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Chapter 481: Hundred Tons Consume a Fire Dragon

After retaking King's Landing, Daenerys began to implement work-for-relief and restore the city's upgrades, while also ordering her army to attack other areas.

With the help of three dragons, Daenerys's army began to capture cities quickly. No one in the Seven Kingdoms could stand up to them.

The Seven Kingdoms had experienced more than a decade of war and had exhausted their potential. It could be said that the Seven Kingdoms were now barely surviving. Facing Daenerys's army, except for those noble families, even the soldiers were unwilling to fight anymore.

What Daenerys did in King's Landing was spread by spies. When the civilians learned that Daenerys would appease the people, reduce taxes, and distribute food and land to them, the civilians in these areas basically looked forward to the arrival of Daenerys' army.

After these years of war, civilians everywhere were starving and had long been tired of war. Even the soldiers were the same.

The long-term war did not bring the soldiers a lot of money, but instead caused heavy casualties, which made the soldiers tired of the endless war. Especially after seeing the giant dragon flying in the sky, the morale became even lower.

Under such circumstances, the lords of various places were completely unable to resist the attack of Daenerys's army. Daenerys's Unsullied army set up huge catapults, and with the flying dragons attacking from the sky, the soldiers defending the city could not cope with it at all.

Soon a giant dragon descended from the sky, and the scorching dragon flames directly ignited a section of the city wall. The huge catapult threw huge rocks weighing hundreds of kilograms, which smashed onto the city wall with a loud bang. Several unlucky soldiers were injured by the rubble.

The remaining soldiers fled in all directions, and at the same time, the knights who had been prepared for a long time took the opportunity to launch an attack. The attacks of these extraordinary knights were simply not something that others could resist, and all those who dared to stop them were killed by these knights.

In just a moment, these knights rushed up the city wall and successfully opened the city gate. The city gate was lost, and the soldiers, who had low morale to begin with, dropped their weapons and surrendered.

The army successfully captured the entire city with almost no losses.

Next, the army began to clean up the city according to Daenerys's orders. The original nobles and those who resisted to the end were all arrested, and those who dared to resist were directly killed.

At the same time, the gendarmerie began to pacify the civilians in the city, and the hooligans and rebels who took the opportunity to cause trouble were directly suppressed. At the same time, the soldiers began to distribute food door to door and register them.

The entire army proceeded in an orderly manner.

After three years of accumulation, Daenerys has trained a large number of government officials. These government officials are not only responsible for various affairs, but also absorb a lot of personnel from the army.

After entering the army, these political officials became middle and low-level officers. They were extremely loyal to Daenerys, and had passed the training of the Political Academy, so they were adept at handling simple affairs.

The army can be said to be firmly controlled by Daenerys.

The books that Richard gave her told her in detail how to be an emperor, and told her which powers could be delegated and which powers must be controlled in her own hands.

Among these, military power is the power that must be controlled.

The emperor is the one who has the most powerful army and horses. This sentence tells people the nature of the emperor.

Daenerys is also very clear that she can sit firmly on the throne because of the army and her dragons, so she attaches great importance to the army.

The promotion of officers above the middle level in the army must be reported to her, and only with her approval can it be done. At the same time, Daenerys will visit the military camp once a day.

This was her way of telling the soldiers who they were loyal to and what the queen looked like.

At the same time, all military pay is distributed by special personnel sent by the queen, and the generals of the army have no right to distribute military pay. Daenerys firmly controls the army in this way.

After the army captured the city, they immediately confiscated the land and property of the nobles in accordance with Daenerys's orders, and also confiscated the land and property of the church.

What followed was an announcement that the land would be distributed to civilians and that all previous taxes would be exempted, with only land tax being levied on civilians.

In the past, these civilians not only had to pay land taxes, but also various miscellaneous taxes. Raising a cow required tax, picking up branches in the mountains required tax, and even when the hens at home laid eggs, they had to pay taxes.

It can be said that in order to make money to maintain the war, nobles from all over the country played around with various taxes.

Daenerys directly exempted all these miscellaneous taxes. From then on, only land tax was levied on civilians, and commercial tax, transaction tax, etc. were levied on merchants.

Apart from these, most other taxes are commodity taxes.

After learning of such low taxes, the common people immediately supported Daenerys, and forgot all about the nobles and the church.

What are the Seven Gods? Can they give me a tax break? Can they keep me well fed?
Daenerys used the army to smash the old system and completed her reform. At the same time, she also began to enfeoff her meritorious officials.

