Rebirth of the Viking King

The prosperity of pillar industries can bring enhancement to all aspects of a city.

When a large number of wealthy nobles began to visit the Conqueror's Fortress, they would not only buy potions but also walk on the shopping streets and visit other shops opened by merchants in the city.

These shops sell fox skins, bear skins, ferret skins and other fur products that are rare in the Mediterranean region, as well as precious medicinal materials such as wild ginseng and matsutake mushrooms.

In addition to goods, the food, clothing and housing of the nobles and a large group of accompanying guards will also boost the prosperity of the city. After sensing business opportunities, a large number of French and Byzantine businessmen poured into the city. They brought with them skilled chefs and beautiful maids, and began to build hotels, restaurants and experience centers for fallen women one after another.

These new high-consumption stores bring a lot of tax revenue to Mohrantin. Even though snowflakes were still falling in the Conqueror's Fortress at this time, she could see that her treasury was quickly becoming fuller.

But this was only the first step in the Viking revival.

After the initial results of industrial transformation were achieved, the reconstruction of the two provinces "Dragon's Breath Plateau" and "Frost Cold Ridge" was immediately put on the agenda.

Mohrantin has profoundly summed up the lessons of the last failure. When the entire Western Continent abandons slave labor under the Holy Bishop's concept of "all living beings are equal", it is very dangerous to continue to use Slavic slaves in large numbers.

The only reason why Byzantine and Arab merchants were able to come to this remote place to mine and build factories was because of the low labor costs. But in fact, after careful calculation, just like Loki, every worker will be given reasonable treatment, and the income obtained by the lords through mining and breeding is not low.

What he needs to do now is to rebuild the abandoned city first. When the infrastructure is improved, some Vikings will be trained into their own mine owners and farmers.

This is the plan for long-term development.

However, it is not easy to accomplish all this. In the two deserted provinces, she needs to build at least two docks, two main cities with markets, hospitals, and churches that can accommodate ten thousand people, and at least 10 castles belonging to vassals.

To accomplish this feat, relying solely on the money from selling potions seems a bit unsatisfactory.

According to the general thinking of the Dark Middle Ages, the best way to obtain a large amount of funds in a short period of time is to launch a war. However, for Mohlantin at this time, the only force he had was the 5,000 saber-tooth mercenaries that survived from last year.

Such a small amount of troops is only enough to defend the homeland from invasion.

Giving up has never been the style of a Viking princess, and after carrying the entire country on her shoulders, the fragile woman must also learn to grow up quickly.

After a whole winter of thinking, she recalled the great shipowner "Gol Marash" whom she met at Loki's wedding. Two months ago, she sent an envoy to fly across the frozen sea on a griffin, and after a long journey, he came to Constantinople to find his whereabouts.

And now, when the hard ice on the sea finally melted, Old Gore, wearing a golden silk robe, finally stood in front of the Viking princess.

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"Your Majesty, did you just mention that there were monsters walking on the coast?"

"What kind of monster is it? Is there a corpse or something? Can you show me to the old man?"

The Viking Queen smiled bitterly and shook her head. As early as last year when she saw this old man for the first time at the wedding, Sartre and Wenzov had taught her about it. Don’t look at this old guy who is over fifty years old. There is something in his body. He is an extremely free soul who wants to travel all over the world.

Sure enough, without even saying a few words, he was immediately attracted by the "Monster Landing" incident that Mohlantin casually mentioned.

After coughing twice, the Queen decided to bring the topic back to 'making money'.

"Mr. Gore, I heard that you have an exclusive route to the New World?"

"I thought so."

"I have in my hand the complete potion from the 'Book of Saga', as well as various commodities hunted by Slavic hunters. And you have routes from the New World."

"I want to go to Constantinople in the Byzantine Empire, Paris, the capital of the Principality of France, and Sevia in the Visigoth Free City-state this summer to buy three properties and build three shops."

"You also know that I was a partner of Datang's 'Izumo Trading Company' before, so I know the rules of how a trading company operates. I wonder if we can jointly set up a new trading company. What we sell is what only you and I can find. Goods arrived”

Halfway through her words, Mohlantin noticed that the old guy sitting opposite her had his eyes rolling around, as if he didn't hear what she was saying at all.

Seeing that the face of the woman opposite him was gradually becoming colder, Old Gore blushed and waved his hand hurriedly.

"Your Majesty, I don't mean that."

"It's just that the thing you just mentioned about 'huge monsters crashing into the ice throughout the winter' is indeed of great importance!"

He took out a silver armguard from the package and placed it on the round table between the two of them with a thud.

"Your Highness, you must already know the story of three years ago, when Duke Loki, I, and the explorer girl from Constantinople crossed the ice sea and explored the north."

"Then you personally sent Explorer Girl to Hanshui Village. You must still remember it."

Mohrantin nodded.

Old Gore's eyes were twinkling with starlight. He picked up the arm guard on the table again and placed it in front of the Queen.

"We found a sleeping giant as huge as an island there. From the back of the giant beast crawled out of his body a gorgon that lived in the world thousands of years ago."

"After killing the Gorgon, we found this armguard in her abdomen. After careful observation, the explorer girl said that this should be the god under the 'Temple of Zeus' during the Greek city-state period two thousand years ago. Protective gear worn by the chosen one!”

"Then we followed the cave on the back of the giant beast and went deep into the city on its back."

During that trip to sea, Loki brought a total of 2 ships of men and horses, totaling more than 100 people. But among these one hundred people, only Old Gore, Emma Waldorf, and Pastor Lawrence could complete the entire journey with him.

The other Vikings on the ship were all made-up stories based on their adventures. A considerable part of what they said about "adventure" was drunken talk and nonsense.

At this time, after hearing the person involved, Old Gore, tell it again, Mohrantin finally understood the ins and outs of the whole incident.

"Your Highness, I have entered that black pyramid before, and I know what is hidden in it!"

"That's a dozen gold coins piled up like mountains, and thousands of precious creations collected by the 'Illuminati' from various human civilizations in ancient times!"

"Various gems, crowns, weapons, as well as ancient scrolls and books"

"That's a treasure trove of everything!"