Game of Thrones: Overlord of the Deep Sea

Chapter 168 Free Trade Coastal Political Reform
"Three ships of gold? How much is that, can you give me some?" Tormund's eyes lit up.

"Hahaha, as long as you perform well on the battlefield, I will be the master. In addition to the rewards you deserve, I will give you an extra box of gold."

Both the gold and the Unsullied were transported from Meereen.

At this time in Meereen, Manduo Gelu was watching the golden dragons in the warehouse being moved box by box with distress.

Just a few months ago, Atlantis decided to build a huge military base on the west side of Meereen, so they mobilized 1100 million golden dragons from Meereen.

This is the last wave of Golden Dragon transportation. At this time, the Free Coast military base has basically been built.

Sorge came to Manduo and said with a smile, "Thank you, Prime Minister Manduo, for your cooperation."

"Where, since it is the order of His Majesty the Sea Emperor, it is natural to actively cooperate, otherwise the Sea God will issue divine punishment."

Manduo was smiling all over his face, but he was not feeling well in his heart.

Now no one on the Free Trade Coast believes in the Son of the Harpy, and they all believe in the Sea God.

Because the sea god can really manifest spirits.

After the Sea God Temple was established in Meereen, Yunkai, and Astapor, there were no believers.

Until one day, a devout Poseidon believer begged Poseidon to restore his blind child's sight.

Then the statue of Sea God suddenly leaked some milky white light spots and landed on the believer's child, and the child miraculously restored the light.

Afterwards, under the propaganda of people with good intentions, the Sea God quickly replaced the Son of the Harpy and became the new belief on the Free Trade Coast.

You must know that although Jack has always emphasized that Poseidon is the god of the sea, in the hearts of the public, although Poseidon has god-like power, he is essentially a deep-sea monster.

But after Poseidon had the power of faith, it was different. At the beginning, he performed miracles through the power of faith gathered by tens of thousands of people, and then attracted millions of believers.

With more power of faith, more miracles will be shown, and a virtuous circle will be achieved in the end, completely becoming the omnipotent sea god in the hearts of the world.

The most important thing is that Poseidon doesn't know who to follow, and his small-mindedness is terrifying.

With the increasing familiarity with the power of faith, Poseidon can now even know the evaluation of others through the believers' five senses.

If the words are rude and Poseidon is caught, it will use the power of faith to control the believers around it, and then pass a little bit of its own power to the believers through the thread of faith to teach the person who speaks badly.

But it is a pity that Poseidon cannot pass his power to Jack through the thread of faith, because there is no relationship of faith between the two.

Moreover, Poseidon, who has millions of believers at this time, has learned some secrets of this world from the galaxy of belief, which can be regarded as uncovering a corner of the world's veil.

The original magic power level of this world is above average, and it can accommodate two true gods with godheads.

But then a struggle broke out between the two gods because of their beliefs, which eventually led to a retreat in the world's magic power level.

Only the King of Light was left, a true god with a godhead, and he was still seriously injured.

For this reason, the King of Light led the Sons of the Forest to create the Night King, and then directed a "reincarnation" of the King of Light to destroy the Night King, severely harvesting the power of faith of the world's creatures.

It's just that the King of Light suddenly disappeared, and even the Godhead of the God of Light with him was also missing.

The rest of the false gods without godheads are also missing, leaving only extraordinary creatures such as the Night King and the Green Prophet who are demigods.

And the long night and long summer in the world were caused by the war of gods at the beginning, but this is not a big deal.

As long as it is a true god with a godhead, even a true god who has just condensed his godhead can restore the world to normal throughout the year.

As for why the King of Light didn't restore the world's four-season rotation, it was most likely because he was seriously injured, and he wanted to harvest the power of faith from all beings in Westeros, so he didn't restore the "" sequelae".
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Two weeks after Sorge transferred the last 100 million golden dragons.

The Free Coast has once again ushered in change.

Atlantis stipulates that from now on, the tax revenue of the three cities will be divided into two.

[-]% was handed over to the imperial treasury, leaving [-]% for development and salaries of officials at all levels.

And the collection of taxes is the responsibility of the tax officials named in Atlantis.

At the same time, Mando Gru was appointed as the lord of Meereen, Renate as the lord of Yunkai, and Rhodes as the lord of Astapor.

Among the three city lords, except Manduo, the other two were parachuted from Atlantis.

