Blood of the True Dragon

Chapter 27 Enemies
A few days later, the preliminary salt pans were completed.

Aegon also made a special trip to inspect the saltworks by the sea.

He never understood why the slave owners of Astapor didn't use these slaves to dry salt and build saltworks.

Astapor has plenty of sunlight and little rain, so it is actually a natural place for drying salt.

Can't it be put to good use, with all this slavery salt, and dumped around?
However, it is estimated that these slave owners are not very clear about the process of making salt, or they are all focused on training and selling slaves.

Apart from the slave trade, they couldn't think of anything else to do to make money.

The wide beach is now covered with stepped salt pans that have been cut in pieces.

Seawater is introduced into the uppermost pool in the ditch, dried and then introduced into the crystallization pool.

And the former free people and slaves of Astapor on the wasteland are working hard.

Aegon specially set performances for them, so these people worked extremely hard.

And these techniques of drying salt were taught to these people by Aegon and the others.

In fact, these skills are not complicated. Halton, the assistant maester under Aegon, has found detailed methods of making salt in the book.

However, I can't make too much money by making sea salt. I can only keep the free people of Astapor from starving after not selling slaves. At most, I can earn some foreign exchange.

Unless he can monopolize the sea salt trade, he will not be able to make a lot of money by relying on this. (Seven Kingdoms also have saltworks)

As for the silk trade with Missandei's people, Aegon still can't do it now. He doesn't have enough warships to sail to the Basilisk Islands and Nas Island (Misandei's hometown).

"Your Majesty, I have to remind you that the number of fleets and Dothraki people coming to Astapor these days has decreased!"

Jon Connington said to Aegon very seriously.

Astapor is a port city, and food production is not enough, so part of the shortfall is actually brought about by the upstream and downstream of the slave trade.

Those Dothraki who came to sell slaves, as well as various fleets that came to buy slaves, would bring various foods to trade with Astapor from time to time.

Now Aegon had abolished the slave trade, though it had brought him nearly ten thousand Unsullied and thousands of other slave soldiers.

But he also lost the support of these vested interests.

After the Unsullied are no longer available in Astapor, the fleet coming here will drop sharply.

This really gave Aegon a headache.

Now it was impossible to give him time to reclaim wasteland.

"Get ready for the army, I plan to lead the Unsullied to take Yunkai in a few days!"

After thinking about it, Aegon decided to save money and support war with war.

After the tens of thousands of Unsullied people left, the food would be enough.

Still, some Unsullied should be left behind in case of a riot.

Jon Connington nodded and turned around to prepare for the march, but was stopped by Aegon: "Sir Jon, who do you think it would be better to send to manage Astapor?"

"Your Majesty, don't you intend to use the Astapors to govern this place?"

"Of course, I'm always worried about handing the Unsullied to them. I'm afraid they will pick up slavery again after I leave!"

In the original book, a butcher set off a rebellion, spread rumors that the parliament would restore slavery, and then led the people to overthrow the parliament and establish themselves as king.

Although Aegon will leave a thousand Unsullied legions this time, he is not afraid of these people's rebellion.

But he fears a rebellion in power!
How could these newly conquered Astapori use them as governors?

"How about keeping Ser Jorah here?" suggested Jon Connington.

Aegon shook his head quickly: "No, he is Princess Daenerys' iron guard."

After all, there are really too few people in my team who can use it.

Jon Connington couldn't stay here again.

Suddenly, Aegon had a flash of inspiration and thought of a figure of Mary.

"Go and call Joanna over here!"

Although the vassal Aegon who followed from Rhys has not figured out what she wants.

But at least the other party is on the same line with him now, shouldn't this perfect tool be used well?

……

On the turbulent sea level, a pirate fleet is sailing in the direction of Slaver's Bay.

On the deck of the main ship, a ferocious man with a large tumor on his left neck was gnawing a crisp apple.

Green juice left from the corner of the man's mouth.

He is a pirate king of the Basilisk Islands, Haveli.

Legend has it that the tumor on his neck was the result of eating his brother in the womb.

But no one dared to say that in front of him.

This time he went to Astapor to buy the Unsullied.

Although he is the Pirate King, all the guards around him are Unsullied.

Because only the Unsullied wouldn't kill him in his sleep and take his jewels.

If it were someone else, even his own brother, he wouldn't dare to hand over his back to the other party.

The loss of the hundreds of Unsullied that he bought last time was already too high, so this time he planned to buy more.

It's just that he didn't expect that when they were resupplying on New Ghis (a small island near Slaver's Bay), they heard the news that Astapor was ruled by Aegon.

"Is there no slave trade in Astapor?"

The vicious-looking pirate dynasty asked the old innkeeper.

"Yes, it is said that the silver-blond Valyrian king liberated it and called himself the Liberator! He abolished the slave trade in Astapor!
Damn Valyrians, the inn has lost business because of him!I don't know when he will leave Slaver's Bay! "

The hotel owner couldn't help but sighed.

"Leaving Slaver's Bay? Will he leave Astapor?"

"Yes, he claims to be the king of the sunset kingdom, and he bought the Unsullied just to return to the sunset kingdom and regain the throne!"

Haveli's eyes lit up instantly when he heard this.

If the other party leaves, Astapor will become a city without an owner, and it will be the most perfect place to plunder.

He felt that the liberator of Targaryen was a gift from the gods to him.

If the opponent walks fast, he can take advantage of the time when other pirates on the Basilisk Islands don't know the information, and take the lead in looting the entire Astapor.

As soon as he thought of this, he couldn't suppress his excitement, and quickly asked his men to raise the sails, and first went to Cedar Island (at the entrance of Slave Bay) to land and ambush.

(End of this chapter)