The Summer Sea, the Lys Islands.
After taking Lys city, Liu Qian assigned five hundred soldiers to remain behind and hold Lys.
Then he wrote to Hal on distant Bloodstone Island, ordering him to bring his army to garrison Lys.
Bloodstone Island lay close to the Seven Kingdoms, whose warships were now few and far between. Besides, Bloodstone Island was barren land, worth far less than Lys Island.
There was no need for Hal to stay there.
Next, Liu Qian ordered Jelena to strip the Governor's Council's warehouses bare.
He took every gold coin, every scrap of food, and every weapon from the Lys Governor's Council's warehouses.
The merchants of Lys were implicated as well.
For following the Lys Governor's Council's policies and imposing an embargo and trade sanctions on Tyrosh, they were tried one by one by Liu Qian and had their property confiscated.
Soldiers loaded the perfumes, wine, tapestries, and fabrics from their shops and warehouses onto the ships.
Of the several hundred thousand people in Lys city, three quarters were slaves.
The vast majority belonged to nobles and merchants.
Liu Qian ordered his soldiers to seize those slaves under thirty, roughly a hundred thousand in total.
He had brought only just under a hundred warships. Fortunately, the generous merchants of Lys had nearly a thousand merchant sailing ships moored in the harbor, allowing him to take all his spoils home together.
As the ships set sail, Liu Qian gazed at the dense crowds of silver-gold-haired Lys slaves aboard, his heart brimming with satisfaction.
Once he landed in the Seven Kingdoms in the future, he could move all these slaves to the Crownlands, restore their status as free people, and make them landowning farmers.
Then, by specifically encouraging them to have children, he could push their population into