On the third day after breaking through the city gates, all the pyramids fell into Danny's hands. Excluding the strange pyramids with circular domes like the Temple of Divine Grace, there were a total of 18 pyramids.
The tallest belonged to the great slave lord Graz'dan, 100 meters, and the shortest was less than 50 meters.
Eight of them were exterminated, four of them only had a few children under the age of five left, and three of them lost all their adults, leaving only the minors under the age of 14 alive. In the last three families, Danny did not execute a single person because of the appearance of the Green Saintess.
In another week's time, the entire city was cleaned up by the Unsullied. Whether it was the new freedmen or the original Guise civilians, there were more than 123,000 people.
Well, the 18 pyramids and the accompanying Colosseum contributed tens of thousands of slaves.
The ratio of freedmen from slaves to Guise civilians was close to 20: 1, and Astapo fell completely into Danny's hands.
When the document registered the freedmen, they were divided into five classes by "soldier, soldier, farmer, worker, merchant".
Simply put, skilled craftsmen were workers, and they could also choose to start their own business like the textile worker Lisa and become a small merchant.
For honest people who were unskilled and illiterate, or those who had family ties, Danny would allocate dozens of mu of fertile land to them and go to the Worm River Plains outside the city to be farmers.
For example, the original slave soldiers and gladiators were incorporated into the militia by Danny, and Knight Jorah was responsible for training them into a regular army.
Well, this would also be a process of elimination. The elite militia would be drawn out and incorporated into another team, and the unqualified would become local guards like the police and constables.
At present, the Unsullied were still in charge of maintaining order in the city, but their best use was in the war of the Wild Legion, and it was too wasteful to put them in the city as guards.
Those who were literate were counted as "soldiers", but the taxi under Danny's command and the scholar-bureaucrat were two completely different concepts.
The true power was in the hands of the nobles who could hold a knife and kill people. In this world, there would never be a scholar-bureaucrat.
Because the social structure of this world was open, it was impossible to live a small life behind closed doors like Hua Xia Chao.
Without a doubt, scholar-bureaucrats were beneficial to maintaining royal rule.
If one wanted to centralize power and become a true emperor, scholar-bureaucrats were the emperor's best helpers.
But at the same time, no matter which dynasty, when the scholar-officials came to power, the power of the country would inevitably decline.
It was easy for martial artists to cause chaos in the country, but the military power was really strong.
In a relatively closed environment like the Celestial Empire, no matter how weak a unified empire was, it was still stronger than the barbarian kingdoms nearby. As long as the government was clean, most of the time, it could still be a comfortable big brother.
But this world is open. If your military power is weak, you can't survive.
Therefore, the Westeros City of Learning had been around for thousands of years. Almost every aristocrat had a scholar to guide them. The scholar's knowledge and experience were several times or even dozens of times better than the scholars of the Celestial Dynasty. However, the scholar still could not become a powerful scholar-official class.
Well, I really don't mean to belittle the ancient scholars of the Celestial Dynasty or to elevate the status of scholars.
The scholars in "A Song of Ice and Fire" were super awesome. Art, literature, mathematics, and agriculture were just the basics. Philosophy, archaeology, astrology, medicine, anatomy, magic, occultism, and so on were all subjects that one had to dabble in.
Moreover, the scholars were not just studying. The birth of each scholar was extremely strict, and their action power was extremely strong.
They could be used as doctors, as teachers for children, as aides, secretaries, and housekeepers for aristocrats. If there was a war, they could also be used as military strategists. They could do almost anything you could think of.
The scholars were not afraid of death and often ran around the world to explore new knowledge. For example, Scholar Marwin, the teacher of Witch Miri.
A Westeros actually went to the shadow land tens of thousands of miles away to "study abroad".
Anyone who knew how to read and count was classified as a "scholar" by Danny.
Well, the scholar's "scholar" was dedicated to serving others.
She herself established a staff of 200 people, all of whom were slave scholars who did not want to become free people.
Danny did not treat them too badly. She still let them live in the Great Pyramid with two maids serving them. The three meals a day were only one or two levels lower than Danny's.
Well, the maids were not slaves anymore. They signed labor contracts, had wages, pensions, and medical insurance — the kind of real medical insurance that was completely free.
Even so, it was cheaper than hiring scholars as clerks.
If those scholars got rid of their slave status and came to sign labor contracts with Danny, the salary they received would be much higher than the price Danny paid to keep them.
"I really don't know what they are thinking." Danny complained to Whitebeard.
Whitebeard told her that this was normal. In Westeros, the scholars were almost the same as these scholars. They did not take a salary and served their lords for free for the rest of their lives. The aristocrats were also responsible for supporting them for the rest of their lives … Well, they had to let the scholars live a decent life.
If the aristocrats dared to insult, abuse, bully, or dismiss their scholars for no reason, the City of Knowledge would also stand up for those scholars. In addition to threatening to no longer provide scholars to the aristocratic families, the City of Knowledge could also punish the other party through the scholars of the King's Landing.
Without the scholars, there would be no one to manage the messenger crows. The aristocrats could not even communicate with the outside world.
As one of the ministers of the Council, the scholars were eligible to participate in the Imperial Conference.
Although Danny had artificially delineated the five major classes, these new social classes were very unbalanced.
