Seeing that Teresa was once again focused on rescuing the wounded in Brand City, Robb thought, and Bloodwind carried him and turned around and headed towards the inner castle of Brand City.
The surrounding soldiers and civilians who were guarding the Brand City were so shocked that they forgot to speak, and the silence suddenly turned into a noisy vegetable market, with all kinds of discussions happening one after another.
Ever since he gained extraordinary power, Robb has never thought about hiding it. Westeros seems to be a society that pays attention to civilized order, but in fact, underneath this outer skin is a cruel system of the weak and the strong.
Therefore, he likes to show off his muscles appropriately on some occasions. This can not only make his own soldiers feel worship and awe, but also make the enemy feel fear and cowardice.
Why are the five thousand surrendered soldiers who fought bravely in the attack on the city eager to gain military exploits and join the Northern Territory?
In addition to the impact of the new laws in the north, I also saw with my own eyes that Robb walked out of a wildfire trap outside Riverrun like a god descending from the earth, and that he was unrivaled in Sarsfield City when he single-handedly destroyed the city.
Isn’t there a classic joke in the past life? If you can’t beat it, join it!
These soldiers from the Western Region and the Stormlands, who are very aware of current affairs, have implemented this sentence very thoroughly.
The area of Branded City is not too big, so it didn't take long for Robb and the Wolf Guards to arrive at the inner castle of Branded City.
Clay, whom Robb had not seen at the gate of Branded City just now, was currently accepting the remnants of the defenders who came out of the inner castle with their hands raised to surrender.
Next to him was Lord Damon Malbrand of Brand City, whose hands were tied behind his back. He was the father of Adam Malbrand, the commander of the cavalry in the West.
"Your Majesty, please forgive me for not being able to greet you at the city gate in advance!"
Seeing Robb arriving, Clay immediately stepped forward, knelt down on one knee and saluted him to apologize.
"Get up! Where is your fault? You did a very good job in commanding the siege this time. I am very satisfied!"
Robb jumped off Bloodwind, and after steadying his body, he pulled Clay up, patted his shoulder encouragingly, and spoke.
"Your Majesty, Count Damon took the initiative to persuade the soldiers defending the city to surrender. He also told me that there is a large amount of crude gold in Brand City, as well as a lot of rock gold that has not been refined.
I am willing to use these things in exchange for the treatment of noble captives of the Malbrand family."
Hearing the praise from the person he admired, even though Clay had been cautious and steady since he was a child, he couldn't help but smile on his face, and then continued to speak in a way of asking for credit.
"Um?"
Robb, who knew what gold looked like in his previous life but had never understood the specific content, did not understand the meaning of Clay's words at all.
"Your Majesty, coarse gold is a gold bar or gold nugget with low purity after basic refining. Rock gold is a gold-bearing ore dug from a gold mine..."
Seeing that Robb didn't seem to know much about gold, Earl Damon immediately explained.
Through his series of detailed explanations, Robb finally knew the specific situation of the depletion of gold mines in the West.
Once upon a time, Casterly Rock City was the main source of gold. Its extremely rich reserves persisted in mining for thousands of years, and then gradually became depleted. The cost of mining was far greater than the value of the small amount of gold produced.
Subsequently, the role of Casterly Rock gradually changed to that of the capital. Many gold deposits were discovered, such as the Golden Tooth City, Castamere, Nunburg, and Pendry Hills.
The Lannister family also relied on them to arm themselves and enhance their strength, becoming the leading family in Westeros.
However, due to the backward mining technology of Westeros, the amount of easy-to-collect rock gold in the many gold mines in the West has been greatly reduced, and the gold content has also been reduced.
Nowadays, the mining costs of many gold mines in the Western Territory are gradually returning to the old situation of Casterly Rock City. When the day comes when they are completely worthless, these gold mines may be abandoned and new gold resources are searched for.
Therefore, the Western Gold Mine is still producing gold, but the difficulty of mining has increased and the cost has increased. It does not mean that the gold mine has been directly exhausted, to the point where there is no gold to be mined at all.
It stands to reason that there is a large amount of coarse gold and rock gold in Branded City this time. Then the Golden Tooth City that Robb captured before should have more gold. After all, Golden Tooth City is an important gold-producing town in the Western Region.
Yes, Golden Teeth City has indeed always produced a large amount of gold. But it also serves the dual functions of a defensive fortress and a gold-producing area.
Usually when a war breaks out, Golden Tooth City will transport all the gold produced. At the same time, it will stop gold mining activities in the area and make every effort to deal with the war.
Brand City and Qiaoyan City are located inside the Western Territory and are geographically safe. They are also responsible for the supervision and protection of gold-producing areas and the functions of primary refining and transshipment.
During this period, when Robb captured the Golden Tooth City at lightning speed, spies from the Northern Intelligence Organization had already cut off all external communications.
