The People's Square and the Freedom Guardian Monument weren't just gimmicks. The so-called liberation of slaves wasn't just about unlocking the shackles.
In the original plot, Danny Rize thought and did exactly that, and then she was done for.
After destroying the old system, a new system had to be built to allow society to function stably. Otherwise, a world without system would be worse than the old world.
The square and the monument were mainly to remind the new freedmen that they were the masters of this city. It was natural for them to build and protect their homes.
Well, Danny conquered the slave city yesterday. Today, she was going to put new "shackles" on the freedmen.
She needed them to work, she needed them to serve, and she needed them to farm.
In the morning, Danny unlocked the necklaces of all the slaves with the help of the Unsullied.
In the afternoon, under the bright sun, the new freedmen formed a long line 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, Danny's next target was the slaves who came out of the pyramid.
For example, the chefs, kitchen maids, textile workers, and other manual workers were all happy and grateful to the Mother Of Dragons. But when it came to the scholars, gardeners, doctors, and other high-tech workers, they were unwilling to become freedmen.
When Danny asked for the reason, Scholar Ethan said, "The Benevolent Lord treats me very well. My food, shelter, and clothes are all of the best quality. My work is also quite easy, and I have two maids to serve me. If I were to go out and make a living, I might 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 wasn't hard to understand. The Qing Dynasty had a system of servants, and servants were actually slaves.
But why were there so many people rushing to be servants for the Manchurian nobles? Even in the Qing Dynasty novels, most of the "big" female protagonists' identities were servants.
Their lives and dignity were not their own. Their daughters and wives could be controlled by their masters as they pleased.
Even modern women in the new society wanted to transmigrate back to be servants for the Manchurians. This … was f * cking ridiculous!
The problem was that the hierarchy of the Qing Dynasty was' royal family, nobles, servants, Han officials, and Han commoners'. If one was a servant of the royal family, their status would not be any worse than normal Manchus.
First of all, they didn't have to worry about food and clothing. Whatever the Emperor had, they had. What the Emperor didn't have, they also had. Secondly, they had power. As the saying goes, if you want to hit a dog, you have to look at its owner. Under normal circumstances, who would dare to hit the Emperor's dog?
Finally, there was the future. Would there be no future if he became the Emperor's servant?
Haha, how many Imperial Princes and Imperial Grandsons were born from Bao Yi? Even the Jiaqing Emperor's mother was also a concubine — this was the core motivation of the transsexual women.
There was also the famous Cao Xueqin. His family had led the Jiangning weaving industry for three generations. His position in Jiangnan was second only to the governor of Liangjiang, but his identity was still that of an aristocratic family of the Imperial Household.
Scholar Ethan and the others were in a similar situation.
Danny's method of dealing with them was simple. Since they were so cheap, then they could be her slaves. That would save her a lot of money!
Just like now, dozens of scholars each had a table, a chair, and a parasol over their heads. They were neatly arranged under the steps of the Great Pyramid.
Under the scorching sun, they helped the freedmen register their identities and issue identity documents. They were all sweating and panting.
Danny did not need to pay them a copper coin. Slaves working for their masters did not need to be paid.
However, she did not hide in the Great Pyramid to cool off. Instead, she moved a chair to sit in the middle of the desk and personally answered the difficult questions of the freedmen.
In this world, especially in Westeros, the King had the responsibility to meet the complainants at a fixed time.
To put it in a simpler way, the King = the neighborhood committee aunt + the county magistrate.
Those who were wronged, those who encountered difficulties, and those who wanted to talk to the King could all line up at a fixed time to wait for the King's summons.
If the King was lazy, he would let the King's Hand handle it.
For example, Eide Stark sat on the Iron Throne and accepted the complaints of Sir Clegane's atrocities from the people of Hejian, which led to a series of events such as the Brotherhood Without Flags and Madam Stone Heart.
Oh, this was different from the ancient times of the Celestial Empire. In the history of the Celestial Empire, which prime minister dared to sit on the throne of the Emperor?
But here, the King's Hand could represent the King and sit on the throne of the Emperor. They controlled the country's military and finances, and they also had the power to appoint and dismiss officials.
Other than not being able to sleep with the King's wife, they could do anything the King could do. The weight of the Prime Minister's power was enough to make the powerful ministers of China envious.
But in the 300 years of the Targaryen Dynasty, including the Robert and Lannister dynasties, not a single King's Hand rebelled. They were all very obedient. If the King wanted to kill them, they would kill them. If the King wanted to exile them, they would pack their bags and leave the Westeros without a word.
The main reason was that in a feudal country, the King's Hand was only the King's Hand.
They only represented the King. The King's prestige would be greatly reduced if he left the royal territory, let alone the King's Hand.
If any King's Hand dared to rebel, countless nobles would immediately raise their troops and teach them a lesson.
In addition to fulfilling her obligations, Danny also wanted to learn more about the living conditions and demands of the people in the process of meeting the new free people. Then, she would try to select a few useful talents.
The honest people who didn't have much talent would usually follow the crowd. They would do whatever the Mother Of Dragons arranged.
The people who really came to Danny either had some "advanced" ideas because of their own talent, or they were like Cleon, unwilling to be left out and had the heart to climb up.
