King of The Wall

2021-01-06

Chapter 318 "Post Crown City"

Queenscrown as a gathering of land grants, population and various events The ground, every day all is changing, and it is very different from the last time I left here.

The most obvious difference is the gradual formation of the "outer city".

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The name of "Queenscrown" in the common language of Westeros actually only means "crown", originally referring to the place where Queen Alysanne Targaryen lived when she visited the land grant That tower, by extension, is the small village where it is located... As for the word "town" at the back, it was purely made up by people who knew it was a place name when they were thinking about it.

The first wall surrounds the site of the original small village by the lake to form a castle-like structure, protecting the core buildings such as the internal material and weapon warehouse, stables, soldier and staff quarters and multi-purpose hall. The "internal only" rule will never change, but as the resettlement plan continues to advance and the number of people stranded in Queenscrown continues to increase, the open space outside the castle walls quickly begins to become crowded and chaotic. The difficulty has increased greatly...

At this time, the Second Step of Igor's construction of the oneself base camp has come to the moment: he wants to use the castle built on the original Queenscrown site as the core, and start to expand this stronghold - the castle Expanding into a town, the title of Queenscrown and even the Queen City has become not just in name only, but also in reality.

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After careful planning, the expansion has begun. The army who built the road before regrouped and cleared away all the temporary tents and slums that were spread around the city wall and were chaotic like a slum, and instead built a tidy building made of soil, wood, stone, etc. Bungalows made of various materials.

These houses will be the residences of the first batch of "Later Crown City Citizens".

There are two ways to get this status: either work hard for N years, save a lot of money and buy a house to get citizenship; After taking action, making major contributions and making contributions, you can obtain residency rights ranging from several years to permanent in the form of incentives - just pay a nominal low rent, you can stay in the assigned house until the expiration date or voluntarily move out.

The first new inhabitants have been born: mountain folks and new land-givers who had been drafted to take part in Igor's southward expulsion of the Ironmen—the wounded and the families of those killed, as well as those who made military exploits or in Those who were active in the battle were basically granted residency rights ranging from one to ten years.

As soon as the residential area was completed, it was immediately assigned to these heroes in order of priority.

In addition to the general purpose of finding something to do for idlers, this method can also ensure the quality and loyalty. In addition to this, the ever-widening gap in living standards caused by such a distribution of contributions... can also increase the labor enthusiasm of the land-grant residents and unconsciously weaken the influence of the original beyond the wall tribal leaders:
Those who do things and make a difference for Igor can move from the shabby hamlets scattered across the land grants to the convenience and service of the bustling, job-hunting outer city of Queenscrown. This kind of practical interest is the strongest ruling tool. If the original tribal chiefs dared to obstruct it, they would violate the law of land grant. will soon surpass themselves.

The officers of Queenscrown choose hired workers, and they must choose those young men who are strong in body and flexible in mind, and no matter which world they go to, what time they are in... Such "the backbone of the ethnic group" and "the pillar" , must be part of the family or society with a higher voice. With resources tight and unable to meet the needs of everyone, Igor chose the most efficient way: to tilt slightly in the allocation, to win over those who are most likely to "have an idea and implement it", and ensure that oneself dominates the land grant Stable, and then plan after the plan.

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Although the residential districts are quite spectacular, one after another, they are actually repetitive and monotonous, and there is nothing to look at. Igor nodded and motioned to go to the functional area next to the inner city.

Schools, hospitals, business districts and plazas... Although Little Five is dirty, all the functional buildings that should be in Sparrow are basically there or under construction.

The so-called business district is naturally the expansion and relocation of a street outside the original Queenscrown gate. As for the hospital, it is one size larger than the rest of the surrounding buildings and has two floors. It has been built, but there are only enough doctors to settle in... But the school has already started operation early.

Hundreds of children from the ruling families of the new land-grant tribes, ranging from eight to nineteen years old, are divided into two classes, large and small. basic education.

This is a very rare scene, not to mention land-grant residents, even in the entire Seven Kingdoms, it is not common for such a group of people to gather together for teaching activities.

In this world with irregular seasons, the development of the cultural field must unconditionally make way for "other things related to survival", and "education" until now is a special treatment that only some people can enjoy . The lord-level nobles who own castles have Maesters who serve themselves and can enlighten their descendants and successors, while those knights or shabby households who are slightly worse off, as well as more common people, can only hope to enter the "Church" by being selected. ” or “Citadel”, and have the opportunity to get rid of the fate of rushing and toil for survival all day, and get in touch with more knowledge.

Convincing a gang of outright aliens from the new land grantors that "sit down and learn to count and read and write is as important as work and physical exercise." Fortunately, the wildlings handed over the hostages as agreed when they passed the Wall. Mormont's original plan was to let these children be the "office officers" of the Night's Watch in Castle Black, namely squire and nanny, to watch over them and cultivate their relationship by getting along day and night, but Igor has other ideas.

Many of these wildling's children from upper-class families will also become the voice masters in the tribe in the future. Anyway, Night's Watch has to spend food to feed the hostages, and it also takes time to slowly assimilate the new land grantors by influencing the next generation of wildlings, so why not just do two things together - directly give this batch of "hostage" as a gift The first batch of students in the local school integrated the manipulation and brainwashing into their daily teaching, carried out with unnoticeable influence?
From frugality to extravagance is easy, from extravagance to frugality is difficult. Over time, these hostages who have studied and learned about the "civilized world", have become familiar with the life, habits or accepted the culture of Seven Kingdoms in Houguan City, and have been instilled with a bunch of Igor oneself values and ideas have returned to the tribe, even if it is not oneself ardent supporters, or at least not the roadblocks and opposition.

