Game of Thrones: Overlord of the Deep Sea

Chapter 269 High-quality leeks that last forever

A year and a half passed in the blink of an eye.

June 305AC.

In more than a year, the Northern Territory, Iron Islands, Riverlands, and Crown Territory have completely completed reforms, and a large number of companies with family ties have been established.

To Jack's surprise, these nobles were not all idiots.

Many nobles joined forces with well-connected married families and quickly occupied the market in some industries.

Jack only promulgated antitrust laws symbolically. After all, Jack did not want Westeros to develop too fast.

And these families who have transformed from nobles to businessmen have also changed from the initial resistance to the current Zhenxiang.

Anyway, no one has military power now, so there is no risk of war. Instead, studying the laws promulgated by the empire has become a top priority.

And it’s really fast to make money by doing business, especially since Jack recruits civilians to work on infrastructure. The money they earn will naturally be spent on food, clothing, housing and transportation.

The only thing that makes them unhappy is that before the law, they are equal to untouchables and have no privileges at all.

Fortunately, many things can be solved with money.

Compared with the four major provinces that are developing rapidly, the five regions of the Valley, the West, the Reach, the Stormlands, and Dorne are the same.

In more than a year, the Long Night originally only covered the North, but now it has covered the entire Westeros.

The long night arrives three to five months earlier than expected.

The coal resources in the north are very rich. In the past few years, the north has produced a large amount of briquettes.

In addition, in the past year and a half, Jack reorganized the land and used chemical fertilizers to store a lot of food.

However, compared with Jack's step-by-step approach, the old nobles who had been harvested a wave of supplies by Jack were not so comfortable.

Due to the backward planting technology and the fact that Jack did not sell fertilizer to the outside world, they did not recover much in the past year and a half.

Now even the southernmost Dorne Territory has entered the long night, indicating that the real long night has arrived.

The old nobles who did not have many reserves of supplies found their own lords one after another.

I hope my lord can talk to Jack about the promised interest-free material loan.

No, several big families gathered in Siloer City again.

This time when Jack came to see him, Olenna and Doran were the most confident.

The reason is naturally Margaery and Arianne, who married Jack.

Doran is even more confident than Olenna.

Because Arianne gave birth to a son, and Margaery gave birth to twin daughters.Of course, Jack himself did not have a patriarchal mentality, and Margaery's eldest daughter was still canonized as the honorary prince of the Reach.

But this is only limited to Jack.

Others still favor boys over girls, and that's the mainstream.

It is impossible to change this kind of thinking in a short time.

With today's technology, boys are still more productive than girls.

They thought it would be a smooth trip to the north, but Jack once again refreshed their concept of cunning.

Jack agreed to lend them the supplies, but the amount of supplies was too huge, and Jack said he could only lend them bit by bit.

And two conditions were attached. The first condition was to allow imperial companies to build factories in their fiefdoms.

The second condition is to allow free movement of civilians.

The first condition was fine, but the second condition was unacceptable to them.

They are not stupid either. In Westeros, farmers are actually the private property of the lord.

Although they were legally free people, in fact they needed permission from their lord to even leave the village.

If free people are allowed to move freely, who will give them land to farm?
You must know that most of the nobles expect the farmers in their hands to farm the land and pay taxes.

However, Jack did not give them any room for negotiation, but directly threw the words to them.

"Either agree to my conditions, or wait for death slowly in the long night, or you can try to unite to deal with me!"

Seeing Jack's "Let's show off, I won't pretend anymore" look, Olenna and others gritted their teeth in hatred.

However, they did not have the courage to go to war with Jack, nor did they want to wait for death in the long night, so they finally accepted Jack's conditions.

The reaction of Olenna and others was completely within Jack's expectation.

Although Jack has the power to forcefully reform the entire Westeros, it will consume a lot of materials and people and is not worth it.

So Jack chose to cut his flesh with a dull knife. Jack had so many good cards that the old aristocratic forces did not have the courage to join forces and join forces to fight him.

These old nobles have fallen into the vortex of "cutting five cities today and ten cities tomorrow".

By the time Jack had harvested almost all the wealth in their hands, they had lost the ability to resist.

At that time, I might have to rely on Jack's loan to transform the family business.

Once Jack takes the shares of their family business, they will be good leeks for eternity.

(End of this chapter)