Menes not only bought other people's camels, but simply talked to Rasim about cooperation, leaving the entire tribe in his own territory, specializing in raising camels and teaching the Kemert people to raise camels, Menes was responsible for supporting this group of people, and the camels raised were handed over to Menes in the form of taxes, and at present, there are more than 1,000 camels, and Menes first bought 200 horses and brought them back to the territory.

Ebony Harbor needs to build a dock, the dock is not needed at present, Kemert's sea ships are very simple, directly rush to the beach to unload, in the future, there are large ships to build a dock, at the same time, Menes listened to Camweis, the annual ocean-going merchant fleet has not been sent out in recent years, and many supplies in the south are also very scarce.

Menes sent a ship to Camwes, who commanded the recruitment of a group of sailors from among the fishermen to Ponte, where Kemert's linen, bronze ware, pottery, wine, and glass beads were among the bestsellers.

After staying in Ebony Harbor for more than half a month, Menes drove the camels back to the Holy Cat City, bringing back a large amount of copper ore along the way.

Coal and iron ore are the deposits that Menes urgently need to find, and when they were in Ebony Harbor, Menes was also curious to ask Rasim if they had seen gel-like black bitumen on their land, and the answer was no.

This disappointed Menes a little, according to Menes' idea, the place where the Son of the Camel lived, if nothing else, was a former oil-producing area, and it would be great if oil could be found, and it would be a very useful material for both future industry and short-term war.

Rasim said that he didn't see it, it doesn't mean that he didn't, but the land is vast and difficult to find, so he had to arrange for some members of the Kata tribe to return to his land to help spread the news, and said that Menes needed a lot of camels and black burning asphalt, and bought a large number of them, and if nothing else, there would be news soon, because in the memories of Menes' previous life, this group of people had been using naturally exposed asphalt for a long time, at least the Two Rivers civilization had used it for a long time.

Menes returned to the territory and incorporated all the troops before the Ram State, reorganized the troops, and expanded the number of the entire army to more than 500 people, officially forming a cavalry force of more than 50 people, and the mummy of Divine Punishment was also incorporated into the cavalry unit.

The indicators of the divine punishment of the mummy are very good for combat, but they are too slow to walk, so it should be appropriate to transform the cavalry, and almost half of this cavalry unit is mummified.

In the first battle of the Ram State, Menes dug out sixteen divine punishment mummies, it seems that there are really a lot of wicked people in the army of the Ram State, a total of more than 40 people were killed in 16 failed to pass the Ma'at scale, of course, Ankotifi II couldn't pass, and now the poor is punished by Menes, clean up all the bathrooms in the barracks, and don't lick them clean doesn't count!

Nacht is tired of training soldiers every day, and the combat effectiveness of the army has increased significantly, but the weapons and equipment of the soldiers are still relatively bad, and the newly recruited army weapons and equipment are no different from the previous beggar troops, and it is useless for Menes' craftsman workshops to work day and night, many materials are lacking, bronze and cowhide are used up, Menes has handed over all the financial income to Baicheng this year, and there is not much money at present, and these materials cannot be bought at all in Holy Cat City, so Menes decided to arrange for Bute Hamon to go to Lily Harbor.

Less than two days after Menes returned to the Holy Cat City, Winnufer mysteriously pulled him into Daidia's research room.

Dedia is now immersed in research and development in the laboratory every day, and as soon as he enters the room, he sees Butehamon drooling over a glass bottle.

"Haha...... Rich, Lord Menes, really rich, you see it's a treasure, how much do you say to sell it to His Majesty Pharaoh?"

Menes took the glass bottle handed over by Butehamon and looked at it carefully, there were a lot of impurities, there were many steam drums inside, the color was uneven, and the shape of the glass bottle was uneven, in their opinion, it was a baby, and Menes saw that this was a defective product!

However, the development was successful in such a short time, no matter what, it is worth celebrating, and it is necessary to encourage and not to fight, even this thing is enough to sell for a high price in the Kemert Kingdom.

Menes handed the glass bottle to Bouthamon and said lightly, "Sell it to Pharaoh, then you don't want to get any back, that saliva king will never give you a signe." ”

Bouthamon nervously held the glass bottle in his arms and said, "Yes, we can't sell it to His Majesty Pharaoh, we will sell it in Lily Harbor, and there will definitely be a good price." ”

Daidia had already put down the work at hand and looked at Menes respectfully, and now only Menes could come to make Daidia put down the work at hand.

"Amazing Daidia, genius Daidia, great inventor Daidia!" Menes hugged the little one with heartfelt admiration.

Dedia shyly accepted Menes' compliment, and immediately saluted Menes.

