Chapter 109: Age is not a treasure for shipbuilders

Four months passed quickly.

Jack successfully reached the Narrow Sea according to the planned trajectory, and it would take another three days to reach Sunspear.

During these four months, many major events happened.

First, the Sons of the Harpy in Meereen were completely eradicated.

The Lorac family and the Marek family coincidentally reported other families at the same time.

Their two families were pardoned by Daenerys, but the other four great lord families were directly uprooted, and two of the pyramids were awarded to the two families.

And Dany organized her nobles and participated in the cooperation with the Big Wave Chamber of Commerce, which completely connected Meereen and Yunkai.

Atlantis also began to buy slaves on a large scale and opened the location of the Seychelles.

A large number of merchants bought young slaves in other free trade cities and then sold them on Trident Island, one of the five affiliated islands of Sea King Island.

Then they took the money from the sale to purchase goods on Crescent Island, which had a large amount of soap, glass, silk and other commodities.

But Poseidon Island is still not open to the public, and countless merchants are full of curiosity about Poseidon Island in the center of the archipelago.

However, although they are full of curiosity, no one dares to sneak into the scope of Poseidon Island.

Because it is the nest of the sea god, if you are not an Atlantean, rash entry will only result in the destruction of the ship and the death of people.

Now the world is half-believing and half-doubting the sea god of Atlantis. Except for those who have seen Poseidon with their own eyes, others do not believe that there are powerful creatures older than dragons.

Many people have found traces of Godzilla in the waters of the Seychelles Islands, some of whom are bragging or misidentifying creatures.

But some merchants really saw Godzilla, because Poseidon came back to protect the islands after the Seychelles Islands were announced.

At that time, the 300 warships of Volantis were divided into two groups, and 100 of them wanted to rush directly to the Seychelles Islands.

As a result, Poseidon, who was driven back, intercepted halfway, and all 100 large ships were torn to pieces, and thousands of people died without survival.

This battle shocked the world and made those who had seen Poseidon realize that the reason why the god of the sea is the god of the sea is not because of the bragging of Atlantis, but because the god of the sea in the sea is like a real god.

The two hundred warships heading to the Slave Bay suffered heavy losses.

They were ambushed by the merchant ships that Daenerys temporarily rented and modified. In the end, they left with only thirty warships and hurried away. Daenerys also had her own warships.

As for the Qarth camel soldiers who originally came to support, they were like a joke and returned halfway.

The Volantis did not believe in the legend of the god of the sea. They believed that the one hundred warships should be like them, ambushed, and in the end everyone was willing to fight to the end, which led to the annihilation of the army.

For this reason, Volantis officially declared war on Meereen and Atlantis, and actively called on other city-states to boycott Atlantis's goods.

At the same time, it announced to the outside world that it would organize a huge alliance and then launch thousands of warships to attack Slave Bay and the Seychelles.

Although Volantis' slogans were loud and there were many responses, such as Qarth, New Ghis, and Toros.

But in fact, except for Volantis, which took action to boycott Atlantis, other city-states were just showing off.

Then they did business and invited the Big Wave Chamber of Commerce to settle in, without paying any attention to Volantis' words.

Even Volantis itself had many merchants selling Atlantis' fine wine, soap, silk, glass and other goods.

After all, although Daenerys shouted to liberate the world's slaves, she obviously did not continue to show for it after occupying the Slave Bay.

Although they no longer have the slave trade center of the three cities in the Slave Bay.

But Essos will naturally have other cities to replace the Slave Bay and become the next Meereen, Yunkai, and Astapor.

For example, Qohor, which is adjacent to the Dothraki Sea.

Since the Slave Bay became a free trade coast, all the Dothraki slaves were sold to Qohor.

Another example is New Ghis.

Because Daenerys' goal is the Iron Throne, after occupying the Free Trade Coast, Daenerys did not continue to attack New Ghis.

Therefore, the slave trade in New Ghis ushered in unprecedented development, and part of the business in Slaver Bay was absorbed by New Ghis.

The whole Essos temporarily calmed down, and Daenerys took this opportunity to accumulate strength to build warships, and also placed a large number of warship orders with Braavos, which also opposed slavery.

Braavos had just completed the order of Atlantis, and then received another order from Daenerys.

At the speed of Braavos launching a warship every few days, Braavos can earn at least two million gold dragons this time, of which Meereen accounted for the majority.

Because Atlantis not only modified 39 large ships, but also ordered a large number of fast ships.

At the time of delivery, hundreds of older shipbuilders were taken away at the price of 200 gold dragons.

There are as many shipbuilding craftsmen as you want in Braavos.

As a city-state composed of a large number of small islands, the last thing they lack is shipbuilders.

After these hundreds of old shipwrights were bought, their shipyards could recruit more young shipwrights in a blink of an eye.

And although these workers were not slaves, they were actually the same as slaves in the eyes of the nobles of Braavos.

They just needed to be paid.

It is precisely because of this that these old shipbuilders are experienced.

But the wages are high, and the physical strength when working is not good enough.

On the contrary, the young craftsmen recruited will have rich shipbuilding experience in just a few years.

At the same time, they are physically stronger and can contribute to the shipyard for a few more years.

So when the shipyard in Braavos heard that Atlantis was recruiting experienced shipbuilding masters.

They sold these old workers to Atlantis in the form of outsourcing.

These old workers had to sell their property and go to Atlantis with their families.

Because Braavos has no shortage of shipbuilders, they have devoted their whole lives to the shipbuilding industry, and they can do nothing but shipbuilding.

This led to no one being willing to recruit them after they became unemployed, and rich experience was not an indispensable advantage.

Because the shipbuilding technology is there, a young man can become a master in just a few years.

Then he can work for the shipyard for a few more years in the golden age.

It is much more cost-effective than these old men in their thirties and forties.

So they would starve to death sooner or later if they stayed in Braavos, so they might as well go to Atlantis and take a gamble.

They didn't need good treatment, they just hoped to get one tenth of the big pie that the Atlanteans had drawn.

You should know that the Atlanteans paid them on an annual basis, 13 gold royals a year, and various vacations and benefits.

Even if they didn't want half, they would be satisfied with just three gold royals. As for vacations and benefits, they didn't care at all, they knew it was fake.

So when Atlantis left Braavos, there were 756 more shipbuilding masters on board, as well as their families, a total of 3,000 people.