More than 1,100 people from the Flint clan moved into the Long Night Castle, and due to the proximity of their original residence to the Great Wall, they quickly completed their settlement. This was followed by the eight hundred men of the Vort clan, and then the four hundred and so of the Norri clan...... Hundreds of clansmen rushed to the Great Wall as scheduled. Although it was agreed that one would be counted as a head, these clansmen were quite kind, basically based on the family unit, and the ratio of men, women, young and young was normal, and there was no situation where only the old, weak, sick and disabled were sent to support the elderly.

In order to ensure that the Night's Watch industry could afford it, Egg eventually gave up his wish to have all nineteen strongholds manned. Only seven forts along the Great Wall have been reactivated and inhabited by the clansmen, including the three originally stationed by the Night's Watch, making a total of ten forts, forming a complete defense.

In the first phase, Egger's land-grant resettlement program attracted nearly 4,000 clansmen, each of whom received three copper cents per day for living expenses. This price...... It is equivalent to giving less than six yuan a day to eat in modern society, and it is really the ultimate of 'only ensuring that no one starves to death', so that Iger only needs to pay tens of gold dragons per month for living expenses.

But the extremely low cost of living is matched by the same low price of goods and a "good" part-time job income that does not take into account the fact that there is no money to repair the fortress where you live, but you participate in the restoration of the lifting cages and wooden ladders above and below the Great Wall in each fortress, build the fence, assist in clearing the snow on the top of the Great Wall, Those who clear the roads are paid more than 10 copper cents per worker, and those who participate in patrolling and guarding on the top of the Great Wall are 30 copper cents, and those who follow the rangers to patrol and sweep the wild people who cross the wall in the land grant are directly a silver deer, and the danger of blocking the cross-country people along the Grand Canyon is the greatest, doubled.

All those who died in the war with the savages will receive a golden dragon pension.

A golden dragon is less than Tyrion's pocket money for a day's stay in the king's time, but for this golden dragon, the enthusiasm of the clan warriors to participate in the defense is surprisingly high, and it is even widely circulated that "if one person dies for the night watchman, the whole family will have no worries for life".

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The intensity of the wildlings' attacks continued to increase, and at Seal Bay, the smuggling rafts were completely unable to compete with the Night's Watch fleet supported by White Harbor and the warships sent by Stannis, but along the Great Wall, especially in the Grand Canyon area, the wildlings climbed and climbed at any cost, causing a lot of trouble for the defenders.

The physical advantage of the Great Wall was fully manifested in this defensive battle: the lowest point was more than 100 meters high, and it would take about ten minutes to climb even if you took the stairs, let alone climb with tools...... A few stones, a pot of arrows, can bring this climb to an end. The sheer height makes it impossible for a wild man to even leave a man to cover on the ground.

After the craftsmen led the clansmen and land-givers to clear the road at the top of the wall, and the rangers gradually resumed patrolling the top of the wall, the life of the wildlings became more and more difficult.

After thwarting a plot by the wildlings to drop their ropes and ladders to lead a large army up the wall from the top of the Great Wall, and several attempts to climb the wall without casualties, the wildlings' attempts to climb the wall were completely stopped. The raiding parties who had already crossed the Great Wall were still trying to harass and raid the fortresses, but they had no experience in attacking the city in the face of the widespread walls.

As for digging through the Great Wall...... Easier said than done, it would be impossible to complete a task when patrols resumed on the top of the Great Wall: once giants and mammoths gathered at the foot of the Great Wall somewhere, the patrol team would simply pull a few buckets of asphalt and light them and throw them down, and the "digging team" would be scattered in an instant.

In the face of the defenses built by burning money, the Grand Canyon became the last hope of the wildlings, but there were very few places for people to cross this natural danger, and most of them had already been figured out by the Rangers...... With thousands of people gathered to defend the Skull Bridge and patrol the Grand Canyon, the wild people had a population of 100,000, but there was nothing they could do to take the Great Wall. This must be uncomfortable.

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Whether it is a capitation living allowance or a salary based on work, the money given will eventually return to the hands of the logistics department in the form of consumption, relying on helping the clansmen master the method of "using money", the Great Wall and the land grant soon formed a closed, efficient and stable internal circulation. It is true that Iger is squeezing the use value of the clansmen, but the fact is that in the past, every winter, the old, weak, sick and disabled of the clansmen had to take the initiative to go into the mountains to die to save food and give their families hope for life...... Now that there are people who are raising them for the first time, dissatisfaction can hardly be raised.

In this small closed society, Egger actually only needs to invest money once, and he doesn't have to add it later...... What will sustain the operation of this small society, which cannot produce its own food, will be the grain that the logistics department will continue to transport from the north and even from the river.

If something goes wrong with this most critical part, then nothing will happen next.

When the night watchmen were guarding the line with the help of the clansmen stationed at the Great Wall, and even began to gradually sweep away the wildlings who had infiltrated the land, bad news came from the north, the ironmen's longship appeared on the west coast of the north, but instead of carrying out Stannis's order to "go north to assist the night watch", they burned and looted along the coast, and even broke through Carlin Bay and Shenlin Fort, taking advantage of the weakness, and now ...... The small northern part of the country is already full of pirates from the Iron Isles.

"Isn't Theon Greyjoy in the hands of the Starks?" was Egger's first reaction when he heard the news, "Who was stupid enough to put him back?"

"As far as I know, no. Clearly, Balon Greyjoy, who had crowned himself king of the Iron Islands with the Driftwood Crown, was ready to lose his last son. Mormont said with a solemn expression: "Instead of caring about this, I suggest you think about the logistics first...... We now have nearly 7,000 men in the winter storage of Nahei Castle, and if you keep supplies open, you can only last another month, and if your plans to get supplies from the north are ruined, then the savages will only need to hold out until winter falls, and you will be able to cross the Great Wall, where all the defenders are starved to death. ”

Egg nodded, this incident was not an accident, of course he remembered the plot of the Iron Islands' rebellion against the North, but now that the situation has changed so much, why is this plot still happening as usual, even at this most critical point in time?

"Understood, I'll go to Houguan Town today to confirm what the Lower North can provide to the Night's Watch right now, and then come back to discuss it. ”

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