บท 257: My Kingdom For a Horse

With most of the cases solved the city of Thessaloniki returned to a vibrant state, thrived with new merchandise from other Christendom and Saracen states flooding in for they knows that they will all be treated fairly unlike the other ports held by the emperor of the Greeks or the Ottomans. With no high amount of absurd taxations like beard tax, weight tax, oil tax, food tax, window tax, hat tax, dirty sailor tax bluh bluh bluh, they can bring home much more revenue if they trade in Thessaloniki. Through these time of hard work Antonius has managed to establish a solid foundation of governance relying on the farmers and common city folks.