If Werther had been younger, he might have been able to reason with these northerners and lay out the facts, and even pick up the sword and go to the battlefield to let them know what was good and what was good.
"Earl Jon, you and your son sit down first, and we will continue to talk about what is on the note."
Witte has been running the Territory of Tyrosh for many years, where many cultures and religions live together. There are pirates at sea and robbers on land, and there are even ship-blocking robbers in the rivers. There are no thorns to deal with. Thinking of facing this situation, Witte
He just waved to the guard guarding the door and asked him to notify Ed to come over.
Suppressing dissatisfaction will only be counterproductive. It is Ed's business to alleviate the dissatisfaction of the northern lords. It is not an outsider's turn to worry about Werther, as long as the Jon family does not affect the overall situation.
The quick-thinking Roose Bolton sensed unfamiliarity in Werther's words. Werther had previously called them Great Jon and Little Jon, but now called him Lord Jon, and his son's name was not even mentioned.
Roose Bolton laughed in his heart. A large number of people in the north were living in Witte's territory. The wealthy lords of Tyrosh were too late to curry favor. After today, the Amber family would never want to cooperate with Witte. They wanted Tyrosh in the future.
You can only buy goods from yourself at a high price.
Seeing that Werther did not get angry but brought the topic back to the military discussion, and the other lords were reluctant to support him, Greatjon patted his leather armor helplessly, sat down and stared out the window in a daze.
Werther ignored him and said calmly to the northern nobles: "I have tried to simplify these things as much as possible. I must make sure that every soldier under your command understands them."
While everyone was discussing, Eddard and Robb entered the room.
"Ed, we were just talking about what we discussed with you before. You should find the craftsman to make more templates as soon as possible." Witte stood up, packed up his things and prepared to go out.
"The White Walkers have taken over our land, and we northerners are the ones fighting them. However, Ed was seduced by the southerners and fled to defend Moat Cailin, haha." There are many dissatisfied northern nobles, and old Rickard is one of them.
He sat in the back row and whispered to the people around him.
Werther, who had good ears, also heard it. He stood at the door and turned to stare at Old Rickard: "To be honest, I really care about your life and death! If you follow the previous idea of fighting against the White Walkers, we southerners will not only have to
You provide food and clothing when you are alive, and you continue to fight with your corpses after death! No living person can escape when the White Walkers go south!"
Witte looked around at Eddard and the northern nobles who were present: "The southerners are not just talking about it. Before the White Walkers attacked the Great Wall, Renly and I had been preparing for more than ten years. Riverland, Vale, King's Domain, Storm
The Land, the West, and the Reach will all send troops to defend the Gulf of Cailin, and even Dorne and Tyrosh will send troops!"
"What happened?" Ed saw that Werther's tone was wrong and asked in confusion.
Roose Bolton stood up and came out to smooth things over: "It's okay, everyone is just arguing. Duke Werther, you go and do your work first, and I will explain to Ed."
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Werther originally expected to go back north for a month and a half, but he encountered a strange ghost who broke through the Great Wall. In order to stabilize the morale of the army, neither he nor Audawei Ying could leave.
Half of the messenger crows in Winterfell's crow's nest tower were used by Witte, who kept sending messages to Tyrosh and King's Landing. When all the messenger crows flew away, Winterfell closed the doors everywhere in the city, and people
They and their livestock all moved south in long lines.
The northern part of the Neck is full of black muddy swamps. If you want to go north or south by land, but don't want to walk through waist-deep swamps or face to face with crocodiles, you can only take the King's Road, which is built with sand and gravel. Carlin Bay is
An ancient castle on this must-see road.
This is the narrowest point on the entire continent. Ten thousand years ago, our ancestors had built a simple walled city here. Four thousand years ago, the Stark family built a huge military fortress out of basalt here to withstand the enemy.
With the attack of the Andals, a large number of ancestors can continue to live in the north to this day.
After the conqueror Yin Geng unified the continent, any further garrison in this castle by the Northerners would be considered rebellion. The Bay of Cailin, which had lost its military value, was gradually abandoned and was now taken back and restored by Robb.
The ancient Cailin Bay Castle has a total of twenty towers. Before the White Walker War, seventeen of them had decayed and collapsed. Only the three towers guarding the King's Road were left, with members of the Reed family collecting tolls.
After Robb took over, with part of the financial support allocated by the king and a loan from Tyrosh Bank, all twenty towers were repaired, and the city walls that were originally as high as Winterfell were reinforced and raised. In order to station a large number of supporting troops
He also hoarded supplies and built a second circle of walls outside the castle.
