Game of Thrones: The Strongest Dragon Mother

Chapter 67 The Great Voyage of Another World (Please recommend tickets)

In the first few days, Dani stood at the bow of the boat watching the scenery with great interest, and even imitated Jack and Rousi, shouting "I am the king of the world".

Well, she yelled standing behind Dahei—very confident, and also in Chinese—not afraid of being overheard

But after a long time, the blue of the sea and the sky seemed so monotonous, and it could no longer interest her in the slightest.

However, there are two small things worth mentioning. First, the horse people are really solid, and they get used to spitting.Yili Jiqi ran to the side of the boat when she had time, watching the dolphins swimming with the boat silly.

Second thing

At the beginning, the crew was very worried that the dragon would burn their ship, and when Grole the Blackbeard saw the three dragons flying around the main mast in the sky, he was even more nervous like a girl.

He yelled at the sailors, filled the empty logs with sea water, and hung them on the side of the ship in case of fire.

They later discover that dragons breathe fire only under two conditions: when Dany orders it, and when they encounter raw food.

The worries in their hearts dissipated, and the sailors were surprised to see where the three dragons went, and the mice fled like crazy.

Then Dany took the dragon to the bottom of the cabin, and that night the sailors added a dish: a big rat stewed in oil.

The mouse seemed to lose its mind, ran directly to the deck, and jumped into the sea

A total of 146 mice were found in the three boats, and the largest one weighed more than half a catty.

Dany didn't eat rat meat, but she was a centaur, and she especially loved rats, second only to horse meat.

Gradually, when the sailors saw the dragon flying in the sky, they would feel strange and strong pride. They often said, "We are the Queen's subordinates, under the wings of the real dragon, we will fight for her and die for her. Glory to the dragon."

Horse people like to lie on the side of the boat to watch dolphins, and everyone from the captain to the kitchen helper likes to watch the three big blacks fly.

Dany was bored in the room practicing the "108-letter standard pronunciation table" learned from the Hall of Immortality, which was the basis of the ancient Valyrian spells.

"ahaigele—mu" she stumbled to the iron plate and read.

The "108 Alphabet Pronunciation Table" only taught Dany how to pronounce the incantations, and she didn't understand the meaning at all, and she didn't have any advanced goods such as guiding magic power and meditation.

There wasn't even a complete spell for Dany to read. In the end, she had to take out the identity card she found from the Dragon King's corpse, and recite the runes on it like a child reciting pinyin.

On the back of the silver coin of the Chinese one yuan, there is a circle of letters "zhongguo renmin yinhang" outside the chrysanthemum. It is finally a group of two characters separated by a space character.

The iron plate in Dani's hand is a series of rune letters, and she doesn't even know how to add "punctuation marks".

If you show "zhongguorenminyinhang" to a person from the Celestial Dynasty, he will have to be stunned for a while before he can react. What if you give it to a foreigner who doesn't understand Chinese at all?

Dani is facing this situation now. With the "108 alphabet", she can read "a, b, c, d" connected together, but she doesn't know what it means, and she doesn't know how to read it.

"We're in trouble, Khaleesi." Doria walked into the room with a crock pot overflowing with milk.

Maid Reese was used to seeing the sea, and had spent many days with the dragon day and night, so she didn't get mixed up with the sailors and horsemen on the deck.

"What's the trouble?" Dany asked casually.

Doria first poured her a large bowl of fresh mare's milk, and then said with a sad face: "The wind on the sea is weakening, and it won't take long for the boat to stop on the sea."

There are five seas in this world that are closely related to human civilization. The Jade Sea in the east passes through the Quarth Strait from the Jade Sea. The large sea area in the south of Essos is the Summer Sea; It is called "Shivering Sea"; there is a narrow sea between Essos and Westeros, with an average width of 500 kilometers, and its name is "Narrow Sea".

Westeros has two commonly used names in Essos, "Andals", "Visitors from the Land of the Sunset", Westeros is located in the far west of the world, but in the west of Westeros, there are also A vast ocean.

It took Dany's fleet a day to leave the Strait of Qarles, and it took only two days to enter the Sea of ​​Summer. There is still a distance from the easternmost city of the Sea of ​​Summer—New Ghis. Slaver's Bay isn't here yet!

Dany left the room, found Grole the Blackbeard and asked about it, and he said nonchalantly, "We have two rowing boats!"

At first, Dany didn't quite understand what the ship was doing with so many oars. The Summer Sun had a full three hundred oars.

After the wind had completely subsided in the afternoon, Blackbeard gave an order, and the sailors on the observation deck on the mainmast waved their flags, and the two narrow ships in front dropped two small boats.

On the small boat was a bundle of thick hemp ropes piled higher than a person, about the thickness of Dani’s wrist. Buckle on.

As the flags waved, there was a sudden rhythmic beating of drums on the two galleys, and Dany saw a white line of water on the sides of the two ships, where hundreds of sailors were rowing hard.

