Schemes and Idle chatter

Alexander was well aware that he would never be able to protect all his secrets.

One or two might have been manageable.

But Alexander was not making one or two new things.

He was making a myriad of new things employing not thousands, but hundreds of thousands of people.

Paper, soap, iron, cement, cheap salt, lingerie, weapons, sugar, and clear glass were the names of only a few inventions that were birthed in Zanzan, and they were merely the start.

The printing press, ships made of cement, gas lighting, beautiful mirror, cheap linen, and the compass were some of the new things scheduled for future unveiling.

And many more would come later.

This sheer amount of new and extremely valuable things being produced in Zanzan meant that not only his enemies, but even his allies would also lay their covetous eyes on this city.

And Alexander was not strong enough to fight the eleven provinces of Adhania by himself.