In a few days, several fleets left the Batumi Port.

In the past, Batumi Port was a military port, with only a small amount of foreign trade. Now, due to the addition of at least 10,000 craftsmen and slaves, and the expansion of the castle, the place immediately became lively. Originally, there were only two or three thousand people here, and they were mainly born on the Armenian garrison. After the Armenian garrison moved away, many of these people also moved away, but about one or two thousand people remained.

The scale of ten thousand people brought a large number of trade opportunities. Of course, this trade opportunity was spread by the Armenians who stayed in the local area (at this time, the Port of Batumi Port belonged to Armenia).

For merchants along the Black Sea coast, they are now naturally divided into Roman merchants, Xhosa merchants, Xhosa merchants, Xhosa merchants, and even Persian merchants, but most of them are the descendants of merchants from the colonized Italian Peninsula and Greek Peninsula.

For them, only if they have business opportunities, what kind of power is there?

For the merchants who can sail at will in the huge Black Sea, those who still stand tall under the attack of several forces have obviously become "families" in their respective countries, the kind of commercial forces that are deeply entangled with those in power and local tyrants.

So, the grain, oil and oil transported from Samsson, Ordu, and Trabzon, the Black Sea ports in Rome, the grain and fur transported from the Taurus Peninsula (Crimean Peninsula), the wood, mountain delicacies, honey transported from the eastern coast of the Black Sea controlled by the Xhosa, such as Gerenjik and Tuapse, as well as the grain transported from the Podie Port in Georgia, and the cloth all poured into Batu Port.

They didn't come to do good deeds for the Sail Ye Army, they were interested in the gold coins of the Great Qin State.

At this time, the broken leaf gold coins of the Great Qin Kingdom, the Sorid gold coins of the Roman Empire, and the Dinar gold coins of the Great Food Empire were all about five grams (one qian weight). However, the broken leaf gold coins are as high as 90%, the Sorid gold coins are only 70%, and the Dinar gold coins are even more unsatisfactory, only 60%. They are mixed with a lot of copper and lead in it. Although they still look bright on the outside, the king pattern they make is also very exquisite, but experts can tell at a glance.

Therefore, the broken leaf gold coins with "Yi Yuan" engraved on the front in Chinese and official script, and the back in the back are extremely precious.

It is worth noting that Sun Xiurong's avatar is surrounded by Chinese and Persian characters with two circles of small characters "The Lord of Oriental Peach Blossom Stone".

They came full of food, cloth, wood, etc. and returned with gold coins. At present, the Sacred Ye Army in Batumi Port has no other important materials available for trade. After they leave, they will continue to trade at various ports in the Black Sea. Such trade is now called "surrounding sea trade". Sometimes, after the most powerful merchants circle the Black Sea, their wealth will triple!

Of course, that is only possible when only a few businesses are doing business, but now there are many merchants from Rome, from the Khanate of Xhosa, from the Great Food Kingdom, and even from the Bulgar Khanate, which occupied later Bulgaria.

Especially for forces like the Bulgar Khanate, merchants are always refused and the only place where business taxes are not collected. Therefore, although merchants in the Black Sea make more money than ordinary people, except for a few people, most of them still have a slight profit.

Nowadays, no matter which family is in power, the finances are extremely tight, especially in the Roman Empire, where land annexation is even better than the current Tang Dynasty, and the Xhosa people are similar. They seem to have made a lot of money, but most of the money goes to the Jews in New Carthage. The Khanate does not receive much money. As for the food, he is actually the most powerful and powerful, and he often raises hundreds of thousands of troops, and no matter how much finance he has, he cannot bear it.

Therefore, just like all dynasties in ancient China, almost all regimes would use land and lords to increase their fiscal revenue.

Because at this time, it was a time when the land was vast and sparsely populated, and there was some free land, they would first sell the land, and merchants would often bring together the purchased land to form large estates, and then recruit self-cultivated farmers and slaves who had lost their land to farm.

At the beginning, it was a manor, but gradually it became a castle. At this time, you could buy titles from the king or the priest in power, or the city lord, or some kind of title that was not formal at this time, or a position in the church. After several generations, you became a real lord and qualified to have an army. By some chance, you could also become a general or minister of the empire.

If you are lucky enough to be born at this time, ministers or generals may overthrow the emperor and then become emperor. The history books will record a note, "The ×× Dynasty of the Byzantine Empire", no one will refuse such glory. When faced with such an opportunity, even God's affectionate call is not enough.

At this time, the first family of merchants who came from a merchant accounted for almost half of the chances of successfully taking office, and the family of military families, bureaucracies, and landlords took over the other half.

Therefore, whether in the Black Sea or the Mediterranean, merchants are almost the most popular profession, no doubt about it.

In addition to land, gold is still the thing that best represents wealth at this time. For example, if you want to bribe a Shangguan, if you take out a land deed, you will most likely be beaten out (too much land and too few people), but if you take a small bag of gold coins, you will most likely succeed.

Therefore, when a country like the Great Qin Kingdom "suddenly" appeared in Batumi Port, merchants were not unwelcoming. They even hoped that the Great Qin Kingdom could sell the iron kits, bath kits, cosmetic kits, and weapon kits that were very popular at this time, so that they could make more money.

Among the various merchants, there are a few that are worth explaining at this time.

The Khanate of Xhosa was naturally headed by their Prime Minister Adam family. He is now known as the "King of Carthage" in the Khanate. He is in charge of the government and religious power of the entire Khanate, and is also the largest merchant family.

