Chapter 40: Lily Harbor

The fat man Bute Harmon took the local products of the Holy Cat State and went to Lily Harbor.

The main goods of this transaction are glass products, before departure, Bout Harmon carefully checked the packaging, the inside and outside three layers of the package stopped, for fear of breaking, according to Bout Hamon's estimate, each piece of glass products can be sold at least 100 silver bases, more than 30 pieces of products can also have 3,000 bases, the whole project only invested 3,000 bases, a batch of goods will all earn back, how much money can be made in the future?

In addition to the glassware, they also carried some local linen as well as leopard skins, ivory, rhinoceros horns, gold, etc., brought from the Kingdom of Noa.

Rasim specifically asked to go to Lily Harbor with Bute Hamon, he also wanted to see the local situation, the son of camels in addition to grazing is to do business, and the previous land route also needs to use camels to load goods, Menes also hopes to promote camels in the kingdom, and show everyone that camels can help future breeding.

In each town where Bute Hamon and his party went, they spread the generous policies of Menes everywhere, recruiting talents, and arranged for the recruitment order to transcribe more than 100 copies and put up small advertisements everywhere.

There are too many advertisements in Bute Hamon, and he is afraid that other lords will find him to settle accounts, this is a blatant digging of the wall, will the White City and the Holy City have ideas when they know about it?

After the first waterfall, you will come to Koh Chang, which is the starting point of the water transport of the whole upper Kemert, so it is also one of the largest trading ports in the south, where all kinds of goods are delivered, But Hamon does not intend to sell goods here, it is not rich enough, on the contrary, But Hamon bought a lot of local supplies here, and then hired three boats to go to Lily Harbor by water.

Neither the Holy City nor the White City Bute Hamon stayed, he didn't want to get into trouble, and it would be bad if he accidentally got his goods detained.

Coming down the river quickly, I came to Lily Harbor in a few days.

Lily Harbor is located in the delta of the Lower Kemert Kingdom, and it is only a few hours to the north that the trade of the northern seas is concentrated.

As a result, the port of Lily has become an international trading port, with a population of nearly 100,000 on par with the White City and only a little less than the population of the Holy City.

In addition to the Kemertes, the whole city was also crowded with many foreigners, desert nomads, Terros, Ami, merchants of the Black Iron Kingdom, sons of camels, merchants of the Cedar Kingdom, and the largest number of Achaians.

The Achaians were the main merchants of the entire surrounding sea, not only did they trade at sea but also made a living on the evil islands, often robbing the surrounding area, they were both merchants and islands, driving the ships of the sea, robbing if they could, and trading if they could not.

Kemert is currently a kingdom that they can't grab, so it mainly trades, and the Achaians sell Kemert's products to every corner of the known world, and bring the products of these places to the Kemert Kingdom.

The Achaeans controlled the entire trading system that surrounded the sea, and were therefore the largest merchant group, with their own commercial privileges and fixed gathering places in Lily Harbor, along with their own army.

Bouthamun's main trading partner this time was this group of Achaians, and his glass products would not only enter the Kingdom of Kemert, but also enter the palaces of the surrounding kingdoms.

The first batch of glass products should be sold as gemstones, and only the princes and nobles could afford to buy them, and when they were mass-produced in the future, the price would be slowly reduced, so as to ensure their own commercial interests.

In order to establish a strong trade relationship with the Achaeans in the port of Lily, the Queen of Lilies had to pay a visit, and Menes also asked Bute Hamon to visit the Queen of Lilies, Cleopatra.

Queen Lily currently controls Lily Harbor and some surrounding towns, and some state territories support Queen Lily, but Queen Lily's current position is awkward, and most of the territorial nobles do not recognize her legitimacy.

Queen Lily was the daughter of Ramses XI and the half-sister of the current minor pharaoh, and after the death of Ramses XI, Prime Minister Helmer immediately supported the younger pharaoh to succeed to the throne and drove the adult Cleopatra out of the White City.

According to the custom of the Kemert Kingdom, Cleopatra can enter into a political marriage with the little pharaoh and obtain the throne in this way, of course, this is just a way for the queen of the lily to seize power, in fact, of course, there is no interest in having a marriage relationship with the little pharaoh, this is just a sacred ritual.

The Haimer family has been in control of the government for half a century, and they are absolutely unwilling to relinquish power, and controlling a small pharaoh can certainly maximize their interests, so it is absolutely impossible to let Cleopatra be the pharaoh.

The Queen of Lilies had no choice but to flee to Lily Harbor and use the local Akaean forces against the Prime Minister.

The Akaeans are a standard commercial people, they take commercial interests very seriously, they have no territorial ambitions, but they have extremely high requirements for commercial privileges, Prime Minister Heimer has always been more traditional, more important to traditional land finance, do not want to have too much contact with the outside world, thinking that everything in the outside world will affect the minds of the Kemertes, and will be opposed by the gods.

