It was not difficult to incorporate the enemy sailors. Danny was the Mother Of Dragons, the liberator of slaves. As long as the slave sailors had no holes in their brains, they would be willing to surrender.
She only rode on Big Black's back and flew over the heads of the sailors at the dock, and the more than 10,000 sailors who had lost their ships all surrendered.
Conditional surrender.
Slaves were allowed to be liberated, but for non-slave sailors, Danny could not "force people to be bandits".
Obviously, there were not only the oarsmen and slave warriors on the ship, but also the captain, the first mate, the second mate, and other "high-ranking" freemen. They were not slaves, and most of them came from well-off families. Naturally, they were not willing to join Dani in the "rebellion" that would cost them their lives.
Well, rich people are qualified to receive education, and educated people at least have a view of the big picture.
Like the descendants of the Rose Group, the experienced senior sailors believed that Danny's abolition of slavery was against the whole world.
Individuals against the world were destined to have no good end.
Therefore, they asked Danny to allow them to redeem themselves with money in accordance with tradition.
Although Danny cherished the talents of those elite sailors, she also understood that the melon that was forcibly twisted was not sweet, so she agreed: You can redeem yourself, but you have broken the law after all, and all of you must work for Astapor City for five years.
Of course, the ransom of nobles and ordinary sailors was different, and the treatment they received was also different.
Well, the food and accommodation would be better.
Danny did not ask for too much, and only set a price for each captive who did not want to join her according to tradition.
She did not even treat those Gith differently. They were all treated the same.
Danny was so magnanimous that the sailors immediately raised their hands and surrendered.
Well, those people certainly did not know that autumn was coming to an end, and the long night was coming soon.
A total of 8,000 strong slave soldiers were incorporated, and the remaining 3,000 real sailors became coolies.
After dealing with the sailors in the morning, Danny rode Big Black and led 5,000 infantrymen back to Poplar Slope in the afternoon. After burning the bodies of more than 10,000 soldiers of the Gith coalition, she began to reorganize the army on a large scale the next day.
Twenty thousand civil servants and militia, five thousand Immaculate Ones, ten thousand Wings of Liberty with a mix of infantry, cavalry, and bows, and fifteen thousand Queen's Guards selected from seventy thousand slave warriors.
Danny gave the Queen's Royal Guards the White Dragon Flag, officially becoming a new army.
Yep, here, Danny used the Celestial Emperor's Heart Technique to purposely split the new free citizens of different cities into different troops, so as to prevent the Free Citizen Guards, who were getting stronger and stronger, from having too much power.
"The Vile Mother Of Dragons is reorganizing her army. She's about to lead an army of 200,000 to attack Kaiyuan!"
In just one night, the Virtuous Lords of Yuankai City knew this terrible news.
The black messenger crow carried a black message.
It couldn't be helped, there were definitely spies from Kaiyuan City among the thousands of merchants and prostitutes who were working for the Guise army or merchants who were reporting to Kaiyuan City for the sake of Gold Radiance Coins.
"Is that true?"
"Is the news confirmed?"
"Sigh, the news brought by the dozen or so messenger crows are exactly the same. It can't be wrong! That woman even wrote a declaration for the merchants to spread throughout the world, 'To the people of the world, Sage Kaiyuan's Seven Serious Crimes'. "
"Damn it, this again. When we attacked Astapor last year, she also wrote 'Seven Great Sins'. Looks like she's really going to fight us to the death this time."
"Sigh, we have an army of 200,000, and we don't have time to recruit new mercenaries … Why doesn't she just die? The slave trade is the foundation of the world's great maritime trade. Even Queers and the Volantis want to kill her, so why doesn't she just let herself be killed by an assassin? The heavens don't have eyes! "
"Yeah, the heavens are unfair, and the gods are blind. We're standing aloof from worldly affairs, just obediently staying in Slaver's Bay, doing business dutifully, repeating thousands of years of simple and unpretentious life, treating people with integrity, providing quality service to the entire world. Why would that woman come and provoke us, a group of honest people?
"In the end, it's still Queers' pity that he's useless. He already snuck into the great pyramid and even stole the dragon egg, but he still didn't kill that woman. He caused us to lose more than 30 ships for nothing."
"We should find a more professional assassin. Let's just pool our money and hire a Faceless."
"Hiss … Faceless? That would cost tens of millions of gold radiance coins, right? "
"According to the current situation, it's no less than 20 million. It's probably the most expensive price in history. But if we call the Great Lord of Meereen, one million gold radiance coins per person would be enough. "
"Distant water can't quench a present thirst. We can hire a Faceless, but we must defeat this wave of attack. I'm very puzzled. Even if Astapor defeated our allied forces, didn't they suffer any losses? Don't they need to recuperate? "
In the palace at the top of the great pyramid, the virtuous masters sitting around the round table discussed with each other in panic.
"Thump, thump, thump!"
The chief virtuous master knocked on the table, interrupting the argument that was getting louder and louder. His skinny old face was full of seriousness, and his sharp eyes swept across the general in the yellow silk cloak below the conference table. He asked, "General Zakaro, the other party claims to have 200,000 people. How many people do they actually have?"
The virtuous master came from the Daznak family, wearing the noblest yellow crystal tasseled toka robe. He was close to 50 years old, and his face was skinny but full of majesty.
In order to cover his sparse forehead, his black and red hair was slanted forward, looking a little like a plane.
"Virtuous Master Mourinho, that woman has at least 50,000 troops," General Gith, who had a big belly, said.
