Chapter 141
The job of recruiting enemy sailors is not difficult. Dany is the Mother of Dragons, the slave liberator. As long as the slave sailors are willing to surrender.
She only rode on the back of Big Black and flew a circle above the heads of the sailors at the dock, and all the crew members who lost more than 10,000 crew surrendered.
Conditional surrender.
Slaves are allowed to be liberated, but Dany cannot "turn people into bandits" for non-slave crew members.
Obviously, there are not only the oarsmen and slave soldiers who work hard, but also the "higher" commoners such as captains, first mates, and second mates. They are not slaves, and most of them have a good family background, naturally, they do not want to follow Dany to rebel against slavery.
Well, rich people are eligible for education and educated people at least have a bit of a big picture.
Like the descendants of the North of the Company of the Rose, those experienced high-level crew members believed that Dany's abolition of slaves was against the entire world.
Personal confrontation with the world is doomed to have no good end.
So, according to tradition, they asked Dany to allow them to redeem themselves with money.
Although Dany cherishes the talents of those elite seafarers, she also understands that stubborn men do not bend, so she agreed: redemption is fine, but after all, you have broken the law, and everyone must work the land for the city of Astapor for a year.
Of course, nobles don't get the same ransom as ordinary seamen, and they get different treatment.
Well, the food and accommodation will be better.
Dany doesn't have a lion's mouth, and only traditionally sets a price for every captive who doesn't want to take refuge with her.
She didn't even treat the Ghis differently, they were all treated the same.
Dany was so magnanimous that the sailors immediately raised their hands in surrender.
Well, those people definitely don't know, The Great Summer is coming to an end and The Long Night is coming soon.
A total of 8,000 strong slave soldiers were recruited, and the remaining 3,000 real sailors became field laborers.
After dealing with the group of sailors in the morning, Dany rode Big Black and led 5,000 infantry back to White Poplar Slope in the afternoon. After burning the bodies of more than 10,000 Ghis coalition soldiers who died in battle, on the second day, she began to reorganize the army on a large scale.
20,000 people and militia mixed together, 5,000 Unsullied, 10,000 paces, cavalry, bow mixed with the Wings of Freedom, 15,000 Queen Guards selected from 70,000 slave soldiers.
Dany awarded the Queen's Guard the White Dragon flag on a yellow background, officially becoming a new army.
Well, here Dany used the monarchy to deliberately split the new peasants of different city-states into different troops, so as to prevent the increasingly powerful commoner Guards from becoming too powerful.
"The Evil Mother of Dragons is rectifying her armaments, and will soon lead 200,000 troops to attack Yunkai!"
After only one night, the Wise Masters of Yunkai will know this terrifying message.
A Black Raven brings this message.
After all, they captured thousands of merchants and prostitutes serving the Ghis coalition, there must be Yunkai spies or merchants who reported to Yunkai for Gold Honor.
"Is it true?"
"Are you sure about the news?"
"The news was brought by more than a dozen Ravens, and are exactly the same! That woman also wrote a letter for the merchants to pass around the world, "The Seven Deadly Sins of the Yunkai Wise Masters against the People of the World".
"Damn, she's doing this again, after attacking Astapor last year, she also wrote "The Seven Great Hates", it seems that she truly is going to battle with us to the end."
"Ai, 200,000....and we don't have time to recruit any sellswords again. ...why doesn't she die? The slave trade is the foundation of the world's great seafaring trade, even Qarth and Volantene want to kill her, why shouldn't she just be killed by the assassin!? Gods bless!"
"The Gods are unfair, the Gods hold no sight. So indifferent to the world, just stay in Slaver's Bay, do business with our duty, repeating the simple and unpretentious life as it has been for thousands of years, treat people with integrity, and provide high-quality services for the whole world, why would that woman come to provoke our people?!"
"After all, it's the Sorrowful Men of Qarth who don't work well, they all snuck into the Great Pyramid, and even stole Dragon eggs, but didn't kill the bitch, and we lost more than 30 large ships in vain."
"We should find a more professional assassin, let's just get together, let's join forces and hire Faceless Men."
"…..Faceless Men? That's going to cost tens of millions of Gold Honors!"
"According to the current form, it is not less than 20 million, which is estimated to be the most expensive price in history. But call Meereen's Great Masters and one million Gold Honor per person is enough."
"The far waters can't quench the near thirst. The Faceless Men can be hired, but they have to repel this attack. I'm wondering, even if Astapor defeats our coalition, will they lose nothing? Don't they need repair?"
In the top palace of the Great Pyramid, the Wise Masters sitting around the round table discussed each other with panic.
"dong dong dong!"
The chief Grand Wise Master knocked on the table, interrupting the increasingly loud quarrel, the thin old face was full of seriousness and his eyes were sharp, he glanced at the yellow silk cape general under the conference table and asked: "General Zakro, the other party claims to hold 200,000, how many people are there?"
The Grand Wise Master is from House Dhazak, wearing the noblest citrine fringed Tokar robe, and was nearly fifty years old, with a thin but straight face.
In order to cover his forehead with thin hair, the black and red hair is upright and leaning forward, a little like an airplane.
