Chapter 579 Minister of Craftsman, Minister of Agriculture
In the Red Fort, a series of issues are being brought to the table.
The first is about the number of additional seats that need to be added to the Imperial Council.
The current composition of Viserys's Imperial Council is headed by Prime Minister Jon Connington.
Below him are the Minister of Finance, Illyrio Mopatis, the Minister of Justice, Prince Oberyn, who is also the commander of the Second Legion, the Minister of Intelligence, Varys the Eight-Clawed Spider, and the Minister of Sea, Geoffrey Bracken.
Earl, Lord of War Dothraki Kargor, etc.
The Grand Maester nominated Dr. Marwen, and Dr. Bull accepted Viserys's appointment as the Grand Maester of the Iron Throne, but declined the position of Head of the Seminary.
He doesn't like management and prefers to study alone and answer questions for the king, so he is only willing to serve as a doctor in the Department of Magic and Occult Studies in the seminary.
The position of the first dean of the seminary is temporarily held by the Archbishop of Baelor Cathedral, with Melisandre serving as the priest and tutor of the Red God Faculty.
The Archbishop is also qualified to attend the King's Council, but the Archbishop is not summoned during normal meetings. Then the King's personal advisor Tyrion Lannister is eligible to attend the King's Council, as is Ramsay, the leader of the Ministry of the Interior.
Newly nominated positions to join the Royal Council include Minister of Craftsmen and Minister of Agriculture, and the importance of these two positions is becoming increasingly apparent.
One is about pursuing technological progress, invention and creation, and improving productivity, and the other is about people's livelihood and well-being, and having enough to eat, so it was unanimously approved by the Imperial Council.
As for the nomination of these two positions, fierce open and covert fighting began in the Junlin court.
In the end, Master Tob Morso, the great craftsman who once forged the divine weapon "Dusk" for Viserys, received the support of Viserys and became the Minister of Artisans of the Iron Throne as a commoner.
This is actually a subtle suppression of powerful forces by Viserys, telling the world that his determination to support civilians in ascending to power has not changed.
The king's move naturally won the support of the general public. They crowded in the square in front of the Red Castle and chanted Viserys's name. The nobles who were the targets of ridicule also dared to be angry and dare not speak out.
However, Viserys did not exert extreme pressure on the nobles, but slapped him with a sweet date. After a fierce competition, another minister of agriculture was finally nominated as Ailes of the Florentine family.
Count Florentine.
Like many other families of Reach nobles, the Florent family can be traced back to the legendary human king Garth Greenhand.
The ancestor of the Florentine family is one of the three sons of Flores the Fox, the daughter of Gars the Green Hand.
Even the Florentine family has always claimed that their bloodline is more noble than that of the Tyrell family and that their inheritance rights are higher.
And in the field of planting, who can be better than the descendants of 'Green Hand' Gars? He is the replica of Shen Nong in the world of ice and fire.
Therefore, coupled with the strong strength of the Florentine family, they even unexpectedly received the support of the former lords of the Tyrell family, and finally won the position of Minister of Agriculture after a lot of open and covert fighting.
Count Alister Florent is a tall and thin elder with silver-grey hair and a long and pointed beard surrounding his slender and noble face.
"His Majesty."
He looked polite and well-educated. Although he was a little older, his eyes were still bright and sparkling.
In sharp contrast, Tobe Mosso, a somewhat bald old craftsman who was also nominated as the new Minister of Craftsmen next to him.
His palms were rough, and he was wearing clean but not very fashionable clothes. He came to the throne room and walked in front of the Iron Throne. He didn't even know which leg he was walking on, and his mind went blank.
"Ha ha"
When the surrounding local dignitaries in King's Landing saw the funny look of this civilian minister, they even couldn't help laughing.
The mocking laughter further aggravated Tob Mosso's nervousness. Cold sweat broke out on the old craftsman's forehead. Then he followed the example of the Earl of Liangshui City and bowed, his voice trembling.
"His Majesty."
The sound of laughter suddenly emerged from the crowd, and Ser Brynden Tully, the Blackfish, who was standing at the front desk wearing black armor and with somewhat gray hair, glanced at the crowd with lightning eyes.
These mocking voices suddenly stopped as if the shit was cut off in a squatting pit.
After Sir Blackfish came to King's Landing, he was appointed by Viserys as the new Commander-in-Chief of the City Guard, replacing the former Black Worm.
From now on, the Unsullied Legion will be used exclusively as royal guards to protect the safety of royal members.
Then Jon Clinton, as the Prime Minister of the Queen, spoke a few words, probably to encourage his future colleagues to do their jobs well, to be loyal to the royal family Targaryen, and to work together to build the country. The two newly appointed Lord Chancellors
They bowed again to thank them, and stepped forward to give them medals by the hand of the king himself.
The Florent family is very powerful and once sent thousands of people to support their own lord, the Tyrell family.
During the battle of Star Shuttle City, the Dothraki attacked from behind. Seeing that the situation was over, Earl Allister decisively surrendered to the Dornishmen.
However, it turned out that Lord Allister Florent's move was very correct, because all the nobles of the Reach who surrendered to the Dothraki were killed, even the Duke of Mace in Highgarden was not spared.
These barbarians don't recognize any family emblems. No matter how noble your bloodline is or how powerful you are, they are all lambs to be slaughtered in their hands, and their heads will be chopped off with one knife.
There are actually more political games and considerations behind Count Allister Florent's ability to obtain the position of Minister of Agriculture, and it is not that easy and simple.
Because he is a microcosm and representative of the political situation of the previous dynasty, his daughter married Randyll Tarly, Earl of Horn Hill, and his other daughter Rhea married Leighton Hightower, the old man of Oldtown.
His niece Selyse married Stannis, and another niece Delina Florent was the mother of Robert's bastard son Edric Storm.
And Viserys gave Alister Florent a seat on the Royal Council, which also indirectly expressed his understanding to the other nobles who had previously served in the court, and gave them reassurance.
In the final analysis, this is a game of power. The political situation in King's Landing is unpredictable and upright northerners like Ed Stark abandon their family business and come to King's Landing and never look back.
No wonder all the kings of the north who went south in history seemed to have no good end.
"Ed."
Outside the cell of the Red Keep, Lady Caitlin, who was wearing a simple dress, still looked haggard, and then nodded to the Unsullied soldiers beside her.
"grateful."
Wow
Then two Unsullied soldiers walked forward expressionlessly and opened the prison door.