"I will come back after the wind season is over. I hope everything will be fine when I come back!"
"Don't worry, Duke, I guarantee that the castle will be safe and sound when you come back!"
Mercenary leader Barry Norton solemnly assured Linn.
Barry is a middle-aged man in his mid-thirties. At this age, his physical strength has begun to decline, but his rich experience and combat skills still allow him to be active on the front line. After working as a mercenary all his life, now there is an opportunity to change his destiny.
At present, he even hoped that someone would come to attack Storm's End Castle so that he could show off!
"Maester Perthwin!"
"grown ups!"
"I hope you can teach more children to learn Chinese characters and mathematics when you have time." Lynn said in a semi-command tone,
He hopes to cultivate some practical talents, and already has a crude plan in mind, which he will implement after returning from Essos!
"My lord, this is difficult!"
Although Paisiwen was very afraid of Lin En, he still mustered up the courage to say with difficulty,
How can noble knowledge be taught to people casually? It's okay if they are the children of nobles, but to teach it to some common people who can't afford to eat? It's not that he looks down on common people, but a bachelor has a lot to manage, and time is not used to waste like this.
of!
"Triple pay!"
Lynn said,
"Don't worry, sir. Despite the difficulties, I will still choose a few smart children to try."
"Very well, you go and do the work. I will set off one day before the windy season arrives."
Maester Paiswin and mercenary Barry heard the words and left.
After they left, Linn didn't notify anyone and came to the dock in disguise. There were very few ships at the dock at Storm's End at this time. He found a boat to Pandos on the other side and paid the price of two golden dragons to get a room.
Superior warehouse.
He didn't plan to take a boat directly to Slaver's Bay, as that would take too long.
He will use his own way to travel after landing. Disapparation is a good way to travel. He can already use it. Although it is uncomfortable and has many restrictions, it is still faster than riding a horse on land. If it weren't for
He has no sense of direction in the vast sea. Lin En doesn't even want to sit on the boat!
The merchant ship set off that day and arrived at Pandos five days later. Linn hired a guide as soon as he got off the ship, asked him in detail how to get to Slaver's Bay, and bought a map.
Apparition has strict requirements on the target. It must be a place that has been visited and it must be a very clear place. Lin En's eyes were blank on this place. Of course he was not familiar with it anywhere, but his eyesight was extraordinary, more than ten times that of ordinary people.
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His eyes locked on the target in a flash, and with a soft "pop" sound, he disappeared.
When he reappeared, he was already more than ten kilometers away. He re-determined the target and disappeared again. Just like this, along the road, Linn passed through many cities along the way. The target was clear, which was Astapor in Slaver's Bay.
Three days later, we arrived at the beach of Slaver's Bay,
He finally saw the golden statue of the harpy in Astapor.
The body of a woman, the wings of a bat, the legs of an eagle and the tail of a scorpion, with its claws holding shackles, and its whole body shining with gold, were placed on the wall of the harbor gate. From the sea, it could easily attract everyone's attention.
Powerful and highly discernible.
All the cities in Slaver's Bay are engaged in the slave trade. What really makes Astapor different from other slave cities is that they produce an extremely powerful type of soldiers.
The Unsullied!
Every Unsullied person will be castrated from an early age, and on the day of castration, the slave owner gives him a cute puppy. A year later, the Unsullied person must strangle the puppy to death with his own hands. If he can't bear to do it,
He would be slaughtered and his body fed to the puppy he couldn't bear to kill.
Every Unsullied must drink a drink that can make people lose consciousness three times a day until they completely lose their senses. They must also undergo inhumane training every day, such as running with a full load for a day, climbing a hundred-foot cliff with bare hands, etc.
, out of every five boys who were trained strictly, only one could survive this inhuman training.
They don't even have their own names, they have to draw lots from a wooden barrel every day, and the names written on the labels are their names that day, such as gray worm, black worm, red worm, small bench, etc.
On the day when the Unsullied's training is completed, the slave owner will give him a silver coin and ask him to go to the slave market to find a slave mother with a baby, kill the baby in front of the mother, and then leave the silver coin.
The silver coins are not compensation to the mother, but to the owner of the dead baby.
Under such cruel physical and mental training, every Unsullied person has completely lost his tools. They only know obedience, no desire, no fear, will not retreat if they fail, and will not massacre if they destroy the city!
Many people in past life forums call the Unsullied the most powerful infantry in Westeros.
Linn stepped into Astapor from the main door. As soon as he entered the door, there was a long punishment square. Slaves who made mistakes would be brought here by their masters to punish or execute them. The long passages on both sides of the place were full of slaves.
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Some of them are already dead and will be taken back and burned by the slave owners. Those who are not completely dead belong to the slave owners' personal property. What to do with them is the master's freedom. No one can rescue or help them.
Seeing this, he breathed a sigh of relief, "Fortunately, Mother Long hasn't come yet!"
You must know that after Dragon Mother came here, she abolished the slavery system here. She bought out all the Unsullied, including those who were still in training. She agreed to pay the money and deliver the goods, but she suddenly regretted it.
, not only did I not want to give the money, I even swallowed the goods!
Isn’t this an obvious robbery? Where is the business reputation?
And that's not all, she also ordered the release of all slaves and the execution of all slave owners over the age of twelve in the city!
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Lynn doesn't want to comment on whether this behavior is good or bad, but are all slave owners bad people? Are all slaves good people?
"It's so childish. I don't know if it's because I really sympathize with the slaves!"
She may have forgotten that all the cities in Slaver's Bay were conquered by Valyria riding dragons and then transformed into slave trading cities!
Linn entered the city center of Astapor after passing through Punishment Square. The roads here are paved with red bricks. The main buildings are the stepped pyramids. They are of different heights and are managed by city managers.
The residence, the tallest pyramid is four hundred feet high, is planted with trees, vines and flowers. From a distance, it looks majestic and beautiful.
Most of the free people in the city belong to the nobility. The women are all veiled, and the men wear toka robes, silk cloaks sewn with brass disks, sandals and linen pleated skirts.
He came all the way to Pride Square, which was an open slave trading market.
In the center of the square is a fountain made of red bricks, with a bronze statue of the Harpy of Astapor on it. After Linn arrived here, dressed as an aristocrat, he attracted the attention of several slave owners, and soon some people came up
He asked something in Valyrian.
Lin En couldn't understand, but it didn't matter. The slave owner was not surprised when he found out that he couldn't understand. There were people from all over the place who came here to buy slaves. After waving his hands, several female slaves in cool clothes came up and tried to use various methods.
For language inquiries, they are specially trained translation slaves. Of course, common language is not a problem.
Lin En's purpose was soon told to the slave owner, and he was very happy after learning that he was here to buy the Unsullied. Anyone who could afford to buy the Unsullied was a big buyer.
Because the Unsullied are only sold in batches and are expensive, every transaction is a huge profit.
