The Vastness of Magi Chapter 187 - 187 11 Fisher4

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Chapter 187: Chapter 11 Fisher_4

From the dock to Mattdam Township Area, it was only two to three miles. The land price in this area skyrocketed several-fold after Mattdam was confird to develop a harbor, and just from this alone, the profits made Puber laugh until he ran out of breath.

The port docks were severely inadequate, as the original design was primarily for inland river transportation. After all, before being granted permission for harbor developnt, only the river transportation from Bahomon to Mattdam supported this dock. But now, things were different.

Facing the vast Nether Sea and diterranean, along with the long and wide channel of the Catania River, the special position of the convergence of river and sea endowed Mattdam with significant importance. Here, it would beco the window for Caucasus’s external exchanges. Mattdam Customs, belonging to the Caucasus Prefecture, also officially opened for business, inspecting the goods and collecting tariffs which was their rightful duty.

The chaos in the Leon Region was quickly reflected in Mattdam. The closure of Bruce Fortress led to a halt in the transportation of coal, iron ore, and pig iron from Leon, causing a chain reaction in the entire region that desperately needed these types of goods. The prices of these goods soared, even affecting the weapon production of the kingdom.

Although deep down he did not wish to see Leon’s security status restored, if it ant that the kingdom’s weapon production would be affected, this seed to be an uneconomical condition.

While other mines in the kingdom were also operating at full capacity, the side effects of a major export base like Leon closing down were obviously not so easily compensated for. At this ti, the opening of Mattdam’s harbor suddenly brightened many people’s prospects.

The coal mine owners at the foot of the Volt Foothills had been worrying about how to consu the coal they mined, and as the iron mines of Bahomon entered formal mining operations, the output gradually increased. Both types of surplus materials were transported to Mattdam by both water and land. The ironworks of Mattdam and Bahomon couldn’t consu so much raw material. It was at this ti that the benefits of the harbor’s opening began to erge.

Traders who urgently needed these raw materials as substitutes for those from Leon could finally breathe a sigh of relief. The goods piled in Mattdam were swiftly loaded onto just over ten ships, which then departed empty.

Harbor-approved foreign rchant ships sailed directly into the Catania River and straight to Bahomon. The iron ore and pig iron piled up like mountains gave the kingdom’s rchants a new choice. anwhile, the coal mine owners at the foot of the Volt Foothills were recruiting workers to expand production and discussing the possibility of digging a canal to Mattdam.

From the Volt Foothills to Mattdam was rely an area of thirty miles, much of it narrow and sunken valleys. If several higher elevations could be excavated to let the waters of the Catania River flow in, such a possibility was not unthinkable. Of course, for the mont, such a large-scale project required further discussion.

The arrival of the foreign rchant ships also further prospered the comrce of Caucasus, especially the slave trade. Kor, despising slave trading, did not ban it.

A large influx of slaves from different races poured in from the South, particularly a significant number of Elves and Dwarves slaves, which quickly turned Mattdam into the slave trading market of the entire Caucasus. rchants in desperate need of blacksmiths, forging workers, and various servants flocked to Mattdam to purchase slaves. This even inadvertently encouraged the southern Slave Hunter Teams to engage in more frenzied hunting activities, an outco Kor had not anticipated.

The dock expansion project rapidly progressed. Under Puber’s plan, the first phase of the dock expansion would triple in size, and in the second phase, it would double again, enabling Mattdam to reach the scale of Odessa in the north in the shortest ti possible. Naturally, the 500,000 gold shields obtained from Gray Skull beca the start-up funds for the first phase of the expansion project.