Chapter 392: Spices and Gold (2)
There are still a lot of gold coins left after paying the good master's share, and Yi Huan doesn't need much, after all, gold is a metal that doesn't mean much to him, thinking back to the two big boxes of gold coins left, Daenerys nodded.
Those gold coins need to contact the Chamber of Commerce to buy food, as well as necessary daily necessities and vegetables, and although the Unsullied do not need to pay salaries, maintenance is also a significant expense.
Picking up a cluster of spice powder, Daenerys put it in her mouth and tasted it, and Yi Huan saw that her pale face quickly turned flushed, because this was a pepper processing workshop.
The Unsullied continued to look around without squinting, but Barristan felt a bitter face, he had also tasted such things as chili peppers, and as an old man, he didn't like this kind of stimulation very much, but unfortunately he didn't carry a water bladder at this time.
Yi Huan took out a water bag from the shadow, and Daenerys took a big sip before she breathed a sigh of relief and said, "How can anyone like this spice and sell it for a high value." Her tone was not very good, obviously it was not lightly spicy.
Shrugging his shoulders, Yi Huan shoved the water bag back, "Chili peppers are one of the most delicious foods in the world, and without chili peppers there is a lot less deliciousness, and I remember that Westeros only produces table salt, which is miserable." ”
There is no shortage of food in the world of Ice and Fire, but people who can't even eat enough to eat during the perennial war have no heart to dig out new flavors, and there is no such profession as a food hunter here.
People are just struggling to find something to fill their stomachs, and in Westeros, the most common dry food is hard bread, which has been dried with equally hard jerky.
When it comes to seasonings, some of Dorne's pepper-like plants are the best spices, and most of the other places use fruit for flavoring, especially the sour grapes of the Riverlands.
"If you don't mind, I can cook you dinner, and you'll know why spices are so valuable, and my cooking skills are pretty good." Yi Huan said casually.
The dock behind the group rumbled with a new batch of spices, and the dock was packed with large piles of spice boxes, and countless small boats were used from the harbor to carry the goods to the merchant ships parked outside the harbor.
A large number of merchant ships were densely moored on the sea, and there were no less than dozens of them, which was probably the largest number of slave catchers owned by the good lords of Meereen.
The success of the first batch of spice transactions allowed all parties to see the way to money, and the spice trade was quickly launched, and the thorough development of the spice trade also made Daenerys and Yi Huan's alliance stronger, and Daenerys also relaxed a lot in her attitude towards Yi Huan, and even began to regard him as her own.
Daenerys is indeed a queen, and she also has the wariness and distrust that she should have as a king, but Yi Huan has not done anything out of the ordinary since she came to Meereen, even if Daenerys wants to unload the mill and kill the donkey, I am afraid it is not this time.
The deepening of the alliance between the two is not only reflected in the fact that the Unsullied began to help Yi Huan find the beast, but also in the discussion of Meereen's management, Daenerys often asks how to deal with some things about Meereen City, and Daenerys is good at learning, and she has always done a good job of this.
Yi Huan has no political experience on Earth, and his biggest position is librarian, hmm...... A librarian in the truest sense of the word, but that doesn't stop helping Daenerys rule Meereen, a medieval slave city-state with absolute power to suppress.
The relationship between the two has deepened from an alliance to a personal intimacy, and Daenerys doesn't care much about the many disrespectful words that often appear in Yi Huan, but this makes Winnie very dissatisfied, so as long as there is a place where Daenerys and Yi Huan coexist, she will appear, such as at this time.
"You've never cooked me dinner, and you often miss our dinner because of the truth." Winnie said sourly, although the words were as calm as Yi Huan, he could still hear the dissatisfaction in it.
"Just kidding." Yi Huan said helplessly, "Who do you think cooked for you when you were a child?" He smiled, "Before the house-raising elves landed on the island, I took care of you for eight years." ”
Yi Huan knew that Winnie was making trouble unreasonably, but the relationship between the two was not a simple couple, and more than ten years of life had made an unbreakable rope between the two, a special connection.
"What is a house-elf?" Daenerys interrupts the two of them, and after getting acquainted with Yi Huan, she begins to be curious about the wizard's existence.
After all, Yi Huan is not a strange-looking wizard like Essos, and he is also very powerful, Daenerys is curious about all aspects of magic, and likes to get to the bottom of it.
Yi Huan had a deep understanding of Daenerys' character as a good person, but before he could stop it, Winnie had already taken the lead in speaking, "House-elves are magical creatures that can help wizards organize their household chores and perform magical practices, and they have good cooking skills, such as taking care of farmland, gardens, and even manors. ”
After saying that, she glared at Daenerys defiantly, obviously not thinking that she could understand much, Yi Huan stroked her forehead, Winnie actually underestimated Daenerys's cleverness, she was a very good student, and after coming into contact with Yi Huan for a short time, she knew a lot of common sense in magic.
Sure enough, Daenerys' brow furrowed, "This is a slave creature?" ”
Yi Huan rubbed his head, you are Daenerys Targaryen and not Hermione Targaryen, he didn't think it was funny at all that there was a house-elf welfare association in Meereen.
Fortunately, although Daenerys is a good person in character, she is not so bad that she can't tell the urgency of the situation, "Meereen doesn't need this kind of creature to appear. She just said it softly, and then didn't mention it more, obviously she chose an ostrich attitude about what she couldn't touch.
Walking out of the spice factory, seemingly eager to change the subject, Daenerys looked at the harbor and asked, "Do you think our wealth is enough to buy ships?" ”
Glancing at Daenerys, Yi Huan shook his head, "If you want to get rid of the good master, you don't need to worry, you need time to train your own Meereen managers, this is the main thing, the merchant ship can be captured at any time." ”
"And if you're going to attack Westeros, you're probably going to have to wait a little longer."
Facing Daenerys' puzzled gaze, Yi Huan said, "Now that Meereen's rule is gradually on the right track, then attacking Westeros is not a distant matter, but it is not a simple matter, it is not as simple as you can put your army in the cabin and cross the ocean. ”
"Westeros has its own warships, they patrol the coastline and launch attacks on ships that try to invade, after all, this is how the Targaryens themselves invaded Westeros, and warships have always been an important defense for Westeros."
"And the winds and waves that ships encounter at sea are unpredictable, these things are far from being able to be provided by a few merchant ships, we need our own warships, not the fleets of trade city-states, nor those rags in the hands of pirates, but warships of our own construction."
"It's not easy to build a battleship, I won't, you need shipbuilders from other city-states, and you also need materials to build it, it's a more distant thing than the army, so don't worry, you need to do it slowly." R1152