Game of Thrones: The Strongest Dragon Mother

Chapter 109

On the third day after breaking through the city gate, all the pyramids fell into Dany's hands, except for the weird pyramid with a round dome like the Temple of the Holy Grace, there were 18 of them in total.

The tallest belonged to the great slave owner, Grazdan, at 100 meters, and the shortest was less than 50 meters.

Eight of them were wiped out, the other four had only a few young children under the age of five, and three of the adults died, and only minors under the age of 14 survived. Ni did not execute a single person.

It took another week, and the entire city was cleaned up by the Unsullied. There were more than 12 people, whether they were new free citizens or the original Ghis civilians.

Well, the 18 pyramids and the accompanying Colosseum contributed tens of thousands of slaves.

The ratio of freedmen converted from slaves to civilians of Ghis is close to 20:1, and Astapor is completely in Dany's hands.

When the document was registering the freedmen, they were divided into five classes by "soldiers, soldiers, farmers, workers, and merchants".

To put it simply, a skilled craftsman is a worker, and he can also choose to start his own business as a small businessman like Lisa, a textile worker.

For honest people who are unskilled and illiterate, or who have family ties, Dani will allocate dozens of acres of fertile land for them, and go to work as farmers on the Worm River Plain outside the city.

Unskilled but dishonest, such as the original slave soldiers and gladiators, were incorporated into the militia by Dany, and the Jorah knight was responsible for training them into a regular army.

Well, this will also be a process of elimination, the elite militia will be drawn out and incorporated into another team, and the unqualified ones will become local guards like police and catchers.

At present, the Unsullied are still serving as police officers to maintain order in the city, but their best use is in field legion warfare, and it is too wasteful to put them in the city as guards.

Those who have read and literate are counted as "scholars", but the scholars and scholar-bureaucrats under Danni's command are completely different concepts.

The real power is in the hands of nobles who hold knives and can kill people. In this world, there will never be scholar-bureaucrats.

Because the social structure of this world is open, it is impossible to live a small life behind closed doors like Hua Xia Dynasty did.

There is no doubt that scholar-bureaucrats are conducive to maintaining the rule of the king.

If you want to centralize power and become a true emperor who promises everything, scholar-bureaucrats are the best helpers for the emperor.

But in the same way, no matter which dynasty, when the scholar-officials came to power, the national power would inevitably decline.

It is easy to cause turmoil when a warrior is in charge of the country, but the military strength is really strong.

In a relatively closed environment like the Celestial Dynasty, no matter how the unified dynasty declines, it will be stronger than the nearby barbarian countries. As long as the officials are clear and bright, they can still be comfortably a big brother most of the time.

But this world is open, your military strength is weak, you can't survive at all.

Therefore, the Westeros Academy has been around for thousands of years. Almost every noble family has a bachelor tutor. The knowledge and insight of the bachelor is several times or dozens of times higher than that of the Chinese literati, but the bachelor still has not become a powerful scholar-official class. .

Well, it really doesn't mean to belittle the ancient literati of the Celestial Dynasty, or elevate the status of a bachelor.

The bachelors in "A Song of Ice and Fire" are super awesome. Art, literature, arithmetic, and agriculture are just basic skills. Philosophy, archaeology, astrology, medicine, anatomy, magic, occult, etc. must be dabbled in.

Moreover, the bachelors are not dead-end students at all, the birth of each bachelor is extremely strict, and their ability to act is extremely strong.

They can be used as doctors, as teachers of children, as staff, secretaries, and housekeepers of noble lords, and if they go to war, they can also be used as military advisers. As long as you can think of occupations, they can almost do it.

The bachelors are not afraid of death, and they often travel around the world to explore new knowledge, such as the teacher of the Witch of Miri, the Bachelor of Marwyn.

A person from Westeros went to a shadowy land tens of thousands of miles away to "study abroad".

Anyone who can read and count is classified as a "scholar" by Dany.

Well, the "Scholar" of the Bachelor, dedicated to serving other people.

She herself established a staff team of 200 people, all of whom were slave scholars who did not want to become free people.

Dani didn't treat them too badly, she still let them live in the Great Pyramid, served by two maids, and their three meals a day were only one or two times lower than Dani's.

Well, the maids are not slaves anymore, they sign labor contracts, have wages, pensions, and medical insurance—the kind of real medical insurance that is free of charge.

Even so, it is cheaper than hiring academics as clerks.

If those scholars got rid of their slave status and signed a labor contract with Dany, the salary they received would be much higher than the cost of raising them by Dany.

"I don't know what they think," Dany complained to Whitebeard.

But Whitebeard told her that this is normal. In Westeros, the bachelors are almost the same as these scholars. They don’t get paid and serve their lords for free for a lifetime, and the nobles are also responsible for supporting them for a lifetime. The Bachelor makes a decent living.

If nobles dare to insult, abuse, oppress, or dismiss their bachelors without reason, the Academy City will also stand up for those bachelors. In addition to threatening to stop providing bachelors to noble families, they can also punish the king through the Grand Bachelors of King's Landing.

Without the bachelor, there would be no one to manage the ravens, and the nobles would not even be able to communicate with the outside world.

As one of the ministers of state affairs, the bachelor is eligible to participate in the imperial meeting.

Although Dany has artificially delineated five major classes, these new social classes are very unbalanced.

