Chapter 694

The bank, called the Royal Bank of Egypt, belonged to the pharaoh's private property.

After that, the bank began minting coins.

The new Egyptian-style gold coin has the head of the female pharaoh Nitocris printed on the front and the image of the palace on the back - originally Nitocris wanted to print Ye Ting's head on it, but Ye Ting strongly opposed it. Can't stop: Just kidding, his image of an oriental man appeared on gold coins in ancient Egypt, and future archaeologists must go crazy.

In addition to gold coins, Ye Ting also asked the bank to issue a large amount of "silver notes"—or "golden notes"—on the one hand, it is used to replace large-value transactions, and on the other hand, it is also a means of controlling finance. All the money is in the hands of the pharaoh's bank, so he has to obey the pharaoh, otherwise the golden ticket in his hand will be invalid.

Of course, with the current technology, the anti-counterfeiting of banknotes such as gold tickets is a problem, but this is not a problem for Ye Ting. Following the method of Gringotts in the Harry Potter world, every gold coin and gold ticket issued Anti-counterfeiting contract magic is applied on the body, if it is not a professional, it is difficult for even a powerful mage to break such magic.

Over time, both common people and officials are willing to deposit property in banks, and businessmen are also willing to borrow from them.

What's more, Egyptian gold coins and gold tickets gradually spread to other neighboring countries, gradually replacing the original currencies of neighboring countries due to their high-quality appearance and anti-counterfeiting ability.

All believed in the pharaoh's credibility.

However, the pharaoh's reputation can be trusted, but the integrity of the bank cannot be trusted.

Gold coins are made of gold, so naturally they cannot be cast arbitrarily, but the gold bills are different. As the wealth of the whole of Egypt is deposited in the bank, the bank's gold reserves are getting higher and higher, but the total amount of gold bills in circulation on the market is gold. The difference is naturally the stamp duty unknowingly collected by the bank-of course, for those neighboring countries of Egypt, this can also be regarded as an IQ tax.

They are still ignorant of business, and they have no idea how Egypt embezzled their assets unknowingly.

They didn't even think about what they would do if Nitocris found an excuse to announce that the golden ticket in their hands could not be cashed...

In short, the emergence of banks has brought great convenience to the Egyptians. For Nitocris, the existence of banks has made her money easier than before. With banks, she can finally make And what the pharaohs of all ages dreamed of doing: free hands and feet to build.

In terms of being a foreman and doing construction, the Egyptian pharaohs were all very keen.

This includes the water conservancy of the Nile River, the basic construction of urban construction that benefits the country and the people, and also includes private buildings such as the royal palace and the pharaoh's tomb (pyramid).

Perhaps this point has been engraved in the genes of the pharaohs. As a pharaoh, Nitocris also has people in her heart, but she also has an extraordinary desire to build large buildings.

The first to start construction is the entire Egyptian water conservancy system.

The various water conservancy and agricultural measures pioneered by Ye Ting in the past caused Memphis's grain production to increase dramatically within a few years. It could not only supply the local area, but also sell it to other nomes at that time. It was with this foundation that Nito Only in a few years can Chris build up an elite strong army to reunify Egypt.

Now, as long as this system is implemented throughout Egypt, the Egyptians will soon become rich in food, and there is no need to worry about food.

Getting out of the food crisis is important for Egypt's prosperity.

While establishing the water conservancy system, the urgent task is to expand Memphis.

As the capital of Egypt, although the aristocratic bureaucrats who occupied the elite area of ​​Memphis were emptied after the Great Trial, the nobles who moved to Memphis from various places after the unification of Egypt, plus businessmen from all over Egypt, died due to the war. Displaced people, etc., caused the population of Memphis to increase to hundreds of thousands, and the entire city had to face huge population pressure.

Not to mention how busy the garrison maintaining order is, just the crowded slums are the most troublesome place for Nitocris now.

Not to mention, as the great pharaoh who brought Egypt back to prosperity, many people believe that Memphis and its palace are no longer worthy of Nitocris.

So the vigorous construction began.

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Although for most of the ancient rulers, due to the limitation of productivity, such a large-scale construction would be a waste of money and people, but Ye Ting thinks that it is not bad to carry out some construction in Egypt today.

Because of the previous wars, Egypt has now entered a certain degree of depression, and many people are impoverished due to warlords and wars. It is difficult to make Egypt prosperous in a short period of time by recuperating, but this kind of engineering construction is not the case.

Compared with the intensive cultivation of Chinese farmers, Egyptian farmers have the advantage of the Nile River, which is very extensive in planting, and the Nile River has flood seasons and dry seasons.

During the drought period, Egyptian farmers naturally had nothing to do. At this time, through paid engineering construction, wealth can flow into their hands. In this way, people's consumption can be stimulated and Egypt's prosperity can be stimulated.

So, for Egypt today, a certain amount of construction is a good medicine.

