Lord of the Oasis

North County Leader, Stone Pass.

After two months of development, this place has become the most important commercial and trade center in North County. In a short period of time, the flow of people has increased several times, and this fortress built in the canyon is crowded.

Even in the villages outside the pass where the barren land is cultivated, many people are temporarily staying overnight.

The salt trade from the Narun desert feeds the fortress.

no way.

The fine white salt produced in the Nalen Desert has already occupied the salt market of the entire Principality of Lions.

The mineral salt procured from the distant dwarf tribes, even if the quality is not inferior to the boiling salt of the Naron Desert, or even slightly exceeded, but due to the cost problem, it has completely lost its ability to compete.

Even the human kingdoms along the Risniston River have begun to circulate the fine white salt of the Naron desert.

The price is only two-thirds of the dwarven salt.

But the quality is almost the same.

Fine white salt from the Narun Desert quickly became the most popular commodity in the North County Territory.

Not to mention the large and small caravans in the entire Principality of Lions, even the caravans of other kingdoms from the Reisniston River, intentionally or unintentionally began to inquire about the news of the Naron Desert, and pushed the caravan stations to the here.

In particular, the Stone Pass, which guards the center of the Sangwaya Mountains, is home to nearly 300 caravan offices.

Plus a lot of speculators who come looking for opportunities.

Even a spooky spy.

Countless laborers who saw business opportunities and gathered to look for jobs.

And all kinds of wicked gangsters operating in the wilderness or borders of the Principality of Lions.

Including mercenaries, as guards for the merchants, or as security for the lords along the way, even in the now prosperous villages, in order to guard against the attacks of bandits, these mercenaries are occasionally hired.

After the development of the salt trade in the Nalen Desert, the Northern Commander 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, in the feudal era, is an important material that can support a kingdom's tax revenue, especially in the inland areas without the sea, it is comparable to silver mines!

In some places, salt can even be used as currency, enough to see the value of this material.

Fatis also understands.

He stood at the top of the walls of Stone Pass.

Next to it, Swadian infantry in chain mail were patrolling by.

There are also Vicya archers and Swadian crossbowmen armed with war bows, garrisoned majestically in the towering sentry towers and wide towers, vigilantly staring at the outside of the city wall, the densely populated road.

Now the Stone Pass is no longer desolate and barren.

Only crowded.

A large number of houses are being renovated, and house prices in the whole pass have tripled.

The wealthy businessmen bought the land and built a spacious and luxurious office near the original pass market, so that the local businessmen in the stone pass, who were used to poverty, learned what true dignity is.

This also led to the upper-class atmosphere of the entire Stone Pass, and began to move towards luxury and grace.

Even the commoners wore cloth costumes from other kingdoms.

As for the traditional coarse linen.

Only the coolies and the poor wore them, and the commoners wore fine linen clothes.

As for the knights and squires, as well as the nobles who are more keen on luxury, they even wore velvet clothes. You must know that in the past, it was the lord of Grothenburg, the highest viscount in the entire North County, and the Viscount Wayne. clothing.

But in the huge profits of the salt trade, the big businessmen showed a little oil and water, which made countless people very full.

Indirectly promote economic development.

And taxes.

Not to mention the various taxes at Stone Pass.

Even from Stone Pass, to Grothenburg and Marsburg, the taxation made these nobles very profitable.

And Lionheart City on the banks of the Reisniston River,

Furthermore, because of the salt trade, the monthly tax revenue has doubled. With the increase of time, more and more businessmen come to the Principality of Lions, and the amount of tax revenue is 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 the caravan that mastered most of the salt trade.

Even the taxes and tolls along the way make them all choked up.

However, looking at the real gold and silver mines in the Naron desert, they are not yet in their control. All of them have coveted and greedy expressions on their faces. They are gearing up and slowly gather to do something. what.

They all wanted a piece of that salt mine in the Naron desert.

Instead of just eating some oil and water like now.

them.

Want to be the owner of the salt mine, even one!

As a result, under the wooing 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 is close to 20,000, and there are even mercenaries from other human nations outside the Risniston River.

There are nearly 10,000 other noble coalition forces outside.

Headed by Viscount Wayne.

Although there is no direct indulgence, it crosses the threshold of Marsburg to the South County Territory.

However, many nobles in the North County Territory have already begun to test towards the Stone Pass.

Even during this period, there were at least a dozen incidents of mercenaries disguised as robbers, killing caravans. The impact was very bad. At one time, many caravans avoided the business line of the North County Leader and chose to go. Near the death penalty mountain in Nanjun County.

This is still the news that was stabbed out, secretly, there are more burning, killing and looting, I don't know how many.

Mercenaries are not good people.

There are lords who hire soldiers.

No.

That's the bandit.

Even some female mercenaries have to act as barracks girls.

These guys who can sell their lives for money, sell their chastity for money, that's even simpler.

These are all digressions. What Fatis is currently facing is such a coalition led by nobles and mercenaries, and it is beginning to approach the Stone Pass, and the atmosphere of war is getting stronger and stronger.

If you are still immersed in the bustling economic activity of Stone Pass, the consequences are unimaginable.

Fatis understood.

Rolfe, who was originally active on the periphery, has returned.

It brought a large number of desert robbers and scattered out as scout cavalry to defend against the light cavalry of many robbers.

As the days passed, the war was getting closer and closer, and there were also some businessmen who came to the news that the coalition forces led by the North County seemed to be on the move, and the goal was here.

The war is about to begin again, on the territory of the Northern Territory, directly under the jurisdiction of the Principality of Lions. ()

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