"Lord Wise Master Mureno, that woman has at least fifty thousand within her armies," said the Ghis General.
"Fifty thousand…" The Grand Wise Master's black eyes narrowed slightly, he tapped the table lightly, and said after a while, "Yunkai is smaller than Astapor, but the city wall is higher, and stronger, if we have 10,000 defenders, can we resist the attack?"
"Lord Wise Master, under normal circumstances, Yunkai's 10-meter-high city wall—especially when we are backed by the sea, with shipping guarantees—five thousand elites can stop a hundred thousand for a decade, but that woman has Dragons…" The large general said hesitantly.
"It doesn't take ten years, we will be able to find the Faceless Men and have her killed in half a year." Wise Master Mureno indifferently said.
"Are you really planning to hire the Faceless Men? We all know that it is the Iron Bank and Sealord's Palace behind the House of Black and White, and the Braavos will definitely take the opportunity to make a series of political demands." The general was shocked.
"The Braavos will only interfere with other's finances through finance, while Slaver's Bay only has slave trade and no finance."
"Then…" The General gritting his teeth said, "I need more soldiers, and I need an undetermined amount of Scorpions. It's best to fill the city wall."
"Yes," The Grand Wise Master's dry lips cracked into a smile, "We have more than 80 warships and more than 500 large sea ships, and within half a month, we can transport all Meereen's troops and crossbow arrows to Yunkai."
"Meereen's Great Masters will agree?" A Wise Masters asked uncertainly.
"It will definitely be true, I believe that the Great Masters will not fail to understand. And the battlefield is placed in Yunkai, and only Yunkai will be devastated by the war. The Meereen people can enjoy the fruits of victory in peace and harmony, why not do it?"
Yunkai has spies from Astapor, and within two days, Dany received a message from Raven: Meereen Great Masters and Yunkai Wise Masters have gathered together and will battle in Yunkai against the Evil Mother of Dragons.
At this time, Dany is rectifying her armaments and is about to lead the army to set off. There are fifty thousand soldiers, and hundreds of thousands of cattle and horses, no matter whether war horses or pack horses, each person will be allocated two horses. If there are no horses, cattle or mules will be used, instead of donkeys, in short, each soldier has at least two mounts, 50,000, and hundreds of thousands of livestock, carrying half a month's rations, at a speed of 50 kilometers per day, raiding Astapor within ten days – this was Dany's previous plan.
"We're afraid we won't be able to lay down Yunkai in a short time." Ser Barristan's facial expression was grave as he talked.
Dany, who put on her armor again, said wickedly: "Then besiege the city and let the three Dragons bomb the Yunkai wall day and night, I'll see how long they can last."
"I'm afraid it will be us who can't hold on first." Jon Bolton frowned.
"Oh, how?" Dany asked, looking at him.
"I'm worried that the other side will be strong and clear." Guards Commander slowly said.
Dany didn't break her promise. The backbone of the newly formed Guards are all members of the Rose Sellswords. The former head of the Company of the Rose was elected as Commander as it should be.
Eight hundred elite sellswords serve as the skeleton of 15,000 slaves, forming a combat force in almost a few days.
This is not an exaggeration. A regular army of Westeros is only in the ratio of one to one hundred, and one or two hundred Knights lead ten-twenty thousand farmers who have just put down their hoes.
Simply put, this is a bad world, everyone is bad, just see who is less bad.
This is probably the case: The farmer of the lord's house is a new commoner with some combat experience (selected from the slave soldiers) The top 30 sellsword Unsullied have faith and are fully educated under the Knight regiment (including some large sellsword group Knight troops, Church Forces Knight regiment)
So Dany let the newly formed Guards go with her.
As for whether the Guards will be controlled by the Company of the Rose and by Jon Bolton?
There is no doubt that it will.
But Dany deliberately, in addition to balancing the increasingly powerful new peasant forces, mainly for the liberated slaves led a new, more advanced system – the Chinese version of the Westeros Knight system.
At this time, Astapor is actually implementing a county system that is conducive to centralization, but with Yunkai, Meereen, and even the entire Slaver's Bay taken by Dany, a more "dynamic" Feudal System will definitely appear.
——The feudal lords of Westeros can be maintained for more than 8,000 years. Compared with the ancient dynasties of the 300-year cycle of the Chinese Dynasty, they are simply too vigorous!
Well, the energy, the power to live. In terms of governing the country, the Feudal System is far inferior to the centralized system of China.
Dany will not wholly replicate the system of China, even if the centralization of power can bring two or three generations to the world's unprecedented "prosperity".
Because she is a Ruler rather than a commoner, with the prosperity of Daenerys I, she will surely usher in better reforms.
Simply put, she only allows her family to rule for years. As for whether the country is rotten or not, she cares, but she cares more about whether her descendants will be executed by the whole family unto the third generation.
And, no matter how bad the country is, her descendants are still rulers.
The Feudal System has another advantage, bannermen are often more loyal to the emperor, far more loyal to the emperor than the Great General, Great Minister of War, and Provincial Governor.
For example, the Starks were King in the North for eight thousand years.
King in the North has only a small number of direct troops, most of which are from subordinate lords, like Dany and Jon Bolton at this time.