Counting the service industry, workers accounted for more than half of the population. There were more than 50,000 people, mostly women. There were 30,000 soldiers. The older ones were 50 or 60 years old, and the younger ones were only eight or nine years old. Only a few thousand Jith people chose to be 'merchants', although they had few businesses and shops.
There were too few people who chose to be farmers. Almost all of them were 'cowardly' farming people such as Raza and Nas.
These days, except for the Jith people who had families and businesses, the new free people in the city relied on Danny to support them. Although there were sufficient materials in the pyramid, this kind of life of eating from the same pot could not last long.
Therefore, she must restore the normal order of the city as soon as possible.
In the new society under the new system, the first priority was to clarify the laws and regulations.
Ten days after the defeat of Astapor.
The mist of the early morning dissipated like a phantom. The red sun was like an egg yolk. Before it rose to the top of the Great Pyramid, the red brick square had begun to heat up slightly.
"Woo woo —"
A long and low horn sounded at the top of the Great Pyramid, and the whole city quickly woke up under a strange power. In the ten days that the Mother Of Dragons ruled Astapor, there were several similar situations. The citizens knew that she was summoning the city's residents to gather in the People's Square.
"I heard that this is the sound of the Dragon Horn? The Dragon Horn can control the Megalosaurus. "A new free person whispered to his companion as he walked.
He was a middle-aged black man from the Midsummer Islands. He was less than 1.5 meters tall. His body was thin, and his hands and feet were agile. He used to be a handyman raised by a benevolent master, but now he was considered a mechanic.
"Maybe." The handyman's companion was a free scholar. He was a white man in his forties. He was of medium build and was not very knowledgeable. He was not the kind of high-class slave who lived a good life.
However, he was more knowledgeable than his companion. He said worriedly, "I hope it's not the slave master of Kaiyuan City."
"What are you afraid of? Not counting the newly formed 30,000 guards, Her Majesty the Queen still has more than 10,000 Unsullied! I want to join the Queen's Guard. Then I will have a chance to take revenge on the slave traders! I can even become Her Majesty's bugler. "The skinny man said.
"You don't understand. The slave masters of Kaiyuan City don't need to defeat the Unsullied. If they burn the manors outside the city first, the livelihood of more than 100,000 people in the city will become a big problem." The free scholar said.
No city could be completely self-sufficient. They had to rely on farming and animal husbandry in the suburbs to maintain their daily necessities. Astapor was no exception. Apart from the 100,000 people in the city, there were at least 200,000 slave masters' manors on the plains of the Worm River outside the city.
Of those 200,000 people, there were about 30,000 Jith people. Before she had the time to deal with the slave masters, Danny had also sent the Centaur Cavalry to the village entrance to post a notice of the "Four Great Prohibitions": Anyone who dares to kill their own slaves on a large scale will have their entire family wiped out; anyone who dares to burn grain stores, wheat fields, and olive trees, or kill large groups of cattle and sheep and let them rot will have their entire family wiped out; anyone who dares to poison wells, block wells, or even destroy irrigation channels and farm infrastructure will have their entire family wiped out; anyone who dares to form an army and kill patrolling Centaur Cavalry will have their entire family wiped out.
Of course, Danny wasn't blindly tyrannical. Behind the four prohibitions was a placating "Letter to the Jith People": Queen Danny Rize solemnly promises that any slave master who doesn't violate the four prohibitions will have their family and children protected. Their property will also be protected to a limited extent, including their fields and warehouses.
The free scholar and the skinny man didn't know this, nor did they know that more than 20 slave masters had been wiped out in the past ten days.
If slave masters could be frightened by a few notices, they wouldn't be evil slave masters.
Some shrewd guys deliberately set fire to grain stores and olive groves, hoping to attract Centaur patrols, and then they would wait for them to catch them all in one fell swoop.
Unfortunately, the ideal was vivid and full, but the reality was cruel.
The work of "household registration" for the new freedmen was indeed complicated, but it was all done by the clerical team. Danny herself was quite idle. While practicing swordsmanship with Whitebeard, she received a few citizen visitors. Her days were very relaxed and comfortable.
Therefore, she had time to act as a scout for the Centaur Cavalry.
Before every operation, Blackie would fly around the manor to see the situation of the Jith people clearly. The black dragon would even land on the ground and draw a map of the manor's defenses with its claws.
The next step was simple. A thousand Unsullied rushed up, and two hundred Centaur Cavalry mounted outside. Almost all the rebellious manors were swept away in one wave.
Then the heads of the slave masters' families were put on spears by the Centaurs and run around the village. The rest of the people were honest.
Well, Danny's so-called wiping out of the family was not the whole family. Only the adults were killed, and the children under the age of 14 were temporarily locked up. She would deal with them after she was done with this.
There were two reasons why she didn't directly send the Unsullied to flatten the manors. First, she was afraid that the manor owners would be driven to desperation and frantically destroy food and production materials. Second, the casualties were too high.
With the help of the big gang, 18 Unsullied and 22 Centaur Warriors died in quelling the unrest in more than 20 manors, while the other side only paid more than a thousand Jith farmers.
The idea was not '1000 Unsullied + 200 Centaurs' vs' 1000 Jith people '. Only half of the 1700 Jith people were men, and they were scattered across more than 20 manors.
Only less than a hundred Jith people and three to four hundred wavering slave farmers would fight against the 1000 Unsullied each time.
The main reason was that the complex environment of the manors was not suitable for battle. Each manor was almost a small castle, easy to defend and difficult to attack.
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