Chapter 246: Emergencies
The militia from the Queen's Gate and Sable Hall soon arrived at Castle Black, and under the strong "maintenance of order" of more than 1,000 soldiers, the thousands of savages who were temporarily arranged outside Castle Black were forced to cooperate with the arrangement.
With almost every savage who has recently passed through the Great Wall lost a friend or relative to the ghoul attack, this unsympathetic and hostile behavior naturally makes them hold a grudge and curse bitterly...... However, the wildlings didn't have a good impression of the Night's Watch in the first place, and the added layer of frost wouldn't make Egger's plans any uncertain. In the current era of productivity, it is impossible for the upper management to satisfy the entire population...... The most reasonable way to concentrate on big things is to moderate the oppression of the people, but make sure that their emotional state remains below a certain red line.
In this regard, the land grant actually has a natural advantage, its ruling class, the Night's Watch Legion, is a military organization, the "military-civilian ratio" of the land grant is surprisingly high, and the new land donors are accustomed to living a hard life, this series of conditions makes the "red line" of the small society of the land grant much higher than anywhere else.
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Eventually, nearly 30,000 savages were completely settled in the land grant, one-third of them settled in the nine ruined fortresses that had not been reactivated by Mormont because they were too dilapidated, and were explicitly forbidden to build walls, one-third were arranged to live outside the walls around the ten forts that had already been activated, and were always under the supervision of the garrison, and the last third were arranged in the heart of the land grant, distributed in a huge area with the future crown town as the center.
The ordinary new land-givers were easy to deal with, but the most difficult thing was the hundreds of giants, although the giants were docile vegetarians like their mounts, but they were also quite difficult to deal with when they had temper attacks, and Iger specially set aside a place for them not far from Houguan Town, where there was water and grass, and they could easily feed mammoths.
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People have come in, and now all we have to do is think about how to manage them.
Egger's first project for the new landowners was to build roads.
If you want to get rich, you must first build roads, this is an unbreakable truth. Although the first thing to consider at the moment is not to get rich, the reason is that the transportation is not convenient enough, and everything is not discussed.
In terms of the current state of land grants, infrastructure is not an immediate matter, but what Iger is anxious to do is to give the new land grantees something to do, feed them in a proper name, so that they don't have the heart to plan any mess, and at the same time establish the concept of the importance of "money".
The new donor will be given a simple tool and will be led to the planned route by the relevant personnel, simply clearing the weeds, removing the rocks, digging the mud, and finally using the tools to shovel and tamp the ...... The pavement is required to be high above the surrounding wasteland to the extent that it is clearly visible to the naked eye, and wide enough for two horses to ride together. Under the conditions of land grants, which are vast and sparsely populated and difficult, this is quite a high requirement.
Although the work is hard, everyone who participates in the work can get a reward equivalent to dozens of yuan after the end of the day...... With the night watchman's supplies complete and sufficient, the power of money quickly began to show: it was difficult for the initial release workers to fill the staff, and it didn't take long for a large number of new donors to arrive early every day, waiting for the staff of the logistics department to release tasks and assign jobs.
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There was another bit of trouble at the Castle of the Night, as Branstark and the Reed siblings were stopped from trying to sneak across the Wall, and then they were left to live in the fortress and wait for the eventual Winterfell men to pick them up. Among them, except for Bran's important status and physical disability, so he was ordered by Commander Mormont to be watched, the freedom of the sisters and brothers Addo and Reed was not restricted...... Among them, when her sister Mela Ried was active around the Long Night Castle, she was harassed by the new land-givers who were arranged to live near the fortress and under the supervision and protection of the Flint clan, and was almost dragged away and raped.
The concept and custom of marriage among the Cypriot foreigners are quite strange, they believe that real men will snatch the opposite sex from afar to strengthen their clan, so men need to run to other tribal territories and "steal" women to reproduce for themselves. Apparently, the new landgivers who had run into trouble were trying to "steal" her to give birth to a child for themselves, taking Meraried, who appeared outside the Long Night Fort, for a Southern tribe.
This barbaric custom had long been strictly forbidden in the new laws of the Night's Watch, and only savages who agreed to obey the law were allowed to pass through the Wall...... But just a few days after letting them in, there were immediately new land donors who couldn't control the hanging. Meraried is not an important character compared to Branstark, but she is also a noblewoman, the daughter of Earl Holland Ried, one of the important vassals of Winterfell, and she must not be taken lightly if she is harmed on the territory of the Night's Watch.
Since Iger refused to go to the Night's Castle to deal with the matter, Commander Mormont decided to make a personal trip to capture and punish the new land-giveaways for the offense, while bringing Bran and Reed back to Castle Black, where they could wait for someone from Winterfell to pick them up.
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The plan to lure the new landgivers into accepting the Night's Watch was well underway, and about two weeks after the 30,000 savages had been completely released into the Wall, Iger issued a second major task besides road repairs: to recruit 1,000 new landdons, and then to send the logistics department's grain convoy south to the north to obtain winter food aid from the north for the land.
The salary package is twice as high as building a road.
Sooner than Iger had imagined, the new donors had come from far and wide to gather outside the walls of Houguan Town, camp on the spot, and wait for the grain convoy to officially depart.
In this war to assist the northern expulsion of the Iron People, of course, Iger does not count on all the barbarians who have just been transformed from the Cypriot Outsiders to fight, in addition to these thousand people, Iger will also recruit a thousand warriors of the mountain clan, these people are the real main force that Iger has high hopes for.
But just when the team was being assembled, equipment and supplies were also in place, and the second step of the land grant resettlement plan was about to be implemented, a sudden news came that caught Iger off guard: the commander-in-chief Jeo Mormon, who personally went to the Long Night Fort to deal with the kidnapping and rape of Mera, was actually besieged and attacked when he went to the new land-grant settlement to track down the offenders, and was hit in the head by a stone flying out of the mob, fainted on the spot, and was urgently brought back to the Long Night Fort after the rescue was ineffective, so he died in the hands of the Cypriots who were personally ordered to be put into the Great Wall! 2k reading web