Game of Thrones: Battle Royale Game

Near the end of the month, Ian received the first written report from Celia. Although he had already understood most of the situation through the cat's perspective, this process had not been left behind.

The first round of statistics showed that Rohr and the others had registered 117,000 slaves in the Worm River. This did not include those who had not yet been captured and the escaped slaves that Yunkai would return in the future.

The food they seized was also concentrated, but the total amount was not large, and was even far less than the food reserves in Astapor City.

If the more than 120,000 slaves on both sides of the Worm River are provided with food according to Ian's new slave policy, the food will only be enough for them for less than half a year at most.

This is probably the reason why the population of Slaver's Bay is so small. During the long summer, the nobles did not store food for the slaves for the winter. When the winter food production dropped sharply (Slaver's Bay is located in the south, it can barely sow in winter. If it were switched to the north, In this situation, not even a grain of grain can be grown), and most of the slaves will starve to death.

The nobles only need to purchase new slaves from the Dothraki or other slave traders when the Long Summer comes again to fill the gaps in these lands on the Worm River again, so they do not need to consider these troublesome issues.

But for Ian, who is expanding his army on a large scale and may even use troops soon, Astapor's food reserves are definitely not enough.

The wheat that has been sown on both sides of the Worm River will mature in about three months at the fastest, while the wheat newly sown by Celia after pushing away other crops will mature in five months.

In order to solve this problem, a large-scale food import plan was put on Ian's agenda.

The largest producer west of Essos is undoubtedly Volantis. They have extremely vast farmland and more than 10 million serfs in the Rhoyne and Seruh river basins. They are the largest food exporter in the Western world.

Unfortunately, considering the land distance from Volantis to Astapor, the possibility of importing food from Volantis via land transportation is zero. Shipping by sea is barely feasible, but since it cannot cross the Sea of ​​Smoke, the grain ship needs to go around the entire ancient Valyrian Peninsula to go back and forth between Volantis and Astapor, which makes the freight cost for each trip will be It will be more than 5 to 10 times the cost of the food itself.

Therefore, Ian could only turn his attention to the closer Skarhazaban River Basin, where Meereen controlled the area to the west and the territory of the Lazarin people to the east.

Meereen is Astapor's traditional main food importer. Although the land in the Skarhazaban River Basin is not much fertile than the Worm River, the area of ​​land there has been developed because its population is much larger than that of the Worm River. It is also much larger than the Worm River.

After careful consideration, Ian decided to increase the scale of food imports to Meereen.

Firstly, this is one of the few choices he has, and secondly, deepening trade ties with Meereen can also give the other party the illusion that he is not hostile.

As for whether Meereen would take this opportunity to raise the price, Ian didn't care. Anyway, every penny he spent in Meereen would be paid back with interest sooner or later.

At the same time, in Astapor City, although Ian's new army officers are still training, the first round of 'selection' of the slaves of the Gith Legion has ended.

These people were all selected from the slaves on both sides of the Worm River. As long as they can pass the first period of training, they can officially obtain the status of third-class slaves. The eliminated ones will only be returned to their place of origin to work, and will not be killed directly according to the Astapor tradition. According to Rohr, this alone has made the slaves grateful.

Soon the first batch of five thousand slaves walked into the former Unsullied military camp in Astapor City. The training camp in Astapor City was simply not enough to accommodate more troops, so Ian could only The number of pawns selected in the first round was set at five thousand.

In order to ensure the smooth progress of the military expansion operation, Ian ordered the construction of three large military camps outside the city of Astapor, but it will take a long time for these military camps to be used.

So Ian withdrew two thousand Unsullied from the barracks and stationed them in his three pyramids.

The good news is that when he was arranging to clear the camp for the new recruits, he was surprised to find that Astapor still had a large number of 'semi-finished' Unsullied who had only been trained for three years, and their number had reached a sufficient number. A total of six thousand people.

This was the reason why the good masters promised themselves at the beginning that if they waited another year, they could get another two thousand Unsullied.

If these 6,000 people strictly follow the standards of the Unsullied, then there will still be at least about 2,000 elimination targets.

But for Ian, all these semi-finished products that have been eliminated by number theory have reached the standard of elites, so he does not plan to eliminate any of them anymore, nor does he need them to obtain the Spiral Helmet of the Unsullied.

These people have not passed the most complete training of the Unsullied, and their loyalty may not reach the level of the Unsullied. Therefore, after selecting all 3,000 people over the age of 16 from the semi-finished products, Ian did not mix them. into the original Unsullied, but instead organized them into the First Legion of Gith.

As for the remaining three thousand semi-finished products that were not old enough, Ian decided to let them continue training until they were of the right age.

After dealing with the matter of military expansion, Ian quickly devoted himself to the work of further improving the fifth-class slavery.

Celia had previously shown Ian Orange Cat two versions of the promotion mechanism plan, but Ian was not particularly satisfied with either one.

One is because of the efficiency of promotion. If the efficiency of promotion is too low, it will be difficult to quickly improve the enthusiasm of the slaves. Ian doesn't know what will happen after the long night falls, so what he needs is a method that can work quickly and miraculously in a short period of time.

However, excessive promotion efficiency will devalue the slave rank. The value of the slave rank is not entirely in the treatment, but also in comparison. Only when there are enough people below them can slaves gain a sufficient sense of superiority due to their rank.

In less than a month since the release of fifth-class slavery, the number of people who have obtained the status of third-class slaves has reached 5,000. After the first phase of training of this batch of slave soldiers is completed next month, this number will be close to 10,000.

This made Ian feel lucky. If it weren't for the false accusations of those bad slaves that made him capture more than 40,000 free people on the Worm River and become new slaves, the third-class slave class might have been less valuable.

For this point, the solution that Ian temporarily thought of was to maintain the high efficiency of promotion while trying to continuously replenish a large number of low-level slaves.

After all, according to the Lord of Fermor, there are more than 4 million slaves in the Lazarin area north of Slaver's Bay. Ah, the population.

After Ian conquered the area, he could easily obtain an extremely large number of low-level slave resources.

Compared with the first point, the second point gave Ian a much more headache. He found that no matter how he designed the relevant mechanism, he could not guarantee the fairness of promotion.

Because no matter what the mechanism itself is, the final inspection of labor results and the arrangement of personnel promotions need to be done by people. As we all know, people are the most unreliable.

Even in the modern era where information is so developed, anti-F is still a huge problem, not to mention this era when information is limited and the imperial power does not extend to the county?

But it is impossible not to solve this problem. The problem of injustice is fatal.

Ian's previous arrangements have made the situation faced by the slaves surrounded by despair. This promotion mechanism is the only hope left by Ian for them, and it is also a key means for Ian to ensure that they work hard for him.

But if the promotion mechanism cannot ensure fairness, and the officials below and the high-level slaves are allowed to collude and manipulate artificially, the situation of the low-level slaves will become completely desperate, and this despair will make the slaves more desperate than ever before. Be dangerous.

A slave will not be jealous of his master, but he will be jealous of a superior slave.

Therefore, solving the issue of promotion fairness has become the top priority of Ian's next work.