The next day, after Daenerys personally walked through White Cloud City, she began to regret killing all the lambs too early.
The resources here were so abundant that they could live here forever.
Almost every street and every large courtyard had at least one well, and the water in the wells had not dried up.
It made sense, as Daenerys' water-collecting team could draw water from soil pits one or two meters deep, so stone wells more than ten meters deep would naturally be full of water.
And in the courtyards, between the stone slabs, clumps of devilgrass grew, enough for horses and lambs to breed.It's a pity all the lambs were slaughtered.
Horses are not very good livestock for consumption; killing them for meat is not cost-effective.
After a general tour of the entire city, Daenerys immediately began a large-scale construction project.
The old woman was responsible for clearing weeds in the orchard and collecting fruits for Khal's daily needs.
The strong women, led by Ser Jorah, were organizing the abandoned palace.
The palace had enough houses for all the Dothraki to live in.
The old men were responsible for feeding the horses and repairing saddles, bridles, stirrups, and horseshoes.Daenerys personally led the bloodriders and Dothraki warriors to tear down the low houses in the city's slums, using the excess bricks and stones to repair the palace. The cleared ground had its stone foundations removed, and the exposed soil was plowed by warhorses.
Then, Daenerys led the khalasar to collect large amounts of firewood and weeds from outside the city, which they spread on the freshly turned soil, and set ablaze for a day and a night.
After that, they plowed the land a second time, mixing the ashes and soil evenly, and then sowed the selected large grains of wheat into the earth.Well, in this world where summer lasts for over a decade consecutively, there's no such thing as spring sowing and autumn harvesting. If you really had to wait for autumn harvest after a spring sowing, with over a decade of summer in between, humanity would have starved to death long ago.
As long as the land is empty and it's not winter, you can plant any crop at any time.
There's no such thing as peaches in spring or pears in autumn either.
Fruits that only appear in different seasons on Earth can be seen here simultaneously, with different fruit trees laden with fruit on their branches.
Turnips are also one of the staple foods of this world, and Dany's carts have always carried them.At this time, the shriveled turnips are cut into pieces, first sprouted under damp cloths, and then taken out and planted separately.
Besides turnips and barley, which had always been their staple food, they also found beets, onions, garlic, blackberries, mint, and peppers in the White Cloud City garden.
The inedible flowers and plants in the garden were pulled out and fed to the horses, and all the empty spaces were planted with grain.
The children were not idle either; they wandered through the winding and intricate alleyways, moving between the windowsills of houses, searching for ancient bronzes, rusty iron pots, and weapons.In the khalasar were old men who knew the blacksmith's craft, former slaves of Drogo, abandoned by the new khals like Bono and Jhaqo because they were too old to lift a hammer.
Daenerys selected four of the least skilled Dothraki warriors and reassigned them to be blacksmiths.
"We are great horse warriors, born to kill and be killed, not to do the work of slaves."
The Dothraki protested loudly, their faces flushed as if they had suffered a great humiliation.
Daenerys wanted to mock them: Without killing, you will only be killed.With skills like yours, what good are you except to help others practice their swordsmanship?
"Who says a blacksmith can't kill?" Daenerys said sternly, launching into righteous nonsense. "Do you know who I am? The Stormborn Princess of Dragonstone, I was once the daughter of the King of the Sunset Continent, my brother Rhaegar was no weaker than any Khal besides Drogo, but he died at the hands of the usurper.
That Robert Baratheon, he killed my brother and seized the throne that belonged to my father and my brothers, he was almost as powerful as the great Khal Drogo."The four Dothraki listened in a daze. Of course, they knew their Khaleesi's background, knew she was the last princess, which was why Drogo had been willing to marry her.
"Khaleesi, I don't understand," one of the Dothraki said timidly.
"Alas, that usurper, Robert Baratheon, a man as strong as Drogo..." Daenerys looked up at the sky at a forty-five-degree angle and said in a melancholy voice, "He's just a blacksmith!"
"Cough, cough cough..." Ser Jorah choked on his own saliva."I just want to tell you all that even if you learn the craft of blacksmithing, you can still become a great warrior," Daenerys concluded.
"But that usurper, the Khal of the Sunset Lands, was he really a blacksmith?" a horseman questioned doubtfully.
Daenerys's expression turned stern, and she looked at Jorah, asking, "Ser, in the name of the Seven Gods and the Old Gods, tell them, what weapon did the usurper use?"
"A warhammer," the Great Bear said dryly.
"Did you hear that?" Daenerys's sharp gaze swept over the horsemen. "Think for yourselves, can a warhammer to the head kill a person?""The Usurper crushed your brother's chest. The ruby-encrusted red dragon on his breastplate was shattered, the rubies scattered on the riverbank, and later people called the place where Prince Rhaegar was defeated 'Ruby Ford'," Ser Jorah added with difficulty.
"You've all seen Ser Jorah's armor, the arakh blades can't even scratch it, but the red dragon armor, which was even harder, was smashed by a hammer." Daenerys shrugged, looked around at the stunned faces of the horse lords, and answered her own question: "What does that tell you? It tells you that blacksmiths have a great future!"
