Game of Thrones: The Strongest Dragon Mother

Chapter 529 Dragon Queen's Bunker-level Steelmaking Furnace

The rise of the Dragon Queen has caused the world's sea trade to shrink rapidly, and her 6000 million golden dragon project has brought unprecedented prosperity to the grain market.

In this way, a large number of farmers began to appear on the land along the Little Lorne River. They sowed the seeds of wheat and soybeans on the land that had previously grown cotton, castor beans, and hemp stalks.

After the reclaimed farmland was planted, the manor owner also organized farmers to open up wasteland and burn mountains to reclaim new farmland.

It can be said that the Great Leap of Agricultural Production is taking place in Slave Bay, and the Small Leap is taking place in the Lorne River Basin in the western continent of Essos.

Denzel, an Andal, was also a member of the great land reclamation. He even left his home and, together with his family, was arranged by his master to work as a long-term laborer in the Little Lorne River 500 kilometers away.

Because he is skilled and experienced in farming, his master needs his skills to reclaim the newly purchased wasteland.

Before the age of 15, Denzel was a shepherd boy in the Harvest Hall, specializing in raising and farming cattle for Earl Arstan.

The territory of the Harvest Hall is very suitable for farming. It is the granary of the Stormlands. The family emblem of the Selmy family - three golden ears of wheat - says it all, so Denzel has been trained as a farmer since he can remember.

If nothing else happened, he should be driving the oxen to plow the land for the earl, and plant the last wave of winter wheat before the winter snow comes.

But although he is a good hand at driving cattle, he doesn't like this profession very much.

Teenagers want to steer a ship, sail thousands of miles, go to Jade Sea, Iban Island, Yidi, and see different beauties in different regions of the world.

At the age of 15, after completing the contract with Earl Astan, he did not follow the last wish of the dead ghost, marrying a farmer's daughter, and became a good farmer with peace of mind, continuing to farm for Earl Selmy.

He went to King's Landing and was employed by a Pentosian merchant as a sailor on the ship The Flying Pentodian.

He spent the previous two years sailing to Braavos, Gulltown, White Harbor, Oldtown, Myr and other cities he had never been to, and he had a good time.

But everything changed two years ago.

The Dragon Queen seized Slaver's Bay, and the trade on the Summer Sea collapsed in half.

To put it bluntly, the behavior of the Dragon Queen has triggered a terrible economic crisis in this world.

The decrease in trade between the East and the West immediately reduced the shipments and purchases of the cities along the Narrow Sea.

The Flying Pentosian was just an offshore barge, the equivalent of a sea coachman.

Without goods from the East, the number of Western specialties shipped to the East decreased, and the coachman was free, so Denzel lost his job.

Just in time, he met a girl he liked, so he settled down in Pentos honestly.

He wants to buy a house. If there is no house, the girl's parents are unwilling to marry their daughter to him.

However, the housing prices here are too high. Buying a small house of 60 square meters outside the city will cost him 30 years' salary in gold coins.

Of course, he didn’t have a salary for 30 years, so he could only ask for a loan from the Bank of Pentos—the free people of Pentos needed loans to buy a house and live.

Then Denzel discovered a terrible thing. He and his wife often earn less than they need for food and clothing.

In order to eat, you have to borrow again.

In this way, his debt will increase day by day, and he will never recover.

It wasn't until he met a fellow countryman, a Bachelor of Economics from Oldtown, that he figured out what was going on.

Losing the war with Braavos, Pentos was almost a semi-colony of Braavos.

Of course, semi-colonies have to sign unequal treaties.

Apart from restrictions on force—no more than twenty warships allowed, no mercenaries hired, no contracts with free mercenaries, no army of any kind beyond the number of city guards—the city has not Allow slavery to remain.

But the rulers of the city need slaves. Slaves are the cheapest, most obedient, and maintain their value.

Therefore, the city rulers thought of a way to turn the free people into slaves: deliberately raising the prices of living materials, lowering the wages of the free people, and forcing them to borrow money from the trading governor who ruled the city.

If you are in debt to your master, you have to work for your master.

This kind of free people is called "free slaves" (this is the setting in the original book, Martin is reflecting the old beauty), except for the name, they are essentially the same as slaves!

Denzel became a free slave of Illyrio, one of the trade magnates.

Long before the Dragon Queen's 6000 million golden dragon grain purchase plan appeared, Illyrio began to expand the scale of grain cultivation, and then bought land on a large scale and hired farmers to reclaim wasteland.

At this time, there are more than 500 kilometers from Pentos to the Little Lorne River, and there are Illyrio's manors-because there is a Valyrian road here, the transportation is very convenient.

After being a free slave for two years, Denzel found that there was nothing terrible about it, because his life now was no different from that of the free people of Westeros.

He continues to farm for his boss, who pays him a living wage.

It's the same everywhere.

That being the case, he, like thousands of free slaves in the city, lived with peace of mind.

During this period, even if the news of the Dragon Queen with many titles such as "Slave Liberator", "Shackle Breaker", and "Slave Misha" came, he could not move him too much - he is not a slave, How else could the Dragon Queen free him?

Perhaps, he will only hear her story in his life, and will not have half an intersection with her.

until this day

At around eight in the morning, the sun was shining brightly, the temperature was neither too hot nor too cold, and the northwest wind was as warm as a lover's little hand.

