The inside and outside of Harrenhal were filled with the corpses of siege soldiers, defenders and prisoners. A large number of soldiers from the north and soldiers from the Riverlands were cleaning up the battlefield.
Count Tytos watched his soldiers pick up the mutilated body of Count Jason, with an undisguised look of sadness on his face.
Count Jason's body was struck with countless swords by the brutal Magic Mountain. The soldiers who collected the body could not piece together his complete body. Only the half of his head that remained could identify him.
"Lord Tytos, all the enemies in Harrenhal City have been cleared. There is still a lot of food, grass and loot in the underground storage room, and I have people doing statistics.
After the cavalry of the Brotherhood Without Banners collected the spoils of the Lannister cavalry, they took the Mountain and some prisoners and were about to leave.
The horses and weapons and equipment of the Lannister cavalry are very valuable, are we..."
An officer of the Blackwood family came behind Earl Tytos and softly reported to him the latest situation.
"Brotherhood Without Banners...I have heard of their name a long time ago.
They have been harassing the Lannister family from the rear for more than half a year. Before, they had not assisted the infantry to defeat the Lannister cavalry, but now there would still be our bodies lying on the ground.
His Majesty Robb is fighting in the west, and Lord Brynden is building Riverrun. Most of our remaining men are new soldiers, so we don't want to make enemies for no reason.
What the broken riverlands need most now is peace!"
Tytos pondered for a moment after hearing this. After weighing the value of the Lannister cavalry trophies and the pros and cons of falling out with the Brotherhood Without Banners, he shook his head and replied to the officer.
"Yes, I understand!"
In this way, the devastated Riverlands finally returned to calm order, and a large number of civilians in the Riverlands who were lucky enough to survive but were displaced began to build their homes again.
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The Reach, Highgarden.
After several days of cleaning and repairs, more than half of the corpses and traces of damage caused by the battle of Highgarden involving more than 100,000 people have disappeared.
The ability to restore High Court to its original appearance so quickly was due to the tens of thousands of civilians gathered in High Court at this moment.
After the war, the Tyrell family issued an order to recruit civilians to serve as laborers. The reward was only the rough food provided by them. But there were still thousands of civilians vying to get this labor job.
There was no way, due to Highgarden's defensive tactics of fortifying the walls and clearing the field in the early stage, the farmland, trees, and villages at close range were all reduced to scorched earth.
The areas around Gaoyuan that are covered with plant ash are sure to have a bumper harvest next year. But ordinary civilians with a large base have no food reserves, so how can they survive until next year!
Therefore, these civilians who were forcibly gathered in High Court before the war in order to prevent the enemy from being used to attack the city, became a burden to High Court after the war.
In fact, according to the Tyrell family's wishes, after the war is over, they don't want to pay attention to these civilians and plan to dismiss them directly.
After all, the Reach, as the granary of the Seven Kingdoms, has nurtured the largest population in Westeros with its vast and fertile land. They did not pay any attention to the life and death of tens of thousands of people.
But in Robb's eyes, these tens of thousands of civilians are valuable labor force. In his previous life, there was a term that everyone knew, human resources!
Human resources are equivalent to resources and can produce value! They just need appropriate utilization methods!
In the end, Robb took the initiative and proposed a work-for-relief proposal in his previous life. How dare the Tyrell family, which had just pledged its allegiance, have the slightest objection, and then issued the previous order to recruit workers to repair the High Court.
Of course, the heavily damaged South Gate of High Court still looks the same.
Not to mention the two defensive round towers that were destroyed by the explosion of black oil in the flamethrower, the white marble city wall that was burnt black will not be restored for a while.
However, for the Tyrell family, whose accumulated gold alone is worth millions of gold dragons, the losses caused by this war are within their acceptable range.
Da da da!
Robb sat on the back of Bloodwind Broad Wolf with a thoughtful look on his face, heading towards Highgarden Castle from the west city gate.
When the war ended a few days ago, he rejected the invitation of the Tyrell family and led the northern army to station in the area from the west city gate to the port area.
After all, the two forces have just begun to come into contact, so both sides feel more at ease by keeping a certain distance.
When Robb and his party walked through the plant maze from West City Gate Avenue to the civilian area at the back, they immediately aroused whispers from the surrounding civilians.
"Dad, look! It's the Ice King of the North. Wow! Paul didn't lie to me. That giant wolf is really as tall as the house!"
"Shh, keep your voice down. Kneel down quickly and salute!"
A civilian boy loudly talked about Robb and Bloodwind in an excited tone, and then his father immediately pressed his head and knelt down to salute.