The Holy City was also very much in favor of this theory, so in this regard, the Holy City and the Prime Minister were on the same line, which dealt a blow to the interests of the Achaians, so the Achaias resolutely sided with Cleopatra and provided him with military assistance.

The waterways around Lily Harbor are full of Akaean warships, and no one can enter without permission, Prime Minister Haimer's naval army has limited capabilities and has not been able to break through the defense line, Haimer has worked hard to build a strong naval army, but the construction of the naval army is expensive, and the training requirements for personnel are also very high, so it has not been able to destroy the Lily Queen.

On the other hand, the Queen of Lilies is just a casual name for everyone, but in fact Cleopatra has never been officially king, and theoretically there is no rebellion.

Bouthamun's merchant fleet was intercepted by Achaian warships before it could enter the harbor.

Buthamon reveals his identity and asks to be seen with the Lily Queen.

Naturally, the soldiers of the warship could not intercept the peaceful merchant ships at will, but only carried out routine inspections, allowed the fleet to enter the harbor without prohibitions, and brought the news that Bute Hamon was going to meet the Queen of Lilies.

To Buthamun's surprise, Cleopatra actually brought officials to the dock to greet Buthamun.

Seeing the Queen of Lilies on the dock from afar, Butehamon thought to himself, Menes said that he would pay a low-key visit, and Cleopatra did not seem to want to keep a low profile, so Butehamon had to add a beautiful glass bottle to the list of gifts.

The Queen of Lilies sat on a palanquin carried by sixteen people, looking proudly at the merchant fleet, and Bouthamon was the first to jump off the ship, trotting to the palanquin of the Queen of Lilies and bowing down.

"Dear beautiful Cleopatra, daughter of Ramses, I extend my noble greetings to you on behalf of Menes the Acting Lord of the Holy Cat State, Lord of the Ram State, King of Mummies, Undertaker Godhead, may all the gods bless you, may you be beautiful forever!" said Butehamon humbly.

Queen Lily waved her hand and said softly, "Thank you for your blessings, didn't your master Menes come?"

"Huh?" Bouthamon exclaimed in a low voice.

It turns out that I made a mistake, this woman is here to greet Menes? I wonder why such a high standard of etiquette? It seems that the messenger is unreliable!

Bute Hamon buried his face in the ground and said, "Your Royal Highness the Princess, my lord Lord Menes has important matters to do, and besides, it is really inconvenient to come to see you in person all the way, please forgive me, I have brought a letter from Lord Menes, please take a look!"

The Queen of Lilies was obviously a little disappointed, and the person who passed the message was really unreliable.

"Get up, stay here and we'll pay a formal visit. With that, Cleopatra waved her hand, and the palanquin got up and left.

Buthamon got up, patted the dust off his body, looked at the departing Queen Lily, and thought, Lord Menes seems to be famous now, this queen has such a fancy for the lord of a border town.

Except for the important glass products, the other goods were left on the ship for the time being, and there was no hurry to unload the goods until the lily queen was officially seen.

Buthamon was arranging the sailor's work, and a loud voice came from behind him, "Honorable Lord Butehamun, please follow me into the palace!"

Buthamon looked back and saw that he was a tall, burly-built Akaean soldier with a resolute face and a beard.

With a bronze knife at his waist and a spear in his right hand and a shield in his left, the soldier stood still looking at Butehamun.

"Your Excellency, ...... are you?" Butehamon wanted to confirm the other party's identity.

"I am the ruler of Idaca, the hero of Troy, Odysseus, now in the service of the Queen of Lilies, the leader of the Achaian army!"

"Oh, Heaven, you are the hero of Troy, Odysseus the Wise!" exclaimed Butehamon.

The Achaian people's ten-year war in Troy has long been spread to the Kemert Kingdom, Troy is attached to the Black Iron Kingdom all the year round, and the Black Iron Kingdom is the main enemy of the Kemert Kingdom, so the enemy's enemy is their own allies, so the Achaian people have not been supported by Kemert in the Troy battles over the years, and naturally the stories about their battles have also spread to the Kemert Kingdom.

It's just that the war has been over for so many years, and I didn't expect Odysseus to be in the Kemert Kingdom, although Butehamon is more interested in making money, but the heroic deeds of these people and the stories of their robberies all over the world are still very interested, and even admired.

Bute Hamon stepped forward excitedly and wanted to hug the hero of Troy, Odysseus was not interested in hugging a fat man, separated Bute Harmon with a shield, and said solemnly, "Queen Lily, please, please prepare Lord Bute Hamon and enter the temple immediately!"

Bute Hammon's enthusiasm was rejected a little frustrated, so he had to follow Odysseus in a hurry, but on the way, Bute Hamon was still interested, and kept asking Odysseus questions, such as Is Helen really beautiful? Is King Priamos rich? Troy was really destroyed by you?

Odysseus was obviously bored, if this guy hadn't been a guest of the Queen of Lilies, he would have flattened his nose a long time ago!