Therefore, when they began to occupy the entire Western Territory, these castles in the Tengshi Mountains had no time to transport the gold, so they could only give Robb an advantage.
"Thank you for answering my questions! Count Damon, please wait. I will arrange for you to go to King's Landing after I capture Cliff City in a few days."
According to Bloodwind's message, when Earl Damon talked about these situations, his heartbeat was normal and there were no abnormal reactions in his body. Robb, who felt that the information was relatively authentic, nodded and said.
"Thank you, Your Majesty!"
After hearing that his family's lives were safe and that they could still be free, Lord Damon breathed a sigh of relief and thanked Robb.
"Someone, find a comfortable place for Count Damon and his family."
Clay, who had been listening silently, immediately called on the soldiers around him to escort Earl Damon and others away.
"Clay, please find all the people in Brand City who know how to mine. I want to see if I can strengthen their mining technology.
Then, send people and horses to control the nearby gold-producing areas as quickly as possible, these are our wealth."
After Lord Damon was taken away, Robb immediately gave Clay his orders.
"Yes, I will make arrangements now!"
"Wait, um, I just met a nurse named Teresa. She is rescuing the wounded at the gate of the city. Send someone to protect her secretly, and then collect as much information about her as possible."
"As you command, Your Majesty!"
Clay, who was stopped by Robb again, turned around and left with a relaxed expression after hearing his next command, a smile that every man could understand appeared on his face.
Seeing Clay who was inexplicably happy, Robb's face felt a little hot. It seemed like he had the feeling of being caught spying on a beautiful woman when he was in school in his previous life.
In fact, there are some things in private that Robb doesn't know about.
After he became the King of the North, he thought he lived a very disciplined life, but in the eyes of the nobles under his command, it was completely unacceptable as an ascetic life.
There are even speculations about whether his hobby is male. After all, such alternative hobbies are also very popular among the great nobles of Westeros. In the most open-minded Dorne, it can even be directly made public.
Generally speaking, the aristocrats in Westeros have a very open sexual relationship. For teenage aristocrats like Clay, it is as normal and frequent for them to go to the red light district to party, just like their classmates in the previous life went to Internet cafes to have sex.
Many children of great nobles can look for bed partners unscrupulously before marriage and enjoy their youth. Because political marriages among nobles are very frequent, most marriages are not happy.
But for the sake of the dignity of their respective families, both parties will behave very restrainedly after getting married. At least, they will not tarnish the family's reputation by naming them.
Of course, there are still many conservative families like Ed Stark who strictly control their children.
In short, Clay felt a lot more relaxed after understanding Robb's expression. This shows that they don't have to worry about Robb's descendants.
The northern soldiers quickly cleared the inner fort of Brand City, and Robb naturally moved into the city lord's room.
His original plan was to combine the knowledge from his previous life to think about how to improve the mining technology of the Western Gold Mine, or to find ways to reduce mining costs, etc.
As a result, Robb was sitting at the desk in the lord's room, not thinking about future development plans at all. Instead, his mind was filled with thoughts about Theresa, who seemed to him to be extremely beautiful.
Is this love at first sight?
When I watched the show in my previous life, I didn't think she was so beautiful! Why do I think she is more beautiful than any other woman when I see her now?
Something seems...off!
Just when Robb was thinking wildly, an idea flashed through his mind, and his vigilance suddenly rose rapidly.
Robb turned his head and looked at the corner of the room, using the [Control] skill to reduce the size of Bloodwind. The blood pact data suddenly appeared in front of him, but there was nothing abnormal on it, and the blood pact points did not decrease.
So, I wasn't attacked by magic?
"Wil!"
"Your Majesty, please give me your orders!"
As Robb called out to the room, the leader of the Wolf Guard, Will, immediately pushed open the door and entered, kneeling down and saluting.
"Go and invite Ye Zi over!"
"yes!"
It was rare to see Robb with such a serious expression. Will knew the seriousness of the matter and immediately took the order decisively to go out to find the leaves.
After Will left, Robb stood in the center of the lord's room, his crystal-clear ice eyes carefully examining his body. But he didn't find anything strange.
Not long after, Weir came with Ye Zi, along with Thorns and Vine, who were worried about her.
"You guys just wait outside! I have something to ask Ye Zi."
Robb, who was standing in the center of the room, gave a casual instruction. After Will put the leaves into the room, he closed the door directly.
Bang!
"Ye Zi, I suspect that I may be affected by magic, but I didn't find anything abnormal."
As soon as the door closed, Robb asked Ye Zi, who looked a little pale because he overdrawn his magic power and cast a large-scale magic in Golden Teeth City.
Hearing this, Ye Zi slowly looked around Robb carefully. Then he pointed at the bloody wind in the corner, shook his head and replied: "Your Majesty, except for its magic power, I have not sensed any traces of other magic power on you.