"Now, are you willing to learn from the blacksmith master?" she asked finally."I do, Khaleesi, and I will be a blacksmith too," her bloodrider, Jhogo, said excitedly.
Daenerys looked at him.
Soon, four blacksmith apprentices, under the guidance of their master, began to melt down and reshape the collected items.
Before long, the Dothraki children found a batch of scrolls in a stone house, and Daenerys rushed over, very pleased.
But she was disappointed to find that the long passage of time had changed the texture of the scrolls; except for the first page on the surface, the rest were stuck together, and would immediately crumble into powder if touched with force.However, she did have one significant gain: in that stone house that seemed to be a library, she discovered a roll of maps.
The writing and patterns on it were already blurred, and the parchment was almost decayed, but Dany was still able to discern her current location.
Well, the center of the map was White Cloud City.
To the west were continuous mountain ranges, and further west of the mountains, three cities were marked. Dany translated the name of one city, written in Old Valyrian: "Meereen."
To the east were also continuous mountain ranges, and beyond the mountains to the east was the sea.The most valuable information is the geographical data south of White Cloud City. Due south is the ocean, but without a standard scale, the exact distance cannot be determined.
We can only estimate based on the distance between White Cloud City and the Laza River, with White Cloud City being roughly in the center between the Laza River and the southern ocean.
Danni and her group traveled for five days, covering approximately 500 to 600 kilometers, but they didn't travel in a straight line, and their starting point wasn't the Laza River.
It's estimated that another 600 kilometers south will definitely reach the coast.
This is good news.
The second piece of good news is that there are two more cities within 100 kilometers southwest of White Cloud City.Like White Cloud City, it's a city located in the Red Waste.
It should have become a dead zone over time, just like White Cloud City. Because as Dany had thought before, the map marked that there used to be a river running from the Lhazar river basin all the way through White Cloud City and the other two cities. Now the river has completely disappeared.
So, Dany has two more new "farmlands"?
She regretted for the second time that she had slaughtered all the lambs too early, otherwise she could have used White Cloud City as farmland and developed the other two cities into pastures, which would have been perfect!
As it turned out, she was overthinking it.The next day, the knights sent out according to Daenerys's specified locations indeed found the second and third white cities.
Yes, like White Cloud City, white walls, white towers, white buildings. Except for being smaller in scale than White Cloud City, there was almost no difference.
But Jorah, who led the team to search for the cities, told her: "Khaleesi, the closest city is too strange. A circle of iron spears with red rust are stuck outside the city walls, and skulls are hanging on the spear tips.
When the breeze blows, I can hear them laughing 'hahaha,' it's the devil's sneer, I dare not go in."Daenerys was speechless for a moment. You know there's wind blowing!
And the devil's sneer. If there were devils, they would laugh mockingly at you centaurs for being so timid.
Seeming to notice Daenerys' displeasure, Jhogo quickly pulled out a dark, gleaming iron bracelet from his pocket, with a thumb-sized, fiery red opal embedded in the center.
The opal was fiery red and translucent, naturally formed and uncarved.
"Khaleesi, look, I found it in the second white city."
"It's just an opal, it's worthless," Daenerys said, shaking her head.
"How can it be worthless?"Jorah took the bracelet from Jogo, a puzzled expression on his face, and said with a familiar tone, "This opal is fiery red and translucent, completely natural, unworked, and quite large. It's worth at least 5 gold coins in the Free Cities. If you take the gem off and give it to a skilled silversmith to set it in a filigree bracelet, the price could double."
As he spoke, the knight's tone became wistful, and his rugged, bearded face was gradually tinged with a mixture of sweet and painful memories.
"How is it that you, a big man, are so familiar with women's jewelry?" Daenerys asked, deliberately guiding him, wanting to learn his story.Jorah looked around at the horse-men staring at him with curiosity, hesitating to speak.
Daenerys turned to her bloodriders, "Rakharo, Aggo, each of you select three elite warriors, two old men skilled with horses, two women skilled at gathering food, three horses each, and carry sufficient food and water.
First, go to the third white city to the southwest, use it as a base, and search in the south, southwest, and southeast directions for a day's ride.
There are three search targets: ruined towns, animals, and any possible humans."Remember, your safety is paramount. If you encounter animals you don't recognize, don't try to hunt them. Just note their appearance and location.
If you encounter people..."
"Can we try to make contact?" she asked Jorah, the old driver.
Jorah pondered for a moment, "Go in pairs. One person goes to communicate, and the other returns to report."
Daenerys nodded and said to the Dothraki, "Do it that way."
Then she said to Jhogo, who had just returned from the Third White City, "Blood of my blood, although this place has always been uninhabited, since we can come here, others may also intrude."I want you to lead two squads of ten men each to repair the city gate.
We lack stiff, heavy timber, so don't rebuild the wooden doors. You can pile stones in the gate opening, leaving only enough width for a single carriage to pass through, and then..."
"And then build a small barbican behind the city gate."
However, the horselords don't understand what a barbican is, and Dany said that Jorah wouldn't be able to build one either.
"Let's just do this for now."
After the bloodriders left with the horselords, Jorah hesitated and said, "Princess, what are your plans for the future? Are you going to live here forever?"
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