As the father and son knelt down to salute, the surrounding civilians seemed to have reacted and immediately fell to their knees in a dark mass.
Ice King?
Who gave me this nickname? It’s not cool at all!
Robb, who had been thinking about recent events, rolled his eyes and complained in his heart when he heard the civilian boy's words.
In fact, this nickname came from the Tyrell family cavalry and the infantry army that finally arrived.
When they crossed the Mandeb River Bridge from the Esplanade and entered the West Gate of the High Court, they were shocked to see the 100 meters of frozen Mandeb River from above.
The scene where Robb and Bloodwind sealed the river was seen by tens of thousands of people. After word spread gradually, they used the Ice King, which was derived from the Stark family sword, as a tribute to him.
Honorific title.
Facing the large number of kneeling civilians around him, Robb, who had completely integrated into this world, did not ask them to get up. Instead, he passed in front of them very calmly.
Um?
When he arrived at the west gate of the second city wall, Robb immediately spotted the pretty Margaery among the crowd. She had just returned to Highgarden from the Crake Hall with the Duke of Metz yesterday.
Margaery was wearing an exquisite pale green embroidered skirt today. The very slim-fitting top not only showed off her graceful figure, but also revealed her white shoulders and a fair and tender area in front of her.
The soft brown curly hair was not specially combed into a hairstyle like last time, but was spread over the white shoulders, and the wavy soft brown hair almost fell to the waist.
At this time, she was giving out pieces of divided rye bread of similar sizes to the civilian workers who were queuing up at the second city wall with a focused expression.
He really knows how to win people's hearts!
Seeing Margaery constantly taking rye bread from the hands of the maids and giving it to the civilian workers who had completed their work, and talking to them with a concerned expression on her face, Robb couldn't help but admire in his heart.
Indeed, anyone who looks at her from the outside will think that Margaery is definitely a gentle and kind model of aristocrat who is popular among the people. This can be seen from the enthusiastic expressions on the faces of a large number of common people.
During the period of Robb's observation, even though the hem of her exquisite dress was stained by the mud on the ground, and her white hands were scratched with black palm prints by the stained hands of a civilian child,
Margaery also always had a spring breeze-like smile on her face and continued her actions without caring.
As soon as Robb had an idea, Bloodwind headed straight in the direction of Margaery.
"His Majesty!"
Margaery, who had been focusing on the matter at hand, seemed not to notice Robb's arrival.
It wasn't until the crowd around her knelt down that she realized what was going on. She quickly lifted up the sides of her skirt with both hands and gave him a very standard curtsey.
"Well, everyone, get up! Margaery, my beautiful fiancée! Thank you so much for your hard work.
Is there enough food to continue distributing?”
When Robb spoke, Bloodwind lay down directly on the ground. But Robb, who was sitting on its back, still looked at Margaery from a bird's eye view.
"Your Majesty, if I can't bear this little pain, how can I be worthy of being your queen?
Please rest assured that the food we have prepared is very sufficient, enough to fill the stomachs of all civilians."
After hearing this, Margery's fair and delicate face immediately showed a smile, nodded and answered.
"Very good! Since my people can fill their stomachs, it means that my decision to let them work as laborers in exchange for food is correct!"
After hearing Margaery's answer, Robb looked at the civilians around him who stood up slowly and spoke loudly.
"Did you hear that? It turns out that the Ice King gave us the opportunity to work as laborers!"
"Yes! Without this job, we would go straight back to the burned-out village and starve!"
"The mighty and kind-hearted Lord Robb and the beautiful and gentle Queen Margaery are such a perfect pair!"
Listening to the discussion in her ears, the smile on Margaery's face suddenly stopped.
She managed her expression very quickly, then nodded in agreement: "Your Majesty is wise, the Tyrell family will always support any decision you make!"
Seeing that Margaery expressed her attitude very readily in front of many civilians, Robb nodded secretly, and the expression on his face immediately softened.
He suddenly stretched out his right hand towards Margaery, then showed a gentle smile and said: "Today, I was invited by Lady Olenna to be a guest of the Tyrell family.
Margaery, are you willing to show me the way since I have never been to Highgarden before?"
"With great pleasure, Your Majesty!"
After hearing Robb's words, the smile on Margaery's face became brighter. She answered and reached out to grab Robb's outstretched right hand.
Margaery's weight was not worth mentioning to Robb, who was stronger than the Mountain. He easily lifted Margaery directly in front of him.
