Chapter 108 The Seventh-Rank County Magistrate and the King
The People's Square and the Freedom Guardian Monument are not just gimmicks. The so-called liberation of slaves is not just about removing the shackles and chains.
In the original plot, Daenerys thought so and did so, and then she was finished.
After destroying the old system, a brand new system must be established to make society run stably, otherwise the world without a system will be worse than the old world.
The square and the monument are mainly to constantly remind the new free people: you are the masters of this city, and it is natural to build and defend your own home.
Well, Dany conquered the slave city yesterday, and today she is ready to put new "shackles" on the free people.
She needs them to work, she needs them to serve, and she needs them to farm.
In the morning, Dany, with the help of the Unsullied, untied the collars of all the slaves.
Starting in the afternoon, under the scorching sun, the new free people lined up in a long queue in the red brick square, waiting to register their names, occupations, family status, and expectations for the future at the desk in front of the pyramid.
Yesterday afternoon, after freeing the slave warriors, Dany's next target was the slaves coming out of the pyramid.
Manual laborers such as cooks, kitchen maids, and textile workers were all happy and grateful to the Mother of Dragons, but when it came to scholars, gardeners, and doctors, they refused to become free people.
When Dany asked the reason, the scholar Ethan said, "The good master treats me very well. I eat, live, and wear high-quality products. The work is also easy. There are two maids to serve me. If I go out to make a living, I may not be able to survive.
If your majesty really wants to treat us well, why not sell us to Kaiyuan or Meereen? We are very popular and can be sold for a lot of money."
This is not difficult to understand. The Qing Dynasty had a baoyi system, and baoyi were actually slaves.
But why are there still many people scrambling to be baoyi for the Manchu nobles? Even in the Qing Dynasty novels where the heroine travels through time and space, most of the "big" heroines are baoyi?
Baoyi are slaves. Their lives and dignity are not their own, and their daughters and wives can be fucked by their masters at will.
Even modern women in the new society want to travel back in time to be slaves for the Manchus. This is really fucking weird!
The problem is that the Manchu Qing class is "royal family - nobles - baoyi - Han officials - Han people". If you are a baoyi slave of the royal family, your status is really no worse than that of ordinary Manchus.
First of all, they don't worry about food and clothing. They have everything that the emperor has, and most of what the emperor doesn't have; secondly, power. As the saying goes, you have to look at the owner when beating a dog. Who dares to beat the emperor's dog under normal circumstances?
Finally, the future, will being a slave to the emperor have no future?
Haha, how many princes and grandchildren were born to baoyi? Even the mother of Emperor Jiaqing was a baoyi - this is the core motivation for women to travel back in time.
There is also the famous Cao Xueqin. His family has been in charge of Jiangning Weaving for three generations. Its status in Jiangnan is second only to the Governor-General of Liangjiang, but their identity is still a baoyi family of the Ministry of Internal Affairs.
Ethan scholars and others are in a similar situation.
Dany's method of dealing with them is also simple. Since you are so cheap, then you can be my slaves. It just happens to help me save a lot of money!
Just like now, dozens of scholars, each with a table and a chair, and a parasol above their heads, are neatly arranged under the steps of the Great Pyramid.
In the scorching sun, they help the free people register their identities and issue identity documents. Everyone is busy sweating and panting.
But Dany doesn't have to pay them a penny. Slaves working for their masters are not paid.
But she didn't hide in the pyramid to cool off. Instead, she moved a chair and sat in the middle of the clerical office desk to personally answer questions for the free people.
In this world, especially Westeros, the king has the responsibility to meet with the complainants at regular intervals.
To put it in a more understandable way, the king = the neighborhood aunt + the county magistrate.
Those who have grievances, those who have encountered difficulties, and those who want to talk to the king can line up at the palace at a fixed time to wait for the king to summon them.
If the king is lazy, he will let the King's Hand handle it on his behalf.
For example, Eddard Stark sat on the Iron Throne and accepted the people of the Riverlands' accusation of Sir Clegane's atrocities, which triggered a series of subsequent events such as the "Brotherhood Without Banners" and "Lady Stoneheart".
Well, this is different from the ancient times of the Celestial Empire. In the past dynasties of the Celestial Empire, which prime minister dared to sit on the throne of the emperor in the Golden Palace?
But here, the Hand of the King can represent the king, sit on the throne of the emperor, control the entire army and finances of the country, and have the power to appoint and dismiss officials.
Except for not being able to sleep with the king's wife, they can do everything the king can do. The weight of the prime minister is enough to make the powerful officials of various dynasties in China envious and jealous.
But in the three hundred years of the Targaryen dynasty, including the subsequent Robert and Lannister dynasties, there was no Hand of the King rebelling. They were all very honest. If the king wanted to kill him, he would kill him; if he wanted to exile him, he would pack his bags and leave Westeros without saying a word.
Mainly because, in a feudal country, the Hand of the King is just the Hand of the King.
They only represent the king. The king's prestige will be greatly reduced if he leaves the crown, not to mention the King's Hand.
If any of the King's Hands dare to rebel, countless nobles will immediately rise up to teach him a lesson.
In addition to fulfilling her obligations, Dany also wants to get a deeper understanding of the living conditions and demands of the common people in the process of meeting the new free men, and then try to select a few talents to use.
People who are honest and have no talents will generally follow the crowd and do what the Mother of Dragons arranges.