The city lord is responsible for managing the affairs of the city, but does not have the power to appoint and remove personnel and major decision-making power. The power to appoint and dismiss personnel and major decision-making power is in the charge of the Bishop of the Sea God Sect sent by Atlantis.

The bishops of the Sea God Sect are divided into five grades: grey, white, green, red, and blue. The red bishop is responsible for the appointment and removal of personnel and decision-making at the city level.

A bishop must not only have a firm belief, but also a knowledgeable brain. Therefore, in order to obtain the status of a bishop, he needs to pass an exam, and the written exam is the most basic.

The most difficult thing is to pass the interview at the Sea God Temple. Only when the statue of the Sea God shows white light can you pass the interview, otherwise, your faith is not strong enough.

Now the central officials of the imperial court in the Neptune Palace also need to pass this kind of assessment, at least they must have the status of a gray-clothed bishop, otherwise they will not be able to hold the position of important officials.

In layman's terms, after graduating from the University of Atlantis, those with top grades can go to the written test and interview at the Sea God Temple, while those with mediocre grades will go to the society and become talents with higher education.

Then the Black Dragon, White Dragon, and Green Dragon Legions and the Unsullied led by Gray Worm, a total of 33000 people, were all incorporated into the establishment of the Free Coast military base.

Among them, 18000 members of the Three Dragons formed the Black Dragon Fleet, the White Dragon Fleet and the Green Dragon Fleet respectively, and the shipyard built by Atlantis provided battleships and logistical maintenance.

Because the Unsullied cannot be copied, it has become an independent legion organization.

After these Unsullied people get old or die in battle, the independent Unsullied organization will forever exist in the history books.

This time the reform further weakened the power of the nobles.

Originally, nobles like them did not have to pay taxes, but as the free trade coast gradually became an outpost of Atlantis, more and more nobles joined the nautical trade.

Therefore, in this reform, Jack has added the requirement for nobles to pay taxes. However, Jack's overall taxation is not high. The land rent tax is ten to one, and the commercial tax is ten to two, so they can still accept it.

However, there is basically no land rent tax in the three cities of Meereen. Except for cash crops such as olive trees, almost all food depends on the transportation of Raza Plains, which has led to the rapid development of Raza Plains relying on grain planting.

The food in the Lazar Plain is not only the main source of food for the three cities of Meereen, Yunkai, and Astapor, but also the main source of food for the military base on the Free Coast in the future.

Therefore, after discussing with Kaido and Gray Worm, Sorge decided to increase the number of Unsullied stationed in Lazar Plain to 7000.

The remaining three thousand Unsullied were stationed in Fort Kaiser, and now Fort Kaiser has completely become a military fortress.

And there are many Raza people and civilians who migrated there gathered near Kaiser Pass.

They built a small Kaiser town near the Kaiser Pass, which was designed to provide a resting place for passing businessmen.

For this reason, Mantu appointed his son Ivan as the mayor of Kaiser Town, and at the same time brought 20 golden dragons to expand the dock of Kaiser Town.

The current basic nobles on the free trade coast basically divide their families into three parts, one part goes into business, one part joins the bureaucracy system, and the last part joins the military.

Since then, the free trade coast has completely fallen into the control of Atlantis.

At the same time, the bishop, who has made major decisions, began to use the remaining [-]% of the tax revenue to vigorously build civil facilities and expand roads between cities.

The three cities whose development speed had slowed down began to develop rapidly again, and several elementary schools, middle schools, and universities sprung up.

It's just that elementary and middle schools currently only teach reading, literacy and arithmetic, and martial arts for physical fitness were added in middle schools, and skills such as blacksmithing were not added until universities.

But blacksmithing in the school is not called blacksmithing, but advanced forging technology. In addition, there are sculpture technical colleges, medical research colleges, and so on.

In the Imperial College and Imperial Research Institute built on Sun Island in the east of Neptune Island, a large number of craftsmen and bachelors are studying the knowledge of mathematics, physics, chemistry, and biology left by Jack.

As for geography, to be honest, Jack's geography may not be as well understood as the world's local bachelors.

After they have finished their research, they will be integrated into books, and then distributed to middle schools for others to learn.

Previously, he was worried that early intellectual enlightenment would cause turmoil in the empire, so even though Atlantis was extremely rich, Jack did not vigorously develop the education system.

But since Jack learned that Poseidon could enter the River of Faith, he put the development of the education system on his agenda.

Now that the foundation of the education system has been laid, the rest is the slow development of academics.

(End of this chapter)