Realm of Power

January of the 3rd year of the Falcon Empire Calendar,

The winter snow is falling, and the earth is in a cold winter, but the merchants of the entire Ikadiva continent are not content with the calm of winter. The northern trade routes are becoming more and more difficult, the civil war in the northern grasslands is getting more and more intense, and the East Kugit people are in Dongting. The grassland is fierce and wars are frequent in the northern region. The east and west camps are looting and fighting each other, creating a chaotic scene.

In order to avoid the impact on the empire's borders, the Imperial Border Guards had announced in December that the road to the Dongting Grassland would be temporarily closed. The Dongting people's brutal and reckless looting style, even the convoys of daring smugglers would not dare to To venture through this chaotic situation,

As for the Sikujit people, who mainly gather in Aiqmore, because they gained a lot in the Battle of Dorok, their demand for food has been greatly reduced this year. This has led many to hoard a large amount of food and prepare to make a good profit this winter. The wealthy businessmen who made the last deal were greatly disappointed, and some even overstocked. And had to sell it to the Falcon Military at a ridiculous price. The food was worthless anyway. Rather than rotting in the warehouse, it was better to sell it to the Falcon Military as a favor.

However, the impact of this food crisis on northern commerce is self-evident. The entire empire's commerce seems to have lost momentum this winter, looking listless and even a little weak.

After losing the market in the north, the attention of many chambers of commerce naturally turned to the relatively stable Salander in the south. You must know that Salander is no longer what it used to be. This peninsula extends from the continental shelf in the southern part of the continent. It has natural advantages in maritime trade, and with the prosperity of overseas trade. With the rapid increase in the proportion of trade in the empire, Zhivadin became faintly related to the southern part of Vecia. Tihar in the south of Rode is also known as the trend of the three major business centers in the south.

After more than half a year of self-cultivation, stimulated by the empire's favorable economic policy conditions, and after several population migrations and economic integration, Salander has completely gotten rid of the negative shadow caused by the war.

The northern port of Witton is under the vigorous construction of the navy. There is a faint tendency to become a rising maritime trade center, and the central city clusters that were originally abandoned during the war have rapidly prospered due to the large-scale migration of foreign populations.

The warm winter sun shines on the pillars of Salander's temple that have been weathered by wind and rain for hundreds of years, giving off a halo of peace. Maybe the Salanders themselves never thought that this country that had suffered so much would be so prosperous one day.

Cargo carriages were running on the wide road, and the once empty wilderness was no longer covered with tall wormwood. Instead, there were the hardworking figures of homesteaders working hard to reclaim wasteland. Although the green winter wheat is covered with thick snow, it can still make people feel the hope for the coming year.

Salander's renaissance can only come from two aspects

On the one hand, there are a large number of Salander aristocrats who, driven by the desire for wealth and self-improvement, independently transformed into business aristocrats. They turned the wealth they had accumulated over generations into merchant ships that sailed to sea. Carriages for transporting goods and various raw material processing workshops attracted and digested a large number of Salander people who lost their land during the war, and injected a strong force into Salander's economic recovery. of capital flow,

The other aspect comes from the main continent, Ikadiva

Salander's unique romantic culture and relatively stable peaceful environment also attracted a large number of nobles from the other side of the continent. Those nobles from various continents who chose to escape with their families because of the war during the Falcon Unification War brought them with them. With a large amount of wealth gained from selling off their family property, and full of longing for life, they flocked into the beautiful Salander.

Although this place is still under the rule of the Falcon Empire, because it is mainly a peaceful annexation, compared to the brutal war for hegemony on the main continent, this place is completely like a paradise. The empire's influence and changes in these places are almost French. aware,

There are almost no soldiers from the empire on the streets. The southern governor Statunko who is responsible for governance has always been known as a "benevolent man". In order to eliminate the resistance of the Salanders, the Falcon Army is not allowed to be invaded under normal circumstances. Most of the Confederate soldiers stationed in the city and occasionally seen were very polite, unlike their colleagues in the north who were so murderous and black-armored that ordinary people dared not look directly at them.

If you walk in the city streets of Salander, you will hardly feel the feeling of war. You can clearly feel the passers-by with sincere joyful smiles, the dazzling array of shops, and the colorful Salander. Girl, there are sacrifices preaching the teachings of the sky on the roadside, neat and clean roads and old buildings full of history,

The peace and prosperity here made all the mainland nobles who fled feel a sense of reversing time and space. It seemed that they had traveled through time and space and returned to their homeland a few years ago before the war broke out.

As the Black Forest was pacified, the news that the empire was going to build a road in the Black Forest to the southern port of Moro was also revealed by unknown people. The south of Salander immediately became the focus of businessmen throughout the empire.

From the map, the distance from the Black Forest to Moro is about 300 miles. This road is not very long, but once it is completed, caravans will have to go around the Black Forest and take an extra four days to travel. Instead, we can pass this straight road through the complex central mountains, shortening the journey that originally took 5 days to 2 days. This will be a qualitative change.

With this passage connected to Kulonburg, known as the first road in the north of Sarande, the time to cross the entire Sarande can be completely controlled within 10 days. This will indicate that the rich products in the south can be loaded onto merchant ships from the northern port of Vic and transported to the Ikadiwa continent within a few days, and the mainland goods unloaded at the port of Vic can also be shipped from the southern Moro to the distant Obaro continent within a few days.

The entire Sarande Island should be called a huge operating center of the empire.

Such a huge idea may only be thought of by the fat man, and the empire will build the empire's first large offshore port in the southern port of Moro. The secret plan is also quietly lying in the fat man's mind. On the desk,

The branches in front of the tree were covered with thick white snow. The fat man looked at a red-spotted white bird jumping on it with boredom.

If you look past the red-spotted white bird, you will find that the bitch's eyes are actually looking at a storefront facing the street opposite.

A beautiful girl wearing a white winter coat, holding a pine broom in her hand, is cleaning the snow marks on the road. She wiped the sweat from her forehead with her hand, revealing a face that is not very beautiful, but the bright blush and the tall and graceful figure are all full of youth and liveliness that cannot be looked at, bringing people a warm spring feeling like the sun.

"Your Majesty, the code of the box has been found." At this time, a guard pushed open the door of the fat man's study with an excited look.