As for the Eastern Roman Empire, the largest merchant was the Nikiforus family. By the way, it was the family of Nikiforus I, who founded the Phrygian dynasty as the Minister of Finance. He started with merchants, land, and Black Sea trade and then became the lord of Zonguldak, the largest port of the Black Sea, and the inland city of Ankara, and then founded the dynasty and became the family of the emperor of the Roman Empire.

Of course, Nicky Forus was only ten years old at this time, and the patriarch was still his father.

Let me say something more, Nikiforus is an Arab, but he is just an Arab who believes in Christianity, and a descendant of the royal family of the Christian Arab country, the Kingdom of Gassani.

As for the Bulgarian Khanate, the Khan in power was the Waukiel family (Turkic system), but the Minister of Finance was the Jewish Ugain family (Slavic system that converted to Judaism). This Ugain family replaced the Waukiel family and became the new Khan family, and was also the owner behind the largest merchant in China.

Is God magical? Am I surprised?

This is probably the case in the world.

As for the Great Qin State, there were no particularly outstanding merchants. King Sun Xiurong of the Great Qin State knew the power of it early in the morning. When formulating national policies, he adopted a policy of equal importance to agriculture and commerce at the beginning, which created a limited situation in which business practices are better than farming, but they are better and more good.

Of course, people like Kutba have been in the middle of the country for a long time, and their capital is abundant enough. Even if there are too many commercial taxes, they can still win through quantity. After all, the Kutba family was the richest businessman in the Western Turkic era, the Turkish era, and the black-clothed food era, and now they are still called the Great Qin State.

(Kutba: a real historical figure. Before and after the Battle of Talas, the richest businessman in the river and even Persia was the most wealthy man in the country.)

Also, since he had converted to Judaism (for the convenience of business, the Black Sea and Mediterranean areas are now in the Black Sea and the Mediterranean areas, Christianity hates each other, but can barely accept Judaism), he can carelessly allow the fleet to pass through the Black Sea, the Caspian Sea and the Mediterranean.

Let me say one thing, the moon will be the first to get close to the water. Although Sun Xiurong deliberately suppressed the shipbuilding technology and did not flow out, your ship could not hide in the base and not go out. In the end, it was still possible that Kutba's merchant ship had the technology of some of the Shattered Leaf Army warships. Once such a fleet appeared, others would know that it was Kutba's. Therefore, this pointed-headed and wide-tailed shipbuilding technology actually showed signs of being spread.

Sun Xiurong also knew that he could not defend against this. There are smart people in this world, and they could understand it after a little thought.

This is like after the Battle of Talas in real history, the Tang Dynasty's compass and papermaking technology were largely in the river, Persia and Baghdad, which further made the cannibal ships have an advantage in front of the Romans, and further made the Arabs' scientific and technological culture much stronger than Europe. That's off-topic.

(Author's note: At this time, the Arab Empire, culture and technology were stronger than Europe, otherwise it would not have occupied Spain, Southern Europe, and the Balkans for hundreds of years)

As the direct descendant of the Great Qin State, Kutba had already expanded his business empire to the Black Sea and the Mediterranean. He was also the most popular "peach blossom stone merchant". When the Great Qin State occupied the Batuan Port, he naturally took the lead in setting up a stronghold here with the identity of "peach blossom stone merchant".

Let me say that after coming to the Caucasus region, Sun Xiurong learned the origin of the "Peach Blossom Stone". It turned out that this title was first spoken by the former Georgian kings. I don't know whether it was "Da Qin" or "Tuoba". Anyway, Persia, Dashi, Rome, and Xhosa people all called China the Peach Blossom Stone at this time, which was no different, even the Khanate of the Xhosa from the desert grasslands.

So the two stones in his hand were useful.

Less gossip, after the ships in Batumi Port left Batumi Port one after another, there were Kutba's ships. Nowadays, he has strongholds in Kafa Port on the Taurus Peninsula (which is a distribution center for all supplies including slaves north of the Crimean Peninsula), as well as Taman Port opposite Kafa Port (the distribution center for all supplies in the North Caucasus along the Black Sea coast), Trabzon, Constantinople, and Varna (the largest port of the Bulgarian Khanate).

The Kutba ship heading north was naturally mixed with the staff of the Censorate, which was also one of the costs of the Qin Dynasty allowing Kutba to continue to grow.

Since the news that the "Jingyang King" arrived at Batumi Port has been spread, the fleet heading north will naturally spread the news. Sun Xiurong just needs to know what reactions will be made of the surrounding forces after they learn about this information.

And the Kutba's fleet heading south to the Port of Trabzon still had people from the censorship.

The leader of Renyongdu who was heading north was a familiar to everyone.

Sun Xiaojin, one of the four orphans adopted by Sun Xiurong, was the deputy capital of Yuhou, who was the former mountain camp of the Suoye Army. Now, after the establishment of the Great Qin State, Ren Yong has changed his name to a censor. From the central to the local government, he has no choice but to a censor. The name is called different levels. At present, the largest censor in the Black Sea and Caspian Sea is to relieve worries.

The one who went south was Suken, the one who had once made great achievements in the last time the Sahalian army went east to take advantage of the troubled waters and fought with the Khitans. He was the son of Sahalian, the chief of the Gongyue tribe, and Du Yuhou, who was the leader of the two Sahalian military camps in Batumi Port. Of course, his superficial identity was the "Business Representative of the Batumi Port."
Chapter completed!