Chapter 6: Building Wonders
I don't know if most of you will like this one, it's mostly kingdom building . you can ofcourse assume that the mc harvest a ton of sex during this period ,I just didn't write it.
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Once everything from machines, to permissions from local lords, was ready, we set sail to Riverlands through the seas entering their rivers and sailing inwards. the biggest dock of the East Riverlands was Maidenpool, it was some way into a small gulf from the narrow seas, called the Bay of Crabs. I and my captains meet with the lord of Maidenpool and found Edmund Tully with lord Walter whent of Harrenhall already there. once we discussed the plans, we made our way to a secluded bayside nearby.
Outside the bounds of the city, we found the place we were assigned. it was large 3-acre land swamped with water, edging the bay of crabs. we start building a small temporary Harbor with 30 men that I've brought with me. it takes 2 days for that to be built as I and 3 of my captain's that supervised construction at three heads order our men around to get the job done in the most efficient way
Edmund, Jamie and Benjen have formed a trio and Jamie and Benjen follow the strict routine of my soldiers when we are not travelling. Caitlyn, Lisa, Cersie and lyanna were also training with them right now under the guidance of one of my queens' guard, considering me, Elia and Jenna were busy instructing the building of temporary Harbor
Once the harbour was made, my fleet of 300 men, 2 medium-sized cranes, half the size of my ship's mast, and a lot of Materials like wood were landed. during these 2 days of building Harbor, lord of Maidenpool and Harrenhall had sent missives of employment throughout their fiefs. considering Riverlands are one of the most populous kingdoms in Westeros, 200 men had already shown up, with more on their way.
With 200 untrained and 300 trained men, I started having them construct some structures made of wood and reed(plant grown in marshes). these will be used as housing and for compressing soil into a brick-like structure by my performing a standing March over them.
We started digging 400 feet away from the bayside and collected dug soil in a wood and metal press we shipped from three heads. 100 of my men could March on it together in a standing position and it will compress the soil into brick-like consistency. due to this being marshland soil, it was very wet, even after compressing it so they needed to be baked in either the sun or in the fire. considering we were in Riverland, it rained throughout the year, so we had to build baking stations for bricks to bake them in the fire.
once the bricks were ready to be used, we started making an elevated road from where we are, to maidenpool using those bricks and Clay. the layout of bricks was such that any water falling on it would slide off the road. the elevation of the road had some boar sized arches that let water pass through the road underneath it. while all the civilian builders were either on the road project or helping me dig more, most of my military builders joined them, helping them streamline every process and making sure the end result was not only practical but also very beautiful.
Some of my military was helping me develop a border for the property we were given by setting up temporary fences. while all this was going on, Elia was helping with the digging, discreetly using her water magic to dry up the digging site in the night enough to start digging again in the morning. she was the chief of the digging project, which in the end is supposed to look like a stepwell.
Jenna was helping me and Elia train our squires. all of them were coming along great, but the girls were falling a little behind the boys. it was to be expected though, testosterone was a powerful enzyme. but still, there are enough women in my military that they see hope that they will make it eventually. after all, both Elia and Jenna are extremely powerful, though it has much to do with the magic I've pumped into them.
once we connect from Maidenpool to our site, we made my road by the Bay, using the Bay to help transfer the material and labour. while we started extending from our current site, I took some captains and made my way to the saltpans. while Elia and Jenna stayed to give more directions.
saltpans is another town at the end of the Bay of crabs. I've come here with my squires and Edmund while Jenna and Elia, with our original 300 military force, was now working on a 3 storied ziggurat, where each consecutive higher floor is smaller in all dimensions than one before. this ziggurat will use the power of water flow from the stepwell and collect water at the top, which will then fall like a waterfall on its walls.
these waterworks will be designed by Elia while Jenna will design a garden for each floor. the whole thing will look like the hanging garden of Babylon from what I remember from seeing its paintings. the falling water will also be used to rotate many water wheels, which will actuate various machines.
I plan to build a merchant trading post on the first floor while a factory that uses these machine and produces goods for those merchants on the ground floor. the second floor will be a small barracks for my military, to set up a small security force for the ziggurat. the third floor is the smallest, barely size of a room. it will have a shrine and a statue of the Dragon and will be used mostly for ritual/worship and festive reasons. already Most of my military considers me a demigod, if not a God. And this being just above the barracks means mostly military will use this shrine. the exterior of the building will have gardens designed by Jenna, able to grow expensive fruits and produce thought to be impossible to grow in this climate
I'm here at saltpans because we plan to build these on most fiefs along the river here, to help facilitate trade by river, even using our lands to extend the river into a small lake that feeds overflow into stepwell. this Lake is mostly so we can build a small harbour for small merchant boats. we don't want them to jam the river after all.
once we have a similar digging site that will eventually turn into stepwell up here at saltpans, I can get more of my military here and start producing more brick. with that, we can start producing a road from here that will meet the one from Maidenpool halfway. already I've increased their numbers at Maidenpool to help with the bureaucracy of handling the constantly increasing civilian numbers and to help keep public order. after all, not everyone here comes with the best of intentions.
after the roads meet is when Edmund will go another way to extend it, while we continue to build along the river. once the road meets, it will form an extension forming a Y structure, if seen from above, to go to Harrenhall.
my main reason to create stepwell is to help with water drainage throughout the swamped land, while ziggurats are built mainly for factories. the trading post is mainly to unload the overproduction of the factories. since I want to build them at every hold with a riverbank, and this being Riverland, I get to build it at almost every hold in the kingdom.
with its high fertility, Riverlands can produce food as well as other cash crops as raw materials for my factories. which can then be taken through the river to Maidenpool and from there to anywhere in the world. my troops here will be rotated every month and whichever Captain is there for the month will be in charge of the barracks and the whole operation. I will pay them a tax on profits of the trading post while they will pay tax to the tullys and him to my father. but my tax is heavily reduced until I make up the cost back.
due to excess rain, these roads are sure to need constant maintenance and that is to be one of the jobs of barracks here. I'm hoping that with the stems of cereal grown here, I can use the machines to turn them into some kind of rough textile, which in turn can be covered/dipped in mud and Clay. this muddy textile can be layered on top of the roads, protecting it such that only these layers have to be replaced from time to time, rather than the bricks.
the whole project will take at least 5 years, with my ability to move extremely competent builders, my army, and with a lot of common folk helping out for pay. Me, Elia and Jenna will mostly focus on step wells and ziggurats while Edmund and my captains will handle most of the road now. if there is too much overproduction, I have a plan to use my machines and simple by-products of most food grown here to help reduce the future cost of maintenance of these roads.
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