Game of Thrones: The Strongest Dragon Mother

Chapter 115

In the blink of an eye, half a year has passed. According to the calculation of the people of Westeros, the ghost summer has just ended, and the Seven Kingdoms has almost entered the rare autumn in ten years. It should be the "autumn year", and next year will officially enter the "bitter winter".However, Slave Bay has a tropical maritime climate, and there is no obvious change of seasons.

Although Dani has been in this world for more than a year, she has been traveling in warm and tropical regions, and has no intuitive experience of the cold winter and the changing seasons of this world.

Many times, when she took the Queen's Iron Guard to inspect the manor fields, she would tease the two Westeros: Do you think Slaver's Bay is the legendary "Long Summer"?

In line with the idea of ​​preempting the enemy and being lenient, during this period of relative peace, Danni went full steam ahead to engage in large-scale production. In half a year, two crops of rice were harvested, and one crop of wheat and turnips was harvested. Far.

In addition to the slave trade, the Ghisians developed two trades: burning bricks and smelting bronze.

Dany discovered from her previous memories that most of the free trade cities were stone houses. When she asked Jorah and Barristan, they also said that in Westeros, the nobles live in stone castles, and the common people live in wooden houses.

How awesome are the brick-burning skills of the Gisians?

The three cities of Astapor, Kaiyuan, and Meereen, including the pyramids, streets, squares, civilian houses, and city walls in the city, are all made of bricks.

Well, it must be explained that the main building material of the pyramid is still boulders.

This reflects the brilliance of the master architects of Guise. They have considered the weathering problem. If the rocks are exposed outside, the pyramid will weather and collapse "rapidly". Therefore, the outside of the stone pyramid is paved with multiple layers of red bricks.

Uh, the concept of time of architects of Guise is different from that of modern people. They really want to build a "endless foundation".

The Great Pyramid named "Chaoyang Palace" where Danni lives has a history of more than 5000 years.

At that time, the Ghis Empire was destroyed in the hands of Valyria, and the Gith people left the old Ghis (the capital of the Ghis Empire, located on the other side of the 'New Ghis' Strait) that was burned and sprinkled with salt, and entered the slave bay to build The three cities of Astapor, Kaiyon and Meereen.

Are there any buildings on earth that are more than 3000 years old?

Dany didn't know.

But let alone 3000 or 5000 years in this fantasy world, many buildings in Westeros have a history of 8000 years, such as the 19 night watchman fortresses under the Great Wall of the North, such as Winterfell, Casterly Rock, and Storm City.

Well, farther away.

The Ghis people are very skilled at burning bricks and smelting bronze. There are continuous brick and tile factories and metallurgical factories near the mountains to the south of Astapor City, but Dany did not start production of red bricks.

After she liberated all the burning slaves, she let them sign labor contracts and get back to work, but the place where they got back to work was not a brick and tile factory, but a metallurgical factory, fully producing farm tools and swords.

Iron mines in Astapor are relatively scarce, and more than [-]% are copper mines. Precious steel is first used to make farm tools, hoes, sickles, and shovels

In order to improve the efficiency of farmers' farming, Dany also orally invented three types of coulters, the "small" coulter for mules and horses, the medium coulter for bison, and the giant coulter for elephants.

The so-called "oral inventions" she only talked about their uses, and a large group of blacksmiths and scholars thought hard to turn them into reality.

Bronze weapons are certainly not suitable for a world that has been thousands of years into the Iron Age, but bronze spears are always more menacing than wooden clubs.

Not to mention the Queen's Mother of Dragon Guards, even the middle-aged peasants who work as part-time militiamen in the countryside also have a bronze spear and a bronze machete in their hands.

Dany’s idea of ​​ruling Astapor can be divided into two steps. First, establish a code of laws and regulations to stabilize people’s hearts and standardize the system; second, develop agriculture and military, that is, to fill the stomach and strengthen the force.

The long night is coming, she has no time to make a "five-year plan", only "half-year plan".

The goal of the first half-year plan under Dani's rule was to restore agricultural production, stabilize prices in the city, and ensure that every household had surplus food.

Three days after the "Daenerys Code" was promulgated, [-]% of the manor slave owners outside the city opened their doors and surrendered.

Afterwards, under the leadership of Danni herself, the Unsullied + Horseman Cavalry Shooter + Militia Baggage + Black Dragon Scout + White Dragon and Green Dragon Flamethrower, almost crushing the stubborn resistance of all slave owners at the speed of running, like destroying the dead.

According to Dani's rough statistics, she obtained a total of 400 million acres of cultivated land and the same amount of reclaimable semi-cultivated land—in order to maintain the fertility of the land, the Ghis people rotated the land.

Don't wonder how 20 people farm 400 million mu of land. They are not as intensive as farmers in the Great Heavenly Dynasty, and some of the land is planted with grass for grazing.

Half of the remaining fields are planted with olives and grapes.

From slaveholders who voluntarily surrender to her, Dany confiscates land based on the slave population on her estate.

A slave confiscated 10 acres of land, and the rest of the land Dani would still be "nationalized." Well, Queen Dani is the state.

However, she also kept her promise and would give monetary compensation and buy it at the original price.

At the same time, the manor owner can also take away property other than grain and livestock, which is a large sum of money.

Don't look at them losing more than half of their land and a lot of food. Compared with those manor owners who didn't surrender, they are so lucky.

