Chapter 114 King, County Magistrate, and Neighborhood Committee Auntie
Half a year has passed in the blink of an eye. According to the calculation of the Westeros people, the Ghost Summer has just ended, and the Seven Kingdoms are almost entering the autumn that is rare in ten years. Oh, it should be the "Autumn Year", and next year will officially enter the "bitter winter". However, Slaver's Bay belongs to the tropical marine climate, and there is no obvious change of seasons.
Although Dany has been in this world for more than a year, she has been wandering around in the warm tropical area, and has no intuitive feeling of the cold winter and the seasonal changes in this world.
Many times, when she took the Queen's Iron Guard to inspect the fields of the manor, she would tease the two Westeros people: Do you think Slaver's Bay is the legendary "long summer"?
In line with the idea of preparing for the enemy, during this relatively peaceful period, Dany worked at full capacity to carry out large-scale production. In half a year, rice was harvested twice, wheat and turnips were harvested once, and the second harvest is not far away.
In addition to the slave trade, the Gis people opened two cheats: burning bricks and smelting bronze.
Dany found from her previous memories that most of the houses in the Free Trade Cities were made of stone. When she asked Jorah and Barristan, they also said that in Westeros, nobles lived in stone castles and civilians lived in wooden houses.
How good are the brick-making skills of the Gith people?
The three cities of Astapor, Kaiyon, and Meereen, including the pyramids, streets, squares, civilian houses, and city walls in the city, are all made of bricks.
Well, it must be explained that the main building materials of the pyramids are still huge stones.
This reflects the brilliance of the Gith architects. They have taken into account the problem of weathering. If the rocks are exposed to the outside, the pyramids will definitely "quickly" weather and collapse, so the outside of the stone pyramids is paved with multiple layers of red bricks.
Uh, the time concept of Gith architects is different from that of modern people. They really want to create a "foundation for eternity."
The large pyramid named "Palace of the Rising Sun" where Dany lives has a history of more than 5,000 years.
At that time, the Ghis Empire was destroyed by Valyria. The Ghis left the burned and salt-sprinkled Old Ghis (the capital of the Ghis Empire, located on the other side of the Strait of New Ghis), entered the Slaver's Bay and built three cities: Astapor, Kaiyuan, and Meereen.
Are there any buildings on Earth that are more than 3,000 years old?
Dany doesn't know.
But in this fantasy world, let alone 3,000 or 5,000 years, many buildings in Westeros have a history of 8,000 years, such as the 19 Night's Watch fortresses under the Northern Wall, such as Winterfell, Casterly Rock, and Stormwind.
Okay, that's a long way off.
The Ghis are very good at burning bricks and smelting bronze. There are brick and tile factories and metallurgical plants in the south of Astapor near the mountains, but Dany did not start the production of red bricks.
After she freed all the slaves who burned the bricks, she asked them to sign labor contracts and re-employ them, but the place where they re-employed was not a brick and tile factory, but a metallurgical factory, which was fully engaged in the production of farm tools and swords.
Iron ore in Astapor is relatively scarce, and more than 90% of it is copper ore. Precious steel is first used to make farm tools, hoes, sickles, and shovels.
In order to improve the efficiency of farmers' farming, Dany also verbally invented three types of plowshares, "small" plowshares for mules and horses, medium plowshares for bison, and giant plowshares for elephants.
The so-called "verbal invention". She only said the purpose, and a large group of blacksmiths and scholars pondered and turned them into reality.
Bronze weapons are definitely not suitable for this world that has entered the Iron Age for thousands of years, but bronze spears are always more threatening than wooden sticks.
Not to mention the Queen's Mother of Dragons Guard, even the part-time militia in the countryside has a bronze spear and a bronze scimitar.
Dany's idea of ruling Astapor can be divided into two steps. First, establish laws and regulations, stabilize people's hearts, and standardize the system; second, develop agriculture and military, that is, fill their stomachs and strengthen their military forces.
The long night is coming, and she has no time to make a "five-year plan", only a "half-year plan".
The goal of the first half-year plan under Dany's rule was to restore agricultural production, stabilize urban prices, and ensure that every household had surplus food.
Three days after the promulgation of the "Daenerys Code", 40% of the manor slave owners outside the city opened the gates and surrendered.
Later, under Dany's personal leadership, the Unsullied + Centaurs + Militia Baggage Team + Black Dragon Reconnaissance + White Dragon Green Dragon Flamethrower, like a dead tree and rotten wood, almost at the speed of running, crushed all the stubborn resistance of the slave owners.
Dany roughly counted that she had obtained a total of 4 million acres of cultivated land and the same amount of semi-cultivated land that could be reclaimed - in order to maintain the fertility of the land, the Gis people rotated to cultivate the land.
Don't doubt how 200,000 people can cultivate 4 million acres of land. They are not as intensive as the farmers of the Great Celestial Empire, and part of the land is planted with grass for grazing.
Half of the remaining fields are planted with olives and grapes.
For slave owners who surrender to her voluntarily, Dany will confiscate the land according to the slave population in their manors.
A slave was confiscated 10 mu of land, and the remaining land would still be "nationalized" by Dany. Well, Queen Dany is the country.
However, she also kept her promise and would give monetary compensation, buying at the original price.
At the same time, the manor owner could take away property other than food and livestock, which was a lot of money.
Although they lost more than half of the land and a lot of food, they were too lucky compared to those manor owners who did not surrender. For the manor slave owners who only gathered troops to rebel, Dany would not kill anyone again after conquering the manor, except for those who died in the war.