"
"Is it possible that it's not magic, but other mysterious powers that can affect me?"
At this moment, Robb, who had woken up from that state of longing, was very sure that he was affected by the mysterious power and was so obsessed with Theresa, whom he had only met once.
If he asks other people such vague questions, Monk Zhang Er will definitely be confused.
But Ye Zi was born in the era of dragons, and is the only son of the forest who has traveled through the human world and observed, listened and learned for 200 years.
She pondered for a while, and suddenly seemed to remember something. Then she rummaged through the small bag on her waist, took out a handful of powder made of unknown materials, and sprinkled it towards Robb.
Her actions caused the lazy Bloodwind in the corner to stand up. After being comforted by Robb, who did not feel any danger, it fell lazily to the ground again.
As the leaves' unusually beautiful original songs sounded, the powder on Robb's body emitted bursts of green light.
Under the illumination of these green lights, strange symbols that looked like living creatures were beating happily around Robb's body.
"Your Majesty, this is the "Love Song" of the Moonsinger from the continent of Essos."
I have been to Essos's leaves before, looked at these strange symbols, and said with great certainty.
"A song of love? You know I can counteract magic. If it's affecting me, why can't I dissolve it?"
Seeing that he was unknowingly affected by the mysterious power, Robb frowned and asked in displeasure.
"Your Majesty, this is not magic. In a sense, it is just a blessing!"
"bless?"
"Yes!"
Looking at Robb who obviously wanted to get to the bottom of it, Ye Zi sighed secretly, and then continued to explain to him,
"Moonsingers are basically women, just like us children of the forest singing praises to the earth, they sing praises to the moon in the sky.
Those moon chanters who are truly recognized by the moon, their songs with beautiful blessings have mysterious power.
For example, ‘Healing Song’, ‘Childbirth Song’, ‘Love Song’ and so on!”
"They are all women... Hey, they are all pretty awesome! They can bless me across the vast ocean!"
Robb used to rub his chin gently with his hand, chuckled, and then joked to Ye Zi.
"Impossible, they must be nearby to bless you!"
"Wil!"
After finding out the information he wanted, Robb immediately shouted to Will at the door.
Squeak!
"Your Majesty, I am here!"
"Immediately bring people to invite all the silent sisters and nurses who were at the gate of Brand City today to the inner castle. Be careful not to hurt them.
Of course, if someone resists strongly or something unusual happens, I allow you to use lethal means!"
Seeing Will quickly open the door and come in, Robb directly conveyed his order to him.
After Weir nodded and accepted the order, he quickly went to complete his task. Only then did Ye Zi behind Robb react and said quietly: "Your Majesty, if you want to know anything, you can ask me directly."
"I could tell from your tone just now that you have a good impression of Moonsinger. If I asked you directly, you wouldn't tell me, right?"
"They are a group of harmless women, they are either healers, midwives, or diviners.
Moreover, the 'Song of Love' is a blessing and does not pose any threat to you at all. Please don't hurt them!"
Looking at Robb's half-smiling expression, Ye Zi replied very sincerely.
"Whether there is a threat or not, it's not up to you to say it. It's up to me to say it!
bless?
They came to Westeros from Essos just to bless my love? Hehe, I don’t believe it.”
Before Robb could wait too long, Will came to return and everyone had been invited to the gate of the inner castle.
When Robb brought Will and other wolf guards to the gate of the inner castle, there were seventy or eighty Silent Sisters and more than a dozen nurses, talking in low voices with some fear.
When they saw Robb, everyone fell silent. They knew that no matter what the king wanted to do, they could only cooperate and there was no room for resistance.
"Xue Feng, keep an eye on their reactions!"
Robb glanced at Theresa, who was standing quietly in the crowd. He quietly gave Bloodwind instructions, then turned to say to nearly a hundred people,
"Since you dare to secretly use the 'Song of Love' on me, you have to bear my wrath. If you can't give me a satisfactory answer, I will definitely turn the Moonsinger Temple into ruins!"
Hearing Robb's incomprehensible roaring speech, nearly a hundred women in front of the inner castle were basically confused.
However, one of the women, dressed as the Silent Sisters, suddenly caught Xue Feng's attention with her suddenly accelerated heartbeat and rapid breathing.
Robb followed Bloodwind's gaze and instantly met the eyes of the woman dressed as the Silent Sisters.
The woman dressed as the Silent Sisters immediately knew that she had been exposed. She took something out of her arms and turned around to run towards the alley of Brand City beside her.
Whoosh!
A fifty-centimeter-long, compact ice crystal spear shot from behind, directly piercing her left leg and causing her to fall to the ground.
Several wolf guards quickly surrounded her from the side and grabbed her directly in front of Robb.
"Hey, I got you!"
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