Game of Thrones' opening sold the gods

Chapter 64 63. Letter from the Great Wall
Hearing Tyrion's words, Melisandre began to mutter incantations.

With a bang, flames shot out of Melisandre's hands out of thin air.

"F**k, what is this?" Tyrion asked aloud in surprise.

"Magic is recovering, and the speed is the highest in the past and present. There has never been a magic tide that has come so fast. The strength of the Night King will exceed any era in previous years."

Melisandre's tone was a bit heavy, this time the tide of magic is really weird.

It was more than a hundred times faster than any previous record, as if a certain valve had been broken through.

This is a very scary thing, even a pyromancer can start to control the fire with simple spells, then the night king's ice magic will reach a terrifying level.

As the envoy of the Lord of Light, Melisandre believes that she must prevent this from happening. She wants to help Theon unify Westeros before the long night, and then gather the strength of the whole continent to hold on to the Great Wall.

"I know magic exists. There are many mysterious warlocks in Essos, but, but you..." Tyrion couldn't find the words to describe it in his mind for a while.

In his impression, warlocks and sorcerers are a group of lunatics talking about gods and gods. All magic requires a long preparation of rituals and sacrifices.

Tyrion has never seen a situation where flames can appear out of thin air by chanting a spell like Melisandre, and there are even very few descriptions in the book.

At this time, Tyrion suddenly remembered what Theon said casually. At that time, Theon saw the letter of help sent by the Great Wall to King's Landing.

At that time, Theon said, "It's too early for that ghost to come over, just don't let Daenerys give away the head." At that time, no one cared about this sentence, and they all thought that Theon was joking.

But now it seems that Theon may have known some information about the ghosts at that time.

"Theon is not in the riverland right now. He is on Pyke Island. I will send someone to take you to Pyke Island, but before that, I need to give you an identity card."

"That kind of strange little card?" Melisandre asked curiously.

"That's right, when everyone is born, they will go to the local administrative office to handle it, so that the population can be recorded conveniently."

Then Tyrion arranged the fastest passenger ship to send Melisandre to Pyke Island.

At the same time, a letter was written, and the raven was sent to Pyke Island.

At this time, Theon was looking at a letter of appeal for help from the Great Wall of Desperation. There were only a few hundred night watchmen on the Great Wall, and food supplies were very scarce.

According to the survey of the rangers, one hundred thousand savages are approaching the Great Wall mightily, as if they are avoiding something terrible.

Based on the previous information, it is very likely that it is a different ghost, or it has been determined that the savages are avoiding the different ghosts.

"Andre, the conscription at the beginning of next year will increase by 1 people, to 3 people."

"Yes, Your Majesty." Andre replied. This year's river land tax revenue is about 400 million, of which the soap trade with Essos accounts for nearly half of the share.

Theon then came to a factory not far from Pike Island, which was obviously a newly built factory.

At this moment, several bachelors inside are staring intently at the big country in front of them, as if there is some peerless treasure inside.

"How?" Theon said abruptly, obviously startling several bachelors.

"Your Majesty, you are here!"

"You are right. Mixing plant ash and water at a ratio of 1:20 and then adding charcoal to filter can indeed remove most impurities. Judging from the current situation, the probability of producing fine salt is very high! "

Hearing the bachelor's words, a hint of surprise flashed in Xi En's eyes. The production process of fine salt is not very complicated. The difficult thing is that ordinary fine salt is something that only the royal family can manage.

But Sean has no worries in this regard, and only needs to keep it secret.

Just like the soap field, the workers of every soap field have never left the factory area at present, and even the family members are gathered together by Theon.

Xi En also suddenly remembered the method of making fine salt. He had forgotten this crop before, and lost a year of gold in vain.

Fortunately, it's not too late now, and Pike Island will not lack seawater to make coarse salt. If Sean made fine salt earlier and sold it to Essos, he would definitely earn several times more than soap.

After all, such things as fine salt are indispensable in every noble family, especially the slave owners of Essos, who are rich and enjoy it, and certainly don't mind buying the fine salt in Theon's hands at a high price.

"After the refined salt is finished, it will be stored in a glass bottle with a height of 5 centimeters and a diameter of 1 centimeters and then sold to Essos. As for the price, a bottle of [-] golden dragon is tentatively set."

Glass itself exists in the world of Quanyou, but the technology of making glass has always been in the hands of Xuecheng, and Xuecheng has also earned a lot of golden dragons by selling glass.

For Theon, the production of glass is not complicated, the only difficult part is making soda ash.

The manufacture of soda ash is somewhat complicated, which makes it impossible for Theon to manufacture cheek glass on a large scale, which is a pity.

Similarly, Westeros also has a method of making refined salt, but even the refined salt used by the royal family is slightly yellowed, and there is a certain gap compared to the pure white fine salt in front of Theon.

With only one filtration process, the refined salt produced varies widely.

The Engineering Bureau under Theon has produced a lot of useful things this year. Although it has produced a lot of waste, as long as there are inventions that can promote productivity, then Theon will be able to make a steady profit.

For example, the Gay loom can increase a woman's weaving speed by four times. If a family can have a loom, then just making cloth can catch up with the family's previous income.

Although Guy's textile machine is much worse than the famous "Jenny machine", as long as the prototype machine appears, it will be much easier to improve.

However, the research and development of the steam engine encountered great difficulties. There were only two craftsmen who were killed by the bombing.

There is no way to do this, the quality of the steel is too poor, and the sealing is not good at the same time, the energy transmission efficiency is very low.

Sean let alone let it push boats and trains, even let the steam engine developed now to push bicycles.

After visiting the research progress of refined salt, Theon returned to Pike Island with some excitement.

Now the Bureau of Industrial Technology has developed something based on Theon's memory, which has greatly improved the productivity of the Hejian Land, and the appearance of refined salt will make Theon earn a lot of money.

The increase in productivity means a surge in population. According to current statistics, the population of the Riverlands will reach 360 million by the end of this year.

According to Theon's estimate, the current limit of full-time soldiers that the Hejian Land can support is about 10.

Thanks to the productivity far exceeding the current society, the proportion of soldiers in the Riverlands has reached an astonishing 2.8%.

However, Theon will naturally not allow the development of Hejian Land to be overloaded. After all, judging from the current situation, the war seems to have to wait for a few years.

Theon still has time to develop. Currently, the disaster-resistant wheat has started to be cultivated on a large scale in the fertile fields around Castle Run. After waiting for two years, Theon will not have to worry about food in his position.

(End of this chapter)