FerriticMatrix

Waking up inside the ruins of an orphanage, Alexander finds himself chained and sold to slavery.
A modern metallurgist, trapped in ancient times, watch as he tries to play with the cards fate dealt him.
He will make plate armor, invent paper, build roads, teach governance and many more, as he tries to carve a place for himself.
But how can such things not attract jealous eyes?
The naval superpower- Cantagena,
The unstoppable army of- Exolas, 
The superpower of the east- Adhania,
The mercantile confederation- Sybarsis, 
The religious fanatics- Iyizarid, 
And the ever-present- Barbarians of the Barren Forrest,
All want something from each other.
In this ocean of sharks, follow a small carp as it struggles to leap through the dragon gate and establish a dynasty to outlast them all.

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Herald of Steel

If Alexander sold his salt to Ptolomy and Farzah in bulk, then it would be those men who would be the main beneficiary of the lion's share of the profit.


After all, the most profitable part of a business was being the middleman, having no headache about production, or about selling the product to the customers.


So if Alexander used these men as a middleman for his product, he would not be able to sell the salt at a premium directly to the customers but these men would be.


Though it could also be argued that these men would also have to bear the cost and logistics of selling the salt inland.


As for option two, Alexander did have a large number of candidates to choose from.


There was Thesos with its vast number of city-states, there were the warring states to his south and there was even Thebias who were his immediate neighbors to name just a few.


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