Game of Thrones: Roar of the Dragon

Chapter 137: Changing the World, Black and Gray Scales

The hilly slopes of the Reach are mainly concentrated in two areas, the northwest area close to the Golden Mountains of the Westerland, and the southeast area close to the Red Mountains of the Dorne Frontier.

GoldenTree is the home of House Rowan, located just north of Highgarden.

This castle was built on a tributary of the Mande River, with its back against the Golden Mountains in the west, which is a good location.

Of course, there are many castles in the River Reach that are better located than GoldenTree City.

However, Lord Thaddeus Rowan of Goldentree had joined the Black Party during the Dance with the Dragons, and took the initiative to intercept Hobart Hightower's army together with Lord Caswell of Bitterbridge.

For good things like this, Jacaerys naturally gives priority to families with staunch loyalty.

What surprised him was that after choosing Golden Tree City,

Duke Jason took the initiative to visit him and expressed his willingness to sponsor 10,000 civilian laborers from the Western Territory and provide matching food supplies.

Actively apply to bring your own dry food to work for free?
Jakaris thought for a moment and roughly guessed what he was thinking.

Duke Jason probably thought that he chose this place because of his two daughters. After all, not far from Golden Tree City is Silver Mountain City in the west.

If this amazing idea could really be realized, his 10,000 laborers and food supplies would give Jacaris an excuse to transform Silver Mountain City.

The Lannisters are indeed an old noble family that has been wealthy for thousands of years, and most of the family members are very shrewd.

Jacaerys accepted all the kindness from Duke Jason.

The Western Territory is so rich, he must squeeze out as much as possible.

As for who will be the next to take over after the successful transformation of the terraced fields in Golden Tree City, Jacaris is prepared to compete fairly through auction.

Hehe, as one of his father-in-laws, he will naturally "take care of" Duke Jason.

When the ravens flew to castles across the Seven Kingdoms with the letter about the king's selection of a concubine that shocked all the common people, Jacaerys had already arrived at Golden Tree City with four dragons.

Earl Thaddeus of Golden Tree City had been waiting respectfully with members of the Rowan family, and they then warmly entertained the king they were loyal to.

If he had not been over sixty years old and had not given birth to seven sons, he would have taken his daughter to King's Landing long ago.

But Lord Thaddeus was indeed a man of great courage, and there was no need to explain Jacaerys any more.
He directly stated that he had done his best and prepared the manpower and material resources for the terrace transformation.

The king was happy and his ministers were delighted, and the night passed quietly.

The next day was a cloudy day with thick clouds. Jacaerys got up early and went straight out of the city gate with Earl Thaddeus, the Rowan family soldiers and thousands of Golden Tree City civilians.

There was no good choice at all, so Jakaris came to a hillside closest to Golden Tree City and directly started terraced farming.

Without waiting for Earl Thaddeus to ask, he immediately gave the order.

Hoo ho ho!
Bang bang bang!
Silver-white dragon flame spewed out from the mouth of the dragon swooping down from the sky.

The powerful impact of the dragon flame directly plowed a very flat charred road on the sunny side of the hillside.

Compared to Womax that can turn the ground into glass, and Silver Wings that cover a large area of ​​hills and slopes, Sea Smoke seems to have been born for the transformation of terraced fields.

One floor, two floors, three floors...

In less than half a day, the hillside had been plowed into its rough shape by the sea smoke.

Of course, some of the huge rocks and trees they encountered were smashed by Yin Yi and Yang Yan or transported to remote places and discarded.

When Haiyan finally flew to the top of the hillside and used the dragon flame to dig a huge pit, its work was completed.

At this time, the sunny side of the hilly slopes is like a staircase, with layer upon layer.

The burned flowers, plants and trees will become wood ash fertilizer, ensuring a good harvest of terraced crops in the first quarter.

Seeing that it was almost time to wrap up, Jakaris simply rode on Womax and flapped his silver wings into the thick clouds above.

Hoo ho ho!
Wow!
Two streams of scorching dragon flames of different colors directly evaporated the clouds near the hillside into water vapor, and the heavy rain that was only on the hillside suddenly stopped.

Artificial Rainfall - Dragon Edition!
After all the thick clouds in the sky above the Step Hills were burned, a beam of sunlight shone obliquely onto the Step Hills through the holes in the clouds, like a beautiful oil painting.

Lord Thaddeus's expression now was exactly the same as that of the thousands of family soldiers and civilians behind him.

Everyone had their mouths wide open, stunned.

In just half a day, a steep and rugged hillside was transformed into a stepped hill full of strange beauty.

And the localized heavy rain that covered the terraced hills seemed like a move from the gods.

To the ignorant natives of this world, Jakaris's way of changing the world is no different from that of a god!

