Chapter 166: Good friends can be sold at a good price
Who will inherit the valley is a definite matter in the minds of other nobles. It has not caused the slightest ripples in King's Landing. Now they are concerned about who will be the next king.
To this day, the candidates proposed by the Royal Council include
Mace Tyrell, Duke of the River Bend, was recommended by Renly. He is the current Minister of Finance, and he does a pretty good job in the royal family’s finances.
The Duke of the North, Eddard Stark, was elected by the king. The king's best friend has been prospering in the north. The development of planting and animal husbandry is obvious to all. A large number of leather products in the seven countries are produced in the north.
Tywin Lannister, Duke of the Westerlands, was recommended by Mace Tyrell. The former Hand of the King had served the country for more than 20 years and had rich experience. However, he seemed to have not recovered from the pain of losing his daughter.
Come to King's Landing. The Duke of Mace followed the advice of his daughter Rose Margaery, because everyone in King's Landing knew that he would not come, so he was just pretending.
The real competition only started directly between the two dukes in the North and the Reach. Mace Tyrell was rich, and on the advice of his daughter, he entertained the nobles of King's Landing and sponsored some down-and-out knights to make his reputation in King's Landing.
The city rose rapidly in a short period of time, while Ed Stark drank with Robert every day.
Werther's temporary term of office has to wait until the end of the tourney, which is nine days away.
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The Golden Robes arrested so many people in the past two days that the dungeon of the Red Castle could no longer accommodate them, and most of them had to be temporarily locked up in the barracks. Today, Witte, his intelligence officer Andrew Ismond, and the legal clerk,
Convict these people in the barracks.
"Next! Let's go!"
"Ah~~~ Sir, don't fight, don't fight."
Every shackled criminal was escorted by a man in a golden robe, and they lined up in a long line to wait for Witte's sentencing, whether they were alive or dead. Today, many criminals' legs began to weaken and they were unable to stand still. At this time, Jin
The robes would pick up short sticks and beat them wildly.
Werther and two clerks chose a room and set up three long tables. The clerk sat on a chair and wrote seriously. Werther sat on the seat next to him and waited for signatures. His second cousin Andrew Ismond stood at the table.
The prisoners were asked one by one.
A prisoner was pushed to kneel down in front of Werther. The clerk was about to record it. Werther asked about the golden robe beside him.
"What crime did this man commit?"
"Theft!"
"Sir, this is unfair, I have never stolen anything!"
After he finished speaking, he wanted to grab Werther's feet. The golden robe punched him on the back and shouted "Kneel down!"
Andrew Eastmond knew this kind of religion very well. He looked at the person lying on the ground and asked, "Can you write?"
"No"
Andrew Ismon opened his palm with his foot, stepped on his fingers and said, "You can't write, and you are still wearing tattered and dirty clothes. You are obviously not a nobleman or a bachelor. There are no calluses on your palms, you are still a human being."
Habitual thief?"
In this era, as long as civilians work, both men and women will get calluses on their hands. Noble men will also get calluses on their hands due to long-term martial arts training, but they can be maintained with oil every day, so they don't feel so painful to the touch.
As for the serious men who don't have calluses on their hands, there are only bachelors from the city and a few nobles who are not good at martial arts, but those nobles are basically fat.
"Sir, please don't cut off my hands!"
Andrew Ismond said viciously, "It's okay if you don't chop off your hands! Then go be a night watchman on the Great Wall!"
These people know very well how cold and miserable the Great Wall is in the north, and they have to swear to give up their family honor and not marry or have children, which will cost the lives of these bastards.
At this time, it's time for Witte to say, "I see you are still young. I am Witte Baratheon, Duke of Tyrosh on the Stepstone Islands. You will serve as a naval officer in Tyrosh for ten years, and then I will restore your civilian status!" p>
"I do! I do!"
Werther "Do you still have family?"
He was very lonely and had to go out for ten years after being arrested. "I have a woman and two sons."
Hearing that there were people at home, Werther smiled, "Tylosi is very short of people. I can arrange for your woman and two sons to go there as civilians! Your woman can be a servant, and your two sons can go."
