Chapter 168
“Twenty Years a Slave? What?” Denzo wondered.
"A memoir about to be published on a large scale, and the author is trifling."
"Well, the book you wrote..." Denzo looked up and down the The minister asked with suspicion, "Your experience with Twenty Years a Slave slave?"
Obviously, this Bill Connington is a high-level slave, and they and the coolie slave are completely two worlds. People, small days are leisurely and leisurely, and they are more comfortable than his Windblown deputy head.
Can the experience of such a person help Dragon Queen promote the need for anti-slave control?
"Not just my experience, but what I've seen and heard, woven into short stories like Shryke, Hill and Stinking Insect, you can think of Twenty Years a Slave as a collection of stories."
The old poet disapproved and said: "This kind of story is enough to be told orally, it's a waste of paper to write a book."
"Hehe, just wait and see, Queen Dany's great invention will change world." Bill Connington smiled proudly.
After entering the Great Pyramid, Denzo and Edward were separated from the Culture Minister.
The name and purpose of the visit were announced at the clerical desk. After waiting for about half an hour, the old mercenary and Captain Redbeard were introduced to the top garden by an Unsullied.
On the long wooden table, Dany, who had taken a shower and changed into a loose dress, was having dinner with several subordinates.
Dany swallowed the food and took a sip of red wine before asking, "Have you two had dinner?"
"No."
"Let's eat together then." Dany invited the two of them.
Edward was at the same table with Queen for the first time and was so nervous that he couldn't even utter a complete sentence.
Although Denzo was a little nervous, he politely thanked him and pulled his companion to sit next to Brus.
After sitting down, the old mercenary found that the Queen's food was exceptionally rich and simple, toasted white bread, lamb chops coated with honey and cloves, chicken stewed with mushrooms with plenty of dragon pepper, and beef stewed with barley , frozen fruit salad.
The variety is simple, there are no fancy and exotic delicacies, but the portion is very large, large pieces of meat, large bowls of soup, toasted bread with arms thick and longer than a person.
The old mercenary cut a piece of bread with a knife and dipped it in a bowl of barley beef bisque...
"Captain Edward, you brought me some What plant seeds?" Dany asked casually.
"cough cough cough..." Before he could swallow the food in his mouth, the red beard almost choked, he totally didn't expect Queen to be the first to ask oneself.
"Sorry, sorry..." After drinking a sip of red wine, Edward recovered his breath and said, "There are black rice and sorghum from Yi Ti, white maize from Hyrkoon, unknown islands. The sweet potatoes on the top...even Seven Kingdoms specialties, such as North's barley, Dorne's dragon pepper, there are many, edible exotic flowers and rare herbs requested by Your Majesty."
"Very good, after seeing those seeds tomorrow, I will pay you the bounty as agreed." Dany nodded with satisfaction.
Slaver's Bay is mainly engaged in slave trade, and is not concerned with agricultural production. The crops are very simple, the most common ones are olive, grape, wheat, and Beetroot.
There is also rice in the Worm River basin, but not to mention the low yield, the rice produced has a very poor taste.
Dany will naturally not have slave trade after taking control of Slaver's Bay, but the location of Slaver's Bay is really good. Leaving the bay is the main route of the big voyage. Crops are too wasteful.
Of course, she also wanted to improve the recipe, and she was a little tired of eating bread every day.
You must know that this world looks like the Middle Ages, but it has actually developed a large maritime trade for thousands of years.
Regional specialties like potatoes, sweet potatoes, tomatoes, corn, rice, tea, etc., have long been known to the world, and it is not too difficult to find their seeds.
Well, the hard part is promoting the cultivation locally.
Well, Dany is only 15 years old now. She thinks that if she can grow hybrid rice in her lifetime, she doesn't need to be as high-yielding as Shennong Yuan, she just needs to improve the taste so that they can grow widely in Slaver's Bay.
This is not a whimsical idea, you must know that this world has Children of the Forest!
After dinner, Edward left with Lyra, Brus and the others, leaving only Dany and Denzo in the top garden.
"How?" Dany asked while looking at the old poet, taking a sip of Yi Ti black tea.
"The head of the team agreed to pass you information that is not considered core secrets."
"Hehe, if I don't give core secrets, why would I cooperate with you?" Dany sneered.
"Your Majesty, Windblown has too little access to the core secrets, as long as it leaks a little, we are in danger of being exposed.
Illyrio is likely to reject Prince's return to Pentos, that way Don't we get nothing?
For the sake of profit, we take as much risk, I think the deal is fair. Unless..."
After a short pause, seeing Dany's expression unchanged, Denzo breathed a sigh of relief and continued: "Unless you don't need to consider Magister Illyrio's opinion, you directly promise to help Prince take down Pentos."
"Well, I Can't fail an old friend..." Dany refused.
The old mercenary's eyes dimmed, and he said helplessly: "Then, what about the deal?"
Dany shrugged, indifferently said: "Tell me about those not core secrets first. It's a secret."
After knowing Dragon Queen's choice, the old mercenary did not hesitate and said directly: "First of all, the previous 'Ghis Alliance' was officially renamed 'World Trade Great Alliance', Qarth, New Ghis and Volantis are the Big Three of the Allied Forces.
