In just a week's time, the production at Alexandria Port had already resumed its normal pace. The port was filled with a forest of masts as countless merchant ships docked here, many flying the emblems of the Latins or the conspicuous cross.
The wealthy merchants who either fled by ship or were executed created a large vacancy in Alexandria's trade share, which Losa allocated to the Coptic and Greek people who sided with him, as well as the Latin merchants whom he was always wary of.
There were some Saracens as well, but not many.
This city, after all, did not experience a harsh siege; although it encountered some internal chaos and a large population exodus, it did not alter the city's potential.
However, it takes time to realize potential.
If a trading hub loses its sprawling network, it becomes like Constantinople of later generations, merely a bloated brain that will soon shrink into a dead city.
