Chapter 83: Trade! Trade!
With the departure of the fish-man alliance and the attack of well-equipped Naga warriors, the Kraken clan in the King's Continent has become powerless to return to the sky, and with the fall of the tribal gathering place, more than 100,000 men, women and children of the Kraken clan have been slaughtered completely, so far, the Kraken clan in the northwest sea of the King's Continent has finally been wiped out, at least in the future, the Kraken will no longer appear in the northwest sea of the King's Continent.
The shallow sea fish-people also decided to break off diplomatic relations with the kraken clan and talk to the new power of the Naga clan in the northwest sea on the grounds that the kraken clan used the fish-man warriors as cannon fodder in the war, and after the negotiators on both sides divided the territory of the original kraken clan and got the sea areas they wanted, in view of the fact that both sides looked at each other's reputation in the sea clan council, the two sides finally reached an agreement at the negotiating table and began to form an alliance.
Sun Lin, who contributed the least and earned the most in this war, was cleaning up the battlefield and informing a Naga warrior leader to lead the fish-man messenger to York City 5 days later, and then led the fleet to return to York Harbour in York City with Sun Lin and Sun Lin from the remaining Naga warriors, and even the expanded Naga Foreign Legion. He stopped the full operation of the war machine and began to recuperate.
After nearly 10 days of maintenance work, the buildings in York City and the adjacent 2 towns have been renewed, and basically no traces of the previous war can be found in the city, and the rebel mob outside the city has also been cleaned up by the caravan horse militia led by the captain of the Leo Guard in this 10 days or so, of course, the losses are relatively heavy, if calculated according to the new troop establishment, every 100 people 1 team of a total of 4 caravan horse militia units in this clearance mission, In total, each team lost nearly half of its personnel, and non-combat losses accounted for 40% of the losses! Of course, considering that the area of this battle was forests and mountains, which were very unfavorable for cavalry charges, this non-combat attrition data was reasonable.
In terms of people's livelihood, because Sun Lin managed the aborigines of the Learcester Empire in York City with the policy of facility expansion and the first constitution of the Sunset Empire, which was just written at the end of last year, and Sun Lin's policies in all aspects were relatively perfect, in addition to the fact that the residents in the city had to pay a small amount of urban construction tax every quarter, and the grain producers levied a very small amount of grain crops every six months, they did not have to pay a poll tax and a city gate tax like the laws of the Lanster Empire. Buying and selling tax (trade tax is only for merchants with merchant certificates issued by the empire and merchants with clear identities from outside, and does not include small merchants and hawkers in the city, but in the same way, because of the payment of taxes, it is necessary for Sun Lin to be responsible for the life and safety of goods in his own territory for these merchants who pay taxes) and other miscellaneous taxes, after more than 1 week of rule by the new ruler, the original residents of the Lancester Empire have agreed with Sun Lin's rule to a certain extent, of course, they want to make these residents all loyal to the empire on which the sun never sets, It's still a long way off, but it won't be long, and there's no better way to do that in Yorktown, where 8% of the inhabitants have already become Christian. The towns of Sack and Portorodo also converted 5% of their inhabitants to Christianity after the construction of houses of worship in the towns.
The last is trade, which is also the aspect that Sun Lin has always attached the most importance to in York, of course, from one point of view, Sun Lin's caution is completely superfluous. In terms of land trade, although the reconnaissance reports of many caravans and horseback militias showed that the inland routes of Yorkland had been completely blocked, at least nearly 4 dukes' private armies numbered nearly 20,000 or so, and all 3 routes to the interior of the Randster Empire were closed off with roadblocks, reconnaissance towers and even improvised camps. But what puzzled all the merchants was that these blockades did not detain caravans, civilians, or even the residents of the Lancet Empire who had relocated back to Yorktown, and even those merchants from the empire on which the sun never set would be detained, and the most incredible thing for all merchants was that neither side went out to collect tolls at the blockade points, of course, sometimes the merchants were still asked to stop and pretend to check whether there were any prohibited items in the caravan before letting people go, but this situation usually only happened when there were big people from above to inspect. It's like there's a delicate balance between the two sides, and as long as you don't let your army into my territory, I won't either; As long as you don't detain my caravan, I'm glad you buy your goods into my territory and bring the souvenirs you need.
In terms of maritime trade, the situation is more optimistic, with the fall of York, the rumors of a mysterious and powerful human empire in the far northwest have officially entered the eyes of all the powerful forces in the northwest continent of the king continent, excluding the rumors that the powerful fleet, long-range troops, cavalry troops and mechanical troops of the empire never sets, porcelain, pearls, paper and other specialties have been the most popular from all the upper classes of society at the moment they enter various markets, although there are some boasts, But the truth is not much different from this boast, of course, several empires in the northwest continent have sent people to study the production method of this item, but all in vain, take the original world of the world, European papermaking only began in the 10th century, and before that, the Far East has used paper as a product for nearly 8 centuries, not to mention porcelain, the production method of this product was not until the 16th century with the help of many industrial products to decipher. Therefore, many emperors found that there was no other way to buy these things than to buy them from that mysterious empire, and as for sending an expeditionary force to that mysterious empire to snatch this kind of technique............... Please, fools know that if you want to snatch this kind of technique, you have to go through the sea to the other side of the sea, and that empire itself is playing with the sea, and playing with a big knife in front of Guan Gong is not a joke?
Therefore, after a little sorting out the documents in various aspects of York City, Sun Lin was surprised to find that the situation in York City in terms of trade not only did not decline, but also had an increasing trend, especially after Sun Lin penetrated outward, in addition to York Port and Sardinia's Purple Shirt Harbor, two new trade cities (castles) were opened in the west and north - Rhodes and Electricion City, from the northwest continent of the king continent, and even some merchants from the west and north continents of the king continent who heard rumors from the tavern, Ignoring the vagaries of the sea, they rode the wind and waves on various types of merchant ships towards the four trading points.