Strengthening Oneself (Part 1)
The next week went in a blurry whirlwind for Alexander as he had to juggle two very important thing at the same time.
The first thing was getting prepared to leave for Zanzan.
To do this, he stocked up on all the food he could get his hands on, both by swindling it off Ptolomy and by buying it in bulk from him and Pasha Farzah.
He also got Pasha Farzah to promise him to send thirty thousand tonnes of grain over the next year at a rate of three ropals per kilogram.
This was almost a rip-off for Alexander as the market price for grain was two ropals per kilogram before the drought, but what could he do?
He was desperate and also he had to pay the transportation fee as the journey by sea from Matrak to Zanzan was close to five thousand kilometers.