In this era where the flow of information is not yet convenient...
The news that the old grandmother had awakened from dragon sleep had spread all over the world.
It was the Noahs who first discovered this. To be precise, it was the steam freighters that gathered together in the winter.
The most important one is the company that led the veterans to change careers after the eldest princess failed in her bid for the throne. It is also the maritime company that was tendered and subscribed by the royal family and has the highest comprehensive qualifications in the Kingdom of Noah.
After the royal family acquired half of all shareholders, its original name no longer mattered.
It will get a new, highest-status name - "Noah Marine Company" directly named after the kingdom without any additional suffixes. The business scope will also expand from pure sea freight to fishery, aquatic product processing, deep-sea
Resource extraction, ocean trade, tourism, etc.
After the port reopened in the middle of winter, ships from Noah Marine Company came almost every three days.
Either transporting people or transporting goods... Although the natural resources on the Winter side are relatively scarce for the time being, there are quite a number of high-value commodities on the Winter side——
The Amber Sea in the north of winter is the largest amber collecting area in the world. It can almost be called a "bare ore". As long as you drive a private boat there and fish it out with a fine fishing net, you can get as much as you want.
Like a small fish, he scooped up a net full of amber.
The frost beast blood and frost beast fur in Winter are also specialties sold only in Winter.
Although this is not an urgent need, due to the severe winter, foreign trade has been cut off for a long time... and private breeding of frost beasts is not allowed. The frost beast products on the market have been substantially manipulated by the underground city.
The monopoly has already been more than seven or eight times higher than the actual value.
In addition, in the cold winter, the offshore area has the best quality and largest variety of plump sea fish in the world - it is a natural fishery that can feed half the principality and still have a surplus.
During the winter sea period, even Noah's nobles had no chance to taste it.
Because this thing is no better than frost beast blood, it is difficult to preserve and transport, so even transporting it to the underground city is very difficult... Even in the underground city with the most abundant product categories, winter sea fish is the most expensive ingredient.
Even more expensive than the highest quality beef produced by The Theocracy.
In the beginning, it was just Noah Marine Company. Every time I dropped off supplies from the cold winter side, in order not to return empty, I would just bring something with me.
But they soon discovered that this thing could be sold for more than ten times the price in Noah... After all, in the dead of winter, fish is the least valuable ingredient.
Because the fish in winter are "stupid". They don't hide from people at all, they eat the bait when they see it, and there are so many that they can't be caught at all - after all, the old grandmother's field also includes tradition. As the mother of all dragons, she and
Together, the women holding the cup control the realm of reproduction and rebirth.
On those seas that are not frozen by blizzards, every time you go out to collect the nets, the fishing nets are full of big fat fish.
That is because not all cities are on the seaside, and some places are relatively remote. When you go out to collect fish, you need to leave the small barrier and work in the snowstorm... The result is that as soon as the fish leave the water, they freeze into ice lumps in the blink of an eye.
The former is so delicious.
But in Noah, because these things are rare, delicious and difficult to transport and preserve, they have easily become the latest trend in the Kingdom of Noah.
The price of winter fish has reached ten times the purchase price, and it is still rising. The price of live fish is even higher than that of frozen fish - after all, Noah's nobles are really not short of money.
After realizing the business opportunities, it didn't take long for freighters from other companies to start heading for the cold winter.
Soon, the number of merchant ships on Lundong's side increased to at least one per day. Later, it increased to three to four per day... Even the freighters from the United Kingdom had to bypass Noah's side.
As for the latest batch of cargo ships, they were still negotiating business and loading cargo in the cold winter.
Without any warning, small barriers in various places suddenly opened at the same time - but amidst people's panic and fearful shouts, the blizzard that froze everything did not arrive.
The warm wind blows in. The sun shines brightly in the sky.
The ice in all the rivers melted instantly, and the frozen farmland thawed and regained its fertility. Even wild animals suddenly appeared... It was as if all the people in a country had traveled to another world.
People quickly realized what was happening.
Soon, the festive atmosphere of carnival swept across the country——
People in the winter came out of their homes one after another and ran to the surrounding fields and mountains, looking at the green that was light but extremely real and full of vitality.
Almost every family took out all the food they had stored at home, put it together in the squares of various cities, and held banquets.
Soon the square was full, so every household simply cooked and gave away these messy, not-so-delicious foods in front of their homes and in the streets and alleys.
For people in the cold winter, wine is of course a must-have, so people dug into their pockets and bought all the wine they could buy. The tavern owners also stopped making money and sold them directly at the purchase price, leaving inventory
All sold cleanly.
Even businessmen from other places were dragged to attend this banquet of unprecedented scale.
When have they ever seen such a spectacular scene?
The so-called empty streets——
People from nearly a city all put on their most decent clothes, eating free food, drinking free soup in the squares and streets, and holding a bottle of cheap or expensive wine in their hands.
Every time you see other people, no matter you know them or not, no matter their status, no matter they are male or female, young or old, you should have a bright smile on your face, clink glasses with each other, and drink.
They took off their hats, saluted, congratulated the Grand Duke, called each other brothers, and celebrated in unison.
People laugh, shout, sing and dance at banquets and in the streets.
One bottle after another, noisy until dawn.
When they drank too much, they would hug each other and cry. The strong bear-like man would curl up like a baby, whimpering in a dialect that no one could understand.
——In spring, even if you lie down on the ground after being drunk, you will not be frozen to death by the cold wind in the morning.
There is nothing more [reassuring] than this.
This is always the number one cause of death among young adults in winter.
So, why do these strong laborers, the backbone of their families, drink all night and pass out drunk at dawn without anyone taking care of them?
That is self-evident.
Because they lack [hope]. Looking up, there is no hope at all.
Now, those days are finally over.
Noah's merchants certainly couldn't understand those random whimpering words.
But they will remember the smell of the stew, the red lights that never go out all night, and the carnival singing and dancing.
After these businessmen returned to China, they immediately informed everyone they could about "the beginning of spring from the end of winter."
They described this strange experience vividly. Some even wrote it and adapted it into an opera.
These merchants did not bring back any in-demand specialties when they returned home this time... they only brought boatloads of letters.
It was one letter after another from home.
It was something that Grand Duke Winter personally entrusted them to bring back.
——That is [Hope] itself.
The children and the elderly who were left behind in the cold winter - the left-behind residents who had no ability to work - wrote letters home one after another with the help of the priests, calling their families to come back.
Every word is full of joy. Like a flame, it burns the wanderer's heart to return.