Danny would of course be wary of the latter, but there were no useless pieces on the chessboard. As a chess player, she had to be good at making use of every piece.
She still remembered the example of Zanja!
She was clearly the heroine of the first people of the Juggernauts, but she only left behind a series of unpleasant names, such as "zebra face", "infertile", "cruel", and so on.
She couldn't interfere with the bad things, but she also couldn't not do it. In this way, Cleon and the others could be used.
When the Green Saintess came over in a small sedan, she saw Danny bending over the table under the umbrella, writing and drawing on a white sheepskin scroll. She was also talking to the people of the Summer Islands opposite her.
"… You can do it without worry. I will lend you a sum of money without interest. You just have to pay it back within ten years. If the goods can't be sold, every quarter … Well, once every three months, I will buy all the stock according to the market price."
"Thank you, Your Majesty." The young black girl wiped her tears and kept bowing until she noticed the Green Saintess' figure. Then, she left.
The people in the queue behind also took a few steps back, leaving room for Danny and the Green Saintess to talk.
"What does she want to do?" the Green Saintess asked curiously.
"Her name is Lisa. She is a textile worker. Her embroidery skills are not inferior to the weavers of the barbarian palace." Danny handed over a handkerchief embroidered with a beautiful peony pattern and smiled. "She wants to open a clothing store, but she doesn't have the capital. She is also worried that no one will buy the goods in the store. I will give her a ten-year interest-free loan to help her open the store. If the goods can't be sold, I will take all the money. "
"This …" the Green Saintess' wisdom told her that Danny's action had a deep meaning. However, her shallow experience and knowledge prevented her from further peeking into the truth.
"Why did you come to me?" As she asked, Danny asked Ji Qi to pour the Saintess a cup of cool and sweet lemonade from the jar.
Danny did not follow the example of other kings and queens who sat on the throne while the audience stood below to show their majesty.
— — Under such circumstances, how could she listen to the truth?
Her wooden chair came from the Good Lord. Although it was spacious and luxurious, the Saintess opposite her also had a chair. She could talk to Queen Danny face to face.
The Green Saintess sat down and looked at the bright sunlight around her. She felt like she was sitting on a burning 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," Danny said with a smile.
The bottom of the pyramid was very low, but it was mostly prisons, warehouses, and servants' residences. Visitors would also be received at the top, which was 100 meters high. When climbing up, they would puff and puff. When climbing down, they would puff and puff … If it were her, she would hesitate to see the cheap queen.
Moreover, the trial process without the audience was not a "mirror hanging high".
The Green Saintess hesitated and said, "But the queen receiving guests in the square is too …"
"In a few days, I will transform a spacious hall at the bottom of the pyramid to receive ordinary people," Danny said.
"This …" the Green Saintess's face changed behind the green silk. "Your Majesty, the nobles of Gith used to mummify the bodies of their ancestors at the bottom of the pyramid. You …"
"Don't worry, Saintess," Danny waved her hand, picked up the porcelain bowl on the table and drank half a bowl of lemonade. She sighed comfortably. "Even if they are all evil slave owners, since they are dead, I won't hurt their remains. Aren't the bodies of the Gith people who died a few days ago in the Pride Square, waiting for their families to claim them? "
Thinking of the rotten square, the Green Saintess couldn't help but turn pale.
How many people died? Who would come to claim their bodies?
In the hot summer, after a few days, the bodies had turned into water.
"Your Majesty, burn the rest, so as not to cause a plague," she advised.
"Well, burn it tonight," Danny replied.
If the Green Saintess didn't remind her, she would also burn it.
She had made it clear before that the time to claim the bodies of her family was only three days. After three days, the rest would be burned immediately.
There was a notice on the Pride Square!
"I will move the coffins in the pyramid to a pyramid. In this way, it will not violate the tradition of the nobles of Gith, but also leave a lot of space for other purposes. “
"Your Majesty is wise!" The Green Saintess was very pleased with Danny's intentions and said, "I came to see Your Majesty for two things. First, there are still three pyramids occupied by the nobles. If they are willing to surrender, how will you deal with them?
Second, there is the problem with Sir Shackle's style …
In the process of recovering the 15 pyramids, 12 families were killed. Only a few families left with children under the age of five. The nobles in the other three pyramids surrendered, but the knights still killed all the adults over the age of 14. "
Seeing Danny's serious face, the Green Saintess advised, "If you only want to rule Astapor, it is fine. But you have a grand ambition to change the whole of Slave Bay … You know, Astapor is only a border city in Slave Bay. Kaiyuan and Meereen have more and bigger pyramids, and there are also strong walls outside the pyramids."
"I have given strict orders to only kill the most heinous slave owners, and never harm their children. The leaflets scattered on the pyramids and the notices pasted on the streets and alleys all made it clear.
Two thousand Freedom Guardians died in the uprising, and almost half of them died in the hands of the Unsullied because they violated the bottom line I set, "Danny said slowly.
"But the great pyramid behind you was destroyed, and no one came out to take responsibility. So, Sir Shackle had nothing to worry about. He seemed to have found an example in the other pyramids, and before they opened the gates to surrender, he killed the entire family of the merchant."
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