In fact, in recent years, with the fame of Holy Flame Island spreading, many refugees have yearned for this place. Especially after dragonflame wine became popular and Dragon Kiss Garden bloomed in major cities.
In the past few months, tens of thousands of refugees have arrived here, following merchant caravans.
Now, White Sheep Town has over 50,000 official residents, basically reaching a saturated state. Therefore, the town's economy has become increasingly prosperous.
Their rich and abundant life is a living signboard for Holy Flame Island.
So, Samwell and the others developed more than a dozen large manors in the hinterland of Holy Flame Island, arranging over 30,000 people there. Of course, all these people voluntarily became residents of Holy Flame Island.
And in the refugee settlement area near the Holy Flame Island arena, five or six tens of thousands of refugees have gathered.
However, because Holy Flame Fortress and Holy Flame Island's docks are under construction simultaneously, providing them with ample job opportunities, their lives are not bad.
Because Holy Flame Island's work not only offers generous pay but also provides abundant meals.
Therefore, many refugees from King's Landing came to Holy Flame Island immediately after being expelled.
Although the influx of a large number of refugees has also put great pressure on Holy Flame Island, Samwell and the others have already accepted Daenerys's philosophy, and they also believe that population is the greatest wealth.
Therefore, after strict screening, those who were willing to become residents of Holy Flame Island were directly arranged by Samwell to develop new manors.
Although the Long Night has descended and heavy snow falls every day, the temperature on Holy Flame Island does not seem to have been significantly affected.
Although crops have slowly stopped growing, the pasture is still growing well.
At this point, the total number of residents on Holy Flame Island finally exceeded 100,000, and all the arable land on Holy Flame Island has been fully developed.
However, the daily consumption of grain by such a large population is also enormous.
Previously, grain merchants from the Seven Kingdoms continuously transported grain and livestock to Holy Flame Island, so in addition to brewing wine and supplying grain to the island, Holy Flame also stored a large amount of reserve grain.
But now that the Long Night and Winter have arrived simultaneously, no more grain or livestock is being transported here.
And Holy Flame Island's grain reserves are only enough for the current population's consumption for over half a year.
The fleet sent out to purchase grain does not know when it will return, nor how much it will bring back.
And who knows how long this Long Night and Winter will last?!
Therefore, Holy Flame Island also had to reduce its daily meal supply, which should allow the island's grain reserves to last for about a year.
If the outbound purchasing fleet can bring back enough grain, it should be no problem to sustain for another two or three years.
Two months later, the entire Westeros was plunged into darkness.
Even Dorne was already snowing heavily.
But for some unknown reason, wherever there were dragons, even in the darkness, the sky revealed a faint light, closer to an overcast state.
This allowed crops in areas where dragons stayed, such as King's Landing, Dragonstone, and Oldtown, to continue to grow slowly.
As the leader of Oldtown's reserve team, Rogge, in conjunction with the new High Septon of the Starry Sept, has completely restored Oldtown's economy and life during this period.
Recently, he just finished organizing the harvest of a new season of grain, so Oldtown now has ample grain reserves.
Following the instructions left by Daenerys, he is now leading the people of Oldtown to excavate and organize the Black Stone Labyrinth beneath Oldtown.
The base of the Hightower is made entirely of black stone, and further down, there is a circular labyrinth.
There are several hypotheses about its origin.
Some scholars believe it may be connected to Loras's maze-builders, as there is also an exposed Black Stone Labyrinth of comparable scale there;
Others suggest that both the Hightower and the Seastone Chair may have been built by the Deep Ones, legendary creatures born from the interbreeding of sea creatures and humans, products of a previous civilization.
And it is precisely thanks to this Black Stone Labyrinth that the Hightower has never been breached.
A long time ago, the island where the Hightower is located was called the Island of a Hundred Battles, which was truly fitting.
And some also speculate that the Hightower Family obtained many precious ancient era documents from this Black Stone Labyrinth, which gave them the strength to support the Seven Gods Church and the Citadel, two organizations with profound influence on Westeros.
Previously, because Daenerys suddenly launched an attack, the Hightower Family had no time to make any effective response before she packed them up and took them back to King's Landing.
During this period, many people tried to infiltrate the Hightower, but they were all caught by Rogge.
Then he fed them to Simoros and several other dragons.
In these two months, more and more refugees also began to pour into Oldtown.
In order to get a meal, they were all conscripted by Rogge to dig in the underground Black Stone Labyrinth.
Therefore, the excavation progress greatly increased, and a small half has already been sorted out.
Many good things were indeed found from it, such as various gems, strangely shaped gold and silver artifacts, but most of them were armor and weapons.
Although most of them were somewhat damaged, and many were bronze armor and weapons engraved with strange runes, they clearly looked like ancient items.
As the excavation deepened, more and more bones were unearthed.
Judging from their skeletons, there were even Giants and Children of the Forest.
There were also many bones of various wild beasts.
The strangest were some bizarre skeletons of fish-headed human-bodied creatures, but these skeletons were almost rotted away, only vaguely showing their general shape.
Most importantly, Rogge was also lucky enough to find several large treasure vaults, filled with mountains of gold, silver, and jewels.
The dazzling brilliance almost blinded him; this was clearly a treasure left by the Hightower Family.
"It seems Princess Daenerys was right, this Hightower Family is truly unfathomable!
The value of the wealth in these few treasure vaults should be no less than several billion gold dragons, right?"
"They all say that the Lannister Family of the Westerlands is the richest in the Seven Kingdoms; I wonder what their mood will be after seeing these treasures? Hahahaha!"
After feasting his eyes, Rogge quickly ordered people to reseal the openings and sent dozens of Unsullied to guard outside.
And as the Long Night and Winter continued, malicious incidents became more frequent in King's Landing, Holy Flame Island, and Oldtown.
Daemon, Samwell, and Rogge all chose the same method of disposal, which was to package all these criminals and send them to Dreamfire Island in the Stepstones, because only there could a ray of sunlight still be seen.
After these few months of development, Dreamfire Island has already built a sizable town and port.
The salt pans have successfully harvested more than ten tons of refined sea salt.
Thanks to the reservoirs, the barren Dreamfire Island has now turned green.
The tidal flats around the island have been planted with mangroves and other seedlings, and the hillsides are covered with fruit trees and pastures.
The few flat lands on the island are now growing lush crops.
Who would have thought that the barren Stepstones could be transformed like this?
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