Feeling the presence of a stranger on his body, Xue Feng's agile ice crystal eyes showed an unhappy look, and he stood up reluctantly and continued to move towards the High Garden Castle.
Sniffing the subtle fragrance emanating from Margaery's hair or body, and feeling the friction of her excellent body whether intentionally or unintentionally, Robb couldn't help but feel a trace of anger rising in his heart.
However, as long as it was not under the influence of mysterious powers like Moonsinger's Blessing, Robb was still very confident in his self-control.
He secretly took a deep breath, and then whispered into Margery's ear, which was blocked by her brown curly hair: "Margery, we will live together in the future.
You will become my queen, and you will also be the only queen in Westeros!
Who knows, she might even become the first Queen of Essos."
Listening to the words in her ears, Margaery couldn't help but her heart beat faster and her breathing became rapid. Although she knew that Robb was trying to impress her, a look of longing still inevitably appeared on her face.
"Your Majesty, I am a bit stupid and don't quite understand what you mean!"
After Margaery forced herself to calm down, she tilted her head slightly and asked Robb behind her.
"Margaery, I just said that we will live together in the future. I want to be more comfortable facing the real you. Not the posture you are putting on now."
"Huh, Your Majesty, in fact, the person I am in contact with you now is very real. Of course, the friendly and caring attitude just now was taught to me by my grandma.
However, such an image of a queen is more conducive to your rule, isn't it?"
After hearing what Robb said, Margaery's eyes immediately became wandering. Then she took a long breath and answered in a relaxed tone.
"Well, Mrs. Olenna taught you very well! You can continue to maintain your people-friendly personality in the future. I also think the common people will like you as a queen very much."
Seeing that Margaery was no longer as cautious as before, Robb directly discussed the character issue with her.
"Your Majesty, may I ask what the word character means?"
"Well, pretend I didn't say that. By the way, Margery, what else did you hear from what I just said?"
Robb waved his hand to her when he heard this, then ignored the topic and continued to ask.
"Your Majesty, thank you for choosing and trusting our Tyrell family.
Our family will provide you with the greatest support and help you win the Iron Throne and become the only king of the Seven Kingdoms!"
How could the clever Margaery not understand the meaning of what Robb just said? She assured Robb in a sincere tone.
"Well, very good, our future communication should not be difficult!
However, you don’t have to say anything about this matter, I still have to listen to Lady Olenna’s opinion.
Today, she specially invited me to be her guest, isn’t it just to talk about this matter?”
Robb, who was quite satisfied with Margaery, looked at the third city wall getting closer and closer and said leisurely.
"Today, I appeared to be distributing food to civilian workers, but in fact I made a special trip to wait for you. In fact, this was grandma's idea, so her meaning must be the same as mine!"
"Well, we'll find out later!"
When Robb heard this, he replied noncommittally. Then after he finished talking about the business, he stretched out his free left hand to wrap his arms around Margaery's slim waist, and kept groping around.
After an ambiguous ride to the inner castle that looked like a green garden, Robb and Robb walked hand in hand under the very satisfied eyes of the Duke of Metz who had been waiting for them.
In the next meeting, Olenna, who always had a sharp tongue, was very careful when facing Robb. Robb's behavior was also polite and courteous, which gave the Tyrell family enough face.
The final result was just as Robb expected. Even though she was very old, Olenna had a very clear mind and did not dare to make any excessive demands on him.
She very sincerely requested Robb to assist the Tyrell family in wiping out the rebellious families in the Reach, and held a huge wedding banquet with Margaery in line with the king's style.
Of course, whether it was the food and military expenses for Robb's troops or the cost of the huge wedding banquet, the wealthy Tyrell family was responsible for it.
In addition, not only the gold and supplies worth two million gold dragons that Robb had previously promised to rescue Highgarden will be delivered to him in a short period of time.
The Tyrell family will also provide an additional one million golden dragons, five million bushels of wheat, two million bushels each of barley, oats, and rye, as well as 50,000 cattle and 80,000 sheep as dowry.
To be honest, the wealth of the southern realms has been refreshing Robb's knowledge!
Not to mention anything else, those five million bushels of wheat alone were enough to feed the 60,000 to 70,000 troops including the North, the Riverlands, and the Iron Islands for nearly a year.
Upon hearing such a generous dowry, a bright smile suddenly appeared on Robb's face. He felt that everyone in the Tyrell family had turned into a cash cow in his eyes.
With Margaery's wealthy family providing strong support, he felt that there was no need to wait for the West to stabilize as planned. He now had the power to overthrow the Lannister family from the Iron Throne!
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