More than ten days have passed since the riot in Oldtown, and with the joint efforts of Daenerys, the Oldtown Garrison, and the new team of Starry Sept monks, this ancient city, thousands of years old, has finally resumed normal production and life, and the streets have once again become bustling with people.
Since the Cuy family was suppressed, Oldtown's land transportation has fully recovered.
Land trade has also returned to normal, which timely resolved the soaring prices and material shortages caused by the riot.
However, among the grassroots people of Oldtown, many lives have undergone earth-shattering changes.
Those rioters who chose to follow Daenerys's subordinates to assault the Starry Sept plundered a lot of spoils from the Starry Sept, and their lives suddenly became prosperous.
And they received extra care from the Oldtown Garrison, using their wealth to start small businesses, subtly showing a trend of becoming a new wealthy class.
However, those rioters who chose to besiege the dragon not only became food for the dragon themselves, but their families also fell into even more difficult circumstances due to the loss of their main laborers.
However, both the Starry Sept and the rich people in Oldtown lost most of their wealth in the riot, and currently can only maintain their basic lives, with very few having the surplus to help those people.
And it was already the greatest mercy that the Oldtown Garrison, under Daenerys's control, did not trouble them; how could they offer assistance?
Therefore, a considerable number of new vagrants and beggars appeared on the streets of Oldtown for a time.
The population in Oldtown's slums also became more concentrated.
Fortunately, the trade activities at Old Town Wharf have also recovered some vitality, although the scale has shrunk by almost half compared to before, it at least allowed Oldtown to regain its former prosperity.
This provided many job opportunities for the poor.
However, these people, in front of the powerful Oldtown Garrison, could not stir up any trouble.
Because once they did anything illegal or disorderly, they would be severely punished by the Garrison.
In just over ten days, more than a hundred people had been arrested by the Garrison for petty offenses like petty theft, and their entire families were exiled to the Stepstones.
During the riot, many wealthy people were looted by rioters, and a large amount of wealth, land deeds, and house deeds were stolen by them.
However, none of these rioters were able to escape Oldtown, and in the end, all were captured by Daenerys's subordinates and brought to justice.
Excluding those killed on the spot, there were over five hundred arrested rioters.
And all of these people were packaged by Daenerys and sent to the Stepstones as laborers.
Daenerys's Holy Flame warships and two thousand troops had left Tarth Island some days ago, occupying an unnamed small island in the Stepstones and naming it Dreamfire Island.
Now there is a need for manpower to build defensive fortifications on the island, so Daenerys unhesitatingly dispatched this group of strong rioters.
During this time, Daenerys also took the time to lead the dragon to help them forge a lot of Dragonstone.
With Dragonstone, a high-quality stone material, and sufficient manpower, new wharves and fortresses were quickly erected on Dreamfire Island, and the prototype of a small town gradually took shape.
In fact, the Stepstones have very abundant rainfall, but because the islands there are not large and are mostly rocky, the vegetation is sparse and soil erosion is very serious.
Daenerys had them build several large reservoirs at the highest point of the island.
All laborers and warriors went out together and spent several days quarrying a lot of stone at the highest point of the small island.
With the help of the dragon, these stones were quickly transported to the wharf and the fortress construction site.
This greatly saved their construction time.
And Daenerys, riding the dragon, used Dragonflame to burn all the huge pits left by the stone quarrying into a glazed state.
After cooling, they formed natural reservoirs.
To ensure the quality of drinking water on the island, Daenerys also had artisans design several large aqueducts, with several layers of crushed stone and fine sand laid inside.
This way, the fresh water in the reservoir would become clean and hygienic after being filtered layer by layer.
After solving the drinking water problem on Dreamfire Island, Daenerys had artisans build several large wind-powered waterwheels by the sea.
The sea breeze in the Stepstones is very strong, and using waterwheels can easily divert seawater to Dreamfire Island.
Daenerys had the artisans take advantage of the situation and build a large salt pan near the waterwheels.
Edible salt in the Game of Thrones world is currently mainly well salt and mountain salt.
Only some coastal areas of Dorne, The Reach, and the Vale produce sea salt, but the production efficiency is extremely low.
Almost all rely on manual labor and fire purification methods.
Based on her memories from her previous life, Daenerys guided the artisans to gradually explore methods of brine purification.
This not only saved a lot of firewood but also produced higher quality sea salt.
Because the laborers exiled to Dreamfire Island were already indistinguishable from slaves in status, they directly became salt workers.
Although they lost their personal freedom, at least they could eat three full meals a day on Dreamfire Island.
And their living conditions also improved as the island's facilities were continuously improved.
This sudden appearance of armed forces immediately put the Three Daughters Kingdom and the pirates of the Stepstones, who were fighting fiercely near Bloodstone Island, on alert.
Dax sent people to explain to the other party that their occupation of Dreamfire Island was solely for exiling criminals from Oldtown who had made mistakes and would not participate in their conflict.
Neither the naval commanders of the Three Daughters Kingdom nor the pirates of the Stepstones fully believed this explanation, but seeing that this armed group indeed had no intention of interfering in their conflict, they soon relaxed their vigilance, but still sent people to monitor every move on Dreamfire Island.
Daenerys also obtained many land deeds for estates near Oldtown, as well as house and shop deeds in Oldtown, from the rioters.
Most of these she returned to the wealthy, and Daenerys did this not just to win popular support.
The main reason was that if Oldtown was to quickly recover its prosperity, these wealthy people played a crucial role.
After all, the tax collection rights in Oldtown are now in the hands of the Oldtown Garrison, and quickly activating Oldtown, this goose that lays golden eggs, is the top priority.
As for the property and industries of those wealthy people who were unfortunately annihilated by the rioters, they were all taken over by Daenerys.
She also used her privileges and conducted a series of exchanges with them when returning those wealthy people's land deeds and house deeds.
In this way, Daenerys consolidated all those scattered estates.
Now Daenerys has occupied five large estates around Oldtown, with a total area exceeding thirty square kilometers.
The number of shops in Oldtown has also reached over fifty.
With land, Daenerys naturally would not waste it.
She immediately taught the method of making farm manure to the estate managers and transported all the recent dragon droppings from Weirwood Square to the estates.
Samwell from White Sheep Town also sent the latest grain and fodder seeds, and by the next season, these estates under her control would be able to plant high-yield grain and fodder.
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