20demayo Chapter 130 City of Civilization
Chapter 130 City of Civilization
Chapter 130 City of Civilization
"The hounds are coming! The hounds are coming!"
Someone shouted, and a sailor squatting by the roadside suddenly felt a tightness in his rear.
He knew all too well what this meant.
His companion reacted quickly, pulled up his pants and ran, stumbling as he disappeared into the depths of the alley.
The sailor wanted to run away, but since the trousers had just been washed, he was reluctant to get them dirty, so he picked up a stone, bent down, and quickly scraped them twice.
But those two mistakes ruined everything.
He had just straightened up and hadn't even taken his first step when a strong, powerful hand grabbed his shoulder, the force almost crushing his bones.
A burly, terrifying warrior circled around to stand in front of him, his thick eyebrows furrowed together.
In that half-burnt, distorted face, a gray eye burned with rage, fixed straight on him.
With just one glance, the sailor felt as if he had fallen into an ice cave.
"Lord Hound, please let me go! I don't want to be thrown into the cesspool and drown!"
He cried and begged for mercy.
Sandor Clegane simply stepped aside, carefully stepping over the filth, and glanced at the place that Joe called the public toilet, which was just a dozen steps away.
His lips twitched involuntarily.
damn it.
Before long, another escapee was also captured. The Golden Robes were already quite adept at doing this kind of thing.
"Take him away." Sandor didn't bother to look any further and waved his hand behind him.
Two men in golden robes with red armbands immediately stepped forward with a sinister grin, grabbed the two idiots by the back of their necks like chicks, and dragged them toward the square.
They were also intimidated with various forms of torture along the way.
They were to be taken to the square to await "trial" alongside other lawbreakers.
Not long after returning to King's Landing, in addition to handling a host of official duties, Xiao Qiao also promulgated a number of new laws.
For example, the rule prohibiting urination and defecation in public places.
Those who violate this rule will be fined, forced to clean public toilets for three days, and responsible for carrying excrement out of the city.
To ensure that everyone in King's Landing knew about the new rule, he sent people to inform each household.
Even the monks stood at the crossroads of every street, preaching from dawn till dusk.
Even with such measures in place, violations of the ban are still commonplace.
"Give me liberty or give me death," but the willful inhabitants of King's Landing were determined to break this rule.
Driven to desperation, Xiao Qiao sent men to arrest him.
The capital city garrison was already responsible for maintaining order in the city, and now this task has been added to their responsibilities.
Xiao Qiao specially made a bunch of red armbands to commend those who had achieved great results in battle.
When distributing the gloves, he would personally step forward, put the armbands on their arms, gently pat their shoulders, and say a few words of encouragement.
That's how they managed to fool those idiots to their heart's content.
"Promote civility, establish new social norms, and strive to create a hygienic city in Westeros."
The number □ is both beautiful and pleasant to hear.
It would be even better if we had nothing to do with each other.
For the first time, Sandor hated his nickname so much.
Damn Baron, he talks a lot when he's drinking. I wonder which gossip he said reached Little Joe's ears.
Not only was he thrown out of the city, but he was also dragged into this dirty work.
If you put dogs and poop together, you can't hear anything pleasant.
Their family crest is three black dogs on yellow earth; the meaning of hunting dogs is that simple.
But most people don't see it that way.
They all felt that it was because he was unconditionally obedient to his master, letting Tywin and Joffrey do as they pleased, that he was their good dog, and that's why he was called a hound.
The Clegane family is not very old; they were knighted only in the last few decades.
One autumn before Sandor was born, Tywin's father, Lord Tytos, went out for a stroll and encountered a lioness chasing her prey.
The lioness didn't care that she was the Lannister symbol; she bit Lord Tytos's mount to death in one bite and almost swallowed the lord whole as well.
Just at this critical moment, his grandfather, the Beastmaster of Casterly Rock, arrived in time.
He used three dogs and his own leg to feed the lion, thus saving the adult's life.
The Lannisters gave him a tower and a fief, and also took Sandor's father as their squire.
But his father wasn't a warrior and didn't have a nickname; Gregor was also known as the Mountain.
The iconic name "hunting dog" naturally fell to him.
As for public toilets, Sandor was no stranger to them.
When going out to war, Xiao Qiao would always have the soldiers dig pits everywhere to prevent the spread of plague.
However, it was just a pit dug out with a shovel, far from being as luxurious as the one inside King's Landing.
It's really luxurious; people could live inside.
The excavated cesspool was built with hard stones, and the gaps were filled with thick mud.
It is said that this can prevent the contamination of groundwater.
The walls were also made of stones, and the ground was paved with smooth stone slabs. Only the roof was made of planks split from oak, which sheltered the wind and rain and was more sturdy than many people's houses.
Everyone calls this thing a fortress.
It's important to know that most commoners in King's Landing lived in houses that were simply wooden frames filled with clay and straw.
Or perhaps they didn't even have wood, so they simply plastered a mud wall and covered the roof with thatch.
There was a fort every other street, some big and some small, with some people sitting and some squatting inside.
There was a support frame in front of the squat toilet so that people who couldn't squat down could hold onto it.
Initially, the fortress provided wooden buckets for water and a sponge stick for people to use.
But after being stolen several times, it became a thick hemp rope hanging next to the pit.
The two military camps of the Golden Robe also built fortresses, and Xiao Qiao forced all soldiers to go inside to handle their personal matters.
The soldiers weren't used to it at first.
But according to the Gold Robe who has been to the Red Castle, the castle is designed the same way, and they now enjoy the treatment that only noble lords have.
And so they all started to find it delicious.
After all, it's much more comfortable here than just finding a patch of grass.
At the same time, Joffrey also decreed that even civilians with chamber pots at home were not allowed to arbitrarily spill their waste on the streets, but had to dump it all inside the fort.
Every few days, hired or convicted men would enter through the side gate of the fortress, scoop out the goods with long-handled ladles, put them into wooden barrels, and send them out of the city.
A process called composting is carried out.
Sandor was unaware of the specific methods used.
It seems like it needs to be moved to a large pit, mixed with river mud and all sorts of random things, then watered and left to sit for a month.
And I have to flip through it every few days.
As for the final destination of these things, Sandor knew it perfectly well.
Thinking of this, he couldn't help but burst into laughter.
"Sir Baron, this is the batch of fertilizer. Please inspect it."