She would only let the adult men and women of that family perform corvée labor, which would range from 3 to 10 years depending on the tenacity of resistance. The long night is coming, and those guys who shouted "Queen's mercy" will not last for 10 years.
If the slave owner not only resisted the heavenly soldiers, but also dared to commit the evil of "shattering the jade and the stone", he would be beheaded.
In the above two situations, all property will be confiscated.
After the land was measured, all the farmland was redistributed by Dany. Everyone in the city, including the people of Ghis, the new freedmen, the people in the city, the slave farmers outside the city, the centaurs, and the Unsullied, each had 15 acres of land.
Well, only the farmland was distributed, and the pastures, orchards, and olive groves were temporarily in Dany's hands.
It seems that there is not enough to be distributed?
Many people do not need land, such as those skilled workers, city vendors, ordinary people of Ghis, etc. Dany just uses the way of distributing land to redistribute the concentrated social wealth in a completely fair manner.
Those who do not need land can go to the Palace of the Rising Sun with their household registration books, find the queen's documents, and exchange the land for gold and silver.
There is no price reduction, the same as the market price before Dany broke the city of Astapor.
Well, Dany's Great Pyramid was renamed "Palace of the Rising Sun", and a plaque written in both Chinese and Valyrian was hung at the entrance of the first floor.
She told others that those beautiful square characters were dragon language, which she learned from the dragons, and had magical powers.
The first and second floors of the pyramid have been renovated by Dany. The first floor is where Dany receives visitors and judges major crimes. Citizens can enter and exit freely to watch, which is equivalent to the government office in ancient times. It. is very spacious, as big as a football field.
The second floor is where "government" officials work, such as handling household registration, helping people sign contracts, and buying and selling real estate and land.
All the houses that originally belonged to the Ghis people also belong to Dani, or they are purchased at the original price, or they are confiscated due to crimes, or the heads of households are exterminated and returned to the public.
Except for her, there is no ordinary family in all the pyramids in the city.
Except for the smaller pyramid where the bones of the ancestors of the Ghis people are buried, the rest of the pyramids are used by Dani as granaries and material storage warehouses.
City people can buy brick and tile houses that originally belonged to the Ghis people from Dani, or they can buy land and build them at their own expense - most of them are relatives of big slave owners. Dani first confiscates all their property, and then subsidizes "maintenance" of 10,000 to 100,000 gold dragons, which is nominally for infants and young children.
Dani is not like the black-hearted real estate merchants of modern times. Whether it is a ready-made house or a piece of land that can be built, it is almost "real. The house price is as cheap as onions."
One acre of land can be exchanged for a 100-square-meter house. Do you think it is cheap enough?
There are more than 300,000 people in Astapor, and each person is allocated 15 mu of land. In theory, they can exchange for 15 houses in the city.
Of course, in the process of liberating slaves, although many people died in the city, it is still impossible to give more than 300,000 people a house each, let alone open them for exchange.
Only people with urban household registration can exchange for houses in the city, while farmers with rural household registration can only exchange for large estates that originally belonged to slave owners.
Whether city dwellers or farmers, each family can only exchange for one house, and the remaining land. Farmers' land cannot be bought and sold, but city dwellers can exchange it for gold and silver as start-up capital for entrepreneurship.
It's really hard to say who is making a profit and who is losing.
The urban area is of course in a good location, but in Astapor, except for the pyramids, the ordinary streets are all dirty, messy, poor, old, broken, and dilapidated. Even when going out, you have to wear a veil to avoid the red brick and stone dust brought by the sea breeze.
The large manors of slave owners are all extremely luxurious, with brick castles, gardens, clean and clear wells, swimming pools, fruit trees with abundant fruits, spacious courtyards and horse farms, and gorgeous halls.
Except for being a little far from the great Queen, they are simply too perfect.
The cities are maintained in order by the Unsullied, and the villages are managed by the village elders.
Dany arranges a village elder for each manor. Depending on the size of the manor, one village elder manages 10 to 50 households. They live together in the red brick castle regardless of their status.
Then, ten village elders form a village committee, which is responsible for taxation and organizing corvée labor. The village elders take turns to serve as the village chief, and the village chief has the right to meet the queen.
Danica LS's 800 horsemen still serve as the village patrol team. They only patrol on the main road and can approach the entrance and end of the village. But without the permission of the village chief, no one can enter the manor.
The main duties of the horsemen are two points. First, they act as couriers and postmen, or help Dany convey government orders to the villagers, or escort the village chief into the city, or deliver letters to villagers in different villages; second, assist the militia in the village to arrest thieves.
The women and the elderly in the LS take over all the pastures obtained from the manor owners, and it is their job to help the queen graze.
It can be said that the "small" city of Astapor is completely controlled by Dany.
From the central city to the villages on the edge, Dany's rule is like an octopus spider, which has more than 300,000 people in the network.
She herself did not think it was a big deal. Jorah, Whitebeard, and even the Green Saint were all shocked by such an orderly way of governing the "country".
They called her "Queen" and always regarded Astapor as a country, but to Dany, Astapor was not even as good as a county.
The county magistrate in ancient China was called "Baili Hou", and many county magistrates in wealthy counties ruled over millions of people.
Dany is at most a county magistrate of a medium-sized county, not even a prefect.
In modern society, a large community in a first-tier city would have more than 300,000 people, and Dany, the queen, would immediately be downgraded to a "neighborhood committee lady."
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