Hooray, hooray!
Womax and Silver Wing hovered at the top of the stepped hill. Jacaris looked at the huge pit at the bottom of the mountain that stored a small amount of rain water and nodded secretly.

Everything was going according to his plan, and a few more artificial rainfalls would fill the reservoir.

Next it was the work of Earl Thaddeus and his men.

The reason why Jacaerys brought the dragon and did it himself was that he wanted to complete it before Sir Lorent and other Riverland nobles came to Golden Tree City from King's Landing, so that he could slap them in the face then.

If it weren't for the top productivity of the dragon, the prototype of the terraced fields would probably not have been dug out before Sir Lorent arrived.

Time passed quietly as Jakaris focused on the terrace renovation work in Golden Tree City.

The Girls' Day Ball originally scheduled for half a month later was postponed to a month later. This also gave more civilian girls from the seven countries who lived far away but did not have their own carriages a chance.

A month is enough time for most people to come to King's Landing by boat from the remote North or from Essos.

With the influx of a large population, the security pressure in King's Landing has increased many times.

Many young girls who had never seen the world believed the words of their fellow villagers or strangers and disappeared into the alleys of Silk Street, Flea Bottom and other places.

The quality of the gold cloaks in King's Landing varies greatly, and most of them are just money-hungry bastards.

Some of the golden robes even took the initiative to participate in these dark affairs.

As public security became increasingly chaotic, these problems finally broke out.

After hearing the news, Stone, who was handling government affairs on behalf of Jacaerys, directly asked Rudy to lead the Unsullied Legion to take over the defense of the Golden Cloaks.

That night, Rudy led these Unsullied, who had no regard for their relatives and no physical impulses, to raid Silk Street and Flea Bottom.

The people of King's Landing seemed to remember the fear they felt when they were dominated by Daemon.

The next day, the bodies of robbers, thieves, and human traffickers were hung on top of seven city gates as a warning.

The public order in King's Landing suddenly improved, at least on the surface.

Afterwards, Stone used the method that Jacaerys taught him before he left and held the first auditions for the Girls' Day Ball in several satellite cities outside King's Landing.

The population pressure was immediately relieved a lot.

Moreover, the influx of a large number of people not only has disadvantages, but also has many advantages.

Because the food, clothing, housing and transportation of this large number of outsiders will greatly stimulate the economy of King's Landing and surrounding satellite cities.

In addition, the business tax was halved this year, so even nobles and commoners who did not participate in the Girls' Ball Festival rushed to buy and sell goods.

King's Landing, which was severely damaged by the Dance of the Blood Dragons, completely recovered after the Dorne War and the Girls' Ball.

However, the selection criteria announced for the Girls' Ball Festival auditions caused some minor controversy.

Since Western girls develop very early despite their young age, Jakaris had set the selection criteria himself, limiting the height to over 165 cm.

The candidates are also required to have fair and rosy skin, regular and three-dimensional facial features, and a good head-to-body ratio.

Although these conditions are high, a considerable number of people still meet them.

What caused controversy was the issue of virginity.

It is relatively simple for civilian girls who just work on weekdays. Whether they have experience in this area can be checked by professionals.

But it was different for aristocratic girls. Many of them were found to be no longer virgins after examination.

But they claimed that it was because they had been riding horses since they were young, and their noble father even swore on the spot in the name of the Seven Gods.

Stone was also quite troubled by this issue. After all, if it was not handled properly, it could cause big trouble.

In desperation, he could only ask Ella, who was obsessed with magic research, for help.

Because Jacaerys had specifically instructed Ella before leaving King's Landing, even though she was impatient, she still tried to help Stone solve the problem.

Of course, there is no such thing as some boring magic trick to detect virginity.

But Ella created a simple magic device that could determine the wearer's heartbeat, pulse, and breathing status based on air vibrations.

When it exceeds a certain level, it will emit a specific light, and its principle is similar to that of a lie detector.

Those noble girls naturally didn't know what a lie detector was, so they didn't prepare themselves mentally in advance.

Stone used this simple magic weapon to screen out nearly half of the noble daughters who wanted to get away with it.

A small number of noble daughters who were kicked out still refused to give in and wanted to continue making trouble.

Stone immediately said that their qualifications could be retained until His Majesty the King returned and he could personally inspect them.

Upon hearing this, these noble daughters were immediately overjoyed. They had never thought that they could get a meeting with His Majesty the King by making some noise.

However, Stone added at the end that deceiving the king is a capital crime, and his Majesty's dragon likes to eat unclean people the most.

These noble daughters were immediately fooled by him. After all, dragons have always been god-like in the eyes of ordinary people.