Including the service industry, workers account for more than half of them, more than 5 people, most of whom are women; there are 60 soldiers, the oldest are five or sixty years old, and the youngest are only eight or nine years old; Choose 'Merchants', although they have almost no business or stores.

There are too few people who choose to farm, and almost all of them are "cowardly" farming peoples such as Raza and Nas.

These days, except for the Ghisse people who have families and businesses, the new free people in the city are all supported by Dani. Although there are sufficient supplies in the pyramid, the days of eating from big pots cannot last long.

Therefore, she must restore normal city order as soon as possible.

In the new society under the new system, the first priority is to clarify the laws and regulations.

Ten days after the fall of Astapor.

The misty mist in the morning dissipated like a phantom, and the bright red sun was like egg yolk. Before it reached the top of the Great Pyramid, the square of red bricks and stones had begun to heat up slightly.

"Woooo-"

A long and deep horn sounded from the top of the Great Pyramid, and the whole city quickly woke up under the strange power. During the ten days that the Mother of Dragons ruled Astapor, similar situations occurred several times, and the citizens knew that she was summoning the city residents to Assembly at People's Square.

"I heard that this is the sound of the dragon's horn? The dragon's horn can control the dragon." A new freeman whispered to his companions as he walked.

He is a middle-aged black man like a thin monkey, from the Midsummer Islands, less than 1.5 meters tall, with a thin body and flexible hands and feet. He used to be an acrobat raised by the good master, but now he is considered a mechanic.

"Maybe." The acrobat's companion was a freed scholar, a white man in his 40s, of medium build, not very knowledgeable, and not good at writing. He was not a high-level slave with a good life.

However, he is more knowledgeable than his fellow acrobats, and he said worriedly, "I hope the slave masters from Kaiyuan City are not calling."

"What are you afraid of? The newly formed 1 guards don't count. Her Majesty still has more than [-] Unsullied! I want to join the Queen's Guard, so that I have the opportunity to take revenge on the slave traders! Even if I become Her Majesty's The horn player is fine too," said the thin monkey.

"You don't understand, Kaiyuan slave owners don't need to defeat the Unsullied. If they burn the manor outside the city first, the livelihood of more than [-] people in the city may become a big problem," said the free scholar.

No city can be completely self-sufficient, and there must be farming and animal husbandry in the outskirts to maintain daily necessities. Astapor is no exception. In addition to the more than 20 people in the city, there are densely packed slaves on the plains of the Worm River Basin outside the city. The main estate has at least [-] people.

Among the more than 20 people, there are about 3 Ghis people. Before freeing up their hands to clean up the manor owners, Dani also sent a cavalry team to the village to post the notice of "Four Prohibitions": Dare to mass kill Their own slaves destroyed the whole family; they dared to burn grain depots, wheat fields and olive trees, or massacred cattle and sheep, leaving them to rot and maggots, and destroyed the whole family; dared to poison the wells, or directly blocked the wells, or even destroyed the canals If you dare to connect with each other and form an army to kill the cavalry patrolling the villages and towns, you will destroy the whole family.

Of course, Dany is not blindly tyrannical. Behind the four prohibitions is the "Book of the Counselors" to appease the people: Queen Daenerys solemnly promises that all the owners of the manor who do not violate the above four prohibitions will have their family and children safe. , and have a limited guarantee that their respective properties will not be infringed, including fields and warehouses.

Neither the freelance scholar nor the skinny monkey acrobat knew this, let alone that more than 20 manor slave owners had been wiped out in the past ten days.

Slave masters are not evil slave masters if they can be frightened by a few notices.

Some shrewd guys deliberately set fire to granaries and olive groves, hoping to attract horse patrols, and then they would wait and catch them all.

It's a pity that the ideal is vivid and full, but the reality is cruel and unusual.

The work of applying for the "hukou" for the new freedman is indeed complicated, but the clerical team is busy. Dany herself is quite leisurely, practicing sword with White Beard and receiving a few citizens' visitors at the same time. I don't know how relaxed and comfortable she is in her small life.

So, she had time to come and work as a scout for the centaur cavalry.

Before each action, Dahei would fly around the troubled manor, and see the situation of the Giss clearly. The black dragon would even land on the ground and draw a defense map in the manor with its claws.

The next step was simple, a thousand Unsullied rushed up, two hundred centaur cavalry rode and shot, and almost all the rebellious manors were in a wave.

Then the heads of the slave owners who were making trouble in one family were picked up on spears by the horsemen, and they ran around the village, and the rest of them became honest.

Well, Danni's so-called extermination does not mean that the whole family is neat and tidy. It still only kills adults. Children under the age of 14 are locked up for the time being, and they will be dealt with after she finishes her work.

There are two reasons why the Unsullied were not directly sent to bulldoze the manor: first, they were afraid that the owner of the manor would jump over the wall and frantically destroy food and production materials; second, there were too many casualties.

With the help of Dahei, 20 unsullied men and 18 centaur warriors were killed in quelling the turmoil in more than 22 manors, while the other party only paid 1000 casualties of Dorjis farmers.

The idea is not '1000 Unsullied + 200 Horsemen' vs '1000 Dorgis ordinary people', only half of the 700 Dorgis are men, and they are distributed in more than 20 manors.

There are less than a hundred Ghisians and three to four hundred vacillating slave farmers who fight against a thousand Unsullied each time.

The main reason is that the complex environment of the manor is not suitable for fortified battles. Each manor is almost a small castle, which is easy to defend but difficult to attack.

(End of this chapter)