Beijun collar, Jianshi Pass.
After two months of development, this place has become the most important commercial and trade center in North County. The flow of people has increased several times in a short period of time, and the fortress built in the canyon is full.
Even in the villages that plant barren land just outside the pass, there are many people staying overnight.
The salt trade from the Nalun Desert feeds the fortress.
no way.
The fine white salt produced in the Nalun Desert has seized the salt market of the entire Xiongshi Principality.
Even if the quality of the mineral salt purchased from the distant dwarf tribe is not inferior to that of the boiled salt in the Nalun Desert, or even slightly exceeded, but due to the cost problem, it has completely lost the ability to compete.
Even the human nations along the Resniston River began to circulate the fine white salt of the Nalun Desert.
The price is only two-thirds of the price of dwarven salt.
But the quality is almost the same.
The fine white salt from the Nalun Desert soon became the most popular commodity in the North County Territory.
Not to mention the large and small caravans of the entire Lion Principality, even the caravans of other kingdoms on the Reese Niston River, intentionally or unintentionally began to inquire about the news of the Nalun Desert, and pushed the caravan stations to here.
Especially Jianshi Pass, guarding the center of the Sanwaya Mountains, is an office where nearly 300 caravans have gathered.
Plus a large number of speculators who came looking for opportunities.
Even spies with ghosts.
Seeing business opportunities, countless laborers gathered to look for jobs.
And all kinds of vicious bandits who are active in the wilderness or border of the Lion Principality.
Including mercenaries, serving as guards for merchants, or as security guards for the lords along the way, even the villages that are now wealthy, in order to prevent bandits from attacking, they will occasionally hire these mercenaries.
Just after the salt trade in the Nalun Desert developed, the North County Territory prospered in a strange way.
Completely dependent on the salt trade.
This is the iron item.
Salt is a complete luxury!
This modern and cheap condiment was an important material that could support the taxation of a kingdom in the feudal era, especially in inland areas without seas, it was even more like a silver mine!
In some places, table salt can even be used as currency, which is enough to show the value of this material.
Fatis also understood.
He stood on top of the wall in the Stone Pass.
Next to it, Swadian infantrymen in mail armor patrolled past.
There are also Vekia archers and Swadian crossbowmen holding war bows, stationed majestically in the towering sentry towers and wide towers, staring vigilantly at the crowded road outside the city wall.
The current Jianshi Pass is no longer desolate and barren.
Only crowded.
A large number of houses are being renovated, and house prices in the entire pass have tripled.
The rich merchants bought land and built spacious and luxurious offices near the original pass market, so that the local merchants in Jianshi Pass, who were used to being poor, saw what it meant to be truly respectable.
This also drove the high-class atmosphere of the entire Jianshi Pass, and began to move towards luxury and grace.
Even commoners wore clothing from other kingdoms.
As for traditional coarse linen.
Only the coolies and the poor would wear them, and the commoners all wore fine linen clothes.
As for knights, squires, and nobles who are more keen on extravagance, they even wear velvet clothing. You must know that this was only worn by the lord of Grottenburg, the highest viscount of the entire North County, and Viscount Wayne. clothing.
But in the lucrative profits of the salt trade, the big merchants revealed a little oil and water, which made countless people full.
Indirectly promote economic development.
And taxes.
Not to mention the various taxes in the Stone Pass.
Even from Stone Pass, to Grottenburg and Marsburg, taxes have made these nobles rich.
There is also the Lionheart City on the banks of the Reese Niston River. Because of the salt trade, the tax revenue has doubled every month. As time goes by, more and more businessmen come to the Principality of Lions. Taxes are also increasing.
According to the estimates of some scholars, it is possible to double the tax revenue by 20 times within two years!
But.
The nobles were not happy.
Even if it is a caravan that has mastered most of the salt trade.
Even the taxes and tolls along the way made their mouths full of oil.
However, looking at the real gold mines and silver mines in the Nalun Desert, they are not yet under my control, and each of them has a look of covetousness and greed on their faces, gearing up and slowly gathering to do something. What.
They all wanted a share of the salt mine in the Nalun Desert.
Instead of just eating oil and water like now.
them.
Want to be the master of the salt mine, even one of them!
So, under the coercion and indulgence of some nobles, a group of mercenaries was organized and occupied some hills outside the Lion Mountain, becoming a huge mercenary group.
The number of people is close to 20,000, and there are even mercenaries from other human countries outside the Reese Niston River.
There are nearly 10,000 other noble coalition forces outside.
Headed by Viscount Wayne.
Although there is no direct indulgence, cross the threshold of Masburg to the South County Territory.
However, many nobles in the North County Territory have already begun to test the stone pass.
Even during this period of time, there were at least a dozen incidents of mercenaries disguised as robbers intercepting and killing caravans. The impact was very bad. At one time, many caravans avoided the commercial route of the North County leader and chose to leave. Near the Death Penalty Mountain in Nanjun.
This is still the news that was exposed. In the dark, there are more burning, killing, looting and looting.
Mercenaries are not good people.
If hired by the lord, it is a soldier.
No.
That's the gangster.
Some female mercenaries even serve as barracks prostitutes.
It is even easier for these guys who can sell their lives for money to sell their virginity for money.
These are all digressions. What Fatis is currently facing is such a coalition army led by nobles and led by mercenaries. It is starting to approach the rocky pass, and the atmosphere of war is getting stronger and stronger.
If you are still immersed in the prosperous economic activities of Jianshi Pass, the consequences will be disastrous.
Fatis understood.
Rolf, who was originally active in the periphery, has returned.
They brought a very large number of desert bandits, scattered out as scout cavalry, and resisted the light cavalry of many bandits.
As the days passed, the war was getting closer and closer, and there were news from some merchants that the coalition forces of the North County Commander seemed to be mobilizing, and the target was here.
The war is about to start again, in the territory of Beijun, the mainland directly under the Principality of the Lion.
(end of this chapter)