People in this era don't understand this, but Ye Ting still understands: only when money circulates can it create value.

Now Ye Ting is the only one who can stop Nitocris from doing construction, and now even he agrees with this matter, Nitocris just plunged into the construction.

In a big pit.

Unlike the pharaohs of the past, although each generation of pharaohs would build a water conservancy project for the Nile River, Nitocris did the most exaggerated.

Compared with the tinkering of other pharaohs, Nitocris simply carried out subversive construction: building dams and reservoirs.

The construction of reservoirs can hold back floods and store water and regulate water flow. For the Nile River, which is prone to floods in flood seasons and dry in dry seasons, it is a good choice to use reservoirs to intercept flood peaks in flood seasons and discharge them in dry seasons.

However, for the people of this era, the construction of the reservoir is really a huge project, and no one has ever imagined that the river can be controlled in this way.

However, Nitocris is not afraid of trouble.

Because he has a group of good helpers: magicians.

The mages of the Geb school are proficient in the spells related to the earth and the elements of earth, and they are undoubtedly good at engineering construction.

To build a reservoir, Nitocris only needs to let these mages arrange magic, change the landform between the Nile River and the established low-lying terrain, create a sinking waterway, and then let the workers excavate along the waterway.

Obviously no one can bear it if the mages are asked to do all the work, but it's okay to ask them to give an approximate construction framework.

As a result, Nitocris' water conservancy project was launched in such a vigorous way.

The place she chose as a reservoir was named Lake Fayon.

It is located in the west of the Nile in Fayon Nome, the lowest point of the Fayon Oasis.

In prehistoric times, this lake was a freshwater lake with a large area and a lot of water, and it was connected with the Nile River.

But then, the climate changed a lot, causing the water level of Lake Fayon to become low, which cut off the connection with the water of the Nile, and basically became a useless waste lake. By this era, the channel between Lake Fayon and the Nile had dried up. Occasionally a portion of the Nile flows into it when the Nile swells.

In Nitocris's view, it is only necessary to find a way to deepen the river, build a dam, and then introduce Nile water, so that the natural lake Fayon Lake can be used as a reservoir.

In response to this situation, Nitocris decided to restore Fayon Lake in the first step, turning it from dead to alive.

First, she built a dam at the mouth of Lake Fayon, built some locks and dikes, and drained the water from the swamps around the lake, making Lake Fayon a good and leak-proof reservoir.

Then, he mobilized the mages to perform the ground fissure technique on the original dry waterway between the Nile River and Lake Fayon, opening a deep fissure, and then asked the workers to excavate from the fissure, and built a long road based on it. A long canal connects Lake Fayon to the Nile.

In this way, during the flood season, the rushing water of the Nile River can enter the lake through this channel. Conversely, during the dry season, as long as the dam is opened, the water in the lake can also flow back to the Nile River.

With the investment of Nitocris regardless of the cost and the help of magic, the Fayon Lake Reservoir has been built so well that as long as the water conservancy facilities are properly maintained, they can almost last for thousands of years.

In fact, in the next few thousand years, the pharaohs and rulers of all dynasties in Egypt will carefully maintain this water conservancy facility, and the legacy left by Nitocris will indeed be used by later generations until modern times. During the period, the Egyptian government at that time rebuilt the reservoir and the corresponding dam with modern technology.

However, even though the Fayon Lake reservoir thousands of years ago is no longer there, the reservoir that has been used for thousands of years is still an eye-opener for later generations. Historians and archaeologists can't figure it out. In the Lisi era, how did the Egyptians build this reservoir at that time? Therefore, the Fayon Lake Reservoir is considered to be an ancient Egyptian engineering miracle that can be as famous as the Sphinx and the Nitocris Pyramid.

Speaking of the greatest miracle created by the Nitocris female pharaoh during her lifetime, in the eyes of people more than 4,000 years later, it is naturally the majestic Nitocris Pyramid. The longest building, in fact, started almost after the expansion of Memphis and was not completed until Nitocris abdicated.

The Pyramid of Nitocris is the largest of the ancient Egyptian pyramids. The tower is more than 180 meters high. Due to long-term weathering, the top has peeled off by 15 meters. It is now 165 meters high, which is equivalent to the height of a 50-storey building.

Its tower body is made of about 4 million huge stones. The stones of different sizes weigh 1.5 tons to 50 tons. The total weight of the tower is about 11.82 million tons. Its scale is more than a hundred found in Egypt. The largest of the pyramids.

It is an almost solid boulder body. Groups of people dragged these large stones up the spiral passage inside the pyramid, and then piled them up layer by layer. More than 100,000 craftsmen have shared about 60 years of work. A human miracle completed only in time, the Nitocris Pyramid was once the tallest building in the world before the Eiffel Tower was built.

However, unlike what people imagine, the Nitocris Pyramid is not the tomb of the pharaoh like other pharaoh's pyramids.

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