Daenerys now has enough government officials to completely replace the previous nobles of the Seven Kingdoms.

Within a month after capturing King's Landing, Daenerys occupied most of the land, and only some nobles fought desperately because of Daenerys's policy towards the nobles.

However, the strength of these people is nothing compared to the army of the Unsullied. It is only a matter of time before they are wiped out. The entire Seven Kingdoms began to recover rapidly in Daenerys' hands. In just one or two years, it will become a rich country again.

But at this moment, a warhorse galloping from the North arrived at King's Landing.

"Your Majesty, urgent news from the North!" A servant respectfully handed a letter to Daenerys.

Daenerys picked up the letter and read it, frowning slightly: "After leaving garrison troops in various places, the rest of the army will return immediately to support!"

"Yes!" Upon hearing Daenerys's order, the servant immediately went forward to convey the message.

"Call all the ministers to discuss this matter!"

About an hour later, in the meeting room of the imperial palace, a dozen officials were having a heated discussion.

"Your Majesty, we should send troops immediately, otherwise after the North falls, those White Walkers will attack us!"

"Your Majesty, I also think that we should send troops immediately and equip all soldiers with dragon crystal weapons!"

Daenerys listened to the discussion of the officials below and nodded slightly. Everyone agreed to send troops, and quickly prepared various supplies.

"What does the Order of Mages think?" Daenerys asked.

The wizard next to him quickly stood up and said respectfully: "All of us wizards obey the will of Her Majesty the Queen!"

Daenerys immediately stood up and said, "Let's go!"

"It's time to bury these scum from the last era into history!"

"Yes!" everyone responded loudly.

Under Daenerys's command, the army quickly set out. Richard also came in person this time. During this period, he had been studying Valyrian steel.

This kind of steel uses the unique magic of this world and is forged with dragon fire. The forged steel sword is light and very sharp, making it the best weapon to deal with the White Walkers.

After some experiments, Richard found that the quality of this steel was lower than that of Rune Magic Steel, but the cost was much lower than Rune Magic Steel. Rune Magic Steel required the addition of magic gem powder and various other items. In addition to these, magic was also required for forging.

During this time, Richard incorporated the methods of forging Valyrian steel into Rune Steel, successfully strengthening the Rune Steel a bit, and most importantly, reducing the cost of forging.

The forging cost of the new Rune Steel is only half of the previous Rune Steel.

Of course, it is not without its shortcomings. The new Rune Steel needs Dragon Flame to help forge it. The Red Dragon Flame is the best and the Rune Steel is also strong. The Dragon Flame of other dragons is less effective.

Therefore, the cost of the new rune steel has been reduced, but one hundred tons of rune steel consumes a dragon.
Dragon Flame Steelmaking requires a long period of time to spit out flames. If too much is refined, the dragon will not be able to bear it. Of course, this is not a problem for Richard.

He could easily set up a time-reversal magic circle and let the dragon stay inside it. After it had finished breathing dragon breath, he could directly use the time-reversal magic circle to restore the dragon to its best condition. In this way, it could continue to breathe dragon breath twenty-four hours a day without getting tired.

So, in the garden of the palace, Drogon was working hard to breathe out dragon breath. The hot dragon breath melted the iron in the furnace, and the elemental energy gathered. Finally, all the energy gathered in it, and a furnace of rune magic steel was made.

Drogon next to him was exhausted from continuously spitting flames.

"Sir, the rune steel has been refined. It's their turn now!" Drogon said with a bitter face.

"Okay, come with me and rest!" Richard said as he took Drogon to another room.

As soon as he came in, a force of time instantly enveloped him, and the next second Drogon returned to the state he was in an hour ago.

"Zhuo Geng, now that you've eaten and drunk enough, come with me to make a fire!" Richard said directly to Zhuo Geng, who had a confused look in his eyes.

Drogon, who had just come to his senses, didn't think much about it and immediately followed Richard to the smelting furnace next to him. Then he spit a mouthful of flame directly at the furnace.

At this time, new materials had been replaced in the furnace, and as the dragon flame burned, an elemental force was integrated into it.

Accompanied by the scorching dragon flames, Richard manipulated the magic power to begin changing the nature of these metals. After about an hour, a furnace of rune magic steel was successfully refined.

Drogon, who had been spewing dragon fire next to him, was also panting from exhaustion. Richard threw him a piece of demonized dinosaur meat, and Drogon swallowed it immediately.

Then he was taken to the room by Richard to rest again.
(End of this chapter)