Game of Thrones: The Strongest Guoguang

Chapter 39 Saltworks and Tuntian

"Your Highness, if you want to form elite cavalry soldiers..."

Everyone knew what the cavalry was for, and it was naturally to deal with the risks and challenges of the nobles in the interior.

Cultivator Ramos is equivalent to Rhaenyla's "Hand of the Princess", so naturally he is also making suggestions.

"Where do the soldiers eat? Although King's Landing is rich in finances, this is the foundation of the past. To support soldiers requires financial sources..."

"Besides, King's Landing, as a capital city, can only accommodate 2 soldiers in gold robes at present. If the other soldiers want to pull up a team of thousands of soldiers, where will they be trained, where will they eat and live? , these are the problems."

Ramos thinks long-term, and doesn't get dizzy with the impulsive blueprint of building a direct army.

"Most importantly, where do the cavalry's horses come from? Who will plant the cavalry's bait, Your Highness, these are all points that need to be considered."

Ranila also knew in her heart that although she was the crown prince and the orthodox heir, it was not that simple to build her own power. Take King's Landing as an example, except for the golden robe, if you want to directly rule , It requires the cooperation of the local nobles and their private soldiers.

The Iron Throne has no direct troops of its own!
Ranila really wanted to complain about this point. No wonder the nobles of the Seven Kingdoms danced so happily every time. Your royal family does not have the Imperial Forest Army, and it is okay without the Beijing Camp.

She finally figured it out. The bourgeoisie has always been weak and unreliable. Although the nobles are available, the Seven Kingdoms are too big, and the people in other places are not easy to eat. Now the only way to build an army is to hold the army in your own hands. right thing.

"This involves the governance strategy of the kingdom." Rhaenyla thought for a while before speaking.

"The king's land has a long and narrow coastline, and it is the lower reaches of the Blackwater River. The landform is flat. There is also a large royal forest below King's Landing, which has not been mined before."

"Fishing goods, drying salt, logging, farming, pasture and wheat on flat land..."

"The better the governance, the bigger the army you can support!"

"Don't worry about the training ground. The nobles around King's Landing will cooperate. I don't believe there is anyone who dares not to open his eyes and not allow the royal family to garrison troops. Is the giant dragon in the dragon's lair just a display?" Rhaenyla sneered.

Just wait until you don't cooperate, and then directly take your fief and reward it to your own people.

"Of course, I will reward and seal those who cooperate decisively."

"As for the horses of the cavalry, it is indeed a problem!" Westeros is a country of knights, and people aspire to be a glorious knight, but the poor have no chance.

Because being a knight requires a good horse!Need a squire!Need a sword!Armor is required.

Generally, aristocrats without any inheritance in their families cannot become knights. For example, every time a martial arts tournament is held, knights will be allowed to redeem their precious armor, some of which are inherited from their ancestors.

"The war horses needed in the early stage still depend on King's Landing's finances, because the King's Landing doesn't have many places to raise horses, and they can't get many if they insist on collecting them. On the contrary, the nobles in Hejian, Hewan and other places have good horses in their hands. "

"I'm not afraid that King's Landing will run out of money!" "Order to buy war horses from these merchants, both locally and across the sea. As long as it is a horse that can fight, the king's land can afford it!"

I don't want to give my treasury to someone else as a wedding dress, I might as well go "completely crazy", Rhaenyla made a decision.

"In addition, I want a group of craftsmen who can make bows. We Targaryen have a batch of high-quality materials."

"Your Highness, do you want to?"

That's right, Rhaenila just wanted to use all the keel bones treasured by her ancestors in the Dragon Cave and the Red Castle for many years to make bows!

It has been a long time since Aegon the Conqueror landed, and the Targaryen family has more and more keel collections, but none of the nobles dared to ask for keel bones to make bows, and those who dared to say were fed dragons.

The keel bow is both precious and practical. If it is used to arm the army, those Dothraki people on the opposite side will be able to flow out!
"I want all the warriors in our army to use keel bows. Of course, ordinary soldiers can use bows made of centuries-old wood from the imperial forest."

The resources of the royal forest are too rich, and this is also a point where other nobles are about to drop, but still no one dares to crazy about the idea of ​​the royal industry.

Ranila wanted to use all of them to arm her forces.

In fact, apart from keel bones, the giant lions of the Western Mountains, the unicorns of the northern border, mammoths... the bones of these magical creatures can also be used as bows, but just like the disappearance of the children of the forest, these creatures have never appeared in front of people. Who has the strength to make a good bow made of magic materials? The Targaryen family has collected it for many years, and it must be ranked first. It has never been invincible, and this is not even comparable to the Lannisters in the West.

"Brother Ramos, I need you to designate a piece of land outside the city, which is specially used to house craftsmen, build homes and factories for them, and call it an industrial zone!"

"This industrial area is very useful. It can not only manufacture weapons, but also open source."

"One more thing, the nobles of the seaside fiefdom, you can make arrangements to call them to King's Landing."

"I want to open a salt farm, engage in marine farming, and dry refined salt."

All of these require them to participate, let them lead their citizens to open source, and then the royal family will take shares and earn a share.

Those nobles don't know how to dry salt, don't know how to make commercial income, and they torment the people on their own land.

Why not take the lead in the royal family, engage in industry, and standardize salt production, which may be one of the top commodities of the king's land.

After formulating the plan for the coastline, Ranila continued, "Thinking about it now, it is possible to garrison troops. Wouldn't it be better if we garrison troops and fields together?"

The rulers of this world don't advise farming and mulberry. They really don't have the soul of farming!

"Your Highness, it is true that there are many territories around the king's land that have not been developed, what do you think?" Ramos spoke in a deliberate tone.

"I want to reclaim farmland. It's good to grow grass and food. In some territories, the tax is so harsh that the farmland is abandoned."

Seeing this, Ramos seemed to want to say something, but Rhaenyla interrupted him.

"I know what you want to say, monk. I definitely can't reach the whole kingdom now, but it is feasible to implement new land policies and farmland planning around King's Landing."

"In this way, if there is anything wrong, I can correct it. Secondly, my soldiers will also see blood. Let's see which little nobleman dares to act wildly in front of me." Ranila is different now. She used to want to live in harmony, Now everyone turn the table over!We can't live together.

"Farmland can raise cows, grow vegetables, grow grass, and raise chickens and ducks. I can't think of any disadvantages in farming."

The princess's confidence in farming was inexplicable. Ramos was a little ashamed seeing this, and he didn't know where the princess had learned so many things from before. She even knew what the farmer thought.

"This is my current plan!" Rhaenira breathed a sigh of relief.

"As for the future troops... Well, I have plans." Now that the cavalry has not been formed yet, let's put it aside for now.

"By the way, has anything happened in King's Landing these days?" Rhaenella asked the knight Harold.

"Your Highness, the people of King's Landing love you very much. The Great Court has already handled miscellaneous cases with ease, and the golden robe...just..."

Rhaenila's eyes shrank, hehe, it seems that someone really dared to jump.

(End of this chapter)