Lord of the Oasis Chapter 451: .Crisis at Stone Pass

Northern Territory, 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 sleeping.

The salt trade from the Narun Desert feeds the fortress.

No way.

The fine white salt produced in the Narun Desert has seized the salt market of the entire Principality of Lions.

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

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

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

But the quality is nearly 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 Nalun Desert, and the caravans were stationed in all places. pushed here.

Especially the Stone Pass, which guards the center of the Sangwaya Mountains, is an office that gathers nearly 300 caravans.

Plus a large number of speculators who come looking for opportunities.

Even as a spy with a ghost.

Countless laborers who saw business opportunities and gathered to find jobs.

And all kinds of vicious 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.

Just after the salt trade in the Nalen Desert developed, the Northern Territory prospered in a weird way.

Totally dependent on the salt trade.

This is the iron item.

Salt is a complete luxury!

This modern and cheap condiment, in the feudal era, was an important material that could support a kingdom's tax revenue, especially in the inland areas without the sea, it was comparable to silver mines!

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

Fatis also understands.

He stands on top of the walls of Stone Pass.

Besides, Swadian infantry in chain mail are patrolling by.

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

The current Stone 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 wealthy merchants bought the land and built spacious and luxurious offices near the original pass market, so that the local merchants in the originally poor and accustomed Stone Pass learned what true dignity is. .

This also brought the high-class atmosphere of the entire Stone Pass and began to move towards luxury and grace.

Even the commoners are dressed in fabrics from other kingdoms.

As for traditional coarse linen.

Only coolies and poor people wear it, and the commoners wear fine linen clothes.

As for knights and squires, as well as nobles who are more keen on luxury, they even wear 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 wore it. up clothes.

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 has made these nobles very profitable.

There is also Lionheart City on the banks of the Risneston River. Because of the salt trade, the monthly tax revenue has soared by 2 times. With the increase of time, more and more businessmen come to Xiongshan. In the Principality of Lions, the amount of taxation 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.

Those nobles were not happy.

Even the caravan that controls most of the salt trade.

Even the taxes and tolls along the way make their mouths full of oil.

However, looking at the real gold and silver mines in the Naron Desert, the real gold mines and silver mines are not yet in their control, each with a coveted and greedy look on their faces, gearing up and slowly gathering to think do something.

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

Instead of just eating oil and water like now.

They.

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~IndoMTL.com~ There are even mercenaries from other human nations outside the Risneston River.

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

Headed by Viscount Wayne.

Although not directly indulged, crossed the threshold of Marsburg to the South County Territory.

But 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, killing caravans. The line chooses to go near the death penalty mountain in the southern county.

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

The mercenaries are not good people.

A lord hires a soldier.

No.

That's the gangster.

Some female mercenaries even act as barracks girls.

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

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

The consequences of remaining immersed in the thriving economic activity of Stone Pass are unimaginable.

Fatis understood.

Rolfe, who was working on the outskirts, is back.

A large number of desert robbers were brought in, and they were scattered as scout cavalry to defend against the light cavalry of many robbers.

As the days go by, the war is getting closer and closer, and there are also some businessmen who have received news that the coalition forces from the North County Command seem to be starting to move, and the goal is here.

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

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