Maybe there really is such a magical ability, but they dare not gamble with their lives on it.

So they left the audition site in shame, and the virginity controversy was resolved by Stone.

Ok?
Just as Stone was about to return to the Prime Minister's Tower to handle other government affairs,
Suddenly, a group of beautiful exotic girls dressed extremely seductively entered the audition site with laughter and joy.

He ordered a follower to go and inquire, and it turned out that these were daughters of nobles from Pentos and Braavos.

They were daughters of either the governor of Pentos or the daughters of wealthy merchants of Braavos.

With Coleman's intelligence organization secretly reviewing their qualifications, it is difficult for these exotic girls to falsify their identities.

Without paying any more attention, Stone rode directly on the horse brought by his entourage and returned to the Prime Minister's Tower.

Among the group of exotic beauties, a sweet-looking girl was laughing and playing with her companions, but her eyes glanced at Stone's back as he left.

These exotic beauties were specially trained by their fathers and families as tools for marriage alliances, so they naturally passed the auditions easily.

Then, with her excellent conditions, she passed all the tests and successfully obtained the qualification to participate in the Girls' Dance Festival.

The sweet-looking girl secretly calculated the time, and late one night, she took out a glass bottle as thick as a thumb from the secret layer of her luggage.

And in that glass bottle, there were several black and gray spotted scales.

The beautiful girl stared at the glass bottle expressionlessly for a while, then she directly stuck one of the black-gray scales on the innermost side of her left thigh.

After doing all this, she slipped out of the room with the glass bottle and headed towards Flea Bottom.

A beautiful exotic girl was walking in the flea ditch late at night.

Even though the flea nest had been cleaned out by Rudy, her actions were tantamount to seeking death.

After a while, several fierce-looking men rushed out from the shadows and dragged her into the darkness.

After a series of screams, the exotic beautiful girl walked out of the darkness intact and returned to her residence.

Afterwards, the bruised and swollen men rubbed their backs, warned each other not to tell anyone about this embarrassing incident, and then left.

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After more than twenty days of rushing, the nobles of the River Bay, led by Sir Lorent, finally arrived at the Golden Tree City.

They met Jacaerys in the banquet hall of Golden Tree City, who was drinking fine wine and listening to the bard singing songs praising the king.

After the anxious Sir Laurent met the king, he immediately asked to start the terrace renovation work.

After all, it was the busy farming season, and many civilian laborers had been mobilized from the River Bay on Jacaerys' orders.

The sooner it is proven that Jacaris's terrace transformation is an absurd idea, the sooner those civilian laborers can start their busy farming work.

Jacaerys naturally knew what Sir Lorent meant, and he immediately led them to the stepped hill.

When they saw the stepped hills, Sir Lorent and other nobles from the River Bay were stunned.

Civilians from Jinshu City were seen busy at the steps, inserting transplanted wheat seedlings into the terraces covered with wood ash.

The yellow bamboo, a specialty of the river bend, is spliced ​​together one section at a time, with each bamboo section having basically the same thickness.

Starting from the huge water storage pit on the top of the mountain, a bamboo ditch is formed to transport water from top to bottom.

When the civilians of Jinshu City who operated the gates opened the sluice gates to release water, streams of clear water flowed along the bamboo pipes, transporting water from top to bottom to the terraces for irrigation.

The scene sparkles under the sunlight, like a beautiful painting with distinct layers.

Jacaris didn't need to say anything after that. Sir Laurent slapped himself in the face and knelt down to apologize for questioning His Majesty.

After flattering Jacaerys, the other Riverlands nobles rushed to apply for spots in the second batch of terrace renovation.

Jacaerys didn't even agree to Duke Jason's offer of 10,000 laborers and food supplies, so how could he agree to them so easily?

He directly refused on the grounds that the transformation of the terraced fields in Jinshu City had just begun.

What he said was indeed true, the stepped hill was just a face-slapping product that was quickly built using the power of a dragon.

It would certainly be impossible for him, as a king, to personally carry out the subsequent renovation of the terraces.

So during the time of waiting for Sir Lorent, Jacaerys had taught Earl Thaddeus the specific operations of the terrace transformation.

He planned to add the position of Minister of Agriculture to the Privy Council, and Earl Thaddeus would be the first Minister of Agriculture.

From then on, he was responsible for reclaiming terraced fields and building pumping and irrigation equipment.

The 10,000 civilian laborers who came to support from the western border were also assigned to his command.

As long as Count Thaddeus can follow suit and transform the remaining hills and slopes within the territory of Golden Tree City.

The other territories of the seven countries are similar.

As for Jacaerys, who was a hands-off boss, he naturally returned to King's Landing to attend his own Virgin... uh, Girls' Day Ball!

(End of this chapter)