Game of Thrones: Overlord of the Deep Sea

Chapter 125 "Civilian Feast"

The civilization of the ice and fire world is similar to that of the European Middle Ages, and the sanitation is very poor.

Fortunately, although Westeros has developed for thousands of years in the Middle Ages and has not progressed in civilization, hygiene is not without any progress.

You know that in the Middle Ages in Jack's previous life, that was a hygiene nightmare.

For example, in 1533, a ceremony celebrating Anne Boleyn's becoming Queen of England.

The new empress smiled and toasted the guests, while swaying her skirt to show her aristocratic demeanor.

But even if there is progress in Westeros, it is limited to the progress of noble residences.

Other places are still dirty, messy, and poor, otherwise King's Landing City wouldn't be stinky.

People in the Seven Kingdoms do not use feces to "contaminate the land."

Because the church believes that manure will pollute the land.

Of course, this is limited to the city.

Most rural people still fertilize with dung, which allows them to harvest more rye and barley.

Many people even go to the city to steal manure to irrigate the land.

But this still cannot change the status quo of the city.

Because as soon as the old poop leaves, it will be filled with new poop.

A large amount of animal excrement mixed with human excrement lies on the side of the road. After a long time, they will pour the excrement into the nearby river, and even the public well is a garbage dump.

The end result is that people will become dilute to death after drinking water.

The nobles mixed wine and water to drink.

Fortunately, the location of Last Hearth City is very north, and it is the northernmost city in the Seven Kingdoms except for the new land and Castle Black.

The cold climate well masks the stench of manure and rotting garbage.

In the end, Jack randomly found a hotel that looked good.

The humble environment made Jack look sideways again, but fortunately, this hotel sells pork sausage and vegetable soup.

Jack also ordered a glass of barley wine along the way.

Wheat wine can only be brewed by nobles, and commoners have neither the economy nor the qualifications to use wheat to make wine or eat wheat-made bread.

And although there is rice in Westeros, it is rice with a slow maturity cycle and low yield.

In Westeros, only the nobles sometimes choose to improve their taste before planting.

After the pork sausage came up, Jack looked at the long black object in front of him and frowned.

Suppressing the resistance in his heart, Jack cut a piece of sausage and put it in his mouth.

The taste of "beautiful" exploded from the tip of the tongue, and the fishy and foul smell invaded Jack's taste buds.

The taste is like the expired red sausage of Malatang in the previous life because it was not sold, like chewing fishy plastic particles.

Don't ask Jack why he knows the taste of unsold sausages that have expired, because everyone has them all the time.

Helpless, Jack quickly picked up the wooden wine glass and took a big gulp of ale.

A faint sour smell mixed with a lot of wheat husks goes straight to Tianlinggai, and the taste of alcohol is very light, obviously it has been mixed with water.

This made Jack's face a little distorted.

He finally understood why the best-seller of Sea God Brewing was the trial version of Liu Jinlong.

Because he still underestimated the brewing technology of this era and the consumption power of ordinary people.

Even if it is Liu Jinlong's experimental version of Haishen Niang, its wine quality is still clear.

So as long as you buy high-quality Poseidon brewing and pour it into a bucket, it will become a big barrel of good wine.

Unless it's for the sake of face, the most cost-effective is the trial version of Sea God Brew.

Because there is no distillation technology, and the resistance of yeast to alcohol is limited, the degree of alcohol is not high.

But even if the alcohol content is not high, it is still wine, and no one can really drink wine as water.

And the nobles of the Seven Kingdoms or the nobles of the world, although they all drink wine as water, but it must be mixed with water.

Therefore, the nobles would mix wine and water in a ratio of 1:4, 1:5 before drinking it as water.

Even adding other aniseed ingredients or honey to the wine.

Therefore, the trial version of Sea God's Brew is more like a flavoring agent, allowing them to double the amount of fine wine.

But no matter when, wine, especially noble red wine, is an absolute luxury.

The civilians at the bottom do not have such good conditions.

Barley wine made from barley is mixed with wheat husks, and then mixed with water, it is delicious barley wine.

Even so, the combination of pork sausage, vegetable soup and barley beer is a very hearty meal in the eyes of the common people in the northern border.

Jack tentatively took a sip of the vegetable soup, and found that although the thick vegetable soup didn't look good, it didn't have any taste.

Jack was overjoyed, and quickly chopped up the pork sausage and put it in the thick vegetable soup. The taste was finally better.

After finishing all the vegetable soup in the bowl, Jack took two sips of clarified barley beer.

"It's finally finished." Jack sighed.

Jack didn't want to waste food, which was educated by his father in his previous life with seven wolves, and more importantly, he spent money.

After eating this "civilian delicacy", Jack decided to go back and ask the brewery to research a cheap ale.

It is not required to be like Poseidon Brew, at least it must be swallowed by Jack, and the name is 'Bravely Entering the Deep Sea'.

Alcohol is a luxury no matter where it is, even the Poseidon brew on Neptune Island, which costs 550 silver coins for 6ml.

Therefore, Jack decided to pick up the lower-level market that had been abandoned due to lack of manpower.

At the very least, the drunkards in Atlantis have to drink.

Moreover, Jack has also discovered in the past six months that it seems that people's demand for alcohol is far beyond his imagination.

Maybe he can imitate Dodo's strategy to capture the sinking low-consumption alcoholic beverage market.

It's no wonder that Jack didn't expect that the drinking culture in Western Europe and East Asia is different.

Firstly, the lack of manpower at the beginning made it impossible to raise the output, and secondly, the drinking culture in Western Europe and East Asia is slightly different.

The wine-making culture in East Asia did not develop fruit wine, but used human food to make wine.

This leads to the fact that although wine is a necessity, it is not a necessity for the common people. The common people prefer to boil water and drink it cold.

In the Middle Ages in Western Europe, there was no habit of boiling water. Coupled with poor sanitation and popular fruit wine making, wine became an excellent choice for people to replenish water.

The nobles drank good wine.

The civilians drink barley beer or rye beer, which tastes bad and has many impurities.

But the number of civilians is not comparable to that of nobles, so when the manpower and production are sufficient, the profits of the bottom liquor market are also very considerable.

Jack thought for a while about the possibility of the "Brave into the Deep Sea" business plan, and then went to the room on the second floor to rest, hoping that the food in Castle Black would be better.

Fortunately, the wooden stairs are still strong, and there is no feeling of crumbling.

Just after Jack went upstairs, the two people who were eating thick vegetable soup glanced at each other, put down their bowls and followed.

(End of this chapter)