Game of Thrones: Lord of the Deep - Chapter 224

c222 The more you earn, the more hope you have

Tyrion was stunned for a long time, then threw away his crossbow and ran towards his destination immediately.

At the Blackwater Bay dock, Varys was dressed in black, anxiously waiting for Tyrion.

As the saying goes, do your best and leave it to fate. He has designed everything, but this does not mean that everything will develop as he planned.

He is not sure whether Tyrion has the courage to kill the old lion Tywin.

Killing Tywin, the old lion, and letting Cersei take power is the most important step in the final plan.

If Tywin does not die, the Poseidon family in the North may not be the final winner.

Just as Varys was waiting anxiously, a short figure appeared and Tyrion ran over quickly.

At this time, Tyrion was sweating profusely and looked a little panicked.

Seeing this, Varys knew in his heart, “It seems that you have made a choice, we should go.”

“Wait.” After saying that, Tyrion looked around, as if looking for someone.

“Are you looking for someone? Have you told anyone about this?” Varys’s face changed slightly. At this moment, three bells rang from King’s Landing.

Varys’s face changed completely, and his voice was no longer as calm as before, but with some urgency.

“What are you looking for? We don’t have time. If we don’t leave, the dock will be blocked!”

And Tyrion finally found the sneaky figure of the dog at this time and ran over quickly.

“You are not suitable for disguise, fortunately you are not too far away from me!” Tyrion said to the person in front of him thankfully.

Tyrion was looking for Podrick.

He killed his father, the Prime Minister of the Seven Kingdoms, and the Duke of the West.

Now that King’s Landing has sounded the alarm, he doesn’t have much time to find Podrick.

Fortunately, this guy is not far away from him, and he keeps looking around, so Tyrion can find him in the crowd at a glance.

“What happened? Why did the alarm bell ring?” Podrick was very confused at this time. He was called to the dock in a daze, and the alarm bell rang again in King’s Landing.

“Something big happened, but we have to leave now. It will be too late if we don’t leave now. Go quickly.”

Tyrion did not choose to tell Podrick that he killed Tywin. Podrick followed Tyrion and boarded the ship that Varys had prepared long ago.

In the dark night, fires began to light up everywhere in King’s Landing, like a lighthouse leading the way in the darkness, and like a behemoth in the abyss that emits swaying light and chooses people to devour.

Tyrion stared blankly in the direction of King’s Landing, and Varys looked at Tyrion meaningfully with flickering eyes.

Only Podrick had a dull look and had no idea what was going on.

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The day after Tyrion left King’s Landing, the newly built northern provincial capital of Thror was basically finalized.

Facts have proved that as long as you provide food and cooperate with the work system that concerns personal interests, it is not difficult to build a city even without large equipment.

Poseidon witnessed that Jack really didn’t ask them to work 13 or 14 hours. They took the initiative to work overtime for copper coins.

If Jack hadn’t stopped them, they would have even wanted to work overtime for fifteen or sixteen hours.

This made Jack a little confused. Is the double hourly wage for overtime really that attractive?

If it were him, he would never choose to work overtime, because Jack’s salary for workers is very high. Even if he doesn’t work overtime, he can make a lot of money during the construction period.

In fact, the recruited workers don’t want to work overtime. No one wants to work overtime.

But Jack’s treatment is very high, double salary for overtime. As long as they earn a little more money now, they will have more hope of survival in the face of the long night that may come at any time.

Firewood, food, salt, winter clothes and bedding, all these require money.

So the people in the North are not stupid. Since Jack is willing to spend money to hire them, they naturally have to seize the opportunity to save more money.

And Jack lifted the restrictions on civilians cutting down trees. In the original North, all resources including trees in the forest belonged to the nobles and civilians were prohibited from obtaining them.

Jack specifically lifted this restriction for two and a half years. During these two and a half years, civilians were allowed to cut down forests throughout the North.

The implementation of this policy greatly promoted the development of blacksmith shops in the North.

Everyone has money in their hands, so they will naturally buy axes to cut down trees, and making charcoal also requires a lot of tools.

With the reasonable injection of external funds brought by Jack into the North, the economy of the entire North began to recover.

Of course, some people are happy and some are sad. Jack is happy, civilians are happy, and nobles are uncomfortable.

As vested interests, Jack’s various reforms undoubtedly violated their interests.

But Jack is different from other rulers. He has a group of neurotic administrative officials, the Unsullied who follow his orders, and the barbarians outside the Great Wall who follow him mindlessly.

This makes the nobles face many reform measures. Even if their interests are violated, they can only hold their noses and endure it.

To be honest, the reforms in the North only infringed on the interests of the nobles.

The wildlings outside the wall got the land they had always dreamed of.

The Unsullied and the administrators under Jack were slaves themselves.

The common people got land and a lot of job opportunities.

Only the nobles lost the right to forcibly recruit farmers and indirectly lost their military power, and were restricted by the newly issued laws and lost the power of life and death.

They haven’t rebelled yet simply because Jack doesn’t need them to help him manage the North, and he also has a strong military force.