Manor slave owners who only gather troops to rebel, except for the dead in battle, Dani will not kill again when she captures the manor, she will only make the adult men and women of that family serve corvee. It's coming, and 3% of those who chanted "Queen's Mercy" lasted less than 10 years.

If the slave owner not only resisted the heavenly soldiers, but also dared to commit the evil deed of "shattering jade and stone", he would be beheaded.

In either of the above two cases, all property will be confiscated.

After the land measurement was completed, all the farmland was redistributed by Dani. All the people in the city, Ghis, New Freedman, City People, Slave Farm Workers outside the City, Horse People, and Unsullied, each had 15 acres of land .

Well, only the farmland has been allocated, and the pastures, fruit groves, and olive groves are still in Dani's hands for the time being.

Seems a little inadequate?

Many people don't need land, such as those skilled workers, city traders, ordinary people in Gis, etc. Dani just uses the way of allocating land to redistribute the concentrated social wealth in a completely fair manner.

People who don't need land can go to Chaoyang Palace with their household registration booklet, find the Queen's documents, and exchange their land for gold and silver.

There is no lower price, the same as the market price before Dany broke Astapor City.

Well, Dany's Great Pyramid was renamed "Chaoyang Palace", and a plaque written in both Chinese and Valyrian languages ​​was hung at the entrance of the first floor.

She told others that those beautiful square characters are dragon language, which she learned from the dragon, and has magical powers.

The first and second floors of the pyramid have been redecorated by Dani. The first floor is where Dani receives visitors and judges major crimes. Citizens can freely enter and exit to watch, which is equivalent to the ancient government office.

Very spacious, the size of a football field.

The second floor is where "government" officials work, such as handling household registration, signing contracts for the people, and buying and selling real estate and fields.

All the houses that originally belonged to the Giss also belonged to Dani, or they were purchased at the original price, or were confiscated due to crimes, or the head of the household was extinct and returned to the public.

Except for herself, there is no ordinary family in all the pyramids in the city.

Except for the smaller pyramid where the bones of the ancestors of the Ghisians were buried, the rest of the pyramids were used by Dani as granaries and material storage warehouses.

People in the city can buy brick and tile houses from Dani that originally belonged to the Giss, or they can buy land and build it at their own expense—mostly relatives of big slave owners. Wan Jinlong's "maintenance" nominally belongs to infants and young children.

Dani is not like the modern unscrupulous real estate businessmen, whether it is a ready-made house or a land where a house can be built, it is almost "real. Housing prices are as cheap as green onions".

One mu of land can be exchanged for a 100-square-meter house, do you think it is cheap enough?

There are more than 30 people in Astapor, and each of them is allocated 15 acres of land. In theory, they can exchange 15 houses in the city.

Of course, although many people died in the city during the process of emancipating slaves, it was still impossible to give each of the more than 30 people a house, let alone open it up for them to exchange.

Only people with urban hukou can exchange for houses in the city, while farmers with rural hukou can only exchange for large manors that originally belonged to slave owners.

Regardless of urban residents or farmers, each family can only exchange one set of houses, and the remaining land farmers' land cannot be bought and sold, while urban residents can exchange it for gold and silver as start-up capital for starting a business.

This one

It's really hard to say who wins and who loses.

Although the location of the urban area is good, except for the pyramids, the ordinary streets of Astapor are all kinds of dirty, messy, poor, old, dilapidated, and old. You must wear a veil even when you go out, so as not to be confused by the red masonry dust brought by the sea breeze. Eye.

The large manors of slave owners are all extremely luxurious, with brick castles, gardens, clean and clear wells, swimming pools, fruit trees with rich fruits, spacious courtyards and horse farms, and gorgeous halls

Apart from being a little far away from the great Her Majesty the Queen, it is simply not perfect.

The Unsullied maintain order in the cities, while the village elders manage the countryside.

Dani arranges a villager for each manor. Depending on the size of the manor, a villager manages 10 to 50 households. Regardless of their status, they live together in the red brick castle.

Then, ten village elders formed a village committee, responsible for taxation and organizing corvee. The elders took turns to serve as the village head, and the village head had the right to meet the queen.

The [-]-horse civilian cavalry of Dani Kalasa still serve as the village patrol team. They only patrol the avenue, and they can approach the village entrance and the village end.But without the permission of the village head, you cannot enter the manor.

The main responsibilities of the horsemen cavalry are two points. First, act as couriers and postmen, or help Dani convey government orders to the villagers, or escort the village chief into the city, or deliver letters to villagers in different villages; second, assist the villagers in the village. The militia hunted down the thieves.

The women and old men in the khalasar took over all the pastures they got from the manor owners, and it was their job to help the queen herd herds.

It can be said that the "little" city of Astapor is completely controlled by Dany.

From the central city to the villages on the edge, Dani's rule is like an octopus spider, covering more than 30 people.

She herself didn't think it was a big deal. Jorah, Whitebeard, and even the Green Maiden were all shocked by such an orderly way of governing the "country".

They called her Queen, and they had always thought of Astapor as a country, but to Dany, Astapor was not even a county seat.

In ancient China, the county magistrate was called "Bailihou", and the county magistrates in many wealthy counties ruled over millions of people.

Danni is at most a county magistrate of a medium-sized county, not even a magistrate.

If it is placed in a modern society, a large community in a first-tier city has more than 30 people, and Dani, the queen, is immediately downgraded to a "neighborhood committee aunt".

(End of this chapter)