Work as an apprentice in a factory."
"Thank you very much, sir! I live right here..." The criminal looked at Werther's smiling face and felt that Werther was the coming of Heavenly Father who represented judgment. He was extremely grateful and quickly thanked him.
Cousin Andrew Ismon nodded to Witte while no one was paying attention, which meant that his intelligence department wanted this thief. When a family moves to Tyrosh together, there is concern, and this kind of person is easier to control.
The trial went on like this. Except for the murderer and the strong female perpetrator, they were sentenced to beheading. All other criminals were exiled and reformed by Werther, and those with family members were also taken away.
A man in gold robes entered the small room and reported to Witte, "Lord Varys, the Chief of Imperial Intelligence, is here."
Werther "bring him in."
The eight-clawed spider Wallis walked into the small room with a smile on his face, and the people next to him didn't seem to be avoiding it. He didn't understand why Werther let him come here.
Werther did not get up, and someone brought a chair to him. When talking to him, Werther did not like to mince words, otherwise Wallis would take you into a ditch and get to the point directly
"Varys, how many orphans are there in King's Landing? I, Tyrosh, want them all."
"There are thousands of orphans in King's Landing, and it takes a lot of money to feed them. What does Lord Werther want them to do?"
Wallis was surprised. He had had a shadow since he was a child, thinking that Werther wanted to use these children to do evil magic experiments! He told Werther about the money to make Werter quit, but he also wanted to know what Werther wanted to do.
Witte saw through his mind, "Don't get it wrong. The Stepstone Islands are short of people now, and my city of Tyrosh is even more short of people! There are not enough immigrants in King's Landing. I have captured the criminals in the city and brought them to Tyrosh in the past two days."
I don’t raise these children for free. Herding sheep and cattle, working as apprentices in workshops, and serving tea and water in entertainment venues are all they have to do!"
Wallis smiled, "Then I'm relieved. It's just that many of these children don't even have names, so I can't give Mr. Witte an accurate list."
"You just need to send the children you want to send away to the Port of King's Landing. Any ship under my flag will accept them. In addition, I will not care about how many little birds you put in it, and I have no way to control you. But once these children are in
Tyrosh made a mistake that he shouldn't have made."
Werther tapped his fingers on the table, "I will only find you to blame!"
Everyone present looked at Wallis, especially his second cousin Andrew Ismond, who was touching the ring with the tortoise strap engraved on his finger, with a half-smile on his face. Wallis had long known that this was Werther's.
Intelligence chief.
Wallis kept a smile on his face and saluted Werther and his second cousin, "I hope Lord Werther will treat these children well!"
Werther will also open several small schools in Tyrosi, teaching literacy and simple arithmetic every night. If he has no money, he will not engage in any compulsory education. I will send a notice whether these children will come if they like. Thousands of children can
It’s good to know dozens of them.
This society gives preferential treatment to civilians, which infringes on the interests of the nobility, offending both the nobility and the school city, and shaking the foundation of the entire kingdom's rule. As a result, many wars have broken out, and even the king has been overthrown.
Werther is very clear about the difference between good treatment and preferential treatment. At this stage, it is enough to only give good treatment to civilians. Where the opportunity remains, it depends on them whether they can get ahead.
Werther can't offend the nobles now, otherwise a conflict will break out, and all the nobles from the two continents will besiege him, and Robert will not dare to say a word. He has strength and dragons. He can destroy the enemy, but he really has to be a loner.
Rule a deserted ruin?
If you want to develop vigorously, there must be a major event that can affect the entire continent, or subtle changes over time.
Before Wallis left, Veit pulled him and asked quietly
"Do you know which man Lysa Tully was having an affair with?"
Varys was stunned, "I really don't know about this. Lysa Tully has lived in King's Landing for many years. Apart from her bad temper, there are no rumors."
Werther put his hand on Wallis's shoulder and said, "Really?"
Varys "has a suspect, Petyr Baelish, a minor nobleman from the Five Finger Peninsula of the Vale. He is now the sewer master of King's Landing. I heard that he got Lysa Tully pregnant once when he was young, and then Lysa