"Since those female vampires arrived at Castle Black, there have been a lot less fights between the brothers of the Night's Watch, and they have become more serious about their work." Benyan and Werther walked into the tunnels of Castle Black, chatting as they walked.
Werther asks the crucial question directly: "Where did they come from?"
"They are all poor people. When their families encountered difficulties and did not have enough food, they took the initiative to be transformed and then sold themselves. They were beautiful and the price was fair, and they did not need to worry about reproducing offspring. This is what they said personally. You can judge for yourself
Is it true or false?" At the end of the sentence, Bunyan did not forget to clarify himself.
Castle Black's tunnels extend in all directions and have many warehouses, which can not only connect various parts of the Great Wall but also serve as an underground fortress during wartime. The two walked through the spacious tunnels and came to the door of a room, where four young night watchmen guarded the door.
"My lord, are we going to execute them now?" When several night watchmen saw Commander-in-Chief Bunyan bringing Witte over, they thought he was going to kill them, and they couldn't bear it.
Bunyan waved to them: "You go back to Castle Black first, and leave this place to Duke Werther."
It is better for important people to listen less when doing things. Several night watchmen grabbed the colleagues who had just asked questions and hurried away.
The door opened, and Werther saw a total of five women. They hugged each other when they saw Werther come in, with frightened expressions on their faces. Some of them were trembling. Apparently they had heard about Werther's murderous words from the night watchman.
name.
"I'm not here to kill you, just ask a few words and leave."
The vampires who once killed children to stop crying now look like this. Werther can't help but sigh that it is consciousness that really determines success or failure. Even if they have the strength, they don't think about stealing and robbing, they still rely on their own bodies to make money. They are really kind and honest.
When Bunyan heard Werther wanted to ask questions, he looked at the five women who were still wearing scantily clad clothes in the cold winter. He wisely turned around and walked out of the room, closed the door and stood guard at the door.
Snap, the door opened, and Werther led five women out of the room.
Bunyan took out his pocket watch and took a look: "So fast! It'll be over in less than five minutes?"
Witte waved his hand: "Normal operation, I will go straight to the topic, of course it will be faster!"
The result of the questioning was similar to what Bunyan said. The five people were born in real poverty and were illiterate. They were originally ordinary-looking and only became beautiful after becoming vampires. As for where they were transformed and who carried out the transformation, where were they?
He was put in a black hood when he was taken into the carriage, so he knew nothing about the terrain or people. Only one woman heard the conversation between the guards and mentioned the term Dreadfort.
The seven people left the tunnel, and the affairs of the Green Prophets had come to an end. Bunyan watched Witte fly south on his dragon.
After the dragon's figure disappeared from the sky, Bunyan looked around and saw that no one was around, then he led the five women to the commander-in-chief's bedroom in the King's Tower, muttering as he walked: "Hey, it's only five minutes!"
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Werther returned to Winterfell and borrowed one of Eddard's study rooms as a temporary office. Werther's letters had already arrived at Winterfell through the raven during his trip to Castle Black.
In the warm study room, Werther sat on a comfortable sofa, holding Kona on his lap, and asked her to open the letters and hand them to him one by one to read.
"Our Prime Minister is really good at playing!" Werther held a letter in his hand and sighed in her ear while smelling the fragrance of Kona's hair.
"He had a fight with the Duke of Metz?" Kona was not too surprised. Now the conflict between the Rowan and Tyrell families has been made clear and the whole country is aware of it.
During the vampire riots in the Reach many years ago, the Golden Tree City, the fiefdom of Prime Minister Matus, was destroyed. The Rowan family blamed the Tyrell family for their failure to rescue, while the Tyrell family said that vampires were too difficult to deal with.
As Matus Rowan has been the Hand of the King for longer, his power and connections have become stronger. Now headed by the Rowan family, the cities of Golden Tree City, Ancient Oak City, Coldhowling Keep, and Red Lake in the north of the Reach
, Stalwart Tower, and the Fu Deli family of Tengshi Town, have repeatedly confronted the Duke of Metz on various occasions.
Renly has been trying to ease the relationship between Queen Margaery and Prime Minister Rowan. No one knows Renly's specific thoughts. Some people say privately that the king is politically weak. When these words reach Renly's ears, he just smiles.
Not much explanation.
"Our Prime Minister has sold all the sugar cane and corn produced in the six northern cities of the Reach in the next five years to the Lannister family!" Half of the agricultural raw materials in the Reach were transferred to the people of the Westerlands. Witte had to sigh.
Rowan's hand really strangled the Duke of Metz's neck.