"Dear Lord Menes, this is the first batch of glass bottles that have been made, and I think there are still many problems, but Lord Bouthamon thinks it is very good, so I will produce a batch first, and I would like to ask you for advice. Dai Dia said respectfully.

"Hahaha...... You should know better than me about the problem of the product, but this look has been completely mass-produced, and the follow-up improvement work needs to be handed over to others to study as soon as possible, and you need to do greater research work. Menes said with a smile.

"Your Excellency, please!" replied Dedia.

"Well, don't call me an adult in the future, just call me master, that's what the teacher means, we are a master-apprentice relationship. ”

"Yes, master!" said Dedia, wondering how Menes always had some strange words.

"I need you to study two building materials now, one I call it cement, the other is called red brick, cement is the focus, red brick can be taken slowly, red brick is relatively simple and similar to our mud brick but needs to be fired, and the finished product is more durable and durable. ”

"As for cement, this way of building that can change the whole world will be an epoch-making product if successful, an indestructible building material. Menes said this, and Bouthamon's eyes turned into gold coins again.

"Can you make money?" asked Butehamon at once.

"Make money, make the earth as strong as steel, the material that is indispensable to any building, do you think you can make money?" Menes asked rhetorically.

"Please advise me!" said Dedia respectfully.

"Well, the main materials used in this thing are limestone and clay, and after crushing, it will be almost the same after high-temperature calcination, and I only know these, how to do it and whether other materials are needed, I don't know very well, this is the direction of your research experiment. Menes did know that.

"Calcination of limestone and clay sounds easy, so I'll try it!" said Daidia.

"As for the firing of red bricks, it is theoretically simpler, that is, to make the clay into the shape of bricks, and then put it in the brick kiln to fire, but the actual situation may be different, you need to study it. ”

"So red bricks are more or less like our mud bricks, changing sun exposure to fire, right?" asked Daidia.

"Hmm...... That's pretty much it, but the furnace temperature requirements will be relatively high, how long it will burn, and whether you need other additives, this needs to be studied. "Menes is basically just coming up with ideas now, leaving the rest to Dayia.

"Sounds simple, huh?" said Bouthamon.

"It sounds very simple, but the actual production is much more complicated, and the main problem is that I want money, research and development expenses!" Menes said, looking at Bouthamon.

Bouthamon hurriedly hid away with the glass vase.

"Don't you run, this is a money-making project, don't you invest? The start-up capital of the new project will cost 2,000 silver bits, and I will contribute half of it, how much will you pay?" Menes asked.

"My lord, why do you want to invest money again? Why do you say that the joint-stock company always asks for money but doesn't sell it? I have already invested money twice and have not made a dime yet!" Butehamon complained.

"How long has it been since you wanted to make a profit? Sell for money, of course for money, I'm looking for you to sell for money, you can sell for a good price!" Menes said.

"Can I sell me for a good price?"

"It's not to sell you, it's for you to sell, hey, no, it's planned to let you go to Lily Harbor to sell the supplies we have, and buy a batch of metal tin and iron back, metal is needed for military construction and industrial construction. Menes explained.

"Oh! this is a good idea, then I'll go and prepare, Winupo, you have been staring at everyone for the past two days, and I will bring it over and sell it for a good price!"

"You go to Lily Harbor to take the land, these things are not taxes, you can't grab them if you want to come to the Holy City, you remember to help me publicize along the road and say that Menes wants to recruit heroes from all over the world, but anyone with special skills or outstanding talents I want, preferential treatment, regardless of identity, as long as there is indeed talent, slaves I will help redeem themselves, civilians I am responsible for transferring out their identities, others and so on have preferential treatment, here is a recruitment order, you remember to promote more along the road. Menes handed a job warrant to Bouthamon.

Bute Hamon glanced at it, gasped and said, "My lord, you are going bankrupt, the conditions you give are too generous, why are you raising so many idlers?"

"Idler? Are you an idler? Talent is the most rare, think about it, if we hadn't met Daidia, would we have glass now? How much do you say these glasses are worth, is Daidia's money a month too much?"

Speaking of which, Dayia's salary will be doubled from next month, and the shares in the new project will continue to be valid according to the previous rules. ”

Bout Hamon patted his stomach and thought about it, what he said made sense, talents are rare!

"One more thing, you should go and see the Queen of Lilies for me, and you should go in a low-key and private capacity to find out how she is doing. ”

"Oh, sir, have an idea?" asked Bouthamon.

"I don't dare to rebel against me, but I always have to be prepared, in case the wind is not right in the future, I can have a place to hide, after all, now the troubled times are coming!" Menes sighed.