Those who really come to Dany either have some "advanced" ideas because of their own talents, or like Cleon, they are unwilling to be lonely and have a heart to climb up.
For the latter, Dany will certainly be vigilant, but there is no useless chess on the chessboard. As a chess player, you must be good at using every chess piece.
She remembers the case of Zanza very well! Obviously, she is a heroine of the first nation of the Jugsnai people, but she only left a series of ugly names such as zebra face, infertile, cruel, etc. for future generations.
She couldn't interfere with bad things, but she couldn't help doing them. In this way, Cleon and others had a place to use their skills.
When the Green Saint came over in a sedan chair, she saw Dany writing and drawing on a snow-white parchment scroll under the parasol, and she was talking to the people of the Summer Island opposite.
"You can do it boldly. I will lend you a sum of money without interest. You just need to return it within 10 years. If the goods can't be sold, I will buy all the inventory at the market price every quarter, every three months."
"Thank you, Your Majesty." The young black girl wiped her tears and kept bowing until she noticed the figure of the Green Saint, and then she said goodbye and left.
The people in the queue behind also stepped back a few steps to leave space for Dany and the Green Saint to talk.
"What is she going to do?" The Green Saint asked curiously.
"Her name is Lisa, a weaver, whose embroidery skills are not inferior to those of the Yi Ti court weavers." Dany handed over a handkerchief embroidered with exquisite peony patterns, and said with a smile: "She wants to open a clothing store, but she has no capital, and she is worried that no one will buy the goods in the store. I will provide her with a 10-year interest-free loan to help her open the store. If the goods cannot be sold, I will eat all of them."
"This" The wisdom of the Green Saint told her that Dany's move was very meaningful, but her shallow experience and knowledge prevented her from further peeping into the truth.
"What do you want to see me for?" While asking, Dany asked Jhiqui to pour a glass of cool and sweet lemonade for the Saint from the earthen jar.
Dany did not learn from other kings and queens to sit on the throne and the audience stood below to show majesty.
In that case, how could she hear any true words?
Her wooden chair came from the good master, and although it was large and gorgeous, the audience opposite also had a chair, so that he could talk to Queen Dany face to face.
The Green Saint sat down and looked at the bright sunlight around her. She felt that she was sitting on a burning fire pit. She wiped her forehead and sighed, "Your Majesty, you should receive visitors in the pyramid."
"The pyramid is too high. Ordinary people can't reach it or see it." Dany said with a smile.
The bottom of the pyramid is very low, but it is mostly prisons, warehouses, and servants' residences. Visitors are also received on the top floor, which is 100 meters high. When climbing up, you will be panting, and when climbing down, you will be panting. If it were her, she would hesitate to meet the cheap queen.
Moreover, the trial process without the public watching can not be regarded as "a clear mirror hanging high".
The Green Saint hesitated and said, "But it is too..."
"In a few days, I will transform a spacious hall at the bottom of the pyramid to receive ordinary people." Dany said.
"This..." The face of the Green Saint behind the Green Silk Sand changed, "Your Majesty, the nobles of Ghis used to mummify the bodies of their ancestors and put them at the bottom of the pyramid. You..."
"Don't worry, Saint," Dany waved her hand, picked up the porcelain bowl on the table and drank half a bowl of lemonade, and exhaled comfortably, "Even if they are all extremely evil slave owners, since they are dead, I will not harm their remains. Aren't the bodies of the Ghis who died in the battle a few days ago placed in Pride Square, waiting for their families to claim them?"
Thinking of the stinking square, the Green Saint couldn't help but turn pale.
How many people have been wiped out, who will come to claim their bodies?
In the hot summer, the bodies have all melted in the past few days.
"Your Majesty, burn the rest to avoid causing plague." She advised.
"Well, burn it tonight." Dany responded.
Without the Green Saint's reminder, she would burn it too.
She had made it clear before that there were only three days to claim the bodies of family members, and the rest would be burned immediately after three days.
There is a notice posted in Pride Square!
"I will move all the coffins in the pyramids to one pyramid. This way, it will not violate the tradition of the nobles of Ghis and will leave a lot of space for other purposes."
"Your Majesty is wise!" The Green Saint was very pleased with Dany's intentions, so she said, "I came to see Your Majesty for two things. First, there are still three pyramids occupied by nobles. If they are willing to surrender, how will you deal with them?
The second thing is the style of Sir Shattered Shackles. In the process of retaking 15 pyramids, 12 families were killed, men, women and children, and only a few families left children under the age of 5. The nobles in the other three pyramids surrendered, but the knight still killed all adults over the age of 14."
Seeing Dany's serious face, the Green Saint advised, "If you only plan to rule Astapor, there is nothing wrong with doing that, but you have the grand ambition to change the entire Slaver's Bay. You know, Astapor is only a marginal city in Slaver's Bay. Kaiyuan and Meereen have more and larger pyramids, and there are strong walls outside the pyramids."
"I once issued a strict order to kill only the most heinous slave owners and never harm their children. The leaflets scattered on the pyramids and the notices posted on the streets all clearly stated this.
2,000 free defenders died in the uprising, and almost half of them died at the hands of the Unsullied because they violated the bottom line I set." Dany said slowly.
"But the Great Pyramid behind you was destroyed, and no murderer came forward to take responsibility. Sir Shattered Shackles had no scruples, and seemed to have found a role model in other pyramids. Before opening the door to surrender, he killed the whole family of the big merchant."
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