"Tyrell is the lord of the Rowan family, how dare he do this?" Kona knew the relationship between Margaery and Werther, and usually avoided matters in the Reach and was not very familiar with it.
"A few years ago, the Duke of Mace imitated Renly's Stormlands and implemented a comprehensive order system in the Reach. However, his people's management skills could not keep up, so Rowan took advantage of the loophole. Now it is legal in black and white.
As for the commercial agreement, the Duke of Metz can't argue with it even if it goes to the king."
The business model of the Stormlands has taken nearly thirty years to be perfected step by step. Not only the system but also a large reserve of small and medium-sized officials. Tyrosi also has a large number of Stormlanders to support it. The Tyrell family learned a superficial lesson and then went on to make drastic changes.
It would be strange if there would be no problems if the grassroots executive personnel were removed from the restructuring.
This was a huge pit. Kona asked with some worry: "If Margaery finds you, will you help her family?"
"I'm just her son's father, not his husband. Renly isn't in a hurry. Why should I be in a hurry?" Werther touched Kona's hair:
"Lack of raw materials, the Duke of Metz will default on a large number of orders in the past two years, and may lose all the money he has earned in the past ten years. Tyrosh has no obligation to help him fill this hole. However, the bank you manage can appropriately
Lend some money to the Duke of Metz, otherwise he will start a war if he gets desperate, remember to collect the interest."
"Got it." Kona's banking business has always been tepid in the Reach, where the banking business is controlled by the Hightower family. This timely help can help expand the business.
This chapter is not over yet, please click on the next page to continue reading! There was a knock on the door.
"Come in!"
The person coming was Geralt. He saw Werther holding Kona and said, "I'm not disturbing you." He had already sat on the chair opposite Werther's desk. As long as Kona and Werther were alone together, she would definitely hang on.
Geralt has long been used to strange things about Werther.
"I called you here because Master Wendy gave you a gift." Werther handed Geralt a solid gold armband on the table.
"That middle-aged beautiful woman? She hasn't forgotten me yet!" Geralt took the gold armband in his hand and played with it carefully: "This thing is quite expensive. Does she have anything to say to me?"
It was only in Castle Black that Werther heard the specifics of what happened between the two of them: "She said that if she is pregnant with your child, she will definitely give birth to her and take good care of her."
"Haha, it turns out that she gave me such an expensive gift because of my status." Geralt spent half of his life growing up with Oberon. Growing up in a technical school, he had a very strong sense of things between men and women.
Kai, originally thought it was his own style that attracted Wendy, but now he was a little sad, smiled to himself and put the gold armband back on the table.
Witte flicked the armband with his fingers and said to him with a smile: "You can also interpret this gold armband as prostitution! Even the top dancers in Braavos don't have this price, don't you want it?"
Geralt thought for a while, and after some ideological struggle, he said: "Why not! This is the income from my labor!"
In the end, he reached out and took the gold armband back.
"After talking about your affairs, it's now up to me." Werther handed a document to Geralt: "Before you talked about the vampires in the North, after my investigation, the Dreadfort is currently very suspicious. I will prepare it for you.
I have obtained a letter of authorization from the Magic Management Committee, and you go secretly investigate Roose Bolton."
Geralt took the document and looked at it: "Now that all the skinchangers in the north have gone outside the Great Wall, with the status of temporary investigator, those mages from the south won't dare to arrest me, right?"
Witte said unhurriedly: "As long as the interests exceed human life, they will still take action, so you have to investigate secretly. This document is used to save your life as a last resort. It has my personal seal on it. I hope this can sway some people."
"Since the matter is so big and dangerous, don't you go investigate it yourself, adoptive father?" Geralt asked in return.
"I have my own way of investigating." Witte said seriously.
Geralt's talent and brain are excellent, but he is too young and reckless, and he does things without thinking about the consequences. Werther also wants him to practice more. In fact, Werther himself will not investigate at all, waiting for Bran to ask directly after he becomes the Green Seer.
As long as he gets the result.
"Then I'll go get ready." Geralt said goodbye to the two of them and left the study.
Kona hit Werther on the chest with her head: "You know how to lie to children!"
"Young people have to work hard! I'll look at the other letters."
After reading a long letter from intelligence officer Yin Simeng, Werther's face became increasingly ugly.
Many bloody conflicts occurred in Pentos. Since Witte took control of the four city-states, the next target, Pantos, has become a gathering place for three religions and nine streams. A conflict is not a big deal, but this time it is a conflict between five parties, four of which are
Related to Werther.
