Aitch has captured Astapor, and the next step is to start governing Astapor.Unlike in the original TV series, Daenerys never regarded Essos as her home, which led to her lack of patience to govern the base (not to mention the political level of Daenerys in the original book...... ）。
In the original book, Daenerys chose three people to form a council in Astapor to govern the city, but a butcher seized power, killed the council members, and after failing to propose to Daenerys, he turned against Daenerys, and the city was completely unhelpful.Aiqi is different, this city is a real territory, and Aiqi will never give up here.According to Edge's line of thinking, to engage in politics, it is necessary to "win over the majority and crack down on a small handful."
In the current situation, the "majority" that Aitch wants to unite with is a large number of slaves and ordinary civilians.The "handful" to be fought against are the slave owners.But the degree of co-optation and attack must be well controlled.Aitch never believed that strong repression was the best way to go, and the results of tyrants were not very good, both in China and abroad.The monarch must be tough, but he must have enough strength and a sufficient mass base, just like Emperor Wu of the Han Dynasty and Taizong of the Tang Dynasty.Blindly being tough will only make a mess of rebellions in all directions like King Su and Emperor Yang of Sui.First of all, in terms of fighting slave owners, Aitch can actually wipe out the slave owners, not only to solve these people once and for all, but also to get money from their family property.But the disadvantages of this are very obvious, and if they encounter other slave cities in the future, the slave owners will exhaust their wealth and throw themselves into the camp against Edge, after all, it is better to resist both horizontally and vertically.Aitch firmly believes that the best way to destroy an enemy is to turn him into a friend.So Aitch intends to give them a chance to become friends while suppressing them, but if they can't wake up, Aitch will definitely destroy all enemies with a thunderbolt.Immediately after Aitch took control of the city, he declared all slave trade illegal, and all slaves were freed.But as compensation, according to the number of slaves, each slave owner received a certain share of the goods that Aitch had franchised (the prices of the goods were all Aitch and Pamoding, and the cost was ridiculously low in the modern plane).In the city, as well as in all the groups that traded in the slave trade, Aitch provided the right to buy goods, helping them to switch from the slave trade to the trade of other goods (for Aitch, it was equally profitable to sell things to anyone).In this way, these groups whose original interests have been damaged will have the opportunity to bind their interests to Edge, and then everyone will be wise not to mention the previous loss.In order for these trade groups to successfully pass through the transition phase, Aichi also worked with the Iron Bank to provide loan business, which can not only make money but also gain a wave of gratitude.In the original book, the Iron Bank has a lot of criticism about Daenerys, because many groups in the slave trade have debts with the Iron Bank, and Daenerys's destruction of the slave trade also destroys the interests of the Iron Bank.Aitch doesn't mind giving the profits to the Iron Bank, and he also wants to have one more financial partner and one less rich enemy.After compensating the slave owners and slave trade groups, if there is still an unsightly resistance, don't blame Aitch for being black.Edge, who was mixed out of the Thieves' Guild and subdued the Dark Brotherhood, has a good group of intelligence officers, plus a large number of wiretaps, monitors and other advanced equipment that medieval people did not know from the Blood Plane, Edge's ability to crack the conspiracy is not ordinary, and when the time comes, let them see Edge's methods.The second thing is to win over the common people and slaves.The slaves had just been given their freedom, and they were still immersed in joy, and they were grateful to Daenerys and Edge.But these are not enough.In the TV series, because of Daenerys' governance problems, many slave placement work has not been solved, a large number of people have become unemployed vagrants, the strong are idle, the old and weak are starving, and many people ask Daenerys to sell themselves to slave owners again to get a stable life.Many civilians felt that their old way of life had been broken, and many of them secretly joined opposition groups and began to assassinate the Unsullied who had taken refuge in Daenerys.Since Aitch knew about these possible problems, he would naturally make arrangements for them in time.When it comes to the placement of slaves, all the Unsullied voluntarily swear allegiance to Daenerys and Edge, and it is unclear whether they followed Aitch out of gratitude or servility.By the way, in the hearts of the Unsullied, Daenerys ranks higher than Edge, because it was Daenerys who took the whip and said the declaration of "killing the master" that day, so in the hearts of the Unsullied, Daenerys is more affectionate, which is also the effect created by Archie, strengthening Daenerys's right to speak.Aitch and Pammer worked together to build a large number of tin houses in the city's open space, which were portable and portable tin houses for the temporary accommodation of workers on the construction site, and rented them out to all the slaves.Aitch emphasized that it was a lease, because Aitch knew the truth of "promoting Mien, fighting Mi hate", so Aitch would not give them the opportunity to get something for nothing, and only promised to pay rent for the first two months, and then start to pay rent, and only live for two years at most, just to let these people quickly turn from slaves to self-reliant citizens.As for ways to make them self-reliant, Aitch also offers many avenues.Edge's people registered all the slaves, using electronic files, anyway, the general office computers in the modern plane are not expensive, and Edge's bought a large number of them for office.On a voluntary basis, Aitch offers a wide variety of jobs.All literate slaves (many of whom were trained as governesses and clerks) could participate in the compulsory primary school organized by Edge.Aitch arranged for Professor Straggy to preside over the education.The old professor had a period of time after killing the Blood Ancestor, but he immediately devoted himself to the education work, wanting to make a little contribution while he was alive.Only by continuously cultivating talents can Aitch itself cope with the rapid development.The first step for Aitch was to build a primary school.Edge, who has cement and modern construction machinery, wants to build a school is not easy to capture, educated slaves are hired to be teachers, all children are obliged to learn, Itch is willing to invest money, and there is no charge, if the parents of the children do not come, they will be arrested and sent to labor camp, so the school-age children in the city are involved in the school.There are some slaves who are not only educated, but also more clever, after the assessment, Aitch will also recruit into the administrative grass-roots personnel, which is also open to all residents, with the expansion of power, Aitch's need for more and more management personnel, this time just to replenish a wave, not enough to train in the future.All those who have a craft, Aitch is willing to give an interest-free loan to help them open a store, whether it is a bakery or a ready-to-wear store, Aitch can provide an interest-free loan for up to 5 years.This time, the Iron Bank was reluctant to get involved, because there was no profit.But as a lord, it is still worth it for Aitch to spend a little money to gain the gratitude of the people.These loans can also be provided to ordinary residents, but for a period of 3 years, which is also considered universal welfare.All the rest were selected by Aitch to work as workers in the factory.Aitch and Pammer invested in many factories, and the steel mills and textile mills required a very large number of workers, and the training of workers was simple, and various other industrial plants were gradually being built.Even Pamo has already organized people to start exploring oil, Aitch did not agree, Aitch is unwilling to build an oil industry in his own territory, but in the Caribbean pirate world and Dracula's first year world, the geography and blood ancestor world are the same, the location of the oil is also the same, no need to detect, just hit down and mine directly, Aitch plans to expand in the future to directly mine the oil there, reduce the pollution and raw material consumption of the base camp.In this way, all the slaves were arranged, the inhabitants had more employment opportunities, and Aitch was paid for an eight-hour workday, and overtime was paid, so the whole city quickly prospered, and the people became more convinced of Aitch.