Chapter 168 Free Trade Coast Political Reform

"Three ships of gold? How much is that? Can you give me some?" Tormund's eyes lit up.

"Hahaha, as long as you perform well on the battlefield, I will make the decision. In addition to the rewards you deserve, I will give you an extra box of gold."

The gold and the Unsullied were transported from Meereen.

At this time in Meereen, Mando Gru was watching the golden dragons in the warehouse being moved away one by one.

Just a few months ago, Atlantis decided to build a huge military base on the west side of Meereen, so 11 million golden dragons were mobilized from Meereen.

This was the last wave of golden dragon transportation. At this time, the Free Coast Military Base has been basically completed.

Sorge came to Mando and said with a smile: "Thank you Prime Minister Mando for your cooperation."

"No, since it is the order of His Majesty the Sea King, we must actively cooperate, otherwise the Sea God will punish us."

Manduo's face was full of smiles, but he felt bad in his heart.

Now no one in the Free Trade Coast believes in the Sons of the Harpy anymore, and they all believe in Poseidon instead.

Because Poseidon can really show his spirit.

When the Temple of Poseidon was built in Meereen, Yunkai, and Astapor, there were no believers.

Until one day, a devout believer of Poseidon begged Poseidon to restore the sight of his blind child.

Then the statue of Poseidon suddenly leaked some milky white light spots and fell on the believer's child, and the child miraculously regained his sight.

Then, under the propaganda of some people, Poseidon quickly replaced the Sons of the Harpy and became the new belief of the Free Trade Coast.

You must know that although Jack has always emphasized that Poseidon is the god of the sea, in the hearts of the public, although Poseidon has the power of gods, he is essentially a deep-sea monster.

But Poseidon is different after he has the power of faith. At first, he showed miracles through the power of faith condensed by tens of thousands of people, and then attracted millions of believers.

After having more power of faith, he showed more miracles, and finally achieved a virtuous circle, and completely became the omnipotent god of the sea in the hearts of the world.

The most important thing is that Poseidon doesn't know who he follows, and his mind is terribly small.

With the increasing familiarity with the power of faith, Poseidon can now even know other people's evaluation of him through the five senses of his believers.

If someone speaks rudely and is caught by Poseidon, he will use the power of faith to control the believers around him, and then pass a trace of his power to the believers through the line of faith to teach the rude person a lesson.

But unfortunately, Poseidon cannot pass his power to Jack through the line of faith, because there is no faith relationship between the two.

Moreover, Poseidon, who has millions of believers at this time, learned some secrets of this world from the faith galaxy, which can be regarded as revealing a corner of the veil of the world.

The original magic power level of this world was above average, and it could accommodate two true gods with godhood.

But later, a struggle broke out between the two gods because of the struggle for faith, which eventually led to the decline of the world's magic power level.

Only the King of Light, a true god with godhood, was left, and he was still seriously injured.

For this reason, the Lord of Light guided the Children of the Forest to create the Night King, and then directed a "reincarnation" of the Lord of Light to eliminate the Night King, and ruthlessly harvested the power of faith of all living beings in the world.

However, the Lord of Light suddenly disappeared, and his God of Light Godhead also disappeared.

The other pseudo-gods without godheads also disappeared, leaving only extraordinary creatures such as the Night King and the Green Prophet who were considered demigods.

The long night and long summer in the world were caused by the original war of gods, but this was not a big deal.

As long as there is a true god with godhead, even a true god who has just condensed the godhead can restore the world to normal four seasons.

As for why the Lord of Light did not restore the world's four seasons, it is probably because he was seriously injured, and wanted to harvest the power of faith of all living beings in Westeros, so he did not repair the "sequelae" left by his battle with another true god.

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Two weeks after Sorge transferred the last million gold dragons.

The Free Trade Coast ushered in changes again.

Atlantis stipulated that from now on, the tax revenue of the three cities will be divided into two.

60% was handed over to the treasury of the empire, and 40% was left for development and the payment of salaries to officials at all levels.

And the tax collection was the responsibility of the tax officer appointed by Atlantis.

At the same time, Mando Gru was appointed as the lord of Meereen, Renate as the lord of Yunkai, and Rhodes as the lord of Astapor.

Among the three lords, except Mando, the other two were airdropped from Atlantis.

