Eagle Byzantium

The bank in Barry City signed a contract with a pizza and hot duck businessman in Smyrna half a year ago and opened a branch for investment. At that time, merchant ship trade had a big limitation, which was the lag in information about the place of purchase and the place of sale. For example, if you bought a large amount of linen in the port of Alexandria, after a long voyage, you arrived at For sale in the Palermo market in Italy, the market capacity in the Middle Ages was limited. Therefore, when a large influx of your goods occurs, the price of linen in Palermo will definitely plummet, which will limit your profits. Later, in order to continue your business, you have to buy a large amount of specialty olives from Palermo and go to the Port of Marseille to sell them. However, according to fixed rules, the price of olives will definitely become tight with your one-time large purchase. situation.

How can a businessman make money by running around in a boat?

Therefore, there are no more than three solutions to solve this problem.

One is to create a monopoly. For example, the hot-roasted duck merchants have obtained the right to buy frankincense from Emperor Alexius and monopolize the frankincense on the island of Chios. Once they feel that the frankincense production exceeds the market demand, they will spend money. He bought them all from the growers and burned the excess to continue to maintain high profits. Gawain's establishment of salt lakes in Cappadocia was also a disguised monopoly. After all, everyone needs to eat salt, even if it is not exported. , the surtax on salt alone is a very considerable amount of revenue, but this method is quite disgusting. It was done by the Chinese dynasty in ancient times (salt, iron, tea, wine), and later by European countries such as Britain and France in the late Middle Ages (so this is not the case) It’s a joke about the Chinese dynasty. The methods of amassing money are the same in both China and foreign countries. It’s just that most kings in Europe in the early Middle Ages had no power to monopolize. The doomsday penny was hundreds of years later than the Chinese dynasty’s money-making money);

The second is to set up fixed routes, such as Gawain's Iconium trade route. Everyone is organized to share the benefits. The trade route not only provides accommodation for the caravans, but also dispatches inspectors to supervise the market prices to make them as constant as possible. , in short, there is no big risk for everyone to buy and sell anything, it supplies the rigid needs of various places, and the transit transportation can also feed a large number of people. This is also the fundamental reason why Gaowen One Belt and One Road attracts businessmen;

Of course, there is a third way, which is to set up a chamber of commerce. Businessmen from Venice, Pisa, Amalfi and Hot Duck seek leases from lords all over the world. This is the purpose - referring to the previous article, if you have a chamber of commerce in Palermo , you can buy olive oil in batches at low prices in the days before the ship arrives, and store it in the warehouse of the Chamber of Commerce. Then when the ship arrives carrying linen from Alexandria, you can also store it. up, and then sell them in batches at a good price - in this way, the intermediate profits will stabilize. This is also the origin of the Chamber of Commerce and Warehouse, so why did Gawain and Anna build their own warehouses in Seleucia and Tarsus? Warehouses were rented by merchants (rather than directly transferring land and buildings like the Eastern Roman Empire, Egypt, and the Kingdom of Jerusalem, as the monarchs lacked knowledge of commerce) to facilitate the extraction of rent.

Of course, it is much more convenient to have a chamber of commerce warehouse, but for some merchants who are initially weak, if they want to compete with local wealthy merchants, they sometimes have to borrow money. At this time, the emergence of Barry Bank in Smyrna solved many problems. People's urgent needs, so don't be afraid of comparison Sa and Rela Duck make a lot of money by selling frankincense and alum to various parts of western Europe on the sea and land here, but they also have to give a considerable part of the interest to Gawain every year, which is equivalent to being given by the Kingdom of Tarsus. The economy has penetrated, so who said they lack overseas banking institutions? (Of course Brenus and Dido got a share of Gawain's money. After all, they are landlords in a sense)

The boats rented by Barry Bank were unobstructed in the Bay of Smyrna. The little sunfish soon quietly stayed in the city with his grandfather, staying in a safe bank branch: this branch was outside the city, overlooking the street. On a high hill near the ocean, we rented a piece of land and built a small four-cornered high-walled tower with guards, carriages and a cistern inside, making it look like a small colonial fortress.

Next, the holy sea in the emperor's backyard was disturbed by Bohemond's "ghost".

Atalia's squadron pursued the ship and captured it until it reached the island of Crete. They captured a bowl-shaped red-haired man who confessed that he was Bohemond, and then he was turned to In the Governor's Palace of Crete, after some identification and torture, the minister couldn't stand it anymore and shouted that I was just an ordinary sailor who was bribed with a lot of money to pretend to be the Duke of Apulia.

However, the local imperial officers did not dare to draw conclusions easily, so they put the man in the boat and escorted him to the imperial capital for personal identification by His Majesty the Emperor.

On the other hand, the real Bohemond actually took a boat and broke into Thessaloniki, the most prosperous city on the Macedonian coast. He also burned, killed and looted in the suburban market, causing great commotion. , when the Vardateri cavalry sent by the enraged Prince John rushed over, Bohemond turned overland and quickly disappeared into the deep mountain wilderness of Macedonia.

There were also bandits and pirates revolting in the Peloponnese area, also under Bohemond's flag.

In short, the shadow of Bohemond appeared everywhere. The emperor in the palace looked at the "fake" who was wrapped in chains and kneeling in front of him. He was so angry that cold air kept coming out of his nostrils. He raised his finger with a ring, " Just let him run away like a wild dog back to Italy, just let him He has rotted himself in Aversa. Bohemond has lost power and cannot cause any big troubles. I have made up my mind to concentrate on conquering Tarsus. Everything is a lie created by Gawain. This is a fake trick, I don’t want to do anything about it!”

Then the emperor gasped, turned around and pointed at the busy imperial ink officer and said, "Get the Venetian and Comaroi (Kipchak, Cuman) people ready as soon as possible. Hurry my friend, send the document request. Faster." The emperor urged anxiously.

Then he walked to the terrace on the top of the Brachna Palace. Under the gray clouds, the majestic imperial city was wrapped in the turbulent and cold sea water. Winter was coming soon, and he would never waste it this year, just to give it to him. Make careful military, political and diplomatic preparations for the expedition in the coming year.

Now Apat's heart has gradually faded away in his father's heart. What the emperor desires more and more eagerly is to duel with Gawain to see who is better.

At this time, Seleucia was warm and humid. At the foot of the mountain north of Alamein Castle, Gawain, who was inspecting here, rode a horse and looked at the "Grand Ladder" hydraulic workshop that had been basically completed. It looked like the legendary Babel. On one side of the tower, a tower-shaped square steps down the hillside, containing the rushing Alamein River in its "belly", with rows of water wheels for various purposes rotating inside it.

"Welcome back, little sunfish. This is your masterpiece, and it was successfully completed ahead of schedule." Gawain pulled the reins, turned Sabina's horse's head, and said to a shoulder carriage parked behind him.

The curtain opened, and Agnes appeared there with angry eyes. (To be continued ~^~)