Outside the castle, there are walls like the Great Wall on the left and right sides. There are large military camps every one kilometer, extending to the eastern and western coastlines of the mainland.
Such a large project was completed in a hurry, but due to financial constraints, the structure of this fake Great Wall is not standardized. In addition to the stone on the surface, the interior is built with sand and gravel mixed with water. It is strong and reliable in this cold winter.
Once summer comes, this "Great Wall" will collapse due to the melting of ice inside.
Two dragons, one red and one black, landed on the south side of the castle. A group of knights holding crocodile flags came out of the city to greet them. The person at the front was Jiujian Reed.
The smaller black dragon could land closer. Sauron and Jiu Jian jumped off the dragon's back, talking and laughing, and eating the dried meat given by Jiu Jian.
After landing, Audaweiying stretched out a wing diagonally, and Werther helped Kona slowly walk down along the huge wings.
"You have cooking smoke everywhere. I can smell it in heaven. What kind of meat is so fragrant?"
"Lizard meat! This is a rare good thing. Come, come, let's all have a try." Having completed his mission, Jiu Jian, who is now stress-free, has returned to his cheerful personality as a child. From the leather bag hanging on the saddle, Jiu Jian
He kept taking out dried meat and passing it to Werther and Kona.
Werther, who had been jolting for a long time, wanted to stretch his muscles. Several people walked slowly towards the castle. The knights also dismounted and followed behind slowly holding the reins.
"Lizard?" Kona had never heard of it, and she didn't dare to put the fragrant dried meat in her hand into her mouth.
Werther chewed it deliciously and ate one stick after another: "Lizard is the name in the language of the ancestors. This thing is called crocodile in the south."
"It turns out to be a crocodile." Kona learned it in books when she was a child. Later, when she opened a bank branch in Volantis, she was invited by the local nobles to see it in their private zoo. However, she did not expect that this thing could be eaten.
I took a small bite and found that it tasted pretty good.
The gate towers of the city wall outside Carlin Bay are all made of stone. The gate is made of iron-clad wood and has a magic circle carved on it by a mage. It is one of the few real buildings in this large project.
As soon as he entered the inner city, what Werther saw was no longer the vast snow. The snow here had been shoveled away to build the city wall. The flat frozen land surrounded the Castle of Carlin Bay in a complete circle.
"Why are you flattening so much land? Civilians will continue to move south, and soldiers from the north will not be satisfied with living here?" Kona asked. She had never participated in a military meeting and did not know that the south would come to support.
Jiu Jian pointed to the heights of the castle: "It won't be long before tents will be set up outside this city and outside the city, and flags will be planted all over the castle."
Along the muddy road, Werther saw smoke from cooking fires everywhere on both sides. Crocodiles of all sizes were strung on wooden frames. Soldiers were rubbing salt on the cut pieces of meat. The peeled off crocodile skins were placed in piles.
Fortunately, there are no flies this season.
Werther was very curious: "Where did you find so many crocodiles?"
Magicians who have the ability to hunt are not interested in ugly crocodiles. When ordinary hunters see crocodiles, they basically have a fierce fight. Only a few outstanding hunters dare to hunt crocodiles, and this skill is not spread among the outside world.
Jiujian smiled: "We dare not touch the military rations stored in the warehouse. Why don't we build a wall along the swamp? The original moat has been filled in. The lizards and lions hide in holes and hibernate in winter. We use spears to dig into the soil.
Inside, I dug out the gun tip as long as there was blood, and a lot came out."
"Don't eat the extinct species! When the wild boars are overrun in the summer, the harm caused by those things cannot be compared with the crocodiles." After speaking, Witte took another piece of dried meat from Jiu Jian's hand.
"Don't worry, my family's emblem is the crocodile. I know these animals like to eat wild boars." Jiujian's face turned pale. He had previously ordered the family knights to lead his soldiers to dig up crocodiles. He really thought about eating crocodile meat for a few years.
After hearing what Werther said, I realized that without the crocodiles, there would be more wild boars, and then all the food and poultry would be eaten by the wild boars.
Entering the castle, Jiujian arranged a place for Werther to stay. Werther asked Kona to rest first while he took Sauron to continue shopping.
"I have written to Baemon in Winterfell. He should be riding a dragon over tomorrow to take you back to Tyrosh."
In the bedroom, Kona held Werther's hand and refused to let him go: "Do you need me to go back and do something?"
Kona hugged Werther tightly and felt her body slowly twisting in her arms. Werther quickly calmed down: "I really forgot to tell you. You sent a message to your subordinates everywhere. Tyrosi Bank sent a message to everyone."