The lord was responsible for managing the affairs of the city, but he had no power to appoint and dismiss personnel and make major decisions. The power to appoint and dismiss personnel and major decisions were the responsibility of the bishop of the Poseidon Church sent by Atlantis.

The bishops of the Poseidon Church were divided into five levels: gray, white, green, red, and blue. The cardinal was responsible for the appointment and dismissal of personnel and decision-making at the city level.

The bishops not only had to have a firm belief, but also had a knowledgeable brain. Therefore, if you want to obtain the status of a bishop, you need to pass an exam, and the written exam is the most basic.

The most difficult part is to pass the interview at the Poseidon Temple. Only when the Poseidon statue shows white light can one pass the interview. Otherwise, it means that one's faith is not strong enough.

Now, the central officials of the court in the Poseidon Temple also need to pass this assessment. At least they must have the identity of a gray cardinal, otherwise they cannot serve as important officials.

In layman's terms, after graduating from the University of Atlantis, those with outstanding grades can take the written test and interview of the Temple of Poseidon, while those with average grades can go out into the society and become highly educated talents.

Then the three major legions of black dragon, white dragon and green dragon and the Unsullied led by Grey Worm, a total of 33,000 people, were all incorporated into the organization of the Free Coast Military Base.

Among them, 18,000 people from the three dragon legions formed the Black Dragon Fleet, the White Dragon Fleet and the Green Dragon Fleet respectively, and the shipyard built by Atlantis provided warships and logistics maintenance work.

Because the Unsullied cannot be copied, they have become an independent legion organization.

When these Unsullied grow old or die in battle, the independent Unsullied organization will be forever recorded in history books.

This reform further weakened the power of the nobles.

Originally, these nobles did not have to pay taxes, but as the Free Trade Coast gradually became an outpost of Atlantis, more and more nobles joined the maritime trade.

Therefore, Jack added the requirement for nobles to pay taxes in this reform, but Jack's overall tax rate was not high, with a land rent tax of 10% and a business tax of 20%, so they could still accept it.

However, there was basically no land rent tax in the three cities of Meereen. Except for economic crops such as olive trees, almost all food was transported from the Laza Plain, which led to the rapid development of the Laza Plain relying on food planting.

The food from the Laza Plain is not only the main source of food for the three cities of Meereen, Yunkai, and Astapor, but also the main source of food for the Free Coast Military Base in the future.

Therefore, after Sorge discussed with Kaido and Gray Worm, he decided to increase the number of Unsullied stationed in the Laza Plain to 7,000.

The remaining 3,000 Unsullied were stationed in Kaiserburg, which has now become a complete military fortress.

And many Laza people and civilians who migrated there gathered near Kaiser Pass.

They built a small town of Kaiser near Kaiser Pass to provide a place for passing merchants to rest.

For this reason, Mantuo appointed his son Ivan as the mayor of Kaiser Town, and brought 200,000 gold dragons to expand the dock of Kaiser Town.

Now the nobles of the Free Trade Coast basically divide their families into three parts, one part goes to business, one part joins the bureaucracy, and the last part joins the military.

Since then, the Free Trade Coast has completely fallen into the control of Atlantis.

At the same time, the bishops who have major decisions began to use the remaining 40% of taxes to vigorously build civil facilities and expand roads between cities.

The three cities, which had originally slowed down their development, began to develop rapidly again, and several primary schools, middle schools, and universities sprang up.

However, primary and secondary schools currently only teach reading, literacy and arithmetic, and middle schools have added martial arts to strengthen the body. It was not until universities that blacksmithing and other technologies were added.

However, blacksmithing in schools is not called blacksmithing, but advanced forging technology. In addition, there are also carving technology colleges, medical research colleges, etc.

In the Imperial College and Imperial Research Institute built on the Sun Island, east of the Sea King Island, a large number of craftsmen and scholars are studying the mathematics, physics, chemistry, and biology knowledge left by Jack.

As for geography, to be honest, Jack's geography may not be as good as the local scholars in the world.

After they have studied it almost, they will integrate it into books and then send it to middle schools for others to learn.

Previously, he was worried that early enlightenment would cause unrest in the empire, so even though Atlantis was extremely rich, Jack did not vigorously develop the education system.

But since Jack learned that Poseidon could enter the River of Faith, he put the development of the education system on the agenda.

Now that the foundation of the education system has been laid, the rest is the slow development of academics.