The Vastness of Magical Destiny-Chapter 187 - 11 Fisher_4

Chapter 187: Chapter 11 Fisher_4

Chapter 187 -11 Fisher_4

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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 confirmed 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 development, only the river transportation from Bahomon to Mattdam supported this dock. But now, things were different.

Facing the vast Nether Sea and Mediterranean, 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 become 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 meant that the kingdom’s weapon production would be affected, this seemed 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 time, 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 consume 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 consume so much raw material. It was at this time that the benefits of the harbor’s opening began to emerge.

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 merchant 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 merchants a new choice. Meanwhile, 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 merely 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 moment, such a large-scale project required further discussion.

The arrival of the foreign merchant ships also further prospered the commerce of Caucasus, especially the slave trade. Komer, 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. Merchants 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 outcome Komer 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 time possible. Naturally, the 500,000 gold shields obtained from Gray Skull became the start-up funds for the first phase of the expansion project.