Game of Thrones: Royal Game

Chapter 216 Division of Labor between Boss and Secretary
"Is that all there is to it?" Ian asked.

"No, there is another thing," Celia shook her head, "Rohr caught old Graztan in the manor outside the city. It was the grandson of the good lord who wore the toka robe with pearl tassels. He thought know how to deal with it."

Ian, who had dozed off before, suddenly became more energetic.

"Does anyone know about this?" He asked quickly.

"Roll, Bronn, the two Unsullied, me and you."

"Then let it go!" Ian said immediately, "No, no," he quickly changed his words, "like this, let my new NPC champion gladiator Sama rush into the residence of that kid in the middle of the night, and put him Save him and take him to Meereen to find the Great Lords and cry out Femor's atrocities."

"Don't you want to offend Meereen for a short time?"

"How dare they offend me, who has eight thousand Unsullied, without violating the core interests of Meereen?" Ian sneered.

"Meereen won't make any moves, but Fermor and the others will feel thorns in their backs because of the enemy's narrow escape, thus deepening their dependence on us?" Celia thought for a while and said.

"A solitary yin does not grow, a single yang does not grow, and yin and yang are balanced," Ian did not say this in a common language, but in his own mother tongue, "We and the enemy are two opposite sides that must exist, and the enemy cannot be completely eliminated. Yes, if the external enemies are eliminated, new internal enemies will appear.

Ensuring the presence of an external enemy is key to internal unity. Since we can so easily create an enemy that poses little threat to us, why not?And if the NPC Sama gains the trust of the old Graztan's grandson, we can have another mouthpiece in Meereen. "

"A solitary yin does not grow, and a solitary yang does not grow," Celia repeated in a low voice, and then smiled, "I have no other questions."

"Then." Ian made a sign to see off the guests, "I believe you still have a lot of work to do."

"Farewell." Celia saluted slightly and got up to leave.

Once the fifth-class slavery and temporary promotion conditions were announced, an absurd carnival immediately set off in the Worm River Valley.

With the crazy backstabbing of the slaves against each other and the false accusations of the freedmen by the slaves, the chaotic situation soon began to become more chaotic. Of course, this refers to the degree rather than the time.

After just two weeks, everything calmed down.

With the appearance of the first batch of senior slaves, the entire Worm River Basin entered an indescribable state of 'order'.

Depressed and heavy, everyone is like a machine. They dare not say a word to their companions, fearing that they will accidentally become the target of an informant.

Anyone who has seen this order will involuntarily think of the word purgatory.

Of course, Ian didn't see these scenes, at least not through his own eyes, because he never left Astapor City at all.

During this time Ian wrote the first draft of his officer's handbook and had dozens of copies copied by slave scribes.

Afterwards, Ian selected 20 officers from his Black Falcon Guards and Guise nobles as his new army officers. Originally, Ian planned to choose half from both sides.

It's a pity that Ian found a total of four Valyrian-speaking people in his "direct line guard". Since his overall source of troops is all native to Valyrian, Ian can't choose some who speak the common language. The officer came out.

As a last resort, he had to recruit all the remaining officers from the Ghis people. Most of them were nobles, but there was also a commoner and a newly promoted second-class slave. For the latter, Ian promoted him directly To first-class slaves, in order to set an example for other slaves.

Ian personally took charge of the officer selection process from beginning to end. Most of the officers he selected came from the families of the Unsullied instructors, and they themselves had certain military qualities.

Moreover, choosing the young nobles of Astapor to be the officers of his new army is also regarded as Ian's compensation for the nobles of Astapor during the annexation of slaves in the Worm River. Most of these people are the second sons without inheritance rights in their families.

For them, being able to follow a Restorer to conquer a distant continent is far better than being a subordinate with no status in the family.And their family members are also happy that the second sons will roll as far as they can.

After the general officers were selected, Ian began to take time every day to give them lessons. Before officially letting them start training new troops, he arranged a two-month course for them.

While Ian was teaching, the Unsullied instructor who was in charge of training the slaves of the Ghis Legion next door came to the class quite a lot, so he just kept on doing nothing and put himself on the traditional toka of the Gith people. Robes, began to call themselves "spiritual Ghis", this move undoubtedly won the unanimous favor of the nobles of Astapor.

While Ian was leisurely working on the construction of the new army, Celia was half-busy.

She first sent people to collect enough sulfur, saltpeter and charcoal, and carried out an experiment of disposing gunpowder according to the proportion.

But unfortunately, no matter how many times she tried, and even tried to change the ratio in the formula, the gunpowder failed to detonate in the end.

In desperation, she could only speculate in the summary report to Ian whether this magical world was fundamentally different from the earth in some respects.

After temporarily losing the hope of obtaining gunpowder, the urgency of building a crossbow factory inevitably rose to a higher level, so after Celia hired some craftsmen with a lot of money and bought a large number of slave labor in Meereen, Quickly invest money to set up the first factory.Although there is still some time before it can officially start production, this matter is also on the right track.

At the same time, Celia also dealt with the problem of the plate armor production factory. Neither the blast furnace ironmaking nor the hydraulic forging hammer is a process that requires a technological breakthrough. The drawings of relevant equipment were completed and put into the production of the first batch of equipment.

Although the hydraulic hammer cannot produce homogeneous iron plates, which will lead to uneven thickness and uneven quality of the final plate armor finished by manual processing, but for the requirement of 'fitting infantry', these are not important, Ian The only requirement for the production of plate armor in the new factory is the output.

There was no time to wait for the results here. After explaining the work of Astapor City, Celia rushed to the east bank of the Worm River without stopping.

After arriving at the manor of Rolle's garrison in the upper reaches of the Worm River, Celia immediately began to count their gains in this operation, and at the same time began to coordinate the specific production work of the slaves.

The staple food in Slaver's Bay is bread, and the main food crop here is wheat.

But according to Celia's statistics, more than half of the farmland on both sides of the Worm River is used for planting olives, cherries, figs, dates, jujubes, melons, pomegranates, walnuts, green peppers, grapes, carrots and other cash crops. .

Although the slaves are starving and Astapor's staple food needs to be imported, for the nobles of Astapor, their own enjoyment of life is the top priority.

This kind of agricultural structure is obviously incompatible with the crisis of "long night is coming", so in Celia's preliminary plan, she will cut off most of the crops and use most of the land and slaves to grow staple food .

This staple food is tentatively determined to be wheat, but before Celia left Astapor, she had already ordered people to go to the ports of nearby major cities to contact sea merchants from all over the world, and try to buy high-yielding crops from them. seed.

If she is successful in finding potatoes, corn or rice, she will conduct further research on nearby land and decide on the final planting options.

There is no spring and autumn in this world, only long summer and long winter.

In summer, crops can be planted and harvested without interruption.

Slave Bay has a mild climate and fertile land. She needs to use the tail of the long summer to stockpile enough food for a certain population to fight against the long night before the long night officially falls.

(End of this chapter)