Game of Thrones: Lord of the Deep

Chapter 201 Shocked, the Lannisters actually.

Under Jack's drastic reforms, the economy of the North recovered rapidly, and with the stability of society, the power of the nobles in the North was greatly weakened.

Although Jack did not abolish the military and political power of the nobles, he ordered that no nobles except the Sea King had the power to force civilians to join the army.

With the issuance of this decree, combined with the prosecutorial agency established by Jack, the North has already stepped half a foot into the centralized society.

At the same time, Jack also recruited a large number of literate people. No matter what class you are, as long as you can read, you can join the Temple of Poseidon and become a missionary.

The missionaries are not only equipped with two horses and two servants, but also have a subsidy of 30 silver coins per month.

The missionary's task is very simple. Go to collect the Ocean Daily once a week, and then go to the area you are responsible for to recite continuously this week.

The establishment of missionaries made the northern nobles' back teeth broken.

Not only did this group of unruly people know about the big things happening in the North and even in the Seven Kingdoms, Jack also often popularized the new laws implemented in the North for them.

For a while, the farmers who were very easy to deceive began to become shrewd.

However, sometimes the nobles in the North couldn't help but secretly buy a newspaper to read for themselves.

Because the headlines in the newspaper were too attractive!

The Ocean Daily was divided into eight sections. The first four sections were about what happened in the North, the next three sections were about news from the South, and the last section was some jokes and serialized long stories.

Whenever they saw the headlines of the eight sections in the newspaper, these nobles couldn't help but buy a copy to read.

These titles include but are not limited to:

"Shocked, the unspeakable secrets of the Stark family."

"Shocked, Accurate Targaryen and Lyanna Stark actually did this!"

"Shocked, Countess xxx actually went to meet her nephew at night!"

"Shocked, a young couple actually earned 200 gold royals a month!"

"The unspoken story between the Lannister brothers and sisters, is it a distortion of human nature or a decline in morality!"

Not only these exaggerated titles, but also some more normal and popular and guiding titles, such as:

"Why does water always flow to the lower place?"

"Is there a tool that can make weaving more than ten times faster?"

There are still many talented people in the folk. Jack posted these mainly to see if he could stimulate the emergence of some practical technologies.

In addition to these, the stories serialized in the last section are also very attractive.

Now countless noble grandfathers have begun to imagine the plot that Baron Xiao Huohuo will come to Earl Yunlan's house three years later to show his saintly face.

There are also some smart nobles, such as Wyman Manderly, who have discovered that Jack is weakening them.

But they had no way out.

There was no chance to attract foreign aid.

Strategic locations such as the Bay of Cailin and White Harbor were in Jack's hands, and external reinforcements could not enter at all.

There was even less chance of an internal joint uprising.

A large number of new noble forces were promoted in the North. They all climbed up from the bottom or the wildlings and were loyal to Jack.

And the civilians in the North have begun to support Jack and believe in the god of the sea from Atlantis.

Therefore, they could only watch anxiously, especially the nobles who swore allegiance to Jack because of Stark at the beginning. They were the most helpless.

Although Jack raised the title of each of their families by two levels and also awarded a large amount of land.

But Jack's reforms greatly restricted their power.

However, they were helpless, but they were actually very satisfied with the present.

The territory has expanded tenfold, and the title has changed from baron to earl, and viscount to marquis.

It can be said that the family has gained unprecedented glory.

Reclamation and farming, road repair, and provincial capital construction, the North is undergoing tremendous changes every day. Of course, the amount of money consumed every day is also astronomical.

The North is cold and sparsely populated, and is not suitable for farming and grazing, but it is very suitable for factory construction and is an excellent industrial park.

However, there is no heavy industrial capacity yet. Even the Sea King Island has just begun to study steam engines, and there is still a long way to go before the steam revolution.

But this does not prevent the establishment of soap factories, breweries, and steel mills.

Especially soap and Poseidon Brew, two special products of Atlantis, are currently only circulated in Essos. If a factory is built in Westeros, it must be very profitable.

As for whether the goods will be banned by the Iron Throne, Jack is not very worried.

Just like Jack can now buy food in the River Bay, Dorne, the Valley, and the Riverlands, merchants are profit-seeking. As long as the profit is enough, they dare to take any risk.

What's more, the Iron Throne currently only has actual control over the Westerly, Stormland, and the King's Territory.

Like the Reach, with abundant food and a population of more than 12 million, they only superficially submit to the orders of the Iron Throne.

But in fact, they don't care who the other party is. As long as they are paid, they will sell what they should sell.

In this case, consumables such as soap and wine are enough to attract a large number of merchants to resell and make money.

In fact, there are breweries and soap factories in Westeros now, and there are in Dorne.

But the scale is not large, just enough for the nobles in Dorne to digest.

Jack has always maintained this scale that is just enough for internal digestion, and has repeatedly rejected Prince Doran's request to expand the scale.

While controlling the scale of the soap factory and brewery, Jack also set up blacksmith shops, tailor shops, stonemason shops, carpenter shops, etc.

In addition, Jack spent a huge amount of money to buy a large amount of land to grow wheat.

The grain seeds were all transported from the No. 1 grain seed cultivation base in the Sea King City.

In addition, the professionals with planting certificates sent to fertilize, weed and water reasonably, and the local wheat yield per mu was much higher.

In a short period of time, Atlantis did increase taxes in various parts of Dorne a lot.

But Prince Doran was not happy, he always felt that something was wrong.

Because the shops opened in Atlantis were too strange.

When recruiting workers, the treatment given to workers was too generous, and the price of the goods sold was greatly reduced on the basis of ensuring quality.

It can be said that these shops basically make no money after paying taxes. Isn’t this a contribution to Dorne in vain?

Prince Doran felt that Jack Poseidon was not the kind of person who worked hard but didn’t get any benefits. He definitely overlooked something!

But for a moment he didn't know what he had overlooked.

Just as Prince Doran was thinking hard, a sand snake suddenly came to report.

It turned out that Tyrion Lannister, who had been imprisoned for several months, this dwarf who was both a regicide and a parricide, would be tried at the end of this month.

And Prince Oberyn would serve as a legal advisor, participating in this trial with Tywin Lannister and the Lord Chancellor.

"Oh, incest, regicide, parricide, this is the retribution of the Lannister family!" Doran's face flashed a trace of joy for the first time in a long time.