Chapter 317
2021-01-06
Chapter 317 Open Source[N-word hidden content]
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Like the spiral of civilization, all stories seem to have twists and turns. Mormont's accidental death caused the human defenders at the forefront of this life-and-death battle to dawdle for months without any major moves. If there is anything to be thankful for, it is that almost every party in this campaign has maintained a bottom-line view of the overall situation and restraint - the footsteps of the human side "although not advancing, at least not due to excessive infighting. fall back".
Now, things are finally back on track... on Igor's track to be exact. Give full play to the spirit of optimism and think for the best. People who are full of ideas may play the game more thoroughly than standing behind others.
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Igor asked Cotter Pyke to "return to Eastwatch with permission" in order to wait for the loan from the Iron Vault to arrive. The purpose is not complicated: based on the principle of prudence, Convert the last possible variable to a definite quantity.
Nearly 20 days after receiving an unofficial reminder from the Iron Vault, the much-anticipated food delivery fleet finally arrived at Night's Watch Harbor without any problems. Hundreds of people from Queenscrown mobilized to enter Eastwatch early, the scene was stable, and the entire unloading process was extremely smooth. In just a few days, all the residents of Golden Dragon worth tens of thousands of dollars and enough land to eat for dozens of days were moved off the ship, and quickly transported to a fully supported and fully supported place by people. The reformist Night's Watch and the mountain people, who are under the command of Igor, and the newly opened fortress "Torches" without half of the opposition, can transport Queenscrown only when the weather improves.
At this point, the top-level transfer of power in the land grant has finally come to an end, and no one, secretly or secretly, has any way of breaking the major event. After sending someone to tell Cotter that he could go back to his post, Igor also packed up and brought his entourage to Queenscrown, which was in ruins a year ago, but is now the only land-grant town, and was successfully upgraded to the new Night's Watch base camp.
In this completely filled with oneself person within the wall, the first Lord Commander of the Night's Watch who is not native, the first who is not elected when the election is held, the first who does not sit in the Wall after taking office... Remote command of the entire land grant, do everything possible to build the northernmost part of the Seven Kingdoms into the tenth largest area of the Westeros after the Seven Kingdoms, Iron Islands and Narrow Sea Islands.
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Ambition is a good thing, but reality is skinny. The inability to produce food seems to be the biggest obstacle for Igor to form an independent force, but the fact that the land grant is now facing is: it is not "no food only", but "nothing".
It hasn't actually been able to do anything that can be called "production": so far, all the land-granters and the entire Night's Watch Legion has been run by the Night's Watch industry and The blood transfusion of the princes of the North is carried out, and the so-called work is all about laying the foundation, engaging in construction, and preparing for war...
Of course these things must be done, but the problem is that this does not create wealth, generate efficiency, there is no way to ensure that a system continues to operate.
Night's Watch Legion can and should not be produced, but land grants can't!
The Iron Vault has approved a loan of 100,000 Golden Dragons from Night's Watch. This amount may seem huge, but it is evenly distributed to the 40,000 people who donated the land, which is about two and a half Golden Dragons per person... At a time when food prices are only going to get higher and higher, even an optimistic forecast can only guarantee the continuous supply of land. As for developing it into the tenth district of Westeros, and independently facing and surviving the next Others invasion without hurting one's strength... The funds, tools, weapons, armor and other items needed for this big chess game , relying on the monthly income of hundreds of thousands of Night's Watch industry, absolutely not even a splash does not raise.
I want to be forced to open the Castle Black warehouse and contribute to the strategic reserve to enrich the land-giving circulation market The black clothed brothers are convinced of Igor's orders, rather than resisting or even hostile to the new Lord Commander like the original plot, Igor must lead the people to "open source" ideas.
In layman's terms, he, the Lord Commander, not only had to command the Wall defenders to confront the Others, but also led everyone to become rich like some technical and knowledge-based cadres who went to the countryside in the original world.
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The road has been repaired, and the land granted is fertile enough, but unfortunately the winter has come, so farming-related ideas such as planting and raising can be skipped directly. So Igor turned his attention to selling manpower and resources.