"Boom - crunch, crunch"

The rope in front of it had been submerged in the water, but now it bounced up suddenly and tightened, and the water mist spread around the hemp rope. The fat belly sea boat trembled, and moved forward slowly with a groan.

The rowing boat in front is 60 meters long and about 12 meters wide, narrow and long like a coulter, while the sea boat behind it is extremely wide, like a fat man with a big belly.

At this time, the three ships sailed slowly on the sea with the same drumbeat, like three little ants walking in unison on the boundless blue canvas.

"It won't last long like this," Dany murmured.

"It won't take too long. We are not too far from the Ghiscari Strait. We can stop in New Ghis for a while and wait for the windless period to pass." Blackbeard said calmly.

The old sailors were indeed experienced. At noon the next day, the big black soaring into the sky brought them the breath of land, a scorched sheep leg.

In the evening, the lookout on the rowing boat ahead shouted loudly: Jin Island has arrived!

Jean Island is about the same size as the Mormont Family's Bear Island, and the longest straight-line distance on the island does not exceed 100 kilometers, but the value is completely different. Bear Island is located in a remote place, and there is not a single foreign merchant ship in a year or two.

Jean Island is located in the middle of the channel between Slaver's Bay and Qarth, and there is New Ghis Harbor at the southern end. Sea ships traveling between the east and west continents will get supplies in New Ghis. It can be called the pearl at the east end of the Summer Sea.

Grole the Blackbeard also planned to wait for the sea breeze there.

If the Mormont family's fief was the Isle of Gion, his wife would never run away.

"The Ghis people don't welcome outsiders to enter Jean Island, but the new Ghis port at the southern end can come in and out at will. If they are not close to the harbor and only stay in the bay, the Ghis people will not even collect taxes from us.

Therefore, even though New Ghis is not far from Qarth, ships coming and going will still stop there for a while. "Standing on the bridge, looking at the black dots ahead, Grole the Blackbeard explained to Dany.

"Are the taxes in the Free Cities high?" Dany asked.

Blackbeard thought for a while and said: "If you don't sell goods locally, you will only be charged the berthing fee for seagoing ships. The bigger the ship, the larger the dock area it occupies, and the higher the price will naturally be.

For three ships like ours, if they enter the Xinjisi Wharf, the one-day berthing fee will cost more than 10 Jinhui coins and about three Jinlongs. "

"Wow, it's a money grab!" Dany exclaimed.

"It's not too expensive, all major city-states have this price." Grolai the Blackbeard shook his head and said, "You may not know how profitable the sea merchants are.

Let's put it this way, even a sea merchant without too much business acumen can obtain wealth that he can't spend in his lifetime just by going around the 'Sea of ​​Summer - Jade Sea'.

The profit starts at 20 times, and there is no upper limit. Smart businessmen keep buying low and selling high at major ports. After one trip, the profit rate can generally reach 100 times.

Well-connected people like Lord Xaro and Governor Illyrio can have an average gross profit of 150 times. "

Not only Dany was stunned, but Jorah and Whitebeard also opened their mouths in surprise.

"Is it really that profitable?" Jorah couldn't believe it: "Then why don't everyone become a sea merchant?"

If he had known the high profit of being a sea merchant, the voyage he took his wife to participate in the party was enough to travel to Yuhai several times.

"Hey" Blackbeard stomped his feet vigorously, and the wooden boards made a muffled sound of "bang bang bang". "Do you know the cost of my precious ship?"

"It's not like I haven't built a ship before?" Jorah sneered, looked around, and estimated: "I used 2000 golden dragons to build a big ship, which was about one-third the size of yours. It is said that the largest warship in King's Landing cost as much as 10 golden dragons, although your ship is big, it is not a battleship, no more than 3 golden dragons."

Blackbeard gave a thumbs up and praised: "So you're an old hand! It took [-] gold dragons to build my Saidu Lyon."

Jorah smiled smugly.

"But do you know the loss rate of sea ships?" Blackbeard continued: "On average, 100 ships go out to sea. If 80 ships can come back, the Maritime Chamber of Commerce will cheer and even go to the temple to donate money to pay back their vows; if 70 ships come back, he will breathe a sigh of relief: Finally, he can make a lot of money; 50 ships came back, he sighed, and went home to continue building ships; he didn’t come back, he went home to write his will, and died with a glass of poisoned wine.

If an ordinary merchant loses a ship like mine, who can bear it? "

Silence!

There was silence on the bridge, and everyone was stunned by the cruel living environment of the sea.

"There are as many big businessmen who commit suicide every year as there are businessmen who get rich overnight, such as Governor Illyrio." Blackbeard continued, "When he was young, he was just a street warrior with his head on his belt, um, There is no shortage of work such as stealing chickens and dogs, catastrophe and assassination.

Do you think, if there is no one else to give up the position, how can a gangster rise to the position step by step, and finally become the governor of trade?How did those people make way?The business failed! "

(End of this chapter)