The Isle of Whips of the Jade Sea will follow Qarth to declare war on you.
Although the Jade Sea Isle of Elephants does not join the Alliance, its ruler Shan, but promised an unlimited supply of elephant soldiers for the Allies.
The Yi Ti people were reluctant to participate in the disputes in the western continent, but the envoys of the God-Emperor also promised the Grand Alliance that they would join the fight against Slaver's Bay. Joint blockade of trade."
Dany's right hand supported his small chin, tilted his head and said, "That is to say, there are now two hostile alliances in Slaver's Bay, the military-threatened alliance, and the commercial blockade of Oceanwide Trade. The United...United Nations?"
"Yes, Your Majesty summed it up very accurately, the Allies and the United Nations." Denzo nods and said.
This is too bad!
The Allies and the United Nations have such "lucky" names, but they were taken by the enemy, so why don't we become **?
It doesn't make sense, I'm the one who raised the banner of "Freedom and Liberation"!
"What's up with that Isle of Whips? I didn't know there was such a place unless you told me." Dany asked.
“Isle of Whips is nothing in itself, just a desolate and barren island in the Jade Sea. But its location is too good, it is a transit station for the delivery of slaves, and slaves from the Far East have to pass there.
Therefore, dozens of Far Eastern slave catchers and Corsair Kings who depended on the slave trade for their meals joined the Allies in the name of Isle of Whips."
"so that's how it is ..." Dany was taken aback.
There are two sources of slaves, war and slave catchers.
Dothraki is used to relegating the losers to slaves, but the slaves brought by horse men to Slaver's Bay account for only a small part of the total number of slaves, and the overwhelming majority slaves come from slave catchers.
For example, Missandei four siblings were caught from Naath by slave catchers.
In addition to Missandei, her subordinates have almost all races from all over the world, not to mention fifty-six ethnic groups, they can make up a Milliken.
There is no doubt that slave catchers play an important role in it, although they are scattered in groups and weak in individual teams, but together...
“What is Free Cities? reaction?" she asked.
"Lys promises to advance and retreat with Volantis, Myr and Tyrosh are also involved in the slave trade, but for control of the Disputed Lands, the two sides have been fighting for several decades, and it is difficult to join the same faction.
Our head guesses that if one of the parties joins the allies, Your Majesty may have one more ally."
Dany waved his hands and said in disgust, "I will not be with any slaves. City-state alliance."
Denzo was startled, sighed, "Your Majesty is too tough."
"It's a matter of principle," Dany emphasized.
"Okay! Second thing, the Allies and the United Nations are still in their infancy, and representatives from all sides are gathering at New Ghis for the 'Dragon Slaying Meeting' at Grazdan."
"Okay! p>
"Dragon Slaying Meeting?" Dany looked weird.
"You are the Mother of Dragons, and there are three more dragons," explained the old poet.
"Grazdan has suffered repeated defeats, yet still has such a high appeal?"
"Ai, you may not know how well-known your reputation is in the major city-states, Grazdan Although he has failed many times, he is also the only general who has fought you head-on many times but saved his life."
Dany's heart moved and asked, "How many people are here at the Dragon Slaying Meeting now?"
“Volantis, Qarth, Lys, Yi Ti and other major representatives are here, as are many slave capture teams from Summer Sea, Jade Sea, and Qarth Strait. The conference is now estimated to have started.”
"What more news?"
"Iron Legion 3rd Fleet lost contact at Smoking Sea, New Ghis are asking Qarth Pureborn for dragon eggs. That Maegi who left Yunkai with me, Now a guest of the Ghis, and I heard Qarth Pureborn invited her too."
hehe, Maegi better sacrifice all those bastards.
Dany chuckled inwardly and asked again: "What's wrong with Iron Legion, why are you running away..."
"Oh, it's not that they and Euron are going to explore Valyria, right?" She suddenly reacted with a strange look in her eyes.
Noticing the difference in her face, Denzo asked in surprise: "Isn't it true that Euron Greyjoy explored the ruins of Valyria?"
"Hehe, even I dare not ask Euron to help Lead the way, Ghis people are so bold." Dany sneered.
"You mean that Euron has pitted Iron Fleet? Impossible, the Third Fleet has ten long ships and two thousand Ghis Iron Legions, which is enough to suppress all dissatisfaction in the Summer Sea."
"hmph, you can go to Westeros to find out, Euron is 80% full."
Second day, Dany still led tens of thousands of farmers out to plant the land all morning.
Well, sow wheat.
The seasons in this hellish world are chaotic. As long as winter doesn't come, you can keep planting and harvesting.
There is even a strange scene of planting wheat in this field in the morning and going to the next door to harvest wheat in the afternoon.
For example, the 'Rural Mutual Aid Society' created by Dany has been planting wheat for a month. The earliest wheat fields have grown green oily wheat seedlings half a meter high.
Even though the average farmer has planted more than 30 mu of wheat, there are almost 10 million mu of wheat fields outside Yunkai, and Dany is still pulling hundreds of thousands of farmers to plant the land.
Indeed, the Yunkai Plain is too vast, with more than 30,000 square kilometers of fertile land, and at least 45 million mu of land.
There are more than 30 million acres of land left...