Manpower, now some of the land is given to people who are waiting for work. As soon as Igor took office, he ordered the Night's Watch Wandering Crow to pay attention to the areas or activities that need manpower. It's just—in this era of backward productivity and cheap human life, it's not just the new land grantors who have nothing to do. Selling cheap labor is probably just a rosy dream, and Igor has other arrangements.
He wrote to the Night's Watch industry in King's Landing, ordering the obsidian mine at Dragonstone to speed up mining and begin gradually transporting the raw ore to the Wall - grinding Dragonglass is a relatively unskilled thing , Why hire workers at King's Landing when so many new land-givers are idle, and not let them do it?
Obsidian made into weapons can be used as a defense against Others, and scraps can be made into other goods and sold across the North and even across the Narrow Sea... Just take some care to promote Dragonglass's development. The evil art effect and the restraint effect on human natural enemies will at least not appear unnoticed.
It sounds ideal, but obsidian, a natural glass, is not only produced in Dragonstone, after all, only Igor has heard of several obsidian mining areas in Essos, but it is only due to supply and demand. No large-scale mining - even with some magical marketing that makes obsidian on both sides of the narrow sea, Dragonstone's obsidian isn't very competitive.
Not to mention, this thing was dug out of King Stannis' backyard, Dragonstone, not from land grants, and Iron Throne doesn't charge tax now because the Night's Watch industry isn't fat enough to make it. Monarch of the entire Country is jealous... But if you really expect this product to be eaten for a lifetime, let's not mention whether it can be achieved or not, first of all, it violates the prudent principle of "egg separation".
Obsidian should be a source of income, but it can't support the whole load, and it's not a long-term solution, and thinking of other ways... Igor easily thinks of minerals.
What is lacking in the backward world is not metal ore, but finished metal, and there is no way to make money by directly selling ore. Therefore, the idea of smelting in the grant land naturally entered Igor's mind.
For whatever reason, land grants must achieve a certain degree of self-sufficiency in "metals".
If there is a surplus, it is best to sell it for profit. If not, it is impossible to use it for yourself. It is more expensive than buying it from outsiders.
Igor has always been one step ahead of the others. Of course he didn't put all his energy into Wall and left Queenscrown's family business unattended during the long elections that lasted for several months... Master The master of smelting-related knowledge has been invited from the south, and the rest of the preparatory work has been prepared. We can start directly after confirming that the land-grant resettlement plan will not be stopped.
"Our surveyors have rushed to various places to look for minerals, but there are few minerals in the plains, and there are no mountain roads at all. The transportation is inconvenient and the weather is bad, so the exploration will probably take a while." Mayor Changya Mu reported on the progress of the project to Igor: "But the mountain people who work in Queenscrown are inadvertently telling us that there are open-pit copper and coal mines in the mountains where they live... I went to find the leaders of these clans, and they confirmed After realizing this, we also agree to mine and use it. As long as we guarantee that the workers needed in the smelting process are preferentially hired from their clans."
"The requirements are not excessive...but copper mines? What is the quality and scale? Whether or not Is it easy to mine? How far is the location from the land grant?"
"From the narratives of the mountain people, they only use the natural copper on the surface of the copper mine, and occasionally use the Throw a little copper ore into the fire to 'smelt' some, and make some accessories, small objects, etc. The quality and scale of the entire copper mine will not be known until our master has seen it, but it is not difficult to mine, and the location is far from The land grant is not far away, just less than a hundred miles southwest of Queenscrown."
"Well... copper is more expensive than iron, but if it is to be used, I still prefer to find iron ore. But this Don't worry, the principles of smelting copper and iron are similar after all, since there are ready-made copper mines, let's practice with this first, and let the land grantors master the process and steps of large-scale smelting first." Igor briefly thought about it. He decisively ordered: "Don't stop the search for other minerals, especially iron ore, but let me see the copper smelting first...as soon as possible."
"Understood." Yam nodded.
"Come on, show me how the other lines I plan are going."
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(end of this chapter)