"50,000 …" The virtuous master's black eyes narrowed slightly, and he knocked lightly on the table. After a while, he said, "Kaiyuan is smaller than Astapor, but the city walls are taller and sturdier. If we have 10,000 defenders, can we resist the enemy's attack?"
"Virtuous Master, under normal circumstances, with Kaiyuan's 10-meter-tall city walls, and especially with our back to the sea, we can guarantee the transportation of goods. Five thousand elites can stop an army of 100,000 for ten years, but that woman has three evil dragons …" The fat general said hesitantly.
"We don't need ten years. In half a year, we can find a Faceless and end her," Mourinho said lightly.
"You really plan to hire a Faceless? We all know that the Iron Treasury and Ocean Palace are behind the Black and White House. The Braavosi will definitely take the opportunity to make a series of political demands, "the general said in shock.
"Those Braavosi only know how to interfere with the finances of other countries through finance, but Slave Bay only has the slave trade and no finance."
"Then …" The fat general gritted his teeth and said, "I need more soldiers and an unlimited number of Dragonslayer crossbows. It would be best if they filled the city walls."
"Yes," the virtuous master's dry lips cracked into a smile. "We have more than 80 warships and 500 large ships. In half a month, we can transport all of Meereen's troops and crossbows to Kaiyuan."
"Will the great masters of Meereen agree?" One of the virtuous masters asked uncertainly.
"Definitely. Without the lips, the teeth will feel cold. I believe that the Great Lord understands this. Moreover, the battlefield will be in Kaiyuan, and only Kaiyuan will be destroyed by the flames of war. The people of Meereen will peacefully enjoy the fruits of victory, so why not? "
There were spies from Astapor in Kaiyuan. In less than two days, Danny received a message from a messenger crow: The great masters of Meereen and Kaiyuan had gathered their troops and were about to fight the evil Mother Of Dragons in Kaiyuan.
At this time, Danny was preparing the army and was about to set out. Fifty thousand soldiers and hundreds of thousands of oxen and horses. Whether it was war horses or pack horses, everyone was given two horses. If there were no horses, they would use oxen, mules, or donkeys. In short, every soldier had at least two mounts.
Fifty thousand soldiers, hundreds of thousands of oxen, half a month's worth of rations, and at a speed of fifty kilometers per day, they would attack Astapor in ten days. This was Danny's plan.
"I'm afraid we won't be able to take Kaiyuan in a short time." Whitebeard said with a serious expression.
Danny, who had changed into her military uniform again, said fiercely, "Then we'll besiege the city. Let the three dragons bombard Kaiyuan's walls day and night. I want to see how long they can last."
"I'm afraid that the first ones to fall will be us." Jon Bolton frowned.
"Oh, what do you mean?" Danny looked at him and asked.
"I'm worried that the enemy will scorch the walls and clear the field." The commander of the guards said slowly.
Well, Danny didn't go back on her words. The core of the newly formed guards were all members of the Rose Mercenary Group. The former leader of the Rose Mercenary Group was naturally elected as the commander.
The eight hundred elite mercenaries acted as the skeleton of the fifteen thousand slave soldiers, forming a force that could fight in just a few days.
This wasn't an exaggeration. Even the regular armies of the Seven Kingdoms of Westeros had a ratio of one to a hundred, with one to two hundred knights leading ten to twenty thousand farmers who had just put down their hoes.
Simply put, this was a world where everyone was worse than everyone else. It was just a matter of who wasn't worse.
The general situation was like this: slave soldiers, farmers from the lord's family, free citizens with some combat experience (selected from the slave soldiers), mercenaries ranked in the top thirty, Unsullied, knights with faith and complete education (including the knights of certain large mercenary groups and the armed knights of the church).
This was why Danny had the newly formed guards follow her to battle.
As for whether the guards would be controlled by the Rose Mercenary Group and Jon Bolton?
There was no doubt that they would.
But Danny did it deliberately. In addition to balancing the power of the new free citizens, it was mainly to lead a new and more advanced system for the liberated slaves — a Chinese version of the Westeros knight system.
At this time, Astapor was actually implementing a county system that was conducive to centralization of power. But with Kaiyuan, Meereen, and even the entire Slave Bay being taken over by Danny, a more "dynamic" enfeoffment system was bound to appear.
The feudal lords of the Westeros could last for more than eight thousand years. Compared with the ancient dynasties of the Celestial Empire, which had a cycle of three hundred years, it was simply too "dynamic"!
Yes, dynamic, the power of living. In terms of governing a country, the enfeoffment system was far inferior to the centralized system of the Celestial Empire.
Danny wouldn't completely copy the system of the Celestial Empire, even if centralized power could bring two or three generations of the world's unprecedented "Danny's Golden Age."
Because she was a monarch, not a commoner. With Danny's Golden Age, there would definitely be a "last emperor of Danny's Nth Generation."
To put it simply, she only wanted her family to rule for thousands of years. As for whether the country was rotten, she cared, but she cared more about whether her descendants would be executed.
Moreover, no matter how rotten the country was, her descendants were still monarchs.
There was another advantage of the enfeoffment system. The vassals were often more loyal to the monarch, far more loyal to the emperor than the generals, the commander-in-chief, and the provincial governors.
For example, Stark had been the King of the North for eight thousand years.
The King of the North only had a small number of direct troops. Most of the troops came from the lords under him, like Danny and Jon Bolton at this time.
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