Chapter 246
2021-01-06
Chapter 246 EmergenciesThe militia from Queensgate and Sable Hall quickly arrived at Castle Black, Under the strong "maintaining order" of more than a thousand soldiers, thousands of wildlings who were temporarily arranged outside Castle Black were forced to cooperate with the arrangement. After going through some procedures, they also became official new land grantors.
With just about every wildling who's passed through the latest wall losing relatives and friends to a ghoul attack, this unsympathetic and hostile behavior naturally makes them hateful and bitter...but , anyway, wildling didn't like Night's Watch in the first place - he didn't have to worry about a lot of debt, and it would not change Igor's plan if it got worse. Under the productivity of the current era, it is an impossible mission for the upper-level managers to satisfy all the residents... If they want to concentrate their efforts on a major event, the most reasonable way is to moderately oppress the people, but ensure that their emotional state remains within a certain red line. Down.
In this regard, the land grant actually has a natural advantage - its ruling class, the Night's Watch Legion, is a military organization, and the "military-to-civilian ratio" of the land grant is surprisingly high, and the new land grantees are Those who are used to hardships, these series of conditions make the "red line" of this small society of land grant much higher than anywhere else.
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In the end, nearly 30,000 wildlings were completely settled in the land grant, and one third settled in the nine ruined fortresses that were not reactivated by Mormont because they were too dilapidated. and was expressly prohibited to build a wall; one third was arranged around the ten fortresses that had been activated - living outside the wall, under the surveillance of the garrison at all times; the last remaining one third was arranged in the heartland of the land grant. , distributed in a huge area centered on Queenscrown.
Ordinary new land-givers are easy to deal with. The most difficult thing to do is the hundreds of Giants. Although the Giants are docile vegetarians like their mounts, they are also quite difficult to deal with when they get angry. Igor specially made a place for them not far from Queenscrown, with water and grass, where they can easily support mammoths for living.
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People have come in, what we need to do now is to think about how to manage them.
Igor's first project for the new land grantors was to build roads.
To get rich, build roads first. This is an unbreakable truth. Although the first thing to consider when granting land is not getting rich, but the reason is the same - if the transportation is not convenient enough, everything will be put on hold.
As far as the current land grant situation is concerned, infrastructure construction is not an urgent matter, but what Igor is anxious to do is to do something for the visitors beyond the wall who have become new land grantors. Feeding them so that they don't have the heart to plan all kinds of messes, and at the same time establish the concept of the importance of "money".
New land grantors who accept the job will be given a simple tool and will be led by relevant personnel to the planned route location, simply clear the weeds, remove the stones, and dig The dirt is built up, and finally compacted with the tool flatten... The road surface is required to be higher than the surrounding wasteland to the extent that naked eyes can clearly distinguish it, and the width is enough for two horses to ride together. Under the conditions of land grant, sparsely populated and difficult conditions, this is quite a requirement.
The salary is settled every day. Although the work is hard, everyone who participates in the work can get the equivalent to dozens of dollars after the end of the hard work that day... If you can eat enough as the standard, This kind of "high salary" means that one person works and the whole family has no worries. When the supplies of Night's Watch are complete and sufficient, the power of money quickly begins to show: at first, it was difficult for workers to recruit all the staff. Everyday all, a large number of new land givers ran to the place early, waiting for the staff of the logistics department to release the mission assignment.
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Nightfort is in trouble again. Bran Stark and Reed's siblings are stuck in the fort after trying to sneak through the Wall. , waiting for someone from eventually Winterfell to pick them up. Among them, except that Bran's identity is more important, and he has a physical disability, so he was instructed by Commander Mormont to watch closely, the freedom of Hodor and Reed was not restricted... Among them, elder sister Meera Reed was actually attacked when she was moving around Nightfort. He was harassed and nearly dragged away and raped by the new land grantors, who had been assigned to live near the fort, under the supervision and protection of the Flint clan.
Beyond the wall The marriage concept and customs of the people are quite strange - they think that real men will grab the opposite sex from afar to strengthen the oneself clan, so men need to go to other tribal territories, relying on ability "Stolen" women to reproduce for oneself. Apparently, the new land-giver who got into trouble this time took Meera Reed, who appeared outside Nightfort, as a woman from a southern tribe, and tried to "steal" her to give birth to oneself.
This kind of barbaric custom has long been strictly prohibited in the new law formulated by Night's Watch. Only wildlings who agree to abide by the law are allowed to pass through the Wall... But they were only let in within a few days, but immediately There are new land-grant people who can't help but commit crimes. Meera Reed is naturally not an important role compared to Bran Stark, but she is also a noblewoman after all. She is one of Winterfell's important bannermen and the daughter of Howland Reed count. If she is injured on the site of Night's Watch, she must not take it lightly. Of.
Because Igor refused to go to Nightfort to deal with the matter, Lord Commander Mormont decided to make a trip in person to arrest and punish the new Land Granters who committed the crime, while taking Bran and Reed back to Castle Black, Have them wait in a safer place and wait for someone from Winterfell to pick them up.
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The plan to lure new land grantors with money to accept Night's Watch rule is going well, and about two weeks after putting 30,000 wildlings into the Wall completely ended, Igor released The second major mission other than road construction: Recruit one thousand new land-donors, and then send the logistics department's grain transport team south to North to get North's winter grain assistance for the land-donation.
The salary is double that of building roads.
Faster than Igor imagined, the new land givers who got the news came from all directions, gathered outside the high wall of Queenscrown, camped on the spot, and waited for the official departure of the grain transport team.
In this war to assist North in expelling the Ironmen, Igor certainly did not expect the barbarians who had just been converted from the beyond the wall people to fight. In addition to this thousand people, Igor will also recruit a thousand mountain clans. Warrior, these guys, are the real mainstays that Igor has high hopes for.
But just as the team was assembling, equipment and supplies were in place, and the Second Step of the land-grant resettlement plan was about to be implemented, a sudden news came that Igor was completely unprepared: Go to Nightfort to deal with Meera in person Lord Commander Jeor Mormont, who was almost kidnapped and raped, was attacked by a siege when he went to the New Land-grant settlement to track down the perpetrator. After bringing back Nightfort, the rescue was ineffective, and he died in the hands of the people beyond the wall who he personally ordered to put into the Wall!
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(end of this chapter)