Chapter 155: The Empress
These merchants had originally planned to take the road of sea transportation and bring the produced steel to Gaia.
Gaia has also begun to develop industrially in recent years, especially in coastal cities, where steam engines have begun to be used. At the same time, Gaia's demand for weapons and equipment is also very high, and every year the imperial court will allocate 100,000 gold coins for the manufacture of weapons and equipment.
Unfortunately, Gaia itself does not have many types of ores, nor is it abundant.
Therefore, most of the skilled craftsmen in the world are concentrated in the Rhine Kingdom, and those dwarves are all good at forging, even if it is the sword of the imperial court, they also have their handwriting.
The process of building ordinary equipment is very cumbersome, and it is necessary to start with manual ironmaking, and with Sigma's steel, you only need to cut and build, saving the time of steelmaking.
Of course, a ship can't hold much steel, and Gaia's ships are all wooden structures, and only a small part of the steel can be loaded because it is too heavy.
Then they need some other materials to transport, and the light industry in Sigma is generally developing at present, although the silk made of mulberry silk makes these merchants shine, but other than that, there are not many materials to bring back to Gaia.
Lobster is an opportunity, in the port of white sand beach, there are already merchants who have begun to call the price, and the price of a lobster has been called a gold coin.
"A lobster weighs ten catties, and there are about five tons of lobsters here, and a thousand is a thousand gold coins, how many god coins do you need! Hundreds of thousands of god coins? Man Fu clutched his chest, fortunately this is a game, and there will be no myocardial infarction, otherwise he will definitely be excited, and he will have a cerebral hemorrhage.
The Pinnacle is worth more than a thousand gold coins, but this thing is ready-made.
It is impossible to eat all the lobsters, and he really never thought about it when he exchanged it for so much money.
Many players looked at Man Fu with envy, Gaia's gold coins are also very precious, and even because the players have too few gold coins in their hands, it is invisibly more expensive than the price of exchanging silver coins themselves.
These merchants don't directly exchange gold coins for god coins.
At most, they exchange a portion of it, and then trade it directly with gold coins when they buy it with the player.
In Gaia, there are too many things that can be bought with gold, and all kinds of skill books that players urgently need need to be purchased through gold.
Silver coins are used to buy some daily necessities, and an ordinary person may not be able to save gold coins in his life.
"Deal." Man Fu excitedly shook the hand of the businessman in front of him, this is a big deal, ordinary people can't do it.
The surrounding players scattered in a hurry, and some have begun to take out the map provided by Manfu before, even if there is no lobster, it is a lot of income to sell other seafood.
The fish can also be dried, made into fillets, dried fish, and canned food, and some players who dare to drill camp have become an entrepreneurial model at this time, and their brains are much hotter than before.
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In the royal court of Gaia, Verus wore the uniform of an inquisitor, waiting outside the court.
In the court, there are several women's whispers, and women's voices can always be heard in the dark corners of the castle.
Verus was a little irritable, he had been asking to see him for three days, and when he returned, he sorted out the information over and over again, for fear that something would not be clear.
But now he can't even get through the door.
"Isn't this Verus?" A nobleman walked over, and Duke Donald walked over, "I remember you were transferred to the South before?" ”
"Yes, sir." Verus's face was gloomy, but he didn't dare to say more.
Donald smiled and said, "Why are you waiting at the door?" What is the Empress up to? ”
"I'm sorry, it's not for me to ask, it's just that the South side ......" Verus knew that the purifying potions produced in the South had begun to affect Donald's business.
These dukes and nobles are all the same maggots in the eyes of the empress.
But in front of these people, he is an ant.
Verus prefers to be loyal to the Empress rather than to the Goddess, and the nobles are different.
They are loyal only to money.
"Oh, over there in the south, I remember that little tribe in the south actually developed a city." Donald said, "I was amazed that Verne guy was brought back to the Imperial City with Brown. ”
Actually, there was nothing surprising, Donald just said, "I heard that it is all your credit, you must know how much advantage these people took when they were first given titles, obviously they have no ability, but they can always sound better in the name." ”
"What you are saying is that a city within a radius of dozens of miles can be called a duke, unlike you, my lord." Verus touted, but there was no hint of patting on his face, he didn't like this kind of conversation without nutrition.
I think that back then, the princes were divided into a lot, but everyone who expressed their heartfelt feelings to the royal family became nobles.
These nobles gradually merged, and it is no longer possible to judge the true strength of this nobleman by their titles.
The closer to the imperial court, the more powerful the nobles merge, and it is only the people who suffer.
The populace of Gaia never seemed to have fled the war, either from the nobility or from the Rhine. Now, even the weak towns in the south will have to face the erosion of the evil gods.
Verus's face was a little bad, and he tried not to think about the crisis in the south, at least not yet.
He could only listen to Donald's nagging quietly, there was no way, even the empress had to listen to the complaints of these nobles with peace of mind.
After all, the normal operation of the entire imperial city could not leave these nobles.
"The Empress, please come in." With a squeak, a maid opened the door, and it was hard to imagine that the sound of opening the door in the castle of the royal court was so harsh.
However, the two people who entered the door did not remind the maid that they should put oil on the door shaft, and the two of them walked in tacitly, the carpet on the ground was a little old, and the dark red was slightly gray, but it was cleaned very cleanly.
Verus couldn't imagine where those maids were whispering just now, which made people's ears itch.
The main hall inside is very empty, and the empress of the imperial court has rarely had direct contact with the ministers, and the god of the temple hopes that the empress can worship the goddess more devoutly, just like people like Verus.
"The Legend of the Fairy Tree"
"Thank you, you're still in good health." Donald greeted him heartily, but stopped five meters away from the Empress.
"Ahem, it's good that you're here, this king was still thinking about whether to let Lux come over to find you." As she spoke, the Empress smiled meaninglessly, "Oh, Verus, you're just in time, I have something to look for you." ”