Chapter 142: The Northern Territory is busy collecting grain

What Jack didn't expect was the time for harvesting grain.

Due to the Rebellion of the Five Kings, most of the farmers in Hearth were driven out by Lord Greatjon Umber.

In addition, in order to fight, farmers also used their own farm tools, such as hoes, manure forks, rakes, etc. These were weapons that they used to save their lives on the battlefield.

With the land, cattle and even farm tools all belonging to the lord, few farmers could save enough money to buy decent weapons.

Therefore, he could only carry the dung fork and hoe at home to fulfill his combat obligations for his lord.

They were said to be free people, but in fact they were not much different from serfs. They were just legally free. They had to report to their lord even when they left the village.

It is precisely because of this that the grain harvest in Hearth City and the surrounding areas could be harvested in half a month, but it took a full two months.

Not only the north, except for the Reach and Dorne, the rest of the places are similar, especially the Riverlands. The originally prosperous banks of the Trident are now full of abandoned manors and villages, let alone harvesting food.

In the past two months, there have been no interruptions in the scouts from the Southern Dreadfort. After discovering that Jack was collecting grain, the Bolton family also began to speed up the collection of grain.

Everyone knew the importance of food, especially Roose Bolton. His men gathered eight thousand men, including two thousand cavalry.

Although these people brought some rations with them when they enlisted, it was only enough for the journey. The subsequent food and grass were provided by Delus Bolton.

And Roose Bolton discovered that a red dragon and eagle had been hovering in the sky during this time.

The eagle is the shapeshifter among the wildlings - Varamir the Six-Shaped Man.

Therefore, the entire movement of the Dreadfort is under Jack's control. Sometimes Jack will ride on Colach to harass the Bolton family to harvest food.

At this time, Moat Cailin is still under the control of the Ironborn. The Iron Throne is temporarily unable to help Roose Bolton and can only send out support.

The Iron Throne depicts Jack and his party as wild men traveling south.

And it means that Jack Poseidon is a descendant of Blackfire and has no inheritance rights to the Iron Throne.

But this also indirectly recognized the Targaryen inheritance.

Moreover, these words can only deceive the common people. The nobles have already begun to think about their own little thoughts.

Because it doesn't matter if Jack Poseidon is a Blackfyre bastard or not.

The important thing is that Jack Poseidon now has the support of a hundred thousand wild men and a ten-meter-long dragon.

The dragon is the key point. Without the dragon, Jack is nothing even if he is a Targaryen orthodoxy.

If Jack Poseidon is given another hundred thousand savages, the nobles will not consider the possibility of Jack Poseidon's success.

But it's different with dragons. If Aegon Targaryen didn't have three dragons, Westeros would still be the Seven Kingdoms.

And now, to put it bluntly, Targaryen and Blackfire have obviously joined forces. Blackfire married a Targaryen, so there is no such thing as an illegitimate child.

If that's all it is, that's okay. After all, in the end, whether it's orthodox or not depends on strength.

If Baratheon can hold the Iron Throne for three generations, then the Baratheon dynasty is legitimate.

The question is whether the Baratheon dynasty can last three generations.

You must know that there is currently one dragon, Blackfire, and three Targaryen dragons. In less than ten years, there will be four dragons participating in the war for the Iron Throne.

Facing the giant dragon, these nobles will have to think carefully about which side they will stand at that time.

Tywin Lannister also felt the undercurrent, so he wanted to take advantage of Joffrey's wedding to coerce and lure these nobles.

at the same time.

A huge merchant ship appeared at the docks of Meereen.

The hull of this ship is mostly black. It is Atlantis's most luxuriously renovated ship after the Poseidon - the Black Pearl.

And the Black Pearl is different from the Poseidon. The Black Pearl is specially equipped with fifty warships to escort it.

After the Black Pearl docked, several teams of Unsullied came down. They came to pick up Daenerys and go to Neptune Island.

Soon Daenerys arrived at the dock with her two children in her arms and surrounded by everyone.

Mando Gru looked worried, "Your Highness the Queen, you must take care of yourself there. Don't worry, don't worry about Meereen. I will do my best to manage Meereen well."

"Of course I believe you, Prime Minister Gru, but 50% is really too much, 20% at most, otherwise I can't worry about the living conditions of the people of Meereen."

Mantuo Gru's eyelids twitched, and his back was suddenly covered in cold sweat.

Since Jack left Meereen, the part of the "people's wealth" that originally belonged to Jack has been pocketed by Mando, and he thought he had done a perfect job.

I didn't expect that everything was under Daenerys' control, and I didn't expect that Daenerys would not warn me until now.

Daenerys looked at Mando Gru who was sweating coldly, and said with a smile: "Why are you sweating? Take care of yourself, Prime Minister, otherwise your seven hot lovers from the Summer Islands will find someone else."

After saying this, Daenerys turned around and stepped onto the Black Pearl. Only then did she understand why Jack liked to scare his subordinates. It was so fun!

Of course, Danni didn't know that Jack's habit of scaring his subordinates was learned from Cao from the Three Kingdoms period.

Cao had two major hobbies in his life: collecting wives and generals, and scaring his sons and subordinates.

As the Black Pearl left and three dragons passed overhead, Mando Gru wiped the cold sweat from his forehead.

"Damn it, this family likes to scare people, right? They are not good people, bah!" Mando Gru slandered in his heart.

However, he still had a reluctant expression on his face, and turned back to humbly say to the other officials and nobles:

"Everyone, Her Majesty the Queen has left. In the future, the Free Trade Coast will depend on us. We must develop the Free Trade Coast in a down-to-earth manner and not disappoint Her Majesty the Queen and His Majesty the Sea King."

"Humph." X2

The nobles and the military commanders led by Barristan all snorted coldly and turned away directly.

Mando Gru didn't care, and returned to the administrative pyramid with the other archons and their officials, talking and laughing.

The political system of the Free Trade Coast is now very complicated. The three major groups of nobles, military commanders, and bureaucrats jointly maintain the operation of the three cities.

But as time went on, the noble system was slowly squeezed out.

Or to put it another way, the nobles gradually became a bureaucratic aristocratic group, with some of the feeling of aristocratic gentry.

Because they had no power, they were at a disadvantage in the struggle with the archons.

On the contrary, the second sons who had separated from their families before were doing well, because those second sons were not only nobles in Yunkai, but also served as archons of the Yunkai city.

It can be said that the management power of the entire Yunkai was in the hands of the archons, and the military group had tens of thousands of standing troops.

And since the nobles had no slaves, although they made more and more money, the number of people required by the archon system was limited, resulting in the fact that the power of the nobles was not as good as before.