The content of today’s meeting is very clear, voting on several candidates to fill the vacancies of the Minister of Justice and the Minister of Finance.
First, there is the Minister of Justice. This position is basically a free-charge sinecure. Major matters are decided by the king, and minor matters are decided by the prime minister. The country's laws have not changed much for hundreds of years.
Robert nominated Lord Matus Rowan from Goldentree in the Reach, and Jon Arryn nominated Lord Renly Baratheon from Storm's End. There are two candidates in total.
In the end, Renly had five votes and Matus had four. Renly narrowly defeated Matus and won the position of Minister of Justice.
Robert originally wanted Renly to be Lord Chancellor of the Exchequer. With Renly's current earning power, no one could compare with him except Werther, but Renly thought it was too tiring. Anyway, the Lord Chancellor also has the right to vote. He just needs to vote every time he comes.
So Renly recommended Mace Tyrell to Robert.
Due to the huge amount of sugar cane produced in the Reach, Mace Tyrell has built large-scale toilet paper workshops in various places in the name of his uncle Garth Tyrell. Except for a few places where he still makes toilet paper, he
With low cost, it almost monopolizes high-end and low-end toilet paper in seven countries.
Many people have not noticed how profitable this white and cheap toilet paper is. Mace Tyrell secretly accumulated a lot of wealth.
In addition to running the kingdom's industries and making money, the most important role of the Minister of Finance is to lend money when there is no money.
There are also two candidates for the chancellor of the finance, Duke Mace Tyrell from the High Court of the River Bend, and Petyr Baelish from the Baelish family of the Five Fingers Peninsula.
Petyr Baelish spent a lot of money this time to get Jon Arryn of the Vale to nominate him, and he thought he had a chance to win.
Petyr Baelish was one of the few people who had calculated how much money Mace Tyrell earned. He was very confused when he saw him coming in. According to the information provided by Varys, Mace Tyrell had no income at all.
In order to come to King's Landing with interest and time, Varys also arranged several minor incidents in his workshop to ensure that Mace Tyrell could not come to King's Landing.
Littlefinger's thoughts started to work: "What role will he have once he comes? Mace Tyrell may have been decided by the Royal Council, and my nomination was just submitted by Jon Arryn to make up for the number." p>
As expected, with six votes from Mace Tyrell and three votes from Littlefinger, Mace Tyrell became the new Minister of Finance.
After the first business of the Royal Council was completed, Robert ordered the servants to bring in some rum and cakes.
Littlefinger still had a smile on his face and gave warm congratulations to Renly and the Duke of Mace.
"I'm sorry, I won in the end, hahaha." Mace Tyrell was very happy, smiling from ear to ear.
"It doesn't matter, I will still serve the kingdom in King's Landing." Littlefinger's expression looked very natural.
Robert clapped his hands, signaling that the rest time had come. Littlefinger and Ser Rowan left. The royal council was about to proceed with the second agenda item.
Jon Arryn spoke first, "Your Majesty, Princess Arianne of Dorne is now sick, and the other female members of the Duke's family are either too old or too young. Robert's new queen cannot wait a few years.
It can only be chosen among other nobles."
Lord Mace, the newly appointed Finance Minister, said, "Desmera Redwin of the Redwin family has had her period and can be one of the candidates."
He must be recommending a family from the Reach, and he is also from his mother's family.
Renly, the new Minister of Justice, twiddled his fingers, "My Lord Duke of Metz, forget about Desmera. I just happened to see her when I went to the Qing Pavilion. The future queen cannot be full of freckles!"
The Duke of Metz also knew that he didn't say anything. He actually still had a few candidates to recommend. Now that he was looking at Renly, he would definitely recommend candidates. This is a matter that the whole country is competing for.
Jon Arryn "I recommend Jancy Hunter of the Hunter family in Longbow Hall in the Vale. She is just at the best age to have children."
Robert was very annoyed by this matter. They seemed to be small nobles, with several dukes behind them.
"You write their names, ages, and information on the paper, and then notify them to come to King's Landing. I will hold a banquet, and then I will choose." Robert did this in the way he was most familiar with.
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When everyone saw Robert saying this, they didn't answer. He is the king and he has the final say. They planned to end the royal meeting and prepare to leave.
Robert touched the table with his wine glass and motioned for everyone to stay.
"This morning, several young navy officers came to the Red Fort and gave me a letter."
After speaking, Robert took out the letter from his clothes and handed it to the Prime Minister Jon Arryn next to him.
"The letter was sent by my brother Werther. I have already read the content. You guys should circulate it first and then we can talk about it after reading it."
Several people in the Imperial Council sped up and read the letter.
Jon Arryn "Your Majesty the King, if what is said in the letter is true, the Stepstones have almost become Dorne's territory!"
Varys "According to my intelligence, the three city-states near the Stepstone Islands are on the brink of war, and the Stepstone Islands have become an unmanaged place, and pirates are quite rampant there."
Renly "I completely believe what my brother said in his letter. Dornishmen work as mercenaries one day and then become pirates the next. Now nearly fifty more ships are plundered by pirates in the Stormlands every year than last year. If this continues, we will
All the money belongs to the Dornish people."
Robert "The Dornish people have never surrendered to the Targaryens for 300 years. They only signed an armistice agreement with me. Their ambitions have never been greater.
Witte's letter said that in the name of the king, I asked Dorne to send troops to clear out the pirates, support the fleets from the royal territory, the Stormlands and the Reach, and completely return the Stepstone Islands to the kingdom. Do you think it is feasible?" Duke of Mace "I applaud with both hands. Merchant ships in the Reach are constantly being plundered. The Stepstone Islands are so close to Dorne. Who else could have done it if it wasn't them?"
Varys added, "As far as I know, Dorne's merchant fleet is rarely plundered by pirates."
Stannis also said, "In the past year, the merchant caravans that hired the royal fleet to escort each time hired more than five warships. However, there were also nine naval battles on the Stepstone Islands, all against dozens of pirate ships.
The loss is relatively large."
Robert "It seems that everyone is quite dissatisfied with the pirates, or the Dornishmen. But if the three fleets go out, while guarding against the Dornishmen, the country will be empty."
Jon Arryn "can let the Eddards of the North station part of their troops in the Riverlands and the King's Domain to stabilize those with evil intentions."
"The Lannister navy must also go on the expedition together. They are the ones I worry about the most." Renly was cheated by Tywin once and has always held grudges.