Chapter 57 Casting and welding mold
Jack was very surprised. Mandor was really good at doing things. Being a deputy prime minister was not a waste of talent.
In the original novel, Dany did not employ the local nobles of Meereen at the beginning, but let Daario be responsible for collecting taxes.
Because only Daario could read and write, and Daario would only embezzle half of the tax revenue, which was the least embezzled among all people.
However, the plot has changed a lot now, and Daario has not been reused by Daenerys.
Even in Daenerys' eyes, he is just the leader of a small mercenary group, and he surrendered.
Taking the information from Mandor, Jack roughly flipped through it and found that the number of Lhaza people was so large.
A full 200,000 Lhaza people are estimated to account for one-fifth of the total population and one-third of the slave population.
Jack could only sigh that they are worthy of being sheep people. It can be seen how much the centaurs love the sheep people. Not only the centaurs, but also many slave traders will go to plunder the sheep villages.
"Ewen, sort out the people over 18 and under 30 and hand them over to me."
After Jack handed the documents in his hand to Ewen, he continued to discuss the canal drainage with Mando.
Because the financial power of Meereen is controlled by Dany, they need to estimate the expected cost first, and then submit it to Dany to apply for funds.
Now the population of Meereen is about 850,000, and slaves are coming from other places one after another, and the population is still increasing.
Among them, free people and nobles account for 250,000, and the original slaves account for 600,000.
Of these 600,000 people, Jack plans to take 100,000 people, and there are 500,000.
Therefore, the survival of these 500,000 people has become a huge problem, but not all of the 500,000 people are idle.
Some people also choose to work at the docks or other places. Now they are not slaves, and they are paid for working.
In the end, Jack decided to recruit 200,000 people to dig the canal. As the saying goes, salt comes with water and goes with water.
After the canal is dug, it won't take long for the land around Meereen to slowly recover.
"What about this treatment?" Mantuo asked. After all, they are no longer slaves. They can't be driven to work by whips like before, right?
"Three meals of wild vegetable porridge a day, and a few pigs are killed for lunch to ensure that the wild vegetable porridge has a meaty taste. In addition, five copper coins are paid."
The money is not much, five copper coins are only enough to eat a pork sausage, but the most important thing is that three meals a day are full, which is the most attractive part.
Mantuo looked embarrassed. This might not be easy to apply for.
If a laborer wants to eat enough, he needs at least two kilograms of food a day. Two hundred thousand people need four hundred thousand kilograms of food a day, which is as much as the consumption of war.
And he has to pay a reward of one million copper coins every day, so the monthly consumption is simply an astronomical figure.
Jack saw Mantuo's embarrassed face and knew what he was worried about.
"I know you are worried about the high cost, but now we have sent envoys to the Laza Plain to discuss. I believe that a steady supply of food will be delivered soon."
"In addition, money is not a problem. Gold dragons are only gold dragons when they are spent. If they are not spent in the warehouse, they are no different from stones."
Dani has sent envoys to the Laza Plain to negotiate. At the same time, at the suggestion of Jack, she also directly asked Daario to lead the Second Sons and two thousand Unsullied to follow.
In fact, these two thousand Unsullied not only play the role of protecting the Laza people, but also can be used to monitor the Laza people.
Once the Laza people want to use food to attack Camerin's neck, the Unsullied can chop off the Laza people's hands.
To put it bluntly, it is the garrison in Lami, which is the same as casting welding mold. While preventing centaurs, it can also control the Laza people.
I believe that the servile welding, no, the Laza people will definitely agree with Meereen's approach.
In fact, it cannot be said that the Laza people are servile.
Living in the Laza Plain, they are good at grazing and farming. They just want to farm and graze well, and have no idea of invading others. They love peace.
But the kind-hearted characteristics of the race make them nicknamed "Hesiraki", which means sheep people, by the Dothraki.
And most of the Laza people live in the form of villages, and only a very small number of tribes can build a small town.
There is not even a city wall, and they live in the slave continent of Essos. They are simply the perfect slave race.
"Okay, in this case, I will take out a rough memorial and hand it in. I hope Her Majesty will agree."
Patting Mando on the shoulder, Jack smiled and said, "Don't worry, I will go to Her Majesty tonight and I will definitely get her to agree."
"Uh."
Well, Mando knew that Jack and Daenerys had a bed relationship!
After all, Jack is handsome, his age is almost the same as the queen, he is extremely talented, and he is also the father of dragons. No matter how you look at it, he is a perfect match for Dany.
What's more, Jack has Targaryen blood. According to the Targaryen nature, it is very normal for close relatives to marry.
After saying goodbye to Jack, Mando immediately arranged the recruitment of laborers. These things were delegated to him by Jack, and he was very active.
But in fact, it was not as he thought. Jack valued him.
It's just that Jack is lazy, so he shared a lot of government affairs.
At the same time, Jorah also took some Unsullied officers to recruit new soldiers with Grey Worm.
All citizens who join the army will receive one silver coin a month, with food and accommodation provided. After half a year, the salary will rise to thirty silver coins.
As for why the salary will rise so much after half a year, it is mainly because of the threat from other trading cities.
In less than half a year, the anti-Dragon Mother coalition will be established, and then it will be a siege of almost half of Essos.
There will definitely be a war at that time, and there will be deaths in the war. If we don’t give more, what will happen if these slave-born recruits run away.
Soon, Jorah’s side was surrounded by people, noisily asking Jorah if it was true.
Even many Meereenese were tempted. Although they were higher than slaves, they also had to work to earn money.
And as long as they join the army for half a year, they can get a salary of thirty silver coins a month, which is really a lot, and the army also provides food and accommodation.
This saves one person’s rations.
Since Daenerys’s reputation is very good in the hearts of these newly liberated slaves, not many people doubt it and sign up to join the army.
Seeing the crowd of people signing up enthusiastically, Jorah was not happy. In his opinion, it would take too much time and money to train these people into combat soldiers.
Especially, weapons and armor had to be made. If Jack wanted to arm these people, it would be impossible without hundreds of thousands of gold dragons.
Jack's idea was very simple, that is, to at least provide these people with leather armor and proper swords, guns, shields, and bows.
Then the leather armor needed would be contracted to the blacksmiths and tailors in Meereen, and official blacksmiths and tailors would be established.
Finally, the official shops took the lead in establishing the Heavy Industry Council and the Light Industry Council.
If you want a large number of official orders, you have to join the council and accept the plans and rules formulated by the council.