The duchy’s borrowing limit cannot exceed 500,000 gold dragons.”
Kona: "500,000 gold dragons? If the Duke's highest-level recruitment order costs far more than that, they will bear part of it themselves. The royal family will receive some rewards as compensation after the war is won. Who will they ask for the rest?
"
Wirth: "Renly! This war has failed. Everyone must die. Those who can evacuate to the Eastern Continent will evacuate and be finished together. If we win, Renly will take this opportunity to control part of the creditor's rights of each duchy."
"Making money from dead people?" Kona looked at Werther with a smile, and gently hit Werther's chest with her forehead: "This is not like Renly's style, he would never come up with such an idea!"
Witte found that Kona was holding on to him and wouldn't let go, so he had to give up his plan to go out: "If the Baratheon family wants to completely control the continent of Westeros, it must gradually control the financial power in other areas. There was no chance before, but this time Stannis
, Renly and I have invested so much money and brainpower, there must be something in return!"
"Then you won't let me borrow more money?"
"My focus will be on the Eastern Continent in the future. Now that the four territories have been digested and integrated, the next place is Pantos. If the White Walkers hadn't gone south, I might have been living somewhere in Pantos now."
Kona and Werther were chatting about how to plan the important matter of the Duke of the Seven Kingdoms. Their hands did not stop, and their clothes were quickly stripped off.
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Gold is a symbol of nobility everywhere, and the giant dragon Gardkaha with golden scales is naturally very popular among ordinary people.
After several small dragons grew up, Audaweiying would not let them get close to him every time he saw them. Jiadkaha tried to get closer several times but was pushed away by Aodaweiying's tail, so he had no choice but to run to keep company with the black dragon.
Dragons rarely come to the north, so a group of soldiers from the Reed family and a large number of craftsmen formed a large circle to watch the dragons.
"I bet a silver deer, you don't dare to go!" Jiujian's sister Meera Reed, followed by a large number of family knights in armor, she kept gesticulating with a small dagger, and an ugly-looking
Men bet.
"I dare!" The man looked ugly, but was wearing a lady's robe. He was one of Mera's suitors, his name was Vit Frey.
A butcher brought in a big live pig. The pig weighed more than 100 kilograms, which was heavier than the skinny Werther.
Frey wrapped the rope tightly around his arm several times, and gingerly pulled the blindfolded pig towards the golden dragon.
"Noble Golden Dragon, please eat the food I gave you!" The Golden Dragon was eating with its back to him, and Frey bravely shouted to the Golden Dragon.
Gardkahar can understand dragon language, and can understand several words such as food in Common Language. The two-story-tall bird turned around on the spot and swung its tail thicker than the stone pillars of the castle. Frey felt like he was being slapped.
It must be split in half.
The golden dragon lowered his head and smelled the smell of Frey and the pig with his heavy breath. The pig had been frightened to death and lay on its side with its limbs stretched out stiffly. The sulfurous breath sprayed on Frey, and there were two rows of long swords.
The same fangs stuck in front of him.
At this time, Meira turned her head and winked at Baimen, who was standing beside Sauron in the distance.
Roar~~The dragon suddenly roared at him.
Frey was so frightened that he fainted, but the pig on the ground was so frightened that it came to life, stood up and ran towards the crowd, dragging Frey behind it.
"Only he dares to have the same name as his father." Baimen spoke in a low voice.
Baimon's black hair is mixed with a few strands of platinum hair. He looks three-thirds like Werther, and the remaining seven-thirds more like his mother, Kona. His figure is only inherited from the Baratheon family. He is not tall and strong, and many people are.
It is said that Baimon is a handsome guy like a troubadour.
"It's an old tradition of the Frey family. There are too many children in the family and the parents are not very educated. They will name whoever is famous on the mainland. Whoever is more popular is not good, so he chooses the same name as his father. He also named the Dragon King.
Can you afford it?" Sauron was even more unconvinced.
The two of them sat on the wooden fence, with their feet dangling in the air and their arms folded in front of their chests, exactly the same posture that Werther often did.
Baimon is three years younger than Sauron. His eldest brother Darkseid went to Sunspear, so he could only follow Sauron around every day. This time Sauron went north for a long time and did not come back. He also received a letter from his father. He thought he was coming.
Watch the tourney here.
Werther only asked Baimon to take Kona back to Tyrosh, and Sauron continued to stay with him. Werther knew the character of his second son. If he was allowed to go back, he would definitely take a detour and go to the north to find his mother, Tyene.