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By creating an environment where hard work and loyalty can be exchanged for a better life faster, Igor will gradually expand the influence of oneself to penetrate among the new land grantors at the bottom . And by brainwashing the children of the tribal leaders, Igor will also be able to quietly send the voice and ideas of oneself into the upper class of the original beyond the wall people.

In this two-pronged approach, given enough time, the people beyond the wall will be completely assimilated into land-grant residents.

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The biggest dilemma of opening a school is that there aren’t enough “teachers”, and it takes time for a new fortress to be recognized by Citadel and dispatched by Maester, and one person can’t afford it An important task... Not to mention, Igor is also impossible to hand over this kind of thing to an outside force whose details are unknown and cannot be controlled.

As a result, this mission is temporarily held by the civilian staff of the Night's Watch industry, and King's Landing will soon send additional staff to relieve the pressure of this shortage of staff. It doesn't matter if you don't have experience, teach all the way and explore all the way, there will always be a teaching plan that suits here.

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The "students" stared at the Lord Commander of the Night's Watch with attendants crowding round with a mixture of curiosity and awe. In their eyes, the new "Wall" Wang"'s man walked into the classroom and stood at the front.

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"Hello, future masters of the land grant." Igor smiled at the children nodded and spoke. "You heard it right. I call you the future masters of the land grant. This is no joke. But the identity of masters is not predestined at birth, but depends on you to win."

"To be sent as a hostage to the Night's Watch shows that your parents are the leaders or actual stewards of the tribes, and the Commander is a group of people. But they are not the masters of the land grant, no offense, but the truth is - yours Parents, they are just a group of soldiers who cannot survive outside the Wall. They surrender and surrender their children in exchange for the qualification to pass the Wall. Everything is controlled by the Night's Watch." Igor pointed to the inner city of Queenscrown: "There The people inside are the real masters of the land grant. Where does your tribe live, what can you eat in the next month, what areas are allowed to move in, what can and cannot be done, and the next price of the land grant? And the level of labor wages...everything that people can decide is determined by the people inside the high wall!"

"And want to enter that high wall and become one of the actual owners of the land. , the quickest way is in front of you: study hard, what your teacher says, what I hope you know, then learn what. If you master, understand, and understand how the world in the Wall works, you will get Qualifications to enter that high wall."

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Igor looked around the room before continuing.

"There must be children who want to say, what's the use of learning these things, I still have brothers, my parents can still give birth, and my tribe only recognizes the strongest and bravest Warrior as the leader...etc. I went back to the tribe after learning this mess, and the position in the mind of my parents and tribe members has long been occupied by others!"

He shrugged: "Reasonable idea , In this regard, I can only give such a promise - any child who studies hard and can be recognized by me or the teacher I sent, you will never be alone! Behind you, stand me - hold all the power to grant land, A person who can influence the fate of every new land grantor. I will never let it go - studied in my school, used the same language as me, and shared my ideals and goals with a good child, changing The outcasts and marginalized people of their respective tribes. I don’t care what customs your tribe has outside the Wall, but when you enter the land grant, you are the new land grant people, and the rules are set by me!”

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Of course Igor didn't expect applause or applause for this call. He came here today on the way and didn't do much preparation. It was only on a temporary basis that I decided to spread the word in advance - and just this remark, it is estimated that most of the "wildling hostage" people are ignorant.

But if one of them is smart, if they lie in bed after the day and think about it, most of them will understand what Igor is trying to convey.

He drew a big pie for the school students, telling them in a barely concealed way: oneself, the Lord Commander of the Night's Watch, will definitely intervene in the new land-grant tribe in the future. The power structure, and - certainly towards those who were sent to Queenscrown as hostage, learned the culture of the Seven Kingdoms, and could at least roughly grasp the ambitions and aspirations of oneself.

Even if it is a king, he can never directly drop unrelated people to those new land-grant tribes as chiefs and stewards, but if he supports and appoints a specific child of the original leader to take over, what will happen to him? resistance will be much smaller.

This bait is much bigger than the reward and punishment mechanism for coaxing children originally formulated in the school... I can understand, I can't resist its temptation, but if I think about it a few times I don't know about Igor. What you are talking about, that is, a dead tree, it is not worth the effort to cultivate.

It will take at least three or two years to see the results of an idle move in a busy schedule, but Igor is now the Lord Commander of the Night's Watch, so it's time to think about everything in the long run.

The so-called general trend is built by playing chess step by step.

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Arya, who had caught up after the snow fell a little, was displeased because he complained that he threw oneself at Nightfort and ran back to Castle Black. Seeing such a big change in Queenscrown on the road, I didn't say a word. Walking out of the school, Igor, who was not very interested, smiled and patted her shoulder: "Look, there are so many of your peers here, you might be able to make friends from them."

"I don't care who I make friends with."

"Okay, I don't care... but can you stop being stern? Roderick Ser promises you to stop at Queenscrown a few times. Are you going home again?" Igor smiled disapprovingly: "Let's go, I'll show you something interesting."

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(end of this chapter)