Chapter 694：

The bank is called the "Royal Bank of Egypt" and is the private property of the pharaoh.

After that, the bank began minting.

The new Egyptian standard 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, but Ye Ting strongly opposed it. I can't stop it: Just kidding, the image of an oriental man appeared on the gold coins of ancient Egypt. The archaeologists of the future must be crazy.

In addition to gold coins, Ye Ting also asked the bank to issue large "silver notes"-or "golden notes"-on the one hand to replace large transactions, on the other hand, it is also a means to control finances. All the money is in the hands of the Pharaoh's bank, then he has to obey the Pharaoh's orders, otherwise the gold ticket in his hand is invalid.

Of course, in terms of current technology, the anti-counterfeiting of banknotes such as gold tickets is a problem, but Ye Ting can’t be bothered by it. Following the method of Harry Potter World Gringotts, every gold coin and gold ticket is issued. Anti-counterfeiting contract magic is applied to all of them. If you are not a professional, even a powerful wizard can hardly crack such magic.

Over time, both the people and the officials are happy to deposit their property in the bank, and businessmen are happy to borrow from them.

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

Everyone believed in the credibility of Pharaoh.

However, the credibility of the Pharaoh can be trusted, but the integrity of the bank cannot be trusted.

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

They are ignorant of business, and they don't know how Egypt unknowingly embezzled their assets.

They never even thought about it, what should they do if Nitocris makes an excuse to announce that the gold ticket in their hand cannot be cashed...

In short, the emergence of banks has given the Egyptians great convenience, and for Nitocris, the existence of banks has made her money loose several times on the original basis. With the bank, she can finally make it. And what the pharaohs of past dynasties dream of wanting to do: let go of their hands and feet and engage in construction.

When it comes to working as a foreman and engaging in construction, the Egyptian pharaohs are very keen on it.

This includes the water conservancy of the Nile, the infrastructure construction that benefits the country and the people, as well as private buildings such as the royal palace and the Pharaoh’s tomb (pyramid).

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

And the first thing that started construction was the entire Egyptian water conservancy system.

The various water conservancy and agricultural measures pioneered by Ye Ting in the past caused the Memphis grain output to increase sharply within a few years. It was not only able to supply local food, but also to other Noams at the time. It was precisely this foundation that Nito Kriss can build an elite and strong army within a few years, thus reunifying Egypt.

Now, as long as this system is implemented throughout Egypt, the Egyptians will soon become rich in food, and there is not much need to worry about food.

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

While building the water conservancy system, the immediate priority is the expansion of Memphis.

As the capital of Egypt, although the nobles and bureaucrats occupying the elite areas of Memphis after the Great Trial were empty, the nobles who moved into Memphis from various places after the unification of Egypt, together with merchants from all over Egypt, were destroyed by the war. Displaced people and so on, the population of Memphis soared to hundreds of thousands, and the entire city had to face tremendous population pressure.

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

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

So the vigorous engineering construction began.

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Although for most of the ancient rulers, due to the limitation of productivity, such large-scale construction projects are susceptible to labor and wealth, but Ye Ting believes that it is not bad for Egypt to carry out construction projects today.

Because of the previous wars, today Egypt has entered a certain degree of depression. Many people are impoverished by warlords and wars. It is difficult for Egypt to prosper in a short period of time only by recuperation, but such engineering construction is not the case.

Compared with the intensive cultivation of the peasants in the Celestial dynasty, Egyptian peasants have the convenience of the Nile River, and the planting is very extensive, and the Nile River is divided into flood season and dry season.

During the drought period, Egyptian farmers have nothing to do. At this time, through paid construction projects, wealth can circulate into their hands. Only in this way can they stimulate the consumption of the people and the prosperity of Egypt.

Therefore, for today's Egypt, a certain degree of construction is nothing more than a good medicine.

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

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

Unlike the pharaohs of the past, although each generation of pharaohs will build a water conservancy project on the Nile, Nitocris has done the most exaggerated.

Compared to other pharaohs' repairs and repairs, Nitocris simply carried out subversive construction: building dams and reservoirs.

Reservoir construction can block and store water and regulate water flow. For the Nile River, which is prone to flood during the flood season, and the land is easy to dry up during the dry season, it is a good choice for the reservoir to intercept the flood peak during the flood season and discharge it during the dry season.

However, for the people of this era, the construction of the reservoir is really a huge project, and no one has ever thought of controlling the river in this way.

However, Nitocris is not afraid of trouble.

Because he has a group of very good helpers: magicians.

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

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

If you let the wizard do all the work, obviously no one can stand it, but it's okay to let them give a rough construction framework.

As a result, Nitocris's water conservancy project started vigorously.

The place she chose as the reservoir was named Fayong Lake.

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

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

But later, the climate changed greatly, which caused the water level of Lake Fayong to become lower, which cut off the connection with the water of the Nile River, and basically became a useless lake. By this era, the watercourse between Lake Fayong and the Nile had dried up. Only when the water of the Nile is skyrocketing, does the water from the river occasionally flow into it.

In Nitocris's view, only need to find a way to deepen the river, build a dam, and then introduce water from the Nile River, the natural lake of Fayong Lake can be used as a reservoir.

In response to this situation, Nitocris decided to re-rectify the Fayong Lake in the first step, turning it from dead to alive.

First, she built a dam at the mouth of the Fayong Lake, built some sluices and embankments, and drained the water from the marshes around the lake, making the Fayong Lake a good and non-leaking reservoir.

Then, he mobilized the mages to perform ground splitting on the original dry waterway between the Nile River and Lake Fayong, separating a deep crack, and then asked the workers to dig from the crack and build a long line based on this. The long canal connects Lake Fayong with the Nile River.

In this way, during the flood season, the rushing Nile water 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.

With Nitocris's investment at all costs and the help of magic, the construction of the Fayong Lake Reservoir is so good that this water conservancy facility can last for thousands of years as long as it is properly maintained.

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

However, even though the Fayong Lake Reservoir that existed a thousand years ago is no longer there, the reservoir that has been in use for a thousand years is still an eye-opener for future generations. Historians and archaeologists can’t understand why it was in Nitok more than four thousand years ago. In the era of Lisi, how did the Egyptians build this reservoir at that time? Therefore, the Fayong Lake reservoir is considered to be a miracle of ancient Egyptian engineering that can be as famous as the Sphinx and the Pyramid of Nitocris.

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

The Pyramid of Nitocris is the largest pyramid in ancient Egypt. The tower is more than 180 meters high. Due to the weathering over the years, the top is peeled off by 15 meters. The current height is 165 meters, which is equivalent to the height of a fifty-storey building.

Its tower is made of about 4 million boulders. The stones of various sizes can weigh from 1.5 tons to 50 tons. The total weight of the tower is about 11.82 million tons. Its scale is hundreds of stones discovered so far in Egypt. The largest in the pyramid.

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

However, unlike what people think, the Pyramid of Nitocris is not a tomb belonging to the pharaoh like the pyramids of other pharaohs.