In the blink of an eye, half a year had passed. According to the Westeros, the Summer of Ghosts had just ended, and the Seven Kingdoms had almost entered the rare autumn … Oh, it should be 'autumn', and next year would officially enter 'bitterly cold winter'. However, Slave Bay had a tropical oceanic climate, and there was not much of a change in the four seasons.
Although Danny had been in this world for more than a year, she had always been in the temperate zone, and had no direct experience of the cold winter and the changes of the seasons in this world.
Many times, when she led the Queen's Iron Guards to patrol the manor fields, she would tease the two Westeros: Do you think Slave Bay is the legendary 'Long Summer'?
In the light of the idea of being lenient with the enemy, in these relatively peaceful days, Danny worked at full capacity to expand the production. In half a year, rice was harvested twice, wheat and turnips were harvested once, and the second harvest was not far away.
In addition to the slave trade, the Guise people opened two projects: brick baking and bronze smelting.
Danny found from her previous memory that the free trade city-states were mostly stone houses. When she asked Chola and Barristan, they also said that in the Westeros, the nobles lived in stone castles, and the civilians lived in wooden houses.
How good were the brick baking skills of the Guise people?
The three cities of Astapor, Kaiyuan, and Meereen, including the pyramids, streets, squares, civilian residences, and city walls, were all made of brick.
Well, it must be said that the main building material of the pyramids was still boulders.
This showed the brilliance of the Guise architects. They had already considered the problem of weathering. If the rock was exposed to the outside, the pyramids would definitely 'quickly' weathering and collapse, so the exterior of the stone pyramids was paved with many layers of red bricks.
Well, the Guise architects' concept of time was different from that of modern people. They really wanted to build a 'lasting foundation'.
The great pyramid named 'Sunrise Palace', where Danny lived, had a history of more than five thousand years.
At that time, the Guise Empire was destroyed in the hands of Valleglia. The Guise people left the burned and salted old Guise (the capital of the Guise Empire, located on the other side of the 'New Guise' strait) and entered Slave Bay to build the three cities of Astapor, Kaiyuan, and Meereen.
Were there any buildings on Earth that were more than three thousand years old?
Danny didn't know.
In this fantasy world, many Westeros buildings had a history of 8,000 years, let alone 3,000 or 5,000 years. For example, the 19 Night Watchman Fortresses under the Great Wall of the Northern Region, Winterfell, Casterly Rock, and Storm Castle.
Alright, I digress.
The Gith people were very skilled in baking bricks and smelting bronze. There were continuous brick factories and metallurgy factories near the mountains to the south of Astapor, but Danny did not start producing red bricks on a large scale.
After she liberated all the slaves, she let them sign a labor contract and work again. However, the place where they worked again was not the brickyard, but the metallurgical factory, where they produced farm tools and swords.
The Astapor Iron Mine was relatively rare. More than 90% of it was copper. The precious steel was used to make farming tools, hoes, sickles, shovels …
In order to increase the efficiency of farmers, Danny also invented three kinds of plow knives. The "small" plow knife for mules and horses, the medium-sized plow knife for bison, and the giant plow knife for elephants.
The so-called "invention" … she only mentioned the use, and a large group of blacksmiths and scholars racked their brains to make it a reality.
Bronze weapons were definitely not suitable for this world that had entered the Iron Age for thousands of years, but a bronze spear was more threatening than a wooden stick.
Not to mention the Mother Of Dragons Guards under the Queen, even the strong farmers who worked part-time as militia had a bronze spear and a bronze scimitar in their hands.
Danny's idea of ruling Astapor could be divided into two steps. First, establish laws and regulations to stabilize the people and standardize the system. Second, develop agriculture and military to fill the stomach and strengthen the military.
The long night was coming, and she didn't have time to come up with a "five year plan", only a "half year plan".
The goal of the first half year plan under Danny's rule was to restore agricultural production, stabilize the city's prices, and ensure that every household had surplus food.
Three days after the "Danny Lilith Code" was issued, 40% of the slave owners outside the city opened their doors and surrendered.
After that, under the personal leadership of Danny, the Unsullied, the Centaur Mounted Archery, the militia supply team, the Black Dragon Scout, and the White Dragon Green Dragon Flamethrower, crushed all the slave owners' stubborn resistance with their running speed.
Danny roughly calculated that she had a total of four million mu of mature land and the same amount of semi-mature land that could be cultivated. In order to maintain the land's fertility, the Gith people took turns to farm.
Don't doubt how 200,000 people cultivated four million mu of land. They were not as intensive as the Chinese farmers, and part of the land was planted with pasture for grazing.
Half of the remaining fields were planted with olives and grapes.
Danny would confiscate the land of the slave owners who surrendered to her according to the slave population in their manor.
A slave confiscated 10 mu of land, and the rest of the land Danny would still "nationalize" the land … Well, Queen Danny was the country.
But she also kept her promise, and would give monetary compensation and buy it at the original price.
At the same time, the owner of the manor could also take away a lot of property other than food and livestock.
Don't look at them losing more than half of their land and a lot of food. Compared with the owners of the manor who did not surrender, they were too lucky.
For the slave owners of the manor who only gathered troops to rebel, except for those who died in battle, Danny would not kill again after capturing the manor. She would only let the adult men and women of the family serve as corvettes, depending on the tenacity of the resistance, ranging from 3 to 10 years … The long night was coming, and 90% of those who shouted "Queen is merciful" would not last for 10 years.