Denzel was wearing gray linen shorts and shorts, with a pair of big bare feet, and his naked|exposed skin was tanned like an old cow.

He was setting up a shiny old black cow, turning over the wet and soft black soil.

And his wife and mother-in-law, holding a green gourd ladle full of soybeans, followed behind the snow-white coulter to order beans.

"Hula—" The top of the head suddenly darkened, as if a large dark cloud was covering it, and at the same time there was the sound of air rushing.

"Moo—" The big buffalo, which was more stable than the old dog, suddenly stopped, its hind legs were weak, and it collapsed in the mud.

Before Denzel was startled, he heard his wife shouting loudly: "Dragon————————"

"Dragon?" Denzel was startled, and when he looked up, he saw two giant dragons, one black and one green, like two sharp knives, cutting through the blue sky.

The speed was so fast that two obvious flight traces were left in the white clouds.

"Dragon, it's a dragon, Targaryen, it's a Targaryen! Queen of Dragons, there must be Queen Daenerys, Queen of the Andals and Rhoynar and First Men, Defender of the Realm "

For some reason, Denzel burst out with passion in his heart, and yelled at his wife and mother-in-law.

It seems that he wanted to explain to them, did you see that that is the queen of the Andals, and I am also an Andal, a former Westeros.

The mother-in-law did not give him a high look because of the relationship between her son-in-law and the Dragon Queen, she just kept urging:

"No matter who is on the dragon, it has nothing to do with you and has nothing to do with us. Hurry up and pull up the old cow, there are still seven or eight acres of land waiting for us to work on!"

The mother-in-law was wrong. The arrival of the Dragon Queen this time really had an intersection with them.

Only a quarter of an hour later, the black dragon flew back again.

Then they were shocked on the spot: as the street bards sang, the dragon queen's black dragon can speak!

"Peasants in the employment of Magister Illyrio Mopatis, immediately lead the horses and oxen, and follow the Valyrian Stone Road to the mouth of the river."

"Farmers who are not hired by Illyrio can go if they want to earn a gold coin."

The dragon's rumbling sound was like a thunderbolt cracking the sky, and it could be heard clearly from miles away.

Denzel was still in a daze, not knowing whether he should listen to the dragon or not.

I saw the manager of the manor riding a mule galloping on the ridge of the field, sweating profusely, and shouting:

"Immediately go to Xidukou. There are men, women, children, all of them. If you don't arrive within half an hour, your wages will be deducted."

What else could Denzel do?

He could only quickly remove the coulter behind the old cow, and then led the cow to trot towards the west ferry with his wife and mother-in-law.

Along the way, they also encountered many farmers, stewards, and even mercenaries riding cattle.

Well, the small mercenary group guarding the manor.

Mighty, more than 100 people.

"Why do you want to go to Xidukou?" His wife asked, holding his arm with her calloused hands.

"Maybe we have to cross the river and go to Ge Duohe on the other side." Denzel said uncertainly.

He really couldn't figure it out, except for a statue of a dragon with a human head and waist-high weeds, there was not even a ferry at the ferry—the two sides of the river were connected by a stone bridge.

But he was wrong again. Instead of crossing the river, they stopped near the statue of the Dragon Queen.

"Look, there are knights." The wife pointed to a knight in full armor in the middle of the crowd.

Denzel's body shook. He wore a white iron helmet with seven-color feathers, an armor inlaid with exquisite white glaze on his chest, and a large milky white cloak, as bright as snow and as bright as a girl's hope. Isn't this the legendary White Knight?

He was excited again.

His previous master, Earl Selmy of the Harvest Hall, isn't his great-uncle Barristan the legendary white knight known as the "model of Westeros knights"?

Later, he inquired about the identity of the White Knight, Jorah Mormont, from the steward.

He happened to know this person too, in fact, Earl Xiongdao's reputation of "the wife who ran away with someone" is too loud, everyone knows it.

Not only did the stewards of the Illyrio’s manor come here, but one of the nearby manors counted as one, and all of them brought people, ropes and carriages.

——It is said that the Dragon Queen rode a dragon to visit every nearby manor, and the terrifying "Death Wing" and "Bright Guardian" roared: Listen to me, I am the Bright Guardian, otherwise, Deathwing will surely come.

What else can stewards do?

Denzel looked left and right, only Sir Mormont and a vicissitudes middle-aged knight called Sir Connington, and there was only a green dragon in the sky, and there was no trace of the black dragon or the dragon queen.

However, he didn't have time to think about it anymore. Three to four hundred people came one after another, and the team was divided into two: the white knight led a group of people to the manor to demolish the houses and get bricks, and built a "fortress" (forging furnace) on Valyrian Avenue. ); Sir Connington ordered the removal of the Sphinx statue with the head of a woman and the body of a dragon.

Tie a few thick hemp ropes on the statue, pass through the pulleys on the giant wooden bracket in front of the statue, and then fork forty or fifty pieces, which are pulled by the old cow.

Others laid gravel, coarse sand and bricks between the statue and the stone path.

After finishing all this, Sir Clinton pushed another iron ball the size of a child's fist on the cart, which was smooth and mixed.

In front of the statue, one palm width apart, he placed an iron ball, a total of thirty or forty iron balls.

(End of this chapter)