Chapter 63: Sea King Island

Soon a large number of Unsullied rushed over, and after taking control of the situation, an old man walked up.

Newgate took the iron trumpet handed over by his men, coughed twice, and said,

"From today on, you are citizens of Atlantis. In the next period of time, line up to receive supplies, and someone will lead you to the camp."

After saying this, Newgate didn't care about the reactions of this group of people, and directly asked the Unsullied to take 10,000 people to collect the supplies first.

Since all the resources on Neptune Island were initially allocated to the construction of the dock, these 10,000 people will have to live in tents for the time being.

When everyone found out that they still had no place to live, they felt disappointed.

There is not even a place to live, life is worse than in Meereen.

Everyone felt very uncomfortable when they thought about how they were deceived and threatened and brought here, especially the five thousand high-level slaves.

Some of them are housekeepers, some are teachers and doctors, and the worst are high-level bed slaves.

So no matter which city-state in Essos they are in, they can live comfortably.

But in the blink of an eye, you were sent to a deserted island where no one lives. How could you not feel uncomfortable?

Fortunately, when it was time to eat, they felt better because the food looked very good.

Everyone gets a piece of softer bread, vegetable soup and pork sausage.

Many people wondered if this was their last meal before execution, and whether they were being sent to be sacrificed to some evil god.

It turned out that they were overthinking it, because nothing special happened until they finished their meal.

There were only the Unsullied patrolling and the caravan crew telling about the situation on the island.

As the crew members explained, the group of people gradually understood their situation.

The stupider people thought it was okay. Although they needed to open up new land, they were not afraid of hardship as they were former slaves.

And from what they said, after the huge royal city is completed, they will also be allocated their own houses.

On the other side, Newgate also sorted out the information of this group of people.

There were two thousand craftsmen of all kinds, one thousand male and female bed slaves, six hundred housekeepers, five hundred doctors, five hundred skilled slaves of all kinds, and four hundred teachers.

Finally, there were still 5,000 Lazar people.

In addition, there are nearly seven thousand Unsullied, one thousand Tridents, and five hundred Guild of Commerce crew members.

There are about 18,500 people on the entire Neptune Island, including a large number of senior talents.

Newgate couldn't stop smiling. He had previously advised Jack not to go to Meereen to be prime minister, and that it would be much better to be the emperor of Sea King's Island.

But now, watching high-level slaves worth hundreds of thousands of gold dragons being sent back without spending a penny.

He suddenly felt that it might not be impossible for Jack to stay in Meereen for a while longer.

Newgate is now truly immersed in the role of Prime Minister, working hard every day for the development of Atlantis.

As the first old man to follow Jack, he is the one who has the final say on Neptune Island when Jack is not around.

Now that he had someone on his side, he planned to draw up a plan overnight.

Among the craftsmen were stonemasons, carpenters and blacksmiths.

I bought iron ore before, and now I can make my own axes and other tools.

With a large population, trees can be cut down in large quantities and the center of the island can be developed. Wood can also be used to make many things. With carpenters, the use and demand for wood will increase greatly.

Once the forests are reduced, all kinds of stones can be handed over to stonemasons, and then the task of burning cement and bricks will be handed over to the stonemasons.

Newgate was so happy at the thought of the rapid development that would follow that he was almost out of breath with excitement.

Quickly suppressing his emotions, Newgate took a sip of water and sighed that he was getting old after all.

Back then, he wouldn't even feel out of breath after a whole day of moving goods at the dock.

Just then, Rutger found Newgate and handed him a letter.

"His Majesty asked me to give this to you. He said it was the first pot of gold for Atlantis."

Newgate took the envelope solemnly.

The current finances of Atlantis depend entirely on the "selfless dedication" of the "good people".

When Atlantis first landed in the Seychelles, it was the richest time. At that time, through robbery and confiscation of property in Astapor, it had a total of 5 million gold dragons.

Now there are only 4.2 million gold dragons left in the warehouse of Atlantis.

Just buying food, iron ore and other supplies cost 800,000 gold royals.

Braavos still has 100,000 gold dragons to pay for the warship modification.

Once Braavos has completed the renovation of its merchant ships, the 100,000 gold dragons will be gone, and they will have to order another 195 longships.

Only by combining the modified large warships and long ships can it be considered a complete and regular navy.

All of this costs money. The remaining 4.2 million gold royals may seem like a lot, but they are simply not enough to support Atlantis's subsequent rapid development.

As the population grows, salaries and food become huge expenses.

Newgate's original plan was to return to his old job as a pirate after the warship was renovated.

This matter was also approved by Jack. In Jack's view, looting can not only earn money for himself, but also serve as a good training for soldiers.

When Rutger saw Newgate put away the envelope, he was about to leave.

"Rutger, I'll trouble you from now on. Purchase as much food and iron ore as possible. As for limestone, I will try to speed up the logging process. There should be limestone on the mountains on the island."

"Lord Newgate, as for the limestone, His Majesty the Sea King has already figured out a way to transport it. We can just send twelve giant ships other than the Sea King to Slaver Bay."

Upon hearing this, Newgate nodded. This method can indeed help get through the early stages.

"Okay, let's do this. I will speed up logging on the island. Once the rainforest area is reduced, we won't have to rely solely on the outside world for limestone."

Rutger smiled awkwardly. In fact, there was no shortage of limestone. It was everywhere.

But he subconsciously mistook the limestone mine for an iron ore or something like that, and asked around for the whereabouts of the limestone mine.

Otherwise, several batches of limestone would have been shipped back long ago.

Newgate did not notice Rutger's embarrassment. After chatting with Rutger for a few more words, he let Rutger leave.

After Rutger left, Newgate took out Jack's envelope and made sure that the seal had not been opened before opening it.

After opening the letter, a line of big words caught my eye: "Technology of Making Soap and Refined Salt".

This is the money-making technique that Jack is going to use first.

Among them, the production of refined salt is relatively convenient, because it is close to the sea, and coarse salt can be obtained directly by drying seawater.

Then it is precipitated, filtered, evaporated and purified multiple times, and finally wood ash water is added and filtered and purified again.

Then fry the purified substance until dry to get refined salt.

In fact, this cannot be considered refined salt, it can only be considered fine salt at most, but it can still crush the salt on the market today.

And Jack doesn't have to worry about being sentenced to the death penalty for the entire clan.

The profit of salt trade in the Game of Thrones world is not high, and selling salt is not a right exclusive to the royal family. Both nobles and merchants can sell salt.