With the support of Witte, the former Tattered Prince Wind Blowing Regiment became one of the strongest mercenary groups in Pentos. When they went out on a mission, their headquarters was attacked by a group of bandits, and the dead mercenaries were stripped
The skin was removed and pierced on the spear, and the gold coins stored were also taken away.
This bandit group is also secretly supported by Witte, and is currently the most famous group of river bandit demons among the nine major trading city-states. White Demon Baelish and Black Demon Ramsay originally led the group to attack the R'hllor Sect, and they were on their way back after succeeding.
Knowing that the defense at Fengchui Regiment headquarters was empty, he took action.
The person who provided information to the demon group was secretly supported by Witte, King's Landing's former intelligence chief Varys "The Octopus Spider". He was a new force in Pentos. He was a shrewd man with strong financial resources, and he rose very quickly. He and Baelish
He was an old colleague, and after reestablishing contact, he began to secretly support the Devil Group.
The R'hllor sect was attacked by a group of demons. Since the incident happened at night and all the witnesses were dead, in line with the principle of whoever benefits is the mastermind, several high-ranking priests called on the believers to take up arms and besieged Panto the next day.
The headquarters of the Sibai Dragon Cult. After a tragic battle, there were countless casualties. Both factions could only seek help from the Moonsingers nearby to treat the wounded.
The Wind Blowing Group, the Devil Group, Varis, and the Dragon Cult are all considered to be Werther's factions. Wallis secretly supported the Demon Group to rob the Blowing Group. Originally, the conflict between the Dragon Cult and the R'hllor Cult was limited to fists, but now it is also due to the
The actions of the demon group were misunderstood by the R'hllor sect, and they suffered crazy revenge. Years of personnel accumulation in Pentos were destroyed in one fell swoop.
Witte slapped the letter on the table and started to curse: "Damn it, Varys is messing around in Pentos! With his method of obtaining information, doesn't he know that the Fengchuan is also one of my people!"
"Calm down." Kona pressed her body tightly against Werther. She knew that Werter would be distracted soon in this way: "Varys may have encountered some difficulties. You can ask him to write to you to explain.
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"You are not familiar with Wallis, and his big bald head can give me a hundred excuses!" Werther took some pieces of parchment and prepared to write a letter to Wallis.
With a crackle, lightning flashed between Werther's fingers. Not long after, he handed the completed letter to Kona. She lit the red wax and took Werther's seal to stamp it. When she saw the last words of the letter, she exclaimed:
"You want Varys to kill Littlefinger!"
Witte: "What kind of person is Littlefinger Baelish? You should have heard me say that after I take Pentos, I will still implement a multi-governor council to rule. He will definitely find a way to become a governor."
"He and Ramsay disrupted the entire Trade Castle Alliance for you. Can't you give him the position of governor?"
Witte: "Don't forget that both of them are wanted criminals in the Seven Kingdoms. If I reuse him openly, the nobles of the Seven Kingdoms will not dare to do anything to me, but my reputation and industry will definitely be affected. So the Demon Group
You can use this kind of shit basin, but you have to throw it far away when not in use. Although Ramsay is cruel, he is not so frivolous. Baelish must not let him have any power."
Kona: "Then why did Varys take action? Aren't he and Baelish an old acquaintance?"
Witte: "The losses of the Blowing Group and the Dragon Cult must be attributed to Varys! It was him who caused the incident, and it is up to him to clean up the mess. Letting Varys kill Baelish is a warning to him, don't think so.
The laws of the distant kingdom of Pentos cannot control him, and I am not the second son of the royal family who had nothing but dragons and magic. Now I can kill them at any time with just one word."
The water in Pentos has been very muddy by Witte. In recent years, some people have been unable to stand the chaotic environment. They have fled Pentos and moved to Myr City or Tyrosh. I believe that opportunities will be created soon to let the Governor
The Council approves Myr joining the Tyrosh Alliance.
After annexing the city of Pentos, Veit's next target is Slaver's Bay. As for the northernmost Braavos, Veit intends to keep it independent, because only in this way can the trade goods be considered as cross-border import and export and tariffs can be levied.
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In the next period of time, Witte took Kona to inspect various fortresses and castles in the north, checking whether the strategic materials shipped by the kingdom in the past were ready. After checking the processing of obsidian daggers, the reserves of kerosene and wildfire, they really found out
Some officers took it and sold it privately, and Witte personally chopped off their heads in the presence of their lord.
The Dreadful Castle Roose Bolton had already made all preparations. Geralt who went to investigate found out nothing except seeing some female vampires. Instead, he was fooled by Bolton's son Domeric and had sex with many female vampires.
The vampire fought fiercely and lived in the Dreadfort for more than a month until he received an urgent letter from the night watchman.