If the slave owners not only resisted the heavenly soldiers, but also dared to commit the evil act of "breaking jade and stone", then they would be beheaded.
In the above two cases, all the property would be confiscated.
After measuring the land, all the farmland was redistributed by Danny. Everyone in the city, Gith people, the new free people, the city people, the slave farmers outside the city, the Centaurs, and the Unsullied people, each had 15 mu of land.
Well, only the farmland was distributed. The pastures, fruit groves, and olive groves were still in the hands of Danny for the time being.
It seemed that it was not enough?
Many people did not need land, such as the skilled workers, the city merchants, the ordinary people of Gith, and so on. Danny was just using the method of distributing land to carry out a completely fair redistribution of the social wealth that had been gathered.
People who did not need land could go to the Chaoyang Palace with their household register, find the Queen's document, and exchange the land for gold and silver.
There was no bargaining, the same as the market price before Danny broke the market in Astapor City.
Well, Danny's Great Pyramid was renamed "Chaoyang Palace", and a plaque written in both Hanshu and Valleglia was hung at the entrance of the first floor.
She told others that those beautiful square words were the Dragon Language, which she learned from the Megalosaurus and had magical magic power.
The first and second floors of the pyramid had been redecorated by Danny. The first floor was where Danny received visitors and judged major crimes. The citizens could freely enter and leave to watch, equivalent to the ancient government office.
It was very spacious, as big as a football field.
The second floor was where "government" officials worked, such as handling household registration, helping the people sign contracts, real estate and land sales …
The houses that originally belonged to the Gith people all belonged to Danny, or were bought at the original price, or confiscated because of crimes, or the owner of the house became public.
Except for herself, there was no ordinary family in all the pyramids in the city.
Except for the smaller pyramid where the bones of the ancestors of the Gith people were buried, the rest of the pyramids were used by Danny as granaries and storage warehouses for supplies.
The people in the city could buy the brick houses that originally belonged to the Gith people from Danny, or they could buy the land and build it with their own money. Most of them were relatives of the big slave owners. Danny first confiscated all their property, and then subsidized the "alimony" of 10,000 to 100,000 gold royals, nominally belonging to the infants.
Danny was not like the modern black-hearted real estate merchants. Whether it was ready-made houses or land that could be built on, it was almost "real housing prices are as cheap as onions."
One acre of land could be exchanged for a 100-square-meter house. Was that cheap enough?
There were more than 300,000 people in Astapor, and each of them was allocated 15 acres of land. In theory, they could exchange for 15 houses in the city.
Of course, in the process of freeing the slaves, although many people died in the city, it was still impossible to give each of the 300,000 people a house, and it was impossible to open it for them to exchange.
Only people who got the urban residence could exchange for a house in the city, and farmers who got the rural residence could only exchange for the big manor that originally belonged to the slave owners.
Whether it was the people in the city or the farmers, each family could only exchange for a house, and the rest of the land … The farmers' land could not be bought or sold, but the people in the city could exchange for gold and silver as start-up capital.
This …
It was really hard to say who earned and who lost.
Although the city was in a good location, except for the pyramids in Astapor, the ordinary streets were all dirty, messy, old, broken, and old. Even when going out, one had to wear a veil to avoid the red brick dust brought by the sea breeze.
The big manors of the slave owners were all very luxurious, with brick castles, gardens, clean and clear wells, swimming pools, fruit trees, spacious courtyards and horse farms, gorgeous halls …
Except for being a little far from Her Majesty the Great Queen, it was simply too perfect.
The cities were maintained by the Unsullied, and the villages were managed by the village elders.
Danny arranged a village elder for each manor, and according to the size of the manor, a village elder was in charge of 10 to 50 families. They did not care about their status, and lived together in the red brick castle.
Then, the ten village elders formed a village committee, responsible for collecting taxes and organizing labor. The village elders took turns to be the village chief, and the village chief had the right to meet the Queen.
Danny's 800 horse cavalrymen were still in charge of the village patrol. They only patrolled on the main road, and could approach the entrance and end of the village. But without the village chief's permission, they could not enter the manor.
The horse cavalrymen had two main duties, first, to act as couriers and postmen, or help Danny pass on government orders to the villagers, or escort the village chief into the city, or deliver letters to the villagers of different villages; second, to assist the village militia in arresting bandits.
The women and elderly in the Khalasar took over all the pastures from the manor owner, and helping the Queen graze was their job.
It could be said that the 'small' city of Astapor was completely under Danny's control.
From the center of the city to the edge of the village, Danny's rule was like an eight-clawed spider, covering more than 300,000 people.
She did not think it was a big deal, but Chora, Whitebeard, and even the Green Saintess were shocked by such an orderly way of governing a 'country'.
They called her 'Queen', and had always regarded Astapor as a country, but for Danny, Astapor was not even a county.
The county magistrate in ancient China was called 'Baili Hou', and many county magistrates of rich counties ruled millions of people.
Danny was at most a county magistrate of a medium-sized county, and not even a prefect.
In modern society, a large community in a first-tier city had more than 300,000 people, and Danny, the Queen, was immediately demoted to a 'neighborhood committee aunt'.
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