Chapter 57: Chapter 57: Casting and Welding Fungus
Jack was extremely surprised. Mantuo was indeed a capable person. It was not a waste of his talent to be the deputy prime minister.
In the original book, Dany did not employ the local nobles of Meereen at the beginning, but let Daario be responsible for collecting taxes.
Because Dario was the only one who could read and write, and he only embezzled half of the taxes, which was the least among all the others.
However, the plot has changed a lot now, and Daario is not valued by Daenerys.
Even in Daenerys's eyes, he was just the leader of a small mercenary group, and a surrendered one at that.
Taking the information from Mantuo, Jack took a quick look and found that there were so many Lazar people.
A full 200,000 Laza 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 were worthy of being sheep people, which showed how much the centaurs loved the sheep people. Not only the centaurs, but many slave traders would go to plunder the sheep people's villages.
"Ivan, sort out the people over 18 and under 30 and hand them over to me."
After Jack handed the documents in his hand to Ivan, he continued to discuss the canal drainage issue with Mando.
Because the financial power of Meereen is in Dany's hands, they need to first estimate the expected expenses and then submit them to Dany to apply for funding.
The current population of Meereen is approximately 850,000, and slaves are gradually arriving from other places, so the population is still increasing.
Among them, free people and nobles accounted for 250,000, and former slaves accounted for 600,000.
Of these 600,000 people, Jack plans to take 100,000, leaving 500,000.
Therefore, the survival of these 500,000 people became a huge problem, but not all of them were idle.
Some people also choose to work at the docks or other places. Now they are no longer slaves, and they are paid for their work.
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.
Once 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 were no longer slaves. They couldn't be forced to work with whips like before, right?
"Three meals of wild vegetable porridge a day, and for lunch, we'll kill a few pigs and make sure there's some meat in the wild vegetable porridge. We'll also pay five copper coins."
The money is not much, five copper coins are only enough to buy a pork sausage, but the most important thing is that there are three meals a day, which is the most attractive thing.
Mantuo looked embarrassed, thinking that this might not be easy to apply for.
If a laborer wants to eat his fill, he needs at least two kilograms of food a day. Two hundred thousand people would need four hundred thousand kilograms of food a day, which is enough to match the consumption of war.
And they have to pay a salary of one million copper coins every day, so the monthly expenditure is simply an astronomical figure.
When Jack saw that Mando looked troubled, he knew what he was worried about.
"I know you're worried about the high cost, but we've already sent envoys to the Laza Plains to discuss the matter. I believe that a steady supply of food will arrive soon."
"Besides, money is not a problem. Gold dragons are only gold dragons when they are spent. If they are kept in the warehouse without being spent, they are no different from stones."
Dany has sent envoys to the Plains of Laza for negotiations. At the same time, at Jack's suggestion, she also directly asked Daario to lead the Second Sons and two thousand Unsullied to follow.
In fact, these two thousand Unsullied not only serve to protect the Lazar people, but can also be used to monitor them.
If the Lazars try to use the food to bite Kamilin's neck, the Unsullied will chop off the Lazars' hands.
To put it simply, it is the army stationed in Lami. It is the same as casting and welding mold. While preventing the horse people, it can also control the Laza people.
I believe that the servile Han, no, the Lhaza people will definitely agree with Meereen's approach.
In fact, it cannot be said that the Lhasa people are completely servile.
They who live in the Laza Plain are good at grazing and farming. They just want to farm and graze well. They have no idea of invading others and are peace-loving.
But their kind racial traits made them nicknamed "Hesiraki", which means sheep people, by the Dothraki.
Moreover, most of the Laza people live in the form of villages, and only a very small number of tribes can build small towns.
They don't even have city walls, and yet they live in a slavery continent like Essos. They are simply the perfect slave race.
"Okay, in that case, I will submit a rough draft of the memorial. I hope Her Majesty the Queen will agree."
Patting Mantuo on the shoulder, Jack said with a smile: "Don't worry, I will go to Her Majesty the Queen tonight and will definitely get her to agree."
"Forehead."
Well, Mando knew that Jack and Daenerys had sex!
After all, Jack is handsome, his age is not much different from 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, Mantuo immediately went to arrange the recruitment of labor. These were things that Jack delegated to him, and he was very active.
But the fact is not what he thought, Jack valued him.
It's just that Jack is lazy, so he delegated a lot of government affairs to others.
At the same time, Jorah also brought some Unsullied officers to recruit new soldiers with Grey Worm.
All citizens who joined the army received one silver coin per month, with food and lodging provided. After half a year, the salary increased to thirty silver coins.
As for why it rose so much after half a year, it was mainly due to the threat from other trading city-states.
In less than half a year, the coalition against the Mother of Dragons will be formed, and then almost half of Essos will be encircled and suppressed.
There will definitely be a war by then, and there will be casualties in the war. If we don't give them more, what will we do if these new recruits who were born as slaves run away?
Soon, people surrounded Jorah's place, clamoring and asking him if it was true.
Even many people from Meereen were tempted. Although they were superior to slaves, they also had to work to earn money.
As long as you join the army for half a year, you can get a monthly salary of 30 silver coins, which is really a lot, and the army also provides food and accommodation.
This saves another person's food ration.
Since Daenerys had a very good reputation in the hearts of these newly liberated slaves, not many people doubted her and they all signed up to join the army.
Seeing the crowds 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-capable soldiers.
Especially since weapons and armor have to be made. If Jack wants to arm this group of people, it will be impossible without hundreds of thousands of gold dragons.
Jack's idea was simple, which was to at least equip this group of people with leather armor and proper swords, guns, shields, and bows.
Then the required leather armors were contracted to the blacksmith shops and tailor shops in Meereen, and official blacksmith shops and tailor shops were established at the same time.
Finally, the Heavy Industry Council and the Light Industry Council were established under the leadership of official stores.
If you want a large official order, you have to join the parliament and accept the plans and rules set by the parliament.
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