hunger and hunger – the only area that Queen Cleopatra can control is the northernmost coastal part of Egypt's Nile Delta. Both the pyramids and the Valley of the Kings were still under the control of the rival Shili, her brother Ptolemy XIII or the indigenous rebels of Upper Egypt, and the tomb robberies could not be driven at all.

Of course, although these ancient tombs are not in the control area of Cleopatra for the time being, in the spirit of preparedness, Deputy Director Xiao Se still helped contact the Strange Demolition Team, discussed future cooperation matters in advance, and instructed them to collect archaeological data on the layout of ancient Egyptian tombs. When the time is right, we will break ground on the pyramids in the Giza Heights and the tombs of the Valley of the Kings in Luxor, blasting the pyramids and tombs one by one, and looting the ancient funerary goods inside...... If there were any rich people willing to collect mummies, so much the better!

However, no matter how much fantasy there is about the treasures in the tombs of ancient Egyptian emperors, for Cleopatra, who only controlled the coastal areas at this time, it is still far from quenching her thirst, and Alexandria obviously does not look like there are any famous ruins - Alexandria in Cleopatra's time, for the Egyptian natives, is basically the same as Shanghai and Hong Kong in the Republic of China era, it is a new city just established by foreign colonists, and there is no historical background at all. There will be no gold and silver wealth buried by the ancients.

However, just in case, Wang Qiu still consulted the landlord of Sanae Rika, and then unsurprisingly got a disappointed answer.

“…… Yes! The remains of Alexander the Great! It just seems that a hand and a leg are missing. There are also fresh corpses of Caesar and Pompey, you have also seen them, and they should be considered very valuable relics! Sanae Rika rolled her eyes and replied.

“…… Heck, these piles of carrion will be spared! But I think that compared with Alexander the Great's and Caesar and Pompey, the two bad old men, the super-rich on our side should be more interested in the flesh of Cleopatra Cleopatra......"

Wang Qiu first made a disgusted expression, and then immediately sneered at him, "...... If there is a way to send a prostitute to the royal palace in Alexandria, someone will definitely be willing to pay 100,000 dollars to sleep with you for one night, so that you can become a multimillionaire if you sell yourself for a few months in a row! ”

Sanae Kaden was furious: "...... What the? Only $100,000 a night? Is my body of Cleopatra so cheap? ”

- This ...... Girl, are you a little mistaken? (To be continued.) )