Chapter 0687: Maester Emon: Quiet Sunset
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The Great Wall of Desperation.
Drops of water flowed down the Great Wall, gathering small amounts into a lot, slowly forming a small stream of water.
The water glows in the sunlight, like flowing light.
Standing under the Great Wall, looking at the desperate Great Wall overhead, people have a sense of suffocating oppression.
The sight of snow melting water rarely occurs in autumn, usually in the hot summer months.
This kind of ice and snow on the surface of the Great Wall is called by the Great Wall people: the tears of the Great Wall.
The Great Wall shed tears, perhaps because of sadness, perhaps because of joy.
But the tears of the Great Wall in autumn often hint at a tragic killing or the loss of a great man.
Killing, maybe because of justice, maybe the opposite.
And the departure of a great person represents only sadness.
Sam Weir pushes his wheelchair down the avenue under the Great Wall. In a wheelchair sat Maester Aemon. Beside him, he was accompanied by two scholars from the Old Town Starry Sanctuary, who had come at the invitation of Maester Aemon to help Sam Weir translate and copy the ancient books in the underground stacks.
Many ancient books require specialized techniques for preservation.
The ancient texts about the ghosts are no longer legible, and the bachelor is restoring them through professional technology.
Sam pushes Ammon Aemon's wheelchair and walks slowly.
Maester Aemon's gaze was calm, and the two hands that grabbed the armrests of the wheelchair were wrapped in bone. His cheeks were sunken, his eyes were down, and he was already thin.
At the foot of the Great Wall, a newly built horse path can accommodate twelve horses running side by side. Each castle was renovated and housed in the Legion. This is the era of the most powerful military forces in 8,000 years. Historically, at its strongest, there were no troops to fill all 19 military castles, but this time, not only did each castle house legions, but also built a new spiral staircase up to the Great Wall, catapults, and attached towers to defend the main fortress: the left and right arrow towers!
In the 8,000 years since the Great Wall was built, it has been one of the most powerful Great Walls.
Such a powerful force did not come from the Seven Kingdoms, but from the Free People outside the Great Wall, and they were savages that the nobles looked down upon completely.
A group of four people slowly moved forward, and from time to time cavalry or infantry ran by. From time to time, scouts or general attendants ran by. From time to time, civilians crossed the avenue and ran into the woods beside the avenue.
From time to time, naughty children could be seen throwing stones at each other to attack each other, and the giggling laughter of little girls echoed in the ears of Master Aemon.
His blind eyes looked at the blue sunny sky, and his ears took in all the sounds along the way.
The target of the four of them is the largest castle in the Great Wall's military fortress: the Long Night Fort.
To get out of the Black Castle, you have to pass through the two military castles of the Queen's Gate and the Deep Lake Residence to reach the Long Night Castle.
Each day, the four of them walked only a part of the road.
They have been walking on the newly built Great Wall Avenue for several days.
There are military posts along the road, and the entire Great Wall is like a place with strong military strength.
But this was only the surface, and in fact the commoners and freedmen were free to enter and leave the castles. They traded or bought and sold ironware, salt, furs, grain, and animal meat.
Free trade in Donghaiwang has begun, and grain from the other side of the Narrow Sea has been brought in, and furs and live wolves, foxes, and monkeys have been brought over, as well as cheap oil for kerosene. Silk and cloth were brought in, and the finished clothes were sold.
The development of the Great Wall Aemon could not see, but his ears saw everything, and sometimes saw more than the discerning man could see.
On the 500-mile territory of the night watchman, small towns are being built everywhere, and several small towns are connected by roads to become cities. On both sides of the connecting road, freedmen were free to build their own huts.
There were only three tax collectors, but now there are three hundred. A new tax variety has been added to the former one-tenth property tax: the money tax. If you are unwilling to pay for the goods, you can directly pay the same value of gold dragon or silver deer. People are free to choose between a tax on goods and a tax on money.
There were also more and more people doing business, including merchants from Dorne, merchants from the other side of the Narrow Sea, cloth merchants, iron merchants, grain merchants, and big bosses who specialized in opening girls' dens.
Tens of thousands of freedmen were assigned to their respective districts according to the order of the registered lists, and built houses freely according to the general plan of the town. There are also those who are unwilling to build a house, and they are willing to live in the woods or under the wolf forest mountain range, provided that they are first registered in the name of the commissioner.
The two bachelors beside Sam Weir took out their books as they walked.
They tend to start reading when their feet are warm.
It was a rare time to relax, but Samwell Tully's mood was anything but lighthearted.
On the contrary, he was sad.
It's just that his sadness is hidden by his chubby appearance.
Everyone who walked past Samwell would smile and nod. He was a young maestro of great fame other than Maester Aemon, though he had not received any of the Bachelor's Necklaces from the Old Town Sanctuary.
There was an ominous premonition in Sam's mind.
Some time ago, as he learned more and more, he would learn more and more, and with the help of two scholars, there was less and less work left for Aemon.
This is also Sam's kindness to try to relieve the pressure of Ammon Eamon's work, but he later learns that he was wrong, and as the workload decreases, Aemon Eamon's health is getting worse and worse.
Eventually, when Sam came to his senses and re-worked for Maester Amon, he was stopped by Maester Ammon. Maester Aemon simply stopped all work and left everything to Sam.
This decision also caused Aemon's health to deteriorate day by day.
Sam and the two Fellows understood that time was running out for Bachelor Aemon.
Once his work is put down, his fighting spirit is also put down.
This is an old man who is almost one hundred and two years old, he could have been the king of the Targaryen dynasty for a certain time, but he did not want to fight with his family, and he did not want to see the rebellion caused by the Blackfire.
From their own point of view, everyone has the right to be the king, and for the sake of the Iron Throne, the Targaryen family fights in the same room, and their relatives kill each other. Faced with this situation, Aemonn Targaryen chose to quit, and in order to completely dispel the scruples of the new king, he chose to become a night watchman.
Now that the old man has let go of everything in this world, he wants to leave, he wants to rest. He dedicated his life to the Great Wall, and he stopped and left the silence to himself.
But he had one last wish, he wanted to go to the fort of the night, the largest military fortress, and he wanted to hear the sound of three hundred skilled blacksmiths forging Valyrian steel swords.
The Great Wall of Desperation is one of the Nine Wonders of the World, but the Valyrian Steel Sword is the only miracle in the history of weapons.